Let's talk about documentation. What is the right amount of documentation for a software project? Because you've got two extreme ends of the spectrum. You've got the one group that does zero documentation, absolutely no documentation. So think of something like Sucless Software. The Sucless guys, they don't document anything. The source code for their software, that's their documentation. If you want documentation, you go read the source code for that particular piece of software and hopefully you understand the programming language and what it's doing because that will tell you everything you need to know. That's one extreme and then the other extreme is the groups that document everything.  They have an orgy of documentation and that's another extreme and I find both of those kind of unappealing. Obviously, I don't like not having any documentation. I also don't like being overwhelmed by documentation where they've documented so much little detail that especially the big questions, the common questions that I'm looking for answers for. Sometimes it's hard to find those answers because they provide so much of this other documentation about these really niche use cases. Is there a good middle ground? What is the right middle ground for documenting your software? This has been more and more a topic that's been on my mind here the last few months. The more I get into packaging some of my own programs and I get people opening issues on my GitLab support requests for some of my scripts and some of my programs and of course I try to document some of my stuff but how much documentation do I need to provide? I learned early on that just putting something out there with no documentation was a problem because you're going to be flooded with questions like really basic beginner level stuff. How do I install this? You didn't tell me how to install it. What does the program do? If you don't at least tell people how to install your program and maybe give them a one line description of, hey, this program does this, then all they're getting is a GitHub or a GitLab repository and they see some source code but if you don't tell them, just spend like five minutes writing a quick read me on the basics. If you don't do that, people are going to ask you about it so you have to give them at least something but do I need to detail every little minutiae? Because the more and more I spend on documentation, the more it gets into my head that sometimes I'm documenting really niche stuff that nobody has ever asked me a question about but in my mind I'm thinking well somebody might run into this problem, somebody might run into that problem and I'm documenting all of this stuff again that nobody had ever asked me about. Am I wasting my time with documentation at that point? Is that time that could be better spent actually working on improving the piece of software adding more features, doing bug fixes, things like that? I know myself and probably most people that use computers probably have it in their minds if you've ever went looking for help documentation on anything. You imagine that the good projects offer really good documentation, extreme amounts of documentation and that those projects because they have such good documentation it probably helps them, they don't get as many support requests, right? They don't get as many issues opened on their GitHub or their GitLab or on their IRC channel or Discord channel or whatever support forms they happen to have, is that actually true? I don't think that is because let's take Linux distributions for example. What Linux distribution has the absolute best documentation out there bar none? Arch Linux. Have you seen the extreme amount of support requests on like the Arch subreddit and the Arch forums, the Arch IRC chat channels, you know, there are plenty of people opening support questions on those particular support forums just as many people that are doing this on Ubuntu or Linux Mint forums and Fedora forums and things like that. Did the Arch Wiki actually solve any real problem? I would say no, I love the Arch Wiki, I'm glad it's there. But does it really have that big of an impact as far as not having to interact with people on forums or in chat rooms as far as support requests? No, I don't think it does.  I'm going to ask you a question. You're going to give me the answer. I'm not going to go do any research on my own. I know that kind of puts people off. That's why they have, you know, these wikis for these Linux distributions and these man pages for your particular software on your Linux distribution. But let's be honest, 99% of your desktop Linux users don't read any of that stuff. Most of them have never opened a man page in their life. They did. They probably didn't actually read it. They looked at it for about two seconds and then quit out of it. And I'm not reading that thing. Most people are not going to go read like detailed wiki information on like the Arch wiki or the Gen 2 wiki and things like that, which are fantastic resources. Most people are not going to do that because that requires them to actually sit there for a few minutes and try to read something, try to understand something, and it might take them a minute to actually find exactly the piece of information they're looking for in that wiki article. Why am I going to wait for that? Let me go ask somebody and just have them immediately give me the exact answer I'm looking for. That's the laziness in most people's minds and I understand that's why a lot of people get put off in support forms. But as somebody that has some software on my Git lab, for example, I get questions all the time and I'll be honest, most of the questions I get are rather ridiculous questions. I'm going to just put it out there. I have people opening issues that have absolutely nothing to do with my software at all. Like, hey man, this question you just asked me has absolutely nothing to do with the repository of software you're currently asking this question in. Like you're asking questions that have absolutely nothing related to this. So I understand why some people in support forms and in support chat rooms kind of get frustrated and just tell people to RTFM, hey man, go read the documentation, you'll work it out. I get that. But the RTFM response only works if you are that extreme documenter. Like if you're one of those projects like Arch Linux that has an orgy of documentation, right? They're on one extreme. Of course, you got the other extreme. Like I said, the Suckless crowd, they don't document anything. And of course, that means when you don't document anything, you probably actually get less support requests. The Suckless guys probably get far less support requests asked because they're not going to support you anyway.  They pretty much have told you, we don't care about noobs. We don't care about novices. You go read the C source code for DWM or whatever piece of software. You go understand that C code and you'll understand the software. Don't ask us any questions. And of course, that's arrogant. That's elitist. That's very smug, right? And but that's the way they've chosen to be because they just don't want to deal with people asking them any questions. For me, I think somewhere in the middle is the sweet spot. I don't know where. And of course, that's part of making today's video is I would love some input from you guys, especially some of you guys that are part of major projects. Maybe you're on the documentation team for some of these Linux distributions out there. What is the right amount of documentation? Obviously not having any causes major problems. And then of course, having an extreme amount of documentation while it sounds good, that really doesn't reduce any kind of workload as far as the amount of support request you get anyway. And I have actually heard from plenty of Linux users that tell me the Arch Linux Wiki is confusing. Like there's so much documentation. Like if you go read the Arch installation guide on the Arch Wiki, it points you to a hundred different places all over the Wiki. Like the bootloader section talks about Grub and it links you to this Grub page on the Arch Wiki. And the Grub page is massive. Are you really gonna read all of that just for that one minor part of the installation installing the bootloader? You know, that's what people talk about when they talk about things like a orgy of documentation and how it can be a real negative. When you look at Linux man pages, you can really see these two different philosophies, the people that really don't care about documentation and the people that go to extremes. If you go read some man pages, they are literally just a one line description of what the program is and maybe who created the project, that's it.  Like if you go read the man page for the GNU find command, the basic find command that's part of the core utils or actually it's part of the GNU find utils package. The find man page is massive. It would take you all day to read that thing and probably months to understand everything that's possible within the find command because it's a very powerful command. And that man page is so detailed. It's a fantastic man page. Nobody's gonna read it though. It's too long. It's got too much stuff packed into it. Or the man page for the bash y'all, GNU bash. The bash man page, massive. It's like reading a book. Nobody's going to read that thing. At least not normal people. Most people are not gonna read a man page that complicated. And I see actually a lot of professional developers actually talk about this. That documentation, is it good or can documentation sometimes be bad? And I've actually seen people actually make the claim that sometimes documentation can be a negative. I think one perspective I would like to hear from is from those of you that are not programmers, not developers, not long time Linux power users.  You have some basic needs, but sometimes you have to troubleshoot your own problems. What do you think about documentation? Do you like reading documentation? Do you hate reading documentation?  It just answers a few of the most common basic questions or do you like these detailed instruction manual kind of documentations? Let me know in the comments down below. 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Hello friends and welcome back to another Pokemon how to guide my name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode I'm going to show you exactly how you can get as many Cubfu or Urshifu as you would like in one copy of Pokemon Sword or Shield. So with the release of the Isle of Armor we got a bunch of new Pokemon new features to play through and the marquee Pokemon probably of these DLCs is that new Pokemon Cubfu and its evolution forms Urshifu the fighting water type and the fighting dark type unfortunately the kicker about the DLC is if you've only got one copy of Pokemon Sword or one copy of Pokemon Shield you're not going to be able to get the other form of Urshifu or another Cubfu unless you have a very generous friend who would trade with you which is a little bit sad because you know you want to have each form to complete your collection you don't need it for the Pokedex but obviously if you're a competitive player you won't have as many options as possible so to get more Cubfu in the games you would generally have to buy a copy of Sword and then the DLC expansion pass but there is a way around that and I'm going to show you within this guide today how you can do that with just one copy of the game and get as many Cubfu's as you want. So to begin with you can see we're on our home menu you want to come down to system settings now when you're in system settings you want to come down to users and then just add a new user so as you can see here create new user choose your icon whichever one you want we're gone with Gandalf in hour one and just create a nickname it doesn't really matter for this example unless you want to have a serious another user on your account I'm literally doing this for this example and I will be deleting this user once I have obtained Cubfu so there we go once you're at this screen don't sign in or link account just say you'll do that later once your account your new account has been set up you want to just come out of this menu screen back into your home menu and then start your Pokemon Shield under this new user that you've just created so you'll go into the game and this will start a brand new save file for your Pokemon Sword or Pokemon Shield game it will work exactly the same on either copy so you want to just start again go through all the kind of bits and bobs that you need to do to set yourself up with your trainer your your name your avatar and all of that and once you have done that you can then start the probably going to be the most grindy part of this process and obviously playing through the game get your bag one tip I will say for you to start with is once you've got access to your menu screen or option screen in-game what you want to do is just go straight into it make sure that your text is turned to fast this will speed things up for you you also want to take battle effects off this will just make things a little bit quicker for you and there is one more and give nicknames take that off in case you get given any Pokemon or you catch any Pokemon through this process you want to make sure that those three things are knocked to off and that'll just speed things up for you a little bit so you want to just constantly just mashing it as much as you can getting through obviously meeting Leon get your starter Pokemon I chose Subtle because I feel like Subtle is probably a little bit better matched than the other two for the early stages the game to help you get through it get the Zassian the Pokedex from Sonya and then here we go we're at the wild area now this is all you need to do you just need to get to the wild area of the game and then you are set to head on your way to the Isle of Armor so once you're here once Sonya shows you the wild area you don't even need to go into it just turn straight around go back into the station in the wild area and this will take you straight back to where are we going uh Wedgehurst Wedgehurst station is where this is of course I should know this so as soon as you come back to Wedgehurst you'll get the kind of the DLC kind of teaser trailer with the Glareon Slowpoke here and that'll play out and you'll have to catch the Slowpoke unfortunately can't beat it so don't just expect to beat this Pokemon and then disappear you actually need to capture the Slowpoke once you've done that you can speak to this train god here and he will then say you've got the Isle of Armor pass you've obviously got to have the Isle of Armor pass to do this whole method so I hope you have you'll um you'll get the you'll get the train to another location then you'll fly over to the Isle of Armor so here we are so we're about 20-30 minutes into the game and we're already at the Isle of Armor so that's ideal so the next step what we need to do is obviously come out okay we battle Clara here you once you've beat her the next step is to obviously make your way to the dojo and once you're at the dojo then you can go inside and the next step is obviously everyone knows is complete the three trials so you need to obviously catch the Glareon Slowpoke so you need to get the max mushrooms and then you need to beat Clara in a one-on-one match before you're able to get Kubfu now getting these Slowbros is a little bit tricky because normally you would have your bike at this stage and you don't have it doing this method so you just need to watch where the Slowpokes are kind of going in a circle and make sure you stand in their path and they'll kind of just run into you so you don't need to chase them around with your bike as you can see I'm just getting myself positioned in the different areas where Slowpoke has its kind of cycle path so you want to just do this a similar sort of thing if you haven't got your bike here which I'm assuming you won't have at this point if you're doing this quick method and just kind of dive on the Slowpoke so just stand in their way when they come about and there is only three of them so shouldn't take you too long I think the longest part of this whole this three trial part is obviously they're the running about not having access to the the COVID night ride so you can't just fly back to the dojo at every point you have to kind of complete and then run back and then back and forth so you're back and forth a lot of times but once you've got the Slowbros like I say the next step is getting those max mushrooms it's pretty easy to get and then you battle Clara here and once you beat Clara you are going to be giving your cup food which is exactly what you need and I think honestly this took me a little longer than what it probably should have done and I think you can probably do this in about an hour and that is pretty good timing obviously you can use this method to get other exclusive Pokemon like Zassian, Zamazenta whatever you would like but for this method obviously we want cup food because it is a new Pokemon and it does have those two forms that you can use legally on the ranked battle at the minute so once you've done that you save your game you've got your cup food you want to come back into Pokemon home but you go into Pokemon home under your original username okay and then once you're there you go up to the top you change to a different save file and you come back into Pokemon home using your new save file there grab cup food out of your box put it in Pokemon home save exit and then come back into Pokemon home under your original user under your original game and then you'll be able to to grab cup food and put it into your new game so you can see here I'm just changing to my original account my main account here and we'll go into Pokemon home cup food sitting nicely tucked up in Pokemon home here for us just to grab put into our main game and that is literally it that is literally it that is how quick this is and once you've done that and it's all transferred over you can then come back into your original game and you will be able to see that you've got your cup food right there so it's ideal really for us and as you can see I've already because I've got a copy of Shield as well as Sword so I've already got both forms but it's nice to have the option to have different variants different builds of these without having to change the the current two that I've got all the time so I'm probably going to use this method a couple of times just to get a few more cup foods because I feel like it's so easy to do and what you can do is delete the user that you've just added and kind of just start the process all over again if you would like to or if you've got a copy of Shield you can do the same on that run through it doesn't take any time at all to get cup food and hopefully this method is very useful and kind of if you weren't aware of it is helpful for you to get more cup foods and definitely getting that other Urshifu form if you haven't got another copy of the game so that about wraps it up my friends I hope you have found this guide useful I've definitely found this method useful and obviously just for competitive purposes it's really nice to be able to have just different options I can pick up and throw into a team if I need to rather than having to EV or change natures with mints and things like that and it's just gets so complicated so because it's not a pokemon we can breed this is a best next best thing to do for us and like I say I hope you found it useful if you have please drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel if you're new for more guides like this we do a bunch of pokemon content as well as competitive players well so um yes that about wraps it up thanks so much for tuning in my friends I hope you all have a great rest of your day take care of yourselves be kind to each other and I'll I'll hopefully see you all for another episode on the channel very soon so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye


The Law Licensing Committee, little quick roll call. Ryan is excused. He said he was gonna be possibly late or not be able to make it. He had a meeting in Manitowoc. Marilyn is online, correct? And- Present. And Barb Felde. Present. And I don't see Betty. Betty, are you on? Not on. Okay. Alrighty, we'll start out with the Pledge of Allegiance. Guess we'll do a quick introduction of who we have on here, Kathy Huffman. And we have online Charles Adams, city attorney, Chris Damagowski, police chief. And I think that's it. Okay. Alrighty, we'll go to 2.1, approval of minutes. I move to approve the minutes. Second. Okay, motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor? And chair votes aye. Minutes are approved. All right, 3.1, resolution 116-2020-21. A resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the joint powers agreement for Sheboygan County and city of Sheboygan 9-11 emergency systems. I guess that would be the chief. Dr. Reich, it's an agreement that's required by state law because of the 9-11 systems, which requires the county and the city to have an agreement, essentially in case one of the systems, so a police squad, a fire ambulance, a fire engine would get sent to an address that turns out to be outside of the jurisdiction. The agreement allows them just to take action and address the issue rather than to refuse to do that and require the other agency to respond. Okay, okay. I've reviewed it, it said it's an annual agreement that they always send us their proposal, which always looks the same every year. We always make the same small changes to it every year. They always approve those, we're good to go. Okay, all righty. I'll make a motion to accept the joint agreement. Second. Motion is made by Barb, seconded by Mara Lynn. Any other discussion on it? All in favor? Chair votes aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 3.2, RO 76-2021 submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30th, 2022, beverage operators application number 3355, John Kuperdoulis. I think this one, and we're recommending holding this one further. Mr. Kuperdoulis has not contacted us as we've requested. The city of Richmond, Virginia has refused all of Lieutenant Stelter's many efforts to try to get information from them. What we're gonna do, we're just gonna take it off the agenda until we get information that we need in order to approve this. And once we do or don't, you'll know. Okay. So the motion would be to hold. Okay. I would most to hold. Second. Motion is made by Mara Lynn. I just had a question. You said the information is from Virginia. Yeah, so, and we could get it from him as well, but neither of them are responding. So he did reveal that he has a felony in Virginia, but he didn't tell us what it is. And we need to know what it is to know whether he's eligible, so that's what we're trying to find out. And Virginia is not responding nor is he not even 100% convinced given that we've also not heard from, we know who the employer who wanted to hire him was. And they're often that particular employer is often kinda, you know, they'll call the first officer and say, where is this license at? And they haven't. I kind of have a feeling Mr. Cooper-Ruelis doesn't need this license anymore and isn't telling us that either, but we'll keep it out there until we know. Yeah, it would be hard on him to know if all of his own, another state is, another jurisdiction is not responding, but it sounds like that's the case. So, great, thank you. Okay, motion's been made by Mary Ly, seconded by Barb. All in favor, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. That passes, that's on hold. Okay, 3.3, RO number 86-2021, submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31st, 2020 and June 30th, 2022, taxicab, driver's license, application number 3387, Cheyenne M. Lip. This one we are recommending holding for a denial. So we'll send her a denial letter and if she decides she wants a hearing, that hearing will come up in the next meeting or two. Okay. Move to hold. Second. Motion to hold by Mary Ly, seconded by Barb. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Chair votes aye. That passes. Okay, 3.4, RO number 98-2021, submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30th, 2022. So this is the big RO and we are recommending that we hold the application of Stephanie Arcane for further review, that we hold the application of Amber R. Ernestie for denial and we hold the change of premise application of Meijer store number 305 for the necessary information and changes that are needed from the applicant and we're recommending granting the remainder of the application. I would move that we hold pursuant to attorney Adam's recital and approve the remaining applications. I'll second. Motion by made by Mary Ly, seconded by Barb. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. That passes. That's the end of our agenda. Next meeting date will be November 25th, 2020. We'll make a motion to, someone makes a motion to adjourn. Before you make that motion to adjourn, I would just point out to you that November 25th is the day before Thanksgiving. So if there's the potential of a problem with a quorum being now or forever, hold your peace. I will always just mention this every year because we occasionally have that problem. Okay. Not this year. Aye, I concur. I have it. I've heard it. Okay, motion to adjourn is made and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you.


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All right. So right off the bat, I just want to say that I'm disappointed that my, like, talks on security unit testing just don't get this many people, right? That's probably more important. So we're just going to switch it up and that's what we're going to talk about instead. Okay. All right. All right. We'll talk about the hacker tracker. So right off the bat, I'm Seth Law. I'm an application security consultant. I've done development in the past. I actually started my career at iOmega. Anybody here remember the zip drive? Yeah? Okay. I was not responsible for the click of death. That was not me blame the hardware engineers, right? If you lost data, that was not my fault. That dates me. I've been around for a long time. I've been coming to DEF CON since DEF CON 8 or something like that. But now I just do application security work. I'm an independent consultant. So that's me. I do the iOS version. I'm going to turn it over to Whitney really quick. I'm short. How's this work? Hi everyone. I'm Whitney champion short stack. I've been doing the Android version of hacker tracker since 2012. So I'm a systems engineer out of South Carolina. Android is a hobby for me. That's why this guy's here now. But yeah. Thank you guys for coming. Hey guys. I'm Chris, also known as advice dog. I met Whitney at DEF CON 24 and started talking to her about hacker tracker because I liked using it. But I was like, I feel like it could be better, right? And it was open source. So I was really excited. I'm like, oh, I can totally commit to this. You know, I can change things. And I started talking to her and she was totally cool with me changing things. So I joined the team, started working things. And I took over DEF, the Android version for hacker tracker for 25 and 26. So the current version, yeah. I've done a ton of rewrites. Pretty much it's a whenever I'm bored, I guess I just look at hacker tracker and I'm like, how can it be better? So any performance you enjoy? I spent way too much time on it. That is a running theme as we spend too much time on it. I've got my family here. They know like the last couple of weeks, especially every spare moment of my time has been, all right, can I get this in so I can get it into the app store so we can actually get it into the iOS version. So the first thing we're going to talk about is where it came from. I joined the hacker tracker team or the iOS version was started in about 2014. I think it was something like that, right? So it was a couple of years after Whitney did the first one. So we'll let her talk about what she came up with and then we'll move on to, you know, when iOS came and, you know, how we've done things. What happened was, what had happened was, so I wasn't able to go to DEF CON at 25. I've been coming since 2009. I was really bummed that I couldn't be there that year. So I wanted to give back in some way. I still wanted to contribute. I was pregnant and couldn't leave. So I spent probably two months pretty much pouring my heart into what was the first version of Android, which is what you see here, which is don't knock the awesome Photoshop skills. I know it's just mind blowing, but that if you came, the first version was like 2012, 2013, that is what it looked like. And it's just beautiful. So that was the first four years. And as Seth said, he joined a couple of years later and did the iOS version. The iOS version. You'll notice that, you know, that all the margins are off and things like that. We had a lot to learn about actually how to put this together. Again, you know, awesome Photoshop skills. As you can see, nowadays we've got actual designers that work with this a little bit. We'll get into that a bit later. But you know, the first iOS version, I think the version that made it through the app store that most of the attendees downloaded actually crashed for the first two days of the conference, right? It was not necessarily in my case, it's a successful effort. I remember being pretty disappointed that I couldn't push through the version that I wanted people to have. And that's traditionally, that's what happens to us is we have these ideas. Chris pushes something, we talk about it, we put it into the app and then whether or not it actually makes it out to you is another story. That being said, we've had a lot of great feedback. So we'll step into some of that here in a minute. Now it's official, right? This makes us happy. Defcon actually brought us on board. When was that? It was right after you joined us. Yeah, so it was what, 2015, 2016, I think it was, was the first year that Hacker Tracker was the official app of Defcon. And now, actually Chris and I this year are members of the Infobooth team. So we are related to the guys that you're seeing sitting around in the booths telling you about maps and other things. We're working with them closely. Melos helped us out immensely to actually get events and get them into the application. But we are the official application for Defcon. Obviously, that's why we're here. That's why they promoted at each of those Infobooths. It's so that you have this information at the palm of your hands. I mean, part of the reason that I wanted to do it initially was the fact that I had the booklet and it just wasn't tenable. I had my phone with me as well. And I got involved because I wanted to be able to track all these different events and actually do something. I saw that Whitney had the Android version and thought, yeah, we can do that on iOS as well. Pain points. Now there are a lot of pain points. First off is scheduling. Do you want to talk about this? Yeah, so scheduling for the first like three, well actually until this year. So Seth will get into his part of this after I talk about how difficult hand jamming thousands of lines of JSON was for the first several years. It was mind-numbing. The other part was all the villages, all the like contests, all the events, all the talks. Everything was in a different format. So there was no like easy way to go scrape every website. There was no easy way to get all the data. It was very much a manual process. So I don't know how many hundreds of hours we spent staring at these files. But my God, I'm glad that those days are over. Especially this year, there's what like 28 villages, something like that. And every single one has a different format. So hopefully that will ease up going forward. So yeah, if you've never handwritten JSON files and made sure that the modified date has changed at 2am, you just haven't experienced joy, right? It's really easy to do and really easy to mess up. And then the application crashes. Or if you're dealing with the iOS, you know, JSON parser and happen to have an errant, you know, new line character inside of a string, you want to know what happens to iOS? Yeah, it crashes, right? So there's all of these pain points that we have dealt with with the schedule. Now the next one is, you know, don't trust the hackers. The first, well, I mean, as soon as I got involved, we started advertising out on Twitter. Hey, guess what? We've got this app that we built for Defcon. How many people do you think actually downloaded the app that first year? Guesses? Five? There's some trusting people. There's more trusting people out there than that. But our biggest response on Twitter was exactly this. No, no, no, there's no way I'm downloading that, right?  It doesn't matter that the source code was all out there. They're like, who are you nerds putting out this app, especially for the Android version? Because, you know, that's just kind of a free for all.  Don't do it. There's they're going to take your data. They're going to steal your pictures. Don't install any of it. So. And so the answer is yes, we have all your data. Right. Just let's just get that out of the way. We'll move on. It's more supposed to say that. Sorry, sorry. Okay, the other thing is bug fixes at all hours. How many people here are actually like iOS developers that push things into the app store? We got a couple of you. I feel your pain. How easy is it actually push bug fixes into the app store quickly? Easy? No, it's very difficult, right? And we'll get into this in a little bit. But you know, this was realistically our lives over, especially the month before Def Con, right, is the bug fixes and when that actually has to happen. See, I had the luxury of being able to blast anything to production at three o'clock in the morning after six shots. And who knows what's going to happen. So that was that was a toss up between Android and Apple for us. Yeah. Seth had a little more validation on his end. I did. And it's about finding time. I mean, obviously, we're we've got normal jobs, right? I guess kind of normal jobs, normal jobs. And so actually finding the time to put this together, it's not necessarily something that, you know, just happens in one afternoon as much as we would like to think we're great developers. There's always bugs. There's always things that doesn't happen in the afternoon. No, it just doesn't happen afternoon. It happens at three a.m. When you push directly to master. That's when it happens. After the kids. Yeah. All right. Waiting on redacted. Anybody seen like the mobile operating system in the iOS version? Yes. Why do you think that is? Okay, this is the app review process. Okay, we get random people that are looking at the application. And I've marked the app is explicit.  But you know what I can't say? Jailbreak. Just I can't say that. That's not okay. So last year, especially this became a huge issue. I've had I've had I just got rejected, you know, three days ago again on the latest version that I want you guys to have in your hand for iOS. And it's because it says hack. And it says, you know, there's other things that are in there that whoever it is that's in the app review process that's looking at the application actually thinks is hey, you're promoting hacking. There's like the whole Apple terms of service and like we're doing our best is realistically what it is. And we're coming up with ways to actually get around this. So the redacted in there that you're seeing is because we yeah we've just learned that if we do that, if we take out the term watch OS or we take out the term Mac OS that they accept it. But if we don't, and it happens to be in somebody's talk, then they won't. Right. So I feel really bad for the speakers whose whose title of their talk is jailbreaking Mac OS or something like that because it's, you know, redacted in redacted OS. Right. Sorry. That's all that's all I can do. We're doing our best. Okay. So last year we did it. We did a big overhaul. And even this year you'll notice it's a lot different than those images that we put up there first. I'll let Chris talk to the Android version first. Sure. So DefCon 25 was the first version that I came on to it. So I did a ton of different changes and all that stuff. So pretty much from the ground up I rebuilt the app probably multiple times over the year just because I got a lot of free time. But like a lot of the focus is just trying to figure out exactly how we can make a like a hacker conference good in terms of schedule because we don't really know. There's like guidelines I guess out there of like what we could do and what we can't do. But we're trying to figure out exactly what kind of information you need and like what you want and everything like that. So we're also trying to do a lot of stuff just like everything from the ground up rebuild it and make it impressive you know from like and like I've rebuilt it multiple times also for DefCon 26. Like for that example for last year Hacker Tracker on Android was about 19 megabytes. This year it's about 4.2. It is insanely small. It should be the fastest smallest app on your phone hopefully. And that's pretty much what I've been doing is just trying to make the best app for you guys you know because I found if I hate it then you're probably gonna hate it you know if it bugs me it might bug you but it'll probably bug you eventually. Yeah so the whole idea is that we want it to bug you right. Like I even just saw a bug pop up on my phone on the reminders for iOS that's yeah. But last year we did a pretty extensive overhaul of iOS as well. We've got the animations that are in there if you've seen like the little jitter as it starts up you know that's us stilling I mean that's us just animating the initial screen that you're on right. It's not sending data anywhere right. But along those lines we've upgraded right.  Yeah so we may support that in the in the future I'll do some downgrades to make sure that we can actually support some of those older versions of iOS but that is kind of a forward-looking thing. When I tried to compile it initially I got a whole bunch of error messages for iOS 9 and so I scrapped it right. There's only so much time in the day. The other thing that we did last year was the UI redesign we actually engaged with a graphic designer Chris Mays who may be here in the room somewhere Chris are you here. All right I don't see him. Chris actually worked for a company last year and their graphic designer was willing to chip in and help us actually do some of the UI design. So a lot of the elements that make it look a little bit more polished came from her that was Megan she's listed in the iOS app and it has made things more streamlined it's made it's easier to actually use and navigate. The one thing that we did away with this year was the tab bar down at the bottom for iOS we moved to the menu so that we're trying to get more of a unified look and fill. The other thing is we do support multiple conferences has anybody here used Hacker Tracker at a different conference? No? Oh we had a couple okay yeah they're nowhere near as big as DEF CON DEF CON is definitely our primary conference but we support Shmucon, Torcon, we did Hack West we did a couple B-Sides events during the year so if you would like to use Hacker Tracker at other conferences just hit us up on Twitter it's not difficult we've structured the app so we can load different conferences there and make it easier to use and a community resource the whole idea is the code's out there it can be reused these other conferences could compile it but we've got the ability to actually switch and use it within the same interface okay. All right so high points So I think one of the most fun parts of the last few years that we've had is hiding Easter eggs in the app so several people have come to me to hide things for different contests specifically the DC Darknut Challenge that's been one of my favorites because we've done that probably three maybe three years now um we one year I had a password in the app and a bunch of you came to me to get the most ridiculously dumb unicorn sticker and I don't know why any of you took the time to come find it because it's horrible but there it is Seth went to the trouble of making stickers and hiding things in the iOS version as well so it's it's been a lot of fun to like engage everybody and just try to do whatever we can to get other contests and events of all involved this has been especially interesting um we've gotten good attendee feedback we've gotten bad attendee feedback and we've gotten weird attendee feedback but the good attendee feedback has been by and large the best um especially since Chris joined and put in a lot of work um I don't have nearly as much time anymore to to contribute so he's done a huge uh it's been a huge effort on his part um to make it as awesome as possible for you guys on his end and and so is that so the reviews that you guys have given us are just amazing and especially like the ideas you've come back with like feature requests bug fixes bug reports like all that stuff has been amazing so just like keep sending that because it helps us and it helps us make it better yeah just one thing okay if you if you review us four stars say some schedule items are wrong just hit us on twitter please don't don't ruin our rating well we're trying you know hit us on twitter we'll fix it hard that rate it individually because i all the negative feedback i get an email i read it i get depressed it's not great think about my feelings first don't make chris cry don't make chris cry this is probably my favorite email i've gotten so far um there's been a lot of worse ones but this is definitely the best my email's been hacked when i reply to certain people that tells me it came back unreadable with crazy text covering up my info but bottom line the last part is the best if it does will it report the hacker to the police no um it will not i never heard back from this guy um i also did not respond so so i mean i thought about but he says i've been having issues with cyber stalking so i uh i decided to avoid that one so uh like we were saying last year uh chris took over the android version chris maize uh has helped me out immensely on the ios version um he's like a full time ios developer uh he's on the he's in the app if you if you see his name you know click on him give him kudos as well because he's been a huge help and actually debugging and making sure that the app runs expectedly it doesn't crash um you know a lot of good just kind of overall design patterns and things like that have come from his brain um i was hoping he was here so we could you know recognize him a little bit but that's fine but otherwise right just getting feedback from you has been the best thing right if you use the app and there's something that bugs you like chris said let us know tell us about it if you haven't downloaded the app go download the app and use it make sure and update the events because it is being updated every yeah pull pull to pull down to update because that'll actually get you the latest results and the latest uh events that are going on and what's going on right now um but let us know if those are wrong but also let us know if there's something in the app that that is an issue especially if the app crashes right so we've got a whole bunch of lessons learned right um first of all haters are going to hate yeah so some of you are mean just saying um the first couple years the first four years um at least from my end was soloing this which means like a lot of late nights staring at this and then i would get on the reviews page and i'm like holy shit you people can be evil i already know this because we're on twitter we've seen the worst of the internet but um uh i think it definitely garnered some thick skin over the years um so yeah the three of us have poured a lot into this and we've realized you can't please everybody so the best we can do is just try to make it as good as we can for all of you guys but i will say it has been highly entertaining reading some of the stuff that we've gotten over the last what six years yeah i don't know what you got on your end oh all the ios developers they're totally trustworthy and nice people um the other thing we've learned is that like taking feedback right obviously twitter is a great way to do this um you can hit us up that's why our handles are there in the applications but aside from that if you hit us up on github that's where we're actually tracking the code and you put in a you know pull request or you put in an issue we will track it in there and close it out so you know that that we've looked at it and we've done something with it right yep we do have to wait i you have to wait i have to wait i have to wait like i said there's a version that's out there that's hopefully going to be released soon i get denied on expedite requests i i'm waiting on jail breaks whatever right you know the other thing that i was thinking is that we could push it to like city uh the you know the jail bro break store is anybody here using a jailbroken device even as a burner wow so i mean if there's enough of you that are doing it then i'll look into it we'll push it that direction because it'd be a lot easier for me to be to push in there for sariq than it is to actually push into the app store i just am not sure if apple's going to be too happy about that you never know backup plans you have to have backup plans right i think we've kind of learned that we don't have a solid backup plan yet um so we've we've tried various different ways of scheduling and this actually ties into what you've built over the last i don't know how long you've been working on that on your event manager so um we've tried pulling from the info booth we've tried static json so we've kind of tried to combine the two of those and have some like main dashboard for um loading all the events and because it's just gotten so big and so many villages and so many pieces of this that we've we've got a stream on it somewhere yeah guesses on how many events we have in the hacker in hacker tracker this year all of them i wish but i don't think we have gotten there how much how many did you say okay keep going up keep going up keep going up close just under 1000 we're probably around 800 right now that you can actually do and that's between parties events and all the different talks contests and yeah especially the villages i mean we were at 25 plus villages this year and each village is basically its own conference right some of those villages the content like the content that is there is bigger than the other conferences that we've been talking about uh so you know we're trying to give you ways to actually filter things and actually you know do searches that's where you're going to have to become familiar with to actually get that data pack right okay so going forward first of all we we want it to be more streamlined the whole process from the feedback to you to actually us getting the features out the ios android parody to make sure that they look somewhat similar so the experience on both is the same now that is difficult based on the design patterns from android or from google versus the design patterns from apple but there's a lot of different apps that do this we're gonna we're kind of creating our own look and feel and we will be you know maintaining that parody to some extent right um the scheduling application like Whitney said we built a back end to hacker tracker um and if you can find it insert an event uh kudos to you right um that's uh yeah that would be a challenge but most likely you won't be able to to figure out where it's at so it's fine um it's fine don't worry about it i know i did that was stupid um i have been here for too long that's yeah yeah so the scheduling application is going to make this a lot easier we are coordinating like i said with the info booth uh next year i we're probably going to take over info dot defconn dot org right um and so we're hoping that we'll be able to bring that into parody with what the app looks like uh just depends on the time if you are interested and have development skills and want to jump in and help us out let us know i we're always looking for more people to help i mean how many hours did you spend inputting yeah if anybody likes data entry join us join us we need a mindless fact totem who's out there you can't leave until we find one come on more conferences like i said before uh if you're attending a conference and they don't have a scheduling application let us know we'd be happy to add that data to hacker tracker to the back end and actually push that out so it becomes more useful i realistically we want this as the go to for not just defconn but for the community for the wider security community or a development community for that matter i mean how many people have used an ad did you use the black hat app this year how awesome was that yes that was great yeah no okay all right well that that's all i'll say on that feedback is always welcome did you want to say something i know um so as always like seth said feedback is always welcome um hit us up on github hit us up on twitter if you want to contribute do so it's all open source it's all out there um the three of us are responsive pretty much all the time yeah if you want to contribute please do we would love to have you and we would love to help yeah yeah okay it's open source but please don't be too critical we're on a time crunch things are messy we'll fix it up later next year next will be better any questions i i think we only have a couple of minutes before the defcon 101 panel's coming in here yeah whenever you pull yeah whenever on ios whenever you pull on android there is a there's a full should be seven days could be 15 minutes i don't know it's mainly about how android and work manager i kind of specify seven days but it'll kind of hopefully if you're on wifi it's like oh i'll do it now or whatever you know so you can also do it manually so you can also turn where we're throwing in updates like this whole week it's been pretty much hourly that we've been adding events so just yeah just swipe down just like when you go to that first event screen just swipe down let it refresh because there's other stuff that's being added in those those dates change and we're getting told that we need to leave the stage so we got 10 more questions before we'll leave no no i wait wait no no i need the mindless fact totem first all right well uh thank you for 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How's it going everyone? Welcome back to Blocks Talks.  If you want to know what I got up to during my time away, well, just stay tuned for Halloween. It's going to be a very interesting video that I think you're going to enjoy. Definitely surprised me, but again, I think it's going to make for a very enjoyable, funny video. And while I was away, I missed quite a lot of stuff, mainly FNAF news, but also every now and then I was able to check on Twitter and Discord and I saw a lot of people talking about this Candyland series. I didn't have a whole lot of time to actually look into it on my trip, but basically the second I got home, I wanted to see what all the discussion was about because there were some positives and also at the same time, a bunch of negatives I saw people discussing about the series. And I found out pretty swiftly on what exactly is going on here. So first up, what is Candyland? Let's figure that out. It's actually pretty easy to understand. This is Candyland. It's a brand new animatronic animated series created by Golden Lane Studio, who if you don't recognize the name right off the bat, don't worry, I'm sure you will recognize some of their most popular videos. They have been a iconic name in the FNAF animation scene for a very long time. As you can see, I'm sure we all remember, hey, if you're a FNAF OG seven years ago, the fan made FNAF 3 trailer. Again, seven years ago, even eight years ago. So they've made a name for themselves in the animation scene, especially with FNAF, grossing 1.68 million subscribers. And they made a post the other day saying Golden Lane Studios has partnered with Rowdy Roos to build a new horror IP named Candyland. Candyland is a new story driven IP. It is set to create a new standard of presentation and art in Web 3.0. We have partnered with best industry artists to create something beautiful and unique. We are super excited for the reveal tomorrow, which we will take a closer look at in a quick second. Together, we are creating web series that will reveal new and exciting animatronic designs, reveal their origin stories, and discover the twisted and tragic fate of the Candyland Park in the first four episodes. Tomorrow, which again, we'll take a look at in a quick second, we will be releasing the first episode of the Candyland series. And this exactly, this is what it is. It's called First Corruption. Let's just take a quick look through it because, wow, is it amazing? So this is Candy Kangaroo. Looks like he's a showtime performer at the Candyland Circus.  The character designs are super, super interesting. And they even have a bit of plot and storyline built into even the first episode. So you're hooked right off the bat. Because obviously with animatronic performers, not everything is going to go so smoothly. Looks like we got some hacker coming in, tampering with Candy. He goes back onto a show, but I don't think things are going to go so well for this next show. Gets out on stage and he gets corrupted. And that is where episode one leaves off. We're still waiting for episode two, but I think right now you get the idea of what the series is going for. So very clearly inspired by FNAF, which right off the bat, I just want to say, isn't necessarily a bad thing. That's not exactly why I'm calling them out in this video, because we get that all the time. We see that all the time with games like Case Animatronics. And also, I mean, just take a quick look at the steam results for five nights and you get a whole bunch of knockoffs that for some reason, you're able to purchase on the marketplace. But that isn't exactly where the backlash for this series is coming from. Because like I said, the animation is fantastic. The character designs are so, so intriguing. Everything looks amazing. So what's causing all the backlash? Well, it's the studio we mentioned earlier, Rowdy Ruse. Because these are the people behind Rowdy Ruse. As you can see, a couple of red flags, first and foremost, dare I say, they're an NFT company. And that leads us into the official Twitter account for Candyland, which for some reason doesn't market itself as a video series. It markets itself as an NFT brand. And you can see they're already starting to lean into the NFT scene. With another new character here called Susie Stacktime, who is just obviously a circus baby rip off with the design and the open faceplates. And it's not just Susie either. Because our dear friend Candy Kangaroo also features a very similar feature, the open faceplates. So again, clearly knockoffs of FNAF, the sister location, fun time animatronics, but the NFTs are really where we're driving or point into. And people were very quick to look into exactly why they're doing this. For example, Mercury here, a Twitter user, looked into the comments section and found some replies from Golden Lane Studio, saying Candyland is going to be more than just a series. Our partners from Rowdy Ruse will be releasing the NFT collection. What's wrong with it? So clearly they're not that educated in why NFTs are bad. At least that's what you may first suspect because it turns out, no, they know exactly they're bad, but they're throwing all that aside and saying, oh no, no, no, wait, you guys got it wrong. It depends on the algorithm being used. Duh, obviously. Yes, of course. Not all NFTs are bad, they claim. That's funny. That's real funny. And also while I was looking through this post, I scrolled down in some of the comments because I wanted to see what people's thoughts were and I found this. Someone said, why the NFTs though? Golden Lane replying saying, we have to pay the bills for ourselves and we want to be able to hire a team of artists and animators.  I'm not at all educated in Golden Lane Studios themselves. Again, I watched them so many years ago, I haven't been keeping up with them since. And I could be entirely wrong with this stance. You know, please correct me if I am, but surely they've made absolute bank for years and years and years with all of these insane, insanely high viewed video series. And again, I'm sure it costs a lot to make these animations but to go to such lengths as doing something so controversial for just quick extra bucks, I don't know, that just seems weird to me. I really do hope this is gonna be another like FNAF situation with the NFTs, like how Scott got tricked into thinking, oh, not all NFTs are bad. You know, as long as we don't hide lower in them, they're just extra bonuses for the fans. I really, really hope Golden Lane Studios finds out, maybe we shouldn't do this. I mean, with the insane amount of backlash, especially on the launch of your brand new IP. I really hope they can see the downside in all of this because like I said, the animations, the character designs all look fantastic. But just because they chose to do NFTs, everyone's like, I don't wanna support this. I just think it's a silly idea anyways, even if you need the extra money, which again, I can't fathom them needing extra money because they have so, so many views across their channel. 317 million total views on the channel, they've been doing this for ages. They have again, 1.68 million subs. So unless they're constantly, constantly losing money with these animations, I again, I just don't know why they would need the quick extra bucks from NFTs. You're trying to do your own thing, you've got amazing talent behind it.  Because even if you've got a whole bunch of like pump and dump people behind the scenes, you got all the crypto bros in on it, it's like your main audience, do not like NFTs and will not support you simply because you've connected NFTs with yourself and these projects. I'm kind of rambling at the end of this video, but I hopefully have made my point clear. I think they could absolutely make a lot, a lot of profit from just doing a YouTube video series. Again, there are so, so many supporters of your work. You've been doing it for so long, you've made a staple in the animation community. And again, I'm not well educated in the animation scene. So I don't know how many people they got working behind the scenes. I don't know how much money they make from a YouTube video series, but it just doesn't seem worth it in the end to do NFTs alongside this brand new IP. So that's my take, and that is also what I've been seeing a lot on Twitter. And I think they would have a lot more success with this brand new IP launch if they just decided to drop the NFTs entirely. That's gonna do it for this blocks, talks, video apologies, kind of just rambling at the end. But I do hope we can see a turnaround with this series in the future because again, I would love to see it succeed. I think they got a lot of talent behind it. And I would hate to see it just get crapped on just because they made a poor decision to include NFTs. But thank you so much for watching and I will see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


Dedicated to the strength of the nation. Proudly we hail. Proudly we hail, starring Jeff Chandler in Once to Every Man, a United States Army and United States Air Force presentation. And our here is our producer, the well-known Hollywood showman, C.P. McGregor. Thank you, thank you very much, and greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to your Theatre of Stars, where all the great names of the motion picture world come to join us in plays we know you'll enjoy. Our star is that talented actor, Jeff Chandler, and the title of our drama, A Story of a Troubled Mind that finds itself through its own denouncement as called, Once to Every Man. We'll have the curtain for Act One in just a moment, but first, here is your announcer with this important message. Young men and women, here is your opportunity for an important new career in aviation. Today's best deal for the aviation beginner is in the United States Air Force. 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And did you find we're not alone, but no man can be alone who hears the mystic voices of the night tongues to many ears? And so upon dark train followed its twisting path among the mountains and the valleys, the flanged wheels clucking and shortling at familiar joints and switches. And then the great voice of the train heard far off as it pants and slows and stops at the tower to refresh its thirst. Sounds like we're in somewhere, Jeff. Unless there's a cow on the rail. Yeah. Slide the door back. Let's have a look. Okay. I've been riding this rattle trap long enough to reach any place. What do you see, Jeff?  Like a spade. Looks like a water tower down the line of ways, though. Lights mean anything to you. Yeah.  Last water stop for the city. The town's over there somewhere. I was through last year. Oh, what's it like? It's like a pain in the neck. And a first-class invite to the clink. Yeah? Yeah, they got cops with funny ideas.  And take it from me, brother. It ain't no nice lock-up either. It crawls. What's the town like, Jimmy? Oh, just a sleepy little joint. Couple of 3,000, I guess. Mostly a farming country. Yeah? Supposed a guy could get a job? Yeah, sure. Making little ones out of big ones. Like I said, the cops have funny ideas. They don't like guys like us. They're jealous of something on the counter. We make out without doing no dopey work. But if a guy wanted to work, Jimmy, I mean, if he was to go ask for a job, would they give it to him? Maybe. Huh? Hey, Jeff, you ain't thinking that. You're kidding. Well, maybe getting a job on a farm wouldn't be so bad, Jimmy. It couldn't be any worse than bagging handouts and sleeping in parks. They got butter and eggs and cream on farms, Jimmy. Yeah, and digging fence holes and milking cows and plowing. Another stuff I don't want to do and can't even think of. You know, I think maybe I'll take a chance.  You ain't gonna pull out now. It's only about another 12 hours into the big city. Yeah, but somehow the city don't sound so good. I'd kind of like to sleep in a bed and eat three times a day for a change.  Oh, Jeff, you ought to go see a nut doctor. I'm still gonna take a chance. Why don't you come along, Jimmy?  Uh-uh, maybe not, Jimmy. Maybe it might feel pretty good to dig around in the ground instead of the gutters, plant stuff and watch it grow, being able to walk around without dodging the cops, eat off plates instead of out of a bean can. We'd even earn a few bucks. What do you say, Jimmy? I say you sound cock-eyed.  Okay, Jimmy. Sorry to break it up, but that's how it is. Take care of yourself. Yeah, sure, Jeff. I'll take care of myself. Don't worry about me. Yeah, you just trot along and talk to the pretty cows. Maybe they can make some sense out of you. I can't. And when you've got a stomach full, look me up, huh? I'll be around. Right. Here she goes. Better change your mind. Sure you won't change yours? Nuts. Okay, so long, pal. Don't break a leg when you jump. You jump. I won't, so long. I'll drive you all right to open any hurry. What? That's right. You haven't got far to go. The lockup's quite handy. No need to rush.  Yeah, that's right. Didn't use good sense dropping off that trainer, son. Folks around Terrence all work for their living.  They reckon it's a good story, that one about the ant and the grasshopper. I don't suppose you believe this, but you got me picked wrong. Oh, sure, sure, I know. I've got all the tramps picked wrong. Well, it happens I'm not a tramp. At least I'm not one now. Oh, I see you reformed as soon as you saw me, eh? No, no, I'll admit I've been tramping the road for quite a while, but I got off that train to look for a job to work on a farm. Yeah? Yeah. Why don't you call me a liar, you think it? Maybe. Well, haven't you or the people around here ever seen a person that wants to work? Is he a freak or something? A tramp wanting to work would be a freak, all right. I've never seen one. Well, why don't you take a good look? You're seeing one now. What made you choose Terrence to look for work? That is if you did. Oh, what makes anybody choose anything? Of course, you wouldn't know, would you? You just know I'm another blasted lion tramp to put in a cell so he can lay and rot and lose what little decent ambition he does have. Okay, so you're right. I won't make the same mistake again. Let's go. Uh-huh. Now, wait a second, son. What for? You're lonesome or something? You like associating with tramps? No, no, I don't reckon I do. But I can pick one when I see one. Maybe I did pick you wrong, sonny. A man can make a mistake, you know. Yeah? Yeah. Tramps don't usually talk like they were educated, because they're not. But you are, and you've had a few bad breaks somewhere. Well? Now look, sonny, maybe I'm crazy, but I'm going to believe you. Thanks. Tell me, you've got any money? No. You hungry? I could eat. That's almost morning. You know, up on Ellum Street on the hill, there's the church. The parson's is next door. Chap there named Dr. Phillips. He always has an early breakfast on a Sunday morning. And it's a good breakfast, too. And he always likes company. Uh, tell me, what's your name, son? Sterling, Jeff Sterling. Well, I'm glad to know you're Sterling. And I'll be seeing you. I think you like Dr. Phillips. And I... Well, I hope you like Terrence. Thanks. Thanks, officer. Oh, good morning. Sorry to be screaming out the door, but the toast was burning. That's all right. Is Dr. Phillips home? Oh, yes, surely. Well, won't you come in? That is, if you don't mind walking through the kitchen. No, that is... Oh, no, Daddy, I was yelling at this gentleman out here. It's someone to see you. Oh, to see me? Oh, how do you do, sir? Good morning. It is one of God's best. Oh, excuse me, the coffee's going to go all over. I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of... My name's Sterling, Jeff Sterling. I'm glad to know you, Mr. Sterling. Well, I was wondering if... Well, that is, if you had any work I could do. I mean, any work... My deacons tell me I have plenty of the Lord's work to do. What did you have in mind, Mr. Sterling? Nothing really, Dr. Phillips. I only meant to earn a sandwich or something. I mean, well, the cop said that... Oh, Officer Burke, that old reprobate. Always sending me a pleasant guest for breakfast and never coming around himself. Oh, he's afraid I'll preach, I guess. But I have never reconciled ham and eggs with a sermon. Come in, Mr. Sterling. You'll just have time to wash up a bit. Oh, no, look, Dr. Phillips, I don't want to be any botherer. If I could just have a sandwich or something, I'd be out on your porch steps. My clothes aren't exactly the kind people sit down to a table. Clothes, my boy? Haven't you heard the famous old axiom? Clothes don't make the man. The man's inside. And it's the man inside that I'm interested in. Oh, but I don't want to put her to any bother putting another place at the table, having to go to a lot of extra work. Extra work for Pat? Well, hey, my boy, that daughter of mine dotes on fixing things for other people. She's a real duck, takes the water. And if we don't have a guest or two around the house, why? Well, she just doesn't know what to do with herself. I'll come along. I'll show you where to go. Thank you very much, Dr. You. Being very kind. Nonsense. I only try to practice what I preach. Pat, but a clean towel in the bathroom. And three more eggs. No, no. Better make it four more eggs on the griddle. A friend has just dropped in for breakfast. We pause briefly for my story. Once to every man starring Jeff Chandler to bring you an important message from our government. High school graduates, for a job with a real future, get into aviation now. United States Air Force offers you unlimited career opportunities. Under the new Airmen Career Program, you'll be trained in the job for which you are best suited and have the best chance for success. You'll get good pay right from the start, free room and board, free clothing and equipment, free medical and dental care, free retirement plan. This is your big opportunity. Look into it today. Get full details at your nearest U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force recruiting station. The curtain rises on act two of once to every man starring Jeff Chandler as Jeff Sterling. How deep is the cask from when spring is the sour wine that makes men better? Man in the never-ending search is the one sublime enigma. For what man knows what he seeks? What man knows when he finds it? And so is singled out one such man. A seeker for what? He knows not. A man who has come to the village of Terrence hungering for the venison of work has come to the Parshneet's house of Dr. Phillips hungering for the sustenance of food. Thus, all life is a hunger. One eats and one must eat again. What's that old song, Mr. Sterling? Let's have another cup of coffee and just another piece of toast.  Oh, I wasn't speaking for myself, Pat. That is, uh... Uh-uh. Thou shalt not. But our friend, Mr. Sterling, my dear, a man doesn't like to drink coffee alone. Oh, thank you very much, Doctor. I'm afraid I've already eaten more than any sane man should. I wish I could tell you how grateful I am. I was pretty hungry. We like hungry people in this house. Don't we, Pat? There isn't much pleasure in cooking for someone who isn't. Like preaching a good sermon to a sleepy congregation. It's a waste of time. And speaking of time, it waits for no man. I haven't quite finished my sermon. Will you excuse me? Oh, certainly, sir. You'd better use a little more hellfire and brimstone this morning, Daddy. I think Mrs. Curtis is backsliding. I'm afraid Sister Curtis frightens me more than I ever could her. Now, you two just go ahead and chat. I'll be back presently. I'm not trying to be funny, but is your father always like that, Miss Phillips? Oh, what do you mean? You're always like what? Well, I've always thought that ministers were... Well, I mean... Like a mouthful of persimmon? No sense of humor? Is that what you mean? Yeah, I guess I do. But why shouldn't they be, Mr. Stering? If a person is close to his God, why shouldn't he be happy? Surely God knows how to smile. That's a nice thought. But don't you believe it? Well, I never thought of it, Miss Phillips. You mean you've never thought of God? Not for a long time, I guess. Could I ask why, Mr. Stering? Certainly. Simply because I don't waste time thinking about things that... That you don't understand? You can put it that way. Or that you don't want to understand. What do you say that? To reach an understanding of things quite often is a pretty desperate chore. Except times it's easier not to bother. It just run away. But Daddy says there's a catch in doing that. What is the catch? That you never really do succeed in running away because you're running away from yourself and that can't be done. And so what happens? You just keep running and running until you fall down exhausted. Not physically, but mentally and spiritually. You think I'm running away from myself? Well, perhaps you're trying to, Mr. Stering. But things here in Terrence aren't any different than they are anywhere else. Then they are from where you came from, for example. It's a very good lecture, but it's old hat. I've heard it before. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. No, you weren't. Look, can I help you with the washing up or chop some wood or something to sort of even the score before I go? Go? Can't you wait and see, Dad? I mean, do you have to go? There aren't very many places around Terrence to go on Sunday, but wouldn't you like to stay and go to church and hear Dad's sermon? He's really awfully good. Me? Go to church? You want the walls to cave in on his head? I shouldn't let that worry you. Our walls are pretty strong. And, you know, he'd appreciate your staying. He dotes on seeing a new face in the congregation. Please do, Mr. Stering, and then stay and have lunch. If your father wants me to stay, if listening to him preach, well, if that's the way he wants me to pay for my breakfast, okay, but we'll skip the lunch, thanks.  Now, I don't believe in heaven.  Well, they can take care of themselves. That's the way it is, Miss Phillips. So many of the multitude are forgetting that resurrection is for the living as well as the dead. A thing for us, for our world. The resurrection of faith, of the truth, of gentleness and love and tolerance for things that we must keep forever and eternal. And above all else, the resurrection of that great peace which our Lord gave in his own tears that fell as rain from the cross of Calvary. These priceless things must and will find resurrection in the hearts of men. Mr. Sterling, I was very pleased to see you in church. I must apologize for the choir. However, a few of our best tenors are suffering the grip. How did you like my sermon? I, uh, I'd rather not answer that, Doctor. Why? Was it as bad as all that? You really want to know what I thought of it? Of course, Mr. Sterling. I'm not afraid of the truth. Okay, you asked for it. I thought it smelled. Did you really? That's very interesting. At last, a critic who says what he thinks. Would you tell me why you thought it smelled, Mr. Sterling? Certainly because it didn't mean anything. Because it was as empty as an old base drum. Dear, dear. You think standing in a pulpit and saying a lot of pretty words is gonna make the people rush out in the street yelling hallelujah and fall all over each other with love and affection?  Love thy neighbor, yeah. Knock him in the teeth when he's down, jump on him. My dad loved his neighbor. He loved all of his neighbors. He loved him so much, he killed himself. What happened, son? Look, Doctor Phillips. There wasn't a more gentle, honest, decent man in the world than my dad. He was just an ordinary guy who beat his brains out trying to do as you said this morning. Love thy neighbor. He spent his whole life doing things for other people and returned what did people do for him. They played him for a sucker. They thought he was just a softy. They just took what he had to give him. When he didn't have any more to give, they were through with him. When he died, he apologized for not having lived a better life. Yeah, apologized, blamed himself for what had happened. That's what I mean, Doctor Phillips, about not going too much for this love thy neighbor stuff. You might be mistaken about your father, Mr. Sterling.  Oh, no. The county had to bury him. How poor can a man get? No, Doctor. I don't think you or anybody else can change human nature by preaching two hours once a week. Human nature's a pattern. You or anybody else can't change it. The people themselves have got to change. If I'm going to be any different, I've got to do it myself. I've got to want to do it by myself. It's all got to come from in here, not from out there somewhere. You can't talk of a world as something huge and round, something intangible. It isn't.  And what you do and I do makes the world what it is. The only thing that can make me reform is me, myself. That's what I mean. Mr. Sterling, that's the finest sermon I've ever heard. Not to preach in a church, is it? Not by me, Mr. Sterling, but by you, if you would. What? Yes, by you. Would you at a special service this evening? Make a fool of myself?  Haven't you the courage of your own convictions? Don't you believe what you said? Are you afraid to tell others what you've just told me? I'm not afraid to scream it from the housetops. Well then, are you serious? I've never been more serious in my life. Are you? Okay, Dr. Phillips. You better start thinking of another church far away.  Friends, it was my intention to speak to you tonight on a subject which I have considered for some time. However, since completing my sermon, a young friend of mine talked to me of certain things which made me wonder. Wondered at him and at myself. I abandoned my sermon and asked my friend to take my place. He is not a minister in the sense of ordination. Perhaps he is more of a minister than we know. My friends, this is Jeff Sterling. All right, Jeff. Ladies and gentlemen, today as a guest of Dr. Phillips, an uninvited guest, I did things and said things which I guess were quite rude. He asked me to tell you what I told him. He asked me to preach a sermon which I've carried around with me for a long time. Well, it was a very bitter sermon, but I was willing to preach it. I was more than willing. I was anxious. I wanted to tell you, to tell the world just how bitter a man can get. What I didn't know was that all the things I hated was myself. I hated people because I hated myself. I know now that I was the subject of my own sermon. My sermon should not be heard in the house of God. In fact, it'll never be heard anywhere. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well, look, does it have to be Mr. Sterling? Couldn't you make it just plain, Jeff? All right, Jeff. This morning you said you had some place to go. Do you still feel the same about it? Yeah. This morning I wasn't quite sure where that place was. And tonight you are? I think so. Where, Jeff?  A place where there are cool green trees and spreading lawns. And where two very wonderful people live. Is it very far away? No, it's not very far away now. This morning it was. This morning it was a long, long way off. Now it's come very close. In fact, it's right here, Patricia. I see. Do you really? Oh, yes, yes, I do. And I'm very glad. I'm very glad that you found a place you were seeking. There might be more here in it than you imagined, too. There is. I know. I'll find it. You see, I learned something very important today. I learned one can't seek happiness. He's got to be happiness. It isn't a thing that can be found. It's a thing that already is. Your father taught me that. You helped him. I guess one might apply the same idea to love you. One can't seek love, just be it, and it's there. Oh, yes, Patricia, I've found what I want. My chance came along for the first time in my life. I guess it's a chance that comes once to every man. The curtain falls in the final act of once to every man. Our star, Jeff Chandler, will return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles. High school graduates, there's an important place for you in the U.S. Air Force. Go to your education, learn a trade, get ahead, and at the same time earn good pay. The United States Air Force has openings for specialists in air transport, aircraft maintenance, research, clerical administration, radio, and many other fields. The Air Force will train you for one of these responsible jobs. Two kinds of training are open to you. You can learn on the job under the world's most skilled experts, or if you qualify, you can go to the finest Air Force technical schools as vacancies exist. There's a lot of interesting work, job security, good retirement benefits, and opportunity for travel. This is your big opportunity. Look into it today. Get full details at your nearest Air Force base, or United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station. Now, once again at the microphone, our star and our producer. Jeff, while you're no stranger to this microphone, I just want to tell you how glad I am that you are starring with us this time. There's practically a regular cast member here. That is up to a few months ago. I feel pretty good about it myself. You have deserved star billing for a long time. But don't you think for the benefit of those in our audience who are familiar with your voice, you should tell them where you've been for the past few months? I haven't been where you make it sound. I don't think I've been up the river or somewhere. All right, I'll straighten it out. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff has been making a picture in Europe. In Italy. For the past few months with the lovely Marty Toran. Who, like Jeff, is under contract to Universal International. What picture did you make? Well, it's called Deported. Scheduled for release in the spring. Outside of Marta and myself, the cast were all Italian actors. I heard you arrived in Naples at 10.30 in the morning and where it worked by noon. That's right. We were delayed a little flying over and we had to adhere to a rigid time schedule. Besides, I had to get back for radio commitments. That means that you saw very little of the country. Entirely too little. And when and if I take a vacation, I'm going to go right back. You know, outside of the fair, it isn't an expensive trip. Yes, that's right. But how was the food? Surprisingly enough, the plentiful and excellent. Big, luscious steaks, one dollar. No one tried to hike prices. People were all wonderful. You look like you ate well in spite of a hard schedule. I did, but this is a great homecoming for me here, C.P. And by the way, what are you planning for your listeners next week? Do I get a part in the cast? You certainly do get a part in the cast and here's what we're planning for next week, Jeff and ladies and gentlemen. Richard Denning will be our star and our play is a romance drama titled The Common Touch. This is the story of a young doctor whose love for his fellow man transcends his desire for wealth and fame. I'll be on hand to help you do it and I hope our listeners will like it. So long, C.P. Goodbye, Jeff. We'll be looking for you. We should have joined us next week, ladies and gentlemen, when Richard Denning stars in a romantic story, The Common Touch. Until then, thanks for listening and cheerio from Hollywood. Jeff Chandler appeared with the courtesy of the Hollywood Coordinating Committee which arranges for the appearance of all stars in this program. The script was by Kimball S. Sant with the music of Eddie Dunn-Steffer. This program is transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time. Wendell Niles speaking.


So normally I take Saturdays off. They're usually my day off. I don't make a video. I do other things But what I've decided to do on Saturdays is kind of do one of these little short videos that are Supposedly under a minute long. They're supposed to be vertical Whatever, I'm not actually going to do any more vertical videos. They're dumb and The few that I've done have never been under a minute long. I'm incapable of not, you know talking more than I should It's a thing, you know, it's just It's a it's what it's a flaw. Okay I can't limit myself to just a minute long and Given the fact that I've been lollagagging about this video's topic for a minute already for almost a minute You see why so anyways this the topic of this video is going to be don't be ashamed of Ubuntu and I see this a lot on on the internet People like to shame people who use Ubuntu and I don't understand this mentality at all if you're Not an Ubuntu user if you use arch or you use Debian or you use Solis or you use Red Hat or Fedora or whatever And you look down upon somebody because they use Ubuntu I don't understand you because there's nothing wrong with using Ubuntu. There's It has the stench on it that it's a new user distro, which is just patently untrue Linux Mint is much more of a new user distro than Ubuntu is yes more user and more new users use Ubuntu Then use Linux Mint probably But in terms of aesthetics Linux Mint looks more like Windows than Ubuntu does if you're a new user and you're using Ubuntu You're very much more courageous because you're using a system that looks completely different than what you've probably been using for the last 20 years Or however long so The whole new user stench for Ubuntu does not really make sense to me at all So for those of you who look down upon people who have been using Linux for a long time and still use Ubuntu Don't do that It doesn't matter what distro you use. Okay, you're using Linux. It's all the same kernel Okay, it's the exact same piece of software Underlying all these distributions the only thing that changes when you change a distribution is the package manager That's literally it if I wanted to use something that looks like Ubuntu on Arch I could do that. Okay, it's just GNOME. It's literally all there is You know if I wanted to use KDE and Ubuntu I could do that those things are easily changed out So the only thing that changes Fundamentally when you change a distribution is the package manager and even that may not be true for very much longer because People are slowly transitioning to using snaps and flatpacks more and those things are cross distro. So The distro buton that you use does not matter It just doesn't matter and in the fact that we've somehow come to this point where we shame people because they use a Noob distro doesn't make any sense if you're an Ubuntu user don't let people shame you because It's not shameful to use Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a perfectly fine distribution. It's a good distribution. It's stable It's well maintained. There's a huge mungus if you can pardon the word community surrounding it and That community is very friendly like if you have a completely new question And you use Ubuntu there are tons of places where you can go and ask that question like how do I CD into it? How do I how I CD into a directory never use the How do you change a directory?  It has a great package manager It has all the software you need it games better than most other distributions do it has Every desktop environment available for that you could want you can use window managers on it if you want to It can do everything that arch can do it can does everything Gentoo can do just it just does it differently. You know, it's it's Linux. That's the point So as you can tell this is not a short I can't help it and it's whatever I could probably cut that with the first minute and it'd be shorter Anyways, if you have a comment and you want to leave it You can leave in the comment section below because that's where comments go Hence the name comment section as you can tell us late at night I get snarky late at night. You can also follow me on Twitter at Linux cast You can support me a patron at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go. I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Devon Marcus Magland Donnie Sven east coast web Chris Mitchell. Mr. Fox American camp. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time