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Episode: 3326
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Title: HPR3326: HPR Community News for April 2021
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3326/hpr3326.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 20:54:31
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3326 for Monday, 3rd of May 2021.
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Tid's show is entitled HPR Community News for April 2021 and is part of the series HPR
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Community News It is hosted by HPR Volunteers and is about 80 minutes long and carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is HPR Volunteers talk about shows released in comments posted in April 2021.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by Ananasthost.com
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Get 15% discount on all shared hosting with the offer code HPR15. That's HPR15.
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Better web hosting that's honest and fair at Ananasthost.com
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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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Today it's Community News for April 2021. Joining me to the same thing is...
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Hello everybody, it's Dave Morris.
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And HPR is Community Podcast Network. No, it's not. It's a community podcast that releases shows every weekday, Monday, Tuesday, Friday.
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You're listening to HPR Community News that gives you all the news that's new and approved from the HPR community.
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Including a rundown of this week's shows and first of all a rundown of the new hosts.
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What do you, Dave? Well, we have two new hosts sort of. Ananasthost is sort of a placeholder
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for people who would remain anonymous and we have a new real person host who is called Trey.
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Excellent. I'm actually surprised that we didn't have Ananasthost on there already. I thought
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we definitely had that on today with a techie back in the early days because a lot more
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common calls to non-Muslim. Yeah, well, blame my algorithm then because
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thinks that this Ananasthost is new for some reason, right? No, it's fine. It is new because
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I went through and I couldn't find it. So yeah, I think we posted as Creative Commons content
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or something like that. Anyway, we'll cover that in a few moments. So let's go through all the
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shows for the last month because that's what we do. Starting with the news flash.
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For the first of January 2004, apparently. Yeah, yeah, quite impressive.
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Exactly. Exactly. So we need to obviously update the series of that to be the IpproFools series.
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And if anyone has any ideas for IpproFools shows, please get in touch with us about
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with as much time as possible. I actually have an idea for one, but I'll contact somebody
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later about that. Alrighty. The following day, we had Nachios Part 2, Notification, SNMP
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and remote checks. All kind of good stuff. This was a show by Norrist and there was one comment. Do you
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want to tick that one? Yes, Kevin O'Brien says, adding my endorsement. I loved hearing the
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mention of my friend Michael W. Lucas. He's a great writer and his technical books are awesome.
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I used his book on SSH as a resource when I did my shows on that topic. You also write some
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pretty good fiction such as Get Commit Murder. Yes, very nice. I'm actually tempted to read that book.
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Yeah, I forgot about it. I'm just tempted to give that a look.
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So on the HBR community news for last month, there are little comments because we didn't say anything
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controversial. So we will try to do better this month later. And the next show was by Klaatu
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Gisworth Tree. How to use Gisworth Tree. And this was an interesting one actually because I
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have a tendency to do this from time to time. Yeah, yes, it does look like a useful
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edition. I imagine I didn't quite get how new it was. It seemed to be fairly a fairly recent
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experimental feature. So it sounds like it's well worth delving further into. And Klaatu
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gives a great, great taste of what you do with it. And Sean Ott. Very good Sean Ott. I'm actually
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shot. This is coming from Klaatu. No comment, no comment. So the next day, we had, let's talk about
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Thunderbird, some guy on the internet. And very good actually. I was thinking I've been using
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Thunderbird for years. I post-coded, I possibly learned from the show and I actually set up a few
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a few rules, you know, just based on the show. So very good. Thanks.
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Yes, yes, he did make me, I did too. I've also used it a long time. And I got hundreds of rules
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and sometimes get lost in them. But he made me rethink some of them because the way
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the order is important and also where they run in relation to spam checks is also important.
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And there's a lot, there's a lot to think about there. It's quite a good introduction to
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to the things that you could, you could be doing there. So, but I have to say, I do miss
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Prokmail. Prokmail will let you do so many more sophisticated things with your incoming mail
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than Thunderbird does. I wish there was, you could have an and an or expression in the same rule.
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Like, what are just sort of Prokmail to bring your inbox to a local folder and then pick it up
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from there? Well, I could, I could make and I could get everything into one I'm at folder and
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and then point Thunderbird at it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a thought that's a question
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on my mind, but I think the reason for that that you're not doing that is because Thunderbird
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doesn't natively support local folders. But I remember after this show I was thinking, oh,
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I could do something like that. But another thing you can do, I did a show sometime back on
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having a local line-up server and you asked the other question, why would you do that? And the answer
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was, Thunderbird doesn't support local, local folders. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you run your local
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line-up server and then we got to go. I did a one point, I did a one point look at moving to
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clause mail which does let you have local folders and it takes different from the formats too.
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Which, but I could never get that to really do do what I wanted it to do. So, I gave up and
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yeah, and also MUT, I looked at it using MUT, but that that wasn't good enough
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compared to Thunderbird I felt. Yeah, I used clause for a while and it just absolutely crawled
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compared to Thunderbird. Mm-hmm. With a quite a large, I've got quite a lot of accounts and quite
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a large mailboxes. Yeah, the mailboxes, I'm up folders. So, Henry says, some good tips, thank you.
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I routinely encourage people to disable automatic image download for privacy reasons. Perfect,
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perfect. That's me. But never thought of your idea to have virtually view emails and play in
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text. I'm going to do that. The idea of running rules before spam processing seems obvious after
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you heard it. My spouse is continually using important emails in the junk folder. Yeah,
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there you go, you thank you. And I heard somebody, who I very much respect, saying that you shouldn't
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do a show. I'm not going to do a show because I think other people know more about the top week
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than I do. This is a show who else would have attempted to do a show on Thunderbird. And I'm so
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glad that this was submitted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Sententials, even if you think
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somebody else could do a start to start the show with, I'm sure somebody else knows something
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more about this. So, can you please do a response or to this episode? But I will tell you as much as
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I can about it. And this is what I would like you to know. See, there's a mindset, this is not
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a criticism, but there is a sort of mindset that says, I have no point in doing a show unless it's
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groundbreaking and original and nobody else would know anything about it. Well, I've spent most
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of my time on HBO doing stuff that you could work out here. So, I'm not telling you anything very
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new, but just saying, I've found this stuff and I've read the man pages. And this is how I understand
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it and come back and tell me if I'm talking nonsense. Absolutely. And that seems to me to be an
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extremely valid way of approaching the world. Here is a good show that I would like to hear.
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And the show will be, here's a list of stuff I don't understand. Can somebody please tell me
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about this, about that, about the next thing? I think this is what this is about. Are you sure?
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Yeah. So, yeah, yeah, that'd be good. Asking questions shows are also valid shows. Think of HBOR.
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Yes, it's a source of sharing knowledge, but your contribution could be to stir up the pool a bit
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so that more people will look in and go, hey, that's an interesting topic. That's an interesting topic.
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That's an interesting topic. Yeah. Do this, people please. Do this.
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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So, yeah, the Thunderbird idea is a great one. I think we need more
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in this general area, personally. So, yeah, fantastic. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Yes, yes,
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following day, the guys are back with the big uncertainties and life and beyond two
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chaps discuss uncertainties and beyond in this episode on Probald. Can you do that one?
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Probalistic. I know I was just reading it and going, what? No, probabilistic data structures.
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Yes, it's what they were talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this was the Redis Wall and the Hush functions
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stuff like that. Yeah, it was interesting, actually.
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It was, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, I suddenly now find I don't fully remember what it covered.
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And at the time, I thought, oh, this is interesting. Let's look further because I haven't.
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And so I'm sort of floundering slightly and thinking, I really need to lead to learn more about
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this stuff. So, yeah, yeah, it's cool. It was very cool. Yeah, some good resources there as well.
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And the thing about their shows is you all think, hey, that two comedians are back, but then they
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they do actually have some good content in their shows. Believe it or not.
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There's there's actually quite a lot of one that's coming up. Sure.
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It's quite a lot of depth in what these guys cover. It's just that they tend to be very flippant
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about it. It's actually flippancy overrides the seriousness, which to me, I'd assume it was more
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serious than flippant, but you know, it's just a matter of taste. So good for them for doing what they do.
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Excellent. Excellent. Now, speaking about Ponderberg, here's another chap who is doing the same
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thing with Gimp, gone through each option, essentially, and telling us how all this stuff works.
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And as always, some very good resources in Ruka's show on layer masks.
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Yep, yep. I keep saying, give myself notes to say, get more into Gimp, because it's
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really damn cool from what Ruka's telling us. I haven't done it yet.
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Well, my, my desire is like just to wait a while until he's finished and then get the PDF.
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Is that in the comments for this show about the PDF thing?
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That's an email thread, which I think it was, it was my all, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah.
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So the following was submitted by an anonymous host, Bradley M. Kuhn's article from 2019 on Richard M.
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Stolman. And she would do the comments first, and then there were a few comments, one or two on this.
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You do the first one, then I can reply in my own words to my own review. Yep, yep. I was just
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absorbing because there's a lot, yeah, Brian and Ohio says, bravery, agree or disagree with RMS,
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at least he does not hide his beliefs behind the moniker anonymous.
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To which Ken Fallon replied, along history of supporting anonymous posts, high Brian and Ohio,
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the only requirement for bolstering to HPR is that the shows of interest taggers and a
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distance band and meetings are licensing terms. There is no requirement to be personally identified
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on HPR, while some contributors like yourself use, like myself use their real names, other
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like others like yourselves use handles instead. I'm sure most of those who use handles do not do so
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to hide their identity, but some might. Anyway, it's a move point anyway because we know Bradley
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Enkoon was the author of the show. We don't know who posted it, and I don't particularly care.
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They could have posted under the show under a fake username, and we would never know.
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There are quite a lot of shows posted that were controversial at the time, and have been submitted
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by a host that never posted again. I feel that posting under the anonymous username is more honest.
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It alerts the HPR community to the lack of implicit trust that comes from
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with a fake real name. It also means less work for the jammers as we don't need to create new
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users. In any event, Hacker Public Radio has long supported and will continue to support anonymous
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posts, comments and other forms of interactions. We do this for many reasons, not least of which
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is freedom of speech, not least of which is that freedom of speech is not always without cost.
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Okay, Rato says RMS. Hi, first of all, this TTS takes the speech voice is terrible. I can hardly
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understand it. The one used by HPR is much better. Secondly, if I hear more information where I get
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the impression that it's totally on one side. I want to hear the other side in order to build my
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opinion. It took me 20 minutes to find it the other side. It looks like the internet tries to hide it,
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and there's a link to a Debian community site. Have you seen the episode of The All of It,
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where your reputation and punishment is based on public opinion rather than from a court? It was
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scary. While this is fiction, does it now become reality and do you support this? Just some thoughts
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on what's going on here? And I replied to that comment. Hi, Rato, the text-to-speech engine used
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as eSpeak, and it's available on many Linux distros. It is relied upon by thousands with visual
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impairments and those with reading disabilities, including myself. You must be new to HPR as we've
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been using eSpeak for years, and have only recently been able to negotiate a contract with Lin
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text-to-wav slash festival. After her non-complete agreements with a lot of links, links.com
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pass podcast expired. Nobody else is going to. Very few people are going to get that joke.
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Unfortunately, the site you posted left me wanting when it came to hearing the other side of the
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story. It's not actually affiliated to Debian at all. It's a site somebody else has put up
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in response to Debian. But that's it, by the way. But as you say, it is difficult to find
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information on the internet sometimes, especially one that's reliable and trustworthy. I would always
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suggest you go to the source of truth first. In this case, it's best to start with Richard Stolman
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and the free software foundation itself. And sure enough, on the main free software foundation page,
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there are two articles, one entitled Statement of the FSF board on the election of Richard Stolman
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with a link. And another RMS addresses the free software community also with a link.
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We have interviewed RMS in episode 0271 and episode 1116. So it will be great to get them on
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again to discuss this. Can you reach out to him and or the free software foundation to see if
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they will be interested in recording another interview? Be sure to mention that we only use
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free software in recording and that it can be released under a Creative Commons by NCSA if desired.
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Side note, that's the one RMS prefers. And I think the whole not released an MP3 thing is no
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longer problem. But if it is, we can and have, deal with that as well. In the meantime, I will put
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together a similar show to this using their statements and post it as a counter to this show.
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And then I have the links so you can do Bezos. Yeah.
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Bezos says, Richard Stolman, few of us are so synonymous with the organization we work for that
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any controversial remarks we make in public are likely to do lasting damage to the reputation of
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said organization, especially if we were to subsequently resign and remain silent afterwards.
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That's not the case with RMS and with regards to the FSF. He will forever be associated with
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the free software movement and by implication the FSF. On that basis, engineering his resignation
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on the strength of his comments on social and political issues did nothing to protect the reputation
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of the free software movement. All it achieved was to solve the consciences of other FSF board members.
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How damaged was the free software movement anyway? Most people outside the floss world have never
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heard of RMS. So he's sometimes distasteful, sometimes thought provoking views would have
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no bearing on their decisions to adopt open source software. People in the floss world know RMS
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but his eccentricities along with his visionary genius. I suspect that while many publicly
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feigned shock at his house at both, most it's just RMS being RMS followed by an attempt to get
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any images conjured up by some of these ideas out of their heads. If the FSF fundamentally
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stands for anything it's freedom. So to sideline somebody for exercising their right to personal
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opinions and free speech seems a bit incongruous. Given that getting rid of RMS was never going
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to distance the FSF from him, they would have been better to have taken the view, even the form of
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public statements if necessary, that other FSF board members have hauled some of his views
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on non-take the form matters but totally support his right to hold and express those views.
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In these days of cancel culture when people are dismissed from jobs or printed or prevented from
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speaking in public for a fear of what they might say, it would have been a refreshing change to see
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an organization defending the right to free speech instead of just taking the path of least
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resistance. Okay, to round what's up you right? I would say so yes. Says Stolman. Nobody is saying
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Stolman can't say having consensual in quotes sex with 12-year-old doesn't harm the kid but nobody
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who isn't actually brain damage would defend it nor is anybody actually forced to associate
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with him because of quotes free speech. It doesn't violate any free speech to say you can believe
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whatever despicable things you want. You can advocate for any despicable thing you want but
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nobody else is obliged to support you or be allied with you. It is not cancel culture. It is
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being responsible for the ignorance of his spuse culture. As for how the Free Software Foundation
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is damaged by it, look at how many organizations pull their support. Nobody is bigger than any
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organization unless the organization allows itself to be succumbed to a cult personality. It really
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works out well. Part of the reason the Free Software Foundation is useless is because they have
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allowed themselves to be so beholden to a useless repugnant told like Stolman who pushes a majority
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of people away. If you want an idea to grow, it helps not to be led by somebody who intentionally
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is spuse reprehensible nonsense that pushes everybody else away. Stolman is toxic. Excuse for a
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human being. You want fast to have a chance to have a chance to grow a question. Don't let it
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be led by a guy who intentionally says things that are considered morally repugnant by the majority
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of the public. C. Fish says the responsibility of leadership. I've been a Gnu Linux user for
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around 2.5 years now and have been a fan of RMS so much of that time. I've heard about people
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thinking Stolman is kind of weird but shorted up to differences in political opinion or his
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refusal to meet people where they are. This is my first time hearing about some of his gross
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opinions. As a leader in the free software movement, he should not be turning people away with these
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opinions. To be perfectly clear, I stand with the survivors of sexual assault and I stand with
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anyone who has put their trust in the supervision of an adult who would betray that trust for sexual
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gratification. The Gnu Linux community is a better place when we treat each other respectfully and
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with compassion. We don't need anyone person in our community as much as we need the community itself.
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Okay, shall we move on or do you have comments? Let's move on. I'm right there Dave.
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You may have comments but those might reflect on HPR. So sometimes it's best not to come.
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Indeed. Covid doldrums. Yeah, Mr X and Dave. God, that was deep. That was that was heavy. That was
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that was a heavy heavy thing. Yeah, but yeah, had to be certain as well. Covid doldrums. Mr X and
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Dave Morris have a chat of remodel in these training times. Like these shows did.
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Yes, we have fun doing them. We tend to go on a little bit too long, perhaps. No,
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but we'd all be quite, quite enjoy the chat. This is essentially my social life now. I was like, I
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reserve these ones from when I can be pottering about undergariton or something and it's like I'm
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actually talking to humans. It's a bit like a chat in the pub or something like that. And some of
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these have been chats in the pub indeed. But yeah, it's, it's, I'm glad if people enjoy it,
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but it's quite fun to do so we're probably going to carry on doing it as much as we can.
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So the next day, Toget sent a little tip there on how to unzoom update as they're
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in order to automate the updates or zoom if you require to use that on your, on your
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computer. I don't really, but there you go. No, I'm using it. I'm using it. I'm using
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formal stuff. So I actually might, well, so far it's not broken anything. I don't think I'm using
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a lot of functionality and just listening to a discussion and then signing off. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, being retired, I don't have to do any of this sort of stuff. I just joined your
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C thing from time to time, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. I was interested in the way he was
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approaching this update. So it's good to learn these sorts of things.
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Trey joined us. Now, let's have a look to see hot sort of all additional shows we can have him send in.
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Yes. I found the BBS bulletin board systems. Quite interesting that he was on the budget
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and the fact that you had a Commodore 64, just my first 4A and computers.
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No, it's always fascinating to hear how people have approached these things. I didn't really get
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into this sort of stuff because I was already into a mainframe. You had a real confused
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interest. Yeah. You were lucky. I didn't know it was admitted to last year. I would just come
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home together with some cash. Yeah. I've got a government-funded super computer. I mean,
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I would just come home and say I've had enough computers. I don't want any more.
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That changed this time and on, but yeah, yeah. It's just a different viewpoint, but it's always
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good to hear how people got to where they are and what they've made of the journey too. This is
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fascinating. Yeah, that's cool. Good stuff. Also a ham, I see. Yes. Yes, I have plans, Dave. I have plans.
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So the following day, we had a throwaway show from me about the Taurus Act optical character
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optical character recognition show. And I think this might be one of the local
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quality throwaway shows that are coming to mind. But you know what? I go back to these because I do
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a certain number of stuff that I do so infrequently that I forget how to do it every time and
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it's a learning experience. I think I'll at least have it on HPR and then I'll be able to go back
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and search on the tags folder and search for all or OCR and be able to find the show where I did
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this one. So yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I found it most interesting. I knew nothing about this,
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so it was good to hear that it exists and that you're using it and all this stuff is quite
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sophisticated for a command line tool like this. Yeah, it looks good. As I said, I've had a manual
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that I got physically and there is a new reader version of it somewhere but I'm not able to get
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access to that. So I scanned the whole thing and then ran this over it and yeah, it's
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absolutely 99% okay, more of them. Yeah, yeah, that's wonderful. As somebody who's currently in the
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throes of clearing my attic for various reasons but yeah, plumbing issues. But the amount of paper
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in that attic is horrendous and not all of it's printed but a good good amount of it is and I
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mean some means of turning it into that bits I want to keep turning them into electronic form
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would be would be great. So this is something that made by years prick up, you know,
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it might be something I could use, yeah. I've done because of the renovation, we're getting rid
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of lots of stuff in the house as well. So a lot of stuff is Scannigo where they all school books
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from the kids and stuff that don't want to try anything in a way but if you say you can Scannigo,
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then that's useful. Yeah, yeah. Same here with children and school books and that type of stuff.
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So yeah, a good message. Yeah, rather than, you know, when I'm leaving the house, you know,
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horizontally, they can rather than have to deal with thousands of boxes of books and stuff,
|
||||
you know, here's the USB stick in all your crap and when your kids is on there.
|
||||
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we're we're very, very disturbed and my daughter's been helping me a lot
|
||||
actually. She's job hunting at the moment. So she's got a fair bit of spare time. So she's been
|
||||
coming over and helping me lug boxes out of the attic and that sort of stuff. But between this,
|
||||
we're astonished at how much well crap is probably the one. What do we do with this? I just
|
||||
stuff it in the bag of the attic. We'll come to it and now we we're arriving at this stuff.
|
||||
We're going to have plumbers in there this week, which next week, I mean, who need to be
|
||||
laying pop work and this sort of stuff. So it has to be pretty clear. So, you know, it's
|
||||
still nice. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. And then another anonymous coward posted a free software
|
||||
foundation and RMS on the election of RMS stallments. So two of those statements,
|
||||
statement from from the board and a statement from RMS and some subsequent comments
|
||||
that nobody commented on that one. And that was posted by me. As I said.
|
||||
An anonymous post by me. Yes. No, it's good to see this on HVL because it concentrates
|
||||
the various discussions that are going on, which you might miss. And it's nice to have
|
||||
somebody sort of doing an editorial type approach to it. So I appreciate it this. I have to say
|
||||
yeah. Yeah. I think there's a lot of a lot of a lot of people have. It's a difficult. Oh,
|
||||
I will say this. You know, we miss RMS in in a fast time. We attended the lecture. And the whole
|
||||
thing about him picking his, you know, the man became more obvious to me as, you know, is the
|
||||
naughty professor sort of thing. But on the other hand, he can't argue with the fact that he does
|
||||
a lot of people might say, yeah, that's just RMS when he does, you know, eat his
|
||||
does stuff that might not be socially acceptable as he says himself. He may, maybe on the spectrum
|
||||
somewhere. Then somebody who's on the spectrum myself, I feel there's a responsibility
|
||||
to make sure that you, it's a tiring thing, making sure that you are respectful to other people.
|
||||
And you don't let your inability, your difficulties interacting socially with other people
|
||||
interfere or make them feel uncomfortable. That's not really a good excuse. And I would suggest
|
||||
there's an argument that an organization that doesn't, you know, do the proverbial,
|
||||
you know, call your side here and go, you know, Ken, that that wasn't really the, you know,
|
||||
the nicest thing to say there to that person might be an idea to nibble or re-enapologize.
|
||||
There have been a few times here in HPR where I've done stuff. And I feel that we've lost
|
||||
members of the community as a result of that. And I can only apologize for that sort of stuff.
|
||||
So, yeah, again, as you say, you have to be, yeah, it's not an excuse, but it is, yeah, it was worth reading.
|
||||
If you read one, read the other. Absolutely, yeah. It's quite an interesting insight.
|
||||
It doesn't take away from the fact that the great work he has achieved, but at the same time,
|
||||
I would say that there's also a responsibility in everybody around him to make sure it's a welcoming
|
||||
place for people. And maybe people working as supportive of him as it should be. I think with kids,
|
||||
especially, you know, just because you, there's, you cause an effect. And yeah, let
|
||||
somebody get away with stuff or too long, makes it more difficult. It's better to
|
||||
do what the Big Four comes in issue.
|
||||
Appropriate guidance can help a lot in these circumstances, I feel. And sometimes people,
|
||||
I actually follow a guy on YouTube who does a series called Asperger's from the inside.
|
||||
I know Asperger's not the term for use. And he's very, very insightful. He does quite a lot of
|
||||
advice to people about all manner of issues relating from it. And, you know, there's a lot of
|
||||
advisory stuff. And his view is, you know, the condition leads to
|
||||
to non-standard viewpoints and behaviours, which can seem strange and can sometimes even be
|
||||
a little bit jarring or even offensive to others. But, you know, his view seems to be that
|
||||
you being aware of it is very, is an important thing to be able to achieve. And also,
|
||||
therefore, to modify it. He says it costs a lot for the person to do it.
|
||||
Absolutely. But, no, there's no reason why you couldn't live in society in general,
|
||||
doing self-modification. But if you have friends around you who say,
|
||||
it's maybe not the best thing to, you know, I don't think I would take that approach
|
||||
of how we use sort of thing, then, so much the better.
|
||||
Quite, I follow him as well. I'm quite a lot of the things that he says, particularly in the
|
||||
in the front one, was very much from an eco-centrical point of view. I need this and I need that.
|
||||
That's one of the issues, one of the few issues that I have with his show is that it's more about him.
|
||||
But nobody is, no, no man is annihilated. I am, I'm fucking a beater.
|
||||
No, no, no one is an island as such. So, like it or not, I mean, you could, you could
|
||||
nip off to the island somewhere by an island in the middle of nowhere and that's grand. But, you know,
|
||||
then you arrive and you got a dentist, you got a sore tooth, you know, what are you going to do?
|
||||
Then you need, we need people and we, we, even this lockdown thing, you know, for the autistic
|
||||
among us, it's like, Raid, what do you mean? Like, I get to sit behind my computer and not
|
||||
interact with anyone. But you still do need contact and you need peer review and you need peer
|
||||
acceptance. And, you know, there, there may be a reason why there's so many great bearded guys
|
||||
in the free software community is because, you know, if you happen to be anything else and you,
|
||||
you know, how, how welcoming is that, you know, if you, uh, reminds me of the time I went and did
|
||||
yoga for, uh, in the, in the community hall at one stage. It wasn't, it was very welcoming, but
|
||||
at the same time, it wasn't very, uh, the working many other people like me in the room.
|
||||
So, so so, yeah.
|
||||
Oh, yes, yes.
|
||||
Uh-huh. Thing, I have solved the world after saying, I wasn't, I wasn't going to say anything about this.
|
||||
Then I ended up saying quite a lot of things. There you go, the views my views and
|
||||
these views do not necessarily represent the views of HBUR as whole. We are just, uh, two two
|
||||
cats on the internet.
|
||||
Actually, we've been popping more like a cow to be honest, but I think it's self-jump.
|
||||
Reading a manifesto towards a cooperative technology movement by Tlaque, let's read
|
||||
some of the comments on this.
|
||||
I don't know if this was related to the other two shows, what was the timing of this?
|
||||
I don't know, actually.
|
||||
I had assumed that this was something that was happening in the overspill or in the context
|
||||
of all of the other stuff.
|
||||
You know, we have to actually explain what has happened was that RMS during the MeToo movement
|
||||
Harvey Weinstein's one of his acquaintances who was an acquaintance of RMS was implicated
|
||||
in some sort of thing and RMS met a comment and that was taken by somebody else and then
|
||||
as a result public opinion kind of focused on RMS and he resigned from the Free Software
|
||||
Foundation and then without consultation which I think a lot of people found rather annoying
|
||||
him.
|
||||
He was reinstated to the board and as a result of that a lot of people, a lot of organizations
|
||||
recently have distanced themselves from the Free Software Foundation and in the shows
|
||||
that we mentioned the Free Software Foundation themselves and RMS himself has said that
|
||||
improvements need to be met and that they have seen the errors of their ways etc etc.
|
||||
That's a snops us, a very bad snops us not out, this block, this block, I don't want
|
||||
to make too light up because there's a very serious lot of serious issues coming up there
|
||||
and it's not funny at all, not pleasant.
|
||||
But it's hard to summarize in a concise way I think it's not for quite some time in
|
||||
the future, imagine it would be easy to do that.
|
||||
I mean, like it says, Arata, apparently the term open source was not quite coined at
|
||||
that meeting described in the open source.com article.
|
||||
People have been using it in the software context, not just well known military intelligence
|
||||
context sometime before then and a link to the article.
|
||||
Okay, interesting.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
See fish says, great show.
|
||||
Thanks for this.
|
||||
I knew there were people in FOSS who felt the way I do.
|
||||
This is the first time hearing about the public declaration.
|
||||
Kevin Oberlin says, fantastic show.
|
||||
My great thanks to Placquet for supporting this.
|
||||
I think this manifesto is a great contribution to the discussion of Free Software.
|
||||
If Free Software is not respecting of people, what good is it?
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Like it says, the season for manifestos, there has been a lot of bubbling out there in
|
||||
the free software world since a decade or more and it's recently coming to the surface.
|
||||
I have two more of these readings coming out as soon as I've put together the background
|
||||
material and he provides a couple of links that point to some of the things he's talking
|
||||
about.
|
||||
And Kevin says, clearing it up, glad to hear Clacquet, I look forward to your shows.
|
||||
See what he did there.
|
||||
See what he did there.
|
||||
Very good.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Fumbling is Ken.
|
||||
Fumbling is Ken.
|
||||
Morning.
|
||||
Are we classic with a DNS exploit?
|
||||
That sounds very leaky, doesn't it?
|
||||
Only leased people would do that.
|
||||
Wolfridge was myself.
|
||||
SD card and USB stick.
|
||||
What threw me for a loop was that there's an SD card.
|
||||
VFAT that goes in the front and then there's a USB stick that goes in the back and that
|
||||
can be XC2 or NTFS.
|
||||
Other than that, it worked as described.
|
||||
And Archer 72 says, re SD card and the USB stick, good to know that this worked for you
|
||||
as well.
|
||||
I think original YouTube post was meant for backup for a ton of games.
|
||||
In most cases, this will not be needed because the games don't take much room anyway.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
So that was part of my keynote exercise to get rid of game S, CV runs and have it all
|
||||
on the USB stick.
|
||||
Oh.
|
||||
That's good.
|
||||
And also, you don't have to unlock the menu, the menu just go up to there.
|
||||
Following day, Linux in laws, political and artificial intelligence part one.
|
||||
And there was one comment on that.
|
||||
Which was from me, AI is misleading, AP will be better.
|
||||
I always thought that artificial intelligence is misleading.
|
||||
Artificial programming would better describe what's going on.
|
||||
It's a good point actually.
|
||||
It's a very good point.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
It's one of these terms that I think goes way back.
|
||||
I'm sure others could tell me better, but things like the early days of Lisp and the Eliza
|
||||
thing, which would you talk to it, it came back with what the meaning from responses.
|
||||
That was, I'm sure that was being talked about as some sort of artificial intelligence
|
||||
in the sense that, you know, there was all manner of cleverness.
|
||||
It wasn't, it was amazingly stupid, I think, in many ways.
|
||||
But clever.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Effectively.
|
||||
But, yeah, so I've always been suspicious of the term myself.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
I think if you were sitting in a car, right, and you was told, yeah, don't worry, artificial intelligence
|
||||
is going to bring you from it to be, or if you were sitting in a car and artificial
|
||||
programming is going to bring you from it to be, one of them, you go, oh, this is fantastic.
|
||||
Artificial intelligence.
|
||||
It's magic fairy dust, whereas artificial programming will go, oh no, there's the big red
|
||||
button.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
I've seen your programming before is the other guy who locks the door and then let me open
|
||||
it again because of X, Y, and Z, and all those sorts of things.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
I know.
|
||||
It's, it's, it's, it's hype, isn't it?
|
||||
It's being oversold, I feel.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
It's, and, and, you know, we do that, we do that, but it's, it's artificial programming.
|
||||
Nothing that we're doing now is, is, as yet, intelligence, it's coming up with a better
|
||||
algorithm is not, is just a computer as a program to a better program.
|
||||
We're not at the point where, you know, it's intelligence, yes.
|
||||
Sure.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
But the way in which the software is structured, where it effectively builds itself through,
|
||||
through the sort of methodologies they were talking about is, is amazing.
|
||||
But yeah.
|
||||
Isn't that correct?
|
||||
Correct.
|
||||
That doesn't make it intelligent in, not, not by my reckoning, anyway.
|
||||
No.
|
||||
And what you're doing is you've gone through iterations of programs, you, it's, if you
|
||||
thought of artificial intelligence and described it for what it is, you have the computer, this
|
||||
is where you want to go, and then you write a whole goal of, um, programs with, a whole
|
||||
goal of if statements in there.
|
||||
And then you come up to the best solution for over there, and then you feedback in the
|
||||
results so that you keep holding the program that you're writing to give better results.
|
||||
At the end of the day, you end up with a program that you can program onto another chip,
|
||||
and then it can recognize a cache.
|
||||
So yeah, that's what it is.
|
||||
It's artificial programming.
|
||||
It's very simple.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
It's very simple.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
You have a program rice, hundreds of programs, and the picks the best one.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
A lot of it is iterative, sort of in the evolutionary mechanism, well, that one's rubbish
|
||||
throw it away, or kill it.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
That one.
|
||||
It's a bit better.
|
||||
We'll keep that one going.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
I know.
|
||||
Like I said, it's hype.
|
||||
So the next day we had YouTube channels from learning Spanish part of the day.
|
||||
So this is good.
|
||||
I don't actually want to learn Spanish, want to learn Polish, want to learn Dutch, want
|
||||
to learn Polish, and I could do my brushing up on my Irish.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
I, yeah.
|
||||
I, I quite like to learn French properly, but otherwise, it's fine, Dave, you're not going
|
||||
to be allowed out anymore.
|
||||
You're stuck in that island.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
For real.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Back in the day.
|
||||
Do you want to read R&B's?
|
||||
Yes, I will.
|
||||
And he comments on listening to Twitch podcasts.
|
||||
He says, how I listen to the Twitch network podcast, many MP3 players and podcast apps
|
||||
on your phone, have us, have a sleep timer, getting an easy chair, lean it all the way
|
||||
back, cover up nice and cozy, turn your volume down just until just before you can't understand
|
||||
what they're talking about, set the sleep timer for about 12 minutes, my podcasting app
|
||||
will turn the volume down even more the last 30 seconds.
|
||||
So it's not on the brunt chat of, are you ready for the best nap if that in a long time?
|
||||
My MP3 player is an old Moto E3.
|
||||
He says, exactly.
|
||||
That's why we were asked to hitch your theme to the end just to wake up, wake up, wake up.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Indeed.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Indeed.
|
||||
DNS 66.
|
||||
You random random.
|
||||
I talk about DNS 66 and go over some comments from the you random episodes.
|
||||
And Taj says, mission accomplished, the you random podcasts, sprawling HPR episodes and
|
||||
seamless promotions simultaneously since 2021, seriously, no, great job.
|
||||
I have a much better understanding of DNS 66 after I listen to this.
|
||||
Good job.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
But I like this show very much.
|
||||
I thought he was, he said, oh, I'm just doing this off the cuff or something to that
|
||||
effect.
|
||||
Yet it seemed to be really insightful and full of full of information.
|
||||
So I found that fairly quite fascinating.
|
||||
Yep.
|
||||
Very, very good tattoo sent us in one about tuned D and I remember I was on a bike doing
|
||||
this one who's about power performance for laptops and scripts that he had for said.
|
||||
I think does that link right now or not?
|
||||
Oh, that's a good question.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Just in 2014.
|
||||
Just, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did try that.
|
||||
I completely forgot to then follow up and say, do anything about the failure of it.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
Certainly for the last time.
|
||||
Yeah, I was going to suggest we look at the way back machines if that's got a better
|
||||
link.
|
||||
I completely forgot.
|
||||
No.
|
||||
Too soft.
|
||||
So on the 28th, we had another one from Klatu, an alternative internet you never knew existed.
|
||||
And a non-brief introduction to open Nick, the open and democratic domain name and number
|
||||
registry.
|
||||
And I was thinking to myself, what's preventing somebody from registering a domain that's
|
||||
already on the internet, on the main, yeah, main DNS and the existing DNS and then overriding
|
||||
this.
|
||||
So like my bank.com, what's our is openly allowed to do my, you know, calm domain names or do
|
||||
they have to be ones that are not registered on the on the general generic DNS?
|
||||
Well, otherwise, I thought this was interesting.
|
||||
When I looked, I briefly looked at it at the website for it.
|
||||
And they seemed, this is my reading of it, which may be wrong, but they manage a subset
|
||||
of TLDs, effectively, they're not, they're not three less anymore, but that is specific
|
||||
to them, you know, like Doc Geek was the one that I remember.
|
||||
So presumably, only they have access to that, that TLD, but I don't know, I don't know.
|
||||
Yeah, but then why don't they, if that was the case, then they could register that as being
|
||||
the owners on the main DNS keys for those, you know, republics that they're the owners
|
||||
for those are, I need to look up this more because I actually like the idea, I do like
|
||||
the idea of just putting up a domain name.
|
||||
Yeah, yeah, it would be, it would be fun to do something like that, and it seems a lot
|
||||
less hassle than the, the other route.
|
||||
I was quite taking with it, but I didn't have time to, I'm clean in my attic, by the way.
|
||||
I was my daughter, that was my daughter just coming, coming in there to give me, to go
|
||||
and do some stuff for me.
|
||||
So, yeah, she's on my, you owe me a short list of other folks.
|
||||
She's never done a standalone show, yeah, I've chatted to her on nature, but yeah, yeah,
|
||||
yeah, yeah, when she gets a job, you might, I don't know, I shouldn't say anything like
|
||||
that, should I, could say, I'm not committing my daughter to anything, she'd commit herself
|
||||
to stuff.
|
||||
Exactly.
|
||||
But, yeah, and also, I'd be worried that if you had a, like on this open nick thing, you
|
||||
had like a dog, a Ken dog geek, a domain name, and then somebody with a big, a big wallet
|
||||
decides to set up the dog geek on their domain, you know, on the main DNS and pay the,
|
||||
I can for a entry there, and then, certainly all your domains now are being rerouted to
|
||||
somebody else, so the trust that was built up, yeah.
|
||||
That's something that I didn't feel was addressed, and look forward to glad to addressing
|
||||
those in the next show on the topic.
|
||||
Yes, yes, yes, it's intriguing, but it does sound like a great idea, and well with digging
|
||||
deeper, I think.
|
||||
Yes, so the following day, we had podcast recommendations.
|
||||
It's actually in privacy and security, I'm wondering, should it be in podcast recommendations?
|
||||
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, design issues here, yes, I think it's my turn, isn't it?
|
||||
That's pretty cool.
|
||||
So we have a message from Zoak, who says, grr, I assume that's how you pronounce that.
|
||||
Well, no, I have to do.
|
||||
Well, no, I have to do a reply episode on my favourite info-seq podcast, he says, so,
|
||||
yeah.
|
||||
Excuse me, sorry for talking into the microphone there.
|
||||
I think he just stood up and waved his hand in our general direction, so expecting a
|
||||
show any moment now.
|
||||
Get out of my list here.
|
||||
And that was Tray's second episode for a call.
|
||||
Yeah, yeah.
|
||||
It was.
|
||||
It was great.
|
||||
Well, he's pressed all the buttons there, Dave.
|
||||
Yeah, and I made the notes in my notes here that I really liked the way he did the episode,
|
||||
both of his episodes are really well done, actually, so good for him.
|
||||
Excellent.
|
||||
And the following day, which was still in the fourth month, which is April, we have games
|
||||
and rules talking about the conundrum of rules, light and rules, heavy game systems, which
|
||||
had to rules, trust or competition, pick two.
|
||||
This was an interesting, an interesting insight into how you can do tabletop game, which,
|
||||
since I've started learning more about tabletop game, realized that it's just an excuse to wrap
|
||||
mats in a story.
|
||||
Probably, yes, yes, it's a very interesting, it's intriguing, yes, yes, but it's a popular
|
||||
thing, so it's good, that's good.
|
||||
Okay, I think that was it, if I'm not mistaken, that is it, yes, what do we do now, Dave?
|
||||
Well, there's some comments from previous shows that we could do.
|
||||
We could do that, yes.
|
||||
There was, shall I start this one off, there was a comment on a hooker's show talking
|
||||
about audacity and brother mouse, who's a name from long ago in HBR time history, says
|
||||
I use socks in Linux scripts to automate stuff like speeding up audio, removing long periods
|
||||
of silence, et cetera, and there's an example of how you might use socks to change the
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speed of a piece of audio, which is cool.
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Yes, that's part of the HBR Transcould script, in actual fact.
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Yes, I learned how to do this from my show that you did some time ago, I didn't do this
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all the time to, to my, to a lot of my podcasts, speed them up a bit, not too fast, because
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my brain is old and doesn't go that fast, but yeah, it's amazing to use them.
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I'm looking around the room here, because there's mosquitoes, and I need to send them to
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a better place.
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Rome says, and this was a relationship spam bot honeypot, which was a show by Rome, and
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RTSN says, nice, very interesting episode, I didn't know about this technique, I guess there
|
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is an irony in that by publishing the spam bot makers might eventually get round to
|
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implementing ways to defeat this in the long one, would love a follow-up episode on this,
|
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how it worked out all the time and such, keep up the good fight, and thanks for the episode.
|
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Very good. Then we had a show by operator on the Kerbal Space Program game, and Aaron B said,
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have you seen XKCD about Kerbal, and he gives a link to the XKCD comic, which I looked at,
|
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but I'm afraid I forgot about it.
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Earlier, so it's like a graph that goes from the bottom slowly up and down and up and down,
|
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and then shoots up. So it starts, it took high school physics, it goes up a bit, got a physics
|
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degree, it goes up and kind of levels off, actual job, but now it kind of goes up and then
|
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tears off and goes down, started playing Kerbal Space Program, and it shoots up, and it says,
|
||||
how well I understand orbital mechanics.
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That's great, that's great. I listened to a few astronomy podcasts, and I heard people on
|
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there talking about Kerbal Space Program, and how much, what an insight it gives you to that,
|
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that's that particular subject, you know, why would this asteroid or spacecraft or
|
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piece of space debris do the thing that it does? Oh well, yes, you should check it out on Kerbal Space
|
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Program, you might well see. So yeah, I'm intrigued by that.
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Now that there's a comment here, I'm just mentioning this because my algorithm said that you
|
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would have read that last week, because it was last month, because it came out before the show
|
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last week, but I don't know, does that ring a bell with you? Should we read it anyway?
|
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I read it anyway, sure. So tell me to do it. Yeah, for sure. Brian O'Hioh shows on
|
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Slackware on Raspberry Pi, Zen Flotus says Bravo, an excellent show, so someday I would try and put
|
||||
Slackware 13 on my older Chromebook. So if you go to just on that previous comment, I realize a lot
|
||||
of people might not be of our visual impaired listeners and hosts. If you go to www.explainxkcd.com,
|
||||
they give you a transcript of every single xkcd image, making it completely accessible,
|
||||
and then be able to explain it. So it's sometimes his stuff is very, very deep, and I need to go there
|
||||
and follow up. They have also an RSS feed, so I usually view the xkcd comic first, and then
|
||||
a few days later they'll come out with an explained version, and then you can get that there.
|
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So that's amazing. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm definitely going with that one. That sounds great.
|
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So let's have a look. This month's comments we've already covered, and then we go to the mail list
|
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quite, quite a month on the mail and the mail. Oh god. PDF files. Kevin O'Brien said,
|
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Kevin mentioned wanting PDF files first tutorials I've done while the ultimate solution may
|
||||
require some work. I made a stopgap solution to install a WordPress plugin and put a button on
|
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each page that says save as PDF. It works pretty well, but it does put a watermark on each page as
|
||||
demo. I'll figure out something better at some point, but anybody who wants a PDF can get one
|
||||
now, just using in the show notes to get the page URL, and look at the bottom of the page for the
|
||||
blog post, and you've got a permed address page for post. My lovely range plan is to have a book
|
||||
for the collection of tutorials such as LibreOfficeWider as one book, LibreOfficeCalk as another,
|
||||
game puts the turbulence on, and I'll probably get an episode out of that process.
|
||||
So this is me again. I would be very disappointed to Kevin if you didn't.
|
||||
Yes, yes.
|
||||
Clot2 replies to that by pointing out another method using curl to grab the HTML,
|
||||
putting it through PANDOC to convert from HTML to mark that, then doing some said magic on it,
|
||||
and generating PDF out the end of it. So if you know enough of a PANDOC and CSS,
|
||||
you could apply any number of styles during the PDF processing, he says otherwise the default
|
||||
formatting is pretty nice. That's a cool answer. Yeah, Yirun says who's been known to convert stuff
|
||||
in this day. I'd be more than happy to convert any material to ask Yidok, and thus be able to
|
||||
generate HTML, PDF, ePoke files. Also, the source can be get controlled, says Yirun.
|
||||
Yeah, me again here. I was thinking actually because I've run into the same, I've run into a problem
|
||||
on my own WordPress blog, and this is presumably Kevin's hosted one, and presumably he has access
|
||||
to the database. And I've been looking at options there to take the database and basically export it
|
||||
from HTML, from the WordPress HTML into Markdown. So if I have only success at that,
|
||||
then it will be a show at some point, sleep 20 days, 20 days, 20 years.
|
||||
Yeah, yeah, it's interesting subject, a very interesting subject.
|
||||
Should I say that I've been chatting with Andrew Conway about this subject, who is the author of
|
||||
a book, which is currently available on Amazon, called How Scotland Works, which has been produced
|
||||
through Markdown and PDF and stuff. And we've done a couple of shows recorded, but not yet ready,
|
||||
talking about what he's done, and me talking about some of the stuff I've been planning to do
|
||||
and stuff. So since me, there's a whole area of discussion that one could have across the
|
||||
whole of HBR about how people are doing this sort of thing, and I'm sure I know this a lot of
|
||||
expertise in this area. Excellent, there was a call for shows, there continues to be a call for
|
||||
shows because we need shows all the time. 266 shows a year, guys, 260 shows a year.
|
||||
And then there was an article by head or adora. Yeah, adora, perhaps I would
|
||||
pronounce it yet. And I want to go to read the first part, the first one in the thread for reasons,
|
||||
we will just explain later. And I said a nice article on HBR about HBR with a valid question
|
||||
at the end and a link to the post. So the post is still available, a link will be in show notes.
|
||||
And the reason we are not covering the rest of the discussion is because the discussion isn't
|
||||
over as yes. And if you are involved, if you are a member of the HBR community, but you are
|
||||
by listening to this, you read the article and follow on the thread, excuse me, that's listed
|
||||
in the show notes. And feel free to give your comments on some of the fundamental philosophies
|
||||
and ideologies behind HBR. And once all that's done, Dave and I will record another show in a
|
||||
week or two and submit that as a HBR show in its entirety, reading everybody's comments individually,
|
||||
possibly even with funny accents, Dave. That's what I always do. What are you talking about?
|
||||
Yes. Yes. Then we had the digest ones are related to that article. And then we have the community
|
||||
news, which is kind of pointless now because you are too late. And then we have tattoos on you,
|
||||
what do we do? Alright, just click on it. Excuse me, during May, the HBR RPG Club is going to play
|
||||
stalking the Night Fantastic, an X-Files or Avengers, British one, Style Game, created and set
|
||||
in 1983. This is a game of intrigue, investigation with some lovecraft in horror elements,
|
||||
nothing you wouldn't find in a 1930s story. Note says Clare2, I run games that are
|
||||
aren't the all ages, but if you have concerns or triggers, you want to alert me off ahead of time,
|
||||
please do email me privately. This is just a game, so I'm happy to avoid topics you don't find fun.
|
||||
As always, you, yes, you are invited to this game, whether you have experience with a tabletop
|
||||
role playing games or not. When an inclusive group whose main goal is to have fun and make friends,
|
||||
and there's details about the date and time, and there's comments here a bit about stalking
|
||||
the Night Fantastic. This is an obscure one. It was published with plastic spiral binding back in
|
||||
83 and has the arguably conky mechanics you might expect from a game developed only a few years
|
||||
after the medium of RPGs was invented. We will build characters together during the first game
|
||||
session. I'm attaching some photos of my copy just for the sake of its old school charm.
|
||||
Yeah, links don't seem to work.
|
||||
Mailman does this wonderful thing where it says, oh, we've got attachments on this,
|
||||
may I will just remove them for you, but I think the, I think the men, well, they see the images,
|
||||
I'll write it. It's fine if you look at the message, you can't, but when you look at the
|
||||
the stuff in the archive, you can't see it. I'm looking at the archive, so yeah.
|
||||
I was recently on one of those, and she was very interested in quite a lot of fun, I must say,
|
||||
but I will skip this one. You know what I miss? I actually think I would love to have
|
||||
more of these games, the games actually on HBO, that will be nice.
|
||||
They're quite fun to listen to, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
|
||||
What else? Let's go back. What are we doing then?
|
||||
We're probably too early for events in the events calendar. I haven't actually looked at it.
|
||||
Yeah, nothing much can be up. Everything's online anyway, so you can do it there.
|
||||
Mm-hmm. Any other business? Yeah, do you do the first one? I'll do the next one.
|
||||
Okay, booth kit update. The FSF Europe has sent us a selection of stickers and leaflets to add to our
|
||||
booth kits. Yeah, so booth kits for those of you who are not aware, we have a kit in the US,
|
||||
and we've got a kit in the UK and another one here in the Netherlands, kind of spread over, I think.
|
||||
And basically it contains stickers, HDR stickers and posters and banners and the like,
|
||||
that if we're ever going to open their events or events, I don't know, Ham Fess or Linux Fess or
|
||||
that barcams and that sort of thing, if they ever start up again, then we can go as HDR and
|
||||
represent the community of free open source podcasting. And the next one is posting anonymously,
|
||||
saying as it came up, how you can post anonymously to HDR is as simple as going to open a
|
||||
open download tour browser, which actually I've started using Dave to start reading new sites
|
||||
because it is impossible to turn off cookies on new sites. So I'm using that now instead.
|
||||
Anyway, sign up for a temporary email address and I put in a link to some disposable email
|
||||
address sites on Wikipedia. You click, get a confirmation email and post as normal, post as you
|
||||
would normally, but you can also add a notice to us to say you're posting this anonymously.
|
||||
So that's that. Just call it call call your user anonymous user and then the email address
|
||||
will be email address. Yeah. So my two topics are the, what I'm calling older,
|
||||
HPR shows on archive.org. And so back in the day, I think I've been doing archive.org
|
||||
uploads since, but 2014, so that seemed likely. But anyway, it's a long time. So part of what I
|
||||
would been doing was to go backwards and upload older HPR shows. But I got a bit stalled with that
|
||||
and it's been, the project's been queer for a few years. I upload the new ones as they become
|
||||
available. But so the shows between 1 and 870 have not been uploaded to archive.org prior to
|
||||
last month. There were some that were uploaded in the early days, but they were uploaded as
|
||||
a couple of batches. They didn't have any notes or anything, just the audio. So what I've been doing
|
||||
includes the audio, obviously, and also the notes and any other files, pictures, and that sort of
|
||||
stuff. However, I started the old show project that I'm calling it, this month or last month,
|
||||
after having to write some new software to manage it. And I should say it's not written down here,
|
||||
but there's a question from Clackay asking, why is show blah blah blah not on archive.org?
|
||||
Oh, yeah, right. Okay. Time to kick somebody up the back side and make it to make it work. And I
|
||||
did a self-kicked. So since that point, I've actually managed to upload 65 shows in that range.
|
||||
So we've done everything from 800 to 870 since restarted the project. And that includes the notes
|
||||
and the range of audio formats that we use for current shows. So we have the Flack, the MP3,
|
||||
the org, etc. All properly tagged as all. And indeed, indeed, yes, we'll make it a big fuss about
|
||||
the tag. So we don't want to upload shows that don't have summaries and tags. So the two projects
|
||||
of tags and uploads are tied together. So we'll be all the more welcoming of contributions to the tag
|
||||
summary project, which is the next topic I'll get to in a minute. And I plan to report the numbers
|
||||
uploaded each month in the AOB section of the community news. And just in case you're not aware,
|
||||
you can find shows on the archive.org by going to, and there's a URL here in which ends with
|
||||
HPR 08404 show 840. So leading zeros are irrelevant. So there you go.
|
||||
Excellent. And that had me thinking about, because about some topic that has been brought to our
|
||||
attention about bringing older shows to the attention of people, because we've been,
|
||||
those 15 years of shows in there. And how do we, I don't know what, what do we do, 15 years of shows.
|
||||
And I guess a lot of them are still valid. And Clack was clacky mentioned that there was no
|
||||
the community news show only goes back 10 years, only goes back 10 years since I started helping out.
|
||||
So before that, we didn't have community news. So I don't know, should we release another feed
|
||||
starting as episode one of today with a techie and run us in parallel and then do another community
|
||||
news show, balls reviewing the shows from today with a techie the all the way up.
|
||||
Wow. Yes. We'll be of interest to hackers. That is the question. That's a very good question.
|
||||
And would you like to volunteer for doing the, the other question? Exactly.
|
||||
It's, yeah, it's another, it's another way of exposing shows, because I don't really want to put it
|
||||
in all shows into the HPR feed. We may have done this once or twice. I think we did it in memory of,
|
||||
well, we may have done it in the past on occasion, but it's not, you know, HPR
|
||||
it's, it's supposed to be new content for, I'm not rehashing all shows.
|
||||
So it's, it's a typical one in, in as much as things do go out of date. And, you know,
|
||||
I, in the process of looking at adding tags and stuff, I came across one of the shows recently,
|
||||
which is a, I can't remember what it's called, a little bit of Python or something.
|
||||
There was a quite interesting, actually, but they were, they were, there was an interview with
|
||||
somebody in the Python world about certain libraries and stuff. And when you go looking,
|
||||
they have been effectively discarded. They, they've vanished with that trace, you know. So
|
||||
historically, it's fascinating, but, you know, it's, um, you maybe he don't have enough time to
|
||||
spend on, on that, that sort of history. But on the other hand, listening to Mr Gadgets,
|
||||
who is a prolific to a computer for a while, some of his history, because he, he, he goes way back,
|
||||
listening to some of his chat about his history and, in computing and what he's, what he's done
|
||||
and so forth, and his opinions on things, I find really fascinating. I do enjoy listening to them.
|
||||
So, you know, there's, there's, there's gems there. I'm sure other people who listen back in time
|
||||
to the old choice would have other, other suggestions in that regard. So, yeah. And so, I mean,
|
||||
where do you start? Do you go back and do all they, um, bin rev radio ones? And then if you're
|
||||
doing that, do you go back to the radio freak America, which is, uh, uh, Lord, they used to go back
|
||||
every year and, uh, and really listen to those. And some of them, like the really speak to what
|
||||
HPR was all about. They, you know, everything has changed and nothing has changed, you know,
|
||||
over years. So, if there is somebody who would, who, well, would you subscribe to, uh, a, a feed like
|
||||
that, uh, do we go back and do we include, well, we do include today, but to take it because
|
||||
this is the same project. But will we go back and include bin rev and include, uh, RFA,
|
||||
start with RFA, bin rev, to David, to take a HPR, infinoma, computer, club, if we can still find them.
|
||||
And then review them once again. Yeah. Yeah. All of interest, I'm sure, but, yeah, but for different
|
||||
reasons than originally, but, yeah, but quite fascinating. Yeah. Yeah. So just, uh, just to say,
|
||||
final point in the A or B tags and summaries, I contributed some tags this, um, this past month,
|
||||
and Windigo, Windigo, as usual, added some to the, uh, to the pool. And we, between us, we managed
|
||||
to, uh, tags and summaries to 23 shows, which is quite good. Very good. And, um, it must be spring,
|
||||
uh, something like that. There are now 384 shows which need attention. I mean, I decided to put
|
||||
that number in notes just to, to bring it to people's attention. So the bread was 500 or so,
|
||||
not too long ago. So we're getting that. Do you have a, um, do you have a, a, the word,
|
||||
an SQL query for that? Actually, um, yes. Okay. Oh, indeed. Yes, yes, yes, indeed. Because then,
|
||||
we could put a feed off random HVR shows from that pool. But what's been tagged, you mean,
|
||||
or something like that? But what hasn't been tagged to start? Ah, yes, yes. In the, in the,
|
||||
in the interest of going back and listening to all the shows, um, yeah, I could put a,
|
||||
a feed-ups as he volunteering himself for work.
|
||||
You might want to listen to that. Yeah, but you don't want to give everybody the same,
|
||||
the same one, Dave. No, no, no, no, there would be a collision that you would need to, uh,
|
||||
randomize it somehow. Yeah, I think we need to think a little bit about this one,
|
||||
but I like the idea. Okay. Yeah. All the righty. Anything else? No, that's it. No,
|
||||
this wasn't a controversial one. I don't know what it was. I'm expecting lots of comments,
|
||||
lots of comments. All right, tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker.
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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