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Hosted by HPR Volunteers on 2021-03-01 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Community News.
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Welcome to our new hosts:
o9l,
Some Guy On The Internet.
These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 16 comments in total.
There are 7 comments on 4 previous shows:
There are 9 comments on 5 of this month's shows:
Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman.
The threaded discussions this month can be found here:
http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2021-February/thread.htmlWith the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar.
Quoting the site:
This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page.
Thanks to the following contributor for sending in updates in the past month:
Dave Morriss
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Hosted by Ahuka on 2021-02-26 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: social media, alternative, Fediverse, ActivityPub.
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Federated social media can open up some wonderful possibilities but we need to make it happen. In this opening keynote address Evan Prodromou, who arguably started it all off, shows that he has thought long and deeply about this, and gives us his vision for where we can take it. https://www.zwilnik.com/better-social-media/activitypub-conference-2020/activitypub-2020-evan-prodromou/
The Ipad2, at over 9 years old, is unsupported with security or any other kind of updates. Few apps in the App Store will run on its old version of IOS, and that operating system cannot be upgraded.
As far as Apple are concerned an Ipad2 should have been sent to the scrap heap years ago. If you found its 16GB of storage wasn't enough, you were supposed to dump it and buy a new one as you couldn't add more. If you found that you couldn't run the latest version of your favourite apps, dump it and buy a new one as you couldn't upgrade the operating system to the required standard.
Is it necessary to abide by this designed-in obsolescence? Beeza inherits an Ipad2 and decides to find out if he can get any serious use out of it or whether it really does need to be dumped.
Hosted by Archer72 on 2021-02-23 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: microsoft, raspberry pi, bash, script.
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Raspberry Pi OS's tried:
To try later:
Arch for Arm
https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-pi-4
TPLink dongle. Actually, it has a 6-7 inch antenna for greater range.
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-desktop-10-9-10-14-Archer-T2U/dp/B07P5PRK7J/
https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git
sudo apt install dkms
cd rtl8812au
sudo make dkms_installGardiner Bryant (The Linux Gamer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYPIohzo2Y
Found after this recording is a more in-depth way to remove Microsoft's hands from your Raspberry Pi OS.
The following code snippet was edited for readability.
#Hold raspberrypi-sys-mods package
sudo apt-mark hold raspberrypi-sys-mods
#Redirect calls to packages.microsoft.com to localhost
sudo echo "0.0.0.0 packages.microsoft.com" >> /etc/hosts
#remove MS Key file
sudo rm -vf /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
#create empty dummy key file
sudo touch /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
#lock the dummy key file
sudo chattr +i /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
#comment out vscode.list
sudo sed -i 's/deb/#deb/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
#lock the vscode.list file
sudo chattr +i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.listDeepgeek's thoughts about HD radio.
Hosted by Ken Fallon on 2021-02-19 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Wemos, D1 Mini, network scan.
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Use a Wemos to monitor if the lid is open or closed on a network scanner.
In episode hpr2430 :: Scanning books, I had a bash file trigger a network scan. This required two steps, one to close the lid and the next to press a key for scantoimage.bash to trigger the next page of the scan.
In the intervening time I looked at several solutions to improve this situation.
The most obvious step was to put a magnetic switch on the scanner lid so that a device could detect the lid been closed.
I tried a Raspberry PI but my scanner drivers are only available for Intel and not Arm. Then then accessing the pi using Remote GPIO, but it got very complex to setup and run.
Inspired by hpr3077 :: Video conference Push to Talk Hosted by DanNixon on 2020-05-19, I tried using an arduino talking over serial to a Intel Compute Stick. But that was very flakey.
Finally I settled on using a Clone of LOLIN D1 mini, and some Reed Contacts.
Wire one end of the reed contact to 3.3v, and the other end to ground via a 10K resistor.
Have a sensor wire go from the 10K resistor to pin D5 on the D1 Mini.
server="YOUR-WEMOS-IP-ADDRESS" in wemos-scantoimage.bash to the ip address.image_path="/PATH/TO/YOUR/SCANS/" in wemos-scantoimage.bash to where your want the files saved.~/.local/binHPR.config Name: "Darwin" Handle: "Some Guy on the Internet" Occupation: "Loiter on the Internet" Hobby: "Freedom" Title: "Embrace Firefox" Summary: "That’s Our Browser!"
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