Hacker Public Radio
769 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 34 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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HPR3272: In GNU/Linux, there is no "diversity", we're all just data.
February 16, 2021 00:00 - 8.97 MBI'm just Some Guy On The Internet.
HPR3271: Interview with a 6yo child
February 15, 2021 00:00 - 4.34 MBNot really hacking but good times
HPR3270: An Example of Using Layers
February 12, 2021 00:00 - 7.99 MBThere is a point where you need to stop being abstract and start demonstrating what you are talking about, so I thought this was a good opportunity to put some things into practice by creating an image. I chose to do a header image for my site Ahuka Communications that would more accurately reflect the content. This lets us use freely licensed images, an OFL-licensed font, layers, and various tools. Note that you can download all of this stuff from my site. Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.1...
HPR3269: Linux Inlaws S01E23: The first year of the five year plan
February 11, 2021 00:00 - 22.9 MBFree software (not just Richard's idea): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html How Nvidia became Skynet: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3069 Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com Claudio and crew: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3099 Not going out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Going_Out An American Pickle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9059704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 Mrs Honeyhume: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3251
HPR3268: Video Game Review - Ark Survival Evolved
February 10, 2021 00:00 - 4.82 MBEnigma reviews Ark Survival Evolved , a multiplayer survival game for the xbox, PC and ps4 Come chat with us at irc.freenode.net #hackerexchange Follow me on twitter @Ed_N1gma
HPR3267: Ripping Media 2021
February 09, 2021 00:00 - 8.69 MBandroid has newpipes for downloading youtube windows youtube-DL script: https://github.com/freeload101/SCRIPTS/blob/master/Windows_Batch/Youtube-dl-ffmpeg-aria2c-updater-downloader.bat ffmpeg notes: I started out by wanting to download facebook live streams and ended up missing it all together Reference (no longer live by the time I got online... ): https://www.facebook.com/FormulaDRIFT/videos/452016008942956/ live video looks like something about mpd files with facebook also looks li...
HPR3266: Upgrading Debian on my raspberry pi
February 08, 2021 00:00 - 16.3 MBPi13 upgrade from Jessie 8 to Stretch 9 - performed 15/12/20 History Upgraded my raspberry pi 13, which I think had a minimal install Raspbian, Debian i.e. has no desktop installed. The Pi had a PiFaceIO board installed, refer to my previous HPR episode Hpr2901 Backup process, in case something went wrong I first moved all the unnecessary files to free up as much space as possible Shrunk the Pi partition on the installed 128GB SD card down to 25106MB (24.52GB), (25708544K), 26,325,549,0...
HPR3265: My Chromebook Experience
February 05, 2021 00:00 - 5.06 MBOn January 5, 2021, Zen_Floater2 did an interesting show that you might call a virtual conversation with Klaatu. He took a show that Klaatu had done on the GNU World Order podcast about using Chromebooks, and interspersed his own comments. As I was listening I thought that I had a slightly different perspective, so I recorded this brief show about my own experience. Links http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3242 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075S8YS87/ https://www.palain.com/my-...
HPR3264: Intro to Nagios
February 04, 2021 00:00 - 10.2 MBNagios Basics Introduction I noticed nagios on the requested topics page. I am far from being an expert with nagios and there is a lot I do not know. I have a working knowledge of most of the basic nagios principles. So, hopefully, I can give a useful introduction and review some one the principles of nagios along the way Nagios is a network monitoring tool. You define some things for nagios to check, and nagios will alert you if those checks fail. Nagios has a web UI that is normally us...
HPR3263: My Beginnings in Tech
February 03, 2021 00:00 - 9.89 MBHiya! There aren't any links or anything to put here, but putting something in the show notes seems important.
HPR3262: My thoughts on diversity in Linux and open source
February 02, 2021 00:00 - 16.4 MBLack of exposure to Linux and open source Lack of interest in Linux and open source Some experiences I had growing up
HPR3261: HPR Community News for January 2021
February 01, 2021 00:00 - 28.6 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } New hosts Welcome to our new host: TrumpetJohn. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3240 Fri 2021-01-01 Linux Under Attack Ahuka 3241 Mon 2021-01-04 HPR Community News for December 2020 HPR Volunteers 3242 Tue 2021-01-05 The eternal battle over how to run your chromebook is about to begin Zen_Floater2 3243 Wed 2021-01-06 Pictor - free and open radio astronomy Andrew Conway 3244 Thu 2021-01-07 Interview wit...
HPR3260: Free, Public Domain and Creative Commons Assets
January 29, 2021 00:00 - 11 MBIn preparation for doing some sample exercises I wanted to first explain about how you can use images and fonts that are not restricted or are available under license terms that are not too restrictive. Any image that is intended for public display or for commercial purposes could be liable for copyright infringement if care is not taken. Fortunately, there are many resources available that you can use, and we look at some of the better ones. Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/ https://...
HPR3259: Nextcloud - The easy way
January 28, 2021 00:00 - 4.73 MBhttps://peyanski.com/personal-cloud-from-home-nextcloud-on-raspberry-pi/#Nextcloud_initial_setup sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y Start the Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi installation with the following script. curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/master/install.sh | sudo bash Github script content https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/master/install.sh #!/bin/bash # NextCloudPi installation script # # Copyleft 2017 by Ignacio Nu...
HPR3258: Linux Inlaws S01E22: The Linux Professional Institute
January 27, 2021 00:00 - 32.6 MBLinux Professional Institute: https://www.lpi.org Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org Anti-pox of the week (Java is broken): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210720/how-to-analyse-a-noclassdeffounderror-caused-by-an-ignored-exceptionininitialize Book of Monsters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7260818 Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522 The serpent (BBC series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serpent_(TV_series) Grumpy Old Coders (epside 6): https://soundc...
HPR3257: Lack of diversity in Linux and other open source communities
January 26, 2021 00:00 - 6.55 MBWhy is there a lack of diverse voices and faces in the world of Linux and open source Free software but it's not made available to the very people who could really benefit from it Lack of training in schools when it comes to Linux and other open source software
HPR3256: Update, MS Teams, Covid 19, Raspberry PI 400 Raspberry PI 4 8GB Centos
January 25, 2021 00:00 - 5.23 MBHey guys I have been doing a lot of MS Teams it works on Linux not so I can have 365 on my ubuntu browser and MS teams installed. (Work complete from a linux box) (It's great) The Raspberry PI400 is a great box you should get it. Also I thought the Raspberry 4 8GB to be very solid.
HPR3255: garage door part 2
January 22, 2021 00:00 - 5.42 MBgarage door part 2 tis teh season COUGH COUGH
HPR3254: The Markdown editor Retext
January 21, 2021 00:00 - 12.5 MBWhat is ReText? The ReText website on GitHub says that ReText is a simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages. Doing a search on the HPR site returned the following two references to ReText. The excellent Markdown and Pandoc HPR 1832 episode by b-yeezi makes reference to ReText Dave Morriss mentioned using ReText as a possible tool when sending in shownotes as markdown is preferable to plain text. Refer to HPR 3167 Retext Version Info As of the 1st of...
HPR3253: Pandas Intro
January 20, 2021 00:00 - 10.2 MBWelcome to another episode of HPR I'm your host Enigma and today we are going to be talking about one of my favorite python modules Pandas This will be the first episode in a series I'm naming: For The Love of Python. First we need to get the module pip or pip3 install pandas This will install numpy as well Pandas uses an object called a dataframe which is a two-dimensional data structure, i.e., data is aligned in a tabular fashion in rows and columns. Think of a spreadsheet typ...
HPR3252: Simple JSON querying tool (also YAML, and to a lesser extent XML)
January 19, 2021 00:00 - 9.75 MBJSON Json is a cool little data serialization language, that allows you to easily and clearly demarcate blocks of data by nesting data structures such as lists (enclosed by square brackets) and key-value pairs or "dictionaries" (enclosed by curly braces). So that in the end you get something that looks like this { "first list" : [ "element1", "element2", {"element3" : "is another k-v pair", "but contains" : ["a" , "list", "of", "words"]}] , "this value is a string" : "1" , "and this is a n...
HPR3251: Opposing Views on Alcohol
January 18, 2021 00:00 - 15.1 MBI discuss the subject of alcohol with my partner of sixteen years, Mrs. Honeyhume. While we agree on many subjects, alcohol is not one of them. She believes alcohol is an important experience, one to be shared with friends, and I dislike nearly everything about it. We discuss what we like/dislike about alcohol, our histories with it, and present our personal anecdotal evidence.
HPR3250: GIMP: Getting Started With Layers
January 15, 2021 00:00 - 7.95 MBLayers are the feature that does most of the heavy lifting in GIMP. After our previous introduction, we start to get hands-on with the controls that let us work with Layers Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/ https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/getting-started-with-layers/
HPR3249: Linux Inlaws S01E21: The Big Linux Inlaws Peep Show
January 14, 2021 00:00 - 25.2 MBRust for the Linux kernel: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux Linus opinion on C++ in the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20 gdb: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb lldb: https://lldb.llvm.org Novell's Netware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare strace: https://strace.io ltrace: http://www.ltrace.org DTrace: http://dtrace.org/blogs/about ptrace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptrace#Linux Capabilities: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/capabilities Extended a...
HPR3248: SARS-CoV-2 detection by PCR explanation
January 13, 2021 00:00 - 12.3 MBBasic Process Sample Collection Sample Transportation Nucleic Acid extraction and Purification Amplification and Detection Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus https://www.k-state.edu/hermanlab/protocols/StandardPCRConditions.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermus_aquaticus
HPR3247: Saturday Morning Automotive Routine
January 12, 2021 00:00 - 9.55 MBThe top ten are: Gas Tires Battery Hoses/Belts Fluids External Review dates Schedule replacement parts Clean up Choose for car wash A treat! Blog site: http://biblicaltrumpets.org
HPR3246: LXCast: freeing the Fairphone 3 (and many other phones)
January 11, 2021 00:00 - 14.4 MBMy review on the FP3 when it came out https://lxcast.net/lxcast-2-fairphone-3-fair-but-not-free-yet/ Two solutions for a free OS: lineage OS - free android with the Gapps removed https://download.lineageos.org/FP3 the /e/ project !! A "de-googled" operating system - actually a fork of lineage OS - this is what I'm going to talk about here. https://e.foundation/about-e/ The research paper on Google Data Collection by Professor Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University (2018) - learn h...
HPR3245: ELECTRICITY
January 08, 2021 00:00 - 15.1 MBAn adhoc show in traffic, about how sockets and 3 way switches work.
HPR3244: Interview with Anco Scholte ter Horst CEO of Freedom Internet
January 07, 2021 00:00 - 33.3 MBIn this interview with Anco Scholte ter Horst, CEO Freedom Internet, we discuss the history of Internet in the Netherlands. How inspired by the work as XS4All, a new ISP was founded with privacy, security and quality at its core. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XS4ALL XS4ALL was sold to KPN in December 1998, but remained an independent subsidiary. In January 2019, KPN announced that it would eventually phase out the XS4ALL brand and continue operations under the KPN brand. A petition ...
HPR3243: Pictor - free and open radio astronomy
January 06, 2021 00:00 - 22.8 MBIn this show I talk with Apostolos and Vasilis who I met at FOSDEM 2020 about the Pictor radio telescope which they created and now maintain. Using free and open source software and hardware they have made a radio telescope that anyone can operate via a simple web page and which can return results to you within a minute or two. In fact you'll hear me get excited during the show when I realise this and submit an observation request, the results of which came back immediately and which you can...
HPR3242: The eternal battle over how to run your chromebook is about to begin
January 05, 2021 00:00 - 68.7 MBAs usual, I have botched up the show notes where they make absolutely no sense and I fully expect the ENTIRE HUMAN COMMUNITY from HPR to attack me endlessly over my incompetence. They just keep forgetting that I'm a squirrel who lives in a magical forrest and not a human being and therefore does terrible show notes, There were so many issues brought up about chromebooks and chromiumOS that I could not prepare a detailed list of them all. This ENTIRE conversation was derived from the work f...
HPR3241: HPR Community News for December 2020
January 04, 2021 00:00 - 29.9 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } New hosts Welcome to our new host: Pat from TLLTS. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3217 Tue 2020-12-01 Sump Minion Brian in Ohio 3218 Wed 2020-12-02 An introduction to Darktable Paul Quirk 3219 Thu 2020-12-03 Linux Inlaws S01E18: Voice Recognition and Text to Speech monochromec 3220 Fri 2020-12-04 PixelFed Ahuka 3221 Mon 2020-12-07 HPR Community News for November 2020 HPR Volunteers 3222 Tue 2020-1...
HPR3240: Linux Under Attack
January 01, 2021 00:00 - 8.59 MBAt one time most malware targeted Windows because it was the most popular OS, but as Linux has risen in popularity, particularly in the data center, it has become a target. We look at some of the recent attacks on Linux, and note some common features of the attacks. This then suggests some ways we can protect ourselves Links: https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-azure-over-50-percent-fo-vm-cores/ https://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/os-linux,os-windows https:...
HPR3239: New Community Project Proposal
December 31, 2020 00:00 - 4.71 MBEnigma discusses a project proposal called Hacker exchange, a proposed content sharing site that would aggregate audio/video and text based tutorials. Come chat about this project on irc.freenode.net #hackerexchange
HPR3238: Linux Inlaws S01E20: The Xmas and New Year Special
December 30, 2020 00:00 - 46.7 MBLinuxOne: https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-linuxone/gettingstarted IBM quantum computing: https://www.ibm.com/quantum-computing redis on LinuxOne(in German): https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en/programm/beitrag/206 Ask IBM: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2015/01/13/hello-watson-ask-anything Jeff Bezo's real name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos Jeff Bezo's divorce: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-05/bezos-split-finalizes-as-38-billion-am...
HPR3237: Cloning a Hard Drive with Clonezilla
December 29, 2020 00:00 - 9.15 MBI sneak back into the HPR community with an episode about cloning the hard drive on my laptop for a backup after some recent catastrophic drive failures. Links Clonezilla: The Free and Open Source Software for Disk Imaging and Cloning Hard drive adapters at Amazon Credits Music bumpers are from Kimiko Ishizaka's Libre Art of Fugue: https://music.kimiko-piano.com/album/j-s-bach-the-art-of-the-fugue-kunst-der-fuge-bwv-1080, used by permission of their CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Do...
HPR3236: The State of Linux Audio Apps in 2020
December 28, 2020 00:00 - 24.8 MBPat and Claudio discuss the current state of Linux audio applications in 2020. The primary focus is applications to create music. We discuss Linux sound servers (Pulse, ALSA and Jack). Software synthesizers available in Linux. Midi, sequencers and drum machines. Digital Audio Workstation applications. Impulse Responses for guitar and bass speaker emulation. Commercial vendors that support the Linux platform. Music equipment vendors that use Linux as the basis of their products. This page ha...
HPR3235: Soldering Tips
December 25, 2020 00:00 - 4.83 MBA follow up show in the vein of hpr3016 :: Nixie tube clock and friends!. Also be sure to remove batteries from electronics in storage.
HPR3234: Apple products I have owned
December 24, 2020 00:00 - 11.7 MB30" Apple Cinema Display 2560x1600 160 GB iPod Classic IPad 3 Mac Pro 1.1 iPhone 4s
HPR3233: HPR RPG Club reviews Shadowrun 5e
December 23, 2020 00:00 - 25.1 MBBeni, McNalu, Klaatu, and Philip review the Fifth Edition of the Shadowrun roleplaying game. For more information about Shadowrun, go to ShadowrunTabletop.com. Quickstart rules are available for $0 from drivethrurpg.com (this is Klaatu's affiliate link, granting him some n% of the $0 sale) Finally, you can find lots of great Shadowrun fiction on drivethrurpg.com in EPUB format.
HPR3232: Nextcloud
December 22, 2020 00:00 - 10.1 MBI've been running NextCloud since it was OwnCloud. In this episode, I encourage other people to install and run NextCloud. It's a great way to get out of the Google ecosystem, and it doesn't require much to set up or maintain. Here's the script I use to update one of the Nextcloud instances I maintain, running on a dirt-cheap VPS slice from Blue Host er something: #/test/before/using/bash # GNU All-Permissive License # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, # ...
HPR3231: USB Key
December 21, 2020 00:00 - 1.98 MBScript and instruction at https://james.toebesacademy.com/USBKey.html Combo of Perl for Installation, ssh-keygen for key exchange. udev for actions bash for locking/unlocking/key checking. udev add/remove/change events add event does not allow access to drive change event was not allowing unlock. Compromise was unlock, then lock if key check fails.
HPR3230: Introduction to Layers
December 18, 2020 00:00 - 10.7 MBLayers are the feature that does most of the heavy lifting in GIMP. In this episode we begin looking at them with an introduction, but we'll go deeper! Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/ https://www.animationconnection.com/about-the-art/original-production-cels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_(file_format) https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/alpha_channel.html https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/introduction-to-layers/
HPR3229: Linux Inlaws S01E19: Redis
December 17, 2020 00:00 - 34.8 MBIn this episode our two heroes interview Itamar Haber, community liaison for Redis, a popular open-source in-memory NoSQL database. Technology prevails in this episode; communism, free love and drugs take a backseat (but only for the moment! :-). The trio discuss the legacy of redis, bemoan their old age and reveal why Itamar initially wanted to be a mermaid. Listen to the episode for more shocking epiphanies! Shownotes: Kaypro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaypro Salvatore Sanfilippo: h...
HPR3228: YAML basics
December 16, 2020 00:00 - 15.8 MBYAML has two data elements that serve as building blocks for complex data structures: sequences and mappings. Sequence This is a sequence: --- - Emperor - Gentoo - Little Blue Mapping This is a mapping: --- Penguin: Emperor In this case, Penguin is a key and Emperor is a value. This is often called a "key and value pair", but in YAML it's just called a mapping. Combining data blocks You can embed these data types into one another. Here is a mapping that has a sequence as its value: ...
HPR3227: Fresh water Aquarium Basics
December 15, 2020 00:00 - 12.9 MBEnigma discusses the high level basics of getting into the aquarium hobby and what to consider when purchasing your first aquarium. Links: API Test kit 10 Gallon (38 liter) starter kit
HPR3226: Using taskwarrior to structurize your work
December 14, 2020 00:00 - 8.51 MBtaskwarrior.org Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line. It is flexible, fast, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way. timewarrior.net Timewarrior is Free and Open Source Software that tracks time from the command line. Article on the Medium website Tracking time on the command line with Taskwarrior and Timewarrior
HPR3225: Grill repair
December 11, 2020 00:00 - 8.92 MBA few quick tips on how to extend the life of grills.
HPR3224: Adventures in Retrocomputing with the Mac Plus
December 10, 2020 00:00 - 12.4 MBLinks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs https://www.applegazette.com/ipod/steve-jobs-and-minimalism/
HPR3223: My COVID year summary
December 09, 2020 00:00 - 9.38 MBLinks https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/reporting-lab-data.html https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization#covid19euas