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Episode: 3965
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Title: HPR3965: I've taken the Conqueror Virtual Challenge
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3965/hpr3965.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:02:37
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,965 for Friday the 13th of October 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, I've taken the Conqueror Virtual Challenge.
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It is hosted by Daniel Persson, and is about five minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is Daniel Persson talks about a service where you challenge yourself.
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Hello, hackers, and welcome to another podcast with Daniel.
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And I'm going to talk about a bunch of different subjects, and I'm doing like ShatGPT.
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I'm really good at creating a bunch of words without any real knowledge behind them.
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But the topics that I'm going to talk about are pretty random, and I'm going to split them up.
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So in this recording, I wanted to talk about the Conqueror.
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And it's an interesting web solution, or something where you can sign up and challenge yourself.
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So they are, of course, taking your money, which most services use do.
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In my case, I have sent them $50, so not that terribly much, but a decent amount.
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And what do I get for this? Yeah, I get some tracking.
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So when I'm out going using their web app and Google Fit, it will track how long I'm walking,
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and how much I'm actually moving.
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And the challenge here is that I want to move like, now it's European miles,
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so it's like 10 kilometers per mile, so it's 40 miles, so that's 400 kilometers.
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It's something that I want to move during a specific amount of time.
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And their challenging system is set up in a way that you can do different challenges
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that are themed for different things.
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And in my case, I'm very into the Lord of the Rings, so of course, I wanted to walk to Mordor.
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And the first thing that I walk is walking to Brie, and it's a long walk, of course,
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like 440 kilometers or something like that, to walk into Brie.
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So that's the third thing.
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And if I get to Brie during my walk, they will send me some postcards in the app,
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where it talks about different things that happened during Frodo's walk in the ring.
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And I also get some notices on different happenings around this walk.
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And I also can see other people that are taking the same challenge.
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So I can, and then you can also walk together with other people,
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so you can take the challenge together with other people, if you want.
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Or you can do it by yourself and just have a competition between your friends.
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And when you actually arrive at the endpoint, they will send you a little medal
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with a ring in it and so on.
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And you can walk five different distances in the Lord of the Rings series.
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So if you want, you can do even more.
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But I wanted to start it out with just the first challenge and see if it was fun.
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So far, I'm really excited about it.
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I've walked like a third of the way there, perhaps,
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and got a bunch of interesting postcards.
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And another thing they also do is that they plant a three tree for every 20% of the journey.
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So if I take the full journey, they will have planted five trees for me.
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You can also choose that they have another organization they work with that picks up plastic
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from the bottom of the ocean. So it's, it's some kind of do a challenge, get more fit or at least
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more healthy, get a small medal for your effort, make the world a little bit better by planting
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some trees and also enjoy the lore of the Lord of the Rings.
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So so far, I'm excited about it. I think it's interesting.
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If you think it's interesting, I want to try it out.
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Please tell me so I can see your journey and follow you along.
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Would be really fun to have a challenge with you if anyone else want to join up and do this.
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If not and if you think this is a really stupid idea, please comment about that as well.
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I'm interested in all viewpoints about this subject and I will see you in the next recording.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcast, click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it really is. Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by
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an honesthost.com, the internet archive and our sims.net.
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On the Sadois stages, today's show is released under Creative Commons
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Attribution 4.0 International License.
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