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hpr4412 :: Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731 hosted by Antoine

Released: Tuesday, 2025-07-01. Duration: 00:20:14. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: audiodrama, Shiro Ishii, World War II, Unit 731, Kwangtung Army, podcast production.

First 3 minutes: trailer; followed by the full show — an original audiodrama

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hpr4411 :: The Pachli project hosted by thelovebug

Released: Monday, 2025-06-30. Duration: 01:12:05. Flag: Clean. Series: Interviews.
Tags: pachli, interview, fediverse, development, developer.

Dave and Kevie interview Nik from the Pachli project

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hpr4410 :: Civilization V hosted by Ahuka

Released: Friday, 2025-06-27. Duration: 00:14:33. Flag: Clean. Series: Computer Strategy Games.
Tags: Computer games, strategy games, Civilization V.

A first look at the next version of Civilization from 2010, Civilization V

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hpr4409 :: H D R Ridiculous Monitor hosted by operat0r

Released: Thursday, 2025-06-26. Duration: 00:22:09. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: HDR calibration, Monitor settings, Multi-monitor setup, Productivity tips, Development tools, Color.

The presenter discusses configuring monitor settings for development, emphasizing HDR calibration an

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hpr4408 :: Lynx - Old School Browsing hosted by Kevie

Released: Wednesday, 2025-06-25. Duration: 00:22:33. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: CLI, command line, browsing, Linux.

Kevie takes a look at the Lynx command line browser

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hpr4407 :: A 're-response' Bash script hosted by Dave Morriss

Released: Tuesday, 2025-06-24. Duration: 00:12:34. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: Bash, scripting.

My take on Ken's response to Kevie's show 4398

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hpr4406 :: SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images hosted by ko3moc

Released: Monday, 2025-06-23. Duration: 00:08:25. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: svh.

Out of nowhere, my Firefox browser on my Mac mini started automatically adding every page I visited

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hpr4405 :: What did I do at work today? hosted by Lee

Released: Friday, 2025-06-20. Duration: 01:09:30. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: visual basic, testing, sql server.

Lee does some coding and testing for a class library that accesses a database

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hpr4404 :: Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml hosted by Ken Fallon

Released: Thursday, 2025-06-19. Duration: 00:26:19. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: xml, xmlstarlet, rss, podcast.

Grepping XML kills kittens, so Ken uses xmlstarlet to download a podcast

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hpr4403 :: How to get your very own copy of the HPR database hosted by norrist

Released: Wednesday, 2025-06-18. Duration: 00:02:52. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: sql, hpr.

Commands to download and query the HPR database

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hpr4402 :: pinetab2 hosted by Brian in Ohio

Released: Tuesday, 2025-06-17. Duration: 00:19:59. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: pine64, tablets, fluxbox.

how I'm using the pinetab2

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hpr4401 :: hajime hosted by oxo

Released: Monday, 2025-06-16. Duration: 00:23:33. Flag: Explicit. Series: Bash Scripting.
Tags: oxo, bash, commandline, archlinux, installation, script, hajime.

Let's see how oxo is using hajime in order to install Arch Linux on a old netbook.

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hpr4400 :: Isaac Asimov: Other Asimov Novels of Interest hosted by Ahuka

Released: Friday, 2025-06-13. Duration: 00:14:49. Flag: Clean. Series: Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Tags: Science fiction, Asimov.

A look at three stand-alone novels from Asimov

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hpr4399 :: gpg-gen-key hosted by oxo

Released: Thursday, 2025-06-12. Duration: 00:19:55. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: oxo, bash, commandline, script, gnupg, gpg, cryptography, keys.

Oxo is back! And today with an interesting script that automates the generation of gpg keys.

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hpr4398 :: Command line fun: downloading a podcast hosted by Kevie

Released: Wednesday, 2025-06-11. Duration: 00:10:47. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: CLI, command line, RSS, Linux, download.

Kevie goes through how to download from an RSS feed from the command

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hpr4397 :: Transfer files from desktop to phone with qrcp hosted by Klaatu

Released: Tuesday, 2025-06-10. Duration: 00:09:17. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: phone, qr, httpd, netstat.

Use a QR encoded URL to quickly share a file on your local network

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hpr4396 :: AI and Sangria hosted by operat0r

Released: Monday, 2025-06-09. Duration: 00:21:16. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: cooking, hacking, AI.

operat0r talks about AI tools and troubble shooting while he makes Sangria with RUM!

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hpr4395 :: Second Life hosted by Lee

Released: Friday, 2025-06-06. Duration: 00:26:52. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 3d gaming, simulation.

Lee talks to Elsbeth about a persistent online virtual world

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hpr4394 :: Digital Steganography Intro hosted by mightbemike

Released: Thursday, 2025-06-05. Duration: 00:32:36. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Wednesday, 2025-06-04. Duration: 00:31:00. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Tuesday, 2025-06-03. Duration: 00:09:43. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Monday, 2025-06-02. Duration: 01:16:57. Flag: Explicit. Series: HPR Community News.
Tags: 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

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

Using wonders to help win

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hpr4389 :: Comments on hpr4373 hosted by Rho`n

Released: Thursday, 2025-05-29. Duration: 00:07:17. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Wednesday, 2025-05-28. Duration: 00:42:56. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Tuesday, 2025-05-27. Duration: 00:29:26. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Monday, 2025-05-26. Duration: 00:19:41. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Friday, 2025-05-23. Duration: 00:16:36. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: 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

Released: Thursday, 2025-05-22. Duration: 00:02:12. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 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

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

How I changed my default font for my system.

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