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Episode: 2241
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Title: HPR2241: HPR Community News for February 2017
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2241/hpr2241.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 23:35:07
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This is HBR episode 2,241 entitled HBR Community News for February 2017 and is part of the series
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HBR Community News. It is hosted by HBR volunteers and is about 35 minutes long and carries an
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explicit flag. The summary is HBR volunteers talk about show release and comment posted in February 2017.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Pallan and you're listening to another exciting episode of Hacker
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Public Radio. And this is the Community News show for the month of February.
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I do believe so. Joining me tonight is Dave. Hi Dave. Hello and it's it's March but we're doing
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February. Yes, yes. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's confused. That's good. And for those of you
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joining for the first time Hacker Public Radio is a community podcast where the shows are crowdsourced
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from the community. So if you listen to HBR, feel free to do a show and submit it to us. This we
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are doing Community News show which is just stuff that goes on in the community. Dave and I are
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two of the generators here at HBR and the community is basically based on what everybody agrees
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is the way forward, usually on the main list. That's not very eloquent, Dave.
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I was just watching you. Yeah, yeah, but it's it's a community and therefore everybody has a size
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that's basically isn't it? Pretty much. Okay, so yeah, we're going to February. It seems only
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to me, I can't even remember doing Chang. Oh, yeah, we did before. It was the night before
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the night before Fostem and not a creature. It was moving.
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Yes, yes. That's right. He was all done in a bit of a rush last time. I think that was fine.
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Yeah, I had a and then off to Fostem. Oh man, that was that was hectic, that was and still not
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recovered from that. Yeah, yes, it sounded like you were busy. Okay, let's go through the shows and
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the idea behind this show is that once a month we will go through and at least give some comment
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on the feedback on the shows because people are terrible at giving feedback.
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Always try and give feedback on the shows. It's the coolest thing that can happen in your day,
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especially if you like the show. Go ahead and give some feedback. At the moment, we're having
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some website issues. So you sent off the show notes and I changed the links to redirect to
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archive.org, which I must say was pretty cool actually. All the shows are all the shows and
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I'm putting in the nastrix behind that, which you can fill in later are also published up to
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archive.org with the show notes and it is pretty impressive actually. Yes, yes, it's quite like
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we're not completely up to date because I should have been doing the last weeks a lot today,
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but unfortunately, as you say, we're having website problems, so I can't. But yeah, most of them are there.
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And also, having it a little weaker to afterwards is no big deal because sometimes we get corrections
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to shows in the first week after they're published. So it saves you having to re-edit the shows and
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archive.org, which is always a good thing. Partly why I did it. So I'm always a week behind,
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but it's just a few days, so I can recommend it was a big deal. Yes, so we had the first show was
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2218, Cool Stuff Part 5, Curtis Adams wasting shows by doing three things in the one show.
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What, so long as he keeps them coming, I'm not going to complain. You know me, Dave.
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Curtis Atkins, it was actually Atkins. Atkins. Yes, yes, yes. C prompt is probably easy.
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Probably handy, but then do you put the charat at the end, C prompt charat?
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Is that how you pronounce that, Dave? Do we shape symbol over the six on the US keyboard? How about that?
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You know, somebody should do a show about the names of all the characters on the keyboard.
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That would be pretty awesome. Well, it is interesting, actually, because that's called a carrot,
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and it's also called a circumflex, depending on the context. I'm not sure what you know,
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in French, it's used a lot, and it's called a circumflex, something like that.
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Okay, so you didn't fall from my trap there, first of all, move on.
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No, I'm not doing that show, and I was like, yes, anyway, I like to, I just wanted to say that
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I like the reference to Opera Mini, which I haven't yet tried, but I want to.
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That was useful thing. I like the format of these shows, as I've said before.
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Yeah, and a fond family thing is pretty cool, actually, it's nice to have a little.
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Yeah, indeed, that's really cool, isn't it?
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And then just some music recommendations. Always nice, pretty cool.
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Oh, yes. Good show. Then we had Regé coming back again with the
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Mustang musings of another cable TV cutter, which you shouldn't do, because I work for a
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cable TV company, but it was interesting. I brought this up a more catcher, and I had a few
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people listen to it, and then here is a guy who's cut the cable, but we also do over the top
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stuff, so it's no skin of our nose, really.
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Yeah, yeah, I felt really sorry for the tale he was telling, really, that it's cable TV
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deals in the USA, and really dreadful, in general.
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I would hope that ours are not like that.
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So, I will skip merely on, but I have heard some pretty horrendous sales tactics.
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I think in the EU, a lot of those stuff isn't just an allowed under false advertising,
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or maybe the regulation is stronger or something, I don't know.
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Yeah, yeah. I've given up all that stuff, because I've said before, so I don't care.
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I do feel sorry for people who want to watch TV and stuff.
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So, the following day, we had HPR222, taking apart a tablet, and it was such a pity that he couldn't
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find the problem, or maybe I've ruined the show now for people, but I was having my fingers crossed
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during the whole thing. I actually needed to do something similar here as well.
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Yeah, yeah, it's something in the tablet, it's not really a spoiler after the event, is it?
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No, that's true, but then again, maybe people listen to the show to know which ones
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to listen to. We're not going to be able to do the comments until afterwards, Dave.
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Normally, we would do the comments. Are we?
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Yes. Up to you, really.
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Well, if you go with these, you can keep them in your head for a while.
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Well, it's probably, I don't know, I've got all the comments in another tab here.
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Oh, yeah, here's the comments.
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I sent you a list of all the comments which I pulled out of a copy of the day.
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Oh, well, can you do all the comments?
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Because I don't have access to them this whole.
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Okay.
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Well, there was a comment on that one, taking apart a tablet.
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So, if you can read that.
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Yes, it was Alpha32, who said, oh, man, this was a real nail-butter.
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I really hope you had a grounding bracelet.
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Thanks for looking inside a tablet and thorough description.
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So, yeah, yeah, what it was, was it going to fix it or not?
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So, yeah, very good.
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Cool, Dave. Thanks very much.
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We've got a nice text file here.
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Yeah, I think this is an emergency some time ago,
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and we've never had to use it.
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Okay, brilliant.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So, the following day was HPR Community News and Brian commented to say,
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sorry, I'll make a point of having better show notes.
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I was on audio.
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Any audio is better to know audio.
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The show should have been a month out, if I prepared a research.
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I apologize for the inconvenience for those who needed them.
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And I'll just come and reply back and that.
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This was about the, this is about the his show.
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We were mentioning this his show was about the pottery.
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And basically, yes, my own catchphrase,
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and the show is better than no show is very up to there.
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And I couldn't believe for one second that he did that show
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unscripted without your loss.
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Yeah, I know it's, I'm sure it did actually, but it's a very, very,
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very detailed subject and he really covered a lot of that.
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Yeah, but I would have thought like if you were,
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the way he was going through it so systematically, I thought,
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oh, he obviously has to have been working off a list.
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He can't be just, this can't be coming out of one person's head
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without like a, a, a, a, um,
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Paul Gore posted north sticking around the place.
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So I am now extremely, extremely impressed with, uh,
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with Brian there while done here.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I should say that, uh, when we, we're talking about this last,
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the last episode, the last community news,
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I said I would add some of the, uh,
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which video links that I've been looking at while I was saying,
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I did that. I did that, we can't see it at the moment, but, um,
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they, they are added to the, well, that's a good point.
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I haven't been updated on, um, I'll come to org so that's,
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that's the, uh, the rain of failed if continues.
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It's hard to get good help nowadays, folks.
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I'll leave it to you then, Ken, that's all right.
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So let's just skip through all the Fostem talks and just deal with them.
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So we had one, two, three, four, five, six, six Fostem episodes in total,
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something like eight and a half hours of, uh, of talks,
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given the thing was only open for, I was only there for, uh,
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12 hours in total. That was, that was pretty efficient this year.
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Yeah, you really seem to, to blitz the riddle, I have to say,
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and it was, it was really, really interesting stuff.
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It's, uh, that I made a few notes.
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It was just a few things that stood out to me.
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It was just my own personal interest.
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I particularly like listening to Jonathan Redell having just recently, um,
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put, uh, Katie Neon on the laptop and using today, um,
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really enjoying it so far. A few things crash,
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but, uh, on the whole, pretty damn good.
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Well, that love talk looks, uh, pretty nice, I tell you.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Um, I was fascinated that next cloud and own cloud were,
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but they'd down the corridor from one another.
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There were, uh, far enough away that you couldn't throw stops on.
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It just struck me as a music.
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And the other thing that I noticed was tiki wiki sounded a lot nicer than
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I've heard before. The interview made it sound like something I really want to get into.
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And the, uh, the turrets on near router.
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Oh, that's such a cool device.
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Sounded so brilliant. I wanted to go and see them,
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if I'd made it to bosom, I would have been there at the, at the standard.
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Yeah, it sounded really good from from what I was hearing an interview there.
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It just looked so clean and the, you know, the,
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these guys have obviously been thinking a lot of, uh, very bright minds,
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but also looked very clean and it was, um,
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seemed that they had a lot of real world expertise from people
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pod into it. Yeah, it's, it's a little expensive, but, uh,
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it's probably worth it given that, uh,
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the rate of me buying routers and them failing or, you know,
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something nasty happened to them as it's been quite high.
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So I'm sure I've spent that amount and more than once since, since I've been, uh,
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using Adios also, very tempted to go for one.
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The Tory Pratchis, um, economy of the boot.
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How was that?
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Yeah, he has this theory that poor people, uh, spend more money on,
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you buy a cheap pair of boots, whereas, uh, rich people buy a, um,
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have the money to buy a very good pair of boots that they can continue to repair
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and pass them on from generation to generation.
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You know, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's similar to that, yeah.
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Yeah, but there was a lot of, uh, a lot of interesting talks this year and, um,
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I did, uh, we, I ended up, um, doing the posters and, uh,
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things for the, for the stands, which meant that, uh,
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a lot of the work afterwards in getting the, um, logos and things was scriptible.
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So the following day wasn't, wasn't so bad, but I had, I ended up going down on
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the Friday and going in on the Friday to the stands as well.
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So, uh, it was, we missed you terribly, Dave, to be honest.
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Uh-huh. Yeah, I was sad I couldn't come.
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But I, uh, JWP was there, we had, uh, with a good laugh.
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Um, my, my nephew was there as well, but I basically didn't see him.
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Okay, you have a good time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Bye and go on to the internet and things and he's gone.
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That's a way to do it.
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That's a way to do it.
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So, yeah, the internet thing sounded a bit going on there,
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which is interesting.
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I heard mention of MQTT, which I played with a little bit, which is good.
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I didn't, uh, get to see any of the talks as yes.
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No, no, looks like all of the videos, um,
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well, a good proportion of them came out this, this year.
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Three of the two, they, they, they've been a bit flaky, but it's from what I've seen quite a lot.
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I did actually watch a few sessions in real time, um, and was getting really good, uh,
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streaming from, from the sessions too, which is again, uh, a breakthrough.
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Yeah, they, um, we also put the talks, our talks up on the web, um, the first-time website.
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So they, uh, uh, on the unbranded, uh, web files, our flak files are up there as well,
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which is pretty nice.
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Excellent, excellent.
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So, um, there was one comment on, uh, first-time H-building whole-way track and that was from
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Be Easy.
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I wanted to leave one comment for this series.
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Thank you very much for these episodes.
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The Replayers Intellition.
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Listen to, I wish I could have attended.
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It makes me want to record at least one episode from Scale,
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which I will be attending.
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Who's me a show, Dave?
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Yeah.
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Oh, you said it.
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Yes, yes, absolutely.
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If you say it, see who I'm going to show.
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Okay, and then we had a whole series of talks from Clinton Roy.
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Uh, actually, I, I wouldn't call them talks.
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I would call them conversations.
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Was a better description.
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And, uh, I was, I had the feeling that I was, you know, uh, as he was doing these interviews,
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he was in the coffee bar and I was just, uh, with my chair, with my back to them,
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you know what I mean, uh, in between the two of them, uh, whoever he happened to be interviewing.
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Very, very, very cool.
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It's, it was a nice way of doing, doing a series of, uh,
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interviews, I thought it just, just nice, relaxed chat about all sorts of interesting stuff.
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And interesting people.
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Some years very involved with the, with the Linux comp study as well.
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So, you know, sometimes some of the information was coming from him.
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Sometimes I was coming from the guests.
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So, uh, very, very high level of access to how we got to the, to the whole organization.
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Very impressed.
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Yes, yes.
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I, as I was listening, I wasn't sure whether this was a room full of people in suits
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or whether it was a bunch of really relaxed.
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I laid back people.
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Relax.
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When you lay back people, they're all Australian.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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Yeah, no.
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With their knives and, you know, a crank.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's the, yeah, it's the story of times in there.
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And the house with the, with the corks and stuff.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm sure it's just like Crocodile Dendy.
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Well, I, I went and looked at the site and it, it looked a bit, it was all very,
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I went, there were, there's quite a lot of videos too that you can check.
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Yeah.
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And it does look like swap people in t-shirts and shorts and jeans and stuff doing,
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doing stuff.
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It looks like, like a Linux conference.
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Yeah.
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And, uh, Clinton Roy said, um, comment one, Guido, uh, sorry, was Guido replied,
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great to hear about the big picture.
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As someone who put on an open source conference in Boston,
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I find it hard to get the feel of where the community is locally.
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I really enjoyed this interview and discussions about how to engage organizers
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with tools for conferences.
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Yes, it was interesting when they, they have refined the, um,
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the sort of conference software quite considerably.
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I'd like to hear more about what that, what that does and so forth.
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But, uh, yeah, it sounded pretty impressive.
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And, uh, Kevin O'Brien says great interviews.
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I just finished listening to them today and they were great.
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I hope you can do more in the future.
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Yep, so do I.
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So, that was, uh, that, then we had hoarding Raspberry Pi's by Be Easy.
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And that was, that was actually kind of cool because I've got exactly the same rack here
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and in work, I got three of those racks because I want to do something for work as well.
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So, there are a great way to store, um, pies.
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In fact, I went out and got some of those, um, little, um, you know, pillars.
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So, to make these myself for my, um, data center in a, in a, in a cellar downstairs.
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Yeah, I, I had tried to source these racks personally, um, a while back and there weren't many
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available at that time. I think it's probably better now, but, uh, yeah, you can get all the,
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the standoffs in nylon or brass or whatever.
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So, yeah, I was actually talking with making a design and getting it cut and make a,
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make a place in town, but haven't done anything about it yet.
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You have a makeover place in town?
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Yeah, yeah, it's the Edinburgh, Edinburgh make map.
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And you haven't done any interviews from there.
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You often got down there a day of, and conscripted people in today.
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Sorry, we're not allowed to use the word conscript.
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Encourage volunteers to help out with the HPU.
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I know, I keep it into doing conscripts.
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Is it all bad?
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Anyway, sick club, uh, says right on.
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Very good show. High praise indeed from slick sick club.
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And Jesra also high praise.
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Wonderful. When you mentioned that the Raspberry Pi's are general computer computers,
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I really resonated with me that they would also be ideal for an always on computer due to the
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low power consumption. Absolutely.
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I have just finally, Dave, finally gotten my, uh, my A Raspberry Pi here for myself to have the
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temperature of sensor outside and inside, which is pretty cool.
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Okay. Yeah, I want to do that.
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I want to do that.
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Yes.
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Nice to hear about that.
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You are my show.
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Did I just follow up?
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I've fallen to my own trap.
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No, you did.
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You did.
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Yeah, it's actually, it's actually okay.
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Yeah, I'll see.
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And what else?
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Yes, and I've got a, I've got a bit scope micro, um, uh, DSO digital oscilloscope.
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And I have no clue how to use it.
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So I can plug it into this thing here.
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So I've got a small, I've got a, uh, monitor here.
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I hit you my monitor.
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And next to that, I've got a GP monitor.
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I got a good little store, um, twinkle, uh, wrinkle and a flexible thingy and, uh, flexible,
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uh, keyboard.
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And then, right.
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Okay, I'm going to have to do a show.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Why did I even go there?
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Why do I, why do I, why do I even
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talk to you?
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Well, you know, it's, you know, it's like the other end, you know, it's, uh, yeah.
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Okay, I just, I just, uh, took delivery of, uh, a pi zero w yesterday.
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I've just been playing.
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Oh, I didn't even, I just barely heard about them.
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I've been off the internet so long.
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Yes, I, I, I just happened to be on various mailing lists and I got a thing that said,
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oh, they're pi zero.
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I don't, whoa.
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Who's selling them?
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Where can I bow on?
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So yeah, I got one.
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And, uh, a little case and stuff.
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It's, it's looking pretty good.
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I mean, basically, it's, it's like the pi,
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I cut down version of the pi three.
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It's got the same wireless and Bluetooth hardware in it.
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But, uh, it's, it'll be really good for making small devices to, uh, you know,
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to, to your weather station, that type of thing, you know,
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should be able to run, uh, run it off for a living, you know,
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I'm, uh, living my own battery.
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Quite well, I would have thought.
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Oh, wow.
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And those are available in completely places now.
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So yeah, cool.
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So it's the same form factor as they, uh, zeroes.
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Yes, the, the boards rearrange.
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So some of the cases that fit really, really tightly don't, don't quite fit,
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but all of the, uh, connectors in the same place.
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I just realized all my cases for the, uh,
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don't work with the pi two or the pi three.
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No, which is a bit of a problem.
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Yeah, but on it, yes, that's life.
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That's life, Jim.
|
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Shall we go through some of the other show notes that are comments that we had?
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For example, um, how awesome is GNU Linux?
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Why it will take over the world by clacky?
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Geeks.
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That was geeks, by the way, G-U-I-A-Geeks.
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For landscape, just, okay, you do this one, then.
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Uh, clacky says video.
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I did, I did record a presentation in using those slides in February.
|
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So I guess I won't record a show.
|
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The video is here and it gives a link to the, um, video.
|
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It was in Hong Kong and we did a, did a talk about geeks and, uh,
|
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the latest community news suggested, though, that my everyday package operations comment
|
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deserved an episode.
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So I may record that.
|
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There we go.
|
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I'm on the hook for one day of conscripts.
|
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Step forward.
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And on the episode makers on YouTube by Dave Morris, uh,
|
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I think we, we read that one last time, actually.
|
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Okay.
|
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I think, yeah, because when did we record last time,
|
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right up on the last day on the second here?
|
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I've forgotten.
|
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Yeah.
|
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So it was, that's why that, that one had come through, then.
|
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So, and so we had the next one on, uh,
|
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mini-jisks.
|
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Do you want to, yeah.
|
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Okay.
|
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Clay body by Brian.
|
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Can I read that, Dave?
|
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Brian says, yeah.
|
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The clarification.
|
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Uh, I want to impress the image of clay particles on their memory,
|
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but it caused me to simply bolt the form,
|
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cause me to simplify both the formation of the clay and the aging of the clay quite a bit.
|
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|
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The more important mechanism is the chemical, uh, decomposition regarding both mold,
|
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algae, beer, etc.
|
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|
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Can be very good for the aging process.
|
||
|
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And the mountain is more decomposed chemically than the ground to dust.
|
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I had not appreciated that.
|
||
|
|
He's saying that, you know, quite a lot of clay, the substance you find that's referred to
|
||
|
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as clay is in riverbeds because it's sort of grand and stuff, a pattern, grand and stuff.
|
||
|
|
The argument is that, uh, the best materials or the best composition of the stuff
|
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|
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is due to chemical decomposition of the rock rather than the physical breakdown.
|
||
|
|
So that's it.
|
||
|
|
And if you read the Wikipedia article, it does give some quite useful insights into that as well.
|
||
|
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I know that.
|
||
|
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Interesting.
|
||
|
|
Very, very much so.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Working a, oh, alpha, Oscar 85 with my son by Christopher and Hobbes, Michael, uh,
|
||
|
|
Miri from our, uh, hosts, our conscripts.
|
||
|
|
I've got stuff, these that were really, I like it though.
|
||
|
|
I just conscripted you into HBR.
|
||
|
|
Hello, Christopher.
|
||
|
|
You were wondering why the Doppler shift was on the transmit side of the AO85 satellite.
|
||
|
|
Well, there is always a Doppler shift on the uplink and downlink frequencies up and down
|
||
|
|
are separated by using different frequency bands on two meters.
|
||
|
|
That's VHF, uh, one for five megahertz.
|
||
|
|
And on 70 centimeters, that's VHF for three, five megahertz.
|
||
|
|
As Doppler, well, note, I really wish a lot more people would do what he just did there,
|
||
|
|
putting in brackets, what two meters and 70 centimeters.
|
||
|
|
So anyway, by the way, as Doppler shift scales with frequency, it is obvious that the effect
|
||
|
|
is thrice as severe on the 70 centimeter frequency as opposed to the two meter.
|
||
|
|
AmSatOscr85 AO85 has a UV transponder, which means the transmissed directions
|
||
|
|
towards the satellite is on UHF and thus experiences a greater Doppler shift.
|
||
|
|
Some other satellites have the U transponders where the bigger shift effect will be seen
|
||
|
|
on the output of the satellite.
|
||
|
|
Another entry for the list of things to explain in a separate show or an amateur round table is
|
||
|
|
what is this Doppler shift all about? Great suggestion.
|
||
|
|
The best way to demonstrate it would probably be a recording of the telegraphy telemetry beacon.
|
||
|
|
Many of the birds have, when, uh, sorry, I'll do that again, probably the best way to demonstrate
|
||
|
|
this would be the recording of the telemetry telegraphy telemetry beacon.
|
||
|
|
Many of the birds have satellites where you can easily hear the pitch of the tone changing
|
||
|
|
while the satellite passes. By the way, I was not even aware that there was an AO85.
|
||
|
|
I have to keep more updated on this interface, regards Michael.
|
||
|
|
Yes, wonderful stuff. I'd like to know about the Doppler shift.
|
||
|
|
We are finally starting to get the old Elmer's out of the wood here, get them recording,
|
||
|
|
pull them away from their their shacks and get them recording HPR shows.
|
||
|
|
Although they, uh, they, they, they, they've, the first, um,
|
||
|
|
Han Radio one hasn't been released on the live feed as yet.
|
||
|
|
Oh, we missed a, we missed a podcast, by the way.
|
||
|
|
And that is hoarding, uh, so hoarding rest replies.
|
||
|
|
And after that is, do you care by Curtis, Adam, by Curtis, addikins, see prompt,
|
||
|
|
so complex. And this was a show about where he apparently has a problem when people say,
|
||
|
|
I couldn't care less or I could care less.
|
||
|
|
Now I have spoken to him before about this.
|
||
|
|
I could care less thing.
|
||
|
|
And I think he's absolutely wrong in his statement.
|
||
|
|
I think you're trying to generate a show here.
|
||
|
|
You can, so sounds like the show generator coming on the show.
|
||
|
|
No, actually, I, I've already spoken to him on IRC about this because if you do care about
|
||
|
|
right, the thing is I could care less about this topic.
|
||
|
|
To me, it means I could care less, but I'm, I have no interest in caring in, in,
|
||
|
|
putting in the effort.
|
||
|
|
I couldn't care less, can never be Dave.
|
||
|
|
It, it simply cannot be.
|
||
|
|
He drew a line from zero to a hundred, right?
|
||
|
|
So by definition, if you're alive, if the universe has ended,
|
||
|
|
there is still always the faint possibility that you can care less.
|
||
|
|
You know what I mean?
|
||
|
|
If I could try, I could try to care less about this topic,
|
||
|
|
but there is always a possibility that something will change that, yes,
|
||
|
|
I might, my great uncle was a natural fact interested in this topic,
|
||
|
|
but now he has passed away.
|
||
|
|
So therefore, I now even care less than I did earlier.
|
||
|
|
You know what I mean?
|
||
|
|
So the whole statement to me is erroneous.
|
||
|
|
It can't possibly exist.
|
||
|
|
It's a fallacy.
|
||
|
|
It's a lie.
|
||
|
|
You should, you should, anytime you hear somebody saying,
|
||
|
|
I couldn't care less, means that they, the, the, the, the, the,
|
||
|
|
they are incapable of,
|
||
|
|
oh, yeah, I can't if we go there.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to stop right now.
|
||
|
|
That's it.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Well, number one, it sounds like you, you must have done a philosophy degree
|
||
|
|
alongside the engineer, engineer.
|
||
|
|
I just spend a lot of time in Irish bars.
|
||
|
|
That's the only one that happened.
|
||
|
|
Secondly, you seem to be in the school of, it goes up to 11,
|
||
|
|
and it goes down below zero.
|
||
|
|
I don't know.
|
||
|
|
George, no, I do actually believe that.
|
||
|
|
In a binary world, you, you will never get down to zero.
|
||
|
|
It's like, it's like when you go into the physics experiments and they go,
|
||
|
|
in, let's assume, you know, there's zero friction and you're working in a vacuum chamber.
|
||
|
|
But, but, but, what you're telling me will never occur.
|
||
|
|
It's just a rough approximation.
|
||
|
|
This could never occur.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It always bothered me.
|
||
|
|
But, but, but, but, but, but, the average is an absolute zero,
|
||
|
|
so, you know, I think that could be an absolute zero in the, in the carrying scale.
|
||
|
|
Yes, can we count it?
|
||
|
|
We as humans cannot operate on absolute zero.
|
||
|
|
So if there is, you prove my point, Dave, you prove my point, take it to the
|
||
|
|
mom, stick it in your mouth. And that's how much you care, even without trying to
|
||
|
|
care. There's still the potential that you're going to lose some careness.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, yes, yes, yes, I see where you're going. It was at this point that
|
||
|
|
Curtis threw his MP for unclear, I think, the wall that discussed.
|
||
|
|
Yes, however, I really couldn't care less about this.
|
||
|
|
Yes, yes, I think I think probably we should change this expression or both of those expressions
|
||
|
|
and go for absolute zero in the caring scale. Yes, how far are you on the absolute zero in
|
||
|
|
the caring scale? But to me, when people say I could care less, I always add in in my head,
|
||
|
|
I could care less, but I'm not motivated enough. I don't care enough to do it.
|
||
|
|
I don't care enough to do it. That's really what I get from it, which is I will admit
|
||
|
|
50% incorrect because you're not saying the statement, you're not completing your sentence.
|
||
|
|
Whereas I couldn't care less, it's just a lie, people are lying to you, Dave, and I can't be
|
||
|
|
dealing with that. I think it's a figure of speech, rather than thinking absolute scale.
|
||
|
|
Maybe I'm going too deep into this. Oh, I have to live with myself every day, Dave.
|
||
|
|
Now we have a problem because we have no idea what happened in the
|
||
|
|
mailing list. That is a problem, I'm afraid. Yes, I haven't managed to come up with a solution to
|
||
|
|
that one. In the days when we had G-Main, we could have run over there and looked at it, but
|
||
|
|
G-Main. I could, I suppose, go back and type HPR into my archive and find out what was going on
|
||
|
|
on the mailing list. How do you post a show under various hosts? That's a good question,
|
||
|
|
actually, isn't it? Yeah. And the answer is you email,
|
||
|
|
Admin at Hackerpop.gradio, and you tell us that you posted a show.
|
||
|
|
Usually we know if it's coming in that it will be from who it's from, so it's usually another
|
||
|
|
problem. If you put it in there, if you put something in the in the host field, just say please
|
||
|
|
post this under your own host profile, please post this as Hackerpop, as what various artists or
|
||
|
|
whatever. Yeah. And the first installment of the amateur roundtable was posted due to reservations
|
||
|
|
with Fostem and Denise Comte, you show not air until the 3rd of March. We'll probably want to wait
|
||
|
|
until after that to do another roundtable, together additional comments and questions from
|
||
|
|
interested parties. Absolutely. Bob Youngman said, hi all, I finally uploaded a show. I left out
|
||
|
|
some details as the way to edit it after it airs. Also, I added the show notes in plain text.
|
||
|
|
Should you use another format and you reply to welcome on board. We don't offer a way to edit
|
||
|
|
stuff. And there's, I've been thinking about that day. And I think, yeah, when you post a show,
|
||
|
|
it's the show supposed to do. It's in the ether. And that's it. I'm afraid what said, said,
|
||
|
|
that said, we have edited show notes on a regular basis. Yes. Yes. It's just the thing of being able
|
||
|
|
to go and edit it yourself like a sort of CMS or something would be, would be nice. But
|
||
|
|
why would it because then people can go back and change stuff. And it's not what was valid on the day.
|
||
|
|
Shusha, but you'd need, yeah, the way you do that in the CMS is you have an approval process. So
|
||
|
|
somebody upstream says, oh, no, you're not saying that and doesn't let it through and so forth.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, there is, there is. And that's what the, that was the idea behind the PGP key thing that if
|
||
|
|
you had the, if you had signed your horse, your horse key is available. And that we could validate
|
||
|
|
it some way that you would be able to edit it automatically. But that's, that's on the list
|
||
|
|
of things to do. We're also having problems with the admin mailing list. We are getting, if you
|
||
|
|
email admin at hackerpopagradio.org, we are getting them. And we will reply, depending on your
|
||
|
|
time zone, maybe 12 hours later, but, but you will get saying this mail user doesn't exist. And
|
||
|
|
we've contacted Josh about this and he's kind of busy with life for the minutes. So we will,
|
||
|
|
we will see what happens. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's a shame that it does that because it puts people
|
||
|
|
off a bit, but there you go. It's not the end of the world. We do, we do get this stuff. And we,
|
||
|
|
we pointed out that it's just a glitch rather than a, an out and out fail. Yeah, good. Okay.
|
||
|
|
Okay. So that was it. We steamed through them because of the amalgamation of the HPR stuff or
|
||
|
|
the first time stuff. And then it's comfortable. But yeah, I have nothing else to say, Dave.
|
||
|
|
Well, me neither, really. It's been a lightning pass, sure, really, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
To make up for the two hour jobs that we've done in the past.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah. Okay. So we don't have to sing a song right now. I just don't do that. We don't know. You know, you know,
|
||
|
|
you know, it's all as I do. Join us now and share the software. Anyway, tune in tomorrow for another
|
||
|
|
exciting episode of Hacker. Pop, pop, pop, lick, radio. Thanks, Dave. Good night. Good night.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
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||
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|
||
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|
||
|
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|
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