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New hosts

Welcome to our new host:

Dave Hingley.


Last Month's Shows


Id
Day
Date
Title
Host


4086
Mon
2024-04-01
HPR Community News for March 2024
HPR Volunteers


4087
Tue
2024-04-02
Getting started with the digiKam photo management software
Henrik Hemrin


4088
Wed
2024-04-03
Today I Learnt more Bash tips
Some Guy On The Internet


4089
Thu
2024-04-04
Modifying a Python script with some help from ChatGPT
MrX


4090
Fri
2024-04-05
Playing Civilization III, Part 1
Ahuka


4091
Mon
2024-04-08
Test Driven Development Demo
norrist


4092
Tue
2024-04-09
More man-talk.
Some Guy On The Internet


4093
Wed
2024-04-10
Installing postmarketOS on a PINE64 PinePhone
Claudio Miranda


4094
Thu
2024-04-11

This starts our look at the details of playing Civilization III. In
this episode we look at the Early game, which sets the stage for
everything that follows. Then we look at Revenue and Resources.
Links:

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_resources_in_Civ3
https://www.palain.com/gaming/civilization-iii/playing-civilization-iii-part-2/

This will probably be one I'll get a lot of comments on, but I've
looked at the marketing proposition of HPR in light of some of the
challenges we face. To prevent us dipping into the reserve queue and
seeing a slow but steady decline in both audience and hosts.. Maybe its
time to give HPR a bit of a makeover.

I talk about what's in my bag

Shout out to Noodles thanks again for responding to my previous post
#4045 it was awesome to get feedback.
Being able to upgrade my 2010 Macbook which is an Apple device and
how impressive that was. Sadly that upgradability is a thing of the
past.

I will talk about information feeds from web sites delivered to my
computer device. I use the term feeds and by that I mean both RSS feeds
and Atom feeds, the two feed protocols which are very similar.
I believe it is very likely you as listener to Hacker Public Radio
know about feeds. Not unlikely you even know the technical details far
better than I do.
Nowadays many of us use feeds very often without thinking of them as
feeds, when we subscribe to podcasts.
But feeds have been around for many years. Back in the days, I used
feeds for websites I was interested in. But somehow I forgot about it
and web browsers stopped to support feed subscriptions.
A year or two ago I started my new journey into feeds. Although it is
not so much talk about feeds nowadays, very many web sites have support
for feed subscriptions.
To start, at my own personal web site (https://www.hemrin.com/)
many of the pages have feeds, typically those that are blog-like pages,
and you can subscribe to several feeds on my site.
From Hacker Public Radio I subscribe to a feed for all show comments.
So when you write a comment regarding my show today, I will get notified
in my feed manager.
I primarily use Thunderbird to manage my feeds. I do not need my
feeds to be synced to other devices. I use Thunderbird daily for e-mails
and it is therefore very practical and natural for me to use it also for
feeds. In addition I use the Feeder app on my Android-based phone for
some feeds.
I do not use feeds for web sites I anyway will visit often or that
have a lot of news. I would be overwhelmed of feeds. Instead I use feeds
for web sites which are not updated so frequently but are sites I want
to keep an eye on. But some are updated daily, like from the
parliament.
In some cases, feeds are an alternative to subscribe to e-mail
notifications and e-mail newsletters.
The beauty with feeds is that I am in charge and without giving out
e-mail or anything - the site owner do not know I subscribe.
Subscription starts so simple as I type the feed-url into my Thunderbird
feed manager. And when I want to end a subscription, I simply delete
it.
Furthermore I subscribe to Status pages. I get notifications for
example from my internet service provider for their planned and
unplanned maintenance.
Several authorities have interesting feeds.
I have feeds from some companies and organizations.
I have feeds from many software developers, for example Thunderbird
and Linux Mint.
I have feeds from some journalists and politicians and alike.
I have feeds from persons with competence in various areas I am
interested in. And other persons who are interesting for the persons
they are and their thoughts.
So, this show is to tell you that I have rediscovered feeds and found
them useful for me. Maybe you already use feeds. Maybe this show will
inspire you to have a look into feeds as a useful tool for your personal
or professional life.