HPR4196: HPR Community News for August 2024

Hacker Public Radio

New hosts

Welcome to our new host:
Bob.

Last Month's Shows

Id	Day	Date	Title	Host
4174	Thu	2024-08-01	Of the Mic and the Mop	Ken Fallon
4175	Fri	2024-08-02	what's in my bag part 2	operat0r
4176	Mon	2024-08-05	HPR Community News for July 2024	HPR Volunteers
4177	Tue	2024-08-06	Blender 3D Tutorial #1	Deltaray
4178	Wed	2024-08-07	Today I learnt (2024-07-27)	Dave Morriss
4179	Thu	2024-08-08	HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 5	Honkeymagoo
4180	Fri	2024-08-09	Intro to Science Fiction Series	Ahuka
4181	Mon	2024-08-12	Downloading out of copyright movies	Bob
4182	Tue	2024-08-13	Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1	MrX
4183	Wed	2024-08-14	What's in Kevie's holiday bag:	Kevie
4184	Thu	2024-08-15	Use GKRellM, wget and ImageMagick for a live slideshow	gemlog
4185	Fri	2024-08-16	Archiving VCR or any other RCA media	Ken Fallon
4186	Mon	2024-08-19	How to get started with Software Freedom Day?	Trollercoaster
4187	Tue	2024-08-20	Go Fish Card Game	Al
4188	Wed	2024-08-21	Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon	Archer72
4189	Thu	2024-08-22	HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 6	Honkeymagoo
4190	Fri	2024-08-23	Civilization IV	Ahuka
4191	Mon	2024-08-26	rkvm software KVM	Windigo
4192	Tue	2024-08-27	Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood HF Radio Part 2	MrX
4193	Wed	2024-08-28	Why I haven't recorded an episode for HPR	thelovebug
4194	Thu	2024-08-29	Get more user space on your Linux filesystem with tune2fs	Deltaray
4195	Fri	2024-08-30	Hacking HPR Hosts	Ken Fallon

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 30 comments in total.

Past shows

There are 8 comments on 7 previous shows:

• hpr2023 (2016-05-04) "Setting up my Raspberry Pi 3" by Dave Morriss.
  
• • Comment 7: Dave Morriss on 2024-08-23: "What failed first, the SD or the SSD?"
  
  
• hpr3661 (2022-08-15) "Ham Radio testing" by Archer72.
  
• • Comment 2: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "Only just got around to listening to this one"
  
  
• hpr4036 (2024-01-22) "The Tildeverse" by Claudio Miranda.
  
• • Comment 1: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "rawtext"
  
  
• hpr4096 (2024-04-15) "Powers of two" by Deltaray.
  
• • Comment 4: mandigal on 2024-08-10: "RE:"
  
  
• hpr4135 (2024-06-07) "Mining the web" by Cedric De Vroey.
  
• • Comment 4: Cedric on 2024-08-01: "Follow up"
  
  
• hpr4156 (2024-07-08) "Badger 2040" by Kevie.
  
• • Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-05: "I am weak"
  
  
• hpr4172 (2024-07-30) "Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis" by Archer72.
  
• • Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-01: "More issues"
  • Comment 4: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-02: "It works"
  
  

This month's shows

There are 22 comments on 9 of this month's shows:

• hpr4174 (2024-08-01) "Of the Mic and the Mop" by Ken Fallon.
• • Comment 1: Knightwise on 2024-07-31: "Posting on behalf of Knightwise, and with his permission."
  • Comment 2: dnt on 2024-08-03: "A good reflection on what this project is"
  • Comment 3: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-08-04: "Leared more about what HPR is"
  • Comment 4: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-05: "@dnt"
  • Comment 5: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-05: "@Henrik"
  • Comment 6: Archer72 on 2024-08-05: "Re: hpr4174::2024-08-01 Of the Mic and the Mop and Re: Henrik Hemrin"
  
  
• hpr4177 (2024-08-06) "Blender 3D Tutorial #1" by Deltaray.
• • Comment 1: Deltaray on 2024-08-06: "Place to post your renders"
  • Comment 2: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-08-13: "I like the audio tutorial concept"
  
  
• hpr4180 (2024-08-09) "Intro to Science Fiction Series" by Ahuka.
• • Comment 1: Trey on 2024-08-09: "Downtown Buffalo Library"
  • Comment 2: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-08-09: "Thank you Trey"
  • Comment 3: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-14: "Great series!"
  • Comment 4: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-08-15: "Just what I hoped for"
  • Comment 5: Trollercoaster on 2024-08-20: "Small recommendation (and thanks)"
  • Comment 6: Aaron B on 2024-08-24: "Interesting list, Sci fi"
  
  
• hpr4181 (2024-08-12) "Downloading out of copyright movies" by Bob.
• • Comment 1: Windigo on 2024-08-12: "Alternative sites"
  
  
• hpr4182 (2024-08-13) "Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1" by MrX.
• • Comment 1: Trey on 2024-08-13: "Thank you for the reminder"
  
  
• hpr4184 (2024-08-15) "Use GKRellM, wget and ImageMagick for a live slideshow" by gemlog.
• • Comment 1: George on 2024-08-15: "png"
  • Comment 2: gemlog on 2024-08-16: "re: png"
  
  
• hpr4185 (2024-08-16) "Archiving VCR or any other RCA media" by Ken Fallon.
• • Comment 1: Trixter on 2024-08-21: "Some issues with your capture methodology"
  • Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-08-22: "Trixter"
  
  
• hpr4187 (2024-08-20) "Go Fish Card Game" by Al.
• • Comment 1: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "Not played this in years"
  
  
• hpr4188 (2024-08-21) "Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon" by Archer72.
• • Comment 1: Dave Lee (thelovebug) on 2024-08-22: "Bryce T. Shatner"
  
  

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-August/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

Repairing shows where external files have been lost

• The further back in time we go with these repairs, the more challenging they become. The most that can be done per day is five, and there have been a few breaks along the way!

• This is the current repair state:

 +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ | date | repairable | repair_count | unrepaired_count | +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+ | 2024-08-28 | 352 | 252 | 100 | +------------+------------+--------------+------------------+