Thomas Nybergh

I oktober förra året under AltParty gav jag i Pirattinuorets namn en intervju åt en grupp journalistikstuderande vid Åbo Akademi i Vasa/MediaCity. Resultatet är att jag dyker upp några gånger i deras slutprodukt , “Fildelning – Rätt och Brott”, som visades på FST5 igår och förblir synlig på Yle Arenan i några dagar. Dokumentären är till […]

When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited ISO 8859-15 charset. […]

This entry was originally posted as a comment on Xuenay’s blog. Also: doesn’t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage. I’ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept, but I don’t use the service myself. I find its minimalism compelling, but its terrible at representing conversations or replies. Jaiku on the other hand […]

Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech. A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate […]

For some time, I’ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, original […]

The IRC gods delivered me this shall we say, updated version of one of those silly (60’s?) easy reading books published by Ladybird. I was drinking some water when I began reading this and immediately almost drowned myself laughing. [via:1,2 (dunno where this originates)]

Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called “better adapted military intelligence gathering” that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden. A few quotes from the post: “At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic […]

Nedanstående reportage (flashvideo från youtube.com) som visades i svensk tv (Rapport i TV2) den 17 maj 1979 hittade jag bland Copyriot-inlägg jag lämnat olästa en tid. (länk till Youtube) “Många verkar skratta sig blåa över att Musikerförbundet år 1979 krävde en “särskild diskoavgift” för att rädda dansbanden. Med risk för att skratt hamnar i vrångstrupar, […]

I hope manbabies.com proves to be too unhealthy for the human mind to become a longstanding mainstream webtard meme. Image borrowed from post #43. [via:kung fu grippe]

Much nonsense has been written on the Internet regarding the school massacre in the small town of Jokela last November, but an aspect of great interest to me is how the media involved itself in the aftermath. As is common at scenes of human suffering all over the world, today’s news media for a moment […]