Hi Rho`n,

Very interesting episode. I did a quick search and learnt that besides xargs, grep, sort and wc can receive null-terminated input via the '-z' option. Also it seems that tar can handle null-terminated filenames by the use of '--null'. Certainly more to explore for me :)

Regards oxo

@sgoti
Yes... good observation. Thanks for sharing.

Also, the other part was not directed to me, but anyway I read it. Moving story, sad outgoings but with a powerful outcome by Aleysha and her suporters. Grateful,

Our public library uses Libby and Hoopla to share digital books. I’ve just downloaded the title “Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov (Radio Theatre)” (https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/foundation-trilogy-isaac-asimov-radio-theatre-isaac-asimov/13227620). I’ll give it a go.

Thank you for the show, Sgoti.

We all do it, but you’ve mastered it. I now require a charge master. I’ll make a note to attempt this arson, clears throat, project someday.

Velcro for all, Sgoti.

Many mobile apps act as very restricted browsers. The app will limit the user more than it will ever assists the user; and will require root level privileges for “reasons”.

Thank you for the show, Sgoti.

@Antoine
Conversations have gotten worst. I find that users often listen to respond, not listen to understand. The need to quickly respond is greater than gaining perspective.

@Ken Fallen
Behold the awesome power of the UNITED STATES Education System!
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/hartford/connecticut-high-school-graduate-cant-read-or-write-who-failed-her/

Thanks for the show, Sgoti.

This seems a noble goal and maybe fun to learn more about how our most critical systems are bottle-necked by FAANG. I image there isn’t a “one size fits all” approach for something like this; different techniques used per locale. Major systems (governments) may rotate services depending on budget restrictions, regulations (e.g. GDPR), or public bidding systems; here today, gone tomorrow.

Thanks for the show, Sgoti.

dimension.sh

https://yuturna.com/about.html

We were promised a ridiculously complicated DHCP setup, and you did deliver!

Thanks, Jon, I really enjoyed this episode. I've also fought with my home network, and I'm taking a lot of inspiration from your setup.

I found a Firefox extension that uses Piper voices, listed as 'experimental'

It is called Read Aloud
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud

Hi,

Thank you for sharing your flight experiences.
It was interesting that both you and my wife grew up in Oregon, and that my Dad is also a Vietnam veteran.

He liked gas power model planes when I was growing up, the type which were fly-by-wire, or control line flying, which I just looked up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060720184411/http://www.coxmodels.com/prodinfo.asp?number=006020

It was not quite like the link I just put, but was a solid blue one, which I think may have been a kit build.

Anyways, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Looking forward to more shows.

-Archer72

Thanks for this.

I liked your "stream of consciousness" approach to making a show. It was good to follow along with your thoughts.

Yes, I agree with Paulj that 'rsync' is all about updating the destination with differences detected in the source, so the 'find' seems redundant.

However, it's interesting to examine the '-print0' option. I have used it when I have files with spaces (and other weirdnesses) in their names, which I need to process. Many other commands accept null-terminated names, so this can be very useful.

Here's a case in an HPR script I wrote a long time ago when I was a "Janitor":

mapfile -d '' -t pix < \
<(find "$SHOWDIR" -maxdepth 1 -regextype egrep -regex '.*\.(jpg|JPG|png|PNG)' -print0 |\
sort -z)

It fills an array 'pix' with picture file names, avoiding problems with spaces in names (hopefully anyway!).

The "null" characters generated by find are non-printable, but you could save the output and view it with an editor, or with 'od' or 'cat -v' to "see" them.

You mentioned 'ACL'. This stands for Access Control List, a POSIX feature which gives more fine-grained access control to filesystem objects.

Looking forward to more shows like this :-)

Thanks for this. Excellent show.

The VI mode has been in Readline forever, but I don't use it, even though I use Vim every day. You made me ask myself "why?".

I think that when I first learnt about Readline, which was mainly on Unix (Ultrix, SunOS, and others) in the early 1990's, the VI interface wasn't as comprehensive as it is now. So I went with the Emacs mode. It's a long while ago, and I may be wrong.

Anyway, your description of this aspect of Readline makes me want to enable VI mode :-)

**Tongue-in-cheek:** ...and they have “the best”, homemade and locally/responsibly sourced, dorodango any chicken could ever *lay* eyes on; see what I did there. I'm here all week.

I’m enjoying podman and stumbled into this show. I agree, containers for headless distro testing is very nice; it’s so nice, why not go apt-spelunking.

See you around, Sgoti (Some guy on the internet).

I’ve heard about LLMs in academic research but it is not good news. A flood of junk white papers (https://phys.org/news/2024-08-junk-ai-scientific-publishing.html) is the result of LLMs at the moment; spammers ruin everything.

I did not know ‘pass’ has add-ons; very nice, I’ll give it a try. Also, are you still using/developing ‘Credit’ (mentioned in hpr3018 :: Encrypted edit)? The ‘Credit’ project is a great example of hackers enjoying “free”, as in freedom, software.

Happy hacking, Sgoti (Some guy on the internet).

Not sure why HPR in general might play better than others on wireless speakers. If talking about this particular episode, it was submitted as a .flac file, though as you can see it's been converted to a choice of formats. All other things being equal it could just be the frequency range of the recording. Personally, I still haven't settled on a 'favourite' recording setup, and generally just use whatever equipment is to hand.

Hi trying to understand why this podcast plays ok on my sonos, as not everyone does

That sounds like a great setup.
Are there details you can share in a show?

I am cautious of --delete because of nearly lost data of my child's younger pictures and the day after her birth video. Of course my backup strategy was not great either. I ended up using testdisk (or photoRec?) It has been a while, and I'm sadly lacking documentation.

https://www.cgsecurity.org

I'm sure operat0r only used eggs from his own chickens.

Welcome oxo, looking forward to the next show.

Hi oxo and welcome aboard.

I always like hearing SGOTI. It's great how he drops in the odd laugh. He'd put just about anyone in a good mood.

Hi Oxo - Thanks for the show.

One question - Doesn't rsync only copy the files which have changed in the source or destination directory? In other words, you wouldn't need the "find ..." part of the command. Or did you only want to transfer new changes, and older changes are not to be transferred across?
I use rsync for keeping my server music up to date. I have a local copy of my music (ripped from CDs I actually own!!), and have an instance of Jellyfin running on a server. I mount the server music directory on my local machine, and run:

rsync -avt --delete /var/lib/mpd/music/ /mnt/music/

This copies files from my local directory into the mounted folder, and deletes any files in the latter which are not in the former. If I understand your show, you are working to achieve the same thing - have a master copy on one machine, and update the directories on other machines.
I like the -print0 option - I haven't seen that before, and it looks useful.

I look forward to your next episode!

Alas, the fate of male chicks in the egg industry is horrific [mass maceration / mass suffocation / mass gassing]. Have you tried making this soup with an egg substitute?

LOL, didn't know I'd be the one signing off everyone for the NYE show. Sure was fun and I look forward to the next one! :-D

Thanks for this Community News episode! It is an honor to be part of this community, as listener and sometimes as contributor.

Hi Trixter,

Great talk, thank you.

While I may never face such a situation, I would appreciate to get a link to one or more of such Panel-Shows to listen to it.

Cheers
Reto