Hacker Public Radio
765 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 13 hours 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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HPR4142: A Shared Shell History With Atuin
June 18, 2024 00:00 - 13.4 MBIn this episode Marcus / mnw walks you through the install and initial configuration of a shell history replacement called Atuin. My first show I'm quite nervous! Config Options These are the settings suggested to change in the config file ~/.config/atuin/config.toml auto_sync = true style = "compact" inline_height = 10 enter_accept = false Trouble Shooting Is my postgresql working ? psql -d "postgres://atuin:[email protected]:5432/atuin" -c "select now()" Is my service running...
HPR4141: Picade Console
June 17, 2024 00:00 - 7.59 MBContinuing his series talking about some of his Raspberry Pi projects, TuxJam co-host Kevie talks about his recent experience with the Picade Console from Pimoroni.
HPR4140: Battery and Charging Technology 2024
June 14, 2024 00:00 - 7.79 MBIt is obvious to most people that we need to stop burning fossil fuels to prevent even worse global climate change. Options like solar panels and windmills are options for providing clean renewable electricity, but since so much of our fossil fuel use is for transportation, we need to make strides in improving batteries and charging. Fortunately there have been some very positive developments that will show up within just a few years Links https://fortune.com/2023/11/23/us-electric-vehicle...
HPR4139: HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 1
June 13, 2024 00:00 - 55.7 MBLinux Lugcast - https://linuxlugcast.com/ Hacker Public Radio - https://hackerpublicradio.org/ Reichsmark - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark 7-11 convenience store - https://www.7-eleven.com/ 7-11 pizza - https://www.7-eleven.com/products/pizza Peanut butter sandwich - https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/pb-and-yay- Cereal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breakfast_cereals Medicaid - https://www.medicaid.gov/ Raspberry Pi - ...
HPR4138: Linux Gaming: Factorio
June 12, 2024 00:00 - 4.2 MBThis show is about gaming, more specifically gaming on Linux. This episodes is about Factorio, a survival strategy game focusing on automation. I currently don't have show notes to go with this show.
HPR4137: I used reisub key sequence to reboot my frozen Linux computer
June 11, 2024 00:00 - 2.18 MBIn two earlier episodes I have been talking about digiKam photo management software. I hope to come back to that topic in another episode in the future. But not today. Today I will talk about what happened to me about two weeks ago. Maybe it was because I had used the hibernate state, which I rarely use, that caused my laptop to behave somewhat strange. So I decided to turn it off. It was my Lenovo Thinkpad T460p laptop, running Linux Mint Debian Edition. So I turned it off the normal way ...
HPR4136: Pi Samba Share
June 10, 2024 00:00 - 6.54 MBWe live in a time where everything is streamed; from our TV, radio, podcasts everything is fine until the internet goes down. Gone are the days of simply turning on the TV with a set top aerial. With this in mind, I set up an old Raspberry Pi 2 and connected it to use as a video and music server through a Samba share. To complete this task you will need: A Raspberry Pi A micro-SD card An Ethernet cable An external hard drive (min 2TB recommended) Step 1: Update your Pi software in the ...
HPR4135: Mining the web
June 07, 2024 00:00 - 7.59 MBI don't have shownotes for this one. Sorry for that. Please refer to the transcript for more information.
HPR4134: Goodbye Craig Maloney.
June 06, 2024 00:00 - 33.6 MBCraig S. Maloney age 52 of Madison Heights formerly of Royal Oak, passed away on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at his residence with his family at his side. It was with great sadness that I heard of the passing of Craig Maloney. We knew him through his podcast https://openmetalcast.com, which is a member of the https://freeculturepodcasts.org/ Creative Commons podcasts. Our thoughts go out to his Family and Friends. https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1021/goodbye-craig-maloney https://octodon.s...
HPR4133: Mastodon as a way to comment to HPR episodes
June 05, 2024 00:00 - 9.63 MBMastodon as a way to comment to HPR episodes Prompted by Knightwise I should be easier for listeners to discuss shows. There have been several times I have intended to leave a comment on a show, but I forget by the time I get back to my PC Mastodon is made for community interaction. If you are active on mastodon, replying to a mastodon post is probably easier than the HPR comment form. HPR Bot HPR has a mastodon bot that makes a post when a new show is released The Bot's post and rep...
HPR4132: Urandom talks about the future of HPR
June 04, 2024 00:00 - 20.1 MBThe Urandom lads talk in circles for about an hour about HPR.
HPR4131: HPR Community News for May 2024
June 03, 2024 00:00 - 50.6 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: Moss Bliss. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4108 Wed 2024-05-01 What's in my bag swift110 4109 Thu 2024-05-02 The future of HPR knightwise 4110 Fri 2024-05-03 Playing Civilization III, Part 2 Ahuka 4111 Mon 2024-05-06 HPR Community...
HPR4128: 30 years of the internet
May 29, 2024 00:00 - 14.8 MBA show with stories on how I found the Internet and the connections brought me with other people I've changed my life.
HPR4127: Retro fun with the GPi 2 cases
May 28, 2024 00:00 - 12.4 MBIn this episode Kevie, co-host of TuxJam, takes a look at the GPi 2 and the GPi 2W cases from Retroflag. To complete this project you will need: GPi 2/2W Case CM4/Raspberry Pi Zero Micro SD-Card These can be purchased from the Retroflag website or The Pi Hut in the UK. On top of this you will also need a selection of ROMs and a Retropie image
HPR4126: Podcasting for Newbies
May 27, 2024 00:00 - 2.97 MBMy name is Moss Bliss. I'm a podcaster. This is technically my 2nd HPR podcast, but as the first one was unintentional AND back in 2019, I can start fresh. I don't know much of anything. I'm a Linux user, about the same way most people are Windows users. I have gotten more technical over the past few years largely due to being a regular on various Linux podcasts. I don't have sufficient education to be hired in computers (although I've tried several times), and I did spend a few years in ra...
HPR4125: Installing Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS), on a x86-64 machine
May 24, 2024 00:00 - 5.93 MBIntroduction This is a follow up episode on Home Assistant (HA), see hpr4099 :: An introduction to Home Assistant (HA) for an explanation of what Home Assistant (HA) is, and why you might want to install it. The Home Assistant Installation page offers several different install methods, listed along with the level of difficulty. Easiest: Plug and play with Home Assistant Green Easy: DIY with Raspberry Pi Intermediate: Extend with Home Assistant Yellow Hard: Install on other hardware Ex...
HPR4124: Developing a project
May 23, 2024 00:00 - 3.86 MBhttps://github.com/timeprism/introduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
HPR4123: KeepassXC Update
May 22, 2024 00:00 - 9.42 MBKeepassXC Update Sgoti talks about the KeePassXC 278 release. Tags: KeePassXC 2.7.8 release, Password managers Source: keepassxc: KeePassXC 2.7.8 released Passkeys are still a fledgling technology, as of this writing, and we are trying to keep pace with the rapid adoption across various websites, in addition to specification refinements. The following is a short list of critical improvements to our passkeys support: Update an existing passkey or add one to an existing entry Support more...
HPR4122: The Conference for Creative Use of the Radio Spectrum in Open Systems
May 21, 2024 00:00 - 9.22 MBKen Talks to Marc Balmer and Kristoff Bonne about spectrum24, The Conference for Creative Use of the Radio Spectrum in Open Systems. Following the success of the Software-Defined Radio and Amateur Radio devroom at FOSDEM, spectrum24 plans to bring users of the radio spectrum together. For over a century, technology has made it possible to transfer more data, faster, further. Today, wireless technology is everywhere and commonplace. However, it remains a playground and a ground for innovati...
HPR4121: RODE wireless microphones
May 20, 2024 00:00 - 4.6 MBAll right. Well, good evening, hackers. My name is Clinton. And this is a very off the cuff episode for me just to announce that I've got a new microphone. So I just wanted to run through a couple of details of that. Make a show, say a little about the microphone while I got it. What I hope to do with it. So this is a roadie wireless go to setup. It comes with three little boxes. Roughly, roughly, you can fit each one of the little boxes inside a matchbox. So there are three of these that co...
HPR4120: South Carolina to Home
May 17, 2024 00:00 - 6.28 MBWe finish our South Carolina visit touring a plantation, and then go to see a magnificent live oak tree. After that, it is time for us to head back home. Links https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvW57 https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvWaN https://www.palain.com/travel/rv-trip-2022-2023-southeast-us/south-carolina-to-home/
HPR4119: Cov's Jams 003
May 16, 2024 00:00 - 5.95 MBWelcome to the third episode of Cov's jams. We'll start with a couple electronica pieces from Arkadii Kaplan: Corporate Success and Chasing the Shadow. I also featured Kaplan in the second episode of Cov's Jams, way back in 2016. I'm glad to be back. Next up are two dubstep selections: Time to Army by Muciojad and Sweet Nothing by K4MMERER. Daniel Bautista's Symphony Number 5 will close out the episode. Daniel Bautista wins at Free, Libre, and Open Source. Not only is he playing public do...
HPR4118: Toil versus Livelihood
May 15, 2024 00:00 - 11.7 MBThis is sort of a response to hpr4097 :: Will they take our jobs? Of course they will. by dodddummy, and also the latest community news show, and other shows about the topic. References: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes Domenico de Masi, O Ócio Criativo, book was never released in English, I think. In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell
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
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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...