Ποιός ο λόγος ύπαρξης των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων; #gr #copyrights #intellectual property
Είναι σημαντικό να έχουμε κατά νου ότι τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα δεν υπήρχαν από πάντα, αλλά είναι ένα νομικό κατασκεύασμα. Είναι επίσης σημαντικό να έχουμε κατά νου ότι τα δικαιώματα αυτά αλλάζουν συνεχώς.  

Magazines: print vs online. #en #print #thoughts
Why do I enjoy reading print magazines when I can find the same articles online?  

Where is social for podcasts? #en #podcasting #ideas
Why isn't there a service where I can show the podcasts I'm subscribed too and the episodes I liked most?  

Cryptocurrencies and the Labor of Computers. #en #digitalcurrencies
Crypto is to CPU cycles what money is to human labor.  

Digital currency Industries and Indexes #en #digitalcurrency
I think we should create some digital currency indexes based on capitalisation, sector etc.  

MONODRAW rocks! #en #appreview
A powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac.  

A kill switch to countermeasure border controls? #en #howto #privacy
Creating a kill switch that will wipe sensitive data from my computer if asked to unlock it.  

Θα είναι το 2017 η αρχή μίας νέας περιόδου για το Internet; #gr
Σκέψεις με αφορμή τα 10 χρόνια από το κλείσιμο του monitor.vrypan.net.  

My feed reading setup. #en #howto
If you miss the freedom RSS used to give us before we started relying on Facebook, read on.  

A Driver Mode for smartphones. #en #ideas
Let’s use technology to limit -or even eliminate- distracted driving.  

The Ultimatum Game #en #politics
A social experiment that may offer an explanation about the recent political developments in the world. 

How to create a simple ASN.1 parser #en #howto
Step by step instructions to create a ASN.1 parser using asn1c. 

Blog posts without titles. #en #blogging
I find blog post titles restrictive. Here is how I got rid of them. 

Making GitHub part of my publishing workflow #en #howto #github
How I'm using a github repo as a notebook, and the first steps towards hosting my blog on github. 

Dear Qatar Airways, you know nothing about customer care. #en #rant #qatar airways
How Qatar Airways gave my seat to someone else after I had checked in, turned a 17h itinerary to a 30h one, and acted as if this is a normal thing to happen. 

Facebook instant articles first thoughts #en #facebook #instant articles
Facebook opened up Instant Articles to everyone a couple of months ago. I just had some time to give it a try. To be honest, I like it. 

Brexit referendum first thoughs. #en
Such a pity. 

UX tip: Users need your feedback too. #en
Give your users feedback for their actions. Especially if you are the one who asked them to do something.  

Simple bash script for encrypted chat over keybase fs (kbfs) #en #howto #keybase
First impressions of the keybase.io filesystem, and a small bash script to implement a secure, encrypted chat service over it. 

Not just what you know, but who you are too. #en #privacy #encryption
Privacy and identity are hard to separate. 

How to bypass the Netflix VPN ban #en #netflix #vpn
So, after all, it seems like the recent Netflix VPN ban can be bypassed —at least for now. 

A big Fuck Off by the content industry and Netflix to users worldwide. #en #netflix #piracy
How Netflix and the content industry is blocking users who are paying 60% more than the rest to access content legitimately. 

POSE with IFTTT #en #howto #indieweb
Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere with ifttt.com 

Comparing my Facebook to my Instagram feed #en #facebook #instagram
It seems that the people I follow can express more interesting things using photos than words. 

The annoying state of Internet subscriptions #en #rant #ideas #internet #web #medium.com
I’d like to see something that would make “subscribe” a verb of the Internet, like "go” and “contact”. 

(Re: Audible) DRM is a defect #en #audible #drm
Follow up to a reply I got for recommending Audible in my last Letter. 

How to archive your tweets #en #howto #twitter #archiving
Why not take a backup of all your tweets every now and then? 

How to archive your Gmail #en #howto
Why not make a tradition out of archiving your Gmail at the end of the year? See how easy it is. 

My post is a required reading for Yale's MGT656 #en #diary
I'm proud and I had to share. :-) 

Testing Twitter ads #en #howto #twitter #mailchimp
The results of a small experiment at getting new subscribers to my newsletter using Twitter lead generation ads and MailChimp form integrations.