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Your ideas, projects, opinions - podcasted.

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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, 8 months, 11 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 12 days.

Latest Shows

hpr4387 :: Did she say she flew light aircraft?!

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

Hosted by Elsbeth on Tuesday, 2025-05-27 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
aircraft, light aircraft, flight, travel, instruments, navigation, freebird. general. 1.

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Duration: 00:29:26
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hpr4382 :: Understanding Antenna Gain and the Decibel scale

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

Hosted by Paulj on Tuesday, 2025-05-20 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Antenna gain, power measurement, antenna comparison. HAM radio. (Be the first).

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Duration: 00:08:24
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Previous five weeks

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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hpr4365 :: Mint to Rocket Money and Scammers hosted by operat0r

Friday, 2025-04-25. 00:13:28. Explicit. general.
Budgeting.

operat0r talks about my move from Mint to Rocket Money and me getting scammed basically..

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hpr4364 :: 24-25 New Years Eve show 6 hosted by Honkeymagoo

Thursday, 2025-04-24. 02:02:27. Explicit. general.
new years, HPR, community.

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

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hpr4363 :: My First Episode for HPR hosted by ko3moc

Wednesday, 2025-04-23. 00:01:43. Clean. general.
python, linux, ham radio, foss.

Long time listener first time contributor

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hpr4362 :: Elsbeth's First Episode hosted by Elsbeth

Tuesday, 2025-04-22. 00:24:04. Explicit. How I got into tech.
Tech, intro, mental health, atari, cessna, .

In this show Elsbeth talks about what got her into Tech, how she found HPR, and her special interest

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hpr4361 :: On my own time hosted by Swift110

Monday, 2025-04-21. 00:14:14. Clean. general.
linux, people, ubuntu, linux mint, solus, swift110.

I express my frustrations at people who push their choice of distros onto others

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hpr4360 :: Isaac Asimov: The Robot Novels hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-04-18. 00:13:31. Clean. Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Science fiction, Asimov, Robots.

A look at the robot novels of Isaac Asimov

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hpr4359 :: Fosdem 2025 - My Personal Experience hosted by Paulj

Thursday, 2025-04-17. 00:22:26. Clean. general.
FOSDEM 2025, Open Source.

For the first time, I went to FOSDEM 2025. In this podcast, I share my experiences.

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hpr4358 :: My linux journey hosted by Jerm

Wednesday, 2025-04-16. 00:07:30. Explicit. general.
Introduction.

How Jerm got into linux

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hpr4357 :: Short introduction by murph. hosted by murph

Tuesday, 2025-04-15. 00:01:38. Clean. general.
introduction, murph, amiga, linux, goofball.

Simply a very brief introduction by murph.

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hpr4356 :: Mirror Mirror On The Wall hosted by Lee

Monday, 2025-04-14. 00:12:45. Clean. general.
linux, ubuntu, mirror.

Lee talks about running a private Ubuntu mirror

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hpr4355 :: Record player audio - Streaming with Darkice hosted by Archer72

Friday, 2025-04-11. 00:10:14. Clean. general.
Record player, vinyl album, record album, record store, streaming, darkice, icecast, arecord.

Archer72 has a brief overview of streaming a vinyl record to his laptop

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hpr4354 :: 24-25 New Years Eve show episode 5 hosted by Honkeymagoo

Thursday, 2025-04-10. 01:47:39. Explicit. general.
new years, HPR, community.

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

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hpr4353 :: diff and patch hosted by Klaatu

Wednesday, 2025-04-09. 00:30:26. Clean. Bash Scripting.
bash, linux, diff, patch.

Learn how to use diff and patch

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hpr4352 :: Why grandma, what large language models you have. hosted by Some Guy On The Internet

Tuesday, 2025-04-08. 00:09:57. Explicit. general.
large language models, enshittification.

Sgoti talks about large lanuage models and enshittification.

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hpr4351 :: HPR Community News for March 2025 hosted by HPR Volunteers

Monday, 2025-04-07. 01:43:36. Explicit. HPR Community News.
Community News.

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

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