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Episode: 3066
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Title: HPR3066: HPR Community News for April 2020
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3066/hpr3066.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 16:09:06
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3666 for Monday 4 May 2020.
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Today's show is entitled HPR Community News for April 2020,
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and is part of the series HPR Community News. It is hosted by HPR volunteers
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and is about 42 minutes long, and carries an explicit flag. The summary is
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Dave talks about shows released in comments posted in April 2020.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by An Honesthost.com,
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Hello everybody, this is Dave Morris for Hacker Public Radio.
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Now I'm doing the Community News show for April 2020.
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I was going to be with Ken, and we were going to do it at 3 in the afternoon,
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local time, my local time. But Ken doesn't seem to be a round,
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so hopefully nobody's ill or some other problem.
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I've not heard from him at all, so I'm going to try and do this show myself
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and hope that the end result will be appropriate to put up on
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in Monday's slot, which is sitting there waiting for a show.
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The way we normally do it, the weekend, and then we upload for Monday.
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I have to say that things do with recording audio and me.
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I've not gone too well recently, and I just fell down a hole I've never fallen down before.
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I recorded an entire hour's worth of episode and went to look at the mumble.
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I would use mumble to do it.
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It's wondering if Ken was going to join me along the way.
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I went to look at the end result, and it was completely empty.
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A nice hour of silence.
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I have no idea what happened there.
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Not a clue.
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See how we get on with number two.
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Ken's had this, Ken's had this as well, I know, this type of thing.
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It wasn't that I wasn't the president who pushed it up.
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I know I was.
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Good to see you, my lips light up and everything.
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No, I'm doing this just using my recorder on an arm over my desk,
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and I've got my two monitor set up, hopefully.
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It's going to work this time.
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I've got a cat here as well, I don't know if you can hear her.
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So, we're looking at community news for April 2020.
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Show number three or six.
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Six is the one that you're going to be listening to.
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And we've had one new host in the past month, and it's Dan Nixon.
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We're going to look at a show that he sent in very soon.
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So let's start by going through the shows.
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This is what this episode is all about.
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We review all of the shows that we've had in the past month.
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And the first one, starting with episode three thousand and forty-three,
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was from Archer seventy-two.
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Short hand to the point episode entitled How I Record for HBR.
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He's talking here about the tools hardware wise and software
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that he uses and his methods for preparing episodes four HBR.
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There was one comment to this.
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He came from the lab bug.
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He said bass and treble.
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Thanks for this episode.
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I love hearing how people record shows.
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I might have to do one of these myself.
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I'm curious as to why you retenuate the bass and treble by six decibels.
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The final episode has a telephony feel to it.
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We really possibly look at a hold of the original file before it's processed.
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I'm not sure whether Archer seventy-two has seen this or whether there's been a transfer of files or whatever.
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Dave of course is a perfectionist when it comes to audio processing.
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So we could give some really good advice.
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Next we have an episode from Mr. X,
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which is entitled mock p snooze tip.
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He uses mock p to play his...
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I was going to say music but I think all podcasts and audiobooks.
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But music is for all I know.
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He likes to be able to run this setup in such a way that he...
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It will play for a certain time and then we'll stop automatically.
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He was describing how he does that.
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And of course Mr. X has got a pair of radio headphones on.
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So he's broadcasting to it from some fancy hardware he has.
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Very interesting setup he has.
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Next we have a hooker talking about OSS compliance with privacy by default and design.
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He's talking here about the European data protection GDPR thing,
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general data protection regulation and how companies need to be in compliance.
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But what the effects are on the Fediverse.
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When it was originally written with big companies in mind,
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no real thought about privately run or open source Fediverse style things.
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Very interesting.
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Great notes as always on his personal site.
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Then we had the community news which I was having audio problems with.
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There's my notes on my software.
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My microphone setup was all wrong.
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And I sound as I was about a million miles away.
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But anyway, there was a comment to that episode.
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Maybe scrolling there probably.
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Clack K said, first class ranting.
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Thank you Ken for a forceful and enlightened rant on the archiving mentality.
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The evergreen value of much knowledge and the need for self-contained show material.
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I agree with not only the general sentiment but probably with every word said.
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I'm glad you don't believe in editing things down.
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So yeah, we always ask him to comments.
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And there we go.
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Next, Taj Saira offers us the result of his setup which is using mumble
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and inviting people to come and join him with a joint discussion along similar lines
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to the New Year show something where the subject is, well I guess general chat,
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but around the subject of COVID-19.
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It's called COVID-19 work from home stream and this is day one.
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And on the show were honkimagoo CRVS Lyle.
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It was next 1101 of years ago and Taj himself.
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And it was really interesting.
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I do enjoy this sort of thing.
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40 minutes wasn't long enough for me.
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Could have done with some more.
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I'd like to hear about how Lyle got on making bread.
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That's why he more about the bread making.
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Very good, very cool show.
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Next we had Clark 2 talking about alternatives to toilet paper under the health and health care banner.
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He's saying that toilet paper is unavailable in many cases.
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And there's a comment coming shortly as to why that might be.
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But there's also being a lot of bulk buying with the idea of selling it to a premium I think
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as with with other things.
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But anyway he's talking about alternatives to toilet paper.
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There's not a joke he says and contains no offensive language.
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So he got a, got three comments to this.
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The first one was from Nalo who says the affected episode.
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I was playing on the sort of slight joke on the fact that
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he was saying the affected area I think a lot.
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Anyway he says toilet paper really is an odd invention.
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I believe there was a time when it was first marketed that the public thought it vaguely is disgusting.
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And as you suggest an unnecessary luxury.
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One plausible explanation for the surge in toilet paper purchase is that in countries experiencing some form of lockdown
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more people work at home.
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Hence the demand from toilet paper moved from the office hall sale is to retail shops.
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And the supply chain takes time to adapt.
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In the meantime shelves will be empty.
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Certainly heard that comment made elsewhere.
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I dare say it's true.
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Although the speculative hoarding stuff is definitely going on as well.
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Nalo says there's a ruined Roman bathhouse near me situated on the inter-Nine war, Scotland.
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It has a latrine and evidence suggests that they use moss to clean radio effectors.
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Nice.
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Bookworm says a word of caution.
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I'm not a healthcare worker, nor do I play one on TV.
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However I've worked in healthcare IT for 10 years.
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The word of caution I would inject is in regards to the option of using a bare hand to clean the affected area.
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I would say this is a last resort substitute due to potential health risks associated with it.
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Hepatitis A is spread through fecal matter and food.
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If one is not supremely careful, i.e. wash thoroughly more than a minute, then sanitize.
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You can spread hepatitis A to yourself and you'll love to one very easily.
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Fortunately hepatitis A is not fatal, mostly just uncomfortable, with mild fever that passes and diarrhea for up to 30 days or so.
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Wow, that's pretty uncomfortable.
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Tuterto says speaking of Romans, Romans also used Tersorium or Zylo Spongio, which is a sea sponge tied on a stick.
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Those are in commonable use and just rinse in a bucket of water and vinegar in between the uses.
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Also a big portion of humanity uses hands or rather a hand and water to clean themselves and actually consider using toilet paper,
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and it's disgusting as it can't clean as well as water can.
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Different cultures and all that.
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Oh yeah, good comments.
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I can say having spent a bit of time in the Far East, that a lot of the toilets there are merely holding the wall
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and are hose piped with a, you can use to spray water or even a dip thing with a reservoir of water for cleaning.
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And in fact the Western style toilets are seen as disgusting in many parts of that area.
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I didn't take too kindly to it, but that's probably me being old and fussy and stuff.
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And there's also the thing about you never pass anybody an item, particularly food, but any item using your left hand because people use their left hand to wipe themselves.
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So it's seen as a, as a disgusting thing I guess.
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It's obviously a mistake I made and then it's a really cold off for doing so.
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Glad to tells us what computers taught him about reality in show called what computers taught me about reality.
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And he, he's having a bit of a philosophical talk about computers and reality there, which I'm not entirely clear about to be honest.
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It was never very good at understanding philosophical musings.
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However, all about him. Next was Linux in laws series season one, episode four, and what's in a name is the title.
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And they're talking about Linux in laws, which I'm just trying to read the notes here.
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It's mainly sort of boilerplate stuff.
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They talk about the legacy, its name, and introduced tech support from the dark side.
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A new hotline helping politicians and other users in need of computer support to cope with reality.
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Martin and Chris are talking about Linux outlaws and their legacy, I guess.
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So, that's good.
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Yeah, this, their tech support from the dark side was, was an interesting idea.
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A hookah makes comment, great sketch, he says.
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I love the sketch at the end, it was very funny and very creative. So, there you go.
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Next was Taj doing day two of his COVID-19 work from home stream.
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And he had honky McGoo on there with him, and they had a pretty good chat about all manner of things, politics and health care.
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I could have done with the longer episode, I really could.
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Honky, I think, was taking a break from work, and his phone connection was pretty awful.
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So, I think he was struggling a bit.
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So, it was really good to hear what was going on.
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There's a comment on this one.
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So, from Brian in Ohio, he comments, electoral college.
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It's hard to believe a guy from Indiana would advocate the elimination of the electoral college.
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You definitely would not need to vote if you live in Indiana, if there was no electoral college.
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The US is not the democracy, it's a republic big difference.
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Primaries and caucus system is a political party system and should not be confused with how presidents are elected.
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One last thing, health insurance is not health care.
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When you say universal health care, you're really saying universal health insurance.
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You still have to fight an insurance company with universal health care.
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Send lawyers, guns and money.
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The SH blank bank has hit the phone.
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Good show, entertaining.
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Next was Ken show on in the series networking, where he's talking about locating computers on a network.
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And he talks a lot about how you would find something like a Raspberry Pi that you've just connected to your network for the first time.
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And it started up and been given an address by your router's DHCP.
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How would you know what that address is?
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There are ways that you could achieve it.
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Other than actually having a keyboard and a monitor connected to it.
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I certainly have been down this road, come up with some ways of doing it.
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I think Ken's ways are more detailed.
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And it's certainly the amount of information this show is spectacular.
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You can learn a lot about how these things work.
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The network works.
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Very cool. I thought it was an excellent piece of work.
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Some magnificent notes.
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It talks about using in-map.
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One solution.
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And also mentions art scan.
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Oh yes, I made a comment on this one.
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Very useful, thanks I said.
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Thanks for this.
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I've struggled to find devices on my network in the past and eventually resorted using in-map, which I used to use at work years ago.
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I used to be in charge of networking at one point.
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But then somebody were able to go before me.
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That wasn't part of my comment, that was just an aside.
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I was not aware of art scan and I've just installed it.
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It's very much more helpful when searching for that new pie just added to the network.
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I've not noticed before that Raspberry Pi Foundation had become Raspberry Pi trading limited,
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apparently with the arrival of the Pi 4 and that the MAC address base had changed then too.
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So yeah, I kinda didn't point that out particularly, but I noticed in his listings and also in mind when I tried art scan.
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Very good, excellent show.
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Next we had the Audio Book Club, number 17.
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And this was looking at reviewing the book Blood Witness by David Hitt.
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And it's really nice to see the return of this show.
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And I have to say it was lovely to hear 5150 again on this episode.
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Really do miss having him around anymore.
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They had some interesting things to say, but it doesn't sound like the sort of book I would be rushing to read or listen to.
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But each to his own, they weren't fantastically supportive.
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They weren't taking with it too much, shall we say.
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But still, as I say, each to his own.
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There was one comment from Lost in Bronx.
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Welcome back to the Audio Book Club.
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Really great to hear you guys once again.
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HPR Audio Book Club has been missed.
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Free Culture Audio Book Reviews Live.
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He says, so that's good.
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It's been, it has been a long time.
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I don't know how long it's been since we last heard one of these, but it seems like a very, very long time.
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It's good to hear it.
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I'd love to know when this was recorded actually.
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Did they say?
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I didn't notice.
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Next was a hooker with the show entitled Coronavirus Thoughts.
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Where we are with this pandemic and how should we respond.
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And the show notes, I think a hooker did his usual thing of putting in lots and lots and lots and lots of links and pointing at his notes on his own website.
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Ken picked up those notes and attached them to the show, which I know hookers are happy with.
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And it was really good to be able to read them along with his audio.
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I enjoyed that.
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And a number of comments.
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First one was from Brian in Ohio.
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Politics, he says.
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It's a shame that a hooker takes a decent look at the pandemic.
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And has to drag his form of left-wing politics into it.
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Add hominem attacks make it feel good.
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Don't add to the strength of your argument.
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As far as chloroquine and its possibly usefulness in helping people recover from this disease,
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he was linked to a national issue of health article about this drug.
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And then it gives a link dated 2005.
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This drug may be useful, but people with politics are getting the way I've seen that.
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Who's rational?
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Lastly, it's easy for pensions to stay at home.
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To say stay at home, definitely.
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Some of us need to go out and work.
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There are many jobs you can't do from the comfort of your home in your pajamas.
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Poverty is bigger killer than any pandemic.
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The chloroquine hydroxychloroquine issue.
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I think it's brought up in a moment.
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But yeah, hydroxychloroquine is used in other contexts.
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Is that the one that's used for people with lupus?
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I don't remember.
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Tell for tendists, it gives comment.
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Freedom governments are governance and pandemic.
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I prefer free software because I like freedom to do things I want to do and live the life I want to live.
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He's an excellent podcast discussion of these rather difficult questions.
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It makes reference to something from Alex Epstein.com.
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You can download and listen about copy protection.
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There are no advertisements.
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However, be aware that the above podcast is not under CC license, but linking should be fine.
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They take a somewhat hyper rational approach to the issues.
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Some people might prefer an emotional perspective, but even if you disagree with their conclusions,
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at least consider the way they methodically work through the key points.
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Economics is about deciding the allocation of precious scarce resources,
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and inevitably this must involve a trade-off, very similar to engineering.
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What is happening right now is that the lives and livelihoods of young people
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are being sliced away for the benefit of the older demographic.
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It's about this ethical dilemma.
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Very few of the commentators are willing to even give the slightest recognition of those being sacrificed.
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Only those people who start with the understanding that a trade-off is involved
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are genuinely engaging with the problem.
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Brown and Ohio comments again, clarification.
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Chloroquine is different from hydroxychloroquine.
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My mistake.
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There are medicine that can help people own immune system get through this,
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and many other diseases.
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Waiting for a vaccine is untenable for us all.
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We will all end up in the economic toilet.
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Her immunity is what we need.
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Let's get going.
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If you're at risk, hang back, six feet or two meters,
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and let the risk take to get out there and pick up the pieces.
|
||
|
|
The hooker says herd immunity.
|
||
|
|
Her immunity is wonderful, and it's why vaccination is so important.
|
||
|
|
When we have a vaccine, and most common estimate I've seen is 18 months old on that one,
|
||
|
|
when we ramp up production and get it out to over 300 million Americans,
|
||
|
|
we'll be in a much better place.
|
||
|
|
Next is a hooker talking about a show about advice to new Fediverse administrators and developers,
|
||
|
|
and he's talking about...
|
||
|
|
It's a talk from the 2019 Activity Pop Conference,
|
||
|
|
and he's talking about peer tube, which is an alternative for YouTube,
|
||
|
|
and mobile is on.
|
||
|
|
Strange name.
|
||
|
|
An alternative for Facebook events.
|
||
|
|
I don't know what Facebook events is.
|
||
|
|
I've kept well clear of Facebook personally, but still.
|
||
|
|
Good.
|
||
|
|
Next was an operator,
|
||
|
|
with talk about Jitsy.
|
||
|
|
I think he's talking about installing it on a...
|
||
|
|
on his own server.
|
||
|
|
I found the study right.
|
||
|
|
I might have missed that a bit.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, Jitsy is pretty good application as far as I can make it.
|
||
|
|
I've just recently used it myself.
|
||
|
|
Friend and I were having a chat using it, and we could sew back.
|
||
|
|
And we use Jitsy meeting.
|
||
|
|
Jitsy meeting, is it?
|
||
|
|
I'm not sure what it's name is, but it's just case of multiple browsers connecting together,
|
||
|
|
presumably from their free server.
|
||
|
|
Operators talk about this.
|
||
|
|
It was interesting.
|
||
|
|
He got seven comments.
|
||
|
|
First one was from Huka.
|
||
|
|
Very timely, he says.
|
||
|
|
I was thinking about checking out Jitsy.
|
||
|
|
So this was a welcome find in my feed.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for doing this.
|
||
|
|
Half hat says,
|
||
|
|
Why talk about Jitsy?
|
||
|
|
I was wondering if I'm expected to listen to a podcast.
|
||
|
|
The first minute or so is the presenter explaining how they don't know much about what they're talking about.
|
||
|
|
What they are about to talk about.
|
||
|
|
It seems to listen as time isn't being respected.
|
||
|
|
Just me says,
|
||
|
|
I really enjoyed this episode.
|
||
|
|
As Jitsy seems to be making the rounds coming out on top of the open source alternative to Zoom.
|
||
|
|
This was really interesting and made me want to play around with it.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much.
|
||
|
|
Mike Ray comments,
|
||
|
|
Why talk about Jitsy?
|
||
|
|
He's replying to the earlier comment.
|
||
|
|
To the person moaning about having to listen to or being expected to listen to a podcast about Jitsy,
|
||
|
|
in which those first says he doesn't know a lot about Jitsy.
|
||
|
|
I think HPM might not be what you're looking for.
|
||
|
|
And you need to learn where the delete or skip button is.
|
||
|
|
In the few shows I've done for HPR, I've always been very conscious that there are inevitably people out there who know more than I do about what I'm talking about.
|
||
|
|
Why don't you do a show about something and show us all just how smart you are?
|
||
|
|
The hooker says,
|
||
|
|
Why listen?
|
||
|
|
Why indeed should anyone listen to an episode of HPR?
|
||
|
|
The only answer I have is because it's of interest to you.
|
||
|
|
I think of HPR as a party with a bunch of friends, not as a college curriculum.
|
||
|
|
I listen to the ones I want.
|
||
|
|
The ones I want to listen to skip the ones I don't.
|
||
|
|
I'm not in the least bothered to think that there are people out there who don't want to listen to my shows.
|
||
|
|
Mike Ray again.
|
||
|
|
Read why listen.
|
||
|
|
These days I probably only listened to about 10% of episodes.
|
||
|
|
I don't know why this is compared to the near 100%.
|
||
|
|
I don't know why this is.
|
||
|
|
Compared to the near 100% I listen to when I first found HPR.
|
||
|
|
It's probably because I arrived at a peak right slap in the middle of the legendary hooker,
|
||
|
|
the office series,
|
||
|
|
exactly when I needed a leg up doing spreadsheets.
|
||
|
|
And also around that time, Class 2 and Dave were doing a lot more.
|
||
|
|
But at no time have I complained about any episode.
|
||
|
|
My mother used to tell us if you can't send anything nice, keep your mouth shut.
|
||
|
|
Nowadays I don't do any podcasts here because I become too conscious that there will be listeners
|
||
|
|
who know more about what I'm talking about than I do.
|
||
|
|
But comments like the one criticizing operator for starting his cast by saying he knows little about the subject.
|
||
|
|
He's not exactly encouraging to others, is it?
|
||
|
|
CRBS comments.
|
||
|
|
Read why listen.
|
||
|
|
Because by telling you that he doesn't know much about Jits,
|
||
|
|
the operator has invited you or anyone else out there to do a follow-up show if you happen to know more.
|
||
|
|
I recommend.
|
||
|
|
And Tutoto does a show next, formal verification with COQ.
|
||
|
|
And this is an interactive theorem prove which comes to its own programming language in Galena.
|
||
|
|
So he's talking about an example where you might want to write a function that calculates the blood type
|
||
|
|
resulting from a crossing of gene alleles.
|
||
|
|
And he talks about how you would do this.
|
||
|
|
So you can say things like the alleles types are type A type B type O.
|
||
|
|
And then the blood types are AB, AB and O.
|
||
|
|
And then the mapping between them.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, he points out that if the two alleles are type O,
|
||
|
|
then you get type O which is why it's the rarest blood type.
|
||
|
|
So you can state theorems about the code where you can say the type O and the type O gives you type O.
|
||
|
|
And thereby prove it.
|
||
|
|
So it is complicated.
|
||
|
|
But it's quite interesting, I found it's quite fascinating.
|
||
|
|
You can use this to emit Haskell code in which the data types of blood type O and blood type are declared.
|
||
|
|
And then code is generated to take blood type A and B and then produce the result of whatever variable saying B happened to contain.
|
||
|
|
I've done that justice.
|
||
|
|
I find this quite fascinating.
|
||
|
|
I don't really see any need to do this, but I found it's partly because this is a biological thing.
|
||
|
|
It's a biologist before I got into computers, as I'm sure I've said before.
|
||
|
|
But it was most intriguing, I've found this to be a fascinating show.
|
||
|
|
Day three of COVID-19 work from home stream was next.
|
||
|
|
And the list of people who are on it are not in the notes.
|
||
|
|
And the date is weird.
|
||
|
|
20-03-02, 2020-03-02.
|
||
|
|
That can't be right.
|
||
|
|
Surely it was the 20th of March.
|
||
|
|
This was on.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, whatever.
|
||
|
|
Should have spotted that at the time of the last.
|
||
|
|
Tad to walk if that was right.
|
||
|
|
But it was on it.
|
||
|
|
I made a note of this because I was listening to Dave Lee, Caroline Lee, and Ken Balamzon, later John Spriggs joined.
|
||
|
|
Then they left and honky McGuin CRBS arrived.
|
||
|
|
And honky's connection is awful, I wrote here.
|
||
|
|
And later, a visit from KDG, the Norwegian guy who's been on the community news from time to time,
|
||
|
|
because he hangs out on mumble from time to time and joins in spontaneously.
|
||
|
|
And then we had Taj and then K Wysher joined, which was good.
|
||
|
|
I wish there were more of those, actually.
|
||
|
|
I wish there were more of these episodes.
|
||
|
|
So this was one hour, 41 minutes.
|
||
|
|
And I enjoyed it.
|
||
|
|
It's like the new year's stuff, the new year's show.
|
||
|
|
It's as fancy and tender.
|
||
|
|
But yeah, I do rather enjoy it this time of show.
|
||
|
|
A few other people do too.
|
||
|
|
So next, quick introduction to SnapCast from our new host, Dan Nixon.
|
||
|
|
So when I saw this, I first think it's Snap.
|
||
|
|
I read it as SnapCraft, which is all about snaps and things.
|
||
|
|
SnapCast is something I've never heard of before,
|
||
|
|
but it's a sound and audio thing that gives you a sonos-like capability
|
||
|
|
that can play in multiple locations.
|
||
|
|
So your music can be playing wherever you wander about in your house.
|
||
|
|
That was as much as I got from it.
|
||
|
|
But it sounded like something well worth digging into in a bit more detail.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it could have done a lot more information.
|
||
|
|
It was four minutes long, four, five minutes long.
|
||
|
|
I would have been happy to have a bit more to be honest with you.
|
||
|
|
Still, it was a great first show.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much for that, Dan Nixon.
|
||
|
|
Thank you very much for your comments.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for the introduction.
|
||
|
|
It sounds like a various, like, it, it, it, it, it, it.
|
||
|
|
This sounds like very useful software.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for the introductory episode.
|
||
|
|
So I'm looking forward to more from Dan Nixon.
|
||
|
|
Next, we had Ken doing another quite detailed show
|
||
|
|
about setting up the local IMAP server.
|
||
|
|
And Ken has got his mail.
|
||
|
|
All of his mail, apparently,
|
||
|
|
copied to a mail doer structure.
|
||
|
|
And he's running an courier IMAP demon,
|
||
|
|
which accesses this so he could then point mail clients at it
|
||
|
|
and go and put around with his, with his mail.
|
||
|
|
And judging from what he says that he's, he's grabbing mail of various systems
|
||
|
|
that, and, and copying into this mail doer structure.
|
||
|
|
I knew, not, not quite clear about how he does that.
|
||
|
|
I was hoping he's going to be on, and I could quiz him more about it
|
||
|
|
from his landies top.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, I find this most interesting.
|
||
|
|
It's something I really like to set up myself,
|
||
|
|
because it basically means all of your mail is in one place
|
||
|
|
and can be scanned, as he says,
|
||
|
|
find and set an organ grapons over to find stuff.
|
||
|
|
I have done this in the past, or something similar to it,
|
||
|
|
having mail coming into one point,
|
||
|
|
and then being accessible from that point.
|
||
|
|
But I didn't do it like this.
|
||
|
|
So this is, this is quite nice, actually.
|
||
|
|
Something I'd quite like to build, build upon.
|
||
|
|
I have got a lot of mailboxes, and I use one,
|
||
|
|
MUA1 message, one, um, mail.
|
||
|
|
Use that agent to access it all,
|
||
|
|
using IMAP and pop and stuff.
|
||
|
|
And, uh, it would be very cool if, instead of it keeping it all,
|
||
|
|
and it's own, this is Thunderbird, in its own weird format,
|
||
|
|
that I could put it all somewhere where,
|
||
|
|
could be accessed, again, using Thunderbird,
|
||
|
|
but using the demon pointing out the milder thing,
|
||
|
|
because milder is cool.
|
||
|
|
I don't know, anyway.
|
||
|
|
Shouldn't, uh, whitter on, but things to, to get done.
|
||
|
|
Um, next we had a show from operator,
|
||
|
|
where he is interviewing his friend Mike Ivey.
|
||
|
|
They're talking about limiting children's access to dangerous
|
||
|
|
or disturbing things on the internet,
|
||
|
|
and, uh, implementing this type of thing at home.
|
||
|
|
Very interesting.
|
||
|
|
I enjoyed this discussion.
|
||
|
|
Mike Ivey sounded like a most interesting person,
|
||
|
|
like to hear more, uh, that is what he has to say.
|
||
|
|
Next was Clacker, doing a show we haven't heard from,
|
||
|
|
Clacker, much in recent, recent times,
|
||
|
|
and he was talking about Vassal,
|
||
|
|
which is a thing for playing, um,
|
||
|
|
board games while remote.
|
||
|
|
Vassal is the tool, Vassal Engine,
|
||
|
|
is the tool which lets you get access to various games,
|
||
|
|
which are compatible with it, presumably,
|
||
|
|
um, and they played Carcasson,
|
||
|
|
and, um, this was Clacker, a friend,
|
||
|
|
and a stranger who opened to join in with them.
|
||
|
|
And so it was quite a successful game that they,
|
||
|
|
that they played together.
|
||
|
|
I'm interested, I don't know the such things existed,
|
||
|
|
but there you go.
|
||
|
|
Then, there was this geezer.
|
||
|
|
Then there was me doing a show,
|
||
|
|
entirely pens pencil, paper, and ink.
|
||
|
|
Number one, because I had a lot to say,
|
||
|
|
and I wanted to just split them into multiple shows,
|
||
|
|
so I didn't bore people for too long.
|
||
|
|
Um, this was, how long was this?
|
||
|
|
This was about 15 minutes long.
|
||
|
|
The thing is, I'm really quite enthusiastic
|
||
|
|
about things related to pens and paper
|
||
|
|
and pencils and stationery stuff,
|
||
|
|
and how it always had been ever since I was a kid.
|
||
|
|
I think I got it from my father,
|
||
|
|
I think I said this before,
|
||
|
|
he was also very much into this thing.
|
||
|
|
He was, he was very easy to buy presents,
|
||
|
|
because he just bought him something cool
|
||
|
|
in the stationery line, he was very happy.
|
||
|
|
He was also quite keen on writing and drawing
|
||
|
|
and doodling and that sort of thing.
|
||
|
|
My son's also like this, he enjoys writing.
|
||
|
|
My daughter writes really nicely,
|
||
|
|
and she's also likes to draw.
|
||
|
|
So she's got a lot of drawing type pens and pencils,
|
||
|
|
and I pad with a stylus and all that sort of good stuff.
|
||
|
|
So the reason I'm doing this is because
|
||
|
|
I know there are other people out there
|
||
|
|
who have similar enthusiasm.
|
||
|
|
I just wondered if there were many more
|
||
|
|
in the HPR community,
|
||
|
|
so I thought I would do a few shows
|
||
|
|
about some of the pens that I have acquired
|
||
|
|
since 2006 when I last did one of these.
|
||
|
|
So judging by the comments,
|
||
|
|
I don't know, and there's no,
|
||
|
|
but you know, his feedback is a strange thing.
|
||
|
|
Next was Archer 72,
|
||
|
|
doing an intriguing show about how he got started
|
||
|
|
in electronics and done jobs in that area.
|
||
|
|
He put some pictures in which he was intriguing.
|
||
|
|
I love shows with pictures and he talks about
|
||
|
|
some of the jobs he's had in this sort of general area.
|
||
|
|
But he was into model,
|
||
|
|
model electric trains and all this sort of thing.
|
||
|
|
Quite cool actually, yeah, yeah.
|
||
|
|
Nice subject for a show.
|
||
|
|
So that's it, that's all of the shows.
|
||
|
|
There are a few comments that relate to earlier
|
||
|
|
earlier episodes.
|
||
|
|
So I'm going to look at those now.
|
||
|
|
They're actually four,
|
||
|
|
but we covered one of those last month
|
||
|
|
because it came in just before the show.
|
||
|
|
So I'm going to cover that one.
|
||
|
|
We have actually three comments from Clackett.
|
||
|
|
First one was on Claudio Miranda's episode on PyCore
|
||
|
|
on Raspberry Pi 1 Model B.
|
||
|
|
And Clackett says,
|
||
|
|
really tiny-core maintainer name.
|
||
|
|
I've never used tiny-core in this,
|
||
|
|
but years of listening to Linux,
|
||
|
|
I was probably have still taught me the name
|
||
|
|
of its maintainer by heart
|
||
|
|
because it's the most bond-villain maintainer name ever.
|
||
|
|
And you have to adopt a Sean Connery voice.
|
||
|
|
Do this.
|
||
|
|
Schringleau-decker.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
I remember that.
|
||
|
|
I do remember the Linux Atlas.
|
||
|
|
It did some great stuff.
|
||
|
|
Miss him.
|
||
|
|
Next comment is on the same show from Clackett.
|
||
|
|
And he says,
|
||
|
|
particularly tiny really.
|
||
|
|
On a more relevant note,
|
||
|
|
I love these minimalist approaches.
|
||
|
|
Friendswear is by Portius,
|
||
|
|
but that's still 300 megabytes.
|
||
|
|
Tiny by most standards,
|
||
|
|
but wouldn't fit on your card.
|
||
|
|
I think it's worth mentioning that while you said
|
||
|
|
it left a few megabytes on your card,
|
||
|
|
the core of the capital C is a mere 11 megabytes.
|
||
|
|
You tried for the longest time to keep it
|
||
|
|
low 10 megabytes.
|
||
|
|
I had to break the barrier,
|
||
|
|
but 10 years ago.
|
||
|
|
Still, the only distro that fits in an email.
|
||
|
|
It's my only face.
|
||
|
|
That's a thought.
|
||
|
|
I hadn't heard of NALO BSD before.
|
||
|
|
Thanks for bringing it up.
|
||
|
|
Clackett.
|
||
|
|
Also, Clackett also comments on
|
||
|
|
show 3034 from Taj Sara.
|
||
|
|
Had to bridge 300 RSC.
|
||
|
|
Everyone's a Matrix.org.
|
||
|
|
And he says,
|
||
|
|
App Service IRC.
|
||
|
|
Or cool.
|
||
|
|
And I was using Matrix plus IRC before.
|
||
|
|
Unauthenticated.
|
||
|
|
Free node was still OK.
|
||
|
|
But now, I know what to do
|
||
|
|
if I start using Matrix again.
|
||
|
|
I've been using XMPP and Bibumi,
|
||
|
|
but I didn't host my own.
|
||
|
|
And the hosted ones have not been reliable.
|
||
|
|
I miss IRC,
|
||
|
|
so I may come back to Matrix soon.
|
||
|
|
So that's all the comments.
|
||
|
|
There's nothing to be said about.
|
||
|
|
Nothing to be said on the mailing list,
|
||
|
|
but from my message,
|
||
|
|
it said we're having a recording this show now.
|
||
|
|
Oh no, not now,
|
||
|
|
but three o'clock in the afternoon,
|
||
|
|
but that didn't work,
|
||
|
|
because Ken didn't make it.
|
||
|
|
And so there's nothing else there.
|
||
|
|
The events calendar,
|
||
|
|
not much point into looking at that,
|
||
|
|
because it's all cancellations
|
||
|
|
or online events.
|
||
|
|
I'd like to know more about how people
|
||
|
|
are managing online conferences,
|
||
|
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and how well they work.
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But that's not much I can add to that,
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just at the moment.
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Final then.
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Final thing is the any other business,
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tags and summaries.
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We've had 17 shows updated in the past month,
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and the major contributor was
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Windigo who contributed 15,
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updated 15 shows I did two.
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So thank you, Windigo,
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for your sterling efforts there.
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I'll try and do better next time.
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So that's pretty much it.
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There's nothing else that we can,
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we need to talk about this week.
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Ken is okay,
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and we hear from him soon.
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I'm going to sign off now,
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and I'm not going to sing,
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and you know a bit you're listening to,
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I could probably radio,
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and there's only me to tell you,
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so no point in doing that.
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So whatever,
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hope you enjoyed it.
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Hope it wasn't too tedious.
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Just this one geezer,
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witchering on,
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but thanks for listening if you did.
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Okay then,
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bye-bye.
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Music
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You've been listening to Heckup Public Radio
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at Heckup Public Radio.org.
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We are a community podcast network
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that releases shows every weekday,
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Monday through Friday.
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Today's show,
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like all our shows,
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was contributed by an HBR listener
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like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast,
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then click on our contributing
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to find out how easy it really is.
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Heckup Public Radio was founded
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by the Digital Dog Pound
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and the Infonomicon Computer Club,
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and it's part of the binary revolution
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at binwreff.com.
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If you have comments on today's show,
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please email the host directly,
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leave a comment on the website
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or record a follow-up episode yourself.
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Unless otherwise status,
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today's show is released
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Attribution,
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3.0 license.
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