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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>Hosts:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0201.html">MrX</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0225.html">Dave
Morriss</a></li>
</ul>
<p>We recorded this on Sunday September 3<sup>rd</sup> 2023. We met in
person again, and as before first visited the pub called <em>The
Steading</em> where we had lunch. Then we adjourned to Dave's car in the
car park, and recorded a chat.</p>
<p>The name "Steading" is another (Scots?) version of "Farmstead", and
means the same. It's also an anagram of "Sedating"<a href="#fn1"
class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1" role="doc-noteref"><sup>1</sup></a>, so
...</p>
<h2 id="topics-discussed">Topics discussed</h2>
<ul>
<li>Vaccines:
<ul>
<li>Dave has an appointment for <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine">COVID-19</a> and
influenza vaccines. The new <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant">Omicron
variant</a> BA.2.86 has prompted another booster for some people.</li>
<li>Discussion of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine">Smallpox</a>
vaccination</li>
<li>MrX has an appointment for an influenza vaccine</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Glasgow:
<ul>
<li>MrX and <em>MrsX</em> recently stayed in Glasgow for a holiday</li>
<li><a href="https://www.pointahotels.com/our-hotels/glasgow/">Point A
Hotel</a> - boutique hotel</li>
<li><a href="https://glasgow.junglerumble.co.uk/">Jungle Rumble</a> -
indoor golf with UV lighting!</li>
<li>Wikipedia: <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway">Glasgow
Subway</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Edinburgh:
<ul>
<li>Dave took a trip on the recently extended <a
href="https://edinburghtrams.com/">Edinburgh tram</a>
<ul>
<li>There is only one route, from the airport to Leith (port).</li>
<li>Older residents get free access.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>MrX and MrsX recently walked from the centre of Edinburgh along the
<a href="https://www.waterofleith.org.uk/">Water of Leith</a> to the
area where the tram terminus is at Newhaven.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Email:
<ul>
<li>Dave is using version <a
href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/">Thunderbird</a> 115.1.1 which
is a rewrite of the original series where the API has now changed a
lot.</li>
<li>Long-used add-ons now no longer work:
<ul>
<li>A favourite was <em>Mailbox Alert</em> which triggered sound alerts
(or others) then mail arrived in a folder - so this could be after
filtering. This was much more useful than the traditional "You have
mail" type alerts.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Discussion of tags:
<ul>
<li>MrX mentions tags, meaning bits of text that can be attached to
messages and used to classify them and to search for them.</li>
<li>In Gmail there are <em>labels</em> which can do this and these can
be used to group messages regardless of folders</li>
<li>Thunderbird also has this concept which it calls <em>tags</em>. It
comes with pre-defined tags such as <strong>Important</strong> and
<strong>To Do</strong>, but more tags can be added. Any message can be
given one or more tags. The filtering system can add tags as a message
is processed. Searches can be performed on tags also.</li>
<li>Dave is an enthusiast of nested folders with filters to classify
messages. MrX is keen on using tags for the same purpose. Dave mentioned
Thunderbird's <em>saved search</em> feature (which he wrongly called
<em>virtual mailboxes</em>) which can collect messages according to many
criteria, including tags.</li>
<li>Some discussion about mail message storage strategies: file per
message, <em>mbox</em> format, etc.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Ticks:
<ul>
<li>MrX's dog has brought some ticks back from recent walks.</li>
<li>Scotland seems to be a bit worse off for ticks in recent years.</li>
<li>Hikers need to protect against them and to perform checks that they
are not on clothes. Wearing long socks or gaiters over long trousers can
help.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease">Lyme
Disease</a> is a bacterial infection that can be passed by ticks.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.microbe.tv/twip/">This Week in Parasitism</a>
recently talked about an unpleasant disease caught from ticks, <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babesiosis"><em>Babesiosis</em></a>
(not bacterial as Dave thought, but caused by a protozoan). This was in
the USA; the disease doesn't seem to be in the UK at the moment.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/about-ticks/tick-removal/">Removal
of ticks</a> needs a tool or a fine pair of tweezers.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Audacity:
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0198.html">Ahuka</a>
did a recent show (<a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3927/index.html">hpr3927 ::
Audacity Update 20230702</a>) on some problems he'd encountered.</li>
<li>Video on YouTube: <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY">What Ever Happened to
Audacity?</a></li>
<li>Audacity-like tool in the browser: <a
href="https://wavacity.com/">Wavacity</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.eif.co.uk/">Edinburgh Festival</a> and <a
href="https://www.edfringe.com/">Festival Fringe</a>:
<ul>
<li>MrX attended a show by Michael Shafar, the comedian</li>
<li>Dave hasn't been to much at the Festival/Fringe in recent years. He
saw the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Anthony_All_Stars">Doug Anthony
All Stars</a> when they were active many years ago, and found them funny
but intimidating!</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>HPR changes:
<ul>
<li>Mentioned on the recent <a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3936/index.html#site-migration">HPR
Community News</a></li>
<li>Problem reports can be sent by email to <code>admin</code> at
<code>HPR</code>, as messages to <code>@hpr@botsin.space</code> on
Mastodon, and to the <code>#hpr:matrix.org</code> channel on
Matrix.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Watching and listening:
<ul>
<li>MrX has been watching the YouTube channel <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/@littlechineseeverywhere">Little Chinese
Everywhere</a>, recommended in the last of these chats.</li>
<li>MrX has also been listening to the BBC radio show <a
href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bq6j1">Computing Britain</a>.
It consists of 12 15-minute episodes, from 2015, and is available as a
podcast.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>YouTube recommendations:
<ul>
<li>Dave:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes">Not Just Bikes</a>:
<ul>
<li>A channel about cycling and city design. The channel owner is
Canadian but has moved to Amsterdam for a better life for himself and
his family. He highlights the differences between North American city
design and the design of many European cities.</li>
<li>Example video: <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpcWUqVpIg">Even Small Towns are
Great Here (5 Years in the Netherlands)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BicycleDutch">BicycleDutch</a>:
<ul>
<li>Another channel about cycling in the Netherlands. This channel host,
Mark Wagenbuur, is Dutch and does videos about cycle routes, and their
development. Lots of videos made as he cycles a route. He is based in <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27s-Hertogenbosch">’s-Hertogenbosch</a>
(<a
href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/&#39;&#39;s-Hertogenbosch,+Netherlands&#39;/@51.6639276,5.3834025,9.08z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x47c6ee37ad3edd37:0x400de5a8d1e7c50!8m2!3d51.6978162!4d5.3036748!16zL20vMGQ5dGo?entry=ttu">map</a>)
and cycles in the region and to and from Utrecht.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="links">Links</h2>
<ul>
<li>Vaccines:
<ul>
<li>Wikipedia: <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine">COVID-19
vaccines</a></li>
<li>Wikipedia: <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant">SARS-CoV-2
Omicron variant</a></li>
<li>Wikipedia: <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine">Smallpox
vaccine</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow">Glasgow</a>:
<ul>
<li>Wikipedia: <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway">Glasgow
Subway</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pointahotels.com/our-hotels/glasgow/">Point A
Hotel</a></li>
<li><a href="https://glasgow.junglerumble.co.uk/">Jungle Rumble</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Edinburgh:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://edinburghtrams.com/">Edinburgh trams</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.waterofleith.org.uk/">Water of Leith</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Thunderbird:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/">Website</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Ticks:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease">Lyme
Disease</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babesiosis">Babesiosis</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/about-ticks/tick-removal/">Removal
of ticks</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Audacity:
<ul>
<li>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY">What
Ever Happened to Audacity?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wavacity.com/">Wavacity</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>More Edinburgh:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.eif.co.uk/">Edinburgh Festival</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.edfringe.com/">Edinburgh Festival
Fringe</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>HPR:
<ul>
<li>Site migration update (<a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3936/index.html#site-migration">Community
News for August 2023</a>)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>YouTube recommendations:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes">Not Just
Bikes</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BicycleDutch">BicycleDutch</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<aside id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
role="doc-endnotes">
<hr />
<ol>
<li id="fn1"><p>Other anagrams are also available: <em>gin sated</em>,
<em>gent said</em>, <em>sang tide</em>, etc.<a href="#fnref1"
class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
</ol>
</aside>
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