HPR3111: HPR Community News for June 2020

New hosts

There were no new hosts this month.

Last Month's Shows

Comments this month

These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows.
There are 23 comments in total.

Past shows

There are 6 comments on
5 previous shows:

• hpr3056
  (2020-04-20) "Jitsi"
  by operat0r.


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    Comment 8:
    operat0r on 2020-06-13:
    "dERp"
  
  
• hpr3072
  (2020-05-12) "The joy of pip-tools and pyenv-virtualenv"
  by clacke.


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    Comment 3:
    clacke on 2020-06-02:
    "The joy is real"
  
  
• hpr3079
  (2020-05-21) "Linux Inlaws S01E06 Porn and Trump"
  by monochromec.


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    Comment 1:
    frank on 2020-06-15:
    "The sketch"
  
  
• hpr3082
  (2020-05-26) "RFC 5005 Part 1 – Paged and archived feeds? Who cares?"
  by clacke.


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    Comment 1:
    clacke on 2020-06-02:
    "Atom "tombstones" RFC"
  
  
• hpr3083
  (2020-05-27) "Mumbling while on lockdown"
  by Dave Morriss.


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    Comment 3:
    Windigo on 2020-06-03:
    "Modern Sheevaplug support"
  
  
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    Comment 4:
    Dave Morriss on 2020-06-04:
    "Re: Modern Sheevaplug support"
  
  

This month's shows

There are 17 comments on 11 of this month's shows:

• hpr3087
  (2020-06-02) "Phonetic alphabet"
  by klaatu.


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  • Comment 1:
    crvs on 2020-06-02:
    "you forgot november"
  
  
• hpr3090
  (2020-06-05) "Locating Computer on a Enterprise Network"
  by operat0r.


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  • Comment 1:
    b-yeezi on 2020-06-05:
    "Thanks for reminding me"
  • Comment 2:
    cmhobbs on 2020-06-08:
    "quality episode"
  
  
• hpr3091
  (2020-06-08) "fuguserv"
  by Zen_Floater2.


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  • Comment 1:
    norrist on 2020-06-08:
    "read only router"
  • Comment 2:
    lZen_Floater1 on 2020-06-11:
    "READ ONLY ROOTS"
  
  
• hpr3093
  (2020-06-10) "Response to Linux Inlaws S01E06 (hpr 3079) on NeXT"
  by Claudio Miranda.


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  • Comment 1:
    monochromec on 2020-05-27:
    "The review of the review"
  
  
• hpr3094
  (2020-06-11) "Holy crud! I have a kinesis advantage 2 keyboard!"
  by sigflup.


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  • Comment 1:
    cmhobbs on 2020-06-11:
    "great keyboard"
  
  
• hpr3095
  (2020-06-12) "Intro to GIMP"
  by Ahuka.


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  • Comment 1:
    brian-in-ohio on 2020-06-14:
    "the gimp"
  • Comment 2:
    Ahuka on 2020-06-14:
    "I'm glad it helped"
  
  
• hpr3096
  (2020-06-15) "Unscripted ramblings on a walk: PC Building."
  by Christopher M. Hobbs.


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  • Comment 1:
    Mike Brehm on 2020-06-17:
    "Productive walk"
  • Comment 2:
    cmhobbs on 2020-06-21:
    "re: productive walk"
  
  
• hpr3099
  (2020-06-18) "Linux Inlaws S01E08 The review of the review"
  by monochromec.


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  • Comment 1:
    ClaudioM on 2020-06-18:
    "All According to Plan! }:-)"
  
  
• hpr3100
  (2020-06-19) "For your consideration - Makers Corner"
  by Ken Fallon.


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  • Comment 1:
    brian-in-ohio on 2020-06-19:
    "a book recommendation"
  
  
• hpr3101
  (2020-06-22) "Metrics"
  by Andrew Conway.


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  • Comment 1:
    Clinton Roy on 2020-06-22:
    "Looking forward to further episodes."
  • Comment 2:
    Ahuka on 2020-06-22:
    "Excellent!"
  • Comment 3:
    brian-in-ohio on 2020-06-22:
    "more episodes"
  
  
• hpr3107
  (2020-06-30) "Generating comfortable passwords"
  by crvs.


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  • Comment 1:
    sigflup on 2020-06-30:
    "Thanks"
  
  

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Error feedback from show notes

Most of the shows we process require us to make some level of modifications to get them posted. This ranges from fixing tags to a complete rewrite of the shownotes, or verifying whether intros were actually added or not.

Each modification that we make means that it requires more human intervention and prevents us from being able to completely automate the upload process. In addition there is a non trivial amount of time needed to "fix" these issues. This can range from a few minutes to an hour or more per show, and with 260 shows a year this mounts up.

We normally don't contact hosts about these issues as it is usually quicker to fix the issues than composing emails, and waiting for the reply that may never come. For the most part our experience has been that hosts are more than willing to fix these issues if they are aware of them.

As part of the ongoing steps toward automation, would hosts be open to the idea of getting a processing report once we have posted the show? This would list all the issues the test tools found and the steps that we needed to take to rectify them.

Making changes to shows after upload

Sometimes an error or omission in notes for an HPR episode isn't noticed until the show is posted to the site. In recent times a few hosts have sent in their changes by way of comments. This not ideal:

1. There's a limit on how much text a comment can hold


2. The comment form has a nasty habit of stripping backslashes, so code corrections can be messed up


3. We don't put comments on the show's page on archive.org, so such corrections will not be seen by people reading the notes there

The HPR admins would prefer changes to be sent in the form of emails to admin at hackerpublicradio.org. They will then be applied to the show notes and the archive.org version updated in step.

Tags and Summaries

Thanks to the following contributor for sending in updates in the past month:
Windigo

Over the period tags and/or summaries have been added to 10 shows which were without them.

If you would like to contribute to the tag/summary project visit the summary page at https://hackerpublicradio.org/report_missing_tags.php and follow the instructions there.