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Antoine says: Re: Archer 72 - That's what I understood

Posted at 2025-07-22 02:42:44 relating to the show hpr4424 which was released on 2025-07-17 by Archer72 entitled How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit

I was listening at night, on the bed.
When you talked about lemmy.'sdf'.org, I wanted to know that instance of Lemmy. I thought I listened 'str' instead, and there I went to the website (that has no Lemmy, but it was not a problem once there), came to know it, grateful for you having presented.


Archer72 says: Open in Browser

Posted at 2025-07-20 08:45:22 relating to the show hpr4424 which was released on 2025-07-17 by Archer72 entitled How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit

Quick tip.

Change Open in Browser setting in Newsboat config to open in Firefox.

# browser linkhandler

Change to:

browser "firefox %u"


Archer72 says: Re: Antoine's thank you

Posted at 2025-07-20 08:42:35 relating to the show hpr4424 which was released on 2025-07-17 by Archer72 entitled How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit

I'm happy that this podcast was good to listen to, and thanks for the link.

Like Ken says, It is the currency to pay the hosts :)


Archer72 says: Easy listening

Posted at 2025-07-20 08:35:43 relating to the show hpr4423 which was released on 2025-07-16 by Ahuka entitled YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #2

Thank you for this show.
It is interesting to hear the stories behind each channel.
Also very pleasant to listen to.


Torin Doyle says: Music for LM

Posted at 2025-07-19 12:58:06 relating to the show hpr4425 which was released on 2025-07-18 by Ken Fallon entitled Introducing Linux Matters

I love their theme tune. It reminds me of the 1980s.


Torin Doyle says: Not as good as Ubuntu Podcast.

Posted at 2025-07-18 07:05:10 relating to the show hpr4425 which was released on 2025-07-18 by Ken Fallon entitled Introducing Linux Matters

Hi Ken. I loved Ubuntu Podcast (2008–2021). I find that Linux Matters is no where near as good.


Antoine says: Thank you

Posted at 2025-07-18 02:37:14 relating to the show hpr4424 which was released on 2025-07-17 by Archer72 entitled How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit

A pleasant listening and learning. Thank you! Also, I came to know Str.org.


Kevin O'Brien says: Nice discussion

Posted at 2025-07-16 17:36:37 relating to the show hpr4421 which was released on 2025-07-14 by Lee entitled Content Moderation

I enjoyed the discussion here. It is an interesting topic, and very relevant to HPR, as a very incident indicated.


Archer72 says: Stories

Posted at 2025-07-11 08:25:01 relating to the show hpr4419 which was released on 2025-07-10 by Ahuka entitled YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #1

Hi,

Thanks for this episode.
I enjoyed the stories you had about each channel.

Archer72


Torin Doyle says: Thanks.

Posted at 2025-07-10 10:54:10 relating to the show hpr4416 which was released on 2025-07-07 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for June 2025

Hi Ken. Thanks for the tips regarding running an SQL DB. I'll likely let it go as I find it all too convoluted. I'd love to see a feature on HPR to easily find all past comments by folk - like can be done on general internet forums. Regards.


ToeJet says: Alternate method

Posted at 2025-07-08 11:43:24 relating to the show hpr4417 which was released on 2025-07-08 by Dave Morriss entitled Newest matching file

I use a similar pattern to find newest and oldest
PATTERN is any valid filename pattern and path if needed
PATTERN=*.txt #Text file in current direcory
PATTERN=/dir1/*.sh #sh file in /dir1
PATTERN=/dir2/[a-j]* #file beginning with a-j in /dir2

#Find Newest
NewFile=$(dir -1tQ ${PATTERN} | head -n 1)
NewFile=${NewFile//\"/} #Remove " in Name

#Find Oldest
OldFile=$(dir -1rtQ ${PATTERN} | head -n 1)
OldFile=${OldFile//\"/} #Remove " in Name


Malix says: Review of V

Posted at 2025-07-06 08:33:51 relating to the show hpr4025 which was released on 2024-01-05 by Celeste entitled Testing V language

Came across this and thought it a good review. Getting more into programming and find the V language fun to use. Found it more comfortable than others. Starting some projects with it. Thanks for the podcast.


Kevin O'Brien says: Studying history

Posted at 2025-07-05 20:16:25 relating to the show hpr4412 which was released on 2025-07-01 by Antoine entitled Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731

I don't do history professionally, and in any case I am retired. But it was my first degree, and still a major interest. I read books on history and listen to history podcasts, including one on World War II by Ray Harris.


Antoine says: Glad w/ your interest

Posted at 2025-07-05 15:46:42 relating to the show hpr4412 which was released on 2025-07-01 by Antoine entitled Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731

I'm happy you liked it, it is curious (different) to see someone that studies history nowadays, unless when it is the main area of someone. Thank you! Have a nice day


Ken Fallon says: Policy Check

Posted at 2025-07-04 20:34:07 relating to the show hpr4416 which was released on 2025-07-07 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for June 2025

https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2025-July/004873.html


Kevin O'Brien says: I loved the show

Posted at 2025-07-01 21:48:53 relating to the show hpr4412 which was released on 2025-07-01 by Antoine entitled Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731

I am a student of World War II history, and I am familiar with many of the events this story is based on. I really liked it.


paulj says: Great Interview

Posted at 2025-07-01 04:19:26 relating to the show hpr4411 which was released on 2025-06-30 by thelovebug entitled The Pachli project

Pachli is a great application, but I never knew the background to its development. Thanks for catching up with Nik, and making this show - very interesting. Open source project "done right"!


Henrik Hemrin says: Review ALT texts

Posted at 2025-06-29 22:00:23 relating to the show hpr4408 which was released on 2025-06-25 by Kevie entitled Lynx - Old School Browsing

I use Lynx sometimes.

One use case is to take advantage of the fact that I cannot see the images in Lynx, instead I only see the ALT texts. This helps me to get an idea of how web sites works for visually impaired persons, and this helps me to improve my ALT texts on my own web site and elsewhere.


Alec Bickerton says: XML parsing without xmlstarlet

Posted at 2025-06-29 21:08:11 relating to the show hpr4404 which was released on 2025-06-19 by Ken Fallon entitled Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml

Minor correction I just though of.

curl -s https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | xmllint --xpath "rss/channel/item/enclosure/@url" - | head -1


Alec Bickerton says: Shorter version

Posted at 2025-06-29 21:03:32 relating to the show hpr4404 which was released on 2025-06-19 by Ken Fallon entitled Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml

curl -s https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | xmlstarlet sel --text --template --match 'rss/channel/item' --value-of 'enclosure/@url' --nl | head -1


Alec Bickerton says: Shorter version

Posted at 2025-06-29 21:02:21 relating to the show hpr4404 which was released on 2025-06-19 by Ken Fallon entitled Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml

curl -s https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | xmlstarlet sel --text --template --match 'rss/channel/item' --value-of 'enclosure/@url' --nl tuxjam.xml | head -1


Dave Morriss says: Thanks for bringing us along...

Posted at 2025-06-25 17:39:49 relating to the show hpr4405 which was released on 2025-06-20 by Lee entitled What did I do at work today?

I enjoyed listening to you working on your VB/SQL Server application. I was cooking dinner for my visitors (my son and his girlfriend), and your show had a sort of ASMR quality to it.

I have never used Visual Basic or SQL Server, but that didn't seem to matter. It was interesting to hear about what you were doing.

Your comment about VMS file version numbers alerted me. I used to manage a two node VAXcluster running "VAX/VMS" as its "System Manager" from 1987. Later we replaced it with a DEC Alpha also running VMS, with the new name "OpenVMS". I very much agree that the version number feature was really useful, and I miss it! There was a file attribute you could set which auto-deleted the oldest files if there were more than a certain number of versions in a directory.


Torin Doyle says: Not able to use database to find my comments.

Posted at 2025-06-25 11:28:29 relating to the show hpr4403 which was released on 2025-06-18 by norrist entitled How to get your very own copy of the HPR database

Hi norrist.

Running as sudo did not work. Also, I'm unsure as to how to run those scripts. Not to worry. Thanks, anyway.


ko3moc says: response

Posted at 2025-06-24 01:13:49 relating to the show hpr4406 which was released on 2025-06-23 by ko3moc entitled SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images

Yes, it can be steganography if the code is hidden or disguised to avoid detection but if it’s just inserted as active code, it may be looked at as malware or script injection, not steganography as malicious content is clearly visible in the file structure (e.g. have it's own script tag)




Archer72 says: It's in my memory

Posted at 2025-06-23 09:20:21 relating to the show hpr4417 which was released on 2025-07-08 by Dave Morriss entitled Newest matching file

Dave,

Thanks for the show. This is one that I will have to refer to at a later date. For now, I'm putting in my memory to refer back.

Archer72


oxo says: Interesting!

Posted at 2025-06-23 01:42:37 relating to the show hpr4406 which was released on 2025-06-23 by ko3moc entitled SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images

Hi ko3moc,
Interesting podcast. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this. I wondered: is this also categorized as steganography? I guess it is and then used in a malicious way.
My tip as a protonmail user: in my webmail I have automatic downloading of remote content switched off.


Ken Fallon says: Personal message to redhat (nprfan)

Posted at 2025-06-22 15:44:17 relating to the show hpr4398 which was released on 2025-06-11 by Kevie entitled Command line fun: downloading a podcast

Hi redhat (nprfan),

Dave and I had a look at your comment, as it was essentially a script that produced links to a website. While we think it's not malicious, the code as written would not run as it's missing some variables.

Can you please record a show about it as we both were impressed by your though process in this one.

Ken and Dave.


Henrik Hemrin says: More to digest

Posted at 2025-06-22 10:57:08 relating to the show hpr4404 which was released on 2025-06-19 by Ken Fallon entitled Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml

Thanks Ken for your addition, alternative, response, to Kevies show about downloading a podcast. Now I have two interesting shows to digest in detail and learn from.


Laindir says: The perfect kind of recommendation

Posted at 2025-06-18 23:14:12 relating to the show hpr4397 which was released on 2025-06-10 by Klaatu entitled Transfer files from desktop to phone with qrcp

This is exactly the kind of clever little utility that it wouldn't occur to me to search for. Solves a common problem in a really neat way. And I would never know about it except being told by someone who uses it. Great show!


norrist says: Also an SQLite version

Posted at 2025-06-18 17:40:21 relating to the show hpr4403 which was released on 2025-06-18 by norrist entitled How to get your very own copy of the HPR database

I should have added in the show that there are scripts available to download the db and load the sql into a sqlite file. This is probably a much easier option if you dont have experience managing mariadb.

The scripts are in the hpr_generator project:
https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_generator/src/branch/main/utils

If you try the method in the show and are getting permission denied errors, try running the commands as root. Sometimes the root user has blanket permissions to the databases.