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Posted at 2026-02-20 14:49:04 relating to the show hpr4579 which was released on 2026-02-19 by Antoine entitled Happy by shower

This episode happened to come at the perfect time for me, since I'm currently going through massive drama with another creative group that is DESTROYING me right now so. thanks for this

Posted at 2026-02-18 22:47:13 relating to the show hpr4578 which was released on 2026-02-18 by thelovebug entitled Alex's journey into Amateur Radio

Congratulations Alex. What a wonderful episode sharing your experience on this learning journey.

I wish you the best as you continue to learn more, whether it is an amateur radio or any of your other interests. Stay curious.

73
KB0JH

Posted at 2026-02-18 18:48:03 relating to the show hpr4577 which was released on 2026-02-17 by Kevie entitled HPR Beer Garden 10 - Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy

German Brewery Störtebeker from Stralsund has a "Scotch Ale" at 9% ABV.

However, aside from the ABV, it's one of those styles brewed with peat-kilned barley that they describe as a "peaty and malty extraordinary taste." Slàinte mhath!

Posted at 2026-02-18 15:21:50 relating to the show hpr4571 which was released on 2026-02-09 by Lee entitled Data processing retrospective

I really enjoyed this conversation with your mum. It is inevitable that one day you will treasure this recording more than you can ever imagine now.

I just I'd had the foresight to do something similar.

Posted at 2026-02-18 11:58:27 relating to the show hpr4572 which was released on 2026-02-10 by Deltaray entitled Uncommon Commands, Episode 3 - strace

I have used strace on a few occasions, but never developed a real understanding of its capability. Many thanks for explaining clearly what it can do - I shall have a closer look!

Posted at 2026-02-18 11:56:52 relating to the show hpr4574 which was released on 2026-02-12 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #0 - Introduction

Welcome to HPR Vance, and thanks for your first show. I don't have a beard, but I first had an account on a Unix system (running on a Pyramid mainframe) in 1986, and I am still learning!
I look forward to your future shows!

Posted at 2026-02-17 12:08:44 relating to the show hpr4578 which was released on 2026-02-18 by thelovebug entitled Alex's journey into Amateur Radio

Hi Alex,

Congratulations on your Foundation license.
This was a really nice father-son episode.

Cheers,
Archer72
KD9VMW

Posted at 2026-02-17 10:56:14 relating to the show hpr4581 which was released on 2026-02-23 by not_toby entitled Sharp Intake of Breath City (A.K.A.) How I learnt to stop worrying about the fork bomb

Hi, not_toby

This was an interesting first episode, with a lot to unpack.
- yes, Microsoft did ruin everything
- BMX and skateboarding might be an interesting topic
- Would like to hear more about automation scripts, definitely of interest to hackers.
- Computer is the bicycle of the mind - 100% yes
- BSD's and Macbooks is interesting
- Linux Outlaws - Thank you for reminding me of these guys
- Good comparison and contrast of OpenBSD vs FreeBSD

Cheers,
Archer72

Posted at 2026-02-13 23:47:34 relating to the show hpr4574 which was released on 2026-02-12 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #0 - Introduction

The next episode is all written and will be coming soon. I have to admit I have no experience with FORTH at all, so that won't be a subject I cover. Hope you find the topics I choose to be interesting anyway. :-)

Posted at 2026-02-12 01:47:30 relating to the show hpr4574 which was released on 2026-02-12 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #0 - Introduction

I enjoyed episode 0, thanks for producing the show. I'm looking FORTH to future episodes!

Posted at 2026-02-11 03:32:12 relating to the show hpr4572 which was released on 2026-02-10 by Deltaray entitled Uncommon Commands, Episode 3 - strace

Thank you for this knowledge; now I have UNLIMITED POWER! Time to `strace` everything. Spoiler alert, do not `strace` `top`. Happy hacking.:wq

Posted at 2026-02-10 15:44:41 relating to the show hpr4572 which was released on 2026-02-10 by Deltaray entitled Uncommon Commands, Episode 3 - strace

This is such a cool tool I wish I knew about earlier. The ability to see what syscalls and opened files are used by a program, without even needing the source code, is amazing!!

Posted at 2026-02-10 08:57:35 relating to the show hpr4571 which was released on 2026-02-09 by Lee entitled Data processing retrospective

I liked your conversation.

Posted at 2026-02-07 12:31:24 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

Before a show is posted, it's ID is more or less the key you get when you upload, once it's posted the unique id is the hpr episode number.

Moving the primary key leads to a mess with the synchronization of files between the HPR site, the Internet Archive, and the HPR CCDN.

We've had to do it in the past, so I'm again speaking from experience. We moved a show from a host which happened to be part 2 and it would have gotten aired before the part 1. This meant we had 4 shows to move. So we will never move a show without getting permission from the Host, and if they do not get back to us, or we feel that it's important enough, the mail list.

Moving shows breaks some RSS readers that *only* look at the enclosure/@url element. If that remains the same, then they have no reason to download it again. So anyone who has already downloaded *any* of the moved shows will not download them again. Which basically breaks the future feed entirely.

Moving a show can easily spiral into a lot of work. We will and have done it on occasion, but if it's urgent enough, you should reserve a slot.

The janitors really - and I mean really - do not like to move shows around once they are posted.

Posted at 2026-02-07 02:48:34 relating to the show hpr4554 which was released on 2026-01-15 by Jim DeVore entitled How I do todo

Hey, great episode.

One trick I learned is that I symlink my `todo.txt` file to my `~/.plan`

$ ln -s path/to/todo.txt ~/.plan

and because I also run `fingerd(8)` on my VPS, that lets me

$ finger gumnos@myvps.example.invalid

from any machine that supports `finger(1)` to get my todo list.

That said, within the last year, the incredible CLI calendaring tool `remind(1)` added todo functionality, so I've migrated most of my todo tasks to the `remind` format. That gives me a *lot* better control over scheduling repeating events/todos. The only downside: it's just not quite as `finger`-able :-)

Posted at 2026-02-06 20:52:38 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

I think the existing episode scheduling system is really good. It could possibly be improved with a few minor tweaks, but I think the existing system is the product of long experience and shouldn't be overthrown without good reason.

Once such tweak may be to let the maintainers reschedule shows which don't need to be on a specific date forwards or backwards to some degree to open up slots for newcomers or to fill empty slots. They may do this already for all I know. This perhaps could be automated with a script.

The root of the problem is not enough *new* contributors. It would only take a handful of new regular contributors to keep HPR going with plenty of new episodes.

Posted at 2026-02-06 16:23:36 relating to the show hpr4569 which was released on 2026-02-05 by Klaatu entitled Kiosk with guest mode on Linux

For mounting network drives, I would recommend using rclone. Also, many display managers scan for a .xprofile file on login.

Posted at 2026-02-06 02:19:21 relating to the show hpr4569 which was released on 2026-02-05 by Klaatu entitled Kiosk with guest mode on Linux

Agreed -- a guest account is great for visitors to my home for all the reasons cited. I have wondered how you added hooks for login and logout -- in my case, for mapping SMB shares. Would the GDM hooks work for that?

Posted at 2026-02-06 01:56:48 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

I collect movie recommendations and try to watch them when they appear on one of my streaming services. What a great list - I have only seen about half of this list.

Posted at 2026-02-05 23:36:17 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

I think a good middle ground could be to have a "short term queue" that a show could go into if the creator doesn't care when exactly it appears? That way the explicit date reservations can have more priority.

Posted at 2026-02-05 13:55:25 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

Thanks for this awesome rundown of these hacker-influenced movies. It sure was fun to listen to the ones you discussed. I was especially curious about The Lives of Others, and yes, the following HPR episode did have a good connection with this. Looking forward to watching The Lives of Others in German as I'm trying to improve my learning of the language.

Another movie that is hacker-based is called Whoami, also in German. It's very actiony from what I saw of the trailer, but sure caught my interest due to the topic and the language. Might want to check that one out as well.

Posted at 2026-02-05 11:54:36 relating to the show hpr4596 which was released on 2026-03-16 by Ken Fallon entitled Adding voice-over audio track created using text to speech on the movie subtitles

Thank you for your interesting show. Great how you solved all the issues. But I won't use it.
I remember seeing those films on TV-sets in Poland while buying something. I always thought "How can they stand out with this annoying voice destroying the film." Luckily it often were dumb soap operas, so I didn't even try to understand the original voices. And you're right, it's worst when the original is in a language you understand. Which is the case in the example you used. Especially, because the male voice in swedish is mumbling a bit.

Posted at 2026-02-05 05:11:00 relating to the show hpr4564 which was released on 2026-01-29 by Archer72 entitled MakeMKV error

I'm surprised there wasn't any regression testing to prevent a forced downgrade. Did you try submitting a bug report to the devs?

Posted at 2026-02-05 03:44:49 relating to the show hpr4569 which was released on 2026-02-05 by Klaatu entitled Kiosk with guest mode on Linux

i most likely won't need to use this any time soon, but its always good to have things like this in your toolbelt! its also great practice

Posted at 2026-02-04 16:30:35 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

I've always considered them to be in order as in if not rule 1, then if not rule 2, etc.
Perhaps that's why people have struggled with them for so long.

I'm genuinely open to suggestions to improve it, but would appreciate moving the conversation to the gittea ticket

https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_documentation/issues/17

Posted at 2026-02-04 16:20:12 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

Rule 3 says to always try to fill slots in the upcoming 2 weeks.
Rule 4 says when the "queue is filling up" to leave slots free for new contributors.
Rule 5 says to post non-urgent shows into the first empty week.

3 and 5 seem to contradict one another, as most shows will be non-urgent. 4 is unclear as to what "filling up" means in practical terms.

Long time contributors will have a good feel for what they should be doing and first time contributors should use the first free slot, but someone on his second or third episode can find navigating the rules a bit confusing.

Things like this should always be looked at from the perspective of someone who is relatively new to contributing podcasts when judging how clear the guidelines are.

Posted at 2026-02-04 14:15:57 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

Several in your list that I get inspired to watch and some to watch again.

I first watched the movie The Lives of Others first time when I took the course Integrity, technology and surveillance as part of the Human Rights program. It is really good and very relevant today although the methods are different.

By coincidence this HPR episode has a nice connection to the episode next day.

Posted at 2026-02-04 12:20:56 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

re 1) I think the guide lines are clear on the point, but if you can suggest an improvement then please do so.

3. Always try and fill any free slots that are available in the upcoming two weeks.
4. When the queue is filling up then leave some slots free for new contributors.

re 2) Yip we'll tone it down depending on how urgent it is.

re 3) The limit is removed but we need to redo the how to page

Posted at 2026-02-04 03:15:18 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

I felt urged to watch some movies on this list. I may have watched 2 or 3 only. The show was very good, an attractive invitation to see the ones you comment.

Thanks!

Posted at 2026-02-03 19:08:14 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

I am a relatively new contributor, having sent in my first episode in November. Before that I was a long time listener. I have submitted 10 episodes so far, with some which are yet to be aired.

I think the current system is pretty good and should be kept with only a few minor changes. I like being able to pick slots. I feel additional motivation to contribute by being able to pick a slot and know that my episode would air on a predictable schedule rather than go in a long queue and turn up at some distant date in the future. I contribute episodes to have them aired, not to fill a queue.

I will make three short points:

1) Your own scheduling guidelines encourage existing contributors to leave some near term slots open for new contributors. Inevitably this will result in shows from the reserve queue being required to be used if a new contributor does not show up. If that is not what you intend, then you need to clarify those guidelines.

2) The messages calling for new shows may sometimes sound a bit alarming. If people interpret these as signs that HPR is dying, that may act to discourage them from contributing. I think the contribution requests need to be careful to spur people to action without sounding overly alarming.

3) Make it easier to post show notes. Currently the text box to paste the show notes into seems to be limited to about 4,000 characters. It would be easier for contributors if they could simply copy-paste their entire script into this box instead of jumping through additional hoops.

I'm currently working on new episodes and hope to post them in a few weeks. Thanks to the volunteers for all their efforts.