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.

Quick tip.

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

# browser linkhandler

Change to:

browser "firefox %u"

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

Hi,

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

Archer72

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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"!

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.

Minor correction I just though of.

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

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

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

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.

Hi norrist.

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

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.