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Any other business
Server move
We are currently in the process of moving the HPR server. A server
has been set up on Amazon AWS, and we are currently setting up a copy of
the database, mail system and Mailman mailing list service.
The Gitea Git repository has already been moved and is in
use. The static site created by rho`n is being set up to
provide the main HPR website. Work is being done to provide the
interactive facilities that need the database, such as show and comment
submission.
Contacting old hosts
The rate of show submission is unusually low this year. The number of
active contributors is low too, with a small group of hosts keeping the
HPR project from sinking below the waves.
A question for the HPR Community - can we contact old hosts to ask
them to contribute again?
Conversion
of Windows-1252 characters to UTF-8 Unicode
As mentioned on the last Community News the Windows-1252
characters (aka Latin1) in the database were converted to the
UTF-8 Unicode format apparently without exceptions. If anyone finds any
unexpected characters in episode titles, summaries, tags or notes from
now onwards please let us know and we'll fix them too!
We wrap up our trip in Texas before heading back home to Michigan
Hosted by Ahuka on 2023-06-02 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license. Travel, RV life, Texas, Presidio, Alpine.Travel.(Be the first).
Our stay in Presidio was a nice one, and we enjoyed the companionship
at the RV park. This gave us access to the Big Bend Ranch State Park,
and we had a few good outings there. But we wanted to visit the Big Bend
National Park, which was not as reachable as we would like, so we booked
a few days in Alpine, Texas. This turned out to be fortuitous for an
important repair. And after seeing the National Park it was time to head
back to Michigan. We had a long but very nice trip, but as always at the
end of a trip we look forward to being back in our home and sleeping in
our bed.
I made up a game so I could play with my painted toy soldiers while waiting for code to compile.
Hosted by Klaatu on 2023-06-01 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license. game,rpg,wargame,board game,miniature,painting.Tabletop Gaming.(Be the first).
Sgoti reports the recent FBI criminal reports and other news.
Hosted by Some Guy On The Internet on 2023-05-31 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license. Fraud, identity theft, murder, crime, conspiracy.general.1.
Author: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of
Pennsylvania. (2023, May 11).
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania announced that Florentina Mayko, age 39, of Cambria County,
Pennsylvania, was charged by criminal information with one count of
conspiracy to commit health care fraud for defrauding Medicare and the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services between 2017 and
2019.
Author: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of
New York. (2023, May 10).
A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging George
Anthony Devolder Santos, better known as “George Santos,” a United
States Congressman representing the Third District of New York, with
seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count
of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false
statements to the House of Representatives.
Author: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New
Jersey. (2023, May 10).
During 2015, Lourenco opened 23 credit cards using the identities of
three victims he had befriended, two of whom were senior citizens.
Lourenco’s victims did not know he was using their identities to obtain
the credit cards, nor did they authorize Lourenco to obtain the credit
cards. Lourenco used the 23 credit cards to make more than $423,000 in
unauthorized purchases. He also used the debit card for a joint bank
account belonging to two of the victims to make an additional $57,000 in
unauthorized charges. Lourenco admitted that he knew at least one of his
victims was a vulnerable victim when he used the victim’s identity to
commit his crime.
Author: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of
Oklahoma. (2023, May 9).
Lewis pleaded guilty to Murder in Indian Country—Second Degree on
September 30, 2021. The investigation of the case revealed Lewis beat
the victim to death with a television and a coat rack after an evening
of drinking at the victim’s apartment. Police investigating an Emergency
Medical Services call discovered the victim lying on the floor of his
apartment and Lewis covered in the victim’s blood.
Author: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of
Texas. (2023, May 9).
According to information presented in court, Donofrio conspired with
others to pay and receive kickbacks in exchange for the referral of, and
arranging for, health care business, specifically pharmacogenetic (PGx)
tests. Pharmacogenetic testing, also known as pharmacogenomic testing,
is a type of genetic testing that identifies genetic variations that
affect how an individual patient metabolizes certain drugs. The illegal
arrangement concerned the referral of PGx tests to clinical laboratories
in Fountain Valley, California; Irvine, California; and San Diego,
California. More than $28 million in illegal kickback payments were
exchanged by those involved in the conspiracy.
Hello, my name is André Jaenisch. You can find myself online under
Ryuno-Ki as well.
This is my first episode on Hacker Public Radio!
It is recorded on 8th May 2023 using Audacity.
It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0
International License.
Today I want to introduce myself.
I'm a web developer for ten years now and recently turned into a
freelancer.
My area of expertise is with Frontend technologies, although I also know
Node.js and Python. I taught myself these languages because my studies
in mathematics did not cover them.
During my studies I switched to GNU/Linux. I started with Ubuntu but
discovered that I prefer Rolling Release distributions more. So I jumped
to Sabayon Linux which was based on Gentoo back then but pre-compiled
the binaries while staying compatible. Now they decided to turn into
another direction so I was looking for another home. I tried Gecko Linux
based on openSUSE for a while until they had bad news in the press. I'm
currently running Kaisen Linux which is based on Debian Bookworm.
Speaking of, I love to read. I have whole shelves filled with books
here.
There is so much to learn from books even in the age of the Internet. I
enjoy that they have a finite amount of content you can walk
through.
I learned about Hacker Public Radio at FOSDEM 2023. When I mentioned
that I have a RODE NT-USB microphone at home already I was encouraged to
contribute to the show. Now I have been listening to the podcast since
the beginning of the year and already heard some of the emergency shows.
I noticed that the hackers on the show are mainly from the United
States. I hope you welcome people from other parts of the world as
well.
I'm from Germany in Europe. A beautiful place to live and I bet as
diverse as in the States when it comes to the landscape. We have more
than Berlin and Bavaria here!
I'm not quite sure what kind of content you would love to hear about.
I have the requested topics page in front of me and could talk about
different items. For example, my first smartphone ever was a Firefox OS
(I still have it. As well as a tablet).
I switched to Android with F-Droid when Mozilla was cancelling the
project. I'm running on a Fairphone here, which is a small Dutch
manufacturer that already managed to move the whole industry into a more
sustainable direction. Because we produce lots of waste. So I could talk
about that.
Or I could talk about building things for the web. Usually I blog
about that because I feel like text feels more natural to it. But then I
saw that some episodes contained code snippets in the show notes.
I could talk about mathematics. We don't have enough podcasts about
math! My focus was on statistics and numerics so that might be
interesting?
What I would love to hear more about is music theory. You see I
haven't learned to play an instrument in my life. Mainly because those
are expensive. My personal taste goes more into heavy metal but I'm not
sure whether you would call me a fan. What does make a metalhead anyway?
But in order to improve my game development having some sort of music
and sound effects is important. So I was really enjoying the episode
3792 on reading music sheets. I lend some books on the library to learn
more. These subjects weren't covered in depth in my school days!
Another subject I would like to learn more about is electronics.
Especially repairing one's computers. Look, I'm using ThinkPads since
years now. I have a X250 (from FOSDEM) in current use. But I also have a
X200 and a T520 gathering dust here. Mainly because something „broke”
with the hardware and I'm too afraid to crack them open.
Then there's a HP Pavilion standing under my desk to wait for repair.
And even one of the old machines from the DOS era with an original
Lemmings installed! But I have no idea how to refurbish them into a
bootable state. Do you have ideas?
I'm sharing my homepage as well as
my e-mail address in
the show notes. I would really love to hear back from you.
I feel like I already touched on different ideas today, but looking
at the time the recording is rather short. Personally I can tune into
episodes up to 30 minutes best, so I will try to respect this threshold
myself.