Hacker Public Radio
742 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 33 ratingsHacker Public Radio is an podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that are of interest to hackers and hobbyists.
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HPR4100: Charleston, South Carolina
April 19, 2024 00:00 - 5.84 MBCharleston, South Carolina is a classic Southern city which had a past as a wealthy city, in large part due to slavery, and was active in the American Revolution before becoming the starting place of the Civil War. Links https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvQKR https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvQY6 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvS82 https://www.palain.com/travel/rv-trip-2022-2023-southeast-us/charleston-south-carolina/
HPR4099: Introducing Home Automation and Home Assistant
April 18, 2024 00:00 - 7.61 MBHome Automation, The Internet of things. This is the first episode in a new series called Home Automation. The series is open to anyone and I encourage everyone to contribute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home. A home automation system will monitor and/or control home attributes such as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security s...
HPR4098: Road trips without GPS
April 17, 2024 00:00 - 3.93 MBThis was an unscheduled recording I made after my GPS failed part way into a long cross country trip. I did not make any notes. :( Effectively, this is a "Back in my day" old man rant.
HPR4097: Will they take our jobs? Of course they will.
April 16, 2024 00:00 - 16.2 MBJust me explaining why I think the robots will take our jobs.
HPR4096: Powers of two
April 15, 2024 00:00 - 8.43 MB2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072 262144 524288 1048576 2097152 4194304 8388608 16777216 33554432 67108864 134217728 268435456 536870912 1073741824 2147483648 4294967296 8589934592 17179869184 34359738368 68719476736 137438953472 274877906944 549755813888 1099511627776 2199023255552 4398046511104 8796093022208 17592186044416 35184372088832 70368744177664 140737488355328 281474976710656 562949953421312 1125899906842624 2251799813685248 4503599627370496 90...
HPR4095: Twenty seven years of Linux
April 12, 2024 00:00 - 21.1 MBThe programs and software I mentioned in this episode: XFCE Monad Gnome Firefox XFCE Terminal KiTTY Cool Retro Term GIMP Gnumeric Thunar Hypnotix Flameshot Mousepad Inkscape pavucontrol (Pulse Audio) pipewire keepassxc Blender FreeCAD SimpleScreenRecorder VirtualBox KVM Rhythmbox Gramps qv4l2 (Webcam control) Godot Krita Arduino IDE nerd-dictation Yoshimi Carla Audacity Rosegarden Hydrogen VCV Rack 2 Stardew Valley Steam Minecraft SimCity 2000 SimCity ...
HPR4094: One year of Linux
April 11, 2024 00:00 - 8.57 MBIn this episode I go through the pros and cons of running Linux when you switch over from a Windows machine. I'll cover topics like: Speed Simplicity Configuration Games Updates and much more. Links YouTube video
HPR4093: Installing postmarketOS on a PINE64 PinePhone
April 10, 2024 00:00 - 4.06 MBShownotes: postmarketOS website: https://postmarketos.org/ pmOS image download page: https://postmarketos.org/download/ pmOS wiki page for PINE64 PinePhone: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone) JumpDrive: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive JumpDrive images (does not currently support PinePhone Pro!): https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases Explanation of "pine64-pinephone-charging" image: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embed...
HPR4092: More man-talk.
April 09, 2024 00:00 - 9.56 MBMore man-talk. Sgoti talks about using bidets and other things. Good heavens! Tags: mens health, bidets, fiber Source: hellotushy: We’re a team of toilet crusaders, fighting for clean bums and reduced global wastefulness. Supporting source: hellotushy: TUSHY Classic 3.0 Source: metamucil: Metamucil is the only leading fiber supplement that contains natural psyllium fiber. Supporting source: metamucil: Metamucil Real Sugar Orange Smooth Powder. Supporting source: wikipedia: Dietary fib...
HPR4091: Test Driven Development Demo
April 08, 2024 00:00 - 13 MBTest Driven Development Demo with PyTest TDD Discussed in hpr4075 Write a new test and run it. It should fail. Write the minimal code that will pass the test Optionally - refactor the code while ensure the tests continue to pass PyTest Framework for writing software tests with python Normally used to test python projects, but could test any software that python can launch return input. if you can write python, you can write tests in PyTest. python assert - check that something is t...
HPR4090: Playing Civilization III, Part 1
April 05, 2024 00:00 - 7.52 MBThis starts our look at the details of playing Civilization III. This was a great advance on Civilization II, and we will see how this happens as we look at the Cities, and at the terrain types on the tiles. Links: https://www.civfanatics.com/ https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Apolyton_Civilization_Site https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization_III/Terrain https://www.palain.com/gaming/civilization-iii/playing-civilization-iii-part-1/
HPR4087: Getting started with the digiKam photo management software
April 02, 2024 00:00 - 3.8 MBGetting started with the digiKam photo management software. In hpr4071 I talked about my migration from Adobe Photoshop Elements and Lightroom to digiKam. Today I will give you some suggestions to getting started with digiKam, based on my experience and my opinion. You find the digiKam website at https://www.digikam.org/. On the documentation page you find a good and exhaustive documentation. The big user manual can be read online or downloaded as an epub book. I suggest you browse the m...
HPR4086: HPR Community News for March 2024
April 01, 2024 00:00 - 28.1 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } hr.thin { border: 0; height: 0; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); } New hosts Welcome to our new host: Henrik Hemrin. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4065 Fri 2024-03-01 Framework 13 (13th gen Intel) review Noodlez 4066 Mon 2024-03-04 HPR Community News for February 2024 HPR Volunteers 4067 Tue 2024-03-05 Hacking AI Models to Protect your...
HPR4085: Android User Land Google Assistant GPT
March 29, 2024 00:00 - 15.5 MBAndroid no ads on brower and youtube with youtube sponsorblock ! https://youtu.be/JKUmM9r63F8 Use gpt4-turbo with Tasker Chat GPT goto Chat GPT > Tasks > ChatGPT Set GPT Version > then change the varable Set from gpt-4 to whatever gpt-4-1106-preview see use gpt4 turboe openai ripp all https://taskernet.com/?public&time=AllTime I will add to show notes when it's done .. lol ...
HPR4084: Cloud learning
March 28, 2024 00:00 - 5.3 MBI talk about my experience trying to run some GPU tasks online in order to train a model. I've tried all the large cloud providers we have out there and some of them were easier to work with, and some of them impossible.
HPR4083: Drivecast: Man-talk.
March 27, 2024 00:00 - 4.58 MBDrivecast: Man-talk. Sgoti discusses men's issues, while driving. Tags: Drivecast, man-talk, mens health Source: Human male reproductive system Supporting Source: Human penis In human anatomy, the penis is an external male sex organ (intromittent organ) that additionally serves as the urinary duct. Supporting Source: Urethra The urethra is a tube that connects the urinary bladder to the urinary meatus for the removal of urine from the body of both females and males. This work is lice...
HPR4082: No swans at Swanston
March 26, 2024 00:00 - 21.2 MBIntroduction Hosts: MrX Dave Morriss We recorded this on Saturday February 25th 2024. Our favourite pub for lunch, The Steading, seemed to have closed since we were last there. Research into what was going on led to the information that the company owning this and several other pubs in the area was selling them all. We decided to try another place in the Pentland Hills area, and went to the Brasserie at Swanston Farm for lunch, which was pretty good. After lunch we as usual adjourned t...
HPR4081: The Oh No! News.
March 25, 2024 00:00 - 6.16 MBThe Oh No! news. Oh No! News is Good News. TAGS: Oh No News, Threat analysis, QNAP Threat analysis; your attack surface. Source: QNAP warns of critical auth bypass flaw in its NAS devices. The Taiwanese Network Attached Storage (NAS) device maker disclosed three vulnerabilities that can lead to an authentication bypass, command injection, and SQL injection. CVE-2024-21899: If exploited, the improper authentication vulnerability could allow users to compromise the security of the system ...
HPR4080: Georgia to South Carolina
March 22, 2024 00:00 - 4.89 MBSavannah, Georgia is one of the most beautiful cities in the United States, with a great history. It is one of the older cities in the south that actually escaped destruction in the Civil War because the mayor surrendered the city to General Sherman. After visiting this city, we moved just a bit further north to Charleston, South Carolina, where the Civil War began with the assault on Fort Sumter. Links: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvHR5 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvKgk https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvP...
HPR4079: The Corresponding Source
March 21, 2024 00:00 - 8.79 MBThe Corresponding Source The Corresponding Source (formerly Free as in Freedom) is a bi-weekly oggcast, hosted and presented by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler. The discussion includes legal, policy, and many other issues in the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Occasionally, guests join Bradley and Karen to discuss various topics regarding FLOSS. The Corresponding Source is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Taranti...
HPR4078: Learning to read music, part two: pitch
March 20, 2024 00:00 - 6.92 MBYou can download the accompanying visual handout/crib sheet for this episode and its predecessor (where we cover rhythm) from here: https://enistello.info
HPR4077: FFMPEG Series: Joining and Splitting files
March 19, 2024 00:00 - 4.91 MBFFMPEG Series Part 2: Joining and Splitting files Joining Files Link: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate For lossless files of the same codecs ffmpeg -i "concat:input1.ts|input2.ts|input3.ts" -c copy output.ts For mp4 files, using intermediate files ffmpeg -i input1.mp4 -c copy intermediate1.ts ffmpeg -i input2.mp4 -c copy intermediate2.ts ffmpeg -i "concat:intermediate1.ts|intermediate2.ts" -c copy output.ts Brief explanation of the options used in the command: -i: input -c c...
HPR4076: WLED House Lights!
March 18, 2024 00:00 - 16.6 MBVideo: https://rmccurdy.com/.scripts/PROJECT365/PROJECT365%20PROJECT%20365%20WLED.mp4 PROJECT365 PROJECT 365 WLED https://rmccurdy.com/.scripts/PROJECT365/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YLvVe2cgYSOTAWW47eK1Yp_K96ysCAQQDUmvkoqPbow/edit?usp=sharing Project365 https://rmccurdy.com/.scripts/PROJECT365/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y1NmHzS1OoQ3XDt48HXQC7AKnFjQGsQ9O8UTJvUXPgk/edit?usp=sharing
HPR4075: Making a Pomodoro Timer
March 15, 2024 00:00 - 9.7 MBMaking a Pomodoro Timer Slacking Off at work I get distracted Easy My mind drifts if I try to focus on a single task For more than 20-30 Minutes. If I try to fight the urge to just keep working my productivity goes way down. I end up working for a bit, then slacking off for half an hour. I can get more work done If I embrace my limitation and force myself to take a break. Pomodoro Technique From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique The Pomodoro Technique is a t...
HPR4074: Jade Empire
March 14, 2024 00:00 - 3.41 MBI love the story-based games and experiences. Jade Empire is based in the past in China or Japan, and you will be following this martial artist searching for their kidnapped trainer. Links Wikipedia page: Jade Empire
HPR4073: Is the 1990 documentary "Cyberpunk" worth watching today?
March 13, 2024 00:00 - 3.52 MBIn the podcast episode, I mention my HD restoration on archive.org, however I found an even better restoration on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ZsbMXYigewI for those not allergic to the platform.
HPR4072: Piper text to speech engine
March 12, 2024 00:00 - 3.58 MBUsing Piper Github Piper Piper Github Thorsten-Voice Thorsten-Voice Github README Piper Github README Videos Create your AI digital voice clone locally with Piper TTS | Tutorial Create voice clone with Piper Thorsten-Voice Thorsten Mueller Voices Voice repo Piper voices Voice sample testing Voice sample testing Clone voices Clone this model repository Make sure you have git-lfs installed Git lfs (Large filesystem) In my case on Fedora 39 sudo dnf install git-lfs | teel...
HPR4071: Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM)
March 11, 2024 00:00 - 4.45 MBI talk about my migration from Adobe Photoshop Elements to digiKam as photo catalog software, or DAM Digital Asset Management as it often is referred to nowadays. My latest was release 14 which I bought 2015, which also was when I migrated from Windows to macOS. Photoshop Elements is without hesitation a good software. One major drawback is that is a proprietary software from which I cannot export data on my conditions. After a few of years on release 14 the geotagging stopped working. Th...
HPR4070: Civilization III
March 08, 2024 00:00 - 8.03 MBThis starts our look at Civilization III, which continued the Civilization franchise and followed upon the Alpha Centauri game. This game builds upon the concepts already a part of Civilization, but adds some new features and advancements. Every new version of Civiliation has pushed new concepts and developed the franchise further, and that is one reason why each one has been a best-seller and an award winner. Links: https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Unique_unit_(Civ3) https://civiliza...
HPR4069: Passwords and Bitwarden news.
March 07, 2024 00:00 - 6.13 MBPasswords and Bitwarden news. Sgoti talks about passwords and Bitwarden. TAGS: Bitwarden, Passwords, News Source: Bitwarden adds a new auto-fill option right inside form fields Highly requested by the Bitwarden community, the new inline autofill menu greatly enhances the user experience, enabling users to fill login credentials faster than ever. Extensive third-party penetration testing was conducted to identify security gaps prior to release. Source: How password security best practice...
HPR4068: Replacing a lightbulb in a microwave Oven
March 06, 2024 00:00 - 10.1 MBWarning: Microwave Ovens contain lethal voltages and components within the microwave oven can store lethal voltages for many hours after it is unplugged. Please only attempt this if you are qualified to do so. Show Notes: As I explained in the episode the bulb within our microwave oven failed after 10 years of use. It is surprising how difficult it is to determine how well the food is cooked without illumination. I therefore decided to have a go at replacing the internal light bulb. Pict...
HPR4067: Hacking AI Models to Protect your Livelihood
March 05, 2024 00:00 - 9.38 MBI wanted to share with HPR peeps four ways to hack our robot/corporate overlords: Fawkes - named for Guy Fawkes, the face mask of anonymous and hackers around the world Glaze - a digital paint curing process to protect your art Nightshade, a software blue pill you can hide in your digital creations so that any AI consuming your work without your permission will also consume your blue pill and be sucked into a world of endless hallucinations Agalmic organizations, the future of AI busines...
HPR4066: HPR Community News for February 2024
March 04, 2024 00:00 - 32.3 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } hr.thin { border: 0; height: 0; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); } New hosts Welcome to our new host: geospart. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4044 Thu 2024-02-01 Advent of code day 11-21 catchup Daniel Persson 4045 Fri 2024-02-02 My Macbook Pro 15" 2015 swift110 4046 Mon 2024-02-05 HPR Community News for January 2024 HPR Volunteers 4...
HPR4065: Framework 13 (13th gen Intel) review
March 01, 2024 00:00 - 9.45 MBFramework 13 (13th gen Intel edition) Review General Takeaways Overall very good Hackable Good build quality Good keyboard Good screen Okay webcam and microphone A bit noisy fan, but not obnoxious Good performance Good OS compatibility Okay trackpad Great portability I love the expandability the expansion cards provide. USB-C everywhere! Possible Cons for people looking into it (non-issues for me) Expansion cards can be difficult to remove, so those who struggle with those ki...
HPR4064: Large Language Models
February 29, 2024 00:00 - 6.4 MBIn this episode I talk about different machine learning models and their application and what I think is good about the situation we have now and where I think we will end up in the future if we aren't careful
HPR4063: Re: ChatGPT Output is not compatible with CC-BY-SA
February 28, 2024 00:00 - 12.9 MBdnt offers an opinion on Ken's show about ChatGPT content being incompatible with the CC-BY-SA license. I don't disagree that it is incompatible, but I don't think it means a show containing chatGPT output can't be licensed under CC-BY-SA and posted on HPR, because not only is the host not able to place any restrictions over the chatGPT output, but rather no one is. References, in order of appearance: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3983/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/2024012...
HPR4062: HPR Music Series? - How will it go for the girl and me?
February 27, 2024 00:00 - 8.58 MBFred Black teaches a tune called "Hur ska det gå för jänta och mig", which translates to "How will it go for the girl and me" It was played on a Nyckelharpa, or Key fiddle, and the key is G major
HPR4061: Setup a Pi-hole
February 26, 2024 00:00 - 11.2 MBKevie, a co-host of TuxJam, talks about setting up a Raspberry Pi as a network wide ad and domain blocker using the Pi-hole project. Before starting this project you will need: A Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS installed and SSH enabled A basic knowledge of changing the settings on your router. I can't talk you through this as every router is different. Specifically you need to know how to give a device a static IP address and set a DNS server The ability to use SSH Once we have SSH'd...
HPR4060: Florida to Georgia
February 23, 2024 00:00 - 6.28 MBWe finish up our visit to Kennedy Space Center with one more day at the Center. Then we spend a few days at St. Augustine before leaving Florida and moving up north to Savannah, Georgia Links: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvzyo https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvzD3 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvFon https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvFAg https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahuka/52747902453/in/album-72177720306712627/ https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvHR5 https://www.palain.com/travel/rv-trip-2022-2023-southeast-us/florida-to-ge...
HPR4059: the southern cross
February 22, 2024 00:00 - 6.3 MBintro trying to keep hpr going encourage people not to be content is better than quality last show audio southern cross brief history talking electronics TEC-1, 1983, i think it was influenced by kim-1 although the kim-1 was released by MOS the 6502 designers in 1976 as a way to get people using the 6502 processor. TEC-1 was designed specifically to get the ordinary bloke involved with computers. Cris Jones https://github.com/crsjones/Southern-Cross-Computer-z80 https://youtu.be/AK2F...
HPR4058: Radio Thermometer
February 21, 2024 00:00 - 3.07 MB# If you ever want to make this code better, please do # but for the love of God, please save this code first. # It is written in circuitpython to prevent the need # to compile code, and the RFM69 does not work with # micropython. import board import analogio import digitalio from time import sleep import math import adafruit_rfm69 import busio RoomNum = 10 # What room number is this in SenderRoom = 10 # What room number reports to the receiver RoomQuant = 12 # How many rooms are there Re...
HPR4057: Raspberry Pi and astro imaging
February 20, 2024 00:00 - 14.8 MBAs I mentioned back in HPR 3857 "Yesterday I saw a flare" I have put together a way to take images and video through my telescopes, and more. You can do so too for under £100, assuming you have your own telescope, or add on another £40 for a nice lens for the HQ camera instead of a telescope. Items mentioned during this recording include: Raspberry Pi Zero W Raspberry Pi HQ Camera C/CS mount lens for HQ Camera Coronado PST Solar telescope Meade ETX-90EC - a good telescope in its day an...
HPR4056: Helping with back pain
February 19, 2024 00:00 - 4.94 MBFor years Kevie, a co-host of TuxJam, has suffered from lower back pain, and for the first time he's discovered something that actually helps. Hear his thoughts on the Advanced Back Pro: Back Support Belt by Copper Fit. The track included on this show is Blackpaper - Triple Paf
HPR4055: Four agalmic AI applications to protect you from greedy corporations
February 16, 2024 00:00 - 9.38 MB4 AI applications I learned about today. Fawkes: an application that can protect you from facial recognition software. It's named for Guy Fawkes, the face of hackers that call themselves Anonymous. page https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/ code https://github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes Glaze: a digital artwork hardening application to protect artists from deep fakes code https://github.com/EspacioLatente/Glaze paper https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ravenben/publications/pdf/glaze-usenix23...
HPR4054: CyberPunk 2077
February 15, 2024 00:00 - 3.8 MBI love the story-based games and experiences. CyberPunk 2077 is based in the future, and you will be following this bounty hunter and their struggles to make a difference in Night City. Links Wikipedia page: CyberPunk 2077
HPR4053: Third Party Integrations
February 14, 2024 00:00 - 5.98 MBOauth 2 - https://oauth.net/ Public APIs - https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis Zapier - https://zapier.com/ Postman - https://www.postman.com/
HPR4052: How I got in to Linux / Micro Edition
February 13, 2024 00:00 - 2.94 MBJust a really short show on how I got started in Linux back in the olden days.
HPR4051: MSI Gungnir 110R Review
February 12, 2024 00:00 - 10.8 MBKevie from the TuxJam podcast takes a look at the PC case offering from MSI called Gungnir 110R. Following his search for a new case, Kevie went over the pros and cons of this particular model. The hope is that following this show you will decide if this is a suitable case for you. In true TuxJam fashion, the show includes a creative commons music track: Cased - Cased in a Shell
HPR4014: Post-Quantum Cryptography Update 1st November 2023
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 5.25 MBIn May of 2023 a guide was published by NIST that aimed to guide IT Professionals and Security Officers on steps to take as we move into a world where Quantum computing has made traditional cryptography and security measures obsolete. This is their take on a best practices manual, and if you are in security or are an IT professional it merits a good look. And it is only 4 pages long, so you can do it easily. Links: https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/pqc-migration-nist-s...
HPR4013: Smart Watches gross
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 14.5 MBI talk about my setup and issues with smart watches