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hpr4241 :: HPR Community News for October 2024

HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in October 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

There were no new hosts this month.

Last Month's Shows

Id Day Date Title Host
4217 Tue 2024-10-01 Episode 2 - Dirt Simple Photo Gallery hairylarry
4218 Wed 2024-10-02 Crazy Battery Story Swift110
4219 Thu 2024-10-03 Black diamond head lamp and other gear Some Guy On The Internet
4220 Fri 2024-10-04 How Doctor Who Began Ahuka
4221 Mon 2024-10-07 HPR Community News for September 2024 HPR Volunteers
4222 Tue 2024-10-08 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 5 MrX
4223 Wed 2024-10-09 Movie review of The Artifice Girl Some Guy On The Internet
4224 Thu 2024-10-10 Auto shop interaction Archer72
4225 Fri 2024-10-11 Chewing the rag with Kristoff and Ken Ken Fallon
4226 Mon 2024-10-14 JAMBOREE and Taco Bell! operat0r
4227 Tue 2024-10-15 Introduction to jq - part 3 Dave Morriss
4228 Wed 2024-10-16 Auditing Audio Files For Youtube Dave Hingley
4229 Thu 2024-10-17 Neurodiversity and Hacking Lee
4230 Fri 2024-10-18 Playing Civilization IV, Part 2 Ahuka
4231 Mon 2024-10-21 Duplicating Multiple USB Flash Drives with DD and Tmux on FreeBSD Claudio Miranda
4232 Tue 2024-10-22 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 6 MrX
4233 Wed 2024-10-23 OggCamp 2024 Day 1 Ken Fallon
4234 Thu 2024-10-24 OggCamp 2024 Day 2 Ken Fallon
4235 Fri 2024-10-25 What Is Plain Text Programming? hairylarry
4236 Mon 2024-10-28 History of Nintendo Lochyboy
4237 Tue 2024-10-29 My First OggCamp Experience Kevie
4238 Wed 2024-10-30 Snaps are better than flatpaks Some Guy On The Internet
4239 Thu 2024-10-31 Android Tasker and Automation operat0r

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 are 8 comments on 4 previous shows:

This month's shows

There are 17 comments on 10 of this month's shows:

  • hpr4221 (2024-10-07) "HPR Community News for September 2024" by HPR Volunteers.
    • Comment 1: Dave Morriss on 2024-10-05: "Show notes for the HPR New Years Eve Show 2023-24"
    • Comment 2: brian-in-ohio on 2024-10-07: "best price?"

  • hpr4222 (2024-10-08) "Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 5" by MrX.
    • Comment 1: Beeza on 2024-10-08: "Old Batteries"
    • Comment 2: MrX on 2024-10-10: "Re Old Batteries"

  • hpr4224 (2024-10-10) "Auto shop interaction" by Archer72.
    • Comment 1: A. Listener on 2024-10-12: "issue with downloading shows"

  • hpr4228 (2024-10-16) "Auditing Audio Files For Youtube" by Dave Hingley.
    • Comment 1: Kevie on 2024-10-26: "Youtube's copyright strikes"

  • hpr4231 (2024-10-21) "Duplicating Multiple USB Flash Drives with DD and Tmux on FreeBSD" by Claudio Miranda.
    • Comment 1: Gumnos on 2024-10-29: "Getting status of dd in OpenBSD"
    • Comment 2: hairylarry on 2024-10-30: "Similarly"
    • Comment 3: ClaudioM on 2024-10-31: "Re: Similarly"
    • Comment 4: ClaudioM on 2024-10-31: "Re: Getting status of dd in OpenBSD"

  • hpr4236 (2024-10-28) "History of Nintendo" by Lochyboy.
    • Comment 1: Steve Barnes on 2024-10-29: "Ahhyes."
    • Comment 2: ClaudioM on 2024-10-31: "Virtual Boy?"

  • hpr4237 (2024-10-29) "My First OggCamp Experience" by Kevie.
    • Comment 1: Peter - SolusSpider on 2024-10-30: "OggCamp Dining Experience"

  • hpr4238 (2024-10-30) "Snaps are better than flatpaks" by Some Guy On The Internet.
    • Comment 1: Trey on 2024-10-30: "Ethernet cable"
    • Comment 2: Elliot B on 2024-11-01: "Snaps are the least worst"

  • hpr4240 (2024-11-01) "The First Doctor, Part 1" by Ahuka.
    • Comment 1: Kevie on 2024-10-31: "Keep them coming"

  • hpr4266 (2024-12-09) "What's the weather?" by Lee.

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-October/thread.html

Events 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

HPR Updates

  • There has been a lot of activity this month on the Gitea repos with rho`n catching up on outstanding bugs. We also had a lot of changes due to the ongoing Internet Archive outage that is still impacting us. A quick fix was to host the 10 day feed directly from the HPR server, but since then we have made all the media available on the HPR Community Content Delivery Network.

  • We will have three sources but if you meet the requirements for hosting, and wish to help out please get in touch.

    • 24/7 Home Service
    • Fixed IP address
    • Unlimited bandwidth
    • Fast > 500mb/sec upload
    • Large > 1T of storage
    • Permission from your ISP to run a web server
    • Contact information known to the Janitors
    • Optional: UPS

  • We added a html link to the comments page to provide direct feedback from any app that supports it. Eg: gPodder opens Firefox at the comment form.

  • We have consolidated a lot of repositories on Gitea, removing some and moving others. https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR

  • Documentation is now available and includes:

    • Community Content Delivery Network (CCDN) A location to track the deployment of the HPR Community Content Delivery Network, that provides a mirror network for our content.
    • HPR Website Design This is literally in the whiteboard phase of the HPR website redesign.
    • Podcatcher and Podcasting Platform Compatibility Where we can track Compatibility of the clients subscribed to our feeds.
    • Useful Resources Where we can link to other free culture sites that provide useful services.
    • Requested Topics Where we can track topics that have been requested, and link to shows that addressed them.
    • Workflow issues.

Message from Dave Morriss

  • I am planning to "retire" from the Hacker Public Radio Janitorial Team. I have been helping to administer HPR for over 12 years now. I first offered help to Ken in 2012 in response to an appeal he made. We met at OggCamp in that year, and I joined the Community News recording for episode 1066 in September 2012. My first show was 1091 in October that year.

  • I will turn 75 in December 2024, and am finding that I don't have the energy to do as much as I could when I first joined. I also want to be able to devote more time to the various personal projects I have.

  • I plan to consolidate all my scripts on the HPR Gitea repositories, and document all the processes I have been looking after. I want to have completed the handover by the end of March 2025.

  • I will continue as an HPR host for as long as I can after that.

  • I have had a wonderful 12 years as an HPR Janitor and will always look back on it with great pleasure.

Comments

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Comment #1 posted on 2024-11-04 17:41:50 by ClaudioM

Commentary on Ep. 4231 (Tmux+dd+FreeBSD)

Hey gents! Thanks for the comments on the show. I guess I should have been clearer when I compared the synchronization features of Tmux to that of ClusterSSH. While I could have done the commands using ClusterSSH, I preferred leaving the multiplexing to Tmux on the FreeBSD box with the single SSH session from whichever client I was using to perform the duplication. The other reason I did it this way over using ClusterSSH is because I don't always need to SSH to the box since it's in my office, and doing it my way allows me to log in to the box directly from the console and then pull up the Tmux session to see the status of the duplication or even begin another session after swapping out the USB flash drives themselves.

As mentioned by Ken, scripting this is a possibility, but we all know not to treat dd lightly as that can be a recipe for disaster. I was thinking of hairylarry's technique of using abcde, but since that's only for ripping CDs, it won't work here. Of course, I'm open to potential episodes from others that know of a better way! ;-)

Comment #2 posted on 2024-11-10 12:49:42 by Torin Doyle

Hunting, Buzzing

Hi Ken et al.

Please don't encourage hunting. I heard the Scottish guy [sorry I don't recall his name] mention hunting.

There was a very noticeable buzzing from the English guys audio [sorry I don't recall his name].

A great show as usual.

Thanks, guys.

Comment #3 posted on 2024-11-14 15:05:00 by Dave Morriss

Buzzing?

Hi Torin Doyle,

As the "English Guy" on the team, and having listened to the show using the version available from the OGG feed, I heard nothing that could be described as "buzzing".

Which format were you listening to?

Comment #4 posted on 2024-11-16 11:36:58 by Dave Lee (thelovebug)

Dave's buzzing

Hey Dave (perloid)

I've had a listen to the OGG file, and - like the MP3 I got from the feed on my podcatcher - there is a definite buzzing (possibly mains hum?) behind your audio.

Dave (thelovebug)

Comment #5 posted on 2024-11-18 06:08:02 by Torin Doyle

Re: Buzzing (more like a hum) in the audio for Dave Morriss.

Hi Dave. My ancient MP3 player only accepts .mp3 files so I went with that [I much prefer .ogg files]. I just listened to the audio again here on this webpage and it's actually more like a low hum than a buzzing but it's certainly quite noticeable when using earphones.

Comment #6 posted on 2024-11-18 10:41:05 by Dave Morriss

The buzzing of the brain

Thanks to Dave and Torin,

I am now aware of a thing that I can't actually hear! I developed tinnitus about 20 years ago, and, though it doesn't bother me very much, it does mean I can't hear sounds in certain ranges.

I think my microphone (a Samson C01U) is picking up the mains hum, maybe from my (now old) desktop or the fridge-freezer nearby. I recently moved the mic stand to the other end of the (shelf over the) desk, but although it seems to have fixed other distortions, it didn't do enough. I plan to remodel everything as soon as I can (probably over Christmas).

When I record my own shows I usually use my Zoom H3n recorder on a boom, and it doesn't seem to get much interference. I do sometimes use it for the Community News recordings, but I dropped it recently and broke the tripod mounting thread in the base, so it's not easy to use. I've 3D printed a possible fix, but haven't tested it yet.

I tend to run all my recordings through the noise removal filter in Audacity, but this particular show came from Ken's recording of the Mumble stream, so it would probably have been very difficult to clean up.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback (as it were).

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