Episode: 4672
Title: Hey Mum, I'm on Spotify ! 
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4672/hpr4672.mp3
Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:16:31 (official HPR transcript)

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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4672, for 2026-06-30
Today's show is entitled, "Hey Mum, I'm on Spotify ! "
The host is Ken Fallon and the duration is 00:37:29
The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
The summary is "Ken gives a presenatation about HPR at The Technical Dutch Open Source Event (T-DOSE) "
Okay, finally. Hi, my mom. I'm on Spotify. So, my name is Ken Fallon. We'll skip all over that if you're interested. I went to a bar in Den Bosch. That's why I'm here.
So, let's see. So, today what I want to talk to you about is a project that I've been working on since a while. Last more or less 20 years or so. It's the Hacker Public Radio podcast. And the name is Terrible. It was more Terrible. It was today with a techie and the abbreviation of that was not so cool.
So, we changed the name. I'm going to talk to you about the podcast, about the subscription. But to be honest, I'm not here to get you to subscribe to the show. I'm here to get you to submit to the show. And in order for you to feel comfortable with that, I want to explain a little bit about our core values of the project. So, that's that.
So, Hacker Public Radio, if you've never heard of us, is our prime directive is sharing knowledge. It's an English language podcast and we release shows every weekday, Monday through Friday.
And, of course, the people who submit shows are random people on the internet. We have no restriction on how long the show can be.
And we have no restriction on what you talk about. So long as it's of interest to hackers.
We don't vet. We don't moderate. We don't censor. We expect you to do that for us.
And all our shows are released under a Creative Commons CC by SA license. More about that later. More about everything later, actually.
So, to give you an idea of what the topics are, these are from the tags. So, you tag your episodes.
You can QR code that. As you go through, you'll be brought to the main web page. So, that gives you an idea.
Mostly, it's who of you have been hacking on something or working on something. And then you come up to the living room and you go,
Oh, my God. I've got this thing. And I've been working on it for ages. And you won't believe what just happened.
And everybody in the house is going, That's nice, Dad. So, that's what HBR is for.
It's like you record your episode and you don't put it up there. And sometimes it's as simple as one that I have on my list to do is I was going...
This thing wouldn't charge. USB, right? And I tried different cables. I tried everything. And I was going to replace the USB slot.
And then I twigged that if you put the needle in, you could take out all the fluff. That's a HBR episode.
Just to give you an idea. That can be an HBR episode.
Additionally, an HBR episode can be more involved. So, you want to take a topic and you want to go full Monty on the topic.
So, interviews. That's what we do. We do a lot of those because we do the hallway tracks at conferences.
So, while I might be here, somebody in the U.S. might be going to Linux Vets Northwest or wherever in the States.
They'll have a booth there. They'll do interviews. And we try to promote other projects.
So, if you've got a new version of Debian, for example, and you want to tell us all new features that are in Debian and why people should upgrade,
then you should come on and do an interview with us.
We do the Community News Show. I'll talk to you a little bit about that.
We obviously do a lot about privacy and security because we've got the word hacker in our name.
The New Year Show. I'll talk to you a little bit about that.
And then LibreOffice. So, sometimes people take a topic and go to town.
So, this is one here done by Dave. And he takes the topic of SED and produces a series of shows.
First, do an introduction. Then goes through everything you possibly want to know about SED.
In the LibreOffice episode, a hookah went and opened up every LibreOffice application,
went to every single menu, and discussed and described everything and documented as he went.
But, brilliant, I still use that. So, that gives you an idea of the sort of stuff that we have going on.
So, what are my favourite shows? All of them.
What shows have had a personal impact on me?
These few I cherry picked. There's probably more, but...
Old Soldiers. So, HPR's been around for a while.
And there's such a thing as pod fading.
So, after about four or five years, the show started to wilt away a little bit.
So, Old Soldiers was the show that inspired me to get involved in the project.
The Internet is for Porn was, back in the day, episode 69, group of young lads doing podcasts.
You can imagine what that show was about.
This show, though, was a response to that.
And yet, the other side of the story.
And that's where we get the response episodes from.
So, you hear something on there that you don't like, you can do a response episode.
And shows that have a lot of response episodes, you can expect, if your stuff is not up to scratch,
you will get a response episode or two, describing what's going on.
Another one, then, was the start of our mental health series.
That had a...
That had a fairly...
Yeah.
Sorry, I get a little bit emotional about that one.
You know, you're listening to your podcast, and all of a sudden, somebody has a drawing of the unit they were in.
Okay, moving on.
Next, we had soldering.
So, I learned to solder on the HPR, and somebody said to me,
but how can you learn to solder on a podcast?
And I go, well, blind people solder.
Blind people have amateur radio...
They pass the amateur radio exams, so why can you not do it via a podcast?
Then we have wild water swimming in France.
So, this one, somebody put on a beanie, strapped an MP3 player to it, and went for a swim in France.
Now, I was thinking, okay, is this of interest to hackers?
Apparently, it was.
Then, introduction to Git using Post-it notes.
If you struggle with Git, listen to that episode.
And then, my home phone setup.
We have this thing on HPR where, for some reason, people think I don't like audio.
I love good audio.
I love good audio.
But good audio doesn't necessarily love me.
So, we have this show...
We have this meme, which is, any audio is better than no audio.
Yeah?
More about that later.
And this one was the same person who put in episode 961, and she had just hacked some old Cisco phones, and the quality is brutal, but the enthusiasm in it is awesome.
And then, of course, two of our hosts got married and recorded that as a HPR episode.
So, there you go.
Excellent.
Here's some of the stats.
We've been going for 20 years, 21 years this year.
We'll be hitting our 5,000th episode this year.
If you look at our site, we were renamed from Today with the Techie after 300 episodes.
So, whatever number you see there, plus 300 is our thingy.
Subscribers and uniquely downloads are important to people who care about that.
I'm not one of those people.
What is important to me is the 435 people who have contributed to the show.
And I hope that number goes up as a result of this presentation.
So, we're at the long tail.
So, we have, you would imagine that when you release a show, that the majority of the downloads are for the ones that are actually in your feed.
But as it turns out, 50% of our downloads are for older shows.
Why is that?
I don't know.
One of the questions I get asked is, okay, how long is the longest show?
How short is the shortest show?
16 seconds has been the shortest show.
And the 7 hour 29 minutes one has been our 3000th episode where I basically ran through this book of each of the lines in this book is one episode.
So, I did, I don't know, episode 260, Cups, hosted by Klaatu, Klaatu discusses cups printing, and just read that out.
That was seven and a half hours.
If I'm going to do that for episode 5000, it'll even be longer.
We have 3.2, probably more, amount of audio ready.
And the total playtime is three months, eight and a half days.
Now, a lot of people struggle with that as a concept.
So, if you take Star Trek, right, and you take all the original series, Next Generation, Voyager, blah, blah, blah, all the animated series, everything, all the movies, that's the Star Trek.
If you chuck on top of that all the Marvel, everything they've done, on top of that Star Wars, everything they've done, then you come up to more or less half of what is available on HPR, yeah.
All right, for old school people, do you know what a CD is?
If you took a stack of CDs and burnt audio CDs, it'd be up to this.
It'd be just over my head.
Or, if you had a cassette tape, and you put it end-to-end, it would get as far as London from here, or Hanover, or Paris.
So, we have a lot of content on there.
And who would be listening to that content, you might ask?
Well, say you're a bit of a hacker, and you happen to drive a truck, on a long-haul truck, for example, or you're a train driver somewhere.
That's the sort of people who subscribe to our shows.
We're on all these platforms.
I wonder why.
If you were starting off a platform, and you wanted to go to your investors and say,
gosh, we have a lot of content, look at the amount of hours of podcasts that we have freely available.
And, of course, they're entitled to do that, because we release under Creative Commons, CCYSA, license.
So, they're allowed to take it.
So, we're basically everywhere.
We, on the other hand, come from the RSS feeds.
And we have everything is available to you, except my SSH keys, obviously.
So, the second and the third one is a two-week audio feed.
So, there's only 10 shows in that.
And every day, you get a new one, and you can press download.
Back in the day, podcatchers were not so sophisticated.
If you put in a feed, they immediately downloaded everything.
And 64 gigs on a data connection would be a bad day if you had to pay by the gig.
So, be careful when you're downloading that.
There are better ways on the website of how to use R-Sync and W-GET to get all the audios.
If that's too much for you, and I can understand it is, right, because that's a lot of shows.
We do 12 shows a year, so once a month.
We do the host, janitors.
We describe the shows that have been on in the last month.
Positive feedback, and we read out the comments and stuff that people have had about that show.
So, you can decide then, well, that's interesting, or that's not interesting.
Delete it or not.
Download it or not.
It's entirely up to you.
And then we have this thing called the future feed.
So, we don't listen to the shows that we...
If you send in a show, I'm not going to listen to it.
It's just going to be posted.
Two reasons for that.
One is, the original reason was, we're all hackers.
Why should I determine what you're going to say is correct or not for HPR?
Yeah?
That's up to the community to decide.
However, we, after COVID, and after they started shutting down,
they're putting more...
Now that those restrictions have gone again, we haven't had as much problems.
But there was a while there when there was restrictions on freedom of speech,
and we were determined to be a freedom of speech platform.
So, we had a little bit of an issue with that.
So, I'll discuss more about that later.
So, we can check our future feed.
You want to be careful with that, though, because sometimes we will...
If the audio is bad or whatever, we just recently had one episode, the first episode ever,
where I had to reject it on the grounds that it was poor audio.
And the guy was recording on his phone.
He thought he was recording on his headset, but was recording on his phone.
So, it was fine for any time that he had the phone on the desk.
But when he put it in his pocket to move to other places, you couldn't hear it.
So, we fixed that, thanks to the future feed, and we didn't have to go back.
But anybody listening to that show got the old one because it doesn't automatically update.
And we have a comment comes out on every feed,
and we have our SQL database, which you can download,
is also updated on every change,
and our statistics are updated every 15 minutes.
So, we're moving on to how to post a show.
We try to lower the barrier.
If you are posting a show and you come across something that makes it too difficult,
then we will try and eliminate their burden.
So, you basically record a show, you pick a time that you want it,
you fill in the notes, that's it, we do the rest.
Couldn't be easier.
So, we like Flack.
Flack is best, but we accept the rest.
And boy, have we seen some weird audio coming in.
And also, we're taking stuff from random people on the internet.
So, we do go to extreme measures to make sure that what you're sending in is audio
and not something else.
So, Flack is best, but we accept the rest.
Any audio is better than no audio.
Procrastination, my friends, is the enemy.
Wherever you see it, you shall whatever, yeah?
And I'm as guilty as anybody else.
Do not forget to introduce yourself on the show.
And I want you to listen to podcasts, even from professionals,
where they do not introduce themselves on their show.
You must introduce yourself, especially on Hacker Public Radio,
because of the random jumping.
It's quite possible, even though you may have done 200 episodes,
it's quite possible somebody's just randomly jumping around the place
and has no clue who you are.
So, introduce yourself.
Avoid bedding and background music.
We mix down to mono, no need to add metadata, we do all that.
That's where everything that you put in the forum,
we automatically take care of that,
and we put the themes and everything in ourselves.
The background music is because quite a lot of people listen with one ear.
So, their supervisor is over there,
and their podcast, they have one earbud in.
So, moving on.
Stuff you need to know.
You will no longer be able to edit our Wikipedia page,
which it appears, and then it disappears.
Apparently, we're not novel enough.
That's fine.
We don't syndicate shows for other places,
and the reason for that is we have a sister site called...
Well, we don't syndicate shows,
so if you're doing a show, it has to be for HPR first,
and then you can release it anywhere else.
That's absolutely fine.
Creative Commons, we'll talk about that later.
You have permission to redistribute everything.
And that means we don't take copyrighted stuff at all.
Not even fair use, nothing like that,
because what's fair use in America,
that doesn't apply outside of America.
Yeah, so your show is not going to be monitored.
We moderated you.
It will be flagged as explicit.
You decide when it's scheduled.
With a lot of...
When we started, stuff went onto an FTP server,
and then it was posted randomly by date,
or posted randomly by alphabetical order.
I have no idea, but now we got a lot of...
It was difficult to come up with a mechanism,
but we've come up with a good mechanism now.
And your audio must be ready.
The only exception we make to that,
and you still need permission from the mail list,
is if you're doing an interview or something similar,
where there's some sort of action,
or the EU are putting a law out,
and you want to get a show rushed out,
then you're allowed to request a show,
and we more than likely grant that.
If you're doing a series, we ask for two weeks in between,
so that it doesn't get a bit boring.
We're not going to move out shows,
so you can't just go,
oh, I talked to Bob, and I'll swap the show.
No, we don't do that.
Your email's going to be public.
All the email you use.
Talk to us about that.
We can put aliases up if you don't want your real email address.
We do log your IP address until your show is posted.
After that, we delete it.
We use ETF8, and we do accessibility.
We'll talk to you more about that later.
So this is what you see when you go to the website.
You pick a boring date.
I want to post a show.
If you're a new host,
the first one you do is on the 17th,
because that's the first available slot.
If you were doing an interview or something time critical,
you'd pick that date.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
Now the show is filling up,
so what I'd probably do is I'd put it down here
to leave slots,
because say we've had this presentation here,
and a lot of you guys are really anxious to post a show,
so why would the regular hosts be taking up slots
when you guys want to put them in?
So that's what we do there.
We also have the concept of a reserve queue,
or a reserve pool.
So if it happens that next week there's still one free slot,
we'll take a show out of the reserve pool
and pop it in there.
That's from hosts who really don't care,
or your topic, it's not that important.
Say that mobile phone one,
that would be an ideal one for putting into that queue.
So you'll get this thing when you press the button.
Type in your email address.
We'll tell you that we've sent you an email.
You'll get the email.
You'll click on the link,
and the link will bring you to this form.
Now don't panic.
Don't panic.
It's easy peasy.
There are two sides.
Your email.
The email's already populated.
You just put in your handle,
whatever that's going to be,
and you select your default license,
and then you press next.
Then you tell us about your show.
You put in a title, obviously.
So for this one,
it's going to be Hi, Mom.
I'm on Spotify.
And the description's going to be,
Ken gives a presentation about HPR
at the T-DOS conference.
Yeah.
And we use this on social media
and all over the show.
We also use it on the text-to-speech introduction
that we give at the beginning of the show.
And we do that so that if you're listening to,
you might not have access to a display
or you're visually impaired or whatever.
As you play the show,
we will tell you what the show's about.
So you can go,
oh, the show's from Ken.
Delete.
This show is one of Dave's,
and it's going to involve screenshots and stuff
or bash scripts,
and I want to work on it later.
So you might save it and skip it.
So that's why we do the intro.
You need to tell us if it's explicit
if you use the F word and stuff.
And mark it as explicit.
Our license, we'll talk about that later.
Show notes, pop in stuff.
It's your regular old stuff.
Try not to use styling
because we'll remove all that anyway.
And then your upload method,
you just press browse
and you select a file.
What we do is you can also upload
a subtitle file if you wish.
And once you've done that,
you get this message.
And we tell you it's only going to be allocated
once everything's hunky-dory.
But this is what you'll see on the calendar page.
So first of all,
it's locked when you click
and the email is sent out to you.
When you click on the email,
it'll change to email clicked.
Then it'll go to show submitted.
And at that point,
we will do the transcoding of the show.
So we'll take the audio.
We use Whisperer
and we convert it into SRT file.
Now, if you want,
you can run the exact same command
on your show before you upload it.
You can go in and change your name
from Ken Falloon to Ken Fallon.
And then you can make any other corrections
that you see fit.
A lot of our accessibility guys say,
it's fine.
We get the idea.
You don't need to worry about it.
If we talk about hacker,
public radio or whatever,
they know,
they're smart enough to know what's going on.
So it's usually fine.
And then the last one here
is distributing media
to the community content delivery network.
And once it's distributed,
then we will just flag it as a normal show
and it'll go into the future feed.
And it'll be on Spotify and Antenapod
and all the rest of the places
that you'll get your media
on the day it's released.
So immediately it'll be in the future feed,
but on the day it's released,
it'll come in there.
Okay, so that was a little bit about subscribing.
This is a bit about the HPR project itself.
So we call ourselves the janitors.
So hence the broom and stuff.
So who remembers phone free...
Who remembers paying for telephone calls?
Right.
Okay.
Who remembers doing reverse charge phone calls
where you would...
If you were calling from the train station,
you would say,
hey, dad, Thomas is here.
I don't know any Thomas.
And then he'd come and collect you
at the train station.
So, yeah, back in the day,
phone calls were expensive, right?
International phone calls
were even more expensive.
So this whole concept of freaking
where people would use the telephone networks.
So companies would have their London office
joined to the New York office
and in London you could dial a bridge
and then use some codes
and you get to New York
and then use more codes and you get out.
Well, these were kind of...
The security in these were very loose.
And then free...
Radio Freakers...
Freakers was a whole thing
of hackers who used to do that.
So they started this radio show
called Radio Freak America.
And it's radio
because what they used to do then
was join these bridges,
record them in MP3,
which had just been hacked at the time,
and then put them on FTP server.
So it's prior to podcasting.
So that ran up until 2004
and then the very last episode
they said that they wanted
to record this hacker public radio.
And the name comes from...
If you know, like the BBC or the NOS,
in America, it's the NPR,
National Public Radio.
It's the...
So they wanted to do the same thing for hackers.
And Radio Freak America
is from Radio Free America,
the Christian spread democracy,
American way.
Radio...
That was on short left.
It's shut down now.
So...
At the time,
that project,
Binary Revolution,
the revolution will be digitised,
started during that,
inspired by Radio Freak America.
A lot of other shows
were inspired by Radio Freak America.
And they ran until 2007.
In the meantime,
Infoenomicon were really getting
into the whole concept of podcasting.
It was becoming a thing.
People had...
Were able to download MP3 files
onto their music players
and play them,
and it was awesome.
So today,
they...
They wanted...
They had a schedule
where people who were doing
other podcasts
could do stuff
that wasn't part of their podcast
on a general hacking podcast.
And that was today with Techie.
And that ran until 2007,
and then BINREV stopped
and they joined forces
and became Hacker Public Radio.
So is the story,
as I tell it anyway.
So everything was proprietary software
and we had plug-ins
and we had BSD,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
And slowly but surely,
we got burned so often.
So we came to free software
not because of freedom,
but because of the pain in the ass
it is when your Commons feed
gets completely overrun with spam.
You fix it,
and the following morning
it's completely overrun with spam
and you're blocked on Google again.
So all our code is published
in our GitG repository.
All the feeds are available.
And these are our priorities.
Flow is coming in.
Keep them coming in and going out.
If there's an accessibility issue,
we fix that
above anything else that we do.
Just...
I think it's important
to add that in black and white.
About the Creative Commons license,
people familiar with it,
presumably people are...
So this is a public domain,
BSD, GPL,
and then other licenses.
Very, very broadly.
Now, about the community itself.
So we are a welcome community
that offers positive feedback
and encourages respectful debate.
We trust you
not to do anything
that will harm HPR.
And in all those shows
that you've seen,
5,000 shows,
we've had a handful of incidents
where we've had to take action.
And most of them...
Half an hour?
Okay.
So most of them have been
debates.
You know, it's...
That music is a public domain.
Yeah, the music is,
but the performance
of the music isn't.
So therefore,
we can't do it.
Okay, well,
I disagree with you.
Okay, let's go to the mailing list.
And then we discuss
on the mailing list.
So swearing is allowed,
but general rule of thumb
is granny's listening.
And don't be belligerent.
So we use the idea
of a parental advisor.
You can say whatever you want
in your show,
but on the cover,
if you have, like,
fuck Google,
we're going to edit that
on the metadata,
but you're happy to say that
in your show itself.
We don't tolerate harassment,
trolling, et cetera,
particularly trolls.
We had one issue
with harassment reported
on our IRC channel,
which is odd
because I was on the IRC channel.
Contacted the guy
who reported,
wouldn't discuss it with me,
thought we as admin
should be aware of that.
Turns out,
though, somebody was running
a separate HPR IRC server
somewhere that we had
nothing to do with.
So if you find anything
on our thing offensive,
contact us
if you feel
that we're not doing it,
we have a separate team
called the auditors
who you can contact,
or you can contact
any of the other podcasters
here and have them contact us.
So mailing list
decides our policies.
That is, of course,
with the exception
of site security,
who is done by Josh
from anonymoushost.com,
great guy.
And then we have the janitors
who are responsible
for the day-to-day operation
of HPR.
They implement
the decisions made
by the mailing list.
So that means
that I have no say
over,
when I'm in contact
with you,
I have no say.
All I do is implement
the policies and procedures.
If I disagree
with what you're doing,
I can have you
or me
go to the mailing list
and then we can start
a discussion about it.
And if the mailing list
decides that I'm wrong,
then I'm wrong.
So we continue on.
And just to make sure
I do do that,
we have this team
called the auditors
who keep an eye
on that,
the communication.
Sometimes the communication,
we always leave it up
to the host to go,
there was a show recently
about somebody
sent in a religious sermon.
Now that can be
very sensitive
and I really appreciate
the way our community
handle that
because we have preachers
who are on our show
and we have people
who talk about
how they use FFmpeg
to record the church service.
On the other hand,
we have other people
who have had not such
a pleasant experience
with religious organizations.
So in order to be able
to, I was very impressed
at how the community
was able to balance that
and come up with
a agreement
without ruffling
people's toes.
The kill switch.
Yes, if there's not
enough shows,
we're going to stop
the project.
It's as simple as that.
If you like the idea
of a free open web
podcasting platform
that you can share
your ideas and hacking,
then great,
record a show.
But if you don't,
then we're going
to shut it down.
We're going to
post all the shows
that we have
and we're going
to close it down
with a party
to say thank you
very much,
goodbye,
and thanks for the fish.
That's our janitor's
covenant is
we will continue
to post the shows
until there are
no more shows.
How we can help out?
First thing, obviously,
is submission to a show.
You might have noticed
that was the theme
of this presentation.
You can comment
on a show.
That's a great thing.
There's nothing better
than getting a positive
feedback on the show,
particularly even an old one.
Commons are the currency
by which we pay our hosts.
You can spread the word
if you come up
with a topic
that you was interested
or that said series
and you can pass it on
to somebody else
and all other
various different things.
I'll just quickly
in time moves.
We have this.
Josh used to host
all our media
but it turned out
to be quite a lot
so then we moved it
to the Internet Archive
which we can do
because it's creative
commons content
and they hosted it for us
but last year
they had a continuous
denial of service attack
because apparently
people don't like
the fact
that they are
a nice organisation.
So what we're doing now
is we're mirroring
our network
on people's homes
ISP connections
so if you've got
a fibre connection
or a fast broadband
connection
24-7
fixed IP address
and you don't mind
a 4 terabyte server
then we will add
a node there.
We're building
a Docker image
so that you don't have to.
The only thing
it'll serve
is our episodes
and anybody else
that tries
anything else
that tries to access it
will go into
fail to ban.
So this is our
developer information
which you might find
a bit odd.
HPR is dedicated
to sharing knowledge
and we try to make
everything so that
it'll be servable
locally
so somebody will dust off
a hard disk
after the apocalypse
and we'll find
the HPR site
and everything
that they need
should be on that hard disk.
We'll keep the flow
going and accessibility
we spoke about that.
Now sometimes
as a developer
we can do stuff
real quick
so I say to you
how difficult
would it be
to take
Mastodon comments
for example
and add them
to the comments
of an episode.
Technically
not that hard.
Problem arises
when you discuss
it with people
because some of the
is that content
Creative Commons
then?
Have they given
the permission
for me to store
that forever
and another day?
how do we get
around those
non-technical issues?
So those are the
if that's of interest
to you
then I definitely
want to talk to you
because you're thinking
like a janitor.
Everything is open.
We don't track
if it interferes
with our prime directive.
We try to use
redundancy
where we can.
Data is available
by default
so do not bother
scraping the website.
Talk to us.
You can take it.
Yes, you can use it
for AI.
All our content
is Creative Commons.
You can build
a large language model.
We'd be more than happy
to help you with that
so long as of course
it's ethical
and you release
your results
as CC by SA as well.
Hosting platforms
will change over time.
We will change over time.
Initiatification
has hit us too often
so we need to be
very careful.
We use conservative
choices.
So Debian
it's been around
for ages
it's going to be
around for ages
nice and stable
and we make sure
it's patched.
If we support
the hacker culture
down the years
we have been contacted
about security breaches
and we have given credit
we've fixed it
and given credit
where credit is due.
We're fault tolerant
because we've got RSS
so we have like
one transaction a day
let's face it
and even that
is only five days
of the week.
we're on different
providers
we have GitT
our database
everything is
on the
is downloadable
you're allowed to
without commitment
post patches
or comments
or fixes
or whatever
if you're coming in
with a new idea
for changes
then we want you
to stick around
for at least two years
because
when you leave
or whatever
I don't want to be left
I will have to learn
the technology
that you have just
left me with
so that was it.
This is the last slide
if you're not able
to get to the website
and you go to the
cyber site
Hobby Public Radio
can you get in touch
with me
and I will contact
their IT department
to explain
what Hacker Public Radio
is
and that maybe
they will want
to update
their filters
that if
a hacker
can be
so public
as to be
defeated
by one word
then you have
a serious problem
on your site
and that's it
for my presentation
anyone got any questions?
Thank you
Does anyone have a question?
Yes
I will bring the microphone
if I got it right
it's more than
20 years on the go
so that's a long journey
has community
or people
considered
into translating
to other languages
so that other countries
could also get access
to the same kind
of content?
It's all
it's all available
there
transcripts
for every show
is available
so you can
feel free to do that
if you want
to take
like
Hacker Public Radio
and turn it
into a Dutch thing
our code's available
we are
more than happy
to assist you
with that
we've had
some shows
in different languages
just to
to be
to give an example
of what another show
might be
but
it's an English
language podcast
so
yeah
in your slides
you give numbers
with TA
after it
is that terabytes
or
yeah terabytes
okay
yeah so like
about four or five
terabytes
well
the audio itself
is that
and then
then we have
like PDFs
with this
it's got
what Dave's show
we've got a PDF
associated with
that our people
put in scripts
and what we do
is we keep
the
we try and keep
the source audio
so if you've sent
in a FLAC file
we keep that
what we do
with audio
is kind of
interesting
because
it can
come in
as anything
so if we get
a FLAC file
we convert
well if we get
any file
we convert it
to FLAC
actually we convert
it to PCM
there's a FLAC
no
it doesn't much
matter
we
and we drop
everything
and then
re-encode it
unless of course
you have
a requirement
that you do
want to do
by oral audio
or something special
like that
I'll make
I'll make
everything manually
then and post it
but that's
more an exception
mostly
our stuff
is
somebody's talking
so
yeah
any other question
I do have a question
you mentioned
that you also
develop some
software yourself
what kind
of software
should we
think of
so we
have a
templating
engine
that's written
in Perl
that takes
the database
and creates
the website
so the website
static
we have
the PHP
stuff
that's on
the website
itself
we have
a cool
tool
that
you give
it the
metadata
and it'll
update
the WAV files
the MP3
the AUG
all that
sort of
stuff
so we're
kind of
audio
audio
buffs
yes
thank you
no other
questions
anymore
then I'll
like to thank you
no problem
thank you
I'm sorry
for the delay
earlier
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
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