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Some advice about tracking spending, money management, RocketMoney, MintApp, Budgeting, Personal Finance, Financial Management, Automatic Routing, Investments, Net Worth and data brokers.

• https://investors.intuit.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1005/intuit-completes-acquisition-of-mint-com
• https://www.monarchmoney.com/
• https://www.rocketmoney.com/
• https://www.ynab.com/
• https://www.deleteme.com/
• https://www.paypal.com
• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/15/2024-25534/negative-option-rule

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Short introduction episode, on my journey with Linux, Python, FOSS & Ham Radio

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Elsbeth talks about how she got started with technology, the issues she has faced as a female geek and gamer, aspects of her career with building computers and software quality assurance as well as other hobbies such as reading and yoga.

Links:

• Light aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna
• World War II Coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
• Gaming:
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_gaming
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthBound
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(video_game)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry
• Other Interests:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_as_therapy
• Meta-verse / multiplayer virtual worlds:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIV
• Mental Health Awareness:
• https://www.nami.org/get-involved/awareness-events/mental-health-awareness-month/
• https://mentalhealth-uk.org/get-involved/mental-health-awareness-days/
• https://twloha.com/
• https://www.projectsemicolon.com/
• Role models:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Day
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

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Swift110 talks about installing and running Ubuntu back in the day, and the journey many of us have in picking a distro

https://swift110.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/i-will-not-be-upgrading-from-ubuntu-10-10-to-11-04/

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Isaac Asimov first invented the Three Laws of Robotics in a series of short stories. But he then imagined how a future society might develop with robots, and he pictured this in a series of novels that have become classics in their own right.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caves_of_Steel
• https://archive.org/details/isaac-asimov-the-caves-of-steel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robots_of_Dawn
• https://www.palain.com/science-fiction/the-golden-age/isaac-asimov-the-robot-novels/

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Links to presentation information

aerc

Git repository here: https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc

Slide deck here: https://aerc-mail.org/fosdem-2025

JMAP information: https://jmap.io/

Building a watt-meter esp-rs and a rocket backend

Wattmeter code: https://github.com/ssaavedra/esp32-amp-sensor

Backend code: https://github.com/ssaavedra/amp-sensor-backend

Celebrating Open Standards: How Podcasting 2.0 Shaped the Future of Podcasting

Description and links on the FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5630-celebrating-open-standards-how-podcasting-2-0-shaped-the-future-of-podcasting/

Immich

Home page: https://immich.app

All the world's a stage:Running a theatre show on open source software

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4290-all-the-world-s-a-stage-running-a-theatre-show-on-open-source-software/

LoRaMesher

Repository: https://github.com/LoRaMesher/LoRaMesher

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Today I would like to share my journey into the world of Linux and Free Software and how it has shaped my computing experience over the years.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs
• https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_X_series#X230
  

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This is just an introduction, here is the rough text of the audio:

Hello HPR:

I'm murph, I've been an HPR listener for a long-time, into the TWAT days. I'll try to keep it quick.

I started in computers in the early 80's with a VIC-20. After a few of the Commodore 8-bits, I settled into the Amiga line, which I daily drove up into this century, and stll have a few.

In college in the 90's, I had a dilemma. I wanted to do C programming homework from home, but the expensive Amiga compiler wasn't compatible with the Sun workstations at school. Another student introduced me to Linux, and I promptly ordered a set of Slackware CDs and figured out how to install. I was looking for the compilers to complete my studies, but have stayed for the freedom, and the communities, like this one. I've used countless distros over the years, and use a few for different needs.

I am still a Linux user, and system administrator. I've given a few talks on things like gnu/screen, mastodon, tmux ay conventions like Penguicon, SCaLE, HOPE and some more regional conferences.

I was inspired by Lyle and Thaj Sera's HPR birds of a feather talk, and thought that it would make a good presentation, and asked them to let me base a talk off of it, which they encouraged. Part of that is how to submit a show, which resulted in me finally, after all this time, finally submitting one of my own, as opposed to the occassional show I've crassly barged into.

If you want to reach me, the best ways would be by email or on the fediverse, @[email protected]

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Running a private Ubuntu Mirror

It is possible to set up a local server to keep a synchronized copy of all the Ubuntu packages, allowing later installs of packages for any local machine even in the absence of an internet connection.

To do this a script called apt-mirror can be run on the server.

crontab

0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/apt-mirror

The location of the mirror is specified in apt-mirror.conf

/etc/apt/apt-mirror.conf

set mirror_path /disk/ftp/Mirror
set cleanup_freq daily
set mirror_verbose yes

The origin servers are specified in mirror.list . It is possible to choose which architectures and Ubuntu releases to fetch as well as whether to fetch just the binary packages or also the sources.

/etc/apt/mirror.list

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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
​
deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
deb-i386 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
​
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
#deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
​
clean http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

The mirrored packages could be served up to local machines in a number of ways, I am using vsftpd to serve the files via FTP.

/etc/vsftp.conf

anonymous_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
listen=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
seccomp_sandbox=NO
isolate_network=NO
anon_root=/disk/ftp/
no_anon_password=YES
hide_ids=YES
pasv_min_port=40000
pasv_max_port=50000
write_enable=YES

On local machines, the mirror on the server can then be specified as the source for apt to use to retrieve packages.

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources

​
Types: deb
URIs: ftp://server/Mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Suites: noble noble-updates noble-backports
Components: main universe restricted multiverse
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg
​
## Ubuntu security updates. Aside from URIs and Suites,
## this should mirror your choices in the previous section.
Types: deb
URIs: ftp://server/Mirror/mirror/security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Suites: noble-security
Components: main universe restricted multiverse
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg

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