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Dave Morriss says: Excellent start!

RE: hpr4200::2024-09-06 Intro to Doctor Who by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:18:48 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I watched Dr Who from the first show in 1963 when I was 13. I watched it fairly regularly until 1989, but was often in places where there was no access (like university where I didn't own a TV), and I lost interest towards the end.

When it "regenerated" I was keen to watch again, and my daughter was also enthusiastic. We watched until Matt Smith left, and haven't watched since.

We did watch "Torchwood" from 2006, and enjoyed it.

You might want to add "The Sarah-Jane Adventures" to your list of spin-off shows. This was another show I watched with my daughter, who was in the age range the show was aimed at, at the time. I certainly found it watchable myself.

Thanks for doing this. I am looking forward to hearing more!

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Ken Fallon says: Interesting post by Alan Pope

RE: hpr4109::2024-05-02 The future of HPR by knightwise
00:24:56 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Where are Podcast Listener Communities
Posted on Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Alan Pope

https://popey.com/blog/2024/09/where-are-podcast-listener-communities/

EM - Email address (13/18)
MA - Mastodon account (9/18)
TW - Twitter account (8/18)
DS - Discord server (8/18)
TG - Telegram channel (4/18)
IR - IRC channel (5/18)
DW - Discourse website (2/18)
SK - Slack channel (3/18)
LI - LinkedIn (2/18)
WF - Web form (2/18)
SG - Signal group (3/18)
WA - WhatsApp (1/18)
FB - FaceBook (1/18)

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Ken Fallon says: Heading to spectrum24

RE: hpr4156::2024-07-08 Badger 2040 by Kevie
00:11:35 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
About to put this into action !

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MrX says: Re Thank you for the reminder

RE: hpr4182::2024-08-13 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1 by MrXfrom the series HAM radio.
00:26:11 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thanks for the kind words Trey and many apologies for the delay in replying. I really must be more diligent at checking for comments as it’s always great when people take the time to reply. Glad you enjoyed the show. The ICOM 735 looks like a fine radio and is likely more reliable than my Kenwood TS940 so probably a very sensible choice. I’ve had a few VHF & UHF ICOM radios over the years and have always been very pleased with them. Good luck with your internal battery. I hope it doesn’t cause an issue. It’s a worry this sort of thing as there is always a risk whatever you do. Hope you get a chance to get some HF contacts.

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operator says: operator

RE: hpr4175::2024-08-02 what's in my bag part 2 by operat0r
00:37:38 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
he items in the book bag include:

USB bass bunny
USB cable for number owner
Toothbrush and toothpaste
Retractable charging cable
Two headphones of the ear buds

ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY:
The user discussed various apps, tools, and services they use for personal and professional purposes including Plex, Real Link, Snapseed, Stocard, Telly Health, BetterHelp, Misnotifications, multi V&C, Google Translate, Twitch, Uber, Last Pass, Google Voice, Yelp, and Land Zoom.

MAIN POINTS:
Uses Plex for accessing media content
Real Link app for convenience but dislikes it
Snapseed used for photo storage and organization
Stocard app for barcode management
Telly Health used for personal health through Better Help services
Misnotifications app for reminder notifications
Multi V&C desktop launcher for Android compression and accessibility features
Google Translate used for OCR tasks
Twitch used for break-sec security purposes
Uber app for transportation
Last Pass for password management
Google Voice and Hound for various voice assistance tasks
Yelp for restaurant search
Land Zoom for work purposes
TAKEAWAYS:
Utilize Plex and Real Link for media content access
Use Snapseed for photo storage and organization
Stocard app helps manage barcodes
Use Telly Health, Better Help for personal health needs
Misnotifications for reminder notifications
Multi V&C launcher for Android desktop compression and accessibility
Google Translate for OCR tasks
Twitch for break-sec security purposes
Uber app for transportation
Last Pass for password management
Google Voice and Hound for various voice assistance tasks
Yelp for restaurant search
Land Zoom for work purposes

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dnt says: Pathologies

RE: hpr4198::2024-09-04 Are hobbies pathological? by Leefrom the series How I got into tech.
00:12:35 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thank you for the thought-provoking show! Thoughts on this show paralyze in much the same way as my many obsessions and disparate pursuits. No idea which way to go, which approach to take, too many comments, impossible to choose. (*_*)

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dnt says: Dr Who

RE: hpr4200::2024-09-06 Intro to Doctor Who by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:18:48 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I've never watched Dr Who but I am a Peter Capaldi fan and a David Tennant fan for their other work, I have been curious to watch Dr Who since hearing of their "doctors" a long time ago. Thanks for the series, looking forward to more on Dr Who.

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Some Guy On The Internet says: Great show.

RE: hpr4177::2024-08-06 Blender 3D Tutorial #1 by Deltaray
01:11:15 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I did it. I'm now the greatest blender artist in the world. Thanks for the show and the skills.

P.S. I also recorded the adventure.
https://youtu.be/i-WFedaQzM4

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brian-in-ohio says: Shows

RE: hpr4200::2024-09-06 Intro to Doctor Who by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:18:48 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thanks so much for this series, I've always wanted to get into Dr Who but had trouble diving in because of the shows complexity. But like a good museum I now have a guide! Thanks Ahuka, keep them coming!

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hammerron says: Streaming Doctor Who

RE: hpr4200::2024-09-06 Intro to Doctor Who by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:18:48 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Hello. Another place where you can currently stream random episodes of Classic Doctor Who in the United States is Pluto.tv

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Ken Fallon says: @Brian

RE: hpr4196::2024-09-02 HPR Community News for August 2024 by HPR Volunteersfrom the series HPR Community News.
01:21:54 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Hi Brian

I found it for ₹6,750 which is $80.39

However the value for money is 1/10 of that so that price is equivalent to $800. Way too expensive.

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brian-in-ohio says: single board computer

RE: hpr4196::2024-09-02 HPR Community News for August 2024 by HPR Volunteersfrom the series HPR Community News.
01:21:54 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Ken you should try a banana pi m1. Its an all winner a20 single core that are affordable. It runs slackware 15.0 so has a secure stable os available. Here's the slackware arm official site
https://docs.slackware.com/slackwarearm:inst_sa32_rel_15.0

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Trollercoaster says: Why!?

RE: hpr4196::2024-09-02 HPR Community News for August 2024 by HPR Volunteersfrom the series HPR Community News.
01:21:54 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Instead of commenting here... I made a small recording.

Anyways: my take-away is that I should learn to put the key message in the first minute of a podcast, so people who drop off early, at least get that message.

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dnt says: Scheduling and the reserve queue

RE: hpr4195::2024-08-30 Hacking HPR Hosts by Ken Fallon
00:36:25 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Very sensible scheduling guidelines, but I honestly don't know why we leave it to the multitude of hosts to follow them. If it were up to me all shows would go into one queue, and they'd get scheduled following some set of transparent rules, automatically if possible. Reserving a date would be only at least 1 or 2 months out. Then you could do things like ensure new hosts always get the nth slot from the day they upload. The only issue is we'd lose the psychological effect of the reserve queue as a buffer between today and the end of the project. The problem with the current way is that, since we talk about technology and hosts are always learning more things, it is nearly impossible for a show to be evergreen enough to sit in the reserve queue as long as they usually do.

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Aaron B says: Interesting list, Sci fi

RE: hpr4180::2024-08-09 Intro to Science Fiction Series by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:15:52 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Here is a Nice flow chart for Sci-fi and Fantasy — https://archive.org/details/NPRFlowchart
When you see that list, how many can you check off?

I took a speed reading class in High School, and to keep my attention, I read many of the classic Sci-Fi’s.
When I read the Lord of the Rings series, I quit reading for over 25 years. I felt that I had wasted a lot of time.

Then I read Daniel Suarez’s Daemon, A great techno-thriller. It got me back into reading again. I read a couple more of the classics. Then I started to read the The Silver Ships series. Stopped half way through the 5th. Got tired with the ‘Savior’ character. Like Dune.

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Dave Morriss says: What failed first, the SD or the SSD?

RE: hpr2023::2016-05-04 Setting up my Raspberry Pi 3 by Dave Morriss
00:28:36 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I'm deep in a project to restore all external files or assets to HPR shows where they were lost in the server migration in 2023.

I just did this show, hpr2023, and re-read the comments.

This Pi was called rpi5 and it died during the pandemic, in 2021 or 2022. What failed? The SSD did - the SD card is OK as far as I can make out.

This makes Beeza's question about the point of using an SSD and my answer a bit ironic considering that I'd set this Pi up as a critical element of my Home Lab and had not noticed the backups hadn't been working for a while!

I have since learnt that the quality of these media has a strong bearing on their lifetime, and the SSD was a cheap one!

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Dave Lee (thelovebug) says: Bryce T. Shatner

RE: hpr4188::2024-08-21 Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon by Archer72from the series Accessibility.
00:05:09 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
The Bryce voice almost perfectly imitates the _intonation_ of William Shatner, but not the voice.

It made me smile, but then I love ST:TOS anyway 🖖

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Ken Fallon says: Trixter

RE: hpr4185::2024-08-16 Archiving VCR or any other RCA media by Ken Fallon
00:17:15 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
You are correct but the whole point of these devices is that they are mass produced to do all that for you. You don't need to configure anything. What you get out is "(MJPEG) 1080P 30FPS" 720x480 is scaling the output MJEPG 1080p down not the source file.

For why see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY

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Dave Lee (thelovebug) says: Not played this in years

RE: hpr4187::2024-08-20 Go Fish Card Game by Al
00:03:23 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I might have to introduce this game to the kids, I think they'll enjoy it!

Thanks for this, Al!

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Dave Lee (thelovebug) says: rawtext

RE: hpr4036::2024-01-22 The Tildeverse by Claudio Miranda
00:04:02 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I joined the Tildeverse a while back on rawtext.club, which is a very small and intimate server. The Tildeverse is a great way to get involved in the community, and you get to meet some interesting people too.

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Dave Lee (thelovebug) says: Only just got around to listening to this one

RE: hpr3661::2022-08-15 Ham Radio testing by Archer72from the series HAM radio.
00:06:01 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Probably a bit late to offer congratulations, but have them anyway!

I got my ticket in April 2021, at the first level (Foundation) in the UK. It's been a wild ride and I've learned so much in the last 3½ years.

I'd love to hear more on HPR about your journey into Amateur Radio. I did an episode back in 2021 that you might appreciate if you haven't already heard it.
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr3473/

73 de Dave M7TLB

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Trixter says: Some issues with your capture methodology

RE: hpr4185::2024-08-16 Archiving VCR or any other RCA media by Ken Fallon
00:17:15 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
If you captured PAL at 720x480 30fps, you've done it wrong -- those are NTSC standards. Your capture hardware and software should have provided an option to capture 720x576 at 25fps.

I didn't notice anything regarding handling deinterlacing. For proper viewing of PAL material, you want to deinterlace to 50p or 50 output frames per second, which the ffmpeg filter bwdif can do very well.

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Trollercoaster says: Small recommendation (and thanks)

RE: hpr4180::2024-08-09 Intro to Science Fiction Series by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:15:52 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Hi Ahuka,

thanks for this interesting introduction. Certainly looking forward to the next episodes.

I just bumped into this interview with George R.R. Martin that you might appreciate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfy-whmkOpM

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gemlog says: re: png

RE: hpr4184::2024-08-15 Use GKRellM, wget and ImageMagick for a live slideshow by gemlog
00:09:37 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Hi, it took me a sec to wonder "What png?", but I had taken a screenshot using KDE's Spectacle of the Dolphin file manager displaying large icons. Spectacle's default file format is png. Sorry about that. It never occurred to me that would be confusing. The image of the thumbnails, which are all jpg, and the image of the gkrellm stack, are all done using Spectacle and are not included in the segment at all.
Thank you for pointing that out to folks.

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Kevin O'Brien says: Just what I hoped for

RE: hpr4180::2024-08-09 Intro to Science Fiction Series by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:15:52 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thanks Dave. Encouraging others to submit shows is just what I hoped for. And field is so big there is room for a lolt of voices here.

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George says: png

RE: hpr4184::2024-08-15 Use GKRellM, wget and ImageMagick for a live slideshow by gemlog
00:09:37 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Hi,

looks cool but I cannot get where do you make .png file what you use later?

all the best.
George

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Dave Lee (thelovebug) says: Great series!

RE: hpr4180::2024-08-09 Intro to Science Fiction Series by Ahukafrom the series Science Fiction and Fantasy.
00:15:52 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thanks for this Ahuka, I look forward to listening to your episodes on this.

This has actually given me some ideas for episodes, so I can see me contributing to this series... particularly as there are some items on your list that coincide with my own interests, plus a few that don't. I may concentrate on the ones that don't first.

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Henrik Hemrin says: I like the audio tutorial concept

RE: hpr4177::2024-08-06 Blender 3D Tutorial #1 by Deltaray
01:11:15 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
I like this concept of audio tutorial while I follow on the screen. This was my first ever trial with Blender. And yes, I did need to pause and rewind multiple times. I admit, at the latter part I was too foggy myself, so I only listened how to create fog etc. I think I should start over from scratch again, repeat the tutorial another day, to understand better. But I definitely got a first impression of Blender, thanks to your tutorial. Thanks!

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Trey says: Thank you for the reminder

RE: hpr4182::2024-08-13 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1 by MrXfrom the series HAM radio.
00:26:11 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thank you for sharing this. I have had my extra class license for many years. Despite having collected several HF radios, I mus confess that I have never operated on HF. Only 6M, 2M, and 70cm FM.

But back to radios. My first HF rig is an Icom 735, which I believe is similar vintage to your Kenwood. Your show got me thinking, and it turns out my radio also has a battery, which I hope and pray is not leaking all over the radio. Now I have another project!

Thank you for sharing!

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Windigo says: Alternative sites

RE: hpr4181::2024-08-12 Downloading out of copyright movies by Bob
00:01:47 Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.
Thanks for the episode - and the excellent technique!

It's also worth checking on https://archive.org/ first for any out-of-copyright or public domain works. It's selection may be limited, but it offers up easy download options.