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One web service that can find out the weather on the command line is:
$ curl wttr.inInspired by this is the following script in PHP that uses data from 7timer.info
Available at https://gist.github.com/macsplit
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$lon = "-0.19759370325694858";
$lat = "51.35956063540873";
$url = "https://www.7timer.info/bin/civil.php?lon=$lon&lat=$lat&unit=metric&ac=0&output=json";
$weathers = [
'tsday' => "☀️ Hot Day",
'clearday' => "☀️ Clear Day",
'clearnight' => "🌙 Clear Night",
'pcloudyday' => "⛅ Partially Cloudy Day",
'pcloudynight' => "☁️ Partially Cloudy Night",
'mcloudyday' => "🌥️ Moderately Cloudy Day",
'mcloudynight' => "☁️ Moderately Cloudy Night",
'cloudyday' => "☁️ Cloudy Day",
'cloudynight' => "☁️ Cloudy Night",
'humidday' => "🌡️ Humid Day",
'humidnight' => "🌡️ Humid Night",
'lightrainday' => "🌧️ Lightly Rainy Day",
'lightrainnight' => "🌧️ Lightly Rainy Night",
'oshowerday' => "🌧️ Overcast Showery Day",
'oshowernight' => "🌧️ Overcast Showery Night",
'ishowerday' => "🌧️ Showery Day",
'ishowernight' => "🌧️ Showery Night",
'lightsnowday' => "❄️ Lightly Snowy Day",
'lightsnownight' => "❄️ Lightly Snowy Night",
'rainday' => "🌧️ Rainy Day",
'rainnight' => "🌧️ Rainy Night",
'snowday' => "❄️ Snowy Day",
'snownight' => "❄️ Snowy Night",
'rainsnowday' => "🌨️ Rainy and Snowy Day",
'rainsnownight' => "🌨️ Rainy and Snowy Night"
];
$json = file_get_contents($url);
if (!$json) exit();
$obj = json_decode($json);
$init = DateTime::createFromFormat('YmdH', $obj->init)->getTimestamp();
$series = $obj->dataseries;
$now = time();
foreach ($series as $k => $point) {
$timepoint = $point->timepoint;
$timestamp = $init + ($timepoint * 3600);
$diff = abs($timestamp - $now);
$data[$diff] = $point;
}
$key = min(array_keys($data));
$measure = $data[$key];
$temperature = $measure->{'temp2m'};
$weather_desc = $weathers[$measure->weather];
echo "$weather_desc $temperature"."°C\n";
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arm sleeves, safety glasses, wooden toys.
general.
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Thunderbird, email, mintcast.
general.
2.
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tags: Thunderbird, email, mintcast
Source: mintcast: About mintCast.
Supporting source: mintcast: Episode 450 Show
Notes.
Supporting source: archive: 450 - Crumbling
Foundations.
Source: mozilla: Thunderbird Support.
Supporting source: mozilla: Organize
Your Messages by Using Filters.
Supporting source: mozilla:
...force Thunderbird to sync ALL IMAP folders...
Supporting source: mozilla: Where Thunderbird stores your messages...
Source: wikipedia: High crimes and misdemeanors
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DiscoPigeon, OggCamp24.
general.
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In today's show we speak to Adam Matthews about his Disco Pigeon that he displayed at OggCamp2024. He tells us his background, how it came to be, and chat about how he built it.
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Just KAGI.com it
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Community News.
HPR Community News.
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Welcome to our new host:
SolusSpider.
These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 61 comments in total.
There are 21 comments on 17 previous shows:
There are 40 comments on 16 of this month's shows:
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-November/thread.htmlWith 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.
It's been another hectic month here at HPR Towers.
As we discussed on the mailing list most of the time was taken by the migration to Mastodon, and the implementation of the mirrors on the Community Content Delivery Network. Some daily stats are been updated on https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ccdn_stats.tsv
Summary of the changes to the repo https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR
Dave updated his tooling for processing shows and they are now available on the Gitea repo.
We finally got around to creating the HPR Documentation wiki.
There is also a list with information about Podcatcher and Podcasting Platform Compatibility. If anyone wants to adopt a player then please do so.
The section on Workflow will be changing shortly due to Dave stepping aside, and also the need to distribute to multiple end points. All the processing will happen first, and then all the checks will be done at the same stage just prior to posting. For this to work we need help finding a simple manageable WYSIWYG editor that can produce sane HTML when the host uploads the show. We also need a new system to distribute the files from an origin to all the mirrors.
Other changes and fixes.
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Science fiction, Golden Age, history.
Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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This is a look at the early history of science fiction, focusing on the Golden Age, which is roughly the decade from 1939-1950. This is when many of the great authors developed their craft and became famous, and in turn set the ground for science fiction going forward.
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Today I want to talk about why digitizing analog photos.
Three years ago, I wrote a chapter in the annual book for a home village association. The chapter was about life in a small village in the 1930's. In addition to the text I had a couple of black and white photo prints from those days.
I said black and white. But honestly, an eighty year old black and white print is not only black and white. Because of aging, type of paper and development method, the black and white print has colours. Should the photos in the book chapter be of best black and white photo quality, or should they reflect the prints as they are at the time of the book release?
There is no right or wrong answer into that question. But it relates to the topic, why digitize?
I have found the web site "Preserving history. How to Digitally Archive and Share Historical Photographs, Documents, and Audio Recordings".
The main focus is photographs, but as the title states it is also about documents and audio. The web site is written and organized as a book and is a very comprehensive and useful resource. It is a few years old but is still to a large extent accurate and relevant. The exact details, which equipment, formats, settings and so on can be discussed. And as technology has evolved, what the book describes as best has to some extent changed so the best practise can now in some cases be seen as good practise.
The book has a chapter titled "Historical Archive Versus Personal Photograph Collection".
The historical archive is about to preserve the object in every detail, e.g. colours, scratches, borders and dimensions. It is applicable for true archives, like museums and other public archives.
The other reason to digitize is of personal and family reasons. In this scope, the focus is to have good photos. This approach gives better flexibility in method, equipment and settings, and in general the work will probably be less time consuming.
So the take away from this episode is that I recommend you to give the purpose of why you digitize photos a thought before you start a big digitizing project. And that you need to balance any desire to make the best possible archival copy with the best possible equipment and all time in the world with what is realistic for you, and what is good enough. And at the other end, the happiness to have and share a digital photo copy of any quality is better than none at all, but considering a bit more of work and attention may improve the quality significantly.
Finally, I also want to give a few remarks to my own episode number 4244.
I talked about placing the negative or positive in direct contact to glass under or above it. Be observant, there is a risk this will create Newton rings which can affect the result in a not acceptable way.
The problem that the object is not totally flat in a flat bed scanner should in most cases not be a problem because the scanners are normally designed to manage a bit of focus depth.
Remarks on my repro setup:
My digital camera is mounted on a repro stand. The stand is similar to the stand used in an analog darkroom.
The "duplication direction" is opposite to the analog darkroom: The camera is mounted on the stand, while the object to be duplicated is placed on the base plate.
I have a light table on the base plate when a negative or positive is duplicated.
Mounted on the camera, depending on lens, may an extension tube be needed to achieve the macro distance to duplicate a small object.
Preserving history. How to Digitally Archive and Share Historical Photographs, Documents, and Audio Recordings. https://archivehistory.jeksite.com
Two methods of digitizing photos. https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4244/index.html
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HPR Hosts mentioned:
Archer72 -
Mark Rice
TheLoveBug
- Dave Lee
Kevie
Lochyboy -
Alexander
Computers mentioned:
Oric-1, Oric Atmos, Dragon 32, Atari 800XL, Atari 400, Acorn Electron,
Amstrad PCW8256, Amstrad PCW8512, Enterprise 128, AST PC, GateWay PC,
System76 Thelio PC, Razer 15 Laptop
The easiest ways for people to contact me via Telegram or
Mastodon.
Telegram: https://t.me/solusspider
Mastodon: @SolusSpider@linuxrocks.online
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movie, review, sci-fi.
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Kevie, co-host of TuxJam, shares his thoughts on the movie The Artifice Girl. This is done in response (of sorts) to HPR 4223 by Some Guy On The Internet
Note: please do not listen to this episode if you want to watch this movie, it contains spoilers.
Lyle and Thaj speak some nonsense to make other people make shows.
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This is an update on the podcasts Ahuka listens to.
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Operator talks about web server monitoring and financial tracking
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Where kinghezy briefly introduces himself
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Sgoti argues privacy is not hiding
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It's a leafy day in Studio N
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We continue our look at the mechanics of this game
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Kevie talks about streaming and ripping audio streams on Linux using the command line
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Ken talks with Millie Perkins about her home automation talk at OggCamp
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Rho`n records installing GuixSD onto a Mac Mini computer
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A trek through some podcasts, books and TV shows
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An impromptu What's in My Bag episode from the reserve queue
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A brief discussion about two methods of digitizing analog photos.
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Long term product review of my electric hand warmer. Inspiration from Ken Fallon during OggCamp
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Ken tracks down a Lorenzo to talk about his presentations at OggCamp2024
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HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in October 2024
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A look at the first season of Doctor Who
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operat0r talks about Android automation and Tasker
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Sgoti reminds everyone on the joy of using snap packages.
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Kevie shares his thoughts on his first ever OggCamp
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Join Alexander [Lochyboy] as he gives information about the history of Nintendo
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In which I go into detail about what I mean when I talk about a Plain Text Program.
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Interviews from Day two of OggCamp 2024 from Manchester
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Interviews from Day one of OggCamp 2024 from Manchester
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Part 6 is the final episode it deals with fitting the new replacement PLL backup battery.
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Claudio describes his process for mass USB flash drive duplication with FreeBSD, tmux, and dd.
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We continue our look at the mechanics of this game
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Lee talks to Matthew about the link between neurodiversity and hacking.
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I detail a technique to ensure all music used on my Youtube channel is free from copyright claims
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