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Hacker Public Radio is an podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that are of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

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HPR4541: HPR Beer Garden 7 - UK Christmas Ales

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2025/12/29

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. With Christmas approaching (and actually gone by the time this is posted), Kevie, Dave and Paul try out a variety of Christmas ales from the UK. Dave opts for St Peters Christmas Ale , Kevie samples Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale and Dave supports his local brewery, Purple Moose, with a mug of Merry X-Moose . Connect with the guys on Untappd: Dave Paul Kevie The intro sounds for the show are used

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HPR4540: Arthur C. Clarke: Other Novels, Part 1

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2025/12/26

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.This brings us to a look at some of Arthur C. Clarke's other stories, The Sands of Mars (1951), The Deep Range (1957), and The Fountains of Paradise (1979). These are just a few of his well-regarded stand-alone novels. Links: https://www.sffworld.com/forum/threads/the-clarke-asimov-treaty.46067/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sands_of_Mars

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HPR4539: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #11

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2025/12/25

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.I am subscribed to a number of YouTube channels, and I am sharing them with

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HPR4538: HPR Branding

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2025/12/24

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.HPR Branding This episode refers to the initial release of https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_documentation/src/branch/main/branding.md The Intro Duration It will always be 30 seconds long and in some edge cases may be slightly longer. The following table will help put that into context. It gives the percentage of the show the intro takes related to the length of the shows. 1.7% of an average show (29 minutes 30 seconds) 0.1%

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HPR4537: “Elsbeth in IT: Since ’97” (Part 1)

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2025/12/23

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. A two-part conversation about what it’s really like being a woman in tech for almost three decades. Content Warning: The F word probably makes an appearance multiple times. In this episode, Lee sits down with Elsbeth to talk about her long, winding, sometimes ridiculous, often inspiring journey through the IT industry — starting all the way back in 1997. If you’ve ever worked helpdesk, ever had a customer say “my cup holder broke” (yes, the

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HPR4536: Welcome to the Linux Community

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2025/12/22

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Below are some links to help you find related software and resources: Beginner-Friendly Distros https://linuxmint.com https://ubuntu.com https://fedoraproject.org https://pop.system76.com Help & Community Linux Questions — https://www.linuxquestions.org Reddit r/linux4noobs — https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs Stack Exchange Unix/Linux — https://unix.stackexchange.com Ask Fedora —

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HPR4535: Living the Tux Life Episode 4 - Various...

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2025/12/19

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Show Notes System Monitoring & Metrics Prometheus Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for collecting and storing metrics. Documentation : https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/installation/ Prometheus Node Exporter Hardware and OS metrics exporter for Prometheus. Guide : https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/node-exporter/ Grafana Open-source analytics and visualization platform for monitoring metrics. Docker

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HPR4534: Reviving My Kawai K4 Synthesizer

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2025/12/18

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Links Kawai K4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_K4 Kawai K4 Battery Replacement (Japanese): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3y2ClgP1I Neal Beard and his Machines - Kawai Battery Replacement: https://nealbeardahm.blogspot.com/2012/10/kawai-battery-replacement.html Kawai K4r: Rack-mount module version of the K4 Kawai Downloads Page: https://kawaius.com/downloads/ Standard MIDI Files (SMF):

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HPR4533: Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 2 Nuclear Fuel

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2025/12/17

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.01 Introduction This episode is the second in an 8 part series on nuclear reactor technology. This episode will cover types of nuclear fuel, recycling of nuclear fuel, uranium and thorium resources, and medical isotopes. 03 Types of Nuclear Fuel 03 Natural Uranium 04 Enriched Uranium 05 Mixed Oxide Fuel, or MOX 06 Thorium Fuel 08 Plutonium in Uranium Cycle Reactors 09 Depleted Uranium 10 Oxide or Ceramic versus Metallic

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HPR4532: Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 5:...

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2025/12/16

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hello, again. This is Trey. Welcome to part 5 in my Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) Project series.If you are still listening to me ramble about this project, thank you.If you wish to catch up on earlier episodes, you can find them on my HPR profile page https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0394.html To review, My project is to build a portable morse code "Keyer memory" which can be connected to any of my HF transceiver

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HPR4531: HPR Beer Garden 6 - Imperial Stouts

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2025/12/15

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Kevie and Dave continue their look at winter beers with the a look at Imperial Stouts. In this episode Kevie tries Knight of Ren by Yorkshire based microbrewery Tartarus and Dave samples Toffee Nut Latte Imperial Stout by Edinburgh based Vault City . Connect with the guys on Untappd: Dave Kevie Provide feedback on this episode.

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HPR4530: Playing Civilization V, Part 6

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2025/12/12

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.In our next look at the game mechanics for Civilization V we examine the topic of War and Combat. This is a complex topic, and we are just hitting the high points here, but we also provide a link to the War Academy for furhter study. Links: https://www.palain.com/gaming/civilization-v/playing-civilization-v-part-3/ https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Promotions_(Civ5)

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HPR4529: yoga370 review

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2025/12/11

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.1 intro ═══════ non-forth show! 2 inspiration ═════════════ episode 4402, looking for a single device to be able to do forth work, read documents, some web browsing discussed the ups and downs of using a pinetab2 and how i used fluxbox and some scripts to bend the device to my needs device was ok but underpowered interview with david revou, episode 4491 mentioned blog section of hardware, led me to lenovo yoga 370 3

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HPR4528: Photography software

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2025/12/10

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Today I will list and talk briefly about software related to photography that I have installed on my computer. DigiKam https://www.digikam.org/ RawTherapee https://rawtherapee.com/ GIMP https://www.gimp.org/ Rapid Photo

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HPR4527: Overly Complicated Media Ripping setup

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2025/12/09

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hello, this is your host Archer72 for Hacker Public Radio. In this episode, I share my overly complicated media ripping setup, and hope it helps someone. First of all, I have revised my media ripping setup since HPR3294 - Update to MakeMKV to back up media I’ve changed my mind about only using a terminal for ripping media, and it was time to make a change. Now, I start both MakeMKV and Handbrake from a remote GUI, either on my laptop or phone. VNC

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HPR4526: Baofeng and SDR++

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2025/12/08

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Goal: send a voice signal on VHF or UHF, receive and record with SDR via RTL dongle Core Problem and Resolution An issue may have been a hardware I/Q Imbalance in the RTL-SDR, which suppressed the desired signal, resulting in very low output volume that required excessive manual amplification. Initial Problem: Very quiet, barely audible recorded audio, initially on UHF 433 MHz Key Discovery: An I/Q

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HPR4525: Using mail merge in thunderbird

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2025/12/05

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. As the new year show is upon us, Ken needs a way to send out some mail messages to fellow Free Culture Podcasters . Rather than just putting every one on the bcc, a more personal mail list can be done using the Thunderbird Mail Merge add on. Install Download it, and then open Thunderbird, select "Tools", "Add-ons and Themes". Then press the Cog icon ⚙, and select "Install Add-on From File...", Finally select the downloaded file and

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HPR4524: Living the Tux Life Episode 3 - Automating...

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2025/12/04

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Setting up Linux Mint with Custom LVM and Luks Linux Mint with Custom LVM on LUKS Overview The current Linux Mint installer doesn't support custom partitions when setting up a new machine with LUKS encryption using LVM. I prefer having a separate partition for my home directory and a backup partition for Timeshift, so that reinstalling or fixing issues won't overwrite my home directory. I found several approaches to achieve this. One

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HPR4523: Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 1 - Nuclear...

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2025/12/03

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.This episode is the first in an 8 part series on nuclear reactor technology. This is a politics free series and the focus is on the technology of the reactors. This series will focus on the civil nuclear industry, with a particular focus on electric power generation reactors. I will discuss the technology, what it is, how it works, and some of the pros and cons of different technologies, but I will try to avoid offering too many opinions on

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HPR4522: Lee interviews Elsbeth about SL Shop and Hop...

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2025/12/02

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In this episode, Lee sits down with Elsbeth Starling — fae-coded creator, mesh-maker, scripter, and accidental caffeine-fueled entrepreneur — to talk about what it really takes to get accepted into Second Life’s legendary Shop & Hop as a relatively new business owner. At just about a year and a half into her SL journey, Elsbeth breaks down the whole process: how she applied, what the organizers look for, and why imposter syndrome is

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