Troed Sångberg
Troed Sångberg
Troed Sångberg
The personal blog of a hacker, dad, demoscener, cybersec professional, software engineer, futurist and above all someone who dives deep into whatever interests him for the moment.
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Why are we hereA while back I found myself having an irritating problem. I was reverse engineering an IP camera and wanted to modify its filesystem. Easy - you just desolder the BGA NAND, read it out, patch and write it back -...
tl;dr: ArgotWhatsapp, Messenger, Signal, Discord, Teams, SlackSome better than others, some truly encrypted and some not. What they all have in common is that they're controlled by one single entity - yet those are the services we trust...
OpenWebUI is a great AI toolbox for personal or family use. They manage to get a pretty user friendly UI set up that can tie into both local and remote AI servers - with some caveats. The support for Speech-To-Text is one such, where the...
What follows is an actual session I just had with the LLM I’m using for hobbyist development, Devstral-2, using the Mistral Vibe CLI. The application is a mod I’ve developed for the game Hytale .While looking at my server logs, it seemed...
I'm using Mistral Vibe as my “AI CLI” when doing LLM-aided development. Sometimes I use local models, sometimes their cloud models, it depends on the sensitivity of what I'm working on. I grew a bit tired of having to repeat what I was...
I’ve vibe coded.Challenging one’s own convictions can sometimes be difficult, but necessary. I’ve used generative AI sporadically for some tasks for a while, and I haven’t been all that impressed. However, people I’ve known for many...
Loops is a fediverse version of TikTok. Here’s the exact review I posted to the Apple AppStore when it came out of Testflight beta testing:Enshittification resistant short-form videoI’ve been using Loops during its beta phase and I’m...
There’s been a sharp uptick in the number of children diagnosed with autism and/or ADHD since a few decades back. Some try to find a cause in various conspiracy theories, but the general consensus is that this is an artifact from us...
I’ve set up my parents with an awesome business quality managed network - since I’m the one managing it. Recently my mother mentioned not being fully happy with the network connectivity and speed though, which surprised me. I went and...
“Back to the office” and the push for “AI into everything” have the same underlying cause. Collusion regarding Return on Investment. You see, what happened during/after Covid when companies realized a large part of their workforce...
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. As can be seen from previous posts here on my blog, I spent some time quite a few years ago looking into the current state of science regarding (human) cognition, consciousness and really...
It’s dead Jim The friendly global market died in the beginning of 2025. The idea that software & services (yes, hardware too) can be procured from anywhere and used where needed died with it. The European Union cannot rely on operating...
Back in late 2019 I saw an ad on Facebook for a very interesting IoT device from a Swedish company local to me - Minut. I’ve been a very happy user of the four devices (named Point at the time, known as Minut M2 now) since then. This is...
Symptom: 2024-02-18T18:06:31Z ERR The homeserver is outdated (supported spec versions are below minimum required by bridge) bridge_requires=v1.4 server_supports=v1.2 Resolution: When I decided on a Matrix home server the choice fell on...
If I remember correctly, at one point my Home Assistant (H-A from now on) installation started complaining on the Bluetooth component not starting up correctly. Since I wasn’t using Bluetooth (the server doesn’t even have the hardware...