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clacke

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hpr.nospam@nospam.clacke.user.lysator.liu.se

On GNU/Linux since Amiga Watchtower, using it as my primary OS since Debian Slink, been on Ubuntu ever since it fulfilled the derailed UserLinux dream.

These days I'm running Ubuntu-Gnome, but I'm considering NixOS+Guix as my primary OS, with a Debian chroot for the pieces that are missing.

You can find me on the Free social web at clacke@libranet.de.



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hpr3432 :: Reading a license: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International

2021-09-28. 00:32:36. Clean. general.
license, creative commons, recital, reading, legal.

We jump into the future of 2013 and see how content licensing has changed

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hpr3412 :: Reading a license: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

2021-08-31. 00:34:58. Clean. general.
license, creative commons, recital, reading, legal.

We are using this license but we didn't publish it on HPR ... until now!

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hpr3402 :: Reading a manifesto: Declaration of Digital Autonomy

2021-08-17. 00:14:37. Clean. general.
manifesto, community, free software, open source, politics, philosophy, digital autonomy.

Reading and brief commentary and background on Molly DeBlanc's and Karen Sandler's techautonomy.org

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hpr3317 :: Reading a manifesto: Towards A Cooperative Technology Movement

2021-04-20. 00:16:55. Clean. general.
open source, free software, communal software, cooperative technology, politics, philosophy.

If open source misses the point of free software philosophy, what point is free software missing?

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hpr3302 :: Input Methods on Ubuntu

2021-03-30. 00:15:24. Clean. general.
ubuntu, input methods, guix, chinese, emoji, eurkey, pinyin, jyutping, cangjie.

I'm adding some input methods to a standard Ubuntu 20.04 install

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hpr3102 :: RFC 5005 Part 2 – Webcomics, subscribers and feed readers

2020-06-23. 00:15:02. Clean. general.
webcomics, rfc5005, atom, rss, feeds.

fluffy, Jamey and I go on for another ten minutes about how webcomic artists feel about feeds

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hpr3082 :: RFC 5005 Part 1 – Paged and archived feeds? Who cares?

2020-05-26. 00:35:08. Clean. general.
rss, atom, rfc, interview, feedreader, podcatcher.

An interview with two passionate RFC 5005 fans on how to handle big Atom feeds

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hpr3072 :: The joy of pip-tools and pyenv-virtualenv

2020-05-12. 00:24:01. Clean. A Little Bit of Python.
python, pyenv, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, poetry, pipenv, pip-tools.

How to manage your dependencies and environment isolation when developing in Python

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hpr3062 :: Vassal: How to play board games while remote

2020-04-28. 00:15:31. Clean. Tabletop Gaming.
game, board game, xmpp, remote, network game.

How to do physical distancing while avoiding social distance using digitized boardgames

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hpr2817 :: Are you successful? Click to find out more!

2019-05-21. 00:04:41. Clean. general.
success, self-care.

The answer may surprise you!

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hpr2812 :: Is 5G mobile data a danger to your health?

2019-05-14. 00:08:04. Clean. general.
5g, health, radiation, pseudoscience.

Apply Betteridge’s Law of Headlines to find out the answer

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hpr2807 :: Are bash local variables local?

2019-05-07. 00:11:01. Clean. Bash Scripting.
bash, perl, scope, dynamic scope, lexical scope.

A lesson on dynamic scope vs lexical scope

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hpr2802 :: Mid-life (?) assessment

2019-04-30. 00:16:31. Clean. general.
life, kids, work, medicine, future.

It seems life goes faster and faster and then turns around and goes slower and slower

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hpr2793 :: bash coproc: the future (2009) is here

2019-04-17. 00:21:16. Clean. Bash Scripting.
bash, coproc, subshell.

clacke discovers bash's coproc keyword and explains some toy examples

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hpr2623 :: Actors and Agents, Sprites and Fractals

2018-08-22. 00:57:06. Clean. general.
flow-based, actors, fractalide, racket, ocap, mud, programming.

In which I sit down with cwebber and try to keep it short, but end up with an hour of tangents

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hpr2562 :: I bought a laptop

2018-05-29. 00:21:32. Clean. general.
laptop, linux, ubuntu, nix, cryptocurrency.

... in which clacke takes months (or years?) to buy a laptop, but comes out pretty pleased

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hpr2557 :: Styx -- The Purely Functional Static Site Generator

2018-05-22. 00:13:52. Clean. general.
nix, styx, static site generator.

For the Fractalide web site, we are using Styx as a site generator. Here's a bit of how and why.

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hpr2552 :: What is stow?

2018-05-15. 00:12:01. Clean. general.
stow, package manager.

How does stow work, why would you want it and what are its limitations?

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hpr2547 :: MSYS2

2018-05-08. 00:10:57. Clean. general.
msys2, cygwin, windows, command-line, pacman, package manager.

In which I talk briefly about the history of MSYS2 and Cygwin and why you might want MSYS2

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hpr2542 :: How I helped my dad run a static website using SparkleShare

2018-05-01. 00:12:08. Clean. general.
sparkleshare, static website, gitlab pages.

In which I describe my setup of SparkleShare and GitLab Pages to maintain a static website

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hpr2537 :: Recording HPR on the fly Part II

2018-04-24. 00:03:28. Clean. general.
android, recording, hpr.

In which I update the recommendation from HPR 1877: Just use Audio Recorder!

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hpr2507 :: Racket, Nix, Fractalide and the sounds of a Hong Kong New Town

2018-03-13. 00:18:47. Clean. general.
racket, nix, racket2nix, fractalide, soundscape, hongkong.

It's a triple whammy! It's functional programming, functional package management and soundscape!

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hpr2386 :: The Decline and Fall of Tcl

2017-09-25. 00:28:53. Clean. general.
tcl, tk, history, languages, community.

... in which I'm reading Where Tcl and Tk went wrong, by David N Welton, posted on 2010-03-30

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hpr2308 :: Everyday package operations in Guix

2017-06-07. 00:16:26. Clean. general.
guix, linux, nix, sysadmin, development.

Here's how I use Guix in my day-to-day. Fleshed out audio of a comment on ep 2198.

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hpr2198 :: How awesome is Guix and why will it take over the world

2017-01-04. 01:23:31. Clean. general.
guix, linux, sysadmin, os, package management, nix, scheme, guile.

I sit down with Chris Webber and we ramble about how great Guix is

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hpr2194 :: The low-down on what's up in the Taiwan Strait.

2016-12-29. 00:32:08. Clean. general.
china, taiwan, roc, prc, politics, trump, history.

In which I respond to "I don't get this whole Taiwan/US/China thing"

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hpr2180 :: Mail to myself@myfirstemployment, Part 2 of 2

2016-12-09. 00:08:21. Clean. general.
advice, programming, job.

I expand on a list of one-liner advice to myself 20 years ago, that I posted on pump.io. Part 2 of 2

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hpr2179 :: Mail to myself@myfirstemployment, Part 1

2016-12-08. 00:14:04. Clean. general.
advice, work, post.

I expand on a list of one-liner advice to myself 20 years ago, that I posted on pump.io.

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hpr2169 :: How I connect to the awesome #oggcastplanet on mobile

2016-11-24. 00:13:15. Clean. general.
matrix, irc, federation, mobile, im.

I give a quick overview of the challenges of IRC on the go and how Riot and Matrix solve them for me

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hpr2162 :: Review/Criticism of Hipp's "Git: Just Say No"

2016-11-15. 00:21:12. Clean. general.
git, fossil, rant.

In which I take an IRC rant to audio and look at what's really wrong with git.

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hpr1881 :: My road to Linux

2015-10-19. 00:15:12. Clean. How I got into tech.
Urecord, Slirp, Amiga, turbolinux, guix.

I'm so old I actually installed Watchtower on an Amiga and I review 22 years of Linux distributions

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hpr1877 :: Recording HPR on the fly on your Android phone

2015-10-13. 00:06:18. Clean. general.
android, hpr, audio, recording.

How quickly can you get an HPR recording done? 10 minutes including app install! Sort of.

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hpr1876 :: MicrobeLog, or: On Shaving Yaks and Doing Things

2015-10-12. 00:09:21. Clean. general.
federation, python, microservices, gtd, yakshaving.

Why I'm making an HPR episode, and why I'm making a vaporware social network engine

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