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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Today is the day everyone. If you know anyone in #Clacton, give them a call. mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/1170868…

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Is this a Hackers (1995) reference in She-Ra?!?

A photo of a TV paused on an animated (both in terms of "energetic" but also "drawn") person with purple hair and a wide smile, with the subtitle "Which means, they're our best access point to hack the planet."

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

#EalingBeaverProject This is a photo from the "fixed point photography" station

A photo of a bright sun over grass and trees and reeds

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Also very glad I managed to work out how to turn the lights off on this keyboard (Ajazz X Nacodex NK61) today 😅 Fn + Enter, it turns out. **Not** the button with the lightbulb on it, which seems to change the light setting but then somehow fully turn off the […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Today's #eInk #cyberdeck update - I've been messing with cables and trying to work out how to keep things in position. I'd bought some #fixits (I'd previously used #sugru but that seems hard to buy currently?) with the hope of using a splodge of that on each […] [Original post on social.coop]

Some fixits and some of the fixits reusable tape. One fixit has been melted.

An e-ink screen showing a desktop with a file browser visible and a paused video.

The top and the bottom of the screen are fixed to the green drill case with some thick transparent gooey tape.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

New raspberry pi (another 3B+) arrived and has now been set up (pi lite 64bit)! (In a case this time... 🤦‍♀️) I've updated the font (DejaVuBold 28x51 for now, wacky suggestions welcome), installed `lxqt` and `lightdm` so I have a gui if I ever need one, and […] [Original post on social.coop]

A cyberdeck (WIP) - a keyboard, raspberry pi, Modos e-ink screen, and battery pack. The screen is showing the toot interface, and a drafted toot.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Cool talk from @ccamara and @twm! "Preliminary results from mapping and evaluating dRTP’s contributions to computing skills and pedagogies in HE" Abstract: step-up.ac.uk/events/step-up-2026/a…

A photo of Carlos presenting a slide with the title "Our Research"

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Excited for this talk from friend and collaborator Cassandra Gould van Praag! "Research Community Managers are a Human Essential in an AI-Driven Landscape" doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21008108 #AI #RCM #ResearchCommunityManagers #OpenResearch

A photo of Cass standing at a podium at the front of a lecture theatre, with the title slide of the presentation on a screen behind them

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Alright! - the #modos screen finally arrived! I'll post some better photos at some point, but this is fundamentally what it is gonna look like! #cyberdeck #eink

A cyberdeck (a keyboard, a raspberry pi, a Modos screen, a battery pack, and a bunch of cables) in an old drill case

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Got a weird tech question, and I'm not sure which forum to post it to, so I'll put it out into the fediverse ether! I use #lineageOS on a #Fairphone3 and most of my apps are installed via f-droid. But some are installed via #AuroraStore, when there isn't an […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

@aleesteele would like to know why utility boxes are this specific dark green - anyone know?

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

On a "Internet Infrastructure Walk" today, led by @aleesteele! Here they are explaining the history and notations on manhole covers! luma.com/skfkx2ty?pk=g-ojKg5hRitNmO…

A photo of a person crouched down pointing at a manhole cover, surrounded by a crowd

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Hey @mastofeed! Getting an error when trying to authenticate, just FYI

Screenshot which reads:

Logged in as: @da5nsy@social.coop

Client authentication failed due to unknown client, no client authentication
included, or unsupported authentication method.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Want to get involved? Please do! Got questions? Reply here (or ping one of us a message!) We're working here: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WAS…

A slide which reads:
Ways to contribute - add yours here

Discipline:
- Improve and update your disciplines existing section
- If a section doesn't exist for your discipline, create one!

Region:
- Add resources from a specific region to multiple areas

Format:
- Have an idea for how to improve the format? Run it by Priya, and we can discuss applying this throughout
- Add something new to each section, e.g. a summary of “the state of the field”

Sustainability:
- Think about potential sustainability plans for the resource (more on this throughout the retreat...)

Slides: https://bit.ly/OSR_ORxD
priyasilverstein@uc.pt

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Hackathon kicking off! ✨ (Pre-event for #OSR26UK) @priyasilverstein and Ruth Davies facilitating the day of updating the #UKRN resource "Open Research Across Disciplines" - "How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline" […] [Original post on social.coop]

A photo of a stage with two people on it and a slide with the title how to get involved (see next toot)

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

So, I semi-accidentally won the auction for the #ModernQueers "Queel of Fortune" 😂

A photo of a wooden board painted pink with the words Queel of Fortune painted in black. Then a wheel is mounted to the side, which can be spun to land on options such as "Fave Queer From History" and "Good Poo Story".

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

#tailscale and #termux. This is very cool. I feel like I've just unlocked a new level of hacker nerd.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

In the name of celebrating and applauding when we can, I'd like to say well done to @mozilla for (finally) hearing some of the concerns from the user base over #AI.

A screenshot of the "What's New" page from Firefox 148, with the title "AI on your terms", describing a new feature where it is easy to turn off AI features within Firefox.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

This seems like a mastodon question... I found these two cables and I'm stumped. 1. A ~7cm HDMI extender. 2. A micro-USB to Ethernet. WHAT is going on here?

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

@glocq Ooh nice, thanks! I absolutely love the artwork for that EP!

Pixel art of a rooftop scene at sunset, with a telescope in the center of the frame, on a table surrounded by laptops, a computer, lots of little screens and some soft light lamps - very cosy

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

I made a gap of the Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) in #QGIS (because I wanted it, and also an excuse to try QGIS) www.dannygarside.co.uk/blog/BRMA_QG… #GIS

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

We made a little #zine together, with an internal poster (I drew the poster!) as a quick test print. It was a lovely way to test the tech, but I think it was also a good lesson in collaboration and not being too perfectionist - just do it! For the A5 plates, one […] [Original post on social.coop]

An A5 zine stood upright on a table, showing the front which has a drawing which says "I press, U press, we press" in purple and orange

A photo of the zine partially unfolded, to show the construction (so you get a glimpse of the internal poster!)

The internal poster, which is a collection of everyone's favourite words: e.g. "faff", "catamaran", "doppelganger", "maintenance"...

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Saying hello to the #riso guts. We chose green and fluro orange 🟠🟢✨🤞 #HouseOfAnnetta

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Doing the #riso 101 at House of Annetta this evening! #HouseOfAnnetta

A collage in the middle of the table with hands and glue sticks all around it

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Gah this is very exciting - finally trying the #Signal cloud backup feature! It's still in beta, but the "click the Google play beta button" rather than "install this sdk on a spare phone and expect to lose all your data to a bug" (🤞)

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

Yesterday I tested out the indoorco2map.com / #IndoorCO2MapDataRecorder #Android app functionality for uploading data from public transport! 🚂✨ I _think_ it worked...! I still haven't had chance to look into whether there's a way to upload data async […] [Original post on social.coop]

A screenshot of the IndoorCO2MapDataRecorder android app, showing: Transit Line: Midland Main Line: Sheffield = > London St Pancras and some data, which is around 1200ppm

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

Seeing this in a stats presentation and knowing me and the presenter would get on #anticapitalism

A photo of a banner with the phrase:
"YOU DON'T
HATE MONDAYS
YOU HATE
CAPITALISM"
in big block black letters on white

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Is there a #lowtech #mastodon / #fediverse client, or server (fork)? Thinking something which minimises bandwidth/power/storage consumption, like the work which has been done on @lowtechmagazine (solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the…) […] [Original post on social.coop]

An old photograph of people working at a switchboard. The image is dithered and monocolor.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Thrilled to be watching two of my favourite people in conversation this evening - Rob Callender of kin.coop and Caleb Elliot of @punchcard recording a live podcast episode at @claptoncfc !

Two people sat either side of a table, with a tablet recording them in the foreground. Behind them on the wall are lots of football scarves.

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Still looking for recommendations on where to hex stickers printed. Boosts appreciated! #openSource #stickers social.coop/@da5nsy/115332519380632… Image nicked from posit.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10… for illustration purposes

A photo of a laptop with hex stickers on it

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Less good on the local train from Chester to Bangor... #Aranet4

A screenshot of the Aranet app showing values around 2000ppm over about an hour

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Testing out my new #Aranet4 on the train today - not bad! I bought it to keep an eye on the c02 levels in indoor public spaces so that I can make an informed decision about whether to wear a mask, open a window, or in an extreme case: encouraging a venue to […] [Original post on social.coop]

A photo of an Aranet4 device (a small white box which looks a bit like an alarm clock, with an e-ink screen) showing a value of 1218, on a train table, surrounded by other train paraphernalia - a coffee cup, a paper, a water bottle, and a die (for playing a game called "Scheiße" with).

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Finally checking out #PelicanHouse this evening! ♥️🏠

A photo of a chalk board which says Radical Abundance Here and an arrow

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Oof, looks like @kagihq just thought better of a poll they started and deleted it. Oof. I get why - they seem pretty invested in making #AI a core part of #Kagi, and #mastodon (at least my bubble in it) is pretty anti-AI. The phrasing is also pretty incendiary […] [Original post on social.coop]

A screenshot of a post from Kagi with a poll.
Question: Would you pay more for a Kagi plan without AI?

Option 1: Yes
Option 2: No

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Danny Garside @da5nsy.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Absolutely love this #tattoo from energysquish's latest newsletter link: energysquish.com/work/tattoo

A photo of a person's arm covered with swirling nature-y tattoos

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