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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Torvalds is absolutely on point here, esp. at the end. It's the same in my circles as well - the brilliant ones (whom I've known for over 30 years) are also the ones who quickly picked up on LLM assistance. #AI

Screenshot of Linus Torvalds comparing the use of LLMs as software development tools to using compilers, text editors and that the people he respects and consider intelligent are the ones who don't shy away from using new and interesting tools.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This is what a DDoS attack against one of the sites I host looks like atm. The initial ramp up of nginx throttling kicking in (the graph is of the number of throttled requests) and finally source IPs are getting upgraded to /32 blocks in pfSense and when it […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

A graph showing traffic over a six hour period. The traffic is spiky in that there's a quick ramp up of requests that then go down just as quickly again and between each spike there's ~30 min of complete silence.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Don't try playing games with me. I recognize an SPI NOR flash when I see one regardless of your fancy marking schemes ...

Extreme closeup from a microscope showing an eight legged IC with the marking "PQ16 LOKD TR1" and a silkscreen mask number U507

Extreme closeup from a microscope showing an eight legged IC with the marking "T51zH JQ40A0" and a silkscreen mask number U507

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Documenting for posterity. This was fun.

The message sent to me by the LLM. "computer" is a completely separate project, a Star Trek-esque voice assistant that has a jobs component that is able to send Matrix messages regarding the status of scheduled jobs.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

A lot of the anti AI claims I see have to do with "US techbros", financials and public information being locked up in private companies. This is what it actually looks like. Outside of the US tech sphere (which is, by far, getting the most media attention) AI […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Graph displaying the AI labs country of origin for the highest quality openly released AI models. Out of the 24 shown, three are from the US and the rest are from China. The best US model is number 16 on the list. Non US/China models are not included.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

-"Computer: Please create flesh and blood copies of myself, one for each unique email address I've ever used when signing up somewhere." #Github

Github PR thread describing how the OP signed commits in several different ways but Github refused to show them as verified, leading the maintainer to not accepting the PR.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

What happens when you post a link to well sourced facts regarding LLMs? (and, somehow me being a white male seems to have played a role as well. sorry. I was born that way)

Some person handing out suspensions for people posting facts

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

oh lawd I synced this one to Youtube as well since I wanted more eyes on this fork and well ... that seems to have worked

Screenshot from Youtube analytics showing a graph of the video views almost in a straight line upwards, currently over 12000

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Right now Meta is paying the bill if someone wants to use their cloud to ... idk ... decompile proprietary binary blobs to create Free and Open source implementations? Sounds like a horrible way to spend Zuckerberg's money, don't you think? I hear there are […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Screenshot of a tweet where Opencode explain that Meta's model if now available for free in more regions.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I have this nagging feeling that the same persons who worried that the quote feature on Mastodon would be used for hateful pile-ons are the same persons who happily use it themselves for that purpose when it's aligned with their own ideological agendas.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Another one for the archives. This is the setup for the "remote worker in North Korea" operation. Educate your organizations.

Screenshot from ProtonMail with an email offering a setup where the recipient won't need to do anything but be the front for a "japanese" team and be paid well.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I have begun conjuring up my first native #SailfishOS application for the #Jolla phone. Named "Communicator". Yes, if you've been following along you're guessing correctly. I will not make an iOS or Android version. The line must be drawn HERE.

Jean Luc Picard still with "The line must be drawn HERE" quote.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

It took 12 years, but finally we're here.

Spoof on XKCD comic #1319 "Automation", where the bottom part that previously showed how the task of writing the automation completely swamped the original task is replace by an exact copy of the top part where the theory now is fulfilled by prompting an LLM to create the automation.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Early preview ("works on my machine(s)") of #Bazinga - CLI and web app to allow families to make remote play from their Bazzite (and SteamOS?) easier. Allows for account switching, pairing and wake-on-lan so that you don't need to go and wake/login to your […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Screenshot of the Bazinga web UI, show current Steam status with one user being logged in, no game is currently active and the ability to switch the logged in user to someone else. Further down the page are links to CLI binaries for Windows, macOS (x86 and aarch64) and Linux.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

It's claimed that @Codeberg has (will?) ban projects that are developed partly using LLM tools. Is that correct? Then I'll have to take my donations and leave. #Codeberg

"Corporate wants you to find the difference" meme image comparing anti-vaxxer and anti-ai social media profiles

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I know, I know ... it was true in 1986 and it's equally true 40 years later ...

GEM desktop error message on an Atari ST when you try to run a program requesting more than the physically available RAM

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Go find a free LLM usage promotion - there's always a few running. Use it to reverse proprietary binary blobs for whatever thing you have. Release the resulting source somewhere. Do it. Do it naow.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

If you've ever wondered what the setup for the North Korean remote IT-worker scheme looks like. This was sent to the email address I exclusively use for Github last night. (spam tagging is mine, it wasn't flagged automatically)

Screenshot of an email with the following text:

subject: there — a partnership, not a project

Hi there,

I wanted to be transparent about everything upfront.

My name is Ayaka Kobuchi. I lead a 4-person engineering team in Japan with close to 10 years in full-stack development.

Before anything else — I'm not reaching out to hire you or to ask you to take on work. I genuinely mean a partnership: two sides bringing different strengths, sharing the rewards.

Here's the situation. Sweden-based partners command more trust and higher rates than developers in Asia, even with identical skill. We have the talent and the client demand — what we don't have is a presence in Sweden. That's where a partner like you comes in.

The partnership:
- You're our partner and local face in Sweden
- We deliver 100% of the technical work behind the scenes
- We share the profit as equals
- No development effort, no tasks, no managing on your end

You bring the market position, we bring the engineering — and we both earn more than we could alone.

If you're even a little curious, I'd love to explain it properly.

Telegram: hxxps://t.me/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Best regards,
Ayaka Kobuchi
Senior Fullstack Engineer | Japan

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Setting up for a meetup with my old #demoscene crew SYNC. Of course with an #Atari Jaguar and Lynx in one of the rooms. What's playing? The one and only Tempest 2000 by the one and only @llamasoft_ox Jeff Minter! (top floor is _all_ Atari 16/32 bit goodness. Photos will come)

A cozy gaming setup featuring a comfortable chair with a white throw blanket, positioned near a large screen displaying the game "Tempest." Various gaming devices and controllers are placed on small tables nearby, enhancing the retro gaming atmosphere. The wall is painted black,

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

@Migueldeicaza "from the storm of anti-AI rage it’s clear that many people think I should be hung up by my toe nails and flogged for even considering doing this."

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

@gunstick Random screenshot from what it's doing:

An example of the LLM "thinking" about relationships and algorithms

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

These are pretty insane decentralization stats

Screenshot from matrixrooms.info showing how they have listed 19270 matrix rooms from 19201 unique servers

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Here's an example of how you need to keep LLMs harnessed and locked down with actual system-level constraints. This is from Mistral Vibe, which has several "agents" where you can either allow the LLM to ask for permission to make edits, not be allowed to make any […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Screenshot from an LLM session where the LLM redirects stdin to write new content to a file it was explicitly not allowed to edit using the coding harness' built in tools.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

The custom Nvidia CUDA drivers on my Ubuntu 25.10 and Tree Style Tab in Firefox aren't fully compatible it seems

Screenshot from Tree Style Tab vertical tabs plugin, showing tab titles that lack many characters completely, rendered as empty space instead. One tab title is ' b f K v n u n : "A' as an example.

Thankfully the favicons render at least ... I have hundreds of these.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Dammit. I just referred to myself as a greybeard and that's clearly a lie. bonus: Synchron Assembly t-shirt. The ultimate 68000 crew - for all time.

This is a close-up image showing the side of a person’s head and upper torso. The person has a full, fluffy beard and mustache that are predominantly white with some light brown or gray tones. They are wearing a black t-shirt with white text printed on it. The text is arranged in three lines: the top line reads “PAST PERFECTION,” the middle line is larger and reads “SYNC ASSEMBLY,” and the bottom line reads “THE ULTIMATE 68000” The font style is bold and stylized, with rounded edges and a slight 3D effect. The t-shirt appears to be made of a soft fabric, and there are some small specks of lint or debris visible on its surface. The background is partially visible and includes a blue tiled surface in the upper right corner and some white fabric or clothing in the lower right corner.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

@patigallardo.bsky.social Yeah me too. The status right now is that you need to be somewhat senior to get good results from the LLMs, so any company that's implementing LLM-assisted development will hire/retain seniors and hold on juniors until they've figured out […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

An LLM being asked to implement "is string in array" using Bash. The initial code probably works, but is quite convoluted and searches through all items in the array one by one. When prompted if not associative arrays would be a better solution the LLM agrees, comes back with a much shorter code example and points out that this is O(1) vs the previous O(n)

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

If you're still living in February 2026 it's time to realize that things have changed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ0kLuST800

Video capture from the linked talk, showing Daniel Stenberg on stage and a slide behind him saying "AI is great at finding bugs".

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Cleaning up the local disk. It's an interesting excercise in trying to figure out what some files and directories actually contain, so that I can make an informed decision whether they should be kept around or not. This one is pretty easy to know what to do with […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Python script that prompts a terminal user with "meh", and if the user then types "get" the response will also be "meh", otherwise it will be "mah".

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

I love that the #Hytale devs understand that when you have chickens there's always one hen that's just a little bit crazier than the others.

A Hytale screenshot depicting a fenced in hen house with two white feathered hens and one yellow with "crazy eyes"

Hytale screenshot of a house and a fenced in hen house. One yellow hen is walking around on the roof of the house instead of in the chicken pen.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Having seen that Mastodon intends to go stricter on their trademark I'll need to come up with a name for my fork. It's working really well, I'm basically just fine tuning defaults and pondering where new posts really fit in as you scroll down etc now. And yes […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Screenshot of a preferences section where a user can select between a chronological feed or an algorithmic, with many ways to select how posts should be down- or up-scored depending on whether users are mutual follows, posts are boost, if they have lots of engagement etc.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Here's a thread you can cite next time someone asks why we don't have more <whatever> on Mastodon. This is an account with 3.4k followers who sees no problem spouting lies and blocking those who point them out. You're the problem.

Original thread link: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116341218968187474

The account Cassandrich claims Proton is owned by a fan of fascism, and considers question for citation to be proof of someone being a "fascist apologist asshole" who don't get to demand things from them.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

If you play #Hytale and didn't know this, I hope it sparks as much joy in you as it did me just now.

A redwood plank built large crude shelf on a wall with a chest placed on top.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Why thank you for asking, that algorithmic feed fork is coming along nicely. While I added the scores visibly to posts for debugging I'm thinking of keeping them (though prettier) since it's good feedback to users how the slide-settings they control influence the sorting of the feed.

Pixelised screenshot of a Mastodon home feed. The only readable things are the numbers attached to each post indicating a score that the post has.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Yes, this needs to happen. Algorithms aren't bad in themselves just because ad-revenue engagement farming algorithms are. I will publish the fork once I'm happy with it and a few other beta testers have had their say.

Screenshot of the Mastodon user preference dashboard, with settings to toggle between "Chronological feed" and "Algorithmic feed". Additionally, there are sliders to weigh how the algorithm should promote or demote various types of data for the algorithmic feed.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

This is one way of making sure you're not attracting developers. #CurseForge

Log in dialog offering four options to log in: Google, Discord, Github and Twitch

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

This is one beatifully looking (part of) self hosting dashboard. <3

Screenshot from a Grafana dashboard showing a System load gauge at 0.71, a Free RAM gauge at 51% and two panels for md0 and md1 RAIDs respectively both with a single word "Up".

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Yet another Mastodon block. This time by some anti-AI fanatic who call out anyone who disagress as a nazi. Spelled out, so that you really know that's what they mean ;) I'm the first one to laugh at the level of ignorance people at Xitter display - but there's a […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

Screenshot of a toot where I'm called a nazi for describing the current state of neuroscience.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

The chair next to my zero-g workspace. Listening to snoring cats is a very underappreciated part of remote work.

Two fluffy white cats are curled up and sleeping on a black office chair. A cluttered desk is visible in the background, along with various micro electronics storage containers and a random monitor on the floor.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Results. Atari Dash ended up as #2 second, but I realized during the event that it was nominated in the wrong category. It's a port (of Geometry Dash) - not an original. I'll just have to win this year with a final version instead. Problem is - I already know I'm […] [Original post on swecyb.com]

The results posted in image format. Available as text at the following link: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/388142-vote-for-your-favourite-atari-stettfalcon-games-in-the-8th-annual-atari-homebrew-awards-one-week-left/#comment-5798913

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

That app I've been working on just to try out this "vibe coding" thing is starting to become quite competent at what it does. If you run #meshtastic nodes you might want to have a look. Unless you hate vibe coding, and that's fine too. codeberg.org/troed/meshtastic_dista…

Screenshot from the app showing a line of sight visualisation having been done from the user's meshtastic node to an arbitrary point of the map. The visualisation shows direct-line-of sight on a 2D representation of the terrain over the path, including compensation for Earth's curvature and radio wave fresnel characteristics.

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Troed Sångberg @troed.swecyb.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

I'm happy to bring you this clip from Stargate Atlantis Season 3. It's quite relevant today. #Stargate

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