While it’s incredibly convenient to use Google’s 8.8.8.8 DNS server, they log your IP address for 48 hours and analyse usage data, storing some information permanently. As Google is basically an ad agency and collets a lot of information about…
I have a plethora of gadgets scattered around my home and office, and they all need periodic charging. I decided to try out some of the functions of Tasker, AutoRemote and Zooper to get (close to) real-time information on the…
While there are hundreds of descriptive models for mapping organizational development, they offer little on the way of practical decision-making tools. I presented a Work Informatics paper on business development at Well-being in the information society 2018. The paper detailed…
I presented a paper titled ‘Hate speech recognition AI – a new method for censorship?’ (Heimo, Naskali & Kimppa 2018) at Ethicomp 2018 this Monday. The paper looks at the problems of modern governmental censorship using AI. In it we…
Freedom of Speech is generally regarded as a basic and indivisible human right. It is that, of course, but it is also the basis of western liberal society, and there are important rational arguments for it. Perhaps the most coherent…
Where should I host my source code? Two of the most prominent project hosts are GitHub and BitBucket. GitHub has a larger community, with heavy emphasis on open-source, but Bitbucket also has its fans, especially for closed-source projects. Here’s a…
I got a few requests for the old Shadowrun SR4 RPG dice roller, which I thought nobody used anymore. Here it is again, totally out-of-date. You can right-click and save the file locally, or use it online. Shadowrun Dice Roller…
John Stuart Mill is considered one of the most famous advocates of free speech. He was an English philosopher, political economist and civil cervant.1 In his Essay, On Liberty, he argues that one should be able to freely discuss any…
If you’re using a vps without a control panel for hosting websites, adding new websites to Apaches configuration might be a bit difficult. Dynamic VirtualHosts to the rescue! Using a simple VirtualHost command in Apache’s httpd.conf, you can have Apache…