I didn'tgo into a lot of detail on the older shows, but I can assure you I am going into more detail as the series goes on.

Hi I really liked the news show easy to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGag8Qllgnw

Klaatu,

I found this podcast to be very relatable to me. I miss the vast quantities of those independent websites such as Geocities that you mentioned. I almost forgot how poor coded they were. I’d sometimes see text overwritten with graphics on top or other text. It’s hard for me to complain on that issue, as my own personal website might not be written much better, but it’s mine and I’m learning as I go along.

Those small sites though, far less common than days gone by had a vibe that is far from the mostly corporate based sites today. It was nice when you’d see a description of what people were doing from their point of view. A recipe from a grandmother, a hike along a favorite trail, a little known but much loved music group, games, stories, poems. Many graced with gifs such as dancing flames on a torch, dancing animals, or fantasy castles and dragons perhaps copied from elsewhere. Many had background music from midi files with their electronic tones.

As you stated about ‘modern’ sites tending to talk and not listening a lot. I totally agree. A problem that I encounter is when doing a web search looking for information the sites often are not a good match with my search terms any more. Few of the sites offer quality information, most instead being geared for sales (hear them talk). It’s like entering a library to find that it is not a library, but a department store.

Something I’ve recently noticed is that if I look for a particular website (let’s say comparing Linux Distros), I can go to several websites and a few of the sites will have identical descriptions – word for word. It’s a shame to visit site after site to find information not similar, but identical.

Well, thank you for the podcast, Klaatu. And thanks to HPR

hammerron

I do love the Oh, No! news. Please keep it up.

I do agree with your last statement that hast makes waste which leads to jumping to conclusions and not getting the results you expected leading to frustration.

You usually have to follow your gut as they say. First impressions, previous experiences related to the given topic, and the right state of mind can lead you to the correct answers quickly. There are particular steps you mentioned you have to walk through in your mind and testing your assumptions to see if you are on the right track. The old adage, that failure is the best teacher to learn from and improve your skills whatever they may be.

Great episode get people to implement Critical Thinking skills and enjoy the experience.

Great episode. All of the mentioned extensions I have not heard of and looked forward to testing them out. Appreciate you sharing some of the extensions you are using or have found.

These shows are my memory, not only my shows, but a multitude of other show. I recently had to reference this one. I had hoped that Tenacity would be in the Fedora 38 repos, but no. Still, Tenacity is alive and well and currently has implemented a dark theme, which Audacity has not. Also newly integrated are the clip handles, to move around audio clips instead of using a separate tool.

First of all, welcome here, it was a good introductory show.

You mentioned four topics that would be interesting to a lot of listeners

Web development/Coding
Mathematics
Music Theory
Electronics pertaining to computer repair

On Music theory, I would also like to hear more. As a child of 12 years, I did play the piano, but did not go far with it. With that I can still play a few notes.

With electronics, less of my experience is in computer repair. More of this is repairing electronics in a factory setting, although knowledge here is not what it could be.

Maybe not you but another host might like to do one on Arduino. Again, limited experience here, but this would be an interesting avenue to explore.

Archer72

Thanks Dave for having the schematic on Archive.org for me to find based on the bash file name.

I never heard of any Space Museum. Where is it? When I get to the my 2022-2023 trip you will find that I hit a number of space-related sites.

I'm surprised you didn't stop by the Space History museum and tour of the Gene Roddenberry exhibit. It's strange hearing someone talking about things to do nearby and thinking "was I there when they were?"

Thanks for some good advice. I have several misbehaving computers I need to fix, and your remindeer is thus very timely.

To add, these sequences are also available in the man page for the ssh command. Search for the title "ESCAPE CHARACTERS" in the man page.

I've also streamed a Thunderbird client config and the vim filter editing on youtube (CC-BY-SA). The vim editing start around 1:11:35 in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/live/AvgNtZ7Bfcc?feature=share

Hi Mechatroniac,

Having accus on hand with different voltage sounds good.

Almost like Ken, I don`t think soldering destroys the accu as long as you have a large soldering iron, why not building a DIY Spot Welding Machine?
I watched some videos in the past like:

With parts of an old Microwave: https://youtu.be/vStYS6eoscU?t=184

or a bit more risky, just a battery. Risky as it has no on/off switch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYivIldvS6o

Cheers
Reto

Thanks, reminds me why I don't listen to mintcast or tllts

Edgy,.Did I miss it or did the pro podcaster ever mention the show(s) he does?

The nice thing about an emergency show was hearing the original hpr intro music. I like it so much better than the new intro music. It seems like alot of the people most against the old (better) intro music don't produce shows. Go figure...

A coworker found this link to an article explaining the functionality of the watch.

https://qz.com/1822215/hong-kong-uses-tracking-wristbands-for-coronavirus-quarantine

I'm a bit late listening to it but this was a most entertaining and interesting show.

I've always enjoyed shows with several people interacting, and this was a good example of how to do it! Some great discussion as well as some insights into the Cricut. I'd heard of these devices and have a daughter who'd love to have one.

More of these types of shows please.

New thats entertaining, I like it!

I liked the interview. Hope to hear more of your conversations. Its a shame that the cricut is so locked down, but there are great tools like inkscape to make svg files. Check out pclinuxos magagazine lots of good gimp and inkscape tutorials. Looking forward to when you become a slackware user ;-)

Great show minnix. Keep them coming. You might try newpipe to watch youtube anonymously on android.

Bumble Bee, Thank you for sharing. I look forward to hearing more from you in the future.

SGotI, What a great interview. I love this format of open discussion with a guest to get to know them and their perspective on the topics. Keep up the awesome work!

No trust me I know that aquariums can be very time consuming. Especially the more you have. Things go wrong, they're never perfect, that's just life. Glad you enjoyed it.

I have wanted to update my profile, but I haven't discovered how to do it. I cold then add my Mastodon account.

Thanks for bringing back a lot of memories. I used to keep a bunch of aquariums (all fresh water) back in 1970s, but gave it up shortly after starting in grad school because I just didn't have the time. I know you might not think aquariums need so much time, but it is more about how grad school hit me.

It's that Jon Kulp again!
I thought for sure they banished him from the internet for playing a musical instrument.
He's apparently out now!!!

Here is a video from my peertube instance that goes into more detail about creating one of these tanks.

https://nightshift.minnix.dev/w/wpz7LehrYLcK4856Lkg6Sq

- minnix

Great show norrist! It did make me revisit the site.cfg file for the generator. I thought I had a section to configure where the templates folder and output folder is, and there is.

If you look for:
```
# Configure the location of the templates and the generated HTML
[app_paths]
templates_path: ./templates
output_path: ./public_html
```
Would save you the copy step in your CI steps :)

I've worked with some GPS tracking hardware, and they're usually much bulkier and require much larger batteries than a 2050 cell. If I had to guess, I would say your wrist device had one purpose: to make sure your wrist was inside it.

Your phone app probably took care of any and all tracking required. That wrist device simply detected when you cut through that copper band, breaking the circuit, and alerted your phone via bluetooth. Your phone has all of the requisite tracking hardware, but it's not physically connected to you. Leave it behind, and you'd be out of quarantine!

...But not if they had a device attached to your body, which could detect if it's band had been disconnected.

Hi Dave, appreciate the feedback. I just finished editing a video of me creating a natural aquarium. I will post a link to it here in the comments once I publish it. I mainly wanted to explain how this hobby is accessible to everyone and that the closer you get to how a natural system actually works, the healthier your aquarium will be as well as lowering maintenance. Cheers

Hi minnix,

I found your show very interesting and great to listen to.

I have a degree in Zoology, so am acquainted with some of the stuff you were talking about, but have never kept fish myself, so a lot was new to me. I'm not sure I have the resources to start now, but the idea of building a complete ecosystem is very attractive!

I hope you'll do more shows on this subject!

Thanks,
Dave

The play button has now been moved to the top of the episode as requested

@Yung_Lyun@mastodon.social

I was wondering why people who do podcasting buy sensitive condenser microphones. To understand it is recommended to watch 5 seconds of this video.
The microphone in action, when you spin it away from your mouth https://youtu.be/qjCJbhjFYiA?t=157

I used a dynamic microphone for TEAMS calls. TEAMS I guess, has some noise cancelling in the software as well. While I could hardly understand the person speaking to me, because of the lawn mower outside my window, the mower was not heard by the other person.


Whats the difference between dynamic and condenser microphones: https://musicianshq.com/whats-the-difference-between-dynamic-and-condenser-microphones/

The video is CC-BY-SA 4.0. I've also included a shorter video in the description. They're both CC-BY-SA 4.0. I'll update both video descriptions with the license.

These news shorts are great. Keep them up.
You mentioned that you are on Mastodon. What username should we use to connect with you there?

I found this module in PDF that has a description of several of the keys on Univac terminals of the time.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/manuals/pdf/Uniscope/UP-7778r2_Uniscope_Display_Terminal_Operators_Manual_1974.pdf

What license is that video under ? I'd like to have it on the website.

Hello,
loved the show! It is sometimes nice to remember where we came from, to better appreciate what we have now.

Just one thought: Could the "second delete" key have been the carriage return key? Line feed and returning to the first character of a line are separate signals after all. Or at least they were back then.

Regards,
mirwi

Just went back to this well remembered show, and used it to build an eight node cluster of Pi4s in a 4U rack. One controller and seven nodes. Great show. Easy to follow.

This I have done because I now need to get to grips with OpenShift for work

Thanks for the great interview! I'd never heard of this software before, but it sounds very appealing. Looking forward to investigating further!

I am very impressed with this. You should definitely feel a sense of accomplishment

For future long format shows, I've included this simple "how to" video for Mumble users. It covers "Toggle Self Mute" and "Push To Talk" keybindings. We should really have some kind of reminder during these events to help with the "frantic keyboard noise" issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxzP4uPZTs

Apparently I need to speak up more because I got really cut off by the silence trunkation. I also wanted to make sure the link to the ham clock software got put in https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock/

I know this is late, but I was traveling when it came out and I'm just catching up now. Dave made a comment that it sounded like I was reading from a journal when he commented on my show about Southern Arizona. Indeed, that has been my practice, going back to a trip to San Francisco in 1979 where I got engaged to my lovely wife. I think it is well worth the effort to keep your memories alive. Now that I am getting up in years I have decided that I don't need more stuff, I just want more memories. So I keep a journal on all of my trips, and I plan to keep doing it.

What a beautiful machine! So glad you got it working and recorded an episode about it. Love it. Now if you could only source some vintage karaoke tapes in both formats and sing along for demonstration...

SGOTI - check your local regulations :-)

Ahhhh,, the famous SILVER BELL MINES!!!
Where few Squirrel go as there is no other tree than cactus.

This is a very cool project. More like this please.

pic 1 shows the slit in the lid where the sdcard resides. Sdcard and slot are protected from being bumped by the strategically placed, glued lid

pic 2 shows charging, microusb cord is coming in from the bottom, LED on charging board illuminates brightly

pic 3 shows both boards glued to bottom lid, with the top lid off

Great interview! Thanks for this. I followed the tip about downloading the Funkwhale app for Android and doing anonymous authentication on open.audio. Pretty nice! Using the "radios" you can get some nice tunes. I have tried to install Funkwhale a long long time ago, but failed. In the end I just set up mpd and listen through the http output. This show definitely renews my interest. I also enjoyed your brief discussion about copyright, which you said you should continue over a pint, sensibly. I would have a comment on that, but it would be too long for this, so it may come in some other form.

Do you leave home with this device? If so, are you arrested for having that device? I imagined myself being arrested if I walked around with something like this. Thank you for providing the show.

You could listen to hpr 3477 and hpr 3537 they explain running forth on arduino boards. I'm using flashforth an explanation on this excellent implimintation of this forth can be found at flashforth.com. This is not a sketch, its a forth that runs on the board and allows interactive control of the microcontroller.

I do keep the project that I work on, including the karaoke machine. What I don't do is use it for the intended function, so it is used for the tape and 8 track portion of the device. At least one of the microphone inputs work, as that is how I recorded to the cassette tape.

I have dismantled a few cassette players in the past. The memories make me shudder, but I thought the pieces were neat.
I never have repaired one. I repaired a lot of chewed up cassette tapes though, albeit stretched or with missing sections.

Slackware is using lilo by default, and you don't have to create a boot USB stick can just install lilo to the standard disk you install on or install grub from slackpkg and configure that

It sounds to me like ChatGPT is plotting to serve humanity, in the malevolent anthrovore sense.

And what a macabre user name it chose.

I've been looking into DIY OpenWRT hardware, and PCEngines came up a couple times. I had never heard of them before, and was happy to hear about your experience with them and other devices.

Thanks for the well-timed episode!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/flashforth/

Good to see someone else doing
Arduino stuff.

However your code is not sketch code and will not compile in the arduino IDE. You mention forth?

What software are you using to compile?

I could not stop my tail from wagging on this program. It was extremely interesting to listen to your program on your router using OpenBSD. Could you give us an idea of your through-put in this device using OpenBSD.
Try using http://fuguita.org/

I found this program very interesting. It was a goodie.

Interesting episode but Moore's law has to do with transistor density not systems getting better. Also, how Ahuka know the inner workings of Ukrainian OpSec? I'm guessing he doesn't.

Ahhh I see. I don't like to compile on linux. I tried to compile OBS under Devuan once and there was always one part that was out of date. So I went through all these steps only to find some dependency or another was too old and had to be updated, but then it can't be updated for some reason. What a frustrating waste of time, never want to do that again.

I don't even like having to run apt update. All that code on my computer, from all sorts of different sources, that is constantly changing. How that could ever be secure? If you went back in time to the 90s and told a computer user what it is like now they would think it is nightmarish.

Hi Mechatronic, if you goto https://repo.anhonesthost.net -- at the top right of the page there is a register button which takes you to a form to fill out.

It is not an automated process. It may take a day or two for your registration request to be processed.

I am looking into mirroring in a public location, just haven't made time to do that yet

I was thinking of having a mirror on Gitlab or my own Gitea instance, but now that you've done the heavy lifting.... ;)

One minor modification to your site.cfg and your Gitlab pages will have the audio files and transcripts pointing to the correct spot on archive.org

media_baseurl: https://archive.org/download/hpr$eps_id/

I was able to get Gitlab CICD to build the HPR static site.

First step was creating a mirror of the HPR generator repo:

git clone gitea@repo.anhonesthost.net:rho_n/hpr_generator.git
git remote add gitlab_mirror git@gitlab.com:norrist/hpr_generator_mirror.git
git push gitlab_mirror main

Then I created a Gitlab CICD pipeline to:
- check out the hpr site generator from the mirror
- load the HPR daily mysql dump into a mysql database
- build the site
- publish to gitlab pages.

The CI project is https://gitlab.com/norrist/hpr_generator_build

The build is published at https://norrist.gitlab.io/hpr_generator_build/

I did go back and read the transcript of my Slackware 15 show and it seemed a bit unclear on the comment about OBS-STUDiO. I had to compile that program along with others. Slackware 15 offers KDENLIVE on the DVD but not OBS-STUDIO.
Anyway, sorry for any misunderstanding.

Concise and clear David, but then I expected no less given what you said to me at the HPR stand at FOSDEM. I will be trying out some of these languages and reading the books you mentioned. Thank you for this show!

It looks like we killed repo.anhonesthost.net.

Can the hpr_generator repo be moved to gitlab.com? Moving the repo would eliminate the need for an additional read only mirror, and we could take advantage to gitlab's CICD.

I don't know how much I could help but it looks like a fun way to learn more about git and what a static website entails as opposed to whatever is in effect now.

I am having trouble finding where to register.

I keep getting 'bad gateway' error here: https://repo.anhonesthost.net/rho_n/hpr_generator

If I go to anhonesthost.net it is an 'Index of' page, where there is a link to cgi-bin, that leads to '403 forbidden' when clicked.

The git clone command run in linux connects but asks for a password.

Where can I sign up to be a member?

I really wanted to hear her swear. Guess I will have to disguise the phonics if I want that to happen.

I did got a kick out of reading the transcript. I really did! Holden Caulfield installs Linux.

One clarification; my method of dual booting two hard drives in BIOS consisted of me simply switching the boot hard drive in the BIOS settings. That can't be done with UEFI.

I had fun making the show. I’m hoping create more show responses in the future. Thank you for giving us all something to ponder.

Thank you! Although I didn't clap my hands, I certain tapped my feet in time to the beat; all while typing away at work.

The Squirrels of a thousand hollows thank you.

I updated the site as requested

I also updated the complete episode guide

https://hackerpublicradio.org/index_full.php

And created a issue of the same change on the new site generation tool.
https://repo.anhonesthost.net/rho_n/hpr_generator/issues/70

This took me back to my days in elementary & middle school learning several instruments and to high school and collage choir. This was much fun, as I happened to listen to it while walking around the grocery store. I am sure I was quite a site.

I finally figured out why I was getting out of breath, though. I listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed.

Thank you for recording this. I look forward to the next parts.

never mind I'm using the crippled gpodder for the rss for now. I think my comments about the website are valid though.

This was a great perspective on the world of keyboards and customization. I, too, grew up with solid mechanical keyboards. The first PC Keyboard I purchased was a Liton tactile 101 key, and I loved it.

Part of me wants to try to get something which will get me back to the feel of those old keyboards. However, I have friends who have fallen into the addiction of constantly needing to upgrade, rebuild, customize their keyboards, and I could see myself there easily, too.

Thanks again for sharing. Great first episode and I look forward to kearing more of your work.

Sorry for hijacking your comments Mike, I will listen to your podcast.

I should clarify, the home page, when you scroll down is identical to the 2 week feed, which is a bit of scrolling to find the mp3s but ok since it's on the same page.

Then there is a nice table, with a list of last month's shows. But no direct mp3 links.

So if you are two weeks or more behind you have to click on each show title then go to that page then find the mp3 link to download the show. Then you have to go back and repeat the process, what a waste of time. Can't there be a link to the show mp3 next to the title in that table so I don't have to keep going back and forth?

Go to archive.org hoping they would be better organized. Same shit. They give you a picture of the audio waveform on the link page but no mp3 link. I'd rather have a mp3 link than look at the stupid waveform. Everything sucks. The hapless HTML user is a click labourer for no reason.

It shouldn't be so punishing to people using HTML. This is the web after all and I find the podcast players for PC insufferable, most of the good ones are for android and don't even have a PC version.

I would trade all the rss links for a simple table design, that had like 100 episodes per page, that had direct links to mp3, and if you choose, also read the show notes by clicking the title.

All it would take to make it a little better is adding a small one letter link to mp3s on "Last Month's Shows" table on the home page and extend the table to more months, I'm sure that room could be made. Please?

gpodder I tried once, the discover new podcasts feature is completely broken.

Why can't there be a straightforward list of mp3s to download that I can save as and download from the list?

I mean in the two week show list... I guess that's good but it is in rss format. Forcing people to use another app when all that is required is html seems regressive. I think rss should be probably part of the html standard but it's not so pain in the ass plugin is required...

Anyway you can search and scroll for the mp3 links in the 2 week feed, scrolling a little too much... then it shows the next 5 weeks as links... why not have an mp3 of each show there.

The full list doesn't even display in the PITA extension I am using.

Can't there be easy html links for mp3s by the 100 or so? I don't really care about the other formats. I mean I like the show notes but when I come here to download mp3s I want to be able to download a bunch at a time and not have to spend a lot of time doing so.

I finally decided to join Mastodon today and sent screwtape a message there. So, i'm on the same server instance as screwtape now. I also went through gopher resources he's using. I had the "BIG IDEA" I would use by chrome gopher extension thing to view all of it. Ended up using lynx from my 'linux beta' on this chromebook because the chrome gopher extension fell flat on it's face! THANKS GOOGLE!!!! I'm going to have to get a NEW computer with 32 GB of ram so I can run Fuguita again and quit using these chromebooks. It's bad on my image. That is to say if I had an image.

Hey, fellow SDFer! I enjoyed the episode even if it was over my head for my morning drive in traffic. Sounded great! And thanks for the shoutout! I'm glad I had a hand in getting you to submit an episode and I'm sure everyone is thankful to hear what you had to say. Looking forward to future episodes from you.

Maybe we can get ldbeth (another fellow SDFer to those who don't know) to record an episode on a similar Lisp topic or to respond to your episode!

Thanks for the complement, I appreciate it.

I have since decided to use the xero box as a zone-minder server, we'll see how that goes and I'l record an update! I need to purchase a couple hard drives first, and I may do a reinstall just for a clean start at that project.

I found your version of two factor authorization interesting and would love it if more companies implemented common sense rather than marketing.

Hi Mechatroniac

Thanks for the feedback. Can you clarify which page you mean when you say "main list". The main page has a link to the media files.

If you want custom control, then I suggest you load the sites RSS feed into any of the many podcatching clients that are available. For example gPodder. They will allow you download all, some or none depending on your wished.

Ken

The site is awkward to download from, now that I am using a standalone mp3 player and my computer instead of an android podcasting app that automatically does it.

I don't understand why things are made more tedious for PC users but this is a degradation. It doesn't help that the podcast apps for PC are garbage. Podfriend doesn't even let you download.

There should be a way to download more than one podcast at once, without mastering some scripting language. The way it stands is if I want to download shows I have to navigate to each individual page and then click to the mp3.

Why not put an mp3 link on the main list so people can download the podcasts without having to go to each individual page first. This is so tedious especially after getting used to the ease of android apps.

I assumed these were more complicated boost modules.
I hadn't realised they were so simple.
I've definitely got a bunch of those components.
Thanks.

Mostly I wanted to mention RISC V emulators.
QEMU can emulate both 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V CPUs.
We have qemu-system-riscv64 executable to simulate a 64-bit RISC-V machine
or qemu-system-riscv32 executable to simulate a 32-bit RISC-V machine.

SiFive are planning to release a development hardware board this summer, according to some page on the internet; the HiFive Pro P550.

Funny how you apologised for the gentle background noise of a distant aeroplane, then sent many, many alarm bleeps into my well sealed earpiece.
I need to tie a piece of string to the phono wire next time I've got my gloves in the goop.
My mistake.
Thanks for the show

Have you heard of Charachorder?
They are a brand name for "chording" devices.
These devices help you reach typing speeds up to 250 words per minute, without moving your fingers very much.
Each finger switch is like a mini joystick.
The devices are not cheap, but I think they sell the logic boards, or a USB pass-through device, so you could compare 3D printing costs, or wait for under priced copies.
They have a dot com website.

I'm a huge fan of HPR and everything it stands for. That includes freedom of speech. I also understand episodes should be viewed in an editorial context. However, I can't help but feel episodes like this drag down the quality of the podcast as a whole.

The "squirrel" is just old man yelling at cloud[1] here. I'm not Google apologist and I consider them pretty evil as a whole. But so many of the things mentioned were just flat incorrect.

1. Google doesn't control any cell phone networks. They don't have any of their own towers.

2. Claiming that Google is throttling your connection because YouTube is fast and transfers from your home server are slow is a pretty big leap. YouTube content is served from a massive CDN which has peering agreements with ISPs all over the world. That content is going be served blazing fast to almost anywhere. Transfers over an ssh connection from a little desktop on a residential connection to a Chromebook tethered to a cell phone will never be comparable.

3. 2FA has little to do with vendor lock in and everything to do with security. I don't own any Android devices. My iPhone and iPad can both be used as the 2nd factor for Google 2FA without issue.

4. Google has nothing to do with QR codes at all.

I could go on but I think you get the point. I don't want to see fact check banners on episodes and I don't want to see posters censored. With that in mind, we have to do better as a community. Better episodes and higher quality content will draw more listeners and thus, more contributors. Let's up the bar and keep HPR alive.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-man-yells-at-cloud

I never worked in IT but i love stories like this, great work.

Great show, keep them coming. Emacs Rocks!!!

Great show, good encouragement. Nice tunes!

This show was great. Lots of good information. Can't wait to hear more stuff like it

I was forced to set up 2fa in order to use mutt with my gmail account. The funny thing is when you log into gmail on a web browser on your phone (won't use the gmail app) google politely asks if you want to remember this device so you won't have to 2fa anymore? Not only that the check box comes up prepopulated with a check??? What good is 2fa if you can bypass it with a check mark, and why make me do it in the first place and why populate the checkbox. I'm moving to fastmail

This is how you do a distro review. Great episode!

I installed this after noticing that conference calls were picking up everything even when I was in the next room.

Thanks Deltaray for posting this one +1 from me.

I messed that up. It was meant to say I hope the Christmas beer didn't make me break my own rules.

A couple of verbal ticks, but not too many.

Humour is best left out of tech talks, unless you can poke gentle fun at yourself. I was told several times by a writing coach to make my mind up whether I was writing something serious, or something funny. Because the injection of a joke can pull the audience out of deep thought about what you are saying or writing, which might be totally inappropriate.

I particularly like the three part rule, thanks to the late and great Peter Hopwood, once of the LSE for that, some forty years ago.

The code in the posted module still works in Python 3 until you come to the print statements in the Main procedure. Those have to be changed to print() function calls.

One more quibble: Isaac Newton was born before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, so that example is not correct.

Other than that, the episode has stood up fairly well over time.

I can even stand to listen to it at 1.6x speed.

Thanks for preparing the context for me to shout from the audience : " ! hooray ! ! Moonbouncing ! " .

I haven't heard many people say these things spelled out the way you describe, but I may have been guilty of it myself before I knew what they were! I just hope they go away :-)

Very well presented, Mike.

I personally enjoy public speaking and teaching, but I was still able to gain some nuggets of wisdom from your podcast. Even after years of speaking, I still struggle with omitting "Ummm", "Uh", etc. These usually happen if I lose my place or am trying to work away from my original outline or answer a question. I like your idea of pausing at these times while I gather my thoughts. I will try to apply this soon!

This is a great list of tips for public speaking.

A couple of thoughts, prompted by this episode...

I have given talks to hostile audiences, or at least audiences with some hostile attendees. I have given talks where there are attendees that are only there owing to having been told that they must be there (typically by their boss). Body language usually gives these people away. Once they are recognized as hostile, they can mostly be ignored, allowing the speaker to focus on the people who indeed have chosen to be there. However, the hostile attendee is very rare.

I have found, when including humour, it is best to avoid a pause after the humour is delivered. There is a tendency to pause to allow the audience to respond with laughter, however, if the humour does not succeed, the pause will be very awkward. It is much better to go straight to the next statement after the humour. If the humour worked and there is laughter, a pause mid-sentence (post humour) is fine. Start the interrupted sentence over when the laughter diminishes and all is good. If the humour did not work, the lack of a pause allows the audience to continue listening and often not even notice that there was a unsuccessful attempt at humour and the speaker does not suffer the embarrassment of appearing to try to be funny. Pauses are good, but tricky when they follow humour.


Just some thoughts from listening to this very good episode.


Cheers!

Good show. It reminds me of the day I unknowingly took a THC gummy. Probably my main takeaway is that one can only hope to inspire a rebuttal show by zenfloater2.

If you haven't yet, do read the short story "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster. I heard about it in Stuart Russel's 2021 Reith Lectures (on BBC Radio), which I also recommend.

Great piece! In my view, numeronyms are pure obscurantism. What is more atrocious is when people say it out loud. I've been in a call at work where someone kept saying eye-eighteen-en and el-ten-en. Ludicrous!

In a past life I was a certified HP repair tech, They are very easy to work on. TBH, the primary feature I was looking for was the additional drive bays and graphics card, I don't actually do much gaming on the laptop. With 2 open slots for SSD/HDDs I was able to add a 128GB shared drive and a 1 TB os drive for my linux install. (Which is where I spend most of my time)

Really enjoyed the review of the laptop, especially the followup. Still, I've been turned off on all gaming laptops in spite of the temptation they provide. I once tried to buy an Eluktronics gaming laptop after reading good reviews from them, but after a botched purchase attempt, I decided to skip it and go with a used HP ProBook 4540s which had Radeon and Intel graphics, unbeknownst to the seller.

However, what really turned me off on gaming laptops is when I attempted to repair my son's MSI gaming laptop's keyboard. What a nightmare! I basically had to remove everything to get to the keyboard, and even then I wasn't able to replace the keyboard because the board with the ribbon was glued on. From that point forward, I decided I'd go with a gaming desktop in the future and stick with laptops that are more serviceable, something like the Framework. Buyer beware!

I really enjoyed this episode - although, as a dev currently dealing with some "creative" PHP code, it hit a little too close to home.

Thanks for the mysterious tale!

Reading about RIAA equalization and vinyl disks made me remember about this video i watched some time ago.
I hope the automatic subtitles are good enough. He made a LP disk..out of chocolate, engraving it on his own and applying that RIAA equalization first. Being able to hear something out of the noise is quite cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0RpLxIYX8Q

There's also a more recent one using laser engraver on wood instead of chocolate

This has happened to me many, many times. And to most adults too I suspect. Psychology interests me, cognitive biases of all kinds in particular, and the way human brains are so attuned to pattern recognition. A survival imperative buried very deep in our most native brain parts. The lizard brain a lot of people call it

Less than two hours after listening to this I was watching the new Young Ones 40th anniversary blu-ray.

Near the end of the episode, the gang are outside the bank they're about to rob and Rick says:

Yeah, come on. Robin Hood, Baader-Meinhof. Those bank clerks
didn't have to become bank clerks. They knew the risks when they took the job. Let's just get in there and let them have it!

It has been a while since I posted a show, and this is mostly due to physical limitations which started with "Mouse Shoulder" and are now 12 weeks post rotator cuff repair surgery. I have been considering doing a show, or a small series of shows about similar topics as they relate to the things we choose to do and the potential physical impacts on us old folk.

I did hear a rumor that HPR could use a show or ten... :)

I enjoyed this show. It made me consider getting a CDL. It's comforting to know that other hackers have jobs that are completely unrelated to tech. I have a construction job that involves manual labor and operating equipment. Sometimes seemingly asinine career decisions really are the best possible career decisions given circumstances unknown to others. I'll record a response show when I have time :)

I am one of those doctors that examines CDLs. I'm happy to hear an HPR contributor discuss commercial driving. There is such a need for CDLs in the U.S. Having a CDL makes a person a much more valuable employee. And, it's not all about long-haul trucking. I see a lot of school bus drivers, ranchers with large equipment, propane delivery people, and those who work for the city or county.

https://noc.social/@norrist is Verified.

Thanks for sharing this information. I am surprised that you are sticking with trucking instead of transitioning into information security. With your IT experiences and your analytical mindset, you would be a huge asset within infosec.

Go do this.

Guy who starts by saying "I've never used Twitter" then pronounces about Twitter. Says Twitter should "respect the office of the presidency" when the president who they banned didn't respect either the office or truth or public health or the Constitution. Gloats about Musk firing all those liberal employees while claiming not to be on the Right.

Good show, like the travel log style that gives us all the gritty detail. I would remind people that right and left wing violence has been a part of US capital hill history since the founding of the Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_violent_incidents_at_the_United_States_Capitol

I'm always surprised when I hear anything about Ajo, Arizona!

Mrs. Honeyhume served as their art teacher around a decade ago, and I was able to visit occasionally.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

This tool is displaying valuable and detailed information about the CPUs and the system topology:
1) https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/doc/v2.8.0/a00358.php#cli_examples
2) https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/lstopo/ - more examples

Also they support a ton of various output formats: txt, svg, png, pdf and so on.

Thank you for sharing. I decided to do AoC this year to refine my Python skills. I am working on day 8 this morning. Some have been more challenging than others, but I have learned new skills in each one.

The leaderboard is intimidating. However, for folks who are competitive and have friends who might want to participate, you can join private leaderboards to show how you rank against each other.

If anyone is even curious, you should give it a try!

Just use BSD or as Squirrels say OpenBSD
But Ken is right. Good point Ken.

I had a similar dilemma when it comes to e-reader, my ideal device would have a 6-inch pocket sized backlit screen and run Linux. 7-inch Kobo was the best alternative I could find from this decade it’s served me well so far.

There’s a great choice of free ebooks knocking about and Calibre was finally posted to Python 3, happy days.

love OpenBSD
try fuguita sometimeP

Hi nice show thx therefore, you mentioned the linux kernel may handle the cpu setup better than bsd's. So iwant mention the slackware aarch64 which officially supports the pinebook, as slackware is relative bsd like (it uses sysv init instead of systemd for example) and you could get the advantage of the linux kernels hw-compatibility. long story short if you like to check it out here is the link: https://docs.slackware.com/slackwarearm:inst_sa64_rk3399_pinebookpro. It's currently only the current version but i run it on my rpi4 it's not broken till i ran it.
sunzu

I always like your shows, but I was wanting to work with the NetBSD inetd (which seems to be similar to its OpenBSD cousin) for a personal project of mine.

This show came at the right time, and I learned a lot. :-)

thanks for the benchmarking. hopefully they'll release an updated version/board with rk3588 and more ram

I'm game. Are you on element/matrix (The HPR Room)? I'm also on Mastodon. We can use the HPR Mumble server to record.

Hit me up and let's do a show or 6.

Yes, I used an abundance of caution there. To be honest, I only assume kdenlive is open source, let alone free software, so I'm gonna try not to walk around saying that things are free software. I once heard a very well meaning person say that Adobe Bridge was free (as in speech) software. This was in Portuguese, in which there is no ambiguity between free as in beer and free as in speech. I nearly fell out of my chair!

Thanks for your comment, Celeste!

Thanks, i completely missed this new feature.
Kdenlive has improved so much in the last years!
About minute 4:40 yep, it's both free as in price, both libre/opensource ;)

I have played with Odroids, and the 'the' Ubuntu phone, then compiled LineageOS, and flashed Androids, so I recognise the territory.
I've been tempted by Bus Pirates and oscilloscopes, but I remember that RISCV devices are on the horizon, so maybe I should read through those instruction sets and avoid the hard work.

(I really need to find a good way of keeping notes about podcasts I listen to on the go).

This was the episode with some of the backstory on hoover dam yeah? I really enjoyed that.

I run OpenBSD now for about 14 years. Loved your show, reminded me somewhat of my own problems.

I liked this show, and I"m a Squirrel who lives in a Magical Forest in Oklahoma and uses a $149 chromebook for my main rig now. There should be a segment of the human race which suffers like this for fun.

Great show! It's a good idea to record a show by rambling during your drive. Perhaps even a car rambling series would be worth thinking about.

I'd also encountered gettext before, but had never had any need to use it. I was surprised and pleased to find a command-line interface to the package as well, and hoped it might be of interest.

I have used the Perl module Lingua::EN::Inflect (now replaced by Lingua::EN::Inflexion) which is *very* comprehensive ("brother" and "bretheren" level), but life's too short...

I used to love LiveJournal. Years ago they changed ownership and Terms of Service. I do not agree with the new Terms of Service. I wanted to delete the account, but I can not access it unless I agree to the changed Terms of Service first. So the account sits dormant. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Good show with useful information. We need to do everything to help people use public transportation. Something I saw on the Internet: "A developed country is not one where the poor drive cars. It is one where the rich use public transportation."

I have used the GNU gettext utilities in projects. I didn't realize it was available in Bash. I understand that irritating feeling when seeing "1 files processed" (or whatever object/action is happening). I often put the plural in parenthesis so: "1 file(s) processed". Do like your script Dave, but will probably take advantage of ngettext if it is already on my machine. However your Bash function would be more portable if writing the script for wider distribution.

Recently I heard a councilperson here in Kansas City, MO talk about how these bigger vehicles that are replacing cars are also far more likely to kill a pedestrian or a cyclist in a collision, to say nothing of squirrels. I had never considered that. They're designed with little regard for what might be in their path.

Thanks for putting together this show, and stay safe out there!

Ken, great t-shirt idea.

"Hang around HPR and become a weirdo"

Here is another way of typosquatting:
https://youtu.be/2JPnwqbVIuQ

Hi Klaatu just wanted to say I was intrigued by this podcast and took a note to try this out when I get a spare 5 minutes. I just opened my most recent show into Audacity and selected Spectrogram view. The results are amazing. Any involuntary noises become so much more visible making them very easy to pick out and remove. I will be sure to use this in future shows. Thanks again for another brilliant show. Cheers MrX

Found some helpful things

Linux to FreeBSD quick start:
https://klarasystems.com/articles/easily-migrate-from-linux-to-freebsd/

Supported hardware:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops
https://bsd-hardware.info/
https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi

Great Show, "I began hanging around you guys and became a wierdo!" classic LOL!

Wanted to let you know, that a youtube personality named Robert Braxman sells "de-google" phones. He regresses android phones to run only android Open Source project.

A fingerprint that can follow you around as you switch phones is a combination of the three cell towers your phone spends the most time in.

Tiling Window Managers, theres a program called winwrangler, runs in the background, and adds the three most popular tiling araingements to any WM/DE. It talks to the Window Manager through the WWMH specifications to add features to any WM. I like fluxbox, and if you ever try it and want, I have a config file that adds "Pseudo Tiling" to it.

Great Show, thanks!
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DeepGeek

Some great and important topics. Excellent show.

I actually have a Fairphone 3+ but haven't replaced standard Android (yet) because I'm concerned that I'll brick the phone! It's an OK phone, but I hate Android in its unmodified state.

I get daily calls from unknown numbers. I look them up on a site called who-called.co.uk and mostly find they are spam calls. I then block them. My network provider (giffgaff) seems to be flagging spam calls using a database like this, which is very useful.

I used to be heavily into email encryption. I even got my PGP key signed in 2014 at FOSDEM, Belgium. I am using it a lot less now, though the latest Thunderbird has apparently good support for PGP. It's a shame this didn't become a more generally accepted method of making email secure.

Loved this. Your assistant did a fine job!

The case of the French activist was a useful wake up call for many. They were arrested as a result of information relating to email account creation, and identification of the device used .
Essentially, Swiss courts will force Proton to provide all available information if a crime has been "established". Remember, new legislation is created daily, and comes into effect straight away.
In this case the activist was campaigning about gentrification.
Proton have since provided other documentation clarifying ways to avoid them having any useful information to give; however, you won't usually notice that stuff on the front page of advertising for many service providers.
At least nobody disappeared in this case.
Thanks for the stimulation SGOTI.

Thanks for the show

I think you could fill the hole left when Deep Geek dropped out. Please keep doing this.

SGOTI: the theme is GMZ by Scott Altham
http://ccmixter.org/files/scottaltham/19726

It is a shame about CCHits' demise, as it as such a good project to be involved in.

As far as other CC music sites are concerned, there is Jamendo and the Free Music Archive, but they both have their own quirks and foibles.

Shows that select and feature CC music - like The Bugcast (disclosure: my own show) - filter out a lot of the chaff, and probably insert some too!

Cheers,
Dave

Amazing!

OH OH NO!

Really enjoyed this news roundup! Looking forward to more, SGOTI!

This is a very satisfying show. I was worried for a bit when you made the first cut and the mower didn’t work, but when you returned with an update I was excited. Are the electric mowers worth purchasing over gas mowers? I see everything electrical as “proprietary design” unless it demonstrates otherwise. I just don’t want to buy a mower that comes with a monthly service fee (John Deer). Thanks for the show.

I love HPR for its diversity. This type of show sounds like it was a lot of work, but it’s fantastic. If you were to do a future show of this type or continue the story, lower the music a bit. It was difficult to hear in some places. I also would love some more backstory on why the x86 (certain die size) chips were destroyed. I know you said a neutron star caused it, and I’m not looking for something super scientific, I just like more story. Thanks again for the show.

This was a great show. I love the difference in opinions and the topics are brilliant. Please provide more.

I had no idea this was in audacity. I was very excited to know there maybe a way to remove the hum of my HVAC but this still isn’t possible. This was a nice short rabbit hole to wonder around in for a day or two. I learned more about audio frequencies and how to interact with them in audacity. Great show.

I love projects like this. Taking something old or discarded and making use of it. How’d you learn to repair circuits, small motors, and other electronics? Was this a hobby expanded into life or do you have training?

Americans are too big to fit in cars, lol. We’ll need 18 wheelers to cart us around in the next 10 years.

Sad to hear the project is ending but I’m happy to know it existed. I love the theme played at the end of the show; how do I find that track? I searched the Internet Archives to find more hits. Are there other sites like this? I now have a hunger for CC music.

I didn’t know bash had special names for it’s expressions (like short-circuit evaluation). I really need to work on my short hand expressions (e.g. || &&); cleaner scripts. The examples in the show notes are very valuable, thank you for providing them. Now I will brick my computer in style.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. My first travel diary is from January, 1979, when my now wife and I went to San Francisco, and there we got engaged. So I have been doing it for some time. Now I am in the process of scanning in old paper diaries, OCR-ing them, and getting them into shape.

Great stuff. I should remember to keep a diary next time I go somewhere. Thank you for laying this stuff out. A valuable reference to have!

Hadn't thought of that, but then you have to haul the weight back up unless you can take advantage of tides, but then you have underwater problems.

Taking advantage of a local stream to turn the wheel would probably work.

Ultimately I'd like to build an electric buggy/robot or something like that out of it.

Hilarious podcast recommendation. That guy truly has a talent, as you said.

thanks for the newsboat reference.

Very good job here, giving detailed information on using this operating system.

If the DC motor has permanent magnets (like most battery powered drill drivers), then you can just turn the wheel and get electricity from the input terminals.
The advantage of such a high powered unit (horsepowers) is that you don't even need gears to take advantage of concentrated sources of energy, like your own body weight, or sacks of grit.
As you probably noticed by now, when you are in barn territory, then your mental scope finds wider focus.
You can make good batteries and capacitors on the bucket or barrel scale, with far less toxic materials than Lithium or Lead.

The quote "...you need to be quiet now, I don't like your future" is one I can relate to. I often feel the same way when I see trends in development, technology, etc. heading away from the parts that I enjoy and find interesting.

The HPR episodes on Gopher, Forth, and other older technologies do make me hopeful that we'll always have our niche, though!

Interesting talk, thanks for this! After listening, I was thinking that maybe adding a third co-host whose views contrast more with your own could make your shows even more thought-provoking. As for this episode, I have so many thoughts, it wouldn't be right to expect Ken to read them in the community news show. But I think I can summarize them in one question: is it possible to talk about a future of technology that has nothing to do with capitalism?

Thanks for outlining the installation of FreeBSD. I tried it out this weekend and am kind of surprised, a lot of stuff is available via pkg. Wi-Fi and touchpad didn't work out of the gate but I don't care. My only criticism is that the GUI setup program, like in Slackware, is really not worth it. Setting up Archlinux is just as easy, but because you apply your decisions at set-up in mostly the same way you do any other day, you just learn more about your system. I'm glad I have it installed so I can piddle around with it.

I enjoyed this show very much. Looking forward to the series of shows you alluded to in the episode. I wonder if you might tell us about your programming language some time, might it have been a lisp, or even better a forth? :) Keep them coming

The closing song gave me a start, as it is a tune setting in our church 's psalter/hymnal. What a great tune.

Thank you for the introductory episode - and for discussing ResierFS! I used it as my primary file system ages ago, and enjoyed hearing about it again.

This first show was everything an HPR episode should be. It told us about a file system many will not have heard of but, not only that, undoubtedly inspired many of us to look deeper into the subject matter thanks to your excellent delivery.

Thank you for sharing this, good information.

Thanks Paul, really enjoyed your show.

Hi,

This was most interesting. I tried out newsboat after installing it with mpv and yt-dlp. I tried your configuration file as a starting point but I got an error. I found newsboat didn't like:

bind-key U bashow-urls

I used 'show-urls' which I found in the documentation.

Also, what's linkhandler? If you mentioned it in the audio I missed it.

Thanks for the show. I suspect I will be using newsboat from now on.

I forgot to say in the show, "Video feeds also seem to work with the Antenna Pod app from F-Droid on android". Automatic audio-only playback of videos seems to work also.

Hack the planet? No, I want to RSS-ify the planet.

Great episode! Watever the interval keep them coming.

Hi!
Thank you for your great show. I could use the url I got your way for gPodder too, but not for castget. Just for those who wanted to use something other than newsboat.

Thank you very much for the series!
I've a lot of friends, who I infected with HPR and Bash with your show! One is even blind, using a braille device. I want you to know, the this Kind of work is very much apreciated! Good people are so rare..

Thank you for the comments, I probably won't do more like this for a while because of the effort involved lol... this one has been on the burner for a long while. But it relates to stuff I will be talking about later on self-assembly so I felt the need to get it out.

More of this type of thing !

Really enjoyed the story and looking forward to hear more on this.

Good story. Convincing, consistent style and tone.
The soundscape further imbues this scene with atmospheric oxides, metallic and otherwise.
Imagination is a cognitive facility; combined with real world observation and practice, it can save us from dull compliance, and replication of deluded privilege .

Sorry, the old sailor in me slipped out. I'll stuff him back in the cage where he belongs 😉

What happened? You've never done it before. Why are you using the f word so much. Does someone need a hug?

Microsoft is into opensource because overnight their server business dissipated when dockerisation came along and destroyed their server market. They had no choice but to get on the band wagon, like the did with the BSD TCPIP stack in the day.

Their strategy was, is, and will forever be embrace, extend and extinguish. Do not mistake Windows Subsystem for Linux as been our friends. They are for running Linux binary executable natively on Windows, and not the other way around.

This is one piece of software designed to counteract Corporate Linux asking for Linux Laptops.

Selling an Operating system is very very profitable and is required for growth.
Locked in to the Desktop.
Locked in to Office.
Locked in to Teams.

https://techbehemoths.com/blog/how-microsoft-makes-billions
"According to Microsoft data, Windows revenue increased $1.9 billion or 9%, driven by growth in Windows Commercial and Windows OEM. Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 18%, driven by increased demand for Microsoft 365. Windows OEM revenue increased 9%, ahead of PC market growth. "

I know recent events have raised some questions, but there’s no need to be concerned. Just remember to say “I Use Arch, btw!” before starting the show and talk about doing everything in the terminal. Toss in a Window Manager (bspwn, because it sounds cool) and a quick mention of Vim then you’re all good. Once a host had to go into hiding for speaking ill of the “Mighty Think Pad” but they’re safe now.

This is a pre-emptive strike as I dont want to be the next Linux Inlaws. The shows I am posting are not a podcast. This and the next show have intro's and outro's as they were loaded a while ago and I was trying different things. So, please forgive the apparent hubris and accept my apologies if anyone is offended by this. I was just hacking the format.

The lack of preparation for failure is the failure to be prepared.
I agree that we all fall. In security we blame the user for our failure to be prepared for that eventuality. Failing at home is expected as we are one person. In an enterprise there is a team preparing for this. The problem is that preparation requires time and money which are more often than not denied as a business decision.
There is a lot more on this topic coming in the future.
Glad you enjoyed the show!

Thanks to Luna J for the tip.

https://www.bsdnow.tv/471

Success is the last step you make on a flight of stairs called Failure; and if you’re like me you’ll take one more tiny step then fall. You’re Co-host is correct; backups for the win. I do “stupid” things often on my system. When the mistake seems to cost more than 2 hrs of my time, “nuke” the system then run “pave.sh” to restore from backups. My stairway has more steps than I’m allowed to know, so I’ll be on my way. Thanks for the show.

Made it to the end. You underestimate my ability to listen to people for long periods of time

Yes!
I made it to the end.

It's quite a good episode

Sorry for the inlaws.

But it made for a very interesting conversation.

I've been thinking about subjects for a show, but I feel stuck with the fact that a i live with limited resources.

May you bee interested in tech stories from the third world?

Required Auth for code contributions in understandable.

It would be easier to automate site builds if there were an unauthenticated option for checking out the code. I like Rhon's suggestion of a public git mirror. Another option is to create a daily archive of the code that can be download from the HPR site - Similar to the sql dumps.

Great show as always. The table of shows in the show notes is useful. Thanks

80% of this three hour spectacular is one person dominating the conversation the other 20% is vain attempts by everyone else to join in. Not mad, just impressed!

Hi!

I did make it too to the end of the show. No problem, only about 2 hours, that's nothing ;-)
I think I have to state once more my stance in the Linux Inlaws-question. Yes, I don't like the show, but that's not why I agree with all thinking that they should take the step over to archive.org. It's just that they overstayed their upstart-time on HPR. I wish them all good and maybe we should give them a last help by adding a link to their own rss-feed (as soon as it's up) on all shows they had here to make it easier for their listeners to find them.

I made it to the end! much better then trying to figure out API for Reolink so I don't have to install there "app"

I'll preface this by saying that I am responding to this five years later, and I'm not 100% sure if this would have been desired (or possible, for that matter) back then. I'm just sharing how I got around this problem in 2022. :-)

What I do for my mobile org-mode needs is a Pinephone with a keyboard case running PostmarketOS with the SXMO environment and Emacs installed on it. It's a full, no-compromises X11-based Emacs setup.

It's actually quite comparable to an Atari Portfolio in form factor, as opposed to a more typical smartphone. Because my cell phone provider doesn't support the Pinephone, I don't use it as an actual phone, however.

Great show dnt and thanks to you and Thaj for the feedback via email. What are the odds that an HPR show that specifically mentioned me would also air on my birthday, 31 Aug.?! Pretty cool!

I just want to say not every Linux Inlaws is for me but theses are SMART PEOPLE we should embrace SMART people to communicate and share even if they [WE] can't always communicate effectively!

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Congratulations on spending longer talking about accessibility than every other Linux podcast put together, ever. I've given up trying to get podcasts like 'Destination Linux' to include a11y comments when they review a distro. All I ever want to know is whether I can install it unassisted. After, none of you photon-dependent types would give house room to a distro if you had to run round looking for a blind person to install it for you.

And now a word about abbreviations. The abbreviation 'a11y' is similar to 'i18n' (internationalization). Replace the centre letters with the number of letters removed, and leave just the first and last letter. And 'a11y' is pronounced 'a eleven y', not 'ally'.

Exception to this is 'k8s', a common abbreviation for Kubernetes, which a lot of folks pronounce as 'kates'.

I will see if there is a way of recording a show and including the audio from my screen reader, in order to demo some of what we have to cope with. If the sound of the screen reader would not drive the whole audience into madness.

Add me to the list with archer72 making it to the end. Great show. Not as fast as archer72, but I do listen at 1.5x speed. I always look forward to Ken over-enthusiastically shouting, "Raaaadiooooo!!!!" at the end of the Community Show. It's worth listening to all of it. :-D

Thanks for another great community show.
I did make it to the end, although I admit to downloading
and listening to the show at 2x after the mailing list discussion
was started. BTW, Ken, I do not skip your shows. ;-)

will from thinktankworkspaces

Come back to plan9 and try to stay. Its always a learning curve even for me. I started to make better progress when I decided to build a server on linode and really use it. Werc was a dream come true and it simplified all the bs that exists in other heavily bloated CMF systems. JS is garbage but it's not going away. Glad we have netsurf but I still mostly use mothra. If you stay in plan9 things to get easier over time.

upas, nupas was a struggle but i'm a better person for leaving gmail. Golang works on my server and helps
bridge that gap when I actually have to work on Linux on my day job. But yes C is the way to go but a ton of stuff is written in rc. Take your pick I guess.

thanks for putting this together

there was no "vuln in the authentication system," just a path traversal which was "exploited" to read files already publicly accessible. 4chan overhyped the rest.

You're so smart, and you understand everything.

You mentioned wanting to learn Awk - this series is some of the best content on HPR. Brace yourself for a deep dive by Dave Morris and b-yeezi

http://hackerpublicradio.org/series.php?id=94

Great episode from binrc, and bonus points for explaining where his handle came from. :-)

I'd always been curious about plan9. I remember tinkering with Inferno back in the day (late 90s, early 2000s) and it was quite intriguing. Since then, I never really touched it, but had been curious about it. However, after hearing this episode, I feel that it might be relegated to the curiosity one would have for TempleOS. Intriguing to mess with it, but that's about it.

Anyway, for those interested, SDF has bootcamps on learning plan9. More information here: https://sdf.org/plan9/

A useful exposition, and inspiration.
Practically a reference piece.

Thanks To:

- Mumble Server: Delwin
- HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com
- Streams: Honkeymagoo
- EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo
- Shownotes: HPLovecraft

Thanks To:

- Mumble Server: Delwin
- HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com
- Streams: Honkeymagoo
- EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo
- Shownotes: HPLovecraft

Thanks To:

- Mumble Server: Delwin
- HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com
- Streams: Honkeymagoo
- EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo
- Shownotes: HPLovecraft

Thanks To:

- Mumble Server: Delwin
- HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com
- Streams: Honkeymagoo
- EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo
- Shownotes: HPLovecraft

Thanks To:

- Mumble Server: Delwin
- HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com
- Streams: Honkeymagoo
- EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo
- Shownotes: HPLovecraft

Thanks To:

- Mumble Server: Delwin
- HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com
- Streams: Honkeymagoo
- EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo
- Shownotes: HPLovecraft

I'm glad you liked it. It sems that people enjoy this series for the most part.

Thank you very much Ahuka for this interesting serie. I really enjoyed learning about this old OS.

Also I wanted to add that you can use call command to create a forkbomb, using a file like this:
@echo off
:top
call %0
goto top

Great show! The command.com story with shout-out to Ahuka was very well received. Looking forward to more!

Yeah, openbsd is great.
Good episode, I have not heard before about Evoo laptops, it would be nice to hear more about'em

I was always lucky enough enough to be on really good terms with HR. I am of the firm belief that you should know the people in HR and Legal on a first name basis. Bacon saved. ;-)

Good to hear someone reminding others that some thin metal foil can go a long way when folded correctly.
Scarey biscuits aside, I do occaisionally hold up a sheet of aluminium foil between myself and a rescued microwave oven. The scintillations will show up better in the dark, by which sparks and holes might also be revealed.

Thanks for this episode. Reminded me of so many things. Twelve years since I studied this stuff for a lot of weeks, relating to Solaris. During those studies I repeatedly wondered
"So what ?!....the foot bone is connected to the leg bone.".
Never-the-less, sometimes it pays to recognise one's available environment.
You stimulated my brain through a good chunk of dull work.
I would listen to this one again one day.

What Ken said. Also, when viewing files ( ex. # vim ~/markdownfile.md) the file extension enables text highlighting. Otherwise we'd have to read markdown like animals.

I got a great laugh from this show. "More listeners than people in the galaxy", LOL. That's the first time I've ever heard Martin clearly (his audio is usually too low for me to hear). Playing the Ken sound bite was a nice touch as well. Good stuff.

I love this type of content. The ability to create from thin air whatever you want; even if it's not exactly "in demand". It always feels like I'm listening to a mage crafting new magical items just because the other one was out of reach.

I don't know how you guys remember all these languages. I have to jump into the man pages for almost everything. Is Perl one of your daily languages and is it better for data bases than python? Great show.

How many of you used yahoo messenger during the Win98 era? I remember these software handguns called "Booters". They were created using VB and everyone had one. It was the wild west on the internet and lots of feelings where hurt followed by the BSOD. Good Times!

Hi binrc. Actually bind mounts are very useful for chroots, e.g, you can have the same dev directory as your actual os.

BTW, it would be interesting to hear an openbsd podcast from you.

I think it is a real pity that Basic is not taken seriously by more developers. I agree that in its early days it was, well, "basic", but it evolved into a very powerful development platform in the guise of Visual Basic. Productivity was far higher than with Visual C++, and for what few low level functions it could not support you could always create a DLL using C/C++ and pull that in from VB.

On Linux we still have Gambas, which is easily the fastest way to create a Linux GUI application. It is very similar to VB, and its flavour of Basic takes the language to a level beyond even VB. For projects where I have complete freedom of choice I use nothing else. It runs faster than python and, for GUI apps, it's far simpler and more productive.

Thanks for the shout out. I think all of us share our information to help each other. And I love your shows.

Thanks for the shout out. Thank you for sharing how you maintain your system. The sent folder is well worth backing up! Keep up the good work, I enjoy your shows and look forward to hearing more.

Relying on them is not a good idea, but using them is fine. It also fits right in with other "conventions" such as location of local and system binary files.

Relying on the system to determine file type is slow

[me@pc a_lot_of_files]$ time ls -- * >/dev/null
real 0m0.060s
user 0m0.045s
sys 0m0.011s

[me@pc a_lot_of_files]$ time file -- * >/dev/null
real 2m0.629s
user 0m7.613s
sys 0m2.876s

Furthermore they help in giving a rough idea of what to expect. This is useful when searching "some python file which I downloaded yesterday", would limit modified time to just ".py" files.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

5 panels from SMBC





Woman: GOD...Is Math Real
GOD: What's math
Woman: You know like One plus One Equals two
GOD: One of what ?
Woman: Just...yoou know...one.
GOD: The FUCK are you talking about.
GOD: You can't have one. One is a description. it's like saying "I have a spotted" instead of "I have a spotted cow" or "I have a spotted dog"
Woman: I guess infinites are right out the window, then.
GOD: What is *going on* down there ?

What an excellent interview. I'm a big fan of Mozilla and Firefox, and it was fascinating to hear what Eric had to say. Thank you!

We didn't have much problem with winds for two reasons. First, when you drive more slowly there is less chance for wind to blow oyu around. Second, our truck is bigger than a pickup. It is a Freightliner Sport Chassis.

Fantatic show, and great show notes. I hope we get more from you.

As someone who interviewed it's amazing the hoops you will go to with HR to hire someone with enthusiasm and willingness to learn.

I'm doing precisely like @LongTimeLurker. So, you clearly can't count the downloads as listeners. My podcatcher is downloading all HPR-shows and I'm deciding afterwards if I want to listen. Surprise, in the case of Linux Inlaws I delete it without listening as soon as I see it's one of those. Can't quite say why, but after two of their shows I had enough. It's just not my taste,

That was painful to listen to and provided zero value.

How do we get Linux Inlaws kickedoff HPR?

You can remap your ctrl and alt keys using udev hwdb, e.g., interchanging ctrl and caps keys
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes#Example_for_custom_hwdb
And you can use ctrl + [ to send an escape character

Great video. It would be amazing if you create a C programming series

My Favorite BSD is OpenBSD - for all the reasons you described.
I use OpenBSD in by home router because of the projects focus on security. I also have a Thinkpad mostly runs linux, but I also dual boot OpenBSD current.

I use FreeBSD on my home server for jails (managed with Iocage) and ZFS.

Great coverage of BSD and its descendants! Thoroughly enjoyed it! Well done!

I had a different comment planned which went a bit long (I, too, tend to ramble a bit, lol), so as Ken advises, I've decided to make it a personal response to this show which I'll upload soon. I'm overdue for a show anyway. :-D

I would use an API if there was one.

I have not published a show in years, despite having a lot of subjects to talk about.

I posted the last one before the FTP option went away. For some reason I have an aversion to fighting with what I see as a complex number of steps necessary to publish a show. Especially as I would never publish a show without complex notes.

And I would enjoy writing a client for the API. Probably in Perl. Since Perl is the best computer programming language ever invented.

I only listen to the Interviews. Not sure how Ken is going to factor that into the calculations ;-)

This is fascinating Ken and, as you allude to, it is impossible to factor in people like me who delete some HPR episodes without listening to them.

Anything by Klaatu=instant listen, anything by Linux Inlaws=instant delete.

The beauty of HPR is the broad selection and unpredictability. I think the spirit of HPR would be destroyed if it became a podcast distribution service for podcasts looking to exploit HPR's ready-made audience.

you could do a show recording the sound playing the pinball machine. eliminates the no time to do a show problem, i assume you have time to play ;-)

I vote plan9

KMagnifier was the tool I mentioned in the show, also known as kmag.

This pinball repair project sounds like so much fun. Thank you for sharing your experience. I am looking forward to your next podcast.

Also, please do not worry about your pronunciation of English words. It was easy to understand everything you said, and I listen at 1.5x speed.

Welcome!

I hope you guys do more shows together, this was a lot of fun. And thanks for the shout-out. But did you record this a long time ago? You mentioned shows I did back in 2019 and 2020.

I enjoyed this a lot. It sounded really good and had a lot of interesting content.

I'd like to hear more about modern BSD. I used to use proprietary Unixes based on BSD back in the day:

- SunOS on Suns - a little

- DEC Ultrix on DEC MIPs systems (DECstation, DECserver) - daily for several years

- OSF/1 AXP and later Tru64 UNIX on DEC Alphas - a little

Then I moved to Linux at work and at home, so I'm out of touch with the way BSD has developed.

Some interesting future shows. Hopefully you can do a show on you experience with Plan9

https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql

That was interesting. I remember working at a place that assembled the lighting backplanes for these machines. I would get to play on the machines at lunch. Two of the memorable ones were Star Wars, The Adams Family and Last Action Hero.

Oh, and your English is just fine, and you might find Dave Morris' series on English idiosyncrasies a good listen, starting with
hpr2558 :: Battling with English - part 1

I saw your more recent episode and was reminded of this one. I had heard of Taskwarrior many times. In this show, you explained how you can set weights for different attributes, out of which the urgency score is calculated. By that, you can sort your mess of things you wish you would do. That proved too irresistible to my little brain. It really is one of the things that set it apart. Having succumbed, via vendor lock-in at work, to a less free and more convenient option, I am not using Taskwarrior anymore, but I did for a good while and I think it is the most impressive to-do list application out there. So, thanks for this show!

This was a great series, thanks for putting it together! This episode in particular I think will be a reference over the years, with all the tips to not ruin your own day.

That was a good first show. I would like to hear more about C programming, which I know nothing about. Also I think you will have another friend here who likes the BSD's. Audio was just fine, keep it up. :)

I’ve wanted to learn how to web scrape because a government regulation I need is posted online but if you want an offline copy they force you to purchase a physical book from a third party rather purchase a digital copy (epub/pdf). The regulation changes often and you have to purchase the entire book rather than just the changes. I’m going to brick a Pi a few times to learn web scraping then generate my own digital copy. Thanks again.

I'm glad you enjoyed it Brian. The first few episodes are about my planning process, and there are no photos involved other than screen shots on the accompanying Web page, which is always linked in the show notes. In later episodes where I talk about the trip itself, the accompanying Web page will also have links to photos on my Flickr account.

So far I have not encountered any open-source apps for RV trip planning. They may be out there and I just haven't found them yet.

Because you can't install Onlykey without local admin ... not even set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER works ...

https://github.com/freeload101/SCRIPTS/blob/master/Windows_Batch/OnlyKey_Installer.bat


-<3 RMcCurdy.com

I enjoyed the show. I hope you'll put some pictures of your camper in future episodes. Also, I wonder if you might try some open source tools in future trips, side by side to see how they compare to google's offerimgs.

Thanks.

Used this today. A massive improvement on synergy

Thanks for the comment and the contribution to the show dnt, you and klaatu really helped me get something out the door. My timing was off as usual as I should have had my recording process figured out beforehand but I'll improve it before the next show. The work/shift example was perfect!

You can back up these "Time-based One Time Password" function instances.
The program called "andOTP" has been ready since 2018.
Also supports OpenPGP backups, encrypted backups, and database encryption.
Will also show the 'secret' string for transfer to KeePass variants... then you can copy and paste the result of the [RFC 6238] algorithm from a password manager.
Available at Fdroid, and the dreaded Google Play Store.

When this series began, I listened to your episodes kindly and patiently, as one would listen to a child or elderly person - mostly out of respect of the host. I now find myself in the middle of a bathroom remodel in a house riddled with PEX! As you can imagine, my interest has spiked in this topic.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Thanks for this, Carl! Couldn't imagine a better host! You are exactly right about the reason to talk about shift: you see it in scripts out there and it can be quite hard to glean what it does if you don't already know it. I also thank you for the observation on the word shift, which I actually hadn't noticed! The name of that script was myshifts.sh, so it's impossible to tell if it refers to the repeated running of the shift command or to the resulting calendar events. I like it!

I recorded a response show to this one
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3648

You can find a transcript of the show here
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3648/index.html

Mr Teslonian is a great tech channel that not too many know about. I didn't realize it was possible to get gasoline from wood, until he demonstrated his gasifiers. He also does crazy stuff like building a powered exo-suit out of an old wheelchair. Definitely a post apocalyptic kind of channel.

https://yewtu.be/channel/UCVP1PTBbRGpmTQE1oQx8xNw

While there are lots of great tech channels, there is no way to get organic engagement there anymore, the age of the viral youtube video is dead and the selection will steadily get worse as people use other platforms that value free speech and authenticity.

At least link the invidious alts like yewtu.be so you don't give those imperialist scum any revenue, comrade!

Russia and Germany would be a powerhouse. To hell with NATO .. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya... how many more victims are there going to be, while the cowardly and evil west goes along with it?

Thank you for the feedback. I struggled with this for a while before deciding to just shatter the myth of security. While I agree in principle that we shouldn't tell people that security doesn't exist, it is always predicated on the basis that we should implement the security controls that we are comfortable with. It is really risk analysis, not security. ;-)

Great show as always.
It would be fun to collaborate one of these days!

And yes, lol, I did let my show remain labelled explicit when there was probably no swearing, but I never know what offends folks. I don't consider "damn" or "hell" swear words, but many folks do and since I normally swear like a sailor, I thought better safe than sorry. ;-)

I'm happy to see that my methods are of some use to others. I'm working on some more material for 2023 on photos and editing.

I use many of the tips mentioned in your show. My goal is simple when It comes to security, "avoid being the low hanging fruit". I disagree with telling others security doesn't exist. We should encourage others to explore the realm of security then apply as many layers as they feel comfortable/possible (and yes I know, you've also suggested this point). Great shows, Keep'em coming.

Love the Show. I'll have to use your directory structure for my photo management. I'm very paranoid about editing the only copy of an image then losing the original image in the process (GIMP = Scary Edit). Thanks again.

It's good to see that improvements have been made. I really liked Google Authenticator when it came out. I'm hoping this space will see improvements as the migration to passphrases becomes more ubiquitous. On the flip side, Google doesn't make money off authenticator... Thank you again for the feedback. It is greatly appreciated!

It's probably been a while since you've used Google Authenticator for 2FA, but the app now does allow for transferring between devices. Still don't have a backup option that I have found, but at least now you can move the rotating keys between devices. Also, a recent update obfuscates all the codes until they are tapped so if someone is peeking over your shoulder, they can't see all of the codes, just the one being used

The things I posted were matters of opinion but sure, I'm evil and engaged in hate speech to destroy the platform... OK maaaan. There was no hate speech in anything I posted and you know it.

Ken, Dave et al continue to do a stellar job keeping HPR in good order and making it a shining example of cooperation and information sharing amongst several intersecting communities.

I do however have to stress, there is nothing whatsoever constructive in the motives of whoever submitted the shows in question as the topic of this show.

If what I'm gathering from this show (and I could be wrong) is the issue making the shows submitted problematic both ethically and potentially even legally for HPR and its volunteer staff, the person(s) submitting such content are in no way shape or form a Gadfly as they appear to have claimed.

They are. Just. A Troll.

The term Gadfly, used in the intended context, is very specific.

A Gadfly is someone who asks potentially upsetting questions, usually to authorities, at THEIR OWN risk, in the pursuit of truth.

Attempting to put others (I.E. the HPR staff) at risk by using them as a platform to spread what is essentially hate speech, be it in seriousness or just to cause upset, is just trolling.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Ken and Dave are (rightfully) careful in how they discuss the situation, and I do believe, in so far as HPR show output is concerned, they have taken the right approach.

Well done.

I'm disappointed to hear that someone took it upon themselves to deliberately waste the time and resources of the volunteers that keep HPR running. If anything, this episode has highlighted just how upstanding all of you are.

Thank you to all the janitors, and our host, for keeping things running!

Yeah, it has to be that somehow it makes economic sense to them, but perhaps only if you don't account for that borne by future generations, and underpaid Vietnamese workers! Honestly, if they had mentioned the option would involve an around-the-world shipment, I would have tried to either repair it or make a replacement part myself. But how naive of me to think this was gonna play out any different. Thanks for listening and commenting!

Funny enough, I grew up at the South end of the Adirondack mountains in New York. I helped do some IT work for our County's health facility / retirement home, which had been a tuberculosis hospital previously. I had no idea the chairs were associated with tuberculosis treatment!

It's bizarre that shipping wooden chairs half way around the world makes more economic sense than building them locally, but I commend you for trying to prevent extra waste.

Thanks for the episode!

Hi Windigo,

This shows that the word 'eggcorn' must have originated from some robot with a slightly bent TTS.

The robot in my head says: "By the itching of its corn, the TTS makes me forlorn". I'm glad I didn't share that though...

Hi Stache_AF,
I was taught that the expression used 'champing' (where 'champ' rhymes with 'ramp' in British English), and that it was describing a horse grinding its teeth on the bit in its mouth in frustration.

Researching a little I find 'champ' is specific to livestock (mostly horses I think) and describes noisy chewing of fodder.

I love that the TTS engine pronounced it "ichcorns" to add to the confusion. :)

At the end of each show a lady with a lovely voice says that the episode was made "by a listener like you." Today's episode definitively disproves that because it was clearly made by someone not at all like me.

The one that always gets me when people use it is chomping at the bit, as opposed to what it originally was; champing at the bit. While chomping isn't technically incorrect, it's not as descriptive in my book.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have similarly aged ThinkPad hardware which I still use

I started out as an MM in the Navy and this episode was right up my alley! Many days playing with industrial and residential "plumbing" and more than my fair share of playing with a torch ("no it isn't really on fire"...yet).

PEX is awesome and it makes life a lot better and extra manifolds are a necessity if you plan on doing any substantial upgrades (bathroom) in the future. Thank you and I look forward to hearing more!

Your story about erasing & restoring partition table information was the perfect cherry on top of this episode. An excellent example of being "technically correct"!

Thanks for the episode, these are always quite entertaining.

I've never used Slackware, but have often heard about it. I have a 32-bit Dell Mini 9 that may be doing some distro-hopping soon.

Also, you mentioned that you had proprietary wireless cards that required a Windows driver with a software that adapted it to be usable in Linux... could you be thinking of ndiswrapper ( https://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper )? I remember using it back in the day, but it looks like it only supports drivers up to Windows XP.

Either way, thanks for the interesting episode!

Hi Beeza,

I have tinkered with Lazarus a long time ago, and actually wrote a simple program to query a PostgreSQL database. I keep meaning to get deeper into it but haven't yet.

I'm surprised to hear that VAX Fortran was the recommended language. We took delivery of a two node cluster (both 8700's I think) in 1987. This came with a fair bit of training in Reading and West Gorton (in Manchester), and we had some consultancy available to us to get us started doing the stuff we needed to do. The cluster came with VAX/VMS version 4.x I think.

One of the consultants recommended DEC Pascal for our system-level projects, and wrote us some example code to get us up and running. That's where I got the impression that Pascal was their most complete language at the time (other than low level stuff like BLISS, which we hadn't bought). We did use Fortran too, and I drew the short straw and ended up teaching it to various students - we ran service courses in the early days.

Just as an aside, one of the then Digital consultants lives a few doors away from me. I have tried to get him to record a chat with me about the DEC times, but I haven't convinced him yet!

Ah, the manuals! I remember someone telling me "Dave, your manuals have arrived", and I went to the loading bay to find an entire pallet of them waiting there! They were really good though.

Glad you enjoyed the show.

We both have fun doing these and are delighted that there's an audience that gets pleasure from them as well!

You discussed Borland Pascal, which was marketed as "Delphi". You may be interested to know that it lives on, well sort of, in the Lazarus IDE which is backwardly compatible with Delphi code. It's still under very active development. Take at look at their website.

I believe the default language on VAX hardware - in as much as there was one - was Fortran rather than Pascal. I rather enjoyed my years using VAX clusters. They were rock solid reliable in my experience, and I'll never forget the bookcases full of those huge orange folders containing the printed manuals.

You spoke to soon about the mailing list being quiet! ;-)

Glad to hear you guys ar "Still Game". Trying to picture which one of you is Jack and which one is Victor. Love the banter. Keep it up

Another great show! How about a podcast on how and what you listen to on internet radio streams. Keep up the good work!

This guy doesn't use slackware? How can he have a user perspective. You should interview Klaatu or Zen Floater to get a user perspective on slackware. Listen to the previous hpr by the afore mentioned Zen Floater on the alive and well Slackware 15. One last thing, dependency management is availble if you use slackbuilds to add third party software, you must add the dependencies yourself listen to gnuworldorder for a better explanation. These guys need to listen to hpr not just use it as no cost place to host their mediocre content.

Its sad that you call your show as a call back to Linux in Laws.
Fabian Scherschel seemed to do a lot of research on the topics he discussed (and was funnier), that you didn't know what grub stand for shows your lack of preperation. You could have at least listened to Dann Washko's great series on bootloaders done on hpr and been better off.

Thanks for the comments. It makes me sad every time I hear about IT Departments and/or Security teams doing things like that. We are supposed to be facilitators and enablers for the people who do make the money for the company. Thank you for listening and I think you will like the future shows I have planned.

I loved the show, and I'm looking forward to more. I was an IT Project Manager, and at one time I was working at a hospital where the IT department implicitly viewed its role as "We are here to stop you from making mistakes". Naturally, the rest of the hospital viewed them as the "enemy", and as a result I noticed that individual departments took to setting up their own servers outside of the IT department. So in effect the IT department was so focused on security that they achieved insecurity.

Great radio cast on Slackware and it's history, I got my first Slackware with a book and 2 cdrom disks at version 3.2 with kernel 2.0.29. The antiX linux distribution has a current 32-bit version as well.

Hey!

You know you can change to Winamp like skin in Audacious to make it look more like XMMS in the Audacious Settings

Hi @elmussol,

Thanks for the correction.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I was a student in Manchester for about 5 years and then worked at Lancaster University another 5 or so (both in Lancashire, for the benefit of the non-English), and wasn't sure about the location of Clitheroe.

Not a mistake I'll make again :-)

@davemorris: To correct your comment on the Community News -- Clitheroe is in Lancashire not Yorkshire.

I'm pretty basic on this. If they follow the 4 freedoms, it is free software. If it includes advertising, then someone else can fork it and remove the advertising, all perfectly legally.

Kevin O'Brien, Thank you for your reply. I agree, Open Source and Freedom respecting software is usually a joint effort, but in this argument we can use more perspective. The “Open Source” is only one element, but the “Free” nature of the software and it’s community must be considered when discussing the actions of community and the usage of It’s software. If Companies, in the U.S. are considered people, respect and follow the Four Freedoms then they too should be able to promote their versions of the software; or do you disagree?

I'm writing this comment hot, so you may well cover this in the rest of the show.

I think the major drama with debian and systemd is the murged /usr stuff, which, depending on who you ask is either an existential crises, or a mild wrinkle in package management.

Debian has not switched over to systemd resolved yet either, not looking forward to that :)

Your understanding of the Unix Philosophy is missing what many consider its most important caveat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
As summarized by Salus, Unix is a collection of programs that each do one thing only and do it well. System D is a grab-bag of lots of functionality and it does not do any of them particularly well, hence why people say that System D is not in the Unix Philosophy.

I agree that the old style Init system had a lot of issues and needed to be replaces, however, I do not agree that System D is the solution. I would have preferred a properly designed, layered and modular init system instead of the all-in-one solution of System D. ie. a bare metal server used to run containers would have the same root level module but different application specific modules as a GUI based tablet. system D was designed for GUI based systems, and is overkill/inappropriate for back-end servers running docker.

Anyways, another good show, and stop selling yourself short, I think you are up to a double-digit number of listeners by now!

I think it can be useful to distinguish between open source and free software when you address this issue. Free software respects the 4 freedoms as published by the FSF. And one thing I recall being discussed there is the idea that you cannot stop certain users, such as the military, from using free software. The GPL specifies the only requirements for legally using free software, and any user who respects those requirements is legally licensed to use the software.

Was enjoying the show until the rant about "The year of the linux desktop".

Do you think chasing "the major platforms" will magically bring the year of the Linux desktop because it won't. What it does is it provides ammunition for employers to insist employees can use Microsoft or Apple.

What is the problem here with non mainstream distros that gets you so annoyed ? So what if they don't run "the major platforms". They are not forcing you to run them - why do you not want them to exist so much ?

Monoculture is bad in nature and it's bad in tech. Feel free to run what you want but stop lecturing everyone else about their choices.

Hi Knightwise,

While I enjoy your podcast, I must say your attitude seems to be a little selfish. You've been around the community long enough to know that the development relies on people taking the time to report bugs. Yet you say "I never report bugs ... the technology just needs to work for you. ... Cannot afford to spend hours and hours tinkering...". How do you expect the bug Mate may/may not have with BlueTooth on Lenovo to be magically fixed if they don't know it's broken ?

Given you use "Linux as a daily driver", you have your own business, you pay for OneDrive, and you can happily pay €50 for closed software, I wonder do you also subscribe to Ubuntu ?

https://ubuntu.com/advantage/subscribe
1x UA Infrastructure - Essential (Desktop) $25.00 / year

As for not worrying about the desktop, as all apps are in the cloud let me point you to:

- https://killedbygoogle.com/
- https://killedbymicrosoft.nl/

I'm also around long enough to know that the more the merrier. Back in the day the "too many ${software}" argument was been leveled at XFCE and then the Raspberry Pi arrived and needed a Desktop. Now it's one of the most used environments out there.

All hail the glow cloud!

Until the next time.

Ha - not only am I familiar with it, I've been to a live showing. Do not go into the dog park. ;-)

You sound like someone I want to hear more from. And as a librarian, are you by chance familiar with the podcast Welcome to Night Vale?

Forgot to mention that it should be said that the local paper in question was the (still extant) Clitheroe Advertiser & Times.

The Talking Newspaper arriving weekly was a highlight for a couple of my Great Aunts when I was growing up in the '70s in the UK. I know that groups of both sighted and not folks organized "Listening Coffee Mornings" through church at that time.

It's interesting to think that then, Talking Books were a thing primarily for visually-impared people only, whereas now, audio books are a thing for everyone. Audible (and the rest) owe their existence to standing on the shoulders of giants.

A great episode that reminded me that people do good stuff for other people for reasons other than financial reward.

Did you just say that your in-favor of giving the federal government more control of our lives after knowing the absolute mess they've created on social media??? what??? perhaps I mis-understood that comment you made on this subject.

Always good to hear from other cyber security evangelists! Look forward to hearing more.

Welcome aboard Sarah. Nice introduction. I look forward to hearing shows on the various topics you mentioned. And I'll add your Apple experience to my arsenal of anecdotes for my Apple loving friend.

Great show. Looking forward to any shows on any of the topics mentioned.

Hi. I'm a 40 plus year veteran of commercial software development, now retired.
I actually started writing commercial software in
1966. Open standards are our new standard.
It's taken me 30 years to accept this fact.
I found your opinions appalling and believe you should just return to using windows as your only operating system. While I clearly understand your needs, I see no future for the roll over and play dead attitude you've taken.
I also am a bearded person who lives in the woods and has a shotgun. And I use openbsd and Slackware on any cheap, low powered laptop I find in dumpsters.

I agree with you on some things like, not having time to tinker on a production machine, it just needs to work. However, I wouldn’t broad brush the Linux community as “bearded geeks” living in a trailer because they choose something different. I’ll do a show as a proper response but I’m happy you’re enjoying Ubuntu 22.04.

More in-depth discussion about the differences between public charities (501(c)(3)) and trade associations (501(c)(6)), by Bradley Kuhn who now works for and has previously founded and managed the Software Freedom Conservancy:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2013/dec/05/non-profit-home/

Cro says in the episode that a 501(c)(6) cannot accept donations.

It can, but unlike a 501(c)(3) the donation to a (6) is not tax deductible as a charitable donation.

A more important difference is that a 501(c)(3) is required by law to work for the public good whereas a 501(c)(6) is required to work for the good of its members.

Back around 1969 I had a job working in a gage calibration lab. Gages are used in manufacturing to test the dimensions of pieces as they complete a step, and come in pairs of Go/NoGo. Gages allowed for very quick tests on the line by operators. Our lab had to verify that the gages were correct. We also calibrated vernier calipers with gage blocks. Also, I did not misspell gage. That is the correct spelling for this type of device.

I have been processing a ton of photos from my RV trip, all taken with Android phones, and I get some with the wrong orientation. I can correct this in digikam, which is my collection management tool. When corrected, they stay correct after that.

Good to hear you guys are "Still Game";-)

These are the recordings, captured by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency, in a 40 year investigation of infamous hacker Dave Morriss & the Notorious Mr. X. Some may argue we wasted millions (£ GBP) in man hours to capture this audio; we argue the knowledge of old English plumbing was worth it.

(whispers to Dave and MrX) Do another one.

I really liked this episode, good insight into how audio production is done on an expert level. I'd love to hear how Lee is connected to the project and maybe a how you got into audii stuff. I bet you Lee is a Forth guy!

Glad you enjoyed them! There's many enjoyable episodes in the HPR backlog.

I'm looking forward to hearing your contribution to the HPR collection!

Thank you for the episode! I was completely unaware of these services, and found them highly interesting.

I have to admit I never looked into it. When I was running DOS in the 1980s even getting a hard drive was something of a novelty.

Was RAID available for MS-DOS? If so, could you perform a RAID 1 using floppy disks?

I never looked into the details of m.2 SATA or NVMe. I buy the Western Digital m.2 SATA disk because they’re fast and cheap. What do you think about using an NVMe disk, in a Type C enclosure, to run live USB sessions with persistence (like Nomad BSD).

I thought this episode was enjoyable. I then went to the back-catalog and listened to the opposing views on tattoos (http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3121) and alcohol (http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3251). Those are interesting with both Windigo and Mrs. Honeyhume.

Here in Europe we have EDRI: https://edri.org/ and in Sweden DFRI for example, thats more European variants of EFF

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Your English is better than my Spanish at this point, but I am learning your language, and hope to visit Mexico. I am already planning a trip to Spain.

Man, just entering and he makes me feels old (I'm old)

This is a very good one.

Complete, clear and sufficiently simple explanation of how FAT works, understanding this old filesystems is a very good way to enter the new filesystems (which intend to solve many of the problems Ahuka mentions).

And remember the DOS days is also very nice.

Thanks for the shows and the work of this community.

Greetings from México.

Excuse my bad english, I learned from a TRS80 manual.

Friends dont let friends drive while doing maths.

Ahhh, the 1980's. FAT and Assembler.
This is exactly why we drank beer when we wrote code till 3 am.
It was a good program sir..

I'm glad to hear you're not at the mercy of satellites in geosynchronous orbit! I have mixed feelings about Starlink, but it certainly sounds like a viable internet option - and that's something that has been often promised and rarely delivered.

Viva La Dirt!

The sound of the rock crusher was lulling. I'm now in the process of making an hour long loop to help me sleep at night.

Thanks for the wonderfully informative episode! Another one to tuck into my list of favorites.

Also, I know we take episodes regardless of audio, but thanks so much for putting effort into getting such a high quality recording. It really made a world of difference.

Looking forward to your next episode!

We had people taking photos for profile at work. Microsoft shop, so active directory / exchange etc. If you took a photo with an apple device, it would always get the image sideways, but androids would not. It looked like apples handle the rotation differently (e.g. they save the image whichever way, but keep exif data but android rotate the image to be 'up' and save it)

If you're using windows, IrfanView has command line commands for rotating (and much much more) in the i_options.txt file. That was how we fixed the issue

I was also going to say what CW was but I see you figured that out :) And CCW could be Counter ClockWise if using the American version.

This was a great and informative episode. I was actually brewing my coffee that morning when listening in, and learned quite a bit about the different roasting methods. As of late, I do agree with you about dark roasts. I used to like them, but now I don't have a taste for them. It just tastes bitter and burned.

Big thanks for reminding me about this app. I actually used it yesterday to remove information from a picture I took for inclusion in a trouble ticket. Great little tool!

That banging motor thing (grassroots mechanic movement, in your shownotes) was pretty great, I had never seen anything like that. Thanks for sharing it!

I never thought about the work that goes into managing show notes and images other host submit.
Wow, working to keep others anonymous is very admirable of you.
A show to educate everyone on managing our data; excellent work.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

This was very interesting to listen to. So interesting actually, that I'm wondering if it would be good idea to try roasting at home.

I’ve always heard great things about thinkpads and Linux. No one I’ve heard ever shared a negative opinion about thinkpads; just the usual, “It’s built like a tank” statements. Now that you’ve spoken the truth about a thinkpad, will you go into hiding? I’m joking, but thank you for the truth that is difficult to tell.

Hi Marshall

I retired from the flintstone trade more than 20 years ago. It was great to hear the familiar sounds of a quarry again in the background. Was that a Pallmann Granulator that I heard five minutes in while you were working on the perforation grid ?

You don't know how lucky you are with these modern marvels. We mostly had Dodges where we worked, and even brand new they were a pain to maintain. Still those were a huge step up from the old Blake crusher the boss and his pa bought in Philly. Man we all hated that thing, especially five finger Fred. Even now they drag it out for every company picnic.

It was a right of passage for every new apprentice to get that back to life for day.

Good times.

Thanks Again.

Clay.

Hi from Fredericksburg Quarry in the great state of Virginia

You forgot to say what pressure you needed to get the manifold up to before you applied the gasket cover. Also I was wondering who your supplier was for the hangrifts ? Mobicat are no longer supplying them (for the 100 at least). I can't seem to find them over on this side of the pond.

Any help would be appreciated. Shipping State Side is not a problem.

Hi timttmy,

I couldn't agree with you more about the Bison 120 Jaw Crusher. The same thing happened to me - just outside warranty as well.

Love the show !

Jer

Tag should be GnuPG not GnuPGP.

Are you developing apps for the Pine Time? Are you planning any development of apps or system resources for the Pine Time? I like hearing about these devices but I don’t know where to start if I purchased one; and what’s the end game? Is it supposed to be for development only or can I one day replace my apple watch? Good show, I’d love to hear more about your work with the pine time.

Thanks for the idea Some Guy On The Internet. I do have an episode about testing in Haskell (http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2948). My debugging skills are non-existent, it's basically either staring at the code with a stern expression or sprinkling lots of prints all around the places I suspect might be faulty. Really should learn some basic debugging skills I think.

Thank you for the show. I’ve never used Haskell but I have a book from “Learn you a haskell” (great site, love the sun image). So often podcast will recommend something but will not link to any resources. You’ve given us so much additional content we can use to learn more about this language. Thank you, and please do more shows on haskell (example. compiling code or testing/debugging your code).

The Linux Foundation is a 501c6 non-profit trade association. Their purpose is to help their members use Linux to increase profits. The promotion of desktop Linux, is not a priority of the Foundation.

The steam deck will use Arch Linux because it is cheaper to use linux than it is to pay licensing fees for a proprietary OS. Using a high quality rolling release Linux is also cheaper than writing one's own OS. In this regard, Valve is standing on the shoulders of the devs who have put decades of work into making Arch what it is today. The Arch community owes absolutely nothing to Valve; and without Linux, Valve wouldn't have a product to sell.

I appreciate the feedback. Yes, Bash has a lot of power and can be used for many things.

You are right, a Raspberry Pi is a great test bed; I use them often.

I hope you found the show useful. Let us know if you find better ways of doing these types of things.

Best wishes, Dave

Hello Dave, How are you? I love the show; bash can be very simple or crazy complex depending on your needs. I haven’t used `eval` yet but now I have a reason to use it. Piping text from a file into a script to create commands sounds fun (and scary), so I’ll be experimenting on a Raspberry Pi; so I don’t end the night crying while restoring from a backup, again. Thanks for the show!

This episode has revealed that, although I had heard the term "porridge" before, I never realized how many of my favorite foods it encompassed. Excellent!

Also, thank you for the feedback on the "Opposing views" episode, it is much appreciated.

Hi SGoTI,

Thanks for the thought provoking show. A few observations if I may.

The show focused on the concept of freedom of speech from a US centric perspective. It's important to remember that other (democratic) countries have their own laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country

Having time to consider your points, I feel it's fair to say that the Linux Foundation should be running Linux on their computers. Would Steve Jobs be seen in front of a Windows computer, or Bill Gates a Mac ? It's' just bad business to not run your own products.

Furthermore the "Shur Mac is Unix" ideology is dangerous and can be shown to be damaging to the community by focusing people on convenience over moral values. Case in point. Despite the fact that so many "Linux" developers run Mac Books, it is still one of the most under supported platforms out there. I tried to get Linux to run on a MacBook with the same specs and release date as my Dell. While there were many issues with the Dell that have been fixed over the years, it's still not possible to get a MacBook to run Linux. This is a direct quote from a developer I asked for help. "I actually gave up on Fedora on my macbook, too many things are broken (wifi, audio, webcam)."

I also do not agree that we should welcome developers of closed or even open core applications. This is akin to McDonalds expecting a warm welcome in a vegan club because they put lettuces on a Big Mac.

Developers and the community have a right to a belief in Free Libre and Open Source software, the Commons and related views. It is valid that they should not be welcoming with open arms developments that run against that belief. Provided of course that it is done with courtesy.

Hi "Some Guy"

A great episode, raising excellent points, but I feel the crux of the issues you raise is courtesy and dignity rather than free speech per se.

Free speech generally refers to the ideas you are expressing. How you express them is where courtesy comes in. There is a world of difference between "If you look at the online manuals you should find the information that will solve your problem" and "RTFM!"

You'll probably be aware of the controversy about Richard Stallman's ejection from the FSF and subsequent readmission. This was a result of his expressing what most people felt were distasteful ideas. Very little of what followed was criticism of RMS' views based on rational, level-headed argument. It was all about personal insult and trying to shut RMS down, saying he shouldn't have expressed his views. There was no respect of his right of free speech. Much as I similarly rejected most of what RMS had said, the episode demonstrated to me that even in the world of "free culture" that we claim to support the adherence to the right of true free speech is as tenuous and conditional as it is in wider society.

I have asked many questions on free software forums over the years and generally found nothing but help and courtesy. However, every now and then I've come across respondents whose primary aim is to show how clever they are and to belittle my relative lack of knowledge. They are the people who give FLOSS a bad image. On the plus side, though, in the same way as you, me and everyone else come to realise that these jerks don't represent the majority I think most newbies will as well, provided they don't encounter one on their first ever request for help.

SGoTT, this is a very important topic. It is challenging to balance freedom of expression among a diverse group of users with different social and moral frameworks. We often forget that, in the United States, government supports freedom of public speech (also within certain guidelines), but organizations may impose their own restrictions on the platforms they own/administer. Their choices are then influenced by their customers' choices to continue to do business with them or leave.

Thank you for sharing, and I look forward to your next amazing podcast!

Love the automated voice intro for this one. Much easier to understand when listening at 1.5x speed.

I like very much the outro voice you are using, can you tell me what you use to generate it ? I found HPR just a short time ago and have been enjoying very much listening to all the shows. Have even started thinking about answering the call and recording an intro myself .. not sure 100% yet.

keep up all the great work thanks for your time

Bentley

Hi Ken,

nice show!
I assume your pencil is 7.5mm in diameter, not cm. Just stating the obvious, because noone else did till now :-)

Regards,
Michael

Thank you for generously doing these shows. It makes a difference to contributors, to the extent that it confirms to us that we exist. I look forward to listening.

Also, it is important to hear feedback. For example, after listening to this, I have cancelled plans to do to that Wikipedia article with all the porridge, linked under that monstrosity of a show about porridge, what Klaatu has done in his own podcast to another list of interest to hackers. Alas, it was going to cover a lot of slots. On to something else, then.

Thanks for this! I used this for my latest episode. Still had to go to Audacity and edit it, largely to remove a ton of ums. I also then created a new script.txt in another folder, just to record a couple of bits to insert, so that it would sound the same as the rest of it. Will try to get better at writing the script and avoiding the ums so that it can go straight to HPR. Great stuff!

For listeners of the community news, since this show, norrist has put this in PyPI, so even easier to get it. Try it out!

Although he has passed, his wisdom continues to guide us.

Hi Ken, this subject is on my list to try.

For most speakers of Western European languages, whether more (eg German) or less (eg English) inflected, Latin serves as the paradigm for inflected languages. Of course it's not anything like as commonly taught in schools anymore, but it's still there in the background, serving as the model against which the grammar of the vernacular has traditionally been constructed. For the Sclavonic languages, such as Russian, the paradigm is Classical Greek.

In Latin, there is of course a verb "habere" meaning "to have" (as well as "tenere", "to hold"), but it is common to use the copula or being-verb with the dative. In other words, "I have it" or "it belongs to me" is often expressed with "id mihi est", quasi-literally translated into English as "it to-me is".

Interestingly, I have read that, in many languages, whatever "have" constructions exist tend to be taken over by the verb meaning "hold" or "grasp". An obvious example is the way that, in Spanish for example, the verb derived from "tenere" is used to mean "hold", while the Latin "habere" has essentially vanished. English cognates such as "tenure", "tenancy", and so on also show a movement from the concrete to the abstract.

tenacity is an almost dead project. If you take a look at their repository closely, you'll see that all that is happening is rebranding. Very little has happened there in the past few months. Audacity has been a work of two guys (Paul Licameli & James Crook) and without them I don't see anyone is capable of adding new features and improvements to it. After all it has been their brainchild, their labor of love.
Telemetry is everywhere. From KDE to Firefox. Unless and until it's stealthy and doesn't give you options to opt-out, it's not that bad.

I assume it was a Russian attack at first. It all happened after one of Google's updates. I then just unplugged the chrome book and powered it off. Then I started the chrome book up again and plugged it into a power source and the entire thing was resolved.
I also notice that Slackware 15 had locked up twice on me after my 1st boot on a different laptop and the same kind of thing had to be done over there too.

This episode was the explanation of YAML that I needed.

I know it's been years since it aired, but I use the fundamentals explained here every single time I open a YAML file.

Thank you very much. I've been working on learning languages with DuoLingo but the special characters I've ignored because I could not enter them easily. My notes with vim were correct because I could easily map keys. But I had no idea how to do it with linux in general without entering a bunch of keys that sometimes conflicted with the app.

So all I had to do was:
1. Settings
1.1. Keyboard
1.1.1. Select Layout tab
1.1.1.1. Slide off "Use system defaults"
1.1.1.2. Under "Compose key" select "right alt"
1.1.1.3. close everything under settings
2. vi ~/.XCompose (A file I did not have.)
2.1. Modify it as shown and save
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration#Configuring_compose_key
3. Reboot the system and done!

A todo might be to add special keys to do repetitive tasks...

I hear ya on extending the lives of these devices nowadays, but with OpenBSD and Fluxbox, along with the SSD and adapter, it's surprisingly useful! Firefox won't build on OpenBSD/x86 (it segfaults since it needs more memory) so they won't be including it any longer. SeaMonkey is still available, but not sure for how much longer.

https://youtu.be/fKSSY1gzCEs

I bought one about 4 years ago. I'm surprised how much I use it. Here is a nice youtube video that show how even cheap ebay versions of electronic ones are great.

Your podcast gave me the idea to do the same for my state's daily COVID updates. I was able to find the API info and break it out so I could extract my state's, county's, and zip code's respective numbers so I don't have to click through several interactive maps.

Hi,

I was listening to this while making porridge for my breakfast. I have some steel cut oats - I live in Scotland after all - but I tend to prefer rolled oats, probably because it's what I was brought up on (in England mind you). In Scotland steel cut oats are called pin head oatmeal.

My porridge gets salt and a teaspoon of honey. I'm diabetic so I avoid sugar, but only recently found that honey has a low glycaemic index (about 50 probably) so is not going to give me a sugar high like sugar would - at least not a teaspoon of it!

I used to visit the Far East each year many years ago, and I became quite keen on rice porridge - congee. It's very bland but is eaten with lots of added stuff like pickles and roasted peanuts, and was pretty good for breakfast.

Great show. I enjoyed the ambient sound aspects a lot.

It was sad that there were no comments on the December Community News episode, so I had to leave a comment for this one.

You all do an amazing job ensuring that every podcast for the month receives discussion. As a (infrequent) HPR contributor, I enjoy comments on my podcasts and hearing your thoughts. Surely others feel the same.

Keep up the great work!

Thank you for sharing. I remember taking apart old, mechanical KVM switches to clean the contacts for more reliable operation.
I still have several electronic KVMs floating around, but haven's had the need in quite some time. I definitely need to look into using Barrier.

Keep up the great work.

Thank you for sharing. I absolutely LOVE steel cut oats. Much better than rolled, IMHO.

Looking forward to your next podcast topic.

Porridge is one of those things that many people probably find very mundane. But when you start digging into details, you'll discover a lot of interesting tidbits. Like what kind of grains are for animals and what are for humans varies from culture to culture and from time period to other.

My Dell Mini 9 has the same PATA interface, so it seems like it was all the rage during the netbook days.

Between that and 32-bit Atom processors, I'm afraid mine is reaching the limit of its usefulness. Mine's relegated to console and framebuffer apps. Kudos on getting yours running Chromium!

Glad at least two of us find it useful.
Just setting up a new (to me) gen 2 thinkpad x1 yoga and needed to remind myself how to create client keys :)

Load memory ....

Hi,

Thanks for the comment. I hope you find the whole set of episodes useful.

Dave

Hi dnt,

I am also reluctant to listen to people floundering about with these apparently random singulars and plurals. After all there are some amazingly good resources on the internet that explain unusual words and where they came from.

However, I suppose you need some sort of incentive to look.

Dave

I learnt something new here, will listen to the other episodes in this series too.

Now I think we're seeing some people take the plurals like crises into any plural word that ends in -es, so we're hearing people say "processees". Start talking about processees and I stop listening.

flatpak run org.tenacityaudio.Tenacity

Hi Xoke,

Thanks for the comment.

The 'had had' things were a favourite of my late father, so they were instilled into my brain from an early age. It was great to be reminded of them, thanks :-)

Dave

A bit surprised to find it was myself that did the show. Is HPR my archive memory module ?

Each of these could have been its own show

Just used that again

I was talking about the horse and cart sign, and the guy that made it left too much space between 'horse' and 'and', and 'and' and cart...

And the completely contrived one about 'had', where someone doing a test used 'had', someone else used 'had had', however the examiner preferred 'had had'.

Smith, where Jones had had "had," had had "had had"; "had had" had had the examiners approval

As for whether the centrifugal force is real or not I will forever refer to https://xkcd.com/123/ .

Forces aren't real anyway!

I attempted an explanation of how L2 orbit works over at https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1861-f16a-5504-65e089452108 but I'll repeat it in brief.

You can orbit L2 because Earth pulls you. The Y component of the pull keeps you in orbit around L2 and the X component cancels out with your centrifugal force from orbiting the Sun "too fast".

There is also a proper and deeper explanation:

Launch Pad Astronomy: How James Webb Orbits 'Nothing'

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=ybn8-_QV8Tg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybn8-_QV8Tg

Dear Operator, I prescribe the medicines you discuss. It is a big ol' pain for doctors too. The law changed in 2021 that you're not supposed to fill controlled substances with a paper prescription, only electronic. I see my ADHD patients every 3 months. The patients call my office every 30 days in between for a refill and the refill is done electronically from my desk. My patients don't have the problems you do. There should be a 5 day leeway (before your rx runs out). I use Good rx for my own family's prescriptions. It makes a big cost difference and I do not know how Good rx work either. In order for the controlled substances act to change it will take an act of congress, so contact your congress member.

Did your Monty Mint phone ever come in? I remember you mentioned it on a previous episode. Would love to hear your experience with the phone.

I was surprised to hear you say you've never done an episode on udev, because I distinctly remember that episode! You were discussing creating your own udev rules to automatically run tasks upon inserting a USB drive.

It may be that you've never done an episode on HPR about it; I can't find it for the life of me.

Either way, thank you - as always - for the excellent episode. :)

This was fun to listen to and remember how my first PC was hand me down IBM 088 that I got from a local metal shop. It had whopping 640kb of memory and two floppy drives (no hard drive at all). There were no fancy graphical user interface or anything, all interaction was on text mode with keyboard.

Hi Ken and Beni: It was a great show thank you. Things have sure changed since I got my ticket. I'm looking forward to future episodes in this series.

reminds me a little bit of udev random podcast. this one had a lot of laughs! You guys are my friends for now. Mine won't do anything.. Holidays are hard for some/most people. Shooting the shit and ranting are my fav podcast eps!

Take care of yourselves! your the only U you have!

Hi,
Thank you for this program and the introduction as a podcast.

I just downloaded the .zip from GitLab and while trying the commands, I realize a section with dependencies is missing. I think pip is too large, so, I usually do run it in an virtualenv.
In other Phython projects like here: https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng/blob/master/requirements.txt you find a requirements.txt. I was wondering if you add one too?

Br,
Reto

agree with prev comment, listener who just turned 51 :)

Great broadcast! "That's the main engine I think, and that's the booster. Wow! And there it goes, goodness me!" is one of those audio clips that we will hear for generations to come. And I suspect many of the same phrases were heard at mission control that day, such as "I don't fully understand how [Lagrange point] works" and "You want to do that otherwise you end up with a rather wishy-washy bit of turkey, don't you?"

A very interesting approach to recording HPR shows. Not a method that ever occurred to me - but that's what HPR is all about :-)

Great to hear your comments about MrGadgets. He was an HPR stalwart for many years, and I for one miss his contributions. I was listening to some of his shows while working on the tag project and it was great to hear him.

This is a stellar first episode. Harvested electronic components, robotics on the cheap... made for the apocalypse, but fun beforehand as well!

Thank you for the additional video links; I'm glad I was able to see these robots in action.

I'm looking forward to future shows in this series!

Muy bueno tu podcast y hablas español, perdón, castellano muy bien!
Saludos desde Puerto Rico.

Thanks for the recommendation. I listened and it was a great dive into one of my favorite Christmas films of all time.

When I listened to "We need to talk about XML", I nodded in agreement. Working in localization there's a lot of XLIFF, so I have learned to appreciate it. This week I had a chance to use xmlstarlet at work, so I came back and had another listen to this. There was some trouble figuring out the deal with XML namespaces, I found that in xmlstarlet you can use //_:node where the underscore stands for the default namespace. For now, this just worked, but I do need to learn more about namespaces. Thanks again!

What are you talking about? You seem to think that if a distro removes an application they hate it can call them names. Part of making a distro is adjusting the curate application list.

It never occurred to me that HPR should have a thumbs down button until I listened to this piece of work.

Yah. I caught the Spanish episode and thought I could try a rough translation to English with the script I wrote to speech to text "any" media.

https://github.com/freeload101/SCRIPTS/blob/master/Bash/Stream_to_Text_with_Keywords.sh

Detection of standard HPR intro should be possible and if I'm lucky I can detect any non standard like humming etc but I only ever done basic darknet training with images.

Hi Operat0r,

Thanks for volunteering to do this. Once we have the script up and running then we can announce it to the general population.

Ken

"Cannot be automated!!!?!??!" Ooohhhhhh Shame !!! Alexa? Siri? Neural networks?? Everything can (and will....) be automated! I would start with detection of "notes" similar how singing autotune can make people almost sound like they can sing. Where the audio is checked for n length of music .. id it's near the beginning and matches the intro music by n% then they included the intro and if the notes don't match maybe it's some other "music" or "singing" ? Same for outro.

THE ONLY LIMIT IS YOURSELF!

https://www.zombo.com/

**Struck a nerve there** <3

You make a good point about messing with people's audio.

I imagine a fully automated system that will manage at least 75% of uploads ;)

What if you only had to answer one question?

Choose an option:

1) Let HPR edit your audio:
- remove noise
- detect presence intro
- detect presence outro
- ???

2) do not edit my audio

Thanks for the podcast recommendation, great name for it too!

I have been managing versions of configuration files locally on my system, and you have inspired me to try to use GitHub instead.

We shall see how it goes.

Keep up the awesome work.

I just glanced at my comment and realized I meant 2M (meter) bands instead of 10M (meter) bands.

Thanks for sharing this great little hack. It may have a negative impact on the impedance matching for this audio input channel, but it shouldn't be overtly noticeable when listening.
Thanks, again, for sharing.

Hey,
I see you have a link to one of our blogs here and I'm just writing to let you know that we've changed URLs so wondered if you could change:

https://blog.terminusdb.com/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb

to

https://terminusdb.com/blog/we-love-gplv3-but-are-switching-license-to-apache-2-0-terminusdb/

Thanks,
Oliver

Hi All,

It is a great idea to record a piece of silence to use as a "Noise profile" for using with the "Effect > Noise Reduction" feature in Audacity. However please do this *before* you upload it to HPR.

It is opening a can of worms to ask hosts to submit this before having a process in place to deal with it. If we learned anything from is it included or not Intro Outro thing, is that everyone will do their own thing. Will the silence be at the beginning or the end ? What if it's in the middle ? Was the silence intentional ? Will truncate silence work ?

So great idea for a host but please, please, please do not do this.

I think this is a perfect example of hacking. Fantastic!

Great show - this of course is an ugly mirror showing exactly how time flies and how we have been getting old ever since...

Congrats on earning your amateur radio license. It is always interesting to learn some of the differences between operations in different countries. For example, here in the USA, it is generally frowned upon to call "CQ" on the 10M and 70cm bands as these are littered with repeaters. We often simply transmit our call sign.

I look forward to additional amateur radio episodes, and am planning to post one about my Go Box build, assuming I ever get out of the planning phase and into the building phase.

73

Thanks for the comment, Trey. Yes, the Walkman is vintage nowadays and we're in the same boat old-age-wise. I have a couple of things that could probably benefit from being recapped, but I've never gotten into the weeds that far yet. One of these days when I've got some time in front of me, I would like to replace the capacitors in my Pioneer reel-to-reel tape deck. I feel like this would probably help with the weak left channel. No time right now, though.

Thanks for making this, I do remember getting one back in the early 80's, however that is no longer around, shame I threw it out many years ago now.

I'm going to get out my Dad's Walkman on the weekend though and see if it still runs. I kept his Walkman WM-F2015 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_walkman_fmam_stereo_cassette_player_wm_f2015.html as I knew it was special hopefully it still runs, if not I will fix it!

Thank you for sharing. Tinkering with vintage electronics (Wait! Referring to the Walkman as "vintage" makes me feel really old.) is loads of fun. Do you find the need to replace capacitors in equipment of this era? I have noticed with various radio gear of similar age the capacitors have drifted far from spec.

Keep up the awesome podcasts!

I'm glad you enjoyed it. There are more in the pipeline, but once they are done there won't be any more in this series. I wrote these 20-something years ago, and I still get happy users who find them on my Web site.

Thank you for bringing back memories from early in my computer career. I still have a MSDOS 3.31 Emergency boot disk (Because it was the first to support hard drive partitions above 33MB). For the longest time, I kept it in the very front of my floppy disk case. But when I finally tossed all the old PC floppies, I relocated it to the esteemed location of stuck to the refrigerator door with a magnet.

Likely won't boot anymore, but still brings back memories.

Keep up the good work!

I'm not sure if you've encountered GNU recutils before

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

but it's a nice flat-file way of storing & querying data in a format similar to what you described. It's fairly easy to convert to CSV or other tabular format. It plays nicely with version-control, making it easier to tell when a "column" (really a row in a group) has been edited because the diff just shows that one "cell" rather than a whole CSV line being modified.

It's also pretty flexible when it comes to omitted or duplicate fields. I've taken to storing our household address book in this format and then transforming it into other formats as needed.

Just checked the last quarter and there has been a recovery of subscribers up 11,000 to prelockdown levels. This I suspect was triggered by the return to work and loosing of restrictions.

As winter hits the Northern Hemisphere and another wave approaches, I predict a falling of numbers again.

I'm always of two minds on low cost tech when I see it, it's can be a burden on one side of the economic ladder and a boon for another. I usually fall on the side of access to technology can provide a net good. I do however feel compelled to point out Mississippi has the highest deaths per 1 million people in the United States.

As i was enjoying the show i logged into my new (to me) arm based running laptop (show coming) running slackware and my fortune said "I have hardly known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning" Plato.

I made a small error in my comment to the subject about branding. I said the bit between TTS and raucaus music was an advert for AHH, but of course it is for archive.org.

Now, I like the TTS. It gives me the chance to decide early whether to carry on listening, or press delete and go to sleep.

But the current TTS engine/settings used are boring. She sounds like a woman who has been awake for a week continuously. No prosody, no intonation. eSpeak is much better IMHO.

It could also speak faster for me personally, a lot faster.

But I know all you photon-dependent types won't agree ;-)

I loved this episode, Klaatu. Somehow I find it really entertaining to hear all about the benefits and difficulties of tables and it's something I've dealt with a good bit myself, but mostly in the context of eBook editing. In addition to the problems you mention, another one I find vexing is the impact of font sizes on tables. One of the best accessibility features of ebook formats and ebook readers is the user's option to change font size. When you're getting older like me and you typically increase the font sizes, you find that tables rarely survive the change unless you're on a big screen like a tablet. I will try almost any option to avoid making a table in one of my own ebook edits because it's too hard to predict screen size and font preferences. Lists will usually do the trick, just as you proposed in your episode. Now I wanna go take a look at your ebook...

Most Freenode channels have since moved to libera.

I'll make a show about why and a show about how to connect to libera, but here's the spoiler:

https://kparal.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/connecting-to-libera-chat-through-matrix/

- Instead of #freenode_#oggcastplanet:matrix.org use #oggcastplanet:libera.chat (yes, they have their own gateway!)
- Instead of chatting with @appservice-irc:matrix.org to store your login and password, chat with @appservice:libera.chat

Things have happened with IRC since 2016. In 2020 Thaj Sara recorded HPR 3034 https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3034 as an update to this show, explaining how you can make Matrix authenticate your nick when it connects to IRC.

Thanks, Ken.

I have been using these prefixes for decades, and take them for granted. Thanks for the reminder that this is not common knowledge.

It also reminds me of a question for which I have never found a good answer. In North America, capacitance, is expressed in uF (micro Farads) or pF (pico Farads). But nF (nano Farads) is not used. Instead you will see values like 10,000 pF or 0.01 uF.

Go figure.

Nice exposition, some things would need further / correct explanation also to klaatu (!), blame it on Porteus' not-so-well own documentation, now and here only this what is VERY important (though not Porteus specific): Porteus' XZM modules (as they are aufs / squashfs as in eg. Slax) do not "overwrite" anything on your machine, they interrupt your file system calls and make them believe that there are things that are not really there, so deactivating a module or restarting gives you an unchanged file system again, and if two programs conflict in shared resource file versions, you need not uninstall something, you just activate / deactivate modules - those modules may just be different versions of one library file, i.e. you can make a single file or a directory a module, and always your "initial" will not be corrupted by workarounds

They probably don't but I did. The goal of this series is to communicate via audio the location of the symbol.

Although looking at the definition it's not a bad word to use.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Suffixes.htm

Suffixes are morphemes (specific groups of letters with particular semantic meaning) that are added onto the end of root words to change their meaning. Suffixes are one of the two predominant kinds of affixes—the other kind is prefixes, which come at the beginning of a root word.

Do they really call exponents "suffixes" where you're from? I've never heard that usage before.

Both e8hffff and CoGo are arguing like lads in a pub. Sure their arguments makes some sort of sense when you've had a few pints. In the cold light of day you find yourself wondering just how drunk you were.

On those occasions I vowed - "Never again". Great advice to both.

From my point of view Dr Fauci is a skilled virologist and immunologist. I had heard him on virology podcasts long before COVID-19 and found him very impressive as a scientist and as a human being.

You refer to risk analysis, and you are right, we didn't deal much with this subject in our show. You write of the risk individuals are willing to take, and I often see this point being made. The point made less often is the risk each person poses to others. Unwillingness to avoid crowds, to consider physical distancing or contesting the need for a mask are stances taken in relation to the objector's risk. The risk to others seems to be disregarded or given very low priority.

I assume you're commenting on show 3445, which is a response to this show 3414.

You are of the opinion that common sense outweighs the knowledge achieved through the scientific method. History seems to disagree. The "common sense" prior to the discovery of "germs" resulted in the death of many who would have survived if hand-washing had been more common, for example. There are huge numbers of similar examples.

You make an assertion about masks, which I disagree with. You assert that your view outweighs the research we cited in show 3445 yet your only support for this is that you state it. This seems typical of the current trend to put forward opinion as superior to fact.

You mistake trust in the scientific method and the results that this method produces, in comparison to those who misrepresent this method and these results for their own agendas and profits. Agreed that many politicians, industrialists and even some dishonest scientists are known to do this. However, where human beings may sometimes be unreliable the properly conducted and peer reviewed scientific method is not.

In general viruses "break in" to cells in order to use their replication machinery to
make more viruses. In the case of SARS-CoV-2 the spike protein is the part of
the virus that is used to "break in". It's not dangerous in itself, it's part
of the toolkit this virus uses to gain control of cells and make more viruses.

In order for the human immune system to fight against a foreign chemical or
"antigen" (usually a protein of some kind since living things use proteins as
building blocks) it needs to be exposed to the antigen and build antibodies
(and other immune responses). Many of the vaccines use methods of delivering
or generating the spike protein in order to "teach" the immune system what to
be alert to. Some use "killed" viruses instead, but none of these are in use
in the USA and Europe to my knowledge.

So, vaccines are not inherently damaging, as you state. They cause your
immune system to react, which is the point, and this can result in soreness
at the injection site, fevers, aches, and similar symptoms. Yes, anaphylactic
shock can result from an allergic reaction to the vaccine itself - as it can
from peanuts, eggs, insect bites or seafood for example. In the UK, as I said in the show, we
are asked to wait for 15 minutes after our vaccination in case such an
allergic reaction is triggered, and there are medics nearby to deal with any
such emergencies.

Better late than never, I guess.
The source you give is questionable at best. As Bob pointed out, France doesn't have a age of consent, so the law actually added one, even thou it is defined weaker than in the US.
As for Germany: as I said, it already IS 14. And it won't change, because 14 is also the start of (limited) legal liability, and germans generally don't consider the idea of "no sex until marriage", and teenagers shouldn't have to go to jail for trying themselves out (Rape is a different story, because the lack of CONSENT).
There is no recent move, and no movement, and the cited attorney doesn't even exist, which should be a red flag, no matter the stories content!

Good show.
One exception i'll take is that ALL Americans turn to Anthony Faucci for our information, is just not true, the man is flawed and so is his wife.
The only thing lacking in both podcasts is a discussion of risk analysis. ALL people have different levels of risk they are willing to take. Politicians and policy makers creating one size fits all solutions, like arbitrary social distancing dimensions, leads many people to become suspicious and consider riskier behaviour.
I do agree with the earlier comment about using I feel or I believe language. That tends to be opinion.

Fulguris is a good one

As very good analysis that uses genuine critical thinking. One thing that I haven't seen anyone point out yet is that in the original show much is made of the idea that masks are not air-tight. Of course they aren't! If they were, people wearing them would die! I have worked in several hospitals in my career, and masks do a decent (not perfect) job of what they are intended to do. If I were being prepared for surgery and my surgeon said he would not wear a mask "Because I don't believe in them," I would most certainly stop everything and get a better surgeon.

Hi Nihilazo,

Thanks so much for doing the show, it was excellent.

It brought a tear to my eye to hear the story of my old Psion being so well appreciated and cared for!

I worked for university IT department here in Edinburgh, and my boss bought these devices for all of the managers in the department. I used mine a lot over the years. Occasionally I'd record audio on it, but more often I'd write notes in meetings or use its calendar and contact application.

I'm pretty certain it can output documents to a printer using a built-in IR device. I had an monochrome HP LaserJet in my office which would accept documents over IR. It was really useful in this regard. No idea how you'd do that these days - an IR device on a Raspberry Pi? Hmm...

Hope to hear more about your adventures with the Psion - and anything else "of interest to hackers" - in the future :-)

Dave

Consider that CoVID19 dangers are the Spike Protein, yet the CoVID19 vaccines create Spike Protein. Therefore it's a question of scale of damage. CovID19 vaccines/injections are inherently damaging. Some getting anaphylaxic shock and death from the injections.

Kingbeowulf. Polio was already being eradicated via hygiene measures. Also Polio disabilities are also the symptoms of other affects, like radiation damage, which was a new technology of the era and people got exposed to high levels. The Polio epidemic was caused by many factors. The Polio vaccine is definitely not the cause out of that disease. The modern spread of Polio has been via Polio vaccines. Do the research.

Measles was never consider dangerous during it being common, with people getting natural immunity and creating a better scenario than current. You've probably heard of the Brady Bunch episode of having a measles party. Well that was the go in that period. People got it and got over it. Near to zero issues and resulted in better outcomes of being naturally immune.

Vaccines are in themselves a danger and have caused many new conditions like Autism and SIDS, never experienced by most before 80's, before the vaccine regime. 1/54 births are now Autistic. Autism in communities that don't vaccinate are near to zero.

This is a perfect example of common-sense thrown out the window. A bane of the world today. You should never dispose of common-sense and replace it with mathematics. Mathematics, and when used is statistical pursuit, can only attempt to simulate scenarios from data supplied, or framed pictures of their very construction. Common sense is science, that of observed commonalities and events, even if labelled as anecdotal(said in conversation, wives tales, etc).

Masks are not advantageous as you are complicating a situation of natural body design, that of expelling toxins through the nose and hoping to breath in cleaner air. Masks unquestionably increase viral/bacterial load. Therefore creating spreaders. With the higher loads, comes elevate deaths and ailments, creating erroneous lethargy statistics for any said virus. That can result in political overreach/oversight as seen in CoVID19. The benefit of reducing virus particles with a mask is outweighed by the damages they cause. Common sense. No you don't need a PubMed article to comprehend that. Also consider some people correctly breath though their filtering nose, and other incorrectly through their mouth. Masks complicate breathing for those properly using nose, and espouse mouth use.

On weather seasons having an effect on viruses and contagion. You don't need to search for lab papers on cold weather and viruses susceptibility to disprove summer protections. Common sense should tell you that viruses are naturally burnt out of the body via a "temperature". Therefore Summer can only assist in raising the body's heat when infected, causing fast mitigation. This includes hot baths. You would also easily say moisture assists in virus survivable in the environment, making cold moist weather a disadvantage health.

Also consider your stance is based on trust of politician and science workers and industry. That is unquestionably a flawed stance.

Great to hear a show about a Psion PDA. I still have a Revo somewhere in need of repair. Never got round to getting it working directly with Linux but used under a VM with Windows XP and Lotus Smartsuite.

This is not a criticism for this podcast. But just something I come across once in a while.

I will here people say "I believe in this or don't believe that because I reason."

It's nice when people can declare themselves a reasonable person. It's different if others else views them that ways.

Klaatu, a very elegant rebuttal.
Hats off to you for your measured and thoughtful response and coolness
in the face of such astonishing ignorance.

I've long desired to own a 5mx (possibly running either Linux or NetBSD) but have never been able to justify the cost outlay to myself. Looking forward to hearing about your adventures with it!

Klaatu, your counterpoint is spot on and well said. The analogy to CPU design and construction is well done. There is a lot of chemistry and physics involved that even I have a hard time following.

As a chemist, I am befuddled by some of my colleagues forgetting the scientific method and singling COVID-19 vaccination as either unimportant or a "conspiracy", as compared to the dozens of other vaccines we all have taken. I sure a heck do not what to return to the "good old days" of polio, smallpox, diphtheria, measles, tetanus, hepatitis A/B, flu/HIB, pertussis, mumps...and don't even get me started on chicken pox...

I loved this show! Nice to hear about older hardware being used.

I applaud you both for addressing this with facts and patience, and without dipping into any personal attacks - well done, and an enjoyable listen - thank you both for challenging the other episode logically, and for bringing some sanity to the conversation - best wishes to you both

In the last community news I said that he checked a show and found that it was 'of interest to hackers'. I should have said he checked it and "it was not spam".

https://hackerpublicradio.org/stuff_you_need_to_know.php


*The audio of your show will not be moderated.*

We do not vet, edit, moderate or in any way censor any of the audio you submit, we trust you to do that. Aside from checking snippets for audio quality/spam checking, we have a policy that we don't listen to the shows before they are aired.

Klaatu, A science endeavour starts with a hypothesis that is later given weight via scrutiny from ALL KNOWN effecting factors. Your claim that CoVID19 dangers and affects are known and an accepted condition by Medicos, is false as that stance presumes ethics and truths were a part of employment and statistics gathered during the so called CoVID19 pandemic. It also presumes all Medicos are on-board CoVID19 Agenda, which is totally incorrect.

If you didn't shelter your mind or you only exposed yourself to filtered social media, btw not being offensive, you would know that it's common place for hospitals to place anyone with symptoms of CoVID19 (that includes influenza) into an induced-comma and then intubation/ventilators. This makes attending a hospital in this era with any cold or flu, dangerous, as ventilators are known to damage the lungs and should only be used in extreme situations where no other option is available. It's also common knowledge that hospitals around the world are refusing to use anti-viral medications, as it's not a part of the CoVID19 Agenda to use them, with early political demonisation. Hospitals are also sponsored for deaths and treatment of CovID19 with money lump sums. Therefore the deaths and surviving patients reflect the malpractice, resulting in bad statistics used in your SCIENCE assumption.

The CoVID19 vaccines another field of corruption and dangers.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=damaging+incubation+ventilators&t=ffab&ia=web

Look at those show notes!
I wish science was as pure as you say it is but were money is concerned, and you can't deny people have gotten wealthy because of covid-19, the science gets tainted. Richard Feynman would often point out how difficult science experiments are to do, especially in biological science, were control of variables is almost impossible. Proof that the science around covid is as muddled as any science, can be seen when the scientists decided to vaccinate the placebo group in the study,
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/969143015/long-term-studies-of-covid-19-vaccines-hurt-by-placebo-recipients-getting-immuni
(yes that is the whole url). That decision was driven by opinion, not facts. Science is hard and flawed.

Trusting the experts can lead to things like systemd and them saying 'just trust us it works'.

Also, much of what we call science is actually engineering, developement of RISC architecture is probaby done by engineers, whose goals are different than scientists.

lastly a famous scientist said

'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'

Albert Einstein

I had to play this show about 3 times to get all the content out of it. Installing and running Gnome 3 on OpenBSD is extremely easy as GDM does all the work for you. Setting up Pulse Audio is probably the hardest part most newbies have difficulty with. But you know, this Squirrel is sick and tired of heavy desktops. I'm also getting sick and tired of Intel/AMD64 platforms - the plastic CPU's from hell. And I long for the mainframe days where we just used a dumb terminal - I was happy then. I have a few OpenBSD servers to use via SSH which satisfy this urge but, I need to by some dumb terminals and put OpenBSD on my Rasberry PI 400 thingie and take my 2 chromebooks and just drown them both in a deep bathtub somewhere. There is no such thing as a perfect desktop, I hate them all. Those desktops always leave you feeling unsatisfied with life. Why do we even put up with desktops and what drives Fedora to continue on with Gnome? What are they going to get out of it? What will IBM get out of it? Everyone should run OpenBSD or NetBSD or Fuguita or how about GUIX with the HURD instead of all this linux stuff. We want something different on the computer table. Really, Gnome and SystemD is like a slow creeping cancer.
And a boring cancer too where your limbs fall off one at a time every 3-4 years.

"Now go out and play with this and come back with an example on how this is actually useful in the real world, and submit a show!"

Dave Morriss did so in HPR3413:

https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3413

Even though he concludes that this feature is awkward compared to the alternatives, it's great to have a less contrived example!

Through various hardware and software calamities, my podcasts have been out-of-reach for more than six months. Just recently, I've been able to remedy it, and this was the first HPR episode in my queue that I was able to listen to.

Oh, how I've missed HPR. Thank you for the thoroughly enjoyable episode!

Great episode. Nice to hear a few of the ones I've used and known about mentioned as well as some others I've not known about. One that wasn't mentioned that I recently came to discover is called Mojeek. More information about Mojeek below.

Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/

Wikipedia entry on Mojeek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojeek

SDF, the well-known public access UNIX system since 1987, has its own Whoogle instance: https://whoogle.sdf.org/

Great episode, gents! That was an awesome interview and I could have listened for even longer if you did go the full 3 hours, LOL. Definitely better guests for interview than I'd ever be. ;-)

The controls in cmus are laid out like a traditional VCR/tape-player from left-to-right in the bottom corner of a traditional QWERTY keyboard:

z=prev ⏮️
x=play ▶️
c=pause ⏯️
v=stop ⏹️
b=next ⏭️

I can't say it helps me remember *much*, but at least that's the reasoning behind the non-mnemonic keys.

Ken, I flagged the show using the supplied,
is flagged as Explicit " switch which is provided on the website. It seems I don't understand the difference in what your requesting and this switch for Explicit content. Offense is in the eye's of the beholder. Frankly, anyone can be 'offended' by anything Ken. The term offended is highly subjective and easily pulled.
If you feel this show is too much of a burden for you then by all means, delete the show. If however you want to keep the show to use as an example to others, then keep the show. Either way, I promise you that "I WILL NOT BE OFFENDED", not offended in any way. It's just a show Ken... :}

I thought HPR was "dedicated to sharing knowledge", so why is this host distorting the truth ?

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/08/putting-frances-consent-issue-into-context/

Q: Did France pass "a law saying having sex with a child is okay"?

A: No. The country already didn’t have a legal consent age. The new law makes it easier to file rape charges against adults who have sex with those 15 or younger.

I added that warning following a complaint from a listener. Our guidelines are "If you feel that your show will be considered inoffensive in every region of the world then you can signal that when you upload the show." This was not done in this case.

Having now listened to the show myself, I want everyone to know that I personally do not in any way endorse or support the opinions in this show.

I am very disappointed with this show. I am sure that HPR would appreciate shows that covered these contentious topics - provided they were handled with care, compassion and without insulting anyone.

I made the title of the show "A Squirrels thoughts about RMS" and the subject line reads "RMS and the subject of freedom" specifically because I wanted to cover RMS's free speech rights being rejected by a commuinity. And wanted to talk about that 'community's' actions in causing damage to Richard Mathew Stallmans person.
The show, should you have listened to it all the way, was not about Pedophilia explicitly but rather about the violation of RMS's rights as a person under the law.

France legalized Pedophillia : see article. France becomes latest EU nation to legalize Pedophilia

https://thetruthrevolution.net/france-passes-pedophile-friendly-law-saying-children-can-consent-to-sex-with-adults/

France follows a similar move in Germany to legalize Pedophillia - Age of consent to be 15 years of age.

Another fun way to learn rust
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/

That was a good call, putting a disclaimer on this episode. There was about 1 minute in that were facts about RMS, then devolved. This was one in which I could not finish, as I am a parent like a lot of us in our little 'hacker space'. I find the subject of pedophilia disgusting and to most, I would imagine, no appropriate here.

Moves to legalize pedophilia in europe? Where did you hear that from, breitbart? I live here, I should have heard about something like that, but so far everything goes in the opposite direction, towards more child protection, and there're even some discussions about raising the age of consent (it's been forteen since the concept existed, which was way before even you were arround).

As for cigarettes and beer on airplanes: your freedom stops where my rights begin, and I feel I do have the right not to be covered in drug gunk and beer (carbonated drink don't work to well in low cabin pressure)

Great show Klaatu.

Fast delivery, accurate, concise, clear, uncluttered, few verbal ticks.

Very few people can deliver a show as fast as I can think.

One of about half a dozen hosts that have me reaching for the play button instead of the delete button

I was truly impressed with this show. This could have been 2 or 3 shows. I appreciate the hard work you put into the show notes. I will be using them someday soon.

One note to other listeners - although you can install kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi 3, it's super slow, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Keep up the great work!

l'm not a sound quality snob, and I'm happy to listen to shows recorded with *unintentionally* not great audio as long as the subject matter is interesting to me. But I think it's another matter to intentionally create bad sound quality. Was it a joke? Just trying to make a point? Or just straight up trolling (which is what I suspect based on some of the other passing comments)? Whatever the answer, chalk up one more comment / vote against the idea of intentionally creating a bad experience for your listeners

Hi,

Loved the show. I started on mainframes in the 1970's where all there was was a teletype or physical terminal. I use X-Windows now, but spend the majority of my time in terminal emulators.

Having spent today in the Linux console on my Debian Testing system debugging a problem caused by the last update, I'm appreciating being back in KDE. The problem was due to multiple incompatible versions of the NVIDIA "legacy" driver lurking in the system it turned out. I wouldn't want to stay in the console though, even with tmux.

Like you I'm a fan of ncurses, and have written a few simple things in my time.

I'm a Vim user and am contemplating moving to Neovim. I've written a few basic extensions in Vimscript but like the look of Neovim's Lua interface.

Finally, you had me going for a moment, calling 'vi' 'six' :-) Having been an ed and ex user in the past on various Unix flavours, I remembered that 'vi' was the abbreviated 'visual' command that gave you the screen mode from ex.

Dave

Thanks for the show! At one point I used emacs on the console because I didn't have enough RAM to run X windows and a compiler at the same time.

Never sat down and got the Linux console to use a good font - these days I run the i3 window manager, so I get a lot of terminal windows, and graphics apps as needed.

If you're looking for an improved sort of ncurses, you could look into the Textual framework.

Figured there would be more comments here about '6'!

Thank you for this great show. I also use CMUS, as it's the only program that doesn't choke on my extremely large music library that I have on an NFS mount. I will be trying out most, and I encourage you to try out ranger!

I updated the script to work with 'most' wonky file names:

https://github.com/freeload101/SCRIPTS/blob/master/Bash/Stream_to_Text_with_Keywords.sh

Wow... I didn't think people like you really existed! Mad props ! Me 4 days ago would have asked you about playing music though a SSH tunnel? but I just switched to PlexAmp for music because my wife uses Subsonic too. I think Subsonic is dying...Another thing is I really enjoy the highlighting in my windows MobaXterm terminal. I have tried a few times to get my entire terminal setup with syntax highlighting and keyword stuff like Moba does but its app specific ... so for example in Vi I can have nice colors then I leave the terminal and I get B/W .. What I want is everything everywhere highlighted like :


* warning messages,error,not,info,complete,OK, IP address,commandline switches ( example ) https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/img/moba/features/feature-syntax-highlighting.png
* syntax highlighting (without having to name it .bash or .sh ) so for example if I cat out a binary file and it has random scripting or programing in it .. maybe it (detects) python and highlights that …

Anyway great stuff keep fighting the good fight!

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It takes me back too. There are more to come.

Thank you, Ahuka. This brought back memories of working with PCs back in the '80s. Fun times.

Keep up the awesome episodes.

Martin's volume is again/still way too low. It's a PITA to change the volume when speakers change.

This looks pretty great. I just installed ranger and love it already. Thanks for calling attention to ranger, etc. I'm still digging in, but so far so awesome!

Used this today

Great to hear you talk about languages the way that you do. You give a lot of context without a lot of lingo. Looking forward to the next episode.

Lisp: Everything is a list.
Unix: Everything is a file.
Ruby: Everything is an object.
Haskell: Everything is a function.
Rust: EVERYTHING IS AN ERROR!

I have been considering learning some Rust, and this has given me the nudge needed to give it a try.

Looking forward to "Hello World" episode.

Thank you for sharing episodes like these. Not only is the information you present valuable, but sharing your thought process helps provide context, as well as a launch point for others to build on.

I encourage you to keep it up, and start using git to manage and share your code and comments.

PS. I still dispise markdown. :)

Welcome and thank you for sharing. I remember building gates from transistors and then more complex logic circuits from only NAND gates. Those exercises help you to break complex problems down into more simple steps and are valuable in any technical career, especially information technology and security.

I look forward to your future posts.

Thanks for the feedback. There were clicks in there that prevented the normalization from working.

We fixed it manually.

Cannot hear in Mobile

So much about this 'pandemic' has been very questionable. The Scientific Method demands observations from various perspectives. That hasn't happened this time: anyone deviating from the politically-correct narrative was ignored, called names, or shouted down. Coercion, bribery and threats to get 'the jab' are suspect. Where were directions on prevention and treatments? CoGo mentions Vitamin D. This parallels my findings on prevention; zinc also turns up in my research. Big pharma is making big dollars on this event. And as mentioned in this episode, an even more nefarious agenda may be happening than mere $ profit. I heard it said that America is suffering from a lack of conspiracy theories! This is because most of what was initially called conspiracy theory has mostly become truth recently! So yes: critical thinking and research are required in our unusual times. Thank you CoGo.

Thank you for this beneficial information about COVID and the benefits of Vitamin D3

Hi, thanks for the interesting podcast. I actually thought of doing this as well. Can I ask why you picked CEPH instead of Gluster? I think Gluster has an ARM port (but I don't know if it works on Raspberry Pi).

You said something to the effect of me having a "teacherly manner", and that may be the result of my 20 years teaching at the university level. I loved the teaching part, but I hated the paperwork, and especially disliked to low pay. In the U.S. at least teaching is not valued at all, so I left academia to become an IT Project Manager, which is the main reason I can enjoy my retirement now.

Dude, these stories are fantastic. Please keep them coming. While the average listener may not appreciate each and every aspect, along with the technical details, they read (listen) more like an adventure than a resume...

I appreciate this episode, regardless of your view critical thinking is key (for COVID and everything else in life). Great information that I hope will make people think and possibly do some research of their own.

Thanks Trey,

Glad you found the show useful. I sometimes wonder if I'm overdoing the detail, but I enjoy getting into the intricacies of stuff and like to share what I find.

I'm planning Bash Tips episode 22 at the moment, so it should be out before too long.

Dave

Hopefully this will spur some interesting discussions, and maybe further shows.

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks b-yeezi,

Glad you enjoyed the show. I hope you find coproc a useful thing. An HPR show on your experiences would be very welcome I'm sure!

Dave

Thank you for the detailed explanations in this episode. I was completely unfamiliar with coproc before listening. Now I have something new to play with, and am learning something new.

Looking forward to the next bash episode.

Thank you, Dave, for this great show. I will be definitely using coproc in the near future.

Hi Jan,

I checked all the files and I can't find anything odd.

https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3410/hpr3410.png

Can you give me more information please.

Thanks

Ken.

I don't know what problem you found with the MP3 file, but it was not on the original. I upload a FLAC file to HPR, which is then converted into other formats for downloading. I subscribe to the OGG feed, and just listened to the show on that feed, and there was no problem. So either there was a glitch in the conversion to MP3, or you had some issue with the download.

This was super interesting. I have to admit I had one of Ken Fallon's thoughts (which he expressed in the community news covering April) - what happens if someone hosting a DNS server in the opennic group returns authoritative results for a name that ICANN should be responsible for - as an example, imagine someone else returns authoritative results for your bank's or doctor's URL.

Simple and elegant, use what you have! I always love listening to your episodes! I used stainless hose clamps on my 2005 Tacoma catalytic converter heat shield, as I was not so fortunate to have a bolted on one. So far they have lasted 5 years in case your lids meet an untimely demise.

Many thanks for this really informative show. :-)

The mp3 seems to bee some what broken.

Ultimately klaatu is the person who got this going. This material was on my web site for over 20 years when he asked to use it for Opensource.com. That got me to ask Ken if he thought HPR would like it. But I guess it shows the value of having your own web sites and controlling your own content.

Thank you for sharing this info. It is so much fun learning the history and challenges we take for granted behind today's technology.

It reminds me of the PBS 3 part documentary "Triumph of the Nerds"

Keep up the awesome work.

Trey

Great show. I like humble bundle for my books because I can use them on any device. Freedom seems to be hard work these days; we have to invest time researching ever purchase because of greedy companies.

Hi Operat0r

Really enjoyed this show. I was particularly interested in your references to gaining physical access to sites using social engineering. In England 40 years ago we used the term "blagging" and my late father was an expert at it. He was in the electrical engineering business and would almost routinely attend conferences and other events for which he had not paid the required fee. His secret was, as he put it, "to look like you have every right to be there", and if you can carry that off everything else drops into place.

Bear in mind that in those days tickets were paper rather than electronic, so a name "missed" from the official list could not be easily verified. Organisers would often apologise for their apparent shortcomings and make sure he got a good seat, freebies and even a free ticket for a forthcoming event.

An episode dedicated to this often overlooked and rare skill could be particularly popular - as long as listeners don't get too inspired and wind up behind bars!

As anyone who has listened to my shows knows I take licensing very seriously. My own view is that if your objective is to expand the free software ecosystem, use the GPL. If your objective is to promote proprietary software, use one of the unrestrictive licenses like MIT or BSD

I'm glad you are finding this helpful. I can recall a time when I was totally confused about GIMP, and would look for some other program to use. Then I decided to dig in and figure it out, and now I wonder why more people don't use GIMP since it is so powerful. But like all powerful tools, it does take time to learn.

Thanks for your series on GIMP, I've always found it hard to use and I think this is going to clear up some of my issues. In this episode - I'm thankful to learn that layers have "modes", I didn't know that. I think that's my main problem with GIMP - it has functionality I don't know about, and sometimes I end up in these other modes and all the commands do unexpected-to-me things in those modes. So now I know to watch out for these layer modes. I'll have to try it out!

In the interest of fairness and balance the rms-support-letter started one day after rms-open-letter. On 2021-04-01 when rms-open-letter stopped accepting more signatures, rms-support-letter had 5051 signatures [1], compared to 3005 sigantures on rms-open-letter [2].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210401173629/https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210401173734/https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

In the interest of fairness and balance the rms-open-letter gained 3004 signatories and stopped accepting more after just Eight Days. The rms-support-letter has only garnered 6800 signatures while still accepting signatories over four and a half months later. You also forgot to mention the 61 organizations that are party to the rms-open-letter.

I always love hearing people's war stories from security. If you have more, please send them in.

Thanks for a great episode - needless to say the audio is great : -) also the topic is interesting and useful. I'm just coming back to the podcasts and listening to some older shows.

Re: avoiding sibilant and popping sounds - and "angling the mic" - do we move the mic 20 degrees off to the side - or vertically? Do we move the mic position in 3d space or do we just keep it in the same position but angle it's direction 20 degrees vertically/horizontally?

Thanks for the episode. Much appreciated.

Sorry but running the water while recording is a real F-U to your audience. I hope we will never be subjected to another HPR episode that does that. One was way too many IMO.

Great show, klaatu! In my previous career as a Project Manager working with big data systems, XML was important for data transfer. For example, in the automitve industry the major manufacturers would insist that suppliers use XML to send data (such as invoices; important!). And in health care it is useful for sending health data.

Also, you mentioned DocBook, and I seem to recall seeing you give a presentation on that, and I think it was at Indiana LinuxFest, but if not, probably Ohio LinuxFest. All good stuff.

The number of signatories of the "open letter" is not five or six figures as mentioned in the episode. It is 3004. By contrast, a letter supporting Richard Stallman (https://rms-support-letter.github.io/) gained 6800 signatures. If the FSFE thinks the matter of right or wrong simply depends on how many people are made uncomfortable, it should withdraw its statement with unsubstantiated claims, as there are more people made uncomfortable by the lynch mob than by Richard Stallman.

See also https://stallmansupport.org/ for a comprehensive account and context of the drama.

Hi Dave, oops. I think I have a habit of doing this sort of thing. I can only apologise to yourself and to any potential listener. I’m glad you managed to solve the mystery in the end and to explain it so eloquently. If only I had said something similar in my episode. Must remember in future to engage the brain before engaging the mouth :)

All the best MrX

It was a lot of fun to listen to how you worked your way through the different exploits. I am looking forward to more.

Hi MrX,

Excuse the ignorance, but I hadn't appreciated:
(a) what a heat shield is, and
(b) what problem was being solved!

So I have found out that a heat shield protects parts of the underside of a car from the heat of the exhaust pipe(s). It's a formed sheet of metal that is bolted to the underside of the car.

The problem was that the mounting holes in the metal sheet had corroded and become larger than the bolts and washers holding it on, leading to nasty rattling. The metal tin lids with holes drilled in them act as giant washers, holding the shield on again and preventing rattling!

I realise that this was a great hack - now I understand it!

As someone who only occasionally uses XML and other data languages like JSON, your episodes on both topics were very helpful.

It is also encouraging to know that there is someone else out there who dispises markdown as much as I do.

Keep up the great episodes.

I had to install an xml config file on a bunch of servers.
The xml was the same for every server except the hostname had to be added to a specific field.

My first thought was to use sed, but anyone who has tried parsing xml with regex knows just how far I got.

Searching for something like sed that understood xml tags led me to xmlstarlet.
Here is the command I used to add the hostname of the server to the xml path "info/host-id":

xmlstarlet ed --inplace -u info/host-id -v `hostname -f` /path/to/info.xml

I'm glad you enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I'm basically releasing the DOS series shows about every four weeks or so, alternating with my GIMP shows.

Really enjoyed this episode. The mixing of computer and personal history was great. Can't wait for the next podcast.

So free speech is ok unless the FSFE descides its not ok. Except for RMS's quircky behaviour he was never accused of doing anything illegal, he was merely excersing his right, endowed by our Creator, of free speech. His only fail was not realizing that the thought police had invaded the FSF. Down with Big Brother.

I love OpenBSD because they produce a secure OS. They also produce the whole OS. You will never see the lead kernel developer at OpenBSD insert a patch for code which was developed by the NSA into the kernel,,,, THEN,,, only withdraw that patch after the entire community forces him to do so..... ...
INTEGRITY,,, SECURITY,,,, CODE CORRECTNESS,,,

Forgot to mention: you should not have to pay that much for a decent pair of shoes. A much more affordable option is Converse Chuck Taylor high tops. Those are the shoes I wore until I got my first pair of Vans high tops. The Chuck Taylors have excellent grip on the board, though they don't have any ankle padding. If you lace em up nice and tight you get good support against turning your ankle, but they won't protect you if your board bangs into your ankle. The Vans high tops are excellent in every respect. I think I got a pair for about $50 several years ago but maybe they cost more now.

I LOVED this episode! Props to you for learning this as an adult, that's really cool. It was wonderful hearing about the sensation of euphoria you felt when you first did various maneuvers. It's easy for me to forget when this feels like because it happened so long ago for me. I was a competitive skateboarder on halfpipes in the 80s and have a ton of experience, so if you ever need a human being to talk through any of this with, hit me up. It will be fun for me.

Glad to hear you will be getting some safety equipment, but you did not mention one of the most important safety items, a pair of wrist guards. Most of the time when people fall they put their hands out to catch themselves, and it's very easy to break a wrist this way. Get yourself some good wrist guards because because you're going to need your hands.

Have fun and be safe!

Fonts were a problem for LaTeX in the early days, because Mr. Knuth invented his own (high quality) system to describe fonts.
Later (with PDFlatex, I guess) it became possible to use PostScript fonts directly.
But PS fonts are expensive, and on Windows PostScript fonts were never really used widely.
And then Microsoft "invented" TrueType fonts...

With ubiquitous cheap (and not always high quality) TTFs there was a growing need to use TTF in LaTeX: It seems like pdflatex can make use of fonts in the TTF format, but I have not tried it myself.

TODAY luatex/lualatex can not only use TTF but also the even newer OTF fonts with very little problems. It works, but ...

The goal of (La)TeX was to produce HIGH QUALITY documents, that's why the default is EXTREMELY high quality and changing things is hard.
With Microsoft products it is the rule to produce VERY LOW QUALITY documents and it is easy to change things to "comic sans" or worse...

Well, with luatex I now can take part in the low quality document revolution. ;-)

that was..something

I've been away from HPR for ages but checked back in this morning and found this show about ebooks. Loved it, and thanks for the mentions. The discussion about page numbers prompted me to look into the issue because it's something that's bugged me for a long time. I was pretty sure there was support for specifying page numbers in the EPUB3 standard, but I've never gotten into the weeds and figured it out. For fiction it doesn't really matter, but as you discuss, page numbers from the physical books are still pretty important in academia where we are expected to cite our sources. I took a couple of hours this evening and learned how to embed page numbers, and tomorrow I'll record a response episode to share how it works. There's good news and bad news involved...

Perfect time for:
```
$ sudo apt-mark hold audacity; sudo apt-mark showhold
```

https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1756

I think I'll record a follow up episode as well.

There is a limit on the about of text you can put in this box - endorsed by the maxlength="2000" in HTML.

There is also a limit that triggers error "cd57ab4d7b77a131ed3deb441bd93dcd" when the server sees that the string length is greater than 2000.

You would think that they would be the same, but they are not due to the amount of data required to encode characters. maxlength counts the number of characters, while strlen() is actual data passed. So if you include a "Smart Quote" it takes double the space of a normal quote.

$ echo '"' > double-quote.txt
$ echo '“' > double-curley-quote.txt

$ ls -altr double-curley-quote.txt double-quote.txt | awk '{print $NF, $5}'
double-quote.txt 2
double-curley-quote.txt 4
-rw-rw-r--. 1 ken ken 4 Jul 6 15:23 double-curley-quote.txt
-rw-rw-r--. 1 ken ken 2 Jul 6 15:23 double-quote.txt

For a good overview on why this is please see "Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile" by Tom Scott on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4

Thank you for your positive feedback, and welcome to the Ham Radio community. Looking forward to your podcasts about it, and now I may need to do some myself.

Trey

Hi Porkchop,

I will be adding the Layer 8 podcast to my list. Thanks for the feedback.

Trey

Greetings

In my comment on the Terminal Journey part 1 I wrote that I had to split my comment because I got an error when I tried to send it in one piece.

Your reply in this here installment was that postings are limited in length. But that is *not* the problem I had. Yes, I did reach the limit, and I could type no farther. So I fixed my sentences to shorten the post by a little bit and then clicked on Send. But I got an actual error page. So I cut my text in half and then it submitted just fine. I suspect a bug in the form checker or even the backend.

I do realise there is enough stuff in my head for several shows. I’m working on that concept. :)

I found this discussion fascinating. I also noted that Linus had mentioned the possibility of using Rust for the Linux kernel, and that is not something you hear every day. If some talented programmer out in HPR land wanted to do a series on programming in Rust, I think it would be a big hit.

I think that those interested in the shows mentioned may also enjoy "The Layer 8 Podcast". It is made by Layer8Conference and each episode features a different person with OSInt ties or experiences and they share stories and talk about how they got into the field. It is more entertainment rather than education centered, so someone not familiar with the field can enjoy it and get a better understanding of what OSInt and redteaming are.

(I had to split my comment in two parts because I was getting an error if I did it in one post.)

About bash keyboard shortcuts:
It is not a default setting in most distros, but I think it was in mine when I started with linux, and now I can't live without it. It allows to type a few characters and then, with the page up/down keys, page through all history entries that start with those characters you typed.
For that, put the following into /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc:
"e[5~": history-search-backward
"e[6~": history-search-forward

Regarding grep:
This comes from the g command of the ed editor, IIRC. "g" means "do the following command globally on the file" (vim has the :g command which does exactly that), "re" is the command to run and means "match with regular expression", and "p" means "if it matches, simply print the line".

PS.: it is unnecessary to touch a file if you write something to it right after (unless you use the result value of touch for error checking).

Happy vimming.

Hey some guy,

Regarding your surprise about pwd: I don't know the actual history, your assumption of a minimal prompt might be true. However, pwd is also very handy for scripting. Bear in mind that scripts don't have a prompt. ;-)

Pretend you are in directory A, and the script is in directory B. So in the terminal you enter B/script to run it. Now within that script, the variable $0 contains that calling string, i.e. B/script. But if you call pwd in that script, it returns A(!). So if you use ./ as path for your dump files, that means that the file will be created at your pwd.

I often write quick-n-dirty scripts for one-off tasks and they tend to use relative paths for simplicity. In such cases I use the following line at the start of the script:
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
This changes the script's current directory to where it is actually located. The quotes are there to handle spaces in path names and they are a good habit to acquire. (I'm kind of a language purist and don't like filenames riddled with underscores. I find them hard to read and hard to work with.)

I loved listening to your talk - as a long-time debian-based distro user I learned some things about apt - thank you - plus the recording was well done (good sound levels, clear, no background noise) and you explain things really well. Thanks! Having the show notes is an extra nice bonus.

listening to this reminded me that I never actually listened to the interview with ken's isp!

A fine show with good audio, as have been all your shows.

I enjoyed the clear presentation. Always like hearing different ways to use the command line.

Thanks

Thank you all for the encouragement and kind words. I'll try to provide more shows on this and other topics. Has anyone had any issues with the sound quality or volume for the episode? Just a QA. check.

I do really enjoy hearing the New Year's Eve shows, but this one was 282 minutes long! That isi most of the way to 5 hours. I'd have divided this into 4 shows, each of which would be a bit over an hour.

Long time linux user, but still learning.
I will definitely go back and listen again.

Two packages you might try are nnn and ranger, which are terminal application file managers. They both have good uses, just a different approach and keybindings.

Look forward hearing more.

I have been using various flavors of *nix since the '80s, and I am still learning things. Your detailed and careful explanations are great for a beginner and even interesting to folks like me.

Don't worry about being new. You are learning methodically and are sharing what you learn with others. That is ALWAYS to be commended. Thank you!

Wonderful show. It was an absolute delight to hear your command-line adventure. If there is one thing I have learned about the command-line in my years of computing, it is that there is always more to learn about the command-line. :)

Long time linux user, I but can fully sympathise with much of SGOTI's experience, seems to be a similar pattern in how many of us learn to use the command line.

Really well explained though, will make excellent listening for anyone new to the linux command line who finds it 'scary'.

Good stuff man, look forward to hearing more.

While I am still using a headset microphone and planning to get a good dynamic mic soon, I tried to apply some subtle EQ enhancements to tm latest HPR recording, based on your recommendations in this episode. It is scheduled to air at the end of June (hpr3368).

Keep up the awesome work!

I did a bit of searching and found that SAO = Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

There's a Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Astrophysical_Observatory

The comment from cagey is a show all in its own right! I'd love to hear more about life as a grad student doing this kind of stuff :-)

Could you add the names and contact pages for the participants as a comment please.

Hi o9l. A few months late, but welcome.
Life has a way of getting away from us.

Look forward to your next show, and don't
worry too much about how you sound.

Thanks for continuing this series.
The samples of type of equalization were enlightening.

Also there are now no crickets (from Urandom oggcast).

Interesting show! I was a grad student in Arizona working with the gamma-ray group at SAO's Whipple Observatory (just south of Tucson). My first task was to develop a tracking system for the 10m Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope. We used Forth running on a Z-80 daughter board hosted by an Apple II. This same hardware was used to control a 24" telescope. That system was developed by a fellow who had worked for SAO's Satellite Tracking Program. In fact, several other staff members at Whipple had traveled the planet installing, operating and maintaining the Baker-Nunn cameras used to photograph satellites and determine their orbital elements.

The amusing thing is that a couple of years after I graduated they replaced the Apple II with a PC and tried to reverse engineer the Forth code. Given that the tracking code wasn't all that complicated this was sheer insanity. My experience with Forth is that even your own code became rapidly inscrutable. Probably a reflection of my coding acumen at the time rather than Forth intself.

Listening to this I have remembered what I was complaining about in the show. I was referring to podcasts (and presumably radio shows) like "This American Life" which "interview" people but "translate" what they are saying over the top of them.

This is a "style" that many broadcasters seem to have adopted. Many of the BBC podcasts I have stopped listening to do this too. I find it distracting and insulting to the interviewee. It seems to be an example of media people reinterpreting what experts are saying in many cases, and we know how much misinformation comes from this practice.

If this is "professional" I don't want to have anything to do with it!

I have been wanting to comment about this for some time.
The quality of the audio is somewhat important but not a qualifier.
But what I at least WANT is the level of volume to be normalised at 95%. Its hard to hear in a noisy environment like a car or places with background noise.
This is easy for a submitted sample. Run all input/submits through a normaliser/compressor.
Volume checks in mumble/radio should also normalise.

Hi Dave sorry for taking a bit of time to reply. I noticed the comment flag up in my RSS reader and then promptly forgot all about it as things have been crazy busy here. I only remembered thanks to a gentle prod by Dave Morriss.

Glad you enjoyed the show. By coincidence I turned my HF set on just last week something I hadn’t done for a good long while. I must admit to being a bit rusty with the latest rules and regulations but I seem to remember that certainly here in the UK you are encouraged to use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. I’ve certainly heard various stations using different Phonetics. Perhaps they think it’s easier to hear under noisy conditions or perhaps they just like the sound of it. Personally I just stick with the NATO Phonetic Alphabet.

Dave mentioned you recently became an Amateur, so many congratulations. I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun with the hobby as there are so many directions it can take you.

All the best

MrX

Having just joined the ranks of Amateur Radio users, it made sense for me to look for HPR episodes relating to Amateur Radio.

I loved this episode, very interesting listening to conversations on the 40m band... real hard-core users on 7MHz!

I did notice that the German station DF2BO wasn't using the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, is this a common occurrence?

It is the most enjoyable article that I have ever read (with the possible exception of those that might have been more enjoyable).

An excellent dramatic reading as well.


Cheers!

I would like to thank everyone who joined in the podcast. Without people coming on and talking there would be no podcast.

Thank you, and I look forward to talking to everyone again next new years

I would like to thank Pokey for coming up with the idea for the new years show. Without this show I don't think I would have ever had the courage to start podcasting

Thank you

I would like to thank the members of the urandom podcast for having me and kwisher on to promote the new years show.


Thank you

I would like to thank Dan from tllts for playing the promo for the new years show in the tllts podcast.

Thank you

I would like to thank the entire hacker public radio community for participating in the new years show.

Thanks

I would like to thank Ken Fallon for his job recording this podcast. It was because of his fine recording of the stream that this podcast happened.

Thank you

I would like to thank kwisher for running the stream for the new years show.


Thanks

I would like to thank Dave Morris for fixing the show notes.

Thanks Dave

Looking forward to the next episodes in this series.

If you really want to fly, you can turn the pandas series to numpy arrays first. For you example, it got twice as 2x faster than regular `np.select`.

Example:
```
cond_list = [df['Score'].values >= 9,
((df['Score'].values >= 8) & (df['Score'].values < 9)),
((df['Score'].values >= 7) & (df['Score'].values < 8)),
((df['Score'].values >= 6) & (df['Score'].values < 7)),
((df['Score'].values >= 5) & (df['Score'].values < 6)),
((df['Score'].values >= 4) & (df['Score'].values < 5))]

%timeit np.select(cond_list, choice_list, default='Require Activation')
23.5 µs ± 1.74 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
```

Thanks for another great show. I look forward to your next one.

As to your use of `pd.apply` in lieu of `np.select`, here's my 2 cents:

Apply is more readable in most cases, but select is more performant. When performance matters, or when the dataset is very large, you might want to use `np.select`. For instance, when using `np.select` on your example here, the output was 10x faster on my PC.

```
%timeit df.apply(Scorelevel, axis=1)

448 µs ± 2.88 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)
```

```
%timeit np.select(cond_list, choice_list, default='Require Activation')

55.6 µs ± 440 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
```

In many cases, the readability can trump the need for speed, but just wanted to give a counter-point.

What if an updated app isn't compatible with current nextcloud version ?

I'm just commenting to say that this manifesto and subsequent show makes an excellent point. The free software community as it stands has good and as discussed well guarded principles with no compromise. While this is admirable it is also what is killing the movement.

Like language all movements must eventually morph or evolve over time or they die off, it is completely acceptable to maintain a core set of tenets of course, but having a figurehead who uses the internet in bizarre and arcane ways makes free software like more a paranoid nest of conspiracy theorists than it does to make technological progress by freeing the user from the constraints of mega corporations.

Free software is inevitably political but the mocking and jeering of people who still use proprietary software scared off companies and created the open source movement, which if anything made it easier for mega corporations to profit off of the collectivised free labour of programmers who cared enough to donate their time.

To me the free software stalwarts were the progenitors of their own worst enemy, which is open source. They allowed it to happen themselves and fostered the likes of Google and Facebook. The FSF concentrates too much on acting like a single-state communist party with it's attention focused on creating a cult of personality around Stallman.

I agree the roots of the movement today should reflect more social needs, creating software for the good of the people even if that makes software socialist.

It is great to hear about the podcasts you follow. I recognize many of them as shows I used to follow, though frankly since I retired I have been putting my energy into other matters. I'm turning 70 in a few months and have other priorities now.

Well now I have to do a reply episode on my favourite infosec podcasts...

Glad to hear it, clacke. I look forward to your shows.

There has been a lot of bubbling out there in the free software world since a decade or more and it's recently coming to the surface. I have two more of these readings coming out as soon as I have put together the background material.

Sneak peek:
- https://techautonomy.org/ (2020)
- https://opensourcedesign.net/manifesto/ (2014)

How I listen to the Twit network podcasts. Many MP3 players and podcast apps on your phone have us sleep timer.
Getting a easy chair, lean it all way back. Cover up nice and cozy. Turn your volume down just until just before you can not understand what they're talking about. Set the sleep timer for about 12 minutes. My podcasting app will turn the volume down even more the last 30 seconds so it's not an abrupt shut off. Now you're ready for the best nap you've had in a long time. My MP3 player is an old moto E3.

The Urandom Podcast, spawning HPR episodes and shameless promotion simultaneously since 2021. Seriously though, great job. I have a MUCH better understanding of DNS66 after listening to this. Good job.

I always thought that artificial intelligence is misleading. Artificial programming would better describe what's going on.

My great thanks to Clacke for posting this. I think this manifesto is a great contribution to the discussion of free software. If free software is not respecting of people, what good is it?

Good to know this worked for you as well. I think original youtube post was meant for backup of a ton of games. In most cases, this will not be needed because the games don't take much room anyways.

What threw me for a loop was that there is a sdcard - vfat that goes into the front. Then there is a usbstick that goes into the back.

Other than that worked as described.

Thanks for this. I knew there were people in FOSS who felt the way I do, but this is the first I am hearing about a public declaration.

I have been a a GNU/Linux user for around 2.5 year now and I have been a fan of RMS for much of that time. I have heard about people thinking Stallman is kind of weird, but chalked it up to differences in political opinion, or his refusal to meet people where they are. This is my first time hearing about some of his gross opinions.
As a leader in the free software movement, he should NOT be turning people away with these opinions. To be perfectly clear, I stand with the survivors of sexual assault, and I stand with anyone who has put their trust in the supervision of an adult who would betray that trust for sexual gratification.
The GNU/Linux community is a better place when we treat each other respectfully and with compassion. We don't need any one person in our community as much as we need the community itself.

Very Clever
https://xkcd.com/1356/

Nobody is saying Stallman can't say having "consensual" sex with a 12 year old doesn't harm the kid. But nobody who isn't actually brain damaged should defend it nor is anybody actually forced to associate with him because of "free speech". It doesn't violate any free speech value to say you can believe whatever despicable things you want, you can advocate for any despicable thing you want, but nobody else is obligated to support you or be allied with you. It's not cancel culture. It's being responsible for the ignorance he spews culture.

As for how the FSF is damaged for it, look at how many organizations have pulled their support. Nobody is bigger than an organization unless the organization allows itself to be subsumed to a cult of personality. It rarely works out well. Part of the reason that the FSF is useless is because they have allowed themselves to be so beholden to a useless repugnant toad like Stallman who pushes a majority of people away. If you want an idea to grow, it helps not to be led by somebody who intentionally spews reprehensible nonsense that pushes everybody else away. Stallman is a toxic excuse for a human being. You want Floss to have a chance to grow? Don't let it be led by a guy who intentionally says things that are considered morally repugnant by the majority of the public.

Few of us are so synomymous with the organisation we work for that any controversial remarks we make in public are likely to do lasting damage to the reputation of said organisation - especially if we were to subsequently resign and remain silent afterwards. That is not the case with RMS with regards to the FSF. He will forever be associated with the free software movement and, by implication, the FSF.

On that basis engineering his resignation on the strength of his comments on social and political issues did nothing to protect the reputation of the free software movement. All it achieved was to salve the consciences of the other FSF board members. How damaged was the free software movement anyway?

Most people outside the FLOSS world have never heard of RMS so his sometimes distasteful, but sometimes thought-provoking views would have no bearing on their decisions to adopt open source software.

People in the FLOSS world know RMS for his eccentricities, along with his visionary genius. I suspect that while many publicly feign shock at his outbursts, for most it is just "RMS being RMS" followed by an attempt to get any images conjured up by some of his ideas out of their heads.

If the FSF fundamentally stands for anything it is freedom, so to sideline somebody for exercising their right to personal opinions and free speech seems a bit incongruous. Given that getting rid of RMS was never going to distance the FSF from him, they would have been better to have taken the view - even in the form of public statements if necessary - that other FSF board members abhor some of his views on non-technical matters but totally support his right to hold and express those views. In these days of "cancel culture" when people are dismissed from jobs or prevented from speaking in public for fear of what they might say it would have been a refreshing change to see an organisation defending the right to free speech instead of just taking the path of least resistance.