Sam Tygier
@samtygier.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Software Engineer! In an Adventure with Scientists!
@ STFC
https://mantidproject.github.io/mantidimaging/
https://rsecon25.society-rse.org/
https://mcrlot.com/ […]
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@ STFC
https://mantidproject.github.io/mantidimaging/
https://rsecon25.society-rse.org/
https://mcrlot.com/ […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fediscience.org/@samtygier, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Wild•Ling - Home
Wild•Ling is a conservation project led by conservation professionals, buying land in the Peak District and restoring it for nature.
wild-ling.org.uk
@vashtig.bsky.social and I are starting a rewilding project. She is doing a sponsored coast to coast walk to raise funds for it. Read more at https://wild-ling.org.uk #rewilding #earthday
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Oh good, all the old tricks work on it, thanks AI doctor / secret free coding agent
January 10, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Oh good, all the old tricks work on it, thanks AI doctor / secret free coding agent
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overly in-depth (i love it) explanation of why usb-c audio dongles/headsets hit USB-FS bandwidth limits https://epenguin.imalone.co.uk/2025/06/audio-dongles-and-ghost-of-usb-1.html
Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1
USB dongles with not enough bandwidth
epenguin.imalone.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
overly in-depth (i love it) explanation of why usb-c audio dongles/headsets hit USB-FS bandwidth limits https://epenguin.imalone.co.uk/2025/06/audio-dongles-and-ghost-of-usb-1.html
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Our workshop from RSECon is now available on YouTube; an introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and accessibility testing with the WAVE browser extension.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-5KPeUtTys
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-5KPeUtTys
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Our workshop from RSECon is now available on YouTube; an introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and accessibility testing with the WAVE browser extension.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-5KPeUtTys
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-5KPeUtTys
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Apparently the entire UNIX tape was read successfully, what's going to need to happen next is to decode the signal from it, decipher the file formats, etc., I'll post updates as I get them
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Apparently the entire UNIX tape was read successfully, what's going to need to happen next is to decode the signal from it, decipher the file formats, etc., I'll post updates as I get them
This years RSECon25 Emerging voices talk - by Ana Cavalcante, Piper Fowler-Wright
https://youtu.be/65rd7VUYhe0
https://youtu.be/65rd7VUYhe0
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This years RSECon25 Emerging voices talk - by Ana Cavalcante, Piper Fowler-Wright
https://youtu.be/65rd7VUYhe0
https://youtu.be/65rd7VUYhe0
Um, you might want to check that BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly08y25688o (I've reported to them by email). #gellmannamnesia
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Um, you might want to check that BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly08y25688o (I've reported to them by email). #gellmannamnesia
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For the last few years I've been running a proxy of the BBC News RSS feeds (https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev) that strips out duplicate content, non-news content, and (optionally) sports news.
This weekend, for the first time, somebody asked if it could produce an edition that included only the […]
This weekend, for the first time, somebody asked if it could produce an edition that included only the […]
Original post on danq.me
m.danq.me
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For the last few years I've been running a proxy of the BBC News RSS feeds (https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev) that strips out duplicate content, non-news content, and (optionally) sports news.
This weekend, for the first time, somebody asked if it could produce an edition that included only the […]
This weekend, for the first time, somebody asked if it could produce an edition that included only the […]
Nice session of sustainable computing talks at CIUK. Storing heat in old coal mines under Durham, immersion cooling and methods monitoring energy use on clusters. #ciuk2025 #sustainablecomputing
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Nice session of sustainable computing talks at CIUK. Storing heat in old coal mines under Durham, immersion cooling and methods monitoring energy use on clusters. #ciuk2025 #sustainablecomputing
EcoHome Lab: Battery optimisation strategies, Dec 11, 18:00, online. https://www.meetup.com/eco-home-lab-manchester/events/311853741/ These are always interesting discussions on making homes more sustainable with open source tech. #solarpunk #homeassistant #carboncoop
EcoHome Lab: Battery optimisation strategies (winter), Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
*** As we enter the darkest month, we thought it would be interesting to share strategies for making the most of battery storage (without the sun). We'll be hearing from a
www.meetup.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
EcoHome Lab: Battery optimisation strategies, Dec 11, 18:00, online. https://www.meetup.com/eco-home-lab-manchester/events/311853741/ These are always interesting discussions on making homes more sustainable with open source tech. #solarpunk #homeassistant #carboncoop
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The layout of this paper is expert level trolling!
https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629
https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629
View of Optimal Line Length in Reading — A Literature Review
journals.uc.edu
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The layout of this paper is expert level trolling!
https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629
https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629
@katiefenn You are not the only one. There was an open hardware project that made something similar https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara . Looks like they have sold out of the first batch but are planning a next version.
Tangara
The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s
www.crowdsupply.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
@katiefenn You are not the only one. There was an open hardware project that made something similar https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara . Looks like they have sold out of the first batch but are planning a next version.
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What do Youth Hacking 4 Freedom participants do about an hour before the award ceremony for the winners? They sit in the hotel's lobby and try to get the #freesoftware operating system @postmarketOS running on a @Fairphone version 2. 🤗 #YH4F
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
What do Youth Hacking 4 Freedom participants do about an hour before the award ceremony for the winners? They sit in the hotel's lobby and try to get the #freesoftware operating system @postmarketOS running on a @Fairphone version 2. 🤗 #YH4F
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UPDATE: still looking!
Since May, we have:
- Bid on some land (unsuccessful)
- Contacted landowners & managers about making direct offers
- Started a MSc in Ecological Restoration
Full update: wild-ling.org.uk/october-2025...
Know someone who might sell land in the Peak District? Let us know!🌰
Since May, we have:
- Bid on some land (unsuccessful)
- Contacted landowners & managers about making direct offers
- Started a MSc in Ecological Restoration
Full update: wild-ling.org.uk/october-2025...
Know someone who might sell land in the Peak District? Let us know!🌰
October 2025 update: still looking - Wild•Ling
Since May we have been looking for suitable land for sale in the Peak District.
wild-ling.org.uk
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
UPDATE: still looking!
Since May, we have:
- Bid on some land (unsuccessful)
- Contacted landowners & managers about making direct offers
- Started a MSc in Ecological Restoration
Full update: wild-ling.org.uk/october-2025...
Know someone who might sell land in the Peak District? Let us know!🌰
Since May, we have:
- Bid on some land (unsuccessful)
- Contacted landowners & managers about making direct offers
- Started a MSc in Ecological Restoration
Full update: wild-ling.org.uk/october-2025...
Know someone who might sell land in the Peak District? Let us know!🌰
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It's good to see that GMCA has adopted a retrofit framework agreement that includes calculating embodied carbon.
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make […]
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It's good to see that GMCA has adopted a retrofit framework agreement that includes calculating embodied carbon.
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make […]
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make […]
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BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
MNT Reform Next
A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant
www.crowdsupply.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
#tfw you have a glass of wine on the train and things get surreal.
#kevlinhenney #avantiwestcoast #timetravel
#kevlinhenney #avantiwestcoast #timetravel
October 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#tfw you have a glass of wine on the train and things get surreal.
#kevlinhenney #avantiwestcoast #timetravel
#kevlinhenney #avantiwestcoast #timetravel
From a slide at the Durham NetDRIVE Workshop. The Manifest Destiny of AI
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=HannaBarakat&title=FrontierModels3 #betterimagesofai #sustainablecomputing
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=HannaBarakat&title=FrontierModels3 #betterimagesofai #sustainablecomputing
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
From a slide at the Durham NetDRIVE Workshop. The Manifest Destiny of AI
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=HannaBarakat&title=FrontierModels3 #betterimagesofai #sustainablecomputing
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=HannaBarakat&title=FrontierModels3 #betterimagesofai #sustainablecomputing
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Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/quarter-of-uk-university-physics-departments-at-risk-of-closing-survey-finds
Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s […]
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/quarter-of-uk-university-physics-departments-at-risk-of-closing-survey-finds
Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s […]
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mastodon.scot
September 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/quarter-of-uk-university-physics-departments-at-risk-of-closing-survey-finds
Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s […]
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/quarter-of-uk-university-physics-departments-at-risk-of-closing-survey-finds
Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s […]
@neiman @ligasser Chatting with a friend, I got this expressed better in graph terminology. Each person is a vertex, each coffee break is an edge, edges are labelled with the week. We are looking for a complete graph (there is an edge between every pair of nodes) of N vertices, with labelled […]
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fediscience.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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i'm looking for a KiCAD EE freelancer who is skilled and well organized (meaning: can finish pcb projects so they are orderable without much nagging from my side (not necessarily with BOM fully picked though)) to offload some of my projects (sometimes partial or redoing something i did, but […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
i'm looking for a KiCAD EE freelancer who is skilled and well organized (meaning: can finish pcb projects so they are orderable without much nagging from my side (not necessarily with BOM fully picked though)) to offload some of my projects (sometimes partial or redoing something i did, but […]
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I spoke at the HPC RSE training and community session at #rsecon25 today. Introduced the Reasonable Performance Computing SIG and our “Python Profiling & Optimization” course first, then had good discussions on the panel afterwards!
September 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I spoke at the HPC RSE training and community session at #rsecon25 today. Introduced the Reasonable Performance Computing SIG and our “Python Profiling & Optimization” course first, then had good discussions on the panel afterwards!
Maria from the Manchester Library of Things https://mcrlot.com/ is a finalist for BBC Radio Manchester Make a Difference awards:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lzr9d0
#mcrlot #libraryofthings #manchester
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lzr9d0
#mcrlot #libraryofthings #manchester
Home - MCRLOT
Manchester Library of Things is your community shed: full of stuff you need, but don’t want to buy. A community non-profit in Levenshulme.
mcrlot.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Maria from the Manchester Library of Things https://mcrlot.com/ is a finalist for BBC Radio Manchester Make a Difference awards:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lzr9d0
#mcrlot #libraryofthings #manchester
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lzr9d0
#mcrlot #libraryofthings #manchester
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What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient?
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient?
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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This feels like a very @SwiftOnSecurity story but I’m going to tell it.
Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.
Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.
August 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This feels like a very @SwiftOnSecurity story but I’m going to tell it.
Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.
Chat bots (not just LLM driven) are surprisingly old. In the mid 90s, a mark up language for string-driven bots called AIML was released. A small community of early hackers and devs got really into it. I was part as a teen.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM