Here's a view of my voice. The bright spots at the bottom of the image are my voice, and the bright burst at the top is a click caused by saliva.

Here's me inhaling. Notice how sparse this is compared to my voice.

One thing I fail to mention in the episode is that there are network monitors that render network activity as a spectrogram, too. If you don't have a Wi-Spy, it's worth looking at.

Brady and I discuss Mis-information, Dis-information, and Fake News. We discuss what it is, how it is used, and we are all a product and target for all of it. We discuss ways to avoid deception which leads to a philosophical discussion about truth, morals, and ethics. Brady takes a moment on the couch discussing how understanding the matrix for what it is can affect you on a personal level.

Links and Resources:

Definitely NOT real NEWS, but FUN to read:

The Onion https://www.theonion.com/

The Weekly World News https://weeklyworldnews.com/

Mad Magazine https://www.madmagazine.com/

Fight Disinformation with Fact Checking Sites:

Snopes

(almost everything including politics, history, science, and technology)

Snopes is one of the oldest fact-checking websites on the internet and it was started by David and Barbara Mikkelson in 1994. Apart from its huge repository of debunked stories, Snopes still tackles fake news and misinformation in a smart way. As fake information is getting more sophisticated in its language and tone, users are easily falling for it. So to counter the misinformation, Snopes offers detailed explanations from genuine sources (like WHO, CDC) and sets the facts straight.

https://www.snopes.com/

Politifact

(all about fact-checking political claims)

PolitiFact is one of the largest political fact-checking newsrooms in the US and for its impressive work in 2008, the website was awarded Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. It’s run by the prestigious Poynter Institute (founder of International Fact-Checking Network) and reporters from the independent Tampa Bay Times.

https://www.politifact.com/

FactCheck.org

(political claims, rhetorics, deception, and lies)

Primarily deals with political claims and rhetorics. However, the website also tries to bring accountability to public officials by exposing deception and their lies. It’s an attempt to bring more factual accuracy to the public discourse which is not just limited to politics, but also extends to TV ads, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

https://www.factcheck.org/fake-news/

ProPublica

(deep dive for hidden truth)

ProPublica is an independent investigative online newsroom. More than a fact-checking website, but a portal where you can dive deep and find the hidden truth. For its far-reaching work in the public interest, ProPublica has been awarded several Pulitzer Prizes for public service, explanatory reporting, national reporting, and investigative journalism. As for the coverage, it goes beyond politics and looks into healthcare, education, finances, criminal justice and more. The website is funded by the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, and other few philanthropic institutes.

https://www.propublica.org/

OpenSecrets

(politics)

OpenSecrets finds the effects of money lobbying into electoral politics and fact-checks political speeches and claims. It tracks how a politician is being funded and who are the firms that are funneling money into politics. It was started by the Center for Responsive Politics (CSR) way back in 1983. And as a result of the long operation, OpenSecrets has now one of the largest public databases of donors and political beneficiaries.

https://www

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Thu

2022-09-01

Emergency Show posted in 2012. MUD

Klaatu

3675

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2022-09-02

Plan 9: An exercise in futility

binrc

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2022-09-05

HPR Community News for August 2022

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2022-09-06

Hacker Public Radio 2021 - 2022 New Years Show Part 4

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2022-09-07

"Stupid Users" ... no, not those users, the other "stupid users"

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2022-09-08

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2022-09-09

EDIT

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Rust 101 Episode 3: Functionally Insane

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How I watch youtube with newsboat

I find that the youtube web ui is designed to keep users on the site by feeding them an unending stream of information. Bright colors, distracting thumbnails, peanut galleries, etc. I prefer to consume my videos in the same way I consume everything else: via RSS.

RSS is my favorite way of aggregating things that other people have made because it allows me, the user, to interact with their things

The only dependencies not on a standard UNIX system are newsboat and a video player. I also use yt-dlp to download videos for later viewing. I like mpv but you can substitute your own.

$ sudo $pkgmrg install newsboat mpv yt-dlp

Getting RSS feeds from youtube

Youtube (currently) provides RSS feeds for channels.

Finding Youtube channel ID

Sometimes channels have vanity URLs that can make it difficult to find the channel ID. Other times, the URL contains the channel ID. All youtube channel IDs start with the string UC so we can easily grep for them.

$ curl https://www.youtube.com/c/RMCRetro | grep --color "href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC"`

[ lots of nonsense ]

href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLEoyoOKZK0idGqSc6Pi23w"

[ lots of nonsense ]

In order to turn this channel ID into something useful, we create the following URL:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCLEoyoOKZK0idGqSc6Pi23w

Google takeout can also be used to export youtube subscriptions.

The export format is a CSV that contains the channel IDs for all of our subscriptions.

Channel Id,Channel Url,Channel Title

UCLEoyoOKZK0idGqSc6Pi23w,http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLEoyoOKZK0idGqSc6Pi23w,RMC - The Cave

Newsboat url list

Newsboat reads it’s list of URLs from ~/.config/newsboat/urls. Every url we add to this list will be automaticlly fetched. You can make separate URL lists for your list of videos and list of standard text based RSS feeds

If you have an exported CSV, you can easily modify it so that newsboat will accept it as a list of URLs by deleting row 1, column 1+comma, and replacing the comma between the URL and channel name with a tab character. Doing a sed 's/channel//feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=/g' on the file is an easy way to replace the website URL with the feed url. Newsboat only reads the first field of every row so the channel name can be kept for easier subscription management.

http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCLEoyoOKZK0idGqSc6Pi23w RMC - The Cave

Newsboat config

In order to play videos, we need to add some macros to the newsboat config file at ~/.config/newsboat/config

Mine looks like this.

# load URLS on launch

auto-reload yes

# vim binds

bind-key j down

bind-key k up

bind-key j next articlelist

bind-key k prev articlelist

bind-key J next-feed articlelist

bind-key K prev-feed articlelist

bind-key G end

bind-key g home

bind-key d pagedown

bind-key u pageup

bind-key l open

bind-key h quit

bind-key a toggle-article-read

bind-key n next-unread

bind-key N prev-unread

bind-key D pb-download

bind-key U bashow-urls

bind-key x pb-delete

# macro setup

browser linkhandler

macro , open-in-browser

# launch video player

macro v set browser "setsid -f mpv" ; open-in-browser ; set browser linkhandler

# download vidoe

macro d set browser "yt-dlp"; open-in-browser ; set browser linkhandler

# download audio only

macro a set browser "yt-dlp --embed-medatada -xic -f bestaudio/best" ; ope

In the aftermath of the cosmic event that destroyed all computers below a certain die size, more robust machines emerge from the ashes.

Synopsis

In this episode, Rho`n fixes the safety mechanism to his Neuton electric mower. Recently the automatic cutoff mechanism was getting finicky. Needing to pull the safety bar back just the correct amount to keep the mower running. Often needing to keep hands on both the left and right sides of the safety bar to prevent the mower from turning off.

After opening up the housing holding the safety bars, it appeared that the tension spring which causes the bars to disengage from the switch when the bars are released was loose. This would allow the prong that the bars push into the switch contact to slip off the contact and slide overtop of the switch—turning off the mower. After tightening the coils and putting it back in place, the issue was resolved.

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Neuton electric mower with handle collapsed showing the bottom of the safety handle housing.

Internal view of the automatic cutoff mechanism.

Attribution

The transition sound used between audio clips is found on freesound.org:

Name: Harp Transition Music Cue

Author: DanJFilms

License: Creative Commons Zero

In this episode, I discuss the ever prominent question of "What is a real hacker?" in explicitly explicit language. So enjoy the discussion and give me your thoughts. This topic always gets peoples feathers ruffled, so agree, disagree? Leave your thoughts or post your own segment on HPR!

Here's the snippets I use in my .bashrc file.

RED='\033[0;31m'

PLAIN='\033[0m' # No Color

WHITE='\e[97m'

GREEN='\e[0;32m'

PURPLE='\e[35;35m'

CYAN='\e[36;36m'

JAVA_VERSION=`java --version | head -1 | cut -f2 -d' '`

IP=$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1;}' )

source /usr/doc/git-2.35.1/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh

PS1='\! [\['$GREEN'\]$(hostname -s) $IP\['$PLAIN'\]] [\['$CYAN'\]$(pwd -P)\['$PLAIN'\]] $(__git_ps1 "[\['$PURPLE'\] %s\['$PLAIN'\]]")[☕ '$JAVA_VERSION']\n\['$GREEN'\]$\['$PLAIN'\] '

We take our revised objectives from the last episode and flesh out a completed plan that gets us out west and back home again.

Links:

https://www.palain.com/travel/planning-the-trip/

As part of the effort of turning the planet's premier Rust marketing podcast into a full-blown NoSQL show, in this episode Chris hosts some of the key people behind a NoSQL database called TerminusDB (Martin couldn't make it as he was firing, um, re-organising the Inlaw's marketing department once again). Luke (the CEO) and Gavin (CTO) of TerminusDB spill the beans on the history of the project, ontologies and why they still matter not only in a mobile-first world and why a website called DB Engines simply doesn't do the trick (putting it very diplomatically). Never mind the road ahead... (including quantum AI and some other fancy stuff - you heard it here first!). And also next week's lotto numbers (perhaps).

Links:

Trinity College Dublin: https://tcd.ie

TerminusDB: https://terminusdb.com

TerminusDB on Github: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb

Seshat: http://seshatdatabank.info

DBpedia: https://www.dbpedia.org

Terminus @ Isaac Asimov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

RDFs: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts

HDT: https://www.rdfhdt.org/what-is-hdt

Rust episode (S01E53): http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3569

Open source licenses episode (S01E536): https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3399

TerminusDB @ Social: https://terminusdb.com/community

AI Infrastructure Alliance: https://ai-infrastructure.org

Google's Carbon: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

When we cease to understand the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamín_Labatut#When_We_Cease_to_Understand_the_World

Substack: https://benn.substack.com

Chi-Raq: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4594834/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1