HPR4131: HPR Community News for May 2024

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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 News for April 2024
HPR Volunteers

4112
Tue
2024-05-07
JSON and VENDORS and AUTH ohh my!
operat0r

4113
Wed
2024-05-08
Today I Learnt, sed hold/pattern space use.
Some Guy On The Internet

4114
Thu
2024-05-09
Introduction to jq - part 2
Dave Morriss

4115
Fri
2024-05-10
Tagging music with Beets
dnt

4116
Mon
2024-05-13
Response to 4109: Building community without SEO
hobs

4117
Tue
2024-05-14
JAMBOREE !
operat0r

4118
Wed
2024-05-15
Toil versus Livelihood
dnt

4119
Thu
2024-05-16
Cov's Jams 003
Cov

4120
Fri
2024-05-17
South Carolina to Home
Ahuka

4121
Mon
2024-05-20
RODE wireless microphones
Clinton Roy

4122
Tue
2024-05-21
The Conference for Creative Use of the Radio Spectrum in Open Systems
Ken Fallon

4123
Wed
2024-05-22
KeepassXC Update
Some Guy On The Internet

4124
Thu
2024-05-23
Developing a project
Lee

4125
Fri
2024-05-24
Installing Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS), on a x86-64 machine
Ken Fallon

4126
Mon
2024-05-27
Podcasting for Newbies
Moss Bliss

4127
Tue
2024-05-28
Retro fun with the GPi 2 cases
Kevie

4128
Wed
2024-05-29
30 years of the internet
knightwise

4129
Thu
2024-05-30
How I found Hacker Public Radio
Henrik Hemrin

4130
Fri
2024-05-31
Playing Civilization III, Part 3
Ahuka

Comments this month

These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows.
There are 25 comments in total.

Past shows

There is 1 comment on
1 previous show:

hpr4087
(2024-04-02) "Getting started with the digiKam photo management software"
by Henrik Hemrin.

Comment 1:
Henrik Hemrin on 2024-05-13:
"Good support from digiKam developers and community"

This month's shows

There are 24 comments on 7 of this month's shows:

hpr4109
(2024-05-02) "The future of HPR "
by knightwise.

Comment 1:
Dirk on 2024-05-02:
"The future about HPR"Comment 2:
Ken Fallon on 2024-05-02:
"Thanks for volunteering"Comment 3:
Knightwise on 2024-05-04:
"Alt Hoeselt Calling :)"Comment 4:
knightwise on 2024-05-04:
"Hacker Public Radio as "brown noise?"
"Comment 5:
mpardo on 2024-05-04:
"Interesting episode"Comment 6:
enistello on 2024-05-05:
"The future of HPR"Comment 7:
Ken Fallon on 2024-05-06:
"Active for a given value of active."Comment 8:
Ken Fallon on 2024-05-06:
"On proprietary platforms"

hpr4112
(2024-05-07) "JSON and VENDORS and AUTH ohh my!"
by operat0r.

Comment 1:
Ken Fallon on 2024-05-31:
"The answer is always jq"

hpr4115
(2024-05-10) "Tagging music with Beets"
by dnt.

Comment 1:
kdmurray on 2024-05-16:
"Just what the doctor ordered"

hpr4116
(2024-05-13) "Response to 4109: Building community without SEO"
by hobs.

Comment 1:
Knightwise on 2024-05-13:
"Just a small correction."Comment 2:
kdmurray on 2024-05-13:
"Ok but..."Comment 3:
Ken Fallon on 2024-05-15:
"Actual Actions ?"Comment 4:
knightwise on 2024-05-17:
"Low hanging fruit"Comment 5:
norrist on 2024-05-19:
"Mastodon Comments"

hpr4118
(2024-05-15) "Toil versus Livelihood"
by dnt.

Comment 1:
Bob on 2024-05-15:
"We want free time but what we get is more less paid toil"Comment 2:
kdmurray on 2024-05-16:
"Deep Thought"Comment 3:
Kevin O'Brien on 2024-05-18:
"Bravo!"Comment 4:
Laindir on 2024-05-20:
"Half the problem"Comment 5:
dnt on 2024-05-21:
"Re: Laindir"Comment 6:
dnt on 2024-05-21:
"Re: kdmurray"

hpr4124
(2024-05-23) "Developing a project"
by Lee.

Comment 1:
Trey on 2024-05-23:
"Not now... another time."Comment 2:
dnt on 2024-05-25:
"projects"

hpr4128
(2024-05-29) "30 years of the internet"
by knightwise.

Comment 1:
zen_floater on 2024-05-30:
"WVDiAL"

Mailing List discussions

Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This
discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and
contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under
Mailman.

The threaded discussions this month can be found here:

https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2024-May/thread.html

Events Calendar

With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to
The LWN.net Community Calendar.

Quoting the site:

This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track
events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software.
Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web
page.

Any other business
Proposed policy change

In the past month we were asked to remove a show that had been added
to the database, and uploaded to archive.org. This was done, but:

The amount of work to do this type of change is not trivial.
It's not possible to remove archive.org items, only to remove their
contents and replace them with whatever comes from the replacement
show.
The processes involved in this deletion and replacement are not
complex but are somewhat labour-intensive.
There are ramifications into existing feeds (podcast players cache
episode details and do not replace them, etc).

It is proposed that the policy be changed to discourage this, except
in severe cases - perhaps those with copyright or other legal
consequences. Obviously, we normally take great care that incoming shows
are unlikely to trigger such problems in the first place.

The Future Feed

There is a feed which is normally referred to as the "Future Feed",
which can be found on the RSS Syndication
page. It receives shows which are posted out of order as they come
in and may be replaced/reposted if errors are found. This is intended as
a means to find issues with metadata or the audio quality of new shows
before they hit the main feed.

Recently a show was posted to this feed which was truncated.
Unfortunately, although the Janitors and a number or listeners follow
this feed, this truncation was not spotted until the show was
released.

It would be much appreciated if you could assist with watching this feed for
errors in the future. Please contact the Janitors if you notice
anything.

Janitorial Team

We have had some recent contributions to the development of the HPR
software from norrist and kdmurray. We also
added them to the "HPR Janitor's Closet" on Matrix to speed up
discussions about open tickets. If anyone else wishes to help out with
the development please do so by creating an account on our Gitea server.

Denial of
Service Attacks on the Internet Archive

There have been a number of DDoS attacks on this service in the
recent past. Jason Scott (@[email protected]),
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive, has been
mentioning this on Mastodon.

These attacks mean that we can sometimes be delayed when we need
to upload shows to the IA.