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 very happy to see it now in the general appstore. Loops is decentralized which...

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 simply being better at picking up the signs earlier and getting the kids into the...

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 did a speedtest, and although it looked fine I did agree the signal quality was...

“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 produced better quality work out of their homes than from the office, they were first...

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 what it is that “we” really are. Like Sabine Hossenfelder, the unavoidable...

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 systems made in the USA, or host our own services in US data centers. Now, this...

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 the story of how I spent quite some time investigating what made them tick, and...

Symptom: 2024-02-18T18:06:31Z ERR The homeserver is outdated (supported spec versions are below minimum required by bridge) bridge_requires=v1.4 server_supports=v1.2 Resolution: When I decided on a Matrix home server the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 Dendrite. More modern (and IMHO secure) development environment, and seemingly a...

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 for it) I just ignored it. Until a few days ago. I wanted to start playing with...

“Evidence is increasing, therefore, that a rapid reorganisation of atmospheric and ocean circulation (time-scales of several decades or more) can occur during inter-glacial periods without human interference.” from IPCC TAR - Working Group I: The Scientific Basis Image licensed under CC-BY: Becker, D., Verheul, J.,...

Well that headline looks weird. I mean. You click √ on your calculator. Or you type Math.sqrt() or something similar. But what if you’re writing code on ancient low spec systems and there’s just no way you can take the time to actually calculate the square root? And even generating a lookup table somewhere else and...

(No, this is not about Musk supporting a racist, homophobic, bigoted authoritarian - others will write endlessly about that today) Tesla is valued as a software company, not a car company. This is an image they’ve pushed endlessly - they’re “further ahead”. Their cars will be self-driving in 2016 .. sorry, 2017. No,...