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Not many artists actually hail from Tennessee, but the scenic valleys and rolling hills of The Volunteer State are part of Dustin Lynch’s DNA. In this episode of On the Bus, Country Thunder CEO Troy Vollhoffer sits down with Dustin to discuss his journey from playing fraternity parties and weddings across the southeast to being the first country artist with a club residency at the Wynn in Las Vegas. Plus, stick around for our new segment, Thunder Strike, where Troy features upcoming festival performer Riley Green’s hit song “Damn Good Day to Leave” to give you a taste of what’s to come at Country Thunder in 2025.…

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HPR4355: Record player audio - Streaming with Darkice

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Intro Hello, this is your host, Archer72, for Hacker Public Radio. In this episode, this is my third show involving my record player. I am using a Zoom H1essential Stereo Handy Recorder microphone, recording into Audacity for this show. Why visit the record shop? Picking up a record at the record shop expands my music choices. I get a chance to talk to the owner on the weekend when searching for new music. He is an archaeologist and a teacher at a local college during the week, and is knowledgeable on all the music in the store. One Year With the Institute - Archive.org I wanted a way to listen to the records while on my laptop, preferably with headphones, as to not disturb the household. How is this accomplished? This is done using a combination of Darkice to capture the stream, and Icecast to stream it to the local network. What is Icecast? Icecast is a streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction. Icecast is distributed under the GNU GPL, version 2. The default config file is located in /usr/share/doc/icecast2/icecast.xml.dist.gz icecast.xml.dist if the default config gets mangled or corrupted by myself. Several other types of configs are also in /usr/share/doc/icecast2/ that include a bare bones config and the installed icecast2 config is located in /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml Configuration needed to be personalized Cynthiana,KY ricemark20.nospam@nospam.gmail.com Change the passwords from hackme to a more secure password hackme hackme admin hackme 192.168.x.x mountPoint = live # mount point of this stream on the IceCast2 server name = DarkIce Vinyl Stream # name of the stream description = This is my Vinyl stream # description of the stream url = http://localhost # URL related to the stream genre = Podcast # genre of the stream public = yes # advertise this stream? localDumpFile = recording.ogg # Record also to a file metadata = yes # enable metadata What is Darkice? DarkIce is a live audio streamer designed to record audio from an audio interface, such as a sound card, encode it, and send it to a streaming server. It supports various streaming servers including IceCast 1 and 2, ShoutCast, and Darwin Streaming Server. DarkIce can encode audio in formats like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. To use DarkIce, you configure it with settings such as the audio input device, sample rate, and streaming server details, including the server’s address, port, and authentication information. This description of Darkice is a result of using the Brave Search LLM, or Large Language Model . The default config file is located in /usr/share/doc/darkice/examples/darkice.cfg.gz and is copied to the /etc directory. From there, use the gunzip command, for example gunzip darkice.cfg.gz I used the config file from a blog by Steffen Müller on stmllr.net August 10, 2012 as a template for my configuration darkice.cfg This is the configuration I used in the end. darkice-pi.cfg Changes to the template The audio device is configured in the [input] section, defined by arecord dash lowercase ‘L’ to list the capture device, which in my case is the Behringer UMC202HD USB Audio Interface [general] duration = 0 # duration of encoding, in seconds. 0 means forever The section of the config file for audio input looks like this. [input] device = plughw:0,0 # This refers to card 0, device 0 Start Darkice darkice & Update Metadata I was looking for a way to update the Currently Playing metadata, but my coding skills are not too good. For this, I used Claude.ai to generate code from the prompt: BASH script to send HTTP request to change metadata on icecast stream update-metadata.sh Default values HOST="localhost" # 192.168.x.x PORT="8000" # Default Icecast port MOUNT="/stream" USER="admin" PASSWORD="hackme" # Icecast admin password SONG="Unknown" Usage update-metadata.sh -s "HPR Test" If there are any suggestions for improvements, please leave a comment or upload a show. I look forward to hearing about if an how other people are using a personal streaming server. Also, I am looking forward to the show from the Reserve Queue, 2024-10-13 Fred Black What LP records do I have Other References Radiostreaming for Beginners Provide feedback on this episode .…

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HPR4354: 24-25 New Years Eve show episode 5

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. ----------------- NYE 2025 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pulse Audio https://pulse.audio/ Tech and Coffee https://techandcoffee.info/ Netgear Switch https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/ Magiford Books by KM Shea https://www.goodreads.com/series/367723-magiford-supernatural-city Dan Willis Arcane Case Books https://danwillisauthor.com/product-category/arcane-casebook-series/ Brad Magnarella Prof Croft Books https://www.goodreads.com/series/192507-prof-croft Auld Lang Syne https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/AuldLangSyne.pdf Bagpipes https://www.getours.com/expert-travel-advice/history-traditions-celebrations/the-history-of-bagpipes-in-scotland Uilleann Bag Pipes 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HPR4353: diff and patch

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Make a diff: $ diff --unified --new-file --recursive original/ my-revision/ > my.patch Send my.patch to somebody so they can use it as input for the patch command: $ patch --strip 0 < my.patch Provide feedback on this episode .

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HPR4352: Why grandma, what large language models you have.

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Title: A large language model (LLM). License: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model Title: Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay. License: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification Title: Technical debt. License: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt Title: Programming language. License: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. Source(s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language Title: bastardize License: Copyright. All rights reserved. Source(s): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bastardization Provide feedback on this episode .…

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HPR4351: HPR Community News for March 2025

πριν 5 μέρες

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts Welcome to our new host: Marc W. Abel . Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4326 Mon 2025-03-03 HPR Community News for February 2025 HPR Volunteers 4327 Tue 2025-03-04 Chatting with Sgoti Some Guy On The Internet 4328 Wed 2025-03-05 Use SELinux the easy way Klaatu 4329 Thu 2025-03-06 Maintaining The Remote System hairylarry 4330 Fri 2025-03-07 GIMP: Fixing Photos Ahuka 4331 Mon 2025-03-10 Re-inventing the light switch Lee 4332 Tue 2025-03-11 Top 5 mistakes every new terminal user makes Klaatu 4333 Wed 2025-03-12 A Radically Transparent Computer Without Complex VLSI Marc W. Abel 4334 Thu 2025-03-13 24-25 New Years Eve show episode 3 Honkeymagoo 4335 Fri 2025-03-14 Responce to Antoin's H P R 4 3 1 3 operat0r 4336 Mon 2025-03-17 The Everything-I-Know 20-minutes Show Antoine 4337 Tue 2025-03-18 Open Web UI operat0r 4338 Wed 2025-03-19 328eforth Brian in Ohio 4339 Thu 2025-03-20 Review of the YR01 smart lock Rho`n 4340 Fri 2025-03-21 Playing Civilization IV, Part 7 Ahuka 4341 Mon 2025-03-24 Transferring Large Data Sets hairylarry 4342 Tue 2025-03-25 How I use Git to blog on the web and gopherspace Klaatu 4343 Wed 2025-03-26 Interviewing the Redot engine Founder Celeste 4344 Thu 2025-03-27 24-25 New Years Eve show episode 4 Honkeymagoo 4345 Fri 2025-03-28 Android 2025 operat0r 4346 Mon 2025-03-31 A brief review of the Pinetab 2 Swift110 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 25 comments in total. Past shows There are 6 comments on 6 previous shows: hpr3967 (2023-10-17) " Unsolicited thoughts on running open source software projects " by dnt . Comment 1 : Antoine on 2025-03-01: "My comment about this show" hpr4142 (2024-06-18) " A Shared Shell History With Atuin " by mnw . Comment 2 : Windigo on 2025-03-12: "Appreciate the overview" hpr4276 (2024-12-23) " PWNED " by operat0r . Comment 2 : operat0r on 2025-03-02: "not a robot" hpr4321 (2025-02-24) " Crux Linux " by Klaatu . Comment 1 : dnt on 2025-03-05: "Messing up" hpr4323 (2025-02-26) " Good Samaritan laws, Duty to rescue in the Netherlands " by Ken Fallon . Comment 1 : Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-03-05: "Great show." Comment 2 : Antoine on 2025-03-05: "And in Brazil" hpr4325 (2025-02-28) " Two Software I use- Futo Keyboard and Inoreader " by Antoine . Comment 1 : archer72 on 2025-03-02: "FUTO Keyboard" Comment 2 : Antoine on 2025-03-02: "@#1 My setup" This month's shows There are 19 comments on 9 of this month's shows: hpr4326 (2025-03-03) " HPR Community News for February 2025 " by HPR Volunteers . Comment 1 : dnt on 2025-03-05: "SGOTI's mop" hpr4328 (2025-03-05) " Use SELinux the easy way " by Klaatu . Comment 1 : lyunpaw@gmail.com on 2025-03-07: "Time to brick the box." Comment 2 : Klaatu on 2025-03-10: "This advice comes with no warranty" hpr4329 (2025-03-06) " Maintaining The Remote System " by hairylarry . Comment 1 : Ken Fallon on 2025-03-04: "Have you considered using Syncthing" hpr4330 (2025-03-07) " GIMP: Fixing Photos " by Ahuka . Comment 1 : Ken Fallon on 2025-01-15: "Great Tips" Comment 2 : Rother on 2025-03-08: "playback " Comment 3 : Kevin O'Brien on 2025-03-08: "Processing" Comment 4 : Henrik Hemrin on 2025-03-11: "Quick access to external photo editing tools from digiKam thumbnail view. " Comment 5 : Kevin O'Brien on 2025-03-11: "Good tip" hpr4331 (2025-03-10) " Re-inventing the light switch " by Lee . Comment 1 : Ken Fallon on 2025-03-03: "undocumented network exploit" hpr4332 (2025-03-11) " Top 5 mistakes every new terminal user makes " by Klaatu . Comment 1 : Ken Fallon on 2025-03-04: "Send this back to my past self" hpr4333 (2025-03-12) " A Radically Transparent Computer Without Complex VLSI " by Marc W. Abel . Comment 1 : Ken Fallon on 2025-03-04: "Everyone needs to listen to this show" Comment 2 : Marc on 2025-03-07: "Reply to comment (or if a volunteer can edit it directly instead, that's fine)" Comment 3 : paulj on 2025-03-19: "Dauug" Comment 4 : Marc on 2025-03-24: "Hardware build road map" Comment 5 : Celeste on 2025-03-24: "About the software part reliability" hpr4339 (2025-03-20) " Review of the YR01 smart lock " by Rho`n . Comment 1 : Ken Fallon on 2025-03-11: "Unfortunately mine turned into a project." Comment 2 : Trey on 2025-03-20: "Only one trip to the hardware store?" hpr4342 (2025-03-25) " How I use Git to blog on the web and gopherspace " by Klaatu . Comment 1 : oxo on 2025-03-25: "Cool!" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman . The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2025-March/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar . Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Provide feedback on this episode .…

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HPR4350: GIMP: More Photo Fixes

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. If you you take a lot of photos, some of them will show problems. But you don't need to throw them away. With GIMP, you can fix these common problems and restore your photos. In this episode I take a look at two problems that turn out to be related and to have similar fixes: Dark photos, and Color problems. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8OJJbhNWGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbU8FqTI-A4 https://www.ahuka.com/gimp/more-photo-fixes/ Provide feedback on this episode .…

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HPR4349: xbindkeys send keys for linux!

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. We're going to be talking about synth keys more specifically sending keystrokes and Linux cat ~/.xbindkeysrc /bin/bash /home/plex/.local/bin/Plex.sh /bin/bash /home/plex/.local/bin/Steam.sh /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer on; /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer brightness 100 /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer on; /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer brightness 40 /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer on; /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer brightness 12 /usr/local/bin/kasa --host 192.168.1.239 --port 9999 --type dimmer off;xrandr --output default --gamma 3:3:3 Links https://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xbindkeys Provide feedback on this episode .…

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HPR4348: Resizing the root partition on a PC

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This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Background It all happened when I noticed that a disk space monitor sitting in the top right hand side on my Gnome desktop was red. On inspection I discovered that my root filesystem was 87% full. The root partition was only 37GB in size which meant there was less than 4GB of space left. When I thought back I remembered that my PC was running a bit slower than usual and that that the lack of space in the root partition could have been to blame. I had some tasks that I wanted to complete and thought I’d better do something about the lack of space before it became an even bigger problem. What happened As per usual all this happened when I was short of time and I was in a bit of a hurry. Lesson one don’t do this sort of thing when your in a bit of a hurry. Because I was in a hurry I didn’t spend time doing a complete backup. Lesson two do a backup. My plan was to get some space back by shrinking my home partition leaving some empty space to allow me to increase the size of my root partition. For speed and ease I decided to use Gparted as I have used this many times in the past. Wikipedia article about Gparted Official Gparted webpage It’s not a good idea to try and resize and or move a mounted filesystem so a bootable live version of Gparted would be a good idea. The reason for this is that if you run Gparted from your normal Linux OS and the OS decides to write something to the disk while Gparted is also trying to write or move things on the disk then as you could imagine very bad things could and probably would happen. I knew I had an old bootable live CDROM with Gparted on it as I had used this many times in the past though not for a few years. As I was short on time I thought this would be the quickest way to get the job done. I booted up the live CD and setup the various operations such as shrinking the home partitions, moving it to the right to leave space for the root partition then finally increasing the size of the almost full root partition. What I didn’t notice at the time is that there was a tiny explanation mark on at least one of the partitions. I probably missed this because I was in a hurry. Lesson three don’t rush things and be on the lookout for any error messages. When I clicked the green tick button to carry out the operations it briefly seemed to start and almost instantly stopped saying that there were errors and that the operation was unsuccessful and something about unsupported 64 bit filesystems. At this point I thought / hoped that nothing had actually happened. My guess was that the old live Gparted distribution I was using didn’t support Ext4 though I could be completely wrong on this. Lesson four don’t use old versions of Gparted particularly when performing operations on modern filesystems. Wikipedia article about the Ext4 filesystem I removed the Gparted bootable CD and rebooted my PC. At this point I got lots of errors scrolling up the screen I then got a message I’ve never see before from memory I think it said Journaling It then said something about pass 1 pass 2 pass 3 and continued all the way to 5. Then it talked about recovering data blocks. At this point I got very nervous. I had all sorts of fears going through my head. I imagined I may have lost all the contents of my hard-rive. The whole experience was very scary. I let it complete all operations and eventually my Ubuntu operating system came up and seemed okay. I rebooted the PC and this time it booted correctly with no error messages and everting was okay. I have often seen things said about Journaling filesystems and how good they are though until this point I had never seen any real examples of them repairing a filesystem. Both my root and home partitions were EXT 4 and thankfully EXT 4 supports Journaling which I believe on this occasion saved me from a great deal of pain. Lesson five it might be a good idea to use Journaling filesystems. Wikipdeai article about Journaling filesystems This still left me with the original problem in that I had little free space on my root filesystems. This time I decided to take my time and break the task up into smaller chunks and not to do it in one go. First I downloaded the newest Live distribution version of Gparted I performed the checksum test to make sure the download was successful with no errors. The next day I tried to write it to a CD-ROM something I haven’t done for a very long time. I initially couldn’t understand why I couldn’t click on the write button then I looked at my blank CD-ROM using the UBUNTU GNOME DISKS application. It reported that the disk was read only. I did a bit of goggling and came across a post saying that they had come across this and that they solved this by installing the CD-ROM writing application Brasero. Wikipedia article about Brasero ) Official website for Brasero Installing Brasero solved the problem and allowed me to write the image file to CD-ROM. I was actually surprised that it wasn’t installed as I’ve used this application in the past. Just goes to show how long it’s been since I’ve written anything to CD-ROM! I booted the CD-ROM to check that Gparted worked and didn’t see any explanation marks on any of my partitions. I was short on time and didn’t want to rush things so decided to stop at this point. Later on I popped the live bootable Gparted CD-ROM running version 1.6.0.3 AMD 64 version into my PC and booted it up. Everything seemed okay and there were no errors showing. I took my home partition SDA6 and shrunk it down by about 20 GB and then shifted it 20 GB to the right to the end of the disk. This left a 20 GB gap at the end of my root partition. I then increased the size of my root partition SDA5 by approximately 20 GB to fill the empty space. It took Gparted about one hour and 40 minutes to complete all the operations. The root partition is now reporting 61% full rather than 86% full. The root partition is now approximately 53 GB in size with 31 GB used. 22 GB is now free which is a bit more comfortable. Picture 1 Is a screenshot of GParted showing the new sizes of my root and home partitions. I removed the GParted CD from my CD-ROM drive and rebooted the PC to thankfully find all was well and no errors reported. Conclusion My PC is now running more smoothly. All I can say after all this is that I consider myself very lucky this time and I hope I learned some valuable lessons along the way. 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HPR4347: "Of my country!" Brazil - in a Southern city viewing

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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. I’m glad I’m here with you! I'll tell my impressions on things of my Brazilian country. Pardon me for some high-volume transitions ! Trying and testing the brickabrackis ( possibilities ). Pleasing or not. Thanks! Topics: 1- Sistema Único de Saúde (the national health system) Works! Any citizen, any person, has access to health treatment: no payment, no check if the person has payed taxes on anything, if is a worker or not. Of course, waiting time might be a problem if it's not an urgency or emergency, and quality varies (as any service, paid or not), according to city (capital or country town, more structured or smaller cities), hospital, the specific doctor and support team etc. 2- Tap water The water from the tap is safe, recognized as drinking water (in my city, and maybe in many if not most). The water treatment company ("Sanepar") here even sells their water bottled, and sponsors events that distribute them (sports events) to show the quality. But people don't use to drink from the tap it directly. If they do not use a filter, it's common to buy water in 20 liters carboys (big plastic bottles, 20L is a bit more than 5 gallons) . I use this last option, but drink water under the shower also. Most people (that I know, of course) simply don't drink water ! I don't know. I don't understand how it is, but they don't drink water, not even a liter per day. Coffee and soda are the most common "substitutes". 3- Religion numbers Statistics about religion are very misleading. You can find different numbers but it's generally: more than half identifying as Catholics. More than 20% evangelical, 10% without religion. But those numbers say nothing about reality of what you find in the streets. Maybe because in some areas it's embarassing to identify as an atheist, as if you're immoral and cannot be trusted; so, people without religion simply say the religion of the family, or the generic "catholic, non-practicing". 4- Brazilian Law Our law is written and detailed. Everything you could want to know about our judicial system, our rights and etc. are explicit in laws; and our Constitution, in force since 1988, with more than 200 articles, guides all. The Supreme Court can make and change interpretations and, thus, issue binding decisions that are not seem in the law, but this is the exception. Cover of the official edition of the Brazilian Constitution in the English Language. (Source: https://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/cms/legislacaoConstituicao/anexo/Brazil_Federal_Constitution_EC_125.pdf. Accessed on February 2025.) Most of the norms are federal and encompass the entire nation: it is a reason we are so "equal", in many senses, while living in a country with 212 million people (official estimation of IBGE, July 1st 2024 * ) and that represents 48% of the size of South America. 5- Now something very specific to my city, a capital city on the south of the country It's not expected to say Good morning when you cross with a stranger on the street. No Hello or Good morning to the bus driver also. I mean, a lot of people greet, but many don't and it's common to not do so. In many other parts of the country, of course, it's different. For example, I lived in a capital city on the north, and everybody expected you to say Good Morning! when entering an elevator in the morning, behavior that generally makes people think you're strange here in my southern city. If I ask for the name of a seller on a store, to be more polite saying his or her name occasionally if I am making a lot of questions and demanding more attention time, they ask, you're not from here are you? And I am. If anything here sounds not good, please reject and keep the good. It's only impressions that I wanted to share. Thank you. * This news in English: From: Agência IBGE. Link: https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/en/agencia-news/2184-news-agency/news/41122-populacao-estimada-do-pais-chega-a-212-6-milhoes-de-habitantes-em-2025 . Accessed on February 2025. Sound used, credits (author – sound): freesound_community / Pixabay – Dictaphone . Robinhood76 / Freesound.org – 01893 do it again spell (CC-BY-NC 4.0) Javolenus / ccmixter – Arctura (Polarpulse PS3300) (CC-BY-NC 4.0) Robinhood76 / Freesound.org – 13024 reel to reel fast forward with preview (CC-BY-NC 4.0) Zavier Brewer / Pixabay – Re(wind) [ending music before the outro]. Provide feedback on this episode .…

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HPR4346: A brief review of the Pinetab 2

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