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Episode: 3924
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Title: HPR3924: Mass Quick Tips for August 2023
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3924/hpr3924.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 17:28:15
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,924 for Thursday the 17th of August 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Mass Quick Tips for August 2023.
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It is hosted by Operator and is about 26 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is Operator, we'll never get to some of these as full episodes.
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So here you go.
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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio with your host operator.
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I'm going to shoot from the hip on this one because I have a large list of quick tips
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and things that I'll never really get to as a full episode.
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Or they're so old that they're not in fresh in my head enough to do a follow-up with
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them.
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So I want to try to do a quick shoot to show notes.
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It's going to be kind of like a long quick tips, essentially.
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So if you have any of my other old quick tips, basically they're not long enough to be
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an episode but important enough to tell you about, like using zip ties to repair stuff.
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Just drill hole in both ends and you got a hinge that breaks, drill hole in both ends
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and then put a zip tie in there and you're done.
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I try to repair everything with zip ties that has to do with plastic.
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So that's an example of a quick tip.
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So I'm going to a bit of a side tangent there.
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So I'm going to try to real time do this without driving everybody crazy.
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So that one, I'm going from the oldest to the newest here.
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So the first one I have here is Vosk and Yatsi, which are Yatsi, Yaki.
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I used it to essentially pitch the idea that we had multiple ways to create show notes
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for shows.
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So I'm going to try to see if I can't find my, I think I did an episode on this.
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So I don't really have to talk about it.
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But I do have on GitHub home theater, I honestly don't know what it's called.
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But the idea is that you can run this script against and it will convert audio, it will
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rip the audio from a video or an audio feed and convert that to be consumed by the Yaki
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or Vosk, which will convert it to text.
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And then that text can be run through Yaki, which will create a, basically, the idea
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was to create automated transcribing and automated show notes for stuff like that.
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It's called HPR and audio fun, maybe, possibly.
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Oh, speech text, episode three, four, four, six.
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So I will reference that.
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So Yaki, and there's also a script that I'm going to get for you guys.
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So this is work in progress, never going to finish.
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The idea is it's a shell script that you run and it will take input and it will automatically
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use on URL, YouTube BL or YouTube downloader to parse that URL, pull the audio out.
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If it's a YouTube video, it will pull the captions out if the captions aren't available
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then it will pull the audio and automatically rip it all.
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So it's kind of two parts, more or less, but the newer one is called Not Windows Batch.
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And I've been using it to do an example.
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To Transcode, I transcoded a bunch of three years of DefCon videos, I transcoded a podcast
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and then created a hit list or a key terms list for those.
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So if I want a particular episode about focus or a particular episode about getting along
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with other children or whatever, you can use that to search through the keywords.
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So it's kind of interesting.
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So I'll put those use cases up here.
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Let me pause for a second to figure out where I find my notes.
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Yeah, so it's parentingADHD and autism.com, natural language processing, which is what
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I did with the, as an example, or proof concept sort of whatever, a bunch of HVR episodes,
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DefCon videos, I put a zip at the top of all the information for all of that, for all
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of the DefCon 26, 27, 29, like all the texts from there, it's like 15 megs worth of text.
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And a bunch of DefCon and then I want to say something else is in here, yeah, like I said
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HPR, that's about it.
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And then I have two scripts, one is called Stream2Text with Keywords, which is the first
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time I tried to make it.
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The second one is a little bit better because it's actually using the full-blown thing and
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not some kind of weird, it's using like a full install of it and it's using better models
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to do the speech to text.
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So anyways, that's that piece, I was a quick, quick, quick, quick one, and high contrast
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black background.
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I think I already did one of these, so let me check and make sure that I did that.
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Let me untact this as a quick tip because it's pretty involved, but I'm going to put the
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notes in there if somebody wants to talk about a high contrast black background.
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So essentially this is for desktop windows and it's part of my script for high contrast
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in Chrome.
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So I'll put the link in there.
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You have to do some settings to set it up in Chrome and get it kind of enabled and then
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you can use the regular high contrast features and stuff.
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It's also part of my Auto-Hot Key script for generally making things easier on keyboard
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and it has that in it.
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So you turn it on by pressing F11 and turn it off by pressing F12, the high contrast
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mode.
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Sometimes there's some places that it doesn't work, like for example, Spunk, so if I'm
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doing a lot of work in Spunk, it causes a problem.
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So I don't use it all the time.
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So that's one little piece of something that will help.
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This next quick tip I don't really have any notes for, and VLC has compression built
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into it.
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There is a mono-based or stereo-based compression, called like lib something or other lib
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compress.
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Let me see if I can find it.
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So back when I didn't have like 4K and surround sound, or I didn't care, I was using LADSBA
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dash sig is a library for a Linux to compress audio.
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So I wanted like an audio compressor for old people that can't hear audio or voice.
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So you know, quite a loud stuff.
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If you don't have that and you want to do surround sound-based compression, VLC is the
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only other tool I know of that supports audio compression.
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So you can tell Cody to use VLC with some shenanigans and some configuration files, which
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I might have on my GitHub also.
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Let me add that.
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This could be another episode if you're interested in my Cody experiences, but now Cody's kind
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of become depreciated.
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But if you're interested in coding and it's just thing you're noting about on Yoko codes,
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Yatsuy custom commands through a VLC and Yatsuy can pick files.
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Let me know.
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But I'm going to put it in the show notes as a quick tip because it's pretty niche and
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it's pretty whatever.
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But the idea there is you can use Yatsuy to control a receiver or Cody along with plugins
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for your receivers or whatever else you want to control.
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So they have several plugins for different receivers.
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But I thought there's a common protocol with all your receivers and stuff and it's
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all a common protocol.
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No, there's no common protocol for audio devices.
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Like legit on Yoko's is like a binary protocol.
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You've got to look at this table and figure out which is which, so it's kind of annoying.
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But if you're interested, I can do an episode on it and the hosts don't count as being
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interested.
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It has to be somebody that actually wants help with it.
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I'll kind of go down that rabbit hole if you want.
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Or just hit me up.
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I can up you up.
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So we've done high contrast.
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We've talked about that quite to loud how water bird works.
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So yeah, apparently water bird works by, I don't have a video just Google it.
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But my son got one is interesting.
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It's like what do you call it, coolant, coolant fluid.
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And then it gets hot and goes up, weighs less, weighs less I guess.
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And then when it dips into the thing, it cools down.
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So it becomes cooler and then I guess falls down.
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And then when it falls down, it heats back up just by being in the air itself at the bottom.
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And then when it gets heated up to a certain point, that pressure builds and then it goes
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back towards the front.
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And the part that's important is that the bird has to be, the bird head has to be wet and
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that wetness is the difference between the, that makes the compression, you know, the,
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the thing expand and compress.
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So it's kind of kind of interesting.
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I used it to keep a, to keep a light on in front of my cube way back.
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So Philips X screwdriver sizes, if you're using a screwdriver, always start with a bigger
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screwdriver than you think first, because you will strip it out if you don't.
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So I'm trying to get my family and friends kind of to do that, but nobody really does.
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So then they end up stripping out the screw and I have to like try harder or even drill
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it out to get it fixed.
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So use a bigger screwdriver head than you need to start with as chances are, you'll probably
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be right if you go bigger.
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Far couldn't, if you can fix a fluff up carpet with a brush, so we have some high traffic
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areas in the living room that it's got an old wire brush, like an old hair brush.
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It's wire.
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They have things you can buy home depot that's like a big, if you're doing a bunch, it's
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like a big plastic rig that you put on your carpet.
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But you can just use an old brush to fluff up little parts.
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Leo re, that's going to be a new fluffing carpet.
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I just talked about that sleep optimization is going to be its own thing.
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So headphone repair, honestly stick with like the DLXR connections because your headphones
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or earbuds will die.
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So eventually they will die and you'll have to replace them or you'll need like instead
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of an up and down connection, you'll need a L connection because just because or you
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want to put in your pocket and you don't want to break your phone port or the headphone
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port.
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So eventually you're going to need to swap out the wires because they're going to fail.
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And things you can't do is like zip tie stuff.
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A lot of problems just like your headphones or earbuds have crappy wires.
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You should get like I said a plug-in based one whether a modular, so you know they're just
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that your buds are fancy enough to where you can unplug them.
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Don't buy earbuds without a modular based connection that whatever it's called, XMX
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connection or whatever.
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And there's like three different kinds.
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So make sure that you buy the right connections that's right for you.
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I guess electric tape, I don't know, I don't know what I put here, but I've switched
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offsets.
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Boycott it any earbuds or headphones that do not have like that MX connection.
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So yeah there's, I'm going to put up, if you have a fire TV, you're basically fire stick.
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You're basically spammed with ads all the time so you can do some stuff to get the thing
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to go from going to sleep and kicking you back to the menu.
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So you know like oh there's no ads on whatever, no this whole thing is just a bunch of ads.
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So the problem with the fire sticks is when they go to sleep they default back to the home
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screen which is not what you want because I don't want to see a bunch of ads.
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So the only way to work around that is to turn force the sleep mode off.
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So when you are for example in the Plex app it won't go to sleep and take you back
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to the home screen after 5 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever.
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So that's where they get you.
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But you can bypass that by, you know, disabling the sleep mode or making it really long.
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So cool cool.
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Sponsor block new pipe, I'm sure people have already talked about that.
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You can get it with Firefox and on Android so I'll link to that, it's quite difficult
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to do.
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Yeah, it's on, I put it in the show notes, sponsor block for Android.
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You use Firefox developer and enable a bunch of stuff to enable plugins, additional plugins
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or any plugin to run on Android when you put sponsor block on there and it seems to be
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working for me and it's worked for a while so I don't have any ads and I don't have
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to use anything like a new pipe or any of those YouTube bands during that crap.
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I just use the browser.
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So it makes a big difference to put that in the show notes for us.
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Let's see what else we got.
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How did not look for stuff?
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So I have a hard time looking for things and searching for stuff.
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So I spend a lot of my time looking for things, I don't remember where I put stuff.
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And for me, I have a tactic or a thing that works for me is if I'm looking for something,
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I look at everything and I say that's not what I'm looking for.
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So instead of looking for something and I know what I'm looking for is a blue shirt.
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And I dig through the pantry or I dig through the land laundry and I'll dig through my clothes
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and I can't find it, can't find it, can't find it.
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Well, it ends up being a red shirt or something else to that effect where you're not looking
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where you think you're looking or you're not looking what you think you're looking for.
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So what I end up doing now is I look at every object and I say is that what I'm looking
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for.
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So you're in a room, oh, computer, nope, that's on it, computer screen, that's not it.
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Speakers, no, you know, glasses, no, this, the documentation, nope, the hint, no, nope, that's not it,
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that's not it.
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So I look at everything in the room and tell my brain, ask my brain, is this what I'm looking
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for or is it going to help me figure out what I'm looking for?
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So that's how I look for stuff, kind of a quick tip, bash bump, burp, coral command.
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So if you're using burp suite or if you've never used burp suite, check out my project
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jamboree. So that's what I've been pitching here.
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Eventually, hopefully we'll have safety in that bypass with Android and I'll do another
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stream for that and hopefully be able to get on a podcast for that.
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But if it gets working, Beatty as jamboree is a Windows power
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subscript that will download, it's open source that will download everything you need to
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do Google, Google Android environment and then it will allow you to easily root it and
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do testing and use Frida with objection to do like inspection of Android apps and stuff.
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But included that with is burp suite free that gives you all kinds of extra stuff you can
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always use, you can also use Zed Attack Proxy.
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So I'll do a big, big episode on that.
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But if you're ever on a website and you want to easily download something, you can right
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click and burp suite and right click right before you get the download and it will give
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you the command you can copy and paste it into your server so you don't have to send
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one giant file to a server and then download it from the internet and then upload it to
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your server.
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You can just download it directly from the shell 99.9% of the time with a right click copy
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to curl or copy as curl command and burp suite.
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Let's see subsonic and empty three tags are dead, a plexamp.
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So the tagging in plexamp is not great but it has weird thing called mood which I don't
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really quite understand, it doesn't really work, genres and stuff tagging has always been
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broken in np3s but I use use subsonic and Java and it's kind of depreciated.
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Last time I checked it has it been heavy.
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Last time I checked it hasn't been updated in quite some time and I had some issues around
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something like clock 4j or something and I finally tried to oh maximum amount of songs
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to be played in the queue or something like that and I did some hackery to get that to
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working and then eventually I realized this is not going to work.
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So I switched to plexamp and using plex, let's see, Android bullet script that's actually
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part of jamboree now so it will kind of try to automatically do it all for you.
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If you have Android ARM it will automatically download all the information and details
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about the application so it decompresses, decompiles the application and gets information
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out of it and then adds that to the list so you can easily search for keywords like Verizon
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or Samsung because sometimes a lot of times they name them like services, phone services
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and it's all at some Samsung garbage or Verizon garbage or your carier's garbage.
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So I tried to do a mast e-boat script and that didn't work because it ends up breaking
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your phone and making a big mess.
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But let me put the notes for that guy, actually it's all in jamboree so if you haven't
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checked out jamboree, go for it, it has automatic 1111, image, whatever, it's got all kinds
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of cool tools in it that are fun to play with.
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If you haven't checked out the HPR feature feed, check it out, it helps, it's kind of
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interesting you're getting in front of stuff faster.
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Let's see, Outlook filters, if you're using Outlook for work, back up your Outlook filters
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and I do it by subject from and I think by, so that's how I filter out and I also put
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everything in, because I'm in security so I put everything that's external in the junk
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folder.
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I have to filter out my junk folder manually basically, it's kind of annoying, but I don't
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get any spam at all.
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Let's see what else we got, these are different quick tips, water bird works, we got that.
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Calendar, I've talked about the calendar before I use a family calendar, I have, Kathy
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has a calendar, I have a calendar, I have a personal calendar and Kathy's calendar is
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actually like the family calendar I think or my calendar is the family calendar.
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These three calendars I sync up, I share two of the calendars and then I sync them all
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up to a URL and you can publicly share Google calendars, but you can also stack them.
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So I can take all three of my calendars, Scouts calendar, Boy Scouts calendar, Cub Scouts
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calendar, the family calendar and my wife's calendar and put them all publicly facing and
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it will show what's busy, what's not busy.
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So that's pretty good, let's see, Philbox for Scrooze, I don't really understand what
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that's for, I guess, you know the whole Monday through Wednesday, Friday or Monday, Sunday
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through Saturday, Philbox is you can put little tiny screws in there, if you don't have
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like the massive screw thingy, I talked about the fixing brush, I put multiple quick tips
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on here for the same thing, let's see, the fire stick I'm going to sleep, we did that,
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how to not look for stuff, oh Dr. Sholes, and like a repair, they call them mullskin and
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if you have shoes and you're old and crotchety like me, you'll buy shoes and wear them for maybe
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like five miles in the back because they're not on tight enough or you're wearing the wrong
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socks, I don't know what the excuse is, but the backup the shoes start blowing out.
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You can take this mullskin, I use the Dr. Sholes mullskin, you take the Dr. Sholes
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mullskin and cut it out and you have to be careful, you might have to try once or twice,
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but you have to be careful to start from the middle and work your way out when you put
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on it, it's like duct tape but with cloth on it and it's a little, it's better than like
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gaffer's tape, it's kind of a cloth base tape, you can find gaffer's tape in a cloth form,
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buy it and buy some for me because they don't even make it anymore, but they have the
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plastic gaffer's tape, it's kind of like that but it's got the cloth and it's a little
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more cushiony, I'm supposed to use it for when you get blisters and stuff like that if
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you're hiking, but I used it to do my shoe repair and I've been using the same pair
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of walking shoes for way more than I'm supposed to, so old guy, old man, make your repair
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all the crap I should protect it.
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Yeah, yeah, it's M-O-L-E-S-K-I-N when we're at mullskin, yeah, so that's actually, I'm going
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to do a thing on searches, there's SEER X and G, which is a custom local proxy search,
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privacy based, I think it's more privacy based rather than utility based, what I want is
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a better search engine, this is a like a privacy based search engine that you can build
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like custom, basically customize it however you want, but I don't know if I'm going to
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be using it anymore, there's no local Koji and it costs you like $5 a month anywhere
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from $5 to $24 a month, but I'm done with Google, so once I do that, I'll do an episode
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on that, so it's quick to engine, so the doctor's shoes repair, shoe repair, I think that's
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it, there are some other ones I want to do, the legit episodes on, I re-link review, sleep
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optimization, autism spectrum movies, autism shows, neurodiversity shows, movies, I
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WLED stuff, I don't know if I've done that, carbon powder, a laser or lightsaber stuff,
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I don't know why I haven't done that, that's got to do it done that before, cold feet
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and hands, ants and bugs, persistence, ants, privacy and piracy stuff, I'm going to talk
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about how that's changed, top and like process-based stuff, equalizers for Android, Jambo,
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or Jamper EL2, WLED is already in there, status cake for monitoring stuff, I'll probably
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do one on that, a bark audio for cloning, there's also, was at level 11 or something, but
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they won't let you download the model, it's a building your own audio models, the front
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door, which I haven't assessed yet, but it's supposed to be helping you to do projects
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and they like, remote in, or like, you share your screen, you share your camera and they
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tell you how to fix stuff, but I haven't tested that out, so that one's going to be coming.
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DRM and notifications and browser, how to get rid of those, what else we got, that's
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pretty much it, I'm going to talk about watches, Samsung watches, I got a Samsung watch and
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the Lille Pro, whatever, it's a, you know, ESP32 watch that has Wi-Fi and something else
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on it, Wi-Fi Bluetooth in a screen and should be part of my agent that I'm going to try
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to make that's basically replacing Google Assistant with like a real assistant that will
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help me with time management and like communication, it'll reword all my communications for me,
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the idea is, you know, if I'm doing a text message or an email, it'll kind of inject itself
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into that process and like rewrite any communications I do, and make them less powdered.
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DRM and like, you know, 20% Robert and, you know, the rest and the whole person.
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Also beeper.com activation went through, it's a multi chat, multi-ion client base, it's
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some chat, but it doesn't support all parts of chat, so you get, right now they support,
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it's beeper.com, it's in like beta or something, they're probably going to charge you at some
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point, obviously, it supports Instagram, WhatsApp, I message Twitter, SMS with Android,
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it doesn't count, Google Voice doesn't count as SMS, Google Chat, I don't understand
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how that works, well, I guess Google Chat doesn't, it's not the same as the SMS Google
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Chat, that's hanging out.
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LinkedIn Facebook, Signal and Telegram, Slack and Discord, which are labs, which are testing
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group for features, they may be chained, break or disappeared anytime, please listen
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to get some of any issues.
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So Slack and Discord are like a proof of concept.
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I was looking for Macedon and Metermost, which you would think because that would be the
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first one they implement, but I don't know why they're not doing that, I guess I don't
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know people, I don't know why they're doing it, so the idea would be to have that eventually.
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That's pretty much it, I know I went through and rambled a bunch of random stuff, but I
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got show notes and I will be doing episodes on the last ones that I talked about at some
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point, but these quick tip ones have gone on quick tip for a long time, so I had to go
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through them all and these are ones that I'll never make an episode on, but the other ones
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I mentioned towards the end will definitely be 8 PRs at some point, hopefully in the near
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future.
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Take it easy, stay safe, it's going around, making its rounds again here, it's
|
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August, and we're already seeing kids going back to school and getting sick and stuff,
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so be careful.
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Watch your hands, have your kids watch hands, take it easy, and let me know if you need
|
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anything, later.
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