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HPR4097: Will they take our jobs? Of course they will.

Hacker Public Radio - April 16, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Just me explaining why I think the robots will take our jobs.

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HPR4096: Powers of two

Hacker Public Radio - April 15, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
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HPR4095: Twenty seven years of Linux

Hacker Public Radio - April 12, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
The 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 Rh...

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HPR4094: One year of Linux

Hacker Public Radio - April 11, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
In 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

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HPR4093: Installing postmarketOS on a PINE64 PinePhone

Hacker Public Radio - April 10, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Shownotes: 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 Jump...

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HPR4092: More man-talk.

Hacker Public Radio - April 09, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
More 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: M...

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HPR4091: Test Driven Development Demo

Hacker Public Radio - April 08, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Test 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 Nor...

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HPR4090: Playing Civilization III, Part 1

Hacker Public Radio - April 05, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
This 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_Civ...

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HPR4087: Getting started with the digiKam photo management software

Hacker Public Radio - April 02, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Getting 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 websit...

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HPR4086: HPR Community News for March 2024

Hacker Public Radio - April 01, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
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HPR4085: Android User Land Google Assistant GPT

Hacker Public Radio - March 29, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Android 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:...

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HPR4084: Cloud learning

Hacker Public Radio - March 28, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
I 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.

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HPR4083: Drivecast: Man-talk.

Hacker Public Radio - March 27, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Drivecast: 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 urina...

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HPR4082: No swans at Swanston

Hacker Public Radio - March 26, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Introduction 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 ...

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HPR4081: The Oh No! News.

Hacker Public Radio - March 25, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
The 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...

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HPR4080: Georgia to South Carolina

Hacker Public Radio - March 22, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Savannah, 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...

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HPR4079: The Corresponding Source

Hacker Public Radio - March 21, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
The 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. Occasional...

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HPR4078: Learning to read music, part two: pitch

Hacker Public Radio - March 20, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
You can download the accompanying visual handout/crib sheet for this episode and its predecessor (where we cover rhythm) from here: https://enistello.info

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HPR4077: FFMPEG Series: Joining and Splitting files

Hacker Public Radio - March 19, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
FFMPEG 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 inter...

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HPR4076: WLED House Lights!

Hacker Public Radio - March 18, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Video: 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/.scr...

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HPR4075: Making a Pomodoro Timer

Hacker Public Radio - March 15, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Making 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...

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HPR4074: Jade Empire

Hacker Public Radio - March 14, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
I 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

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HPR4073: Is the 1990 documentary "Cyberpunk" worth watching today?

Hacker Public Radio - March 13, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
In 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.

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HPR4072: Piper text to speech engine

Hacker Public Radio - March 12, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Using 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 sam...

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HPR4071: Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Hacker Public Radio - March 11, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
I 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 h...

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HPR4070: Civilization III

Hacker Public Radio - March 08, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
This 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...

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HPR4069: Passwords and Bitwarden news.

Hacker Public Radio - March 07, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Passwords 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, ena...

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HPR4068: Replacing a lightbulb in a microwave Oven

Hacker Public Radio - March 06, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
Warning: 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...

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HPR4067: Hacking AI Models to Protect your Livelihood

Hacker Public Radio - March 05, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
I 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 cre...

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HPR4066: HPR Community News for February 2024

Hacker Public Radio - March 04, 2024 00:00 ★★★★ - 34 ratings
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