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Episode: 1119
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Title: HPR1119: Spread the Word
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1119/hpr1119.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 19:18:57
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You set your dial to tune in to Hacker Public Radio and the show that you're listening
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to right now is called Spread the Word.
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Looking through the content on my phone, I found this.
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So a few months ago, I actually recorded an episode for HPR on my mobile phone and
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forgot about it.
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Listening to it, I found that it was rather hard to hear what I said.
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I never checked the recording, but I've wielded some audio magic to see if I could make the
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audio file a bit more coherent and easy to listen to.
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So I think I've managed, but still it's not top notch, but I think you'll find it adequate.
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You see, I would like to tell you a little story.
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I would like to talk about something that I really haven't talked about before.
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I mentioned many a time that I am a teacher in the secondary educational system here in
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Sweden.
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I teach young adults in the age of 15 to 18 years old.
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And I work at a school with a bit over a thousand students.
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So we are quite a few teachers there, and for the last two semesters, I've worked with
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a teacher in English and Swedish, who was put together with our computer teachers, just
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to make it easier for her to interact and take care of the technical students.
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And she really appreciated some of the things I could tell her and show her.
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You see, we are deep.
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We know things that other don't.
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What do I mean with this?
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Well, you all probably know of Cory Doctoro, right?
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He is an author who writes science fiction, and he releases everything he does under a creative
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commons license.
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You can buy his books and he has written quite a few at Amazon or in book stores or wherever.
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And he is a really talented writer.
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I have read a few of his short stories, and he is really talented in lifting up problems
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that we face in the human society now, but in a science fiction setting, which makes
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reading his stories thought provoking, and it makes you reflect on who you are and what
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your role in society is right now, as it should be with good science fiction, hard science
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fiction, and with hard science fiction, I mean science fiction that is really scientifically
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as correct as it can be regarding that it is made up, that is.
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And Cory Doctoro is a master of this, and since he releases everything under a creative
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commons license, there has been quite a few translations and alterations of his works.
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So you can go to his web page, which I will link to in the show notes, and you can download
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in EPUB or in PDF or HTML.
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You can download his books anyway you like, but there are also people who have done podcasts
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of the book, that is they have read them out and recorded it.
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And you and I, we know that these are the things that hackers do.
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This is the community, this is how we work.
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If we see something we like, we try to adapt it and improve it and help with it.
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But this English and Swedish teacher I mentioned before, well she is not a hacker, she doesn't
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know what the community is capable of and are doing right now.
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So when I told her about this, when I showed her what was available, she nearly slipped
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her lid, she was ecstatic, this was something of the best she had ever seen.
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Because now she can, instead of using dusty old textbooks that doesn't have anything related
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to modern life in it, she can have the students read, thought provoking and intelligent stories
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in English, but also with someone reading it.
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I know that's often the problem, not only getting something that you can use and you're
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allowed to use, as if this is creative commons, it's not a problem, but also getting an audio
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version of it, since it's easier when you're learning language to both read and listen
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to it, both read it and hear it.
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And she was replaced recently, she had a child and moved on.
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She was replaced with a new English and Swedish teacher, of course, and today I talked to
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her a little bit and I asked her just a little bit carefully, you know, you don't want to
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step on someone's toes, especially when it's someone you don't know yet and you don't
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know if they appreciate someone coming with suggestions, so I approached it rather
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openly and asked if she would just told her about what it was and if she would be interested
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in such a resource and she was very interested.
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So don't be afraid to talk about, if we're going to get a moral from this story, don't
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be afraid to talk to other people about the things that we as hackers, the things that
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we as a part of the hacker community take for granted, everything around the community,
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which perhaps isn't about using free and open source software, but instead promote
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what they would really find useful, so think about it, think about what could people in
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your vicinity find useful, what could they perhaps need in their private life or in their
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work life and try to spread the word, that's all from me for today, thank you very much
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for your attention and I'll be back soon.
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So that was the message of the day, the moral, spread the word, tell people, not only
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about free and open source software, but also about creative commons and other goodness
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that comes from our community.
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To find me as usual on all in IT radio, that's a-i-i-t dot-s-e slash radio, or on identity
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and Twitter as at altinomite, a-l-l-t-i-n-o-m-i-t.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio or Hacker Public Radio, those are.
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it really is.
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