All right, human beings. Ah, no human beings here yet, so I'm just talking to the ether. Hello, ether. Okay, I have something to talk about today. I want to be a little bit careful about what I say because I'm still processing a lot of it. Basically, I feel like I've just been crashing through life the last year and not getting Jamie kind of results, not getting the really good results that I demand for myself, that I've been accustomed to to some degree. So I've just been kind of like barreling through life, crashing through haphazardly kind of, yeah, just crashing through life, right? And there's a lot of reasons for this, but the main reason, probably 90% of it, is about a year ago I had this family situation and that was a big issue and a problem and it has since been resolved and blah, blah, we don't need to go into that, but it screwed me up, right? Like I just, for a few months, I was just getting beaten down so hard that like my mind, body, and spirit were just leveled. All right, so then after that, I've been fighting to get back, which anyone who's been watching this for the last year has observed, I'm sure. And for a while there I was really struggling and then, I don't know, several months ago, maybe six months ago or something, I was like, you know what, let me just get one of my pieces, good. So I was like, all right, I got a mind, a body, and a spirit. Let me take my body, without my body, nothing else works. So in the last six months, I've been doing a lot of exercise, I've been doing a lot of stretching and make sure I'm eating well and then I do moreing exercises. And because I've just been kind of crashing through life and not having the right kind of focus and everything, I was like, all right, let me focus on manual labor type things. And luckily I had a lot of digging to do and that kind of stuff. So I just basically set myself on all this physical stuff for the last six months. And probably in the last month or two, I've been feeling like really strong and healthy. Like I'm not getting any sortises anymore or little injuries, cause for a while there, it was like my calf would cramp up and then I would get a thing here and ah, but like, you know, the last month or two, I'm actually getting, I'm strong again.   It just, my body just fights everything off, right? So in the last few months, I've been getting really healthy and I'm feeling a lot better. And oh, is it yesterday? Yesterday, two days ago. I don't know, in the last two days, I was just like, you know what? I gotta stop just crashing through life now. You know, I'm feeling better physically.  You're right. So yeah, I was, but if you're really healthy, it helps you deal with that stress. And I was putting myself under so much physical stress to get stronger than all the other stress kind of started diminishing by comparison. Anyway, a couple of days ago, I was like, all right, I gotta stop just crashing through life. You know, I've been injuring myself here and there.    And I was just like, ugh, you know. So anyway, a couple of days ago, I was like, I gotta fix this. I'm feeling good physically now. I think I'm ready to handle it. So I was looking back over the last year and just thinking about what's missing. Like what did I used to have that I've lost where now I'm not getting as much productivity. I'm being dangerous and being careless. And I realized one of the first things I realized was that I lost my safety overlay. And some of you guys know exactly what I'm talking about because I've talked about this before. But for anyone who doesn't know, you know, many, many years ago, I developed this habit of just having this overlay over the world, you know, kind of like if you're using a computer paint program, you have layers and you can add layers and you'll put stuff on the layers. So it kind of like, you know, goes with the picture behind it. So, you know, the world is there and I would have this other layer, which is the danger layer. I don't know what to call it. It's just, I don't call it anything in my head. I just put it there, you know? And this layer sort of like marks anything dangerous red. So if there's a board with a nail in it on the floor on the ground and the nail sticking straight up, like that's like blinking red. This is danger, this is danger. Be careful, if there's a table saw going, that's just like red, red, red. If I'm walking along a building and, you know, there's a, around the corner of the building, I can't see what's there. You know, it's just glowing a little bit red because it's an unknown.  You know, it's just like situational awareness of where the danger is. So I can always kind of like position myself to not be in danger, to not get hurt, to not, and that's how I've gone through decades of doing really dangerous things without dying, without any serious things. Like I got all my fingers. You know, many things I've done where people have lost their fingers because I always have this situational awareness and I keep my mind really alert and I'm paying attention and I'm present and focused, right? And I haven't had that over the last year. I've just, like I said, I've just been barreling through life, just crashing through, being really, really, not careless, but reckless, definitely reckless. So yeah, I was like, well, I gotta fix that. So I've been working on turning my filter back on because it was a habit before. And then once I lost it, I lost the habit. So I have to get the habit back. So as I'm just walking around my house, I'm like, keep the overlay there, see where the danger is, see where I have to pay attention to. And the other part of that is actually being present. Cause if I'm not mentally present, that it can't do it. None of that works. It doesn't matter if I know there's danger there. If I'm not paying attention, it doesn't matter. And that's another thing I lost, you know? You know, when you go through a really traumatic, stressful situation, you can end up just thinking either about that stressful thing that happened even after you've done it, or maybe you start thinking about just being in a better place or something, just anything, just not being present, right? So I've been, I gotta get my present focus back. And that's the other thing, focus. So in accomplishing anything in life, I have learned that there are a few really super important things to be able to do anything. And, you know, one is perseverance. You know, don't give up ever. It doesn't matter if something gets hard or there's obstacles or you make a mistake, don't give up. There's something you really wanna do, like keep trying, you'll find the hole, the way to get through the obstacle, you'll find the way. Don't give up, perseverance. Another one is just competence. You know, keep trying things and learning things and becoming competent. When you have a lot of competence, you have a lot of tools you can use to deal with all kinds of different situations, right? And another one, hugely important is focus. Focus on what you're doing. Put everything else away, you know, not everything that you should pay attention. I mean, you gotta pay attention to your surroundings. But don't think about like what's happening on the other end of the world or, you know, what's going on in the movies or just all this other stuff that doesn't matter. If you are drilling a hole, you got the drill, you got the drill bit, you got the material, make sure you got it locked down, pay attention to everything that's going on here.  One, to be safe. Two, to get the best hole so you can get it in the right spot, right? Without breaking your drill bit. And that's another thing. I haven't mentioned this, but I've probably broken like half a dozen drill bits in the last year. And I normally never break drill bits as because I've not been paying attention. You know, I just kind of lean on the drill and I'm just like, obviously this is gonna break, but my brain's just like, ah, so I gotta get that focus back, that focus, pay attention. And one of the ways I like to, well, I think one of the best ways to explain this is like using a chainsaw. Anyone who's ever used a chainsaw knows that there's a tendency to just lean on the chainsaw. So you got the chainsaw and you put it against the wood and the chainsaw is heavy and you know, you gotta put pressure into the wood somehow. Anyway, you might as well just lean on it. The problem there is you're not gonna get as good a cut. You're gonna end up going crooked and stuff. Plus if the wood moves or anything changes or the chainsaw jumps or whatever, you're falling. Cause your balance is dependent on the chainsaw. But if you're doing it right, you're holding the chainsaw and you're keeping control of it the whole time and you are slicing through space where there happens to be wood. And if at any point in time that wood were to just vanish, disappear, you wouldn't change what you're doing. Cause you're not leaning on the chainsaw. You've got control of it the whole time and that's the way to do it safely and to get the best cut, right? So just like I got out of the hot habit of all that stuff. It just all, it all. But yeah, now I'm physically strong enough that I think I can use my brain to have that kind of focus without just running out of energy or without getting frustrated or whatever.  You gotta be healthy to use your brain. So anyway, yesterday I was working on this mudsucker. And I just, it's the last video I put up.  Cause I have several pieces of land that are on the ocean and to get from the open ocean, like to the land often I have to go through a little bit of shallow, mucky, swampy kind of stuff. So there's a canal to get through there but the canal slowly fills in with dirt and whatever.  And two days ago I was working on this and I was just kind of crashing through, making the thing and not really, not really thinking totally about what I'm doing and just kind of doing a half-assed job, you know? And then yesterday, I was just like, I gotta fix it. I gotta turn this around, man. I've got too many half-assed results going on this year. I'm not getting the full Jamie. I'm operating at like 20%. I need the full Jamie to be able to do the stuff I need to do, right? And just right there, all the stuff I was just talking about, about focus, about safety, about just competence and all that just came rushing back into my head. And I was like, oh yeah, that's how I used to do things. That's how I used to get all the results that got me to where I am, where I've been crashing around and not really doing anything good with it the last year. I mean, not that I haven't gotten anywhere. I've been making some progress but I could be making a lot more. But anyway, it all just, it's like once I really stopped and thought about it, it all just came blasting back into my head and that's like all I've been thinking about yesterday and today, like I gotta make sure that sticks. I gotta get all that stuff to become habit again. Anyway, I was working on this mudsucker and while I was working on it, I was looking at this propeller situation to suck up the mud and I was like, that's not good enough. And then I made this cool, super cool, coily piece of metal and some other stuff and I was like, that will do it. And right before I made that, I thought to myself, all right, Jamie, you know how to handle this situation. You used to be able to do this kind of stuff, right? You gotta ask yourself, what will actually work? What's really gonna do it? Like think about that. Don't just crash through and just be like, ah, whatever, whatever, whatever. No, think what is actually gonna work and do that? And then I put the thing together and I took it, I didn't put up the video of the test yet but the test was excellent. I took it outside, sucked up a bunch of mucks, shouted over the path out into the mangroves and yeah, worked spectacularly and if I hadn't just like forced my breath and my brain to like turn on again, if I wasn't like, all right, what will actually work here and figure that out? You know, the thing probably wouldn't have worked and I would have had another half finished thing. Like my, what's it called? My conveyor belt over there, it's not terrible. Oh man, that's not a Jamie conveyor belt, you know? It's an all right conveyor belt but I could do much better. I could do totally much better.  Like my boats are doing great right now but I just like, yeah, just crashing around to get there and yesterday I was just like, get to the thing that makes it work. Go, do it now and just put everything else out of my head and yeah man, I really wanna make sure I get that to stick. I really need that to stick and to become habit again in my head. I don't think it'll be too hard. I think I can do it because it was habit in my head for a long time and it seems to be coming back pretty well but I think I just, maybe I need to look at this. Maybe I need to keep making sure I look at this because this should remind me of that because this is who I am. You know, I focus and I pay attention. Oh, this sign says to that I know and self be true. Yeah, so I'm just gonna keep looking at that and making sure I remember what that means. Anyway, that's what's going on and then this morning, I was thinking about the campground I'm making. So I wanna make this campground and I wanna have it ready for next year, May. So in case anyone hasn't caught this yet. Next year, the week of May 3rd, I don't, I haven't checked the calendar, but the week of May 3rd, you know, weekend, the week and then the weekend, that whole thing, I wanna have an adventure builder meeting here and I used to have them every year on my birthday, May 3rd is my birthday. So it just became the tradition because the first one was on my birthday and then anyway. So I used to have these meetings once a year in Vermont and people would come from all over the place and I met some really awesome people and people would come and camp out for the week or maybe just the weekend or maybe just show up for a day. But for that week, like people, a lot of people came and hang out, cool people and no, I'm not reading the chat right now. I'm gonna read the chat. I'm gonna be a bit behind cause I've gone on for 17 minutes now already, but anyway. So I wanna start doing adventure builder meetings again. And, you know, once a year, do a thing where people are invited to just come and hang out for a week and, you know, meet other cool people and, you know. So I wanna have this mosquito. I wanna have this campground I'm working on ready for May 3rd, well, the week of May 3rd next year.  So it kind of works okay for that. But other than that, I've been kind of aimless. I'm like, I don't know really what I wanna make here or where I wanna make it. So this morning I was like, all right, Jamie, start really thinking about this. What do you actually wanna do? And this morning I drew this. Let's see. So I wanna make several cabins over there. And this is basically what I wanna make. So this is obviously a dome. And this is the floor plan.  And this is where da poops goes because it goes out of pipe underground or, you know, it'd be a sewage thing. But yeah, there's the bathroom and you come in here. There'll be like a bed here or some tables or something. And here's a detail of the bathroom wall because there will be a water tank right there. Probably make it out of concrete. And then, well, I might as well explain it. All right, the water tank is gonna be above ground. So it's right here. And it goes, it's on both sides of the wall, right? So on the bedroom side of the wall, it'll just water tank. And that's the side you can open up and get into. And I'll just put like a, I don't know, like a nice tablecloth or something on there and people can put their, you know, it's like a nightstand unless you need to get to the water for some reason that you can open it up and do whatever. But then on the bathroom side, let's see. On the bathroom side, I'll make a sink on top of the water tank.  I think that would be really cool. And that's how you get the water. You know, I'm not putting any electric pumps in here or anything. Like you, I want to make the whole thing like as low maintenance as possible. And then, you know, there'll be a toilet and shower drain and everything. Although to use the toilet as a shower, you have to, you have to pump the water. And that's to make people not waste water.  And every time it wastes a lot of water. So this makes it so you actually have to pump the thing to get the water for the toilet. So it makes people think, oh yeah, I'm actually using water. Anyway, plus that way, you know, it's low maintenance and stuff. Anyway, I think those would be really good. I'm not sure if that's totally what I'm gonna make, but I think that's a pretty good starting point. Yeah, I'm thinking. Pick pictures are becoming much more professional. Oh, thanks. Well, I drew this one in permanent marker cause I had it all drawn in pencil. And then I was like, well, I might want to show this on my video later. So I traced it in permanent marker. So if you come to the Adventure Builder meeting next year, the week of May 3rd, you may get to stay in one of those. I don't know how many of those I'm gonna be able to make, but I don't know. I've got months, so let's see. Oh, and there'll also be camping. So if people bring a tent, not a camp, if people bring a tent, there'll be spots to camp too. And then I've got to have outdoor fire pits and stuff for cooking, but whatever, that's all a separate thing. Use seawater for the toilet. The problem is the seawater is not close to where I'm setting up the campground. Yeah, it's a little bit far. Anyway, let me just go back to the beginning of comments here and just someone mentioned or was asking if I was reading comments. I always go back and read them. Hi, hi, how was everyone? Joining from San Diego, California, how's it going? As usual, we'll listen, watch later. Okay, these are great to have on the background. Excellent, hi folks. What do you eat? What do I eat? Well, I've been eating a lot of meat the last, like the last six months or so. Yeah, I mean, not like an abnormal amount of meat or anything, but like, I'll go through periods where I don't eat much meat for a while. Just because it's inconvenient, if I can get like rice, beans and flour and hide out and not have to go to the store for months and just eat that stuff, but it's kind of like low quality fuel, right? Like if I eat some meat, some dead animals, then it's just like higher quality fuel. Sorry to any vegans or vegetarians out there. I know you have a different opinion, but I mean, that's just, that's just worked for me. And tonight I can show you what I made. I already made my dinner. Can I tip this up enough without? No, let's tip this down. Okay, I've made, there's ground beef in here and tomato sauce and cheese. So it's basically like a pizza, but it's just in the pan. There's no bread part. I also have a giant pot of popcorn, which I cooked in the beef fat I got from the ground beef. So yeah, I've been eating a lot of animal meat and animal fat. Whenever I have chicken or beef or whatever, I always eat the fat. I eat all the fat. Often I'll just cook popcorn in it or I'll make some french fries. I think that's probably why hamburgers and french fries became a thing, right? Because people would cook the ground beef and get all this grease. And then like, oh man, let's cook our potatoes in that. It's gonna be awesome.  I've not found that to be true. I have a six pack right now and I eat tons of animal fat, like a lot. And then you know, I also eat vegetable and lots of peanut butter. Peanut butter and oats. Well, almost every morning I have oats and... Okay, so what I usually do to make my cereal is I'll dump a bunch of oats in a bowl, then take a scoop of peanut butter, put it in there and then kind of mush it into the oats so it becomes like peanut buttery oats. And then I'll put raisins and peanuts on that and shredded coconut. And I get a coconut almost every day.  But anyway, the oats, peanut butter, raisins, peanuts and shredded coconut with some water. I don't cook it or anything unless I feel like it, but usually I just don't cook it. And then just let it soak a little bit and then eat that. That's usually my breakfast. And then, yeah, well, you saw what I'm having for dinner. Let's see, snafu, thanks for asking. And you, oh, I don't know. Stress, yeah, stress does suck. I recently bought about 30 kilogram steak. Whoa, and 25 kilogram bone marrow. I doing the carnivore diet, I see. Okay, so one thing about all these different diets, I think I would actually do totally fine on a carnivore diet because like if I eat a lot of meat, I feel pretty good. But the way I think about it, and this is nothing against anyone who's doing anything different, but this is just the way I've been thinking about it. So the way I've been thinking about it is that humans have survived through a lot of situations because we've adapted the ability to eat a lot of different things. Like we can survive on a lot of different stuff. So I don't wanna do carnivore or vegan or vegetarian or any particular diet. I just wanna be able to eat anything. I wanna keep that ability. I want that to be something that sticks. I don't eat sugar. That's about the only thing I don't eat. Although, I mean, if there's cookies around, I just won't buy sugar. Like I have no sugar in my house and I don't cook with it or anything. But if there's an orange, I mean, I'll eat oranges because it has sugar in them. I just don't eat processed sugar.  But yeah, I feel like it's a good idea to be able to eat anything. But I mean, yeah, totally. If you wanna do that carnivore diet, that's cool. Let me know how it goes. Let's see, where's that gigantic spider robot or robot spider? It's been years, I'm still waiting. You mean, are you talking about the one that I already made? Cause I made it. If you missed it, sorry. But I wanna make another one. So I don't know if it's gonna be a spider robot, but I wanna make another giant robot.  Which close call is that? I don't know, I've had, so this is a problem with going into 20 minute monologue at the beginning. The comments are referring to what I was talking about. So yeah, I was talking about how I've just been crashing through life the last year. I've had a lot of close calls and just didn't care. Like my spirit was just too beaten down to care. And now I'm at the point where I care again and now I need to start doing the habits that make it so, you know. Oh, I just got a message. Okay, nothing important. Jamie is a whole expert, man. I love me some holes. I know how to take care of some holes. I can drill me some holes, all right. Yeah, give me some holes. I will drill them. Filter change over time as people came into your life. Hold on, okay. Just another message, it's nothing though. As people came into your life, that filter got tighter as kids came in, they got even tighter, but then blam, the filters are gone. Glad to see them back in place. Yeah, when I had kids, so I, definitely. So my safety filter, yeah, just like you're saying, once I had kids, I was much more concerned about dying than I was before I had kids. And, you know, I was careful before I had kids, but I would do dangerous things. I would just do them very carefully. But after I had kids, I was like, the threshold of what I was willing to do came way down because I was like, okay, I've got to have, I can't be hanging somewhere by a string that might break if I'm going to pretty much for sure die. I've got to have another rope that's a backup now that I have kids. Because if I die and it's just me, but if I die now, I killed my father's kids or my kid's father, I can't do that. But yeah, and then when the safety filter was gone, man, now I'm kind of terrified that I just went through all that time with my safety filter, totally off. Like basically my survival instincts have been non-existent.  And because my survival instincts have been off, like nothing in my head said, hey, Jamie, you might want to not do that.  But yeah, now I got to get my crap together and really, the last two days I've been doing good. I'm like reigniting all my paying attentions and all my safety filters. And I got really good results out of the thing I just built and yeah. All right. Stop breathing, stop internal bodily processes and just focus on the task. No, I can't stop breathing. I got to keep breathing, I'll die if I don't breathe. Stop internally bodily bodily processes. No, my internal bodily processes need to do their thing. Well, yeah, I can focus on the task. Part of focusing on the task involves focusing on me. So often it does involve focusing on my breathing and on my state, because that's part of what I'm doing. I'm part of whatever I'm doing. So I always have to focus on myself. At Peter Mars, how are you today? How is Peter Mars doing today? When taking the everything word literally, L-O-L. Oh, I don't know, I missed something there. Oh, I need to see where you're, oh, very good. I see what you did there. Wonderful, thank you for asking how about, oh, Peter Mars is doing great, good. All of what you're describing is also result of dull tools requiring more pressure. Kind of. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I know what you're talking about. Speaking of safety, that propeller can grind up your fingers. Are you talking about the propeller on the mud sucker? Yeah, I go at the motor end of that thing, not the finger eating end of that thing.  Go right through them. Always whole-ass thing. Yes, don't have fast things, whole-ass them, you're right. Jamie, have you ever thought about making pottery with your clay? Yes, I actually did a little bit, I did a few experiments a while ago. I hope to do more in the future, actually.   Some things grow really well in it. Of course, obviously, the salt has to get washed out of it. Not for everything, though. Some, there are a few types of plants that don't care if there's salt in the soil. And there's a type of grass, Bermuda grass, the golf course grass, that is okay with salt water.  And then the Bermuda grass will grow. You know, the nice fuzzy grass. So, yeah. But yeah, a lot of things, they need the salt taken out of it. You also had your mini-jamies working with you. Got to help you, yeah. I love working with my kids. What do you think about putting pressure on yourself to be perfect? What do I think about putting pressure on myself to be perfect? I don't think perfect is really a thing. Like, I don't know what perfect would even be. I do put a lot of pressure on myself to be better than I am. I always want to be better than I am. And that means I will always fail because whatever I'm aiming for, I'm always aiming for something that I know I can't achieve. So I'll always fail to some. You know, if you look at it in a certain way, but the way I look at it is if I actually am as good as I was aiming for, that's the failure because I wasn't aiming high enough, you know? So I guess it's all a frame of mind when you think about this kind of stuff. Like when you put, we got to get rid of the word perfect because that screws everything up. It doesn't make sense to put pressure on yourself to be perfect, like, what's perfect? You know, it's like asking, what's the perfect color? I don't know, there's different colors. Like, you can have a color that's crappy, but like, what's the perfect color? Like, what's the perfect you? I don't know, you could go in a lot of different directions and find a really good you in a lot of different types of views, you know? But anyway, yeah, the way I think about it is, you know, there's this saying that I've seen on people's ridges before, which says, aim for the moon, even if you miss, you'll end up amongst the stars, which basically means, you know, aim for the best you can because you're gonna end up somewhere good, you know? So that's the way I think about that. I put tons of pressure on myself to be as good as I can be, to be better than I can be. And then I never satisfied, but I think that's the way I should be. So I'm satisfied, you know? So it's, yeah. I guess it's kind of a, it's kind of a bit of a paradox, but I mean, life is like a paradox, you know? It's kind of a weird thing. Like for something to live, something else has to die. What do you think? Oh yeah, let's see. It's a trade-off between building it really well and how much time you spend building it. Ah, okay. So what I was talking about is not a trade-off. So I was talking about building something really well or just kind of crashing through and just doing it. The thing is when you crash through and do it, you might get, you might get to the, you might get a thing sooner, but then you're gonna have to redo it and fix it and blah, blah, blah, and it ends up taking longer, you know? So you're not actually trading off. It's often if you slow down, I mean, almost always, if you slow down, think about it, pay attention, figure out how to do something better. You end up with a good result much sooner than if you crash through and wasted materials and wasted time and backtrack and all this stuff. You end up with a better product much faster if you slow down. And one of the things that smart people do, you know, like really smart people will often be slower to start working on something than less intelligent people.  And the less intelligent person is just like, well, let me just start doing stuff. And then as soon as the smarter person who's done the planning starts going, they just blow right by the person who didn't plan at all. So it's not a trade-off. It can be a trade-off, but not in the circumstances I was talking about. Build another giant robot or spider robot, that should be useful. All right, is he even reading the chat? I don't think so. Hi from Portugal, love your work, thanks man. I guess it's kind of pointless typing then. If it helps you put your thoughts out there, why not?  Whenever I do a live, I always do like a little monologue at the beginning. And then I read all the comments, which works because then there's a bit of buffer. I don't get the, I'm not always at the end of comments waiting for something. Ah, da poops, yeah, da poops is nice. The others in chat benefit from you typing. Don't always look for the negatives, yeah? Xanadu, what, what material? Oh, okay, so what material is this gonna be? I'm thinking styrocrete. I can make this whole thing out of styrocrete with an outer coating of like hard mortar. And even that wall there can be styrocrete. The water tank, normal concrete, and then the floor normal concrete, but the dome itself, styrocrete.  Because it's kind of disgusting that we use plastics for single use things. This is the dumbest thing. I never came up with that idea, should have. Should be erased from history, so it never happened. Would be kind of cool to make it out of bricks from the clay on the islands. That would be cool. And I would like to do that at some point, but I'm not gonna be able to do that by May 3rd. Pictures are becoming more professional, yeah, arcs. Hi, Jamie, hi, arc, how's it going? Make it a foot pump. I don't wanna have a foot pump. I don't know, maybe I'll make a foot pump. But in my head here for the, let's see, for the bathroom pump thing. The way I think about it, it would be really, just really cool to have that old style farmhouse goop, goop, goop, goop, and it pumps the water up into its own little reservoir. So you do a few pumps and it fills up the thing and the whole time it's running out. But then after you're done pumping, it's running out for, I don't know, 30 seconds a minute depending on how much you pump it up. So it's not like you have to have your hand occupy the whole time.  Sea water for the toilets, yeah. I love to talk to you about this, house designs. Well, come May 3rd, we can talk about house designs, man. What did you do with the big sailing boat? Is it not a giant robot yet?  Great that you're eating lots of meat. You look great, well, thanks, Nellis. Jamie, do you ever see any immigrants passing by where you are like Caminantes from Venezuela through the Darien Gap? I'm at the other end of the country, so I wouldn't see that. I could see, I'm closer to Costa Rica. So if I was gonna see any people sneaking into the country would be from Costa Rica unless they just came through in a boat, I don't know. Yeah, I don't really. I guess I wouldn't even know if someone drove by in a boat. Yeah, I don't think they'd announced that they were immigrants. Increase your banana and papaya intake. Well, let me just look at my banana trees out here. I don't see any banana donglers at the moment, so I've got a while to wait before I get more bananas. I do, however, have a lot of papayas. Man, I've got about 40 papayas. The ones at the top are real little like marbles, but then they get bigger and bigger. The biggest ones are about that big. Hopefully they'll get like that big, but pretty soon I'm gonna have more papayas than I know what to do with because I have two trees producing papayas right now. None of them have gotten ripe yet. So they're just in the early stages of not in the early stage, the mid stages of making papayas. But yeah, they're getting like that big. So yeah, soon hopefully I'll have lots and lots of papayas. Respect, man. Go carnivore for final uber-mench progression. No idea what that means. Oh, no, I don't know what that means. Okay. Yep, they used to fry the fries in tallow then change to seed oils, which is really unhealthy.   I mean, I feel great. It just, it's like, yeah, it feels great to eat all that. All that fat, fat is like candle makes food.   I probably burn more than 4,000 calories per day when I'm working hard. Yeah, I definitely do. Would a cut resistant sleeve shirt help when you are doing dangerous activities? No, I mean, it would help if I'm not paying attention but what I really need to do is just the same thing I always do when I'm being safe, which is pay attention, pay attention to the danger, focus on myself and what I'm doing and focus on what's going on.  That's the safety thing. I always, you know, there's some safety equipment like hearing protection when something's really loud or eye protection when sparks are flying or whatever. But after that kind of stuff, 90% of safety, I think is just up here. Like you gotta pay attention to what you're doing. Like you know what can go wrong and every time, as far as I know, every time I've been hurt, I can look back at it and be like, well, yeah, obviously. Obviously that was gonna happen. You know, I just wasn't paying attention. So yeah, I mean, to me the best safety equipment is just paying attention. I know you said it before, but how much further up does the dome go above that second story above your head in the camera frame might you ever do a live stream from those heights? Okay, up above the second floor? Okay, let me give you the whole breakdown. This right here, this is like the second floor level. So actually this wood and this wood would be like the bottom, like the ceiling of the second floor. Now if you see right up here, that is the third floor. It's, you know, one of these. It's another one of these, but just way up there. And, you know, there are 12 of these all the way around the house. And there are 12 of those all the way around the house too. So there's right above this is another one that's eight feet, two and a half meters ish above, above this. So that's the third floor right up there. And then above the third floor is the dome. And the dome is two stories tall. So the whole building is four stories tall. However, I'm only going to put three floors in. The third floor is going to have a super high ceiling. So I can play basketball, you know, do gymnastics, swing around on ropes, play badminton, volleyball. You know, I just want, I want to make a gymnasium so that the kids and I have stuff to do when it's raining out. You know, we can go up there and play games and stuff. Plus it would just be awesome, oh man. Yeah, so yeah, the whole, the whole building is four stories tall. Let's see. Oh, and I'll totally do a live stream up there. Yeah, I'll do a live stream up there sometime. Obviously when I get the floors done, I'll be able to do all kinds of stuff up there. Oh, I can't wait to get those floors done. So one of the things is now that I'm determined to focus more and start making more productive actions. You know, I want to get this floor going. Although I also have this campground I'm working on. I have a lot of stuff going on, but you know, if I can get back to 100% full Jamie power, I know I can do crazy things. When are you going to build that jet drive for the boats? I don't know, jet drive, is it, how efficient is it? I was under the impression it wasn't that efficient. Nala Solis was joking. I don't remember what you were talking about, but I wish I could hang a little longer and visit. I'm glad you're doing these live events. They're fun. I have to go. Good luck to you and have a great week. Cool arc. Well, oh, good. Mr. Landfill said, bye to arc. Kevin says, is it possible to extract calcium from seawater? I think so. Maybe through electrolysis or something and maybe grow a shell or brick just thinking, yeah, well, that opens up whole can of worms. Oh, what do you look up? Is it bio rock?  There's this guy who did a bunch of scientific tests where he put electrified things in ocean water and they accreted minerals and did some really interesting stuff. He wrote a paper on it and I've read that and it was pretty cool. Let's see. Got called away, but we'll catch up later. Cool, Tom, catch you later, man. Jamie, do people smoke a lot of weed out there like they got plantations and stuff? I'm not totally sure about this because I don't smoke anything, so I don't pay attention but I'm pretty sure weed is still illegal in Panama. So people don't have plantations because they get busted but I know a lot of people smoke weed. It's just, they're not advertising. So yeah, I don't know. It's something I don't get involved with, I guess, but yeah, I know what I know has a plantation or at least not that they're admitting to. I don't know. Hi, Jamie, have you managed to complete the dragon scales on the roof? No, I have not. Yeah, it's just, it's not a high priority at the moment and okay, so at the beginning of this live, I gave my monologue on how I've been just crashing through life the last year, not being as safe as I should be and all this stuff. I'm aware, I've been aware of that fact. So I haven't gone on the roof like in the last year but if I can get my head straightened out to where I'm making full safety, a habit and everything, I can start working on those again. Although there aren't many leaks in the roof. Like I got dragon scales, you know, from the side out to far enough that like there are no drips around a lot of the house. There's a few drips in the middle, but it's not, I don't know, it just hasn't been severe enough to make me feel like I need to get it done but I will get it done at some point. Oh, let's see, Kevin, that already exists. Can you do it? It's called BioRock. Oh, okay, this guy knows what I'm talking about. Your eyes develop tolerance to sparks after a while. I took what's it called?  That was horrible. And I could actually see the burn mark, the outline. But after a night of not sleeping because my eye hurt so much, the next day it was healed. Like that, even the outline of where the burn mark was on my pupil is totally healed, it's kind of cool. Although I've not tried getting any more sparks in my eyes to test if I build up tolerance, I don't know. Would it be worthwhile to have a rotating solar array maybe on a centrifugal track atop a flat round roof as a trellis? I mean, people have done that kind of stuff. My opinion of it is rather than add all the complication and all the machinery to make sun tracking solar panels, I'd rather just add a couple extra solar panels and make them not move. Because when you start having moving objects, there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong, a lot of maintenance you have to deal with. And yeah, I'd rather just get a couple extra solar panels if I want extra power. I've been watching for many years since you were in the snow building, banana building. Do you ever miss up north? What? You know, sometimes it's kind of hot here. And I'm like of the ethnicity that I am built for the cold. So I do enjoy cold. Like when I was in the, like I would go out in t-shirts and shorts in the winter and be pretty comfortable. So it definitely took me a while to get used to a warmer climate. And it's not even that hot here. Like it's much hotter in like Florida or a lot of places like that. I don't know, the ocean breezes keeps the temperature down and being close to the equator, you don't get the really hot summer. It just kind of stays warm, hot-ish all year. Warmish, you know. But I'll take the all year growing season over the cold. But yeah, I did always love making snowballs and igloos and oh man, I would have so much fun with my kids in the snow. But we also have tons of fun at the beach in the ocean. So I guess if I think about it, I mean, there's things I really liked about the winter but it's not something I really think about. So I guess I don't miss it. Let's see. Oh, you know what? I can't grow apples here. There's like, there are a few plants, like a few types of fruit that need cold to grow. I can't grow normal apples here. I can grow water apples, which are kind of like spongy apples, but I can't grow, you know, like North American apple apples. And they're expensive here. And apples like 55 or 60 cents or something. And orange, however, is like 10 cents. So anyway, where am I? And since, wait, yeah, and since you're getting to this part of the chat, I wanted to know more about your family. I've been a long time subscriber, but haven't watched for a while. I live in Borneo, so I understand what you mean, ha ha. So well, what do you want to know about my family? I have a pile of kids and I love them. Oh, God, I love those kids. Yeah, I don't know. What else do you want to know? You have to be more specific. Their mother and I don't really get along with each other. And that's a whole separate issue, but she lives nearby and we raise the kids together and it's fine. But she and I don't personally get along with each other. Oh, it looks like I'm at the end of, yeah, I'm at the end of chats and it's been an hour. So I'm probably gonna get off here in a minute. So yeah, if anyone has any last minute questions or comments, you want me to... All right, let's see. Honestly, I haven't watched since your girls were very little, like at least some five years ago. Oh, okay, so I have four kids here now. My two older daughters, which you know about, and then my son who's five, and then my youngest daughter is three. I'm pretty sure she's three. And oh, they're so funny and adorable. Oh, they're hilarious. Like one of my favorite things about having kids is like when they're really little, like the baby to five. Well, I don't know, when they're babies, they're just like laying there with these lumps. They're super cute.   It's hilarious.  And it's just, oh, it's so funny. Okay, question is breadfruit similar to chestnuts. Breadfruit is not like any nuts. Breadfruit is like it's more like a potato than a nut. Yeah. Okay, a breadfruit is like, it's like a cantaloupe, but the fruity part of the cantaloupe is like potato instead of cantaloupe. That's basically what it's like. Breadfruit is the shape and size of the cantaloupe, but more like a potato. Like you can take slices of a breadfruit, fry it and make like, like breadfruit chips, potato chips.  They slice them thin and fry them. You can make tortillas, like for tacos. You can make tacos out of breadfruit. It's kind of cool, done that a few times. Man, I really want to get some chestnuts growing here. There's a type of chestnut that grows in Costa Rica. I know it grows in Malabar, Malabar chestnut. I'm not sure if it'll grow here, but I want to, yeah, I want to get some nuts growing. I love nuts. I love me some nuts. Do you still have contact with the girl you helped building the Alaska cabin? Well, I built two houses in Alaska for two different girls or women. And I do actually speak with both of them on occasion. I don't know, like a few weeks ago, I actually talked with one of them. She was just telling me how she was doing. Let's see. Thank you for talking to us, Jamie. Well, you're welcome, Peter. That's great. Boy, I wish everyone thanked me when I talked to them. Most people were like, shut up, man. Ah, I'm just kidding. That's very nice, though. Always great videos. Rex Clay says, always great videos? I don't know. I feel like sometimes I blow it and have mediocre videos, but I try to do a good job. I wish you a great and productive week, Jamie. Well, thank you very much, Nellis. Good listening. You have so much energy. You inspire me. Excellent, Robert. Have some energy. Freezing. What is Mr. Landfall saying about freezing? Oh, I missed something. Anyway, all right. At the end of comments, I think that was everyone's last questions and everything.  And eat some, you said you love nuts. I did. I love me some nuts, man. I got peanut butter. If I can grind my own peanut butter, my kids rip the labels off everything, of course. But if I had, if I was growing my own nuts, I could just make my own nut butter here and I'm not gonna make any jokes about nut butter. All right. I think it's time for me to shut up and get out of here. Oh yeah, I'm just really glad to hear you're doing well and your family is okay. I always thought about how you guys were doing out there, even though I know you're a clever guy, best of luck.  But yeah, I'm doing pretty good. All right, I'm gonna get out of here. Look, we just had an hour. Let's go.


I'll talk about features that we have introduced in 5.7, it's address for security. This is a powerful statement, it will be common for each and presentation you see. If we are to categorize security features that are part of 5.7 release, we can broadly classify them in four areas. User management related features, activity control related features, encryption and communication security, and the attempt to make the installation secure by default. I'll go over each of this category and list the features and explain a bit in detail. With user management, we have password rotation policy support and ultra user enhancement. With the release of 8.0.0, which was done last year September, we have support for scale roles as well. Sanjay goes some part of it already. What is password rotation policy? With 5.7, the ultra user statement now supports various levels of control on when password would expire. For example, if it's a non-critical account, you can set that the password will never expire and user can continue to use the same password happily forever. There can be a server-wide default, which is controlled by a global variable called default life time. Let's say if it is set to value, this will accept the value in terms of number of days. Let's say it's set to 10 days, so after every 10 days, the user's password will expire. If you want specific control at each user level, you can specify the interval in terms of number of days where the password will expire. The ultra user support is now enhanced in 5.7. Previously, it used to be limited to locking the user account and password expiry. Now you can change the credential, something which was not possible in 5.6. You can change the authentication plugin which is used by the user. We support plug-able authentication. Now with ultra user, you can change and tell system to use another authentication plugin altogether. The certificate details associated with user can also be changed along with the resource allocation and, of course, temporarily locking the user account which was in 5.6 possible as well. Apart from these features, there are certain ancillary features like making the server offline or super revamp remote, which helps the management of server. It allows only the privileged few users to go in and make the operation, whereas buying all of the users to use the data. With ADR, though, we now have support for SQL roles. It provides an easier administration. This will seem to less complicated ground structure because your roles can be used as a privileged container which you can grant to many users. And it is also possible to create a hierarchy of various depth as per the user's need and you can combine various roles and create a combination of roles as well. There is a feature for role activation, whether it is an explicit bicep role or whether you want to activate the role by default at the time of connection. All the features are also pushed in 8.0, so to give it a try, it's a great feature and it would be great to have your feedback as well. Okay, so that was about user management for activity control. 5.10.7 comes with a plugin which allows you to post a defense against the brute force attack. We have a plugin called connection control. It can be configured to trigger an incremental delay after a fixed number of consecutive failed attempts. So let's say for a user account, it's after three consecutive failed attempts, the server will start introducing a delay with each failed attempt, like one second, two second, three second increment in nature. And till the time when the user provides the correct password, this delay will keep on increasing. It's highly configurable. You can configure the threshold after how many failed attempts you want to trigger the delay, what's the minimum amount of delay, what's the maximum delay that you want to put in. And it also provides the statistics for the EAs in terms of information came on table so that you can see what are the status of various users at any given point of time in the returns. For encryption and communication security, 5.7 comes prepared with a key ring support. This is in terms of a plugin. And in ODP table space encryption, we have enhanced communication security support for TLS level 1.1, 1.2 as well. And the AES encryption enhancement which we have reported of course in 5.62. So this is an overview of the in ODP table space encryption. Inside the server, we have a plugin and services infrastructure which can talk to any key ring backend server. In ODP, which is part of the server, can communicate with the plugin and services infrastructure to obtain the key and input the tables using the key provided by the key ring. Now, the key ring backend can be anything, it can be a flat file system where you used to show the key or it can be a proper KMIP compliant keyword server based on the plugin that you have. And it can store keys from the database. Once the data is started, it fetches the key from the keyword, passes on to VinoDB which uses it for table space encryption with two level encryption support. We use a master key of 256 bit to encrypt the table space level keys and the table space level keys then again are used to encrypt the data. And we also introduce support like key rotation which will generate a fresh master key and re-entered each and every table key to get rid of the old key and other things. Now we support something called SSL mode which is an evolution of the traditional SSL option in the master client side because in 506, the option SSL on the client side can either be turned on and off and even when it's on, it's not guaranteed that your connection will be always encrypted. So we wanted to improve that. We wanted master client to say that don't connect to the server unless the connection is encrypted. So we now have a more expanded version of SSL options called SSL mode which can take various value from disabled, preferred, required and with varying degree of support, it will either don't use the SSL connection, it will try to establish SSL, it will enforce SSL, verify the identity of this, verify the CES sanity or verify the server's identity. On server side you can now say that don't accept any connection unless it's secure. So server can say that it requires secure transport and all the plain TCP connection will not be allowed and only the TCP SSL or the socket connection will be allowed to connect to the server. Similarly on client side you set SSL mode to required or higher and you get the SSL enforced again. The AS encrypt decrypt function provided a fixed key size and ECB as a block mode support. This was very limiting. So now we do support various bit size for key and we also support various level, various block encryption mode based on the library against with the service compiled. If it is compiled against OpenSSL, we support a range of block mode encryption which I supported through OpenSSL. If it's SSL, this list varies. So you can now set a session level variable called block encryption mode. Specify the key bit and the encryption mechanism to use and you can use any AS encrypt decrypt to start using that mechanism. Okay, so last part. So we are actively trying to make the installation secure by default so as to close any loophole it will allow potential attacker to compromise the system. It is an on-wing effort and the first part of it was delivered in 5.7. We now support encryption connection by default. What we try to do is the MySQL server tries to generate certificate at server startup if it is not present or through a separate utility so that server comes prepared with the DLS certificate. Client now attend TLS connection by default. So if server supports encryption and if client tries to connect with SSL you are guaranteed to have an encrypted connection. There are a few other enhancement related to various degree of errors and logs, details in the server log related to CA status and the possible reason for TLS failure. We no longer generate a range of root accounts as a part of our bootstrap process. There is a single root account generated with a random password and the password is expired. So we should change the password to something which is more secure. We also have password relation fully installed by default so it enforces certain restriction on what and what cannot be in the password. Packages are more secure now. We don't have any test and demo data with this shift with the server so that reduces static surface. Secure file preview was the option which can be used to restrict the import and export location from which the data can be read or write. It's disabled by default now.  So now that's about it. Thank you. I have questions. Sure. The last line. The last line. Possible of disabled data import is put completely. It's possible 5.7. It is. I can restrict my server. Nobody can take out the data from you. So what do you read? No, not the export utility. So we support something like select start from into out file or insert load data from a bit in file. So if you set secure file to null, both these operations are not allowed. And that is the default. Now it's the default. If you want to relax that restriction, you have to specify that it started in from a particular directory or write into a particular directory. Thank you. I have another question. About the stable-level encryption, what is the performance grid of means? We haven't seen any significant. Any significant? No. Is this possible? It means for certain columns I can encrypt from a table. Is this possible? Not as a transparent encryption. You can use AES encrypt or AES liquid function for that particular column when you are reading or writing through that column. Sorry. I just wanted to make sure. So all the features that you have mentioned are available in the open source version? Everything is available in open source. I mean, for key rings we have enterprise only features, but the basic key ring infrastructure is available in community versions. Thank you. Is this possible? Make sure you have all the features. I just wanted to check. It's our call. It's our call. It's our call. Actual case. Actual case. I had a situation whereby one guy had lost his password. It was a little way of password. And there was a change of players over time. So therefore the new guy definitely did more and said to do a technical refresh, which means he had to move this over to the other place and he could not break back. Is it easy to recover the password should he need to do something like that? Okay. So I will talk in terms of the defaulting authentication that the server comes with, like native password or sharp root cases. And the password storing mechanism is plug-able in 5.6 onwards. So you can choose the authentication method that you want to use. For example, you can use spam libraries. If you have your LEDAC support, you can configure server to use the LEDAC password and everything. But for the default methods, we do not store password, we just store the hashes. So once server is only aware about the hashes and server cannot retrieve password from the hash. What you can do is root user can use altered user to reset the password for other user and expire it at the same time. So let's say user who lost the password will do altered user who identified by any CD password expired and you give the CD to the user. What about this way? As I said, since it's a hash, there is no way to retrieve the password once it's lost. So if the password is lost, because we do not store the password. If we store the password in a format which can be reverse engineered to construct a plain text password, it also opens up a window for attackers. If they get hold of it and if they get hold of the encryption mechanism and the encryption key, they have a plain text password. So there is no plain text password store on the server tables. You just store the hashes. They are cryptographic hashes. They have one-way functions. Once you have the hash, there is no way to go back. So if the password is lost, DPA has to come in and replace the password. Like I said, there was a change of player system. And the thing is, the guy, we had to call him up from his new job and ask him, do you remember the password? The guy said, no. That really happens in real life. So was it the root password? No, it was a middle-ware password. What is your password? The way middle-ware works is that normally you do not lock in. The system automatically locks in for you until you have to do something like a technical refresh. Then you have to remember whatever middle-ware password it was which could have been years ago. I understand. But call it a security feature or... We don't want to store the password in a reversible fashion. That's a conscious decision. If we do that... Is there a way to manually overwrite that? It is. You can use it or use it. There is no way to overwrite and say, okay, store the plain text password. There is no way. No, I didn't mean it that way. In the situation whereby it's already happened we've forgotten all the passwords. We made the system as secure as possible at the time that we thought it was wise during the deployment. But it backfired because several years later when we had to do a technical refresh everybody forgot all the passwords. We learned a guy who set the password in the first place. You can restart my skill in passwordless mode. Skip, crank, say mode. Of course you should try to not have it in the network. It's a very risky thing to do. But there isn't a possibility. Skip your own table. It will not load any password. It will allow you to bootstrap the server as if you trust this environment. It will allow anyone to log in and change any of the passwords to anything. But again, it's very, very risky. I recommend you use in-stift networking as well. Yeah. I have a question. First of all, as you mentioned, GB is in read-only mode or offline. You can set it in offline mode. Yes. Can you leave this in some way? So it's a new option introduced in 5.7. It's a global option which can be set at any time. Once you set this option, nobody but the user with super ACL can connect with the server. So if there is a critical maintenance that you want to perform and you want to make sure that your regular application connection does not connect with the server, you set it to offline mode, perform all the script tasks that you want to do, and then revoke the offline mode. Is this possible? Can I put my whole data in a read-only mode? It is already possible. There is a read-only mode already there in 5.6 as well. But the offline mode is different. It will allow super to do anything that super wants. But it will not allow any other connection. Whereas in read-only, all the connections are allowed. You can select from the databases tables. But you cannot change that. Whereas offline is just specific to a particular set of users. Yes. We have offline read-only also combined together. That means... You can? Okay. Non-super users can read only. But super users can read and write. There is an option for that as well. You have read-only which will allow regular users to just read and super to do whatever they want. Oh, okay. Okay, so this is an enhancement over that which will not even allow super to do so if you want to put it one more level. But even 5.6 supports read-only. I have one question about... Just when you mentioned about the... What was that? Does this brute force attack? Yes. Yes. So if let's say there are few... Not just one connection but many, many connections coming in. Just one user. More than one user. Would it... Oh, there wouldn't be any applied connect. If you have a single user account which is connecting through, let's say, 10 connections, it will identify, it will contact. I mean, let's say somebody is trying to organize a DDoS and connecting from different posts to the same user, I mean. It will detect that at 10, 10, it will lock the user. Okay. That were the delay. Let's say if it's increasing, will it affect the performance of the database or it shouldn't, right? It will keep the connection handling thread in wait state for that much amount. But other threads will not make that. Okay. And of course you have... You have show process list. Identify those connections, you can manually kill them as well. The idea is if you reply soon enough to the attacker that your password is... I mean, password does not match or there's an authentication value, they can start with another password. So we have to keep the clients waiting for service reply before you say yes or no. Okay. One last question. Sure. Is there any future available like auditing? Which user is changing the data on which data? Can I... Yes. Auditing is available. So we have... The way I'm asking once is we have very many types of plug-in interfaces where anybody can write their own plug-in, which others to certain specific APIs and can plug it in. So auditing is one type of plug-in. We have a product, but it's not incoming to you. Is that the enterprise audit plug-ins? Yes. So you're saying you're not supposed to... Yeah. So, I mean, I did not cover because we have the enterprise audit plug-in. But there is one. Thank you. But, well, now that you have mentioned, the connection control plug-in makes use of auditing APIs. This plug-in, that uses the auditing API to figure out where to interview students. Okay. So no more questions? Right. Thank you. Thank you for your time.


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Item █ SCP-2798 Object Class, Thomule Special Containment Procedures The site of the Zambezi Superdeep borehole, designated as Site-2, is owned and operated by NGNAMR-MV, a Belgian energy exploration firm and Foundation Front Organization. All operations at Zambezi are to be disguised in natural gas extraction activities to potential observers and the government of Mozambique. All measurement and detection of SCP-2798 is not believed to be possible without proprietary Foundation technology. Site-2 staff are to monitor geological and seismological journals and institutions for any signs of possible SCP-2798 detection. Secondary effects of SCP-2798 on the environment and human health are anomalous and thus unlikely to be linked to Foundation activities. Therefore, information suppression resources are to be prioritized for contained direct observation of SCP-2798. Periodic monitoring of SCP-2798 is to be performed at least once every three months, with all data transmitted immediately upon collection to Overwatch Command. Description SCP-2798 is an anomalous energy field generated by Earth since 1971. SCP-2798 is the result of a Foundation project initiated in 1954 and completed in 1971, and it contained SCP-001. SCP-2798 has been partially successful in ameliorating the effects of SCP-001. However, the intensity of SCP-2798 has been decreasing at a geometric rate since 2005, and is expected to fail entirely in the near future. See Addendum 2798.5 The primary effect of SCP-2798 has been to disrupt the influence of SCP-001 on Earth and its inhabitants. SCP-2798 has a number of secondary effects, many of which are profoundly harmful to significant numbers of people.  SCP-2798 is believed to interfere with the effects of SCP-001 by causing it to perceive Earth as a singular living entity. This perception is theorized to affect the intensity of SCP-001 and reduce the focus of its actions. The scientific principles by which this is achieved are unknown at this time. Addendum 2798.1 Project Serapis History After the discovery and classification of SCP-001 in 1953, approval for deployment of several SCP-classified anomalous objects was granted by the Overwatch Command Subcommittee for emergency containment. These objects were used in the course of Project Serapis, an initiative to contain SCP-001 by means of interfering with the entity's perception of Earth. Researchers determined that this could be best accomplished by generating an energy field encompassing the planet, designed to provide the appearance of a single sentient being. SCP objects were employed as follows. SCP-158. Approved for use in generating precursor chemicals for eventual refinement into Compound Z-21 Violet. Initial approval given for production of 10,000 cubic meters of precursor later increased to 250,000 cubic meters. SCP-1921. Bases of design for equipment used in refinement of Compound Z-21 Violet, utilizing principles of chemical reactions involving anomalous substances and alteration of cognitive functions over a distance and area. SCP-447. Amounts of refined SCP-447-2 used as catalysts during Compound Z-21 Violet synthesis to exponentially enhance area of effect. SCP-310. Material generated by anomaly employed as extreme heat retarded additive for Compound Z-21 Violet, enabling substances to persist within the upper mantle on an indefinite basis. SCP-2570. Corpse of recently deceased musician, Django Reinhart, removed from containment and appropriated for use in a specially modified drilling mechanism, utilizing the corrosive substance constantly generated by the dimensional portal co-located with the corpse. Bohol reaching the Earth's upper mantle successfully completed by November 1953. SCP-1714. Most fluid dynamics models derived from SCP-1714 applied to injection of Compound Z-21 Violet into the upper mantle to ensure continued flow and maximum extent of SCP-2798 energy field. Precursor generated by SCP-158 was initially sourced from cattle stocks. In the course of development of Compound Z-21 Violet, however, this source was found to result in insufficient generation of required energy levels during tests. Consequently, an agreement was reached with covert partners within the Government of the United Kingdom to provide sources for precursor concurrent with the aftermath of several military engagements in British Kenya. Details of this agreement remain sealed. Approximately 1,400 cubic kilometers of Compound Z-21 Violet was synthesized using anomalous methods. Using the completed Zembezi Superdeep Bohol off the coast of Mozambique, publicly only stated to reach a depth of 9,322 meters. All stocks of Compound Z-21 Violet were pumped in the Earth's upper mantle. Forces of mantle convection carried a steady stream of the Compound throughout the planet, and SCP-2798 was declared operational by early 1954. Addendum 2798.2 Major Secondary Effects of SCP-2798 The presence of SCP-2798 surrounding Earth has led to many documented anomalous phenomenon affecting human society. These effects are to be ameliorated to the maximum extent possible using Foundation resources. However, priority of resource allocation remains focused on research on the possible means of extending the liberation of SCP-2798. The following are the most prominent and observable secondary effects of SCP-2798. Transcended Identity Disorder This mental disorder was discovered by Foundation researchers in the early 1960s. Indistinguishable from scientifically understood dissociative identity disorder from medical professionals outside the Foundation, transcendent identity disorder is the condition in which an individual periodically shares memories, experiences, thoughts, and sensory input generated by another individual who remains unaware that the sufferance affected. Accidents rates of this disorder have been proven to track with fluctuations in the intensity of SCP-2798, which is believed to cause the disorder in sensitive individuals due to its large-scale chemical and anomalous effects on the perception of self across multiple types of intelligent entity. Patients with Transcended Identity Disorder are treated by mainstream psychiatry in the same manner as those with non-anomalous associative identities order. The incidence rate, on average, is believed to be approximately 0.03% of the world population, with the majority of cases observed within 500 km of the Zambezi Superdeep borehole. No known treatment exists. Erosion of Belief in Organized Action Advanced Mathematical Analysis, ongoing since 1972, suggests that SCP-2798 is responsible for a statistically significant effect on the world population's willingness to participate in large-scale coordinated action. This effect is thus far only observable on the level of the nation's state model. Using a variety of criteria, such as voter turnout rates, instability indicators, proportional share of representation of reactionary political parties, and world legislators, and occurrences of violence directed at the state, researchers have established a relationship between these factors and the intensity of SCP-2798. Temporary increases in the power of SCP-2798 are believed to have influenced the outcome of several parliamentary elections, resulting most notably in a projected 2C increase for the Golden Dawn Party in the Greek parliamentary elections of May 2012, and the success of a vote of no confidence against UK Prime Minister James Callahan in 1979. While researchers have projected the reduction of this effect as a possible mitigating factor in the eventual failure of SCP-2798, this particular influence appears to have permanently affected political landscapes worldwide since the early 2010s, and thus no increase in societal stability may be expected from the cessation of this containment measure. Propagation of anomalous energy fields in other celestial bodies. Condition developed via anomalous amines, where the detection and measurement of SCP-2798 began to register data for the Moon in 1979. This was followed by detectable fields around Mars in 1981, Saturn in 1992, and Comet 3-3-D Corma in 2003. The field around the Moon was observed to deteriorate rapidly, and disappeared entirely within the space of three weeks in 2005. To date, this is the only known occurrence of an observed field undergoing complete decay. How these fields manifest is unknown. Due to the much lower energy levels measured for these extraterrestrial fields, researchers believe that they do not exhibit the effects of SCP-2798 upon SCP-001. The relationship between the decay of the lunar field and the sudden deterioration of SCP-2798 cannot be established with current research capabilities, but is strongly suspected to exist. Addendum 2798.3 Suppressed communications regarding SCP-2798 SCP-2798 has generated a number of public information risks related to secondary effects, documented to be more likely to occur during periods of increased energy intensity. This is theorized to be due to the omnipresent nature of SCP-2798, and its poorly understood effects on mass consciousness. Below is a selected log of public documentation believed to be attributable to SCP-2798. Suppressed either prior to or shortly after appearing. Item 2798.3.4 UPI Wire Service Article Comments Documented concurrently with heightened measurable energy levels occurring 70 km above the vicinity of Ontario, Canada. Authorities detained Ontario man found in whole. Kitchener, Ontario, August 30th, UPI. Police in Kitchener had detained a man found Saturday evening in a 10-foot-deep hole that he had reportedly dug in a vacant lot in the city's Breathop Park neighborhood after passers-by had reported the incident. Witnesses at the scene described a man digging a hole with a spade at a frantic pace in the late evening hours, refusing to acknowledge any attempts at communication and described with highly-adjected. Police were summoned when the man reportedly started a portable auger drill that he had taken into the hole with him. Emergency respondents were later called to cordon off the area after an unknown chemical substance was found in the hole. A spokesperson for the Waterloo Regional Police Service confirmed that the man, whose name had not been released as of press time, had been remanded for a psychiatric evaluation. Item 2798.3.15 Quad City's Model Train Society Newsletter Comments 1978 newsletter distributed on a quarterly basis to members of the Quad City's Model Train Society in the Midwestern United States. Unusual nature of content resulted in local reproduction and circulation among several hundred individuals before information suppression procedures were executed. Fellow engineers, thanks to Fred Munn-Rowe for coordinating our fifth annual Public Exhibition Day at Centennial Park. It was a fine day to display some of the portable track exhibits we've been working on, and the event was a real whopper. Miles under our feet, everything we have ever known has been taught that life is a curse. Special thanks to Cub Scout Troop 497 for helping us set up. If you're like me, you're excited for the new Lionel-engaged scenic vistas range of landscape materials and models. I've gotten word that Bill's Games and Hobbies is going to get this bang-up new line on their shelves by the new year. Eight thousand souls have been melted down to create an obscenity that we cling to until vengeance comes.   Best wishes to him and Cynthia and their new life in sunny Florida, and a reminder to go check out Anita's Southern Pacific line in his rec room. The Genoa Riding Course will attract living predators? Is it better to putrefy for a hundred generations than to die screaming once? Happy Spring birthdays to Harry S. 47, George B. 55, and Dwight E. 42. Item 2798.3.27 Anomalous Flyer Distribution, Karachi, Pakistan Comments 37 leaflets written in Urdu Distributed in front of homes in the Farouk-e-Azam Union Council of Karachi sometime prior to the morning of November 27, 1968, which came to the attention of local authorities due to perceived anti-government content. Attention! All or one people, tune with the center of the earth, open the gates of mercies upon you. All or one, and I have scratched as the coffin until our nails came off. It sees me. Open the gates. Item 2798.3.41 Internet Forum Exchange Notes, a conversation on a sub-forum used by members of the ████████ Internet Dating Site, flagged by automated search protocols and removed in accordance with electronic information suppression protocols. GF-51513 ASL 37, DUDE ██████ Hey, are you local? I was Keoni. Lol, where's that? I was Keoni. You took me apart and buried me living? Buried living? And buried me living? I was beautiful and I am everywhere now. Um, okay, that's a little weird.   How do you know that? It's okay, I used to like doing that when I was, I am everywhere now. Do you want to know what this is like?  Why wouldn't it let me close this?  I screamed with their voices. Now I was Akina. It's like being thousands of people at once too. It doesn't stop. Do you want to know what Serapis is? I'm pulling the plug on the computer now. Please leave me alone. Has signed out, 2103. Dig a hole. You can hear me scream with all voices. Dig. Dig and this world will be yours. Love. GF-51513 is signed out, 0259. Addendum 2798.4, Post-SCP-2798 contingency plans, Designations, Summary, and Disposition. CON-1, Mass Evacuation of Earth and Nearby Planets, Rejected, 2-11, Technologically Infeasible. CON-2, Negotiation with SCP-001, Rejected, 5-8, Unworkable. CON-3, Systematic Anomalous Weaponization Program, December 11, 2015, Approved 12-1, January 1, 2016, Rejected, 0-13, Impossible. CON-4, Project Serapis-2, Rejected 3-10, Escalated Secondary Effects Intolerable. CON-5, Worldwide Distribution of Potassium Cyanide Ampules, Vote Pending. Addendum 2798.5, Projected Sensation of SCP-2798. SCP-2798 is currently projected to cease activity in SCP-2798 has ceased function, SCP-001 uncontained. Worldwide emergency protocols are now in effect.


Hey, here's a quick update on the policy-based access in core Both issues where I add the API and I implement the API in core are reviewed and tested by the community Test code green. They all work. I just wanted to give you a quick View of what becomes possible when this is added into core So as you may or may not know this whole system is Based on the flexible permissions module which is being converted into core and the group module already relies on flexible permissions So it already has access to all of these these goodies basically With this system basically the thing that happens is that You calculate someone's permissions when we are trying to check for someone's permissions and they haven't been calculated before So it becomes this cache entry where all access policies on a given website Can add or remove permissions to the whole set and then that set gets cached with the right cache contexts So that everyone gets that set of calculated permissions provided they have the same global context variables So we don't ever have to calculate that more than we need to Once you get these permissions then access checks simply work like they always did But the upside is that you can have your access policies that you currently have in core such as Your permissions that you get from your roles and whether you are user one or not And you can start adding policies to that or start removing from them So you could disable user one if you wanted to now in group This is a bit more complex in group. We don't merely hand out permissions in this, you know global context of We're in a Drupal website in group We actually have smaller sections of your site We have these groups where you can put a piece of content in and you expect only people who are a member of that group to be able to see that piece of content This is why this API has a notion of a scope So in Drupal you wouldn't care about that in Drupal You would simply hand out permissions and it would automatically put it in the Drupal scope But if you want to hand out permissions in different scope such as group or domain or what have you then you can and you Need to specify a scope identifier Simply put group has three of these Whether you are a part of a group and a role is assigned to you individually Whether you are part of a group and you happen to have a certain global role Whether you are not part of a group and you happen to have a certain global role So group has three of these scopes Which is a bit more complex than your general use case But when I try to determine access to a grouped entity both on the query and in actual access checks Then I need to check all of these scopes and I actually for query access convert them into conditions So all of that happens in a group module and you may be asking okay, that's a lot of information a short amount of time Why do I need to know this? Well, you'll see how powerful the access policy API is when it's properly implemented by the modules So to give you an idea I am currently on the first domain of my local dev instance and I can only see the first group If I go to the second domain and I go to groups. I can only see the second group Now if I were to go to admin contents, I can only see the page in my second group If I do that on my first domain I Can only see the page in my first group This is because of a new module that I created group sites, which basically is one big access policy It doesn't do much else. It doesn't do any query alters. It doesn't do any access hooks It just alters your permissions using the access policy API. This is really important to remember It also comes with this toggle that if you set this admin mode on them Basically the group sites module doesn't do anything so that you can properly configure your website So if I toggle this on you can see how fast that was and now I can see both pages even though This is in group one and this is in group two But I'm only on the domain for group one if I go to my groups listing now you can actually see that I have three groups Which is really cool. If I turn that off again Then now I can only see my first group again and this is based purely on an access policy So there is no query rewriting nothing going on Now, what does that look like if I actually go to The admin content view on the third domain where I'm logged in as the admin so I can do everything Well currently the admin mode is off and on the third domain There are no groups because I didn't tie any to a domain So what would happen is I wouldn't be able to see any contents no content available and you can see that there is this query rewrite which basically applies group Permissions in a way that it won't always return false because you know you have no access now if I turn this admin mode off You'll see that instantly I can see these pages again, and now there's a lot more being added to the query Because now I have different permissions and because my permissions gets turned into query conditions the query conditions alter But again, I didn't write any code for that all I did was implement a single access policy If I log out on the second websites So log out and log back in as an admin So now I have full control I go to views again Then it will become a lot more clear what's happening So if I go to admin content here Then you can see both of them are returned because admin mode is on and you have a lot of stuff added to the query But if I turn my admin mode off now, we should only show notes that are within group 2 And if we look at the query rewrite right now, it becomes more simple There's one left either joined less or fewer and we actually have this condition now that basically checks your group I didn't need to be to again all of this happens With just an access policy So the module that does this is really tiny what it looks like right now is if we go to groups We go to site settings You have a context provider which I wrote one basically giving you a group that's tied to a domain When we couldn't find a group tied to the domain we deny all access. That's what you saw on the third domain You could also set that to do nothing then nothing happens And the access policy when we did find a group is that the single group remains active now Obviously, that's a bit more complex to show but I can give you a quick peek So we have this access policy right here In the alter permissions methods, we're gonna do nothing if the admin mode is on We only support those three scopes that are defined by group We add to write cash tax. We're gonna try and get the context value So that would be the group coming from the domain if we find a domain We add that as a cashable dependency so that caching still works when you toggle the admin mode on or off Or if you switch domain We try to get that context value and validate that it's a group And then we call either the access policy when there is a group So when there is a site or when there is no site when there is no sites, we have one of these deny all Basically just calls remove items so that all of your calculated permissions are just tossed out Do nothing does nothing as you would recall or as you would expect sorry and then finally The one that happens with the single site. That's complex. I'm not gonna go into detail because this basically It basically it still removes everything But it does a lot of Massaging to the one single group that remains active and it adds that one back in that's what's happening here That's what you're seeing So yeah, that is one example of what you can do with the access policy API and as you may have noticed It's blazingly fast So it instantly works. So I'm here because it's cashed. I turn admin mode off Boom. It just just works. It's awesome


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering NAB 2017, brought to you by HGST. Hey, welcome back to everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at NAB 2017 with 100,000 of our closest friends, but we actually do have one of my friends here who I can't believe we haven't had on theCUBE since I think 2013, service down knowledge, just down the road at the Cosmopolitan. Brian Lilly, he is now the Chief Customer Officer in EVP Technology Services from McWinnix. Brian, that's always great to see you. Jeff, it is always a good thing to be on theCUBE, and I love NAB, love it. Yeah, so what do you think? You've been coming here for a while. What's kind of your takeaway? What's the vibe? Well, so the vibe, it feels as innovative and as exciting as ever. And I really think that people are seeing, we're starting to hit a tipping point where they're seeing what's possible, what's possible with the cloud, what's possible with increased collaboration. When I first started coming here a few years ago, saw very few of these kinds of projects. Now we're seeing tons of innovative approaches to using the cloud, using our facilities, using really some of our network providers that are really innovating around this vertical. Yeah, it's pretty interesting, Brian, because this is our first time for theCUBE being here and what's surprising me is how many of the macro trends that we see time and time again at all the other shows about increasing capacity, flexibility, democratization of data, democratization of assets, all these kind of typical IT themes that are being executed here within the media and entertainment industry both on the creative side, as well as the production side. That's right, that's very well said. I think this industry as really even more than many is very, very collaborative. Everything from acquisition to pre-production, production, post-production, delivery, it feels like a community that wants to share, wants to learn, sees that they don't necessarily own all the best ideas and that we're seeing some young, innovative startups from all over the world, everywhere from Europe to Asia, coming up with ideas that the big houses, the big players are starting to see as viable. And I do think, I think when you talk about it being maybe some of these IT trends, I think some of the secular trends, the fact that consumers want their content anytime, anywhere on any device, really if you work from the customer backwards, everybody else has to adjust to that. And we're parents, we see what our kids want and it's really driving I think the whole industry. And good stuff for you, I mean you guys at Equidex made a big bet on cloud long time ago. And the fact of the matter is, as we're surrounded with all this crazy hardware both in the production side, the data center side, no one's buying this, you don't just take the stuff home anymore and plug it in, it's just too big and too expensive. And as you said, I think what's interesting about the media businesses, everybody comes together around a project and the project's over and they go away.  Probably not that many, but the guy kicks out a lot of big budget movies. That's right. I think when you think about the creation of a production like a QT movie, wherever that set is, it's ephemeral.  It's high bandwidth, low latency. You've got to get the data in some cases centrally, but in some cases you're processing it at the edge, but it's very cloud-like. And we're seeing a lot of this unfold. We're seeing these players not only in the centers where it makes sense to consolidate, but we're actually seeing some of this kit show up in our data centers in a distributed mode where they say some information, some equipment we want to keep behind our firewalls on our premise, which could be an equinex cage or their own, but then I want to absolutely connect to multiple clouds. I want to use the tools in Azure, the tools in Amazon, the tools in Google, and others to further enhance our abilities. And so it's this truly hybrid best of breed. I got a lot of tools in my toolkit, some cloud, some on premise, and there's never been a better time to be in this industry. And you see a lot of industries, you guys have a lot of customers. How do you see kind of it compare? Are financial services, media entertainment, are they all kind of progressing pretty much down the same path at the same rate, or do you see some significant laggers or significant people ahead of the curve? Well, I would say the financial services is way ahead, to be frank. Financial services have been doing this for a long time. Like when we built equinex, it was really starting with the networks at the core, and the first vertical to take advantage of that was the financial services where they said, hey, I want low latency routes between New York and London, low latency routes between Chicago and New York. And so they've been doing that and then building communities of interest where they could reach all the folks in their digital supply chain on the financial services side, guys like Bloomberg and Reuters, they said, I can reach all my customers in one place and I can direct connect to them. So they built early. The content guys did see it right after that. Guys like Yahoo, and if you remember, MySpace. So it's wonderful to see Facebook video here.  So I think content and digital media has been a little bit slower to move, but it's one of these ramps. And they over the last two years, I think they've been the fastest accelerating vertical using the cloud and interconnection to build their brand, to build their business. Right, it's interesting, because some of our other guys were talking about the theme, I guess last year here was a lot of VR. It's all about the VR theme. But now we're hearing about machine learning and metadata and a lot more kind of traditional themes, not necessarily just about the VR and the 360, to add more value to these assets, to be able to distribute them better, to have the metadata, to create an experience for that individual person, even within the context of a bigger asset, have all these small, is a pretty interesting trend. Yeah, it's spot on.  I mean, it's the future. I think what maybe people are realizing is, is that it's really early days, but data we have and this whole notion of data science and analytics that you can put around the customer experience in real time, in situ, they're like, we can do that now. Where virtual reality, the massive bound with the storage, the compute, the compute, because it's no longer that you're watching the movie in a third person, you are the movie, you are the experience, you're in it. And that's just going to require just massive compute that in my opinion, only the cloud can do. So I think it's a little bit further off, but I think VR and AR is the wave, it's the future. And certainly in the AR I think is really cool because there's so much potential there. So from a data center perspective, you guys are sitting right at the heart of this thing and you're taking advantage of these tremendous Moore's Law impacts on not only compute and store, but networking, I mean, it's got to be phenomenal to see the increased demands. I always think of the whole Microsoft Intel, you know, back in the day, you get a better microprocessor, well, Microsoft's OS eats up another 80% of that one back and forth, but now we're really hitting huge, huge efficiencies in these core components that are enabling ridiculous scale that you could never even imagine before. I think that the Intel, Microsoft example or analogy is a really, really interesting one because, you know, in fact, when you look at companies like Mesosphere and Google's Kubernetes and these others that are, they're calling themselves, you know, the data center operating system, which is operating containers and with the move to microservices and all this technology that's coming that's making compute more ubiquitous, where you can run workloads anywhere. The fact that we sit, we feel privileged because we sit in the middle of not only all the networks, but of the clouds, the multi-cloud. And if you're a, whether you're a producer or you're in production, you're in delivery, you're an over-the-top guy, where you want to be is where you can connect very directly with low latency and high security and high reliability to the cloud you need, to the networks you need, to the partners you need. And I think that's just a powerful thing. Now the operating system is, is how do we make that easy? Like how do we, you know, create the easy button for these folks to access these resources? And what's the value we provide as that neutral, in the middle provider that brings people together? You know, I was at an event last night and DPP, Mark from DPP was there and we were talking about the question of who owns this new business model? He said he saw a panel on Sunday because it's transforming in front of us. And it's an excellent question. I don't know who owns it, but I know we see it and we're seeing people talk about it. I think the community owns it. They own what this new business model looks like and so we're just listening to our customers and letting them lead us to the place we need to go. Interesting. So we're running a little long time, just want to get kind of what are your priorities for 2017? Well, priorities in this area is really to make cloud ubiquitous globally. It's to push that out to the edge, make that available in as many markets to as many customers as we can with our big partners, with Google and Amazon and Microsoft and Oracle and all the rest. That's a big priority. Second is this notion of the easy button. How can we add value? How can we take friction out of the system to make collaboration and communication between this industry that much easier, that much faster? I mean, those are two big ones in particular here and I'm delighted to see this vertical just taking off with the cloud. Yeah, pretty exciting times. It's a great time. All right, I got an embarrassment before I let you go, Brian. Never have I met an executive that takes such pride in losing good employees to better jobs. I just want to compliment you on that. I know you take pride in seeing CIOs all over the industry that were once your charges so I just want to give you a shout out for that. All right, he's Brian Lilly. Keep working for him. Don't go take the other CIO job just yet, but if you do, he'll be happy to mentor you. All right, thanks for stopping by. He's Brian Lilly, I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE from NAB 2017. We'll be right back after this short break. Thanks, Jeff. Good to see you, buddy. Thanks. Well done.