This is sort of a response to hpr4097 :: Will they take our jobs? Of course they will. by dodddummy, and also the latest community news show, and other shows about the topic.

References:

• Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes
• Domenico de Masi, O Ócio Criativo, book was never released in English, I think.
• In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell

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I was inspired by Knightwise's episode 4109 on future-proofing HPR.
I agree with many of your criticisms, but I'm not sure that a marketing strategy is the best way forward. Many of the most successful and sustainable businesses and organizations have been built on word-of-mouth.
For example I heard of Google, Zoom, Gmail, Facebook, Slack, Twitter, Discord, etc from my IRL friends and coworkers rather than from a marketing message. And most of the open source communities I'm a part of (Linux, Python, Firefox, Hugging Face, etc) are successful precisely because their success is not subject to a BigTech algorithm or exploitative terms-and-conditions.
Most open source projects are able to build community much by actively resisting the temptation to create a marketing message or social media campaign and instead focusing on the authenticity and quality of their "product" and catering to their contributors' and users niche needs and sensibilities.

Points of agreement (Rapoport Rule #2)

• I share Knightwise's love and concern for the HPR community
• I agree the intro theme song and voiceover could be accelerated and improved
• I whole-heartedly agree the comments interface could be made easier to use
• I agree that the HPR community feels like a monastery or convent. Perhaps faith in FOSS is a kind of religious belief or value that supersedes normal human instincts and drives.
• I 100% support hackers that evangelize for HPR on their favorite bigtech social media platforms.

My FOSS podcatcher Antennapod, automatically skips the intro. I had to rewind in order to hear the episode number and host username in order to compose my reply.
And I have trouble engaging with the comments interface on the HPR site.
I wasn't even aware of comments on my previous episodes and once I did learn of it I found it easier to reply on Mastodon rather than on the HPR website.
As a community, I think we take it on faith that there is a place in the world for people like us that just want to share ideas, unmediated by shadow-banning, rug-pulling corporations and attention-hacking algorithms. I want to have a conversation with thoughtful people. I don't want to be engaged or monetized or exploited

• A young person that is turned off after 3 seconds of retro-sounding audio is likely to not enjoy the "sound of woodwork (2442)" or "overlanding" audio journals (4037) of semi-retired geeks.
• Many of us know that what we do in life cannot be measured in dollars or like button clicks, but rather by the quality of our friendships and the collective ideas that we share.
• Zombies on Facebook, Twitter, Discord and Slack must eventually "see the light" for themselves and come flocking to "the small web" as they did during Xitter's decline.
• HPR has been a significant positive force in my life and I would hate to sully its openness and authenticity with SEO or other marketing strategies (I know this is not what you proposed)
• I think the enshittified Discord network is the wrong business to entrust with our community, for one thing, its app doesn't work on Linux
• Marketing and SEO are effective tools for growth-seeking businesses, but ill-suited for an open source community
• Anyone interested in business strategy would enjoy the eye-opening book The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow at the EFF.
• Open source communities such as Reddit, Reddis, Terraform, Mongo, Substack, Medium, and MySQL were destroyed by growth-hackers pulling the rug out from under open source contributors and authors who eventually rebelled to fork or reverse-engineer these products and "win the day."
• We geeks at HPR are not alone in our disaffection with business-mediated social interactions. Look at the mass eexodus from twitter. And the exit from substack. And from open source communities like reddit, reddis, terraform, mongo, and mysql. If you want to contribute your labor to a newly enshittified product they are actively seeking new contributors (and marketers) as their founding engineers abandon ship and create their own forks.
• People share personal private contact information here that could endanger their emotional and financial well-being and information security if it were exposed to a scammer/malware platform like Discord. Discord sells your phone number to con-artists and scammers. And Xitter users talk about the blue checkmark validating their social value, but it's really a mark of shame. Discord hawks a similarly worthless token of social cred, and paywalls something as fundamental to communication as emojies. No thanks. They can take their dancing robot and bursting-heart emojies and shove 'em where the sun don't shine.

Enhance the comments interface?

• Would a bridge server that pulled from our RSS feed and posted to an HPRbot channel on Mastodon help?
• I've not tried BlueSky yet
• We could even auto-post to Xitter and Facebook in the same way that Threads evangelizes Facebook to the Fediverse
• It might be possible to directly connect the comments feed on HPR to Mastodon or BlueSky automatically.

References

• https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rapoport%27s_Rules
• https://antennapod.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
• https://craphound.com/category/internetcon/

References

• Beets documentation
• Album art in Funkwhale (after recording I noticed it can also look up album art during import, using the musicbrainz ID. Not 100% sure beets adds it, but I might assume so)
• Recommended opus bitrates
• Pronunciation of the word "archivist"
• MusicBrainz
• Everything you need to know about Funkwhale

Overview

In the last episode we looked at how JSON data is structured and saw how jq could be used to format and print this type of data.

In this episode we'll visit a few of the options to the jq command and then start on the filters written in the jq language.

Options used by jq

In general the jq command is invoked thus:

It can be given data in files or sent to it via the STDIN (standard in) channel. We saw data being sent this way in the last episode, having been downloaded by curl.

There are many options to the command, and these are listed in the manual page and in the online manual. We will look at a few of them here:

Output the jq help and exit with zero.

Read filter from the file rather than from a command line, like awk´s -f option. You can also use ´#´ to make comments in the file.

By default, jq pretty-prints JSON output. Using this option will result in more compact output by instead putting each JSON object on a single line.

By default, jq outputs colored JSON if writing to a terminal. You can force it to produce color even if writing to a pipe or a file using -C, and disable color with -M.

Use a tab for each indentation level instead of two spaces.

Use the given number of spaces (no more than 7) for indentation.

Notes

• The -C option is useful when printing output to the less command with the colours that jq normally generates. Use this:

  jq -C '.' file.json | less -R

  The -R option to less allows colour escape sequences to pass through.

• Do not do what I did recently. Accidentally leaving the -C option on the command caused formatted.json to contain all the escape codes used to colour the output:

  $ jq -C '.' file.json > formatted.json

  This is why jq normally only generates coloured output when writing to the terminal.

Filters in jq

As we saw in the last episode JSON can contain arrays and objects. Arrays are enclosed in square brackets and their elements can be any of the data types we saw last time. So, arrays of arrays, arrays of objects, and arrays of both of these are all possible.

Objects contain collections of keyed items where the keys are strings of various types and the values they are associated with can be any of the data types.

JSON Examples

Simple arrays:

Simple object:

This more complex object was generated by the Random User Generator API. It is a subset of what can be obtained from this site.

This one comes from the file countries.json from the Github project mledoze/countries. It is a subset of the entry for Mexico.

Identity filter

This is the simplest filter which we already encountered in episode 1: '.'. It takes its input and produces the same value as output. Since the default action is to pretty-print the output it formats the data:

Notice that the filter is not enclosed in quotes in this example. This is usually fine for the simplest filters which don't contain any characters which are of significance to the shell. It's probably a good idea to always use (single) quotes however.

There may be considerations regarding how jq handles numbers. Consult the jq documentation for details.

Object Identifier-Index filter

This form of filter refers to object keys. A particular key is usually referenced with a full-stop followed by the name of the key.

In the HPR statistics data there is a top-level key "hosts" which refers to the number of currently registered hosts. This can be obtained thus (assuming the JSON is in the file stats.json):

The statistics file contains a key 'stats_generated' which marks a Unix time value (seconds since the Unix Epoch 1970-01-01). This can be decoded on the command line like this:

Here the '-d' option to date provides the date to print, and if it begins with a '@' character it's interpreted as seconds since the Epoch. Note that the result is in my local time zone which is currently UTC + 0100 (aka BST).

Using object keys in this way only works if the keys contain only ASCII characters and underscores and don't start with a digit. To use other characters it's necessary to enclose the key in double quotes or square brackets and double quotes. So, assuming the key we used earlier had been altered to 'stats-generated' we could use either of these expressions:

Of course, the .[<string>] form is valid in all contexts. Here <string> represents a JSON string in double quotes. The jq documentation refers to this as an Object Index.

What if you want the next_free value discussed in the last episode (number of shows until the next free slot)? Just typing the following will not work:

This is showing that there is no key next_free at the top level of the object, the key we want is in the object with the key slot.

If you request the slot key this will happen:

Here an object has been returned, but we actually want the value within it, as we know.

This is where we can chain filters like this:

The pipe symbol causes the result of the first filter to be passed to the second filter. Note that the pipe here is not the same as the Unix pipe, although it looks the same

There is a shorthand way of doing this "chaining":

This is a bit like a file system path, and makes the extraction of desired data easier to visualise and therefore quite straightforward, I think.

Array index filter

We have seen the object index filter .[<string>] where <string> represents a key in the object we are working with.

It makes sense for array indexing to be .[<number>] where <number> represents an integer starting at zero, or a negative integer. The meaning of the negative number is to count backwards from the last element of the array (which is -1).

So, some examples might be:

We will look at more of the basic filters in the next episode.

Links

• jq:
  • GitHub page
  • Downloading jq
  • The jq manual
  • Wikipedia page about the jq programming language

• Test data sources:
  • Random User Generator API
  • Github project mledoze/countries

Today I Learnt, sed hold/pattern space use.

Sgoti talks about using sed hold/pattern spaces.

• Tags: TIL, sed

I fixed the ${ls} /usr/bin to ${ls} ${bindir} issue mentioned in the show.

• Source: In-Depth Series: Learning sed
• Source: In-Depth Series: Today I Learnt

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Some stuff I use to help make APIs

https://github.com/freeload101/Python/blob/master/Python_Includes_RMcCurdy.py

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New hosts

Welcome to our new host:
Dave Hingley.

Last Month's Shows

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 2 comments on 2 previous shows:

• hpr3868 (2023-05-31) "News." by Some Guy On The Internet.
  
• • Comment 2: elmussol on 2024-04-05: "George Santos"
  
  
• hpr4075 (2024-03-15) "Making a Pomodoro Timer" by norrist.
  
• • Comment 2: operat0r on 2024-04-10: "ADD"
  
  

This month's shows

There are 19 comments on 10 of this month's shows:

• hpr4086 (2024-04-01) "HPR Community News for March 2024" by HPR Volunteers.
• • Comment 1: Dave Morriss on 2024-04-01: "Senior moment: diatribe"
  • Comment 2: Some Guy on the Internet on 2024-04-01: "@Dave Morriss"
  
  
• hpr4092 (2024-04-09) "More man-talk." by Some Guy On The Internet.
• • Comment 1: folky on 2024-04-09: "Oh no"
  • Comment 2: Mad Sweeney on 2024-04-10: "Squeezing out a show"
  
  
• hpr4094 (2024-04-11) "One year of Linux" by Daniel Persson.
• • Comment 1: AaronB on 2024-04-11: "Bugs in Linux"
  • Comment 2: Folky on 2024-04-12: "Thank you"
  • Comment 3: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-04-12: "Enjoyable to learn about your Linux use case and experience"
  
  
• hpr4095 (2024-04-12) "Twenty seven years of Linux" by Deltaray.
• • Comment 1: Nick on 2024-04-12: "Correction"
  • Comment 2: Deltaray on 2024-04-13: "Re: Correction"
  • Comment 3: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-04-13: "Interesting review of your Linux softwares"
  
  
• hpr4096 (2024-04-15) "Powers of two" by Deltaray.
• • Comment 1: Windigo on 2024-04-15: "Very enjoyable episode"
  • Comment 2: brian-in-ohio on 2024-04-17: "Another example"
  • Comment 3: Dave Morriss on 2024-04-17: "8388607"
  
  
• hpr4097 (2024-04-16) "Will they take our jobs? Of course they will." by dodddummy.
• • Comment 1: dodddummy on 2024-04-16: "The next thing"
  • Comment 2: dodddummy on 2024-04-20: "More improvements"
  
  
• hpr4098 (2024-04-17) "Road trips without GPS" by Trey.
• • Comment 1: archer72 on 2024-04-13: "Re:Road trips without GPS"
  
  
• hpr4099 (2024-04-18) "Introducing Home Automation and Home Assistant" by Ken Fallon.
• • Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-04-26: "Looking forward to learn about Home Assistant"
  
  
• hpr4103 (2024-04-24) "What's in my bag?" by Dave Hingley.
• • Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-04-26: "Thanks for your show"
  
  
• hpr4105 (2024-04-26) "My story how I found a cure for my obesity" by Jeroen Baten.
• • Comment 1: Trey on 2024-04-26: "Thank you for sharing."
  
  

Events Calendar

With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar.

Quoting the site:

Any other business

Craig Maloney, host of the Open Metal Cast

• We received the sad news that fellow podcaster and host of the Open Metal Cast, Craig Maloney passed away.

• Obituary

Markdown issue in show notes

• Syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks.
  • An issue was raised on the Gitea repository for the hpr_generator. Show notes using Markdown fenced blocks which specify a language (e.g. python) are not being syntax highlighted as expected.
  • This was turned off because the highlighting is implemented as HTML (<div> and <span> tags) which was stripped by software on archive.org when the notes were uploaded.
  • In case this restriction has been lifted, we will try uploading an example to see if highlighting is now available.

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.