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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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HPR4575: Making First Contact

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2026/02/13

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Making First Contact An amateur radio contact, more commonly referred to as simply a "contact", is an exchange of information between two amateur radio stations. The exchange usually consists of an initial call, a response by another amateur radio operator at an amateur radio station, and a signal report. A contact is often referred to by the Q code QSO. It is often limited to just a minimal

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HPR4574: UNIX Curio #0 - Introduction

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2026/02/12

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.This series is dedicated to exploring little-known—and occasionally useful—trinkets lurking in the dusty corners of UNIX-like operating systems. As the zeroth entry of this series, we'll have a little introduction to what it is supposed to be about and why you might want to listen. So that you don't leave without getting at least one piece of useful information, it will end with a little curio that you might find helpful someday. Back in

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HPR4573: Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 6 Thorium...

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2026/02/11

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Thorium Reactors 01 Introduction In this episode we will describe the use of thorium in nuclear power, including what thorium is, how it differs from uranium, and what sort of reactors can use it. 03 What is thorium 05 How thorium differs from uranium 07 Sources of Thorium 09 Why there is interest in using thorium as a fuel 10 Abundance of Thorium 11 Some Countries Have a Lot of It 12 Thorium Breeder Reactors are Simpler than

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HPR4572: Uncommon Commands, Episode 3 - strace

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2026/02/10

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. These are the commands mentioned in the You may need to use "sudo" to run these commands depending on how your system is configured. strace uptime strace ls 2>&1 | grep open strace -e openat ls / strace ls /does/not/exist strace -o ls-trace.log ls strace -ff -o pid12345-trace.log -p 12345 HISTORY The original strace was written by Paul Kranenburg for SunOS and was inspired

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HPR4571: Data processing retrospective

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2026/02/09

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. We start with Orwellian depictions of the future read about in the 1950/60s. Working in the 1970s at companies such as British Telecom and the L urgie . We hear about telex , mainframes with magnetic tape , type-writers , and the upskilling of the workforce by the labour-exchange . How did a cold and lack of a home telephone lead to businessmen arriving in a foreign land sans camels? Why were filing cabinets replaced by databases (or

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HPR4570: Playing Civilization V, Part 8

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2026/02/06

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.In our next look at the game mechanics for Civilization V we examine several related topics: Diplomacy, Spies, and Religious Pressure. They are all ways to interact with other players without the force of arms being involved. And we will discuss the Diplomatic Victory, which is a new victory type added in Civilization V and can be fun to play. Playing Civilization V, Part 8 - Diplomacy Other Players With other players you have a relationship

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HPR4569: Kiosk with guest mode on Linux

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2026/02/05

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Create a Linux kiosk at your library Start without a guest account The first few steps of this process don’t actually require a guest user directory to exist, so do NOT create your guest user account yet. However, you do need to choose what your guest user account is going to be called. A reasonable account name for Don’s purposes is libraryguest. On my personal computer I call my guest account guestaccount, and I’ve used kioskguest on some

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HPR4568: Book reading The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll

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2026/02/04

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.1985, I started to work at a telecom equipment manufacturer. We had a main frame computer in our combined office- and lab room. We were four sitting in the room and it was this one terminal for all of us and maybe even for someone more. Downstairs, we at component technology department had our big climate controlled laboratories. I used an HP 85 computer having the Basic programming language to

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HPR4567: Movie Recommendations for Hackers

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2026/02/03

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Warning, this episode containers some spoilers for movies. The following movies are in my cybersecurity movie library. The ones marked * are included in review in this episode. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) * AntiTrust (2001) Blackhat (2015) Blade Runner (1982) Catch Me If You Can (2002) Citizenfour (2015) CSI: Cyber (2015) Enemy of the State (1998) Firewall (2006) Gattaca (1997) * Ghost in the Shell (1995) Hackers (1995) * Heartbreakers

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HPR4566: HPR Community News for January 2026

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2026/02/02

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: Jim DeVore, Carmen-Lisandrette. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4544 Thu 2026-01-01 Uncommon Commands, Episode 2 Deltaray 4545 Fri 2026-01-02 YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #12 Ahuka 4546 Mon 2026-01-05 HPR Community News for December 2025 HPR Volunteers 4547 Tue 2026-01-06 Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 6: The speed and timing of Morse Trey 4548 Wed 2026-01-07 YouTube

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HPR4565: HPR Beer Garden 9 - Barley Wine

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2026/01/30

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.With winter in full swing in the UK, Dave and Kevie continue their look at winter warmer ales with a review of a couple of British Barley Wine ales. Dave samples Ridgeway's Criminally Bad Elf whilst Kevie tries out a lmited release from Chiltern Brewery Roger Bodger's Barley WIne. Connect with the guys on Untappd: Dave Kevie The intro sounds for the show are used

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HPR4564: MakeMKV error

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2026/01/29

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.I am using MakeMKV version 1.18.2, the most updated version of the program USB Blu-ray drive BD-MLT UJ240AS reads a DVD or Blu-ray disc correctly Matshita SATA Blu-ray drive BDDVDRW CH20L stalls with ad DVD or Blu-ray disc Hewlett Packard The disc does not stall with Handbrake There is enough power, using an adapter that provides 12v Before: MakeMKV v1.18.1 linux(x64-release) stuck when launched How do I download older

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HPR4563: Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 5 Fast Reactors

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2026/01/28

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Fast Reactors 03 Fast versus Slow Neutrons "Fast neutron" reactors are ones which use the "fast neutron" reaction. This is as opposed to "slow" or "thermal" neutron reactors which use a slow neutron reaction. Nearly all reactors in use today use a slow neutron reaction. 04 Moderators 06 No Moderator in Fast Neutron Reactors 07 Burners versus Breeders 08 Fast Fission Fuel Cycle 08 "Typical" Fuel 09 Other Methods 10

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HPR4562: Software development doesn't end until it's...

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2026/01/27

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Development isn’t over until it’s packaged Most software development I’ve done has been utilities for highly specific workflows. I’ve written code to ensure that metadata for a company’s custom file format gets copied along with the rest of the data when the file gets archived, code that ensures a search field doesn’t mangle input, lots of Git hooks, file converters, parsers, and of course my fair share of dirty hacks. Because most software projects I

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HPR4561: A bit about Mission:Libre, a new project for...

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2026/01/26

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Mission:Libre is a new project for 11 to 14-year-old kids who're interested in free software. Mission:Libre website: https://missionlibre.org Carmen's e-mail address: carmen@missionlibre.org "Libre!" issue 0: https://missionlibre.org/files/libre0.pdf Mission:Libre's Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/MissionLibreProvide feedback on this episode.

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HPR4560: Arthur C. Clarke: Other Works, Part 2

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2026/01/23

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, A Time Odyssey (1951), Tales From the White Hart (1957), The Nine Billion Names of God (1954), The Star (1955), Dolphin Island (1964), and A Meeting With Medusa (1971. These stories will wrap up our look at Clarke's Science Fiction and we have seen a lot of good stuff here. And as a final note, we cover CLarke's Three Laws. Arthur C. Clarke: Other Works, A Time Odyssey A

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HPR4559: Enkele off line vertaaltools

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2026/01/22

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.Offline Translator tools Translate text offline LocalTranslate is an offline translation application that uses Firefox's neural translation models (from the mozilla/firefox-translations-models project) to perform high-quality translations locally on your device. Note: LocalTranslate is not affiliated with The Mozilla Foundation in any way. Links LocalTranslate by Shriram Ravindranathan on flathub.org GPL-3.0 license Source

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HPR4558: YouTube Subscriptions 2025 #14

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2026/01/21

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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HPR4557: Why I prefer tar to zip

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2026/01/20

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. I'm gonna talk about archiving specifically with tar and even more specifically why I prefer tar over zip. Shownotes at https://www.both.org/?p=13268 Provide feedback on this episode.

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HPR4556: Nitro man! RC Cars

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2026/01/19

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Today it's a special Christmas episode, it's such a kind of part for the RC cars. So we're going to have to talk to them about the Metro cars. The Metro cars are RC cars that run off of this like 20% oil gas thing. So the oil is in the gas, it has a little motor and you can pay you know $800 for a motor or you can pay, you know, the 50 bucks for a motor. https://traxxas.com/products/models/electric/rustler-bl2s Provide feedback on this

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