hpr4131 :: HPR Community News for May 2024
HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in May 2024
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HPR Community News.
A monthly look at what has been going on in the HPR community. This is a regular show scheduled for the first Monday of the month.
New hosts
Welcome to our new host:
Moss Bliss.
Last Month's Shows
Comments this month
These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 25 comments in total.
Past shows
There is 1 comment on 1 previous show:
- hpr4087
(2024-04-02) "Getting started with the digiKam photo management software"
by Henrik Hemrin.
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- Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-05-13: "Good support from digiKam developers and community"
This month's shows
There are 24 comments on 7 of this month's shows:
- hpr4109 (2024-05-02) "The future of HPR " by knightwise.
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- Comment 1: Dirk on 2024-05-02: "The future about HPR"
- Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-02: "Thanks for volunteering"
- Comment 3: Knightwise on 2024-05-04: "Alt Hoeselt Calling :)"
- Comment 4: knightwise on 2024-05-04: "Hacker Public Radio as "brown noise?" "
- Comment 5: mpardo on 2024-05-04: "Interesting episode"
- Comment 6: enistello on 2024-05-05: "The future of HPR"
- Comment 7: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-06: "Active for a given value of active."
- Comment 8: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-06: "On proprietary platforms"
- hpr4112 (2024-05-07) "JSON and VENDORS and AUTH ohh my!" by operat0r.
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- Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-31: "The answer is always jq"
- hpr4115 (2024-05-10) "Tagging music with Beets" by dnt.
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- Comment 1: kdmurray on 2024-05-16: "Just what the doctor ordered"
- hpr4116 (2024-05-13) "Response to 4109: Building community without SEO" by hobs.
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- Comment 1: Knightwise on 2024-05-13: "Just a small correction."
- Comment 2: kdmurray on 2024-05-13: "Ok but..."
- Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-15: "Actual Actions ?"
- Comment 4: knightwise on 2024-05-17: "Low hanging fruit"
- Comment 5: norrist on 2024-05-19: "Mastodon Comments"
- hpr4118 (2024-05-15) "Toil versus Livelihood" by dnt.
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- Comment 1: Bob on 2024-05-15: "We want free time but what we get is more less paid toil"
- Comment 2: kdmurray on 2024-05-16: "Deep Thought"
- Comment 3: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-05-18: "Bravo!"
- Comment 4: Laindir on 2024-05-20: "Half the problem"
- Comment 5: dnt on 2024-05-21: "Re: Laindir"
- Comment 6: dnt on 2024-05-21: "Re: kdmurray"
- hpr4124 (2024-05-23) "Developing a project" by Lee.
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- hpr4128 (2024-05-29) "30 years of the internet" by knightwise.
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- Comment 1: zen_floater on 2024-05-30: "WVDiAL"
Mailing List discussions
Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman.
The threaded discussions this month can be found here:
https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2024-May/thread.htmlEvents Calendar
With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar.
Quoting the site:
This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page.
Any other business
Proposed policy change
- In the past month we were asked to remove a show that had been added
to the database, and uploaded to archive.org. This was done, but:
- The amount of work to do this type of change is not trivial.
- It's not possible to remove archive.org items, only to remove their contents and replace them with whatever comes from the replacement show.
- The processes involved in this deletion and replacement are not complex but are somewhat labour-intensive.
- There are ramifications into existing feeds (podcast players cache episode details and do not replace them, etc).
- It is proposed that the policy be changed to discourage this, except in severe cases - perhaps those with copyright or other legal consequences. Obviously, we normally take great care that incoming shows are unlikely to trigger such problems in the first place.
The Future Feed
There is a feed which is normally referred to as the "Future Feed", which can be found on the RSS Syndication page. It receives shows which are posted out of order as they come in and may be replaced/reposted if errors are found. This is intended as a means to find issues with metadata or the audio quality of new shows before they hit the main feed.
Recently a show was posted to this feed which was truncated. Unfortunately, although the Janitors and a number or listeners follow this feed, this truncation was not spotted until the show was released.
It would be much appreciated if you could assist with watching this feed for errors in the future. Please contact the Janitors if you notice anything.
Janitorial Team
- We have had some recent contributions to the development of the HPR
software from
norristandkdmurray. We also added them to the "HPR Janitor's Closet" on Matrix to speed up discussions about open tickets. If anyone else wishes to help out with the development please do so by creating an account on our Gitea server.
Denial of Service Attacks on the Internet Archive
There have been a number of DDoS attacks on this service in the recent past. Jason Scott (
@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org), Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive, has been mentioning this on Mastodon.These attacks mean that we can sometimes be delayed when we need to upload shows to the IA.