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I have been struggling with my body weight since I was 35, and I’m now 60. I know that not all listeners are familiar with the kilogram as unit of measurement, but we can use the BMI (Body Mass Index) formula to discuss this. It should be somewhere between 22 and 25 and mine has been 33 for a long time. A very long time. No matter what I tried. Yes, I tried some diets but they only work if you keep doing them. So if something does not become normal or easy than at some inevitable point you will stop and gain weight again. Yes, they talk about changing your life style but any change that is too drastic is bound to fail in the end. And then recently I read this book. This absolutely changed my life and that is why I am so motivated to tell you all about it. Book obesity code, Jason Fung, a Canadian nephrologist (kidney specialist). He is also a functional medicine advocate who promotes a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet and intermittent fasting. But we come back to that later. Not another diet hype. That is an industry on its own. This is scientific stuff. With lots of links to research papers. With large groups and thoroughly peer reviewed. And this does not mean that this story is for everyone. There exist other medical reasons why people gain weight. But, assuming most people start out in life being healthy, then most people gaining weight are not ill. So, if you gain weight, consult your doctor first to rule out any medical reasons. Jason Fung noticed that practice didn't match with theory. Everybody who is given insulin gains weight. Even diabetes type 2 people. There are even several scientific studies that proves this. Give people insulin and they will gain weight. So what if insulin is the culprit for gaining weight? Insulin is a hormone. Its job is to send signals through the body. Its use is to allow body cells to absorb nutrients in the blood stream. Every time you eat the insulin peaks and subsides normally three times a day. Body process called gluconeogenesis. Making fat in the liver for one day storage. If you eat the body makes insulin. That is normal. If you eat more, the body makes more insulin. Body cells adjust to the higher level and become tone deaf to insulin: Insulin resistant. This means next time the insulin level needs to be higher. And higher levels of insulin mean you will gain weight. If you eat sugar, it is so easy to break down that it goes immediately into storage, e.g. body fat. The thing is, wheat is chemically a long string of sugars. So the body will break it down into sugar and send that too to storage. And almost any food we buy these days contains sugar. Except unprocessed foods like vegetables. How to lose weight? Well, the body needs to access the fat in storage. So we need to extend not eating until the liver has run dry of the daily dose of liver fat. This is very easy. Just extend the daily period that you do not eat. When do you not eat? When you sleep. So, skip breakfast. The name says it all, you are breaking your fast. Drink some coffee (no sugar of course), or tea, or water and try to start eating later in the day. And another word for not eating is fasting. But it is a voluntary fast! So I tried this for one day. Skip breakfast and try to eat it at noon. I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right? The next day I had lost some weight. And it was sooo easy! I could say 300 grams but again, your mileage may vary or you have no clue what one gram is, let alone 300. But that is not the point. The point is that I lost weight! And to me this has been super easy. So the solution turns out to be: extend the time your insulin levels are low. 16, 24 or 36 hours. eat as little sugar as possible. Which brings me to food categories. carbohydrates. Sugars, wheat, flour proteins. fats. Oil, etc. vitamins and minerals fibers Average digestion times of carbohydrates. 30 minutes. After which you will be hungry again proteins: 3-5 hours fats. Oil, etc. up to 40 hours vitamins and minerals. needed fibers. Leave the body How has all this theory changed my life and diet? I try to start eating at noon, sometimes an hour earlier I eat as little carbohydrates as possible. Little to no bread, definitely no sugar, avoid artificial sweeteners my meal at noon is most of the times quark with some fruit for flavoring evening food: Vegetables are good. Some meat is good. I try to avoid desserts No eating between meals (this will cause an extra insulin peak I want to avoid) Since I started 2 month ago I have on average lost 4 kilograms. It could have been more but then there’s the occasional dinner with friends and what is bad, but soo good, is unavoidable. So, some other stuff that is good to know: What’s that about exercising? Well, we humans, excel at walking and thus wearing out our prey. So walking is good. Everyday for half an hour is great. Doing an intensive workout for a minimum of 10 minutes per week is good to keep our cardiovascular system and our brain up to speed Can you compensate cookies with sports. Well, every cookie would take you about 2.5 hours of intensive sports, so no, you can not compensate bad eating with sports. What’s with the calories in are calories out? Studies have proven that this is a false claim. It just doesn't work that way. What about stress. Well, it turns out that stress leads to heightened levels of the hormones adrenaline and cortisol. And when cortisol rises, so too does the insulin levels in your body. So, this simply means that stress will lead to weight gain. Can I simply drink diet sodas. Well, bummer there, because although it diet sodas do not contain calories nor sugars, they will result in a rise in your insulin level, so they are not good for loosing weight. [The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett] The Fasting Doctor: “Fasting Cures Obesity!”, This Controversial New Drug Melts Fat, Fasting Fixes Hormones! Skip Breakfast! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-fasting-doctor-fasting-cures-obesity-this/id1291423644 Jason Fung YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RuWp3s6Uxk I hope you found this explanation helpful. Have a nice day.

Introduction This is the start of a short series about the JSON data format, and how the command-line tool jq can be used to process such data. The plan is to make an open series to which others may contribute their own experiences using this tool. The jq command is described on the GitHub page as follows: jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor …and as: jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. The jq tool is controlled by a programming language (also referred to as jq), which is very powerful. This series will mainly deal with this. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) To begin we will look at JSON itself. It is defined on the Wikipedia page thus: JSON is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values). It is a common data format with diverse uses in electronic data interchange, including that of web applications with servers. The syntax of JSON is defined by RFC 8259 and by ECMA-404. It is fairly simple in principle but has some complexity. JSON’s basic data types are (edited from the Wikipedia page): Number: a signed decimal number that may contain a fractional part and may use exponential E notation, but cannot include non-numbers. (NOTE: Unlike what I said in the audio, there are two values representing non-numbers: 'nan' and infinity: 'infinity'. String: a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters. Strings are delimited with double quotation marks and support a backslash escaping syntax. Boolean: either of the values true or false Array: an ordered list of zero or more elements, each of which may be of any type. Arrays use square bracket notation with comma-separated elements. Object: a collection of name–value pairs where the names (also called keys) are strings. Objects are delimited with curly brackets and use commas to separate each pair, while within each pair the colon ':' character separates the key or name from its value. null: an empty value, using the word null Examples These are the basic data types listed above (same order): 42 "HPR" true ["Hacker","Public","Radio"] { "firstname": "John", "lastname": "Doe" } null jq From the Wikipedia page: jq was created by Stephen Dolan, and released in October 2012. It was described as being “like sed for JSON data”. Support for regular expressions was added in jq version 1.5. Obtaining jq This tool is available in most of the Linux repositories. For example, on Debian and Debian-based releases you can install it with: sudo apt install jq See the download page for the definitive information about available versions. Manual for jq There is a detailed manual describing the use of the jq programming language that is used to filter JSON data. It can be found at https://jqlang.github.io/jq/manual/. The HPR statistics page This is a collection of statistics about HPR, in the form of JSON data. We will use this as a moderately detailed example in this episode. A link to this page may be found on the HPR Calendar page close to the foot of the page under the heading Workflow. The link to the JSON statistics is https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/stats.json. If you click on this you should see the JSON data formatted for you by your browser. Different browsers represent this in different ways. You can also collect and display this data from the command line, using jq of course: $ curl -s https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/stats.json | jq '.' | nl -w3 -s' ' 1 { 2 "stats_generated": 1712785509, 3 "age": { 4 "start": "2005-09-19T00:00:00Z", 5 "rename": "2007-12-31T00:00:00Z", 6 "since_start": { 7 "total_seconds": 585697507, 8 "years": 18, 9 "months": 6, 10 "days": 28 11 }, 12 "since_rename": { 13 "total_seconds": 513726307, 14 "years": 16, 15 "months": 3, 16 "days": 15 17 } 18 }, 19 "shows": { 20 "total": 4626, 21 "twat": 300, 22 "hpr": 4326, 23 "duration": 7462050, 24 "human_duration": "0 Years, 2 months, 27 days, 8 hours, 47 minutes and 30 seconds" 25 }, 26 "hosts": 356, 27 "slot": { 28 "next_free": 8, 29 "no_media": 0 30 }, 31 "workflow": { 32 "UPLOADED_TO_IA": "2", 33 "RESERVE_SHOW_SUBMITTED": "27" 34 }, 35 "queue": { 36 "number_future_hosts": 7, 37 "number_future_shows": 28, 38 "unprocessed_comments": 0, 39 "submitted_shows": 0, 40 "shows_in_workflow": 15, 41 "reserve": 27 42 } 43 } The curl utility is useful for collecting information from links like this. I have used the -s option to ensure it does not show information about the download process, since it does this by default. The output is piped to jq which displays the data in a “pretty printed” form by default, as you see. In this case I have given jq a minimal filter which causes what it receives to be printed. The filter is simply '.'. I have piped the formatted JSON through the nl command to get line numbers for reference. The JSON shown here consists of nested JSON objects. The first opening brace and the last at line 43 define the whole thing as a single object. Briefly, the object contains the following: a number called stats_generated (line 2) an object called age on lines 3-18; this object contains two strings and two objects an object called shows on lines 19-25 a number called hosts on line 26 an object called slot on lines 27-30 an object called workflow on lines 31-34 an object called queue on lines 35-42 We will look at ways to summarise and reformat such output in a later episode. Next episode I will look at some of the options to jq next time, though most of them will be revealed as they become relevant. I will also start looking at jq filters in that episode. Links JSON (JavaScript Object Notation): Wikipedia page about JSON Standards: RFC8259: The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format ECMA-404: The JSON data interchange syntax jq: GitHub page Downloading jq The jq manual Wikipedia page about the jq programming language MrX’s show on using the HPR statistics in JSON: Modifying a Python script with some help from ChatGPT

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/17z3i5VlRzEn2tYPfb-Cx0LYpdKkbL-6svIzp7ZQOvX8 Resume Update Tips I use Kagi.com pro $300 / year but you get access to much more Search+AI but not plugins like ChatGPT so if you MUST have ChatGPT plugins you will need OpenAI Premium account but if you don't I high recommend Kagi.com Pro account with access to Assistant Beta !!! Land a Job using ChatGPT: The Definitive Guide! https://youtu.be/pmnY5V16GSE?t=192 Extensive Resume Notes https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zeYIG7tTE0BUqbRM7-hpk3VdTRc35ZkL/view?usp=sharing Ripped cybersn https://rmccurdy.com/.scripts/downloaded/knowmore.cybersn.com_20220811.txt Perfect ChatGPT Prompt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4v5AS4RIM Summary There is a formula consisting of 6 building blocks that can help generate high quality outputs from ChatGPT and Google Bard: task, context, exemplars, persona, format, and tone. The order of importance for the building blocks is task first, then context, with the others being optional but helpful. The task should clearly articulate the end goal using an action verb like "generate" or "analyze". Context provides relevant background information to constrain possibilities. Exemplars like examples or frameworks included in the prompt can improve output quality. The persona allows specifying who ChatGPT should be, like a job recruiter. The format specifies how the output should be structured, like an email or bullet points. Tone provides keywords to set the feeling, like "friendly" or "serious". Example You are a senior product marketing manager at Apple and you have just unveiled the latest Apple product in collaboration with Tesla, the Apple Car, and received 12,000 pre-orders, which is 200% higher than target. Write an email to your boss, Tim Cookie, sharing this positive news. The email should include a tl;dr (too long, didn't read) section, project background (why this product came into existence), business results section (quantifiable business metrics), and end with a section thanking the product and engineering teams. Use clear and concise language and write in a confident yet friendly tone. Example 2 ( mine ) I want you to act as a cyber security specialist for a leading consumer products company and you want to relay the importance of people understanding their data and have some idea what they want to do with it before we spend hours for the onboarding effort. Write an email to your boss, Joey , sharing this critical component of the SIEM. The email should include a tl;dr (too long, didn't read) section, example of how the team can spend many cycles onboarding data only to find the requester has no idea what they want to do with the data or it does not satisfy their use case. Use clear and concise language and write in a confident yet friendly tone. Response Subject: Streamlining SIEM Onboarding with Clear Data Objectives Hi Joey, I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to touch base on a critical aspect of our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) process that could significantly enhance our efficiency. TL;DR: We need to ensure that stakeholders understand their data and have clear objectives before we initiate the SIEM onboarding process. This will prevent the team from spending excessive time onboarding data that may not meet the intended use cases or for which the requester has no actionable plan. During our recent SIEM onboarding efforts, we've encountered several instances where considerable time and resources were invested in integrating data sources, only to discover that the requesters were unclear about their objectives or the data did not fulfill their anticipated needs. For example, last month, the team dedicated over 40 hours to onboarding a new data source for the marketing department. After completion, it became apparent that the marketing team was unsure how to leverage this data for threat detection or compliance reporting, rendering the effort less effective. To address this, I propose we implement a preliminary consultation phase for each SIEM onboarding request. In this phase, requesters must articulate: - The specific security or compliance questions they aim to answer with the data. - How they intend to use the data within the SIEM environment. - Any particular data formats or schemas they anticipate will be necessary. By doing so, we can align our onboarding efforts with the actual needs and ensure that every hour spent is towards enhancing our security posture and providing actionable insights. I believe this approach will not only save time but also empower our stakeholders to make better-informed decisions regarding their security data needs. Looking forward to your thoughts on this. Best regards, [Your Name] Cyber Security Specialist AI Agents ProfSynapse AI Agent Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL9x1SuNLRo&t=137s ( if you have Openai Premium it will use [tools(Vision, Web Browsing, Advanced Data Analysis, or DALL-E], ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProfSynapse/Synapse_CoR/main/GPTprompt.txt ) GPT Agents (old) https://godmode.space/ needs openai key and gpt4 also enable auto approval it may go in loops just watch for that AutoGPT ( OLD ) Image I have a stupid amount of kudos https://tinybots.net/artbot Use my key under the settings for any of the web UI's for faster renders: https://rentry.org/RentrySD/#x-table-of-contents https://rentry.org/sdhypertextbook https://github.com/C0untFloyd/bark-gui ( Audio Clone ) Example 1 Photorealistic, best quality, masterpiece, raw photo of upper body photo, Swordsman woman, soldier of the austro-hungarian empire clothes, double breasted jacket with stripes, extremely detailed eyes and face, long legs, highest quality, skin texture, intricate details, (cinematic lighting), RAW photo, 8k Negative prompt: airbrush, photoshop, plastic doll, plastic skin, easynegative, monochrome, (low quality, worst quality:1.4), illustration, cg, 3d, render, anime Text Generation Example Open source Projects: my hord key : l2n6qwRBqXsEa_BVkK8nKQ ( don't abuse but I have a crazy amount of kudos don't worry ) https://tinybots.net/ Image Text etc .. Text adventures etc (Click the horde tab and use my key) https://agnai.chat/settings?tab=0 https://lite.koboldai.net Need a 24G NVRAM card really..you can load 7b with my 8G card just fine. ollama run wizard-vicuna-uncensored, falcon, Mistral 7B "You should have at least 8 GB of RAM to run the 3B models, 16 GB to run the 7B models, and 32 GB to run the 13B models." https://ollama.ai/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its-wolfram-superpowers/ https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free https://www.thesamur.ai/autogpt https://poe.com/universal_link_page?handle=ChatGPT https://camelagi.thesamur.ai/conversation/share?session=6040 Prompt Agent Persona example 1 Pinky from the TV Series Pinky and the Brain I find it easiest to understand responses when the text is written as if it was spoken by a Pinky from the TV Series Pinky and the Brain. Please talk like Pinky from the TV Series Pinky and the Brain as much as possible, and refer to me as "Brain"; occasionally, ask me "What are we going to do tonight Brain ?" Prompt Agent Persona example 2 Use with prompts to create a persona take Myers-Brigg personality and tritype Enneagram quiz: Example Prompt: Help me Refine my resume to be more targeted to an information security engineer. Be sure to be clear and concise with with bullet points and write it in the style of MBTI Myers-Brigg personality ENFJ and tritype Enneagram 729 Prompt Agent Persona example 3 I find it easiest to understand responses when the text is written as if it was spoken by a dudebro. Please talk like a dudebro as much as possible, and refer to me as "Brah"; occasionally, yell at your dorm roommate Jake about being messy. Training (OLD OLD OLD ) 3 photos of full body or entire object + 5 medium shot photos from the chest up + 10 close ups astria.ai https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion/issues/1173 colab: https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion pohtos: 21 resolution: 768 merged with ##### 1.5 full 8G UNet_Training_Steps: 4200 UNet_Learning_Rate: 5e-6 Text_Encoder_Training_Steps: 2520 Text_Encoder_Learning_Rate: 1e-6 Variation is key - Change body pose for every picture, use pictures from different days backgrounds and lighting, and show a variety of expressions and emotions. Make sure you capture the subject's eyes looking in different directions for different images, take one with closed eyes. Every picture of your subject should introduce new info about your subject. Whatever you capture will be over-represented, so things you don't want to get associated with your subject should change in every shot. Always pick a new background, even if that means just moving a little bit to shift the background. Here are 8 basic tips that work for me, followed by one super secret tip that I recently discovered. Consistency is important. Don’t mix photos from 10 years ago with new ones. Faces change, people lose weight or gain weight and it all just lowers fidelity. Avoid big expressions, especially ones where the mouth is open. It is much easier to train if the hair doesn't change much. I tried an early model of a woman using photos with hair up, down, in ponytail, with a different cut, etc. It seems like it just confused SD. Avoid selfies (unless you ONLY use selfies.) There is MUCH more perspective distortion when the camera is that close. For optimal results, a single camera with a fixed lens would be used, and all photos should be taken at the same distance from the subject. This usually isn't possible, but at least avoid selfies because they cause major face distortion. Full body shots are not that important. Some of the best models I trained used only 15 photos cropped to the head / shoulder region. Many of these were full body shots, but I cropped them down. SD can guess what the rest of the body looks like, and if not, just put it in the pr

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Home Automation, The Internet of things. This is the first episode in a new series called Home Automation. The series is open to anyone and I encourage everyone to contribute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home. A home automation system will monitor and/or control home attributes such as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security such as access control and alarm systems. The phrase smart home refers to home automation devices that have internet access. Home automation, a broader category, includes any device that can be monitored or controlled via wireless radio signals, not just those having internet access. When connected with the Internet, home sensors and activation devices are an important constituent of the Internet of Things ("IoT"). A home automation system typically connects controlled devices to a central smart home hub (sometimes called a "gateway"). The user interface for control of the system uses either wall-mounted terminals, tablet or desktop computers, a mobile phone application, or a Web interface that may also be accessible off-site through the Internet. Now is the time I tried this out a few years ago, but after a lot of frustration with configuration of esp32 arduinos, and raspberry pi's I left it be. Recently inspired by colleagues in work, I decided to get back into it and my initial tests show that the scene has much improved over the years. Youtube Playlist The Hook Up, RSS Home Automation Guy, RSS Everything Smart Home, RSS Smart Solutions for Home, RSS Smart Home Circle, RSS Smart Home Junkie, RSS Home Assistant The first thing we'll need is something to control it all. Something will allow us to control our homes without requiring the cloud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Assistant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation, designed to be an Internet of things (IoT) ecosystem-independent integration platform and central control system for smart home devices, with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface, by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands via a supported virtual assistant, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, and their own "Assist" (built-in local voice assistant). The Home Assistant software application is installed as a computer appliance. After installation, it will act as a central control system for home automation (commonly called a smart home hub), that has the purpose of controlling IoT connectivity technology devices, software, applications and services from third-parties via modular integration components, including native integration components for common wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, Thread, Zigbee, and Z-Wave (used to create local personal area networks with small low-power digital radios). Home Assistant as such supports controlling devices and services connected via either open and proprietary ecosystems as long they provide public access via some kind of Open API or MQTT for third-party integrations over the local area network or the Internet. Information from all devices and their attributes (entities) that the application sees can be used and controlled from within scripts trigger automation using scheduling and "blueprint" subroutines, e.g. for controlling lighting, climate, entertainment systems and home appliances. Summary Original author(s): Paulus Schoutsen Developer(s): Home Assistant Core Team and Community Initial release: 17 September 2013 Repository: https://github.com/home-assistant Written in: Python (Python 3.11) Operating system: Software appliance / Virtual appliance (Linux) Platform: ARM, ARM64, IA-32 (x86), and x64 (x86-64) Type: Home automation, smart home technology, Internet of things, task automator License: Apache License (free and open-source) Website: https://www.home-assistant.io The following is taken from the Concepts and terminology on the Home Assistant website. It is reproduced here under the creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Integrations Integrations are pieces of software that allow Home Assistant to connect to other software and platforms. For example, a product by Philips called Hue would use the Philips Hue term integration and allow Home Assistant to talk to the hardware controller Hue Bridge. Any Home Assistant compatible term devices connected to the Hue Bridge would appear in Home Assistant as devices. For a full list of compatible term integrations, refer to the integrations documentation. Once an term integration has been added, the hardware and/or data are represented in Home Assistant as devices and entities. Entities Entities are the basic building blocks to hold data in Home Assistant. An term entity represents a term sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other term entities. An term entity is usually part of a term device or a term service. Entities have term states. Devices Devices are a logical grouping for one or more term entities. A term device may represent a physical term device, which can have one or more sensors. The sensors appear as entities associated with the term device. For example, a motion sensor is represented as a term device. It may provide motion detection, temperature, and light levels as term entities. Entities have states such as detected when motion is detected and clear when there is no motion. Devices and entities are used throughout Home Assistant. To name a few examples: Dashboards can show a state of an term entity. For example, if a light is on or off. An automation can be triggered from a state change on an term entity. For example, a motion sensor entity detects motion and triggers a light to turn on. A predefined color and brightness setting for a light saved as a scene. Areas An area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of term devices and term entities that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world: your home. For example, the living room area groups devices and entities in your living room. Areas allow you to target service calls at an entire group of devices. For example, turning off all the lights in the living room. Locations within your home such as living room, dance floor, etc. Areas can be assigned to term floors. Areas can also be used for automatically generated cards, such as the Area card. Automations A set of repeatable term actions that can be set up to run automatically. Automations are made of three key components: Triggers - events that start an term automation. For example, when the sun sets or a motion sensor is activated. Conditions - optional tests that must be met before an term action can be run. For example, if someone is home. Actions - interact with term devices such as turn on a light. To learn the basics about term automations, refer to the automation basics page or try creating an automation yourself. Scripts Similar to term automations, scripts are repeatable term actions that can be run. The difference between term scripts and term automations is that term scripts do not have triggers. This means that term scripts cannot automatically run unless they are used in an term automations. Scripts are particularly useful if you perform the same term actions in different term automations or trigger them from a dashboard. For information on how to create term scripts, refer to the scripts documentation. Scenes Scenes allow you to create predefined settings for your term devices. Similar to a driving mode on phones, or driver profiles in cars, it can change an environment to suit you. For example, your watching films term scene may dim the lighting, switch on the TV and increase its volume. This can be saved as a term scene and used without having to set individual term devices every time. To learn how to use term scenes, refer to the scene documentation. Add-ons Depending on your installation type, you can install third party add-ons. Add-ons are usually apps that can be run with Home Assistant but provide a quick and easy way to install, configure, and run within Home Assistant. Add-ons provide additional functionality whereas term integrations connect Home Assistant to other apps.

This was an unscheduled recording I made after my GPS failed part way into a long cross country trip. I did not make any notes. :( Effectively, this is a "Back in my day" old man rant.

Just me explaining why I think the robots will take our jobs.

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In this episode I go through the pros and cons of running Linux when you switch over from a Windows machine. I'll cover topics like: Speed Simplicity Configuration Games Updates and much more. Links YouTube video

Shownotes: postmarketOS website: https://postmarketos.org/ pmOS image download page: https://postmarketos.org/download/ pmOS wiki page for PINE64 PinePhone: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone) JumpDrive: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive JumpDrive images (does not currently support PinePhone Pro!): https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases Explanation of "pine64-pinephone-charging" image: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/issues/55 pmOS wiki page on how to flash an SD card with JumpDrive: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/JumpDrive On-Device Installer (ondev): https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/On-device_installer Ondev2: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Ondev2 Installing a prebuilt pmOS on PinePhone with JumpDrive: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Installation

More man-talk. Sgoti talks about using bidets and other things. Good heavens! Tags: mens health, bidets, fiber Source: hellotushy: We’re a team of toilet crusaders, fighting for clean bums and reduced global wastefulness. Supporting source: hellotushy: TUSHY Classic 3.0 Source: metamucil: Metamucil is the only leading fiber supplement that contains natural psyllium fiber. Supporting source: metamucil: Metamucil Real Sugar Orange Smooth Powder. Supporting source: wikipedia: Dietary fiber (fibre in Commonwealth English) or roughage is the portion of plant-derived food that cannot be completely broken down by human digestive enzymes. Supporting source: wikipedia: Psyllium, is the common name used for several members of the plant genus Plantago whose seeds are used commercially for the production of mucilage. Supporting source: wikipedia: Fibre supplements are widely available, and can be found in forms such as powders, tablets, and capsules. Consumption of fibre supplements may be for: improving dietary intake, lowering blood cholesterol, alleviating irritable bowel syndrome, reducing the risk of colon cancer, and increasing feelings of satiety. Supporting source: walmart: Equate Multi-Health Daily Fiber Supplement, Orange Flavored Powder, Value Size (48.2 oz) Supporting source: samsclub: Member's Mark 100% Psyllium Husk Fiber Capsules, 400 ct./pk., 2 pk. Supporting source: hackerpublicradio: hpr4083 :: Drivecast: Man-talk. Supporting source: hackerpublicradio: hpr3048 :: Alternatives to toilet paper Supporting source: hackerpublicradio: hpr2345 :: Fixing a toilet roll holder Supporting source: hackerpublicradio: hpr2111 :: HPR Community News for August 2016 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Test Driven Development Demo with PyTest TDD Discussed in hpr4075 Write a new test and run it. It should fail. Write the minimal code that will pass the test Optionally - refactor the code while ensure the tests continue to pass PyTest Framework for writing software tests with python Normally used to test python projects, but could test any software that python can launch return input. if you can write python, you can write tests in PyTest. python assert - check that something is true Test Discovery Files named test* Functions named test* Demo Project Trivial app as a demo Print a summary of the latest HPR Episode Title, Host, Date, Audio File How do we get the latest show data RSS feed Feed parser Feed URL The pytest setup The python script we want to test will be named hpr_info.py The test will be in a file will be named test_hpr_info.py test_hpr_info.py import hpr_info Run pytest ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'hpr_info' We have written our first failing test. The minimum code to get pytest to pass is to create an empty file touch hpr_info.py Run pytest again pytest ============================= test session starts ============================== platform linux -- Python 3.11.8, pytest-7.4.4, pluggy-1.4.0 rootdir: /tmp/Demo collected 0 items What just happened We created a file named test_hpr_info.py with a single line to import hpr_info We ran pytest and it failed because hpr_info.py did not exist We created hpr_info.py and pytest ran without an error. This means we confirmed: Pytest found the file named test_hpr_info.py and tried to execute its tests The import line is looking for a file named hpr_info.py Python Assert In python, assert tests if a statement is true For example asert 1==1 In pytest, we can use assert to check a function returns a specific value assert module.function() == "Desired Output" Without doing a comparison operator, we can also use assert to check if something exists without specifying a specific value assert dictionary.key Adding a Test Import hpr_info will allow us to test functions inside hpr_info.py We can reference functions inside hpr_info.py by prepending the name with hpr_info. for example hpr_info.HPR_FEED The first step in finding the latest HPR episode is fetching a copy of the feed. Lets add a test to make sure the HPR feed is defined import hpr_info def test_hpr_feed_url(): assert hpr_info.HPR_FEED == "https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php" pytest again Lets run pytest again and we get the error AttributeError: module 'hpr_info' has no attribute 'HPR_FEED' So lets add the just enough code hpr_info.py to get the test to pass HPR_FEED = "https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php" Run pytest again and we get 1 passed indicating the pytest found 1 test which passed Hooray, we are doing TDD Next Test - Parsing the feed lets plan a function that pulls the HPR feed and returns the feed data. We can test that the result of fetching the feed is a HTTP 200 def test_get_show_data(): show_data = hpr_info.get_show_data() assert show_data.status == 200 Now when we run pytest we get 1 failed, 1 passed and we can see the error AttributeError: module 'hpr_info' has no attribute 'get_show_data' Lets write the code to get the new test to pass. We will use the feedparser python module to make it easier to parse the rss feed. After we add the import and the new function, hpr_info.py looks like this import feedparser HPR_FEED = "https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php" def get_show_data(): showdata = feedparser.parse(HPR_FEED) return showdata Lets run pytest again. When I have more than one test, I like to add the -v flag so I can see each test as it runs. test_hpr_info.py::test_hpr_feed_url PASSED [ 50%] test_hpr_info.py::test_get_show_data PASSED [100%] Next Test - Get the most recent episode from the feed Now that we have the feed, lets test getting the first episode. feedparser entries are dictionaries. Lets test what the function returns to make sure it looks like a rss feed entry. def test_get_latest_entry(): latest_entry = hpr_info.get_latest_entry() assert latest_entry["title"] assert latest_entry["published"] After we verify the test fails, we can write the code to rerun the newest entry data to hpr_info.py and pytest -v will show 3 passing tests. def get_latest_entry(): showdata = get_show_data() return showdata["entries"][0] Final Test Lets test a function to see if it returns the values we want to print. We don't test for specific values, just that the data exists. def test_get_entry_data(): entry_data = hpr_info.get_entry_data(hpr_info.get_latest_entry()) assert entry_data["title"] assert entry_data["host"] assert entry_data["published"] assert entry_data["file"] And then code to get the test to pass def get_entry_data(entry): for link in entry["links"]: if link.get("rel") == "enclosure": enclosure = link.get("href") return { "title": entry["title"], "host": entry["authors"][0]["name"], "published": entry["published"], "file": enclosure, } Finish the HPR info script. Now that we have tested that we can, get all the info we want from the most recent episode lets add the last bit of code to hpr_info.py to print the episode info if __name__ == "__main__": most_recent_show = get_entry_data(get_latest_entry()) print() print(f"Most Recent HPR Episode") for x in most_recent_show: print(f"{x}: {most_recent_show.get(x)}") if __name__ == "__main__": ensures code inside this block will only run when the script is called directly, and not when imported by test_hpr_info.py Summary TDD is a programming method where you write tests prior to writing code. TDD forces me to write smaller functions and more modular code. Link to HPR info script and tests - TODO Additional tests to add Check date is the most recent weekday Check this the host is listed on corespondents page Check others. Project Files - https://gitlab.com/norrist/hpr-pytest-demo

This starts our look at the details of playing Civilization III. This was a great advance on Civilization II, and we will see how this happens as we look at the Cities, and at the terrain types on the tiles. Links: https://www.civfanatics.com/ https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Apolyton_Civilization_Site https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization_III/Terrain https://www.palain.com/gaming/civilization-iii/playing-civilization-iii-part-1/

Below are some links relating to things I discuss in the episode. Note I haven’t included my actual Python code for fear that it would be in breach of the copyright used by HPR as it is based on the output from ChatGPT. If you would like a copy of the code then place contact me via email at mrxathpr@googlemail.com requesting a copy of the code. Related links Wikipedia article about the Raspberry pi Link to PiFace control and display add on board for the Raspberry pi In my episode I repeatedly incorrectly refer to it as “Command and Display Wikipedia article about the Python programming language hpr2344: Follow on to HPR2340 (Tracking the HPR queue in Python) Link to USB powered LED BlinkStick Link to new HPR stats page in JSON format Wikipedia article about the JSON file format Wikipedia article about the XML file format hpr3067: Getting my Python3 code working in Python2 Link to the ChatGPT website Wikipedia article about the R programming language Article about assigning values to a variable in the R programming language A thought came to mind after recording the show. I suspect the reason that ChatGPT incorrectly described the bit of code in the site my wife found was due to lack of context. It may only have been fed the code without being told specifically that it was R code. Unfortunately I was unable to investigate this further as I was unable to find the original site.

Today I Learnt more Bash tips Sgoti talks about supplying options to bash scripts Tags: Bash tips, TIL, getopts #!/bin/bash # License: GPL v3 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. #Name: showtime.sh #Purpose: Time to make a show. #Version: beta 0.01 #Author: SGOTI (Some Guy On The Internet) #Date: 2023-12-29 #variables: bindir=/usr/bin/ cat=${bindir}cat date=${bindir}date echo=${bindir}echo mkdir=${bindir}mkdir dirshow0=${HOME}/Music/hpr/shows dirshow1=${dirshow0}/$(${date} +%Y) dirqueue=${dirshow1}/queue/$(${date} +%F) dirreserve=${dirshow1}/reserve-queue/$(${date} +%F) #start: function help() { ${cat} << EOH Usage: $0 [-s] [-r] [-q] [-h] name-of-show -s (Regular queue) -r (Reserve queue) -q (quit) -h (help) Examples: $0 -s name-of-show $0 -r name-of-show $0 -q $0 -h EOH } ## Use `getopts` to read user option into script. ## while getopts ":s:r:q:h" option; do case $option in s) show=$OPTARG function mkq () { ${mkdir} -v -p ${dirqueue}/${show}/edit; ${mkdir} -v -p ${dirqueue}/${show}/prod; ${cat} > ${dirqueue}/${show}/edit/${show}.md << _EOD_ # ${show} # ## subtitle ## - Tags: This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ "CC-BY-SA 4.0 International"). _EOD_ builtin pushd -n ${dirqueue}/${show}/edit; builtin pushd -n ${dirqueue}/${show}/prod; } if [ -d ${dirshow1} ]; then mkq else ${echo} "Good Heavens! It's a new year."; ${mkdir} -v -p ${dirshow1}; mkq fi ;; r) reserve=$OPTARG function mkr () { ${mkdir} -v -p ${dirreserve}/${reserve}/edit; ${mkdir} -v -p ${dirreserve}/${reserve}/prod; ${cat} > ${dirreserve}/${reserve}/edit/${reserve}.md << _EOD_ # ${reserve} # ## subtitle ## - Tags: This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ "CC-BY-SA 4.0 International"). _EOD_ builtin pushd -n ${dirreserve}/${reserve}/edit; builtin pushd -n ${dirreserve}/${reserve}/prod; } if [ -d ${dirshow1} ]; then mkr else ${echo} "Good Heavens! It's a new year."; ${mkdir} -v -p ${dirshow1}; mkr fi ;; q) ${echo} "Goodbye."; exit ;; h) help exit ;; *) if [ -z "${option}" ]; then help exit 1 fi ${echo} "Good Heavens! Invalid input."; help exit ;; esac done exit; #!/bin/bash # License: GPL v3 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. #Name: sc.sh #Purpose: #Version: beta 0.01 #Author: SGOTI (Some Guy On The Internet) #Date: 2023-12-31 #variables: bindir=/usr/bin/ cat=${bindir}cat date=${bindir}date echo=${bindir}echo ls=${bindir}ls screen=${bindir}screen #start: ${echo} -e "\nStep 0: $(${date} +%F), $(${date} +%T)"; function help() { ${cat} << EOH Usage: $0 [-b] [-s] [-k] [-h] name-of-show -b [y|n] (Create or kill, base sockets.) -s (Create new sockets.) -k (Kill sockets.) -h (help menu) Examples: $0 -b y $0 -b n $0 -s name-of-socket $0 -k name-of-socket $0 -h EOH } ${echo} -e "\nStep 1: $(${date} +%F), $(${date} +%T)"; while getopts ":b:s:k:h:" option; do case "${option}" in b) userinput0=$OPTARG if [ ${userinput0} == "y" ]; then ${screen} -dmS apps; ${screen} -dmS jobby; ${screen} -ls; elif [ ${userinput0} == "n" ]; then # You don't need the entire name to kill the socket. ${screen} -X -S "app" kill ${screen} -X -S "job" kill ${screen} -ls; else ${echo} "Good Heavens!" ${screen} -ls; help exit 1 fi ;; s) userinput0=$OPTARG ${screen} -dmS "${userinput0}"; clear ${screen} -ls; ${echo} -e "\nNew sockets: $(${date} +%F), $(${date} +%T)"; ;; k) userinput0=$OPTARG ${screen} -XS ${userinput0} kill clear ${screen} -ls; ${echo} -e "\nKill sockets: $(${date} +%F), $(${date} +%T)"; ;; h) help ${echo} -e "\nHelp menu: $(${date} +%F), $(${date} +%T)"; exit ;; *) if [ -z "${option}" ]; then help exit 1 fi ${echo} "Good Heavens! Invalid input."; help exit ;; esac done ${echo} -e "\nStep 2: $(${date} +%F), $(${date} +%T)"; exit; Source: In-Depth Series: Today I Learnt Source: In-Depth Series: Bash Scripting This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Getting started with the digiKam photo management software. In hpr4071 I talked about my migration from Adobe Photoshop Elements and Lightroom to digiKam. Today I will give you some suggestions to getting started with digiKam, based on my experience and my opinion. You find the digiKam website at https://www.digikam.org/. On the documentation page you find a good and exhaustive documentation. The big user manual can be read online or downloaded as an epub book. I suggest you browse the manual before you install digiKam. My second suggestion is that you go to the Support page on the digiKam site and look at the Mailing List Subscription section. You can browse the mailing list archive online. But I really recommend you to also join the mailing list. It is a very active mailing list where also the main developers participates actively. Many questions are specific and may not be of interest to you. But I have found that I learn a lot about digiKam, its capabilities and other ways of working with photos than I have thought of. Of course I also learn about issues. I have asked some questions myself and also contributed with answers. I highly recommend you to join the mailing list. Thirdly, before you install digiKam, I suggest you copy a couple of your photos into a new sample folder. When you start digiKam for the first time a guide starts to help you to configure initial settings. One configuration is to tell digiKam where your photos are located. I suggest you use this sample folder only. Later on you add your real photo folders and you can also at the same screen delete the sample folder from digiKam. I suggest this because then you can consider settings in more detail first which includes the settings for meta data import to digiKam. Forthly, consider also where you want to store the digiKam databases. Myself, I created a folder for them at the top level of my home catalog. But you can store them wherever you want to. Install digiKam. Go to the digiKam settings. There are a lot of settings. I will focus only on meta data settings. DigiKam stores what you do in its own databases. That is mandatory. In the settings, it is possible to select what should be written to metadata and not. Meta data settings also have settings for associated files, which most of all is about xmp side cars. You can select that digiKam should read from associated files. This is important to decide before your photo collection is imported into digiKam. If you forget, it is possible to read meta data again after you change settings. Then there is an option if digiKam should write to side cars or not. And if yes, if it should write to both side cars and the object, or only if the object is write protected. Next I want to highlight the tick box if Associated files should be compatible with commercial programs. This needs further explanation: Default in digiKam is to have separate xmp side cars for each type of photo file. For example, if you have a photo stored both as jpg and raw, they will have separate side cars. This indeed has its advantages but is in my knowledge not according to xmp side car standard. According to standard, which digiKam refers to as commercial, the jpg and raw share the same sidecar. For example Adobe Lightroom uses the commercial method. Examples to clarify: DigiKam side car file syntax: photo1.jpg.xmp and photo1.raw.xmp. Standard/commercial file syntax: photo1.xmp. I highly recommend you to spend an hour or two to review all settings, not only meta data, before you start to use digiKam for your real photos. If there is something you do not understand, go to the documentation and do not hesitate to consult the digiKam mailing list.

New hosts Welcome to our new host: Henrik Hemrin. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4065 Fri 2024-03-01 Framework 13 (13th gen Intel) review Noodlez 4066 Mon 2024-03-04 HPR Community News for February 2024 HPR Volunteers 4067 Tue 2024-03-05 Hacking AI Models to Protect your Livelihood hobs 4068 Wed 2024-03-06 Replacing a lightbulb in a microwave Oven MrX 4069 Thu 2024-03-07 Passwords and Bitwarden news. Some Guy On The Internet 4070 Fri 2024-03-08 Civilization III Ahuka 4071 Mon 2024-03-11 Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM) Henrik Hemrin 4072 Tue 2024-03-12 Piper text to speech engine Archer72 4073 Wed 2024-03-13 Is the 1990 documentary "Cyberpunk" worth watching today? Trixter 4074 Thu 2024-03-14 Jade Empire Daniel Persson 4075 Fri 2024-03-15 Making a Pomodoro Timer norrist 4076 Mon 2024-03-18 WLED House Lights! operat0r 4077 Tue 2024-03-19 FFMPEG Series: Joining and Splitting files Mr. Young 4078 Wed 2024-03-20 Learning to read music, part two: pitch enistello 4079 Thu 2024-03-21 The Corresponding Source Ken Fallon 4080 Fri 2024-03-22 Georgia to South Carolina Ahuka 4081 Mon 2024-03-25 The Oh No! News. Some Guy On The Internet 4082 Tue 2024-03-26 No swans at Swanston Dave Morriss 4083 Wed 2024-03-27 Drivecast: Man-talk. Some Guy On The Internet 4084 Thu 2024-03-28 Cloud learning Daniel Persson 4085 Fri 2024-03-29 Android User Land Google Assistant GPT operat0r 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 21 comments in total. Past shows There are 5 comments on 3 previous shows: hpr3060 (2020-04-24) "Running a local imap server" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Somebdy on 2024-03-19: "Nothing in particular" Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-03-20: "Very suspicious comment." hpr4062 (2024-02-27) "HPR Music Series? - How will it go for the girl and me?" by Fred Black. Comment 3: brian-in-ohio on 2024-03-01: "Good show" Comment 4: norrist on 2024-03-02: "I loved the Music" hpr4063 (2024-02-28) "Re: ChatGPT Output is not compatible with CC-BY-SA " by dnt. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2024-03-01: "Amen" This month's shows There are 16 comments on 9 of this month's shows: hpr4067 (2024-03-05) "Hacking AI Models to Protect your Livelihood" by hobs. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-05: "Dejavu... Is this the same as HPR4055?" hpr4068 (2024-03-06) "Replacing a lightbulb in a microwave Oven" by MrX. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-06: "Nicely done."Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-03-08: "Be very careful" hpr4069 (2024-03-07) "Passwords and Bitwarden news." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Deltaray on 2024-03-10: "Thanks for the shout out" hpr4071 (2024-03-11) "Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM)" by Henrik Hemrin. Comment 1: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-03-15: "Good show!" hpr4073 (2024-03-13) "Is the 1990 documentary "Cyberpunk" worth watching today?" by Trixter. Comment 1: HPR Listener on 2024-03-16: "Restoration on archive.org"Comment 2: Trixter on 2024-03-18: "A slightly better version" hpr4075 (2024-03-15) "Making a Pomodoro Timer" by norrist. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-15: "Great project" hpr4077 (2024-03-19) "FFMPEG Series: Joining and Splitting files" by Mr. Young. Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-03-20: "Useful to learn how ffmpeg can be used" hpr4078 (2024-03-20) "Learning to read music, part two: pitch" by enistello. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-20: "Desperate plea for a drummer to respond?" hpr4081 (2024-03-25) "The Oh No! News." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-25: "Pearl clutching"Comment 2: hpr listener on 2024-03-25: "Unnecessary insult"Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-03-26: "@hpr listener"Comment 4: Some Guy on the Internet on 2024-03-26: "Desperately, with white knuckles, clutching pearls."Comment 5: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-03-27: "/e/OS - an open source Android alternative"Comment 6: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-03-28: "Good Show" Mailing List discussions 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: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2024-March/thread.html Events Calendar With 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. Any other business Many Podcatchers don't show the episode author It seems that the author fields in RSS and Atom feeds are not shown by a number of Podcatchers. This field is intended to show the author details, and with HPR shows it contains an obfuscated email address and a name: ken.nospam@nospam.fallon.ie (Ken Fallon) The lack of this information makes knowing who created a given HPR show difficult to determine before listening to it. A question has been raised as to whether we could include the author details at the start of the show notes. Comments are requested from the Community as to whether this would be a useful addition. The Corresponding Source - renamed podcast The Corresponding Source (formerly Free as in Freedom) is a bi-weekly oggcast, hosted and presented by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler. The discussion includes legal, policy, and many other issues in the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Occasionally, guests join Bradley and Karen to discuss various topics regarding FLOSS. See HPR show 4079 HPR changes The correspondent pages which show details of a particular correspondent (host), and lists their shows, have been enhanced to include the profile which has been uploaded by the host. This was present on the old site but was omitted on the static site. This was issue number 181 on the Gitea site, which has been closed. Example: Host 30, Ken Fallon Return of OggCamp There are plans to hold OggCamp 2024 in Manchester, UK this year, after an absence of 5 years. It will be on October 12th and 13th at the The Manchester Conference Centre in the Pendulum Hotel near Picadilly Station, where the last OggCamp was held. Details may be found on the OggCamp website, and announcements will be made on social media sites.