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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116992339665635678 It is #MaintenanceMonday after all 😀

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  Don't mind me. Just re-tagging the 13000-odd mp3s in my music collection. Mostly so I can import them properly into Music Assistant. Mainly because filesystems have gotten lots better at handling unicode characters in the intervening 20 years 😀 As I'd tagged them all with #MusicBrainzPicard in the first place, updating things is proving pretty painless. Community data FTW! #HomeAssistant #MusicBrainz

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  @da5nsy@social.coop do you know @smithadrianpaul@mastodon.social? He's not really on here, and (partly as a result) I've not caught up with him in ages; but if you're still in the Brighton environs, his work seems adjacent at least to your interests

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  Now that we've found https://isstarmerpm.co.uk/ I've reinstated the @MCQN_Ltd "has the PM resigned" Ackers Bell in @DoESLiverpool (This ringing is from when we were testing it) #UKPol #weeknotes

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  Really impressed with how easy it was to get a Pi running as a looping media player using https://mp4museum.org/ #RaspberryPi #weeknotes

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  15 years ago today I was at the first Barcamp Liverpool. It was a super important event for me, as it brought together a huge cross-section of the city's (and beyond) geeks to share stories and knowledge and get to know each other. It's also where I first met some of the folk who were co-founders of @DoESLiverpool. And also where the seed for DoES itself was planted. http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/computers/barcamp_liverpool.html #TBT #ThrowbackThursday #Liverpool #Ba...

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  @fluidlogic have you read The Devil's Device by Edwyn Gray? That's a similar tale a couple of decades (IIRC) earlier when Robert Whitehead was developing the torpedo. It's a great read. He ended up going to Italy when the Royal Navy were dismissive.

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  @meganL yeah, finding a good projection surface will make it loads better. I guess (I've not watched the full video yet, saved it for when I'm not working) the banked sides of the LA river also work well for tiered seating? We were lucky that the soil in the railway arch also lent itself to a few rows of "seats"

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  @concretedog does asking if this link https://concretedog.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-wonderful-opensource-controller-for.html was supposed to be in that post ☝️ count as making the whole project better? 😁 @steamengineers @rpimag

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  This #selfie is proof that we were there rather than a decent photo of the #FolkRidingBikes or the glorious avenue of cherry blossom in Liverpool Botanic Gardens. Glad that I thought it was worth a chance to take last night's ride through there. #Liverpool #bloomscrolling #InTheSaddle #BikeTooter

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  Impromptu #InTheSaddle to Aintree and back to get a new laptop charger. Still, got to see the Welsh hills (just about) #Liverpool #BikeTooter

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  Made the mistake of looking at the washing machines in Currys. Anyone need their AI washing? #AI

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  Tonight's @does_salon is just about to start. Pat Link will be telling us about the plastic recycling that they get up to at Neston High Makerspace. Watch it live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ERfXPjgJc #plastic #recycling #Liverpool #weeknotes

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  @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk I did wonder if something like that might happen when I spotted I was replying to the @manyfold@3dp.chat instance rather than to you directly. Nice to see it!

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  So #IgniteLiv is heading over the water in November, for Ignite Birkenhead. We're on the hunt for speakers, so if you want 5 minutes and 20 slides to share your passion then give @defnetmedia a shout: https://igniteliverpool.com/be-a-speaker/ #Liverpool #Birkenhead

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  Looking forward to having Pat Link come to the @does_salon to tell us about the makerspace he set up in his school, and all the plastic recycling they get up to. https://events.doesliverpool.com/events/fa66960d-856a-4823-9037-5adb29caa847 #makerspace #school #PreciousPlastic #recycling #Liverpool #weeknotes

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  Now there's a sight I haven't seen in a while. I'm debugging one of the @DoESLiverpool doorbots, so have plugged it into a screen; something that hasn't happened since we moved locations #weeknotes

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  Always nice when friends encounter @museuminabox in the wild. Just got sent this by a mate I've known since school, he's visiting the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh #GLAM #library #Edinburgh

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  Achievement unlocked: I have gained a line of credit at the local DIY store. They're too small to stock the 3" by 6" joists I wanted, and the only other thing I needed to pick up was a chain for the bathroom sink plug; that's £1, too small for a card payment and I didn't have any change on me. "Drop the cash in next time you're passing" said the bloke behind the counter.

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  Today in important @MCQN_Ltd and @museuminabox business, I am confirming the location of these dots. The green ones are in the right place; the red ones are in the wrong place, and that caused us no end of hassle with the last batch of NFC readers. #weeknotes

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  Dialled in for the @oshwassociation AGM #OSHW

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  A productive afternoon's work. I've got a new board added to the CH32 Arduino platform, so can now run blink on the @MCQN_Ltd Hexanoodle board (with its CH32V203F8 chip) 🚨 #weeknotes #ibal257 #arduino #ch32

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  I see @defnetmedia has released the speaker line-up for next Tuesday's #IgniteLiv (although it's over the water in #Birkenhead). Featuring the fediverse's own @chogbro, @ColinTheMathmo and @wimpyking (plus me as compère) https://igniteliverpool.com/2025/11/sparking-conversations-birkenhead/?utm_source=mastodon #Liverpool

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  Recently @rachelcoldicutt published a green paper From Hype to Hope: How Networked Neighbourhoods can make innovation work for everyone It gave me an assortment of jumping off points to discuss "innovation", culture change and how to build more spaces like @DoESLiverpool and grow what we're doing there. http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/distributing_and_democratizing_innovation.html #weeknotes

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  Interested in data? In or near #Liverpool? The Civic Data Coop are holding a Festival of Data at the start of Feb https://civicdatacooperative.com/festival-of-data/ And as part of that they're putting on a Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, compèred by yours truly, on the Friday evening https://www.tickettailor.com/events/civicdatacoopeerative/1953469 #data #events #weeknotes