The ActivityPub Conference of 2019 was held in Prague. This is about a talk raising a suggestion that ActivityPub might be a way to implement Web 3.0. https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1081

Links:

https://redaktor.me/apconf/

https://archive.org/details/apconf-talks/Talk2_Maloki_compressed.mov

https://medium.com/@maloki/does-mastodon-spark-joy-no-meet-florence-788bbc8b48c2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

https://www.zwilnik.com/?page_id=1081

Overview

I recorded the audio for the show I did with MrX in late 2019: 2972 “The_foot_of_the_ski_slope”. I was using my Zoom H2n recorder in my car, on a small tripod placed on the dashboard. Something about this setup caused the result to be very boomy and (to me) unpleasant to listen to. This episode is about what I did for a cure, after some research.

I have also been using the ‘Truncate Silence’ effect in Audacity incorrectly in the past, and I used the opportunity to learn how to do a better job with it.

Now, I am well aware that there are some skilled and experienced Audio Engineers out there in HPR-land. I am certainly not one of these, though I quite enjoy fiddling with audio to make it sound better. I’d like to make two requests:

If I didn’t do a good job, please tell me what I did wrong here, and how I should have done it.

Think about doing a show (or shows) on HPR about how to deal with common audio problems. For example: how to remove a mains hum, the use of compression and normalisation.

Long notes

A longer form of these notes may be found here (full_shownotes.html). These go into more detail on the steps I took to try and make the audio for show 2972 more tolerable.

Links

Wikipedia page describing Audacity

Audacity website

Effects:

Noise Reduction

High-pass Filter

Amplify

Truncate Silence

Hacker Public Radio 2019-20 New Year Show Episode 4

21:54 - 01:40 EST (02:54 - 06:40 UTC)

Chat about music, Star Wars, The Mandalorian

Current main distro

X2go RDP, Teamviewer, Dark Reader Firefox theme

Pokey sucks at uRandom promotion

Advent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent

Pokey’s firestarters

Thaj publicly shames Lyle 

Lyle joins in shame

Brief history of the New Year show 

Thaj challenges everyone listening to find one HPR episode that doesn’t have tags and contribute them this year. Tags get sparse around episode 550 if you are trying to find a place to start. OH…and you also owe Ken a show too.

Here are the instructions: https://hackerpublicradio.org/report_missing_tags.php

Discussion about exercise 

Pokey tries to help Mongo with Mumble 

Thaj describes his custom keyboard layout 

Pokey repairs his wife’s laptop

Thaj publicly shames Klattu & Pokey for no tags on their shows

CladioM explains the Latin tradition “Twelve Grapes” 

Pokey talks about being a grandparent

More HP & laptop talk

Urugami joins

Mongo joins

Texas geography

Motorcycles

War stories

NASA

Links

https://www.tpug.ca/

https://pquirk.com/

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New hosts

There were no new hosts this month.

Last Month's Shows

Id

Day

Date

Title

Host

2978

Wed

2020-01-01

GARAGE DOOR

operat0r

2979

Thu

2020-01-02

Bicycle Freewheel Maintenance

Jon Kulp

2980

Fri

2020-01-03

FLOSS Weekly 553 - Hacker Public Radio

Ken Fallon

2981

Mon

2020-01-06

HPR Community News for December 2019

HPR Volunteers

2982

Tue

2020-01-07

World of Commodore 2019 Episode 4: Bare metal c64 Emulation on Raspberry Pi

Paul Quirk

2983

Wed

2020-01-08

my phone

Jezra

2984

Thu

2020-01-09

RHEL 8 Workstation first looks

JWP

2985

Fri

2020-01-10

Firefox Update

Ahuka

2986

Mon

2020-01-13

Onlykey Updated

operat0r

2987

Tue

2020-01-14

World of Commodore 2019 Episode 5: New games from

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In this podcast, we talk about what SQRL is, and how it works, why I feel that it’s an exciting new login method that is safe and easy to use.

SQRL Documentation

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

SQRL Forums

https://sqrl.grc.com/

SQRL Github organization

https://github.com/sqrldev

Android Application

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ea.sqrl

Github repository for Android Application

https://github.com/kalaspuffar/secure-quick-reliable-login

Hacker Public Radio 2019-20 New Year Show Episode 3

16:30 - 21:54 EST (21:30 - 02:54 UTC)

KWisher joins: ponders the New Year show editing

New PC discussion, used PC acquisitions

Remote desktop solutions

Raspberry Pi IV

DannW joins: text editors, Pascal, Fortran & other programming languages

MS Windows licensing, software, operating systems

More MS woes

Asperger syndrome, some light political chat

ClaudioM joins: talks about BSD

Moss: Feren OS - https://ferenos.weebly.com/

ZFS discussion

Urandom Podcast - https://urandom-podcast.info/

SELF - https://southeastlinuxfest.org/

Destination Linux Podcast - https://destinationlinux.org/

Mandriva, Sabayon, Slackware, Fedora discussion

Softmaker Office, office suite discussion

Pokey joins: automobiles, politics

Mushrooms, farming, college

HP EliteBooks

Linux Mint, thermal paste

Winter weather & driving, tire socks

http://thermal-grizzly.com/en/products/16-kryonaut-en

Netminer talks about his DOS days, ISO standards

Spine/back issues, treatment

Xoke joins in

Pokey loves DuckDuckGo

Gnome boxes virtualization - https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/

Android key mapper - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/

Links

https://www.youtube.com/user/TorontoPETUsersGroup/

https://pquirk.com/

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/1541_Ultimate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1541_Ultimate

https://spideroak.support/hc/en-us/articles/115001891343-Command-Line-Reference

service script:

# Make sure you have space or link the base path to some place else

# make sure you have R/W for the plex user

# ln -s /media/data/SPIDEROAK_CONFIG/ /home/plex/.config/SpiderOakONE

[Unit]

Description=SPIDEROAK STARTUP

After=network.target

[Service]

User=plex

Group=adm

Type=simple

ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ;

/usr/bin/SpiderOakONE --headless --verbose'

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target