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Welcome to HPR, the Community Podcast

We started producing shows as Today with a Techie on 2005-09-19, 19 years, 9 months, 22 days ago. Our shows are produced by listeners like you and can be on any topics that "are of interest to hackers". If you listen to HPR then please consider contributing one show a year. If you record your show now it could be released in 4 days.

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Latest Shows

hpr4412 :: Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731

First 3 minutes: trailer; followed by the full show — an original audiodrama

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Hosted by Antoine on Tuesday, 2025-07-01 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
audiodrama, Shiro Ishii, World War II, Unit 731, Kwangtung Army, podcast production. general. 3.

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Duration: 00:20:14
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Previous five weeks

hpr4410 :: Civilization V hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-06-27. 00:14:33. Clean. Computer Strategy Games.
Computer games, strategy games, Civilization V.

A first look at the next version of Civilization from 2010, Civilization V

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hpr4409 :: H D R Ridiculous Monitor hosted by operat0r

Thursday, 2025-06-26. 00:22:09. Clean. general.
HDR calibration, Monitor settings, Multi-monitor setup, Productivity tips, Development tools, Color.

The presenter discusses configuring monitor settings for development, emphasizing HDR calibration an

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hpr4408 :: Lynx - Old School Browsing hosted by Kevie

Wednesday, 2025-06-25. 00:22:33. Clean. general.
CLI, command line, browsing, Linux.

Kevie takes a look at the Lynx command line browser

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hpr4407 :: A 're-response' Bash script hosted by Dave Morriss

Tuesday, 2025-06-24. 00:12:34. Explicit. general.
Bash, scripting.

My take on Ken's response to Kevie's show 4398

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hpr4406 :: SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images hosted by ko3moc

Monday, 2025-06-23. 00:08:25. Clean. general.
svh.

Out of nowhere, my Firefox browser on my Mac mini started automatically adding every page I visited

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hpr4405 :: What did I do at work today? hosted by Lee

Friday, 2025-06-20. 01:09:30. Explicit. general.
visual basic, testing, sql server.

Lee does some coding and testing for a class library that accesses a database

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hpr4404 :: Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml hosted by Ken Fallon

Thursday, 2025-06-19. 00:26:19. Explicit. general.
xml, xmlstarlet, rss, podcast.

Grepping XML kills kittens, so Ken uses xmlstarlet to download a podcast

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hpr4403 :: How to get your very own copy of the HPR database hosted by norrist

Wednesday, 2025-06-18. 00:02:52. Clean. general.
sql, hpr.

Commands to download and query the HPR database

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hpr4402 :: pinetab2 hosted by Brian in Ohio

Tuesday, 2025-06-17. 00:19:59. Clean. general.
pine64, tablets, fluxbox.

how I'm using the pinetab2

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hpr4401 :: hajime hosted by oxo

Monday, 2025-06-16. 00:23:33. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
oxo, bash, commandline, archlinux, installation, script, hajime.

Let's see how oxo is using hajime in order to install Arch Linux on a old netbook.

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hpr4400 :: Isaac Asimov: Other Asimov Novels of Interest hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-06-13. 00:14:49. Clean. Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Science fiction, Asimov.

A look at three stand-alone novels from Asimov

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hpr4399 :: gpg-gen-key hosted by oxo

Thursday, 2025-06-12. 00:19:55. Explicit. general.
oxo, bash, commandline, script, gnupg, gpg, cryptography, keys.

Oxo is back! And today with an interesting script that automates the generation of gpg keys.

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hpr4398 :: Command line fun: downloading a podcast hosted by Kevie

Wednesday, 2025-06-11. 00:10:47. Clean. general.
CLI, command line, RSS, Linux, download.

Kevie goes through how to download from an RSS feed from the command

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hpr4397 :: Transfer files from desktop to phone with qrcp hosted by Klaatu

Tuesday, 2025-06-10. 00:09:17. Clean. general.
phone, qr, httpd, netstat.

Use a QR encoded URL to quickly share a file on your local network

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hpr4396 :: AI and Sangria hosted by operat0r

Monday, 2025-06-09. 00:21:16. Explicit. general.
cooking, hacking, AI.

operat0r talks about AI tools and troubble shooting while he makes Sangria with RUM!

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hpr4395 :: Second Life hosted by Lee

Friday, 2025-06-06. 00:26:52. Clean. general.
3d gaming, simulation.

Lee talks to Elsbeth about a persistent online virtual world

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hpr4394 :: Digital Steganography Intro hosted by mightbemike

Thursday, 2025-06-05. 00:32:36. Clean. general.
steganography.

I take a very high level look at digital stegnography. What is it? How is it used in practice?

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hpr4393 :: Journal like you mean it. hosted by Some Guy On The Internet

Wednesday, 2025-06-04. 00:31:00. Explicit. general.
Journal, Bullet journal, bujo, discbound.

Sgoti talks about journaling with bujo, the bullet journal method.

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hpr4392 :: The Water is Wide, and the sheet music should be too hosted by Jezra

Tuesday, 2025-06-03. 00:09:43. Clean. general.
music, bagpipes, dumbra, lilypond.

some ramblings about using opensource for printiing sheet music and helping with my timing

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hpr4391 :: HPR Community News for May 2025 hosted by HPR Volunteers

Monday, 2025-06-02. 01:16:57. Explicit. HPR Community News.
Community News.

HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in May 2025

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hpr4390 :: Playing Civilization IV, Part 9 hosted by Ahuka

Friday, 2025-05-30. 00:15:52. Clean. Computer Strategy Games.
Computer games, strategy games, Civilization IV, Wonders.

Using wonders to help win

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hpr4389 :: Comments on hpr4373 hosted by Rho`n

Thursday, 2025-05-29. 00:07:17. Clean. general.
bash, commandline, find, rsync, pipe, xargs.

Rho`n gives comments on oxo's HPR episode 4373

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hpr4388 :: BSD Overview hosted by norrist

Wednesday, 2025-05-28. 00:42:56. Clean. general.
bsd, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd.

norrist describes how you can be a real hacker and run BSD

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hpr4387 :: Did she say she flew light aircraft?! hosted by Elsbeth

Tuesday, 2025-05-27. 00:29:26. Clean. general.
aircraft, light aircraft, flight, travel, instruments, navigation, freebird.

Wherein Elsbeth expounds on her experience with light aircraft and how it relates to her geekiness

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hpr4386 :: Silly Tavern Spicy Roll Play hosted by operat0r

Monday, 2025-05-26. 00:19:41. Explicit. general.
ai, roll play, chat bots, bots.

Silly Tavern Spicy Roll Play for degenerates !

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hpr4385 :: Cable un-managment lol hosted by operat0r

Friday, 2025-05-23. 00:16:36. Explicit. general.
computers, wires, electronics.

operat0r talks about cable managment or the lack of...

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hpr4384 :: Browser and dedicated apps on the mobile phone hosted by Henrik Hemrin

Thursday, 2025-05-22. 00:02:12. Clean. general.
phone, apps, browser.

The traditional browser can reduce the number of dedicated apps on the smart mobile phone.

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hpr4383 :: Changing font in Arch Linux (Wayland) hosted by oxo

Wednesday, 2025-05-21. 00:10:43. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
linux, arch, system, font, default, oxo.

How I changed my default font for my system.

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hpr4382 :: Understanding Antenna Gain and the Decibel scale hosted by Paulj

Tuesday, 2025-05-20. 00:08:24. Clean. HAM radio.
Antenna gain, power measurement, antenna comparison.

The use of decibels can be a bit confusing, so in this episode paulj will enlighten you!

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hpr4381 :: What Omni-Instantness Makes To My Brain and Your Brain? hosted by Antoine

Monday, 2025-05-19. 00:12:54. Clean. general.
Social Media Usage, Opinion.

Is Social Media Good To You? (Be It Fedi Or Not)

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