hpr4586 :: HPR Community News for February 2026

HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in February 2026

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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 hosts:
Vance, not_toby.

Last Month's Shows

Id Day Date Title Host
4566 Mon 2026-02-02 HPR Community News for January 2026 HPR Volunteers
4567 Tue 2026-02-03 Movie Recommendations for Hackers Deltaray
4568 Wed 2026-02-04 Book reading The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll Henrik Hemrin
4569 Thu 2026-02-05 Kiosk with guest mode on Linux Klaatu
4570 Fri 2026-02-06 Playing Civilization V, Part 8 Ahuka
4571 Mon 2026-02-09 Data processing retrospective Lee
4572 Tue 2026-02-10 Uncommon Commands, Episode 3 - strace Deltaray
4573 Wed 2026-02-11 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 6 Thorium Reactors Whiskeyjack
4574 Thu 2026-02-12 UNIX Curio #0 - Introduction Vance
4575 Fri 2026-02-13 Making First Contact Ken Fallon
4576 Mon 2026-02-16 Responce to Lee/Elsbeth eps operat0r
4577 Tue 2026-02-17 HPR Beer Garden 10 - Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy Kevie
4578 Wed 2026-02-18 Alex's journey into Amateur Radio thelovebug
4579 Thu 2026-02-19 Happy by shower Antoine
4580 Fri 2026-02-20 The First Doctor, Part 4 Ahuka
4581 Mon 2026-02-23 Sharp Intake of Breath City (A.K.A.) How I learnt to stop worrying about the fork bomb not_toby
4582 Tue 2026-02-24 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 1 Honkeymagoo
4583 Wed 2026-02-25 Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 7 Small Modular Reactors Whiskeyjack
4584 Thu 2026-02-26 Recording a show, and crappy audio Archer72
4585 Fri 2026-02-27 mpv util scripts candycanearter

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 37 comments in total.

Past shows

There are 2 comments on 2 previous shows:

  • hpr4562 (2026-01-27) "Software development doesn't end until it's packaged" by Klaatu.
    • Comment 1: Steve Barnes on 2026-02-03: "(Yeah!)"

  • hpr4564 (2026-01-29) "MakeMKV error" by Archer72.
    • Comment 1: candycanearter07 on 2026-02-05: "regression testing?"

This month's shows

There are 35 comments on 11 of this month's shows:

  • hpr4566 (2026-02-02) "HPR Community News for January 2026" by HPR Volunteers.
    • Comment 1: Whiskeyjack on 2026-02-03: "Community News for January - Scheduling of Episodes"
    • Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2026-02-04: "response to Whiskeyjack"
    • Comment 3: Whiskeyjack on 2026-02-04: "response to Ken Fallon - Episode Scheduling Guidelines"
    • Comment 4: Ken Fallon on 2026-02-04: "You're right"
    • Comment 5: candycanearter07 on 2026-02-06: "my two cents"
    • Comment 6: Whiskeyjack on 2026-02-06: "Response to candycanearter07 on episode scheduling"
    • Comment 7: Ken Fallon on 2026-02-07: "re "reschedule shows which don't need to be on a specific date forwards or backwards""

  • hpr4567 (2026-02-03) "Movie Recommendations for Hackers" by Deltaray.
    • Comment 1: Kinghezy on 2026-02-03: "Office space lumbergh"
    • Comment 2: Antoine on 2026-02-04: "An attractive invitation to watch"
    • Comment 3: Henrik Hemrin on 2026-02-04: "Inspiring recommendations"
    • Comment 4: ClaudioM on 2026-02-05: "Awesome Episode!"
    • Comment 5: Jim DeVore on 2026-02-06: "Great Show!"
    • Comment 6: hobs on 2026-02-23: "Loved the show!"

  • hpr4569 (2026-02-05) "Kiosk with guest mode on Linux" by Klaatu.
    • Comment 1: operat0r on 2026-01-18: "weee"
    • Comment 2: candycanearter07 on 2026-02-05: "very informative!"
    • Comment 3: Jim DeVore on 2026-02-06: "I learned some things that I will try out"
    • Comment 4: candycanearter07 on 2026-02-06: "RE: I learned some things that I will try out"

  • hpr4571 (2026-02-09) "Data processing retrospective" by Lee.
    • Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2026-02-10: "Conversation"
    • Comment 2: Beeza on 2026-02-18: "A Special Episode"

  • hpr4572 (2026-02-10) "Uncommon Commands, Episode 3 - strace" by Deltaray.
    • Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2026-01-13: "My future self thanks you"
    • Comment 2: candycanearter07 on 2026-02-10: "fantastic learning and debugging tool!"
    • Comment 3: Some Guy on the Internet on 2026-02-11: "It's MAGIC!"
    • Comment 4: Paulj on 2026-02-18: "Great Information"

  • hpr4574 (2026-02-12) "UNIX Curio #0 - Introduction" by Vance.
    • Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2026-02-12: "This will be a good series"
    • Comment 2: Vance on 2026-02-14: "Thanks, brian-in-ohio!"
    • Comment 3: Paulj on 2026-02-18: "Thanks for your first show, and upcoming series!"

  • hpr4576 (2026-02-16) "Responce to Lee/Elsbeth eps" by operat0r.
    • Comment 1: Elsbeth on 2026-01-16: "Thank you"

  • hpr4577 (2026-02-17) "HPR Beer Garden 10 - Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy" by Kevie.
    • Comment 1: Gan Ainm on 2026-02-18: ""Scotch" Ale from the Baltic Sea"

  • hpr4578 (2026-02-18) "Alex's journey into Amateur Radio" by thelovebug.
    • Comment 1: Archer72 on 2026-02-17: "Congrats!"
    • Comment 2: Trey on 2026-02-18: "Congratulations! "

  • hpr4579 (2026-02-19) "Happy by shower" by Antoine.
    • Comment 1: candycanearter07 on 2026-02-20: "timing"
    • Comment 2: Antoine on 2026-02-26: "Re # 1 -"

  • hpr4581 (2026-02-23) "Sharp Intake of Breath City (A.K.A.) How I learnt to stop worrying about the fork bomb" by not_toby.
    • Comment 1: Archer72 on 2026-02-17: "First episode"
    • Comment 2: Trey on 2026-02-23: "Welcome!"
    • Comment 3: Steve Barnes on 2026-02-24: "Potted Plant Emoji"

Mailing List discussions

Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing 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/2026-February/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.

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