March 3rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, music, notes
A few hours ago Nine Inch Nails, the main artistic project of Trent Reznor, released a new album titled “Ghosts I-IV” under a Creative Commons license (source) that allows non-commercial copying and derivative works. A part of the album is available as a free download on nin.com and the band has themselves distributed the package [...]
March 2nd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Finnish, internet, notes, suomeksi, technology
Tämän tekstin julkaisin alkuperäisesti kommentina Tietoja koneesta-blogilla, jossa se toimii vastauksena Googlen uuteen Health-projektiin liittyvään lausuntoon.
Terveystietojani en luovuttaisi Googlelle tässä vaiheessa, mutta mielestäni tietojen saaminen ja antaminen tarkasti määriteltävien suostumuksien avulla, jostain hyvin toteutetusta kansalaisten asiointipalvelusta, olisi kätevää. Kattava periaatekeskustelu luottamuksesta jättiyhtiöiden tai valtion tietoturvaa kohtaan olisi kuitenkin tärkää.
Ennen kuin Googlelle luovutetaan enemmän tietoa (elän [...]
March 1st, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, politics
A seemingly never ending series of absurd statements from officials continued yesterday, as Detective Chief Inspector Lars Henriksson from the National Bureau of Investigation commented the ongoing debate over Internet censorship in Finland. He threatened maintainers of mirrors of the wrongfully censored anti-censorship site lapsiporno.info (mirror) with possible legal actions. The censorship is made possible [...]
February 29th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics
Yesterday, the Finnish IT magazine Tietokone confirmed that a user’s directory on the home page server of Helsinki University of Technology (HUT/TKK) was taken down due to it containing a copy of the wrongfully censored anti-censorship site lapsiporno.info (mirror). The article hints that the student’s access to other parts of the school’s IT services may [...]
February 27th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics, technology
Due to recent steps taken by Finnish authorities towards weakening Freedom of Speech, a demonstration will be held outside Eduskuntatalo/The House of Parliament in Helsinki.
On Tuesday 2008-03-04 12:30 PM preparations will begin outside Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the protest in scheduled to begin at 1 PM outside the Parliament. The protesters will attempt [...]
February 23rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Swedish, internet, politics, på svenska, technology
Den kortare version av denhär texten som publicerades som insändare I Hufvudstadsbladet onsdagen 27 februari 2008 finns nu publicerad i ett senare inlägg.
Om den i Finland pågående debatten om censur av barnporr på nätet är obekant för dig rekommenderar jag att läsa någon sammanfattning, sådana finns exempelvis hos EFFI på finska och engelska.
Under onsdagen [...]
February 21st, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Finnish, internet, politics, suomeksi
Seuraava teksti on avoin kirje viestintäministeri Lindénille, aiheena Suomen KRP:n lapsipornoestolistan huonous ja sensuuri-innon yleinen vaarallisuus. Lukijat, jotka jo tuntevat tilanteen, voivat hyppiä suoraan kirjeeni ytimeen.
Kertauksena sopii tässä vaiheessa mainita että Suvi Lindén julkaisi 20.2.2008 tällaisen lausunnon,jossa hän suurella ymmärtämättömyydellä viittaa sensuurin kohteeksi joutuneen lapsiporno.info -sivustoon, eli Matti Nikkin (muzzyn) sensuurinvastaistaiseen Intter weppi-palveluun. (Sensuurin uhreille [...]
February 15th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics, technology
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation maintains a secret list of “child pornography” sites. Some major Finnish ISPs, although currently not required by law to do so, do block access to sites on this list.
The blocking, which is performed on the DNS level, has been criticized, especially since lapsiporno.info (”childporn.info”), a site discussing the practice [...]
December 25th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, software
Not much time passed after I posted my previous entry about using Firefox 3 Beta 2 as my main browser until I realized that while I had browsed around for almost a day without much trouble, I hadn’t used Ajax heavy sites such as Facebook and Wordpress’ admin interface.
As soon as I started using [...]
December 24th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, software
Firefox 3 Beta 2 has a few quirks and instabilities, but is generally much faster and more pleasant to use than 2.x (I’ve tried the official win32 release and various Linux compiles), so I hope I’ll be able to keep using it. A few non-critical extensions which I normally use, haven’t been updated for this [...]
