hpr4631 :: HPR Community News for April 2026

HPR Volunteers Clinton, Ken and Kevie talk about shows released and comments posted in April 2026

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Last Month's Shows

Id Day Date Title Host
4608 Wed 2026-04-01 Simple Podcasting - Episode 1 - Preparation and Recording Whiskeyjack
4609 Thu 2026-04-02 Proper Date Format Ahuka
4610 Fri 2026-04-03 Playing Civilization V, Part 10 Ahuka
4611 Mon 2026-04-06 HPR Community News for March 2026 HPR Volunteers
4612 Tue 2026-04-07 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 4 Honkeymagoo
4613 Wed 2026-04-08 Adding functionality to an Odoo installation Jeroen Baten
4614 Thu 2026-04-09 Dauug|18: Faster Than a '286, but Inspectable Like a Soroban Marc W. Abel
4615 Fri 2026-04-10 Clicking through an audit Lee
4616 Mon 2026-04-13 Thoughts about age control and further suggestions Trollercoaster
4617 Tue 2026-04-14 UNIX Curio #4 - Archiving Files Vance
4618 Wed 2026-04-15 Simple Podcasting - Episode 2 - Basic Filtering Whiskeyjack
4619 Thu 2026-04-16 HPR Beer Garden 12 - Baltic Porter Kevie
4620 Fri 2026-04-17 The Second Doctor, Part 1 Ahuka
4621 Mon 2026-04-20 Android volume control help operat0r
4622 Tue 2026-04-21 Hackerpublic Radio New Years Eve Show 2026 Episode 5 Honkeymagoo
4623 Wed 2026-04-22 A brief infodump on the Broadcast Address and Routing Jon The Nice Guy
4624 Thu 2026-04-23 Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 7: GUI Trying a Simple Hello World Trey
4625 Fri 2026-04-24 Site Specific Browsers Lee
4626 Mon 2026-04-27 Cable Management / PC Speakers operat0r
4627 Tue 2026-04-28 UNIX Curio #5 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Vance
4628 Wed 2026-04-29 Nuclear Power Technology Follow Up Whiskeyjack
4629 Thu 2026-04-30 What did I do at work today? Part 2 Lee

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Events Calendar

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Comment #1 posted on 2026-05-04 05:13:02 by Whiskeyjack

Response to Ken Fallon in HPR4631 Community News

Ken Fallon had said in response to something that I had said in HPR 4628 with regards to me wanting to avoid subjects that some people may view as being politically controversial. He had made the same statement in the previous community news with regards to a comment that I had made in response to another listener.

I first want to clarify that HPR 4628 was recorded and uploaded before Ken had stated this the first time, so when I said this in HPR 4628 it was without the benefit of his earlier clarification on this.

My assumptions were based on what I observed as being the community practice of posting fairly low stress topics that people can relax to and not getting into flame wars. I had assumed this was an unwritten rule that had arisen through common practice.

I was going to attempt to very briefly answer in this comment brian-in-ohio's question on the relative safety of different types of electric power generation. However the answer was getting long enough that I suspect that one of the community news presenters would probably tell me to put it in an episode. I will therefore make a short episode on it and submit it after the episodes I currently have in the schedule.

Spoiler alert however, so far as I can determine, the data upon which to make any sort of objective relative ranking of electric power generation sources simply does not exist in a form which would allow an apples to apples comparison across all industries.

The net result is that any discussion of this topic comes down to belief and opinion rather than provable fact.

I will however attempt to provide some context in which to think about these questions.

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