New hosts

Welcome to our new host:
Moss Bliss.

Last Month's Shows

Id	Day	Date	Title	Host
4108	Wed	2024-05-01	What's in my bag	swift110
4109	Thu	2024-05-02	The future of HPR	knightwise
4110	Fri	2024-05-03	Playing Civilization III, Part 2	Ahuka
4111	Mon	2024-05-06	HPR Community News for April 2024	HPR Volunteers
4112	Tue	2024-05-07	JSON and VENDORS and AUTH ohh my!	operat0r
4113	Wed	2024-05-08	Today I Learnt, sed hold/pattern space use.	Some Guy On The Internet
4114	Thu	2024-05-09	Introduction to jq - part 2	Dave Morriss
4115	Fri	2024-05-10	Tagging music with Beets	dnt
4116	Mon	2024-05-13	Response to 4109: Building community without SEO	hobs
4117	Tue	2024-05-14	JAMBOREE !	operat0r
4118	Wed	2024-05-15	Toil versus Livelihood	dnt
4119	Thu	2024-05-16	Cov's Jams 003	Cov
4120	Fri	2024-05-17	South Carolina to Home	Ahuka
4121	Mon	2024-05-20	RODE wireless microphones	Clinton Roy
4122	Tue	2024-05-21	The Conference for Creative Use of the Radio Spectrum in Open Systems	Ken Fallon
4123	Wed	2024-05-22	KeepassXC Update	Some Guy On The Internet
4124	Thu	2024-05-23	Developing a project	Lee
4125	Fri	2024-05-24	Installing Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS), on a x86-64 machine	Ken Fallon
4126	Mon	2024-05-27	Podcasting for Newbies	Moss Bliss
4127	Tue	2024-05-28	Retro fun with the GPi 2 cases	Kevie
4128	Wed	2024-05-29	30 years of the internet	knightwise
4129	Thu	2024-05-30	How I found Hacker Public Radio	Henrik Hemrin
4130	Fri	2024-05-31	Playing Civilization III, Part 3	Ahuka

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 is 1 comment on 1 previous show:

• hpr4087 (2024-04-02) "Getting started with the digiKam photo management software" by Henrik Hemrin.
  
• • Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-05-13: "Good support from digiKam developers and community"
  
  

This month's shows

There are 24 comments on 7 of this month's shows:

• hpr4109 (2024-05-02) "The future of HPR " by knightwise.
• • Comment 1: Dirk on 2024-05-02: "The future about HPR"
  • Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-02: "Thanks for volunteering"
  • Comment 3: Knightwise on 2024-05-04: "Alt Hoeselt Calling :)"
  • Comment 4: knightwise on 2024-05-04: "Hacker Public Radio as "brown noise?" "
  • Comment 5: mpardo on 2024-05-04: "Interesting episode"
  • Comment 6: enistello on 2024-05-05: "The future of HPR"
  • Comment 7: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-06: "Active for a given value of active."
  • Comment 8: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-06: "On proprietary platforms"
  
  
• hpr4112 (2024-05-07) "JSON and VENDORS and AUTH ohh my!" by operat0r.
• • Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-31: "The answer is always jq"
  
  
• hpr4115 (2024-05-10) "Tagging music with Beets" by dnt.
• • Comment 1: kdmurray on 2024-05-16: "Just what the doctor ordered"
  
  
• hpr4116 (2024-05-13) "Response to 4109: Building community without SEO" by hobs.
• • Comment 1: Knightwise on 2024-05-13: "Just a small correction."
  • Comment 2: kdmurray on 2024-05-13: "Ok but..."
  • Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-05-15: "Actual Actions ?"
  • Comment 4: knightwise on 2024-05-17: "Low hanging fruit"
  • Comment 5: norrist on 2024-05-19: "Mastodon Comments"
  
  
• hpr4118 (2024-05-15) "Toil versus Livelihood" by dnt.
• • Comment 1: Bob on 2024-05-15: "We want free time but what we get is more less paid toil"
  • Comment 2: kdmurray on 2024-05-16: "Deep Thought"
  • Comment 3: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-05-18: "Bravo!"
  • Comment 4: Laindir on 2024-05-20: "Half the problem"
  • Comment 5: dnt on 2024-05-21: "Re: Laindir"
  • Comment 6: dnt on 2024-05-21: "Re: kdmurray"
  
  
• hpr4124 (2024-05-23) "Developing a project" by Lee.
• • Comment 1: Trey on 2024-05-23: "Not now... another time."
  • Comment 2: dnt on 2024-05-25: "projects"
  
  
• hpr4128 (2024-05-29) "30 years of the internet" by knightwise.
• • Comment 1: zen_floater on 2024-05-30: "WVDiAL"
  
  

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-May/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

Proposed policy change

• In the past month we were asked to remove a show that had been added to the database, and uploaded to archive.org. This was done, but:
  • The amount of work to do this type of change is not trivial.
  • It's not possible to remove archive.org items, only to remove their contents and replace them with whatever comes from the replacement show.
  • The processes involved in this deletion and replacement are not complex but are somewhat labour-intensive.
  • There are ramifications into existing feeds (podcast players cache episode details and do not replace them, etc).
• It is proposed that the policy be changed to discourage this, except in severe cases - perhaps those with copyright or other legal consequences. Obviously, we normally take great care that incoming shows are unlikely to trigger such problems in the first place.

The Future Feed

• There is a feed which is normally referred to as the "Future Feed", which can be found on the RSS Syndication page. It receives shows which are posted out of order as they come in and may be replaced/reposted if errors are found. This is intended as a means to find issues with metadata or the audio quality of new shows before they hit the main feed.

• Recently a show was posted to this feed which was truncated. Unfortunately, although the Janitors and a number or listeners follow this feed, this truncation was not spotted until the show was released.

• It would be much appreciated if you could assist with watching this feed for errors in the future. Please contact the Janitors if you notice anything.

Janitorial Team

• We have had some recent contributions to the development of the HPR software from norrist and kdmurray. We also added them to the "HPR Janitor's Closet" on Matrix to speed up discussions about open tickets. If anyone else wishes to help out with the development please do so by creating an account on our Gitea server.

Denial of Service Attacks on the Internet Archive

• There have been a number of DDoS attacks on this service in the recent past. Jason Scott (@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org), Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive, has been mentioning this on Mastodon.

• These attacks mean that we can sometimes be delayed when we need to upload shows to the IA.