I love a good hacker conference, and I am excited that this one will be freely streamed, as I am on the other side of the world.

Thank you for sharing.

Great collection of topics, all of which could have been their own show ;-)

Yes I did spot the "improvise a piercing" reference.

I also purchased MakeMKV when it was still $50.

Until that time, I would update the key monthly via a script by user AyrA on Github.

See hpr3179 :: MakeMKV to back up media

iota,

Thanks for you first show submission.

It is an interesting subject, especially considering the code is meant to be portable.

I am lacking in this field, but it is a good subject/book to put on my reading list.

archer72

Hi Ken,

Thank you for the reminder. It was my plan to mention the other shows of 2023 of which I took some add-ons into my collection, these are:

hpr3851 :: Firefox extensions Ken https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3851/index.html
hpr3862 :: Firefox Extensions Archer72 https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3862/index.html

In regard to your suggestion of: Consent-O-Matic. In the settings of "uBlock Origin" I hiave activated:
Cookie - section
EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices
AdGuard/uBO – Cookie Notices

However, I use the chance to plug something new: Your "LocalCDN" is a webbrowser-extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy - some diagrams in the lower area of the website for better understanding: www.localcdn.org

Cheers
Reto

The underlying programming is all math. Eveything is described by numbers. But then, so is the Universe.

Not a gamer but I'm fascinated by the walk through of these games. The show covers Research, Wonders, and Great People. To me it seems like probabilities from math disguised as a fun time ;-)

These are some of the best low hanging fruit use cases for everyone who is into photography at the "holiday/family snap" level. I count myself among this and picked up several tips in this one.

I loved this series of stories.

And after rereading them I still love them despite "Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKx3kS7f4A

This was a great look at a real world implementation of LoRaWAN, and left me wanting to know more about the topic.

Then I see the show notes and the two scripts themselves are a series of shows.

Great stuff !

I didn't know if you were going to keep the recording to yourself or not. You were insanely lucky. You survived. And you are stronger for it. I love you. Talk soon. - Annebelle

Thank you for sharing this show. I very rarely install add-ons, due to several being taken over by malicious actors.

I will need to look through the ones you and Ken recommended.

We never know how long these shows stay in the queue. This one took a year to come out. Not good or bad - just an observation. So here's an update on the progress.

The Phone is still working fine as a backup device.
Someone stole my free time so haven't had as much chance to use the RIGOL but it's also a lot nicer to use when I have.
Both desks are still going strong and I would recommend it to anyone..

When I heard you say that you were going to overwrite the file without specifying the -y option, I thought I got disappointment with that one myself by times.

I've written my own approach to this because who doesn't want to hear Dan Lynch Pick Mix.

Yes I owe a show.

Hi Lee,

Great idea to use Audacity to create the visualisation!

I have been playing with the frequencies in the Nyquist prompt, and like the appearance of the data displayed when using :
(mult (sound (hzosc 10000)) (sound (hzosc 200)))
This shows the envelope effect very clearly. I guess with the frequency differences seen in radio transmitters/receivers, this is even more pronounced, but I haven't tried to load those values in!

My other comment: beware (enjoy) the functional programming rabbit hole. I stared with Clojure, then moved to Common Lisp, and more recently Scheme (Guile), as well as using emacs-lisp throughout. My use of the latter has improved significantly since I learned from the other functional languages.

Thanks for the show!
--
Paul

I am shocked that I had not yet heard of this tool. I just took a shapshot of https://freeculturepodcasts.org/ and it worked like a charm.

Great suggestion - thanks !

Some great suggestions there, and it's good to see we have a huge overlap. I missed ClearURLs but installed it now.

Can I suggest Consent-O-Matic for the auto deny of consent forms.

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

Did I hear that you're going for the exam ?

Great show and it explained a lot to me about visualization of wave forms.

More of this type of thing

Thanks for sharing Peter - When I hear "Foodbank" I think of the operations in this neck of the woods, so I am surprised and impressed to hear about the size of the operation in God's Pantry.

Like you, I believe foodbanks and high levels of social benefits are a reflection of poor government, and perhaps wrong priorities. However, they fulfil an essential service for people who find themselves in circumstances where they are no longer able to support themselves.

Thank you for your selfless service to the community in which you live!

I really enjoyed hearing about God's Pantry Food Bank. My mother was involved in a food bank in our home town of Scituate, Massachusetts, and may even have been one of the people who started it, I'm just not sure since I had moved out a few years before she did it.

I did indeed have about 200 Asimov books at one time, but I have moved from dead tree books to ebooks now, I still have the science fiction books in electronic from, but I have not replaced the far more numerous science fact books. But I credit Asimov's science fact books for turning me into a college professor, something I did for a number of years before I moved into IT.

Welcome, Nuudle. Thank you for being on the podcast to balance out SGOTI's insanity.

Now, what is the deal with all the cheese? I thought zombies ate brains, not cheese. Or are they allergic to / repelled by cheese? Is it a particular kind of cheese? I have encountered some Limburger cheese which could drive off a zombie hoard, for sure.

Thank you for such a cheesy episode. :)
Looking forward to your next one.

Really enjoyed listening to this one and all the work that God's Food Pantry does for the community, and how you have been involved in it. I know you've mentioned it to me in passing on Mastodon, so it was nice to hear about it all in detail. Thanks again!

Hi Peter,

Thank you for creating this show.

I learned more than even the two times we conversed in the hospital about this topic. :-)

I wonder if Europe and surrounding nations have similar causes. It would be interesting to hear about.

- Archer72, AKA Mark Rice

This was an inspiring episode Kevie! It starts thoughts of when I can have use of it.

As you said, the computer must be turned on in order to have the scheduled recording to record. It got me thinking of the Termux app for Android based phones. I have not tested, but I thinking of that it might work to get this command line recording to work on the phone.

Also the Transistor app for Android phones was interesting, I like the app after my first trials.

Really loved the show. Thank you for all the work you do.

The URL https://arrowestream.radioca.st/;?ver=737183.mp3 streamed from the command line but failed when using ffmpeg substitute this for https://tinyurl.com/4pd3txdc and it works fine.

I am a huge fan of Asimov, and over the years I cannot guess how many times I have read the original trilogy, but over 20 seems like a plausible number. I plan to continue this series with more Golden Age SF and more Doctor Who, and I don't imagine I will ever run out of material.

I'm glad you liked it. We Civ addicts are many, as I have discovered, and now Civ 7 is going to be released in just a few weeks. So this will continue unless I drop dead.

I think in hindsight the Covid pandemic really hurt Penguicon. They had to cancel several years running for public health reasons, and that cost them a lot of momentum. I was planning to attend in 2024, but as it happened I got sick (nothing serious) and elected to stay home instead. I'm not part of the team any more, so I have no particular insight into where things may be headed.