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Episode: 3046
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Title: HPR3046: HPR Community News for March 2020
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3046/hpr3046.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 15:44:30
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This is HACCO Public Radio Episode 3,046 for Monday, 6 April 2020.
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Today's show is entitled HPR Community News for March 2020,
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and is part of the series HPR Community News. It is hosted by HPR Volunteers,
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and is about 76 minutes long, and carries an explicit flag. The summary is
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HPR Volunteers talk about shows released in comments posted in March 2020.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Support universal access to all knowledge by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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Music
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Hi, everybody. My name is Ken Fallon, and you're listening to another episode of HACCO Public Radio.
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Today's show is the Community News for March 2020.
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And joining me today is... Hi, it's Dave Morris.
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Hi, Dave. How are you doing?
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I'm doing okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, other than being locked in my house and all that good stuff.
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For those of you listening in the future, this is COVID-19, too.
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Yes, yes, yes, it's a... It's odd how the whole concept of quarantining
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hasn't really got through to a lot of people. You know, it was six months.
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Saying this to somebody the other day, say you had ten mice, and you had them all in the cage,
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and one of them got ill. What would happen?
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And say you split all those mice up and had them in separate cages, and one got ill.
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What would happen? You know, it's quite a simple idea.
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But it's very, very strange when it's yourself, and your neighbours, and your friends,
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and your family, and everything, I guess.
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The mind boggles, really.
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I think it's quite hard to mistake this particular virus.
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There are some people who have it, but it's usually quite high fever for several days.
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You know, it's not just the passing cold that makes you sneeze and cough a bit,
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in the majority of cases that I've certainly heard about.
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So, yeah.
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And what we need is testing. We all need a test of things,
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so we can do an antibody test and say, oh, yeah, yeah, look at me, I've had it.
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I'm okay, I'm free, I can go, or I want to go, so I can't get it anymore.
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That's...
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Yeah, and we also need to know if that...
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If that statement is valid and correct.
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Well, yes, yes.
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And we all need all that if people have been tested.
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It's not absolutely the case that we know that you can't catch it twice,
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or all the indications are really strong.
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You can tell I've spent the past and weeks reading everything,
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and I've been down about coronavirus and all this sort of stuff.
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But, yeah, it's one thing to do, I guess.
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The mind truly boggles.
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Unfortunately, the reason we don't have test kits, Dave, is why?
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Because patents on the...
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And the patents, basically.
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Good grief.
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Yes, oh, yeah, yeah, why not? Why not?
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Yeah, yeah, make sure that those guys make some profit,
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and, you know, good of all, what's that?
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Well, you can't make any profit from...
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Let's see, I want to spit.
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Anywho, for those of you, this is not this week in...
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Yeah, this month, in Chrome 19, thankfully.
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It is, in fact, the HBR community news for March 2020.
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It's been a bit of a strange one for a lot of people.
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For more of us, it's been a return to an ideal day.
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Peace and quiet, stuck at home with the internet.
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So that was fine.
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We have had one new host, Dave, actually.
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You'd like me to say this.
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No.
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I'm just wondering, is this all too waffly for people?
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We just start again and...
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I don't know.
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I mean, considering that the last show...
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We're going to talk about it in the month, is all about...
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Yeah, true.
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...sitting them waffling.
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And personally, I found it really, really, a lot of fun.
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Well, it's not to say people will enjoy this thing to this, necessarily.
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But I think it's...
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So, Natali, now looking into this...
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Well, I'm going to not edit this because I don't believe in editing shows.
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Well, guys, you can write in and tell us, is this too waffly or not?
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Do you want your HBO community news with...
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...without coronavirus?
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I don't know.
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Anywho.
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The HBO Hica Public Radio's community news podcast network
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where the shows are released by people very much like you.
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In fact, released by people like you.
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So, if you are stuck at home board census, rather than going yet another internet meme search...
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Why not record a HBO episode and send it in?
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And this show is the community news show where we take a monthly look at what's been going on in the HBO community.
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So, can you welcome the new host?
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Yes.
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Let's jump a little bit there.
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CRVS is our new host and we're here, obviously, from him this month.
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Excellent.
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Possibly not this month.
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Well, the month we're talking about, let's say.
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Yes, and it happens to be this month as well.
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So, as we always do, we go through the shows that have been released in the last month.
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So, you can get a flavor for what they were about if you miss them and failing that.
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Just to make sure that everybody gets some sort of feedback on every show.
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So, the first show that we had was the community news for the previous month.
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And there are zero comments on that, Dave.
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Indeed.
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We do need good job of being non-controversial, obviously.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's annoying.
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We need to be controversial, Dave.
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How can we be controversial?
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Let's say free software sucks.
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Why don't we?
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Coronavirus.
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I know, I won't go down that road.
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No, exactly.
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So, following day, app to be a Monday Tuesday, probably.
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And it was the first time 2020 stand interviews by Muah.
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And a show which was one hour and 32 minutes in long,
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but probably a lot longer than that to put it together.
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Yeah, well, I think you need congratulations on having achieved it,
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because it's a massive office that you've constructed then.
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I did enjoy it a lot.
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It's, as you know, everybody knows I'm sure,
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and I've never made it to most in,
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but it was nice to hear about it at this level.
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I'm off to the event.
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It was good.
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Yeah, it was really nice to have a stand there this year.
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It was, it was very good.
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One day was enough to be honest on the stands, but.
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Yeah.
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I worked out quite well, didn't it?
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Yeah.
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Two days of that would have been, would have been a nightmare.
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I think he'd never want to do it again.
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Absolutely.
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It would be wasted.
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Yep.
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So the following day we had Carl,
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and this was critique my script,
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episode one, where somebody throws themselves to the HBO community
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to get somebody to critique their brush scripts.
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This is something that Dave will do for free, people.
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But you ask him to do it or not.
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He will do it for free.
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I know.
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I know.
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I should learn to shout out.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I did make a few comments.
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But actually, my comments were there's nothing compared to these,
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the ones that came in from the other members of the community.
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So should we go through it?
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So what was the,
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what was the point of the script?
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It was a,
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QTS crew generator.
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I mean,
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met a very nice,
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very nice page actually.
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Yes.
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You could go and look at the end results of the thing,
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which is, which is quite impressive.
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So it's a B 17 queen of the sky's air crew generator.
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I think this is for some sort of game, is it?
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And there are so many roles that need to be filled.
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And then it generates names for those roles.
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And that's what the script does.
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Yep.
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So yeah,
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I think it might be in the appropriate to go through all of these comments
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in detail.
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Of course, there's tons of,
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well, in my case,
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anyway,
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lots and lots of brackets and dollar signs and stuff.
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Can you give a summary of what you're talking about?
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Yeah, I made,
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I think just two comments.
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One was to say,
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because calms using a very,
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very strange form of arithmetic to,
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to increment the counter.
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I suggested that he used the,
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the pro, the pre or post increment arithmetic expression fee
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that I talked about in various of my shows.
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I made a reference to it as you do.
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And so that was the first one.
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And the second one was talking about making,
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slicing things up based on fields.
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And he used a pipeline where he printed the thing and then cut it up.
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And I suggested that you could actually do it in bash.
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Not fully appreciate it wasn't necessarily using bash.
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So yeah, that was kind of his point here.
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But it's good to know how to do it in bash.
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I liked nobody's answer,
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which was,
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you know, taking a completely different approach.
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And something that actually frustrates me when you,
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when you post a question on the forum.
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And then you get,
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no, don't do it this way.
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Do it this way.
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Somebody goes off on a complete tangent,
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not answering the,
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that you particularly have a reason for doing it that way.
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But his suggestion was to use the shelf command for shuffle.
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So you have a text file of first names and a text file of last names
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and then merge them into,
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into two things,
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which is kind of kind of a nice approach to doing the problem.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, that's a good one.
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I enjoyed reading that one.
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I was going to suggest shuffle,
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but I wasn't entirely clear about the best way to do it.
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I was pipped at the post,
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which is probably just as well.
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So Carol replied,
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I've asked for the critique.
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So I appreciate the common stave.
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I didn't have any strong reason for not using bash,
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but it was down to the most limited scripting I do
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is in Anna Raspberry Pi
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and other single board computer type devices.
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Usually with Alpine Linux,
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which out of the box has been SH,
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similar to busy box.
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So I work with that in lieu of installing bash.
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I sort of like the extra challenge of not using batches,
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even if it does make things a bit harder,
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oglier than it needs to be.
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I'm at a loss to explain where I come up with the triple parentheses
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for incrementing I.
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I just tried it on busy box
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and the two seemed to work fine,
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although three does also.
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The plus plus form does not.
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As you know,
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that would require bash,
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though, I'm familiar with that form.
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It just doesn't work with constraints of busy box.
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Fair enough, fair enough.
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See, I have this mindset that says,
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well, you've achieved shells that do really smart things.
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So I do not want to use dumbass.
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It's a bit like,
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you know, I want to have hammers and nails.
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I don't want rocks and bits of wood.
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Yeah, but we've got
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no resource single bar computers.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I know.
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If I was ever cast and drift on an island or something,
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I'd probably go, oh, damn,
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I wish I'd learnt that.
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I think it was rocks.
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So I do appreciate that this is a failing on my butt,
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but it's a mindset that's hard to see.
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And Carl also comes at nobody.
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I looked at the stuff for this,
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but it's not a busy box built in
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and not included out of the box with Alpine,
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although Alc is,
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which is why I went with a generating random number pairs.
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So to say that I don't know what tools are available
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is perhaps a little unfair as I state in the episode
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that I'm limiting myself to busy box built-ins,
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imposing that limitation on myself as perhaps a bit silly,
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not at all,
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but is a fact that I would have to install something
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to get the additional functionality reference
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and that may not always be possible or desirable
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in embedded applications.
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Anyway, I wrote the above,
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so I leave it there,
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but I decided to double check
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I usually refer to a busy box URL,
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busy box URL.
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As a single page reference to the built-in stuff
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isn't listed,
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but the user bin shelf is indeed a simlink to busy box
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on one of my Alpine devices,
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which is a little bit annoying.
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When I work on a script like this,
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I usually do it on my laptop
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that has all the full tools,
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but I double check against the busy box page
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to make sure I'm not using a command or option
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to a command that busy box doesn't support.
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Then I test on the device.
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So,
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excuse me,
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bring up the mic time coffin.
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So nobody's saying,
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unclean!
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Now I can't transfer over,
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I think, my mumble.
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To see what tools this nobody's speaking,
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see what tools your busy box comes with.
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You should run it without options.
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Busy box is quite configurable,
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so you should check documentation generation
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with the same configuration as your target.
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That web page is either very outdated
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for a generation from some sample configuration.
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Besides,
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Ash also has dollar random,
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so using org isn't really necessary
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and it demonstrates random
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being constrained by the length of a string.
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Here is also a fix of Dave's suggestion,
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and he suggests a different way of achieving it.
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If you use pre-increment,
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the i equals one is also unnecessary, he says.
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So, good point.
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Yep.
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Shall I do it?
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You've done several.
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Shall I do the second one?
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Start along increment in Ash.
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Also, if you want the double brackets,
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i plus plus increment for Ash,
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you could pretty easily replicate it
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with a colon dollar,
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two open brackets,
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i plus plus two closed brackets.
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The colon is a sort of
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an old statement,
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but the shell parses,
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the stuff and action,
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whatever's on that line,
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so you can do sort of secret things.
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What?
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Through that route.
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Yeah.
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Did you cover that already?
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I have not covered that.
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No, no, no.
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It's a thing.
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Also.
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Do we not have,
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do we have shows from nobody about Ash?
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I don't recall.
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Zero, zero, zero.
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That's a, yeah, that would be,
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isn't that be good?
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It's very, I'm not angry.
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Dave, I'm not angry.
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Very disappointed.
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I would imagine.
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Yeah.
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Here's somebody who has time to write comments
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and talking through them would,
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you know, do a show.
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As we were just one show short
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of filling up up the queue
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for the next two weeks,
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seems such a pity.
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Such a pity.
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Yes, especially when you can do it
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on the basis of,
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here's something you might have tried to do in it,
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and here's a bent way of doing it,
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sort of thing,
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rather than some great long production,
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like some people do, you know.
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Exactly.
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Pages and pages and stuff.
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Anywho.
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Now that we've done the,
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the mandatory request to show thing,
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car or replies,
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or are you finished with that call on thing?
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Actually, I'm sure on that,
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on that, can you contact nobody?
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Or do we have an address for nobody?
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Probably not.
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Given that.
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No, no.
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Ah, yes.
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Nobody, can you send in a show,
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please, about that call on thing,
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how it works.
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Thank you.
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Carl replies,
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neat.
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Echo,
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double random thing,
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percent length.
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That's neat.
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First time I tried it, though,
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I got the same number twice in a row.
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That's the thing about random, I guess.
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Probably just a fluke,
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but it's interesting to test in rapid succession,
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for example, in the loop,
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to see if it's not prone to do that
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with oak random number generator.
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To be clear,
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you're not suggesting a poll pre-posed
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increment works on
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the bug ash, correct?
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They don't appear to be to,
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sorry, they don't appear to,
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unless I'm doing it wrong,
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ash,
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and then it gives an error
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to which nobody replies,
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and Dave Morris' voice.
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Yes, I've not used ash very much,
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like I said, I'm trying to void
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these simpler shells.
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But a lot of them used to have
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let.
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So let something equals,
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and then an error of mittily expression,
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so you could do let i equals i plus one.
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But I don't know my knowledge about these things
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comes from CSH,
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TCSH,
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SH and bash,
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and then having learned bash,
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I've tried very hard to forget
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the other ones,
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because I hate them.
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No prejudice at all.
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No, no.
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So yeah, I wouldn't like
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to give a definitive answer.
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So nobody says,
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referring to commercial institutions
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that dollar,
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two brackets.
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Is that what matters?
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No, it's not.
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It's an arithmetic thingy.
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I doubt there's any significant difference
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between all random number generator
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and ashes,
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the equivalent.
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Certainly,
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not any that would matter
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for a project like this.
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And you said they're just
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threw up an Alpine container,
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and at least there it works just fine.
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What command did you run that produced
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this error message?
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That was one that said
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ash,
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arithmetic syntax error.
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And shall I just carry on?
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Carl says version three.
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Nobody not sure what I did earlier
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to produce the arithmetic error.
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I just tried it again,
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your examples of working.
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Sorry about that.
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I just did a third version,
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and he refers to his latest version
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of the script,
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greatly simplified knowledge
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and just using sharp repeatedly,
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for nobody's example,
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to get the first and last name.
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And he...
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Very clever.
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That it works on a piece of thin link.
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Thanks both to both Dave and nobody
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for the feedback.
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So it's quite a quite a fun dialogue,
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I think.
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Yeah, very much.
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I learned some stuff.
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So did I.
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Would have liked to learn this
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in the medium of podcasts,
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but fine.
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Fine.
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Maybe one day.
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Yes.
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The next day had me in stitches.
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A funny thing happens the other day
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because I posted this.
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And there's a picture of the source
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of the noise in the show notes.
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And I was way off the mark
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of what it was.
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This was Mr. X's investigation.
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And we will not comment more on that.
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Or there are two comments to the show.
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Let's see.
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Did they give anything away?
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Tukitorito says,
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great storytelling.
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I love the story telling
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in this one.
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And the use of sound effects
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really made my morning.
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Mr. X replies,
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we great storytelling.
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Hi, Tukitorito.
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Many thanks for the kind words.
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Glad to enjoy the episode.
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It certainly had a stump when it happened.
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All the best, Mr. X.
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So yeah.
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Don't, don't, don't.
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Mystery at Mr. X's house.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And the footsteps across the room
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and the lots of all the sound effects
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loved it.
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Very, very nice.
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Super duper.
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Anywho.
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Next day.
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Kevin.
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Ahuka.
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Keeping unwanted messages
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of steady verse.
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Activity for conference.
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Techniques for fighting spam
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and unwanted messages on
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steady verse,
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to which I replied
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as a person not a hit
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pure admin.
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I disagree.
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Hi, Ahuka.
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As you know,
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I am enjoying the series.
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I don't think
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that charging for messages,
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however small,
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is the answer.
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It is socially unfair
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to impose financial barrier
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that many may not be able
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to afford to quote my mother.
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It's not a lot to have,
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but it's a lot to want.
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I had to send 100 applications
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to give my first job,
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and that would amount
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to $1 in your proposal.
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Put that into context,
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where your income is
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$41 a month,
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and you see how it excludes
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the poorest nation.
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In any event,
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this was tried
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with email back
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in the 1990s
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and 2000s
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and failed,
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including the link.
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However,
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that didn't stop companies
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from trying to profit
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from the idea.
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Basically, Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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Ahuka,
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them coming. Yeah, interesting. So a hooker applies further discussion to place
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surges ideas in context. It should be pointed out first that he intended that the
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price paid on an email would go to the recipient which is why he said it would be
|
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a wash for most people. As a recovering economist I do believe that anything
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that is provided with no charge at all is likely to be abused and that's what
|
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we're talking about. It's also worth noting that surges proposal about charging
|
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was a way to get around the only other piece of the way to control abuse which
|
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is to sharply limit who can send messages. I can right now write a rule that
|
|
says anyone not already my address book can't but successfully send me an
|
|
email. I just delete on site any email from someone not in the book. Yeah, I'm
|
|
not sure I particularly agree with that because that was also tried where
|
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people get paid to receive emails and the advertisers didn't like it because
|
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you had click farms who are people who are just hired into call centers and
|
|
all they spent all they did all day was clicking on web pages to get the
|
|
revenue. So that won't work either. Well, yeah, I think yeah, it's free
|
|
speech. And it's also you don't if somebody comes to draw or send a crap
|
|
you turn them away. Basically, it's a problem I guess but everything has to be
|
|
balanced and the idea of of trying to put do it with a financial incentive what
|
|
will happen is somebody will find a loophole and exploit it and by the time the
|
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exploitation has become evident, it's a business model and you can't get rid
|
|
of it because that is now how things are done and you're ruining the
|
|
messaging economy by taking that out and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, think of the
|
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children. Oh, yes. So I just need to I just need to step away for a second
|
|
because I'll go grab a coffee. How about we do a truncate silence. Thankfully, we
|
|
haven't mentioned it Dave. Hopefully we'll notice. Back in five folks. Okay.
|
|
I'm back. We do. So we just spent two hours waiting for the other person. And you
|
|
the next day, hex bug and battle bots, which was by operator and it was a nice
|
|
little introduction to these hex bugs, battle box things and how you can
|
|
customize them and use them found a very interesting myself. Sounds like a lot of
|
|
fun actually. Yeah, which I was young again. Well, I had young kids. That's an
|
|
excuse. Grandkids Dave. Grandkids. Who knows? To which
|
|
Windigo replied? I did you want to do it? I don't mind. I'll do it if you like.
|
|
We've done more than I think. Windigo says great episode. My partner uses
|
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hex bug or similar robots in her steam lessons. Steam being an acronym for
|
|
science tech engineering art and math. But I've never heard of battle bots. They
|
|
sound like loads of fun. Please keep the episodes coming. You have a knack for
|
|
doing episodes that exemplify the hacker ethos while being fun and unique.
|
|
Here, here, here, here, agree. Operator is very much like a box of chocolates. You
|
|
never know what he's going to throw at you. Yeah. I'm enjoying them. I'm gonna say
|
|
resourceful fellow. Sorry? I said he's a resourceful fellow. He's got a lot of
|
|
stuff. Yes, yes. Or no, maybe he just talks about stuff for the rest of us
|
|
don't. So yeah, there's a lesson to be learned there. I do like the acronym
|
|
Steam as opposed to STEM. I like the chuck in the art in there as well. Yeah. Yeah.
|
|
All right. So it's good. It's good. It's not been involved personally, but it
|
|
looks like a lot of fun. Cool. So the next day might be Mike. What is
|
|
content computing and why we should care? What is quantum computing hype about and
|
|
what is it that quantum computers will be able to do? OMG, this was a brilliant
|
|
episode. Thank you very much. It really cleared up an awful lot of stuff for me. I
|
|
found myself following along up to a point and then he sort of streaked off
|
|
away from my level of understanding. So it's actually so often I need to listen
|
|
again because I think he he was doing a brilliant job of explaining something
|
|
which is very hard to explain. So yeah, wonderful. Agreed. I've sort of
|
|
do this thing. Yeah. I think I've been watching a lot of videos, you know,
|
|
physics, visual, physics and engineering videos about quantum computing
|
|
because it's it's something that's mentioned out there, you know, the whole
|
|
tag along quantum on the end to it and you'll be able to sell your milkshakes
|
|
for a higher profit. But I think when he when I heard this episode, it just
|
|
everything that I had picked up clicked to get clicked together for me a little
|
|
bit. And as he says, if you claim to understand quantum computing, you don't. So
|
|
very good. Yeah. Yeah. My daughter's best friend is doing PhD in
|
|
physics department down the road and she's working in the quantum area. But I've
|
|
not had a chance to ask it. Could you just explain what it is you're doing?
|
|
Whether she would answer me anyway. I don't know. I'm sure you have a microphone
|
|
around. Yeah, if that ever happened. Yeah. That's I'm so intrigued to know what
|
|
it is she's doing for PhD. The following day, first time host, CRVS.
|
|
And there was a comment to this, even though it was in the in the future.
|
|
Should we? Oh, okay. So far ahead. Yeah. I thought I did that cloud.
|
|
Mongo says very interesting talk. It wasn't enough information for me to build
|
|
my quantum computer, but I did find it interesting. Look, looking forward to episode two.
|
|
That's when the government come in and shut us down because we filter all quantum
|
|
computers and abasement.
|
|
And then that day, what can't that be fun? Yeah.
|
|
Okay. Next day, more ads and ask out a hopefully not too rambly introduction
|
|
to fun, functors and more ads in and out in Haskell.
|
|
I needless to say this, well, or this was from a new host, CRVS, who's also
|
|
one of the Wednesday night D&D people, I believe. And we had surprisingly, oddly enough,
|
|
one of our host, Tukitorital, had a comment on the show. Welcome. Welcome and thanks
|
|
for the first great show. You jumped directly into the deep end with a show about more ads
|
|
and the category theory. When I saw it in the queue, I wanted to listen to it immediately.
|
|
Instead, I saw it for the morning, safe for the morning walk today, so I could concentrate on
|
|
it properly. Very good. Yes. Yes. They're obviously quite able to communicate in great
|
|
depth and subject to them. CRVS replies, thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope I was
|
|
clear enough not too rambly. I didn't go into the known ad laws because it was already
|
|
difficult enough to be somewhat coherent. This is excellent that there is now a
|
|
Haskell community developing here on HPR. Yeah. Yeah. It's I'm not going to be one of them.
|
|
Let's put it that way. I'm still struggling. I will. I'll be happy at the party sitting listening
|
|
as people talk about it. Absolutely. Absolutely. The approach where you listen and try and absorb
|
|
and then gradually put the pieces together is good, but it's a very, very slow way to learn stuff.
|
|
The following day we had Archer 72 with the first of a soundscape, which is our journey through
|
|
sound, not so much size. It was for the Metera train and the announcement that the train will be
|
|
used to be a server-failer, which was awesome to hear. Just bugs, bugs, bugs everywhere.
|
|
Yeah. Wasn't it strange? And the server folks seem to lead all the the announcement systems
|
|
saying the same thing over and over again in rather bizarre way. It was some sort of strange
|
|
jam-brack music going on in the background. But I love the acoustics of the building and how
|
|
that interacted with each other. I was very close to getting a migraine from it, but
|
|
I'm glad I didn't have to wait two hours for my train that that would drive me nuts, but
|
|
it was a relatively short episode, so nice. We had enough to get the feel and no more.
|
|
You assumed that there was a sort of a sound delay caused by propagation of sound. There could
|
|
also have been a delay caused by the software just being out of sync with it, so something like that.
|
|
It all sort of rotated out of sync in a design way. That was an excellent thing. That's a great
|
|
thing to record. Definitely have a recorder with you in your ear, a thing like that.
|
|
Absolutely. So my new Samsung Tablet MrX shoving it in our face, why don't you?
|
|
There were no comments because we were all annoyed with them.
|
|
Yeah, no, it was interesting to hear. It sounds like a fun machine. And as it drove to work,
|
|
he's turning into a day of eights on his way to work, along the Edinburgh City bypass or whatever.
|
|
So yeah, cool. No, very nice. A nice to hear about people's setups, because I was thinking of
|
|
getting a tablet as a replacement for an e-reader, and then A, the price was, I can't justify that
|
|
sort of price. 200 and... 212 pounds plus free shipping. But also then a lot of the
|
|
quirkiness of the software and stuff. Means I don't think I will buy that tab is essentially it,
|
|
which in itself is a good thing. No, I'm keeping away from tablets, personally. My old Nexus,
|
|
what was it? Seven. Was that a little bit of a call? The early Nexus tablets. I think this
|
|
directs I've had one as well. It's still alive, but it's very, very, very slow. But yeah, it's
|
|
some, I don't know, I don't know anymore. So the following day, we had an introduction by Daniel
|
|
Persons, and I love these episodes. You really get to know about people. So brilliantly. Also
|
|
great work there on the SQRL protocol, which you did the show previously. Yep, now I was
|
|
interesting, interesting to hear about him. He's a, he's a very resourceful fella.
|
|
How was the comment? Yeah, far ahead. You would do that. In that gap there, I will do the comment
|
|
from Clive 2. History, he says. It's fascinating to hear about the early internet and internet
|
|
commerce. I think if they're sharing this history. That was pretty cool. Moving on to the next
|
|
episode, which was Pycore and Raspberry Pi 1, Mazel B from Claudio. And I haven't thought to do that.
|
|
I have four additional Raspberry Pi's in my, of the original ones and my collection not being used.
|
|
But this might be a very useful little thing to do with some of them.
|
|
Well, I felt the same way, actually. I have one model B,
|
|
Pi 1 B or whatever they called it. And it's sort of given up the ghost. I think the SD card died,
|
|
and I haven't used it. It's just sitting around. So this would be a great way to resurrect it,
|
|
I suspect. So good, good pointer. Yeah, excellent. And Winniegall says, minimal distributions are
|
|
the best. I've tried out Tiny Core a few times over the years, but had no idea they made
|
|
a Raspberry Pi edition. What a pleasant surprise. Awesome. Yeah, cool. 32-bit time travel,
|
|
Linux in laws, podcasts on topics around free and open source software, part of the series,
|
|
Linux in laws, and the full show notes are available on their website. There were no comments
|
|
on the show. No, it was, it was an interesting show. There's just the one they were talking about
|
|
the, yeah, the time issue, 32-bit time, which is, yeah, which is obviously some, most of us will
|
|
know about it, but it was good to hear some information about it. And the other thing was the
|
|
the crook floor, whatever it is, of the Wi-Fi thing, where you can gather certain amounts of data off
|
|
the Wi-Fi as it just things shut down and come back to life again. It's not very good summary,
|
|
I'm sure, but it was, it was interesting to know a little bit more about it.
|
|
Yeah, the odds are covered, the KR-0 crack vulnerability kernel wireless wiki as a list of
|
|
their devices, general problems around the time, and some sample code demonstrates the issue
|
|
requiring 32-bit systems, the time T stuff. Yeah, cool. So the next day, Taj sent us in a show
|
|
requested on the matrix channel, which was how to bridge free node IRC rooms to matrix.org.
|
|
And this is from clacky and divly helped on this one. And this is a good step-by-step intro. Very good.
|
|
Yeah, this is very useful. I made a mental note to try it, I haven't done so yet,
|
|
it's hard to say, but it looks, looks like it a very useful way of having the one client that gets
|
|
you to, to many places. There's a telegram thing as well, I believe, so I'd quite like to do that
|
|
too. Yeah, but does that mean then that you need to do your own server to run all those bridges?
|
|
I don't know. Yeah, that would be interesting, because I have, I currently now have runbox,
|
|
and that is basically a hack where it uses a web client for all these different protocols,
|
|
but if I could get them all into the one place, that would be absolutely awesome. And if it meant I
|
|
had to run my own instance, that would be less awesome, but it would still be okay.
|
|
Tattoo had a comment, which he said, did not know this. Thanks for the info, Taj,
|
|
I didn't know how to do this, but now I do. I can now be both tattoo and non-t Tattoo on matrix
|
|
that's still pretty satisfying. It's a long-running thing, the HBR has been going on so long
|
|
that I think Tattoo has changed his email address and contact information more times than
|
|
some people changes are underwear. Yes, I'm going to meet those people around you.
|
|
No, that's true. But now thanks to Groma, you don't need to,
|
|
following the decentralized hashtag searching and subscriptions in Federation Social Network.
|
|
No guessing, no clues, no surprise, it was by Ahuka, another activity pub 2019, and a proposal
|
|
on how to use hashtag and find the subscribe content. This one had me surprised, and I'll say it
|
|
because it never dawned me that hashtags wouldn't propagate and all this security and privacy
|
|
implications as a result of doing that. So if you happen to her this episode, please listen to it.
|
|
It was, yeah, it opened my eyes too, I have to say, I haven't completely thought about it.
|
|
So when they say, oh, of course, yeah, but yeah, how do you fix it?
|
|
So, and the talk that is referenced sounds like it's more of a look of interest and that sort of
|
|
thing. Haven't done it yet. Yeah, I've found two. And this was another operational one.
|
|
Wii U is long dead, long live Wii U. Next to me, Mark. Operator discusses how to
|
|
jailbreak the Wii essentially. He has already done a previous episode on this.
|
|
And this was an update that essentially a lot of the original resources are kind of
|
|
gone away in so far as the community, you know, they're not the many Wii original Wii's out there.
|
|
And in order to hack the games and stuff, it's still possible, but he gives you a few tips on how
|
|
to do your home brew stuff yourself if you're into that sort of thing. I don't have, I don't have
|
|
any of this sort of kid. And my kids are not quite into this room stuff anymore.
|
|
So, well, we just, we dusted off. We didn't buy one. We got one for free from the neighbors.
|
|
And the kids use the dance, the music dance game. And then because we're in with the Corona thing,
|
|
they dusted it off and have been using it a little bit, you know, to do just, to do some exercise
|
|
and say, hmm, sounds good. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think the daughters heavily into animal crossing
|
|
it alone. It's a whole different area of game, game playing. Yeah, I don't know something
|
|
or other. What is I don't know. I mean, the sun was on about that. Class, cash free, A, B, and C types,
|
|
stuff. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it prices me down.
|
|
Guess what to do, show. Do you know the number of times I've said to both my kids, you could do
|
|
show, but on HBO. Oh, yeah, yeah, I could do, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think about it. In fact, my daughter came
|
|
back from her, her, her degree, she's still doing an MSc got the most semester to go and she said,
|
|
oh, this is really interesting. Maybe I could do some of the stuff I've been taught about on HBO.
|
|
And I said, yeah, yeah, go for it, go for it. And then she says, oh, dear, I'm really too busy. I can't do it.
|
|
Here, here's the microphone. How about we take the first take of us and then later when you're
|
|
time you can update it. Yeah, yeah, we will then welcome. So Archer 72 sent in another one where the
|
|
server was actually fixed and ambient sound. And to be honest with you, my wouldn't comment on
|
|
the original one would be to, can you please send us in an ambient recording of Union Station
|
|
Justin General. And this is awesome. I could really like these type of episodes. You're in, you
|
|
need to listen to them with headphones and with normal speed obviously, but it's worth the sacrifice.
|
|
Yeah, there's something wonderful about just hearing the sounds of a place, the typical sounds.
|
|
So yeah, yeah, I have been, if I haven't been stopped from going to the zoo, I've got a membership
|
|
the Edinburgh Zoo. And as I go there, the noise is there. Amazing. I keep thinking, oh, God,
|
|
why didn't I bring my recorder? I could have taken some, some ambient sounds of the zoo. So
|
|
when I back that, I shall try it. And I've been meaning to, again, now that I don't go to work,
|
|
some mornings are just pure, you know, the sound of the rain and the sounds of the streets. And
|
|
just I've been tempted to take my recorder and just walk my commute into work and then just turn off.
|
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know how interesting that one and a half hours of boredom would be, but yeah, fine.
|
|
Do you sound percent of it? That's right. That's what the fast-forward button is.
|
|
Yes, speed it up 100%. And the next day, solo magic, playing magic without the gathering,
|
|
platoon. And I didn't know where he was going with this, but then it was where magic, the gathering
|
|
is a typical game that you play with, loads of other people, etc, etc. And he gets, if basically
|
|
useless cards and then how to build a game based on the useless cards such as how do you play it
|
|
by yourself? That is essentially the show. And it's very good for the ended up doing, it's classic.
|
|
Yeah, certainly, certainly prepared to spend a good amount of time and brain power on
|
|
you since. So, no problem. Yeah, the next day, Mr. I do stuff better than Ken,
|
|
published his show Making a Raspberry Pi status display with your 3a plus and an old monitor and
|
|
magic mirror 2. Dave, awesome show. Well, thank you, you have. Now, I knew you had this and I
|
|
already set up two magic mirrors around the house. Neither of them are as nice as this and I
|
|
intend to steal your stuff, except for the head and wearable suits.
|
|
You never know, it might be interesting. Yeah, give me a shout. Dave, the 44s just come in.
|
|
So, the weird thing is I put the news, you know, the news feed actually down at the bottom,
|
|
which I don't like actually. I would prefer it to be the whole news article and then go to the
|
|
next whole news article, you know, like in a display. I don't really like the way it's at the bottom
|
|
like that, but I put in the Dutch, you know, the national Dutch news and the national
|
|
English news from the BBC and from RT in Ireland. So, I've got the three national news,
|
|
but I've also got the local one here and the local one where my parents live. So, yeah,
|
|
there's really random, random collection of news stuff that goes fast. It's actually quite a
|
|
lot recent. Yeah, that's a nice idea, actually. By the way, if you use the remote control thing,
|
|
then one of the options there, you can go into modules and tweak them. One of the tweaks for
|
|
for that particular module, the news one, is that you can show the show part of or the whole article.
|
|
Well, it takes up all your screen potentially, but you can change the level at which it displays.
|
|
Now, I don't know how you do that and there's this permanent thing in the config.
|
|
I have a, I have it that displays quite a lot of the article now underneath. So,
|
|
that's close enough for Jeff. Okay. Okay. Fair enough.
|
|
Yeah. But my issue with the news feed is it's very much, it's an active thing that gets you
|
|
active. Whereas the magic mirror in itself is just a display there and you want to know what time
|
|
it is and you want to know the next boss. It's a very passive. I want to keep it as passive as
|
|
possible and not be a source of agitation. Yeah. Is that weird? Not really. No. I would think
|
|
the same. Although I do get active stuff that says there's a comment just come in for HPR
|
|
and things. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I wanted both, I guess, both of those things. So the news,
|
|
the news is, I found the news incredibly depressing because of you. Exactly. Exactly.
|
|
So I've reduced all my news consumption down to just those banners, but even that can be pretty
|
|
grim. So yeah. The next day, why use GNU auto tools? Six good reasons why you should use a build
|
|
system by Clatu. And I agree with all of them. He also mentioned Dan Moshko saying, I'm on the
|
|
next textual back in the day about Linux does have a universal packaging system. It's called GNU,
|
|
it's called make, make install. Yeah. Yeah. It's fascinating. But see, I've gone through a process
|
|
of, I had to use this a lot back in the day when we had the start again, Unix systems in my work.
|
|
And that was in the sort of late 80s, maybe, early 90s. And I had ended up with one of my desks,
|
|
a workstation on my desk running Ultrix. And I used to install things on it. And it was all in
|
|
this format because that's all there was. And so I got very much used to using as a consumer of
|
|
this thing. I got used to using it. And you know, it just seemed great. But then I moved to Linux.
|
|
And then I didn't sort of dismiss it. Oh, that's for that Ultrix thing. I don't really want to use
|
|
that anymore. So he is packages and stuff. And to stop and review that view point. I'm terrible
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for conducting viewpoints, which maybe are not entirely sensible. It was quite a, quite a revelation
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to me. Exactly. And I have this feeling that whatever goes around comes around. And sooner or later,
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the paradigm of computing shifts and blah, blah, blah. And now we're back to like source control,
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continuous development and automation. Yeah. Do you really need a package manager or is make install
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sufficient in order to is that even cleaner because you have more control on the packages. So
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you're seeing industry shift to using make and as even a more pure form of what the developer
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wanted. So yeah, it's, but it's well, if you haven't listened to the show and you're dealing with
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software, well worth a listen, as always, to platutials. Yeah, I certainly found it quite,
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quite a revelation and the mind changing episode. And if your mind wants to be blown the following
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day, he's done a very, very detailed and I will compliment him on his show notes, which sometimes I
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will say are a little bit sparse, but he has the reason they're, the reason they're good is because
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he, I copied and pasted them from the introduction to canoe auto tools, which was on opensource.com.
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And I pasted them in here under the terms of the greater commons license, which brings up another
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topic. And there's no comments on that episode as yet. If you're not subscribed to opensource.com,
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I highly recommend that you do because it is, there was six posts a day and all of them are
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interesting. Even if it's just a quick scan and you scan through anything, that's not really
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relevant for me, but I found myself reading their, the majority of their stuff higher than 50% of
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their stuff. Yep, yep, I've certainly looked, I haven't, I don't sort of read it on a regular basis,
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but certainly fans will make some things there. Throw it in your feed, throw it in your feed and
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see what happens. Now, COVID-19 worked from home stream day one, the couple of HPR characters
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decide to spend their social distancing time being social. And I will put in brackets there,
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in a proper way by using remote tools and not as some of my neighbors are doing,
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setting their chairs outside in the front garden and then talking to people as they go past.
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Anywho, how long have you cleared to get COVID-19 about the markets, Python,
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growing plans, audio, book club, the saga of, doon, doon, doon, more news on that later.
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Stay tuned to this station. On board Singapore's reply commuters, why haven't you done a show about
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that touch? Emacs and you do org mode and nano for the win. I like these, if you
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think, if you enjoy the HPR New Year show, this is kind of the same thing. Oh yeah, thank you
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for ties for doing these. Yes, yes. I, yeah, it's one of those that I came away from thinking,
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oh, let's go and write a comment and say how much I enjoyed it because I bloody don't.
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Yeah, yeah, I forget to do it. But yeah, I thought this was great. And it's just what I need it,
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you know, you know, some, some, some people having an interesting sensible chat about, about stuff
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that's rattling around at the moment. And yeah, it was, it was great. I really enjoyed this a
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lot. And it's quite a, quite a trio there in some interesting discussion. So yeah, thank you.
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So there were two comments, both on Linux in-laws episodes from previous shows.
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And one was by yay. Hello, heard, Chris Zimmerman talking about LBW on FOS Weekly and mentioned
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your podcast also was an old outlaws listeners. So started listening to the new in-law show now
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today seems nice so far only listened to 20 minutes. Cool, that was bitching by the way.
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Oh yeah, I've been, not yet. I was, I was, I was a comment on the second of the Linux in-laws
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by Claudio N. Thanks to these episodes, I realized that Chris Zimmerman was also interviewed on
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FOS Weekly number 5, 6, 8th, where he talked about Linux and VR and all. I thought the voice
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sound of him in it, so I had to do some research. And yes, it's the same Chris from Linux in-laws
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and he references to it TV show. Yeah, yeah, and I heard that FOS Weekly somewhat late. So
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but it was good. Yeah, he did, did a great job. But, um, Linux be a hike, he said it was a translation
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of it. Sounds like I have something to do. And I've been in the UK many times too, I haven't realized.
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So you had a switching on to the mail list archive. There was the HPR show notes question
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from you. You can get a summary of that or? Well, I guess I'm a natural born archiveist
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and like to have continuity in the things that get archived. And I was remarking on the fact that
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the many cases show notes being posted with links to other places for the bulk of the notes.
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And also links to personal sites and that type of thing. And although this is great for the
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moment, the show comes out. In a longer term, from an archival point of view, the many cases,
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the so-called bitrocked results in the loss of some of these links. And that's really a rather
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sad state of affairs. I mean, I do this a lot because I'm looking at tags and that type of thing
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and I go to older shows and it says, see my thing on such and such and you click and it's dead long,
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long, long ago because I'm looking at old old shows. And you think, I'm so sad that that's gone.
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I just have a personal reaction to that that makes me very, very sad about it.
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And just as an aside from that, I in researching some of my shows where I witter on about what I did
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in the past 45, 50 years ago, trying to find references to any of the things I'm talking about.
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It's incredibly hard because the bitrock has taken it or maybe they never were up there in the
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first place. So really just to say, can we do something about this? That was what my note was about.
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So Kevin Ahuka says, some degree this is unavoidable.
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The thing about links that no longer work, all the people need to understand that all the pages
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have links that no longer work. Yeah. That's true, that's true, but I don't know. I see a lot of people
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these days just to make an analogy, collecting up old tools and stuff off eBay to sort that
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somebody's clearing out of this and sell the old garage for an eBay. And I've got a few here,
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my neighbour left, he's now died, but he moved away and he was a carpenter and he had a whole
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work box full of tools, rusted to hell. And I've got some of them here that I haven't started yet.
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Repairing them, getting them back to use. Have you subscribed to people doing that? It's gone.
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My mechanic on YouTube. No, you've seen that channel. My mechanic.
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Right, remind me to send you a link to that. My mechanic. Sounds good. It is absolutely awesome,
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awesome, awesome, awesome. But anyway, back to this. The general principle is one that a lot of
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people would appreciate, I guess. I'll just go through some of the comments from people first,
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and then I'll give you my own personal opinion, which is one of the comments. Jason Estadge
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says, my strategy of not providing show notes has paid off. No.
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Good, good. I like it. Make me laugh. That too is asking for clarification before he disagrees with
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those. I reckon I'm going to skip over mine for a minute. Look for Kevin. Yeah, okay, I have,
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okay, I'll go over mine. Cause from my point of view, there's two aspects to this. We can't,
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we can't be expected to keep everything on the internet. And that's fine. But if somebody,
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there's, if somebody releases a show and says a link will be in the show notes, or I'm talking
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about something and it's in the show notes, then it should be in the show notes. If it's part,
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you have to remember that people who listen to this, this network that we're on here,
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maybe it worked probably not now, but say imagine somebody driving
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and delivering rubber duckies in the US, what do you call them, truckers? Truckers, what can I think of that word?
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Okay, truckers, long distance truckers away from any base station and their entire access to the
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episode is what's in the show notes of that episode. So there should be sufficient in the show notes
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to support the show 100%. Additional extraneous information can be attached to the show as a link
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to another site. That's fine. But from the point of view of the show, it should be in the show notes.
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You're giving us an episode and it's like, and if the show notes for that are somewhere
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are with the show, that's great because the whole bundle is the episode under a CC license.
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But if you take half of that and say, Oh, the script is over here that I'm now talking about,
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while you're polluting the license by putting it over there, because now once it's over there,
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even though it's available and maybe available for 20 years, even though it's over there,
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it still may not be under the same license that the show was released. So was it, was it released
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under a Creative Commons CC by SA license, even though it's on your website, because I can't find
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any license information on your website. So therefore, we now need to search your website. Is your
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website license under that license? Am I allowed to take that show in or not? So my solution to this
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is send us in proper show notes to support your show. If you say it's referenced in the show,
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then reference it in the show. It's very, very simple. Very, very simple to a point as in
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it's hard to define it. But if you're saying, well, if you want more information, then you can
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get it on my blog. That's absolutely fine. Am I making sense there?
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Yes, I think so. I think so. I've certainly subscribed to the view that an integral bundle,
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if that makes any sense, is a highly desirable thing to produce, which is why I try to produce
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such things myself. And also, I redesign the way things get put onto archive.org. So the entire
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bundle gets. Yeah, exactly. We're perfect. Get put together and drop there. So if HBR has gone,
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then you could still go and refer to it on archive.org. That was why.
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So I actually should stick to the email, because that's what I was referring to. So I did an
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episode on adjusting the height of an iron board. And it's a stupid episode. But I,
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I discuss in that episode, there's going to be a picture in the show notes. Then that picture
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should be submitted as part of your show. And it should be in the show notes.
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Today with a techie episode back in 2005, Arngig did a show. And he has a link to his site there.
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And I listened to his episode again, which is awesome, by the way. And
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everything that he has in the show notes to that episode is sufficient. There's nothing in that show.
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That would require you to go to the website. But going to the website helps. So today with a
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techie was not specifically known for having super show notes, to be honest with you. But that show
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did not need that show was self-standing because he explained everything that you needed in the
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episode. But if you are interested, a full description and a visual cues were given in his
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in his website, which yes, it might be no harm to take a PDF of that and stuff on the
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archive.org bot. Then we're adding to our burden on as the janitors. Do you know what I mean?
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Oh sure, sure, sure. Yeah. It was, that was part of my motivation in putting it forward. This
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point, but I think I said that in the past, I managed to repair and quotes shows that where things
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are gone missing by going to the way back machine and doing this stuff. But it's really quite a lot
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of work. Yeah. And I went on to say about Kevin Orion show. He did a show on Firefox Updates,
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which is an excellent balance of if you want to know what should it should not be in the show notes,
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use that as a reference because there's enough on his website. And then he's got a blog post
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that can support it. And if he sends us a PDF of that blog post, that would even be fine as well.
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Lost and Bronx made a note there. And I'm disagreeing with Lost and Bronx, which I think must be the
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first time I ever have disagreed with him. By my way of thinking there is no borrow weight upon us
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as a community to deliver anything other than the historical experience to future listeners,
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to whom the episode will per force be nothing but history. Anyway, I completely disagree with that.
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Hacker Public Radio is dedicated to sharing knowledge. So there is absolutely a borrow weight on us
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to provide the information in the show to each and every listener regardless of when they're here.
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And I point you back to Iron Geek show on 2005. If he referenced something in there that was no
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longer, that's still valid. He's still, we're still got Wireshark. We still got Ethernet
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Rx. We still got things just because the show happens to be 15 years old.
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Doesn't mean it's out of date. If you provide enough information in there to be able to recreate it,
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good and well. Also, we're all using tools here that go back to
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stuff in the 1960s. Commands, Grep, Said, Ock, Ed. These are all tools that we use day in day out.
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They were all done when we were all, when Dave was a lad like it. So
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in fairness, this stuff is going away. It's a very long time. Your definition of what relevant is
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in material. The show, if you're releasing a show, everything that you need, it's your choice,
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what you just define as everything, but I made it just agree with you. But if you're giving us
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this show, you're breaking the whole moral part of it if I need to, if you only give me half of it,
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and everything I need to support that show isn't available. I'm offling on now, Dave. This is
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where you should stop me. It's, yeah, it is a difficult one. I mean, I have a
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have the particular view that I think that the maintaining some sort of
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timelessness of this resource is a highly desirable thing because I think somewhere out in the
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future, people coming back to look at this sort of stuff and saying what did these guys get on up
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to, back in those long, long ago days, finding all the holes will be pretty disappointed.
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And to me, that's a sad thing. I take the point that we have to ask the question, is that what
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we're about? Are we, are we trying to build a perpetual inflammation source and I guess it's,
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it's, it's, it's, it's a valid question. Does that? Yeah, I think it is, and you're right,
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it would be nice to be able to do that, but we can't, but within all practicalities, what we can do
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is give this as a unit. And if you've got enough in the unit to be able to do it then fine.
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For example, if you're referencing a major distro like Ubuntu or Debian or whatever,
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then you don't need to supply the documentation because that's probably more than likely
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going to be archived or you'll be able to find a CD of that. But if you're talking about a script
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that you've written that is available nowhere else and that you discuss it in the show, then it
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needs to be included in the show. At least in the upload and we can host that then on HPR,
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if we host it on HPR, we know what the license is or we make sure the license is compatible
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with the entire thing and we can put that on archive.org because remember, even though archive.org
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scrapes the internet, it just takes one person to put in a, a robots.dex file on that domain and
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then that's gone. All that information from that entire domain is gone. Admittedly, they will never
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archive your website ever again. So very few people do that. But archive.org is
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unless the license is explicitly stated, it can be removed at any time. And that's all I have to
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say about that yet. Yeah, yeah. It's um, I sort of started off this discussion and then I went
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into, uh, into lockdown because something got to me that, uh, I was, I'm in the, in the vulnerable
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group, but I catch it and there's good chance I ain't going to exist no more. So I got a little bit
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sort of, uh, help, um, and sort of lost the plot with it. So anyway, that's what happened.
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No, it's a, it's a, it's a good one because it brought up several things there for me like, um,
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just a one liner to point to your website. That's, that's not sufficient. If,
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that's not sufficient on some shows, on other shows, it is sufficient because you covered, uh,
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like the Lost and Brunk are, um, not the, the, the, the R&G show, he discussed everything in it.
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So the link to his episode was supplementary material, whereas the Linux in laws.deu1
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is not sufficient because they're discussing the actual script that's in the show notes
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on their site and not on, on the HBR website. So, um, yeah, we'll see how that goes.
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It just makes more work because we now need to, from your point of view, you want to archive,
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from my point of view, I now need to check, is the copyright correct?
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Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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Anyway, just upload to show notes. Please, people. Thank you. We move on.
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Yeah.
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Uh, let's see, case of disappearing links. Do you want to do this?
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Is it the same thing?
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It is, it is, it's, um, most of us, uh, doing, uh, doing a change of subject, I think.
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Interview from Fostem, Amanda Brook asked for some help on, um, the, uh, some coronavirus interviews
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that she wants to have and was somebody available to help. And Kevin, we're sure, offered to help.
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Uh, tattoo, then organ, actually, I just read it out. Hey, everybody on the HBR list,
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I don't know what you're up to right now, but if you're stuck at home like much of the world,
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I thought it would be nice diversion to play a little dungeon in the dragon.
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My schedule is pretty open, but I imagine a little point in trying to come up at a time.
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So, uh, essentially, I'm not planning recording these sessions, it's purely a social offer
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in an attempt to provide relief from the global stress at the moment.
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And those D&D times are on Wednesday nights, and Wednesdays in the evening and Thursdays at night,
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my time, UTC. That's, that's not very good, is it?
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Uh, when the moon rises over the HBR, that's the time it is. Hold on a second, I'll find out what time it
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just is. Well, one of them is that, uh, 1830 to 2030 UTC. No, that's, uh, CET. So forget about that.
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Okay, the days and times are 16, 1630 to 1830 UTC on a Wednesday, Wednesday, 1630, Wednesday,
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1630. The other one is that Thursday, 2000 to 2200. Thursday, 2000 to 2200.
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I don't know if you can still join those, but, uh, my son is joined and is really, really,
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really enjoying the, that's really nice. Fantastic. And Taj announcing the hopefully only COVID-19
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self distancing work stream. The idea is to have a live chat on the mobile server during a
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portion of the day for people to tune into as they work or avoid work. The intent is to treat it
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like the HBR New Year's stream and record it for release in HBR, because less faces, we all
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all can issue. However, that doesn't count as a show. My plan is to join the room at 2000 EST each day
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and start a recording. That's sorry, 1212. Why Dave? What is going wrong? 1212 EST every day, 1200
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Eastern Standard Time. Anything else worth mentioning on there? I don't think so. Um, that's,
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that's pretty much all for the mailing list. The events calendar, well, everything's cancelled,
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so I guess we can skip a look at that, yeah. And, uh, tags and summaries, I'd like to just
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highlight the fact that we got 28 updates over the past month. And we had updates from CRBS,
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new hosts. Thank you very much. Windigo, who's a stalwart and send stuff in all the time,
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Archie's 72. Thank you very much. And some guy called Dave Morris to the fuser. So,
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28, I think, is a, is our highest score, if anybody's keeping records. So that's excellent.
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Really, I'm really using that missing tags, um, page a lot for finding episodes myself.
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Yeah, I know. Now, and each of those stuff is really a handy resource.
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I am convinced. It was in, my sort of thought was doing that would be an interesting
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prelude to doing something similar to that in a less static site. And, um, yeah, it seems to
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seem to be quite, quite helpful thing. I have still some shores in here that I haven't come to
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none. Dave, Dave, Dave. Okay. Anything else? I think that's it. I think I went on a bit of a round
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there, Dave. Well, you know, yeah, if it, if it's something you need to say, then
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go on. As long as it doesn't offend, I don't see what it would then move for it.
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Um, yeah, because the thing is, we're not asking people to, on one hand, I'm not asking
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people, you don't have to submit your notes, but it really, really helps. Even if it's just
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bullet points, it really helps. But if you look at some of the tattoos, where there's just a
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one liner, the one about the, um, about the game he did, it's sufficient. A one liner is sufficient
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in that case, it's sufficient. But if it is something that you're, um, that you refer to in the
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show notes and that you say, you especially say it'll be in the show notes, then that's kind of,
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it should be part of the thing. Anyway, I'll, I'll shut up. And now I'll be cringy for the next month
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wondering, do people should I have edited? Should I not? And you, you'll get comments on the,
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on the next community news. Exactly. Yeah, I don't like controversy.
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Right, I need to go and tidy the house, Steve. Oh, yes. And so do I. Okay, tune in.
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Tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio. All right, stay healthy, Dave.
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Thanks, bye everyone. See you soon. Cheers.
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