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Hosted by Some Guy On The Internet on 2023-09-12 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Friends, reply show.
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How to make friends
Source: Friendship
Source: Interpersonal
relationship
Source: Affection
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/yosef-kerzner-7231ab6
https://yosefsblog.blogspot.com/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8 this is a really good interview if you want to be terrified by AI ( about 1/2 way in the video )
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22PROBIOTIC+GEM+CULTURED%22+filetype%3Apdf
Hosted by Ahuka on 2023-09-08 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
RV, travel, southeast US, maintenance.
Travel.
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When you go on an RV trip you are basically towing your home around, and that means you need to have your equipment in shape. RVs are said to undergo an earthquake every time you tow them, and so there are things that need to be addressed. And the tow vehicle needs to be in good shape as well. So in this episode we discuss how we did the necessary equipment maintenance.
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In the show, I mention that leaving Mark Williams Company was "a story for another time", but the short answer is that Linux crushed them. Coherent Unix had to make a choice to compete with either Windows, SCO Unix, or Linux, and had enough budget to add either X Windows or TCP/IP networking. They chose X11, and IMO that killed any chance of Coherent Unix being useful in a world of Linux and FreeBSD.
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https://www.radio-browser.info the site has good searching features, and even has a player. It has a map view that's cute but not too useful because it doesn't zoom in enough. Still fun to fly around the world and tune in simply by clicking the balloons, you should try it.
Mobile apps that use this directory are found on https://www.radio-browser.info/users. The ones I've used are TuneFM (with ads, pay what you want (I think) to remove ads, but very good Android Auto), and Transistor (no Android Auto, otherwise perfect). Open Radio is pretty good but the Android Auto is buggy. I have not tried any others.
The episode in which Ken Fallon interviewed one of the maintainers of Funkwhale was hpr3808.
Some stations I've been listening to:
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Hi all! Today I'm gonna be talking about my adventures in setting up Pi-hole. This will be without screenshots, but instead in all text, sorry! Also this is all written as kind of an "Aftermath" story. This is being written after the fact, so this might be missing some details, but most of it is there.
Pi-hole is a DNS/DHCP server that allows for easy network-wide ad-blocking, along with all the nice customizations that come with being a DNS server, such as custom domains.
The first step was getting Pi-hole running. I did this using Docker Compose on a "NAS" which is honestly a full on server at this point. A quick copy/paste from Pi-hole's README and I was up and running! I set a singular system to use this as a DNS server, and after that, I figured I was set and ready to go.
Of course, I wasn't satisfied just finishing there. I want automatic DNS setting for any device that connects to my network. Of course, I could just set the DNS upstream in my OpenWRT router to use the IP address of my server, but that isn't good enough for me. This means I'd be missing out on automatic per-client information, since when setting a DNS server for OpenWRT, it only sets itself to forward any DNS requests up to the DNS server, which means from Pi-hole's perspective, all the requests are coming from the router and nowhere else. The solution is to set up Pi-Hole as a DHCP server. Keep in mind this isn't a tutorial, so let's go through what I did first. The first step was to turn on the DHCP server in Pi-Hole. This was super easy, just a checkbox and click save. Cool! Then I disabled the DHCP server in OpenWRT, and that was all set. A few restarting of network devices later, like my phone, and they automatically connected to the Pi-Hole server, and worked like a charm. Next up, I set up Tailscale. I use Headscale, but the setup is essentially the same as if you were using Tailscale's UI. Set in the config to override local DNS, set the nameserver to the Tailscale IP address of the server, and turn on magic DNS, et voila! Now to restart the Tailscale nodes, and make sure that on the server, you set it to not accept the DNS from Tailscale. If you don't do that, it'll get in an endless loop of trying to use itself as the DNS server, and it's just no good. Okay! It's all set, and I check the dashboard, and it's already blocking DNS requests. Perfect!
This was fine and great, but when I went to reboot my server, which I do weekly, something bad happened. The interface for the server didn't come up. This is a problem, since it's the DHCP server for my network, so without that working, the network was dead in the water. It can't give out IP addresses. What's going on? I go ahead and access my server directly. No matter how hard I try, it can't connect to the interface. What's the big deal? Well this is pretty simple, and a question popped in my head that go me there. "How does this server even get its IP address?" You see when I set up pi-hole, it just kept using the IP address that the router gave it, which it was more than happy to use, but the moment the router didn't have a DHCP server, the NAS didn't have a way to get an IP address anymore. So what do you do then? The answer is pretty simple. Give the server a static IP. Make sure in the DHCP server of pi-hole, you set a reservation in it for the server, then in NetworkManager, which I use, set it to have a static IP, and set its DNS to point to localhost. Perfect! This works like a charm!
Okay, phew! Crisis averted. Just some missing networking knowledge. So what's next up on the list? Hmmm... Let's see... The default adlist is kinda small, let's go see if we can find some new adlists. Apparently this is more difficult than you'd think. A quick search on DDG only came up with an equivalent search in GitHub. Not useful! I have no idea the trustworthiness and stability of these adlists. Let's see. Another search leads to a Reddit article that then links to a different list. Bingo! An Adlist list. Exactly what I needed. I went ahead and looked into these lists, and added a few of them. Perfect!
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
Of course, this isn't it. I actually use an a/b update scheme, but you
get the gist. Updates are taken care of, and just make sure you try and
keep the server up as long as possible, and keep downtime to a
minimum.
After a while of running this, the necessity of having the NAS on the whole time was starting to get frustrating. The answer there was to move it off the NAS. I did this by installing it on a Raspberry Pi 3B, running Arch Linux ARM. The setup was identical to before once I had gotten ALARM running.
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Community News.
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Welcome to our new host:
Fred Black.
These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 21 comments in total.
There are 5 comments on 5 previous shows:
There are 16 comments on 8 of this month's shows:
Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman.
The threaded discussions this month can be found here:
https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2023-August/thread.htmlWith the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar.
Quoting the site:
This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page.
The process of moving the HPR site to its new location and implementing all of the features has been going on during August:
There are a number of problems yet to be tackled:
We have had a number of very helpful problem reports, mainly
through the #HPR channel on Matrix.
It's also possible to raise issues on the Gitea site at https://repo.anhonesthost.net/rho_n/hpr_generator/issues, though it's necessary to have a username on the site before this can be done.
Hosted by Daniel Persson on 2023-09-01 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
server, hardware, rack.
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I have a lot of smaller PC's running as servers at home but now I finally bought my first server chassis to install a real server in my rack. I ran into a lot of complications and that's covered in this episode.
Hosted by Tuula on 2023-08-31 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Crusader Kings, Paradox.
Computer Strategy Games.
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Crusader Kings II is a dynasty simulator, where your goal is to guide your dynasty through the middle ages. It's very large game and this episode can only scratch the surface.
You're a ruler of some kind, like count, duchess, king or empress to name a few. You need to manage vassals in your realm and keep your neighbours at bay. When you're not busy with that, you can relax and go hunting, build an observatory or join a secret society (to name just a few).
Couple first games will be overwhelming, but it'll get easier when you start realizing how things affect to each other and what kinds of things you can do.
If you're interested to learn more, have a look at the wiki: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Crusader_Kings_II_Wiki
Hosted by Some Guy On The Internet on 2023-08-30 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Discbound, Notebooks, Planners, Happy Planner, Ink Pens..
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Don't listen to Bumble Bee, the caps are what you want; get the one
with the cap.
Also these are the fat boys, they are 1.0 mm, not 0.7mm.
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Round Stic Xtra Life Ballpoint Pens, Medium Point (1.0mm), 60 Count,
Black Pens
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Round Stic Xtra Life Ballpoint Pens, Medium Point (1.0mm), Blue, 60
Count
These feel so good in the hand but they have high dry times; just not
worth it.
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Signo Gel 207 Retractable Roller Ball Pen, Medium Point, Translucent
Barrel, Black Ink, 12-Pack (33950)
I use these for drawing lines. Dry times are not bad, but there is a
dry time.
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Roller Ball Stick Dye-Based Pen Micro Point 0.5 mm 498774
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SAN60101, Classic Rollerball Pens
Color pack, because why not!
- Source: BIC
Cristal Xtra Bold Ball Point Pens, Bold Point (1.6mm), Assorted Colors,
24-Count
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folky gives the show about inxi that Ken wished for
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I reveal what instrument was played in hpr3905
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Some hints for playing Civilization II Test of Time
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About apps that store notes as markdown
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Sgoti confuses everyone with bash nonsense.
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RESERVE SHOW. Audacity has been having problems lately.
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Hipernike talks about Karate, its meaning and some of the things he has learnt
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Daniel Persson talks about some of the tools he uses for video production and social media
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operat0r will never get to some of these as full eps so here you go!
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Sgoti chats with Bumble Bee about meal preparation.
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A brief history of the term "Silent Key" as applied to amateur radio
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In this episode the HPR Audiobook Club discusses the first three books of John Carter of Mars
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Step one for a months-long RV trip is the planning.
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tuturto talks about what she's doing to change her voice
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Let's go through every single package installed in my Emacs configuration. The last one.
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Hopefully a useful provocation, in response to a recent intriguing show by another HPR host
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HPR Volunteers talk about shows released and comments posted in July 2023
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MrX has audio that is clipping but will he be able to fix it?
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a technique my father taught me, for dealing with blisters
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Lurking Prion answers questions about his name, former career field as an MM
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Shane brings us a taste of South Africa with some local tea and jerky
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A Perl-based 'grep'-like tool that can search by file type
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Some hints for playing Civilization II
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Collective delusions of elective conclusions.
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Let's go through every single package installed in my Emacs configuration. File 2 of 3.
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About me and computers
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Sgoti discusses the threat of convenience.
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I have a short talk to present Fred Black.
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This topic is being actively researched. Not for production use.
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Klaatu reads a script by Deepgeek about systemd
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