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Welcome to HPR, the Community Podcast

We started producing shows as Today with a Techie on 2005-09-19, 19 years, 9 months, 1 days ago. Our shows are produced by listeners like you and can be on any topics that "are of interest to hackers". If you listen to HPR then please consider contributing one show a year. If you record your show now it could be released in 4 days.

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Previous five weeks

hpr4395 :: Second Life hosted by Lee

Friday, 2025-06-06. 00:26:52. Clean. general.
3d gaming, simulation.

Lee talks to Elsbeth about a persistent online virtual world

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hpr4394 :: Digital Steganography Intro hosted by mightbemike

Thursday, 2025-06-05. 00:32:36. Clean. general.
steganography.

I take a very high level look at digital stegnography. What is it? How is it used in practice?

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hpr4393 :: Journal like you mean it. hosted by Some Guy On The Internet

Wednesday, 2025-06-04. 00:31:00. Explicit. general.
Journal, Bullet journal, bujo, discbound.

Sgoti talks about journaling with bujo, the bullet journal method.

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hpr4392 :: The Water is Wide, and the sheet music should be too hosted by Jezra

Tuesday, 2025-06-03. 00:09:43. Clean. general.
music, bagpipes, dumbra, lilypond.

some ramblings about using opensource for printiing sheet music and helping with my timing

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hpr4391 :: HPR Community News for May 2025 hosted by HPR Volunteers

Monday, 2025-06-02. 01:16:57. Explicit. HPR Community News.
Community News.

HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in May 2025

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hpr4390 :: Playing Civilization IV, Part 9 hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-05-30. 00:15:52. Clean. Computer Strategy Games.
Computer games, strategy games, Civilization IV, Wonders.

Using wonders to help win

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hpr4389 :: Comments on hpr4373 hosted by Rho`n

Thursday, 2025-05-29. 00:07:17. Clean. general.
bash, commandline, find, rsync, pipe, xargs.

Rho`n gives comments on oxo's HPR episode 4373

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hpr4388 :: BSD Overview hosted by norrist

Wednesday, 2025-05-28. 00:42:56. Clean. general.
bsd, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd.

norrist describes how you can be a real hacker and run BSD

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hpr4387 :: Did she say she flew light aircraft?! hosted by Elsbeth

Tuesday, 2025-05-27. 00:29:26. Clean. general.
aircraft, light aircraft, flight, travel, instruments, navigation, freebird.

Wherein Elsbeth expounds on her experience with light aircraft and how it relates to her geekiness

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hpr4386 :: Silly Tavern Spicy Roll Play hosted by operat0r

Monday, 2025-05-26. 00:19:41. Explicit. general.
ai, roll play, chat bots, bots.

Silly Tavern Spicy Roll Play for degenerates !

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hpr4385 :: Cable un-managment lol hosted by operat0r

Friday, 2025-05-23. 00:16:36. Explicit. general.
computers, wires, electronics.

operat0r talks about cable managment or the lack of...

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hpr4384 :: Browser and dedicated apps on the mobile phone hosted by Henrik Hemrin

Thursday, 2025-05-22. 00:02:12. Clean. general.
phone, apps, browser.

The traditional browser can reduce the number of dedicated apps on the smart mobile phone.

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hpr4383 :: Changing font in Arch Linux (Wayland) hosted by oxo

Wednesday, 2025-05-21. 00:10:43. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
linux, arch, system, font, default, oxo.

How I changed my default font for my system.

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hpr4382 :: Understanding Antenna Gain and the Decibel scale hosted by Paulj

Tuesday, 2025-05-20. 00:08:24. Clean. HAM radio.
Antenna gain, power measurement, antenna comparison.

The use of decibels can be a bit confusing, so in this episode paulj will enlighten you!

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hpr4381 :: What Omni-Instantness Makes To My Brain and Your Brain? hosted by Antoine

Monday, 2025-05-19. 00:12:54. Clean. general.
Social Media Usage, Opinion.

Is Social Media Good To You? (Be It Fedi Or Not)

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hpr4380 :: Isaac Asimov: The Rest of Asimov's Foundation Stories hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-05-16. 00:12:37. Clean. Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Science fiction, Asimov, Robots, Empire.

A look at the other Foundation-related novels of Isaac Asimov

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hpr4379 :: Mapping Municipalities' Digital Dependencies hosted by Trollercoaster

Thursday, 2025-05-15. 00:13:20. Clean. general.
hacktivism, dependency, autonomy, society.

Asking your help in mapping public services of governmental websites

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hpr4378 :: SQL to get the next_free_slot hosted by norrist

Wednesday, 2025-05-14. 00:28:26. Clean. general.
sql, hpr.

norrist talks about SQL to find the next available HPR slot

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hpr4377 :: Password store and the pass command hosted by Klaatu

Tuesday, 2025-05-13. 00:29:39. Clean. general.
password, security.

Try a UNIX-like password manager

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hpr4376 :: Re-research hosted by Lee

Monday, 2025-05-12. 00:11:38. Explicit. general.
research, university, machine learning, databases.

Lee talks about trying to do academic research

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hpr4375 :: Long Chain Carbons,Eggs and Dorodango? hosted by operat0r

Friday, 2025-05-09. 00:33:46. Explicit. general.
Dorodango, crafts, cooking.

We make egg drop soup and talk about Dorodango W T F

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hpr4374 :: 24-25 New Years Eve show 7 hosted by Honkeymagoo

Thursday, 2025-05-08. 02:26:35. Explicit. general.
new years, HPR, community.

The HPR community comes together to say happy new year and chat

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hpr4373 :: Rsync with stdin as source hosted by oxo

Wednesday, 2025-05-07. 00:20:13. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
bash, commandline, find, rsync, pipe, stdout, stdin, backup, copy.

Use find pipe it's the results into rsync to make a copy.

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hpr4372 :: The power of GNU Readline - part 4 hosted by Some Guy On The Internet

Tuesday, 2025-05-06. 00:11:26. Clean. GNU Readline.
GNU Readline, Vi mode.

Sgoti talks about Vi settings in GNU Readline

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hpr4371 :: HPR Community News for April 2025 hosted by HPR Volunteers

Monday, 2025-05-05. 00:37:44. Explicit. HPR Community News.
Community News.

HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in April 2025

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hpr4370 :: Playing Civilization IV, Part 8 hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-05-02. 00:11:04. Clean. Computer Strategy Games.
Computer games, strategy games, Civilization IV, Culture victory.

We demonstrate how to win a Culture victory

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hpr4369 :: What LP records do I have? hosted by Fred Black

Thursday, 2025-05-01. 00:56:08. Clean. general.
Music, Vinyl records.

Fred counts up all their Long playing Vinyl Records by organization number

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hpr4368 :: Lessons learned moderating technical discussion panels hosted by Trixter

Wednesday, 2025-04-30. 00:20:11. Clean. general.
panels, discussion, conferences, talks.

Tips for effectively moderating tech panels, from preparation to audience engagement.

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hpr4367 :: My first episode; 001 Introduction hosted by oxo

Tuesday, 2025-04-29. 00:23:10. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
arch, linux, commandline, bash, zsh, script, scripting, oxo.

Living in the Linux commandline, bash and scripting

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hpr4366 :: My audio setup and editing hosted by Antoine

Monday, 2025-04-28. 00:11:27. Clean. general.
audio editing, audio recording, making an HPR show, comments, audacity, compression.

Recording with a dynamic microphone, monitoring in real time with headphone, and then editing it all

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