Tornevall

- Stories from Reality - Musician | Bedroom DJ | Tug of War | Photographer | DevOps Thomas blends a passion for music, photography, and technology. With a background in 1990s dance music, his journey evolved from early experiments with FastTracker 2 to becoming a DJ and competitor in tug of war. His creative output includes documenting tug of war competitions across Sweden, while also working as a systems developer focusing on WordPress and e-commerce platforms.

2025

The Struggle: Transcribe stuff for free with Whisper and WSL/Linux – With a GTX 1060

I’ve been struggling with transcription issues for quite some time, for a variety of reasons. Examples: I need a text transcribed to be pasted into Suno, that only exists as a m4a-file (i.e. music, that sometimes has hardcoded subtitles that...

23 December 2025

The main purpose of the tech house track “Magdalena”

The lyrics for “Magdalena” are intentionally written in another language to mask the literal meaning and shift focus away from local political rhetoric. This choice also supports the musical direction of the track, giving it a more exotic Latin tech house character and allowing the vocal elements to function as texture and energy rather than explicit messaging.

13 December 2025

FWSC FastTracker Music – Personal History

The musical side of FWSC was probably never planned, structured or even meant to become a “project”. It was very much about learning applications. The name grew naturally out of the same world as FreeWare Data and FreeWare Data/2 (FidoNet...

30 November 2025

FWSC – The mid 90s developer project

During the mid 1990s, roughly between 1994 and 1999, I ran a bulletin board system called FreeWare Data. I got into the BBS world during my upper secondary school years (Swedish “gymnasium”) through new friends who introduced me to FidoNet,...

30 November 2025

SoundCloud monetization terms update: what’s new and what matters

SoundCloud has posted a new “SoundCloud Monetization Terms of Service” for both On-Platform Monetization and Off-Platform Distribution. The terms page shows “Last Updated: October 31, 2025”. SoundCloud’s notice to artists says the update will take effect on November 24, 2025....

6 November 2025

“Beats of Gaza” – releasing this friday!

It’s not often that I step outside my comfort zone in the House and Drum & Bass genres, but I felt it was finally time to experiment, now that Suno – as they claim – has achieved near-perfect sound quality....

6 October 2025

Falska konton pĂĄ uppsving, men namnen ser konstiga ut

Falska profiler på Facebook ökar just nu, ofta från användare som ser ut att vara dina gemensamma vänner – men något skaver. Namn med mystiska vågtecken, symboler och bindestreck i smeknamnen dyker upp överallt. Vad betyder de egentligen, och varför...

5 October 2025