Hacker Public Radio
769 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 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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HPR3222: Musings about writing a book about the Odoo software suite
December 08, 2020 00:00 - 13.4 MBIn this podcast I describe how I met another Dutch guy at the Ubucon 2018 conference in Spain. And how he asked me to write another book, this time about Odoo. How I learned how the Odoo ecosystem works, with the Odoo S.A. company and the Odoo Community Association (OCA). At the end I had a finished book. You can find the book here: https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/jeroen-baten/jumpstart-your-business-with-odoo-12-ennl/paperback/product-1wkzmj52.html If you have questions or comments, plea...
HPR3221: HPR Community News for November 2020
December 07, 2020 00:00 - 23.6 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } New hosts Welcome to our new host: Padraig Jeroen Fallon. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3196 Mon 2020-11-02 HPR Community News for October 2020 HPR Volunteers 3197 Tue 2020-11-03 Pens, pencils, paper and ink - 3 Dave Morriss 3198 Wed 2020-11-04 Income Life insurance and then Chopin Paul Quirk 3199 Thu 2020-11-05 Bad Audio Weed Eater Bugs Sprinkler and Bubbles ! operat0r 3200 Fri 2020-11-06 Better Soc...
HPR3220: PixelFed
December 04, 2020 00:00 - 10.1 MBMaybe you want to share some photos with your family and friends. You could use Instagram, but that is part of the Surveillance Capitalist media environment. Fortunately, there is a privacy-respecting federated alternative called PixelFed. This episode is an introduction to that platform. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.digikam.org/ https://www.gimp.org/ https://docs.pixelfed.org/installing-pixelfed/ https://the-federatio...
HPR3219: Linux Inlaws S01E18: Voice Recognition and Text to Speech
December 03, 2020 00:00 - 36.2 MBIn this episode, Chris is harassed by quite a few artificial nuisance callers, among drug lords, Irish nurses and some random Linux Inlaws Chief Financial Officer. Based on these examples, our two heroes discuss the history and current state of text-to- speech (TTS) and voice recognition. We attempted to use voice recognition software in order to produce a transcript of the show. Shownotes: Wavenet: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio Tacotron: https://ai...
HPR3218: An introduction to Darktable
December 02, 2020 00:00 - 13.1 MBhttps://darktable.org/ https://musopen.org/music/3446-the-lively-hunt-is-all-my-hearts-desire-bwv-208/ @[email protected] @[email protected]
HPR3217: Sump Minion
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 9.51 MB1 introduction 1.1 back in Ohio using my regular voice 1.2 espeak is no worse than operat0rs audio and we all love his shows. 2 the problem 2.1 where i live the water table is high and basement flooding is a problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Black_Swamp 2.2 to counteract the water table problem houses have sumps in the basement sump closet sump close up 2.2.1 sumps consist of a basin where outside water is collected 2.2.2 a pump, usually electric, that drains the sump 2....
HPR3216: Buying a second home in France
November 30, 2020 00:00 - 8.38 MBfunda.nl Do geo query on overpass-turbo.eu Find query to query villages here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_API_by_Example The box on the right is the viewport that you will get data from. Used python to convert xml file to Postgres sql table Run query for all < my_max_inhabitants Run script to query and save to csv Import csv into LibreOffice spreadsheet. Use global search & replace to make cells with google maps url clickable. Nice podcast of French wom...
HPR3215: Why I Gave Away a 3-D Printer
November 27, 2020 00:00 - 4.49 MBKen Fallon asked for shows abut 3-D printers and I told him I had given mine away. So of course he asked for a show about why I had done that. This is that show. https://olfconference.org/ https://2021.penguicon.org/ https://canonical.com/ https://www.vmware.com/ https://www.redhat.com/en/authors/joe-brockmeier http://enablingthefuture.org/ https://www.zwilnik.com/why-i-gave-away-a-3-d-printer/
HPR3214: Rant about websites
November 26, 2020 00:00 - 15.5 MBIn this show I go over history of websites and the complex nature of security in complex websites
HPR3213: Electrical Safety
November 25, 2020 00:00 - 15.1 MBCircuit breaker failures: Breaker Panel Explosion DB-25 Circuit Breaker Blows Up Electrical socket failures: Multiple socket outlet catching fire Loose wires cause fires. Please be safe!
HPR3212: A Pi Model 3B as your daily driver? You must be joking.
November 24, 2020 00:00 - 6.85 MBMy Dell laptop had to go away to have a new cooling fan fitted. I've got 3 other laptops to call upon, but instead I decided to conduct an experiment I've theorised about for ages. Could a Raspberry Pi 3B serve as my daily driver? This idea goes back some way and since then, of course, the much more powerful model 4 has been released. However, there must be thousands of 3Bs out there doing nothing, so perhaps they could have a new lease of life providing basic browsing and internet capabili...
HPR3211: Chainsaws
November 23, 2020 00:00 - 9.47 MBIn this episode operat0r shares his experiences with chainsaws.
HPR3210: GIMP: Patterns and Gradients
November 20, 2020 00:00 - 11.3 MBPatterns and Gradients let you create images that go beyond simple colors and let you create more interesting images. And using them also means we begin to see how to combine a variety of tools, like paint tools, selection tools, and brushes, to create the effects we want in our images. Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/ https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/paint-tools/ http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3150 https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/miscellaneous-tools/ http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps...
HPR3209: Linux Inlaws S01E17: Nextcloud
November 19, 2020 00:00 - 33.1 MBNextcloud: https://nextcloud.com PHP: https://www.php.net
HPR3208: The Paul Quirk show: Wacom with Pinebook, and thoughts on the DMCA takedown
November 18, 2020 00:00 - 9.64 MBMy fediverse address: @[email protected] See my first Wacom doodle here: https://cloud.pquirk.com/index.php/s/CAnAwwD6S6AczC6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2000/2000scc57/2000scc57.html
HPR3207: Fireside chat with E Nigma
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 30 MBIn this rambling episode, we talk to Enigma about the old days of HPR. He helped out with Today With A Techie and Droops asked him if he would like lead the project. After 300 episodes he, Dual Parallel, Droops, and StankDawg decided to pivot and rebrand as Hacker Public Radio. A nod to National Public Radio. Links http://oldskoolphreak.com/radio.html http://hackerpublicradio.org/twat.html http://www.binrev.com/forums/ http://lottalinuxlinks.com/ https://archive.org/details/Linux_Real...
HPR3206: Dungeons and Dragons for the blind
November 16, 2020 00:00 - 27.2 MBDungeons and Dragons, and most tabletop roleplaying games, are ideal platforms for players with low or no vision. However, because most players are sighted, you have to work-around some assumptions made by the rulebooks. I [currently] have vision, but I have played with a blind player before, and I've played as a Dungeon Master with no materials on hand. In this episode, I discuss some easy workarounds to make tabletop RPGs easy for both sighted and non-sighted players. There are audiobook...
HPR3205: Backups of your Backups of Backups
November 13, 2020 00:00 - 14.1 MBThis is a general discussion about backups and cloud storage.
HPR3204: Getting Started in 3D Printing
November 12, 2020 00:00 - 7.68 MBGetting started in 3D printing The FFF vs. FDM Debate Creality Ender 3 Where to go once you decide you need another 3D printer
HPR3203: The Paul Quirk show: Retro Computing
November 11, 2020 00:00 - 15.1 MBSome links of interest for the listener: Amiga emulation: https://fs-uae.net/ Commodore 8 bit emulation: https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/ Atari emulation: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/ Apple II emulation: https://apple2games.com/wiki/Apple_2_Emulators A site for the Color Computer: http://cocoquest.com/
HPR3202: A big Question
November 10, 2020 00:00 - 9.68 MBIn his first show - recorded on Halloween night, Padraig asks a big life question. Well ok more like an undead question. Which is better a Lich, or a Vampire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
HPR3201: A small intro to 3D printing
November 09, 2020 00:00 - 6.36 MBMy Ender 3 printer from Creality Cura, open source from Ultimaker, https://ultimaker.com/nl/software/ultimaker-cura Octoprint, https://octoprint.org/
HPR3200: Better Social Media 17 - OcapPub
November 06, 2020 00:00 - 9.73 MBSocial media has some problems, and even federated media is not immune to them. OcapPub proposes to help reduce some problems by moving away from a fundamentally broken model revolving around identity and access to a better model involving objects and capabilities. This could help reduce to problems of identity theft, and help against web site problems like clickjacking and Cross-Site Request Forgery. It is a proposal being worked on, not a finished technology, but it is promising. Links: ...
HPR3199: Bad Audio Weed Eater Bugs Sprinkler and Bubbles !
November 05, 2020 00:00 - 12.7 MBJoin us for some home repairs, picking up tips and tricks on the way. Sorry for the bad audio. Bad Audio Weedeater Bugs Sprinkler Bubbles
HPR3197: Pens, pencils, paper and ink - 3
November 03, 2020 00:00 - 12 MBIntroduction This is the third in a short series about pens, pencils, writing paper and ink. In this episode I look at two Chinese fountain pens, a mechanical pencil, a gel pen, some inks and some paper. Long notes The main notes for this episode, including pictures, can be viewed here. Links Pen & Pencil Brands: Jinhao Website Stationery Wiki Pentel Wikipedia page Mechanical Pencil: Wikipedia page Inks: J.Herbin Jet Pens, Bleu Pervenche Ink, 30ml Diamine Inks Paper: Clair...
HPR3196: HPR Community News for October 2020
November 02, 2020 00:00 - 42.2 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3174 Thu 2020-10-01 Linux Inlaws S01E14: The big programming language panel monochromec 3175 Fri 2020-10-02 International Keyboard Ahuka 3176 Mon 2020-10-05 HPR Community News for September 2020 HPR Volunteers 3177 Tue 2020-10-06 Zero cost VPN norrist 3178 Wed 2020-10-07 Finishing the Recumbent Bicycle Brian in Ohio 3179 Thu 20...
HPR3195: For your Consideration - the ideal Ham Radio setup
October 30, 2020 00:00 - 27.7 MBHost Noah Cheliah Plenty of Linux security and IP cameras talk Focus on Free Software and related news Noah brings on a guest, who describe his ideal Ham Radio setup, which includes use of Software Defined radio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio Guest talking about Ham Radio starts at 00:25:42 https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/200
HPR3194: Linux Inlaws S01E16: The count and the questions
October 29, 2020 00:00 - 32.2 MBHalloween: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween Ancient vampire folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region#Mesopotamia Blade franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(franchise) Judas history: https://authorlyngibson.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/the-legend-of-judas-iscariot-vampire Vulcans & Romulans: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Vulcan-Romulan_history The Fly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064 PETA: https://www.peta.org Oracle vs. Google: http...
HPR3193: Meet Antithesis
October 28, 2020 00:00 - 16 MBIn this episode Paul discusses his thoughts in ordering a Pinebook Pro. During the episode he does an unboxing, and then comes back after a week of use to let us know how it preforms in practice. You can get one yourself here: https://www.pine64.org/
HPR3192: A light bulb moment, part 3
October 27, 2020 00:00 - 7.02 MBLED History The history of the LED revolution is both long and complex but I'll do my best to cover it. Please forgive me if I mispronounce some of the materials and processes I'm not a lighting expert as I stated right back at the beginning of this series. The following excerpts are from Wikipedia; the link will be in the show notes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode The LED or Light Emitting Diode first appeared as a practical electronic component in 1962, the earliest ...
HPR3191: Swedish Corona Experience
October 26, 2020 00:00 - 7.78 MBSwedish Health Authority Recommendation If sick stay at home. If you have symptoms take a test. Wash at least 20 seconds use alcohol with atleast 60% alcohol content. Don't touch your face with unwashed hands. Keep distance arm length (or 2m). Don't gather in large companies. Avoid public transport, try walking or biking when possible. If required go with public transport book a ticket or go when others don't. If possible work from home. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittsky...
HPR3190: GIMP Brushes
October 23, 2020 00:00 - 10.4 MBBrushes are a key part of using Paint tools, and in particular the Paintbrush Tool. And in this episode we look at how to work with, edit, download, and save different brushes. We look at the Brush Dialog, and examine the different settings that make them easier to work with. Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/ https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/paint-tools/ https://franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/cg/cg-pixmaps.htm https://ergodic.ugr.es/cphys_pedro/unix/athena5.html https://conce...
HPR3189: How the Dutch dig Graves
October 22, 2020 00:00 - 2.35 MBOn a lock down walk in the local grave yard, Ken and his Wife stumble upon a new grave. As the soil is mostly sand, the graves need to be shored up to prevent collapse.
HPR3188: Thrift store quick fix
October 21, 2020 00:00 - 1.6 MBThrift store quick fix for a dog coat. Ripped out stitches on defective velcro. Picture 1 Re-stitched with the flat surface facing up. Picture 2 Picture 3 Hot-glued replacement velcro. Picture 4 Profit Picture 5
HPR3187: Ansible for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
October 20, 2020 00:00 - 5.06 MBAnsible DHCPD and DNS Using Ansible to configure DHCPD and NDS on OpenBSD Host data is stored in csv files Ansible templates to create config files Restart services hostname-setup.yml --- - hosts: localhost tasks: - name: read subnet 10 read_csv: path: 10.csv fieldnames: mac,ip,hostname register: subnet_10 - name: read subnet 11 read_csv: path: 11.csv fieldnames: mac,ip,hostname register: subnet_11 - name: read static read_csv: ...
HPR3186: A light bulb moment, part 2
October 19, 2020 00:00 - 4.52 MBA very brief history of lighting Natural light first came from fire Then using oil and fat with a wick Early candles used animal fat this smelled awful and tended to spit Some parts of world used whole animals as candles These early candles gave so little light that people generally just went to bed at sunset Electric lighting started first by Humphry Davy in the early 1800’s using an arc, this was developed into commercial lighting in the 1840s Arc lighting needed a complex mechanis...
HPR3185: Pandemics In History
October 16, 2020 00:00 - 9.24 MBThis is a look at how infectious diseases have changed the course of human history. It is admittedly a bit Euro- or Western-centric since that is what I know best. But I think the point of its importance applies more broadly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Cyprian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian https://en.wiki...
HPR3184: Linux Inlaws S01E15: IT Security and stick insects
October 15, 2020 00:00 - 26.9 MBIn this episode Martin discovers that protecting pictures of stick insects (rated XXX or not) on USB sticks (pun intended) can be an ardous endeavour indeed. Never mind eventually turning this into a business including web servers, shared file spaces and password storage. Additional bonus: the lovely Emma from Rainbow Escorts makes another cameo apperance supported by some Irish, um, students. Shownotes: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS): https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/R...
HPR3183: Don't trust zipfiles
October 14, 2020 00:00 - 3.26 MBThis show explains the concept of injecting symbolic links into zipfiles and how those can be used to attack a web application.
HPR3182: Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of Cholecalciferol
October 13, 2020 00:00 - 37.5 MBIntroduction Two HPR hosts from Scotland get together over Mumble one more time to chat about all manner of stuff. Andrew Conway Dave Morriss We recorded on Saturday 19th September 2020, which was International Talk Like A Pirate Day, we but managed to avoid any utterances of ARRRR!, and the use of marlinspikes, fids or belaying pins. Also, no timbers were shivered and no mainbraces spliced (not while recording anyway). Notes Some of the topics we discussed: COVID-19: The increase in...
HPR3181: RealVNC cloud offering
October 12, 2020 00:00 - 3.11 MBJust a short podcast about RealVNC cloud offering. An interesting VNC option if you want to connect on the road or the at the coffee shop to a server back home without putting holes in your router. https://www.realvnc.com/en/news/what-vnc-cloud/
HPR3180: GIMP: Miscellaneous Tools
October 09, 2020 00:00 - 7.26 MBThe Miscellaneous tools do a number of useful things without fitting neatly into a category. The Paths tool takes Selections up a notch and also lets you add interesting effects. Zoom is one you would use every day, and Measure is handy in some situations. Finally, GEGL Operations are the future of all GIMP development Links: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/antialias...
HPR3179: MakeMKV to back up media, and a Question
October 08, 2020 00:00 - 4.22 MBInstalled Fedora 32 on a spare laptop Quick tip To ignore the handle switch on the laptop triggering a power off: Put HandleLidSwitch=ignore in /etc/systemd/logind.conf Install MakeMKV from source dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm dnf install zlib-devel openssl-devel expat-devel ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel qt5-qtbase-dev...
HPR3178: Finishing the Recumbent Bicycle
October 07, 2020 00:00 - 3.12 MBWebsites: recycled recumbent: https://sites.google.com/site/recycledrecumbents/home cj hoyle milk crate tutorial: https://youtu.be/MvBx_74FzUk Gallery: 1 - Bending Tools This is how I clamped up the conduit bending tool in the trusty workmate. In this configuration you can bend the tube to specific angles and make sure the bends stay in plane. The goal here is to create two side rails that are identical. The seat webbing is sewn on to these rails. 2 - Needed weights This photo shows s...
HPR3177: Zero cost VPN
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 4.21 MBA basic overview of the VPN I use Linux on a free/low cost VPS Helper script install OpenVPN and generate client config file Transfer client config file to mobile device Install OpenVPN client on Mobile Device and import the config There are a few options for the Linux server. Free tier cloud providers AWS Google Azure VPS with Free credits ($20-$100) for new accounts I've gotten discount codes from podcasts Digital Ocean Linode VPS requirements for running a OpenVPN server are p...
HPR3176: HPR Community News for September 2020
October 05, 2020 00:00 - 33.1 MBtable td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3152 Tue 2020-09-01 My Pocket Knives Dave Morriss 3153 Wed 2020-09-02 Fixing eBooks with Calibre and pdfcrop Ken Fallon 3154 Thu 2020-09-03 Make NextCloud your next cloud Paul Quirk 3155 Fri 2020-09-04 LastPass Security Dashboard Ahuka 3156 Mon 2020-09-07 HPR Community News for August 2020 HPR Volunteers 3157 Tue 2020-09-08 Co...
HPR3175: International Keyboard
October 02, 2020 00:00 - 6.3 MBI decided to use my time spent in relative isolation to do something productive and learn another language. I picked Spanish because I am hoping to visit Mexico and other Latin American countries whenever the plague lifts. I decided to document this for anyone who wants to know what options I found and how they have worked for me so far. This is the third part where I explain how I implemented the US International Keyboard on a variety of platforms. This lets me type characters that Spanish ...
HPR3174: Linux Inlaws S01E14: The big programming language panel
October 01, 2020 00:00 - 40.9 MBShownotes: Bottlerocket: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/announcing-general-availability-of-bottlerocket Windows as a rolling release: https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/08/27/s13e23-horseshoe LPC Rust in kernel: https://program.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/804/attachments/641/1168/barriers-to-in-tree-rust.pdf Redox OS: https://www.redox-os.org FC33: https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-coming-to-fedora-33 Linux kernel history report: https://www.linuxfoundati...
HPR3173: Manage your Raspberry Pi fleet with Ansible
September 30, 2020 00:00 - 10.4 MBThis is the final show in the miniseries on how to manage your RaspberryPis with ansible. The goal is to produce a common base Raspberry Pi OS image that doesn't change often but, once it's installed, can automatically be customized, maintained, and managed remotely. We will create the base image using the script fix-ssh-on-pi which is available on GitHub. Then we will identify the hosts on the network with tips from operat0r in show hpr3090 :: Locating Computers on a Enterprise Network,...