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Episode: 2481
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Title: HPR2481: HPR Community News for January 2018
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2481/hpr2481.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 03:58:12
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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This is the community news where HBR volunteers bring you some news and stories
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that have been happening in the HBR community over the last month.
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Join me tonight and as ever is... Hi there everybody, hi there Ken, it's Dave Morris.
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How are you doing Dave? Oh I'm not bad, thank you, it can be expected.
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Exactly, I'd like to thank you first of all for taking up a lot of the slack at very little
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spare time with one thing in the other this month and you took over very admirably as always.
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Thank you very much Dave. No problem, no problem. Do you want to welcome our new host?
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Yes, we have a new host this month which is wonderful. Joey Hess is our new host, we'll just
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be speaking about him later. Excellent, so this is as I said in the intro, this is basically a
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what's going on and a HBR community, we have a few announcements at the end I think and I think
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we also skipped the mail list for last month what happened in the mail list so we need to kind of
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quickly go through that. But before we do that, we make an effort to go through all the shows so
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that we can basically give people a rundown of what's been happening in the last month.
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As it turns out Dave, people actually listened to this show, I found out on the new year show.
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Yeah, I was quite surprised to hear that as well, I imagine people switched off about 10 minutes in.
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God, I struggled to listen to myself almost to God, but apparently people use this as a kickoff
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to go back and listen to other shows that the media have skipped over.
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So, what are those goals? You've got some people in spot that there are comments that they missed
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as well, I've noticed, which is an interesting observation. So, we're sort of doing the job of
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reading the comments to people. Speaking of comments, there were six comments to HBR community
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news for December 2017 already, times are moving on. And the first one was from Mike Ray about
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workload. I sort of drifted off a bit during the talk about the image and show notes and
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know the videos so I may be a bit off track here, but I caught the sentences talking about a
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skillless obturances, traces of our frequency distribution per hole, some other stuff like HBR logo,
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Excel, etc. This made me think of my mantra, I have always used my professional life, that is,
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don't promise to or start to provide something periodically or on a regular basis that you're likely
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to regret. And I would just like to say, yes, you're absolutely correct. Come back to the
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comments. I don't know about how other people consume HBR, but I typically do it in bed with my
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iPhone, typically I'll show content stuff I need to look at, like Dave show about Bash,
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I will go to the site next day and copy and paste stuff from Shane, Dave show notes into a
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markdown file, which I'll file away on my raid system. Some shows I delete just given the subject
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without even listening, typically anything which looks like how do I make coffee or how do I make
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it last of water now. Show that hurts. Other shows I listen right through without any hesitation
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because of the reputation in my own mind of the quality of the whole past shows. But to the point,
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I would not recommend you make a rod for your own back by promising stuff like video embedded
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show notes, oscilloscope traces or any stuff that increases the workload further than before.
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Maybe I'm biased here, but the fact that the video is pointless for me because I can't see it,
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and I'll have to admit to being scared that the next step will only have show notes embedded in
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the videos, then I'm sorry, but I will have to shoot you and that will never happen in the end
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of my grace comments. So yes, Mike commented again, the subject was soldering on,
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said my ears pricked out when Ken was extolling the virtues of a 25 dollar temperature controlled
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soldering iron. Somehow I've missed that recommendation who it was ever aired. What is the make and
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model of the iron? I hear a loud cry of, why does a blind man want a soldering iron from the land
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of clogs and windmills? I do soldering. I know Mike is a better solder than me, so not at all.
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It's a very able fellow in all sorts of ways, so yes. Back to the comment, I do sold
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occasionally, especially things like PL259 coax plugs and even components into veer aboard,
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but more recently I've decided my fingertips are too valuable to me to risk them.
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And anyway, the plastic surgery builder eroding my beer fund, but I regularly take stuff
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to the local Linux user group where my good friend Tony would aka soldering slave solder stuff for
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me under my guidance. Unfortunately, Tony soldering iron is only one step short of being a big lump
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of copper in the end of a steel rod, which he plunges into hot coals before bringing it to bear
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on the legs of a surface mount AVR microcontroller. I've been thinking of getting a temp controlled iron,
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I can stuff in my rucksack and lug to the lug. See what I did there? So yes, so I buy rites I should
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do mine as well as where I shouldn't I? I replied to this. So I said soldering iron, hi Mike,
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I bought myself to solder station Ken was mentioning having seen it on big Clives YouTube channel,
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and there's a link. I recommended to Ken and he also bought one. The link I sent him was and I
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provided an Amazon link. I also bought a few extra hand rods and a load of spare tips which I found
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on eBay. I can send you eBay links by email if you want, but they may not be current anymore.
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Thinking of the big lump of copper in the end of a rod, that's what I learned to solder with at
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school. We used a gas heating unit so we'd advance a bit from the hot coals smiley face.
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Not here and you can. I know. Yep, I can hear you. Okay, Mike says soldering. I also learned to
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solder at school with the things where we were talking about trust into heaps of clinkers heated
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with a gas torch. The first thing the metal teacher got us to make was a tin plate tray.
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This involved cutting a V out of each corner of a square of tin plate folding it up slightly
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and soldering into the mating of the edges to make a tray. Unfortunately, I never managed to cut
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the V's accurately and ended up trying to solder across a gap after beaming the cuts out back and
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forth to break them. After about six months, the other kids were making hasps and staples or
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paint scrapers milling stuff on the milling machine and I was trying to get the solder to bridge
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one millimeter gap smiley face. That's a terrible thing. Yes. Then we'll read you the next one so
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you can. You can change the next one. Yeah, okay. And it's by Frank about US college numbering
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course numbering regarding 101, 102, etc. It is common but by no means universal that US colleges
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uses the means of numbering courses generally 100 refers to freshman year first year courses 200
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to sophomore second year. That's what sophomore means. Level courses up to 400 and above for
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advance or graduate level courses. Generally, the more advanced the course, the more narrow and in
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depth it's focus. 101 usually starts as a basic intro course 102 is the next intro course and so on.
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A first semester US history course would be history 101 say colonialization to civil war.
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The following second semester course would be history 102 civil war to present as an aside judging
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by what's happening domestically in my country. I have concluded that these courses are no longer
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taught but that's another matter. History 412 just to pick a random number topic might be an
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exhaustive dive into early federal freedom roughly 1790 to 1832. Again, it's not a universal system.
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Just a very common perhaps the most common system. I do not know the origins of the system. Here's
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a more detailed article from Cal State North Ridge and there's a link. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, I was tempted
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to answer that comment actually from Frank. Thank you, Frank, for that. But when I started looking at
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the numbering system in the university, I worked out. It's massively complicated. It's got more
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complicated than when I was there I think. So I just started against it because it's a journey
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into a whole diatribe about stuff. But it's the British systems in general are a lot more complex
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for no reason that I can find them. So back to the comments, I. Tradition. Tradition.
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Yeah, yeah. We've always known that way. Regardless of whether it's stupid. So I mentioned
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the learning disorder at school issue. Mike and I tend to bounce these things back as a voice
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apologies to everybody. I just realised I still have a little metal scoop I made at school.
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It was made from what I think is tin plated sheet steel bent in a box bender. If that's a
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British term specifically, but a thing that bends metal with tabs that had to be soldered.
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Getting those tabs properly aligned and soldered was a challenge and there are some wide gaps
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where the solder just didn't bridge them. It wasn't a showstopper because I remember learning to
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braze some tools for the fireplace later in making tile levers at the forge. Fun times,
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smiley face. Nice. So it was good that you got to learn that stuff, practical stuff. Yeah,
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people don't do as much I think these days, but most, most state schools in the UK anyway.
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Nightwise is about to order a new MacBook Pro and share some tips and tricks, none of which I will
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ever use. But yeah, I don't, I don't think now in fairness nightwise and he'll be the first to
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challenge me on that. I don't think he seriously considered any other laptop other than a MacBook
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to be brutally honest with him. No, no, I think there's, I was having my son with
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having a laptop, a MacBook for many years because of his music degree, he would not consider
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moving to anything else. And I can see his argument because there are some really nice features in it.
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There's also some pretty foul things in my, my reckoning book and the money. Yes, it's one.
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Yeah, the money will be one. Well, it's, it's a, it was an interesting show nonetheless. Yeah,
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yeah, it was interesting, interesting insight, wasn't it? No comments though. And then we had the
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following day operator with a list of Chrome plugins that you must have and how he secures his
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browser. It's actually quite, quite cool list there. Yes, yes, I made the note to myself that
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there was some that need following up, but I haven't done it yet. But yeah, some, some,
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some potentially good things. Quite a few with other people I've discussed here in the past,
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but still an all very, very handy list, have it in one place. And he links to his blog there.
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There's one comment from Zolke and he says, you missed you Matrix and he gave a link. No script,
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but done by the guy who did you block, so they play well together. And there is a learning curve,
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so I don't recommend it for my family, but it does great work for techies, you Matrix.
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And clicking the new next first previous latest button, which I put in since the last time,
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free solfers long tail, the PD menu by PD menus author in response to PD menu by the PD menus author.
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This is just awesome. I think DoDoDoMe's comment says it's the best. My favorite, my new favorite
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episode, if this episode doesn't warm your heart, you don't have one. Yes, I said thanks for
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this, Joey. This is Joey. Yes, as you said, I think I was surprised and very happy that my
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episode about PD menu resulted in you becoming an HBR contributor. I hope you feel motivated to
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contribute more. See what I did there. It was great. Also, as a poll in these days, I'm delighted
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to hear that's where PD menu originated. I was thinking about this, you know, now that we should
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review all sorts of stuff and all sorts of weird eccentric software and mention the authors by name,
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then we get even more contributors. Yes, yes, if you say the names three times to the
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executive director of contributors, yeah. Speaking of people appearing from out of nowhere,
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the Alien Brothers podcast, season one, episode three, deadline, deadline of the American Empire,
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aliens penetrate the Van Allen belt to tap in and transmit an intergalactic podcast.
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An interesting talk actually from, you know, setting outside of the U.S. and not really
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being, you know, being involved in it. It's nice to hear discussions about policies and stuff.
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Yes, yes. The net neutrality issue was exercised quite a lot and was quite interesting, I thought.
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No, indeed. And there were some comments from Brian and Ohio. Alien Brothers podcast. Oh,
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do you want to read that and I'll read my own reply? Okay. Alien Brothers podcast is Brian
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in Ohio. Okay, I gave it a try. Listen to the complete third episode of Alien Brothers and I think
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this series of podcast is terrible. If these guys are trying to be funny, they are not. If this
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is a Kickstarter like attempt to gaze the market for a podcast, I think it's a poor use for how
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it could probably read you. This book, these shows in the emergency cues that when we start hearing
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them, we know the end is near. Sting, sting, sting. Oh Brian. Hilarious though, that may be
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not very supportive. And then I made a comment actually, not to Brian's comment, but to the show itself
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which was about their no restrictions along the show can be. They've mentioned a few times
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that you know, they want to keep it to an hour if they do. That's fine. But we have 71 shows
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longer than an hour and the longest one running at two hours 36 minutes 58
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seconds so yeah. So yes, the Alien Breastlinger of Alien Brothers podcast
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replied, Hi Brian from Ohio he says, Hi Brian thanks for your feedback. As far as
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I know we're not being or striving to be anything funnier or smarter or
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longer or Kickstarter supported than being the Alien Brothers podcast. How to
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zone hack a public radio. The considerable help support bandwidth space
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largest. Our overviews, overused phrase is this is the Alien Brothers podcast,
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not some other one. If we're terrible, we invite lucid critique because I mean
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we already know it's terrible. It's the Alien Brothers podcast. I can only assume
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I use that single world. You mean tremendous as in as the great is
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Casper and I have had conversations acknowledge acknowledging our segments are too long.
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Keep coming back and then he gives a reference. Although I believe length is
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important in in certain contexts, I know Casper and I are conscious of the fact
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that our submissions are almost certainly too long. Now I don't think so. I think
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you do the show however long the show needs to be and I know the Brian
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has given his opinion and that's absolutely fine. And then we have Clatoon with another
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brilliant episode. The last time I heard audio performance this good was the yes
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concert in Denver. Sadly the band couldn't make it but the opening act was pretty great.
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What? It's kind of experience. Two aliens are completely on their own channel here.
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It's absolutely absolutely. That's a rather wonderful comment. I'm not sure I'll ever
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understand it though. Okay guys remember keep the constructive. Okay how much of that did you
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get? Well I think you went off about two minutes ago according to my timing. So what was
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I talking about? Hello? Yeah I don't know. I thought we'd finished with the Alien Brothers but
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I don't know. You sort of suddenly stopped part way through a sentence. No I moved on to sorry
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guys they I moved my laptop and then I have an extension USB cable which I've always used for
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the show and for some reason it is just popping out and then my microphone doesn't work anymore.
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So I've got a new shorter cable and we'll see if that works any better. So you'd move down to
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two four six one. We had read a tattoo's comment about another brilliant episode and then let's move
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on to the next show. Needless to say I will not be editing this. Geolite using Geolite would you
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get server? Yeah and I think I would pronounce it but yeah. Geolite? Yes because it's
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Git and presumably like that. But yeah you want to do the comment? Well I've already done a one
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step. Okay my turn then. So we have Jim Zat says Geolite and HBO 2446. Thank you for these two
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episodes 24462461. I've been using Git at work over five and a half years on two desktops, one
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laptop, one Windows XP and two Linux using SSH keys that I've manually put in place on the various
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machines. I currently have over 60 unique repositories of which some are customer configuration
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specific and some are globally common. At this point in time I need to allow access for other
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developers to my repos. It took me around a day to implement the method explained in episode 2446
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and less than a couple of hours to replace that with using Gitolite. Langing the keys and wildcard
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repos within Gitolite is so much easier than the manual requirements of the method from episode 2446.
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And tattoo replies, which I think is an excellent excellent excellent. By the way this is a perfect
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example Dave of the importance of the impact of a show that I mentioned to Zulk. How to measure
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the impact of a show, one show, one person absolutely at the right place at the right time.
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It's happened before but this is another excellent example. Yeah yeah yeah sure that's what we're
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all trying to do you know and pass on info. Well a lot of it is going on anyway a lot of information
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is being passed on and hopefully it's finding its mark in many cases. Which is quite interesting
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is that our shows tend to well based on the data that we have at least they tend to be downloaded
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equally shows in the last month. In only given month there will be about 50% of the shows
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in the last month and 50% will be more older shows where people are specifically going back
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to hear that particular show because that's what they're looking for right now.
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Yeah yeah the the archive.org stuff does quite a reasonable job at linking together
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shows too. And if you've looked if you browse that a time very impressed with the whole the whole
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thing over there. It's so you might be looking at something. Oh look there's other things ready
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to do and follow follow through which is brilliant. Very cool. Well the next day Dave was a wet day
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here in the Netherlands and no it wasn't actually it was because I was outside on the bus stop
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and it was triplanetary the first in the Lensman series and I had put off the show in order to go
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back and hear the audio and God that was that was a tough book to get through I have to say I did not
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enjoy the book but I did enjoy this show. That's interesting you say that I I read it years and years
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ago some tatty old paperback that I think my sister's husband had and dumped in the corners
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and weather. I thought I really enjoyed it um to know it just depends where you are and so
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but it was reading rather than listening so I don't quite what the difference is in this case but
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I enjoyed it as a book it's old fashioned and strange but it's just not quite fun. That said
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I'm now going back reading some of my favourite Azimov novels from when I was a kid and man
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they're so much worse I don't know worse I just think the time has moved on for for that 50s
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I don't know I just they're not aging well. No no no I can understand that yeah yeah I
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tell it go at foundation a year or so back and I started reading that. Why did I be so excited
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by that the first time I read it? I didn't enjoy it very much second time round. I'm not in a way
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when you when you go back and like when I was reading like 10,000 leagues under the sea and stuff
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like that where you know the premise is you know obviously technology has moved on but the stories
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themselves were still engaging. I'm thinking some of the 1950s stuff is just missing missing that
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longevity. Yeah maybe so maybe so yeah I was trying to in most of my reading that that sort of era
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so I have hesitated to go back and listen to it. To a ridden shut up. Anyway who can completely
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disagree with me. At long last I am fanatic about the Lensman series in fact my email address
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comes from that series. Well now that's interesting. You know I didn't realize that I knew
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Zwillnik Zwillnik which is his email address was a sci-fi thing but I couldn't remember it being
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part of the Lensman series so yeah my memory is crap. The following day we had setting up a 32-bit
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Ubuntu server repurposing a 32-bit small form factor workstation and this is part of kind of a
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series by JWP of getting all stuff out of the closet and basically doing it up and seeing how
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how it'll go. I do like what he's trying to do here. He does some interesting things. Not sure
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I would bother personally but that's just me. Yeah but you know good all-power to him for doing it
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and I must say as the guy who often wrangles the notes he's doing some excellent notes to go with
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these things. Very good yeah. No comments on that yet. The next day we had another Alien Brothers
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season 1 episode for digital instruments and this was a this is a nice little one about various
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different particularly Mac and Windows-E digital audio workstations but also is it Rutger who
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was doing they just make an interesting sound and I liked it I liked that. It was it was kind of
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cool. Yeah yeah I found it quite appealing. It's not sure typical Alien Brothers podcast but
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it was good. No no it was um there was an element I wrote down here TLDA too long didn't attend
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but it wasn't meant to be a criticism it was just my attention wavered a bit as I was going through
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this too. They've already got pride. It's not a criticism it's just you agree with the
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the ill brains not up to listening for too long. So I was actually listening to that on
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the bus going to work and then I rarely I normally turn it off but I actually continued listening
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in in work until I got everything booted up and stuff so yeah pretty good not that I used
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Mac and Windows but it was just an interesting their approach to creating music and sounds.
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An interesting topic was sure. Yeah pretty good. Tron script where have you been all my life
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an initial view an initial look at Tron script and all its features. Do you want to read the
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comment on that because I've been talking too much. Yep Tim Timmy says thanks just wanted to say
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thanks to operator for bringing Tron script to my attention I hate maintaining the Windows boxes
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at work. Five Windows boxes and seven Linux boxes. I've run Tron script on three of the machines so
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far and they're running a lot quicker now including one of the wind seven machines we've got stuck
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installing updates a while back and even after hours of searching for solution to the problem
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nothing. Tron script has resolved the issue and the machine is now up to date. It looks like
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Tron script has been around for quite some time has remained under my radar so thanks
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against the episode and bringing it my attention. I wonder what other tools HBO listeners use that
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I or others have not heard of. Oh they're a slip of fiber to Tim Timmy yeah yeah all the tools
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ads come on and indeed lassies in between. That was an interesting comment actually yeah I must
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admit I sort of filed it ways yeah Windows I'm not all that interested but look that one
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on my back pocket now thank you. No I absolutely I should pay more attention but yeah having
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looked through the list of features it's very rich in capabilities. It's very impressive yeah
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yeah yeah we'll do a lot to unbund Windows systems that got themselves in a messed up state cool
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can you still hear me yeah yeah yeah that calls me clear my throat oh it's okay. Surex apparently
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is awesome and it was surex for all your windscreen shot needs a more and I was thinking through
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this yeah this is the zonkiri zonkiri oh what yeah that sounds kind of cool that sounds kind of
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and then it's Windows only zonk hello yeah oh I was really excited to see the two movies I
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sounded really good I even looked at the web pages and stuff there's no bloody even the next thing
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but and now I'm yeah well we actually it's it's kind of cool still open source and so pretty cool
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Sunder says a useful tool for streamlining screen captures this sounds like one of those long tail
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tools that you never knew how much you need it until you come across them I have a few like that
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and that's one of the topics I have in my one day when I make a hpr recording oh dear
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publicly on record dev ideas surex might go into that list if it works on my
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potato overlap top and then brackets but by making an informative quality podcast episode
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doesn't excuse your mispronouncing of jiff zok please repent by sharing tang jiffs
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of adorable kittens and poppies online and so it comes back with the response jiff
|
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felt with the jiff will always be a micro liquid and you find so a youtube video which is
|
||||
I think it's a you you can add for a for a cleaning thing that you it's good for
|
||||
getting the gun off your the top of your your home and stuff which is the gold that's been
|
||||
playing for about 50 years and every person knows that you know I yeah yeah I have made a special
|
||||
effort throughout my entire life to avoid advertising because I hate it with the hatred that
|
||||
knows no bounds so I did not know this I did not know this so it's proves that I my attempt to
|
||||
avoid it has worked well done good joke good yeah very good following day I randomly talk about
|
||||
my laptops and this is Swift 110 random talk about laptops and the Linux distros that he has
|
||||
on them installing ubuntu mate and on his x60 seems to be a lot more of those
|
||||
Lenovo laptops in the states available because the only people who have them here tend to be IBM
|
||||
workers or PM was a consultants computers consultants right yeah my son's girlfriend has a has a
|
||||
Lenovo which she got second hand and it's brilliant she she loves it but I don't know whether it's
|
||||
an x60 I'm not sure what model it is but I have seen them you do see them at the likes of old camp
|
||||
and post them and stuff hmm you see a lot of max as well because that is true but a good show
|
||||
and good to see Swift 110 around again I yeah I really enjoy your shores they're comforting
|
||||
I like his style of just sort of just talking about what's going through his mind at the time
|
||||
you know yeah exactly the events going yeah I don't mind that nice it's like to catch an up with
|
||||
somebody the well a bi operator oh yes this is not the first time we've had we had episodes about
|
||||
the well either as uh but this is actually quite quite interesting that they put light bulbs and
|
||||
stuff down to stop freezing in all sorts have you seen the video I did yes yes there were no tags
|
||||
on this one so I had to listen to it early to because I like to make sure this tags on stuff that
|
||||
goes on the on archive.org so I listened and watched and everything so I could try and add something
|
||||
useful to it but now it's wow what a problem I'm glad I'm not faced with that yeah it's it's it's
|
||||
it's an interesting one though I like the hardware stuff oh on the next day some more on
|
||||
doing a bash script to do flight artillery I mean seriously also you stole my show about doing
|
||||
date Steve did I know more of a story if you want to show record the show it's on the server
|
||||
whoever gets it first yeah you hadn't done it I see what you mean I was hunting around to make
|
||||
sure I wasn't treading on anybody's toes make sure I reference Dan's show on date which he did
|
||||
did in in his usual detailed style but yeah yeah yeah well it was just me fapping around waiting for
|
||||
you know messages from working yeah I don't know whether all fathers are like yeah and then
|
||||
also yeah off galibanting but yeah yeah it was it was just a personal challenge can I do this in
|
||||
bash yes again no well yeah Jesus an excellent excellent tool I use it are absolutely an old day
|
||||
on a weekly or daily basis in in scripts in order to increment you know in a loop instead of trying
|
||||
to figure out January of February March you just plus one day so a day plus one day and away it
|
||||
goes and just counts on the next day it's freaking awesome yeah yeah if you read the the bash reference
|
||||
manual and various things canoe documentation for date there's there's several references the fact
|
||||
that they put a lot of effort in making that parsing code be be very very comprehensive so
|
||||
it's it's amazing you know that somebody's that they put so much effort into it for a thing that
|
||||
people maybe don't really appreciate the the the features of so and it is this is hard stuff
|
||||
guys converting dates that dates there's a Tom Scott video on YouTube about dates and his
|
||||
analysis is basically just getting open source library and do it that way but and this the power
|
||||
of what you're able to do here what I normally do is take the dates and convert them to epoch
|
||||
time and then just store them as that and then translate them back when necessary and I have
|
||||
yeah that was my my first situation did that but you can't add add you know stuff like one one
|
||||
week or something yeah yeah it's it's not a good number to to to do arithmetic with yeah
|
||||
but the stuff I'm usually doing is adding 60 seconds or you know 15 minutes and then you just
|
||||
add the number and you're done but then convert it back into a proper ISO it's a one day for
|
||||
display using the formatting so that's awesome yes yes yes yes cool well done thanks for that show
|
||||
by the way even if you did steal it from me fine I you have to reserve it yeah I didn't say that
|
||||
I didn't say that it isn't the show of it isn't on the server that's that's the rule and we got an
|
||||
update on Obamacare at the end of 2017 which was a nice uh a nice one to get actually just uh
|
||||
rounding off things um yeah and Windigo says thanks for the update uh I've enjoyed every
|
||||
episode in the series and find your explanations of the concept behind the policies invaluable
|
||||
with so much rhetoric rhetoric and propaganda surrounding the alcare debate a factual explanation
|
||||
is just what I needed to hear thank you so much yeah and uh Dodd dummy says time to update the
|
||||
elimination of the individual mandate does the removal of the individual mandate just to find
|
||||
an update he asks and a hookah says I did cover the repeal of the individual mandate was covered
|
||||
in the last episode I believe okay cool and tea time one which Mike Ray will have missed
|
||||
I go over where I am with tea uh can you read special selection yearba mate yearba mate
|
||||
not never going to be able to get that though you're ba mate so well known tea tea
|
||||
to cover tea isn't it it's um yeah yeah if it didn't pick it it into a harrito is it a special select
|
||||
yeah yeah yeah never try it itself but uh I don't really know how it pronounced it but I'm guessing
|
||||
this was by operator again and uh yeah if you're entities if you're into coffees why not go for it
|
||||
yeah yeah it's uh tempted to to give it try though I'd quite like the caffeine personally but
|
||||
yeah yeah there are times uh my I've switched to drinking roiboss mostly because there is no
|
||||
caffeine so it's basically just warm something that looks red yeah it's actually quite nice I've
|
||||
drank that one quite a lot yeah yeah so hard to get without the infusions in us for just regular
|
||||
roibosses quickness a forum failures lost and Bronx talks about his recent experiment running a
|
||||
forum he loves forums I hate forums you know why I hate forums oh no Ken tell us why you hate forums
|
||||
do do to do to because you ask a question can somebody please explain this to me and then the
|
||||
very nice answer by law is what do you want to do with that for why don't you do it with this
|
||||
and then the discussion disappears and you will never get it back again now it's it's like
|
||||
the I wouldn't have started from here if I were you to get to that but yeah exactly but I am here
|
||||
and I'm asking this question about this so answer the the fact that people derail conversations
|
||||
however that's probably different for lost and Bronx as it's specific to a specific thing it's
|
||||
not for asking asking for help but really my main issue with forums is the setting up multiple
|
||||
accounts and more accounts and I think that's everybody's issue with forum yeah yeah yeah we tried
|
||||
to run one at work at one point what was the popular one I remember it was full of full of holes
|
||||
and easy to be that's one yeah yeah yeah yeah we tried that she thought it'd be useful to have
|
||||
everybody's able to to discuss things that that way without going into interminable meetings but
|
||||
yeah we we liked it no good good episode and LMB does ponder and stuff which is good yeah
|
||||
frots a portable z-machine interpreter how to use frots to play the old infocom text adventure
|
||||
games from the 80s Claudio Miranda oh yes he had me following his links Dave that's never good
|
||||
yeah I I went and looked in the devian repository and yes it's there yeah I already installed it
|
||||
actually but I've not used it much I could be a dangerous one now be a dangerous one
|
||||
but a good show like this like this Claudio thank you and more open source gaming number three
|
||||
the Atari Jaguar by the dude and they published those that has Hasbro published they published the show
|
||||
or published they released the software under open license D.O.D cubed Omi says they won't sell
|
||||
how did I miss this from Hasbro interactive cool as for making new consoles which will play
|
||||
the old cartridges I don't think that would be economically feasible and I doubt money would buy
|
||||
them in my experience people who want to play on real hardware want to hatch the actual real harder
|
||||
perhaps this will change as more of the old systems die out in the case of the 2600 where I lost
|
||||
countless hours of my youth and there are only a handful of 2600 games were playing I don't see
|
||||
the majority of any major players creating such a system perhaps a small expensive one would make
|
||||
the most people use emulators on machines they already have you may have a point but it would still
|
||||
be cool quite an interesting machine I read a little bit about it after seeing hearing the show
|
||||
never heard of it before show my son at least I might know about it no nothing no information
|
||||
underground sex drugs and rock and roll should actually sex drugs and jazz probably would be a better
|
||||
description deep geek and tattoo look back at the flappers and speakeasies of the 20s and 30s
|
||||
flappers were a generation of young western women who wore short skirts bobbed their hair and
|
||||
listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was considered acceptable behavior an interesting
|
||||
show yeah yeah and I was lacking some serious female input but yeah it's a good show yes it
|
||||
the American context was an interesting element to that I found the sort of changes in
|
||||
more a's in the USA over that period I had never really considered before I think it was
|
||||
deep geek who was talking about it and obviously has a wide knowledge of these these things and
|
||||
insight and so forth so yeah most interesting do you want to read for any comments I said
|
||||
will do Frank says this show excellent discussion one fact I would contribute is that women throughout
|
||||
most of history have been treated as property much of what you all said about the states of
|
||||
women before prohibition was reflective of this I'm old and I can remember when in the USA a woman
|
||||
not get alone a mortgage a credit card without a male co-signer if she could get one at all
|
||||
and as we can see from current history many men still view women as property indeed as plaything
|
||||
in addition as a lifelong reader of playboy and at the risk of starting something I must
|
||||
with some trepidation question how playboy pictures can be conflated with pornography unless the
|
||||
conflater believes that nudity is inherently pornographic a position I do not share I would argue
|
||||
that said person at least is never seen a copy of hustler nor an image of the Venus Demilo wife
|
||||
of that matter do you think the great masters of painting have painted so many nudes I guarantee
|
||||
it's just an awesome use to say it wasn't solely because of an abstract appreciation of color
|
||||
and form once more an excellent discussion cool very well put yeah and this is all for the other
|
||||
discussion more shows folks more shows yeah absolutely and back to our GNU OX series episode nine
|
||||
who clatoon forgot to mention uh on his show where he was recommended GNU OX that be easy as co-authoring
|
||||
this one with you in what is turning out to be an absolutely excellent uh handover I really
|
||||
am enjoying the way you both are handing over from one to other in doing this show very well done
|
||||
we're we're making up the identity sort of as we go a lot it doesn't matter if it plays well
|
||||
otherwise it was it's a little bit of a discussion about well where should we go next because it's huge
|
||||
the subject is huge it's surprising how much there is in in GNU OX in particular and so we thought
|
||||
that the printf thing was something that needed some some looking at because I think it's easy
|
||||
to to miss a lot of the features absolutely and this one this one actually was one of the more
|
||||
comfortable ones I must say I do dredge them when they come along like when you were doing your
|
||||
said ones because you never know how deep does this particular rattle go you know um but this one
|
||||
made my move to python a lot more understandable with the percent you know s percent
|
||||
way of formatting the text it has just been directly lifted by python or vice versa from
|
||||
ark so this was uh this is a great explanation I think it originates in c exactly this is largely a
|
||||
c derived thing and pearl also uses oh yeah yeah yeah yeah and and again derived from um there's a
|
||||
uh brine kernigan is is on youtube this is quite a few episodes of computer file I've got a show
|
||||
in the the queue uh talk about that in fact yeah um and he he's got some fascinating things to say
|
||||
about how how these decisions were made I don't think he's anything particular about printf
|
||||
but you know the sort of thinking was well let's gather together lots of the the features that
|
||||
you find elsewhere and just make them better and easier to use you know so it's uh yeah we should
|
||||
maybe make a make a reference to some of those in this in this series I'll mention that to be
|
||||
easy when I speak to him next the thing I like about linux and unix and free and open source offer
|
||||
is the fact that this stuff keeps popping up you know you're if you come to a new computer
|
||||
language and then all of a sudden there's a block of familiarity there but in some ways just
|
||||
it's it's a in many ways it's it's great because you know all of a sudden your life your learning curve
|
||||
just got a lot less steep because you understand the concepts and and the fact that sometimes the
|
||||
syntax isn't exactly the same is bit annoying but the fundamental concepts of it makes that the
|
||||
learning curve of learning the command line is a big learning curve but because so much stuff is
|
||||
shared between the various different applications so much so many of the concepts and the and they
|
||||
I don't have all of a column norms or help me out here Dave what's the word in the computer
|
||||
but the syntax yeah exactly the logic behind it or the idea is behind it or so similar that
|
||||
and yeah it's easier you know once you get onto a role then it becomes very comfortable to
|
||||
the further down the road you go the more experience you have and then you pick up this from
|
||||
there and that from there and then it becomes a lot easier to pick up new stuff yes I don't know if
|
||||
that entire thing was coherent but sure we'll move on well there's a there's a bit of
|
||||
commonality which is which is nice to find when you're hopping around exactly that's language
|
||||
yes that's good yeah speaking about people who get distracted uh D O D D D O M M Y I'm going to now
|
||||
do that as D O D cubed U M squared Y says reading all your books while distracted this was a nice
|
||||
one I've I've suffered from that as well where you've been doing something that's just not boring enough
|
||||
that you can automate it in your head and then just not interesting enough that you're
|
||||
entirely focused on it and this was his attempt to fix that by breaking up audio into smaller chunks
|
||||
yes yes it makes makes a lot of sense I find myself replaying episodes of VHPR and others
|
||||
because I've my brains wandered off course I've been distracted by something or other and
|
||||
so yeah alien brothers sorry alien brothers I'm just teasing but they yeah and you wonder why
|
||||
all the alien every alien movie they all attack us and destroy our homes and stuff yeah it's
|
||||
cause of these negative feedback that they get oh yeah guys remember you know the daily
|
||||
and invasion could be down to comments like this and the HPR shows those tripod machines
|
||||
anyway uh D O D D O M M Y commented one correction I meant to say that I'm walking around
|
||||
I prefer to listen to sped up not normal speed yes just like everybody else yeah that's a perfectly
|
||||
normal thing to do yes no it's good show good show I like it nice notes too yeah exactly and also
|
||||
also I liked the his his trail of thought as he did yes yes he yeah but is this the one where he
|
||||
seemed to be sharing the room with the with the cockroach oh yeah yeah want to mention that
|
||||
well yeah was he trolling us or what the hell is going on there but see I thought he's making a comment
|
||||
about the bird song shows lately yeah that's great there's ambit noise but does he have a pet
|
||||
some pet chickens and I don't know that's a sure right there right it's yeah yeah yeah it reminded me
|
||||
of being away in the far east and where everybody sees our chickens in the wanderin era and why
|
||||
the cockroach always have to make let Dan know it anyway city of masks by the HPR audio book club
|
||||
I decided after the the last one where I had to struggle through I decided to listen to this show
|
||||
spoilers and all before I would listen to before I read it and it turns out I've already read this
|
||||
well audio book just because it was on another podcast I came across it before I'm a very good book
|
||||
and they had the author on yeah this was cruel for the first time no no no they they they've been
|
||||
doing brilliantly with getting authors to come in and join but yeah this was great and might
|
||||
raise millions and like a really down to earth sort of cool guy didn't enjoy listening to him talking
|
||||
about what you've been doing and stuff but it was it was excellent yeah yeah I'm tempted
|
||||
they didn't hold back I'm given you know criticism of the book or you know feedback you know that's
|
||||
a balls you think to do right there the guy who wrote it's right there yeah yeah it's an interesting
|
||||
of thing it's an interesting dilemma I guess isn't it yeah do you do you remain extremely polite
|
||||
because the author's there or do you actually give tell the truth and I think if I were in that
|
||||
position not that I would be but I would assume here the truth and yeah sort of flannel but
|
||||
yeah but now they did it very the only criticism the game was backed up with it's like
|
||||
there are one opinion and stuff and it was very positive and they had yeah yeah yeah they had
|
||||
really good reason no I think I think any any author would be would be very pleased to have that
|
||||
sort of discussion obviously he was up for yeah whatever also techie turned through by this
|
||||
yes yeah good stuff good stuff and they the audiobook club are coming thick and fast and
|
||||
each time now they'll leave 2050 it's a strange thing yes I've always taken them off because
|
||||
they were on the mailing list anyway yeah yeah yeah so now it's good it's good very good episode
|
||||
intergraph jwp dusted off his intergraph orchestration you just talked into february you're you're
|
||||
you're away oh can't do that enter the room you know it's okay what else what else do we do on
|
||||
the show after going through all the episodes no good good whack episodes they're now Dave I liked
|
||||
given the city month that I had to be told this was a nice break from the from the misery that I
|
||||
was experiencing anyway shall we do the comments so the comments yes yes so shall I make a
|
||||
start yeah I'm sure we try and not messes up this time Dave I don't know in my try and mess it
|
||||
up for a change two or three times it's and it becomes a tradition and now the traditional
|
||||
messing up of the comments so we had we're now looking at the comments to previous shows in
|
||||
previous months we're looking here at 2399 which was dod dummies using superglue to create landmarks
|
||||
on keyboards and he had a comment himself number seven at about the same time I created this
|
||||
episode I got a monitor from aoc you can access the settings menu via three physical buttons
|
||||
on the front of the right bezel problem is they are those buttons you can't really feel
|
||||
they're labeled on them but those labels are hard to feel too this resulted in numerous failed
|
||||
attempts to make the needed adjustment it pressed make it frustrated me enough that I've used
|
||||
one monitor I've used one monitor of the last couple of weeks did I finally got ran to solving
|
||||
this problem but first I put the monitor on its back so I could get a good look scene with good
|
||||
lighting I was able to see the buttons clearly and make the necessary adjustments and have dual
|
||||
monitors again hooray in one of the most epic doer moments I thought this episode and added landmarks
|
||||
those buttons so far so good generalization if you have something that would benefit from tactile
|
||||
landmark superglue might be the answer awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome and that's somebody
|
||||
benefiting from the wisdom of their own show excellent yes yes no it's good it's it's an it's an
|
||||
interesting point to put as well that and and monitors do suffer from this nonsense I've got one
|
||||
here in front of me which is black and shiny and got black and shiny buttons on and you can't
|
||||
tell where one ends and eggs begins and yeah and also some of them are behind the monitor you know
|
||||
just at the bottom right and corner at the behind you can never get them yes and Klaatu commented
|
||||
on his own show to a busy busy who had commented about kickstarter and yeah maybe I should have
|
||||
provided it easy to download temporary version of the game plus the full rules thanks for the idea
|
||||
I'll try again maybe that's something I'll try if I try again maybe that's something I'll try
|
||||
so that was a feedback that he had already given and the next one is server basics 102 which
|
||||
was another Klaatu show and Frank says ssh this is the best description of public private keys that
|
||||
I have encountered hey good Klaatu says in response to yum what provides which somebody may
|
||||
remember reading 0xf10e okay I somehow missed this comment until the monthly show read it aloud
|
||||
and so I was reloading too early right away yes it's good so we're doing we're doing a service here
|
||||
this is good so people listen to the show back to the back to the comment the greed Frank
|
||||
yum and DNF now really is great interface to packages I've found zipper in open suzer to be
|
||||
pretty neat too so we have Brian in Ohio show Falky commented on it his show was org mode mobility
|
||||
solution and org is Lily says I also had problems with mobile org but found another solution I have
|
||||
an own cloud instance where my org mode directory is mirrored on the android device I have installed
|
||||
the own cloud client app and org zilly org zilly is a sinking the local on cloud org directory
|
||||
to the on cloud client is sinking with the server it sounds harder than it is in real life no I think
|
||||
I get what he's doing pretty cool pretty cool yeah wow so the next one is two four five four
|
||||
alien brothers podcast series one episode two strictly hacking and uh Casper um says delivery
|
||||
and content thank you for the feedback we are committed to doing better work in the years ahead we
|
||||
do not want to hijack the community only provide content and contribute to the community to keep
|
||||
it moving along you're working to cross collaborate with other members of the HBR community to
|
||||
better tune delivery yes this was took a rick she was was commenting there okay um the next
|
||||
was comment for by Claudio M on um into his zero RPG part five and he has says fantastic all
|
||||
video drama version of IO a wonderful conclusion to this excellent RPG series looking forward to
|
||||
more of these kudos to all involved including those who provided the sound effects by provided by
|
||||
clatu clatu the moral of the story is you can never please can fallon just true just true just
|
||||
true we got so further comment on this one drako medallium no son like it great I saw he did there
|
||||
great show he says do you plan to continue recording more of these I hope so
|
||||
Ron P says excellent encore loved listening to the series as somebody who wishes they had more
|
||||
free time in pathfinder dnd etc picked up the pathfinder beginners box but currently it's collecting
|
||||
dust bunnies I hope this series idea and series continues actually so do I I think it's brilliant
|
||||
I loved it what I'd like them to do is is uh another another one and I also have a general question
|
||||
about uh clatu you know clatu's got a new uh commons and something uh series where he's going
|
||||
into descriptions of uh its commons and what's it called I'm not I'm gonna have to look it up
|
||||
anyway while I'm looking that up uh he's got say another show where he's talking about uh dedicated
|
||||
to dungeons and are dedicated to these type of games and open source lore and and the like
|
||||
but they're mentioning quite a lot about d6 and just the basic numbers and strengths and stuff
|
||||
and I'm kind of missing that that thing am I making any sense no I'm not really with it so
|
||||
chronicles and commons and in the discussions on the on our own mailing list related to the new
|
||||
year show about the setting up of the game there was a lot of technical numbers about d stuff and uh
|
||||
strengths watch which I think refers to strength and uh you know they the character creation
|
||||
stuff maybe if a bother reading the book I'd know what they're all about oh right right right right
|
||||
okay okay yeah I was asking my daughter about about her experiences with dnd and how how all this
|
||||
sort of stuff is set up and uh she uh yeah she she was explaining it a little bit but
|
||||
I'm just too old and uh inflexible in the brain to completely get it prepared so that was it
|
||||
Dave we will not comment anymore because the rest we have already covered indeed is this the
|
||||
actual first time Dave so we've ever managed not to mess up the commons oh my god this is uh
|
||||
I mean we didn't do too badly but we have the mailing list archived and we've got last month
|
||||
to do they uh to do the mailing list for last month so it quickly goes yeah so we had uh the
|
||||
new year's RPG planning which uh actually didn't uh turned out not to have gone ahead but what they're
|
||||
doing is they're going to have that as another time and I'm trying to scan through here quickly
|
||||
uh then we had the that their email issues on the website last month um which were resolved thank
|
||||
you Josh again uh let me see we had uh testing the mailing list which works we have how to safely
|
||||
redirect archive.org that whole thing went through last month we uh redirected this kind of
|
||||
working out quite well I think it seems to be okay yeah yeah we we even covered the lack of tags
|
||||
issue pretty much I think yeah yeah um then we had uh uh HPR paying back to anonymoushost.com
|
||||
and if you want to help out there there's on every page uh I asked Josh how we in the HPR community
|
||||
can support him by uh and reduce the burden we're placing on a part uh we'll be reducing the bandwidth
|
||||
eliminating the database and streamlining the site to static static pages in the meantime here is a
|
||||
message from Josh which I'd like to have on its own thread and this is from Josh the site will still
|
||||
be hosted by an honesthost.com but moving the downloads would help with the strain seems to be
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caused by some people trying to download the entire archive all at the same time maybe a little
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exaggerated here but to get the idea kicking in a few books would actually help with the bandwidth
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cost on this end too and would relieve some of the strain caused by some people trying to download
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the entire archive all at the same time see what I did there I could also make it easier to cover
|
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other costs on HPR stuff I'd like to with HPR server the sponsorship my company has done over
|
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the years hasn't really yielded a loss in terms of return of investment but we keep doing it because
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honestly I like the concept of HPR I'm on to continue supporting it that said been uh that said
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occasionally we get stuff like people thinking it's cool to try and hack the site the dots the
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site and we're currently consuming all the bandwidth in the server down more multiples of 10 streams at
|
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once all these issues uh unfortunately some bigger issues than others so not trying to sound greedy
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but if people could look into kicking in a few books um getting a hosting plan for the HPR
|
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coupon or just kicking in a few books of PayPal um that would be great and there is uh on every HPR
|
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website page you can go and there's a link to Josh has set up some um some uh options there that
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you can basically help a one time by donating 10 bucks or 20 bucks or five bucks or you can
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donate uh over the month five 20 or 10 bucks on a monthly basis to Josh that would help out
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and I can't thank him enough for all the work that he has done it is yes it's interesting when
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you've got hacker in your name there was a there was a time when we were just you know people were
|
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being relatively relaxed uh about that and they would do it and what I would consider a cool way
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uh but now they're whoever is doing this are obviously just morons so there you go uh another
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thing that if we needed to cover was uh I would like to propose this is me dropping the colon numbers
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so I would like to propose the option to use the colon I would like to propose dropping the option
|
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to use colon numbers as over the years this option has only ever been used by two hosts at the time
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there has been no easy way to upload to the website I believe the need has diminished it only adds to
|
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the admin overhead or we need to focus another work currently we're having issues with the workflow
|
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in multiple areas firstly the UK number has expired and the HPFTP server is not working um so
|
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it is difficult to get the shows so uh there were some other comments the two people used that was
|
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Mr X and uh I think even Mr X last shows was uploaded via the website and the other person that
|
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uses is JWP who also has known to email me and the reason that prompted this was that he lost
|
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a show one of his shows was um in the eater Halas has disappeared because it uh it wasn't anywhere
|
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so there you go we had a lot of requests for help with the testers and I want to thank everybody who
|
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took their time out to go and test I was absolutely brilliant and it went quite well the whole move
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I think and indeed and then the rest were about the new year shows and the lunch point talking about
|
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those ones and uh Klatu sent out a mumble room request and uh he'd like a room to request a room
|
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on the mumble server all the rooms currently appear to be named after specific shows but it's
|
||||
likely to use it for several shows HBR information underground the new world order conicals uh and
|
||||
commons and who knows what else so I was thinking of calling the room slacker media approved or rejected
|
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so that obviously got approved and anybody else who wants a mumble room just yeah ask uh I don't
|
||||
need uh I happen to be paying for but it's a definitely a HBR um with a HBR thing so yeah and then
|
||||
Klatu's community play RPG and this was the one yes they want to dungeon and dragons and
|
||||
to your license you can grab it up blah blah blah blah and I think here in this thread is where
|
||||
there was the discussion about we should do this that sort of the next thing to me yeah
|
||||
what they original had a 3d6 role per attribute what's that uh yeah that's me I think it's you have
|
||||
three six sided dice role per attribute but no harm for somebody to explain even these basic things
|
||||
to grandpa can here please I should have asked my daughter please the one who carries around a bag full
|
||||
of umpteen twenty sided another dice made of metal and god knows what else so yeah yeah why do
|
||||
you need so many well you need to do multiple roles and right fine fine fine but uh yeah
|
||||
passes over me I'm afraid okay um there's zork has requested a reservation for a day and as has
|
||||
as has uh Dave from the book cast as has um did that come up this month
|
||||
there was um it was a uh bound times day request yeah but that that one's uh been that shows in
|
||||
already so okay excellent excellent that's that's fine so I wanted to put it in other business because
|
||||
the whole reservation thing just to give you some history the back in the day people used to
|
||||
back in the day actually when the hits were started um people volunteered to do shows once a
|
||||
month so the idea was that there would be about something like 30 hosts and they would do
|
||||
every month every day at least one show a month and then it went into reservations and then you
|
||||
uploaded and you asked for a particular slot and then people got annoyed and all sorts so now
|
||||
all the reservation is done by you and person you go to the website you pick the day you want
|
||||
and you upload the show so I'm proposing that um if you want to make a particular reservation for
|
||||
a show you can do so and we use that for uh if you're going to fast them which is on this week and
|
||||
I'm not attending this year because I needed to go look at schools from my kids and um but um normally
|
||||
I would have requested from the mailing list can I have the reservation for a block of shows
|
||||
immediately after fast them and then we go to fast them I spent the day editing them and then we
|
||||
upload them that way but the interviews would be nice and fresh for people who are who are coming up
|
||||
so it's mostly intended for interviews the problem with this whole reservation thing is that now
|
||||
that we've moved to archive.org our timelines for publishing shows are a lot longer than they used to be
|
||||
so the the issues that we've had in the past with um reservations is that they don't come in on time
|
||||
or that there's a problem with the audio or you know somebody uploads the audio and then suddenly we've
|
||||
got two hours of silence and you're trying to communicate with the person that's uh and they're
|
||||
not available because you're processing this in a different time zone and then they're coming back
|
||||
and then you know five to midnight you're getting struggling in order to produce the show to put
|
||||
it on to the web server or to get somebody else's show and swap it out which I did with one of JWP
|
||||
shows by the way and he has never forgiven me for putting them up out of order. I don't know of all
|
||||
people JWP will be chilled out about this little did I know little did I know well in fairness I did
|
||||
picked them completely out of order but anyway long story even longer um it's it's a pain in the ass
|
||||
doing this and it's Dave has automated scripts and I have automated scripts that work on our upload
|
||||
so guys if you want to reserve a slot and they know um who is it um reserves their birthday who's that
|
||||
oh I can't come up please I ask on the annoying me now David Raymond Dave
|
||||
do you know I just started saying it precisely at the same moment you did yes David
|
||||
yes but man we're recording I just had to go and open the date of basis
|
||||
I don't know why that was my head because I just emailed the other days he just did
|
||||
I knew about his exactly his jack hydraulic jack hacks and stuff and claims we would not be
|
||||
interested in the show about training dogs hello anyway David oh lordy anyway uh yes so basically
|
||||
the current situation now is that the mailing list needs to approve so this text we have on
|
||||
the website all reservations need to be approved in the case where you wish to reserve a particular
|
||||
but do not have the media recorded you need to get a reservation approved in advance by the
|
||||
hpr mailing list I would like to replace that text with the following text all reservations need
|
||||
to be approved any host can reserve any slot one year in advance by recording their show and
|
||||
posting it on the desired day as normal in exceptional circumstances it is possible to make a
|
||||
reservation but only if there is no way to have recorded the show on time and with prior approval
|
||||
by the hpr mailing list this is intended only for exceptional circumstances such as scheduled
|
||||
interviews where we would like the audio to be released as soon as possible or to cover an
|
||||
important topical situation now can you still hear me I can hear yes yes yes I'm just pondering
|
||||
that because yes the principle is great the wording might the principle is a bit I will fix
|
||||
the wording but actually I'll send it out on to the mailing list as well and I don't want to
|
||||
point out anybody is oak and and and Dave and sorry what says the other chap who posted the show
|
||||
our all thank you thank you thank you are all within the rights for asking the mailing list it's just
|
||||
it is now very difficult for us to support that and also just if we are going to be resend
|
||||
if we're going to be sending out to youtube or facebook or whatever as well then we won't be able to
|
||||
do the switcherunies that we need to do we need shows in on time now in order to basically do the
|
||||
workflow that we have okay see uploaders we're getting 403 permission denied errors and this is
|
||||
because Josh has scripts on their checking morons attacking the site and we've narrowed it down to
|
||||
a single quote in the file names or a pipe in the show notes so be aware of that if you get a 403
|
||||
go easy on the show notes go through your show notes see if you don't have any pipes or if you
|
||||
have any quotes in the file names and there's nothing I can do about it because it doesn't even
|
||||
hit the web server it automatically when you put it in there I have no way of checking I have no
|
||||
way of filtering without doing javascript or something which would a lot of people would not
|
||||
appreciate what's doing do you want to read the new series yes there's been two new series added
|
||||
to the hpr database one is health and health care that's a hookers series that we we spoke about
|
||||
this evening and the one is sound scapes which which there are six episodes and things like
|
||||
birdsong and various other ambient sounds and stuff have been included in there there's another
|
||||
one pending I think isn't there do we decide didn't decide what to call it
|
||||
it's a little to do with mechanical or hackery or something yeah I sent you a list of
|
||||
possible names yeah we never decided well somebody wants to put it into the into the mailing
|
||||
list far enough good ideas and comment forum justification just so you know the comment
|
||||
forum has dedicated anti spam measures which I will let you in on a few secrets if you're commenting
|
||||
on a show in the last month as in now and in the last month you will be just asked to enter in
|
||||
what does the pee in hacker public radio Stanford Chi Chi Chi stands for public and but if you're
|
||||
commenting on a show that has not been posted or a show that's older than that you will get some
|
||||
asked additional questions one of those questions is pick the name of the host from the drop down list
|
||||
so you don't know that scroll up and on that page we'll tell you what the host name is
|
||||
and the other one is there's a tick box saying are you a spammer yes or no so you need to select
|
||||
no and then the other one is justification and that's between a text between 20 and 200 characters
|
||||
and I must say Dave that has been the most rewarding thing that we've put on HPR in a long time
|
||||
I really love getting in the comments on that certainly got some good responses
|
||||
so much so that I'm thinking of posting them somewhere because they're absolutely awesome
|
||||
what does HPR mean to you is the question and some of the answers have been absolutely brilliant
|
||||
yes so the last point in the any of the business was just to say thanks for some contribution to
|
||||
the tag and summary project from bjb and windigo send in some updates in the past month how was that
|
||||
going slowly slowly I haven't done anything myself in the past month but I did do a batch before
|
||||
that so just there's a lot of other things getting the way that yeah yeah it's just just a case of
|
||||
plugging away at it but all contributions are gratefully received so you have a moment give us
|
||||
give us a few tags and summaries please and if you want to go back and do your own shows that will
|
||||
be great yeah so if you could go back do your own shows that will be cool yeah yes I must actually
|
||||
do that myself that would be a good start okay right any other business there David I don't think
|
||||
so I think we've covered the whole shebang it's fun um all camp is uh going ahead apparently
|
||||
it is in August yes and where will it be David it will be in Sheffield Sheffield
|
||||
city of steel yes yeah very time today by I dropped a subtle hint to the old frowl there saying uh
|
||||
you know we haven't visited my brother in a while and the kids are getting a bit older and it's
|
||||
easier to travel you know and you know we could just fly into thingy just happens to be on this weekend
|
||||
all come yeah yeah yeah yeah that would be good so yeah my kids are not away in foreign parts
|
||||
at the moment my daughter will be finished her degree by then so uh so I'm hoping they'll be able
|
||||
to do the cat sitting or whatever's needed so I can I can get along there so uh cool so yeah
|
||||
so excellent supportive all right if thank you very much for all the work and tune in tomorrow for
|
||||
another exciting episode of hacker public radio
|
||||
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|
||||
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