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The Study Voucher

April 4, 2026 • 3 min read • Study Voucher

The Study Voucher

Since I am working at the University of Helsinki (UH), I should probably know a bit more about the upcoming Study Voucher pilot (Finnish: opintoseteli), as UH will offer a lot of courses within this program, including some of mine.
Application is not responding

March 27, 2026 • 1 min read • Technology

Application is not responding

In Gnome, you get a warning if an application takes too long to complete a task.
The find command on an old Asustor

March 21, 2026 • 2 min read • Technology

The find command on an old Asustor

Instead of clicking randomly through endless hierarchies of folders on the web GUI of Asustor, you can just ssh into the device and search on the command line.
Zotero with 15GB free file storage?

March 12, 2026 • 5 min read • Zotero

Zotero with 15GB free file storage?

I have been using Zotero as my bibliography management software since 2013 (migrating from EndNote) and have generally been happy with it.
You know you've been in Finland too long…

March 4, 2026 • 1 min read • Finland

You know you’ve been in Finland too long…

You know you've been in Finland too long when… is an old Facebook thread from 2010 , but I have had quite a few of these moments. With increasing frequency, I realize that I would no longer pass as a normal German.
How to install the color-blind-safe Nature Color Palette in Inkscape

January 28, 2026 • 1 min read • Technology

How to install the color-blind-safe Nature Color Palette in Inkscape

If you are using the same color palette for the figures in your manuscript (which you should to get a unified look), you might as well cater at the same time to those that are color-challenged.
The Asustor AS-304T NAS cannot mount contemporary ext4 filesystems

January 22, 2026 • 2 min read • Technology

The Asustor AS-304T NAS cannot mount contemporary ext4 filesystems

The Asustore AS-303T is meanwhile quite old (from 2013), but I still wanted to keep it around to store backups from the last 15 years or so.
Routing network traffic through two different NICs

January 3, 2026 • 1 min read • Technology

Routing network traffic through two different NICs

If you are simultaneously connected to two networks via two different network interface cards (NICs), you need to tell your computer which traffic needs to go to which network.
My Samsung Work Phone Came Preinstalled With Spyware

December 25, 2025 • 9 min read • AppCloud

My Samsung Work Phone Came Preinstalled With Spyware

Working at the University of Helsinki, you might get the impression that the IT department is serious about protecting your digital safety.
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