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Posted at 2026-02-04 16:30:35 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

I've always considered them to be in order as in if not rule 1, then if not rule 2, etc.
Perhaps that's why people have struggled with them for so long.

I'm genuinely open to suggestions to improve it, but would appreciate moving the conversation to the gittea ticket

https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_documentation/issues/17

Posted at 2026-02-04 16:20:12 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

Rule 3 says to always try to fill slots in the upcoming 2 weeks.
Rule 4 says when the "queue is filling up" to leave slots free for new contributors.
Rule 5 says to post non-urgent shows into the first empty week.

3 and 5 seem to contradict one another, as most shows will be non-urgent. 4 is unclear as to what "filling up" means in practical terms.

Long time contributors will have a good feel for what they should be doing and first time contributors should use the first free slot, but someone on his second or third episode can find navigating the rules a bit confusing.

Things like this should always be looked at from the perspective of someone who is relatively new to contributing podcasts when judging how clear the guidelines are.

Posted at 2026-02-04 14:15:57 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

Several in your list that I get inspired to watch and some to watch again.

I first watched the movie The Lives of Others first time when I took the course Integrity, technology and surveillance as part of the Human Rights program. It is really good and very relevant today although the methods are different.

By coincidence this HPR episode has a nice connection to the episode next day.

Posted at 2026-02-04 12:20:56 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

re 1) I think the guide lines are clear on the point, but if you can suggest an improvement then please do so.

3. Always try and fill any free slots that are available in the upcoming two weeks.
4. When the queue is filling up then leave some slots free for new contributors.

re 2) Yip we'll tone it down depending on how urgent it is.

re 3) The limit is removed but we need to redo the how to page

Posted at 2026-02-04 03:15:18 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

I felt urged to watch some movies on this list. I may have watched 2 or 3 only. The show was very good, an attractive invitation to see the ones you comment.

Thanks!

Posted at 2026-02-03 19:08:14 relating to the show hpr4566 which was released on 2026-02-02 by HPR Volunteers entitled HPR Community News for January 2026

I am a relatively new contributor, having sent in my first episode in November. Before that I was a long time listener. I have submitted 10 episodes so far, with some which are yet to be aired.

I think the current system is pretty good and should be kept with only a few minor changes. I like being able to pick slots. I feel additional motivation to contribute by being able to pick a slot and know that my episode would air on a predictable schedule rather than go in a long queue and turn up at some distant date in the future. I contribute episodes to have them aired, not to fill a queue.

I will make three short points:

1) Your own scheduling guidelines encourage existing contributors to leave some near term slots open for new contributors. Inevitably this will result in shows from the reserve queue being required to be used if a new contributor does not show up. If that is not what you intend, then you need to clarify those guidelines.

2) The messages calling for new shows may sometimes sound a bit alarming. If people interpret these as signs that HPR is dying, that may act to discourage them from contributing. I think the contribution requests need to be careful to spur people to action without sounding overly alarming.

3) Make it easier to post show notes. Currently the text box to paste the show notes into seems to be limited to about 4,000 characters. It would be easier for contributors if they could simply copy-paste their entire script into this box instead of jumping through additional hoops.

I'm currently working on new episodes and hope to post them in a few weeks. Thanks to the volunteers for all their efforts.

Posted at 2026-02-03 19:06:36 relating to the show hpr4567 which was released on 2026-02-03 by Deltaray entitled Movie Recommendations for Hackers

I thought the ending had accidentally slowed down to 1/2 speed, until I realized it was a Lumbergh impression. Well done.

Posted at 2026-02-02 23:52:36 relating to the show hpr4562 which was released on 2026-01-27 by Klaatu entitled Software development doesn't end until it's packaged

Great general proposition that software isn't "finished" until it's easy to install.

Posted at 2026-01-31 21:13:41 relating to the show hpr4554 which was released on 2026-01-15 by Jim DeVore entitled How I do todo

This system has been chugging along for years. A few days ago the Simpletask app on my phone stopped syncing to Dropbox. Simpletask is no longer in development. Simpletask still worked with the local file, so I stopped using Dropbox and I'm now using Synchthing to sync while I'm at home. No access while off the home network, so this may be another episode once I figure that out.

Posted at 2026-01-31 11:55:19 relating to the show hpr4556 which was released on 2026-01-19 by operat0r entitled Nitro man! RC Cars

Hi Operat0r,

This is an interesting and potentially expensive hobby.
Sound fun!

Cheers,

Archer72

Posted at 2026-01-31 11:51:45 relating to the show hpr4550 which was released on 2026-01-09 by Ahuka entitled Playing Civilization V, Part 7

Hi Ahuka,

I would like to appreciate this continuing series.
This deep dive into the game mechanics has been interesting.

Cheers,

Archer72

Posted at 2026-01-31 11:26:18 relating to the show hpr4548 which was released on 2026-01-07 by Ahuka entitled YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #13

Hi Ahuka,

This is an interesting mix of channels, and I'm sure is appreciated by all. I am enjoying this series, and especially like the science and space channels.

Cheers,

Archer72

Posted at 2026-01-31 09:11:44 relating to the show hpr4511 which was released on 2025-11-17 by Lee entitled Audio-books

I the episode I confused The Cuckoo's Egg about the the black hat hacker Markus Hess with Breaking and Entering about the white hat hacker Sherri Davidoff

Posted at 2026-01-31 03:08:58 relating to the show hpr4552 which was released on 2026-01-13 by MrX entitled Printer Conspiracy

Uhum, Epson releases (or released) their printers drivers interested in making money even if it means artificially hindering the work you need it to and which it could do.

I had an Epson Stylus CX4500. The official driver would not print, simply couldn't force to try, if it detected the ink cartridge was empty.

That means, not only you could not force it to try: it would not print a 100% yellow document if it though, and pointed, the only black cartridge was empty.

There was a little device you could buy online, used to reset a cartridge. It had 3 pins that you used to touched the 3 little metal areas of an "empty" Epson cartridge (of that model) to reset its identification to the printer — a "resetter" of cartridge. I bought, and after this procedure, I would put again the same cartridge (without even shaking, no mechanical idea to help, only deceiving the printer with the resetter); and the CX4500, with its official driver, read the cartridge as if it was full. And did the work with the previously "empty" cartridge. For at least 40 or 50 pages.

I searched now, the CX4500 is from 2004; I used it for years, at least until 2020, but, using only a little, even with cheap and good quality third-party cartridges, I faced the clogging you mentioned, not worth using weekly only to avoid the problem; so I abandoned it (I think it is by here somewhere, maybe would work after a little maintenance).

To the end: official driver support ended when I eventually updated Windows, would not work under it. But I had dual-boot, and it worked flawlessly in Linux. Without need of the reseter, because the open source driver was only interested in serving the best it could, no deceiving.

Nice content, and audio and voice. Thanks for the show, MrX!

Posted at 2026-01-29 20:26:39 relating to the show hpr4563 which was released on 2026-01-28 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 5 Fast Reactors

@mnw - Spent fuel from civil nuclear power plants is not suitable for making nuclear weapons as it has the wrong proportions of plutonium isotopes. Plutonium comes in multiple isotopes just like virtually all other heavy elements, and weapons require a high percentage of one specific isotope, which you don't get from spent civil fuel. Weapons grade plutonium is made in military reactors which are designed for that purpose and the fuel is rapidly cycled through to minimize the build up of undesired (for weapons purposes) isotopes.

As such, there is no direct connection between recycling commercial spent fuel (I covered a number of different recycling technologies in one episode) and nuclear weapons. I don't live in the US, but if there is a public perception there that there is such a connection, then it is likely this is the result of a misconception about the nature of the different isotopes of plutonium.

The main reason that most countries don't bother with recycling spent fuel is that a once through fuel cycle is cheaper. Those countries that do recycle fuel do so mainly for reasons of national security of energy supply. They simply wish to minimize their uranium imports by reusing fuel they already have.

A secondary reason is to reduce the amount of high level waste that must be stored by "burning up" the fissile isotopes of plutonium in a reactor. Much of the long lived part of nuclear waste is simply fissile isotopes of plutonium which can be re-used in a reactor as fuel.

If enough people have questions on this series, including topics that I have not covered, and post them as comments on HPR I would be willing to do a follow up episode covering those after the end of the series.

Posted at 2026-01-29 12:44:44 relating to the show hpr4563 which was released on 2026-01-28 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 5 Fast Reactors

I am enjoying and look forward to the rest of the series. Do you think the US will ever wake up and start recycling its spent fuel? It seems like such a huge waste just to try and keep a small amount of fuel away from"the bad guys" or whatever they are imagining.

Posted at 2026-01-28 01:09:31 relating to the show hpr4561 which was released on 2026-01-26 by Carmen-Lisandrette entitled A bit about Mission:Libre, a new project for 11-14 year olds in free software

This seems like a promising project, and I think you explained it well despite it being your first episode. Best of luck!

Posted at 2026-01-27 21:41:03 relating to the show hpr4561 which was released on 2026-01-26 by Carmen-Lisandrette entitled A bit about Mission:Libre, a new project for 11-14 year olds in free software

First, welcome as a host at HPR!

It was interesting and encouraging to learn and hear about Mission:Libre, which is new to me. Best wishes to you and your mission!

Posted at 2026-01-26 15:00:05 relating to the show hpr4559 which was released on 2026-01-22 by Ken Fallon entitled Enkele off line vertaaltools

I was chatting on Mastodon and was directed to this episode. Great one! I have downloaded and tried out the android app and it works as described. They have all the big languages I would need or want. Just brilliant! Thanks for the episode.

Posted at 2026-01-24 00:38:56 relating to the show hpr4552 which was released on 2026-01-13 by MrX entitled Printer Conspiracy

From what I've heard online, printers infamously have tons of issues with wasting ink and forcing vendor lock-in, so I would not be surprised if the official drivers do intentionally destroy output to force you on the upgrade treadmill.

Posted at 2026-01-24 00:34:58 relating to the show hpr4554 which was released on 2026-01-15 by Jim DeVore entitled How I do todo

i think this is a really good first show and the way you covered it was pretty cool. i use taskwarrior for mine, which i covered in another episode

Posted at 2026-01-23 16:06:56 relating to the show hpr4559 which was released on 2026-01-22 by Ken Fallon entitled Enkele off line vertaaltools

Looks like you uploaded this episode the day after I was looking for a solution like this. Thank you for this episode. I'll give LocalTranslate a go, though I would prefer something that I could install outside of a flatpak that would run on a BSD system as well.

Posted at 2026-01-23 15:54:56 relating to the show hpr4313 which was released on 2025-02-12 by Antoine entitled Why I made a 1-episode podcast about a war story

Nice try but we can smell spammers a mile away.

Posted at 2026-01-20 03:11:33 relating to the show hpr4557 which was released on 2026-01-20 by Klaatu entitled Why I prefer tar to zip

I never realized that tar compressed files are better at compressing than zip files! imo, its more of a mentality thing, like tar is literally just a series of files stitched together with some headers meaning it makes a lot more sense to apply a single-file compressor to it than something that is already applying some level of compression. There's also a bit of a compatibility issue, since most non technical users dont know what a tar file is or even that a zip file is a file, so zip is the lowest common denominator.

On that note, I think looking at 7zip would be an interesting experiment, since its newer and a lot more "well known"

Posted at 2026-01-18 17:33:34 relating to the show hpr4569 which was released on 2026-02-05 by Klaatu entitled Kiosk with guest mode on Linux

Can't think of any other files but other than the home folder you want to be cognizant of /tmp I just remember the old days of PHP having binaries running out tmp folders... I had a script that would go through every single virtual machine and search for binaries running out of weird places and it would find root kits all over the place!

Posted at 2026-01-17 03:42:49 relating to the show hpr4554 which was released on 2026-01-15 by Jim DeVore entitled How I do todo

Great show, I'll have to try it out.

Posted at 2026-01-16 23:33:18 relating to the show hpr4576 which was released on 2026-02-16 by operat0r entitled Responce to Lee/Elsbeth eps

Thank you for sharing your perspective here that was prompted by Lee and I’s discussion on women in IT. I want to formulate my thoughts better and see about recording a response to your response here. I Believe that would be more thought out than merely replying here, now. Just wanted you to know that while I have thoughts on your show both positive and confused (not negative) and hat I do listen to the whole show and appreciate the time and effort you put into it.

Posted at 2026-01-16 18:59:23 relating to the show hpr4576 which was released on 2026-02-16 by operat0r entitled Responce to Lee/Elsbeth eps

Thank you for sharing your perspective here that was prompted by Lee and I’s discussion on women in IT. I want to formulate my thoughts better and see about recording a response to your response here. I Believe that would be more thought out than merely replying here, now. Just wanted you to know that while I have thoughts on your show both positive and confused (not negative) and hat I do listen to the whole show and appreciate the time and effort you put into it.

Posted at 2026-01-16 18:19:25 relating to the show hpr4555 which was released on 2026-01-16 by Kevie entitled HPR Beer Garden 8 - Belgian Christmas Ales

In the states, several breweries have Christmas Ales. My favorite is Old Fezzwig Ale. Not very spiced, malty, has a chewy quality. Thanks for your show.

Posted at 2026-01-15 20:15:10 relating to the show hpr4551 which was released on 2026-01-12 by Elsbeth entitled “Elsbeth in IT: Since ’97” (Part 2)

not that anybody care about the angle from a white male but I did a eps on some this stuff... LMK if I can help in
anyway!