Re: [Hpr] Policy Change, Call to action for Host to Show ratio

My personal thoughts on the topic have turned into 'meh'.  While this is probably not technically right(not a good thing when discussing amongst hackers and aspiring hackers), but I think the more rules you put on people who want to contribute shows, the more you push people off from wanting to

Re: [Hpr] Future feed

For what it's worth, I've been using the future feed for at least a year and have had no issues with sound quality. On 3/5/23 16:04, Mark Rice wrote: Hi Ken, This is probably a me problem, but when I play future shows from the RSS feed, they sound like my Bluetooth earbuds are being hit by sta

Re: [Hpr] Supervision of a contributor

I did see it.  Uncalled for.  I'd say approving his posts is warranted although auto-delete is the rout I'd take if it were me. On 2/18/23 18:44, Jason Dodd wrote: I seem to have missed the issue.  Any specific issue in question? On 2/18/23 10:03, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, Th

Re: [Hpr] Supervision of a contributor

I seem to have missed the issue.  Any specific issue in question? On 2/18/23 10:03, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, There is the long standing policy on HPR about moderation saying "/We do not vet, edit, moderate or in any wa

Re: [Hpr] Call for shows

I, for one, am willing to provide constructive feedback. I'll start now. Emails like the one you sent on 2022-09-12 20:12 show you to be living your best self. Better spend your time working on improving yourself rather than post your opinions. I disagree with Ken. I'll skip all your shows, eve

Re: [Hpr] Call for shows

Forgive me but I can't resist. This is totally a joke. Please don't be affended Have you checked check with The Linux Inlaws? On 9/9/22 03:41, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, The queue is looking a little empty at the moment. If you have not already submitted a show this year, then please con

Re: [Hpr] Apologies to the Linux Inlaws

On 9/5/22 07:43, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2022-09-04 03:42, Jason Dodd wrote: Perhaps but I think a couple of people have explained it to me. I consider all of my shows a series of my podcast that I make to host on hpr.  Appears I've misunderstood HPR since the TWAT days. That's fine a

Re: [Hpr] Apologies to the Linux Inlaws

Perhaps but I think a couple of people have explained it to me. I consider all of my shows a series of my podcast that I make to host on hpr.  Appears I've misunderstood HPR since the TWAT days. That's fine and no hard feelings.  On the contrary I'm glad to have my understanding corrected. My

Re: [Hpr] Apologies to the Linux Inlaws

This whole thing has moved me firmly into the listener side of the house. If Linux Inlaws isn't for HPR, none of my content would be. On 9/3/22 12:40, Ken Fallon wrote: Apologies this also needs to go to the HPR list. On 2022-08-20 04:10, Ken Fallon wrote: TL;DR Ken wakes up to find out he is

Re: [Hpr] LinuxInlaws and HPR

On 8/18/22 07:40, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I would think there are two problems here, potentially. First, if your plan amounts to having HPR host your own podcast, obviously that is wrong. Then I suppose I'll stop with the shows that I do have recorded but haven't uploaded.  I consider the few show

Re: [Hpr] LinuxInlaws and HPR

I'm confused.  One of my unrealized goals is to create a least one show a week, naming them  with some catchy name plus an incrementing number and posting them to exclusively to hpr. That seems to be what linux inlaws has been doing. Is the thinking I can't do that because HPR is not a podcast

Re: [Hpr] LinuxInlaws and HPR

I missed most of this because work is beating me down. But it has always appeared to me that Linux Inlaws was made for HPR so far. On 8/17/22 12:55, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2022-08-17 18:45, yann...@frenchguy.ch wrote: Gosh, I didn't think anything would make me break my silence, but I have to.

Re: [Hpr] Policy change: Show complaints procedure

I approve. On 6/10/22 03:29, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, This policy change relates to shows that have been published but which may contain problem content. For more information listen to today's show, where I suggest that we continue to post the shows as normal, if we get a complaint then t

Re: [Hpr] Volunteer for auditor

I'll volunteer if you still need someone. On 4/24/22 08:05, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, I need someone impartial to be on the cc of a email I'm sending to a host. Any volunteers ? ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicr

Re: [Hpr] Possible cause and solution to subscriber attrition(trying again without encryption)

lol@To be honest unsubscribing from HPR sounds like a euphemism, like "shuffling off this mortal coil" That is kinda true for me, too. I'm still firmly on the side of not caring much about production quality. Not again looking for an easy way to eliminate the jarring change in volume. But it't n

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

The Hybrid Editor XE, of course. https://github.com/sakachin2/XE On 8/28/21 11:04 AM, BK Navarette wrote: Emacs or VI brian-in-ohio On 8/28/21 10:02, cobra2 via Hpr wrote: There are tons of shows out there. gnuworldorder, tllts, freebsd now, 2.5 admins, late night Linux, anything else

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

This is a great idea.  And I think you have what it takes to make it happen.  What is needed to make this a reality is a really good host recruiter.  We're all volunteers.  Want to volunteer? Recruit enough hosts and soon we'll have so many shows we'll be forced to post more than one a day.

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

All we need to do is fill up a year's worth of future slots from any given day.  Then we'll start having extras.  We can then start doubling up.  When that second layer of year's worth of shows from any given day is is full we can do 3 a days. I except to be long dead before we're able to fill

Re: [Hpr] freenode

others have tried to get others on the old channel to move over but they don't see an incentive to do so. -claudiom On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 7:09 PM Jason Dodd <mailto:jason.s.d...@gmail.com>> wrote:   Yes. I simply created figuring that the real admins might go there a

Re: [Hpr] freenode

 Yes.  I simply created figuring that the real admins might go there and take it over.  I don't know anything about adminstering an irc channel.  Let me know what I need to do to hand it over assuming I need to do something. On 7/31/21 3:03 PM, Curtis Adkins wrote: There is an oggcastplanet c

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

The way people are always apologizing for perfectly fine audio quality, I suspect it's perfectionism trying to creep in. This is the line I fear more than anything on this topic. Sometimes hearing something from those who are just getting into something is most useful for those thinking about

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

The question raised by this blog post feel valid. I think the things to consider are: * How do we encourage increased quality without also excluding those for who good audio quality is difficult to achieve? A proposed answer: maybe we have volunteers to help "produce" shows, rather than to ge

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

Apology not necessary. In fact, I'd like to thank you for the post.     "I've considered this many times and attempted it a few but I'm terrible at podcasting" This is one of the reasons we don't have a minimum quality bar. I hope you reconsider and put out a show.  I read some of your posts

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

This is the same question I asked myself when you said we'd do one every day and if we ran out of shows HPR was over.  At least that's what you said according to my memory.  I didn't go back to check. I had my doubts but now I'm convinced this way is better.  In my honest opinion, anyone put o

Re: [Hpr] Blind Dungeons & Dragons

If you keep this up, I'm going to buckle down and join a game. You've been warned. On 10/30/20 3:31 AM, Klaatu wrote: Mike, I played D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder with a blind player for years. I've admittedly never run a game whilst blind, but I've run sessions with no materials, so it's definitely

Re: [Hpr] Content Query

Got it.  So it could air on another platform first just as long as posted to hpr first.  i'm amazed anyone listens me my shows and can't imagine anyplace else wanting them. but just in case. On 7/28/20 5:21 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2020-07-26 23:04, Jason Dodd wrote: Out of curio

Re: [Hpr] Content Query

Out of curiosity, does 'post first' mean, 'airs first'?  Not this would affect me any.  Just curious. On 7/26/20 4:40 PM, Klaatu wrote: On Thursday, July 23, 2020 07:36:01 PM Ken Fallon wrote: Hi Marcus, If you create material and post it first on HPR then it meets the requirements you mentio

Re: [Hpr] Hpr Digest, Vol 142, Issue 2

I'm in favor of this. On 7/6/20 7:28 PM, Brian wrote: I like the idea. I think it would be a great learning opportunity Brian-in-ohio On 7/6/20 4:13 AM, Tony Hughes wrote: Hi Ken I don't mind at all, anything to make life at HPR Towers easier. Tony On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 8:00 PM

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doubt i could stay engaged enough to play but lurking sounds like a blast. On 3/17/20 10:58 AM, Daniel Persson wrote: Hi Klaatu. I always thought I should play that someday, bought the books for being a game master. Just didn't have the time to read them yet :) I don't really have people in

Re: [Hpr] HPR Show Notes

So my strategy of not providing show notes paid off! I'm going into hiding now. On 3/12/20 4:36 PM, Dave Morriss wrote: Hi, There's an issue that bothers me from time to time: the longevity of HPR shows. Many shows have notes that refer to external websites. Sometimes the references are to su

Re: [Hpr] Episode 3000 ideas

I've always thought 3001 was the special episode around the 3000 mark.  But I don't have any ideas/ 3001 - The Final HPR Odyssey is the only thing that comes to mind and who'd want a final HPR? On 1/12/20 1:11 PM, Ken Fallon wrote: Anyone want to submit a special show for episode 3000 ? I'm

Re: [Hpr] The Oxygen of Publicity, was: Re: Fwd: Harassment

ng trolled on email, or on some platform totally outside the control of HPR then the transgression is not "in our house." As such the HPR community has no way of stopping it, and just talking about it at length just "feeds the trolls." On 17/12/2019 12:37, jason wrote: "Vi

Re: [Hpr] The Oxygen of Publicity, was: Re: Fwd: Harassment

"Victims, just shrug it off. That's what I do." Strikes me as one of the attitudes that's been part of the problem that's been allowed to persist for far too long.  Not everyone or every situation is the same. Again, the point isn't to stop people from being bad actors. It's to address how we

Re: [Hpr] Harassment

ation that i was referring to, and i will not add to this amplification any longer. i have no information, and trust ken. --brian Original Message On Dec 16, 2019, 18:24, jason < jason.s.d...@gmail.com> wrote: In my opinion the point at hand is regarding how hpr b

Re: [Hpr] Harassment

thought in my opinion, while it may have been heard as callous to jason. i still have no context with this incident, so the discussion is of harassment in general. this has many connotations to us all. --brian Original Message On Dec 16, 2019, 16:30, Jason Scott <

Re: [Hpr] Harassment

Spoken like someone who has never really been harassed. On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 1:34 PM Paul Quirk wrote: > At some point, those who are being harassed need to recognize the fact > that they have the power to ignore their harassers and recognize that > engaging with certain personalities that co

Re: [Hpr] Harassment on HPR

I've the same question. On 12/16/19 5:06 AM, Klaatu wrote: I agree with the proposed patch. Do we have more information about the harrassment that took (or is taking?) place? I don't mean names or anything specific, just wondering what we're dealing with. Mean comments? Threatening emails? W

Re: [Hpr] Harassment on HPR

Does this include the guy who commented that my how i found linux show was boring? :) On 12/14/19 7:56 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, I have had disturbing reports that multiple hosts have been harassed after posting shows to HPR. After further investigation I have no reason to doubt that th

Re: [Hpr] Harassment on HPR

Is it a coincidence that I recently asked in oggcastplanet about a comment door made in his most recent episode about a friend getting harrassed? Regardless, I've no objection to this change.  I suppose I thought that was the case all along. On 12/14/19 8:01 AM, Dave Lee wrote: Both Caroline

Re: [Hpr] Klattu???

That guy's a deadbeat. One who hasn't created anything I don't want to listen to or read. On 10/28/19 4:43 PM, Klaatu wrote: Byline says it's by some guy named Seth, a daring beat reporter who I happen to know. I can duck into this nearby phone booth and contact him. On 29 October 2019 6:42:3

Re: [Hpr] Links to Creative Commons Podcasts

gpodder.net.  Another thing I use and assumed everyone else did, too. By the way, is Stefan the new maintainer or the 'old' one?  They put a call out for a new maintainer if the project is to live on. Don't see anything about this on the site. On 10/14/19 2:52 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: I ended up

Re: [Hpr] Links to Creative Commons Podcasts

helinuxlink.net/ On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:20 AM jason <mailto:jason.s.d...@gmail.com>> wrote: Likely still worth checking out but maybe should be separated in the list. The Command Line and Third World Linux can be added to that list imho. On 10/5/19 6:51 AM, Kevin O

Re: [Hpr] Links to Creative Commons Podcasts

Likely still worth checking out but maybe should be separated in the list. The Command Line and Third World Linux can be added to that list imho. On 10/5/19 6:51 AM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: Isn't Linux Voice defunct? Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien z wil...@zwilnik.com

Re: [Hpr] Series Idea

I listened to an episode of snoring.  I welcome movie reviews. On 8/26/19 3:51 PM, lostnbronx wrote: From: "Thaj A. Sara" At the end of the day if someone only wants technical discussion they can skip these episodes, or contribute what they feel is lacking. Just my two cents. In my mind, this

Re: [Hpr] Series Idea

This is an excellent question.  I think it's been discussed before but what do hackers do better than discuss things ad infinitum? Hackers are people, too. As such, stories are of interest to hackers.  In some ways, stories seem almost as on topic as firing up your favorite hex editor.  Not on

Re: [Hpr] Should we reject a show with copyrighted fair use clips in it ?

Give it to me to host at Internet Archive. I'll take the heat. Call it a bonus episode. On Fri, May 24, 2019, 1:10 AM Ken Fallon wrote: > On 2019-05-23 20:40, cobra2 wrote: > > That sums it up for me. I have an opinion but we as a community are just > not going to be able/willing to fund the leg

Re: [Hpr] A proposed change to the show upload form

case, I suggest defaulting existing hosts to explicit unless that change their default. On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:45 PM Jason Dodd wrote: > Proposed Changes > > 1) Change upload form to require tags > I don't mind tags. At the same time I don't find them kind of useless > u

Re: [Hpr] A proposed change to the show upload form

Proposed Changes 1) Change upload form to require tags I don't mind tags. At the same time I don't find them kind of useless unless the tags themselves are curated so that I get a list to chose from and don't have to create new ones all the time. I typically find that searching the whole posts g

Re: [Hpr] HPR LLC

Finally we'll be able to afford to have more than 3 shows in the queue. On a serious note, if Audible would release under a free software license AND support gnu linux, I would ALMOST consider not dumping HPR over such a decision. On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:19 AM Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) < hackerpublic

Re: [Hpr] HPR Branding

The more I think about this, this more it reminds me of a tech upgrade Stephen Hawking get a couple years ago. There were lots of good upgrades he didn't upgrade is voice, not all that different from the hpr 'voice'. He didn't change it because it had become his voice. Nevertheless, I don't come f

[Hpr] The comment spam stopper question thing seems to be broken.

I've been trying to leave a comment on an hpr episode and keep getting blocked by the spam prevention question. The correct answer to the question, "What does the *P* in *HPR* stand for ?" is, of course, 'Perfect'. But it's not accepting it. Would someone please fix this and let me know when it'

Re: [Hpr] Suggestion: Phonetic host names

I might be one of the few who don't mind the espeak voice, festival's either.  My best friend for decades had a voice that was hard to understand.  It wasn't computerized but sounded a bit like it was. Had to translate for him often.  For years I've been parsing text from books and using festiv

[Hpr] HPR_AudioBookClub: Please add me to the mailing list

I keep cursing you from afar. Figure it would be more effective to curse you from anear.  Please add me to the audiobook club mailing list. I do my best to avoid the google. Thanks, dodddummy ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://h

Re: [Hpr] Site unavailable again

I'm not sure if this is related but I've also been having issues. I'm in the Philippines and my ISP is a little goofey Ken Fallon ascertained that one thing it does is change my IP address about every 3 milliseconds On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Mike Ray wrote: > > Not responding again. > >

Re: [Hpr] comments rss feed

It's also on the Get Shows page. On 06/16/2016 08:30 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I was delighted to discover there's already an rss feed for all the comments, but I had to go digging into the source of the html to find it, I would suggest a link from the comments viewer page.. There's alread

Re: [Hpr] HPR Short listed for the The People's Choice Podcast Awards

In that case, better pull the ep i uploaded yesterday. On 05/29/2016 05:17 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2016-05-24 14:20, Ken Fallon wrote: The People's Choice Podcast Awards has short listed Hacker Public Radio in the Technology section for the 11th Podcast Awards. Daily Voting Opens Sunday May 2

Re: [Hpr] title

A rose by any other name would still sound as sweet. On 02/14/2016 08:18 PM, sigflup synasloble wrote: I've mad a mistake on the title of show number 1975. The title should read, "Interview With An Android App Developer" ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hacke

Re: [Hpr] FOSDEM Send in your questions

I tend to agree. It pains me to say it but Base is not even close. On 01/22/2016 04:48 PM, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi Ken If you speak to the LibreOffice people I'd be very interested in future plans for Base. It seems to have received a lot less attention over the years than Writer or Calc. Thi

Re: [Hpr] Requested Topic: IRC Etiquette

The first thing is unlike email, which should be top posted, you should always bottom post in IRC. On 12/30/2015 03:09 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Following on from Dave's mail list etiquette show, I would like for someone to do a similar show on best

Re: [Hpr] 1. UK Table Kit (Dave Morriss)

Someone should do a show on email etiquette. On 11/16/2015 07:15 AM, Dave Morriss wrote: On 16/11/15 01:38, Fifty OneFifty wrote: I think we should auction off the old table cloth to pay for the new one. Rumour has it that @timttmy might know of a way to shrink the cost of the replacement to a

Re: [Hpr] Getting In New Contributors (from within HPR subscribers)

While I do 'owe you a show', I do believe that it's not realistic to expect more than a very small percentage of listeners to contribute. That percentage is likely to drop as the listener base increases. The simple fact is not everyone wants to contribute a show and not everyone has a show in

Re: [Hpr] Getting In New Contributors

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a group of men and women with more time than either money or sense happened upon one another in an establishment of ill repute. From that day on they've remained drunk and are still running off at the mouth, I'm pretty sure that's the story of HPR.

Re: [Hpr] New linux podcast #SYSTEMAU

This one's not for the kiddos On 06/22/2015 03:06 PM, Frank Bell wrote: On 11:13 Mon 22 Jun , Ken Fallon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 an Australian technology podcast with a Linux bent. http://feeds.feedburner.com/systemau-ogg http://feeds.feedburner.com/systemau

Re: [Hpr] Git repository

sndcha...@cerebralrift.org wrote: > On 2015-06-03 03:27, Klaatu wrote: > > > So, I'm voting gitlab. (We also use the self-hosted version at my > > work, > > seems to work well). > > Let me toss in a complete alternative to git. I know that everyone > seems to love git these days, but I became

Re: [Hpr] Call for Shows - this is not a drill

On 05/08/2015 05:20 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Allow me to add right here that I could keep on uploading shows, I'm not tired and not out of topics, but y'all are gonna get serious jonkulp fatigue and I suggest someone else upload something quick... Jon I'm bottom posting even though top posti

Re: [Hpr] archive.org API?

be better. I have not > > used it myself since I only found out about it late in the development > > of my own script, and that has been working fine since last year. > > > > I can enlarge on this off-list if you want. I found it all quite poorly > > document

Re: [Hpr] Bad e-mail ediquette

I can't wait for this ep. I'll finally get to hear the reason everyone is so bad with the emails. For example, why doesn't everyone top post so you can see what's new first? On 03/19/2015 04:51 AM, Dave Morriss wrote: On 19/03/15 06:29, Fifty OneFifty wrote: I think I must be the one you we

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: Cross-Promotional Opportunties

I'll say one thing. They certainly got the word out amongst this crowd. ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org

Re: [Hpr] New year's post mortem

I like the show as is but would probably also like an unconference, too. Was the show this year bad? I thought the specific point was to be pub like for new year. If it's shifting to another day it wouldn't be the same, which might not be bad. Do you think we'd be able to get speakers for a

Re: [Hpr] Constructive Criticism

Not that we'd take the advise of someone who'd suggest paying for intro music, I stumbled on this post by mistake. http://podcast.musicradiocreative.com/podcast-intros-dos-and-donts-podcast-episode-24/ ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org ht

Re: [Hpr] @Ahuka; Libreoffice base?

I also used to develop in access and have found base less than ideal. In fact I've given up on base altogether. On 11/30/2014 06:31 AM, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi I also used to be an Access developer. When I came over the fence to Linux (2008) I looked for an equivalent tool and made the assump

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: Constructive criticism

It's a matter of use case. Plenty of people listen to shows when their hands aren't readily available to fast forward. On 11/26/2014 08:15 AM, Joshua Burton wrote: I honestly don't understand what the problem is. It's a podcast, *just fast forward*. I do it with plenty of stuff I listen to.

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: Constructive criticism

At times the length of the intro annoyed me, too. But not enough to override the love for HPR. I considered running something to automatically truncate them. But I've since come around to liking the intro as a way to set the mood and cleanse the palette for the soon to come free hacker goodn

Re: [Hpr] Usefulness of the Community News Show

Is the community news useful ? Even though I listen to all shows, I find some use in the CNS from hearing others talk about the episodes. Often there will be some insight or angle I missed. Should we stop it ? I don't think so. I enjoy it. It's sort of a proxy to compensate for the fact I

[Hpr] Is freenode down?

Got kicked off and haven't been able to reconnect for quite some time. Is freenode down? ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org

Re: [Hpr] New Year Show/ Orca

Protocol and formalities aside, If we can support this project, what good are we? On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: On 12/23/2013 2:43 PM, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, I would like to apologise to the HPR community for my over zealous attitude in posting information about the Orca cam