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isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
🇮🇲Dan
@isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
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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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isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
The best thing about working nights is that you get to go to work *twice* on Christmas Day! 🤪
A man with a short mowhawk and glasses wearing an ambulance uniform stands next to an ambulance car in a garage.
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I found unattended chocolate at the ambulance station. I *think* it's probably for communal consumption...

Too late if it isn't! 😋
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I forgot my packed lunch. Sourced an alternative though... 😋
A sausage and egg bap.
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Wait? Stranger Things is actually a true story?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251223.html
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
A brief moment of Christmas respite amongst the chaos. 🤞it lasts a long time!
A Christmas tree with some human legs in green trousers and black boots next to it.
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Ready for my Christmas gig. I have not been struck down by lightning yet. 🤞
#tenor
A stupid looking man with glasses and short mohawk wears a red t-shirt with *that* chord from verse 7 of Wilcox's arrangement of O Come all Ye Faithful on it. A large Christmas tree is behind, inside a church.
December 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
SOLSTICE! (15:03)
December 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
A nice bit of #raynet promotion on BBC Breakfast this morning. (06:20 for those who can use iPlayer.)

#HamRadio #hamr #AmateurRadio
December 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🆕 blog! “Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?”

I'm still a believer in the promise of Web 2.0. The idea that giving people a curated space to chat produces tiny sparks of magic.

My wife Liz and I have been running the OpenBenches project for about 8 years - it's a crowd-sourced […]
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mastodon.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Looks like the Isle of Man geo-IP blocking on Tidal has ended.

Spotify cancelled, Tidal subscribed 👍

No native Linux client though...
December 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Manx Radio's 1368 kHz site.
A pair of red and white monopole antennas surrounded by a few trees with blue skies and a hill in the background.
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
OnlyFans spending per capita places the Isle of Man in the top rankings world wide.

So my referring to our HNWI residents as rich wankers turns out to be true. 🤣
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy
Just listening to the #onlinesafetyact debate, so far I've seen idiot politicians standing up demanding people who insult them online shouldn't be anonymous and claiming that the OSA "doesn't go far enough". Absolutely zero consideration for _why_ 500k people might have signed up to demand the […]
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December 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
After much delay, I am embarked on a boat.
We have yet to set sail though...
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Low carbon ☢️ power plant 🌱
Heysham nuclear power station. Two rectangular industrial looking buildings.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Returning to my little rock tomorrow, but the boats look somewhat unreliable. 6 hour crossings today. 🤷

Maybe they'll catch up overnight. 🤞
December 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Yorkshire, I am in you.
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I am in my 6th decade and still learned a new word today:

Pectoriloquy
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I am on a boat.
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy
@isleofmandan The programmer lives on the Island -- I've met him a few times at CodeClub and things now.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
My new toy has arrived. I'm pleased to see that it's a very faithful recreation of the original, so the 'boot' cheat code still works!

Also, why have I remembered how to access the cheat mode for 42 years? 😆
The Spectrum - a recreation of the ZX Spectrum - sitting on my lap with wires leading from it. A close up of a TV with the left corner of the Manic Miner game, showing a boot symbol indicating cheat mode is on.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I broke the AI...
Taste like yours can't be defined. But let's try anyway. You listened to 258 genres.
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
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
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ghalfacree.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Kagi, the search engine, has launched a game that aims to teach you to identify #AISlop. But... I'm pretty sure the game itself is AI slop, because the very first image it tested me with was Asher Brown Durand's Kindred Spirits - which it describes as showing "authentic human photography."

It's […]
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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM