Thank you for sharing this show. I very rarely install add-ons, due to several being taken over by malicious actors.

I will need to look through the ones you and Ken recommended.

We never know how long these shows stay in the queue. This one took a year to come out. Not good or bad - just an observation. So here's an update on the progress.

The Phone is still working fine as a backup device.
Someone stole my free time so haven't had as much chance to use the RIGOL but it's also a lot nicer to use when I have.
Both desks are still going strong and I would recommend it to anyone..

When I heard you say that you were going to overwrite the file without specifying the -y option, I thought I got disappointment with that one myself by times.

I've written my own approach to this because who doesn't want to hear Dan Lynch Pick Mix.

Yes I owe a show.

Hi Lee,

Great idea to use Audacity to create the visualisation!

I have been playing with the frequencies in the Nyquist prompt, and like the appearance of the data displayed when using :
(mult (sound (hzosc 10000)) (sound (hzosc 200)))
This shows the envelope effect very clearly. I guess with the frequency differences seen in radio transmitters/receivers, this is even more pronounced, but I haven't tried to load those values in!

My other comment: beware (enjoy) the functional programming rabbit hole. I stared with Clojure, then moved to Common Lisp, and more recently Scheme (Guile), as well as using emacs-lisp throughout. My use of the latter has improved significantly since I learned from the other functional languages.

Thanks for the show!
--
Paul

I am shocked that I had not yet heard of this tool. I just took a shapshot of https://freeculturepodcasts.org/ and it worked like a charm.

Great suggestion - thanks !

Some great suggestions there, and it's good to see we have a huge overlap. I missed ClearURLs but installed it now.

Can I suggest Consent-O-Matic for the auto deny of consent forms.

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

Did I hear that you're going for the exam ?

Great show and it explained a lot to me about visualization of wave forms.

More of this type of thing

Thanks for sharing Peter - When I hear "Foodbank" I think of the operations in this neck of the woods, so I am surprised and impressed to hear about the size of the operation in God's Pantry.

Like you, I believe foodbanks and high levels of social benefits are a reflection of poor government, and perhaps wrong priorities. However, they fulfil an essential service for people who find themselves in circumstances where they are no longer able to support themselves.

Thank you for your selfless service to the community in which you live!

I really enjoyed hearing about God's Pantry Food Bank. My mother was involved in a food bank in our home town of Scituate, Massachusetts, and may even have been one of the people who started it, I'm just not sure since I had moved out a few years before she did it.

I did indeed have about 200 Asimov books at one time, but I have moved from dead tree books to ebooks now, I still have the science fiction books in electronic from, but I have not replaced the far more numerous science fact books. But I credit Asimov's science fact books for turning me into a college professor, something I did for a number of years before I moved into IT.

Welcome, Nuudle. Thank you for being on the podcast to balance out SGOTI's insanity.

Now, what is the deal with all the cheese? I thought zombies ate brains, not cheese. Or are they allergic to / repelled by cheese? Is it a particular kind of cheese? I have encountered some Limburger cheese which could drive off a zombie hoard, for sure.

Thank you for such a cheesy episode. :)
Looking forward to your next one.

Really enjoyed listening to this one and all the work that God's Food Pantry does for the community, and how you have been involved in it. I know you've mentioned it to me in passing on Mastodon, so it was nice to hear about it all in detail. Thanks again!

Hi Peter,

Thank you for creating this show.

I learned more than even the two times we conversed in the hospital about this topic. :-)

I wonder if Europe and surrounding nations have similar causes. It would be interesting to hear about.

- Archer72, AKA Mark Rice

This was an inspiring episode Kevie! It starts thoughts of when I can have use of it.

As you said, the computer must be turned on in order to have the scheduled recording to record. It got me thinking of the Termux app for Android based phones. I have not tested, but I thinking of that it might work to get this command line recording to work on the phone.

Also the Transistor app for Android phones was interesting, I like the app after my first trials.

Really loved the show. Thank you for all the work you do.

The URL https://arrowestream.radioca.st/;?ver=737183.mp3 streamed from the command line but failed when using ffmpeg substitute this for https://tinyurl.com/4pd3txdc and it works fine.

I am a huge fan of Asimov, and over the years I cannot guess how many times I have read the original trilogy, but over 20 seems like a plausible number. I plan to continue this series with more Golden Age SF and more Doctor Who, and I don't imagine I will ever run out of material.

I'm glad you liked it. We Civ addicts are many, as I have discovered, and now Civ 7 is going to be released in just a few weeks. So this will continue unless I drop dead.

I think in hindsight the Covid pandemic really hurt Penguicon. They had to cancel several years running for public health reasons, and that cost them a lot of momentum. I was planning to attend in 2024, but as it happened I got sick (nothing serious) and elected to stay home instead. I'm not part of the team any more, so I have no particular insight into where things may be headed.

One of my favourite things about the Foundation Trilogy, apart from the scale and brilliance of the story, was the cover art by Chris Foss on one of the paperback editions on sale in the UK. You could place all three front covers in order and have a bigger better picture, what I later learnt was a triptych.

I look forward to your next podcast.

Thanks for a thoughtful podcast about a game franchise I quickly became obsessed with after discovering Civ II.
Civ III was for me a welcome upgrade and I spent many hours playing it.
I have listened to all your Civ III podcasts and they are great. I won't comment on them all for fear of raising a spam alert.

I attempted to suggest myself as a guest to Penguicon 2024, but was told I was too late and should try again for 2025. Being both a known filler and a known Linux podcaster, both I and they thought I would be the perfect guest. Sadly, my more recent contact with them resulted in me being told they were not sure there would even be a Penguicon in 2025. I look forward to hearing from them in the future.

Great show. I need to do this at home, having come across some of the issues with DNS that you experienced. My first PiHole effort a couple of years back was not so good, but that was definitely down to my lack of knowledge. I will take the opportunity to browse through your setup and I am sure will learn - thanks for sharing everything!

Looking forward to your next show!

Happy New Year!
Paul

Mark, good to hear you are on the road to recovery. Thanks for sharing your experience, and the background information.

Best wishes for 2025!
-- Paul

Hey! Glad to hear you recorded your assessment of this incident. Firstly, great work on detailing your troubleshooting steps! It's good to see someone's thought process in action! Also, I'm not a Windows sysadmin, so some of the suggestions were really interesting.

You said about talking about our worst breaches, it wasn't horrific, but I left VNC open on the machine I used to play media at home in ~2010. My first sign was that someone had opened a web browser on the desktop (which I never did) so I could see they were just using it to browse for content they were blocked from accessing. It wasn't even dodgy stuff, just personal sites.

I rebuilt the machine and turned off RDP, but that gave me a real scare.

You said about using a VPN but needing to make sure it's up to date, can I suggest looking at one of the mesh VPN products, like Tailscale, Nebula or Netbird? I used Tailscale to provide remote support to my aunt and to share content on my home network via a proxy on my VPS.

At work, I'm investigating Netbird, which is similar to Tailscale, but has the control plane hosted on a web server you control. I've previously used Nebula, but after one mishap with the PKI, I realised I couldn't trust myself to run that in the way I needed to to be managed.

All the very best, and thanks again for the content!

Thanks for you kind comments Trey!

When you talk about plain text, this short information is absolutely key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mRxIgu9R70

the rabbit hole is deep.

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Thanks for the welcome. I also need to consider a topic for the next show. As you say, the PCW-8256 was a great little computer, and I made good use of it in University and afterwards. In many ways, I probably loved my Amiga more - that was such a fantastic computer, and so ahead of its time.

Welcome to the community!

You bring a diversity of experiences, and I look forward to learning from your future episodes.

Trey

Greetings Paul, it was a pleasure to listen your introduction and your deep varied history through computing.
We are now 1 on 1 with shows, and I really need to plan my next one soon. I am off work for the next 7 days, and although I do have some plans I am sure I could squeeze in the time.
Our common point of interest was the Amstrad PCW8256. Amazing machine for its time.