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🇮🇲Dan
@isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
An apanthropist geek who enjoys amateur radio, using computers with Linux and tinkering & hacking with electronics, Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

Interested in […]

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The poor #greyhound doesn't understand the concept of opening hours. 😥
February 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Winter Olympics on the telly. Skeleton.

Of course, I'm now thinking about the brachistochrone problem...
#maths #mathematics
February 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Some serious gatekeeping by the ft5dr group moderators at groups.io 🤪

Of course my email doesn't match my QRZ one. Who re-uses emails across services in 2026? 🤷
#hamr #AmateurRadio
February 15, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Twice in the last few months I have almost spent £££ on a new laptop.

Luckily, at the end of the checkout process it always fails to recognise my postcode.

Phew!
February 15, 2026 at 7:20 AM
I am on a boat.
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 PM
As a Linux user, the beer chose itself...
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Having a drink in Tarn. #barnsley
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I am on a boat.

(Third time this week!)
February 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Where do I leave the piss and the shit? 🤷
February 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I used to teach maths. I still can't resist turning things like this into a mechanics question...
February 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I had a few C4FM contacts on my Yaesu FTM-300D while driving in England, including the fancy "VW" mode.

It was finally interesting to see how that side of my radio works, having only used it for FM contacts on the Isle of Man previously.

I wondered briefly about setting up a C4FM gateway or […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I am on a boat.
February 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I am on a boat.
February 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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When a government does not fully control its IT systems it is unable to govern effectively and this cannot be solved with legislation or contracts, only with #OpenSource - Dirk Schrödter, head of the state chancellery, Schleswig-Holstein and at #ofesummit
January 30, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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It is raining inside my living room 😭
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Happy 100th birthday television!

On January 26th, 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demo of a working television system in his laboratory above what is now Bar Italia on Frith Street, in London's Soho.

🎵 You've had your time, you've had your power, you've yet to have your finest […]
Original post on social.chatty.monster
social.chatty.monster
January 26, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Silly, but it made me laugh...
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Happy birthday, @iomliz !
January 25, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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9814072356 is an interesting number: it's the largest square number (99066²) with no repeated digits.

From https://oeis.org/A392242, just added to the #oeis.
A392242 - OEIS
oeis.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald […]

[Original post on social.vivaldi.net]
January 20, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Kp currently rising rapidly, for any #aurora hunters out there. (Cloudy as all get-out in my part of Ireland, so nothing to see currently.)
January 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I've noticed a bit of a general slowdown in my home internet over the past week.

Moved my DNS lookups from Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 to Google's 8.8.8.8 and now back to zipping along.

Some weird routing issue from my ISP to Cloudflare maybe?
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM