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Episode: 4546
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Title: HPR Community News for December 2025
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4546/hpr4546.mp3
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Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:13:43 (official HPR transcript)
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4546, for 2026-01-05
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Today's show is entitled, "HPR Community News for December 2025"
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The host is HPR Volunteers and the duration is 01:32:01
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The flag is Explicit, and the license is CC-BY-SA
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The summary is "HPR Volunteers Kevie and Ken talk about shows released and comments posted in December 2025"
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public
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Radio. This is HBR 4546, the community news for December 2025 and joining me live from Scotland
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is Kevi. Hi Kevi. Hello and a happy new year given this is the first episode for me of
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2026 and also the first community news of 2026. Yes, so happy new year to everybody and
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we hope that one of your new year's resolutions that is totally achievable is sending into a show
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for HBR. No, I'm not happy with that one. I actually would rather the resolution to be
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multiple shows to HBR. Very good, very good. So how was your yard listening? How was the
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switching of the year? Yeah, I had a family time over the holidays but the weather took a turn for
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the worst so we were down in the south of Scotland and we decided we were due to come back today
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actually but because of the weather we decided we'll travel up on new year's eve which was not a
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good idea. But the reason I'm saying it wasn't a good idea was it was just such a horrible day
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uh but on ash on a boat that normally has I think it caters for about 250 vehicles there was less than
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10. You know I mean that's one thing. Hogmanay nobody travels in Scotland it's up it's a session day
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essentially. Exactly, exactly. How about you? How was your uh holiday season? It was fine uh very much
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acting as a taxi service to to people but uh it was nice um we had uh Christmas with the uh some
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of the families of two of the kids have moved out all three were away for new year's which was the
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first time ever which was uh nice they were all with friends and stuff. Oh that is excellent so uh
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I mean people tend to get Christmas presents of course on the 25th but you know we get them on a
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daily basis here at uh HPR Towers because of course when you guys send in your show that is a present to
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HPR. Oh that's that's so smooth really you should be doing this professionally. I would dearly love to
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give up the teaching and do this professionally. My phone allowed. Um so for those of you don't know
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first time here Hacker Public Radio's uh community podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday
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through Friday and last year we passed our where did we start give me one second I'm just going to go
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to the stats page which is on our syndication page and you can get a list of the HPR stats and if you go
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there you'll see that we've been running for 20 years three months 14 days 10 hours. Now is that
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including today with the techie or is that purely HPR? Uh that's today with the techie yeah as well
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so which brings up another point that if we go to uh for 2026 so this year it is 2026 this year uh the HPR
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episodes once it hits uh 4 700 which will be on Friday the 8th uh so on August the 7th this year
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we will have hit 5 000 episodes of HPR 5 000 episodes of HPR that is of course if people continue to be
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generous and send in shows so let's talk about HPR. HPR is a community podcast that releases
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shows every weekday Monday through Friday the shows are sent in by people very much like you
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in fact exactly like you and we've had some fantastic submissions this year we've had some fantastic
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submissions from new hosts and hopefully there'll be a lot of people who will uh be wanting to send in
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episodes and one of the things that i heard over on the community news was either people don't have
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ideas in which case do your introductory episode and kevi and i and whoever else is listening in the
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comments archer will definitely come up with a list of show topics that you can record and the other is
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when you don't have time to do it remember that HPR is a community podcast so therefore the barrier to
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entry is a lot lower not saying that you should send in crappy audio but if you're out for a walk
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and that's the only time that you have to record a show better to record the show then than not have
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a show recorded at all what do you think kevi absolutely absolutely please do get stuff in and
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bear in mind as well it's something that even if it's something that you do on like a daily basis and
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you think oh that's not interesting well it's to hackers yes probably is because it may be something you
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do but something we don't know about at all and let's be honest as well if you have a smartphone
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the term crappy audio really is out the window these days because the microphones they're using
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now on just the basic microphone on the smartphones are way better than what we were having on the
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computers 20 years ago and we're still recording then exactly and even then there's a lot that we
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can do with the audio when we take it in we can send it to uh audiophonic and they use hashtag ai to
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remove a lot of the background noise yes there'll be artifacts and whatever but no any show is better
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than no show so try recording uh an episode on your daily whatever and any time that you do have an
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opportunity to record the show try send try sending one in anyway enough about that i think let's move
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on to what this show is about and this show is community news which is recorded by hosts like ourselves
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usually on the uh friday the friday before the first monday of the month so if the hbr new show is
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coming out on the first then we record it four days earlier if it's coming out on the seventh we'll record it
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four days uh earlier than that and that is just give us time to process it and send it out and what
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we like to do is uh go through all the shows and read the comments from the community that have been
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submitted on that show and if there are no comments we'll give our own impressions of the show itself
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so everybody gets some constructive feedback and positive feedback on their episodes and then we'll go
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through the rest of the comments and we'll give you uh rundown on anything that's in the mailing list
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and of course anything that's been happening in the background uh with regards to the uh ongoing
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developments on the hbr community and project itself let's see okay yep and you know before anyone asks how
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much do i get paid for this well as you've said many to time yourself ken feedback is the currency on which
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we pay our hosts absolutely it is and um there was a great episode uh last month uh about how to
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contribute to open source but uh and free libra software and that is the number one thing you can
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do the next big thing that you can do aside from sending in a show yourself is get somebody else to send
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in a show so uh we should be uh i was out on a walk the other day and and thinking about hbr as i do uh
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and podcasting in general is going through waves now every man and his mother has a podcast and now is the
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time for us to be sowing the seeds for when they there is a dial in the waves coming up where people are
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dropping off their shows and not recording as much now is the time for us to be having people
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come in onto hbr because we will continue if there's anything that has happened that we know
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that has happened in the last 20 years we are consistent so let's and you can help with that by
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encouraging other people to submit shows and yourself one show a year it's not that difficult
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absolutely and plus like you see 20 years this isn't a fad you know i mean podcasting it's sadly
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as much as i hate to say this for a lot of people has become a fashionable thing just now you know
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like you say every man this dog has got one absolutely we're still going to be carrying on
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with it even when the dog has been put to the kennel right so we did actually have quite a number of
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shows in this past month uh one uh one a working day what i should say working weekday so maybe we
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should actually get to having a look at we should we should start the first one was on december the
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first which was the community news for november 2025 let's start with that one shall we were there
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any comments keby now we are rich the pair of us we are rich why do i say that because uh this was
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one of the better commented episodes we i think there was six or seven six it is and the first one
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was by archer 72 silent key i heard again about the silent key and was reminded that an electronics
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instructor of mine in a local college was a fan of the paddle key as a ham radio operator i'm wondering
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and on a mission to find out if he is silent key or still alive
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the graduating class was 30 years ago 1995 and he was and he also taught me to use the 8080 processor
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assembler which the chip could only be rewritten after erasure from exposure to uv light and trey says
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silent key archive hi archer 72 you might want to check the arll silent key archive link in the show notes
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and a rll is american radio right let me just wikipedia that while you're uh while you're looking
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up the while you read the next trey comment yes so trey went on to say actually i'm glad i got this one
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tux jam cyd episode thank you kevy for a shout out concerning cyd you sent me on a quest to find and
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listen to your podcast it took me a bit to figure out how to spell tux jam but i finally got it and
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i'm listening nicely done and on the subject of spelling trust me i'm dyslexic i don't go for fancy
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spelling quite often it's purely phonetical when it comes to the to any of my shows or anything i see
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and a rll is american radio relay league which is the big amateur radio uh league in the world actually
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and in america so uh the next one next comment was from candy canator 07 and thoughts decided to put my
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response into one bc i didn't want to spam the comment let me know if that's not allowed and
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stuff sorry what i'm surprised somebody recorded an eight hour show that seems way too long to keep
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uh talking for sad face uh next point is i maybe will make an episode or two on my scripts though i'll
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start one with task warrior which doesn't use x clip since from the manic follow-up is my first
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episode this might have is next one peer tube is a cool concept but i only occasionally watch
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videos on the anon slash stf instances so i don't have the experience to make an episode about it
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next point agreed ai freaking sucks as both an artist and a coder and next you can't listen to regular
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books lol yes you can somebody reads them out to you uh next one ladies happy birthday to archer it's also
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uh candy canator's birthday in two days happy birthday uh and he posted that on my birthday
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as well either the news list has been going to spam or i'm missing it because i completely forgot about
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it i'll double check once i'm finished listening and re-tray thanks for the introduction to tux jam
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i have another podcast to dump into g potter yeah i like that yeah another listener except for they
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i i can't speed it up two times because it ruins the music yeah we have had that actual comment uh
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before uh yeah probably you know me no no not just for you actually a few different people but uh yeah
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i had one actually commented saying uh could we have one without the music at all and i'm good well
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the point is tux jam so i would just be tux which would be mega building you know it would just
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uh purely be another linux podcast no no that's fine i've i've found a way to get around it
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yeah right so we have archer 72 responding with hello candy cane r07 i'm glad you are enjoying our
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community and a happy belated birthday you mentioned sdf which i have an account on but rarely use i should
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try it out again and on radio is good to hear on a road trip uh do you use an instance on matrix or
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mastodon cheers archer 72 and for probably the seventh different pronunciation of candy canators
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zero sevens hashtag we have the comment thoughts thanks for the happy birthday stf is fun but i keep
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forgetting to check in on the com chat i actually just got a little handheld media player which i've
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been loading with podcast episodes and i'm confused myself as to his last comment what's w yeah before i
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say it out loud i'm going to go to uh urban dictionary and find out no didn't find anything there and it's
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it's whiskey alpha foxtrot romeo november warn warfender yep i'm old and unhip yep i'm happily joining you
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there i haven't a clue what that means it's when uh how old did that make you feel when i think it was
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archer said 95 was 30 over 30 years ago and i'm thinking that doesn't sound right no no no no i know what
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it is it's an answer to his questions so uh he was going do you use uh archer asked do you use an
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instance of matrix or mastodon and he uses warfin which is w-a-f-r-n the social network that respects
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you warfin is a federated social media inspired by tumblr that connects with both fediverse and blue sky
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well now if that isn't an episode right there kevi explain to us old folk how that uh what this
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new up-and-coming social network is license where it's hosted how you get an instance who do you
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contact what's the community like etc etc etc exactly definitely actually given the the sheer size of
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that comment forward i think that could be about two or three episodes you're not wrong you're not wrong
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so moving on to the next day we had an interview with elspeth about sl shop and the hop event
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and i'm sure uh lee is cutting and pasting these comments and sending them out immediately
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this this is something i discovered that lee does uh after the community news episode so what we should
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actually do is comment about elspeth like 15 times during the episode and then you'll have to cut the
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whole thing up and send it well she's appeared a few times so we could certainly have a good few
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comments but yeah i really actually enjoyed this listen to this one the i had never heard of this
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thing that the shop and hop uh sounded really good i was actually surprised to i don't want to say
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political but um actually i don't know any word of saying it but i was quite surprised when she was
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speaking about how difficult it was to get in and then even when you got in getting a good pitch so
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to speak or plot or whatever you want you know it was amazing actually listening to the experience
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so it was kind of a shame to hear uh with someone like that you'd almost kind of want
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to kind of get the you know the the new people having the best places and then those who were maybe
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more established being a wee bit further down because people are more likely to go search for them
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uh and or a constant rotation but it doesn't sound i suppose it's like anything in life it's
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it's not what you know it's who you know so if you're a member in the committee or something you're
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going to get prime pitch but it was really good i was really pleased to uh actually hear about this
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because it's something i'd never heard of and it's to me i it all these episodes you know it's so
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foreign to me the second life stuff and selling stuff online but if you compare it to something like
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the ibc which is the big broadcasting thing all the main pitches in the huge halls are like the big
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cisco's and the oracles and the uh big broadcaster people are i've got the main ones and then you have
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the small little boots around the site so it does follow the convention of of a normal um you know
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exhibition or so or a normal exhibition like that and even getting a spot at one of those exhibitions is
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really really difficult so in one way it's quite similar and the other way i found it fascinating
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to be honest yes actually that's what i maybe thought it wouldn't follow because it is uh virtual
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you know online life was a kind of alternative life almost turned to world um that's what i thought
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maybe that might actually have a place to change because like you say you know in reality big companies
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always dominate and it basically until they're broke they'll continue to dominate uh candy canator
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zero zero seven says peek into the community i think this is a really cool peek into the community
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that while i've heard of it in the past thing i've never really looked into it until now the
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interview was entertaining and clear that elzabeth is well integrated into the community and there's
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lots of experience i think she is definitely adding a lot to uh a lot to our community as well
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more people we have from with diverse backgrounds doing different things the better say i absolutely
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and speaking of slightly different things the next day whiskey jack started his first episode on
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nuclear reactor technology now i have to confess when i first heard of this i was thinking
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oh i'm interested but i then i then i remember being taught about nuclear physics in school
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rule and thinking please let him be nothing like my physics teacher because it would just send me to
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sleep but thankfully not i've really enjoyed this so he goes over the basics so uh basic terminology etc
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and talking about uh and actually i didn't even know this was a thing i have to admit in my ignorance
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i didn't know there was uh civil grade uranium compared to military grade things like that
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uh so yeah this was all really good so this was the very first in i think a series of eight yeah
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eight episodes so this is one that i have actually with by the end of the month we've had i think three
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i think were released and i've enjoyed every single one of them so i mean this is something where you
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know you're probably saying oh this isn't of interest to hackers i only know about this well yeah this is
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something i mean am i a nuclear technician no do i work in the power industry no but this really interested me
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absolutely and uh i had to laugh uh i met the comment you know
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hpr consists of uh nuclear reactor technology and beer garden stuff what could possibly go wrong
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especially coming from whiskey jack so it's fine i'm thinking of that homer simpson episode
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working at the nuclear reactor but uh this is no we should definitely try and get that and you can
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whiskey jack on for a nuclear uh power episode combined with beer and caught just call it the homer simpson
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episode very good uh there's been a lot of comments on this uh bjb says love this show and series
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thank you i listened to the first episode in this series and it's super interesting thank you i'm
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eagerly looking forward to the rest of the series and kevin o'brien just makes a comment saying looking
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forward to more i think your plan is excellent and i'm eagerly awaiting the future installments
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trey says looking forward to the series very well done many decades ago we learned about some
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of this in college physics class we even had the opportunity to visit a research reactor at a local
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university where we participated in the daily startup process observed uh krennikov radiation
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firsthand and even experimented with the effects of certain type of radiation exposure on semiconductors
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i am looking forward to the remaining episodes in this series excellent and it's nice about this just
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another side note it's nice that he is approaching this from a non-political point of view and we've
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had issues this year uh where i must say hand on my heart i'm very impressed with the hbr community
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where uh our approach to something that is political has been very fact-based and calm and collective as a
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community so it's good to see this coming through that we can discuss topics that some people might not
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like but in a honest and open way yes absolutely absolutely and it's uh it is a sign of a mature
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community as well because we're in a day where so many if you disagree with me you must be my enemy
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no that's just total nonsense we're not all gonna agree uh but uh yeah so carrying on with his uh
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with his experience with his movement away from uh ms based operating systems al was on the next day in
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four five two four living the tux life episode three now for somebody just moving on to linux yeah this is
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not something i would really recommend anybody trying unless they're seriously going hardcore
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al automates his own install of linux mint and is using looks with all sorts of volume resize stuff
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yeah great well this is kind of interesting because obviously he's you know when he says this is the
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first time i'm moving to linux is a little bit like asterix beside it i know a lot of people now are
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linux experts in work so they're spinning up kubernetes clusters they're putting pods here left
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right and center they're doing uh dynamic network changes so they're using linux on a daily basis
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all the time so they're very close very familiar with they like console commands but now they're coming
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from that to running a desktop environment so i find i find that's why i'm finding this super fascinating
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yeah totally uh for those you don't know al's also a co-host of tux jam so when he actually said oh
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i'm going to do moving to linux as a cds we're all kind of is this is this april the first are you
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serious we're all are all the links users and he was saying no i'm not a full-time one i was like what
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like the the hints are here like when you look at it oh yeah i'll just run an ansible playbook to
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install my distro of choice okay that that's a perfectly logical same thing for a new linux user
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to do yeah but to be honest though i'm really glad to hear him recording this and again you know people
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saying they don't have time they don't have uh they don't have specifics they don't have media
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expertise these have all been kind of five minute long episodes they've not been overly long it's just
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literally him going through what he's done and it's just basically a diary of himself and this is
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great it's great for us to hear it and it's also great for him to look back thinking oh yeah that's
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what i did back then and also uh just on that note this month uh because we've had the uh end of year
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show and people have been talking and i've been talking to people in person listen don't let the fact
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that you're that you're embarrassed about your voice or uh that your your your native language
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isn't english don't let that stand in the way of sending in the show or that that you can't speak at
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all um don't worry about that write the script send it to us and we have the option of uh doing the
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text-to-speech on it uh which is very good nowadays or uh we have a whole team of volunteer narrators
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who are more than happy to take your script and read it as a human just like you you would if you
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could but you can't yeah and we're very very tolerant of uh of people who um who english isn't their
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first language or have do we even have a show on uh about somebody with a speech impediment uh how they
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sent in a podcast so this is a normal thing we do uh so don't let any of that stop you from sending
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in the show you have something to say you've done something cool in your house and nobody gets it
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send in the show absolutely now speaking of done something cool in the house uh i'm actually going
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to let you take the next one because i think you may be better to speak with than i am so this was
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a missing male merging thunderbird by a certain ken fallon no i don't know him no no yeah uh this one
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i have to admit there's another reason for doing the hbr episode is cause every single year i need
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to do a when it comes up to the community news things there's a lot of things that i need to do
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in preparation for it and they're simple but i keep forgetting how to do it because year has passed
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so this year i said right i'm going to document this so that i have it for next year and where's the
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the best place to document it uh wrote a little md uh a quick write-up of the notes so that i remind
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myself and then i thought hey you know this would make a good episode so it's basically if you have
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a small mailing list you're now we're not talking about spamming people but i don't know your local
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club or something and you need to send out an email to people and you don't want what their addresses on
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the bc uh you want everybody's addresses on the bcc and stuff this is how you can do it with a little
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tool in thunderbird where you don't have to sign up to somebody's third party site or whatever
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it's just a low tier low barrier to entry in a really really simple way to do a a mail merge list
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without having to go to huge extremes now i know we do change things for granted but why would you
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want everybody to appear as bcc why not just put everybody and click from your own email address
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all the email address in your address book because that would be a violation of the general data
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protection action equivalent legal things that are legal uh laws that are in effect around the world
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so to protect people's privacy and on the bcc field the address of the other people's addresses
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are not listed so you yeah that's why
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yes i know good episode actually and actually quite a handy thing because i have done this in
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the past and of course was especially with something i don't use too often and i've had to go through
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manually and add them all to bcc so this is probably something i'm going to use myself so uh it's something
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i hadn't thought of to be perfectly honest so i'm like and the thing is what's embarrassing is i did
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mail mergers in school yeah once upon a time i should have once you start talking about it i remembered it
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and i was like oh dash but bear in mind that was a long time ago yeah i've done it via um uh i've done
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it via like back in the day with microsoft access databases and you know for work and mail runs and
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all sorts of things like that and then i've done it a libra office with mail merging for you know christmas
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letters and printing off uh you know printing off um mail stickers you know address labels and stuff
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like that so this is very similar but it's fierce low barry barrier to entry you put the addresses into
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a csv file and you can maybe if you had like four different things that you're that you involved that
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you have four different csv files and you just have this thing within thunderbird do you know what shocks me
|
||||
is that's uh some guy on the internet didn't send in this episode being the thunderbird expert on the
|
||||
on the uh network yes well you know i mean if you if you were here you know it would be good to hear
|
||||
his response to that but uh we'll need to remember that question for next month absolutely so we have
|
||||
the bofang and the str plus plus where lee tries transmitting and recording on vhf and uhf uh lee is
|
||||
um got his um got his technician license which is uh the introduction license in the uk there are
|
||||
three levels and other countries are just two and some there's just one um but on his way and i have
|
||||
to say that he is even though i'm fully licensed he's moved far further on his journey than i am and
|
||||
that's okay too now am i right in saying lee actually only got into ham radio from kind of
|
||||
listening to your talk and talking to other users in last year's old camp i believe so yeah so there
|
||||
you go that's uh that that is amazing actually given how relatively short a term that is when was that
|
||||
last october that's a quarter of a year and he's got this more it's a year and a half uh it wasn't last
|
||||
year we didn't have another camp last in 2025 it was in 2024. oh was that a year okay right time flies
|
||||
i genuinely thought that was last october oh fair enough but good episode i really enjoyed it i
|
||||
really enjoyed it not just also it did all my ham thing and i was thinking yeah i should do that i have
|
||||
i have everything here necessary to do that so i should actually do that um trey also said
|
||||
strs well done sir strs and strs for those not in the know are software defined radios it's
|
||||
essentially what everything's happening on uh ham radio now for the most part uh strs have really
|
||||
opened up parts of radio technology experimentation to the wider community i have noticed a significant
|
||||
difference in performance and quality between inexpensive str dongles and higher-end devices like
|
||||
the str duo which i prefer i've not tried the str plus plus software and regularly use str connect and
|
||||
str angel continuing to experiment is the best way to learn and grow uh side note within the terms of
|
||||
your license of course of course of course but great episode love this and i have this one bookmarked in my
|
||||
brain for that mythological day when i get time to play with radios that said i have moved my radio
|
||||
here to physically where i can touch it so i now have two physical radios next to me none of them are
|
||||
plugged in none of them and they have an antenna but still it's a start it's a start there you go so
|
||||
they've moved up the list of the things ken hasn't done that's good editing a new year that's good
|
||||
you've got that few things checked so yeah that's good do you want to do the next one yes i was actually
|
||||
this one made me chuckle just before i quite get to it it's purely because i had completely forgotten
|
||||
about that episode that i had done uh on cd ripping and then uh lee actually who we just spoke of the
|
||||
last episode he actually included it in the the recent anniversary episode and the then out of the blue
|
||||
we have archer 72 with overly complicated media ripping setup so and for you he does this is
|
||||
overly complicated from what i would actually remember from uh from ripping software so actually
|
||||
he's dealing with something though that i've never used nat's blu-ray because i've once kind of dvds
|
||||
and that went out my i never bothered actually replacing the optical drive when it damaged uh
|
||||
actually that's a lie the internal one uh so i do have an external one but it's not blu-ray i've um
|
||||
got some quite some movies and i sometimes i will just like a movie so much i want to get the dvd so that
|
||||
there's no uh there's no basically i want to get hug father from terry pratchett which is an excellent
|
||||
excellent uh two-part series and it's on dvd but the dvd is twice the price of the blu-ray whoa yeah
|
||||
this had me interested like do i save the money and get the blu-ray but then you need some software
|
||||
from somebody who requires a license and he may at some point in the future take the license away so
|
||||
that that was the only thing about the blu-ray ripping that's had me a little bit concerned yes and
|
||||
i do like the fact of uh from from this uh layout he's got here it does appear that he's actually
|
||||
putting it onto uh a specific drive for move a specific drive for movies which is probably on a
|
||||
home server now you may think why in this day and age would anybody want to rip a dvd or blu-ray or
|
||||
anything well plain and simply if your internet goes down you've still got media to watch if you don't and
|
||||
you rely purely on internet provided uh forms of entertainment if your internet's down you've got
|
||||
no form of entertainment left and the views expressed on the show do not necessarily reflect those of my
|
||||
employer which i'm mentally required to say in this case also um what i find is that if i have it locally
|
||||
then i can use mpv as a media player uh and then i can adjust the brightness and saturation and the
|
||||
sound and i can add subtitles to it and i have a lot more control over it than i do skipping forward and
|
||||
using the arrow keys and then you the drm keys get messed up on the server and then there's you're forced
|
||||
to use the ui of the uh whatever streaming platform and it's invariably crap except the ones that we
|
||||
work on of course uh so uh well i i end up actually just having the dvd ripping it and then playing it
|
||||
on the dvd rather than looking at it on the streaming media that's available to me which i also pay for
|
||||
but yes absolutely now the next day we had henrik hemron in episode 4528 with photography software
|
||||
now uh yeah so he goes through essentially what he uses so he talks about digicam
|
||||
uh raw therapy gimp rapid photo downloader pics view scan entangle display cal and dark table a good
|
||||
proportion of which i've used but i'm not that big into photography photo editing and media editing
|
||||
things like that but uh he's gone a bit uh further in than i would go but yeah it's actually see again
|
||||
this is something you know people say they don't have the expertise they don't have this sort of
|
||||
that this is just plain simply what they use to do a certain task and like i said there's things here
|
||||
i don't know about i didn't know about always good to share and a good episode i'm really enjoying
|
||||
this series which is actually should be a series now in itself because he's chugging along producing
|
||||
these and going through it systematically um and giving us a view into what he's using i've found it
|
||||
all super interesting some of the software i just barely touched and more of it he has encouraged me to
|
||||
have a deeper view in it and what i'd like to do is if henrik for a start can people who are into
|
||||
photography please get engaged and start adding some comments to this gives him some encouragement
|
||||
about these shows because they're absolutely excellent and i would like deep dives into every
|
||||
single one of them not well i am asking i was going to say not asking you to do what a hookah did with
|
||||
libreoffice but yes i am asking you to do what a hookah did for libreoffice on every one of these
|
||||
tools i know that may be a bit much but for some of the simpler ones yeah that's a possibility but i
|
||||
think henrik has a plan in his mind and is continuing to do that so please and please comments in there and
|
||||
note to self to uh convert this to a uh photography series or better yet can people tell me if you're
|
||||
interested in photography should we have a dedicated photography series on the network and just talking
|
||||
about the series people um hosts themselves don't get to decide the series anymore um there was always
|
||||
a rule where you need to have three episodes for it to be considered to be a series uh but my view on
|
||||
the series is very similar to and my view this is the as an administrator as one of the janitors is um
|
||||
is it should be a bit like uh a room at foster and what i mean by that is that it's not it shouldn't
|
||||
be about specifically a single product um it should be about encouraging collaboration under a more of
|
||||
an umbrella so they've had a desktop environments room where they've got kde and gnome and various
|
||||
other different people in the same room talking about it equally they have um they no longer have
|
||||
an amateur radio they just have a radio room where software-defined radio satellite broadcasts
|
||||
everything to do with rf is in the one room um and uh social medias so they'll have matrix along
|
||||
with mastodon along with the various different people in the same in the same development track
|
||||
and that's how i feel we should have our series done of course we can be overruled by the community
|
||||
but there is an element of the administration of the whole thing here and what makes logical sense
|
||||
so for each series ideally it should have its own icon it should have its own blurb it should have a
|
||||
basic description of what's going on and i we're definitely discouraging clothes series where somebody
|
||||
has um say taking clattu's urban camping series which was a unique thing in its on itself where it was
|
||||
something that he did um but it's unlikely anybody else is going to be adding to that series in the future so
|
||||
that's where we were about series sorry for the tangent uh kevi i understand that
|
||||
at this rate you're going to uh you're going to miss your next appointment
|
||||
well it's got a few hours left so hopefully not
|
||||
the next day we had the yoga a review of the yoga oh sorry were you finished with that
|
||||
yep fine on uh the next day we had one laptop to rule them all but brian in ohio a yoga 370
|
||||
and it was uh inspired by episode 4402 which i think was from me if i'm not mistaken which was the
|
||||
which was the pine tab 2 episode by brian in ohio oh yeah it was episode 4491 was where uh we were
|
||||
where and that was the interview with that was the interview that tibo uh and myself did with
|
||||
david lavoy who was the pepper and carth author and he we were discussing the think pad which i have
|
||||
here the yoga 370 and that inspired this mini series of shows and in this uh this is a show by
|
||||
brand in ohio where he's putting slackware on and uh discussing the various different scripts and such
|
||||
yeah this one was quite good they just got on about talking about again what he was doing to set
|
||||
things up and am i remembering this right this is the one where the actual screen detached and became
|
||||
like a tablet uh i think it falls around um at the back is that what it was yeah because he was
|
||||
speaking about uh rotate and auto-rotating that i seem to remember that's the reason and i was just
|
||||
i remember uh thinking it's one of those things that i i never get into uh for myself personally
|
||||
i like a big computer i i like being able to upgrade it when i want so i'm actually always at this
|
||||
to hear people's experience with laptops yes i have a laptop for when i'm traveling and things
|
||||
but the fact is if you're a gamer and you want a laptop you you really do have to spend quite a lot
|
||||
of money on it and then they become dashed heavy that was my other experience the one time i used a
|
||||
gaming laptop it was physically like carrying the weight of a break around it was so dashed heavy
|
||||
i should maybe look back into it but it is good to hear about yeah i mean people uh putting this i
|
||||
like to spoke about i think was slack where he put on it uh speaking about as well the um
|
||||
the software on there there for reading pdfs especially with ocular i think he used
|
||||
uh yeah yeah it's absolutely great absolutely good it and i remember rightly did it used to be a
|
||||
default nubuntu back in the day uh i thought i think kubuntu it was but i don't know it's a it seems like a
|
||||
kd app to me all right because it definitely was in one of the ones that i i can't see anything i was
|
||||
at his dropper for years but uh yeah that's what i came across it was in that and it was one of these
|
||||
ones that i always actually used to put in uh yeah yeah i really like this one and it uh it was also
|
||||
one that was enjoyed by paul jay who left the comment thanks great show hi brian thanks for the very
|
||||
informative show i have and use three x 270 lenovo laptops and i am writing this on an x390
|
||||
i have never considered a yoga version with a touch screen but may well do so in the future i also
|
||||
appreciate the other information you have shared best wishes for the new year paul and the following
|
||||
day uh was a hookah continuing his series on playing civilization five part six and he was
|
||||
looking at game mechanics and civilization now i don't want to end up taking this away from you
|
||||
are you sure you don't want to go with the in-depth one here uh this one i'll just give you the summary
|
||||
from the show notes playing war and combat long and basically land combat naval combat air combat and
|
||||
his conclusion that was a very brief introduction blah blah blah blah so i'll go get a coffee and
|
||||
you can start waffling on about gaming yeah he was talking about the the different not just the the
|
||||
the basic mechanics of what although he did he did touch on that but also talking about the different
|
||||
forms i mean of course civilizations are developmental games so you know you start simple and you do
|
||||
you keep on going as that you progress your technology so obviously the the first ones you do
|
||||
are literally going to be ground combat and your weapons are going to be severely limited pretty much
|
||||
to clubs and throwing stones essentially but as you develop the technologies you go through you can
|
||||
you can obviously decide as well we spoke about the different forms although there's different uh
|
||||
transportation let's say so you can have eventually you can develop into land vehicles you develop into
|
||||
sea vehicles uh develop into air vehicles but you know he even was talking there about
|
||||
very often there are some which they are purely uh the the combat is a secondary thing you know like
|
||||
there was some uh vehicles uh some uh vessels he was talking about there and the sea vessels and
|
||||
they were saying that they were more scout although they do have combat on them uh it was quite
|
||||
interesting the fact that he said that you you can actually overcome a city from the sea if it's a port
|
||||
city but he said he actually had the caveat as well i've never done it myself so usually with these kind
|
||||
of games the things like air and naval are very much uh ranged attacks and then to actually conquer the cities
|
||||
you would send in the troops but yeah it was really good uh like i said i must admit i've never played
|
||||
the civilization games i've played free civ i've never played in the civilization games themselves so
|
||||
for me as an outsider who's interested in gaming i'm loving the series and a series that i am loving
|
||||
is the next day hpr beer garden six imperial stouts wow this is a fascinating history lesson i yeah i i love
|
||||
the way you're doing this it's just uh of course it's you kevy and dave the load bug um where you're taking
|
||||
some beers discussing it and um giving us a little bit of the history as well and i'm sure you wouldn't be
|
||||
opposed to uh people doing non-alcoholic drinks on this somebody wanted to give a rundown of uh
|
||||
of other non-alcoholic beverages feel free to do so absolutely and in fact we don't want this to be our show
|
||||
at the end of the day uh we want this to be a community show so if anybody has even if people want to do
|
||||
beers if they wanted to do that do their own talk on it it's entirely up to you i mean we've actually just
|
||||
recorded one that's going to go into the reserve queue that's talking about what we do for making
|
||||
an episode and what we would recommend but they don't have to they don't have to follow that exact
|
||||
thing it's not an exact science so yeah i've been actually enjoying doing this because
|
||||
the we're we're taking a style and we're just talking about the history of it because we probably
|
||||
don't appreciate and it's funny because dave himself says he was very often one for saying
|
||||
i don't like borders i don't like borders until we actually looked into them and did the history of
|
||||
them and now he started to appreciate them himself he just they weren't what he thought to be honest
|
||||
and i'm just finding this interesting i mean it was i was saying that in one of the recent episodes
|
||||
if all homework was like this i would have probably stayed on and got my master's and doctorate
|
||||
oh well there are no comments on that um this one but let's move on to the next show
|
||||
yes and the next show was oh it was trace a cheap yellow display part five the graphical user interface
|
||||
so him talking about really uh getting the cheap yellow display say i had a problem with this by the
|
||||
the way the graphical interface setting it up when i was doing it uh check out the tuxim episode if
|
||||
you want to actually hear my uh annoyances but uh yeah him talking about the generally how he had got
|
||||
things set up how it was tested how it was getting the touchpad and everything and the the layout it's
|
||||
not as easy as it sounds that's actually one thing i will say so i totally felt his pain when i was
|
||||
listening to this i'm going this sounds very dashed familiar um i was um weirdly enough i was wondering
|
||||
why uh i hadn't heard your episodes in a while and then i realized that my download script was doing
|
||||
something to check for org files and because you were anyway as a reason i had a whole year's backlog of
|
||||
shows uh from tux jam to listen to and i was moving so i was moving furniture from my house to my daughter's
|
||||
house and i got to listen to tux jam back to back the whole way from from home the whole way up to her
|
||||
house so that was excellent and then i realized that ye had done a series on the cheap yellow display
|
||||
yeah prompted by um train's episode yeah yeah that's it and uh it was uh a tree actually mentioned
|
||||
that in the the comments on last month's community news and it was really good actually trying but the
|
||||
one thing i did find i'm going to say this as a caveat to anybody that wants to do this the first thing you
|
||||
need to do and the absolute first thing is find out what exact cheap yellow display you have because i
|
||||
i stupidly assumed i first went on and got mine oh the cheap yellow display they must all be the
|
||||
same okay there's different size i'll have to check for that but they must all be the same part of
|
||||
matt no no no no no no no no they're all flipping different there is no standardization on them and
|
||||
it's really annoying it was your comment last month that uh made me realize hold on it was his
|
||||
comment last month that made me realize hold on i haven't heard tux jam in a while why is that so
|
||||
then i found the bug in my uh in my script glad you got that rectified i mean that's a christmas
|
||||
a whole year's worth of tux jam well it was great because it started off with the the uh the christmas
|
||||
uh the first episode of last year because i had the christmas list from 2024 so uh i had the first
|
||||
episode and then it was like oh it's the weather is cold the weather is warm it's getting warm it's
|
||||
wet it's flooding it's it's cold again it was nice but with this trace episode they uh the thing about
|
||||
the the ui having to use a windows piece of proprietary software that sounds very sad to me
|
||||
yeah now i didn't actually experience that i have to confess so i'd forgotten about that part
|
||||
actually because yeah he was just saying he just couldn't get it running i don't have a windows
|
||||
partition on this pc and there's never been one in fact on this pc so i couldn't do that suppose i
|
||||
want to unless i was going to use it run up a virtual machine but i didn't have that my biggest issue was
|
||||
trying to find stuff that actually worked for the specific cheap yellow display that i had and but even
|
||||
then there's so many different drivers and things it ended up my biggest problem was i had the wrong
|
||||
driver installed for the display module and that's what caused me norris just says uh starting small
|
||||
this is a good tip for any new project i like to see success early so i tried to start with something
|
||||
small just to see something working good motivation to keep going and a solid foundation to build on
|
||||
actually that is very good advice that i need to give myself
|
||||
uh with regard to this cheap yellow display i have loads of plans for them but i need to just take
|
||||
one out and put the time on it and be happy and move on absolutely yes that's what i would highly
|
||||
recommend highly recommend indeed now so the next day it was a continuation by whiskey jack on the nuclear
|
||||
reactor technology and this one was specifically nuclear fuel so again something i did not know
|
||||
about i mean i knew about the fact it's just yeah well i i sorry i knew about the episode yes but what
|
||||
i mean is i knew about natural uranium and rich uranium and then he goes on to talk about all the rest i'm
|
||||
like whoa did not know all that so and even you hear words like natural and enriched and he went on
|
||||
to explain what it was and what you know i've heard a lot about thorium and how it's going to save
|
||||
everything and he kind of went into here's what it is and then the pros and cons so that was nice sorry
|
||||
did i cut you off no no you didn't it was just what i was saying no i think you mentioned it already i
|
||||
love the fact he's not coming from this with either a pro or anti thing he's just factual and he says
|
||||
you know he's giving the the both sides uh the the pros cons like i said this yeah we need more episodes
|
||||
like this uh in the in the shows absolutely brilliant and it seems that bjb is also in agreement thank you
|
||||
for an interesting series i'm really enjoying this series thank you oh sorry i'm greatly enjoying this
|
||||
series thank you even better the following day we had claudio reviving my kawai k4 synthesizer and he
|
||||
describes how he brings it to life after years of dormancy and nice links in the show notes and good
|
||||
tips on what he did didn't know absolutely into synthesizers and stuff so there's an avenue for
|
||||
the next time i'm talking to claudio that we can start bugging him about uh all series perhaps and
|
||||
what they are how they work etc etc totally and i thoroughly enjoyed this and the one thing can i
|
||||
give a bit of constructive criticism here it's not no it's not criticism just an encouragement here
|
||||
is i listened to this in the car and i was really thinking oh i'm loving this and he talked about links
|
||||
in the show notes and when i finished my journey i went on the website i was hoping to really hoping
|
||||
to see some uh pictures etc can we recommend some pictures like some pictures and what i would like
|
||||
to have heard was a audio uh just a recording of him playing something non-copyrighted that we could
|
||||
add to the show notes absolutely yes you fixed it so you should prove to us that you fixed it
|
||||
it's not i'm sure we can do that in the next follow-up episode yeah but uh no i don't want
|
||||
to be too too mean there now that was a really good episode really interesting uh yeah i'm talking
|
||||
about the different parts as well yeah and i mean they even if you're not into synthesizers or whatever
|
||||
if you have an old piece of kit the methodology that he used for replacing it is applicable to you know
|
||||
a tiny thing that approach it in the same way and the logical steps that you do yes indeed now we
|
||||
didn't have any comments on that so moving on to the next day and al is back with us for living the
|
||||
tux life episode four various software i've been using and yeah so he goes on course of course
|
||||
everybody just installs prometheus yes and this is what i'm still laughing this is definitely not a
|
||||
newbie's guide to linux i think it is it is a newbie's guide it really is and he's highlighting
|
||||
something here that you know there are people who've got like a macbook and work or windows and
|
||||
work and they're working on all these servers and their knowledge is fantastically good it's just
|
||||
they don't use linux and i see that with the guys i work with them work and they're on servers the
|
||||
whole day but they're on them via their macbook or or their windows box and they could and yes josh i'm
|
||||
looking at you uh they they could very well be running linux on their home pc so that's good yeah
|
||||
absolutely but actually i i i did uh have pity on him because he has touched on something that i think
|
||||
every linux user has battled with when they use laptops battery to management it's it's just that's
|
||||
one thing i've found it's probably the other thing that's probably put me off using a laptop for
|
||||
uh extended periods my word just even with battery saver on it's i i i think the best that i got out of
|
||||
either of my laptops uh was i'm bearing in mind one of them actually came with linux pre-installed
|
||||
it was from judo computers here in the uk and it's still with battery saver and everything turned down
|
||||
i can get three and a half hours out of it yeah the thing is though i've been using laptops for years
|
||||
as my main computer and i've never had an issue with batteries but before you go on and around the
|
||||
reason for that is i have like a one and a half hour commute and if something goes wrong it's a
|
||||
three-hour commute and then i plug it in in work and then i have another commute going home and then
|
||||
i plug it in at home so i i'm never away from a power cord so long that it's a problem yeah i totally
|
||||
get it the i just like i said i totally uh actually i will say one thing al is doing something i mean he
|
||||
also goes on yeah i love the fact he talks about deja duper things like that as well you know straight
|
||||
away back up and yep good and the fox clone uh uh tmux is is the terminal he seems to use as well so
|
||||
he's certainly not going for your uh off the shelf stuff that's real but this is exactly why i love
|
||||
linux and it's or you know linux can do links and the whole ecosphere and freely open source software
|
||||
is that you can you can play to your own strengths in it you don't need to if these are tools that
|
||||
he's comfortable using that he's used before in his daily life why make it harder on yourself use
|
||||
those tools feel comfortable and then add another app and then add another app and then you know you
|
||||
visit yourself in two years time and you go oh i completely changed the way i work and now i know all
|
||||
this other stuff and that's knowledge that's never going to be lost absolutely absolutely i mean there's
|
||||
a whole show in here but that would be one thing i would say if anybody comes to me and recommends
|
||||
they're wanting what's my recommendations for using linux actually the first thing i would say
|
||||
to them is install this this this this on your windows slash mac machine whatever you've got yeah
|
||||
and the thing is when you're actually getting familiar with the software it's not that big a jump
|
||||
you know when you're when you've got i mean most people go oh i can't get my software
|
||||
if you prep them it's not a big issue at all yeah exactly you already know how to drive it's just
|
||||
you've gone from uh at that point you're going from a uh uh petrol car to an ev yeah well that's it
|
||||
that's it so candy cane art oh sorry no go ahead you do it i was going to say so well a couple of
|
||||
comments on this episode candy cane art at 07 cool setup i also have to use my laptop for my main
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computer though it's nice to have the same exact setup at both home and when i'm not i will say
|
||||
that tlp supports settings charge limits directly and i'd recommend setting it up there since it
|
||||
persists after boot local scent looks interesting i'll check it out and tlp is a feature reach utility
|
||||
for linux saving laptop battery power without the need to delve deeper into the technical details
|
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doesn't tell me what tlp stands for though but um al did mention that in the show notes
|
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and by the way i need to when i'm posting stuff about al i need to use capital letters so it's clear that
|
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it's a l and not a i that is a true archer 72 says tmux hi al if you like tmux check out hpr
|
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3845 using tmux it uses tmux resurrect to also save multiple session between reboots
|
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nice one there absolutely yes and going on to the next day we had
|
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welcome to the linux community by delta ray uh thoroughly enjoyed this one actually
|
||||
this was really a kind of quite a comprehensive episode lasting about half an hour uh and he
|
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goes on to speak about everything you would probably want for the basics of somebody moving over so he
|
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talks about beginner friendly distros um helping the community pardon where to get help
|
||||
where to get help yes the local communities he links to some mastodon uh foster done free geek
|
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yep and softer alternatives actually i quite liked the way he had put that in and of course most
|
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importantly the gaming section although i am disappointed by his lack of the heroic game launcher
|
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that needs to be in that comment comment or an episode uh this one i personally uh archer said it
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uh in the let's let's just read the comment here archer 72 says brilliant brilliant episodes hey ken is
|
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the room in the about page to list this as a top episode archer 72 not only would i uh and i asked archer
|
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to make a ticket for that on our git t instance where anybody can recommend pretty much anything if they
|
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want related to the website but this is such a generic introduction that um it's it should be like a
|
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link on every single linux destro that's out there every single um any linux thing anything to do with
|
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free libra and open software this is the thing that you should listen to first absolutely yep it was
|
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utterly excellent now so the next uh comment is by torren doyle delta ray did a fine job in covering
|
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gnu linux aka linux here thank you delta ray for this concise coverage of linux you spoke very well
|
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and i'll skip over my one where i just said basically what i already said delta ray said thanks thanks for
|
||||
the feedback and encouragement i'm glad this landed well as i was a bit uncertain about it and thank you to
|
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sigflop for proof listening to it if you're serious about having this linked from other places then
|
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maybe we just need to post it on some forums forums reddit facebook etc good to see that uh he's in
|
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contact with sigflop yes and then the next comment is by morhoek good talk cli magic nice hearing your
|
||||
voice for the first time i love linux too and i'm liking a lot liking a lot many tools that help you fix
|
||||
stuff like codex uh gemini cli and claude code they integrate very well and are awesome way to learn
|
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new commands this year i've learned about a secret dub thank you i'm looking at how am i gonna pronounce
|
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that a sweet uh ss iw
|
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launch and control and wolan magic pocket wake of wake on lan whoa wake on lan magic packet wake and
|
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lan w-o-w lan i guess all right okay yeah that is interesting that's an interesting selection of
|
||||
tools there by morhoek let me just check has morhoek ever submitted an episode sadly not what an opportunity
|
||||
absolutely definitely there's there's i mean that's just too good an introduction not to that should
|
||||
be wasteful if you don't submit that and there's uh like one two three four five five different
|
||||
episodes right there like uh for example the wake on that what's waking on why would you use it uh magic
|
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packets etc what are those uh how can you what are the benefits of using it what are the dangers of using
|
||||
it what tools there are how you can install them what other alternatives are there there you go yep
|
||||
definitely plenty of potential for new episodes there but another person who's relatively new although a
|
||||
big part of the community almost in a short space of time is elspeth and she has put in elspeth in it
|
||||
since 97 and this is part one the and actually i'm looking forward to hearing this because uh
|
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this one was a 43 minute long episode where she talks about her uh she talks about her experience in
|
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it and actually i took my take my hat off to her for this because she talked about some things that
|
||||
you could tell even listening to her still upset her and she goes on about her history sorry say again
|
||||
and i don't blame her for getting upset about them oh not at all no uh yeah so she's it talks about how
|
||||
she's been in it uh i'm just talking about gender inequality that she's uh really had to put up with
|
||||
being a female working in it for a long time and the generally as well just the amount of sexism
|
||||
she's had to endure which is really sad to hear uh so yeah but it's it's it's not just a totally sad
|
||||
episode it's really interesting the way she goes through uh everything and uh she was also i also found
|
||||
it really quite sad and also interesting a bit sad uh overall the when she spoke about how these days
|
||||
people who have been got the same or even less experience than her because back then there was
|
||||
no real degree in computing or not many people had it and she says she's got more experience than many
|
||||
but yet she struggles to get a job because uh now being a female if you don't have the degree they just
|
||||
won't even look at you so yeah it was kind of sad to hear that but uh she's obviously a strong person
|
||||
the fact she's still talking about this yeah well yeah it's uh it was a tough listen i have to say but
|
||||
on the other hand i'm looking at it and i'm also saying it it was inspirational in a way that um that
|
||||
she didn't have a degree yet she was able to learn all this stuff and knowledge and uh get herself up
|
||||
to a point where she is capable of doing this and the fact that she is coming against these obstacles
|
||||
with gender and neurodivergence is is unfortunate and i realize how lucky i have been um my first ig job
|
||||
i the manager was a was a woman who was one of the best engineers i knew and one of the best managers
|
||||
i knew and we had a more or less 50 50 team so it never entered my mind that the it sector wasn't
|
||||
gender balanced or that there was any of this in quality inequality or sexism and that was the same
|
||||
when i moved to another job uh in the netherlands and then i had one job where i was working for
|
||||
a period of time i'm not going to say how long i was working there and it was like super macho and i
|
||||
was going this is not a pleasant place to work and thankfully i am now working in a place where there's
|
||||
a better gender equality and more diversity as well leads to a better team all in all so there you go
|
||||
absolutely they actually i never think of this place where i live uh as being forward thinking
|
||||
but uh when i think you're just gonna be thinking back in school i didn't know them well because
|
||||
they're the it guys and not the teachers but uh but this is when i was a pupil there was always a mix of
|
||||
male and female when i went to college here for one year the i was doing engineering and the computing
|
||||
element was part of it now the computer side of it i think there was four manufacturers three women one
|
||||
male yeah so actually i didn't see this but now come to think of it it was after i moved away
|
||||
when i think about it you know the it has been 99.9 dominated by males so yeah this is actually
|
||||
something it's worth bringing up yeah totally and uh i subscribe to the future feed and if you're
|
||||
into in order to do the quality control and also to get the episodes earlier so i've listened to the
|
||||
second part of this it's well worth a listen as well so the following day i did a show about hpr
|
||||
branding why the intro is the way it is and it was part of i mean it was part of something that i had
|
||||
wanted to be doing anyway which was move this explanation out to the git t instance and basically
|
||||
the show notes of this is the git t instance so it's not that i had to do extra work for it
|
||||
well i did have to do the extra work for it but it was on the to-do list anyway so now it's done
|
||||
um basically going through and i think uh we had um nice wise mentioned about the intro and outro
|
||||
before uh so i've been thinking about this episode that long back so it's not that big a jump to be
|
||||
actually doing it um and in the show for those who didn't hear it it's breakdown of what the what
|
||||
the intro is how long it is who who it's who who wrote it for us what tools we use to create it um
|
||||
why why we're doing it who where what when and why basically and the outro same thing as well and also
|
||||
links to discussions we've had about show notes and i realize now that i didn't put in um nightwise's
|
||||
episode which was also a discussion so i'll add that now to the ever-growing list of my stuff i need
|
||||
to fix after this episode so kevi if you can read the first comment that would be great right then so
|
||||
it's by candy canard07 interesting peek of behind the scenes hi i find it pretty cool how the intro
|
||||
outro is all automated and i'm legitimately surprised that people dislike it the music is really calming
|
||||
and sets the mood well and i was always kind of wondering what tts you were using since it's a lot
|
||||
more understandable than e-speak is or at least the default voice for it and steve burn says merci i
|
||||
didn't imagine this a dire subject for most people but thank you for the overview and the rationale
|
||||
it's nice to hear about the trivia and archer 72 comments with hello if you're interested in piper tts
|
||||
check out hpr 4027 piper text to speech engine piper can speak in multiple languages if you want to check
|
||||
it out links given archer 72 is becoming our official librarian here
|
||||
yes and another reserve show youtube subscriptions part 11 professor rock
|
||||
brock brock's annex quill 18 rachel flower music radio free shop uh some other channel
|
||||
and he's going from the p to the ears this is uh a hookah put in a series of excellent shows about the
|
||||
youtube channels that he listens to some of which i also listen to and some of which i go okay that's nice
|
||||
not into uh cruising at the moment but when i do i know where to uh get my subscriptions
|
||||
yeah absolutely so no it's it's good to actually hear uh this kind of thing uh sadly it does also
|
||||
mean that we're lacking in shows when we do hear this kind of thing so it's a it's a kind of bittersweet
|
||||
but it's also a good a good approach to the uh boston boom and i've felt that this year we really worked
|
||||
on the um by using the reserve shows we're alerting the community that hey guys you know don't take
|
||||
this for granted as prior to that we were sending out mails on the mailing list and then we only get
|
||||
shows from people who are on the mailing list and not the community at large so when these shows go out
|
||||
we deliberately put in there rather annoying uh could be pleasanter but it's kind of deliberately
|
||||
annoying not really kind of um message in there that this is coming from the from the reserve queue
|
||||
and that's what the reserve queue is there to fill the slots you know sometimes sometimes it happens
|
||||
people are all busy um so if you have a show that's timeless you can put one in the reserve queue if
|
||||
you have a show that you want on your birthday you can put it in the main queue easy peasy lemon squeezy
|
||||
exactly yes indeed and i hope i didn't break the rules here because that was from the reserve queue
|
||||
but this one the next day he had actually uh booked it as a normal slot so there you go that's another
|
||||
benefit of adding to the reserve queue you might get to hear it yourself more than once every fortnight
|
||||
so he did arthur c clark other novels part one uh i must admit i'm loving this series by
|
||||
arthur c clark uh i've only read a couple of his books but i enjoyed them and i came back and re-read
|
||||
one i think it's a city in the sky uh recently and of course uh i'm getting in trouble because
|
||||
uh my wife's just asked what's this big box of books that's just arrived from arthur c clark
|
||||
nothing dear ignore that you will ignore the box in the corner i i'm also uh downloaded some onto my
|
||||
e-reader and i'm reading them but i haven't had time but it's i am reading like about half a chapter
|
||||
every night so i will get to them but inspired by this series so thank you ahuka please keep keep
|
||||
doing what you're doing absolutely yes please keep them coming really good and uh it actually
|
||||
inspired me one thing i've never done is his last one on the 2001 series uh it inspired me to actually
|
||||
i've watched the film i'm going to go back actually and read the whole thing when i actually get some
|
||||
time uh well i've got to get through that box i bought there 2001 was not part of it but i'm going to
|
||||
go back and read the 2001 series and while he's doing that he will also be doing beer garden seven
|
||||
uk christmas ales i didn't even know this was a thing there you go so um it's well like i said it
|
||||
in the show it kind of is and kind of isn't if you're a purist a christmas ale does not exist it's
|
||||
just a certain type of ale that they've made christmasy but it has come into its own thing
|
||||
and it's something i absolutely love and it's just they're different they're different enough to
|
||||
have their own uh exactly their own style and yeah i really enjoyed this and it was good to actually
|
||||
be joined by paul paul's now been on a couple so trying to get him back for another few but uh
|
||||
we're going to see uh what happens in the future but yes so thoroughly enjoyed it uh yeah how did you
|
||||
find this one i loved it i love this actually um aside from my only failing with every single one
|
||||
of your episodes is i want the beer to be shipped to us you know your rss feed should deliver the
|
||||
actual beer that you can so that you can play along and perhaps actually you know i was thinking maybe if
|
||||
you could tell us what beers you're going to be reviewing in a few months time we could try and source
|
||||
those beers to drink along as you're as you're uh doing the episode well now this is a secrecy here
|
||||
but uh tell you what give me two six and i'll go and get my list no interesting um so love this episode
|
||||
it was a little so for a little late on the 29th for christmas but it was christmas period here
|
||||
so very good show yes and i can tell you um coming up if you oh my word right okay put it
|
||||
as a comment into the next wednesday i was going to say next wednesday we're going to be doing barley
|
||||
wines that's when we're recording that so if you want to come along you're more than welcome so this
|
||||
comes out on monday make sure you've listened to it and if you if you're still there so now later on in
|
||||
the month we are planning on doing the belgian scotch style ale oh right and the after that the
|
||||
two we've got lined up they're all winter ones just now so we've got a scotch ale or a wee heavy
|
||||
depend they both are interchangeable and then lastly we've got baltic porter so that's what's coming up
|
||||
in january and february yeah but like my thoughts were for the listeners so that once you recorded the
|
||||
show you could subscribe to a feed or something and you could then order because they're now
|
||||
being posted three months in advance that will give enough time to order and ship them
|
||||
so that when the episode is released you could drink along as you're doing the episode oh absolutely
|
||||
that's why i just thought i'll give you that right now so any listeners can actually um
|
||||
and i'll just make a note to add those to the show right and while you're doing that
|
||||
we had an episode from claudio m the next day or claudio miranda actually then i'm using some
|
||||
masters on title there can haiku mumble so this was actually quite interesting if you don't know what
|
||||
haiku is haiku is an alternative operating system it's not linux based it's different again uh or should
|
||||
say unix based uh however it's it's been on it's been in development for quite a while but it's one
|
||||
of these things it's never really gained a lot of traction so a lot of things like drivers etc and
|
||||
software just hasn't been written for it uh it's one of these things it's on my to-do list uh i've never
|
||||
tried it i have to confess but like i said it's a bit like the herd kernel it's on my to-do list
|
||||
uh but he goes on about getting uh haiku uh well sorry getting haiku to use mumble and how
|
||||
effectively and i don't want to spoil the entire episode but uh it just talks about his experience
|
||||
there so yeah so that was just in time as well for any haiku users to listen to the new year show
|
||||
or take part in the new year show and he uh he just got it in before the end of the year his promise
|
||||
so he got his uh his new year's resolution sorted at the very last moment and then the last episode
|
||||
of this month and of course the last episode of 2025 was the third in our series of nuclear reactor
|
||||
technology and i realized that my irish accent may have made that sound like something a dog might produce
|
||||
the third nuclear reactor basics and there were several comments from leandro says praise for
|
||||
this series excellent series on nuclear technologies thanks for this educational educational opportunity
|
||||
and kevin o'brien makes the next comment saying really enjoying the series i find i am looking
|
||||
forward to each installment of the series well done yeah i enjoyed this one as well him speaking
|
||||
not so much about the fuel as he did in the last one but this is talking about the basics of the
|
||||
reactor and the the different types as well so yeah again thoroughly enjoyed this one now going back to
|
||||
the um comments from um the previous episodes and this was on how i use newsboat and reddit so the first
|
||||
comment was checking for ahmed uh to see if there are issues as i said this is about newsboat for podcasts and reddit
|
||||
and what was my comment about there are extra checks when you upload a comment on an episode outside of the main feed
|
||||
so the future feed or episode going to 10 blank slots and this was why was i putting that there uh
|
||||
i don't know why i put that there per se but um oh yeah no there was yes so there was a issue with uh
|
||||
so ahmed uh posts in the next one download format for hpr episodes hello i've set download format to
|
||||
uh download dash file name dash format space quote percent t dot percent you quote which worked fine for
|
||||
all podcasts except hpr where the extension is php instead of mp3 is there a method to have a special
|
||||
download file name format for hpr podcasts and my post something went wrong in posting that and i went to
|
||||
check and it's basically because there are anti-spam questions um there are three additional anti-spam
|
||||
questions if you are not if you're posting on an episode that's outside of the main feed so if you're
|
||||
if it's not in the last two weeks so if you're posting a comment on a future feed i'm a bit suspicious
|
||||
because okay why are you posting on something that hasn't even been released and if you're posting on
|
||||
really old shows or older shows um spammers love doing that because uh they'll post on the show
|
||||
that has been very popular and it's got lots of comments and now the moderator's brain is just
|
||||
click i approve click i approve click i approve and then you've got spam in there and then um they've won
|
||||
so that's why i posted that cryptic question in there um and i will put a comment into this comment
|
||||
to say that we have opened a bug on this issue and we have implemented a change that may or may not have
|
||||
fixed this so ahmed can you please check to see if that works now and also this year will be a great year
|
||||
to do a show so i could get the pronunciation of your name perfectly are you still with me yeah yeah
|
||||
i was just actually waiting for your link no i'll uh i'm putting it into the email that i'm writing to
|
||||
myself because previously i could just tell dave to do it actually i could should have told archer to do
|
||||
it what am i thinking uh but i'm writing an email to myself with all the fixes so i've got one two
|
||||
three four five six seven different things i need to fix after this episode as i'm reading
|
||||
oh there's a link missing here there's this missing there there's something else so the next
|
||||
the next comment and the last comment from previous was uh more hook commented on arthur c
|
||||
clark sequels by our uh hookah and he made a comment and uh a hookah responded it was episode
|
||||
four five two zero and programmer and content creator nice episode nice podcast episode i agree that arthur
|
||||
c clark made a very good book on rendezvous with rama science fiction without a killer robot or even
|
||||
aliens is so uncommon yeah that one was a good episode actually i'll give that um was that the
|
||||
only two did we only have two from previous yeah and then kevin kevy responded to that glad you liked
|
||||
it i'm glad you enjoyed it there is more to come from arthur c clark dr who robert a hindman and ee duck
|
||||
smith so something to look forward to absolutely yes please do keep the comments coming as long
|
||||
as you're not a spammer please keep them coming absolutely so that rounds off the comments that
|
||||
rounds off the episodes and then let's have a look at the list and the only thing that we had in the
|
||||
mail list was the announcement of our four upcoming 14th believe it or not annual 26 hour new year show
|
||||
which i know got to at least 32 hours the last time i checked in um and then we also
|
||||
had a comment about the community news being recorded but as this is the last show of the year
|
||||
i will start by thanking all 57 contributors who contributed to hpr in 2025 57 different people took the time to send
|
||||
in a show to hpr last year absolutely fantastic thank you ahuka thank you al antoine archer 72
|
||||
benny brian in ohio candy canator yeah mate but i don't have the next i don't have the link to
|
||||
for anything which makes no sense because i just typed in can you do the next line it's on the index for
|
||||
this episode if you do a refresh to the bottom of the show notes uh sorry sorry we'll have to edit
|
||||
this but not at all if you're putting yeah sorry that's why i wasn't able to help you in the last
|
||||
ones purely because no you're you're you're winging it no sorry i updated the the show notes right so
|
||||
yeah so we've got celeste claudio miranda daniel person dave hingley dave morris delta ray dnt
|
||||
then we had elspeth folky fred black jim log harry larry henry cameron honky magoo hpr volunteers iota germ
|
||||
jeroen batten jezra and a certain ken fallon then we had a certain kevy kerbotica clatu comic lee
|
||||
lucky boy good lad there major ursa and manon mark w able might be mike moss bliss mr x murph norrist
|
||||
and operator oxo paul j rito roan shane solo spider and some guy on the internet swift 110
|
||||
the love bug they bought trey trickster troller coaster whiskey jack and
|
||||
wo-chick wo-chick how you how am i saying that sorry well how i say it is wo-chick but you know
|
||||
wo-chick send us in another show to correct us yes please do and we apologize for that so yes thank you
|
||||
to each and every one because if it wasn't for you guys then we wouldn't be here recording this
|
||||
episode just now absolutely and for those who don't know hbr will eventually end at some point and what
|
||||
we plan to do is end it with honor like um lost in bronx says in the episode old soldiers which
|
||||
prompted me to help out here at hbr we continue when a podcast shouldn't pod fade it will finish
|
||||
properly when we have no more shows coming in we'll post all the shows from the reserve feed we'll play
|
||||
all the shows that have been scheduled in the future and we'll shut the podcast down with grace
|
||||
hopefully i'll be decomposing in wherever i'm decomposing at that time uh the end comes to us
|
||||
all but um hbr does rely on people sending in shows and we're not messing that is what we were going to
|
||||
do when uh when we run out of shows yeah that's it and i i hope that's not in my lifetime either so
|
||||
yes please keep him coming i want to keep on doing this for a good few years yet and absolutely and
|
||||
like dave morris who was a long-time janitor able to retire and still continue continue sending in
|
||||
shows even though he occasionally does come in to clean up the tea room from time to time thanks
|
||||
dave for the script for generating the hosts at the end of the this episode uh and wishing everybody
|
||||
and i genuinely mean this a fantastic 2026. absolutely yes you may you have a great year let us all in
|
||||
fact have a great year so without further ado tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of hacker
|
||||
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|
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