May 26th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, software, technology
Due to recent very unclear, confusing and freedom hating legislation prepared by corrupt and incompetent people and an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, it’s now criminal to break the not very functional CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs. Watching DVDs using GNU/Linux systems is thus not something well [...]
May 25th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics
The process of properly establishing the Finnish Pirate Party took a leap forward this weekend.
A blog covering the party’s constitutive meeting in real time has however been suspended by Google/Blogspot. Xuenay, one of the party leaders writes the following on his personal blog:
I just got back from the founding meeting of the Finnish Pirate [...]
May 20th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips, notes
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 [...]
May 12th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Swedish, personal, politik, på svenska
Enligt artiklar i Huvudstadsbladet och Helsingin Sanomat vill Finlands Försvarsmakts kommendör amiral Juhani Kaskeala införa obligatoriskt uppbåd för kvinnor. Från Hufvudstadsblandet:
Försvarsmaktens kommendör amiral Juhani Kaskeala bedömer att Finland kunde ta i bruk en uppbådsplikt för kvinnor. [...] Kaskeala vill ändå inte utvidga den obligatoriska värn- och civiltjänstgöringsplikten till att gälla kvinnor. [...] Kaskeala specificerade inte [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, politics, technology
A recent decision by a court in Salo (link target is in Finnish), which implies that it’s illegal to use open Wi-Fi-networks without permission, is yet another fine example of the asshattery and uninformed lack of reasoning that automatically appears when anything related to information technology is on the agenda in today’s society under its [...]
March 24th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips, notes, technology
Reading lists of new .fi domains granted by Ficora is a terrible waste of time for persons whose psyches don’t sort the notion of monitoring Finnish Internet businesses into some internal “fun” folder. I happen to enjoy following stuff like this, which is why this RSS feed with daily updates on new .fi domain registrations [...]
March 10th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Swedish, notes, politics, på svenska, technology, video
Gruppen bakom en förhållandevis lyckad demonstration mot finsk internetcensur (sensuuri.info) som ordnades 4.3.2008 ämnar fortsätta sitt arbete för en förändring av lagen som möjliggör de felriktade och farliga censuråtgärderna (Valborgsmarsch diskuteras).
Man har nu gett ut första, lite ofilade och för långa versionen av en kampanjvideo (Youtube-video, flash) som kan beskådas nedan (eller som fristående [...]
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 [...]
