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Episode: 4468
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Title: HPR4468: AI Trap and Fix
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4468/hpr4468.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:59:02
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4468 for Wednesday the 17th of September 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, AI Trap and Fix.
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It is hosted by Archer 72 and is about 5 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Archer 72 breaks the icons on his system and gets things back in order.
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Hello, this is your host, Archer 72, for another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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In this episode, I continue to fall for the AI Trap.
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Here I was mining my own business when I was bothered by the icon only showing a generic
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icon for the beeper app.
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Now, I'm not saying that duck.ai is not useful, but be careful what you ask for.
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It was probably a combination of the early morning and not reading completely through the
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AI suggestions, but I ended up losing all icons on the Nome Desktop, except for a few
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like Firefox.
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I won't leave the problematic command, so I don't trip up a listener, but it involved
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updating a desktop database.
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This in turn left a dash or blank where the icon should be.
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If that wasn't bad enough, it was suggested to reset the Nome Settings, and nothing was
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as a seam before.
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Things that I had taken for granted were not there.
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You forget what custom settings are there when mistakes like this are made.
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So the short answer is that the icons directory located on my Debian system should be located
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in .local slash share slash icons.
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Instead it was in a sub directory.local slash share slash icons slash icons.
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Everything the directory location solved everything, but I was still left to reset my
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custom Nome key bindings.
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One key binding was to swap the escape and the caps lock key.
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I use this because I am a vim user, and this feels more natural when I need to hit
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escape to change modes.
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The Nome the setting under is under Nome Tweaks, Keyboard, additional add options, and swap
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escape and caps lock key.
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As of this show, release the current stable version is tricksy, and can be installed by
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pseudo apt install Nome dash tweaks on any Debian based system.
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The next is the compose key.
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The compose key is found at settings, keyboard, compose key.
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I selected the menu key because this is rarely used, and can still be accessed by the track
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pad on my laptop.
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Next I frequently use a shortcut to open MPV with a clipboard URL from YouTube.
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This can be found in setting, keyboard, view and customize shortcuts, and custom shortcuts.
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And the shortcut that I use is Shift plus control plus P. And the code for this is placed
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in U.S.R slash local slash bin.
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And this sets the URL to what is selected by the clipboard with XSEL.
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Now I can get back to what I started in the first place, creating a desktop file for
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Beeper.
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I created a Beeper desktop desktop file in dot local slash share slash applications with
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the following contents.
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Under desktop entry, you put the name of your application, which in this is Beeper desktop,
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the executable, which I put in my home directory under app images.
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Next you set the icon equal to what I have.
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What I have is mine is under dot local slash share slash icons slash beeper dot PNG.
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The type equals application, the categories equal networking, and instant messaging, terminal
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equals false, start up WMC class equals Beeper.
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The last part of the config file can be found by using an x prop pipe and grab WM underscore
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class.
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That's all I have.
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What do you as a listener like to do to customize your desktop to make it usable for you?
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Feel free to leave a comment about what you like, or better yet, record a show of your
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own.
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This has been Archer 72 for Hacker Public Radio.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, click on our contribute link to find out how
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easy it really is.
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The hosting for HPR has been kindly provided by an honest host.com, the internet archive
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and our things.net.
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On the Sadois stages, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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