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Kevie says: thanks oxp

RE: hpr4426::2025-07-21 My Command Line Applications by Kevie
00:11:50 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thank you for the comment oxp, I've never heard of fastfetch but I will take a look at it when I get home. Thank you for sharing

oxp says: fastfetch

RE: hpr4426::2025-07-21 My Command Line Applications by Kevie
00:11:50 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi, interesting podcast, thank you!

I heard you use neofetch. I did too, but found out recently that it is no longer maintained.

I switched to fastfetch instead:
https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

I configured a basic theme for it here:
https://codeberg.org/oxo/dotf/src/branch/main/fastfetch/config.jsonc

Regards oxp

Antoine says: Re: Archer 72 - That's what I understood

RE: hpr4424::2025-07-17 How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit by Archer72
00:05:41 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I was listening at night, on the bed.
When you talked about lemmy.'sdf'.org, I wanted to know that instance of Lemmy. I thought I listened 'str' instead, and there I went to the website (that has no Lemmy, but it was not a problem once there), came to know it, grateful for you having presented.

Archer72 says: Open in Browser

RE: hpr4424::2025-07-17 How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit by Archer72
00:05:41 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Quick tip.

Change Open in Browser setting in Newsboat config to open in Firefox.

# browser linkhandler

Change to:

browser "firefox %u"

Archer72 says: Re: Antoine's thank you

RE: hpr4424::2025-07-17 How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit by Archer72
00:05:41 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I'm happy that this podcast was good to listen to, and thanks for the link.

Like Ken says, It is the currency to pay the hosts :)

Archer72 says: Easy listening

RE: hpr4423::2025-07-16 YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #2 by Ahuka
00:15:57 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thank you for this show.
It is interesting to hear the stories behind each channel.
Also very pleasant to listen to.

Torin Doyle says: Music for LM

RE: hpr4425::2025-07-18 Introducing Linux Matters by Ken Fallonfrom the series Podcast recommendations.
00:38:14 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I love their theme tune. It reminds me of the 1980s.

Torin Doyle says: Not as good as Ubuntu Podcast.

RE: hpr4425::2025-07-18 Introducing Linux Matters by Ken Fallonfrom the series Podcast recommendations.
00:38:14 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Ken. I loved Ubuntu Podcast (2008–2021). I find that Linux Matters is no where near as good.

Antoine says: Thank you

RE: hpr4424::2025-07-17 How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit by Archer72
00:05:41 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
A pleasant listening and learning. Thank you! Also, I came to know Str.org.

Kevin O'Brien says: Nice discussion

RE: hpr4421::2025-07-14 Content Moderation by Lee
00:42:49 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I enjoyed the discussion here. It is an interesting topic, and very relevant to HPR, as a very incident indicated.

Archer72 says: Stories

RE: hpr4419::2025-07-10 YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #1 by Ahukafrom the series YouTube Subscriptions.
00:16:12 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi,

Thanks for this episode.
I enjoyed the stories you had about each channel.

Archer72

Torin Doyle says: Thanks.

RE: hpr4416::2025-07-07 HPR Community News for June 2025 by HPR Volunteersfrom the series HPR Community News.
00:46:39 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi Ken. Thanks for the tips regarding running an SQL DB. I'll likely let it go as I find it all too convoluted. I'd love to see a feature on HPR to easily find all past comments by folk - like can be done on general internet forums. Regards.

ToeJet says: Alternate method

RE: hpr4417::2025-07-08 Newest matching file by Dave Morriss
00:22:02 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I use a similar pattern to find newest and oldest
PATTERN is any valid filename pattern and path if needed
PATTERN=*.txt #Text file in current direcory
PATTERN=/dir1/*.sh #sh file in /dir1
PATTERN=/dir2/[a-j]* #file beginning with a-j in /dir2

#Find Newest
NewFile=$(dir -1tQ ${PATTERN} | head -n 1)
NewFile=${NewFile//\"/} #Remove " in Name

#Find Oldest
OldFile=$(dir -1rtQ ${PATTERN} | head -n 1)
OldFile=${OldFile//\"/} #Remove " in Name

Malix says: Review of V

RE: hpr4025::2024-01-05 Testing V language by Celestefrom the series Programming 101.
00:16:52 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Came across this and thought it a good review. Getting more into programming and find the V language fun to use. Found it more comfortable than others. Starting some projects with it. Thanks for the podcast.

Kevin O'Brien says: Studying history

RE: hpr4412::2025-07-01 Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731 by Antoine
00:20:14 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I don't do history professionally, and in any case I am retired. But it was my first degree, and still a major interest. I read books on history and listen to history podcasts, including one on World War II by Ray Harris.

Antoine says: Glad w/ your interest

RE: hpr4412::2025-07-01 Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731 by Antoine
00:20:14 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I'm happy you liked it, it is curious (different) to see someone that studies history nowadays, unless when it is the main area of someone. Thank you! Have a nice day

Ken Fallon says: Policy Check

RE: hpr4416::2025-07-07 HPR Community News for June 2025 by HPR Volunteersfrom the series HPR Community News.
00:46:39 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2025-July/004873.html

Kevin O'Brien says: I loved the show

RE: hpr4412::2025-07-01 Parkinson Tribly's Story: The Prisoner of Unit 731 by Antoine
00:20:14 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I am a student of World War II history, and I am familiar with many of the events this story is based on. I really liked it.

paulj says: Great Interview

RE: hpr4411::2025-06-30 The Pachli project by thelovebugfrom the series Interviews.
01:12:05 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Pachli is a great application, but I never knew the background to its development. Thanks for catching up with Nik, and making this show - very interesting. Open source project "done right"!

Henrik Hemrin says: Review ALT texts

RE: hpr4408::2025-06-25 Lynx - Old School Browsing by Kevie
00:22:33 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I use Lynx sometimes.

One use case is to take advantage of the fact that I cannot see the images in Lynx, instead I only see the ALT texts. This helps me to get an idea of how web sites works for visually impaired persons, and this helps me to improve my ALT texts on my own web site and elsewhere.


Alec Bickerton says: XML parsing without xmlstarlet

RE: hpr4404::2025-06-19 Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml by Ken Fallon
00:26:19 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Minor correction I just though of.

curl -s https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | xmllint --xpath "rss/channel/item/enclosure/@url" - | head -1

Alec Bickerton says: Shorter version

RE: hpr4404::2025-06-19 Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml by Ken Fallon
00:26:19 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
curl -s https://tuxjam.otherside.network/feed/podcast/ | xmlstarlet sel --text --template --match 'rss/channel/item' --value-of 'enclosure/@url' --nl | head -1

Dave Morriss says: Thanks for bringing us along...

RE: hpr4405::2025-06-20 What did I do at work today? by Lee
01:09:30 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I enjoyed listening to you working on your VB/SQL Server application. I was cooking dinner for my visitors (my son and his girlfriend), and your show had a sort of ASMR quality to it.

I have never used Visual Basic or SQL Server, but that didn't seem to matter. It was interesting to hear about what you were doing.

Your comment about VMS file version numbers alerted me. I used to manage a two node VAXcluster running "VAX/VMS" as its "System Manager" from 1987. Later we replaced it with a DEC Alpha also running VMS, with the new name "OpenVMS". I very much agree that the version number feature was really useful, and I miss it! There was a file attribute you could set which auto-deleted the oldest files if there were more than a certain number of versions in a directory.

Torin Doyle says: Not able to use database to find my comments.

RE: hpr4403::2025-06-18 How to get your very own copy of the HPR database by norrist
00:02:52 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi norrist.

Running as sudo did not work. Also, I'm unsure as to how to run those scripts. Not to worry. Thanks, anyway.

ko3moc says: response

RE: hpr4406::2025-06-23 SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images by ko3moc
00:08:25 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Yes, it can be steganography if the code is hidden or disguised to avoid detection but if it’s just inserted as active code, it may be looked at as malware or script injection, not steganography as malicious content is clearly visible in the file structure (e.g. have it's own script tag)




Archer72 says: It's in my memory

RE: hpr4417::2025-07-08 Newest matching file by Dave Morriss
00:22:02 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Dave,

Thanks for the show. This is one that I will have to refer to at a later date. For now, I'm putting in my memory to refer back.

Archer72

oxo says: Interesting!

RE: hpr4406::2025-06-23 SVG Files: Cyber Threat Hidden in Images by ko3moc
00:08:25 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi ko3moc,
Interesting podcast. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this. I wondered: is this also categorized as steganography? I guess it is and then used in a malicious way.
My tip as a protonmail user: in my webmail I have automatic downloading of remote content switched off.

Ken Fallon says: Personal message to redhat (nprfan)

RE: hpr4398::2025-06-11 Command line fun: downloading a podcast by Kevie
00:10:47 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Hi redhat (nprfan),

Dave and I had a look at your comment, as it was essentially a script that produced links to a website. While we think it's not malicious, the code as written would not run as it's missing some variables.

Can you please record a show about it as we both were impressed by your though process in this one.

Ken and Dave.

Henrik Hemrin says: More to digest

RE: hpr4404::2025-06-19 Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml by Ken Fallon
00:26:19 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Thanks Ken for your addition, alternative, response, to Kevies show about downloading a podcast. Now I have two interesting shows to digest in detail and learn from.


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