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Episode: 4261
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Title: HPR4261: HPR Community News for November 2024
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4261/hpr4261.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:17:45
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4261 from Monday the 2nd of December 2024.
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Today's show is entitled HPR Community News for November 2024.
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It is part of the series HPR Community News.
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It is hosted by HPR volunteers and is about 111 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, Kevin and Ken Red's Solest Spider Comments.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Today it's Community News for November 2020-24 and joining me this evening is...
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Sorry for those who were expecting Dave, but as Dave announced last month, he retired.
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So I'm stepping in for this month in a week now.
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Thank you for doing so.
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It's a lot better having two people than people having to suffer.
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Listen to something to suffer me for two hours waffling off.
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Absolutely, and I'll be the same if I was just doing it myself.
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No, I thought I'm not going to let you down, especially given I had actually listened to.
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After me seeing the opposite at on-camp, that normally I listened to HPR Community News and then listen back for the last two months.
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I'm actually listening to them all.
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Very good.
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And if you, I think this show is open to the general public.
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So if you give us a shout out at the beginning of the month, if you want to join next month, then we have a heads up and we can also schedule us according to your timing.
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If there's people who want to volunteer as like a rotating host thing, then we can accommodate that as well.
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And we typically recorded after my work in a Friday evening.
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That's the handiest because then that gives us a few days to make sure it gets propagated to all the places and stuff.
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So Dave, Dave.
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I won't have it stay hard.
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I'm 12 years of saying Dave.
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Why Dave, why have you left me?
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Kevin, would you like to take over Dave's role and welcome the new hosts?
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Absolutely.
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Although those are big shoes to fill, but I'll do my best.
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So we shall first one, notice this, I'm saying first we have one new host.
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A big welcome to Solar Spider, who many of us will know as a Peter Patterson over in the U.S.A.
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Former Scotsman.
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Oh, no.
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They didn't they didn't de-scotify him when he just because he switched over there.
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So current Scotsman just living abroad.
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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And no peer pressure and all was involved in bringing him into the community.
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I was following the threads on the mastodon and it was it was a site to behold like vultures.
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Probably down in the poor holes.
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Oh, it's a bit dangerous.
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A bit dangerous.
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What's that?
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I don't know.
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Yes, what's it to?
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No.
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Oh, no.
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Oh.
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Anyway, we're probably getting ahead of ourselves for people joining the HVR community.
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This HVR is the community podcast focused around tech dedicated to sharing knowledge,
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releases shows every weekday, Monday through Friday, and any topic that can be of interest to
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attackers.
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And that's a wide spectrum.
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If you go to the about page and look on governance, you'll see that the community is run by the people
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on the mailing list and meritocracy.
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And the policies and decisions are implemented by janitors like myself.
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And so if you, we just implement the policies, we don't make them necessarily.
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We do a community members, but that's a bit of a lot.
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One show a month we put on, which is this one.
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And it's called the community news.
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And we go through every show to make sure everybody hears what shows have been on in the
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last month.
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And also give some feedback and suggestions for other shows that you listening or people who
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have submitted shows might make.
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So that's does that sound good?
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I'd say so, yes.
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And like you said, the one thing I do like is it's of interest to hackers, which as you see,
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it's a very, very wide broad thing.
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So if you think, oh, I'm not geeky enough, trust me, you are.
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If you listen here, you already are.
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Yes.
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It's a relatively low barrier entry.
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And if the barrier does hit you, then we will dig and make sure that you can get over.
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So what we typically do is introduce new us, which we've done.
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And we go through some of the shows that were on last month.
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And the first one on the first of the month, which was the Friday, of course, means it's
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and the hookah show usually 50% chance at least.
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And this one was the first doctor part one.
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Yeah, I must have been.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
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Yeah, continuing and I have to confess, I was not much of a doctor who fan ever really.
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Like I mentioned that last show, but I've really enjoyed this series by a hookah.
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And yeah, him going through the different parts, quite interesting about the doctor who missing
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episode, but as you know, it was very common at the time that the BBC, I believe, was
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anything into re-recording the shows.
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So a lot of the old stuff.
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And I don't know, you're probably got the same shows from when you were growing up there
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and I remember one, the vital spark.
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And there was a 282 to 30 shows, something like that.
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And because of this re-recording, only four of them still exist.
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And there are great shows, but they're gone forever.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And this is where the cause of the recording tapes were expensive.
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So as the BBC is a public service, it was seen as a waste of money.
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The show was out, it was aired, it was over, it was a formal thing, and then you move on.
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And you record over the tapes.
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But from time to time, they sometimes sent tapes over to other broadcasters in South Africa or Zimbabwe or wherever.
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And occasionally they'll be found, tapes will be found, somebody's garage somewhere, and you know,
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somebody passed away, and then they'll find actual originals of Doctor Who.
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And yeah, very, very interesting, episode, well worth a watch, even if you're not really into Doctor Who.
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It's just a good show basically on archiving in general and how, you know, all things come to an end.
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Yes, totally.
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And the thing is, they've got geeks like us to thank for this, because I remember Hooka saying in the show,
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I'm pretty sure, I seem to remember, I'd be saying that there was a lot of the ones of where it kind of discovered,
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where basically the techy guys grabbing a hold of them, and they were actually with notes saying for destruction,
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or to be destroyed or something.
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Yes, go on to the geek community.
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So there were three comments on that.
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Should we go through them?
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Yes, go through yours.
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First, not a problem.
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So I entice them.
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I'm keep them coming.
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Thank you, Ahooka, for these episodes.
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I've never been interested in Doctor Who since first watching it as a child, but I do like sci-fi,
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and I'm really enjoying these episodes.
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I love the fact that you're going right back to the start and giving the background to the whole idea.
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And Kevin, Kevin, Kevin O'Brien.
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It's complicated with all the Kevin's now.
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More to come, I plan to cover more than just Doctor Who, but I have a lot more coming,
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including the golden age of sci-fi.
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And I responded as well to the show.
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I'd love to say I watched those episodes, but to be honest, I was hiding behind the couch.
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Did you have the Dalek heads as CCTV when you were young?
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Yes, oh, they're terrifying.
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I refused to go to any boots.
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Boots, the chemist, always had them scared to crap.
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Don's doors have them and they're like, oh man, they were scary.
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And that was the thing about Doctor Who, right?
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I suppose US people were used to have US people seeing scenes depicted in movies and stuff.
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This was a series where they took normal everyday street things like a post box or something
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and turned it into an alien or a statue that you might come across on the street
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and turned it into a scary thing.
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And I really had an impact on me.
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I was terrified by that.
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Oh, yeah, totally.
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It was funny.
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I think that the scene of them, it wasn't so bad for me on the TV,
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but seeing them in real life, was just awful.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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I was going on into the tangent there because the first time I went to America and landed
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on my downside, I was struck by, you know, not all the changes and everything,
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because it all looked so familiar.
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But you saw some telecommunication workers working on the telephone pole.
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And then my immediate thought was not that their telecommunication workers working on the telephone pole.
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It was like that there were FBI agents sticking out some place.
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But it's the only context I've ever seen telecom workers in the US on TV either.
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Yeah, I can get that.
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I remember the first time I've been on the mainland, I've been doing it my sister.
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And for a length of time.
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And yeah, of course, just my wife see this into crime.
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She loves any form of crime reading or watching it, any form of crime drama.
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And there was two guys sitting outside her flat in a car.
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It was a black cow.
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And I think it was really paranoid.
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I might be watched.
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This is crazy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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So we had a community news was the next show.
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And there's quite a lot of comments on their Claudio M. said commentary on episode 4231.
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And this is the T-Mox CD free BSD thing.
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And we have been commenting about about that.
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Agents, thanks for the comments on the show.
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I guess I should have been clearer when I compare the synchronization features of T-Mox to that of cluster SSH.
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While I could have done the commands using cluster SSH.
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I preferred leaving the multiplex to T-Mox on the free BSD boxes with a single SSH session.
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From whichever client I was using to perform the duplication.
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The other reason I did this was this way over using cluster SSH.
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Is because I don't always need to SSH to the box sensors in my office.
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Doing it this way allows me to log into the box directly from the console.
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And then pull up T-Mox sessions to see the status and duplication even being another session after swapping out the USB drives themselves.
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As mentioned by Ken, scripting this is possible.
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It's a possibility, but we all know not to treat DD lightly.
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As that can be a recipe for disaster.
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I was thinking of Harry Larry's technique of using ABCDE.
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But since that's only for ripping CDs, it won't work here.
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Of course, I'm open to potential episodes from others that know a better way, smiley face.
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See what he did there. See what he did there. That's a parallel action.
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Absolutely. And comment number two was from Torren Doyle, hunting buzzing.
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Hey, Ken, out. Please don't encourage hunting.
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I heard the Scottish guy. I'll assume I'll be me.
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Sorry, don't recall his name. Mention hunting.
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Well, each third on, I'd say.
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There was a very noticeable buzzing from the English guys audio.
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Sorry, don't recall his name.
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A great show as usual. Thanks, guys.
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And because of all these kind of negative comments, they've decided to retire.
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So it's a year of fault for trolling the devil.
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This has high.
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Torren Doyle.
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As the English guy and the team and having listened to the show,
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using the version available on the other feed,
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I heard nothing that could be described as buzzing, which foremost were you listening to.
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And then Dave Lee, who we most of us know as the love bug, Dave's buzzing.
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Hey, Dave Paraloid.
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I had to listen to the org file.
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Unlike their p3 pile, I got a feed.
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I got from the feed on my pod catcher.
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There is a definite buzzing possibly means hum behind your audio, Dave.
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And Dave says to the other Dave,
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my ancient MP3 player only accepts MP3 files.
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So I went with that.
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I much prefer org files.
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I just listened to the audio again here on the web page.
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And it's actually more like a low home gun abusing,
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but it's certainly quite noticeable using earphones.
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This is a tutorial again.
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You had me thrown there, right?
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So Dave Morris responded.
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Thanks to Dave and Torren.
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I am now aware of a thing that I can't actually hear.
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I developed a nightish about 20 years ago,
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and though it doesn't bother me very much, it does me a lot.
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It does mean I can't hear certain ranges.
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I think my microphone, a Samsung C01U,
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is picking up the main sum, maybe from my now old desktop,
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or the nearby fridge freezer.
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I recently moved the mic stand to the other end of the shelf over the desk,
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but although it seems to have fixed other distortions,
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it didn't do enough.
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I plan to remodel everything as soon as I can,
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probably over Christmas.
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When I record my own shows, I usually use my Zoom H3N recorder on a boom.
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And it doesn't seem to get much interference.
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I do sometimes use it for the community news recordings,
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but I dropped it recently and broke the tripod mounting,
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threading, threading the base, so it's nice to use.
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Maybe I should call my retirement present.
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I've printed a possible fix, but haven't tested it yet.
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I tend to run all my recordings through the noise removal filter radacity,
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but this particular show came from Ken's recording of the mumble streams,
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so it would probably have been very difficult to clean up.
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Anyway, I'll be back, as it were.
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Typical.
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That's why I fired the guy.
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So it's Dave and Torren's fault that Dave had retired,
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absolutely.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And it's not me overworking him for 12 years flat without paying innocent.
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Is this from a quality?
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Well, you're here voluntarily, dude.
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Everything is voluntary on HVR.
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Yeah, the shows must go on.
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Interview with Lorenzo,
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Councillor C.
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Andra.
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I butchered that, and I do apologize, Lorenzo.
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And this was me tracking down some people
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who I had wanted to interview at Alcamp,
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but I couldn't get in round to it.
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So I kind of pinged them on Master Don,
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said, hey, can we catch up?
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Literally, it was a virtual equivalent of sticking a microphone
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under their nose.
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They give a talk about mental health as Alcamp,
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which, last I missed,
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but there's a link to the project itself.
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And also was there representing the sovereign tech fund,
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which is like government,
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German government,
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giving cold hard cash to developers.
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Did you ever listen?
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Yeah, I did.
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I had listened to that one, actually.
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It was quite interesting seeing the difference,
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because they seem to actually have quite a few avenues
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to open for them in Germany.
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Certainly, I don't know of that many here in the UK
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that would actively help with the tech,
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but yeah, it was really interesting.
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I was probably talking to you at the time.
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I missed this, I don't count.
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Exactly, but, you know,
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there's like three tracks going on,
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so you're going to miss them.
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So that's how I thought,
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yeah, let's do this,
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and they're interviews,
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so they get out relatively quick at all.
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Yes, absolutely.
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So speaking of all count,
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this was, this was me bugging Mr. X
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for a,
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this episode about a hand warmer,
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and it's a long-term project review
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of an electric hand warmer,
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which are currently available,
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and it's your winter in the Northern hemisphere,
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which, let's face this, quite a lot of people are.
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It's not only is a hand warmer,
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but the doubles as a battery bank,
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and it is so many different products out there
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that it's hard to know
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which one is going to be trustworthy.
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And coincidentally,
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just as he, on the same day that he released that,
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my backlog of episodes from YouTube,
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I come across,
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Big Clive reviewing the exact same product,
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and also saying it was a very good,
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very well-engined product internally.
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So, big thumbs up.
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Yeah, that's good.
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I actually must admit,
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I was tempted to invest in one of these,
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not so much for me.
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I don't tend to suffer from the cold hands part,
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but my wife does,
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and I was thinking,
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hmm, this could be a good restocking filler for Christmas.
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|
|
So it's actually good to hear,
|
||
|
|
the worst of it is,
|
||
|
|
there are so many of those things available
|
||
|
|
that you don't know what we've done,
|
||
|
|
some what are good.
|
||
|
|
So to hear somebody,
|
||
|
|
actually whose expedience I thought that was great.
|
||
|
|
Excellent.
|
||
|
|
And that you,
|
||
|
|
one show I always try and get,
|
||
|
|
is your tux jam,
|
||
|
|
where you go over the,
|
||
|
|
you know, gifts for gigs section.
|
||
|
|
That's, that's a,
|
||
|
|
don't tell anyone,
|
||
|
|
but we've just recorded it,
|
||
|
|
but you should have a,
|
||
|
|
hmm.
|
||
|
|
Fantastic.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
The next day,
|
||
|
|
was Thursday,
|
||
|
|
with Henry Cameron,
|
||
|
|
with two methods for digitizing photos,
|
||
|
|
and this is pretty much an ongoing series,
|
||
|
|
and there are lots of comments.
|
||
|
|
So let me,
|
||
|
|
let me start.
|
||
|
|
Can you do the first one,
|
||
|
|
and then I'll do my response?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's my part.
|
||
|
|
Right, so the first comment is by Henrik Hermann himself.
|
||
|
|
So cladification equipment for Repro Photo,
|
||
|
|
Romantic on my Repro Setup.
|
||
|
|
My digital camera is mounted on a Repro stand.
|
||
|
|
The stand is similar to the stand used in the analog darkroom.
|
||
|
|
The duplication direction is opposite to the analog darkroom.
|
||
|
|
The camera is mounted on the stand,
|
||
|
|
while the object to be duplicated is placed on the base plate.
|
||
|
|
I have a light table on the base plate,
|
||
|
|
when a negative or positive is duplicated.
|
||
|
|
Mounted on the camera,
|
||
|
|
depending on lens,
|
||
|
|
may an extension tube be needed
|
||
|
|
to achieve the macro distance
|
||
|
|
to duplicate a small object.
|
||
|
|
Just had to look
|
||
|
|
of what a Repro stand was,
|
||
|
|
and it's essentially a metal plate
|
||
|
|
with a vertical bar,
|
||
|
|
out of it with a camera mount,
|
||
|
|
on that vertical mount,
|
||
|
|
a vertical bar,
|
||
|
|
with a mount on it so you can mount the camera,
|
||
|
|
facing straight down to the center of this plate.
|
||
|
|
I responded to him,
|
||
|
|
what hardware are you using?
|
||
|
|
Hi Henrik,
|
||
|
|
did you already go over the hardware you have used?
|
||
|
|
Henrik responded with yes, Ken.
|
||
|
|
It is all about hardware I have.
|
||
|
|
The Plexiglass is the only hardware I have not tested.
|
||
|
|
I have purchased one,
|
||
|
|
I have not tried yet how it would work
|
||
|
|
in the scanner or Repro.
|
||
|
|
I tested a thick glass plate for Repro first,
|
||
|
|
a plate intended to put under bottles,
|
||
|
|
that plate was not optimal in any way.
|
||
|
|
But else, yes,
|
||
|
|
have unused work and progress
|
||
|
|
to conclude what I believe is best method,
|
||
|
|
settings etc for my needs and equipment.
|
||
|
|
What I know is I get good quality
|
||
|
|
with both methods.
|
||
|
|
Do you want me to do the next one
|
||
|
|
so you can do your own?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, okay then, yeah.
|
||
|
|
So then we had comment four
|
||
|
|
from Charles in New Jersey.
|
||
|
|
Mr. Show because feet is broken.
|
||
|
|
I like this show,
|
||
|
|
but I almost missed it.
|
||
|
|
My Bash Podder based podcast,
|
||
|
|
Handler, that's easy for you to say,
|
||
|
|
is no longer working for HPR.
|
||
|
|
Instead of getting the current episodes,
|
||
|
|
it downloads a file called
|
||
|
|
cdn.php.
|
||
|
|
This is not useful.
|
||
|
|
If I can fix this,
|
||
|
|
I may record a show to describe who I did,
|
||
|
|
but it takes too much time or trouble.
|
||
|
|
I may quietly fade away.
|
||
|
|
Sorry to put this into such stark terms,
|
||
|
|
but I have a lot of things to juggle these days.
|
||
|
|
Crossing over the HPR feed is not something
|
||
|
|
I have time to do.
|
||
|
|
Charles in New Jersey.
|
||
|
|
And I opened up a bug 61 to cover this.
|
||
|
|
Checked Bash Podder.
|
||
|
|
And download the R-cells
|
||
|
|
and couldn't reproduce the issue.
|
||
|
|
I was in contact with Charles,
|
||
|
|
and he, happy to say,
|
||
|
|
has now gathered working
|
||
|
|
with the generic Bash Podder script
|
||
|
|
and also his modified Bash Podder script.
|
||
|
|
So hopefully,
|
||
|
|
Charles will be hearing this,
|
||
|
|
and we'll send us in some more shows
|
||
|
|
on Matt's.
|
||
|
|
I have a whole list ready,
|
||
|
|
ready for you to look at.
|
||
|
|
So shall we move on to the next day?
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
And you caught me out there.
|
||
|
|
And the next day is Trey
|
||
|
|
with what's in my bag episode
|
||
|
|
from the Reserve Q
|
||
|
|
and he normally,
|
||
|
|
like us all,
|
||
|
|
have our comfortable way
|
||
|
|
of recording an episode,
|
||
|
|
but this one was born off the cuff
|
||
|
|
and went through his tag finding
|
||
|
|
all sorts of interesting things
|
||
|
|
and I was out of date stuff
|
||
|
|
that he used as so.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I see.
|
||
|
|
But one of the things was like 2010.
|
||
|
|
I'm thinking, dude,
|
||
|
|
how old is this stuff in your bag?
|
||
|
|
Or did I pick that up wrong?
|
||
|
|
No, no, exactly.
|
||
|
|
We all gone through bags and go,
|
||
|
|
what?
|
||
|
|
Where did that come from?
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah.
|
||
|
|
I've commented on this from my phone
|
||
|
|
because it also corrected my name
|
||
|
|
to name Fallon.
|
||
|
|
I just noticed that.
|
||
|
|
Backdores and breeders,
|
||
|
|
please do your show on this.
|
||
|
|
So he was talking about that in an episode
|
||
|
|
and just kind of lightly lost over it.
|
||
|
|
So here you are.
|
||
|
|
And by the by,
|
||
|
|
the Reserve Q is getting,
|
||
|
|
yeah, it's not as follows,
|
||
|
|
it could be.
|
||
|
|
So if you've got vacation time coming up,
|
||
|
|
sit down, record a few shows,
|
||
|
|
and try putting every other one into the Reserve Q.
|
||
|
|
So long as,
|
||
|
|
if it's an interview,
|
||
|
|
put it in the main Q.
|
||
|
|
If it's timely,
|
||
|
|
if it, you know,
|
||
|
|
if it's about a thing coming up,
|
||
|
|
put it in the main Q.
|
||
|
|
And if it's not,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
just throw it in,
|
||
|
|
chuck it into the Reserve Q
|
||
|
|
and it'll probably come out next year.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
It's because, well,
|
||
|
|
as you've always said,
|
||
|
|
not just you can,
|
||
|
|
but it'll be the whole HPR.
|
||
|
|
It's once it's done,
|
||
|
|
once it's,
|
||
|
|
there's no space,
|
||
|
|
there's a space left
|
||
|
|
and there's no HPR episodes left
|
||
|
|
in the Reserve Q.
|
||
|
|
The project finishes.
|
||
|
|
And I'd be really sad to see that.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, so I,
|
||
|
|
but, you know,
|
||
|
|
it is, it is,
|
||
|
|
the world will end soon.
|
||
|
|
Potentially,
|
||
|
|
as Yastra just coming in,
|
||
|
|
our last show will be,
|
||
|
|
gosh,
|
||
|
|
look at the Yastra coming in.
|
||
|
|
What?
|
||
|
|
Still.
|
||
|
|
Recording and I couldn't introduce.
|
||
|
|
Recording show.
|
||
|
|
The following day was another one
|
||
|
|
from the Reserve Q,
|
||
|
|
by Lee,
|
||
|
|
and it would bite pages and screens,
|
||
|
|
a trek through some of,
|
||
|
|
there's podcasts,
|
||
|
|
books and TV shows
|
||
|
|
that Lee enjoys.
|
||
|
|
So various different podcasts,
|
||
|
|
various different books,
|
||
|
|
various different TV series.
|
||
|
|
I thought this was a kind of ideal one
|
||
|
|
for the actual Reserve Q,
|
||
|
|
because this is pretty untime,
|
||
|
|
it was a pretty time less,
|
||
|
|
unless, of course,
|
||
|
|
it's here 10 years in advance,
|
||
|
|
behind Sony.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, exactly.
|
||
|
|
So I thought
|
||
|
|
this one was actually really good,
|
||
|
|
although I do have an objection here,
|
||
|
|
I mean, given he was at the live recording,
|
||
|
|
and he didn't launch
|
||
|
|
mentioned TuX Jam,
|
||
|
|
that's just terrible.
|
||
|
|
I'm deeply hurt.
|
||
|
|
Well, this was in before
|
||
|
|
TuX Jam started.
|
||
|
|
It's been in there a while,
|
||
|
|
you see?
|
||
|
|
It's before you started podcasting.
|
||
|
|
So yeah,
|
||
|
|
in his defense.
|
||
|
|
Wow, that is a long time,
|
||
|
|
then.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it can be,
|
||
|
|
it can be a while,
|
||
|
|
it can be a while in the show,
|
||
|
|
yes and eight and eight.
|
||
|
|
And as I commented on this episode,
|
||
|
|
saying,
|
||
|
|
Terry Pratchett,
|
||
|
|
I'm a huge,
|
||
|
|
Terry Pratchett fan,
|
||
|
|
did you ever check
|
||
|
|
the headers of HPR?
|
||
|
|
And
|
||
|
|
we have taught in Doyle,
|
||
|
|
commenting the next podcast books TV highly.
|
||
|
|
I love the podcast,
|
||
|
|
I love podcasts that leave detailed show notes
|
||
|
|
with all relevant links.
|
||
|
|
I tune Ms. Linux Outlaws.
|
||
|
|
Dan was great in particular.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to give Gnu World Order a go.
|
||
|
|
Since you mentioned that touched by an angel,
|
||
|
|
is religious with a lower case R,
|
||
|
|
it's time to try it.
|
||
|
|
Perhaps it's like highway to heaven,
|
||
|
|
cheers from the emerald dial.
|
||
|
|
Oh, we got a,
|
||
|
|
principal too.
|
||
|
|
Oh,
|
||
|
|
very good.
|
||
|
|
Yes, it would be similar to highway to heaven.
|
||
|
|
Yes, touch by an angel.
|
||
|
|
I reckon.
|
||
|
|
But some bad news.
|
||
|
|
Gnu World Order is also going to be shutting down shortly.
|
||
|
|
Yes, but that's the one negative thing.
|
||
|
|
I suppose with it,
|
||
|
|
if it does sit,
|
||
|
|
I didn't actually realize that it would be an ancient episode.
|
||
|
|
It would have been the other long time.
|
||
|
|
So not a hardcast, especially kind of podcasts,
|
||
|
|
like the majority of us do hear ourselves.
|
||
|
|
They are kind of volunteer things.
|
||
|
|
They're not,
|
||
|
|
it's not like he can be paid for them.
|
||
|
|
And plus people's tastes change.
|
||
|
|
So,
|
||
|
|
would you, when you might,
|
||
|
|
you know,
|
||
|
|
enthusiastic once upon a time,
|
||
|
|
work on life just might have gotten away.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, and you come back to us and,
|
||
|
|
but then you do another show,
|
||
|
|
you say,
|
||
|
|
that's very simple.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
Installing Gnu SD,
|
||
|
|
Barca Deer,
|
||
|
|
Rowan records,
|
||
|
|
installing Gnu SD on a Mac mini computer.
|
||
|
|
Not something that I would be,
|
||
|
|
so it's a graphical text-based installer,
|
||
|
|
reminiscent of Mid-to-Late 90s Debutons Installer.
|
||
|
|
So,
|
||
|
|
which is that one part of any similar to the cut-in debut installer?
|
||
|
|
Oh.
|
||
|
|
Actually,
|
||
|
|
I like the record-ass of it.
|
||
|
|
I like the record-ass of the old Debuton Installer.
|
||
|
|
I recently reinstalled Debuton machine here,
|
||
|
|
and it's just so comfortable.
|
||
|
|
I just know,
|
||
|
|
my, I have like,
|
||
|
|
muscle memory for Debuton Installs,
|
||
|
|
I've done them so,
|
||
|
|
so often.
|
||
|
|
But I've been running Fedora since,
|
||
|
|
like,
|
||
|
|
Fedora Corate,
|
||
|
|
and,
|
||
|
|
have,
|
||
|
|
haven't been run in Debuton since then.
|
||
|
|
But I could still install a Debuton computer with my eyes shut.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, absolutely.
|
||
|
|
There's something to be said for the steady and stable
|
||
|
|
and not challenging.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, yeah,
|
||
|
|
indeed.
|
||
|
|
So, no comments on that one.
|
||
|
|
Were you tempted by many?
|
||
|
|
Nice to be keyboard, actually.
|
||
|
|
They're linked,
|
||
|
|
they,
|
||
|
|
or I,
|
||
|
|
to giverks,
|
||
|
|
2.4GHz,
|
||
|
|
many wireless keyboard thing.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I must admit,
|
||
|
|
I'm always tempted
|
||
|
|
when it comes to take projects,
|
||
|
|
but I also don't want to end up in the divorce courts.
|
||
|
|
That's what it's meant to be.
|
||
|
|
So,
|
||
|
|
the next day was another one by myself,
|
||
|
|
Millie Perkins,
|
||
|
|
who did a talk about home automation of Onki Camp.
|
||
|
|
Again,
|
||
|
|
another one of these,
|
||
|
|
just after work,
|
||
|
|
I went on the Jitsimis
|
||
|
|
with Millie and recorded it,
|
||
|
|
and yeah,
|
||
|
|
it was a great,
|
||
|
|
a great episode.
|
||
|
|
I really enjoyed talking to her,
|
||
|
|
and it was,
|
||
|
|
it's a good way for me to be able to
|
||
|
|
have experience the whole track,
|
||
|
|
and then talk to all the people
|
||
|
|
and get presentations.
|
||
|
|
So, I don't have to see their chats.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
It was, it was going to eat actually that.
|
||
|
|
And even listening to it again,
|
||
|
|
it was,
|
||
|
|
it was more or less just like she was standing in front of me again.
|
||
|
|
No, I got to hear this one.
|
||
|
|
It was probably one of my favorite talks.
|
||
|
|
I absolutely love this.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Like I said,
|
||
|
|
if you haven't,
|
||
|
|
the whole automation,
|
||
|
|
it's not so much,
|
||
|
|
if you're a seasoned pro,
|
||
|
|
but certainly even,
|
||
|
|
if you've got an interest in it,
|
||
|
|
then I'd recommend
|
||
|
|
shaking out your stuff.
|
||
|
|
Do you want to do your own up?
|
||
|
|
Come on.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Forgot I had left all this.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
A fantastic onki Camp talk.
|
||
|
|
I thoroughly enjoyed Millie onki Camp talk,
|
||
|
|
and I'm delighted to hear
|
||
|
|
that she is considering more options,
|
||
|
|
and also,
|
||
|
|
this left us with a hope
|
||
|
|
that she will also be starting
|
||
|
|
to record a few HPR episodes.
|
||
|
|
She had a great delivery style,
|
||
|
|
and she had me gripped
|
||
|
|
for the full 30 minutes.
|
||
|
|
This brought me right back to Manchester.
|
||
|
|
Thank you, Ken,
|
||
|
|
for clacking her day on recording this.
|
||
|
|
No bother.
|
||
|
|
Did your audio just break out
|
||
|
|
in there?
|
||
|
|
Oh, anyway.
|
||
|
|
I didn't know it.
|
||
|
|
Don't think so.
|
||
|
|
I've got the look of recording anyway, so.
|
||
|
|
I'll send you that.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Good.
|
||
|
|
Thanks.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I got,
|
||
|
|
got a big cardboard audio on my side.
|
||
|
|
That's.
|
||
|
|
It's doing it.
|
||
|
|
Don't worry.
|
||
|
|
No, no.
|
||
|
|
It seems fine.
|
||
|
|
But we'll carry on.
|
||
|
|
We'll carry on.
|
||
|
|
And I have no intention of editing
|
||
|
|
because I'm allergic to editing.
|
||
|
|
I have a note from my doctor.
|
||
|
|
And the following day,
|
||
|
|
we had a episode by your good self,
|
||
|
|
audio streaming from the command line.
|
||
|
|
And this is the exact type
|
||
|
|
on episode that gets got me involved
|
||
|
|
with HDR in the first place.
|
||
|
|
Very, very cool.
|
||
|
|
CVLC,
|
||
|
|
MPG123,
|
||
|
|
even WGET,
|
||
|
|
which I did not know you could do.
|
||
|
|
That was a good one on me.
|
||
|
|
And one that you missed was MPD.
|
||
|
|
My personal favorite
|
||
|
|
multimedia video player
|
||
|
|
will also play audio streams.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yes.
|
||
|
|
I've had experience with that in the past as well.
|
||
|
|
I didn't, we knew this to be a comprehensive one.
|
||
|
|
It was more not installing stuff.
|
||
|
|
I mean, although that was cheated
|
||
|
|
with MPG123
|
||
|
|
because I came across this.
|
||
|
|
I think it installs like 40 key.
|
||
|
|
It's just, it's so negligible.
|
||
|
|
It's just tiny.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I'm done quite a lot of distros, I think, by default.
|
||
|
|
So I said,
|
||
|
|
great tip.
|
||
|
|
I'm a huge fan of MPV myself.
|
||
|
|
You play as anything you throw us as an audio and video.
|
||
|
|
I would point, I decided that the home
|
||
|
|
TSR software at home
|
||
|
|
would be bash plus MPV.
|
||
|
|
It's amazing how good people get a Unix when they have to.
|
||
|
|
And Peter Patterson commented,
|
||
|
|
Kevin, very clear and concise talk on examples
|
||
|
|
of using the command line.
|
||
|
|
Thank you for giving the terminal some love
|
||
|
|
and encouraging us all to do the same.
|
||
|
|
Very good.
|
||
|
|
Jan says, just thanks.
|
||
|
|
Hello.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for the efforts made.
|
||
|
|
Jan.
|
||
|
|
That's a thank you for an economic cause.
|
||
|
|
As we all know,
|
||
|
|
the back is the currency
|
||
|
|
by which we pay our hosts.
|
||
|
|
Civilization part,
|
||
|
|
that would be four, I guess, part three.
|
||
|
|
Civilization four, part three.
|
||
|
|
That really this whole series of hookah,
|
||
|
|
trying to get the text to speech person to do this,
|
||
|
|
did my head in, literally did my head in.
|
||
|
|
And thankfully we have somebody who can actually speak
|
||
|
|
to this entire series.
|
||
|
|
Kevin, take it away.
|
||
|
|
Very good.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, so again,
|
||
|
|
another one I listened to and enjoyed.
|
||
|
|
And he talks about the concept of religion
|
||
|
|
in Civilization part four.
|
||
|
|
And this was apparently the first time religion
|
||
|
|
had come into it
|
||
|
|
from the Civilization series.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I, like I said, I totally,
|
||
|
|
I'm loving this series.
|
||
|
|
And I totally get where the stuff is coming from.
|
||
|
|
It's something I'm quite familiar with.
|
||
|
|
When it comes to religion and games,
|
||
|
|
it's not, it's, it's, it's surprisingly not that much
|
||
|
|
of a new thing.
|
||
|
|
The first time I think I came across it was Shogun,
|
||
|
|
the Shogun series.
|
||
|
|
I think they won the first to bring,
|
||
|
|
that I remember bringing religion in.
|
||
|
|
But that doesn't mean they're the very first.
|
||
|
|
I mean, they're the first ones that I experienced.
|
||
|
|
And it was quite good in that.
|
||
|
|
It's amazing how much detail they put in it, you know,
|
||
|
|
because very often choosing our religion
|
||
|
|
will cause various effects.
|
||
|
|
We're choosing a particular one over the other.
|
||
|
|
But it also means that regardless of what you're,
|
||
|
|
who you're friendly with, very often,
|
||
|
|
if you choose a totally different religion,
|
||
|
|
then some civil, various civilizations
|
||
|
|
might actually lose a bit,
|
||
|
|
a bit with you, a bit of relations with you.
|
||
|
|
The other thing I quite liked as well was when he said,
|
||
|
|
I didn't know this one about civilization for what,
|
||
|
|
but when he said that,
|
||
|
|
if you are partnership with a territory
|
||
|
|
that has no religion,
|
||
|
|
and you become close,
|
||
|
|
then that state or that group in a civilization
|
||
|
|
for will adopt your religion.
|
||
|
|
I thought, ah, that's interesting.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Just the last bit there,
|
||
|
|
I had cracking up again.
|
||
|
|
I wonder if it's the network.
|
||
|
|
Okay, that's not good.
|
||
|
|
Give me a sec, and I am going to,
|
||
|
|
I'm going to double check.
|
||
|
|
I just, I think it's on my side,
|
||
|
|
but I'll just check what,
|
||
|
|
yeah, let's do some checks on back in a sec.
|
||
|
|
You won't know this,
|
||
|
|
because we'll do 28 silence.
|
||
|
|
Right, how's this sounding?
|
||
|
|
That's fine, it's just occasionally there's a glitch.
|
||
|
|
And I am serving the media files
|
||
|
|
from this internet connection,
|
||
|
|
so sometimes maybe somebody is downloading the file,
|
||
|
|
and it's affecting.
|
||
|
|
So can you two secs,
|
||
|
|
I just want to bring up a dashboard?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, always.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, nothing major.
|
||
|
|
Three megabits per second on a gigabit interface
|
||
|
|
that she can call something.
|
||
|
|
Okay, well, the dashboard openable will continue on.
|
||
|
|
Yes, well, what I just did there was,
|
||
|
|
I switched off the VPN on my router,
|
||
|
|
just in case there was any blips there.
|
||
|
|
So that's when I could chuck it out,
|
||
|
|
and then I had to come back in.
|
||
|
|
You might want to record again, though.
|
||
|
|
Record again?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you're not recording.
|
||
|
|
I'm recording locally.
|
||
|
|
Ah, okay, good.
|
||
|
|
So no, no, no, no, no.
|
||
|
|
That's blip.
|
||
|
|
Okay, you're doing the proper link.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
The following day,
|
||
|
|
and, you know,
|
||
|
|
where other people would have edited all that stuff out,
|
||
|
|
I feel like, you know,
|
||
|
|
behind-the-scenes stuff is what drives the algorithm,
|
||
|
|
so I'm going to leave it in.
|
||
|
|
Dave and Mr. X turn over a new leaf.
|
||
|
|
It's a leafy day in StudioN.
|
||
|
|
Many of these puns can you put into a show, Dave?
|
||
|
|
And it is another one of Dave and Mr. X having a charter.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I mean, to be honest,
|
||
|
|
I got it straight away,
|
||
|
|
so I think I remember Dave talking about his electric car,
|
||
|
|
and I thought, oh, no, he's got a leaf, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
This is too much.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, exactly.
|
||
|
|
No, I enjoyed it.
|
||
|
|
I enjoyed the whole chart.
|
||
|
|
Thankfully, it wasn't all about the car.
|
||
|
|
It was quite the only listening to it,
|
||
|
|
though, in November,
|
||
|
|
and then talking about the upcoming on-camp.
|
||
|
|
That did give me a shock.
|
||
|
|
It was a good show.
|
||
|
|
I love this show.
|
||
|
|
And it's the first show that has been recorded in,
|
||
|
|
and posted in Sturio.
|
||
|
|
So we have now switched to Sturio by default on the Hitchcock feed.
|
||
|
|
I wonder how many people have noticed or even care.
|
||
|
|
So they wanted to see if audio separation
|
||
|
|
would work that Dave is on one side and Mr. X on the other.
|
||
|
|
And the point is,
|
||
|
|
it wasn't very clear in this,
|
||
|
|
but in the next episode,
|
||
|
|
they're going to try more separation, I think.
|
||
|
|
Let's see.
|
||
|
|
Oh, okay, interesting.
|
||
|
|
I didn't know that myself.
|
||
|
|
So, yep, every day is a school day.
|
||
|
|
I did like actually the fact that they did one of the things
|
||
|
|
they discussed,
|
||
|
|
and it broke me back memories,
|
||
|
|
was the inkjet printer.
|
||
|
|
And the problems used to have with the old inkjet.
|
||
|
|
You didn't use them for a week in the Blin and things.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yes.
|
||
|
|
So, FXB says using Witterin,
|
||
|
|
which is WTTR.IN.
|
||
|
|
I'm still listening to the rest of the episode,
|
||
|
|
but one thing struck me during the gentleman's conversation
|
||
|
|
about getting weather reports output from Witterin.
|
||
|
|
I've used the service for a few years,
|
||
|
|
another good look through the docs.
|
||
|
|
Dave mentioned text to image to convert Witterin reports
|
||
|
|
output text into an image file,
|
||
|
|
but there's actually no need.
|
||
|
|
They read me on the project says
|
||
|
|
and link GitHub to the Witterin.
|
||
|
|
If you simply append the .pmg to the end of the requested URL
|
||
|
|
for the desired report location,
|
||
|
|
the service will return .png image of the text.
|
||
|
|
It would otherwise return.
|
||
|
|
Good show folks.
|
||
|
|
And Dave, more to response to this.
|
||
|
|
Saying thanks, FXB.
|
||
|
|
I had forgotten about the ability to create images
|
||
|
|
directly from Witterin.
|
||
|
|
I did use it for a while and it was good.
|
||
|
|
Then something went wrong and the service stopped
|
||
|
|
being able to make images.
|
||
|
|
It was a while ago,
|
||
|
|
so I don't remember the details very well.
|
||
|
|
I think when using the appropriate URL,
|
||
|
|
you got back an error message
|
||
|
|
and the request failed.
|
||
|
|
The state prevailed for many weeks as I recall.
|
||
|
|
I think it was then I looked for an alternative
|
||
|
|
and started using text image.
|
||
|
|
I was text I-m-g.
|
||
|
|
And once that worked,
|
||
|
|
I didn't bother to check to see if the mechanism
|
||
|
|
you describe was back up and running.
|
||
|
|
I will review my weather script.
|
||
|
|
However, finding text I-m-g was a bonus
|
||
|
|
that I'm using in other places,
|
||
|
|
as I said in the show,
|
||
|
|
so I'm going to keep using it.
|
||
|
|
Glad you enjoyed the show, Dave.
|
||
|
|
Cool, stop.
|
||
|
|
The following day,
|
||
|
|
we had privacy is not hiding
|
||
|
|
from the reserve queue.
|
||
|
|
And some guy in the internet argues
|
||
|
|
that privacy is not hiding.
|
||
|
|
I don't know if I could agree with this more,
|
||
|
|
but I don't think I can.
|
||
|
|
And Tim J says,
|
||
|
|
big tech is watching you.
|
||
|
|
Very well said.
|
||
|
|
If somebody claims they don't care about privacy
|
||
|
|
because they've got nothing to hide,
|
||
|
|
ask them to unlock their smart phone
|
||
|
|
and let you borrow it for a half-nour.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It was, yeah, he is unsurprisingly
|
||
|
|
as many people have,
|
||
|
|
so many strong opinions.
|
||
|
|
I have to confess,
|
||
|
|
it made me think of one of my mates
|
||
|
|
and I don't really know if you want to
|
||
|
|
just know,
|
||
|
|
maybe I should actually incorporate it as a...
|
||
|
|
Go on ahead.
|
||
|
|
I think, yeah, you go with Tim.
|
||
|
|
It was just what made me actually think of was,
|
||
|
|
one of my mates,
|
||
|
|
he went away and a son was in the house,
|
||
|
|
he just asked him,
|
||
|
|
is what's your mind going to the house
|
||
|
|
for keeping a watch out for?
|
||
|
|
What are we?
|
||
|
|
I think they'll wait for a month,
|
||
|
|
for kind of five.
|
||
|
|
And someone, yeah.
|
||
|
|
And he got the corpse coming to the door.
|
||
|
|
And he said, they said,
|
||
|
|
we think you've got something to do
|
||
|
|
with dodgy stadios.
|
||
|
|
Can we come in and search the house?
|
||
|
|
And the guy says,
|
||
|
|
look, this isn't my house.
|
||
|
|
This isn't my parents' house.
|
||
|
|
You can come and search mine all you want.
|
||
|
|
But this is my parents' house.
|
||
|
|
Of course, the problem was the corpse took this
|
||
|
|
as being instant,
|
||
|
|
you're hiding it in here.
|
||
|
|
So, of course, the problem was,
|
||
|
|
instead of just letting them search,
|
||
|
|
which they probably would have been seen okay.
|
||
|
|
There's nothing we'll go.
|
||
|
|
They went to get a court order and ripped the house apart,
|
||
|
|
ripped everything,
|
||
|
|
the walls apart,
|
||
|
|
the floating up, everything.
|
||
|
|
Of course, the guy had to come back,
|
||
|
|
and he had to admit to his parents that the corpse
|
||
|
|
that he didn't rip the place up.
|
||
|
|
So, to be too militant,
|
||
|
|
I think, on your rights,
|
||
|
|
can't be only dangerous as well.
|
||
|
|
I'm not saying you're not entitled to your rights,
|
||
|
|
just be witty,
|
||
|
|
that kind of attitude,
|
||
|
|
hand backfire.
|
||
|
|
Oh, well.
|
||
|
|
Would they not have to repair all that damage?
|
||
|
|
I don't know how that went.
|
||
|
|
I know he did try and take a general legal route,
|
||
|
|
but it was because they had the search warden
|
||
|
|
was a complete,
|
||
|
|
was from search everything,
|
||
|
|
because it's in the interest of public safety
|
||
|
|
or something.
|
||
|
|
I don't think they actually had to.
|
||
|
|
He did try, I know that.
|
||
|
|
Yes, yes, yes.
|
||
|
|
The following day,
|
||
|
|
brief introduction to myself by Kingsie,
|
||
|
|
using Debbie and testing rolling releases
|
||
|
|
into amateur radio.
|
||
|
|
It's got a very busy life all in all.
|
||
|
|
Who took the last comment?
|
||
|
|
You or I?
|
||
|
|
I'm happy to do it.
|
||
|
|
This was at Peter Patterson,
|
||
|
|
comment on Kingsie's introduction show.
|
||
|
|
Kingsie, thank you so much for taking the time
|
||
|
|
out of your busy life to give us your introduction show.
|
||
|
|
My own workplace of God's pantry,
|
||
|
|
food bank, Lexington, Kentucky,
|
||
|
|
is a Microsoft software shop.
|
||
|
|
So I understand,
|
||
|
|
as my day is spent on outlook,
|
||
|
|
Excel, Word, and Navision.
|
||
|
|
Have I said that right?
|
||
|
|
Navision, don't you know what that is?
|
||
|
|
Good, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Hence, like you,
|
||
|
|
I love coming home to my Linux systems
|
||
|
|
after a year of point releases with Linux Mint,
|
||
|
|
I discovered Solus and later PCOS,
|
||
|
|
which are both rolling release distros,
|
||
|
|
looking forward to getting to know you more and made.
|
||
|
|
My own introduction show
|
||
|
|
shall be officially released next Wednesday.
|
||
|
|
HPR 4258.
|
||
|
|
Very good.
|
||
|
|
And you silence there at the end.
|
||
|
|
Remaining to use your coffee.
|
||
|
|
Okay, that's fine.
|
||
|
|
No bother, because you're not breaking up at all.
|
||
|
|
It's obviously an issue with my own.
|
||
|
|
Okay, I don't see anything on my router.
|
||
|
|
It's fast asleep.
|
||
|
|
I don't see any gesture on,
|
||
|
|
a mumble.
|
||
|
|
I'm not sure it's you,
|
||
|
|
because I had this recording
|
||
|
|
and interview during the week as well.
|
||
|
|
So it could be a me thing.
|
||
|
|
Obviously, we will see.
|
||
|
|
Cake, money, money, cake, money, money,
|
||
|
|
cake.
|
||
|
|
Operator talks about web server monitoring
|
||
|
|
and financial tracking.
|
||
|
|
I never know what operator has gone
|
||
|
|
to throw at us for the given day,
|
||
|
|
but this one was interesting.
|
||
|
|
Services for monitoring to see whether a server is up
|
||
|
|
and also financial tracking
|
||
|
|
and money monitoring sites
|
||
|
|
for getting discounts on ISPs and stuff like that.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it was quite interesting.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I totally got the point
|
||
|
|
when he said, if you don't pay for something,
|
||
|
|
you're the product.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
But then he said, if you do,
|
||
|
|
you may well be the product as well.
|
||
|
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But I never thought of that.
|
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|
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Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
I almost want to cancel any payment subscriptions on God.
|
||
|
|
But yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, good show.
|
||
|
|
And probably more relevant to people's stateside.
|
||
|
|
So I don't think we have a lot of those services here.
|
||
|
|
It's like, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Maybe we do, maybe we don't.
|
||
|
|
The website monitoring, though, was useful.
|
||
|
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Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
And another one from the archive,
|
||
|
|
from the reserve queue, as I said,
|
||
|
|
we did burn up quite a lot of shows,
|
||
|
|
reserve shows.
|
||
|
|
And we haven't got any in to replenish them.
|
||
|
|
And we have free slots coming up as well.
|
||
|
|
So guys, yeah, this is not a drill.
|
||
|
|
Please send in shows.
|
||
|
|
Podcast recommendations.
|
||
|
|
Lots of Ahuka in this.
|
||
|
|
Some huge, no surprises to me.
|
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|
|
The Doctor Who podcast.
|
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|
|
Sherlock Holmes podcast.
|
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|
|
Astro astronomy.
|
||
|
|
Astronomy cast.
|
||
|
|
Easy for me to say.
|
||
|
|
But a good episode.
|
||
|
|
And there's a whole series of these where he basically gives the podcast.
|
||
|
|
Tells how often it comes out.
|
||
|
|
Just grows it.
|
||
|
|
What he gets out of it.
|
||
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What he doesn't get out of it.
|
||
|
|
It's great.
|
||
|
|
Good tips.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
And in fact, I was telling my own son about this.
|
||
|
|
He was actually quite interested in some of the history stuff.
|
||
|
|
He loves history.
|
||
|
|
So he's quite actions and some of the history ones.
|
||
|
|
So it's a thank you to Ahuka for giving him something else, doesn't he?
|
||
|
|
Cool.
|
||
|
|
Cool.
|
||
|
|
Cool.
|
||
|
|
And the next day we had a bird's and a feather talk
|
||
|
|
about O.L.F.
|
||
|
|
where a lion and a taj.
|
||
|
|
Speaks nonsense and make each other to make to get other people to make a show.
|
||
|
|
And what was great about this was the guys had a bird's and feather session for however long it was.
|
||
|
|
And then the first half was them recording the text that we heard.
|
||
|
|
And the second half was them posting the episode and actually posting it.
|
||
|
|
So it was like, take it from here and post it.
|
||
|
|
So brilliant, brilliant episode.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
That was one of those ones you'd almost wish was actually recorded for a video as well.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Because you know, it was, you watched them go in and it's lit.
|
||
|
|
And I'm going, look, guys, it's not difficult.
|
||
|
|
You know, it's, it's basically what you do just in a different way.
|
||
|
|
It's what you send out every, every month, but just not totally in a different way.
|
||
|
|
And I was thinking somebody was asking a question and taj would answer.
|
||
|
|
And then I will get to the clarification just exactly what I was saying.
|
||
|
|
Oh, but you missed it.
|
||
|
|
Oh, okay.
|
||
|
|
They got it.
|
||
|
|
But they missed it.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Fantastic.
|
||
|
|
The guys know the community.
|
||
|
|
This is great.
|
||
|
|
This really, this cheered me up.
|
||
|
|
No end this month and getting the activity around getting solo spider in also cheered me up.
|
||
|
|
And also the matrix channel people help from each other out and prove their audio also cheer me up.
|
||
|
|
No end this month with regard to the health of the community.
|
||
|
|
So good.
|
||
|
|
Sometimes you feel like you're the only one at the at the call phase.
|
||
|
|
And then you know, this was like the lights were on and you could see the whole team chipping away, chipping away, chipping away.
|
||
|
|
Great work.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, I said the suspense.
|
||
|
|
Because the last bit of the show was this then is going to switch to his computer and then it cuts off.
|
||
|
|
And what?
|
||
|
|
Great episode.
|
||
|
|
You just said posted, but we were all thinking.
|
||
|
|
I was like, did you stop?
|
||
|
|
And I go, what are we doing?
|
||
|
|
Ah, they must have posted this show, right?
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
And then Taj the next day.
|
||
|
|
So the next day, no, a few days later, says resolution.
|
||
|
|
And then I proceed to edit and upload the podcast in front of a crowd in like 10 minutes.
|
||
|
|
Quick and dirty like which explains why the audio sucks.
|
||
|
|
Well, it was fine.
|
||
|
|
It's just Taj is an audio file.
|
||
|
|
So five.
|
||
|
|
Never be happy with audio quality.
|
||
|
|
And then when you go says future shows, I haven't heard from Murph since Northeast Linux Fest.
|
||
|
|
I look forward to his next shows, explaining what you've been up to for the past decade or so.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for advocating for HPR, gentlemen.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
You're here standing ovation for the ads.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Movie review of the art of a squirrel.
|
||
|
|
On this numpty again.
|
||
|
|
Come on.
|
||
|
|
Seriously.
|
||
|
|
No, it's just the way I worked out.
|
||
|
|
And this is a response to some guy in the internet show, which was episode 4223, which in itself was a response to the link slowcast review of the art of a squirrel.
|
||
|
|
And I was trying to listen to the next show in my feed on the way in.
|
||
|
|
I was listening to this on the train as you do.
|
||
|
|
And I was.
|
||
|
|
And I know what you're going to say as you record an episode.
|
||
|
|
Yes, yes, I should.
|
||
|
|
But then that would be very better.
|
||
|
|
Well, I kept trying to, you know, listen to the next show in my queue and kept having to stop because I was thinking about what you were saying in your episode.
|
||
|
|
So very talk provoking.
|
||
|
|
So I may actually have to record a response to this.
|
||
|
|
Oh, so you are going to your response to the response of a response of response.
|
||
|
|
May have to.
|
||
|
|
I said, I may have to.
|
||
|
|
I said, well, I don't like getting into opinions because it's very much me.
|
||
|
|
So I may have to rewatch it again, because I watched the movie and it is since what I thought it was.
|
||
|
|
And now I'd like now I've had time to think about it.
|
||
|
|
I think I'll go back and watch it again and then do maybe review.
|
||
|
|
So it was shorter time with one thing and another at the moment.
|
||
|
|
No, yeah, totally.
|
||
|
|
Totally understandable there.
|
||
|
|
But we did get one comment on that.
|
||
|
|
And it's by Peter Patterson, Solar Spider.
|
||
|
|
So watch the Artifascar last week.
|
||
|
|
And when I saw your show in the future feed, not reading of that whole link.
|
||
|
|
Link included.
|
||
|
|
Interesting that I first encountered Lance Henrichsen as Bishop in Aliens playing an Android and AI.
|
||
|
|
The movie has major shades of bicentennial man with AI out living its creator.
|
||
|
|
It also does not hold back and describe in the predatory nature of some of mankind that plays on and the so-called weaker younger Persians.
|
||
|
|
Maybe we do need such oversight to corral and capture such monsters among us.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I think I need to comment on that episode.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
No, I was only just going to say if anybody hasn't watched it.
|
||
|
|
I think I say it at the start of the thing.
|
||
|
|
But please don't watch.
|
||
|
|
Don't listen to my episode if you want.
|
||
|
|
That's probably the free one, because I comment on the whole movie.
|
||
|
|
And if I was commenting, it would also be like spoilers from from top to toe.
|
||
|
|
But I don't think that would actually take away from it.
|
||
|
|
Really?
|
||
|
|
Well, you know what?
|
||
|
|
I'll record an episode.
|
||
|
|
I hate it.
|
||
|
|
I hate that I've now just added more to Nathan Box.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
You clearly aren't working enough this month, can you?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, exactly.
|
||
|
|
Who's that buddy at Christmas?
|
||
|
|
I don't know.
|
||
|
|
Aster.
|
||
|
|
Aster.
|
||
|
|
Although I have some house renovations to do for the Christmas period, physical, physical stuff, you know, actual engineer.
|
||
|
|
Introduction.
|
||
|
|
And I need to check now.
|
||
|
|
Introduction and history of using computers.
|
||
|
|
I saw the spider, the much bugged by Archers 72, Mark Rice, the local, deadly, heavy.
|
||
|
|
And of course, Lucky Boy, Alexander, who bugged him, bugged him into coming and doing a show.
|
||
|
|
It's great.
|
||
|
|
Great stuff.
|
||
|
|
Have a good show at all.
|
||
|
|
Exactly.
|
||
|
|
I see no, had we not bugged?
|
||
|
|
There you go.
|
||
|
|
We wouldn't have had this fine show.
|
||
|
|
And yeah, so if there's anybody out there who's just not quite convinced that they have to regret that they should record a show, keep bugging them and eventually it'll come.
|
||
|
|
That's the moral of the story.
|
||
|
|
Yes, I did.
|
||
|
|
I did chocolate.
|
||
|
|
I said it to, you know, the day I says, I love the fact you call everybody the username and the real name.
|
||
|
|
And you can say to me, Kevin, aka, Kevin, that made me chocolate.
|
||
|
|
I'm very good, very good.
|
||
|
|
Uh, David Lee, the broadcast says, welcome to the HBR family.
|
||
|
|
Hi, Peter.
|
||
|
|
So good to hear you on Hackebobwe Radio.
|
||
|
|
I hope this is the start of many shows from you given how close you are to the other podcasting communities.
|
||
|
|
I've heard bits of your story in various forms over the years, but it was incredibly interesting to hear the whole story from start.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for sharing.
|
||
|
|
I wonder if you'll stay true to form and go back to episode one of HBR or even today with the techie.
|
||
|
|
300 episodes that immediately proceed HBR and work your way forward.
|
||
|
|
No pressure there at all.
|
||
|
|
Looking forward to the next one.
|
||
|
|
And this comment, too, is by present arms.
|
||
|
|
I love this podcast with my friend Peter.
|
||
|
|
I've learned a lot.
|
||
|
|
And Archer 72 also says, welcome to HBR.
|
||
|
|
Hi, Peter.
|
||
|
|
This was a great first show done with just a mobile recording and upload the sound quality is very good.
|
||
|
|
Nothing done in post.
|
||
|
|
So ties would be proud.
|
||
|
|
Looking forward to hearing about God's pantry food bank.
|
||
|
|
And now it was always started.
|
||
|
|
Now it all was and how it all was started because I can't read.
|
||
|
|
Archer 72 mark says to the match show.
|
||
|
|
Yes, also the first comment from Peter there.
|
||
|
|
I do hope so.
|
||
|
|
I do hope so.
|
||
|
|
And Henry Kerman had another show on why we need to digitize photos.
|
||
|
|
And Peter saw the spider himself said, thoughts behind digitizing photos.
|
||
|
|
Henry, thank you for a topic provoking show in why we digitize photos.
|
||
|
|
It does make us think of the methods we use for the processing and storage of these precious memories.
|
||
|
|
I'm on an age where I have multiple boxes of prints sitting in boxes in the back cupboard.
|
||
|
|
And one day really need to get sorted and stored digitally.
|
||
|
|
And eventually everybody has really.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
No, I didn't think about this.
|
||
|
|
I was listening to it yesterday on the way to work.
|
||
|
|
We, yes, we do have loads of photos stored digitally.
|
||
|
|
But there's actually concern me.
|
||
|
|
I was thinking how many people have them so that they're accessible by somebody else.
|
||
|
|
Majority of people must be on like Amazon Prime Photos, Google Photos.
|
||
|
|
I think Apple, I don't know what Apple Photos are called.
|
||
|
|
But you know, it's one that when you die and people lose access to your device.
|
||
|
|
Those pictures are lost.
|
||
|
|
No, I think it's actually so important to actually get a service where you know what's it called?
|
||
|
|
Is it image art or something?
|
||
|
|
Image, image.
|
||
|
|
It's sort of just almost like I don't turn to a self-hosted alternative to Google.
|
||
|
|
So everything's on a hard drive.
|
||
|
|
You're thinking it's so important for people to have that.
|
||
|
|
You say, look, there you go.
|
||
|
|
Here's the twin, I'm gone.
|
||
|
|
That's a, that's a requested show right there.
|
||
|
|
Possibly is.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I, I have started commenting on the mastodon feed.
|
||
|
|
And one thing that really struck me about this one was,
|
||
|
|
paraphrasing when I wrote, was that archivists take color photos of black and white images.
|
||
|
|
I thought that was very interesting.
|
||
|
|
In order to preserve everything related to the image.
|
||
|
|
It's fascinating.
|
||
|
|
I'm fascinated by archiving anyway, just as I buy the buy.
|
||
|
|
And this show really was right up my street.
|
||
|
|
You know, for me, show not a 4HPR show, if you know what I mean.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I actually was really interested when we spoke about the,
|
||
|
|
I loved almost like the week in a legal caveat.
|
||
|
|
Don't blame me if you ruin your negatives.
|
||
|
|
It looks like you've talked about it in the last one.
|
||
|
|
But I was completely unaware that scanning software by default has a fixer built in
|
||
|
|
so that, you know, if something is curved, it tries to correct it.
|
||
|
|
I did not know that.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
And I've asked him as well to do more on the physical hardware setup.
|
||
|
|
I know he mentions it in both episodes.
|
||
|
|
But some photos and maybe walking through the,
|
||
|
|
they are now well, take this and I put it in here and it's, you know,
|
||
|
|
just physically walking us through it would also be good.
|
||
|
|
A bit like how Mr. X replaced his battery in this radio.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Um, the golden age of science fiction.
|
||
|
|
And this is a hooker.
|
||
|
|
And, yeah, of course, it's a look at the hairliest, early history of science fiction,
|
||
|
|
focusing on the golden age roughly a decade from 1939 to 1950.
|
||
|
|
And I think Shulesvarne is turning this grade to hear that commented.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I must have listened to this one on the way over today to work.
|
||
|
|
And again, I love fantasy generally anyway.
|
||
|
|
So quite interesting.
|
||
|
|
Although, it's funny how things can really stick in your head.
|
||
|
|
He mentioned about HG Wells.
|
||
|
|
And I studied a few of his in school.
|
||
|
|
And it's amazing how even though it's a subject I love.
|
||
|
|
How was it?
|
||
|
|
Has a lot to answer for.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
To this day, don't read HG Wells because I was serious.
|
||
|
|
I'm not reading them for me.
|
||
|
|
I remember we got Silas Mariner as a book three for one of our years.
|
||
|
|
And yeah, I was actually a good book.
|
||
|
|
And I went home and did what I normally do with a book, which is like read it in a few
|
||
|
|
days, few hours.
|
||
|
|
And it was the worst thing you could have done because of the whole year.
|
||
|
|
You had people reading it out one line at a time.
|
||
|
|
I was like, this is the most painful thing.
|
||
|
|
You ruined the book.
|
||
|
|
Oh, they totally ruined books.
|
||
|
|
I mean, it's the way I don't know.
|
||
|
|
Like I've reccomend with Ireland, but certainly in the UK, they just drag the back end.
|
||
|
|
It's like, look, do I have to, do I really have to write my thoughts over?
|
||
|
|
He went out to do it and walked to the end of the garden.
|
||
|
|
There's no office, a little philosophical thing about that.
|
||
|
|
He literally just went out to do it and walked the end of the garden.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
What was the tone?
|
||
|
|
What was the meaning?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
But I think there are a lot more chill now than they used to be.
|
||
|
|
As a teacher, I'm not so sure.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
No, I enjoyed this whole thing.
|
||
|
|
And I must have been.
|
||
|
|
Jules Verne has been one of these authors.
|
||
|
|
I've been meaning to get into.
|
||
|
|
I just never have to be honest.
|
||
|
|
But, you know, he, I hope he's inspiring me to look at a lot of kind of stuff that I previously had kind of passed over.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
And that's a good thing.
|
||
|
|
I think I really wasn't too, you know, we can get quite, we can get a lot of science fiction in longer.
|
||
|
|
But I'm from Oxford, but that's the closest term.
|
||
|
|
And I was like a huge Azimov ham.
|
||
|
|
And I recently went back and reread everything from Azimov.
|
||
|
|
And I, it's amazing how enlightened I've become in the intervening time.
|
||
|
|
I got, okay, that was definitely written in the 60s.
|
||
|
|
And this was definitely written in the 70s.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Science fiction is a reflection of the times that it's written.
|
||
|
|
And I think it's where I'm going with that.
|
||
|
|
Oh, totally.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It's amazing not going back to the older stuff and you're thinking, what would have been, you know, obviously,
|
||
|
|
futuristic and stupid at the time.
|
||
|
|
It's like, no, this is pretty dated now.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, but not even that is just the attitudes towards going on in the attitudes to various relations and stuff.
|
||
|
|
And I think you have to, I think you have to accommodate that if you were willing to read older books.
|
||
|
|
You know, you can't just put it straight down and say, this person's an assortment, this person's an eraser.
|
||
|
|
It was just probably the attitude of the times, which you're not seeing the attitude of right.
|
||
|
|
It's just you have to call, accommodate for that.
|
||
|
|
You really do.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It's, I must say, my egg of the Christy, love egg of the Christy as well.
|
||
|
|
And now I'm going, okay.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Perhaps, perhaps not.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Artifascar, I'm going to leave open.
|
||
|
|
I don't want to come back to that.
|
||
|
|
So we had some other comments on previous shows.
|
||
|
|
So I'll come back now, Kevin, to the HVR community news page.
|
||
|
|
And there was a Kevin O'Brien that I just think is best by myself.
|
||
|
|
So I see Peter Preston, solo spider is going back listening to older shows.
|
||
|
|
And this was episode one, three, two, two.
|
||
|
|
Fantastic.
|
||
|
|
Find in the tags.
|
||
|
|
I was, I was actually attending OLF 2013.
|
||
|
|
That's cool.
|
||
|
|
I went with my good friend Warren Myers and a few from the then blue grass log.
|
||
|
|
He spoke at OLF 2023 on Syslog for fun and profit.
|
||
|
|
It was a fun time and talking in the conference, but also been a volunteer from first aid team.
|
||
|
|
It's hard to say that there were no major incidents that required my attention.
|
||
|
|
Did not attend many of the talks, but did enjoy visiting the vendor area.
|
||
|
|
And remember visiting the Libral for the booth.
|
||
|
|
So it is possible that I met Kevin in person, Kevin and person.
|
||
|
|
I still have a stuffed canoe that I want at the lottery.
|
||
|
|
It sits next to talks.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for the memories.
|
||
|
|
I need to make more.
|
||
|
|
Fantastic.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
And he's continuing.
|
||
|
|
He does seem to be actually going down to the normal.
|
||
|
|
He's going through the room.
|
||
|
|
Because this is episode one, six, four, two.
|
||
|
|
First time I don't camp by all.
|
||
|
|
And Peter was posted.
|
||
|
|
I'll then ten years later you attended OLF campus, a member of Tuxjam.
|
||
|
|
And he a short walk with my son, the love book.
|
||
|
|
Alex, Alex was so young as two and a half years old.
|
||
|
|
This might be a couple of years after I pause listening to the podcast backlog.
|
||
|
|
I need to get back to that.
|
||
|
|
The mention of the Duffer cast was a blast from the past two.
|
||
|
|
And I listened to every published episode.
|
||
|
|
I'm sure how many got lost in time with a lot more Dave.
|
||
|
|
That was the first run.
|
||
|
|
This was a fun first HBR for you.
|
||
|
|
And then HPR2503, my journey into podcasting by the love bug.
|
||
|
|
Peter comments, Dave, what does your dad want?
|
||
|
|
Really, really want.
|
||
|
|
Oh, I did not know that about him.
|
||
|
|
Very interesting news.
|
||
|
|
One of my claims in life is that I have listened to the first bug cast show
|
||
|
|
although I did so in 2021.
|
||
|
|
The year that George introduced me to you all.
|
||
|
|
Since then I have listened to over 50% of bug cast shows right now I am on a pause.
|
||
|
|
Just after Alexandra was born.
|
||
|
|
Thank you for being an inspiration to many, including myself to get into podcasting.
|
||
|
|
We are all part of a chain of good peer pressure.
|
||
|
|
So glad that you know.
|
||
|
|
I'm so glad to know you made and happy to call you a beer drinking buddy in the aftershoes and pod crawl.
|
||
|
|
Fantastic.
|
||
|
|
He also left a comment on the random or IO Linux Fest two of 18 podcast roundtable by Taj.
|
||
|
|
So much wonderful banter indeed.
|
||
|
|
This is why I miss going to such key conferences.
|
||
|
|
Because there's always center around food.
|
||
|
|
I really need to visit the market now.
|
||
|
|
I didn't know anyone local when I first attended OLF in 2023.
|
||
|
|
Therefore, I did not know existed.
|
||
|
|
Would be interested to see if there's still have a yak burger.
|
||
|
|
You'll have to take me there during OLF 2025.
|
||
|
|
Thank you for most entertaining show.
|
||
|
|
Just by the way, there are.
|
||
|
|
He's not posting them all at the one time.
|
||
|
|
So there's a few days between each of these posts.
|
||
|
|
Yes, I do keep going.
|
||
|
|
He was very busy in the month of November.
|
||
|
|
So HPR 3315.
|
||
|
|
So this is actually he should just record all these comments and submit them as a show himself
|
||
|
|
rather than have a nose read them out.
|
||
|
|
Or we could read them are played at the point where it comes to reading in mind.
|
||
|
|
Okay, we'll do it this month, right?
|
||
|
|
But next month he can just record a common show on the HPR episodes.
|
||
|
|
And then it's a show.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
I'll message that to him directly.
|
||
|
|
Thanks.
|
||
|
|
So this one is Tesseract optical characteristic recognition.
|
||
|
|
I show by yourself.
|
||
|
|
So Ken, I was talking without your 72 slash mark today.
|
||
|
|
Of course I was mentioned that I use Tesseract OCR
|
||
|
|
for my mission assist work.
|
||
|
|
And he informed me of your show.
|
||
|
|
Mission assist is a UK based charity.
|
||
|
|
I volunteer for them as a digitization keyboard
|
||
|
|
or receiving PDF scans of Bibles and other books from people groups all over the world
|
||
|
|
and type in the character text into a structured text file.
|
||
|
|
And it includes a link there.
|
||
|
|
Tesseract is a wonderful tool that helps me with a lot of processes
|
||
|
|
obtaining a text file and then working directly on it.
|
||
|
|
I do plan talking about this work as an HPR show.
|
||
|
|
Given my current work with normal vice medical needs,
|
||
|
|
it will probably be in the new year.
|
||
|
|
And he does leave a quick caveat comment apologies for the misspelling of Tesseract
|
||
|
|
in my previous comment.
|
||
|
|
I can never remember that name of that.
|
||
|
|
Every time I go back to it, I have to go to my HPR episode to find out for search
|
||
|
|
at OCR.
|
||
|
|
Find out whether the name was in the episode and then paste it in.
|
||
|
|
And then I can find the back script study.
|
||
|
|
He also commented on using the open source OCR
|
||
|
|
to digitize my mom's book by Delta Ray.
|
||
|
|
Greetings Delta Ray.
|
||
|
|
So please to meet you.
|
||
|
|
My own experience of Tesseract OCR is via my voluntary work at Mission Assist.
|
||
|
|
Mission Assist is a UK based charity.
|
||
|
|
Can you not just read this?
|
||
|
|
That's what I'm just thinking.
|
||
|
|
No, he's copied and paste.
|
||
|
|
Ah, he's coming in.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
So I'll skip that.
|
||
|
|
Tesseract is a wonderful tool that helps me with a lot of the processing,
|
||
|
|
upstanding text from files and working directly through it.
|
||
|
|
Since I run KDE, I use spectacle to highlight an area of the PDF.
|
||
|
|
I want to convert to a P&D file with Tesseract to load.
|
||
|
|
A lot of the scans we receive are not exactly straight,
|
||
|
|
often in columns, having marks and bleed them through on the other side.
|
||
|
|
So not always a straight forward OCR process.
|
||
|
|
I save the files with chapters and verse reference in the titles.
|
||
|
|
Once I have a set of P&G files in my allocated chapter,
|
||
|
|
I simply run Tesseract to profile to create a text file.
|
||
|
|
I then use cast to collect the text files into one file to work on.
|
||
|
|
Your show was really more about using bash,
|
||
|
|
especially the grip command to process your project.
|
||
|
|
I learned a lot from that alone thanks for the education.
|
||
|
|
Check your HP on profile.
|
||
|
|
Not surprised to find you're the guy behind CLI magic.
|
||
|
|
I didn't follow you on Twitter, but left after the buyout,
|
||
|
|
I'm glad to know that you're mastered on,
|
||
|
|
and I followed your account today.
|
||
|
|
I didn't plan recording my own show about using Tesseract
|
||
|
|
as I volunteer at Mission Assessed,
|
||
|
|
but give my current workload that won't be open until 2025, etc.
|
||
|
|
Question for Peter that I'd like to answer.
|
||
|
|
If you're scanning Bibles, no offense.
|
||
|
|
This is a genuine question.
|
||
|
|
Do we not know what the text of Bibles were?
|
||
|
|
Why do we need to scan the different versions?
|
||
|
|
What is the purpose?
|
||
|
|
But I look forward to hearing an answer to that in your episode.
|
||
|
|
Do you know what I mean when I'm asking that question, Kevin?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I get what you mean.
|
||
|
|
You see, because I'm trying to be some digital versions anyway.
|
||
|
|
Why scan another one?
|
||
|
|
That's true, right?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, and like, it was the boom.
|
||
|
|
But that hopefully will be answered in the episode.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
And Peter goes on to say in HP are 4106,
|
||
|
|
so at least one of the fours when I would get near.
|
||
|
|
This seriously, this is an episode,
|
||
|
|
just because you know,
|
||
|
|
if the comment exceeds a thing,
|
||
|
|
this seriously is a show unto itself.
|
||
|
|
And you can call it as the month in review,
|
||
|
|
by podcasting, listing in review.
|
||
|
|
Okay, carry on, because there's a lot of these.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
So this is my tribute to feeds by Henry Cameron.
|
||
|
|
Pleased to meet you, Henry, although I have heard of feeds,
|
||
|
|
especially on SS, I have not really utilized that system
|
||
|
|
for yesterday.
|
||
|
|
Archer 72, often mentions newsboard,
|
||
|
|
which is a reader for the terminal.
|
||
|
|
He's sitting as Android phone.
|
||
|
|
Yesterday, I investigated my own options
|
||
|
|
and went into INU reader,
|
||
|
|
which is both a website and an Android app.
|
||
|
|
I'll already set up the following feeds.
|
||
|
|
HP are, HP are radio comment feed,
|
||
|
|
the bunkastog feed, Tuxjam organ cut,
|
||
|
|
and OLF conference.
|
||
|
|
Can I actually collect that?
|
||
|
|
No, Tuxjam organ cut.
|
||
|
|
There's Tuxjam on cut.
|
||
|
|
So if you're looking for an NP3,
|
||
|
|
no other cut, it doesn't exist.
|
||
|
|
It's amazing how big, or SS is,
|
||
|
|
how important SS is,
|
||
|
|
and how Firefox took it out,
|
||
|
|
Mozilla took support out of the browser.
|
||
|
|
I think that was a very, very poor move.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
I added it back using the extension
|
||
|
|
called Awesome RSS,
|
||
|
|
which when you go to any website
|
||
|
|
that's got an RSS feed,
|
||
|
|
it'll give you the RSS feed links
|
||
|
|
as part of the browser.
|
||
|
|
But that was a deliberate kill
|
||
|
|
by a certain company to unparatize RSS costs.
|
||
|
|
It's such a powerful hands control
|
||
|
|
to the person themselves.
|
||
|
|
And that makes it very difficult to generate revenue.
|
||
|
|
Or to track, actually,
|
||
|
|
revenue can be generated,
|
||
|
|
but it makes it difficult to track people.
|
||
|
|
Or are you?
|
||
|
|
You have to do 4129.
|
||
|
|
I don't know.
|
||
|
|
Okay, yes.
|
||
|
|
How I find Hacker Republic Radio,
|
||
|
|
Hendrick, this again,
|
||
|
|
the Silver Spider, Hendrick,
|
||
|
|
we have a commonality with Linux Mint.
|
||
|
|
Around that distro from 2008 to 2016.
|
||
|
|
I was a regular listener to the Mintcast.
|
||
|
|
In fact, I officially represented them
|
||
|
|
in 2013 when I attended the Ohio Linux Fest.
|
||
|
|
Don't really remember HPRB mentioned back then,
|
||
|
|
but that's probably just my memory.
|
||
|
|
It was not until I joined
|
||
|
|
taking coffee with Miwi,
|
||
|
|
then in Telegram,
|
||
|
|
but I heard more about HPRVO Geospart and others.
|
||
|
|
We, he led me to the broadcast,
|
||
|
|
and then to Toxjam,
|
||
|
|
probably both podcasts heavily mentioned on HPR,
|
||
|
|
but I only occasionally checked out the show.
|
||
|
|
I really was not,
|
||
|
|
it was really not until I met
|
||
|
|
Arthur 72 Mark Rice in person
|
||
|
|
in the hospital drama room
|
||
|
|
that I knew I really needed to check out HPR more.
|
||
|
|
He leaves and breathes from HPR.
|
||
|
|
Now I have a show under my belt
|
||
|
|
and I'm here to stay.
|
||
|
|
Thanks. Take care, mate.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
And then this is a comment on HPR4132.
|
||
|
|
You random talks of the future of HPR.
|
||
|
|
So again, he's copy and pasted that first bit.
|
||
|
|
So I knew Mark wanted to be at OLF,
|
||
|
|
but could not make it due to a car accident and care.
|
||
|
|
It's also the same reason
|
||
|
|
that he and I go together in person
|
||
|
|
despite living 30 miles apart
|
||
|
|
and chatting over mastodon for over a year.
|
||
|
|
Mark asked me if I knew Taj
|
||
|
|
and the U random podcast
|
||
|
|
to which I responded
|
||
|
|
that I did not.
|
||
|
|
So tonight I checked out Taj's name,
|
||
|
|
Taj's name link on HPR
|
||
|
|
and found the discussion show.
|
||
|
|
An excellent way to connect
|
||
|
|
the U random and HPR dots for me.
|
||
|
|
My route to HPR,
|
||
|
|
this sounds very familiar.
|
||
|
|
My route to HPR
|
||
|
|
podcasters such as the love bug,
|
||
|
|
from the broadcast of Tuxjam
|
||
|
|
and Kevian McNallu,
|
||
|
|
Tuxjam as well as
|
||
|
|
Geospar from Technofe.
|
||
|
|
Kevys Teenage Sunlucky Boy played a large part too.
|
||
|
|
What connects these together is telegram
|
||
|
|
and also mastodon.
|
||
|
|
It was this group that encouraged me to record
|
||
|
|
and upload my own introduction episode.
|
||
|
|
HPR4258.
|
||
|
|
Currently my HPR discussions have been mostly on telegram,
|
||
|
|
especially joining the group there
|
||
|
|
and via mastodon with the HPR tag.
|
||
|
|
Maybe I should join the mailing list.
|
||
|
|
Not a fan of following a podcast on YouTube.
|
||
|
|
I mostly do that for church services,
|
||
|
|
not for discord,
|
||
|
|
which I am really not that keen on
|
||
|
|
and dropped a while back.
|
||
|
|
What I see keeping this
|
||
|
|
loose community together is a central website
|
||
|
|
of personal contacts.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for the history and insight
|
||
|
|
to what HPR means to you,
|
||
|
|
to the U random guys.
|
||
|
|
By the way, I did laugh
|
||
|
|
that you have a Facebook page
|
||
|
|
which I did join.
|
||
|
|
Talk about being a popular media.
|
||
|
|
I am hoping to record more shows
|
||
|
|
but that comes from
|
||
|
|
good friends,
|
||
|
|
personal peer pressure.
|
||
|
|
By the way, maybe next year
|
||
|
|
Mark and I shall attend OLF
|
||
|
|
for me the last time was 9 years ago
|
||
|
|
in 2015.
|
||
|
|
And he comments
|
||
|
|
into Dr. Who.
|
||
|
|
Growing up in Scotland,
|
||
|
|
Dr. Who was part of my culture.
|
||
|
|
First doctor was John Partree.
|
||
|
|
I drifted in and out of watching
|
||
|
|
classic Dr. Who,
|
||
|
|
but have been catching up on brickbox
|
||
|
|
when I moved to Kentucky, USA,
|
||
|
|
in 1999.
|
||
|
|
My wife and I enjoy watching Christopher Eccleston.
|
||
|
|
The ninth doctor,
|
||
|
|
he remains our favorite.
|
||
|
|
But when I was watching the Amazon Prime Max
|
||
|
|
Disney Plus,
|
||
|
|
Dr. Who still remains a large part
|
||
|
|
of my culture.
|
||
|
|
I thank you for introducing
|
||
|
|
the introduction for the film.
|
||
|
|
That's all everyone else.
|
||
|
|
And HPR 4220,
|
||
|
|
how Dr. Who began.
|
||
|
|
This is still Peter, by the way.
|
||
|
|
Who got wonderful summary
|
||
|
|
of Dr. Who and how it all started.
|
||
|
|
I agree that an adventure
|
||
|
|
in space on time
|
||
|
|
is an excellent
|
||
|
|
event for us to watch.
|
||
|
|
The doctor who show
|
||
|
|
does take a lot of twists
|
||
|
|
and turns along its long history
|
||
|
|
and continues to do
|
||
|
|
with the latest incarnations.
|
||
|
|
Siltra remains through to the concept
|
||
|
|
of the doctor
|
||
|
|
and the hardest having adventure.
|
||
|
|
On August 24,
|
||
|
|
he comments
|
||
|
|
No, to your spark,
|
||
|
|
comments.
|
||
|
|
I was just listening
|
||
|
|
to this on my morning walkies
|
||
|
|
and I realized
|
||
|
|
why I don't podcast regularly
|
||
|
|
as I hit the sound
|
||
|
|
of my own voice.
|
||
|
|
Great interview, Ken.
|
||
|
|
All identical show for microphone
|
||
|
|
under your nose.
|
||
|
|
There we go.
|
||
|
|
And Peter comments
|
||
|
|
on episode 4236
|
||
|
|
in the video.
|
||
|
|
And Peter comments
|
||
|
|
on episode 4236
|
||
|
|
History of Nintendo.
|
||
|
|
Lucky boy Alexander
|
||
|
|
Team Guy.
|
||
|
|
Thank you for giving us
|
||
|
|
your Nintendo.
|
||
|
|
I learned much.
|
||
|
|
It will probably not surprise
|
||
|
|
you at all to learn
|
||
|
|
that I have never owned a gaming console.
|
||
|
|
Well, not a proper one.
|
||
|
|
I have a Walkman
|
||
|
|
Castile cassette player
|
||
|
|
from Alba.
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That has a version
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of the game.
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I'm going to read it back
|
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in the day and say
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it sligs its
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at our mom's house.
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My nephew Nathan
|
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enjoys his DS.
|
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Ariana did own a switch
|
||
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but gave it to my niece start
|
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in 2022 just before we met
|
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with you in Inverness.
|
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Keep on enjoying your gaming mate.
|
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And John Kirkwood
|
||
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left a comment
|
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like to play
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with a virtual boy.
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There's a fantastic video game
|
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in Malaga
|
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Spain.
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That has a working virtual boy.
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You can't strap it to your head
|
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and move around
|
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as the headset is security attached
|
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to your stand.
|
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But you can put your eyes
|
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in the headset
|
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and experience 90s VR.
|
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The museum is called
|
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We accidentally stumbled
|
||
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across this while over in spin
|
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on holidays from the museum
|
||
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last year.
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And sorry for butchering
|
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|
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Bethany.
|
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|
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Next one, HPR
|
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4238.
|
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Oh, I was wondering how many hell
|
||
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on this would take.
|
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Snaps are better than flat packs
|
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by some guy on the internet.
|
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So comment two.
|
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Eliot B.
|
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comes down to provenance.
|
||
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I need to be sure that my software is coming
|
||
|
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from a trusted source.
|
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|
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I originally favoured
|
||
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Apple images because I could get them
|
||
|
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directly from the developers.
|
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|
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However, updating Apple images
|
||
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and integrating them into
|
||
|
|
application launchers is a manual process.
|
||
|
|
Snaps aren't perfect.
|
||
|
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They are slow to install
|
||
|
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when compared to AppGate.
|
||
|
|
They consume a lot of disk space
|
||
|
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and they clutter the
|
||
|
|
developers directly manage their own software
|
||
|
|
on the Snaps, Store
|
||
|
|
and FlatHub.
|
||
|
|
Most of the App images
|
||
|
|
I use are also available
|
||
|
|
directly from the original developers
|
||
|
|
on Snaps Store.
|
||
|
|
So I migrated to Snaps.
|
||
|
|
There are too many flat packs
|
||
|
|
managed by random people
|
||
|
|
and not enough verified flat packs.
|
||
|
|
I avoid Snaps that aren't managed
|
||
|
|
by either canonical
|
||
|
|
or the original developers.
|
||
|
|
And there was another comment.
|
||
|
|
There was actually two comments.
|
||
|
|
There was more than two comments.
|
||
|
|
Snaps. And before I read that,
|
||
|
|
I just want to say for the person
|
||
|
|
who is expecting to see the comments here,
|
||
|
|
we don't tolerate
|
||
|
|
target of the text
|
||
|
|
against individuals on HPR.
|
||
|
|
So I deleted your comments
|
||
|
|
spam.
|
||
|
|
And also I have a fair idea
|
||
|
|
who it is that's doing this.
|
||
|
|
So this is your opportunity
|
||
|
|
to change your behavior
|
||
|
|
and be respectful of the community.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, in part all says,
|
||
|
|
Snaps are indeed better
|
||
|
|
than flat packs.
|
||
|
|
Another great episode, very interesting.
|
||
|
|
Of course, Snaps are better
|
||
|
|
but do not forget,
|
||
|
|
flat packs are also better than Snaps.
|
||
|
|
A bolt are better than App images
|
||
|
|
and even though opportunities
|
||
|
|
are better than both Snaps
|
||
|
|
and flat packs.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's very much.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely.
|
||
|
|
In the token that shoe was recorded.
|
||
|
|
Yes, exactly.
|
||
|
|
I think some going into this
|
||
|
|
would definitely agree with that.
|
||
|
|
And Spotify is on HPR.
|
||
|
|
Our HPR is on Spotify.
|
||
|
|
So I also agree with that.
|
||
|
|
I was at any stage.
|
||
|
|
Do you want to fight an HPR?
|
||
|
|
Did HPR take over a very big
|
||
|
|
section in the last month?
|
||
|
|
Fine. We have more content
|
||
|
|
to play up.
|
||
|
|
Right, then.
|
||
|
|
So HPR
|
||
|
|
0870
|
||
|
|
Oh, let's go back to 2011.
|
||
|
|
Computer Memories.
|
||
|
|
By Delta Ray. So this is,
|
||
|
|
this comment is by Peter Patterson.
|
||
|
|
Thanks Delta Ray.
|
||
|
|
Thanks Delta Ray for your
|
||
|
|
computer experience broadcast
|
||
|
|
on your 2011 shoe.
|
||
|
|
Going by your dating,
|
||
|
|
I believe I am maybe
|
||
|
|
about a decade older than you
|
||
|
|
at age 57 now.
|
||
|
|
My first computer was
|
||
|
|
in 1983.
|
||
|
|
An Oric 1 16K British
|
||
|
|
based 6502
|
||
|
|
machine.
|
||
|
|
Our first
|
||
|
|
commonality in the timeline
|
||
|
|
is an Amiga I owned a 1200
|
||
|
|
and also a CDTV
|
||
|
|
fun machines.
|
||
|
|
I did add an internal HD
|
||
|
|
to the 1200.
|
||
|
|
I still have it, but
|
||
|
|
it's not been powered in many years.
|
||
|
|
My American wife and her brother
|
||
|
|
co-owned a Commodore 128.
|
||
|
|
It currently sits
|
||
|
|
in my computer room covered
|
||
|
|
along with a 1084 monitor.
|
||
|
|
Two floppy
|
||
|
|
disk drives and a printer.
|
||
|
|
It's a great system
|
||
|
|
and one I should really
|
||
|
|
fire up again.
|
||
|
|
I did have some experience with
|
||
|
|
an Amstrad PCW
|
||
|
|
8256
|
||
|
|
and a PCW
|
||
|
|
8512 that my parents owned
|
||
|
|
for their business.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for the memories meet.
|
||
|
|
So why is your return to
|
||
|
|
his wife as my American wife?
|
||
|
|
Does he also have a Scottish wife?
|
||
|
|
Possibly I am not
|
||
|
|
commenting.
|
||
|
|
I was actually thinking
|
||
|
|
of what do you have?
|
||
|
|
1800 for
|
||
|
|
1884 monitors.
|
||
|
|
That's a lot.
|
||
|
|
All of which should be
|
||
|
|
a show.
|
||
|
|
We are never doing that again.
|
||
|
|
So the spider.
|
||
|
|
That was brutal.
|
||
|
|
You need to leave shortly.
|
||
|
|
If you need to drop off,
|
||
|
|
it's fine.
|
||
|
|
I can continue on.
|
||
|
|
Let's mosey down
|
||
|
|
to the discussions for this month.
|
||
|
|
So there was hanging up
|
||
|
|
the mock by Dave Morris.
|
||
|
|
So
|
||
|
|
and it was
|
||
|
|
in response to my
|
||
|
|
comment
|
||
|
|
Dave said,
|
||
|
|
thanks Ken.
|
||
|
|
I'm a bit of a loss for words
|
||
|
|
and responding to your great message.
|
||
|
|
I knew there was an
|
||
|
|
unusual guy called
|
||
|
|
Ken Falan who was behind
|
||
|
|
this.
|
||
|
|
I found him to be a generous
|
||
|
|
warm hearted dynamic
|
||
|
|
individual when we met
|
||
|
|
the Liverpool on
|
||
|
|
camp at 2012.
|
||
|
|
I also met a number of
|
||
|
|
HBR community members
|
||
|
|
that year.
|
||
|
|
I found myself a green
|
||
|
|
join in with the upcoming
|
||
|
|
community news show.
|
||
|
|
It wasn't long before I found
|
||
|
|
myself helping out with the
|
||
|
|
community and generally being
|
||
|
|
bored.
|
||
|
|
Before long, I was being kept busy
|
||
|
|
by doing stuff for HBR
|
||
|
|
which was far better.
|
||
|
|
Hanging out with Ken at various
|
||
|
|
on-camp meetings was
|
||
|
|
a delight as
|
||
|
|
where our
|
||
|
|
FOS demo visits.
|
||
|
|
We both attended for a few years.
|
||
|
|
I certainly consider
|
||
|
|
Ken to be a close friend.
|
||
|
|
I was delighted to meet him
|
||
|
|
many of them at the camp
|
||
|
|
and other events.
|
||
|
|
I have recorded HBR episodes
|
||
|
|
with several of them over the years
|
||
|
|
and it's been a great time.
|
||
|
|
I will not be leaving HBR
|
||
|
|
community as I said in my
|
||
|
|
email and
|
||
|
|
may well go to
|
||
|
|
on-camp the next on-camp.
|
||
|
|
I hope to continue the HBR
|
||
|
|
journey for many more years
|
||
|
|
but as a civilian.
|
||
|
|
Dave, thank you very much
|
||
|
|
for your time.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
I found myself cutting back a little as I get older.
|
||
|
|
You start to think in terms
|
||
|
|
of what you most want to do
|
||
|
|
with the time left to you
|
||
|
|
or maybe that's just me
|
||
|
|
regards Kevin.
|
||
|
|
And Dave responds
|
||
|
|
with thanks for the kind words Kevin
|
||
|
|
it's not just you
|
||
|
|
though these thoughts
|
||
|
|
are in my mind to Dave.
|
||
|
|
And then Dave
|
||
|
|
responded to the list
|
||
|
|
on archer 72
|
||
|
|
asked me to let everybody know that he is currently in hospital after a car accident.
|
||
|
|
framework for which he's had surgery. We've posted more details on mastodon with a scary
|
||
|
|
picture of his car. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, and Claudio has, Claudio M has responded. Whoa, I just saw the picture on mastodon and
|
||
|
|
it is a blessing that Archer 72 is still with us. That's for sure definitely something to be
|
||
|
|
thankful for this upcoming Thanksgiving season here in the US. Wish you a speedy recovery,
|
||
|
|
Archer 72, Claudio. And it was horrific. Oh, totally. I mean, that car. To be honest, yeah,
|
||
|
|
Claudio said it on the head. You're looking at the car, you're thinking no one, not likely,
|
||
|
|
something like that. No. Yeah. So I don't know how to follow that. There was a lot of
|
||
|
|
I think we need to take a few moments to say how much Archer 72 does for the community. He's a great
|
||
|
|
guy. He's him and some guy in the internet are now janitors on the matrix channel, part of my
|
||
|
|
evil plan to get them involved more, but softly, softly, and whatever you do, don't tell them.
|
||
|
|
And so great stuff. And God, that was a bit of a shock to see that. Oh, wow.
|
||
|
|
But lots of chats on the mastodon, lots of chats on the matrix. It was good to see Archer 72
|
||
|
|
making progress. A lot more progress is walking around and it's back home now. So that is
|
||
|
|
good news. Our thoughts and prayers for those of you who have been partaking that definitely go
|
||
|
|
to them. Absolutely. I'll do the thoughts. You can do the prayers. How about that?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, but definitely fine. But I think more than just those two.
|
||
|
|
Exactly. Exactly. But I will say, I'm not going to compare mine to anything like that. But one
|
||
|
|
thing I will say is when you are, you know, and you're in the hospital bed, and you really can't
|
||
|
|
do much. It's amazing how much just even people talking to you online and on the, you know,
|
||
|
|
from various chats and things, it just parks you up. So honestly, if you're thinking, oh,
|
||
|
|
I don't know what to say. You don't have to say anything specific. Just yarn. You know,
|
||
|
|
because it really does, you know, lift you up. That's good to your good device because I'm a bit
|
||
|
|
like, what do I say to them? God, that was horrible. Yes, you know, the end of conversation,
|
||
|
|
well, good. You had a bit of a whack too. How are you getting on? Sorry. My whack was nothing
|
||
|
|
compared to the, I'm pretty much recovered. Just the old hands that are taking their sweet old
|
||
|
|
time to recover. That's not like, yeah. And that there, that sort is why I went to computers because
|
||
|
|
I'm a technical engineer. I've had a know for a lot of close calls, you know, just being stupid.
|
||
|
|
Leave in the, you know, chuck key in the chuck of a lathe and it disappeared through the room.
|
||
|
|
Boom. Never did we see him again. Just bars going right past my head. And so I wouldn't have,
|
||
|
|
I wouldn't have survived. And yeah, there you go. Probably need to hear that. Oh, no. Actually,
|
||
|
|
I wish I could actually, I actually need you to come over to my load and actually emphasize
|
||
|
|
his importance of doing that dash stuff. And at times I say to look, you'd probably be sacked
|
||
|
|
if you walked away from that chuck, that lathe chuck in the dash thing. They just don't get it.
|
||
|
|
Yeah. Yeah. It's, and, you know, your app, even when you're young, like, those a few times where
|
||
|
|
I was going after us, you're okay. That was it. I, two inches further to the left. And I would have
|
||
|
|
been at, you know, I would have been local boy passes away in, in side circumstances in the newspaper.
|
||
|
|
But yeah, where are we? Bastard on shutting down their account. And we need to migrate.
|
||
|
|
This is from me, because I was hoping to move hacker public radio account from, so bots in space
|
||
|
|
where we had our master on account was shutting down. And there was a master on the bot,
|
||
|
|
which seemed like the ideal place to go to. So I was asking people if there was any help that
|
||
|
|
there could be given in order to move. Yeah. And we've got a response from John the
|
||
|
|
Skysprings, Terence Eden, Edenton's master on dot social has quite a few boards. He might
|
||
|
|
be in a position to help you. And also, I'll read the next one. So then you go too. And then also
|
||
|
|
we have got my mind's just come black. Yeah. David, it's from the Linux Linux,
|
||
|
|
another Linux links podcast. You know, you remember. And he says, I'm currently looking into
|
||
|
|
a master on dot bot to migrate a bot account, see explore dot master on dot bots for slash FAQ.
|
||
|
|
So I said, thanks guys for the feedback. The services we looked at were bots in space bots in a box,
|
||
|
|
which is a paid service. And I didn't mind paying for it. It was that there didn't see to be
|
||
|
|
that many people there. And I was kind of reluctant to go to a service, no criticism of the service
|
||
|
|
everything. That could shut down. Yeah. And then we had the activity bot, which was the turn
|
||
|
|
secret one. And we interviewed Terence on day two of Alcab. He's the park benches guy. And
|
||
|
|
he says himself, he has written some software that's a non-production locally hosted too,
|
||
|
|
which I was very interested in, but we have a lot of stuff going on and it will be another
|
||
|
|
thing to manage. And it's also non-production. And you also, I can't log in as the HPR bot character
|
||
|
|
and respond to my own posts. So that was out. Master on dot bot was a volunteer pay service,
|
||
|
|
but as lots of people found out, they are not responding to to requests. There was master on
|
||
|
|
dot social as well. But the HPR account was set up by somebody in 2017. They've never posted. And
|
||
|
|
it's, yeah, it's, yeah, it's basically the account has gone. And I didn't want hacker public. I
|
||
|
|
wanted to ask HPR specifically, you know, the three letters to make it easier for people to migrate.
|
||
|
|
And then somebody suggested your room as on the link is there on master. Now suggested info
|
||
|
|
sec.exchange. And I requested an account. And then basically got it. So that was that was where
|
||
|
|
we were at. Yeah, good. And Kevin O'Brien responded with glad it came in handy for you came.
|
||
|
|
And that was the migration. And David says he ended up migrating there as well.
|
||
|
|
And John springs. Did I not send out a message saying that we have migrated?
|
||
|
|
I thought you had, but it's not on the list. Yeah, maybe on what we're not into next month,
|
||
|
|
yes, of the time we're recording this, but otherwise on the list. Anyway, we are, we have moved to
|
||
|
|
to thingy. And I literally followed Kevin's instructions and listening to Kevin's, as Kevin says,
|
||
|
|
in the instructions, it'll probably take you less time to migrate than listening to the show.
|
||
|
|
I can testify to that. Other than the 10 minutes where it says wait five minutes and I
|
||
|
|
waited 10 minutes to be sure to be sure. It was absolutely for campaign. It was the most
|
||
|
|
painless thing migration I've ever done in my life. It was fantastic. And, you know, when you
|
||
|
|
design something, testament, design something to be migration ready from the word go. And
|
||
|
|
as soon as you finish the migration, you import, you list, you import, you know, and then
|
||
|
|
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All the other people that
|
||
|
|
used to follow you start following you automatically as to switch the service. So the message goes
|
||
|
|
out and tells the old service that they moved. And there's presumably some sort of verification.
|
||
|
|
And then like within hours, I had 480 people that migrated to the new server.
|
||
|
|
Painless. Absolutely. Perfect. Yeah, and that's exactly what you want. You wanted to be as
|
||
|
|
hassle free as possible. You do, you do for sure. And then we had Dave's message, community news
|
||
|
|
next month, possibly his last. More work for me. So if he wants to help just doing the community
|
||
|
|
news show, like it's one show a month, 12 shows a year, that would be cool. The scripts and stuff
|
||
|
|
in place. And normally all I have to do is just walk up and Dave has the absolute page ready
|
||
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for me. And we just talk. So even this month's show has all been Dave's work. So that's a thing.
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And the final comment has been a community content distribution network where network has gone
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live with three hosts. One is in the Netherlands here. My house, the other is in New Jersey,
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Rooms server. And the other is on the IA network, which in itself is geographically dispersed.
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And another location in the Netherlands will be added shortly. So requirements for hosting. So
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this is basically old school stuff. HDR was always had always too much content to be mirrored.
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So back in the day is to marry you. I marry your website, you mirror mine and you know,
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it's a way of distributing the load. And we can do that now because in some places, not everywhere,
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but in some places, fibers rolling out. And people have given me a bit of networks and make a
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Raspberry Pi switch or a couple of super computers back in the days. It's a static site. It comes in.
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Give me this file and it goes back out. And it's actually, I was concerned because,
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you know, we were all worked for home and streaming video conferences during the day as well.
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But because of the nature of RSS, it comes whenever, you know, people turn on the podcast. So there's
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a little blip. There's a little blip. There's a little blip. There's very rarely like a big
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sprue urge of stuff. It's kind of very random in the nature when people in whatever particular
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time zone, you know, turns on the podcast feature in the morning and downloads. So it's, you won't
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ring roses. So you need 24 hour, seven days a week service, fixed IP address, ideally IPv4 and IPv6,
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unlimited bandwidth, fast, greater than half a gigabyte per second,
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internet speeds, large storage, one terabyte or better. If you can go up to four, then you can do
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the pull-money, all the flat files and the web files and stuff. If you only have a terabyte,
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we can do the org feel, again, p3 and opus. You also need permission from your ISP to run a server.
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And we as managers will need contact information where we can contact you if there's issues with
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particular shows or stuff. And optionally, if you have a UPS. And the documentation is on the
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wiki. So that's it for the threat. But if we go back to the show notes itself, there is any
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other business, which I'll quickly go through as well, one second. So it's been a
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month here at HBR towers. As we discussed on the mailing list, most of the time was taken
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doing the migration to master, although the migration itself wasn't that time consuming.
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But also the implementation of the mirror network for HBR community content delivery network.
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If you're interested, some daily stats are available here. And let me go to here.
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So on the first day, we had 9,783 downloads, second day, 8,351, next day, 8,395. So the spike
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is probably me downloading from various different players at low testing. So you can expect that
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about 8 points or in point 3, 8,4,000 episodes a day or files a day. Don't know what they are
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really. Okay, summary of changes to the HBR repo. So Dave uploaded his tooling for processing
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shows now on the GitHub repo, as he's handing over stuff. Ron has gone through that code as we
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speak. We're finally getting around to creating the HBR documentation on the wiki and certain pages.
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If you go to that, repo.analyst.net for slash HBR null cap. And then you'll see the HBR
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documentation. And we've got places where HBR, so information about the CCDN and what you need.
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More information will be coming there about how to set up a Apache server, how to install
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Phil to ban, how to set your redirects, all that sort of stuff. HBR website design, we have this
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open and it's literally a website design. So we got zero feedback on this design proposal, zero,
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none. So that's, must mean everybody is totally 100% happy with it. And in future, there will be no
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episodes about how shitty the HBR website is because perfection has already arrived.
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Clearly, I mean, that's it. Nobody can complain when they were given the chance to, so nobody can.
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Yeah, it's a typical teacher at this. Well, listen, basically, HBR, put up or shut up,
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yeah, I want feedback on it. So please give me feedback. That's thing number one. Thing number
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two, I need a whizzy wig editor that will produce HTML. It can be JavaScript in this case.
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It can be something else. I don't want it to be big and bloated. It has to be small and
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manageable because when you move away, I need to take it over. So if you're suggesting something,
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it needs to be something that you're fairly confident. I can be bugging you for two years
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above it. So therefore, rocks now and staple, rocks are that simple, not requiring all sorts of
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weird languages, not requiring compilation and virtual environments. Small, simple, whizzy
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wig editor for HTML, urgently needed. So two things there, urgently needed on the web design,
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urgently needed on the whizzy wig editor. These are big things that are holding up,
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holding up our changes and it's not something I can bring to the table because I can't design
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my way out of a wet paper bag, let's be honest. No, and that's quite, that is a very special,
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special subject, I would say, not a specialist, but it's something that not everybody can pick
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up and do. I mean, it's so important because obviously, somebody comes to HPR first
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single to see the website. So we want to make a big effort. What we saw from the whole discussion
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and evaluation of what an exponential crisis that we had here in HPR was that people are not
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coming to the main page to listen to the shows, they're coming to the main page to find out about
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HPR project. So we need to be short and snappy, the HPR menus at the top. We've got a big splash
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logo shown where cooler modern, we still need to maintain the H goes to host, the P goes to
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comments and the R goes to the RS SV. Then there's going to be some text underneath that who we are,
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what we do, short and snappy, HPR is community podcast, whatever the shows are committed,
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but on the topic, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, that's a deal. And then I can
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eyes swim names with recorded shows, schedule, subscribe, listen, whole series about. And then
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just two blocks, latest comments and latest episodes. So the episodes can still be on a main page,
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on an episodes page, but the main index page will be just have the latest 10 episodes.
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That way, if somebody puts some sort of controversial thing, just when I'm about to go,
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it's the damage is fairly limited, because I only think that's exposed to the main page
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will be curated by the whole. So if somebody says, this is a show about the Fingit F word,
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about F, whatever. And that's fine. A show about cursing would be interesting, you know, where it comes
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from the taboos, why we, why people need, feel the need to curse, why people feel need not to curse,
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why is it important, blah, blah, that's a show, no problem. However, editorially, we make sure that
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that the feed part, because it's going to everybody in all the word, we make sure that that's
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safe and sanitized, that is that standard operating procedure, but at least then that's not appearing
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on the font page, because somebody needs to actively make a decision to go into that episode,
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and by doing so, they're accepting the responsibility that there are being boys and girls and
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everything in between. And then the comments there, so that's that's kind of the idea. And the style,
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I kind of given what I think might be a nice style of explanation underneath. So comments on that,
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if you don't comment, that's fine, go me assume that it's going to be cool and fine for the next 15
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years, because that's the next time I'm going to update it. But what is a big thing is the
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WYSIWIG editor, because Dave is going away. Dave has been doing an awful lot with the editing of
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the show, and it's creating a HTML files, all that sort of stuff. And what we need to do now is
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pass it back to the host with the role-blowning show, so that we can trust that the text is in
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kind of the format that we wanted to be. And the idea there is that we're going to be changing,
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let me go back to the text, documentation wiki, literally web design, retract, oh yeah, so
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content in the really so useful resources is also there, so links to free culture websites,
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and then requested topics. So if you have requested topics, I'm taking that out of the about
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documentation and putting it onto the wiki page, because then you can just edit that page,
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create an account, edit that page, and then we'll approve it, and then it's right there free to see.
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There's also a list of information about podcasters and podcasting platforms, so that's something
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that I promised ages to do, so if anybody has a particular podcaster or you're listening on Spotify,
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as we mentioned earlier, and you want to adopt that, then please get in touch so that we can fill out
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that this field from the upload form, if you type it in there, you can see it here in Spotify,
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that field, you can see it there, if we improve the image, we'll get, if we fill in this additional
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field, we'll get that stuff, so per podcaster, we can do that. Continuing on, the section on the workflow
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will be changing shortly due to Dave's stepping aside, we will also need to distribute multiple
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endpoints, all processing will happen first, and then all the text will be done at the same stage,
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just prior processing, for this to work, we need to find a simple, manageable, what you see is
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what you get editor that will produce same HTML, when the host upload the shows, there will also
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need to be a new system to redistribute files from the origin to all the mirrors. Which does that
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make sense? Yes, that does. I can't say I come, I want to get all this done over the weekend,
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but yeah, totally makes sense. No, I mean, all that we're asking people to do is have a quick look,
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if you've got any bit of web designer or advice on the web design, have a look, and see,
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if you know of always a way to get your please get in touch, or if you know of somebody who knows
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about this or just stuff, please get in touch, that's great. Other stuff that we did fixes that we
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met, role met a change so that the day of the week is now available, it may seem like a small
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thing, but it's a huge thing for me, which is, like this show will say, says now, hosted by HPR
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volunteers on Monday, 2024, 1202, which is awesome. It's the small things. We fixed the RSS feeds to
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show the explicit status. I have no idea why that warning message wasn't there. It was in the RSS
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attributes, but it wasn't flagged as part of the text, but it now is. Fixed bug on the future feed,
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with limited to just tensiles, so if those 20 in there, you only saw 10 of them, so that's now fixed.
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Fixed status page typo, and following feedback on the scheduling guidelines, which are now on
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the upload page, it was country victory, but now I emphasize, added some emphasize to say that
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post some of them refer to the upcoming two weeks, and then the rest of them refer to after that.
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And as I said, those will shout out to the people who are promoting HPR and helping people
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out with audio issues. That's it this. You believe that being after that. Oh my god,
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|
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so the spider, I really hope I'm going to have a beer now, right? And you are not having that beer
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|
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tonight that you were going to have. Yeah, I will be having that one over here,
|
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|
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virtually. No, I would never deny the Scottsman to be here. Go have a beer, sir.
|
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|
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You can more say thank you very much. Yeah, no, no, no. I was like,
|
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|
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coasting in the wind, what's the point? Am I allowed to say that? Yeah, why not?
|
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|
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Well, okay. Anyway, if you say if you say that's fine, Kevin, thanks very much for stepping in,
|
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|
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trying to fill the big shoes to fill. I think I might be able to fill a corridor,
|
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|
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but there's no way I'm filling those shoes. I just simply can't. But thank you very much for
|
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|
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having me once again. And enjoy your evening. And tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode
|
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|
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of Hacker. Public radio. And can you send me your recording? Thank you. Bye.
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