Embedding Mastodon threads is something I have an interest in doing myself.

I have a question about how a post behaves on the website in relation to how it evolves at Mastodon:

A post is posted on Mastodon.

After it has been posted, several actions may occur. One of them or multiple of them.

The post is edited.
The post is replaced with another post (eg deleted and a new post is posted using the built in function or manually two steps).
The post is deleted.
The post is automatically deleted after for example 100 days (eg special case of deletion).

How is this reflected on the website?
How is it wanted to be reflected on the website?

Thanks for the book tip about yet one more software I am curious to check out one day myself, and eventually to become a user.

Hi SGOTI,

I enjoyed the show, and hearing about the way you manage email.

I have been using Thunderbird since the 2000's when the university I worked for installed central IMAP servers. I kept using it when we started using MS Exchange. I think from the earliest time Thunderbird had a mechanism for deleting messages based on their age or the number in a folder.

I filter all my email arriving from several mail services into a number of inboxes into a hierarchy of folders. For each folder with transient messages I right click on it, and select the 'Retention Policy' tab. There I either set a date-related deletion policy or a count-based one. I always enable "Always keep starred messages".

This seems to be a good way to handle message deletion - for my needs anyway. Some of my filters add stars to messages (as well as sometimes tagging them) before saving them in folders with deletion rules, because I really want to keep them for a long time, while I don't care about others in that folder.

Maybe I should do a show about my 30+ years of email experiences at some point!

Dave

Hello, thank you for the recommendations and direct links in the show notes. May I request a bit more info about each link in the future? They are uninformative themselves, it would be helpful to have at least the podcast title included before the link for quick reference after listening.

Hey mate, its Majid from Mintcast here. I enjoyed your episode on High crimes and misdemeanours about Mintcast and Thunderbird. I was a regular user of thunderbird until my organisation moved to exchange web servers. When i used it i loved it, maybe time to revisit it and follow your guides. Many thanks!

I liked this show because

- I also listen to MintCast
- I also use Thunderbird
- It gave me some tips and thoughts for how I can use Thunderbird even better than I currently do.

Regarding my inbox, when an e-mail thread is handled and if I want to keep it, my current strategy is similar to other documents: I move them to a local Thunderbird map away from the e-mail cloud.

Hey Peter! Great to hear you on your first episode of HPR and putting a voice to the name! Enjoyed hearing your personal computer and Linux journey history. Hope to hear more episode from you in the future!

Thanks Peter for sharing, and also for letting me join the Linux Mint Facebook group you founded. I've learned many things from the community ☺️

Greetings Windigo,
We have a very similar story of how we started using Barrier, after both us being Synergy users.
My main use of Barrier is in in my home network mostly between my desktop PC running PCLinuxOS as the host and a laptop running Solus as a client.
In a recent Solus update Barrier disappeared!
Discovered in the update blog that Barrier had been forked to new software named InputLeap.
Their site is: https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
On that site they state: "Input Leap is a fork of barrier, by barrier's active maintainers. Currently, barrier is considered unmaintained."
PCLinuxOS have yet to make this change, but the great news is that InputLeap and Barrier work together seamlessly.

I do notice that you have also recorded this show:
hpr4191 :: rkvm software KVM
Sounds like a good solution to a specific keyboard issue.
I look forward to listening to that show.

Hey guys. Great show. BTW, what does ' OLF' mean? Thanks.

Thanks Kevie for your Command Line tip. I tried the cvlc player, and... it works! I am not a heavy Command Line user, but I like it, and it is inspiring to learn from your knowledge.

Peter,

Welcome as host on Hacker Public Radio!

You mentioned ICQ in this episode. I also used ICQ back in the days. I think they can be seen as one important forerunner to where we are today with chat softwares.

Thanks Peter for your comment!

I've been struggling, still ongoing, to details, to why, what I want to achieve. So if my thinking, web reading and other sources, can work as a knowledge sharing, I am pleased. And good luck for any digitizing journey you may travel.

Thank you very much Peter for your feedback. And I am happy to hear you also can see the benefit of RSS!

Ken, you personally asked for this comment!
You also hacked this host.
Thank you for the instructions and reasoning behind them.
Totally appreciate them.
Glad to be a host, commenter, and listener of HPR.

Thanks Deltraray for your computer experiences broadcast on your 2011 show.
Going by your dating, I believe I am maybe about a decade older than you at age 57 now.
My first computer was in 1983, an Oric-1 16K. British based 6502 machine.
Our first commonality in the timeline is an Amiga. I owned a 1200 and also a CDTV. Fun machines. I did add an internal HD to the 1200, and later moved it all into a tower. I still have it, but it has not been powered on in many years.
My American wife and her brother co-owned a Commodore 128. It currently sits in my computer room cupboard, along with 1084 monitor, 2 floppy disk drives, and a printer. It's a great system, and one I should really fire up again.
I did have some experience with CP/M with an Amstrad PCW8256 and PCW8512 that my parents owned for their business.
Thanks for the memories mate!

Apologies for the misspelling of tesseract in my previous comment.

Greetings Deltaray, so pleased to meet you.
My own experience with Tesseract OCR software is via my volunteer work with MissionAssist.

MissionAssist is a UK based charity.
I volunteer for them as a Digitisation Keyboarder, receiving PDF scans of Bibles and other books, from people groups all over the world, and typing the chapter text into a structured text file.
https://missionassist.org.uk/services/digitisation/bible-digitisation-project/

Tesseract is a wonderful tool that helps me with a lot of the process, obtaining a text file and then working directly on it.

Since I run KDE, I use Spectacle to highlight the area of the PDF I want to convert into a PNG file for tesseract to read.
A lot of the scans we receive are not exactly straight, often in columns, have ink marks, and bleed through from the other side. So, not always a straight forward OCR process.
I save these files with chapter and verse references in the title.
Once I have a set of PNG files from my allocated chapter, I simply run tesseract per file to create the text file.
I then use cat to collect the text files into one file to work on.

Your show was really more about using bash and especially the grep command to process your project.
I learned a lot from that alone! Thanks for the education.

Checked your HPR profile and was not surprised you are the guy behind @climagic
I did follow you on Twitter, but left at the buyout.
So glad to know you are on Mastodon, and I followed that account today.

I do plan recording my own show about my use of tesseract as I volunteer with MissionAssist, but given my current workload and other reasons I am looking at sometime in the new year of 2025.

Ken, I was talking with Archer72 / Mark today - of course I was.
Mentioned that I use Tessaract OCR for my MissionAssist work, and he informed me of your show.

MissionAssist is a UK based charity.
I volunteer for them as a Digitisation Keyboarder, receiving PDF scans of Bibles and other books, from people groups all over the world, and typing the chapter text into a structured text file.
https://missionassist.org.uk/services/digitisation/bible-digitisation-project/

Tessaract is a wonderful tool that helps me with a lot of the process, obtaining a text file and then working directly on it.

I do plan talking about this work as an HPR show.
Given my current workload and my wife's medical needs, it will probably be in the New Year.

Wayne was my first ever Interview for the Hallway Track, although to be fair it was the beer garden track that day.

https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0804 hpr0804 :: Wayne Myers from Fit and the Conniptions at OggCamp

Henrik, thank you for a thought provoking show in why we digitize photos. It does make us think of the methods we use for the process and storage of these precious memories.
I am at the age where I have multiple boxes of print photos sitting in boxes at the back of a cupboard, that one day really need to be sorted and stored digitally.

Al, then 10 years later you attend Oggcamp as a member of Tuxjam!

Henrik, we have commonality with Linux Mint. I ran that distro from 2008 to 2016 and was a regular listener to Mintcast. In fact, I officially represented them in 2013 when I attended Ohio Linux Fest.
Don't really remember HPR being mentioned back then, but that's probably just my memory.
It was not until I joined Tech & Coffee in MeWe, then in Telegram, that I heard more of HPR via Geospart and others.
He led me to TheBugcast and then to TuxJam. Both Podcasts heavily mentioned HPR, but I only occasionally checked out a show.
It really was not until this year when I met Archer72 / Mark Rice in-person in his Hospital Trauma Room that I knew I really needed to check out HPR more. He lives and breathes for HPR!!!
Now I have a show under my belt and here to stay.
Take care mate.

Hi Peter,

This was a great first show, done with just a mobile recording and upload, and the sound quality is very good. Nothing done in Post, so Thaj would be proud. :)

I look forward to hearing about God's Pantry Food Bank and how it all was started.

Archer72 (Mark)

Pleased to meet you Henrik,
Although I have heard of feeds, especially RSS, I have not really utilised that system until ... yesterday.
Archer72 / Mark Rice often mentions Newsboat which is a reader for the terminal. He uses it on his Android phone.
Yesterday I investigated my own options, and went with inoreader, which is both a website and Android app.

Have already set up the following feeds:
Hacker Public Radio
Hacker Public Radio - Comment Feed
The Bugcast - Ogg Feed
TuxJam OGG Uncut
OLF Conference

I am already seeing benefit from the feed system, rather than having to go to a website and navigate to the information it comes to me.

Thank you for your show!

I haven't heard from Murph since Northeast Linux Fest - I look forward to his next show, explaining what he's been up to for the past decade or so.

Thanks for advocating for HPR, gentlemen!

Watched The Artifice Girl last week when I saw your show in the future feed:
https://tubitv.com/movies/100008504/the-artifice-girl

Interesting that I first encountered Lance Henriksen as Bishop in Aliens, playing an Android, an AI.

The movie has major shades of Bicentennial Man with AI outliving its creator.
It also does not hold back in describing the predatory nature of some of mankind that preys on the so called weaker younger persons. Maybe we do need such oversight to corral and capture such monsters among us.

Fantastic find in the tags, as I actually attended OLF2013.
I went with my good friend Warren Myers and a few from the then Bluegrass LUG. He spoke at OLF2023 on "Syslog for Fun (and Profit?)".
It was a fun time of taking in the conference and also being a volunteer in the First Aid Team. Glad to say there were no major incidents that required my attention.
Did not attend many of the talks, but did enjoy visiting the vendor area. I remember visiting the LibreOffice booth so its possible that I met Kevin in-person.
I still have the stuffed Gnu that I won in the lottery. He sits next to Tux.
Thanks for the memories.
I need to make more.

So much wonderful banter indeed.
This is why I miss going to such geek conferences.
Plus they always center around food! I really need to visit North Market now. I did not know anyone local when I first attended OLF in 2013, and therefore did not know it existed.
Would be interesting to see if they still have Yak Burger?
Y'all have to take me there during OLF2025.
Thank you for a most enlightening show.

And then I proceed to edit and upload the podcast in front of a crowd in like 10 minutes. Quick and dirty like. Which explains why the audio sucks.