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Danny Garside
@da5nsy@social.coop
mastodon 4.5.18Thinking about what the future of research might look like. Community manager for @digiresacademy@mastodon.social
Starting a @RadicalRoutes@social.coop housing co-op in NE London: https://perennialhousingcoop.uk
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing
#Color #Colour #ColorVision #ColourVision
#Neuroscience #Psychology
#Buddhism
#OpenSouce #Repair #logseq #Fairphone
#Cooperatives #coop #SolarPunk #antifa #HousingCoops #Anarchism #Anticapitalism
#London
#BiInSci #Polyamory
#woodpeckers #Rhubarb
Previously: fosstodon.org/@da5nsy
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Joined April 13, 2023
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Hey fediverse! If you've chatted to me in the last year or so (or, frankly, if you've passed within earshot) you'll have heard me talking about the main project I'm part of currently: Perennial Housing Co-op.
https://perennialhousingcoop.uk
We're trying to start a new housing coop in NE London, as part of the @RadicalRoutes@social.coop network, to be a home for 6-10 people. Our hope is that this will be a solid base (providing stable, affordable, community-controlled housing) for community support and activism.
We're raising money currently, and we've just extended our loanstock offer until the end of August.
There's a whole bunch of terms and concepts which might not be familiar to folks, so this is an invite to reply to this post with all questions! AMA! 🙋⁉️
(No question is too small or too silly, please ask!)
And please boost for reach! ✌️
#HousingCoop #Coop #AMA
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@crowk@critter.cafe One of my fave people on masto is based there I think! Perhaps they (@georgepenney@sunny.garden) could boost this for reach?
Does #copyfail open any interesting doors for hacking (and upgrading/re-using) old locked down hardware?
I'm initially thinking about old routers which couldn't previously have #OpenWRT installed on them 🤔
(I'm very much beyond my knowledge area, please inform/correct me)
Edit: more info: https://copy.fail/
Got friends/family who live near Manchester or Stockport?
Remind them to vote! It's TOMORROW (26th)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Gorton_and_Denton_by-election
The polls have the Greens and Reform neck-and-neck on ~30% of the vote (with Green coming out ahead in a the most recent poll*), but with ~30% still undecided.
TALK TO YOUR PEOPLE 🙏
This result is likely going to have major long-term implications for British politics - it will embolden either the Greens or Reform, and that momentum may well ultimately decide who wins the next election.
Boosts hugely appreciated
#UKpol #GortonAndDenton #GortonAndDentonByelection #GortonAndDentonByelection2026 #Green #GreenParty #Greens #Reform #Labour
What if... we make a mastodon server but where each user has total control over their profile's CSS. Anything you can do with CSS (which doesn't take the server down) - go wild. Otherwise, totally normal mastodon server.
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For those curious in the answer - #FediAlgo seems to be the closest thing to what I was looking for, and it's very cool!
https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo
Demo app: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
Feeling like the start of Spring. Taking stock of what survived the winter.
Garden is growing nicely - bluebells and dandilions flowering, and the first of the Green Alkanet is flowering. Lots of bees. Some nice violets in the grass. 2/3 rhubarbs survived the winter. As did chard, beetroot and perhaps another leafy green thing.
Pulled out a few alkanets to give some other things more of a chance.
Oh and Rosemary, Lavender, Lemon Balm, Mint (in the pot out front) all doing well.
Plum blossom was good, now going over.
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Out of Office email reply is now on! Bring on the Open Science Retreat! 🎉 🌳 🛌 🥾
#OSR26UK
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@chartgerink
Lol OK.
There's more but these are my top picks.
Calverts - UK co-op, good for custom stuff (but not much in the way of "pick from these options").
https://www.calverts.coop/
Radix - NYC co-op. Does square and circle stickers.
https://printing.radix.coop/category/Marketing
No Fuss - not a co-op, but seem cool, UK-based, and Cass used them recently for RCMcoop stickers and seemed happy.
https://nofuss.co/
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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social @tobykurien@mastodon.social
Nice blog @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social! Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to giving these a go!
I've actually just got my Modos e-ink display up and running, and will try and grab a second-hand raspberry pi to run it off tomorrow, so this is very timely!
#tailscale and #termux.
This is very cool. I feel like I've just unlocked a new level of hacker nerd.
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@GuillaumeRossolini@infosec.exchange Yep! I feel like there's a lot of hardware shipped between then and now where support has already ended, which are now potentially open
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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz The main things I've thought of so far:
- Ratio of boosts vs original posts (normally you have the option to remove all boosts from the timeline completely, but not "dial it down")
- Highlight content from people who post infrequently (partially normalise against those who post frequently)
- Highlight posts and boosts from people I (in)frequently engage with (frequently - I probably want to see their stuff, infrequently - maybe I would want to consider stopping following them)
Job listing: #UX designer for asylum seeker support website with a friend of mine https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GY_GrtqnvVXrpGJQpaHwvq2CzSi7o_cHsDy27zDbZWU/mobilebasic#heading=h.6rl19stuc4r2
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@tinker@infosec.exchange
sometimes, just sometimes, I feel like humanity is actually doing OK ✨
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"A New Chapter for Co-op Development at SPACE4" - by Natasha Natarajan
https://outlandish.com/blog/co-operatives/a-new-chapter-for-co-op-development-at-space4/
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@tobykurien@mastodon.social May I ask - what's your preferred method for emailing on the command line?
I'm planning an e-ink cyberdeck project and had been assuming I'd need a desktop environment, but if there are good CLI email interfaces then maybe not!
(A little more context: https://social.coop/@da5nsy/116387288633137085)
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@chartgerink
So, it definitely made _my_ decision harder, but I hope it could make your decision easier haha
Mainly depends on shape and where in the world 😅
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@chartgerink Nope, but I do now have a list of other suppliers if you're looking for stickers 😅
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@MediaActivist
We've been using Nextcloud Deck (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/deck) for kanbans in @RadicalRoutes recently, and that seems to work moderately well.
I just checked the open managed nextcloud instances I'm on ( @autonomic's cooperative.computer and thegood.cloud) and neither of them seem to have that app enabled by default, but I expect it could be enabled easily enough.
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@MediaActivist @syhr
Cool! Thanks for the quick reply.
Do you think it makes sense to arrange a short call sometime for introductions and getting up to speed with where things are up to?
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@elCelio@mastodon.uno
I did see that post, and for half a millisecond I did entertain the idea that it was directed at me haha
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@sab
❤️🤓
I've always had fairly quick replies on the Fairphone forum for this type of thing https://forum.fairphone.com/c/market
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@wanderingleaf
There are a couple of good lemmy threads:
https://slrpnk.net/post/2448062
https://slrpnk.net/post/12894855
I'm at the Open Science Retreat (#OSR26UK) this week, at the #CentreForAlternativeTechnology in #Machynlleth this week - surrounded by experimental #solar arrays (incl. some cool ones from "history") and it has reminded me about my account on solarcene.community (a #SolarPowered #mastodon instance) - time to dust that off and have a play!
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@fooflington@infosec.exchange
It's designed to be social, so this might not match super well what you're wanting it for, but: bookwyrm?
https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social#Couchsurfing used to have a vouch system which worked a bit like this (once you'd been vouched for x times you could vouch for other people)
(forwarding from Slack)
📣 CHARTED flexible funds - call for submissions 📣
You can now apply for two of the #CHARTED flexible funds!
CHARTED aims to make the training landscape easier to navigate for new and experienced digital Research Technical Professionals (#dRTP), partly through funding community-driven activities and initiatives.
We are now accepting applications for:
- Fund 2: Community Activities (maximum award per activity £5,000)
- Fund 4: Professional Development (maximum award per individual £5,000)
Deadline for both funds: Wednesday 15th April 2026, though the funds are administered on a rolling basis, so there will be more opportunities to apply. You need to be based at a UK university or non-profit to be eligible to apply.
If you’re not sure if this is for you or if you have questions about your application, join us for a webinar on Tuesday 14th April 2026 at 12:00 BST. Please register here: https://imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/jkTNuWw6SUK3jjxP9dtnaw
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This event is on Thursday! Come along to learn more about #ElectronicResearchNotebooks
It's shaping up to look like it's going to be jolly good fun indeed (if you're in to that sort of thing...!)
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@elCelio@mastodon.uno
Haha yep, that's fair!
I have only tried it on mobile so far, and it was a bit of a disaster, but I think that was mainly just that it wasn't mobile-friendly
"When people say “I’m not a tech person” (perhaps the single most repeated refrain in all our fieldwork) what they normally mean is something like “I can't work out how to operate the Torment Nexus like my niece can, she's a programmer you know”. Rather than seeing the underlying power relation: a system designed to make you feel alienated, on the outside, and needing a friendly corporation to help you, tech culture has managed to make you feel silly for not understanding it. Noone should have to operate the Torment Nexus!! You are not stupid for not getting it!"
https://gfsc.community/r/476b14c4?m=a0cf5e3a-025b-47c3-a50a-4468c458d876
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Want to get involved? Please do!
Got questions? Reply here (or ping one of us a message!)
We're working here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WASJvGs0nUsNOaRo64fERyKw0tvfrLMmL7sdAQ4eT6A/mobilepresent#slide=id.g3d3624fceb9_0_298
#OSR26UK
"You need not be defined by your many feats, you are not a centipede."
🥲
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@elCelio@mastodon.uno
I don't have the knowledge to effectively audit the code, but I have no reason to believe that it wouldn't be. Authorise at your own risk.
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@deuxfleurs@mastodon.tedomum.net @peergos@mastodon.social @papiris@hachyderm.io Like a collectively owned storj?
Well, I seem to be staying up to watch the results of the #GortonAndDentonByElection 😬🤞
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@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online I suspect @neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social and the other #neuromatch folks might have suggestions