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HPR4610: Playing Civilization V, Part 10

Hosted by Ahuka on 2026-04-03

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In our next look at the game mechanics for Civilization V we three key ideas: Great People, Trade, and Empires/Civilizations. Playing Civilization V, Part 10 - Great People Gaining Great People You earn Great People by accumulating Great Person Points (GPP). Each type of Great Person has its own type of GPP, and they are earned independently, so you...

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HPR4609: Proper Date Format

Hosted by Ahuka on 2026-04-02

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. This is about how dates are formatted, and I demonstrate that the ISO 8601 Format is the only logical one to use, and will make your life easier if you learn to use it. Something you quickly run into if you correspond with people in both the U.S. and Europe, which I have done over my career as well as in my personal life, is that we don’t wr...

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HPR4608: Simple Podcasting - Episode 1 - Preparation and Recording

Hosted by Whiskeyjack on 2026-04-01

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Simple-Podcasting 01 Introduction This is the first episode in a four part series on a simple way to create your own HPR podcast episode. 02 If it sounds contradictory to have four episodes on a simple subject, you only actually need the first episode to see how to create podcasts. The remaining episodes are on steadily more complex subj...

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HPR4607: UNIX Curio #3 - basename and dirname

Hosted by Vance on 2026-03-31

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. Hopefully it doesn't seem like I'm picking on Linux Journal , but like UNIX Curio #1 (HPR4587), this column has been inspired by an article of theirs 1 . The author was demonstrating a clever bash ...

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HPR4606: My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams

Hosted by Trollercoaster on 2026-03-30

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. It all started at Flanders Technology International in 1987... a tech expo where an eleven-year-old watched a wooden block move across a desk and an arrow follow it on screen. That was it. That was the moment. He had to have a computer with a mouse. What followed was a sto...

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HPR4605: Lee locks down his wifey poo

Hosted by Elsbeth on 2026-03-27

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Two geeky people, both HPR hosts, decide to sign on the dotted line and do the darn thing and get married. Provide feedback on this episode....

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HPR4604: Quick Tips for January 20 26

Hosted by operat0r on 2026-03-26

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. It's going to be pretty short, I'm going to go through my quick tips. Looks like I've got enough to kind of do a little short episode for you guys. Quick tips are basically just, you know, kind of things that I think about, that add value, kind of like those stupid viral videos on social media where they show, like how to make a pancake with a squar...

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HPR4603: On the Erosion of Freedom in Open Source Software

Hosted by HopperMCS on 2026-03-25

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. DISCLAIMER: "Hill willing to kill on" is an idiom. I do not condone or tolerate open calls for violence and want to make this very clear here. Due to the incredibly unfortunate nature of the topic at hand, I have also taken the liberty to mark this episode as explicit. This episode was recorded while I had some short downtime. There are ...

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HPR4602: Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 3

Hosted by Honkeymagoo on 2026-03-24

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Bluetooth https://www.bluetooth.com/ Sound Core Headsets https://www.soundcore.com/ BaoFeng Mini https://www.baofengradio.com/products/5r-mini NOAA Weather Channel https://www.weather.gov/mob/nwr Chirp APP https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home ...

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HPR4601: How to be a better writer

Hosted by enistello on 2026-03-23

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Some tips on how the text you write can be improved. With the pestilence of AI spreading out over the once-human internet, doing what LLMs don't is a pretty good starting point to improve one's own writing. Make mistakes. Edit yourself. Avoid the tics that are dangerously close to becoming the norm. See this Wikipedia page, aimed at ...

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