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Hosted by operat0r on 2025-06-26

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Never fan of duel monitors Mother inlaw had a better monitor then me https://slickdeals.net 4:3, 16:9, 21:9 (Ratio calculator) Samsung 49" Class Odyssey G95C DQHD 240Hz Curved Gaming Monitor LS49CG95DENXZA US $646.49 posture / arms out / screen position / mouse sh...

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HPR4408: Lynx - Old School Browsing

Hosted by Kevie on 2025-06-25

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Kevie , from the TuxJam podcast, takes a look at the Lynx command line browser and briefly discusses it's uses and if it still has a place in our modern times. Some Useful Hot-keys: g to go to a specific website m goes to your start page (Main screen is what Lynx calls it) o for options h for help p for print q to quit ...

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HPR4407: A 're-response' Bash script

Hosted by Dave Morriss on 2025-06-24

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Introduction On 2025-06-19 Ken Fallon did a show, number 4404 , responding to Kevie's show 4398 , which came out on 2025-06-11. Kevie was using a Bash pipeline to find the latest episode in an RSS feed, and download it. He used grep to parse the XML of the feed. Ken's response was to suggest the use of xmlstarlet to parse the XML ...

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HPR4406: SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images

Hosted by ko3moc on 2025-06-23

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Out of nowhere, my Firefox browser on my Mac mini started automatically adding every page I visited to my bookmarks. At first, I thought it was a bug after recent update —maybe a misconfigured setting or similar. But when I searched for a fix, Google suggested something alarming: Scan for malware. And guess wh...

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HPR4405: What did I do at work today?

Hosted by Lee on 2025-06-20

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. This is about developing Visual Basic classes for a web application. The classes access an SQL Server database via Stored Procedures. Tests.vb Private Sub ResourceTypeTests() ResourceTypeAddTest() ResourceTypeGetTest() End Sub Private Sub ResourceTypeAddTest() Dim fake As New Fake Console.WriteLine("Adding resource type")...

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HPR4404: Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml

Hosted by Ken Fallon on 2025-06-19

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. More Command line fun: downloading a podcast In the show hpr4398 :: Command line fun: downloading a podcast Kevie walked us through a command to download a podcast. He used some techniques here that I hadn't used before, and it's always great to see how other people approach the problem. Let's have a look at the script and walk through wha...

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HPR4403: How to get your very own copy of the HPR database

Hosted by norrist on 2025-06-18

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Get your own copy of the HPR database reset_hpr.sh systemctl start mariadb curl https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql > hpr.sql mariadb -e 'drop database hpr_hpr' mariadb -e 'create database hpr_hpr' mariadb hpr_hpr < hpr.sql mariadb -e 'select count(*) from eps' hpr_hpr mariadb -e 'select * from comments where comment_author_name...

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HPR4402: pinetab2

Hosted by Brian in Ohio on 2025-06-17

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. 1 intro hpr 4346 swift 110 2 prior tablet samsung tablet lineageos 3 my use case reading pdfs/epubs using emacs forth developement on microcontrollers, serial port access was a challenge 4 my not use case video media consumption audio consumpt...

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HPR4401: hajime

Hosted by oxo on 2025-06-16

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. hajime This installation script installs an Arch Linux system on an x64 architecture. The installation can be done with or without a network connection (internet). oxo/hajime - Codeberg.org hajime/make-recov at main - oxo/hajime - Codeberg.org isolatest/isolatest at main...

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HPR4400: Isaac Asimov: Other Asimov Novels of Interest

Hosted by Ahuka on 2025-06-13

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Isaac Asimov is best known for two series, the Foundation series and the Robot series, and he eventually tied them together. But he also wrote some stand-alone novels that are quite good, and I want to discuss them here. They are The End Of Eternity, The Gods Themselves, and Nemesis. Lin...

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