HPR4468: AI Trap and Fix

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hello, this is your host, Archer72 for another episode of Hacker Public Radio. In this episode, I continue to fall for the AI trap. Here I was, minding my own business, when I was bothered by the icon only showing a generic icon for the Beeper app. Now, I'm not saying that Duck.ai is not useful, but be very careful what you ask for. It was probably a combination of the early morning, and not reading completely through the AI suggestions, but I ended up losing all icons on the Gnome desktop except for a few like Firefox. I won't leave the problematic command so I don't trip up the listener, but it involved updating a desktop database. This in turn left a dash or blank where the icons should be. If that wasn't bad enough, it was suggested to reset Gnome settings, and nothing was as it seemed before. Things that I had taken for granted were not there. You forget what custom settings are there when mistakes like this are made. So the short answer is that the icons directory, located on my Debian system should be located in .local/share/icons. Instead it was in a sub-directory .local/share/icons/icons Correcting the directory location solved everything, but I was still left to reset my custom Gnome keybindings. • Swap Escape and Caps lock key I used this because I am a Vim user, and this feels more natural when I need to hit Escape to change modes. In Gnome, the setting is under Gnome Tweaks > Keyboard > Additional Layout Options > Swap Esc and Caps Lock Key As of this show release the current stable version is Trixie. Gnome Tweaks - Debian Trixie can be installed by sudo apt install gnome-tweaks on any Debian based system. • Compose key • Compose key shortcuts The Compose key is found at Settings > Keyboard > Compose Key. I selected the Menu key, because this is rarely used, and can still be accessed by the track pad. • Shortcut to open MPV with a clipboard URL from Youtube This can be found in Setting > Keyboard > View and Customize Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts Shift+Ctrl+P Code placed in /usr/local/bin/ #!/bin/bash ## mpv-url url=`xsel -o -b` echo $url mpv $url Now I can get back to what I started in the first place, creating a .desktop file for Beeper. I created a beeper-desktop.desktop file in `~/.local/share/applications' with the follow contents. [Desktop Entry] Name=Beeper Desktop Exec=/home/mark/AppImages/Beeper-4.1.169.AppImage Icon=/home/mark/.local/share/icons/beeper.png Type=Application Categories=Network;InstantMessaging; Terminal=false StartupWMClass=Beeper The last part of the config file can be found by xprop | grep WM_CLASS Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. To switch in Odoo to developer mode, simply add the tekst "?debug=1" to the url. WARNING: the Technical menu that you now can see in the Settings app is not for the faint of heart! Be very, very careful making changes there. Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. The sheet music exists (although slightly inaccurate since it has been slightly altered since then) on my musescore page. Also some credit to Folky who appears on his own nyckelharpa towards the end in the duette part.Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Playing Civilization V, Part 3 Victory Types This is a good time to discuss the Victory types in Civ 5. We have talked about choosing appropriate strategies and that mostly has to do with what kind of Victory you are aiming for. Now you can change the objective as the game goes on, so if you realize you can’t win your original Victory type, you can switch to another. But success is a lot easier if you make the right choices early on. Domination – To win this, you must keep possession of your own original capital, and capture everyone else’s original capital. Original capital is the first city founded by each Empire. It can never be destroyed, but can be captured. Once the original capital city of an Empire is captured, another city will become the current capital, but capturing that does not count towards victory, and a current capital can be destroyed. Science – To win this, build and launch a spaceship to Alpha Centauri. To build a spaceship requires technologies at the end of the Technology tree, but you don’t have to actually research every possible technology to do this. You build the parts in your various cities, and assemble them in your Capital. Once you have assembled all the parts, the spaceship will automatically launch and you win the game. Cultural – This depends on your culture compared to the other Empires, and involves the Tourism mechanic. If you attract tourists from another Empire, your culture will become more dominant over theirs. There are 6 levels for your Empire vis-a-vis the others: Unknown, Exotic, Familiar, Popular, Influential, and Dominant. These are defined by the amount of tourism you receive from an Empire compared with their own production of Culture. If the tourism you receive is at least equal to their own Culture production, you are Influential. And to get Culture victory you have to be at least Influential with every other Empire still in the game. The basic source of tourism comes from Great Works of Art, and Artifacts. Great Works of Art are produced by Great Artists, and Artifacts are dug up by your Archeologists once you discover this. Your own Culture production both defends against tourism of other Empires (i.e. your own citizens would rather enjoy your culture than travel to other Empires), and helps to produce the Great Works of Art. This victory type and the Tourism Mechanic is one of the innovations in Civ 5 , and carries over and is developed further in Civ 6. Diplomatic – To win this, you have to voted in as World Leader in the United Nations. You can gain votes in several ways. First, you can liberate the conquered capital of another Empire and return it to them. That will guarantee that they will vote for you in the United Nations. Or, and this is most common, you can ally with City-States and get their vote in the UN. Finally, if a City-State has been previously conquered by another Empire, you can liberate it and they will vote for you in the UN. Once the UN is achieved, votes take place every 20 turns, so if you fall short on one try, you can try to line up more votes for the next try, which usually means allying with a few more City-States. Time – If no one has won by the above means, the Empire with the highest score when time runs out will win. In a Standard game, that is in 2050 AD, and is turn 500. But note that turn 500 is not a turn when you can make a play. Your last chance to actually do anything is turn 499. Terrain Civilization V changed the game board from squares to hexes, which was the first big change. But another change makes terrain even more important in Civ V, and that is that you can only have one unit per tile. The giant death stacks of units that you could employ in Civ III and Civ IV are now gone. That means that any military campaign will mostly be fought on a variety of tiles. Most of this we will discuss later when we look at the military and how to fight wars, but knowing how terrain affects your units in terms of strength and mobility will be a big part of that. So first we need to know what the Terrain Types are. Of course, the other reason we need to know this is in terms of where to settle, where to farm, where to mine, and so on. And special resources are a modifier, but first we’ll look at the Terrain Types by themselves. They can be analyzed in terms of their Base Production, i.e., what they will produce without any improvements such as farms and mines, Movement Cost, i.e. how many movement points it takes to move into the Tile, and Defensive Bonus, i.e. how the strength of your units is modified if they are in combat. Grassland – Base Production = 2 Food, Movement Cost = 1, and Defensive Bonus = -33% Plains – Base Production = 1 Food and 1 Production, Movement Cost = 1, and Defensive Bonus = -33% Desert – Base Production = Nothing, Movement Cost = 1, and Defensive Bonus = -33% Ocean – Base Production = 1 Food and 1 Gold, Movement Cost = 1 Lake – Base Production = 2 Food and 1 Gold , Movement Cost = 1 Tundra – Base Production = 1 Food, Movement Cost = 1 Snow – Base Production = None, Movement Cost = 1, and Defensive Bonus = -33% These basic Terrain Types can then be modified by Terrain Features, which can be stacked. For example, you could have a Plains tile with Hills and a Forest. Hills – Base Production = 0 Food and 2 Production, Movement Cost = 2, and Defensive Bonus = +25%. Note that the Base Production for Hills will be 0 Food and 2 Production regardless of the underlying Terrain Type. Forest – Base Production = 1 Food and 1 Production, Movement Cost = 2, and Defensive Bonus = +25%. Note that the Base Production for tiles with Forests will be 1 Food and 1 Production regardless of the underlying Terrain Type. But Forests can be cleared by Workers once Mining is discovered. Jungle – Production effect = -1 Production, Movement Cost = 2, and Defensive Bonus = +25%. Jungles can be cleared by Workers once Bronze Working is discovered, and should be. Mountain – Production = 0, Movement = impassable except for Air units, and for Carthaginian units once they have earned a Great General. Defensive Bonus = +25% River – Rivers run along the borders of tiles. They add +1 Gold. Attacking across a river reduces your attack strength by 20%. Crossing a river will end movement for most units unless there is a road with a bridge. Marsh – Production effect = -1 Food, Movement Cost = 2. Can be removed by workers once Masonry is discovered. If you have a Marsh tile in your city, have the workers remove the Marsh before you attempt to work the tile. Coast – These are the water tiles with relatively shallow water along the coast of a land mass. They are lighter in color than deep ocean tiles. Coast tiles can be traveled on by early water units which cannot travel on the deeper ocean tiles. Coast tiles produce one gold each. Flood plains – These tiles can be found sometimes along river banks. They produce 2 food, but can also produce disease outbreaks. Oasis – Produce +3 Food and +1 Gold. These tiles cannot be improved other than to add roads and railroads. Ice – At the top and bottom of the map are ice tiles representing the north and south poles. Airplanes can fly over these tiles, and submarines can go under them, but otherwise they are impassable Fallout – Once nuclear weapons have been discovered, you can have tiles that are covered by fallout. This will reduce food by 3, production by 3, and gold by 3. Movement cost is 2. In practice this will mean the tile produces nothing. A Worker unit can clean this up, but it will take time. So until that happens, you should look for opportunities to move your citizen into some other occupation until it is cleaned up. And you have to clean it up before building or restoring any improvements. Atoll – This tile type was added in a patch with the Polynesian DLC. It is an ocean tile that produces 1 Food and +1 Production. Movement cost is 1. Admittedly, this is a lot of detail to take in, but there are a few basic rules you might want to keep in mind. First, you don’t want to settles cities where there are lots of Desert, Tundra, or Snow tiles. One or two Tundra tiles are OK if there are other positive features, like access to a luxury resource, but Desert and Snow tiles are completely useless. Again if there are lots of desirable tiles available, having one or two Desert or Snow is not problem, since in most cases you never will work all of the tiles in most cities. But look for the good tiles. Similarly, Mountain tiles are not generally useful, however if you are going for a Science victory they can be handy if you settle a city immediately adjacent to a mountain, since that will let you build an Observatory in the city. Observatories cost zero maintenance and add 50% to the science output of the city, making them very valuable. Mountains are also handy as barriers to keep away your enemies. Jungle tiles can also cause disease outbreaks, but clearing the jungle from the tile will put a stop to that. I will always clear away any jungle or Marsh tiles within my cities. Defensive bonuses are also important, but that is better covered when we get to warfare. From: https://www.palain.com/gaming/civilization-v/playing-civilization-v-part-3/ Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Original Part: TDA147011T01 Replacement Part: TDA147011T20 from a XPG Xenia 15 gaming laptop Links: Evoo EVC141-12BK: https://www.walmart.com/ip/EVOO-14-1-Ultra-Slim-Notebook-Elite-Series-FHD-Display-AMD-Ryzen-5-3500U-Processor-Radeon-Vega-8-Graphics-8GB-RAM-256GB-SSD-HD-Webcam-Windows-10-Home/419496306 MOTILE 14" Performance Laptop: https://www.walmart.com/ip/MOTILE-14-Performance-Laptop-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-5-Radeon-Vega-8-Graphics-THX-Spatial-Audio-Tuned-display-8GB-RAM-256GB-SSD-HDMI-Front-720p-HD-IR-Camera-Ro/909076408 Clevo: https://www.clevo.com.tw/ Evoo 14.1 Ultra-slim Laptop Review (EVC141-12BK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPUSDFY9MQProvide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Software Freedom Day. It is a world-wide series of events to celebrate free software, and we're having one right here in New Jersey at Montclair State University. It is held on the third Saturday of September world-wide, which his year is the 20th of September. We're going to talk about what free software is, and why it's important for everyone.   What kind of software is available for your existing computer, and how you can extend the life of your computer by loading another OS on it. There will be a talk on self hosting, so that you can keep better control of your data. There will also be a talk on Social Networking with free software called "Mastodon and the Fediverse", there will also be talks on Wikipedia, and contrinuting to Free Software. There is a huge variety of software out there, and we'd like to take some time to tell people about it.  This is a community event, and we'd love to see people from all over come out! Here are some links for more information: https://softwarefreedom.neocities.org/ also, the foundation site https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events/software-freedom-day-2025-new-jersey So find an event near you, look online to see which events are streaming, or start planning for an event in your area for next year.   Hope to see you in New Jersey soon! Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Kevie and Dave (AKA The Love Bug) start a new series of shows with a focus upon beer. In this first episode the pair discuss about how they were introduced to beer and how it became more than a hobby/something to do at the weekend. They go on to discuss a relatively new style of beer in the Dessert/Pastry Stout. Dave looks at the Rocky Road Marshmallow Stout by Brewdog, whilst Kevie reviews Bertha Chocolate Cake Stout by Northern Monk. Connect with the guys on Untappd: Dave Kevie Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Microphones compared: Bose QC35 Headset Macbook Pro M1 16" Anker PowerConf S330 AKG Pro Audio Lyra iPad Pro 12.9" 4th Gen Photo: AKG mic with Sensic SA-30 boom arm & Aokeo pop filter Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. This begins our look at the second of the Big Three of the Gold Age of Science Fiction, Arthur C. Clarke. We give some brief biographical informmation, and then dig into two related early novels, Againt the Fall of Night, and The City And The Stars Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Interplanetary_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_World_of_Strange_Powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Fall_of_Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars https://www.palain.com/science-fiction/the-golden-age/arthur-c-clarke/ Provide feedback on this episode.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hello, I'm Wojciech (pronounciation available at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wojciech ), I'm a nerd from Poland, I work as a software engineer. I've found HPR about a year ago and wanted to record a show since. But life is busy. I'm trying it out, in a supermarket parking lot in my car. This is my second attempt, so we'll see how it works. How I got into tech? In a way I've kind of always been there. At least since I was a child. The story that I like to tell is when I was about 4 years old my cousing launched me Mortal Kombat on his Amiga computer and I got interested. That's my oldest tech related memory. As a kid I've mostly played video games. Mostly on clones of old 8-bit consoles like Atari 2600 or NES, later some unspecified models of Commodore and Schneider computers. I don't even remember what exact models they were. Got my first PC at about 10 years old, it was an Intel 486SX, 12 MB RAM, 850 MB HDD, running Windows 95. Still mostly playing games on the computer but, as it was running Windows, as you maybe know, with Windows come problems. Sometimes user-induced, but not always. Spoiler, it's been over 25 years and this trend continues. Around the same time my sister went to high school and got a Turbo Pascal textbook. This is what really got me interested in programming and that's when my interests and career in software development begun. Since that time I had a very good idea what I want to do in life. I just knew I wanted to work with computers, primarily doing software engineering. I went to a technical university, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. And there I got interested in other computer related things like networking and I also got into digital and analog electronics. Just because I really wanted to go that one level deeper, to learn about how computers work, and electronics in general. I also have other interests, but tech and non-tech related, like for example science fiction literature and I would like to record some shows about those in the future. We shall see. There is one specific story I want to tell, but I think I will save it for October. Why October? Because it is a workplace horror story about... Windows. Well, not really a horror story story, but it was really bizarre and can be described as such. In the meantime I don't want to promise anything. But maybe I will record a show about what I am currently doing at work, which is the topic of audit trail in software applications. But I am chaotic and may do something entirely different. We shall see. I think that's all I want to say today. I would really appreciate if you left some feedback. Was the audio OK, is my English enough, did I speak too fast? English is not my first language and I've noticed over the years that I really tend to speak too fast when using English. And that's it, thank you for listening. Hopefully we'll hear in the future from me. Provide feedback on this episode.