Hi! Good morning, everyone. I hope you can all find a seat somewhere. There's plenty of them available. So, welcome to Falsum 2019. It's a bit more snowy than we expected. I hope you all got here safely. But yeah, at least some of you made it, so that's good. Maybe first a little word about the venue. Of course, we don't own these buildings. They are generously provided by the ULB. Without their support, we couldn't make it. They provide all of the infrastructure, even up to the network, so they're doing a great job. So, thank you, ULB. Now, as for what the venue looks like, here's a small overview. You will also find this exact same map on nav.falsum.org, which is our navigation tool. And we have printed maps at the info desks. So, we are currently in the building marked J on this map, which is where the main auditorium is, and one of the main tracks. Next to this one, we have the H building, which houses one of the info desks. And across the street from that, we have the AW building. Up from there, we have the U shaped building, which is aptly named the U building, which houses a lot of dev rooms. Across from there, we have the F building with the two cafeterias. We have an extra cafeteria this year. So, we hope you will be able to find comfortable seating. In between those two buildings, we have the food court. There will be all sorts of food trucks providing different sorts of food. So, if you're hungry, go over there and you'll probably find something to eat. Feel free to take an inside into the cafeteria if you want to be warm. I'm sure the weather isn't all that nice to sit outside right now. And then finally, we have the K building, which houses our main info desk, the bulk of the stands, and also has the Red Cross present. So, at the info desk, you will be able to find our conference booklet. All of the schedule booklets for both days. We have two different booklets, one for Saturday, one for Sunday. You will find the maps. You can make a donation and any question you may have, they will be able to answer. There's also the Red Cross, which is on the second level of the K building. There's arrows pointing up to it. If you can't find it, the info desk is nearby.  If you need any help and are walking about in the buildings, there are all sorts of people walking around in different sorts of t-shirts. So, the orange ones are the volunteers. They help us set up the event and help us run everything throughout the weekend. The yellow ones are staff. They should be able to answer any and all questions you have.  Go and ask them any question you may have about the deaf room itself. If you have any sort of audio or video issues, try to find one of the people in the green t-shirts. Those are video people, so go and ask them for help if you need any. If you want one of these t-shirts yourself, we're still looking for volunteers. So, head over to volunteers.fossum.org and sign up for any tasks that may interest you. A word about the network? We provide two networks. As in previous years, the ESSID Fossum is IPv6 only. We have transition measures in place, so everything should just work. If it doesn't and if it's your program or someone else's program, send them a patch to fix their bug. If you absolutely need to, we also have an ESSID called Fossum Legacy, which provides both IPv4 and IPv6 access. Keep in mind that both of these networks are open networks, so all of the traffic you send over it will be in the clear. Make sure to encrypt everything. We wouldn't want anything to get compromised. Any other ESSID you might see around is not ours, so maybe you shouldn't connect to it. A word about the program? Again, we have a new record in terms of content. We have more content than even the year before. We have about 740 lectures, which will be given by 715 speakers. We have 66 stands spread over the H, AW and K buildings. The content will be packed into 62 tracks. We have 42 different lightning talks, and all of this will happen in about 33 rooms. This makes for over 400 hours of content. I haven't done the math. It was a bit too late yesterday to do math. But I'm sure you can figure it out by yourself if you're a bit creative. If you want to get an overview of what is on right now, go and have a look at our streaming page. On the website you will find a link to the talks, and they will all have a link to their streaming. If you're not able to get into a dev room, make sure to go and check that out so you can at least follow. After the event, all of the talks will be published on video.fossin.org. If you've missed anything, you can still catch up later. The keynotes, right after the opening talk, will have Bradley and Karen, who will talk to you about living in software freedom today. After that we have Mitchell Baker at 11 o'clock, and at 12 o'clock we'll have Deb Nicholson. Tomorrow at 4 o'clock we'll have Kyle Rankin, who will talk to you a bit about the cloud. And as a closing keynote this year, we have John Maddock Hall, who will give you an overview of 50 years of UNIX and Linux Advances. As for main tracks, we have four of them each day. They will be spread between this auditorium and the auditorium in the K Building. Today we'll have Communications, Database, Hardware and Storage. And tomorrow we'll have Hardware, Online Privacy and Performance, and also some talks that we couldn't fit in anywhere. So we have a miscellaneous track as well. We have plenty of developer rooms. I wanted to fit them all on a slide but failed. Well, they're actually all there but not very readable. Check out our DevRooms page in the schedule to get a full overview of where they are exactly. They are spread all over the campus, so you'll probably find something interesting. Anywhere you are. Stands, even worse. You can't read that. I have a hard time reading it even. They are in the AWH and K Building. There's a lot of them, but the website has a full overview. Tomorrow we have the Key Signing Party. We have 171 keys submitted. If you still want to participate, I'm afraid it's a bit too late. But if you want to read all about it, go and check out our website. The Key Signing will be tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the corridor of the U Building. Next to that, we also host some certification exams given by LPI and Librovis. I think you are supposed to sign up for those before the event as well. But if you have any questions or would like more information about that, our website again has all the information. We also have some buff rooms available. So if you want to have a meeting with a group, there are two rooms which are probably still free at this point. The sign-up sheets are at the H Info Desk. So head over there and ask for the sign-up sheets for the buff rooms. You can ask for a slot up to one hour and there are two rooms each day. We also have a pre-scheduled buff room which is in this very building right outside the stores. The schedule for that is in our regular schedule. We also have a hacker room if you want some peace and quiet and some power. I'm sure you'll need it at some point. It is in the H Building in room H2211. All of this is pretty daunting, I'm sure. That's why our lovely app developers have created apps for, I think all of the platforms you can think of. Go and check them out in whatever tool you're using to install apps on your phone or device. We also try to provide an overview of our schedule, but I think the apps make it a bit more clear than we do. Right, as usual, I'm sure at some point some rooms will be full. If you see this sign posted on a door, please do not enter the room. That means that the room is at capacity already and you will not find a seat. Instead, try to watch the streaming if you want to catch up with the talk or try to find another dev room. Some of the apps will also list the status of the room. Some apps have support for our API, which has live information on the status of the dev room. As you probably know, we also have a code of conduct. Please go to our website to read it. If you have any concerns, you can send them in by email to conduct.fuzzlin.org by phone to the number listed on the screen. Or in person, ask any staff member, so the yellow T-shirt people, and they will help you locate a team member. Please also make sure to clean up after yourselves. We have to pack up tomorrow in about two hours time. We have to be out of the buildings come nine o'clock tomorrow evening, so there's not a lot of time to do the cleanup. If you do the bulk of the work, that leaves less work for us. So we'd be very grateful if you would do that. If you have any glass bottles, there will be dedicated boxes in different corners of the buildings. You will see them clearly marked.  We ask you to not stick anything to the walls or whatever surfaces you may find. It is hard to remove and makes our job a lot harder tomorrow. Also, our volunteers will be working hard this weekend. So please give way to them if there's a queue somewhere. Consider allowing them to cut the queue. They are working hard, and they're probably in a hurry to get somewhere. Feedback. We love feedback. Each talk on our website has a dedicated link to a feedback form. If you've attended the talk and want to leave some comments, head over to the dedicated talk page on the website. You'll find the form there. General feedback about the event can go to feedback. Or you can simply write it on a piece of paper and drop it off at the info.sk, where there will be a feedback box. This event wouldn't be possible without your generous donations. We rely on your donations to fund the event and make all of this happen. So we would be very grateful if you would consider donating. In return for a donation, you can get a t-shirt, a hoodie, an O'Reilly pocketbook, or a full-size O'Reilly book depending on the amount. If you want to make a donation, please head over to one of the info.sk, either at the K or the H building, and they will be able to help you there. And finally, I would like to thank our sponsors. Our usual cornerstone sponsors are there again, so thank you Google and Redhead. And we also have support from AWS, Arm, Backmarket, Canonical, Cisco, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, GoThink, Gold, GitHub, O'Reilly, Trivago, and of course our venue, the ULB. And finally, enjoy the event. Cheers.


Wait Yo, what is poppin people welcome back to another video guys We have a banger for y'all today gonna be a really good one last episode caught some awesome bass caught a huge catfish It was a lot of fun and today we're back out on the river and we're gonna be hunting for some river monsters today We were actually for the first time You know we filmed the fishing for river monster series and it's about going out on the river hunting for those big bass Well in today's episode we were legit going to try to catch some of those river monsters and by river monsters I mean some big ol 20 pound fish So we're gonna be shooting for some catfish some mudfish some bass really whatever bites today We're gonna be trying to catch so we actually Started this episode five hours ago. I have not filmed anything for it We got a ton of supplies and we're gonna be going over that today showing you guys exactly what we're gonna be fishing It's gonna be fun, but if you guys are new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell And also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content Let's go ahead and get it started intern Brad on deck by the way if you guys want to go check out Intern Brad's channel. I will link him down below Let's get it. All right, so we got a ton of supplies It's been a lot of money this morning and like I said, I didn't film any of it It was just a long process of us hopping to a ton of different stores Anyways, we got a bunch of different stuff in here today. So first we got some rags You gotta have some rags just in case you know what I mean We got a filet knife got a tiny little aerator, which we really didn't need a long story about this one But we got an aerator.  Hey, look at this boys.  You don't get a handful of man gonna get a handful boys.  How about if we if this video gets a hundred likes you don't want 100,000 likes We got some grippers because we really do need these if we catch them to the credits today We got some catfish bait and this is actually bait Chicken liver and chicken blood by the way if you guys have any suggestions on any like new stuff that we would need Let us know in the comment section down below. Can I just bought everything like we bought literally everything We got even more in the live bowl back here. We have to bought Nice catch to bobbers right here. Yeah. Yes, and then um, that's it now. We got something else some weights Then we got some more Weights right there. All right, so that's everything we got and then we have something else back here, so come here real quick What we got no we got that what we got in the box. Oh wait, we actually we already got a limit We've actually already went fishing today. Like I said, I didn't film but we actually caught a bunch of bluegills So are they in this side?  What are we gonna be doing with these bluegill? No, that's what we're gonna be doing. I think we're gonna use some of these live today But we're also gonna use some cut baits. So we're gonna cut some of these up and um, we're gonna fish for some of these big old Muds, we're gonna fish for some of these big old cats anything that's really biting on the bottom You know, there might be like stuff. We've never caught before you might catch I'm saying guys. There's one thing that you need to know about the river. It's a weird place and what I mean by weird It's just how do you explain it? You never know what you're gonna catch You don't really know what's in here. There's a bunch of sturgeon in here What if we just randomly hooked into it? I think you'd break us off. That'd be the craziest thing ever, but um Yeah, so we're gonna go ahead and get it started. We're gonna go ahead and rig up some rods I'm put some of the hooks on there put some of the weights set up some rigs I'll let Brad talk a little bit about that because when it comes to fishing for a lot for a lot of these fish I don't know a ton about all the rigs. I really don't I'm the biggest thing that I know is fish behavior I know where the fish are gonna be sitting for the most part and we actually scan this whole place And we found a bunch of fish stacked up Actually, just like right over there. There's a ton stacked up on the bottom and then there's also some on the mouth So we're gonna be playing around today, but let's go ahead and rig up her pulls and hopefully catch a couple big fish today All right fam, I'm with Noah today and kicking their bass TV and Noah said I'm gonna show you how to make some rigs So let's get into it.  Oh bro, I got tons of experience cat fishing. All right I've never caught one before in my life. I'm gonna try it off with the half ounce and we're just gonna play with it See fishing something you can just there's just like no set method No rules. There's no rules to fishing as Noah likes to say But first off we're gonna tie it up So I'm gonna tie up all of them or not. That's just what I tie I'm throwing this on a spinning rod. I'm sure Noah's gonna throw his on the on the bait caster and We're good to go for that section Actually, don't do that guys. That's a very bad habit of mine. Yeah, that's one thing I've told myself. I'm not gonna start doing once you start doing it. It's like well I can't do it right now. So I'm not gonna try All right So this is gonna be our leader line today Typically, I would say use fluorocarbon, but as Noah said we're going after the nasty nest of the fish like we're going That's mono isn't it? This is mono. This is some thick. It was cheap This is like $2 for a whole school like can't get much more cheaper than this This is some 50 pound test. All right, we're gonna take about How long do you say it is two feet? Yeah, two and a half two and a half foot of line. This is start So you just broke that with your hand. Yeah, bro. I'm just that strong. All right. We got our line Got our main line our barrel our barrel swivel and our weight So I'm take it and I go through here. Oh, yeah, that wall sting feels good There's no way you're not breaking 50 pound test of your teeth. Yeah, you're gonna lose the tooth. Yeah, I can teeth pops out Some of you thought now that's a cringiest face Seen all week.  Mm-hmm. That was nasty, dude. Whoo There we go. Ready to go. Yeah. Never mind. We got a tight hook on I'm actually not gonna use a circle hook because I want to jack these fish. You know what I'm saying I have zero experience in this department. All right You're good to go Got a rigged up on the old smash It might get broken today.  So now we're gonna pretty much do that same rig on one or two more poles Hey, Bradley should the family rig real quick. He actually on this is all Kind of a hybrid of live cut bait. Interesting. I've never seen that before so that is the first rig That is going out today now We're gonna go ahead and rig up some more of these and I get them out here. All right guys We have a another rig rigged up right now. I'm actually gonna put some cut bait on this one This one we actually have a circle hook to and there we go. That is our second rig and we're gonna give her a cast out there There's a ton of fish under me. There's a ton of fish eating out here, too There's a toss it right out there you can actually see some of these fish on my graph right now There's a bunch of muds coming up to the top of the water too. I want to see a big old catfish though I'm gonna cast him over here We're actually just gonna do this not the best hook for it But I just want to put a big piece of meat on this try something different Big old piece of meat bad That one's worth a shot. Yeah, so pick those things off any type of fish eat a night crawler I'll have to quaver out he caught a catfish on the night crawler Get it. Get it. Yep. I got him. I got him First fish my gopher is not recording by the way got a first fish on no idea what it is. Is it a bass? I'm gonna get the net. What is it? What is this? Guys look at this fish. I want y'all to see this on the river live bait fishing on the river catch his pigs, bro You know it just made it happen guys look at that right there almost a four pound bass on live bait I'm gonna tell you right now That's one of my biggest river basses you and the catch it on live bait I was not expecting it to be a bass. Is that not crazy? I thought it was a bass the way it was fighting That is insane, bro. That's a big bass. That's huge. That is insane, man We were actually getting impatient for a second there and then all of a sudden that rod just started going crazy And sure enough got a big bass. So that's a beautiful one right there. We're gonna keep on fishing I got a night crawler out there. We had a live bluegill on this one And on this one we have what cut bait cut bait on that one, but a beautiful fish that is awesome to start off the day Guys, I just caught this little guy. Look at this guys catfish on the night crawler Hey, buddy That was awesome. I just doubled up doubled up. All right guys. That was a lot of fun right there So pretty much the big Bradley hooked a fish. So I actually put the bass back here Let's take a little look at him real quick. I threw him alive. Well Oh He's down there Yeah, he's probably munching bro. You were yelling to get the net.  You understand how many times we needed a bass Look at that in the tournament. Just didn't get her look at that thing That's a big bass brother. I'm gonna get situated with these other rods first.   They seem to be preparing the live bait, but We're just gonna keep on trying now, but that is just insane I'm telling you guys that bass right there is a very good bass for the river and I'm just like honestly mind blown We are going to cast out again So this is the big night crawler that I have on this rig So pretty much right here where these trees are right where that fish just boiled I actually scanned a ton of fish down right there and that's exactly where we just caught that fish So we're gonna throw it back in there and see if we can catch another one over there And we actually felt like a little funny setup too So on these bass boots obviously you can put seats in them and um look it's got the little tiny hole So we can just put the rods in there. We reel up our slack so then we know when officially gonna bite it Pretty cool. Uh-oh Uh-oh got him Good fish. Oh Gosh dude, it's something big something big. I think it's a big mud Personally, yeah it is Dude that was so cool Look at that. You want to give me the grippers?  I'll rip my finger off, bro Oh, that was like a heck of a fight can't break 25 pound of break there. It broke around my finger It almost ripped my finger off Bradley look that was a big catastrophe, but we do have another big fish Huge fish want to get this guy back in the water crazy That was actually very scary to me because I had him on the grippers in a line wrap wrapped around my finger my ring finger and All the sudden dude that fish just flopped What oh gosh, Brad? I almost cut my finger off right there. So with 50 pound line I got lucky enough that the 50 pound line magically broke thing. What's it for the ring fingers today? I mean, I got stung in the ring finger. You got your ring finger taken off by line What's going on dude, but I'm just gonna release it. All right, that's not good. Let me get a good video Nice All right, man. Let's go. I'm on that. So we got a bass a catfish and a mudfish That's exactly dude. This is exactly what we wanted to do today So it's going good so far this fish that there are staged up right on top of that structure over there They're stage right off the edge of it right on that drop off and there's a ton of fish over there That was another one on a night crawler. I thought you had a fish I think I think there's one toy with it back in here. We have a big mess. So


Okay, so this one's number nine for everybody on the practice test practice exam three calculate the boiling point of a 4.35 mole l so little m is mole l So that's moles So calculate the boiling point of a 4.3 mole l benzene solution and phenol Okay, so how do we do this? Well, first of all, you got to remember that this is Collegative properties, so we're going to do be doing a boiling point elevation for the solution here, okay? so When we know that we know that We got to use the this equation the change of the Delta TV equals K V times Molal, okay, or the solution concentration, okay? Molality so K V One mole l And remember that that has to be given to you and the boiling point actually has to be given to you too But we're not using it yet. We will use it in the second and of course the molality is given to us 4.35 of course That cancels with that there So all we got to do is multiply These two numbers this three point so that's going to be 13 point to degree Celsius So that's the change in the boiling it asks us to calculate the boiling point of the solution Okay, so it doesn't ask us to calculate the change in boiling point So we got to figure out what the new boiling point is so the new boiling point Say the new equals the original boiling point the change in boiling So the original 181.7 22 degrees C so the new temperature is 185.0


So we did it Well, I think we almost did it because we still have the sprint days But on the other hand I think if something goes wrong during the sprint days We can always make a new sprint to resolve it. So let's just say now we did it Yes So I first would like to give you some ticket breakdowns provided by a lot of different volunteers who just Pretty much put all of these slides together. So if there's something that is incorrect We will definitely correct that later in edits. So, yeah so this year we have sold 1334 in person tickets and also 127 remote tickets, I would really like to use the opportunity to emphasize that this year We have lowered the ticket price by 24% compared to last year We we really did run quite a tight budget and I have to admit that Occasionally there were very stressful Situations and moments we didn't know whether we can make it whether we could break even but we are just really proud That we have made Europe is a more affordable and we really hope to continue this trajectory Yes And the next one is the country breakdown Really happy to see check being on top Really really happy to see so many Locos joining the conference We even met people during the pie lady social events or pie ladies Yes, when we've met the people people and we even met people who were joining last minutes And because they they just really like to be part of this so very happy and of course Germany and UK is Like usually the second and the third. Yes So this is the gender breakdown and this is something that we can certainly Use a lot of improvement on and I do believe if I remember correctly We have a slight decrease in terms of female and non binaries and other genders in terms of percentages compared to last year and so We are here. We'd like to hear how we can make improvements to increase diversity and In terms of remote participation this year and again We are we are we consider remote participation to also be when you when you joining from your hotel We're joining from the hallway and when you're interacting with each other both on discord And on YouTube so this year we have a very good bot that so on this on discord we have a lot of Lot of users around 1100 so almost all of the participants have joined our discord and we also have a Lot of discord messages around five thousand messages And I always think that a good portion of these messages are about food But Genuinely, I think we learned a lot about Catering and thank you so much for your great feedback I do hope that we have made Improvement over the days in terms of food and I really hope that you can come back again next year and test whether what we have learned will be put into good use and On YouTube, and we are again very proud that we are giving the live streams for free and open to public so during the last Three days we had over ten thousand views and two thousand Well, that's actually watch hours and all messages, but somebody can edit that out But I think this is a really good number and everybody is learning and sharing with each other And and I think we have a really strong program this year We had a record high proposed numbers of proposals 633 and we also received a record high number of Community votes around thirty thousand and we have a hundred and eighty seven speakers 142 talks and 22 tutorials and Something that I think again, we could really use improvement on is the number of speakers that identify from underrepresented groups We have put we have done Quite a lot in mentorship program, but still we've really want to do better So please find us and tell us what we should do give us suggestions and help us And again this year we have so many Events outside of the main program. We have trans codes beginners day snake workshop and Humble data workshop and Wasm wasm summits women in AI Mentor sprints the AI game tournament that you just saw And and we also have some socials such as the pie ladies lunch the people meet up and the So and and tonight we will have the pie ladies social and I I really want to use the opportunity to mention that This is something that we have been wanting to do for quite a few years to include more Different kind of events apart from the main program. We would like to have ideas such as last year We had a really nice makers fest and this year We had the several ideas, but it many of them didn't materialize So if you have ideas about what else to do during the Europe High Sun days in the next years Please come and talk to us. We like to have more fun and more creative moments during the event We and this year we have a budget of 25,000 euros for financial aid and I think we have a record high Applicants as well about 200 and they're from 50 countries The So we out of the accepted ones will have 57 Participants and 62 percent of these applicants are from under represented groups 30 percent of these are actually our speakers and we in addition we also have given 50 remote finnate grants and In addition to the finn financial aid, we also provided the mentorship program. So we matched So for each mentees who apply to join the mentorship We have found one mentor to help Because they are generally first-time speakers, especially most of them are from under represented groups and We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback. We would love to continue this and I am very proud this year that we are able to provide child care again And this year I added one one additional room because apparently it's getting quite popular and We didn't have the one room wasn't enough and I was particularly happy that a Somebody named a kid named Robin you which who you might know is really always looking forward to come into Europe I saw him because how much fun he has at Europe I saw his child care rooms Yes And of course it is Is not an easy Task to come to a country where like most of us don't really speak the language and to find a child care Provider who can provide child care services to children with many different languages? It was a very challenging task But we are really happy that we found as a very nice Company who is very supportive of us who provided us so many different language pairs I just like to thank Susie babysitter who has been just incredibly helpful for us. Yeah And the next one is code of conduct this year will have received three codes of conduct incidents All of which have been resolved fairly quickly I am not going to go into any details at the moment because all of the details are Fully with the code of conduct committee and the committee will provide a full Transparency report after the conference and you're very welcome to read them and provide us feedback As I mentioned in the opening the conference is organized by the Europe I some society And we are the oldest and longest-running volunteer led Python programming conference on the planet and I Would if you enjoy the conference I would urge you to become a member to be more involved to help us organize conferences to help us Get better at connecting with the community And the code this the Europe I some society has a formal structure of a board Who take up the full Responsibility of running the society including the conference. So I Am slightly concerned that next year because we have Several female board members who have been serving for a very long time who are stepping down So I'm a bit concerned that we will not have females on the board so if you are a Female and non-binary if you're underrepresented I would really love To see many of you to step up to consider joining the board to make us more diverse and In general to make us serve the community better So if you are around if you're considering you're very welcome to find me ask me questions chat with me and we also have a lovely group of board members who are Poor basically united behind this mission so we are here to chat and of course as I mentioned This is a massive endeavor and this takes a whole year of planning and Hundreds of hours to put this together, especially nobody is paid So I would just like to take the opportunity to thank every single organizer who has put in so much effort And we have Alex who organized very good community panel and this who drove Well, who is our treasurer for many many years and who is kind of stuck as our treasurer so and But also I just drove all the way from Sweden with all of our stuff So if you haven't used a power strip, that is ours and just brought them there. So thank you and Artem who is the other half of the sponsorship, but also helped us with the registration button discord and Talk to him to ask him to share the code with you And we also have our two of course most of the speakers already know like he's provided Incredible amount of support to speakers and put up a very good Program, I would think And chook you are always everywhere helping with everything and I don't think there is anybody in this room Who doesn't know chook and thank you? And and thank you chook for always being an ally in diverse diversity and inclusion and we have Christian who Who is a very gentle so who is always there to provide support who how whenever people need it and serial has provided incredible support to To put together to organize our volunteers our on-site volunteers who has also Reviewed many many proposals and provided incredible structure for the program reviewing and Dax is of a new volunteer a very young volunteer and He is he has incredible energy and He's I really hope that he will continue Contributing to Europe Python and he has helped in many different areas including Answering helped desk tickets and in our communications Dan Sri actually joins Europe Python in the remote or remote Europe Python years and she you if you're on-site volunteer you probably have met her because She is the main person organizing putting together the structure of on-site Volunteering and we also have Diego who is the rock because I think he has been in Europe He has attended Europe Python since forever ago and Last year Diego had a kid So I do not understand how he still had time to contribute in communications and program but thank you Diego and Elizabeth and Emma they they both provided they're both transcode volunteers Elizabeth provided us very good Link with the local community who also attended the transcode event and Jody is relatively new to volunteering but giving us to Europe Python volunteering but has provided an incredible energy and She is the one of the main organizers of humble data and we also have Kashi She's snow and who joined us fairly late, but gave us a lot of good support for how to deploy the discord bot Lila is also a transcode volunteer and Money Helped us a lot in financial aid and I'm incredibly sad that money could not be here today because we had really good plans to having Picon Africa Community table but unfortunately a few days before the conference we received the news that he could not be here with us due to visa issues and My knowledge He's very helpful with being late as well and Mia is pretty much the main reason why this conference Feels like a Czech conference. Thank you Mia We also have Martin who helped a lot in operations Nicholas Tolary who is very helpful in providing everybody supports, but also found us really lovely keynotes I'm very helpful in programming general and Nico is The main reason this on-site operations runs very smoothly and Naomi is the barometer of Whether the conference is running, okay, if she says it's okay, I think it's okay And and Patrick if you go to the Europe I zone website GitHub you will see how many commits Patrick has done and how much Improvement he has made to our website, but this year. I also had the pleasure of working with him on much of the design work with his friends and It has always been an incredibly supportive Collaboration and thank you And Rodigo joined joined us a little bit later But he has also provided a lot of insight in our program and also is constantly looking out for our sprints PRs and that amazing job reviewing these PRs and We have sangha Shannon who's traveled all the way from India. He has Been this he isn't the main reason why we even have Twitter messages. He's always on it And Sylvia unfortunately cannot be with us in person but Sylvia has been on our COC team for many years and always providing us with great insight in how to proceed Proceed when there are there's problems and she's also a great Ally in our diversity efforts and we have checker who joined us last year in Dublin And this year has done an amazing job managing the remote volunteers And Did I just skip Sebastian? Yes. I will leave Sebastian at the end And we have see a fan is Who would prefer to be called fanis and he gives the best hugs and he He talks to everybody. He always makes sure that everybody is okay And I think without him We would have not had the conference with so many teams sticking together for a whole year And he's always he's also the main drive behind the mentorship program so please give a big applause to And Of course, we have VB who most of the speakers you already know VB. I do not understand how VB could So this year VB has called co-led program or so Let Communications did an amazing job delegating and also finished his master's degree all in one year and Also gave me incredible support Always so thank you And we have the key who again cannot be with us on site and the key was the main drive in Rewriting our or updating our COC this year And she is also on the COC committee this year even though Vicky cannot be with us on In Prague, I am sure many of you have seen her on discord Who is always there to help every single person who has trouble with and the main organizers on site Might not be able to see the messages very promptly. So huge shout out to Vicky and of course I skipped Sebastian who is like if Sebastian has let's finnate with grace and Yes, I also skip lies. Yes Sebastian has really let's finnate with grace and consideration Every single applicant has been reviewed and double-checked by Sebastian answered very promptly And it's just the most considerate person in our team also Key is If you if you like our discord server Key is the main Drive behind this he provided all of the structure and also we have Many many pages of documentation So we would be very very happy to share with everybody who is interested and I also skip lies But of course you all you've all seen lies everywhere You have given Europe person so much energy What it whenever I say like he's can you do this downstairs always? Yes, of course and Thank you. Thank you for running humble data Thank you for including so many more encouraging so many more women to be part of the conference and Yeah, just thank you so much And of course, we also have many on-site volunteers and remote volunteers as part of the great effort So if you are around All of organizers and all of the on-site volunteers. I would really love you to Come on stage and just be recognized Apart from our on-site volunteers. We also have many remote volunteers I really hope that the tech will work and we will see the remote volunteers And the key I Don't know where our photo. Oh, yeah, that's our photographer. Yeah, he knows the drill. Yes Yeah, I also want to take the opportunity to thank so much of our supporting stuff Just stay here like just be with stay on stage. Yes. I I don't know whether Gonzo people are Going to be close to stage, but I just want to say great Thanks to our Gonzo team that have been with us as our AV team since 2017 And you are part of our team and part of our community and of course Thank you so much to all of our sponsors. So that's it. Thank you and see you at the sprints See you next meet-up. See you next pythons and see you and the next Europysons. Thank you Good to close I would like to take a minute here to thank Raquel for being such a brilliant chair Not just for for this year, but for the year before she's been serving on the board for Yeah, I forgot to say something so I'm Raquel and this is my I've been volunteering Europysons since 2018 this is my last year serving on the board and it has been an incredible journey I have learned a lot. I've made so many great friends and So, yeah, please join us and make good friends As you might know I've been involved in quite a few conferences and I can really say she was the best project manager ever Okay, so I'm gonna keep the shot. Thank you so much Raquel for everything and Some of the volunteers over here. They we wanted to like get like a what's called? Gift card. No, what's it called? No a greetings card a greeting card for you But then because there are so many people who wanted to write something for you. We decided to go with the calendar So here's a calendar wherein each each month has something written by you know One of our volunteers and if anyone missed it you can come up to me and you can write more Thank you so much for everything you've done you are leaving a legacy behind


Good morning and welcome to Town Meeting Television's continuing coverage of Town Meeting 2023. Just when you thought it was over, there's the city of Essex Junction. So we're so happy to be here today to talk about their budget and the ballot questions that will be on and before the voters on the 11th of April. So thank you so much for joining us. Regina Mahoney and Andrew Brown. We're so glad you're here. Regina is the city manager and Andrew Brown is the president of the trustees. City council, but close enough. City council. It's not the trustees anymore. I know. It's one of those cultural things we're trying to get used to. Okay. City council. Good. All right. Well, we're going to run into some of those today. But right now what we're going to do is we're going to go over the FY24 budget and the ballot questions. And first, Regina, did we want to just let people know when they're going to be able to hear more about it and vote? Yes. So the couple of things that are different this year. Voters are going to go to the Champlain Valley Expo at the Blue Ribbon Pavilion to vote. And that will be April 11th. We will have the informational meeting the night before at 6 p.m. And that will be online only. The ballots will be mailed to everybody beforehand and also a newsletter will go out to everybody beforehand as well that has a bit more detail explaining the ballot questions. And so this is just the people in the city of Essex Junction, correct? This is the town of Essex is out of the picture now. Yes. Okay. Fine. So let's proceed and talk about the FY24 budget, which is Article 1. It's an $11.4 million budget. And I can't wait to hear all about it because you've restructured your finances in effect by decoupling from the town. Yeah. So essentially this is, it's a very interesting situation because we don't have a budget to compare to that is the same as what our FY24 budget is. So in FY23, this fiscal year, the village budget on its own is $6.3 million. That does not, for the individuals who pay their taxes, they're also paying a significantly more amount than that because of the town budget as well. So in March of 2021, the village put together a mock budget of what the city would look like on its own. So that was two years ago now and we are in unprecedented inflation times. And so what we did was take that mock budget, FY22 mock budget, apply an 8% inflation to it. And that's what we're comparing to what our FY24 city budget is. And so for the first time in FY24, residents will be, or taxpayers in Essex Junction will be paying their taxes that stay within the city for city services. And based on our proposed FY24 budget, that is a 6% increase over that inflation-adjusted mock budget. What it means today, folks are paying .9298 combined tax rates, so both for the town and the village, in the city, sorry. And FY24, the tax rate is .9432. So that is, oh, I apologize, this slide is wrong. It should be a 0.4% tax rate increase. 0.4, so less than a percent. Yes. So we'll get this slide updated. Okay. Yeah. And that, so well, it's a 6% increase over the mock budget, which is just really an exercise in comparison, not really a real increase in anything, right?  That doesn't include school taxes and things they may also be paying. And so what is that, financially, do we know what that number is?  But what's the base and how do you talk about it now? Yeah. So for a $280,000 home, it is a $10.86 increase. And so that number is correct. The chart above it is not correct, but that number is correct. And one of the difficult parts of this is that unlike Burlington, Essex Junction and the town of Essex have not gone through our reappraisal process yet. So as we all know, with real estate prices being what they are, for somebody whose home may be real estate-wise valued at about half a million dollars, may very well on the grand list only show up at $280,000 being assessed. So it's important for people in the community to know that when you're wondering what this tax impact is going to be on you, it's not based off of what you could get on the real estate market for your home, but instead, how it's assessed at the grand list. And when's the reappraisal going to happen in the city? It should be done fiscal year 25. Yeah. So that's going to be a big sticker shock. I mean, in Burlington, they said, well, you know, it's supposed to be a neutral impact because the grand list is supposed to adjust, but that didn't happen. Our taxes went up quite a bit. So I think it's probably important for people to understand it's not because you became a city. Right. It's because the reappraisal is happening, but that's in the future. So we're talking about the 24 budget. So right now, people are looking at about $11 increase a year on their city taxes over on a house that's worth about $280,000. Correct. In the old days. Yes. Okay, great. So talk about the budget drivers. So what we've got in front, what the budget includes is some acknowledgement of a lot of costs of things going up, costs of supplies going up, costs of services going up, but it also does include new programming that I think Andrew can speak better to this, but I've heard from folks wanting different things like code enforcement for quite a while and the village hasn't been able to address that because we're trying to figure out the governance structure for quite a while. So now that we are a city, we have a couple of new positions in there to address some of these new services that the community has been asking for. So there's a code enforcement person contemplated in there, an administrative assistant, a town planner because there's a number of also committees that are joint committees now between the town and as the city moves forward, we're intending to have a strategic planning process to figure out what are the right committees that we want to have locally going forward. And then there's some other increases in here that just had to happen, including an increased cost for stormwater. Stormwater used to be completely within the town budget, so there's a minor component addressed in the village budget, so now we've got that accommodated, increased costs for Essex Rescue, Cemetery, a couple of city events, and a capital transfer because we've got a really very robust capital plan in the village, always have, and really help support that system going forward. So IBM used to be a huge factor now, it's not IBM anymore, but do they pay taxes or lieu of taxes or how does that work? And that goes to the city now, not to the town. So they pay their property taxes just as any other business would. Their appraisal would be done, or their reappraisal would be done by a different entity just given the complexity of that type of an appraisal, but they pay commercial, industrial property taxes just as another entity would. And they don't pay an inventory tax anymore or any other tax other than property? No, the machinery equipment got phased out, yep. I remember that was a big year. Oh yes. How are we going to do that? We did it. Yep. Absolutely. Through the other side. Absolutely. And then the rescue, talk about how it works with Essex Rescue now, does the city pay? Obviously they do, but it's the fee for service arrangement in effect for Essex Rescue. Yeah, so the village always paid for Essex Rescue, but through the town budget. So now going forward, we pay our fees directly to Essex Rescue on our own. So this amount is not the full amount of that cost. It's the increase over what we've, has been sort of the village portion of it in the past. Got it. Yeah. Great. And then the Memorial Day and Fourth of July celebrations, yay, because we need those. Those are what bring people together. Yeah. They do. And we're fortunate when we weren't able to do those due to COVID and so we want to make sure that we're able to get the community to come back together again. Yeah. That's great. Well, we all, we have them going back for years, so in case it doesn't happen again, we can always just run the old fields for the TV. I want to remind people that we're talking about the city of Essex Junction's first budget and ballot questions that are going to be taken up on April 11th. We're talking with Regina Mahoney, the city manager, and Andrew Brown, who's the president of the city council. You could call us if you'd like to. It's the 22nd of March, I think, at<PHONE_NUMBER> if you have any questions. Okay. One-time expenditures. Yeah. So we talked about doing the strategic planning work, so now that we are a city who really want to take, you know, big comprehensive effort to figure out what are our goals and our priorities going forward, and that will be a one-time expense, and so we were able to tag that to the local option tax. So the city of Essex Junction started the local option tax in October of 2022. So we've got three months of actual data associated with what that revenue might look like. It's in the holiday quarter, and so we've put some, certainly some conservative numbers on what that might look like. So these, and then also where everything says village still, so we've got to switch everything over to the city. And so those are items in there that we were able to use the local option tax for. So is the local option tax meeting the expectations of revenue that you had hoped when you set it up? Personally it's exceeding the expectation at this point in time. It's something that four years personally had advocated for, whether we were working together with the town of Essex or now separately. It's one of those things where we know we have many people in our community who come and enjoy the things that we have to offer, whether that be some of our local restaurants and shops, or even going to the Champlain Valley Exposition for concerts and the fairgrounds, or the annual fair. All of those items will now have one percent of that sale being taxed and help to then pay for our capital improvement needs that we have. And in particular, things like the Champlain Valley Exposition's annual fair to really help to recoup some of those costs as the impact on our infrastructure is significant. Yeah, sure it is. Well okay, well let's go to the ballot. Well we are in the ballot questions. That was number one, that was the budget. So article number two. Yeah. So these, I imagine, are about updating your governance documents related to becoming a city. Yes, they are. This first one in particular around the conflict of interest is something that we learned the hard way where we are adding in this phrase or proposing to add in the phrase that a city counselor cannot be a city employee unless allowed by state statute. So what had happened is in January the city of S. Exjunction did not have a town health officer in state statute. The chair of the municipal board is then the town health officer, but our charter said we couldn't have that happen. So we were in direct conflict and this would fix that. What this is not saying is that a city counselor can be an employee broadly only if it is allowed by state statute. So that's article two. Article three being that for a former city counselor they would have to wait one year before they could be employed by the city of S. Exjunction. Regardless of whether they stepped down early they had to wait until one year after their term actually ended. And we're removing that statement so that that way if for instance we're in this budget we're proposing an administrative assistant. If a former city counselor wants to become the city administrative assistant is well qualified then we want to be able to take advantage of the entire applicant pool instead of just sort of removing some people from that possibility. Do you see any cons to that question? There's always the narrative around could somebody have put in a position within a budget that then they were hoping for themselves. It's a narrative that is easy to play off of and there's no way to really add a safeguard there to prevent that from happening outside of just generally believing that people are generally good and that we would only hire people who are the most qualified. Got it. Okay so that's article two and article three. Alright. Article four. Article four is updating the moderator portion where historically we did free COVID we had an annual meeting that was in person similar to what town meeting used to be within our city's charter we don't have that and so our annual meeting is now done through the ballot. So having a moderator moderate a meeting that is just done on a ballot really didn't seem to make sense and so we are proposing to have the moderator be an appointed individual for our informational meeting that would happen before our annual meeting instead of asking that person to go through the process of getting the signatures and going through an election and then. And they're appointed by the city council? Yes. Okay got it. And so then article five would be instead of asking the community a year in advance when to come out and vote and have that annual meeting having the city council determine that by January 1st of each year. So it's not fixed that it's in April? You decide every year when it is. Correct. Oh no. I didn't know that. I didn't know you decided that but now you're doing it by January. Right and we came in. It's more practical. I think so and we ran into an issue where just this year we had our informational meeting that was scheduled during Passover and so had it not been for the legislature allowing us to change that without going back to the community we would have had to have a special vote to have the community say yes please do change the date to a different day. This will allow us to be more agile more nimble in that as well as have the question of do we want to maintain voting during April or do we want to change that to potentially town meeting day along with the majority of other municipalities in the state. And if you change if in the towns where they have it in March do all cities and towns have this clause? I mean is this a decision that gets made every year or is it fixed in other places? Many have it listed within their charter that it will happen on the second to on the on the defined town meeting day date and they do not have it as a as a thing that is either voted upon or done by their municipal board. Okay all right let's keep going article six this is approving your annual meeting on Tuesday the 9th 2024. Right so this is that question that we have to because of our current rules we have to ask the community now when they want to vote next year. I see. Okay so you wouldn't see this next year if the other item passes. Correct and as we learn through the through the separation process just once it votes here or once the vote for the charter change happens in the community then needing to go into the legislature and deal with that legislative process hopefully it would happen quickly but if not this is that fallback. Very good. Article seven drinking water state revolving fund. So we have a requirement through a new federal requirement to inventory water service lines and essentially the inventory is intended to look for lead and this is a requirement for water systems by October 2024. The state has taken some of the bipartisan infrastructure bill and put it through the revolving loan fund to the drinking water revolving loan fund to help municipalities do this inventory but it is debt. It's a zero interest loan it's a five years but once the five years happen you pay it back in five years annual five annual payments so essentially we would have ten years to pay it back. So we have to do this inventory no matter what we either have to come up with the money to do this inventory in this year's budget or we will have ten years to pay it back which would be very helpful. It is also an inventory but also if we find any lead pipes you also have to have a replacement plan done for each of those situations so that's why we are asking the voters for to approve that debt. And is that one-tenth that forty-three that forty-four thousand in this year's budget? It is not yeah so you would put it in the next year's budget yeah as a way of I mean I imagine you would figure out a way to pay back four thirty-three interest free over ten years. Yes. Exactly. And a part of this being the federal requirement that this inventory has to be done by October of 20 of 2024. So either we ask the community now to do this and take out this loan or we figure out how to pay for it without without taking the loan. And is this is Champlain Water District work with you on this or is this a purely city enterprise? They are doing their own systems too and they I think they've already started their inventory if I understand correctly. But once it gets into our system these are actually individual it's not even public infrastructure it's the it's the individual service lines to each residential home that needs to be looked at so yeah. And Champlain Water District is in effect a wholesaler. They're bringing water to you and then you you have the infrastructure to distribute in the city. Yeah. Got it. Okay. Alright city officers moderator. This is that election portion of our now moderator who had to go out and get the signatures for their ballot to run and then our two city council seats where we have two long-term city counselors who are not running for re-election so three people are running for those two seats and then a library trustee for five years. Alright and then who's not running? So George Tyler and Dan Karen are running after 15 and 6 17 years in total. Brain trust right there. Absolutely. Oh my goodness. So that sums it up. We've done it. Yeah. Of the eight articles including this the city budget. Correct. Yeah. But there's more. Wait wait general fund highlights so we've done these pretty much if people want to know about them they can ask but why don't you tell me if there are highlights you want people to know about the general fund in addition to what you've said. I think the only highlight that I would just like to mention is going back to one of the original portions about there being a 0.4 percent tax increase. When we were going through the process of separation early on two years ago the mock budget did show that we would be looking at a seven percent tax decrease and at that point in time based on all the information we had we were confident that we would be able to come back to the community today and say you would have a tax decrease unfortunately as we've talked about the amount of inflation that we've had is a significant driver in that as well as we finally are at this point in time in sx junction where we can stop telling the community we don't we can't deal with that right now because we have to figure out governance we have now figured out governance and we can actually say to the community yes for eight years you've been asking for more ordinance enforcement yes let's put that in the budget and figure out how best to do that so when we see a 0.4 percent tax increase a part of it is of course inflation another part of it is us saying you've waited long enough it's time to put it's time to put some money towards these problems that you've been asking us to fix but but that percentage that you're talking about is really it's not reflected in people's actual property tax they're paying less than a percent increase in their property taxes right right so I mean I think that's what people care about the most I mean we create these concepts to be able to understand the impact of separation and but the reality is when I have to write a check how much more am I paying a year and what you're saying is if my house is valued at 280 per the city I'm paying $11 more year right so that's that's pretty amazing that's actually remarkable amount of work given all the concern there was about the costs and in separation and in a portion of that is also due to the local option tax in that with our rental registry for instance one of the things that we're proposing to do this upcoming year there are some one-time startup fundings that's going to be needed to hire the person to oversee that and so through our local option tax we're going to use some of that money to then pay for those one-time costs that then the revenue from the rental registry would pick up so it's another reason why when you asked earlier about how it's how it's meeting expectations and for me it's exceeding so Regina this is what's it like being the city manager of a new city it's kind of a different kind of job it is it's very exciting and it's very interesting there's just a lot of work still done because I think I'm not sure how much folks know because we came became a city on July 1 of 2022 we're still very much connected with the town in this particular year and we're doing a lot of work to separate for July 1 essentially for the most part so it's definitely been really interesting it's a really great community and at such a strong team of department heads and staff so it's been it's been really fun yeah and are you feeling some pride of pride in this process I mean that might not be the word but are you yeah how you feeling about this process that you really worked hard through this is it's a great place to be at to think that the question of governance in our community was happening the same year my father was born is something that is just a significant accomplishment I would say for our community as a whole and it's great to be at this place where we have our first city manager and we have an amazing city manager helping to lead our our municipality forward well I want to thank you both Regina Mahoney and Andrew Brown for presenting the city budget and ballot items for the city of Essex Junction the vote is on the 11th of April there is an informational meeting online on the 10th you can find all that information on the website but you can also get in touch with Regina and Andrew and I imagine we will have that contact information up on the screen for you thanks so much for watching thank you thank you great to see you and thanks don't forget to vote


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener, thanks to every single one of you. I see you, Chris Benito, Steve Ayaterola, Jeffrey Zilx, and welcome in our new patrons, Nick HW and Randy. On this episode of DTNS, looks like you lost some subscribers there, Max. You okay? Also, we check on Canada now that news is illegal there and introduce you to the local first movement that wants to end your reliance on the cloud. Though this right here, this is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from Columbus, Ohio. I'm Rob Dunwood. Deep in the heart of Texas. I'm Justin Robert Young. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Oh, my friends. What a wonderful panel. Good to have you both. If I'm not mistaken, Rob, Justin, have you ever done a DTNS together before? I think once, but it was like a big panel one maybe. Okay. Yeah, yeah. No, not not not one of these. The mothership, the real deal, the straight dope, the real DTNS. No, this is me and Rob's debut. And I am thrilled to be doing me too. All right, let's start right away. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off whether you were thrilled or not. Let us shall we begin with the quick hits then? Why not do that? Nintendo reported earnings for the quarter ending June 2023 with a nice surprise for the street revenue for the quarter rose 52% year on year. This is due in large part to the success of the Super Mario Brothers movie and the launch of the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom in May. Company also sold more Switch consoles than expected moving 3.91 million consoles, which is up 13.9% over the same quarter last year. According to TechCrunch, three security researchers were able to jailbreak a Tesla to get free in car feature upgrades. The technique they use is called voltage glitching where they fiddle around with the supply voltage of the AMD processor that runs the infotainment system at just the right time to get the CPU to do something other than what was intended to do. The researchers who own the car but just don't want to pay $300 for heated seats will present their findings next week at the Black Hat Security Cyber Conference in Las Vegas. Instagram has restricted the number of message requests from people you don't follow to one. Previously, it was unlimited. They could just keep saying, hey, please, you want to be my friend, be my friend, accept my request. A second message can only be sent now if the recipient accepts the request to connect. So you don't have to follow each other. You just have to accept that first request. Also, those message requests only can include text now before they could include images and video. Instagram tested these changes in June, and now it's rolling out there, buddy. Samsung and RepairShop company Asherian have designated 50 UBreak iFix locations as flagship repair centers for Samsung devices. That means they have larger inventories and specialized tools so they can repair more types of devices and problems faster. Samsung also partners with iFixit on self-repair kits. And a couple of product announcements. LG has announced the global release for its 97-inch OLED TV. We saw this at CES. This is the one that puts all the ports in a separate box, then connects to the display wirelessly. That way you can put the TV wherever you want, but keep all the boxes and cords out of sight. The LG Signature OLED goes on sale in September. In the UK, you'll pay 28,000 pounds. That's around $35,000 US. It's been on sale in Korea for about the same amount of money. Alienware also announced the launch of its Aurora R16 flagship gaming computer. It's 40% smaller than the R15, but has larger air intakes to M2 PCIe slots and support for Wi-Fi 6E and 2.5 gigabit per second Ethernet. That one starts at $1,750 in the United States. All right, let's check in on our friend Max, Rob. Well, Warner Brothers Discovery announced quarter-ending June 2023 earnings and has lost 1.8 million subscribers across all properties, including Max, the newly combined HBO Max and Discovery Plus streaming service. Executives don't seem too concerned, however, because most of those cancellations were customers dropping Discovery Plus, now that it is part of Max. And the fact that the streaming revenue grew by 13% year over year. CEO David Zasloff says, while we have seen some expected subscriber disruption, we have experienced lower than expected churn throughout this process. He also states that Warner Brothers Discovery plans to launch internationally over the next year plus, but that's not all he had to say is it, Justin. Oh, Rob, you ain't just whistling Dixie. Indeed not. On the writer's and actor's strike, the CEO says it is quote unquote important that the strike gets settled soon, quote, our goal is to tell great stories and we cannot do any of that without the entirety of the creative community. We should also note that the company saved $100 million on expenses because of the writer and actor strike. Now that may look a little paltry when they don't have money to make a new product going forward. But for right now, it's money found in the pants. Zasloff says that Max now has the ability to deliver live programming and the company recognizes that sports are important differentiators. The company may make a move on the NBA with its current rights set to expire in 2025, although the company will sell or close down its regional sports networks by the end of the year. Yeah, it's a subscriber decline. But when you consider that they forced a lot of people to have to download a new app to keep watching the service and they said, hey, that thing you've been paying for Discovery Plus, well, if you're already paying for HBO Max, now you've got it there.  So this actually 1.8 million probably isn't that bad in retrospect. It'll be more important to see if they bounce back with growth next quarter. What surprises me, though, is that even before we saw Zasloff come in, even before the merger got approved, they've been dragging their heels on bringing sports into what was then HBO Max than is now Max. And I don't quite cotton to why they are taking so long to bring live sports front and center. When they have Major League Baseball, NHL, NBA, they have a lot of live sports that they could do this with. I know some of it is right stuff, but not all of it is right stuff. I don't know, with the NBA expiring in 2025, it seems like they really maybe they're waiting to figure that deal out before they highlight it, but I don't know why. I don't think they're getting the NBA. And if I had to just take an educated guess, I think this company wants to be bought again by somebody who has sports. So they don't want to go sign ginormous contracts that would make their acquisition at some point later more difficult to do. Because when you think about the NBA, the player salaries are already starting to reflect what that deal is going to look like. That thing is going to be billions upon billions upon billions of dollars. So I don't know that they want to be strapped down with that. At least you can infer that by the fact that they just haven't gone after any of these major sport franchises. I don't want to say they're there for the taking, but they are there for the bidding. I mean, they could be in the game much more so than they are, so to speak, pun intended. Well, but but of the people that are buying sports right now, they are by far financially the weakest. And you can make the argument from the Turner perspective that they've already done a lot of the kind of acquiring that they were going to do. They already acquired the NHL. They already have expanded their footprint in MLB. And obviously, NBA is their flagship. They are, at least for sports fans that I talked to, the premier exhibitor of sports. That's a very, very important brand, but they don't have the backing that ESPN has with Disney. They don't have the backing of a major broadcasting outlet like ABC or CBS or Fox.  I agree with you, Rob. This is something that I think they are very much deciding and the market is deciding whether or not they are the biggest small fish in the world of streaming that will be going forward or the smallest big fish going forward. And that will determine whether or not they are swallowed or whether or not they will be surviving. I think Zaslav is putting himself in a position to kind of do both. But as far as max specifically, I don't blame them for going slow on this. This is still a rapidly evolving product. And we saw what happened with Netflix, which has more money than God in this space, that when a live product went wrong, it was reputational damage. They can't afford that right now. As much as I am sure David Zaslav would love for a house to be rebuilt in real time on their platform, because that's what he got rich on with his discovery properties. This is something I can agree that they should take slow. Well, they do some live on the platform. And maybe I'm underestimating how cautious they need to be on that. I look at what some of the others like ESPN and Peacock do, and I assume Max could do it just as good. But yeah, you're right. This platform has not been the most solid technologically. So maybe I need to consider that more. Now that we've talked it out, now that you guys are talking about it, I do see the timeline, which is 2024, January 2024. Coming up is when Comcast and Disney are likely to finish up their conversations about how they dispose of the rest of Hulu. If you don't know, Comcast owns a chunk of Hulu, and they can either force Disney to take it or Disney can force them to give it to them at a price in January 2024. So it's going to happen. Disney's going to get that back, which will free Comcast up to go and possibly buy someone else now that they've got that money and they've extricated themselves from Hulu entirely. And there were some Comcast is Peacock, right? So some people can understand their NBC Peacock, all of that. And the other part of this is there were some restrictions placed on the merger that will be expiring around the same time in early 2024 that will allow someone to buy Warner Brothers Discovery should Warner Brothers Discovery want to sell, should AT&T want to sell their remaining stake and all of that. So in 2024, you're going to see a lot of consolidation, a lot of merger talk, a lot of acquisition talk. And if I'm Zaslav, I probably don't want to have an MBA deal all signed up and tight yet. I want to leave that as some flexibility in any deal going forward. So he can't sign it now, right? Yeah, it's in 2025. And we don't know what that market's going to look like in 2025. There's a lot of players that major sports leagues have shied away from that now are not all that weird, namely Apple and Amazon. Amazon as the NFL, Apple has bought into MLB and MLS. So we are probably going to see a far different group of bidders in 2025. And I think that Turner itself, whether or not it's a tile in another streaming service, or it is its own streaming service, will then be able to join that conversation. All right, Rob, let's turn our attention as everyone does these days to Elon Musk. So Francis AFP news agency is suing Elon Musk X platform aka Twitter because it isn't negotiating payment for sharing AFP stories on Twitter. The EU expanded its copyright law in 2019 to include neighboring rights, which requires large platforms like Twitter to provide usage data for the purpose of determining compensation. The law covers all but the shortest snippets of news content. Google was fined more than half a billion dollars after the antitrust probe found it violated the law. This is just another example of the struggle between online platforms and news publishers over who should make money off of news. Speaking of Canada, because that's also happening in Canada, Michael Geist calls the Canadian version of this bill C18 a lose-lose as meta is now actively blocking news links on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. Google has not followed suit on that yet. We don't really know where the status is between the CRTC, which is the agency in Canada that's overseeing this in Google. So they yet may block it, but right now they have it. Geist argues that doesn't really matter. News publishers, particularly smaller and independent publishers, are losing out on audience and revenue under this deal. The platforms are losing by making their services objectively less valuable. Individuals are losing because they have fewer places to read and share news, and the government loses because now that the bill has royal assent, there are few ways to mitigate its effects. So everybody's losing according to Michael Geist. Now this conversation could change if Google unexpectedly strikes a deal, but if it goes as people are assuming right now and Google starts blocking things too, Justin, take a look at this. I know it's the same old song, but does it seem that maybe this time Canada backed itself into a corner? Yes. And it's not the Canada backed itself into a corner. It's that we are in a situation where the ad market is tightening. And I've said this a million times on this show, but if you want to understand why weird things are happening in the world of what we think of as free entertainment things for which they're going to monetize by anybody who wants to sell an ad on top of it, then this is part of it. And Google and Facebook are not just rich companies because they're rich companies. They're rich companies because they redefine how to sell ads to people. And if that market is contracting, for which we have seen, and maybe it gets better this year, but this has been a fairly dismal year in terms of ad sales for a bunch of different reasons, then they need to start looking at these fights, these national fights that are going to be precedents for as long as, you know, until they can then have either popular push to overturn the laws or enough lobbyists that can do it from the inside, then they might need to make somebody an example. And Canada, you look a boot, right? Yeah, this is, this is one of those situations where Canada is a big country by landmass, but it really is not that big of a country. So I think meta is kind of saying it's like, you know what? You're the one. You're the one that we're going to just, we're going to wait this thing out and see what your news publications end up saying about this, what your citizens end up saying about this, because we probably can sustain ourselves without having, you know, news advertising in Canada. But can the news advertisers in Canada sustain themselves without actually having their news promoted on a platform as large and ubiquitous as Facebook? I don't know that that is the case. Yeah. No, in fact, I would say that these companies are saying to Canada, Surrey. With fringe on top. I want to make clear to people that there are differences in these laws. Australia had an easier way for negotiations to happen. Canada locked it down more and made it harder because the CRTC is involved, as Justin was talking about earlier. Europe said you could still do very basic snippets. It was only when you started to use a little bit more that you fall into the law, which is why AFP is just now suing Twitter. I feel like the example to look at is Spain. If you recall about 10 years ago, Spain told Google not only do you have to pay to use snippets on Google News, but you can't not link to the news. You can't get around it by just putting up a link. Anything you do, you're going to have to pay. And Google responded by removing the Google News product in Spain for many, many years. You could not use Google News in Spain. And it does feel a little like maybe that's what's going to happen with meta and news in Canada. And like I said, we're still waiting to see what happens with Google. Well, and let's also understand that this is only reaching the point of government action because these media outlets are dying because they stopped getting ad revenue. They turned to social media, some of which offered to pay them money for various different schemes like pivoting to video like Facebook now meta did. And now they feel sold up the river. 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This is one of those articles that I want to call people's attention to, because if you listen to Daily Tech News show, one of the benefits you get is being the person in the room that says, oh yeah, no, I heard about that a while ago. Wired's Gregory Barber has an article up about something called Local First, Local First Software. Local First has become popular in the developer community. It's a big hit on hacker news, for example. It goes along with the slogan, there is no cloud. There is just someone else's computer. So it's people realizing that, well, we don't like having to be relying on the cloud because then our data is relying on somebody else, and they may not have our best interests at heart. The idea of Local First is not to lose the benefits of cloud access, like access across devices or real-time collaboration. It's just reducing the need to have the third party involved. So instead of keeping a dock with Google that we both access, we'd each have a copy on our devices that would regularly reconcile directly between the devices over the internet. So how do you make that work? Well, computer scientist Martin Kleppmann at Cambridge co-authored a white paper with engineers from Research Lab Inc. and Switch called Local First Software, you own your data in spite of the cloud. And it references something called Conflict Free Replicated Data Type. That's CRDT for short. That was developed by a French computer theorist, Marc Shapiro, and Kleppmann built on Shapiro's work to create an open source tool called Auto Merge that powers a lot of Local First software. It handles how to combine two things that are being done in two different places, and they may or may not always be in communication with each other. This is one of those things that may never break out of its enthusiastic community, but it might break out of its enthusiastic community and maybe becomes the next big thing in tech innovation. Maybe it's the next blockchain or the next large language model or transformer. Rob, I know you read this wired article. What's your feeling about where this goes? So I read the article and I actually went through a lot of the white paper. And my initial thought was, this is cute. It's, you know, the white paper almost read like a manifesto, that there were a lot of words in there like art and ownership and this and that and the other. So my thought and have, you know, spending, you know, a lifetime in the corporate world, can you make the C-suite care about this enough that they would actually move on it? I can see smaller development shops or consultants who are working with many others. This is really, really cool for them.  And that has to go through SharePoint. I don't think that managers, directors and C-suite folks are going to care unless you can show that there's a reason for them to ultimately, and that's going to be, is this going to help us make more money? Is this going to help us ultimately satisfy customer needs? Is this going to help us ultimately, you know, get our shareholders, you know, happier because that stock price keeps going up? I don't necessarily see that yet. But the ideas of this are really interesting. And there's, there's some cool technical plays here, but you're going to have to figure out how to make a C-suite person care about this enough to actually implement this in large organizations. Rob, you are 100% correct. And it's that mentality that has kept the corporate world away from the leading edge of this conversation for the last 20 years, because in the last 20 years, Google Docs has largely taken over this space. And they did it because it was free and very efficient. And so while a lot of the corporate world has stayed along with their Microsoft licensing and maybe even went with some other places for which could satisfy elements of their own very specific world, there is no reason why a solution like this cannot take hold, especially in our rapidly divergent community of different solutions for different problems world that we have now. We don't only have one way to communicate with each other, we have a billion different ways, depending on how secret or public we want it to be, that this can't be a way that we can share documents in a way that we feel is more secure. We already have that with messaging signal, WhatsApp, various other end to end encryption apps are popular and names we know, simply because they have those features. And they are not other ways in which we communicate. This could be that for documents. And I don't think that just believing that it's not a corporate solution means it can't be a solution. I feel like the first thing it has to do is become reliable. And that is something that if you read this article, you realize it's almost there, not quite there. So it's still in, you know, Bluetooth circa 1998, USB circa 2001, it works. But does it work for everybody auto merge needs to get better. And that is something that is going to happen, have to happen first. So you get more consumers willing to try out something. Once you do that, then I think, Rob, you're absolutely right. There has to be a compelling reason for companies to take it up to for it to become widespread, even for the consumers, because Google didn't do Google ducks because they wanted to make consumers happy. They did Google ducks because they wanted eventually to get corporations to sign up for Google cloud. So I look at this and I think, well, the tech may or may not get good enough, we'll see. But if it does, I think the pitch, Rob, you tell me if this plays with you would be compliance and security. If you can say, look, you don't have to worry about a third party getting hacked, you don't have to worry about a third party having a privacy violation or holding your data, and you don't want them to hold your data. Remember that all the big freak outs on chat EPT, where the data is actually used for training and open AI is having to scramble to tell companies like no, no, no, we'll let you keep your data local. That could be the appealing advantage to something like this. Oh, that makes me raise an eyebrow. Now, I'm not a CISO, but I know security and that makes me think, huh, we cannot be sued if we use this. So that actually gets it into the C-suite to where a corporate decision could actually be made to get this pushed out. That's viable.  They ended up using OT, which is a similar type of technology. But if you're using this, let us know how it's going, because I have not played around with it a lot personally. And I'd love to hear the stories, feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. Another thing to note here, IBM, Huggingface, and NASA walked into a bar. No, they are cooperating to build an open source geospatial foundation model to better handle earth science data. NASA estimates that a quarter million terabytes of data is going to be generated in 2024. So having some AI to help sort through it and make sense of it will be helpful. Foundational models, if you're like, wait, what's a foundation model? That is a big superset of machine learning models. So large language models like chat GPT are a type of foundational models, multimodal models like Dolly. Those are all foundational models. Foundational models are trained on large amounts of data. And IBM is going to provide the foundational model, the WatsonX.AI foundational model. NASA is, of course, going to provide the data from the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 satellite, so HLS, if you know. And Huggingface is going to host the model on its open source platform so that everybody can access it. The group anticipates it can be used to create AI that can track things like deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, predict crop yields, and a bunch of unexpected stuff because it'll be available for researchers and scientists to play with. Finally, AI can tackle the farmer's almanac. Yeah, and if it could, if it could cool the planet down a little as well, while it's at it, I'd be very appreciative. Just point the fans of the computers and the servers. All right, Rob, let's check out the mailbag. So yesterday, Sarah had a brilliant idea of Taco Wednesday. Kevin writes, the first Wednesday of the month, my employer requested all remote employees be in the office. Today, the IT group brought in an outside speaker to talk about a security issue. And now the important piece, they scheduled this during our lunch hour, so there was lunch Taco Buffet. Taco Wednesday was widely observed in my local sphere of influence. Now, listen, the mission of this show is helping each other understand technology, but the secondary mission is helping each other eat more tacos. Yeah, that's it. That's the little known secondary mission of this. So we can probably say Taco Wednesday without being sued by one LeBron James because that's right. Exactly. We don't have to give permission for Taco Wednesday or Taco Thursday or Taco Friday. No, this was great, Kevin. Thank you. Thank you for sharing this. Appreciate that. So we also want to thank Justin, Robert Young. Why don't you tell us how we can get at you? What are you doing these days? Well, what I'm doing is working very, very hard on the brand new season of Know a Little More with one Tom Merritt. That will be coming to you. Can we say the debut date, Tom? September 6th. September 6th, ladies and gentlemen. Amos is cursing us, but he's already uploaded the first episode. Yeah, we got our episode. And it's going to be something special. It's something that we have never done on Know a Little More before. And I am very excited for you guys to listen to it because I believe that the Daily Tech News Show audience will love it. If you want to get a sense of what we are doing on this season, go ahead and listen to last season on the podcast player of your choice. And let me also add that because we have no DTNS, or I will not be on DTNS next week because it is Experiment Week, if anybody is going to DefCon, find your boy at the Hack 5 booth Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I would love to say hi to as many DTNS listeners as we can. Experiment Week is the week after, but you should still go find Justin at DefCon next week. Is that not, that's not the week? I was, I'm sorry. I was confused by emails. There's been a lot of emails sent. Yeah, it'll do it to you every time.  And by the way, I'm not on the show on Thursday. And don't expect Justin to be because he's going to be at DefCon. No, I'm not on the show on Thursday. 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