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It’s that time of year again. Time for the 24 hr (26 hr) New Years Eve Show.
For those who don’t know, on New Years Eve 2020-12-31 10:00 UTC (5:00 AM EST), we will have a recording going on the HPR Mumble server for anyone to come on and say “Happy New Years” and talk about whatever they want.
We will leave the recording going until at least 2021-01-01 12:00 UTC (7:00 AM EST) and then until the conversation stops.
If you are a podcaster please spread the word by including hpr-nye-promo.ogg or hpr-nye-promo.mp3 in your show !
Hosted by Ahuka on 2020-11-27 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: 3-D Printers, prosthetics.
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Ken Fallon asked for shows abut 3-D printers and I told him I had given mine away. So of course he asked for a show about why I had done that. This is that show.
In this show I go over history of websites and the complex nature of security in complex websites
Hosted by Paul Quirk on 2020-11-25 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Electrical,safety,code,electricity,electrocution.
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Please be safe!
My Dell laptop had to go away to have a new cooling fan fitted. I've got 3 other laptops to call upon, but instead I decided to conduct an experiment I've theorised about for ages. Could a Raspberry Pi 3B serve as my daily driver?
This idea goes back some way and since then, of course, the much more powerful model 4 has been released. However, there must be thousands of 3Bs out there doing nothing, so perhaps they could have a new lease of life providing basic browsing and internet capabilities to people who might otherwise not be in a position to buy a computer.
Hardware: Raspberry Pi Model 3B
OS: Raspberry Pi OS (current version as of 31st October 2020)
MicroSD: SanDisk 16GB
ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE INSTALLED
Hosted by Ahuka on 2020-11-20 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: GIMP, images, photos, graphics, patterns, gradients.
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Patterns and Gradients let you create images that go beyond simple colors and let you create more interesting images. And using them also means we begin to see how to combine a variety of tools, like paint tools, selection tools, and brushes, to create the effects we want in our images.
Hosted by Paul Quirk on 2020-11-18 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Pinebook,Pro,Wacom,tablet,DMCA,takedown,Youtube,Canadian,Canada,Music.
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My fediverse address: @paul@cloud.pquirk.com
See my first Wacom doodle here: https://cloud.pquirk.com/index.php/s/CAnAwwD6S6AczC6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission
https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2000/2000scc57/2000scc57.html
Hosted by Ken Fallon on 2020-11-17 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: HPR, TWAT, DDP, Infonomicon, Binrev, RFA.
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In this rambling episode, we talk to Enigma about the old days of HPR. He helped out with Today With A Techie and Droops asked him if he would like lead the project. After 300 episodes he, Dual Parallel, Droops, and StankDawg decided to pivot and rebrand as Hacker Public Radio. A nod to National Public Radio.
Dungeons and Dragons, and most tabletop roleplaying games, are ideal platforms for players with low or no vision. However, because most players are sighted, you have to work-around some assumptions made by the rulebooks.
I [currently] have vision, but I have played with a blind player before, and I've played as a Dungeon Master with no materials on hand. In this episode, I discuss some easy workarounds to make tabletop RPGs easy for both sighted and non-sighted players.
There are audiobook versions of the rule books available at http://listenrpg.com.
The official D&D digital platform is dndbeyond.com, and it is accessible to blind players using a screen reader.
Wizards of the Coast publishes the basic rules under the Open Game License (OGL). As a service to my players, I maintain a version of this document in plain text, with third-party OGL additions. It may or may not be useful for screen readers, depending on your workflow.
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