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Episode: 3526
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Title: HPR3526: HPR Community News for January 2022
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3526/hpr3526.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 01:00:43
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3526 for Monday the 7th of February 2022.
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Today's show is entitled HDR Community News for January 2022 and is part of the series
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HDR Community News. It is hosted by HDR volunteers and is about 44 minutes long and carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is HDR volunteers talk about shows released and comment posted in January 2022.
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Hi everybody my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public
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Radio Community News this time for January 2022. And joining me this evening is?
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Hi it's Dave Morris. It's not evening here but that'll do.
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So HBR Community, HBR is a community podcast that has been running for over 16 years
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and where all the shows have been submitted by listeners very much like you. We have call for shows open
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at the moment. We would like people to submit shows and I've asked the regular hosts not to submit
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shows more than once every two weeks as was our policy on this. It gets really really really urgent.
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So what I've seen over the last period of time is that regular hosts have been
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coming in, showing up the gaps and I think that will lead to burnout from them. So I'm quite
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concerned about losing regular hosts. So if you're new you are new to this whole concept of
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Hacker Public Radio and you haven't introduced yourselves. I wonder if you could do that.
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Just five minutes show telling us who you are, where you're listening from and the journey that
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brought you to tech community in general. That's a great show to start with. Dave I would normally
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pass you over to introduce the new hosts for this month but alas, there are none. Sadly,
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sadly. So let's do better next month folks. Let's do better next month. So if the people listening
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to this could record a little show and send it in, it's not that hard, it's not that scary. And
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yeah, it'll be grand, sure. Think of us like a Hacker Space. You wouldn't just walk into
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a Hacker Space and just sit down and start listening to people without saying hi. I'm Bob
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or Mary or Alivell or whoever. And I'm new in the neighborhood and I'm just listening in my
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interest hour blah blah blah. Correct Dave or not? I would agree with that. Yes, for sure.
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It's yeah, even if you're not a very talkative person, which is the thing I suffer from when I go
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into a room for the people. It's a thing to, I mean, you would feel, you know, I'm kind of
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join this group. So yeah, let me just break through the barriers in my head and try and say some
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stuff to introduce myself and stuff. Yeah, yeah, a good point. I feel free to be anonymous. So come
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up with an interesting handle. If you're worried that all the people will know you are plausible
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to know them, please always an excellent thing. Anyway, last month, the first show. So what we do
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in this show is we kind of wear the janitors. We don't make the policy. Just go to the above page
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and HPR and you'll see all about that. I won't go into it here. But what Dave and I do is go through
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the news. Anything that's been happening with HPR in the last month and we also go through
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every show just to make sure that everybody gets some feedback and we'll read the comments that
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have been posted to those shows. Well, we start with green she news for December 2021 and there
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was a last, no comments to that Dave. There were no comments. No, no, we were so uncontroversially
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these days. That's the way of things. Are they the level for controversy has increased so much
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that's what we say. It doesn't enter into it. Yeah, yeah, we must think about ways of being
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monthly controversial in future. So next day, we had one of our regular hosts who has
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stepped into the breach many times, Tony, Tony News and give us a little rundown on a new
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on his new June all PC, which he got before Christmas. Oh, and this looks very nice, very nice
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indeed. Yeah, absolutely. I had to rush off to the website to see what else they had there.
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Yeah, I'm probably going to be in the market for something to, because my
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reliable old nine-year-old I-7 is not being reliable just a day or two ago. So yeah, but yeah,
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sounds great and really a good choice is made there, I would say. Oh, I'm on the nuclear
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bill to the door of back in a second. Delivery of culvertestive.
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That's what we live in. Oh, indeed, indeed. Too big to put through the letterbox and I don't.
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So yes, this looks like a nice little BC, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My only thing against it
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is I quite like having large boxes that I can put lots of other gobbins in the mood takes me.
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But that's probably where I've gone around. So yes, the next one released on the 5th of January was
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one produced prior to the HBO New Year show. And we used it as an updated version of our
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mumble how-to. So no comments on that. Hopefully it was self-explanatory. Yeah, yeah, it was good,
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it was good, very, very timely as intended of course. So yeah, in fact, I just referred to it
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because I'm using my laptop today and it still had the old address and stuff on there. So I went,
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oh, Ken did that. I'll go and read that show and that'll tell me what the name is.
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Very, very good. Well, that's just boring how-to's. We got them.
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Following day, we had your show with McNalloo, Jim's web telescope. And I know this one had
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a comment because I was laughing about it. D&T said that your show was about the recently launched
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when we were recording this. Jim's web space telescope, which was extremely exciting.
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And D&T said Mission Control, great broadcast and in quotes. That's the main engine I think and
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that's the booster. Wow. And there it goes. Goodness me. Is one of the audio clips that we will hear
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for generations to come. I suspect many of the same phrases we heard as Mission Control that
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day, such as, I don't follow, understand how Lagrange point works. And you want to do that,
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otherwise you end up in a rather wishy, washy bit of turkey touch.
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I thought it was, it was sort of, yeah, stream of consciousness stuff and
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ambient science stuff. So it was a live stream. It was, it was. McNalloo was cooking turkey
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for his, his guests. And it was doing this in between, which was great. And so, yes, we had
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a little bit of discussion about turkey cooking along the way. I'm a rather peeved, you knew very well.
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I was available on watch that day. I was peeved not to be included. Obviously, you're keeping
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a scratch on anything. One of the legacies of breakfast from Brexit.
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I didn't actually realize that you, well, there were two things actually. First,
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back pedal, back pedal, back pedal, back pedal.
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Andrew said, just out of the blue, I'd said to him, were you watching the James Webb thing?
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He said, oh, yeah, should we, should we chat about it on mumble? And I said, yeah. And then I said
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to him, shall I record? And he, what, oh, we're making a show then, yeah, okay. And at that point,
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I think we sort of, we then fell into the whole process of launching. So it was all a bit
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last minute. The idea was created and executed within a relatively short space of time. So
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not having all that many brain cells thing. Yes, yes, it would have been fun with three, but there
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you go. And the following day, we heard an interview with Benny, who recently got his
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hand radio ticket in Switzerland. And there was one comment to that show.
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Right in, excuse me, Baffle said, nice show. Hi, Ken and Benny. It was a great show. Thank you.
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Things have showed change since I got my ticket. I'm looking forward to future episodes in this
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series. Yes. And if other people out there have recently got their amateur radio tickets in
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other jurisdictions, who are very, very interested in hearing, hearing from you, much preferred to
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interview actual listeners who's done as opposed to contacting the haemorrhido organizations,
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which I will be forced to do because nobody has stepped forward to be interviewed.
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Mm hmm. Yeah. It's great. I enjoyed the shows. Yeah, they're an insight for us, non-hami people.
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So the following day was a very interesting one, H3R contest 2020-01. Operators given away
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$50 microphone to Ani New Horse, who's joined. So this is something that he's running. So
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great idea. Absolutely great idea. Considering how few hosts there are, get your show in now and
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you win by default. That's very kind of, but I must say, I don't think we thank the community enough
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for all the stuff they do, like the stickers and the banners and the domains and all the rest of
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that stuff. A lot of stuff for HPR is provided by the community just as it is. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's definitely a thing we should make more fuss about. And then, possibly one of my most
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interesting episodes, because I'm heading down this track myself, was USB turntable fix and sound
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journey, where Archer 72 uses a record, a sound and an FFM peg to record an album. Yeah, yeah,
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I haven't completely absorbed this yet. It's definitely something I want to do, although I gave my
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record deck to my son, who is quite keen on vinyl and stuff, but I shall have to borrow it back
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off. Actually, I've got a young man's early record player thingy up in the attic somewhere,
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because they're extremely cheap, oh, one sounds I'm disparaging my parents are buying it for me
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and my teens. I wonder if I could repurpose that. It's probably got real valves in it somewhere.
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Cool. Boom. Wait, 15 minutes for it to warm up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I ordered a, I know you're talking about vinyl, but I have a whole box of cassette tapes to do
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first, and I ordered a USB, you know, like a Walkman type format with a USB connection. I'm
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wondering how crap it's going to be, or whether I should just use my H2 Zoom, which short, you know,
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good audio cables in between, but we'll see closer to the time. In any event, on that happy day,
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I will be referring to this episode. Yeah, yeah, some great stuff. I just, some of you
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too has done here, and documented for us. That's amazing. Yes, that's the best of all.
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Following day, we had Tukitoro, though, back with her show on the differences between C-sharp
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and Haskell, and I like this because it kind of gave me a grounding on what the hell Haskell was
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all about. Yeah, yeah. I know it's, I've said before, my friend Tom, who's a computer scientist,
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absolutely loves Haskell. We don't use it much, but he just regards it as the most wonderful thing
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ever, and I think it is, it's sort of a platform for learning about programming, I guess.
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Yeah, absolutely. Sorry, go ahead or work. No, no, I just to say, I think that comment was made
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in Tukitoro's show, but I didn't make a note of what she said, but yeah, it's, it sort of set
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the set of marker in the in the sound, sorry, as I was concerned, too much so I forgot.
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I see that computer files use Haskell quite a lot, one explaining some of the topics sometimes.
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Yeah, yeah, I don't fully understand what they're talking about, because it was one show
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what's a monead. I went into that thing at all, that'll be an interesting voyage and I came
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at going, I don't understand. So yes. So the following day, we had the Matrix project without
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Neo. So this was about the Matrix Foundation, some a team by the Linux and laws, obviously
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an interview with them, and it was Neil Jensen, VP of engineering and element, and we use this
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every day. So grids, little too, grids interview. Absolutely, absolutely. I don't know if Neil
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Jensen is whatever go ever went to Old Camp, because there was a Matrix presence at Old Camp,
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I think maybe a couple of years running, and lots of people were going and quizzing the people
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at the desk there, as to what was going on. But yeah, so maybe we have met Neil at some point in an
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Old Camp context. Yeah, yeah, really good. But it's quite an impressive thing.
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It is, yes. And those of you listening Fostem is coming up and they, if you really want to see
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Matrix at its best, have tuned into Fostem and you will see all the things that it can do.
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Yeah, I know it's, is it, is it this coming weekend?
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Yes, this weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, absolutely. So yes, Master, let's go and
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well, watch some of these things. It's cool.
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Yeah, some facts, switches and help, and the interest from the whole dust thing do.
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Don't ask, don't ask. It's, yeah, I just have, I'm so proud to just about these things because I
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went through it to a certain extent and came at the other end thinking, well, thank goodness
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that's over and I can go into a proper way. You asked me that, because you knew I was going to say
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something like that, but I don't have any nostalgia for these things to talk. In fact,
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my friend who I used to work with is very, very keen on open VMS as an old, old operating system.
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But and I ran it for, ran, ran an instance for many, many years, probably about 10.
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But I have no desire to go back to it. He, on the other hand, set it up on Raspberry Pi's
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and stuff and messed about with it and things. So I just want to move on.
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To tutorial on the other hand, said this brought back memories. This was fun to
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listen to and remember how my first PC was handed down IBM 088 that I got from a local metal shop.
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It had a whopping 640 kilobits of memory and two floppy drives. No hard drive at all.
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There were no fan skill graphical user interfaces around the thing. All interaction was text mode
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with keyboard. Yeah, yeah. Been there done that sort of thing. The following day we had
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podman like Vigrant. And this was an episode from Latu whose show notes I must say has been
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proved over the years so much so that I have been using this extensively. This is genius.
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It allows you just to run a little container and it just opened up the world to me.
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Very, very good show. I've referred several people to this one since.
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Yes, yes, yes. I can see the use in all sorts of contexts. I don't necessarily have any need
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at the moment that I can discern but that might just be my short-sightedness but good to know
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should I ever encounter the need. Well, yeah, I use containers quite a bit.
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And this just made this a lot easier. Yeah, um, following day we had Jezra,
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flappin gums about old hardware and how I use it. And this showed everything.
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Music, ducks, what's not to load? Yeah, yeah, yeah, typical Jezra.
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I missed this show. It has done some jams in the past. This was a jams. Fantastic.
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I must say I've gotten my own tool to migrate photos of SD cards.
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Amazingly overkill. I think I've already done a show about it way back.
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I just never really liked the idea of removing the files before. I was 100% sure that they were on
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the destination. Yeah, yeah. That's a good point. Yes, I tend to keep them on.
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I can't look quite a lot of the time. No, I mean, Andy, I don't swear.
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Yeah, yeah, good luck. Good luck. Three, three off-site locations, no doubt.
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Well, yeah, yeah, they're not in the camera. Yeah, so they're just in the camera.
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Yeah. All right, you know, no, no comments on that. No comments on the next show, which was
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somewhat on the air, a combination of mountain climbing and amateur radio. Basically,
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you leg it up a mountain with all the kids that you need to transmit and you transmit stuff
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when people listen to you. What could be simpler? Absolutely, absolutely. It's a great thing.
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I had no idea that people did this sort of, nor did I, nor did I. Trust Benny. Exactly.
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Well, it sounds altogether too much to fit for my too much exercise.
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Yeah, yeah, I have trouble getting up the hill to the bus stop these days, so
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I ain't going up no mountains. Bring a radio with you and we'll call again.
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Andy, who, hatching stories, soft drinks, these are always popular, all pentast stories by
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operator. And you know, you're in trouble when the link to the show notes links to the script that
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says how to mass or lock all the accounts in the organization, you're pentastic.
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Mass, PowerShell or lock script. That's a good, a great show. If you haven't listened to it,
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give it a listen, folks. It had me in stitches. It's tremendous anecdotes about doing that sort of
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work. Apparently, it's a lot more common, so it's great on the HBR of initials level,
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but also I find them quite interesting. Yeah, yeah, it's a, it's a world I know nothing about really.
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So yeah, it's a great revelation, as far as I'm concerned. So the next day in all comments,
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either on my show about Android debugging and SCR CPY. If you have an Android phone, this is
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absolutely useful for you. The show I talk about how to connect to Android debugging tools
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remotely over the network, so you don't have to be plugged in on the USB cable. And then how you
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can interact with the UI, like a VNC session or something like that with your phone as well.
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Very, very interesting. Yeah, yeah. I need to get into this stuff myself a bit more than I have.
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Yeah, yeah, good, great resource there. I found that the Android debugging tools are the only way
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to reliably get files to and from your machine. ADV, space, pull, and then the destination
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from where you want to get it on your phone, and then ADV push, and then the destination where you want
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to put them. Because everything else is lying to you with simulings and permissions and simulings.
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So one user has seized this view of the world and the other sees the overview of the world.
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But with Android debugging tools, you're straight in as you're writing them where they're going to be.
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For the most part, there are simulings as well, but at least the files over you expect them to be.
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I just tend to use KDE Connect for my phones these days, but then I'm just shifting photos or
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the sort of stuff off the thing. So the next day we had another one in basically a rant by operator
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that could feel his frustration, particularly as look would have it if I was coming back from
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getting a prescription from our own system here in the Netherlands. And we have it set up that if
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you go to the doctor, then it's electronically goes to your chemist, and then your chemist will
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put your prescriptions into like a ATM machine on the wall, and then you can go to the wall 24-7.
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You get an email to say it's ready, and then you go to the wall any time I put it in your pink
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cord and then get your medicines in gold. Wow, that's quite, that's quite sophisticated.
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The way it's done here, if you've got repeat prescriptions, which I do have every 56 days,
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I can repeat prescriptions. 56 being 228s, I guess, and pills coming in 28s quite a lot.
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Then it just automatically gets filled by the pharmacist. So I have the one pharmacist who
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have the deal with, and then I just go and collect it a day or so after the fill date.
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And there you go. And of course it's free in Scotland, not in England, but prescriptions
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are free, have been for quite a number of years. So I cover by health insurance here, so the bill
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all goes to the health insurance provider and then they can they find it. But anyway, that's
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irrelevant. But operators experience it in their original. Absolutely. So I'll read the
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comment from Jane, who says empathise with you. Dear operator, I've prescribed the medicines
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you discuss. It's a big old pain for doctors too. The Lord changed in 2021 that you're not supposed
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to fill control substances with a paper prescription only electronic. I see my ADHD patients every
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three months. The patient's called my office every 30 days in between for a refill and the refill
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is done electronically from my desk. My patients don't have the problems you do. There should be a five
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day leeway before your RX runs out. I use good RX for my own family's prescription. Makes a big
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cost difference and I do not know how good RX works either. In order for the control substances
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to act to change, it will take an active congress. So contact your congress member. It's well,
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what can you say? It's a horrendous system. It's not perfect elsewhere, but wow, this this
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is just dreadful. I think there's a read, the opiolites crisis. There's probably a very good reason
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for doing it that way, but it's very frustrating, I can imagine. That would be the reason, I guess,
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but to. But I mean, I think the USA has become a lot more cautious about this sort of stuff.
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What is it? Sood of Fed, which is a thing that you take for allergies and that type of stuff,
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which can, if you're up to doing the chemistry, be turned into an opiate of some sort.
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So it's quite heavily restricted in the USA. It's restricted to some extent here, but not
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anywhere near as much. Okay, it doesn't all that. I don't know the details, but I think if you
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look it up, you can find quite a lot of information about how this is handled in various parts of the world.
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Then the next day we had GWP with HP Steam Stream laptop under Ubuntu, and he's also talking about
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Pine64, and I must say I agree with him. I have, I love Pine64 as a company as a concept. Well,
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I've had very, very bad luck. The Pine laptop that I got the keyboard is you just cannot type on
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the keyboard. I don't know what they thought were thinking, and I got the PinePhone and it overheats,
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and they got the PineForting keyboard, and it doesn't work. So I just throw in money, because
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that's a shame. Yes, as you say, the concept is great, but the reality doesn't, if it doesn't match,
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then what's the point? It is the perfect like the PinePhone and the keyboard. It's like having a
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sion in your hand. It's absolutely perfect, but I just plug it in, and then it doesn't work, and then
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the next thing you're looking at is shimming the pull go planes and different operating systems,
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and you do everything to see if you're doing the right or not, and then it turns out, yeah, yeah.
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All right, Jess has a comment. Monty mint form. Did your Monty mint form ever come in? I remember you
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mentioned it in a previous episode. Would love to hear your experiences with the phone. You and I
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mean. So the next day we had the big blue button and NAS, and there's the outlaws again talking about
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trying to configure a big blue button or behind network address translation, and once you start
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dealing with turn and stun servers and all that sort of stuff, it is a pain in the water.
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Yes, that can be a pain. Well, it's a solution for most people's network, set up of course,
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but it's also a pain in other contexts. When I worked at the university, we used to have
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constant battles with departments who decided they didn't have enough addresses and put a
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and that router in. So that meant that we could no longer see their devices and addresses and
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stuff like that, and it caused all sorts of problems with our DNS and this sort of stuff.
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It just came. It meant that there was sort of stealth element to it, which was quite
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quite prone to being attacked. We thought. So the following day, we had Rust 101, episode two,
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rolling with the errors. This is where black colonel was taking a leaf out of tattoos and writing a
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sample dice program as an example of how to write a rust program. And I enjoy this due to the fact
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that he left in the errors as he was going on. Yes, yes, absolutely. That's a really necessary
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thing to be able to see that it isn't a state of achieving perfection just straight out of the blue.
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It's a thing where you sort of poke at it and it doesn't work until you think, oh, I know what,
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I did wrong, I'm so on and so forth. Yes, I thought this was brilliant. It's really well done
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show. I thought I liked the get lab content and the reference. So I was sitting and had the time
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to sit down and look at it while I was listening. I'm usually putting around the house with headphones
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on, but yeah, and he really explained it well. You could see, you know, as he did an approach to
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the final program step by step, sometimes with errors, as you say, and you could see how it was
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all going to come together and stuff. It's an odd, it's a sort of slightly weird language by my
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standards, but of course, my standards are old and crusty. That's your excuse, I don't know what
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I'm on. But it looks like something I should really have a go at using myself just to get the hang
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of what you can do with it. Yeah, very, very cool. The thing was, I'm now looking at the source code
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for the first time and it is exactly what I had in my head. So that's kind of cool. Yeah, yeah,
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just he did an excellent job of tracking it and telling us about how it was assembled and the
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thoughts behind it. And that was that is really high quality tutorial material, I would say.
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Absolutely. And we had inversion lyrmord Steve, part of the GIMP series, and what I found
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interesting about this one was that he also explained what's happening with the maths as he's
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doing this. Yeah, yeah, there was also a little bit of a practical example mentioned. I haven't
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been to the website to look at it, and I'm pet you, there's some good stuff there, but I haven't
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had a chance to do it yet. But yeah, why you would want to do this is always the question. And of
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course, it's due to lack of experience or imagination. Oh, yeah, but you know, I enjoyed the
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reference to how you might want to use this. That was good. No, excellent. He does not get enough
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credit for this. So people who should get credit for shows this month, Part 722, is or aspire
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five slim, some serious upgrades going on here. Nice photos and everything else.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody on the 2D Future except me, Dave. Yeah, yeah, well, and me.
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I did get a Raspberry Pi 0 W2, the intent of making it run Octoprint, but it's not
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to do it yet. Anyway, not very exciting that one. And that was it for our shows for this month,
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if I'm correct. That's right. Yes, I believe so. For once they stopped until.
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I'm suffering from a single monitor, having been so used to having two,
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about between tabs here, like a man thing. There were additional comments.
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There was one to an episode from Clatoon back April of last year. And it was tune system performance
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with tuned D, tuned, lost you, Dave episode. I was surprised to hear you say that you've never done
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an episode on you, Dave, because I distinctly remember that episode you were discussing,
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creating your own dev rules to automatically run tasks upon inserting a USB drive.
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It may be that you've never done an episode on the HP R about it. I can't find it for the life of me.
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Either way, thank you as ever for this episode. And when to go there was definitely an episode
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about that, because I remember hearing it while I was on the bus going past they going from work
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back to the airport, where I work as the airport is a train station. And I was just at a point
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where an aircraft was landing over us. So I had to rewind it. There you go.
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Well, I remember this as well. And I had a quick scan of the database. I couldn't find any
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keywords like you Devon stuff. But yeah, but his own shows are the new ones are slightly better,
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but the old ones are terrible. There's no metadata associated with them at all.
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I used to tags as well, but nothing happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I certainly recall that because I
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was struggling with you, Dev, at the time, and thought I got my head around it. But
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Clatude was was ahead of me with that one. And so I remember using what he was talking about
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to do my own things. I cannot remember what they were now. It's quite a while ago.
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Yes. Yes. There's there's there's there's a lot of numbers. Yeah. Some comments, please.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I didn't tell for members it would be.
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But yeah, there's a lot of work to be done still with the tagging of the shows. I mean,
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they are all tagged, but sometimes the tags need further, further work.
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Yeah, it's more a duplicate snail did. But it should have shown up by now.
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Yep. Yep. So hopefully we will get this cleaned up a lot.
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Right. Next comment was a comment on your show about 50 years since the first edition of Unix
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was published. And it was from Why Not, who says, thanks great show.
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I agree with previous comment. Listen to who just turned 51. So it's about how old you feel.
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If you look back, those 50 years. And this person has just turned 51.
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Once again. Yes. I know the feeling. How I record HPR episodes by Norris and just as a quick recap.
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He had a script to that you run against a
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markdown for. Thank you for this program and the introduction as a podcast. I just downloaded
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the zip from GitLab. While trying the commands, I realized a section with dependencies is missing.
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I think PIP is too large. So I usually do run it in a virtual environment. In other Python projects
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like, and there's an example, there's a requirements.text file. I wonder if you would consider adding
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one. That's retro. That's actually a good tip there. I find that very clever on PIP's part
|
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that it was massively downloads to dependencies if you put them into the text file.
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's quite good actually. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Fine.
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So the last comment on past shows is on the big Christmas New Year bash with the grumpy's
|
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from the next in-laws and operators says, love this show. Reminds me a little bit of Dev Random
|
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Podcast. This one had a lot of laughs. You guys are my friends for now. Mine won't do anything.
|
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All the days are hard for some most people. Shooting this shit and rounding are my favorite podcast
|
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episodes. Thank you every sales. You're the only you you have. Excellent. So, was there any
|
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mailing this discussion, Steve? Not a lot. Call for shows, unfortunately.
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Very cryptic call for shows as maybe. I went through and met a note of all the times
|
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I called for shows in the last 10 or so years. And Archer had a question about
|
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to show the calendar on the main page and it is there it's a bit not obvious. It's called
|
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|
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the upload page and it's on the main menu so it's on every page. Yeah. Yeah.
|
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It's if you don't if you don't realize what that is and it's easy easy to do what you did that.
|
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Yeah exactly. Tuck-off 51 had a comment on our matrix channel about the having basically
|
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a talker container which is where I use that pod band thing from tattoo show as a by the way.
|
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And that allows you to download that and then you're running a little instance all configured
|
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|
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and you don't have to deal with the libraries and all the rest of that code.
|
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And basically I was looking for some feedback on that.
|
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|
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And I put together a so migrate big supporter of the eSpeak voices.
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And I put together a link there with a with a an org file of the four three or four different
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voices played as a normal speed one and a half times two two and a half three three and a half
|
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four four and a half and five times the speed. And basically leaving it up to people to decide
|
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|
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which one they prefer. So I'll add that here what you think Dave.
|
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Mm-hmm. It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it I'm not going
|
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to be silent. It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it I'm not
|
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going to be silent. It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I'm going to be
|
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silent. It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I'm not going to be silent.
|
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I'm going to be silent.
|
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it I'm not going to be silent.
|
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|
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And Nigel expressed his preference, which I won't say yours for fear of
|
||
|
|
taking your opinion. And again, where amazed at how fast Mike can read.
|
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|
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Yes. Quite a superhuman effort.
|
||
|
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So that was pretty much that for the comments, I think, David, wasn't it?
|
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|
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I think so, yeah, the mailing list. There's not much on the events calendar thing, except
|
||
|
|
proposed them coming up. And a few days from our recording time, it'll be passed by the time
|
||
|
|
the show goes out there. I have an item here on just the track of the older shows that I'm
|
||
|
|
uploading to archive.org. I managed to do 120 this month. So that leaves 124
|
||
|
|
still to do. So hopefully, I think it's crossed. Get that 124 done before the next community use.
|
||
|
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But don't, yeah, don't hold your breath. Very good, very good.
|
||
|
|
Okay, so that's it. That is it. Yes, yes, this is nothing else to discuss. Oh, look at.
|
||
|
|
So that's fine. Okay. People who often submit a show so far this year, please consider doing that.
|
||
|
|
New hosts, please come in. You always get priority. Pick the first available slot.
|
||
|
|
And tell us, tell us about yourself. And if you don't, I will be very disappointed.
|
||
|
|
And I will talk to your mother, slash parent guardian. Okay.
|
||
|
|
All right, tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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