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Episode: 4196
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Title: HPR4196: HPR Community News for August 2024
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4196/hpr4196.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 21:15:04
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4196 from Monday the 2nd of September 2024.
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Today's show is entitled HPR Community News for August 2024.
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It is part of the series HPR Community News.
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It is hosted by HPR Volunteers and is about 82 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, Ken and Dave Grumble about the state of the world and also about shows
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released and comments posted in August 2024.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public
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Radio, the Community Podcast.
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Bringing you Community News for August 2024.
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Joining me today is...
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Hello Dave Morris is here again.
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Hello Dave, how are you over?
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I'm good.
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I'm pretty good.
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I'm pretty good.
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I keep forgetting to press this press to talk, but I feel brain cells are getting creaky.
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Yes, I'm struggling with tech myself today on many fronts.
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Okay folks, HPR is a Community Podcast, so we are a group of people who like podcasting
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and like talking about tech and what we do is when we find something interesting to talk
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about, we record a podcast and add it to the pool of shows and then we have a podcast
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which very soon will be hidden 19 years of podcast, Dave, can you believe it?
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That's amazing, isn't it?
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18 years, 11 months and 10 days ago, so by the time you hear the next one, we will be
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19 years young.
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So yeah, old enough to drink in some places.
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Yep, still two more years for the States.
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Anyway, and this show is the Geneson's Closet where the people who help out with the HPR
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put down their mobs and sit around over a coffee and talk about the shows and the goings
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on on the community for the last month.
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So traditionally you get the honor of introducing new hosts, can you do that, then Dave?
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It's a particularly difficult name to do with this time, oh no, it's Bob, so Bob is
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joined us.
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Bob is a long time commenter and first time host.
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Yeah, yeah, welcome on God Bob, that's fantastic.
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So what we do is with the show, we want to give some positive feedback on the shows and
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we also give you, we give you some feedback on the shows but also tell you anything that
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we're doing in and around the community and read out stuff that's on the mailing list.
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So let us speak about the first one which was a HPR 4171 for Thursday, the first of the
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month and it was by myself and it was of the mic and the mob and it was a long, we discussed
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a little bit last month and I think we, do we read any of the comments out or to be not?
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I think we did not, the things we don't read will be in last month.
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Oh, yeah, you're right, you're right, we did, I don't know if there were comments on
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it at all at that point, I'm lost as far as that.
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Yeah, I think we read out, let's assume that they'd come and stick and come in, we read
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out the one from nightwise himself, so because I was already in the mailing list so therefore
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we went through the show.
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So it's a bit of a, it's a bit of a strange one because some other people have key takeaways
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from it are people don't necessarily agree with what I'm saying but yeah, the funny thing
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is I've just been, I've just been given some internal training and as a result we had
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to do some of that stuff and I am the points that I mentioned in there, I'm more convinced
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of them now than I was even at the time, so it's interesting, yeah, yeah, but as I say
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I have a very important, I have a very privileged I guess view on the thing because of my work
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not to say that my work is anyway related to this but yeah, that's read out the comments
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and see where we stand.
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So D&T says, good reflection of how the problem project is, the point about the listener
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to contribute or convertivate being so small as well, but I'm obviously, it does
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mean that the listenership plays no part, just turns out to be a relatively small part.
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I do think that the volunteer project gains participation most by direct invitation and
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that being my experience with small projects I've been involved with and I have been less
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patient than you when people come up with their prescriptions for my project.
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Okay, yeah, it's not my project, it's our project, so that's the thing, but no, D&T has
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a point and that is what I'm trying to, you know, we don't ignore listeners yet, that's
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why we're on this call, I mean, that's what I call, it's not a call, it's a show, I've
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just been my day talking into you, but that's why we do the community news, that's why we
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have the feedback at the end of the show, that's why we call out to listeners and every
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single show guys come in, we're constantly talking to the listeners, but the return
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on investment is not there, and that's what if nightwise is sane on one hand, we need
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to look at HPR from a business from a marketing point of view, then I have to look at this
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from an accounting point of view, it doesn't make sense for us to focus on listeners, it's
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not, it's not, we don't get the return on investments that we do when we focus on
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one-to-one conversations with people who are likely to bring in people, now if you don't
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think, if you don't agree with the people that we're bringing in, because they're the
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people we're talking with, fine, get off your boat, go to the people you want to see
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on the network, convince them to record shows, it's very, very simple, we are not employees,
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we are people chipping away at the call face, and there's only so much call face we can
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chip away at, if I was in a knitting group, I would be talking to them about HPR and all
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that, in fact, as I just said, I was away, I'm training, and I was handing out HPR cards,
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and I was telling them about your set-alking grip, episode, which is where they, which is
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where they think comes from, and I said, okay, company stuff you can't talk about, but
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if it's generic sorts of stuff, then I'll try and put it out on HPR because it's generic,
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equally guys, people listening to this, if you are in a book club or something, are you going
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down, sewing with your kids, or you're in a gardening show, this is of interest, ask yourself,
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is what I'm doing right now of interest hackers, have I spoken to somebody who has enlightened me,
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would other people and HPR like to hear from that person, then get them involved, yeah,
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it's easy peasy, learn and squeezey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, yeah, I've certainly been involved
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in doing that a bit, not as much as many others, but to know that at old camp or something,
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you see somebody, and they're talking about interesting things, and you say, oh, we have this
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podcast, and maybe, and yes, they say, yeah, that sounds great, I will submit some sure, it's,
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sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't, but it's too chugging away, you know,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean, the opening is pretty obvious, whether it achieves anything,
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it's another thing, but yeah, the whole process of saying, here's somebody, and there's a slot,
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so why don't you make sure to fill it please, and let's talk about the discord server,
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because that's, that's the point that was brought up here, right, all the other suggestions that
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have been made up until now, we have already, we're implementing, so we're either going,
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we are going to update the website, that's the ticket open already for that, but every other item
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that's been suggested, we're already doing, yeah, so what I need is people not to go,
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all everything is crap with HPR, yeah, tell us what it is that we want to change, and if one of
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those things is Ken and Dave are too old and crusty, they should be out of there, absolutely fine,
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but if you want the project to continue on, you need to step up and post the shows, you need to
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step up and do the stuff, yeah, yes, yes, yes, it's, oh yeah, it just makes me laugh, if somebody wants
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you, yeah, I've said to you in the past, am I a bit too old and crusty again and you said, no,
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no, you're good, you're good with words to that fact, so yeah, that makes me laugh here,
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yeah, I don't, it's like, if you want a discord server, personally my feeling on it is,
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we're all mastered on, we're the people who we're getting shows from people are mastered on,
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but if you think discord is the place to go, set up a discord server, beyond there, do the support,
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do the bash loop for, for something interesting, in something interesting, ask, ask them to do a show,
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also beyond there, to tell them about the flag feed and redirect them to us, and make sure
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that it's not stagnant, and make sure that somebody to support them for the next 10 years, because
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we're hitting 19 years, yeah, so this is, this is then fine, make suggestions, oh, we have to do stuff,
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but also step up to the place, yeah, yep, probably shouldn't be putting this up, but you know what,
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I'm a little bit sick of it to be honest with you, anyway, Herman, Henrik, you want to do what
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Alex said? Yeah, I'll do that one, yep, so Henry Hemmied says, learned more about what HBR is,
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Thanks Ken for this show with explanations, facts and thoughts about HPR, there's relatively
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new listener and contributor, he reverbs this episode, HPR 4129, it was useful for me to better
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understand HPR, regarding the web, HPR site, my usage of that is, I first had heard about HPR,
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then looked up what it is, with assistance of the website, possibly listened to some episodes
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at the start and going back in time, reading details carefully before submitting my first show,
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check some incoming shows, submit links to specific shows in email, chat and social media,
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be helpful for me, if all menu items are always available, now menu items depend on which page I am at.
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Yeah, and I have two responses, so my response to DNT, thanks for the response, and yes,
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of course, we spend a lot of time trying to get our listeners, I'm tempted to refer them as learners,
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to contribute, we have, is at the end of every show today's show is contributed by HPR,
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listener like yourself, if you're ever thought of recording a podcast, take on the
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contributing link to see how easy it really is, for those who listen to the show,
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meta-references for the community news, where this is read out, we'll know how much time we
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spend asking people to send in shows, and I also replied to Hendrix in, thanks for the
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suggestion about the website, yes, I can see how that will be in frustrating, and we should be
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able to fix it, yeah, so this is feedback, we can do something with it, yeah, we need to do
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this, we need to change the direction of HPR, we need to be young and vibrant of whatever, yeah,
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it doesn't matter, whoever we get onto the HPR now in 20 years is going to be old and gray,
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yeah, that's what happens, indeed, indeed, yeah, did you stress today Dave,
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not have left for 20 hours of duty? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, comment number six is from
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March of 72, who's referring to the show, and he says, I agree, we've got Hendrix Hemrin commented,
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I did learn a lot about HPR and the expectations, but listen to the listener to host ratio
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with staggering, I was a listener for a while before becoming a host, so I'm part of the
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slim statistic, in Ken's words, you are the exception that proves the rule, I don't quite remember
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when I found out about HPR, I'm possibly around 2008, I was looking for podcasts and new
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Linux user and thinking HPR was one of them, Linux Outlaws was the other that comes to mind,
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my first show was around 15th of December 2015, which was too short, but at least it was a start,
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yeah, exactly, yeah, and guys it's about subscribers, there's a difference between listeners and
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subscribers, so we have that number of subscribers of on, but each of is not listened to by all of
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those guys, yeah, so let's be careful here on numbers, I mean, in the industry they have no problem,
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the number I gave is super conservative, the pump that out, pump that up and out, no problem,
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okay, let's get off this one because it's stressing me out, Dave,
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next one, what's in my bag, this time it's personal, by operator, and I had planned to go in there
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and pick out everything that he had in his new bag, so now I'll just go to the transcript and have a look.
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Yeah, yeah, I made a few notes where I was fascinated that he was talking about
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phones and earbuds and the two things that caused me, I mean, just bought a nice new pair of earbuds
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and discovered the first time that I have ears that don't, don't like earbuds and spit them out
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especially when I'm doing the washing up and they go plop and clean their waterproof,
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but so they have that, yeah, yeah, yeah, to glue them in or something,
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but he carries deodorant with them, that's a mandatory for all IT guys,
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yeah, yeah, it was a good review of the privacy of one's bag and so this, fascinating.
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And the following day, so there was no other comments on that, we were coming to the end of the
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vacation period so we can expect activity to be picking up again, I hope, we had the community
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news and there was no comments on it and then we had 3D blender tutorial number one, oh my god,
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was this a cool show or what, and Delta Ray posted in, if you're looking to share your
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renders, mastodon users can reply to the post link in there and twitter can reply to the post link
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in there, you do Henrik? Yes, and he says, I like the audio tutorial concept, I like this concept
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of audio tutorial while I follow on the screen, it's my first ever trial with blender, yes, I
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did need to pause and rewind multiple times, I admit, at the late latter part I was too foggy myself,
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so he only listened how to create fog etc, I think I should start over from scratch again,
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repeat the tutorial another day to understand better, but I definitely got a first impression
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of blender thanks to your tutorial, so yeah, and I agree with that, I haven't actually followed
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it with blender, but it sounded like there was some amazing content in there that would be very
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useful and helpful to guide you along the way, which is a brilliant idea,
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I was not looking forward to it because blender, the thought of it sends shivers down my spine,
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and the amount of stuff, the only thing I'd say Delta Re is, the amount of stuff you covered in
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the first episode was a lot, I needed to do it in three sessions, but and I was like rewinding
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and fast forward and rewinding and fast forwarding, so I hope somebody does, if I was to do it again,
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I would love to do a screenshot of this, if somebody could please just do a screen recording
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of this as well that we can, as you go in the lamp, that would be fantastic that we would have
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that together, because I know myself that the versions will change, but the directions were
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excellent, there was only one place where I went wrong and I had to go back, and if we wasn't
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mentioned to click to another tab, but other than that, it was excellent, but of course mine looks
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what it looks like, the toxic matrix versus the cool ones. Yeah, yeah, I have dabbled with it,
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people were learning to make 3D models so you can put on a 3D printer, one time I was following
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some of them, but I didn't, and you can do some amazing things with it, but back on
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it, you have to work hard to get to that state. To be honest, I didn't think in one episode we
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would get this far to having something 3D with lights and all sorts of things, very good.
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Something else that was impressive, massive galaxies and mass extensions Dave.
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Yeah, yeah, this is me just gathering odds and stuff. This is just Dave's mind here, guys,
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going from galaxies and max extensions to ML or ML,
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plan and friends cooking. What made me know me build lands? My Bohemian is a guy called
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Heinrich Maibom. Yes, yes. I do like this today I learned a series because it's like
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just thrown in your pocket and when you got a few of them, chuck them out.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know about you, but I'm reading social media, Wikipedia, etc, etc.
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And all that's really interesting. I must go and look further into that and make a note of it
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somewhere other. Don't always do it, but this is making me do a better job of following up,
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because it's so much out there that's fascinating and amazing. Yeah, good stuff.
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And the new year show, lots of links, lots and lots of links.
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And the orange pie, I just came back, as I said, I was on training in India. I didn't see it
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was in India, but I wasn't in India. And there's a link there to the Raspberry Pi and the orange
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pie. So I have a call for the community, right? It was a bit of an eye-opener to me that the cost
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of Raspberry Pi's are essentially equivalent there to buying a new laptop. And people don't have
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old laptops because they pass on their laptops down the chain, yeah. So the idea of like chucking
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a few Raspberry Pi's together and building up a test metric isn't something that you can do
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very easy. So I was wondering if people could help me with coming up with or pointing me to
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single board computers that have ideally an ethernet cable in them. I was thinking Raspberry
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Pi W's, but you don't get there for networking, you don't get the feeling of plugging in a
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network cable. And it was also looking at GLI nets stuff. But it's all kind of expensive,
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but if anyone has ideas of, they don't have to be powerful Linux computers like a Raspberry Pi
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one or something, but you know, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I appreciate it there.
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There was such a, such a golf in, in pricing. Yeah, and I know we had a, we had a listener on here
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at one stage who didn't have a microphone in their laptop and stuff and couldn't record and
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stuff. And I could completely see how that's a, how that would be an issue for them.
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And it's a huge eye opener for me, with regards to, it actually supports the statement that
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that we had about the low bit rate, while the data plans and phone bundles seem to abound.
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So that everybody seems to have a mobile phone and unlimited 5G, so not everybody, but,
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yeah, there's quite a lot of forms around all the payments are done by form.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe I should do an episode on that, but I don't know how much I'd be allowed
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to either. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay, fair enough. But it is an interesting subject. The whole
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business of using a phone paper, everything from every, every tiny amount to, to, to modulate
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certain amounts is, it's very, very different from the way things operate here.
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But the, yeah, the cool thing is you have a, so Google Play and all their other services,
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you have a, every vendor has like a QR code, and then they have an app running as a vendor app,
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and then they type in the amount, and you scan the QR code, and then your banking app,
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you type in the, the amount it is, and you press OK, and then you show the vendor your confirmation,
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and then they get a confirmation on their site. So pretty much everybody has that.
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Yeah, that's a bad idea. But the point is, cheap, really cheap computing case thoughts and ideas,
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guys, thoughts and ideas. Yeah, yeah, okay. Next day. Yeah, intro to science fiction series by
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Ahuka. I love seeing this coming in because it has my favorite word series in there. And when
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Ahuka says series, Ahuka means series. Yeah, that is very, very true. Yes.
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I just, I was, I was completely stunned by this. It's, it's, it's absolutely brilliant.
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Well, wait a start. It's an excellent introduction. And, you know, covering all the,
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all the sort of dimensions of the, of the subject, which is vast, and, and all the links are
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absolutely fantastic. There's some, many of those are, I've also been a sci-fi nut from a young age,
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but there's, there's, there's a fair number here that I don't really know about, fair number I do.
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But, yeah, it's, it's fantastic. Do you know, I, I'd hope people say wreck on many, many times.
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I didn't know what it meant. Ahuka, it's funny, isn't it? Well, that's how we have shores.
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Don't you know, we're teaching, we're learning from one another. It's amazing. I like, I really like
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the idea of, we don't have, if you're a listener, I'm not interested in you, but if you're a learner,
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now I mean, I'll change my mind about, you know, if, if you're telling us we have learners on the
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other end, then I'll change my mind about, it's not important. You know, we're not entertainment,
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we're educating. I think, well, I think you might do, yeah, maybe swim and don't the shores of
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France are, but then again, that was education too. Faults. Okay, three says, downtown Buffalo Library.
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Thank you, ahuka, I am looking forward to this series. I'm also a huge sci-fi and fantasy fan. I
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had forgotten all about the dragon riders or perenn series and maybe read it soon. I also grew up
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in Western New York. My first introduction to science fiction was on a day as a young child.
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I was home from school sick and we had to take a father, my father, to Buffalo General Hospitals
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for tests. I turned up, it turned into an all day event and I was sitting in the raging room
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when I discovered that the hospital was having a used book fair. I went and picked out a book,
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Danny Don and the anti-gravity paint. I had no money and the cashier gave me the book for free.
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The book drew me in and I was hooked on science fiction. I also remember trips to the Buffalo
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Downtown Library as a teenager. I would take the city bus downtown to the library to work on
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the research projects and I would always return home with a new science fiction book as a bonus
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from the trip. Thank you for helping me stretch out these memories. That's really good. I like
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this sort of memory. Kevin O'Brien says, thank you, Trey. I'm glad my own memories help to bring
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back some of yours as the saying has it the golden age of science fiction is 14. Yep.
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And David Lee, the blog says, great series. Thank you, Ahuka. I look forward to listening to your
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episodes on this. This has actually given me some ideas for episodes so I can see me contributing
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a series, particularly to this series, particularly as there are some items on your list that convince
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that can coincide with my own interests plus a few that don't. I may concentrate on the ones that
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don't first. I think that message is hidden in those sentences there. It's where I read it.
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Kevin O'Brien says, just what I hope for. Thanks, David. Encouraging others. Just submit
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shows. Just what I hope for. And field is so big that there's room for a lot of voices.
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Trolocoster says, a small recommendation and thanks. Hi, Ahuka. Thanks for this interesting
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introduction. Certainly looking forward to the next episode. I just point into an interview with
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George or Martin. You might appreciate and link to the YouTube page. Cool. Aaron B says, interesting
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list sci-fi. Here's a nice flowchart for sci-fi and fantasy and he gives a link to an Ahuka.org
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NPR flowchart and you see that. That list, how many can you check off? I took a speed reading class
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in high school and to keep my attention, I read many of the classic sci-fives. When I read the Lord
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of the Rings series, I quit reading for over 25 years. I felt that I'd wasted a lot of time.
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Now I read Daniel Suarez, demon, great techno thriller. He got me back into reading again.
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I read a couple more of the classics than I started to read. The Silver Ship series.
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Soap halfway through the fifth. Got tired with the savior character like June. Oh, I like June.
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I'm not sure how to read that. Anyway, like as in the same as all I've seen. Thank you. I enjoy it.
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And I too had a look on that, but I think he's missing one of my favorite science fiction authors,
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which would be David Collins Rivera. It has a fantastic universe and I'm actively waiting for
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the second volume of his latest series. So yes, that's cool. And the next day we had
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Bob's first episode downloading out of copyright movies, used in the tour proxy with YouTube,
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DL to get public domain movies. And it's nice to see he's using visas, suggestion.
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And using Piper, voice census from Archer 72. Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was good.
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Just recently got that working. So good to see. Yeah, I didn't know to myself that the voice
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was really good and clear and understood pretty much all of it. It was a good solution to
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not being all that keen about reading the stuff out yourself, but yeah. And I also got me,
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I've never used YT, DLP, because I've never really needed to download stuff. I had a
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week play with it and wow, it's really quick. I can't remember what preceded it, but they were
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really slow and clunky. Things I've used way back in the day. But this one, this is really good,
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I'm doing it. So yeah, thank you for opening my eyes to this one.
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Cool. So Windigo says, alternative sites, thanks for the episode and the excellent technique.
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It's also working worth checking out archive.org first for any copy,
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out of copyright or public domain's works. It's selection made me limited, but it overall
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easy download options, which it does. Good, very good point when you go.
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Thank you. Next one. Next one. Somebody replaced the batteries in the Kenwood T-S-940S HF radio part
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one. Will they succeed or not? That is the question. Tune in to the series and see.
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Yeah, yeah, I know. This is fun. Wow, an impressive looking machine it is.
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Yeah, I'd you could really feel like, ah, plump. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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losing some fingers as he turns it over. Two, almost a two-man lift, that one.
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Yeah. That's a size and clunkiness. Hey. Do you want to do Trez?
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Come on. Yeah, yeah, sorry, I was just scrolling down. I scroll, scrollability is slow.
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Trez says, thanks, thank you for the reminder. Thank you for sharing this. I've had my extra
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class license for many years. Despite having collected several HF radios,
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shut up, see go. I must confess that I've never operated on HF only six meters, two meters,
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and 70 centimeters FM, back to radios. I first, I think we should rig is an i-com 735, which I believe
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is similar vintage to your Kenwood. I'm sure got me thinking it turns out my radio also has a
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battery, which I hope and pray is not leaking all over the radio. Now I have another project.
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Thank you for sharing. Oh, if we could just get people to record their fixes like Mr.
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X did, we'd all be sorted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very good. I've been quite impressed with the
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and I love these pictures too. I'm a great fan of shows and pictures. Yeah, although it caused me
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a certain degree of pain, but yeah, they make the thing really, really good. A lot more detail.
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Cool. The next day we had lots in Kevin's holiday bag and he went down through a list of stuff
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headphones and that was good. It was definitely a vacation or a holiday holiday bag.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, it's another interesting insight into how people's lives and holidays and
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whatever work environments control what they do. I actually use this list when I was packing for
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India. I asked you as well because I'd never been on tour. I've been to the States and South
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Africa and Algeria actually, but never been to somewhere else. Yeah, so I load stuff with me and
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ended up not using half of it, but I'm fighting to this. But you never know. It depends on
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what sort of environment you're in. I've been to places where you're sort of sleeping in a
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hut. Yeah, just because it's convenient to be in a hut because you're going to some volcano
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or other, you know, but when you're doing that sort of thing, you probably need a whole different
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set of stuff to keep you protected from the mosquitoes or whatever else is going on.
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So the next day we had using GK-REL MWGET an image magic for a live show. Now this is about
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getting webcams for British Columbia, but it could equally be adapted to other situations
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where you want to take images from various different things and just have them on your screen.
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Oh, really nice idea. Yeah, yeah. I like the printable of this. You can see what the state
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of the local eyeways and yeah, it could be the weather and all manner of other things as well.
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Yeah, I would be fascinated to do that type of stuff. That name always throws me. What was it
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mean? GK-REL MWGET. Did you hear REL MWGET? GK-REL MWGET. I read it as another
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Krell from that sci-fi film. I've forgotten what his name is now. But yeah, yeah, I think,
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oh, it's something to do with it. No, it's nothing to do with the Krell. Anyway, it's good.
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No, it's fascinating. Okay, there are two comments. The first one is by George. PNG. Hi.
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It looks cool, but I cannot guess where you do what you make the APNG file that you use
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later. All the best, George. And Jim Log says, RepNG. Hi, it took me a second to wonder,
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what PNG? But I'd taken the screenshot using KDE's spectacle, the Dolphin file manager,
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displaying large icons. Spectacles to pop-up are former in PNG. Sorry about that. Never
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code to me. That would be confusing. The image of the thumbnail, which are all JPG and image of GK-REL MWGET.
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Stack. I've all done using Spectacle and not included in the segment at all.
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Thank you for pointing that out to folks. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Move it on. Archiving,
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BCR, or any other RCA media, Benoit. Again, it was one of my backlog of summer shows,
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while everybody else is not doing anything. Can you do triggers, comment? Yeah,
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basically you plug in this MIDI stuff, or you plug in this MIDI converter, and then you just
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basically record the string. That's it. Yeah, that was fascinating. I have tapes that I want to do
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that too, but never occurred to me to do what you did. Anyway, Twixer says, some issues with your
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capture methodology. If you captured PAL at 720 by 480, 30 FPS, you've done it wrong. Those are
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NTSC standards. Your capture hardware and software should have provided an option to capture at 720
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times 576 at 25 FPS. Didn't notice anything regarding handling the interlacing, or proper viewing
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of PAL material you want to de-interlace to 50p or 50 FPS, which is the FFM big
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MPEG filter EW diff can do very well. To which I respond, hi, Twixer. You are correct,
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but the whole point of these devices is that they are Mars produced to do all that for you.
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You don't need to configure anything. What you get out is JMPag 1080p 30 FPS per second,
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so 720p 80 is scaling the output of the MPEG 1080 down, is scaling the output MPEG 1080 down,
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not the source file itself, and to see why I point you to the technology connections video about it.
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And the whole thing there was that he was doing these conversion things and FFM Peggy and
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setting standards and worrying about de-interlacing, and then he plugged in a TV and it just
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upscaled automatically even better. And then it turns out that their mass produced chips on the
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market to deal with all this sort of stuff. It's all built in, it's all done in hardware,
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and then they've taken those chips and put them into these little devices. So it's the same chip
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that's in your big TV that does upscaling is the chips that are in this thing. So you throw
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anything at us and you get a good picture of it. So no more messing or worrying about
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all the crap that you do need to do for NTSC and PAL and PALI and PALF and PAL.
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God knows what. And is it recorded or not? So just plug it into this and it works.
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Cool, very cool. I might be sure to emphasize that a little bit more at the beginning of the
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episode what I was trying to do. Okay, Trouler Coaster talks about software freedom day and HPR,
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introduces who he is, blah, blah, blah, and software freedom day. Big thing to take on,
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big thing to take on the responsible for our projects, something like software freedom day,
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especially. So good look with that. Yeah, it's quite a challenge, I would think. It's impressive.
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It's something I would, if I had the time and stuff, I would help somebody else too, but
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no way would I initiate the thing myself, I think, but it's just too much. But yeah, it needs to be
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done. No doubt about it. Yeah, no doubt about it. And great stuff. Yeah, and there's more
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shows coming up as well. So let's move on. The goal card game, which was a card game for,
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for basically walks through how to play this card game. And it's kind of funny because I was,
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we have it here in the Netherlands and it is a fun game to play, but we don't say the,
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what was the word goalfish at the end. So it's kind of cool. Yeah, I'd heard of it. I've never played
|
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Amo a great one for card games, but yeah, it sounded really interesting,
|
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quite an interesting design, a fascinating way to construct a game, but I better be enormously
|
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frustrating if you were somebody who got annoyed, but you got, oh yeah, I'm doing, oh no,
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and then you'd, yeah, but you don't have to feel that way. It was our message, because you can still
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win. I find quite fascinating design. That's pretty good. And Devley says, not play this many years,
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I might have to introduce this game to the kids. I think they'll enjoy it. Thanks for this.
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Okay, so the following day we had a Archer 72 response to Ken's comment on HPR 417
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with hopefully enough detail. And yes, it was enough detail. Thank you very much, Archer 72.
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Proving, of course, the point that I think it'd be an episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's too long
|
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for a comment, and it's a show. Yep. And Devley, the love bug says, Bryce T-Shat,
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this is the, this is a report in fact that the Bryce voice that is, sounds, has got sort of
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the way it, it, it, it praises stuff. It's, well, he says it. You're talking about this.
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Let me read it. The Bryce voice almost perfectly imitate the intonation.
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We're in chat now, but not the voice. Maybe smart, but then I love Star Trek.
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The original series. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know the vocal hardcore, the original series.
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But yeah, yeah, it's, yeah, it was more the rhythm of the voice I thought was there. Was it,
|
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was the point with it? No, did I miss out? Yeah, it was the way he talks like this. Yeah, yeah,
|
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strange, strange sort of stuttering like, um, approach to it, but yeah, but I like the way,
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sorry, go ahead or no, no, I like that voice is all this. I like the way he used different voices
|
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in the, uh, as a, as a editorial thing within the show. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a good idea. You
|
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know, when he was reading out, they, one thing, when he was reading out in his own voice,
|
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air quotes, he was doing a one man, and then when he was commenting, he, uh, he used another voice.
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Very good. Oh, I like it. Yeah, that's good. That's a good stuff. I would be a bit concerned if the
|
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whole HPR turns into a text to speech we've had two of them this month, but let's see how it goes.
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Let's worry about it a little bit more. It's, yeah, I'm fine, fine with it. There's,
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the people have reasons to do it. That's fine. Boss, uh, to one people, like, making a
|
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bash script and scraping Wikipedia. Oh, well, you give me an idea. Oh, yeah.
|
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Any of, uh, episode six of the New Year's show was out. Uh, let's see, LibraVox,
|
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has your gaming podcast, pool, Steam Deck, Google Lens, loads of stuff. Yep. Okay. No comments on
|
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that one, though. And civilization part four, we look at our next game in civilization franchise,
|
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and there's no, uh, no feedback on that. Although I did, uh, I hope you were saying that there's a new,
|
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there's the next version of civilization is coming out. So the series may not be at an end after all.
|
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No, no, I misunderstood him. He, he, when he was saying this is the large show,
|
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he meant of that, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was thinking, oh, it's the end. Oh, that's a shame.
|
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And then this one probably, yeah, it's, uh, it's by saying the, the way this thing is evolving,
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it's, uh, it's not really evolving, but it is, is, is growing, you know, in a directed,
|
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directed way. But it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, must be appealing to, to people as these,
|
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is it grows and becomes more complex in all these different directions?
|
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Cool. Um, RKVM software, this is keyboard video mouse sharing. So, um, with the, with the
|
|
dawn of weland, a lot of the tools that were hacking the X servers no longer work. So this is one that
|
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does work RKVM. And, uh, yeah, uh, I don't know if I have enough, uh, it only works on Linux at the
|
|
moment. So, uh, but it's good to have that in your back pockets if you actually need it. Yeah, yeah,
|
|
yeah. No, it's, it's, uh, my days, if you're using such things as a long gone, um, it was using
|
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the server room to stand it amongst the racks and control things on, yeah, the racks that have
|
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the door shut and whatever. Um, but, uh, it, it, yeah, it's not a thing I use in that in my house,
|
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much forever. Um, but, uh, you know, you never know. Do you know how you've found out this week
|
|
that there are a lot of people who have never been in the data center. We've never racked,
|
|
racked a server, never seen any of that. Yeah. Interesting. When we were building hours, we used to,
|
|
yeah, she got a request from the local, went the local, um, uh, just some at ease.
|
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Could we come and have a look at your computer room? I don't know if they were impressed. I mean,
|
|
there was all sort of big, wushy things in cabinets and locks and locks of aircon and, yeah,
|
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to change floors with holes in it and all that stuff. And, uh, yeah. So they seem to be interested.
|
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They, they went away with smiles on their faces, but, uh, yeah, they're, they're, they're,
|
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they're pretty interesting places. Yeah. I think I do, I do as all just, yeah, somebody was
|
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nookin. They would never have done that. They were racking and stacking servers. Ah, go on.
|
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Okay, you know, that feeling we're gone. Okay, fine. You coughing have not done your time,
|
|
cough, cough. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The big, dull servers that we, we had, we needed two people to
|
|
lift them and put them on the rails and stuff. And, you know, cut your, yeah, suck it. Oh,
|
|
a hundred days, dude. A couple of bits inside the cabinets. I think this conversation proves that
|
|
we are old and crusty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm stupid for your sight, but, but,
|
|
the approach, I spent a lot of time at one point, um, going, oh, me and my team did, but I did
|
|
quite a lot of it going under the floor, not, not physically, but if you're not the floor and
|
|
finding that the people had laid, ethernet cables across the room and they'd all got tangled,
|
|
they were talking spectacular knots. Don't stop. Just to untangle them. Bye, goodness.
|
|
Under my house, I, I asked for a structure cabling in my house and I can't talk about it still.
|
|
Okay, moving on. Next day, replacing backup batteries for the Ken Road part due and the saga
|
|
continues, including ordering the wrong batteries, but, uh, ongoing fix, and all sorts of stuff.
|
|
Ah, it's a series. It's actually, it's quite good. It's an interesting, uh, interesting
|
|
adjustments that you made. And, uh, yeah, I know. And, uh, I have a radio, uh, a friend of mine in
|
|
work has got a, uh, radio for me from a friend of his. And he's not going to give it to me
|
|
and he's not going to pay the other guy until he's gone through and, you know, tuned and fixed
|
|
everything. And I'm going, if this is the amount of work that's involved in changing the battery,
|
|
he's going to go and check all the, all the filters and all the, uh, readings and everything else.
|
|
So, I, uh, I may have to get a nice good bottle of, uh, of his favorite whiskey.
|
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an on-trivial exercise. But, uh, yeah, I did, I was chatting to, to
|
|
ministrics. I said, if you've not got a head torch, how come you're not, because that, whenever I'm
|
|
in computers, I've always put one of these reasonably powerful pictures on, because I can't see
|
|
a thing. Why am I, is this so, so my eyes would be my cannot see, um, thing, yeah, yeah. I like the
|
|
torch balanced with the screwdriver. That's, that's pretty good. Yeah. So, Dave, the following day,
|
|
uh, and this is still, uh, that would show you the 28th, uh, why I happened recorded a HPR
|
|
episode, a meta, episode on how to record a HPR using audio, audio, audio, or phonic edit.
|
|
Which is a audio, uh, editor recorder for Android, which is good because I need a good, uh,
|
|
recording tool to be brutally honest with it. And, phonic, which is my last, because the last
|
|
barrier, if somebody sends in the show, and I know there's a room out there that we'll accept
|
|
anything. Yes, we will, but we also go to a lot of trouble to have the whole sending good shows.
|
|
And, uh, if it's not possible, we will try running stuff through audio, phonic to see if they can
|
|
clear it up. And they're usually, usually very, very good. Uh, sometimes even, even dollars shows
|
|
can't be, uh, rescued. And, you know, there's nothing to it, but ask the host to rerecord it.
|
|
Yeah. But, good show. Good show. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. Uh, I quite like shows with a bit of
|
|
ambient noise as well as something special about them. I think, you know, you can feel, oh, yeah,
|
|
I can visualize. Obviously you can't. It's quite nice to imagine. Oh, yeah. Where Dave's going
|
|
and what you're doing. Yeah. Good stuff. Uh, moving on. Get more user space from your system,
|
|
a tune to FS. This is, uh, this is a little tip from Delta ray again, um, where 10% is reserved
|
|
for the root file system, you know, the root user, in case something goes wrong with the system
|
|
is filling up, then, uh, the root user has still a space to create log files and log in and fix it.
|
|
So, uh, but with our huge turbine drives, the amount 10% is, is kind of overkill for
|
|
what, what is needed. So, this is a good way to rescue some additional just space. Good
|
|
to have in your back pocket. Absolutely. Actually, I've been in the situation where the disk is full
|
|
because, you know, something going on. Well, yeah, exactly. But, uh, but yeah, I'm not necessarily
|
|
these sorts of power systems, but nevertheless, the principle is a good one. Good to know.
|
|
And that's the end of the set shows for the month, but it's not going to the episode.
|
|
Because hang on, hang on, is that the last one? Because I'm putting to my chart. Oh,
|
|
oh, yeah, we have tomorrow 95 is, is, uh, is the last one this month, the worst tomorrow.
|
|
We've, we've let go of the, of the fact for recording this a day early. And, yeah,
|
|
this one is social engineering, more contributions to HBR by picking when you publish your show.
|
|
And, uh, so in this show, can experience where we're competing with other players and
|
|
entertainment industry. We have no control of our spy chain and rely on our hosts to consider
|
|
scheduling guidelines when uploading their show. And here are the scheduling guidelines. And I
|
|
got feedback as well. Uh, on this one, uh, privately that we should have these more prominent.
|
|
And indeed, I thought we did, but we actually don't, uh, but this is a thing that we tried before
|
|
to codify. Dave, remember, we had a community, um, on the mail on this. And at the time, the decision
|
|
was taken not to force, enforce these rules. Um, and yeah, basically the reason was,
|
|
you know, freedom, freedom. Um, but in actual fact, I, I do think the, when people schedule
|
|
according to these rules, it does encourage more contributions. And that's not just, uh, rhetorical.
|
|
It's, it's, uh, I think we could get the evidence to prove that if we, if we wanted to. But how do
|
|
you feel about it? Do you, you know, when you're looking at the queue and it's kind of filling up
|
|
according to the rules? Well, as, as a janitor, then you just think, well, it's filling up and it's
|
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a, some extent, as long as people are not putting in sort of two or three of their own shows in
|
|
one after the other, which, you know, it's a tends to, tends to be a little bit against the,
|
|
the, the general consensus. Um, well, no, the general consensus is that everybody can put
|
|
any shows wherever they want. That's the whole point. And we, janitors happen to not agree with that.
|
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I don't know what happened. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Your memory of it is better than mine, because I,
|
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I felt that the, the, the world at large was not keen on having shows too closely together,
|
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because we think like the positive shows you take up the entire week for, and I don't know how popular
|
|
that was. Yeah. Well, that's, that's true. That's true as well. But the, if you're a community
|
|
specifically on the mailing list in London. So there you go. Okay. Okay. So you have what we get
|
|
a feedback from the listeners or learners or whoever. And then we have what they, uh, what the
|
|
holes on the mailing list say, and we are janitors and we implement what's on the holes. But also
|
|
we're janitors, uh, who are running the network and have a fairly good understanding that if you
|
|
put four shows after each other on the same topic, in some cases, that's absolutely fine because
|
|
that's what's required at that, for that particular use case at that particular time. But by and
|
|
large, the rules are there, are there the guidelines are there, uh, for a reason that do help and
|
|
encourage shows for listen to the show itself to get an idea of, well, actually, I've got full show
|
|
and this again goes back to looking at HBO from the point of view of the business. Yeah. So
|
|
you look at it from point of view marketing and we looked at it from the point of view of, of
|
|
finance, but this is essentially, uh, the business that we're in and how you feed the queue, uh,
|
|
what control of our supply chain has and that's core and fundamental to any business. Uh, what is
|
|
it that you produce and produce and podcast? Where do we get them from? Random people on the internet.
|
|
We have no control on and how they come in and all and stuff. So yeah. Uh, so the only thing we,
|
|
the only thing we can do is encourage people to use the schedule and guidelines. So that's,
|
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that is it. But I was thinking about that day, actually, and even though
|
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I'm since that I've been wanting to put in the schedule and guidelines, but since then,
|
|
there are reasons why people would put in two shows more often than one every 10 days,
|
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which I did myself, uh, not this month, but last month, last month, last month. And, uh,
|
|
that was because I had two shows scheduled 10 days apart, right? And then there was an interview
|
|
about our camp. So it was important to get that out. So that blew that rule out of the water. Yeah.
|
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So there are reasons to do it. Yeah, yeah. That makes sense. I mean, had it been discussed with
|
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the community, I'm sure they were going to have all voted for doing exactly that, but because I know,
|
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but that was, uh, it was a, uh, a history schedule show and I wanted to reserve the site and I did
|
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and I posted the show, I violated the rule. Yeah. Uh, well, guidelines, which is why it's a guideline.
|
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But, you know, the guidelines also do say post interviews first. So, you know, it's in there.
|
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Um, but what we could do with the redesign is offer people the opportunity to go to, you know,
|
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like a big button went to schedule, right? And then, um, and the upload process in order to answer
|
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all these questions about they, um, about they went to fill it in and, and so we don't want too many
|
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from the same host and we don't want too many from the same, in the same series. So therefore,
|
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in order to be able to do this calculation, we would need to know what the host idea is. So,
|
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if they put in their email address and the series number, which would be a drop down list.
|
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Um, so if they put that in, we could then, um, help me schedule my show basically press a button
|
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and they could then, we could then send back an email with the options and why we picked that.
|
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So that is something we could do. I don't know what people will think of that. So, you know,
|
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uh, maybe is it timeless? Yes or no? You know, is there anything, is it an interview? Yes or no?
|
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Blah blah blah. So ask a few, ask a few simple questions on us. Uh, what's the host? And then we could,
|
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uh, we could then pick, pick the time for you. Yeah. Just going to be done programmatically if
|
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people were, were willing to do that. Is that it then Dave? Can I stop talking about shows?
|
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Did I think we can stop talking about shows? Yes, we've got comments to look at, but otherwise,
|
|
we're good. Okay. So, you're still with me? I'm still here. Yes. Uh, did you respond to your
|
|
episode? I did. I did. I did. Do you want to read all of those? Yep. And I'm in, well, let me read it
|
|
and that says what I was going to say. I'm deeply into project to restore all external files or
|
|
assets to HPR shows where they were lost in the server migration in 2023. This is me applying to
|
|
a, uh, show from 2016, uh, setting up my Raspberry Pi 3. And, uh, so continuing with the comment,
|
|
I just did this show, which is 2023 and reread the comments. Now, the Pi in question, I'd called
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RPI 5. I'm not very good at names. Um, and died during the pandemic in around 2031 or 2022.
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What failed? Well, the SSD did. The SD card is, it's fine. It seemed to be good,
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as far as I can make up. Not really used it much since then, but it wasn't dead. And Quett, and
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Beesard asked a question about why am I using an SSD? And, um, I said, well, it's probably more
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reliable. So I thought I should come clean and say, you know, I took this up, this pi up as a
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critical element in my home lab, but not noticed the backups haven't been working for a while. So
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when it, when it blew up, that was quite a lot of work went down, down the toilet. So, oh man.
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And I since learned that the quality of these media has a strong bearing on their lifetime.
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And this SSD was probably one of Amazon's cheapies at the time. So, you know, an important lesson
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was learned there, which is where I thought I'd share it. And also, she could point and go,
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anyway, but it's, it's also cool. This project has been going on so long that you can go back
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and comment on this, you know? Yeah, yeah. I won't be doing it very often. As I go through these
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old issues. So, um, Archers 72 had a ham radio testing study and testing for the AOR or
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Al American radio relay league, I think, for ham licenses. And Dave Lee, who is also a fellow amateur
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radio operator, only got round to listen to this one, probably a bit late to offer congratulations,
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but you have them anyway. I got my tickets in April 2021 at first level foundation in the UK.
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It's been a wild ride and I learned so much in the last three and a half years. I'd love to hear
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more on HPR about your journey into amateur radio. I did a podcast back in 2021 that you might
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appreciate. If you haven't heard it, just ask your three, four, seven, three, seven, three,
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D-E, Dave, M7, Tango, Limo, Bravo. They'll look out.
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We have a comment two, four or three, six, which is the till diverse from
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Odin Miranda, Dave Lee, again, saying raw text. He said, I joined the till diverse, a while
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black, a while back on rawtext.club. It was a very small and intimate server. The till diverse
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is a great way to get involved in the community and you get to meet some interesting people too.
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Very good. Very good. Don't worry. I had to show powers of two. A story about the discussion
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around knowing the powers of two can be useful. Mandiga says,
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nice show and interesting hearing some of the applications or limitations. I share a similar
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interest which grew mostly from seeing VGA versus EGA versus CGA on old dust games.
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I-I-R-C, it was two, six, two, one, four, four, two, three, seven, six, eight, and four,
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oh, nine, six, two to the power six, two to the power five, and two to the power four,
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per channel, CGA implementations using RGBI. And if none of that makes any sense to you,
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you need to go back and listen to 40 and 96. Yeah, yeah. Yes, it's funny how fascinating these
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numbers can be. Yeah, exactly. I'm not really numerous, but I do find these things quite fascinating.
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I so, I think today we're just on Macedon, actually, right before the show,
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where WhatsApp has increased the group number to 256. So there we go.
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Yeah, that's a good number. So we have a comment on not least specific though. Yes,
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Cedric De Bruy show 4135, mining the web. We have a comment from a reply from Cedric himself.
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In some times, since I posted this, and I hadn't noticed these comments before,
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he'd had a few comments on this show. Norris says, he is saying to Norris, I would see
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to make a follow up this month and get a bit deeper into how the stuff was built.
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It was quite an innovative way of doing what he was doing. Henrik Hemmerin, thanks for your
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support. And to Hobbes, there are a number of alternatives available for this. Most famous is
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probably DNS enum in UM, which also gets shipped with Cali Linux. Go, go, go, go. And Badger 2040,
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like Kevin says, Kevin discusses experience with Badger 2040 from Pymori. And Ken von says,
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I am weak for I have so come to the temptation to have a custom badge at Spectrum 24 and I'll count.
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Can you hear that? Can you hear that folks? There it is. There it is. Finally, oh my god,
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trying to get it from you. Trying to get anything for Brexit landslabs. Oh, it's a pain in the
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boutox. Yeah, yeah. Like they fill in a form and go back and forth and it was stuck somewhere
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and it would be shipped today and then it won't be. It was a pain. I had hope to have it
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for my trip to India because that will be cool. But didn't manage. I just broke business cards.
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So cool, cool, cool. That's the that's the common search of the way mailing this discussions was
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trying. The entire audio archive is broken. Sorry, if it comes to you thrice, I've only just joined
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the mailing list and I'm not sure the first attempt posting was successful. My pipe catcher is
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subscribed to the entire audio feed. I was not able to update since the 19th of July and gives
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the results about parsing her to which Todd helpful to which Todd pointed out the one that was
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causing the issue, which is a seed data. And I said thanks Todd for the help. This is the known
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issues all but ready repaired prior to release. We're trying to identify what it is reoccurring.
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So it doesn't happen again. We picked this up a mic and I want one to keep the traffic down on
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the list and we opened bug issue number 50 to track it. Anyone wanting to follow along can do so
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over there. And the feed is now working. Yeah, I don't know how I say thanks. Yeah, still
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no one appeared. No, I don't know. Did we do? Did we put stuff into us into a show notes that
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hadn't gone through the normal channels? No, no, we because we have this bug.
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Remember, it took me ages to figure out what it was. We fixed it and put it back into the database.
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I'm really, really suspicious of the database. It seems to be. Yeah, I think it seems to be restoring
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stuff. Yeah, it seems to be going back in time by sometimes a few minutes or half a day or
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something. Yeah, but this one was eight years old. We had this like on the one we posted this,
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the future feed failed, future feed failed say that a few times. And we had to go in and fix this
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but yeah, yeah, we fixed it now this time by like taking that stuff out and putting those as
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a separate file, which I think we need to do anymore like try not to send code, big done things
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to code, and just refer to it in your show notes. If it comes in as a separate file in my
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processes will handle it fine. But yeah, if you say, oh, it's in the note and I'd like it to be
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put somewhere else and then links me to that gives me a slide. Well, that's asking you to edit.
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I also find this. Maybe we should do a shortive about when we're coming down from Scotland,
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actually, just about the stuff that we've, you know, the stuff I was saying in the training.
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That's, you know, those talk of AI and I was going, we're never going to be replaced because I am,
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I am super amazed at how people can break stuff. And every single time they do, it's perfectly
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logical. It's yeah, it's like, of course, I can absolutely see why you would do that. And then
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we have to fix that, you know, or change it. Yeah, it's I feel like that to the boy in the
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dyke, you know, I rushed across and put my finger and maybe got a cork and stuck it in and then,
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you know, there's another one just down there, we're going to do that. I'm going to have learned
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learning about detecting leaks and and and my cork supply is working quite well. But, you know,
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it's very much like that. It's, it's a, it's whack I'm over. Yeah, it's cool. It's good stuff though.
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It is fun. It is fun. Yeah, yeah, it's fun. It's fun. It's fun in all sorts of ways.
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Except on the days when you think, oh, go ahead and do this. Or when the shit storms come,
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I just can't be dealing with that sometimes, you know, always just at the worst possible time when
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you're tired and whatever, managing shit storms. I need to do a show on the commenting,
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common system because I think the commenting system has been unjustly targeted as
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because it's doing, fecking exactly what it's supposed to do, Dave, which is blocking spam,
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primary function, blocking spam, how many spam messages have gotten through since we've
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implemented the commenting system, Dave. I think there are. I know there's no reason. There's
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no reason to write where where I've been. This is a human. I know this is a human, but this is a
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human threading touching the water and putting their toe in to see exactly what we're doing. So,
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anyway, I have done in this series of meta episodes, I've done a few, the two this month,
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in the next one will be on the commenting system and why I believe it is, in fact, fit for purpose.
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Then we have a call for help at Spectrum24 and also a.com. So, again, put up or shut up,
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if you are saying we're continuing with it, if you are saying that the best way to communicate with
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people is one to one things and you are either of these conferences or could come to help out for
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a little while or either of these conferences, then please come and help because that would be
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pretty cool and it wouldn't be just down to us. Because we in HPR does not mean we as a community
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and then just tell Ken and Dave to do it, yeah. We means you help out as well. Yeah.
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Are there going to be tables of camp? You know, there aren't, but there's going to be the room and
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we can sit around at a table. So, we're having a booth of camp. Yeah. What the point is, you go to
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these conferences and you spread the word. Yeah, you're actively doing stuff and believe me,
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going to these conferences is important. If we get on the list, then it's a reference to
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this talk was given at this place. This project is HPR by that person. It's documented evidence
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outside of self-referential things that we're doing. It will get interest into the project.
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It has the project to be taken more seriously, et cetera, et cetera. And I will say as well,
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when I was in India and I was handing out those business cards, I was a bit concerned about the
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shows that would be coming up during that week that would be sprawled across the front page.
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So, you know, that is something if there was just happened to be a controversial show on that day
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when I was demoing it. I did not have the feeling of being comfortable with it. I had to go and
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look in the upcoming shows and see which shows were coming out and was there anything embarrassing
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that would be coming out at that time. So, the way to, of course, tackle that is that our
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front page is more about community. There will be some links to the titles of the shows and those
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shows, of course, will be available if you're actively going into look at them. But, yeah, a little
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bit more, a little bit more professional there on the thingy. Headlines rather than content.
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Headlines rather than content. And we do control the headlines. We edit out naughty words and stuff
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from the headlines. So, that's fine that you know, again, it's, it's unoffensive to anybody in the
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world. That's the thing. What you say in the show itself is fine. So, as long as another
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offensive end is goal of sharing knowledge, I guess. But, as far as the rest is concerned,
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when you hit the landing page, it should be more about what the project is. You should, yeah,
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wear a podcast and hear over here in the corner as it shows and how you can listen to them.
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But, where about this? Where about this? This is our values. This is our code of conduct. This is
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which, basically, will be one line respect each other. Be respectful. Yeah. But time to do that.
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And I still, two weeks' time, I have this spectrum 24 thing and I don't have my presentation
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written. I'm not panicking, Dave. I have like dreams of like, yeah, when I'm in India, I love
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loads of time, you know, but they're in the room and evening. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Really worked out that way. Now it's good because others are basically selling HBO or
|
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a tiny buddy, anybody in some cool stuff. Actually, one of the guys did a project, Arduino project on,
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on using LEDs to look into the soil to see how much nutrients and stuff was in the soil. So,
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cool. Wow. Banging away at that. But, yeah, my tribe library, here's the Raspberry Pi, if you
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send me a show. Yeah. Okay. Any other business? Hit me with them. Right. Well, there's only one
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thing really. And it's just me putting out some A number, actually. The notes are supposed to
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have been refreshed by the time we get. Well, they will be by the time this goes live. So,
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I've been throwing a table in there saying how many shows I've done just for my own benefit,
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really. But since I started and I've had a bit of a breakfast now, of course, it's really
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tiring doing this. There were 350 shows that needed to be repaired in quotes as I'm calling it.
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And I've done 252 of them. Wow. I did them by the 25th. And I've been doing five a day. And so,
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that leaves a hundred to be done. So, it's the worst hundred. But we're getting there. We're getting
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there. And so, yeah, I won't do anything more or say anything more than, you know, we're doing it.
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If you spot anything. Yeah. If you spot anything that says click here to see your see this file
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and it ain't there, then tell us because it's slipped through the net and we can repair it.
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Yeah. We're also fighting an uphill battle with a stuffed disappears on the internet and stuff.
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Yeah. Oh, absolutely. The older ones are showing up all of the links that are now dead.
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Yeah. You know, is that the time to go through and dig through and do way back machine calls
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and stuff? I don't know. No, I don't know. Finish this first. And then too many projects that
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go in on at once. Absolutely. Too much for older. Oh, I sold crusties. Yeah. Yeah.
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There's a lot. There's a lot to do, Dave. They, you know, they we do the audio, we do they,
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and we could just take it and you know, pack it up there on the site and just leave it off. But
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it's about improving the quality of everything as well. And I see it as a sort of archival
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project to this particular bit of it, you know, so yeah. Good. Good, good, good, good, good. So, yes,
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by the time, perry, perry. What is it? I mean, I'm not going to panic about that.
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I need to do my expenses, Dave. I shouldn't be doing this show. I need to do my expenses. That's
|
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what I need to do. Yep. Right. That's it folks. Sorry if this was a bit of a bitch in session,
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but you know, we're human too here at HPR. So tune in tomorrow for a little exciting episode of Hacker
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and public radio. You can see radio, Dave. Oh, I did, but I forgot to say I told you I can't
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remember a press. The speech folks just did. Talk about crusty. I don't know. Yeah. Oh,
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we've got to mention just a big thing. Speaking of crusties. No, no. Proposal for
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to make archer 72 and some kindly internet admins on the matrix channel.
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That's faces. They're doing the, they're doing a double make a good show. Hey, that's a good show.
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That's a good show. We do. You should do that show. Hey, let's do a series. Let's talk.
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The terrible. Yeah. But that is the job. Yeah. That's the job. You're there,
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chocking away. And if somebody mentions something, they're not like a flash. So it's good. It's
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it's really good actually because yourself and myself are in the European time zone. And then
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those guys cover the other time zone. So even if somebody in Australia puts in a question,
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they don't have to wait too long before one of us, you know, answers or at least, you know,
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forwards on those one case were forwarded onto me. And I know I was able to talk to people
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and guess it's sorted. So that's good. So that sort of thing is good. And we have Norrist,
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who's already in admin, who we're going to be, who's going to be doing the janitor for the matrix
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stuff. And how have we spoken about that? Did we? We, it was mentioned when the idea was first
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brought up, I think, wasn't it? Yeah, but since then, about the, because I had some, I had a whole
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of issues about it with how we do with licensing and all the other stuff. And then I'm thinking
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about it since then. Oh, yeah. And that was about the about people, there's the poor show,
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whether or not. So the question is, right, are we allowed to take your comments onto the creative
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common CCBSA license? I'll put them into our database and distribute them like so. Or not.
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Because, you know, the idea behind the fedaverse is that they messages are
|
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if they're really in federal support, they disappear. Yeah. Yeah. And so some people might like
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to like that. So therefore, there's a question of permissions. Do you want us to use? Do you want
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communication with us to the HBR thing? To be, yeah, I was in the generous channel, actually,
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that's why. Which we use all the time guys, surprise, surprise. So what is your, what platforms do
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we support? So we support email, obviously. We want to support Masterdog, what about Twitter,
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what about Facebook Messenger, and all the other ones, new ones that come in the next 19 years.
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So there's going to be a relationship table there associated with that. And then there will
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probably be, you know, are we actively using that as a communication channel? And then as,
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as we gather these handles, all of you, there's going to be the, we're required then under the GDPR
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to, to get your consent. And then under the Creative Commons license, if you give us your consent,
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then if you take your consent away, then you won't be releasing shows under the Creative Commons.
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So I said, so it gets messy. So that work is ongoing. That work is ongoing.
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So more shows, right, shall we do it again? Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode
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of Hacker. Public. Press your key. Radio. Radio. I should do it in an old crusty voice. Radio.
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You, your limbs, your hands are right. Constantly. Okay Dave, thanks very much. Okay, no.
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