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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Apr 13latest
3
Avg engagement / post
1–2
Typical post (engagement)
1.9%
Engagement vs followers
37/100
Variable reach
Aug 2023
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 2 likes + reposts (median 2) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: The #EMFCamp schedule is out*, and I'm on it! I'll be giving a t · 17 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.64 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.4×
Follows 414 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Context:
STFC Cuts: https://www.ukri.org/news/stfc-details-outcomes-for-future-physics-projects/ and IoP response https://www.iop.org/about/news/response-terrible-blow-uk-science-jodrell-bank-axe
EPSRC AI Lab funding: https://www.ukri.org/…
As if UK research funding wasn't bleak enough at the moment, it's hard to have any faith in #UKRI when one arm (#STFC) is cutting funding to core facilities while another (#EPSRC) is finding more money to burn on AI related projects.
RE: https://toot.wales/@tswsl/116888939034702187
Also should be on the livestream at https://streaming.media.ccc.de/emf2026 in about an hour from this post :-)
Tent checked, new camping seat acquired, and work have just confirmed that my employment extends beyond this week.
Now to finish getting my EMF talk written and work out what I haven't put on the packing list.
Today's useful technology bodge: Using noVNC, wayvnc, and SSH port forwarding to use a monitor connected to another machine as an extra display.
The longest delay being because I forgot that wayvnc doesn't listen on the standard port on th…
Loconundrum 75
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Absolutely more luck than judgement!
https://loconundrum.aaronc.cc/
Top line: I'm sorry, George is doing *what* to his teammate?!
A couple of hours of frustration later, and it turns out that earlier versions of #inkplate 10 use an MCP23017 I/O expander, not the pair of PCA6416A expanders that later versions use.
A fairly swift find and replace later and I now have a…
I've come to the same conclusions, and on at least one machine the PoC script fails because it needs a more modern version of Python to be available as the default :-)
Laptop battery is now refusing to charge and reporting that it has zero capacity.
At least it's a graceful retirement rather than a sudden and dramatic one.
I somehow doubt I'm going to get another 8 years out of this laptop, but hopefully…
For anyone else who gets odd `ERROR : Daemon timed out. Failed to terminate daemon pid` messages when setting up #rclone mount units with systemd:
Add `ExecSearchPath=/usr/bin` to the top of the `[Mount]` section
Top line: I'm sorry, George is doing *what* to his teammate?!
A couple of hours of frustration later, and it turns out that earlier versions of #inkplate 10 use an MCP23017 I/O expander, not the pair of PCA6416A expanders that later versions use.
A fairly swift find and replace later and I now have a…
I've come to the same conclusions, and on at least one machine the PoC script fails because it needs a more modern version of Python to be available as the default :-)
Laptop battery is now refusing to charge and reporting that it has zero capacity.
At least it's a graceful retirement rather than a sudden and dramatic one.
I somehow doubt I'm going to get another 8 years out of this laptop, but hopefully…
For anyone else who gets odd `ERROR : Daemon timed out. Failed to terminate daemon pid` messages when setting up #rclone mount units with systemd:
Add `ExecSearchPath=/usr/bin` to the top of the `[Mount]` section
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toot.wales
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
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On Mastodon since
Aug 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.6× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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About
Researcher. Mostly worked on instrumentation and data acquisition for marine energy projects, recently dragged into some hydrogen related schemes.
General interests in tech, FOSS, electronics and sci-fi of varying quality.
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