Re: [Hpr] Policy Change, Call to action for Host to Show ratio

My personal thoughts on the topic have turned into 'meh'.  While this is probably not technically right(not a good thing when discussing amongst hackers and aspiring hackers), but I think the more rules you put on people who want to contribute shows, the more you push people off from wanting to

Re: [Hpr] Future feed

For what it's worth, I've been using the future feed for at least a year and have had no issues with sound quality. On 3/5/23 16:04, Mark Rice wrote: Hi Ken, This is probably a me problem, but when I play future shows from the RSS feed, they sound like my Bluetooth earbuds are being hit by sta

Re: [Hpr] Supervision of a contributor

I did see it.  Uncalled for.  I'd say approving his posts is warranted although auto-delete is the rout I'd take if it were me. On 2/18/23 18:44, Jason Dodd wrote: I seem to have missed the issue.  Any specific issue in question? On 2/18/23 10:03, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, Th

Re: [Hpr] Supervision of a contributor

I seem to have missed the issue.  Any specific issue in question? On 2/18/23 10:03, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, There is the long standing policy on HPR about moderation saying "/We do not vet, edit, moderate or in any wa

Re: [Hpr] Call for shows

I, for one, am willing to provide constructive feedback. I'll start now. Emails like the one you sent on 2022-09-12 20:12 show you to be living your best self. Better spend your time working on improving yourself rather than post your opinions. I disagree with Ken. I'll skip all your shows, eve

Re: [Hpr] Call for shows

Forgive me but I can't resist. This is totally a joke. Please don't be affended Have you checked check with The Linux Inlaws? On 9/9/22 03:41, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, The queue is looking a little empty at the moment. If you have not already submitted a show this year, then please con

Re: [Hpr] Apologies to the Linux Inlaws

On 9/5/22 07:43, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2022-09-04 03:42, Jason Dodd wrote: Perhaps but I think a couple of people have explained it to me. I consider all of my shows a series of my podcast that I make to host on hpr.  Appears I've misunderstood HPR since the TWAT days. That's fine a

Re: [Hpr] Apologies to the Linux Inlaws

Perhaps but I think a couple of people have explained it to me. I consider all of my shows a series of my podcast that I make to host on hpr.  Appears I've misunderstood HPR since the TWAT days. That's fine and no hard feelings.  On the contrary I'm glad to have my understanding corrected. My

Re: [Hpr] Apologies to the Linux Inlaws

This whole thing has moved me firmly into the listener side of the house. If Linux Inlaws isn't for HPR, none of my content would be. On 9/3/22 12:40, Ken Fallon wrote: Apologies this also needs to go to the HPR list. On 2022-08-20 04:10, Ken Fallon wrote: TL;DR Ken wakes up to find out he is

Re: [Hpr] LinuxInlaws and HPR

On 8/18/22 07:40, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I would think there are two problems here, potentially. First, if your plan amounts to having HPR host your own podcast, obviously that is wrong. Then I suppose I'll stop with the shows that I do have recorded but haven't uploaded.  I consider the few show

Re: [Hpr] LinuxInlaws and HPR

I'm confused.  One of my unrealized goals is to create a least one show a week, naming them  with some catchy name plus an incrementing number and posting them to exclusively to hpr. That seems to be what linux inlaws has been doing. Is the thinking I can't do that because HPR is not a podcast

Re: [Hpr] LinuxInlaws and HPR

I missed most of this because work is beating me down. But it has always appeared to me that Linux Inlaws was made for HPR so far. On 8/17/22 12:55, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2022-08-17 18:45, yann...@frenchguy.ch wrote: Gosh, I didn't think anything would make me break my silence, but I have to.

Re: [Hpr] Policy change: Show complaints procedure

I approve. On 6/10/22 03:29, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, This policy change relates to shows that have been published but which may contain problem content. For more information listen to today's show, where I suggest that we continue to post the shows as normal, if we get a complaint then t

Re: [Hpr] Volunteer for auditor

I'll volunteer if you still need someone. On 4/24/22 08:05, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, I need someone impartial to be on the cc of a email I'm sending to a host. Any volunteers ? ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicr

Re: [Hpr] Possible cause and solution to subscriber attrition(trying again without encryption)

lol@To be honest unsubscribing from HPR sounds like a euphemism, like "shuffling off this mortal coil" That is kinda true for me, too. I'm still firmly on the side of not caring much about production quality. Not again looking for an easy way to eliminate the jarring change in volume. But it't n

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

The Hybrid Editor XE, of course. https://github.com/sakachin2/XE On 8/28/21 11:04 AM, BK Navarette wrote: Emacs or VI brian-in-ohio On 8/28/21 10:02, cobra2 via Hpr wrote: There are tons of shows out there. gnuworldorder, tllts, freebsd now, 2.5 admins, late night Linux, anything else

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

This is a great idea.  And I think you have what it takes to make it happen.  What is needed to make this a reality is a really good host recruiter.  We're all volunteers.  Want to volunteer? Recruit enough hosts and soon we'll have so many shows we'll be forced to post more than one a day.

Re: [Hpr] Please more shows each day.

All we need to do is fill up a year's worth of future slots from any given day.  Then we'll start having extras.  We can then start doubling up.  When that second layer of year's worth of shows from any given day is is full we can do 3 a days. I except to be long dead before we're able to fill

Re: [Hpr] freenode

others have tried to get others on the old channel to move over but they don't see an incentive to do so. -claudiom On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 7:09 PM Jason Dodd <mailto:jason.s.d...@gmail.com>> wrote:   Yes. I simply created figuring that the real admins might go there a

Re: [Hpr] freenode

 Yes.  I simply created figuring that the real admins might go there and take it over.  I don't know anything about adminstering an irc channel.  Let me know what I need to do to hand it over assuming I need to do something. On 7/31/21 3:03 PM, Curtis Adkins wrote: There is an oggcastplanet c

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

The way people are always apologizing for perfectly fine audio quality, I suspect it's perfectionism trying to creep in. This is the line I fear more than anything on this topic. Sometimes hearing something from those who are just getting into something is most useful for those thinking about

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

The question raised by this blog post feel valid. I think the things to consider are: * How do we encourage increased quality without also excluding those for who good audio quality is difficult to achieve? A proposed answer: maybe we have volunteers to help "produce" shows, rather than to ge

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

Apology not necessary. In fact, I'd like to thank you for the post.     "I've considered this many times and attempted it a few but I'm terrible at podcasting" This is one of the reasons we don't have a minimum quality bar. I hope you reconsider and put out a show.  I read some of your posts

Re: [Hpr] Article by hedorah on HPR

This is the same question I asked myself when you said we'd do one every day and if we ran out of shows HPR was over.  At least that's what you said according to my memory.  I didn't go back to check. I had my doubts but now I'm convinced this way is better.  In my honest opinion, anyone put o

Re: [Hpr] Blind Dungeons & Dragons

If you keep this up, I'm going to buckle down and join a game. You've been warned. On 10/30/20 3:31 AM, Klaatu wrote: Mike, I played D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder with a blind player for years. I've admittedly never run a game whilst blind, but I've run sessions with no materials, so it's definitely

Re: [Hpr] Content Query

Got it.  So it could air on another platform first just as long as posted to hpr first.  i'm amazed anyone listens me my shows and can't imagine anyplace else wanting them. but just in case. On 7/28/20 5:21 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2020-07-26 23:04, Jason Dodd wrote: Out of curio

Re: [Hpr] Content Query

Out of curiosity, does 'post first' mean, 'airs first'?  Not this would affect me any.  Just curious. On 7/26/20 4:40 PM, Klaatu wrote: On Thursday, July 23, 2020 07:36:01 PM Ken Fallon wrote: Hi Marcus, If you create material and post it first on HPR then it meets the requirements you mentio

Re: [Hpr] Hpr Digest, Vol 142, Issue 2

I'm in favor of this. On 7/6/20 7:28 PM, Brian wrote: I like the idea. I think it would be a great learning opportunity Brian-in-ohio On 7/6/20 4:13 AM, Tony Hughes wrote: Hi Ken I don't mind at all, anything to make life at HPR Towers easier. Tony On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 8:00 PM

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doubt i could stay engaged enough to play but lurking sounds like a blast. On 3/17/20 10:58 AM, Daniel Persson wrote: Hi Klaatu. I always thought I should play that someday, bought the books for being a game master. Just didn't have the time to read them yet :) I don't really have people in

Re: [Hpr] A proposed change to the show upload form

case, I suggest defaulting existing hosts to explicit unless that change their default. On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:45 PM Jason Dodd wrote: > Proposed Changes > > 1) Change upload form to require tags > I don't mind tags. At the same time I don't find them kind of useless > u

Re: [Hpr] A proposed change to the show upload form

Proposed Changes 1) Change upload form to require tags I don't mind tags. At the same time I don't find them kind of useless unless the tags themselves are curated so that I get a list to chose from and don't have to create new ones all the time. I typically find that searching the whole posts g

Re: [Hpr] HPR LLC

Finally we'll be able to afford to have more than 3 shows in the queue. On a serious note, if Audible would release under a free software license AND support gnu linux, I would ALMOST consider not dumping HPR over such a decision. On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:19 AM Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) < hackerpublic

Re: [Hpr] HPR Branding

The more I think about this, this more it reminds me of a tech upgrade Stephen Hawking get a couple years ago. There were lots of good upgrades he didn't upgrade is voice, not all that different from the hpr 'voice'. He didn't change it because it had become his voice. Nevertheless, I don't come f

[Hpr] The comment spam stopper question thing seems to be broken.

I've been trying to leave a comment on an hpr episode and keep getting blocked by the spam prevention question. The correct answer to the question, "What does the *P* in *HPR* stand for ?" is, of course, 'Perfect'. But it's not accepting it. Would someone please fix this and let me know when it'

Re: [Hpr] Site unavailable again

I'm not sure if this is related but I've also been having issues. I'm in the Philippines and my ISP is a little goofey Ken Fallon ascertained that one thing it does is change my IP address about every 3 milliseconds On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Mike Ray wrote: > > Not responding again. > >

Re: [Hpr] comments rss feed

It's also on the Get Shows page. On 06/16/2016 08:30 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: I was delighted to discover there's already an rss feed for all the comments, but I had to go digging into the source of the html to find it, I would suggest a link from the comments viewer page.. There's alread

Re: [Hpr] HPR Short listed for the The People's Choice Podcast Awards

In that case, better pull the ep i uploaded yesterday. On 05/29/2016 05:17 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: On 2016-05-24 14:20, Ken Fallon wrote: The People's Choice Podcast Awards has short listed Hacker Public Radio in the Technology section for the 11th Podcast Awards. Daily Voting Opens Sunday May 2

Re: [Hpr] title

A rose by any other name would still sound as sweet. On 02/14/2016 08:18 PM, sigflup synasloble wrote: I've mad a mistake on the title of show number 1975. The title should read, "Interview With An Android App Developer" ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hacke

Re: [Hpr] FOSDEM Send in your questions

I tend to agree. It pains me to say it but Base is not even close. On 01/22/2016 04:48 PM, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi Ken If you speak to the LibreOffice people I'd be very interested in future plans for Base. It seems to have received a lot less attention over the years than Writer or Calc. Thi

Re: [Hpr] Requested Topic: IRC Etiquette

The first thing is unlike email, which should be top posted, you should always bottom post in IRC. On 12/30/2015 03:09 AM, Ken Fallon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Following on from Dave's mail list etiquette show, I would like for someone to do a similar show on best

Re: [Hpr] 1. UK Table Kit (Dave Morriss)

Someone should do a show on email etiquette. On 11/16/2015 07:15 AM, Dave Morriss wrote: On 16/11/15 01:38, Fifty OneFifty wrote: I think we should auction off the old table cloth to pay for the new one. Rumour has it that @timttmy might know of a way to shrink the cost of the replacement to a

Re: [Hpr] Getting In New Contributors (from within HPR subscribers)

While I do 'owe you a show', I do believe that it's not realistic to expect more than a very small percentage of listeners to contribute. That percentage is likely to drop as the listener base increases. The simple fact is not everyone wants to contribute a show and not everyone has a show in

Re: [Hpr] Getting In New Contributors

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a group of men and women with more time than either money or sense happened upon one another in an establishment of ill repute. From that day on they've remained drunk and are still running off at the mouth, I'm pretty sure that's the story of HPR.

Re: [Hpr] New linux podcast #SYSTEMAU

This one's not for the kiddos On 06/22/2015 03:06 PM, Frank Bell wrote: On 11:13 Mon 22 Jun , Ken Fallon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 an Australian technology podcast with a Linux bent. http://feeds.feedburner.com/systemau-ogg http://feeds.feedburner.com/systemau

Re: [Hpr] Call for Shows - this is not a drill

On 05/08/2015 05:20 PM, Jonathan Kulp wrote: Allow me to add right here that I could keep on uploading shows, I'm not tired and not out of topics, but y'all are gonna get serious jonkulp fatigue and I suggest someone else upload something quick... Jon I'm bottom posting even though top posti

Re: [Hpr] Bad e-mail ediquette

I can't wait for this ep. I'll finally get to hear the reason everyone is so bad with the emails. For example, why doesn't everyone top post so you can see what's new first? On 03/19/2015 04:51 AM, Dave Morriss wrote: On 19/03/15 06:29, Fifty OneFifty wrote: I think I must be the one you we

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: Cross-Promotional Opportunties

I'll say one thing. They certainly got the word out amongst this crowd. ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org

Re: [Hpr] New year's post mortem

I like the show as is but would probably also like an unconference, too. Was the show this year bad? I thought the specific point was to be pub like for new year. If it's shifting to another day it wouldn't be the same, which might not be bad. Do you think we'd be able to get speakers for a

Re: [Hpr] Constructive Criticism

Not that we'd take the advise of someone who'd suggest paying for intro music, I stumbled on this post by mistake. http://podcast.musicradiocreative.com/podcast-intros-dos-and-donts-podcast-episode-24/ ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org ht

Re: [Hpr] @Ahuka; Libreoffice base?

I also used to develop in access and have found base less than ideal. In fact I've given up on base altogether. On 11/30/2014 06:31 AM, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi I also used to be an Access developer. When I came over the fence to Linux (2008) I looked for an equivalent tool and made the assump

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: Constructive criticism

It's a matter of use case. Plenty of people listen to shows when their hands aren't readily available to fast forward. On 11/26/2014 08:15 AM, Joshua Burton wrote: I honestly don't understand what the problem is. It's a podcast, *just fast forward*. I do it with plenty of stuff I listen to.

Re: [Hpr] Fwd: Constructive criticism

At times the length of the intro annoyed me, too. But not enough to override the love for HPR. I considered running something to automatically truncate them. But I've since come around to liking the intro as a way to set the mood and cleanse the palette for the soon to come free hacker goodn

Re: [Hpr] Usefulness of the Community News Show

Is the community news useful ? Even though I listen to all shows, I find some use in the CNS from hearing others talk about the episodes. Often there will be some insight or angle I missed. Should we stop it ? I don't think so. I enjoy it. It's sort of a proxy to compensate for the fact I

[Hpr] Is freenode down?

Got kicked off and haven't been able to reconnect for quite some time. Is freenode down? ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org

Re: [Hpr] New Year Show/ Orca

Protocol and formalities aside, If we can support this project, what good are we? On 12/23/2013 02:50 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: On 12/23/2013 2:43 PM, Ken Fallon wrote: Hi All, I would like to apologise to the HPR community for my over zealous attitude in posting information about the Orca cam