Hacker Public Radio

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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 hob... more

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September 29, 2023 HPR3955: airgradient measurement station
AirGradient is an open-source solution to measure the air in your
living area. In my case, I need to keep track of the air in my office,
so I have a healthy working environment.
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8min
September 28, 2023 HPR3954: Sedating HPR at the Steading
Introduction
Hosts:
MrX
Dave
Morriss
We recorded this on Sunday September 3rd 2023. We met in
person again, and as before first visited the pub called The
Steading where we had lunch. Then we adjourned to Dave's car in the
car park, and recorded a chat.
The name "Steading" is another (Scots?) version of "Farmstead", and
means the same. It's also an anagram of "Sedating"1, so
...
Topics discussed
Vaccines:
Dave has an appointment for COVID-19 and
influenza vaccines. The new Omicron
variant BA.2.86 has prompted another booster for some people.
Discussion of Smallpox
vaccination
MrX has an appointment for an influenza vaccine
Glasgow:
MrX and MrsX recently stayed in Glasgow for a holiday
Point A
Hotel - boutique hotel
Jungle Rumble -
indoor golf with UV lighting!
Wikipedia: Glasgow
Subway
Edinburgh:
Dave took a trip on the recently extended Edinburgh tram
There is only one route, from the airport to Leith (port).
Older residents get free access.
MrX and MrsX recently walked from the centre of Edinburgh along the
Water of Leith to the
area where the tram terminus is at Newhaven.
Email:
Dave is using version Thunderbird 115.1.1 which
is a rewrite of the original series where the API has now changed a
lot.
Long-used add-ons now no longer work:
A favourite was Mailbox Alert which triggered sound alerts
(or others) then mail arrived in a folder - so this could be after
filtering. This was much more useful than the traditional "You have
mail" type alerts.
Discussion of tags:
MrX mentions tags, meaning bits of text that can be attached to
messages and used to classify them and to search for them.
In Gmail there are labels which can do this and these can
be used to group messages regardless of folders
Thunderbird also has this concept which it calls tags. It
comes with pre-defined tags such as Important and
To Do, but more tags can be added. Any message can be
given one or more tags. The filtering system can add tags as a message
is processed. Searches can be performed on tags also.
Dave is an enthusiast of nested folders with filters to classify
messages. MrX is keen on using tags for the same purpose. Dave mentioned
Thunderbird's saved search feature (which he wrongly called
virtual mailboxes) which can collect messages according to many
criteria, including tags.
Some discussion about mail message storage strategies: file per
message, mbox format, etc.
Ticks:
MrX's dog has brought some ticks back from recent walks.
Scotland seems to be a bit worse off for ticks in recent years.
Hikers need to protect against them and to perform checks that they
are not on clothes. Wearing long socks or gaiters over long trousers can
help.
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1h 16min
September 27, 2023 HPR3953: Large language models and AI don't have any common sense
Hobson and Greg are working with volunteers to develop an open source
AI that we call Qary (QA for question answering). We're adding plugins
to support open source large language models (LLMs) like GPT-2 and
Llama2. Here's how you can use LLMs in your own Python Programs.
Create a Hugging Face account:
huggingface.co/join
Create and copy your access token:
Your user
profile
Create a .env file with your access token string:
echo "HUGGINGFACE_ACCESS_TOKEN=hf_..." >> .env
Load the .env variables in your python script using
dotenv package and os.environ:
TIP: Use os.environ to retrieve the dict of variable
values rather than dotenv.load_values- Otherwise other
environment variables that have been set by other shell scripts such as
.bashrc will be ignored.
This confused us when we were getting our GitLab CI-CD pipeline
working and deploying to Render.com.
Each of your cloud services will have different approaches to
setting environment variables.
This token string can be passed as a keyword argument to most of the
pipeline and model classes.
import dotenv
dotenv.load_dotenv()
import os
env = dict(os.environ)
token = env['HUGGINGFACE_ACCESS_TOKEN']
Find the path and name for the model on Hugging Face hub you want to
use:
search for "llama2" in the top search bar on huggingface.co/
TIP: don't hit enter at the end of your search, instead click on
"See 3958 model results for llama2"
I clicked on meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
to see the documentation
On the documentation page for your model you may have to apply for a
license if it's not really open source but business source like Meta
does with its AI so you can't use their models to compete with them
Apply for a license to use Llama2 on ai.meta.com
using the same e-mail you used for your Hugging Face account.
Follow the instructions on
huggingface.co to authenticate your python session
TIP: You'll need to use the kwarg use_auth_token in the
AutoModel.from_pretrained or pipeline
functions.
And it should be set to the token from your Hugging Face profile
page. The hugging face documentation says to use the token
kwarg, but that never worked for me.
from transformers import pipeline, set_seed
generator = pipeline('text-generation', model='openai-gpt')
q = "2+2="
responses = generator(
q,
max_length=10,
num_return_sequences=10
)
responses
[{'generated_text': '2+2= 2.2, 1.1 and'},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 3336 miles. they'},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 2, = 2 = 2'},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 4 = 2 = 5 n'},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 0 ( 1 ) = ='},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 6 times the speed of sound'},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 2 times 5, 865'},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 3 / 7 / 11 ='},
{'generated_text': '2+2= 2 2 n 2 of 2'},
{'generated_text': '
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20min
September 26, 2023 HPR3952: Making the Case for Markdown
Links to things mentioned in this episode:
LAMP
Stack (wikipedia)
WordPress
is 20 years old
Daring
Fireball Markdown Page
Jekyll
Obsidian
Variants
of Markdown syntax
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9min
September 25, 2023 HPR3951: Cell Phone Screen Protectors
I talk about how I fail at Cell Phone Screen Protectors
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31min
September 22, 2023 HPR3950: Sid Meiers' Alpha Centauri
Because it doesn't have the word "Civilization" in its name, this
game is unfairly overlooked. It was a major achievement when released,
and it is still a very rewarding game for anyone to pick up and play.
There is a lot of depth to it, and it holds up well even after a couple
of decades.
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0aEO7CrxM
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/an-interview-with-brian-reynolds/1100-2564268/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HpyQoU1DNw
https://alphacentauri.fandom.com/wiki/Alpha_Centauri_Wiki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u7uUWYE_9M
http://www.civ.org.pl/files/smac/misc/ALPHA_CENTAURI_MANUAL.PDF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oDIG4RRcLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_PxlRn4SCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9kdaKcQ19M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3TZVn__NXY
https://www.palain.com/gaming/sid-meiers-alpha-centauri/
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18min
September 21, 2023 HPR3949: How I use virtualisation to tame my Social Media addiction.
Apps I talk about
Irssi: https://irssi.org/
Tuir: https://gitlab.com/ajak/tuir
Discordo: https://github.com/ayn2op/discordo
Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/
HyperV : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/
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17min
September 20, 2023 HPR3948: Cleaning up my mancave and talking about Creativity
Just a Random babble as I setup my podcasting rig in the office,
clearing out some old stuff and telling you about what I encounter.
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28min
September 19, 2023 HPR3947: Archiving Floppy Disks
Archiving Floppy Disks
Summary
This show describes how I go about archiving old floppy
disks. These disks date back to the early 90s when floppy disks were a
common way of installing software on personal computers. They were
also used as a portable storage mechanism for data files.
Equipment That I'm Using
IBM ThinkCentre desktop computer with a 3.5in floppy disk drive
Installed the 32-bit version of Slackware 14.2
Making an image of an entire floppy disk
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.dsk
Making a floppy disk from a disk image
dd if=filename.dsk of=/dev/fd0
Copy files from a floppy disk
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
cp filename /some/destination/path/filename
cd
umount /mnt/floppy
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19min
September 18, 2023 HPR3946: Planning for a planner, part 02.
Discbound Planners and
Notebooks.
Source: Staples.com
discbound notebook search
Supporting Source: Staples
arc customizable notebook, 6.3/4in x 8.3/4in, 60 sheets, narrow ruled,
black
Source: Happy Planner.
Source: JoAnn
Source: Transparent
notes, 36 sheets/pad, 1 pad/pack $5.19.
Source: 6
pack discbound pocket letter size envelope organizer
Source: Zgmj
classic size discbound lined refill paper, happy planner inserts,
100sheets/200pages loose-leaf paper, 100gsm white paper, 7x9.25
in
Source: Classic
size discbound daily planner refill paper, happy planners insert,
200sheets/400pages to do list planner refill, 100gsm white paper, 7x9.25
in
Source: Discbound
undated daily plan paper refill, 120 gsm, 80 sheets, happy planner 9
disc pre-punched inserts, 7x9.25 inch, daily to-do, notes, and
scheduling
Source: Leather
personalized discbound planner cover
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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38min

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