Re: [Hpr] Community request (input needed).

2023-05-19 Thread Mike Ray
Personally, I don't like anything that appears on HPR with anything other than HPR branding. Any recurring cast which seeks its own identity/label/title, is, IMHO, a parasite. Why not just produce the same content without the extra layer of branding? On 19/05/2023 15:30, Yung Lyun

Re: [Hpr] Is HPR a podcast or podcast hosting platform ?

2022-08-11 Thread Mike Ray
It's a podcast. With multiple hosts. On 11/08/2022 21:16, Ken Fallon wrote: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3658 "In this episode our two ageing heroes explore the inner workings of a podcast (or podcast hosting platform depending on your perspective) called Hacker Public

[Hpr] More about tag a11y

2022-08-03 Thread Mike Ray
I just went to the tags page again. Going down the page that shows all of the tags for each starting letter, there is nothing but a 'go to index' link between each. For example between the 'k' page and the 'l page. Another screen reader navigation option is to jump from heading to heading.

Re: [Hpr] Accessibility problem

2022-08-02 Thread Mike Ray
linux: 1457" and then any other show numbers Is that a solution ? Or should we just have each tag as a heading and then each show having it's own line with a complete line of title text ? regards Ken. On 2022-08-02 17:29, Mike Ray wrote: Hello Dave Apologies for top-posting. If

Re: [Hpr] Accessibility problem

2022-08-02 Thread Mike Ray
ar "kali linux: 1457" and then any other show numbers Is that a solution ? Or should we just have each tag as a heading and then each show having it's own line with a complete line of title text ? regards Ken. On 2022-08-02 17:29, Mike Ray wrote: Hello Dave Apologies for top

Re: [Hpr] Accessibility problem

2022-08-02 Thread Mike Ray
k', I have no idea when I have landed on a link I want. Perhaps we can do some trials, and give me the nod each time you made an update. PHP? Yuck. Dancer2 is where it's at Dave. All the Perl happenin' dudes are there. Mike On 02/08/2022 14:17, Dave Morriss wrote: On 01/08/2022 2

[Hpr] Accessibility problem

2022-08-01 Thread Mike Ray
Hello I just spotted a glaring accessibility issue on the HPR site. I just listened to the community news, published today, and heard mention of a show about Kafka. Which I need to know about right now for work. So I went to the site and to the tags page. Running down the list of tags

Re: [Hpr] Source Code for the HPR website.

2022-06-27 Thread Mike Ray
Dave, and all Please excuse top-posting. But I have an excuse :) Dave, I refer the honourable gentleman to the show I did about many-to-many relationships some years ago, in response to that nice Mr Fallon's shocking approach to tags. Mr Codd was spinning in his grave. I would not call

Re: [Hpr] Source Code for the HPR website.

2022-06-26 Thread Mike Ray
I suggest that if something new is going to be developed then it should be in Perl, using either Dancer or Mojolicious as the framework. This I suggest since Dave is a Perl enthusiast, and I am currently professionally engaged in Perl development of a system comprised of both CGI, and

Re: [Hpr] Policy change: Show complaints procedure

2022-06-10 Thread Mike Ray
+1 from me. Good call, and don't feed the trolls. On 10/06/2022 14:26, Claudio Miranda wrote: I also approve of this change. Thanks, -Claudio On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 3:30 AM Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, This policy change relates to shows that have been published but which may contain

Re: [Hpr] Moving a show out ... again

2022-05-09 Thread Mike Ray
No, don't move the show. Just don't post it. We don't want holocaust deniers on HPR. On 09/05/2022 15:44, Sarah wrote: Yes - move the show. -S On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:02 AM sp0rus wrote: Yes Sent from my RadioShack TRS-80 Model 1 On Mon, May 9, 2022, 8:11 AM Ken Fallon wrote:

Re: [Hpr] Moving a show out ... again

2022-05-09 Thread Mike Ray
IMHO any host guilty of holocaust denial should be banned outright, no questions asked. And not just because it could land the janitors in prison. Of course they could then just pop up again with another name. On 09/05/2022 07:40, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2022-05-08 23:34, DuJeon wrote: we

Re: [Hpr] Moving a show out ... again

2022-05-08 Thread Mike Ray
. Thank you to all who have made and continue to make HPR what it is. sp0rus On Sun, May 8, 2022, 4:14 PM Mike Ray wrote: And having just read the other comments... Voltaire does not matter when ONE strike would get Ken landed in prison. As much as we hate it, there are rules about stuff

Re: [Hpr] Moving a show out ... again

2022-05-08 Thread Mike Ray
with breaking the law repeatedly are either Donald Trump or Conservative MPs and ministers. And they have deep pockets. On 08/05/2022 22:09, Mike Ray wrote: IMHO any show that contains stuff that might get the janitors into bother legally should be canned. And repeat offenders should be barred

Re: [Hpr] Moving a show out ... again

2022-05-08 Thread Mike Ray
IMHO any show that contains stuff that might get the janitors into bother legally should be canned. And repeat offenders should be barred. Obviously I don't know about the content. But what I do know is anything like this that I created and which came to the attention of my employers

Re: [Hpr] Auditing the janitors

2022-03-24 Thread Mike Ray
You're quite right. I had no idea there was any money involved at all. Any thoughts about GDPR? On 24/03/2022 09:19, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi Mike, Please take this seriously. You have no idea the amount of money the Janitos have to deal with. Only yesterday we had a Nigerian prince

Re: [Hpr] Auditing the janitors

2022-03-24 Thread Mike Ray
I've got a better idea...how about we start remembering this is a podcast and not Goldman Sachs? I don't mean to be cheeky or aggressive, but the mention of 'auditors'? Is that not going a bit far? You're not going to be fined for non-compliance, or for underpaying corporation tax, if

[Hpr] eSpeak (don't cringe, its positive, not more banging on about how great it is)

2022-03-23 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks Well what do you know? I have recently installed the newest version of the NVDA open source screen reader for Windows. And it now uses espeak-ng (ng for new generation). I don't know how 'new generation' it is. On Linux there are still problems with it responding to 'stop'

Re: [Hpr] takov751

2022-01-11 Thread Mike Ray
C01%7C%7Caa9e5cf113f0411706b908d9d52db85a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637775214626255386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000sdata=LU99WKYC1M8TCvMdKh8hM6N4h%2BalZ9gmdlGY%2FG65VtA%3Dreserved=0 Ken. On 2022-01-11 14:35, Mike Ray wrote: An

Re: [Hpr] takov751

2022-01-11 Thread Mike Ray
://hub.docker.com/u/synesthesiam Re-posted with permission Sample voices are here: https://synesthesiam.github.io/opentts @Mike Ray I would like to try and get a happy balance between meeting your needs and having a voice that is friendly. While I love espeak it is not friendly - it literally put my

Re: [Hpr] Summary of recent policy changes.

2021-12-23 Thread Mike Ray
Looks fine Ken. Mike G4XBF On 23/12/2021 10:16, Ken Fallon wrote: I believe that the following policy changes have been accepted will be made over the holiday period. This is your last chance to provide feedback. HPR will move #oggcastplanet on libera, and we will also include links

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

2021-10-18 Thread Mike Ray
The length of the intro annoys me. TTS, followed by ad for AHH, followed by horrible and raucous music. There is a much softer version of the music which IMHO should be used. On 18/10/2021 17:50, Todd wrote: > I would subscribe to a feed that did not have the intro music. > > I like the

Re: [Hpr] Regarding episode 3414 and COVID-19 disinformation

2021-09-17 Thread Mike Ray
With the greatest respect to the people of New Zealand, which have done a great job in general, and their prime minister, who is a superstar, the country has a population of half of that of London. So no wonder it has been easy to keep infections down. On 17/09/2021 23:56, Klaatu wrote: >

Re: [Hpr] Regarding episode 3414 and COVID-19 disinformation

2021-09-17 Thread Mike Ray
OK. So if I did a podcast about how to make a bloody great truck bomb to park under Canary Wharf, would that get removed? How about a podcast about how to make novichok? Freedom of speech has its limits. On 17/09/2021 23:29, BK Navarette wrote: > I thought content wasn't edited on hpr. >

Re: [Hpr] Regarding episode 3414 and COVID-19 disinformation

2021-09-17 Thread Mike Ray
I haven't listened to it. Don't listen to many these days, but yes I agree it should be taken down. On 17/09/2021 20:22, Jeroen Baten wrote: > Hi, > > I have not heard the episode yet but agree with you that health > disinformation is a plague that should be dealt with. > > Regards, > >

Re: [Hpr] Hpr Digest, Vol 155, Issue 8

2021-08-29 Thread Mike Ray
Here in the UK, about 35% of fatal road accidents are caused by people driving under the influence of alcohol. That means 65% approximately are caused by people who are sober. Conclusion, sober people are more dangerous than drunks? No, just idiot manipulation of statistics. So, Covid-19 is

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

2021-08-28 Thread Mike Ray
. On 28/08/2021 13:36, BK Navarette wrote: > 4,000,000+ according to open source project https://podcastindex.org/ > > brian-in-ohio > > > On 8/28/21 08:27, Mike Ray wrote: >> >> There are thousands upon thousands of shows out there. I currently have >> ab

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

2021-08-28 Thread Mike Ray
There are thousands upon thousands of shows out there. I currently have about forty on my podcatcher. So there is something for me every day. And that is even now when I delete most HPR podcasts without listening to them. On 28/08/2021 13:19, BK Navarette wrote: > Not sure what this is about

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

2021-08-28 Thread Mike Ray
What a ridiculous email. 1. HPR struggles to fill every weekday, frequently having to ask for more shows so as not to stop altogether. 2. You cannot demand the rest of the world provide you with distraction. If you need distraction, record some shows. 3. Covid lock-down freedom fighter? You

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

2021-04-26 Thread Mike Ray
I don't really understand the audio quality issue. It is so easy to produce audio which is of reasonable quality, I don't see why anybody should be submitting shows where it is not of a basic standard. The only possible issue as I see it, is when somebody has recorded on the move, in their

Re: [Hpr] Raspberry Pi

2021-02-09 Thread Mike Ray
If you want sound or video, there is no point in running a 64-bit OS on a Raspberry Pi, because there is no 64-bit userland code (the stuff in /opt/vc). Some of that is not Open Source, so 64-bit operating systems will have no sound. I think 64-bit userland code is in beta, but is not

Re: [Hpr] Changes to the website.

2020-12-08 Thread Mike Ray
Ken, Do you need an accessibility (a11y) review of any changes? If so I can wait till I am in a grumpy mood, :-) Mike On 07/12/2020 13:56, Ken Fallon wrote: > TL;DR Site updates reflecting a backlog of policy changes and tidy ups. > I believe all these changes were discussed previously here

[Hpr] Accessible IOS app for rolling D dice

2020-11-04 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks, Some might remember my post a few days ago about blind playing of Dungeons & Dragons. It got a mention on the community news for October, and there has been some discussion with Klaatu about an episode or two on this subject. I was sitting here by my PC during the night just gone

Re: [Hpr] Blind Dungeons & Dragons (and episode request)

2020-11-01 Thread Mike Ray
Klaatu, Having done a load of reading and having asked some questions on the FB forum I have joined, seems I have been in something of a misapprehension in the past. I have always thought of a player character as something that travels with it's human owner. From campaign to campaign. The

Re: [Hpr] Blind Dungeons & Dragons (and episode request)

2020-11-01 Thread Mike Ray
Sounds like there is beginning to be quite some interest in this subject. We are about to go back into full lock down here in southeast UK, so I will be devoting some time to getting some characters generated and doing some serious reading to get to the point where I might be able to at least

Re: [Hpr] [HPR} Blind Dungeons *& Dragons

2020-10-31 Thread Mike Ray
; > The document is 5e_SRD.md > > That may or may not be of use to you. > > -klaatu > > On Saturday, October 31, 2020 2:12:20 AM NZDT Mike Ray wrote: >> Klaatu, >> >> This is all great stuff. >> >> I was not able to reply directly because I cur

Re: [Hpr] [HPR} Blind Dungeons *& Dragons

2020-10-30 Thread Mike Ray
Klaatu, This is all great stuff. I was not able to reply directly because I currently have some kind of enigmail error on TBird, which stops me replying to anybody with a key. Need to sort that out. So this is a new message with the subject hopefully set right. I have created an account on

[Hpr] Blind Dungeons & Dragons

2020-10-29 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks I'm fifty-six, and those who know me from HPR will remember I am totally blind, although I have not always been so. I last played Dungeons & Dragons over forty years ago when I was at school, at about age fifteen. Recently I have been doing loads of reading and research into the

Re: [Hpr] Note about accessibility in show notes

2020-08-26 Thread Mike Ray
Here again is an explanation, this time in markdown: 1. Bad You can find the manual for Template [here][tt]. [ttt]: https://themanualfortt 2. Good You can [find the manual for Template here][ttt]. [tt]: https://themanualfortemplate Note that these are not the right URL, just some nonsense

Re: [Hpr] Note about accessibility in show notes

2020-08-25 Thread Mike Ray
. But at least these days people are not using tables to format Web content. Tables are for tabular data. Libraries like bootstrap are fantastic now for responsive Web content that works right on all types of screen. On 25/08/2020 14:50, Dave Morriss wrote: > On 25/08/2020 12:59, Mike Ray wr

Re: [Hpr] Note about accessibility in show notes

2020-08-25 Thread Mike Ray
that just says 'here'. Mike On 25/08/2020 12:40, Dave Morriss wrote: > On 24/08/2020 17:25, Mike Ray wrote: >> You can find the instructions for feeding elephants >> here > > In Markdown there's a so-called "reference link" through which a title > can be p

Re: [Hpr] Note about accessibility in show notes

2020-08-25 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, If a site has only the word 'here' linked in multiple links that take the user to lots of different resources, then navigating those links by using the keyboard to jump from link to link, the screen reader says "here, here, here, here, here." But what is here? You should make at least a

[Hpr] Note about accessibility in show notes

2020-08-24 Thread Mike Ray
Hello guys and gals, I'm currently working on a project using Template::Toolkit, and finding Dave's show notes on this subject very useful. I have a small favour to ask with reference to writing show notes and accessibility for those of us using screen readers. All the screen readers I use have

Re: [Hpr] eps.php

2020-08-16 Thread Mike Ray
That is because the second question mark should be an ampersand: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1837=pants There should only be a question mark after the page url and before any get variables. All other get variables are separated by an ampersand. And be careful to urliffy any

Re: [Hpr] on the air.

2020-08-04 Thread Mike Ray
Given the wildly varying length of HPR episodes, how could you possibly schedule a regular show to fit the same timeslot each day? On 04/08/2020 22:42, sigflup synasloble wrote: > I'm thinking about setting up a show at my local radio station, KFAI. The > show would be made out of hpr

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: I Love Free Software - and you?

2020-02-11 Thread Mike Ray
eSpeak #IloveFS :-p Also Orca. On 11/02/2020 11:55, Ken Fallon wrote: > I thought this may be of interest to us. > > Ken. > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: I Love Free Software - and you? > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:55:13 + > From: Max Mehl

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

2019-12-17 Thread Mike Ray
outside your house but you can set > rules for conduct inside your house.  Even then you can't control what > someone does in your house, but you sure can control how you respond > when someone violates the rules inside you house. > > That's the point. > > On 12/

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

2019-12-17 Thread Mike Ray
For my two pen'orth )sorry, English idiom)... There has already been too much discussion about this on here. There is nothing anybody can do to stop anybody on the internet being trolled, whether it is on Twitter, Facebook, on a mailing list or anywhere else. Its annoying, and often downright

Re: [Hpr] Passing of 5150

2019-09-08 Thread Mike Ray
One of the highlights of the past few years of HPR was 5150 doing his version of "what's in the box", scrabbling about in the back of his pick up, toolbox and truck bed. Very good episode. I was almost able to smell the oil :-) On 08/09/2019 12:25, Klaatu wrote: > I'm in shock. He and I

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

2019-05-23 Thread Mike Ray
On 23/05/2019 10:47, cobra2 wrote: > As a member of this community, I will support the host's privilege to upload > content. I will also comply with any legal fallout except paying fines and > royalties. I'll even support removing the content of the host should the > copyright holder request

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

2019-05-23 Thread Mike Ray
On 23/05/2019 10:32, Ken Fallon wrote: > On 2019-05-23 11:28, cobra2 wrote: >> I disagree with the be cautious motif. Post the show. Let the copyright >> holder do their diligence in protecting their 'brand'. Comply with the DMCA >> request if/when it is delivered. >> >> We are not here to

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

2019-05-23 Thread Mike Ray
If you are in any doubt at all about it, and your head might be on the block if it violates any rules, then reject it. Erring on the cautious side is the best policy here. And there are plenty of things to podcast about on HPR without needing to resort to including potentially copyrighted audio

Re: [Hpr] Error and comment

2019-04-16 Thread Mike Ray
. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Ken Fallon >> http://kenfallon.com >> http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 >> >> On 2019-04-16 04:34, Klaatu wrote: >>> An HPR episode on this topic would be amazing. If you're too busy, &g

Re: [Hpr] Error and comment

2019-04-16 Thread Mike Ray
end as well as my own daughter (45%) > I feel very sorry that I seem to have upset you. > > Please accept my apologies. > > regards, > > Jeroen Baten > > On 16-04-19 03:10, Mike Ray wrote: >> I got an error when I tried to post a comment about the latest podcast

Re: [Hpr] Error and comment

2019-04-16 Thread Mike Ray
ng. If you're too busy, i'd be >> happy to read your email into a recorder and release the show in your name. >> >>> On 16 April 2019 1:10:29 PM NZST, Mike Ray wrote: >>> >>> I got an error when I tried to post a comment about the latest podcast >&

[Hpr] Error and comment

2019-04-15 Thread Mike Ray
I got an error when I tried to post a comment about the latest podcast about TTS. I don't have the error code now as I pasted it into an email to admin and the email bounced. I suspect it was because my comment was too long, here it is: Condescending and sarcastic. Oh isn't text-to-speech

Re: [Hpr] Static Site Generators - NOT a flat file CMS

2019-04-15 Thread Mike Ray
Nikola will build the index locally, and because it uses rsync to upload, only new stuff ever gets uploaded. Not stuff that has not changed. On 15/04/2019 19:59, SoundChaser wrote: > In a bit of irony, I've just spent the last weekend digging around and > researching CMS'es... I started

Re: [Hpr] Static Site Generators - NOT a flat file CMS

2019-04-04 Thread Mike Ray
Ken, I currently have raspberryvi.org in a git repository on a local machine. There is one thing you need to know when setting up a Nikola site to stop the blog from being the front page. I can share that with you if you go for Nikola. Jekyll is used by github.io pages, but don't think it has

Re: [Hpr] HPR LLC

2019-04-04 Thread Mike Ray
I think this is all a cover up... What I think has *really* happened is, Dave has sold Hollywood the movie rights to 'Bash Tips' for an eight figure sum and he has walked away with a huge bung in his sky rocket (pocket). I hear it on the grape vine that Keanu Reeves is in the frame for the

[Hpr] Static site generator

2019-04-03 Thread Mike Ray
Hello I did not reply to your email because I get some kind of signing error I can't work out, not being able to see. For: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ and: http://eyesfreelinux.ninja I use Nikola. All my pages and posts are written either in markdown or kramdown (apt-get install

Re: [Hpr] HPR LLC

2019-04-01 Thread Mike Ray
nobody understood in the first place. And then finally decide to change nothing, while in the meantime HPR has fallen to bits and been taken over by extremists. I vote remain, again. On 01/04/2019 10:31, Mike Ray wrote: > > > I think we should have a referendum over this. > > I

Re: [Hpr] HPR LLC

2019-04-01 Thread Mike Ray
I think we should have a referendum over this. I demand we have a referendum where the alternative to the status quo is not adequately explained, a whole bunch of people lie about it, change marginally wins and then we spend the next three years arguing about it and failing to implement what

Re: [Hpr] HPR Branding

2018-09-02 Thread Mike Ray
While I always get very uptight about people criticising eSpeak, which is, IMHO, one of the most wonderful pieces of open source ever, and has, without doubt, done more for blind computer users throughout the globe than almost anything else, I know that it is not as understandable in some

Re: [Hpr] HPR Branding

2018-09-01 Thread Mike Ray
TTS bit...I'm most interested in the name of the host and the duration. The duration I can get from my pod catcher, and I guess most pod catchers get this. But the name of the host is only available if I look online first, which I don't do at one o'clock in the morning which is when the new cast

Re: [Hpr] tags, virtualization, virtualisation

2018-08-18 Thread Mike Ray
How about using the function of espeak to get the phonemes for a tag? The result in calling espeak for virtuallisation (the right way to spell it) and virtualization (nasty, left-pondian way of spelling it ;- ) is surely the same. I once did this in a commercial database to provide a kind of

[Hpr] Site unavailable again

2017-10-01 Thread Mike Ray
Not responding again. -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery https://cromarty.github.io/ http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/

[Hpr] Different width in same column on one LO Calc sheet?

2017-09-21 Thread Mike Ray
Hello I'm tearing my hair out here. I think there is a bug in LibreOffice Calc when merging cells. I want to merge several cells horizontally. I get the option to either merge and centre, or just merge, when I would think the text should be left justified unless I've specifically said right

[Hpr] Site unavailable again

2017-09-20 Thread Mike Ray
It's not responding again. -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Disclaimer: It wasn't me, you didn't see me, you can't prove a thing. https://cromarty.github.io/ http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ http://www.raspberryvi.org/

[Hpr] Slow downloads again

2017-09-12 Thread Mike Ray
In excess of 45 minutes for Klaatu's 40 minute cast dated today. -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Disclaimer: It wasn't me, you didn't see me, you can't prove a thing. https://cromarty.github.io/ http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ http://www.raspberryvi.org/

[Hpr] Slow downloads again

2017-09-04 Thread Mike Ray
Hello It took me over an hour to download last night's community news. I know the community news is usually a long one but the download time is longer than it should be, and has been for several weeks. I guess insomnia means I may be alone in pressing the download button when the clock ticks

Re: [Hpr] Slow Downloads

2017-06-30 Thread Mike Ray
Kevin and all I have exactly the same. Every night when the clock ticks around for time for the next HPR podcast it downloads very, very slowly. I had just about decided it was probably a combination of my sister and her kids sucking up all my bandwidth with netflix and spottify. But it seems

[Hpr] Frank Delaney

2017-03-16 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks Some time ago I was introduced to the excellent podcast 'Re:Joyce' by Frank Delaney, by one of the HPR multitude. I subscribed to the podcast and have enjoyed many episodes of the excellent and very satisfying deconstruction of Ulysses. I stopped getting weekly episodes since 15th

[Hpr] Scotch tape, biros, Hoovers and Xerox machines

2016-12-14 Thread Mike Ray
Hello Spaceman, Have you ever said 'Scotch tape' when you've been using Sellotape or a sticky clear tape of some other brand? Have you ever said 'Biro' to refer to a ball point pen of another brand? Do you ever say Hoover when you really mean 'vacuum cleaner'? Do you say 'Xerox' when you mean

[Hpr] Explicit tag and some podcast players

2016-12-14 Thread Mike Ray
Hello. Not every method of grabbing a podcast allow the listener to 'see' the explicit tag before listening to the cast. Personally I use either downcast on an iPhone (half reading this will switch off at the name iPhone), or a Plextalk Pocket Daisy Book reader. Niether of these methods allow me

Re: [Hpr] Spaceman

2016-12-13 Thread Mike Ray
On 13/12/2016 18:58, Dave Lee wrote: > I have to disagree with this to a point. > > I think that having an explicit tag for the odd contextual swear word is > fine, and I may want to listen to those episodes, so I'm not going to > filter out episodes on the basis of the explicit tag. However,

Re: [Hpr] Libre Office Calc - closing the docked styles dialog with the keyboard

2016-05-11 Thread Mike Ray
On 11/05/2016 04:07, Venant wrote: > I am not being much of a help here today... I did not read fully the previous > mails... you seem to have the same idea as to what may be happening... sorry > to waste your time. > > I think I may have done it. I found some keyboard shortcuts and pressing

Re: [Hpr] Libre Office Calc - closing the docked styles dialog with the keyboard

2016-05-10 Thread Mike Ray
On 10/05/2016 10:47, Curtis Adkins wrote: > > > On 05/10/2016 03:41 AM, Mike Ray wrote: >> Hello folks. >> >> I have recently changed my Windows (sharp intake of breath) PC and as a >> consequence have updated to Libre Office 5.1.1.3. >> >> I th

Re: [Hpr] HTML notes accessibility pointer

2016-04-06 Thread Mike Ray
On 06/04/2016 16:09, Dave Morriss wrote: > On 06/04/16 13:45, Mike Ray wrote: >> Hello folks. >> >> I just wanted to point out a little thing about how to make HTML show >> notes more accessible to blind folks like me. >> >> When you're linking to som

Re: [Hpr] FOSDEM Send in your questions

2016-01-22 Thread Mike Ray
On 22/01/2016 11:40, Ken Fallon wrote: > Hi All, > > I'll be interviewing these people https://fosdem.org/2016/stands/ > > Any questions that you would like asked ? > > > Can you still use it with your eyes closed and the screen-reader switched on? In other words, did the developer of XYZ

Re: [Hpr] Community News (Completely Off-Topic)

2015-12-09 Thread Mike Ray
Right, because I got home to a load of HPR comm news emails in this thread and because I'm too lazy to read them all (but not too lazy to write show notes in markdown), I've removed the thread and I'm top-posting. Sorry Dave. And in case anybody said the same stuff in earlier replies in this

Re: [Hpr] A Question about Shownotes - Javascript WYSIWYG

2015-11-30 Thread Mike Ray
On 30/11/2015 10:26, Ken Fallon wrote: > On 2015-11-28 21:20, Frank Bell wrote: >> I note that in my recent episode #1910 about Qmmp, the links to >> screenshots in my shownotes were turned into embedded images. I'd >> be happy to include any future links to screenshots as embedded >> images

Re: [Hpr] [SPAM] HPR Menus are not accessible

2015-09-09 Thread Mike Ray
On 09/09/2015 14:47, Ken Fallon wrote: > On 2015-09-09 15:46, Carl D Hamann wrote: >> One technique I've seen used on a couple sites that may work here: Put >> the navigation section at or near the end of the html, then use the >> CSS to position it to the top for regular browsers. > > The

[Hpr] Comment form and edit field accessibility

2015-06-02 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, The edit fields in the comment form on the web site are totally silent once a screen-reader has switched into focus mode. This means that tabbing to the next field does not speak what it is for. This leads to folks like me needing to take the screen-reader out of focus mode so I can read

[Hpr] Adding new pre-formatted sheets to LibreOffice Calc

2015-05-23 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks, My word it's quiet on here. Since I was all over Ahuka's tutorials like a rash a few weeks ago and since I have developed a business imperative for using it, I have been doing a lot of LibreOffice Calc. A great departure for me since any mention of words like 'equity', 'percentage'

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

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Ray
Nice! I knew I did the right thing when I shouted out to you in forthcoming episode on Cowsay! I also left Fridays open for you when choosing days for my shows. Looking forward to hearing em. Jon After Ken's 'sox of silence' show I am very tempted to upload a show in which I

[Hpr] archive.org API?

2015-04-14 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks, Does anybody know whether archive.org has some kind of API I can use to upload files from the command-line? I have a bunch of short audio files, actually they are recordings of each step of an accessible install of Debian 7.6 network install and I would like to put them on

[Hpr] LibreOffice Font Question

2015-04-08 Thread Mike Ray
Hello folks, Although I've been using a PC since about the middle of the 18th century I've never taken the time to get to grips with office software. And in the 25 years or so I've been a programmer I've seen word processors as an annoying interruption to my productivity, until now. I've

Re: [Hpr] Site links

2015-04-03 Thread Mike Ray
On 03/04/2015 18:18, Windigo wrote: On 2015-04-02 3:43 am, Dave Morriss wrote: On 02/04/15 11:07, Mike Ray wrote: Has something changed on the site? Seems like most of the links have disappeared. Went there looking for the link to go to the list of hosts and can't now find most of the sub

[Hpr] Off-topic: LibreOffice Calc questions

2015-04-02 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, I know this is off-topic but bear with me. Does anybody know how to do the following things in a LibreOffice spreadsheet without the mouse? 1. Swap columns or rows, e.g. take column B and move it to where column A is, and kicking all other columns one to the right. 2. Lock one or more

Re: [Hpr] Off-topic: LibreOffice Calc questions

2015-04-02 Thread Mike Ray
On 02/04/2015 23:33, James E. Toebes wrote: Alt-W (Brings up window pull down menu) then S (Split) Sorry, Don't know the column swap trick from keyboard. I've actually found how to freeze columns and rows thanks to an reply to the same question asked on the Surrey LUG list... To freeze

[Hpr] Fear and Lothian?

2015-03-03 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, I might be missing something obvious but Dave's comment on the RSS feed titled 'Fear and Lothian' references a show in the far future and opening it takes me to hpr0001 as a consequence. Am I being thick? Great subject-line though. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley,

Re: [Hpr] Topic request

2015-02-20 Thread Mike Ray
Great. Found it. I will take a listen to this. On 20/02/2015 08:11, Ken Fallon wrote: (top posting for Mike, and the secret pleasure of messing with Dave's parsing tool ) Is this what you mean ? hpr1169 :: Autotools http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1169 Hosted by Nido Media

Re: [Hpr] Topic request

2015-02-20 Thread Mike Ray
(top posting for Mike, and the secret pleasure of messing with Dave's parsing tool ) Is this what you mean ? hpr1169 :: Autotools http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1169 Hosted by Nido Media on 2013-01-24 and released under a CC-BY-SA license. ogg:

[Hpr] Topic request

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, I'd like to request a topic. I'd like to hear somebody do a show about the Gnu automake system. Automake is what is used to create great cross-platform build and install scripts with the familiar: ./configure make sudo make install sequence. What file feeds

Re: [Hpr] I ain'tnt dead yet: quick question (well, a couple)

2015-02-09 Thread Mike Ray
Interesting. I wasn't aware of the show in question. Don't know how I missed that one. I will take a listen now. For my part, I would no way bother about looking at the metadata. If the show and the show notes didn't tell me everything I need to know then there's more wrong with it than just

Re: [Hpr] New year's post mortem

2015-01-08 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, Please excuse the top-posting... Here's my tuppence worth. I listened to about five or so hours worth in all. Much of which was very entertaining. I happened to catch the bits where Jonathan and another chap I don't know were talking about syntax-highlighting for blind programmer's and

[Hpr] Mumble howto, broken link?

2014-12-28 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, Tried to go to the 'mumble howto' linked ojn the front page. I get a totally silent page that just says 'about'. So either the page is totallyb blank, or maybe it's a scan of a page? Either way it's inaccessible. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

Re: [Hpr] Podcast Promos at the end of HPR Shows

2014-12-26 Thread Mike Ray
On 26/12/2014 16:59, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, I'd like to get some feedback on adding a random podcast promo to the very end of the HPR shows. A lot of shows have played our promos in the past, so I think it would be nice to return the favor ? What do you think. Great. In the last

Re: [Hpr] Alternative TTS with svox-pico (Mike Ray)

2014-12-02 Thread Mike Ray
values, for example just 'en'. You can leave out the rate (-r) switch and leaving out the output file switch (-o) will just speak. On 02/12/2014 09:35, Fifty OneFifty wrote: Mike Ray, I have svox-pico install, can you provide a quick example of how convert a text file to audio from

[Hpr] Alternative TTS with svox-pico

2014-12-01 Thread Mike Ray
Hello, svox-pico is a nice small TTS engine with a pleasing female voice. A chap called Kyle has created a command-line interface to pico which provides a means of reading text and generating any of the sound file formats supported by sox. To install on Debian, and probably any of the

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