I have many things in my work backpack, to include a Raspberry Pico,\nmultiple USB drives, USB cables, two laptops, my glasses and a\nsunglasses case attached to the outside.
\nIt is a 5.11 RUSH MOAB 10 Sling Pack 18L, not because I want to be\n\"tacticool\" but because I like their products, and that they support\nveterans like myself.
\n',408,23,0,'CC-BY-SA','backpack contents, toolkit',0,0,1), (3897,'2023-07-11','HPR AudioBook Club 22 - Murder at Avedon Hill',6119,'In this episode the HPR Audiobook Club discusses the audiobook Murder at Avedon Hill by P.G. Holyfie','Right now we are working through a backlog of older episodes that\nhave already been recorded. Once that ends we fully anticipate recording\nnew episodes with listener participation.
\nThank you very much for listening to this episode of the HPR\nAudioBookClub. We had a great time recording this show, and we hope you\nenjoyed it as well. We also hope you\'ll consider joining us next time we\nrecord a new episode. Please leave a few words in the episode\'s comment\nsection.
\nAs always; remember to visit the HPR contribution page HPR could\nreally use your help right now.
\nSincerely, The HPR Audiobook Club
\nP.S. Some people really like finding mistakes. For their enjoyment,\nwe always include a few.
\nThis episode was processed using
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\nNext we use the \"Compressor\" effect with the following settings:
\nThreshold: -30db\n\nNoise Floor: -50db\n\nRatio: 3:1\n\nAttack Time: 0.2sec\n\nDecay Time: 1.0 sec`\"Make-up Gain for 0db after compressing\" and \"compress based on\npeaks\" were both left un-checked.
\nAfter compressing the audio we cut any pre-show and post-show chatter\nfrom the file and save them in a separate file for possible use as\nouttakes after the closing music.
\nWe adjust the Gain so that the VU meter in Audacity hovers around\n-12db while people are speaking, and we try to keep the peaks under\n-6db, and we adjust the Gain on each of the new tracks so that all\nvolumes are similar, and more importantly comfortable. Once this is done\nwe can \"Mix and Render\" all of our tracks into a single track for export\nto the .FLAC file which is uploaded to the HPR server.
\nAt this point we listen back to the whole file and we work on the\nshownotes. This is when we can cut out anything that needs to be cut,\nand we can also make sure that we put any links in the shownotes that\nwere talked about during the recording of the show. We finish the\nshownotes before exporting the .aup file to .FLAC so that we can paste a\ncopy of the shownotes into the audio file\'s metadata.
\nAt this point we add new, empty audio tracks into which we paste the\nintro, outro and possibly outtakes, and we rename each track\naccordingly.
\nRemember to save often when using Audacity. We like to save after\neach of these steps. Audacity has a reputation for being \"crashy\" but if\nyou remember save after every major transform, you will wonder how it\never got that reputation.
\n',157,53,1,'CC-BY-SA','Audiobook club, audiobook, fantasy, fiction',0,0,1), (3899,'2023-07-13','Repair corrupt video files for free with untruc',320,'This is how I fixed corrupt video files from my dash cam after an accident','My original blog post on this topic:
Make your donations to:
\nhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/anthwlock
\nhttps://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/untrunc.php
Chat Secure secure XMPP,\nThink of the children!!!
Technology on Barsoom
Deus Ex Machina much???
Names in fantasy books
See\nYou At The Morgue by Lawrence Blochman
\nRight now we are working through a backlog of older episode that have\nalready been recorded. Once that ends we fully anticipate recording new\nepisodes with listener participation.
\nThank you very much for listening to this episode of the HPR\nAudioBookClub. We had a great time recording this show, and we hope you\nenjoyed it as well. We also hope you\'ll consider joining us next time we\nrecord a new episode. Please leave a few words in the episode\'s comment\nsection.
\nAs always; remember to visit the HPR contribution page HPR could\nreally use your help right now.
\nSincerely, The HPR Audiobook Club
\nP.S. Some people really like finding mistakes. For their enjoyment,\nwe always include a few.
\nThis episode was processed using
We use the \"Truncate Silence\" effect with it\'s default settings to\nminimize the silence between people speaking. When used with it\'s\ndefault (or at least reasonable) settings, Truncate Silence is extremely\neffective and satisfying. It makes everyone sound smarter, it makes the\nfile shorter without destroying actual content, and it makes a\nconversations sound as easy and fluid during playback as it was while it\nwas recorded. It can be even more effective if you can train yourself to\nremain silent instead of saying \"uuuuummmm.\" Just remember to ONLY pass\nthe file through Truncate Silence ONCE. If you pass it through a second\ntime, or if you set it too aggressively your audio may sound sped up and\nchoppy.
\nNext we use the \"Compressor\" effect with the following settings:
\nThreshold: -30db\n\nNoise Floor: -50db\n\nRatio: 3:1\n\nAttack Time: 0.2sec\n\nDecay Time: 1.0 sec\"Make-up Gain for 0db after compressing\" and \"compress based on\npeaks\" were both left un-checked.
\nAfter compressing the audio we cut any pre-show and post-show chatter\nfrom the file and save them in a separate file for possible use as\nouttakes after the closing music.
\nWe adjust the Gain so that the VU meter in Audacity hovers around\n-12db while people are speaking, and we try to keep the peaks under\n-6db, and we adjust the Gain on each of the new tracks so that all\nvolumes are similar, and more importantly comfortable. Once this is done\nwe can \"Mix and Render\" all of our tracks into a single track for export\nto the .FLAC file which is uploaded to the HPR server.
\nAt this point we listen back to the whole file and we work on the\nshownotes. This is when we can cut out anything that needs to be cut,\nand we can also make sure that we put any links in the shownotes that\nwere talked about during the recording of the show. We finish the\nshownotes before exporting the .aup file to .FLAC so that we can paste a\ncopy of the shownotes into the audio file\'s metadata.
\nAt this point we add new, empty audio tracks into which we paste the\nintro, outro and possibly outtakes, and we rename each track\naccordingly.
\nRemember to save often when using Audacity. We like to save after\neach of these steps. Audacity has a reputation for being \"crashy\" but if\nyou remember save after every major transform, you will wonder how it\never got that reputation.
\nChat Secure secure XMPP,\nThink of the children!!!
Technology on Barsoom
Deus Ex Machina much???
Names in fantasy books
See\nYou At The Morgue by Lawrence Blochman
\nRight now we are working through a backlog of older episode that have\nalready been recorded. Once that ends we fully anticipate recording new\nepisodes with listener participation.
\nThank you very much for listening to this episode of the HPR\nAudioBookClub. We had a great time recording this show, and we hope you\nenjoyed it as well. We also hope you\'ll consider joining us next time we\nrecord a new episode. Please leave a few words in the episode\'s comment\nsection.
\nAs always; remember to visit the HPR contribution page HPR could\nreally use your help right now.
\nSincerely, The HPR Audiobook Club
\nP.S. Some people really like finding mistakes. For their enjoyment,\nwe always include a few.
\nThis episode was processed using
We use the \"Truncate Silence\" effect with it\'s default settings to\nminimize the silence between people speaking. When used with it\'s\ndefault (or at least reasonable) settings, Truncate Silence is extremely\neffective and satisfying. It makes everyone sound smarter, it makes the\nfile shorter without destroying actual content, and it makes a\nconversations sound as easy and fluid during playback as it was while it\nwas recorded. It can be even more effective if you can train yourself to\nremain silent instead of saying \"uuuuummmm.\" Just remember to ONLY pass\nthe file through Truncate Silence ONCE. If you pass it through a second\ntime, or if you set it too aggressively your audio may sound sped up and\nchoppy.
\nNext we use the \"Compressor\" effect with the following settings:
\nThreshold: -30db\n\nNoise Floor: -50db\n\nRatio: 3:1\n\nAttack Time: 0.2sec\n\nDecay Time: 1.0 sec\"Make-up Gain for 0db after compressing\" and \"compress based on\npeaks\" were both left un-checked.
\nAfter compressing the audio we cut any pre-show and post-show chatter\nfrom the file and save them in a separate file for possible use as\nouttakes after the closing music.
\nWe adjust the Gain so that the VU meter in Audacity hovers around\n-12db while people are speaking, and we try to keep the peaks under\n-6db, and we adjust the Gain on each of the new tracks so that all\nvolumes are similar, and more importantly comfortable. Once this is done\nwe can \"Mix and Render\" all of our tracks into a single track for export\nto the .FLAC file which is uploaded to the HPR server.
\nAt this point we listen back to the whole file and we work on the\nshownotes. This is when we can cut out anything that needs to be cut,\nand we can also make sure that we put any links in the shownotes that\nwere talked about during the recording of the show. We finish the\nshownotes before exporting the .aup file to .FLAC so that we can paste a\ncopy of the shownotes into the audio file\'s metadata.
\nAt this point we add new, empty audio tracks into which we paste the\nintro, outro and possibly outtakes, and we rename each track\naccordingly.
\nRemember to save often when using Audacity. We like to save after\neach of these steps. Audacity has a reputation for being \"crashy\" but if\nyou remember save after every major transform, you will wonder how it\never got that reputation.
\nI\'ve been meaning to put down my thoughts about SystemD for the HPR\ncommunity for some while, so here goes.
\nI want to say that I am not a SystemD hater. When SystemD was a hot\ntopic of debate, many became irrational over it, but I want to start by\nsaying that I don\'t think it\'s a bad technology. I think it is a rather\ngood technology. I just don\'t want it on my personal computer. So I\nwould like to run things down in this order: what is it (as in, what is\nit really,) what makes it a good technology, why I don\'t want it now\n(but might later,) and a few tips for you if you decide that you don\'t\nwant it currently.
\nSystemD Is not an init system. SystemD includes an init system.\nSystemD Init was faster than SysVInit, but SystemD Init isn\'t the\nfastest init system, and SysVInit now has a parallelization helper, at\nleast on Debian.
\nSo, if SystemD Init is not SystemD, than what is SystemD? To\nunderstand this we must first understand something about Linux. Linux\noperates under a model where there are root processes, and there are\nuser processes. These two kinds of processes are usually called\n\"layers.\" SystemD is actually a third layer, that can be called a system\nlayer. So when SystemD is added to a Linux system, that changes the\nsystem so that there are three layers, a root layer, a user layer, and a\nsystem layer. As such, you now ask SystemD to set how the system runs.\nThis is why SystemD includes things like an init system, because if you\nwant to change what the system is running, you ask SystemD to change it.\nSystemD then messages an appropriate system to implement the change,\nlike messaging its init system to bring up or bring down a system\ndaemon. Once you play out this in your head a bit, you really realize\nthat SystemD acts more like a message passing system in this regard.
\nSo why do I say SystemD is a good technology? Because this can\nstandardize system control. Without SystemD a fleet of computers becomes\nlike individual fingerprints or unique snowflakes. If you manage many\ncomputers, as many professional IT people do, you want them to all run\nthe same, all have the same profiles and general configurations. So if\nyou have a bunch of computers you are running, you can run a lot more if\nthey are all run the same way. If your job requires you to run 10,000\nwebservers, you want them to run identically because it is impossible to\nkeep an understanding of 10,000 unique configurations in a human\nhead.
\nSystemD really shines in its support of virtualization as well. So\nto speak of servers, I used to run an email server for a few friends.\nEach of us had a userid and number as unix users. The mapping of unix\nuserids and postfix userids can get confusing when it gets big. Thanks\nto SystemD\'s virtualization work, you can actually put a service like\nemail into a namespace situation so that it has only the users root and\nthe daemon user id (like \"postfix\"), so SystemD greatly enhances\nsecurity for server installations. This might help explain its\ndominance in linux distributions that have been traditionally\nserver-centric, such as debian and redhat.
\nSo why don\'t I don\'t want it? Well, I\'ve been doing a lot of talking\nabout professional computer work and corporate work environments, but I\nuse a \"Personal Computer\" as a hobby. I\'ve been out-of-industry for\ndecades now. And when I say \"Personal Computer\" I\'m not talking a\nhardware specification, rather I\'m talking about \"This is my personal\ncomputer where I do things my way, as opposed to my work computer where\nI do things my companies way\". Dear listener, please remember that I did\nthe first community show contribution to HPR, and my topic was about\npersonalization. For me, a hobbyist interested in operating system\nexperimentation, I don\'t want a system layer, I want a traditional\nunix-like system that operates on a two-layer model and does things my\nway, nobody else\'s way.
\nSo, what advice can I give to those who don\'t want SystemD now? Well,\nrecently I\'ve left Debian. Debian, you see, supports init system\ndiversity, but as you now know dear listener, that is different than\nbeing without SystemD. You may have heard that SystemD is\nlinux-specific, that is to say that it runs only on linux, not anything\nlike a BSD system or a Windows system. But you may be curious to know\nthat it is also Gnu-libC specific. Which means that the C compiler must\nuse GNU\'s libC standard library. Thus, if you have a system built around\nthe Musl C standard library like Alpine or Void, or a system like\nAndroid that runs on the Bionic C Standard library, you wont have a\nSystemD system. I\'m personally learning Void as its package manager\nsupports both binary and a ports collection much like the BSD\'s. But\nthat is what I\'m doing on my personal computer, I leave you in the\nfreedom to do things your way on your personal computer!
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