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HPR4753: HPR Beer Garden 22 - Bitter

Hosted by Kevie on 2026-10-21

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. With Tuxjam Half-cut in Manchester now just a memory, the trio fo Kevie, Dave and Paul sample the classic English beer style known as Bitter. Kevie tries out Chiltern's Beechwood Best Bitter , Dave samples Morrison's Original Bitter and Paul opts for Boddingtons Draught Bitter . Connect with the guys on Untappd : Dave ...

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HPR4752: Static Addict Episode 2: Metal Machine Music

Hosted by TheDUDE on 2026-10-20

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Digital Release (can also be found on youtube and Spotify) https://tidal.com/album/50021 Physical Release (can also be found on Ebay and Amazon) https://www.discogs.com/master/44287-Lou-Reed-Metal-Machine-Music Sources Again, I'm a hack and I use Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music Next Al...

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HPR4751: Real Live AI Use Case

Hosted by operat0r on 2026-10-19

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. No views Sep 11, 2026 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechDemo Watch a real-world demonstration of AI in action. See how artificial intelligence is being applied to solve practical problems in everyday scenarios. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Introduction 1:30 - Setting up the AI tool 3:45 - First use case demo ...

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HPR4750: Playing Civilization VI Part 2

Hosted by Ahuka on 2026-10-16

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Civilization VI brought in one new Victory type, Religious, and made modifications to the other familiar types. So in thie episode we do a survey of different ways you can win this game. Playing Civilization VI, Part 2 Victory Types Another area with some changes from previous versions is Victory Types. Of course, some things stay the same....

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HPR4749: murph gives a presentation talk about Hacker Public Radio at the OLF conference

Hosted by murph on 2026-10-15

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. murph talks about Hacker Public Radio at the Open Libre Free Conference in Columbus, Ohio in December 2025. (Formerly Ohio Linux Fest) He has been a slacker, and took nearly a year to publish this. Special Thanks to Ken for getting the audio, and Archer72 for prodding me into doing it. ...

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HPR4748: Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 5

Hosted by Whiskeyjack on 2026-10-14

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. -------------------- 01 Introduction This is the fifth episode in an 8 part series. 02 In the previous two episodes we looked at the Allen Bradley PLC 2 and the Siemens S5 series of PLCs. In those episodes we mentioned I/O modules, but didn't really go into any detail on them. Instead we looked at the CPU units and focused ...

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HPR4747: UNIX Curio #13 - Replacements for cat

Hosted by Vance on 2026-10-13

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. This series is dedicated to exploring little-known—and occasionally useful—trinkets lurking in the dusty corners of UNIX-like operating systems. Thirteen is one of my favorite numbers, so I am going to use this episode to indulge myself. As part of UNIX Curio #8 ( HPR episode 4657 ), I went on a little flight of fancy and suggested that the com...

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HPR4746: Monotone

Hosted by Lee on 2026-10-12

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Python and its libraries 1. librosa — loading and resampling audio def load_audio(path): y, sr = librosa.load(path, sr=SR, mono=True) return y, sr Every episode, regardless of its original sample rate or channel count, gets loaded down to a single mono stream at 16kHz (SR = 16000). That's one line of librosa, resampling,...

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HPR4745: BruCON interview 1: The BruCON organization

Hosted by Kristoff on 2026-10-09

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. BruCON: https://brucon.org BruCON is an annual security and hacker conference providing two days of an interesting atmosphere for open discussions of critical infosec issues, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implications...

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HPR4744: HPR Beer Garden 21 - Mild

Hosted by Kevie on 2026-10-08

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In this episode we look at a very old style of beer known as Mild. Paul, in the absence of any locally available Milds has a Guinness, Dave tastes Banks's Mild and Kevie Samples 1950s Burton Ruby Mild . Connect with the guys on Untappd : Dave Paul Kevie The intro sounds for the show are used from: ...

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