The next item of business is an urgent question, and I call Michelle Thomson. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support those affected by the decision of Petro Ineos to close its refinery. I thank Michelle Thomson for giving me this opportunity to update Parliament. First, I would like to recognise that this is a very worrying time for the workers at Grangemouth and assure them of my personal and this Government's commitment to work to ensure they receive the appropriate support. Having spoken to refinery senior managers with the First Minister this morning, it is my understanding that this is not a decision at this point to close the refinery but to start the necessary preparations to have the potential to transition Grangemouth to an import terminal. We will continue to engage practically with all stakeholders as this develops. The management was also clear that this is a commercial decision taken due to global factors and not a decision to take that has been taken because of anything that this Government or indeed the UK Government has done and indeed that they are supportive of our 2045 targets. I have also met this morning with both Unite the Union and the STUC to express our full support for staff at Grangemouth and ensure that we are doing all we can to ensure a sustainable future for the refinery. We have a shared commitment to insisting that a just transition for workers is at the heart of any future decision and I will continue to engage with unions and restate that my door is always open to constructive dialogue to support the future of workers and the site more generally. Finally, I have also written today to the Secretary of State for Energy and Security to outline my concerns regarding this announcement and ask for an urgent meeting to discuss how we can work together to support those affected by the decision and will be seeking assurances around fuel security. I would just advise that I will allow a wee bit of extra time for this but we have a number of members who are seeking a supplementary and therefore I would ask for the questions to be brief and the answers as well if possible. I quite agree, cabinet secretary, that our immediate thoughts must go to those affected by the decision, regardless of outcome, who are now fearful for their jobs as it moves from a refinery facility to potentially an import facility. The impact will indeed be felt by those directly in the refinery but also potentially by small businesses and the wider supply chain around Grangemouth. Grangemouth already struggles with high levels of social deprivation and the ultimate closure potentially will be felt acutely in the town. What assessment has the Scottish Government made of the wider impact of this change on the SME sector, supply chains and Scottish GDP and what discussions has the cabinet secretary had with trade unions and management of the refinery that he can give additional information? Finally, will the Scottish Government work with me as a constituency MSP to set up a task force to support those who could be affected? We absolutely recognise the uncertainty, the anxiety and the feeling of despair that this announcement will place in a range of people and workers associated with Grangemouth. I give my assurance to work collaboratively with all partners to ensure that any impact of this and subsequent decisions are mitigated as far as we possibly can. It is important to note that Grangemouth remains an important asset in Scotland's energy future and, as such, we have committed to publishing a Just Transition Plan for Grangemouth in the spring. Work on this is well underway and we have engaged with business, the local community, wider stakeholders and we will continue to do so over the coming weeks and months. This morning, as I set out, I met with the trade unions, assured them of my support, that this Government is committed to securing jobs at the Grangemouth site and I agree with them that we must succeed in securing a Just Transition Plan for workers and will work with the unions, MSP colleagues, workers and wider stakeholders to ensure a sustainable future for their primary and support those who may be affected by this announcement. In its discussions thus far with Petroinius and the UK Government, which of course has reserved responsibility for fuel security, what assurance has the Scottish Government been given regarding this and have they asked the UK Government to conduct a risk assessment to test any assurances? Furthermore, the potential for any sustainable future for the site and not just importing fuel can only be at a very early stage, so what further steps does the Scottish Government anticipate taking to move the site from the potential for a Just Transition to an actual Just Transition, be it in sustainable aviation fuel, hydrogen and will the cabinet secretary commit to keeping members updated on any progress? Through the refineries maintenance periods, Grangemouth imports fuel from other markets and as such the site already has the ability to operate as an import terminal. My understanding is that this announcement is the preparatory work to enable this at a greater scale. Following our meeting with Petroinius this morning, I wrote to the Petroinius trading chief executive to seek assurances from him that the business will ensure the Grangemouth role as a source of domestic road and air fuels will continue for years to come along with other asks. My officials remain in regular dialogue with the UK Government and I have written today to the Secretary of State to ask for an urgent meeting given the reserved areas of responsibilities of the UK Government. I have been clear in the letter that it remains my firm preference that the refinery should continue operating for as long as possible and we will continue to engage proactively with Petroinius as we develop our Just Transition plan for Grangemouth and I will obviously give the commitment to keep all members updated on this as it progresses. Obviously there is a considerable degree of interest in putting a question and I will seek to take as many members as I possibly can but I would need the co-operation please to have succinct questions and answers and with that I call Stephen Kerr to be followed by Jackie Baillie. Thank you. The Secretary of State for Energy Security in next year I believe has spoken by phone with the chief executive of Petroinius. I note that the cabinet secretary says he has written to the chief executive. Will he undertake to meet the chief executive? Would he also undertake to press for a meeting with the Secretary of State because it's very, very important as we have learned from experience in 2016 that both of Scotland's Governments work very closely together in relation to this matter? I think that's what the people of Grangemouth would expect at very least. Will he undertake to give assurances that he will have those meetings and that everything will be done co-operatively in order to do what is right for the people of Grangemouth? Yes, and I thank Stephen Kerr for those questions. I've given confirmation in my initial answers to Michelle Thompson on both, but just to have absolute clarity, yes. The offer of a meeting actually came from Petroinius and the initial correspondence to me. I have since responded saying I absolutely would like that meeting to take place in very short order. I have also written to the Secretary of State today asking for such a meeting in a collaborative space to look at what we can do together, to look at all potential options, to extend the potential life of the refinery, although understanding the challenges that exist for that to be achieved. It's a very challenging situation that has been outlined about our endeavour. Obviously, working with Petroinius, the UK Government trade unions and other partners to ensure that we can do everything possible to try to make sure that there is a longer period for this refinery, but also a more sustainable future for the wider Grangemouth site. Hundreds of families across central Scotland will be anxious today after the announcement of the proposed closure of the refinery. For years, Grangemouth has been synonymous with Scottish industry, and it is strategically important for Scotland and, indeed, the whole of the UK, and plays an important role in providing fuel security. When was he first told this devastating news? Can he detail the Scottish Government's prior work with Petroinius on net zero transition and when it started, and what plans are in place to secure jobs and the future of Grangemouth? Thank you very much. I thank Jackie Baillie for her questions, and, as she would expect, we have been aware for some time that the business has been considering its future transition options, and we have been working with them as part of that. Like all refineries across the UK and, indeed, across Europe, Grangemouth will have been considering a range of commercial factors as part of that, with the wider geopolitical and economic situations around the world. We were notified by the business on the morning of Tuesday 21 November of Petroinius' specific plans, as announced in the media yesterday, at the same time as the workforce were, to commence preparatory work for construction of the import terminal at Grangemouth and Finna. Obviously, Peter, this has been with a refinery over 100 years old. This has been something that has been a potential on the horizon for some time, which is why some of the work that we have been setting out, such as looking at a biofuel refinery, looking at the opportunity for the wider site to be part of the carbon capture cluster, looking at the opportunity around the development and usage of hydrogen, among other things, has been part of the work that we have been doing. I have got an opportunity, I hope, for colleagues across the chamber tomorrow afternoon to discuss some of that in greater detail, and I will obviously be happy to share details of that with colleagues who would request it in writing. I have met unions and have spoken to residents, and they are rightly concerned about what yesterday's sudden announcement means for Grangemouth. I am sure that those of many across the chamber will be with those affected. The lack of information is causing concern among the community, and I believe that an urgent summit is required to provide certainty about what comes next. Will the cabinet secretary consider convening this, and will he meet workers with me at the site? As I set out in my initial response to Michelle Thompson, I met with the United Union and the STUC and have given a commitment to continue engagement with the trade union representatives going forward, not least to discuss what options and ideas they feel that they may have going forward for the wider Grangemouth site and indeed the refinery itself. I have obviously got the opportunity for Gillian Mackay tomorrow afternoon to discuss some of those ideas. Of course, I am more than open to considering the opportunities that may arise from such a summit and whether or not meeting workers directly at the site with her and how that might help to assuage some concerns but also answer some questions that they may have. If I heard the minister correctly, he is saying that this might not be the end for the refinery in 2025 that life could be extended. Can he set out what factors might be considered in extending the life and what support is being offered by the Government to make that happen? It is not a hard and fast decision. A final decision still has to be taken. I do not want to set unrealistic expectations that this is an incredibly challenging situation. Given the age of the refinery, it is efficient, relative efficiency but also the global factors that are played, the energy costs that they face as well as the fuel costs that they are then putting out. The margins are becoming incredibly challenging. I am looking at everything that I can possibly do within the resources that we have, looking to work with UK colleagues, the ideas that I have set out in response to Jackie Baillie's question around such as carbon capture, hydrogen and a biofuel refinery to try to make sure that the wider Grangemouth site continues to be a heart of industrial activity. Those areas will continue to look at and continue to provide as much support as we can. Last year, Scotland's North Sea sent over £9 billion in revenues to the UK Treasury, yet it looks like we are heading towards Grangemouth no more. The refinery is obviously of strategic national importance and the Scottish Government intervened decisively twice before to help to save the plant in 2008 and in 2013. What are the prospects for doing so again? We are looking at everything that we possibly can do in order to ensure that there is continued industrial activity at the Grangemouth site. It is important to not be too alarmist in the narrative that we are putting forward. That is about the refinery, not about the wider Grangemouth site and the wider businesses and operations that are based there. Obviously, the Grangemouth refinery is incredibly important strategically and as an economic asset. We will continue to look at all that we can do, given the answers that we have already given elsewhere, alongside colleagues in the trade union movement, with Petrinos and the UK Government, around whether there is anything to extend the life of the refinery, but I cannot underline enough the challenges that are currently being faced. Presiding Officer, the news from Grangemouth is a hammer blow to the industry and the local economy. This devolved Government has set out to demonise oil and gas industry at every opportunity. It, along with Labour, is against new production in the North Sea and would prefer that we rely on imports. The SNP has accepted the Greens into government that we want to shut down the oil and gas industry. The First Minister said two months ago that he wanted to end Scotland's role as the oil and gas capital of Europe. Does the cabinet secretary now accept that the message that the Government is sending out is putting thousands of jobs at risk, including those at Grangemouth? I am very sorry that Dougithompson has chosen to take that particular tone, because that is not where others have been. In fact, Petrinos said themselves that this had nothing to do with decisions that have been taken either by the Scottish Government or, indeed, by the UK Government. This is about global factors. This is about the situation facing not just refineries here in the UK but around Europe, and, unfortunately, the narrative that Dougithompson has attempted to set out is entirely unhelpful and has nothing to help the workers that are currently affected. Can I remind members of my voluntary register of interests? Does the cabinet secretary stand by his statement that the closure of the Petro Ineos oil refinery at Grangemouth would be a commercial decision that will future proof the site? Or does he agree with me that it is a strategic national asset and that those are strategic national manufacturing jobs and that this is about a strategic national energy supply whose future should not be determined by billionaire absentee owners? I have engaged constructively with the trade unions that are directly involved in the union as well as the STUC. There is a shared understanding of the need to ensure that there is a just transition that happens not just at the refinery but also at the wider Grangemouth site. Obviously, I hope that Richard Leonard is able to attend the discussion that we can have tomorrow to set out in more detail some of this work, but I agree with him that this is that Grangemouth, not just the refinery but the wider site, is obviously of strategic importance. However, it is privately owned by a joint venture of Ineos and Petro China. They have commercial decisions to take. We are obviously looking to try to do what we can to support those decisions going forward. However, resources that we have and indeed that the UK Government have need to be considered as part of that, but we will work with the trade union movement with the joint venture partners and indeed the UK Government to look at all we can do to extend the life of the refinery. Thank you, cabinet secretary. That concludes the urgent question and I thank members for their co-operation in that I was able to take every member who had sought to ask a supplementary. There will be a short pause before we move on to the next item of business. Thank you.


Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. I want to do a video today about the Canon Vixia HF-R800, which is kind of an entry-level camcorder. It's the camcorder I've owned for a couple of years now. In general, I've been really, really happy with it. Unlike a lot of camcorders at its price point, it does have an external microphone input. So if you want to go ahead and connect a 3.5 mm microphone, it is on power. So that means it doesn't supply either phantom power or plug-in power. So you effectively need a self-powered microphone. But once you have that, you're good to go. You can use an external microphone and that really has a rookie that's opened a lot of doors for me to play around with different mics and stuff like that. Now, one of the negatives is that it doesn't have any cold shoes or also called accessory shoes, which is that little fitting that you, you know, use to attach camera monitors or microphones or lights or what have you. So the purpose of this video, I just want to run through a quick slide showing in a show a few little very cheap pieces you can pick up online to get over that limitation. So as I mentioned, there's no accessory shoe. And if there were an accessory shoe on the camcorder, I think probably the most obvious place for it would be a little bit to the front of that nook on the top. You can see where the zoom slider is just in front of that. I think it's actually the microphone. So I suggest if you are putting an accessory shoe on to just go a little bit to the front of that. So what you need basically the first thing is a adhesive cold shoe. Now what you can do you have two approaches here. Firstly, you can look for an adhesive cold shoe. There's a few different companies make these. You can buy them online on Amazon. You can buy them on B&H and the second option is to buy a piece of metal. Now I've seen a YouTube video where the guy shaves down metal. I haven't done anything that sophisticated. I don't have the hardware for that, but you could just find a flat point of the camera and use super glue. Obviously, this is a less destructive method if you later decide you don't want to use it. So these are what the adhesive backed accessory shoes looked like. They're basically just a cold shoe. They've got a little 3M sticky strip on the back.  So it's really, really simple. These things cost like 10 bucks. So I would pick up this is a two pack.  So that's option one. The second thing you can do is, as I mentioned, the kind of more rough and ready approach is buy one of these cold shoe. So they have a cold shoe on the top on a female quarter inch 20 on the other side. So these things are like, you know, nothing. They're like a dollar on Amazon or Aliexpress. And just get some super glue and glue around the screw. And again, find a perfectly flat place. Now, there's a couple of actually options besides. I'm just going to go back in the slide show for a second. There this space is flat, but that obviously isn't a great place to put on accessory shoe because it's where the monitor comes out. The other side actually has a flat point as well. So you can even put on a couple of cold shoes, one on the top and one on the side. It just, you know, the more you add the harder it is going to be to get it into a camera bag or whatever you're adding dimensions to the camera. So, yeah. So that's where personally I put my culture where I recommend putting it.  So the next thing just to personally, if you're going to do this, I advise picking up is these cold shoe adapters. And what these are is it's got a cold shoe on the bottom. And that just then comes up to a three shoe adapter. So it's a one to three effectively. So these things again are just like, you know, five dollars and Amazon, all this stuff is pretty cheap. And what this does is, you know, if you have one, you can connect one device. If you have one of these and you can just leave this attached to your culture adapter, then you can put on, let's say, a light, a microphone and a monitor at the back. Well, actually, the Vixia HFR 800 doesn't support a monitor, but you get the idea you can put on more accessories. So I reckon I recommend having buying one of these as well. They're just handy things to have. So another option actually is you can also just buy something like this. So a lot of lights, less commonly microphones, more commonly lights. They so the light will fit in and they give you a couple of shoe fittings on the actual body of the light itself. So that's another option as you can put the light below and a microphone on top. So you just fit the microphone into the culture bracket. I'm sure they exist. Microphones that have a cold shoe like on top or whatever, but they're less common. So that's another option you can do is and I've run through a gallery at the end of this. So this is what the Vixia looks like with the cold shoe attached. This is my Canon Vixia HFR 800. This is the cold shoe adhesive, which I bought from Amazon, and it's just sitting there at the top. It's not brilliantly secure. I actually added super glue under the cold shoe just to make it even more robust because personally, I think I'm going to stick with this camcorder for a year. And I see no disadvantage to having a cold shoe fitting on the camcorder as in I can't see any reason why even if I have nothing else on it, it doesn't create any problems. So therefore, I've just really put it down as firmly as possible using super glue in addition to the adhesive it came with so that if it's having a couple of really heavy lights or fittings or because you can daisy chain these cold shoes as well. So I want to just make sure that this being the point of failure or the weakest point was pretty secure. So this is what it looks like with the Vixia HFR 800. I've got my cold shoe adapter and I've got my three to one cold shoe adapter on top of it.  It adds about, you know, a few extra centimeters to the height of the camera. So it's less compact, but you do have more more power now. You can you can use an external light with the camera and you can use a proper shock and microphone. So this is I'm just I'm just going to run through. I just took a few photos of various setups and I'm just going to end my little S light like this. So this is what it looks like just with a really compact Lansy light on top. Honestly, these things are really cheap. They're like 15 bucks and it comes as a cold shoe. That's a cold shoe at the top of the light. So you just stick a microphone on top of that. I have tempted to just leave this permanently attached to the camera because frequently a light is often so useful, you know, even when you're even when the internal microphone will do a light is just a really handy thing to have because the low light performance on the Vixia HFR 800 is definitely not wonderful. Here is another setup with this time, a just just a microphone on top. So this is a little compact shock and microphone. As you can see, a style of microphone like this kind of goes up and then out. So, you know, you can test look in the monitor, make sure it's not in frame, but something a more compact shock and microphone is going to have, you know, a smaller form factor and therefore a smaller likelihood of getting in your frame. But obviously check before you start rolling to make sure you're not accidentally shooting footage of some microphone foam. Here is a much clunkier shock and microphone. The reason I included this is just to show that another advantage of having an external microphone is that it's directional. So, you know, shock and mics are directional so you can shoot forward facing.  So what you can do is just rotate the microphone for that shot. And that way the directional microphone is capturing from behind. I also have a really interesting microphone called a comic attract shot that has a forward. It's got two shotgun arms, and that's another option as you can have one arm back and one arm forward. Here's what it looks like was the Vixia HF-R800. Then I've got my three to one shoe adapter. I've got my light coming off to the side and I've got my microphone coming off to the other side. So now our very entry level budget cannon. Camcorder is starting to look a bit more like a higher end cannon. You know, when you get into the thousand dollar territory, the cameras typically have a built in light and sometimes a built in microphone as well. So we're starting to look a bit little bit more like a proper, you know, higher end camcorder here. Here's that option I mentioned because, as I said, the Yulanzi light has a cold shoe. So what I've done here is screwed the comic attract shot into the top of the Yulanzi light. And there you go. Now, I mean, it's a weird looking setup. You've got the microphone way up there sitting on top of the light. But, you know, it works. And what you could do is just when you're done, if you want to put this back in your camera bag, just take off the accessories and fold them away. Finally, here is a more elaborate setup. I've used up all three of the cold shoes here. I've used one light here. I've used another light here and I've got it in one of those arms. I mean, there are literally tons and tons of these camera accessories you can use on the market.  And here's what it looks like as if I were shooting from behind. So you can see the monitor. It's throwing light onto my computer monitor, but you can actually even kind of see in the monitor that it's lighting up the background a little bit. And for audio, I'm using the comic attract shot, running that cable there into the external microphone port. And now I've got my external microphone plus lighting into the Canon Vixia and that's the end. So I just wanted to basically show some possibilities if you're frustrated by the Colchee, which is something I didn't look for when I purchased this. Then just to say that there are sort of workarounds that you can use in order to, you know, make your Canon Vixia HF-R800 a little bit more powerful. Thank you for watching to get more videos. Feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.


and welcome to the session I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question if angle A and angle B are acute angles such that cos A is equal to cos B then show that angle A is equal to angle B. Now we know that according to the Pythagoras theorem in right angle A, B, C, A C square is equal to A B square plus B C square that is hypotenuse square is equal to sum of this case of other two sides and cos theta is equal to side adjacent to angle theta that is B C upon hypotenuse A C. So this is a key idea behind our question of this key idea to solve our question. So let's start the solution given cos A is equal to cos B so therefore A is equal to P upon A C is equal to Q B upon R B is equal to Q B upon I assume this is equal to K let us take this as number 1 plus B C square and R B square is equal to B Q square plus Q R square therefore C is equal to root of A C square minus P A square is equal to R B square Q B square Q B square. So by using this push through to the sides of other triangles, triangles are equal to triangles are single. So therefore triangle P A C is similar to triangle Q B R and hence angle is equal to angle B. So this only we have to prove. So I hope the question is clear to you by and taken.


That's the thing. That's why I'm doing the live stream early today because of the air conditioner repairman Well, I'm also doing that with There was a part of me that really felt like I should be able to figure out what the problem was and fix it myself Oh, yeah, totally part of me another part of me said Tom. That's probably true But it's a waste of your money Pay the guy who can fix it fast to come and actually for me like it's It's like my garage door if I the the garage door opener the one that goes in your car the clicker was Busted and I thought oh, it's just a battery. So replace it didn't do anything. So I just bought a new Remote for 20 bucks off Amazon. I mean, yeah, if it's an obvious fix I will fix it myself But the when it's like well, I could go down a rabbit hole and spend all day and waste when I'm wasting time I'm wasting my own money so Well, I figured out what it would take to replace that and I didn't want to do it because I basically would have to soft the PVC pipes off the old valve and then I would have to get new ones and find them the right height and Then cement them using the PVC cement that purple glue gunk It's just basically I didn't want to do it and Actually not just that's time. You won't be spending doing other things.  Yes I Stuff like that. Yeah Resting is important Also, I gotta clean this place. It's really bugging me. I just haven't gotten around to it I mean I clean bits here and there but Man the house is so much more. Did you ever get around to it? Did anyone ever give you one of those? No That was like a big joke novelty item. I remember when we go on vacation being all the souvenir shops be a Like you know like a wooden round fake coin with the word to it on it I used to like it being hammered by like souvenirs at different locations.  Yeah I remember you just jump right now or yeah, we're live no no no for the for the show show. Oh, yeah for the show, right? Here we go. Yeah You about ready. Yeah, I'm ready to roll.  I Have and by that I mean your soap operas my one your soap operas All right. Here we go Daily Tech news show is powered by you to find out more head to Daily Tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Thursday, June 15th. Is that the Ides of June 2017? I'm Tom Merritt Justin Robert Young sitting alongside from the heart of the Warriors celebration Justin Indeed well, maybe right off. Maybe one of the arteries a main artery though into the the vena cava of the warrior Celebration But yeah, right around the lake here where we live in Oakland, California was the spot of much revelry as the Oakland are sorry The Golden State Warriors took their parade to Oakland for one of the Few final times You know since since since the Warriors are are moving back to or to say back to the city As they say the town to the city, but happy days today Well folks, we're gonna talk about potential happy days for slack investors Amazon is apparently nosing around interested in acquiring slack Remember there were rumors Microsoft was but they didn't and they launched their own version instead with Microsoft Teams But let's start off with a few other tech things you should know Google announced a new app called backup and sync that can monitor and backup files in any directory you choose So not just the drive directory, but can point you point it at your root directory if you want backup and sync app comes out June 28th That seems very helpful You know, I think backup is is you know having more and more ways to backup is always good And I think we are entering in a world where storage is so cheap that it will become the responsible thing to have multiple Cloud backups of as much as you can possibly everybody wants to be your hard drive mirror It looks like box is coming out with its its new desktop app Dropbox just did a redesign of its online interface like this the competitions heating up Netflix is now planning to participate in the internet wide day of action to save net neutrality on July 12th protest organizers said today Yeah, so net and Netflix had been off the list and people had pointed to read Hastings comments that net You know net neutrality was not a big I big problem for them anymore saying ah, they're they're big now They don't care what it seems like was Netflix wanted to make sure its investors understood that it wouldn't be Shafted and have costs be driven up if net neutrality guidelines changed But now they're saying but we still believe in the open internet guidelines that we're gonna support wait a minute Hold on you mean Everything could be a little bit more complicated than just putting things in a super hashtag woke Twitter No, not these days Facebook published a list of seven hard questions speaking of complicated Regarding what should be allowed on a social network and seeking the audience's feedback at hard questions at fb.com They're taking your email suggestions a blog post addressing the first of the questions describes how Facebook uses AI To find and remove posts related to terrorism So this is very very fascinating the more I read about it the more I was interested in it I know that this was something that really tickled your fancy when we were going over the stories before the show But let's let's there's two things here number one That's a pretty full inbox for people just you know complaining to Facebook about things because I am sure there are plenty of Hard questions that people would like to see Facebook answer. I hope that they continue to answer ones that are Very hard for them to answer and therefore interesting for the people that use its service and not necessarily this important though it may be Kind of demonstration of how they are doing good, but to the terrorism thing They're using some really clever stuff here, right? Yeah, no They're doing some machine intelligence to find clustering and identify videos and images and essentially the point of that post Is to say we don't even involve people in a lot of this We don't wait for someone to report it. We go out proactively and and find it now granted This is the first post related to this before they've even got a lot of the questions So they just assumed okay, you're gonna want to know about terrorism. We know that that's that's a huge part of this But I do like that they're saying you know after a person dies What should happen to their online identity is social media good for democracy? How can we use data for everyone's benefit without undermining people's trust? Those are hard questions, and I like the fact that they're putting it out there I'm interested to see further answers here Yes, and I hope that everybody goes to see it and all that data becomes even clearer on exactly how to serve ads to us Free roaming between all 28 current EU member states went into effect Thursday Some limits apply for inexpensive plans or unlimited plans, but most customers will see no difference from using their home plans Yeah, the big dream is alive as long as you're within the 28 countries someday soon to be 27 countries But yeah, this is what we've had within the United States for a long time not mandated by law It just kind of happened. Do you do remember when you used to roam? I remember being in New Mexico and realizing. Oh, I'm roaming and this was voice days not even day to day Yeah, you know I but that was always one of those Like oh, I guess I was always in some weird place I was never like in oh, I live in Miami and now I went to Charlotte and it's like oh, I'm roaming now in Charlotte It was oh, oh, I'm going camping and now I'm on some weird roaming network Yeah, it was it was it was in very you know usually the Mountain States is where I would run into it because you Need a different kind of company to cover sparsely populated area. I'm and I were running shine in This and Justin you don't get coverage in Harlan without Roman Texas woman who was raped by her uber driver in India has filed a lawsuit against not only uber but also Travis Kalanick himself and two former uber executives for intrusion into private affairs public disclosure of private facts and defamation she alleges that Eric Alexander Former uber executive convinced his fellow executives that her 2014 rape account might have been part of a conspiracy By a rival ride hailing company likely they met Ola Alexander is accused of obtaining and discussing the woman's medical records an uber spokesman said on Thursday No one should have to go through a horrific experience like this and we're truly sorry that she's had to relive it over the last few weeks so If you haven't followed this story at the time that this was made public uber Cooperated and expressed sympathy, but what this case is saying is that behind the scenes uber executives were trying to figure out if it was a conspiracy Instead now they didn't go public with it until it was leaked And the New York Times did a story on it and now that it's been made public. She is stepping forward and suing them again I just another in The horrible week that uber has had to go through now granted That's not as horrible as what this woman had to go through and I'm not trying to belittle that but but uber Didn't need this to happen This week either and and yet It's it's past seeds that they so have sowed coming back to roost to mix them out of four Sure. Yeah, and just so again, we are very very clear. This is a horrifying Awful thing that no one should ever go through. She deserves to sue uber and I hope yeah Decides to settle with her and make and the least of her Considerations will be how bad the press has been for uber this week. We get that so yeah, so what does her? return return return Saved document print to PDF email to the world new document This is a bad week for uber PR wise in one that they would have hoped the stories would be about the new uber Right, I was speaking to people around the company to be more close to the situation who joked that this week was supposed to be uber 2.0 Unfortunately, they had to rush patch to 2.1 there's a Real problem that uber needs to begin to deal with which is The poison seed in this story is that not only was there a toxic culture Within uber when it came to running their people too hard that trickled down to how they treated their drivers but also there was an intense paranoia and I can Understand on some level where that comes when you are fighting governments and you are fighting taxi unions and you are fighting lobbies that are entrenched and you feel you have to resort to guerrilla warfare to Combat if you are going to bring your product to the people that want it. However, there was obviously a Very very troubling side effect to that and that includes technology used to evade Well within the law law enforcement where we were trying law enforcement was trying to track them when they were By their own admission breaking the law until they were forcing an issue politically And stuff like this where instead of taking this kind of claim at face value and trying to deal with it It became a no that they are out to get us whoever they are Yeah, and uber is being run by committee right now because most of these people are gone Eric Alexander and Michael the other one named in this lawsuit are neither one of them with uber anymore Travis Kalanick is on a leave of absence so this is probably going to continue to happen not not this exact case but Skeletons from the closet are going to start spilling out more often and as journalists start to poke around and look for stories and things get uncovered and the new uber Regime is is going to have to continue to deal with that 2.1 uber 2.1 will continue to deal with it Although that's not necessarily a bad thing for them because what they hope is that their reactions to stories like this are Markedly different because what uber desperately wants and what they wanted during that all-hands meeting where they have their worship CEO their founder stepped down is that the stories by Christmas are About the new uber and how this change is making a different company so they can begin to write this shit Meanwhile, Twitter has launched a scheme of things that are wholly uncontroversial Sure has launched a redesign across its apps and websites profile icons are now round Typography is more consistent and titles like in case you missed it are now bold But reply icon has changed to a conversation bubble iOS users will have web links open in Safari viewer Preserving logins and ad blocking and changes come today on all platforms Including tweet deck the Safari thing is important for iOS users as it used to open in their own Homerolled web Twitter's home world web browser, which was a pain in the ass I mean it used the Safari engine, but not the viewer I it sounds like splitting hairs, but basically when you use the engine it doesn't bring over any of the Safari settings with it Yeah When you use the viewer it does actually when I click on a link to read Dave Meltzer's newsletter And now I got to open it and another thing it remembers my password now What do you? Say it again. What do you think it is? listen Our very own Scott Johnson on Twitter said tweet deck just changed a bunch of his icons the icons are not the problem with tweet deck and Honestly, Twitter can't do this right this redesign is probably a good thing in in a normal company changing your icons to be more rounded and and doing a couple of of You know typography tweaks and and bringing your iOS app up to speed with the Android app as far as where things are settings wise should not Should not cause anyone to be angry, right? You haven't changed. They haven't changed anything significantly. Oh And also the changes are design-wise are fairly aesthetically pleasing But it just goes to show that people are hungry They are dying for Twitter to change a few things like being able to edit posts or have better harassment anti-harassment tools And so anything else that Twitter does this is like George R. R. Martin Going out to lunch and everyone going why aren't you home working on a song of ice and fire, right Twitter? No matter what they do is gonna get this response that being said An understanding that there is going to be a lot of Sturman drawing around Twitter. I Have a hard time thinking that The team that was redesigning for better readability and cross-platform Uniformity was the same that would work on an edit tweets button. No or a a better suite of harassment tools Uh, this this seems like doing this didn't take any time from the others What kind of what you're saying and and also it just kind of reinforces what has become the meme that Instagram is where you tell people that you're on vacation Facebook is where you tell people that you're getting married Twitter's where you tell people that the world is dead and you are just dust But I also watch professional wrestling But hey, at least the icons are rounded now Amazon's dash wand barcode scanner now has Amazon voice services built in If you didn't know that the dash wand actually preceded the dash buttons It's a UPC code scanner so that you can you can scan an item and then say yeah Reorder that item which is great if you're buying, you know boxes of cereal or something off of Amazon the wand Will cost you 20 bucks only available in the US right now for Amazon Prime members, but You get 20 bucks in credit So it ends up being free as long as you use your $20 in credit. You can't use it on digital items There's some restrictions on it But if you're shopping enough to make use of the wand You're likely gonna be able to find $20 worth of stuff to get your money back And you also get 90 days free Amazon fresh grocery service Which again goes with that UPC code scanning if you're wanting to buy a bunch of groceries You might want to try Amazon fresh grocery service We we talk about Amazon voice services going into everything it certainly makes sense for Amazon to put it in its own products more often Certainly so an Amazon fresh is something that I use all the time It is I think a very very good service and as a fairly reliable track record in terms of delivery This is a great product in my opinion, you know, I think it's it's a way for You I mean a lot of people use those dash buttons Because they just want to leave it in the drawer that has the toilet paper So by the time they see the button they hit the button more toilet paper arrives, right? This is that as a Swiss army knife for Literally anything else that you have but if it's if you're out of fruit now with the Amazon voice services You can add, you know, whatever you would normally buy to your to your list Otherwise if it's got a UPC code, you can go ahead and scan it This is you know Amazon wants to get more and more into the perishable food business And this is a great way for them to continue to do it and they want to make it easier and easier for you to buy things from them without having to think about it an AI from Microsoft's owned Maluba has achieved a perfect score of 999 99990 In Atari 2600s Miss Pac-Man the team used reinforcement learning Using more than 150 AI agents working in parallel to master the game a senior manager Agent took all the suggestions and decided how to move Miss Pac-Man the demonstration It can that it demonstrates that this can perform complex complex tasks though the trick will be To translate that into useful real-world tasks if I were playing Miss Pac-Man with my reading of that story I would have gotten eaten by three Yes, so this is one of those things that's Difficult to achieve probably more difficult than you think It's not just that they taught it to play Miss Pac-Man Miss Pac-Man is actually quite different difficult game to master and that's the key here It's easy to play hard to master and they mastered it They got a perfect score in Miss Pac-Man by doing this reinforcement learning, which is one of the new trends in machine learning And being able to combine agents One of the things they describe was even it wasn't just most agents are saying go right because that's where the pellet is The senior manager agent would be able to tell when the majority of agents might be wrong So if a bunch of agents are saying go right that's where the pellet is and three agents are going ah But to the right is a ghost that's going to eat you the senior manager would have enough wherewithal to say Oh, well, I'm going left then I don't care that most of you are saying go and write because you don't know what you're talking about So it's it's a more complex thing than I think it probably sounds and On the other end it's like oh great Well, if you can teach it to do something really complex like that, it should be able to have lots of real-world Ability, you know real-world applications and the fact is teaching AI's to play games has been more successful than porting that ability over to practical benefits if all I want I want and AI To go up against Billy Mitchell the king I will add that Miss Pac-Man differs from the original Pac-Man in that the The patterns of the ghosts the way they come after you is completely randomized in the original Pac-Man you could Atari 2600 or arcade or does it make a difference? I don't remember if the 2600 they use the 2600 for this That was the big difference was that the the pack the the ghosts would come at you at random patterns While with the Pac-Man you could memorize each field and say oh if I go this way they'll always be on this side Which makes it even more impressive because it's not just memorizing the the the game field the pattern. Yeah, yeah Good to know Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey has a lot of very useful things in it But it also notes the developers who use spaces instead of tabs earn about 13,000 pounds more per year. That's about 16 thousand dollars US Survey covered close to 26,000 developers 40.7% of developers use tabs while 41.8% use spaces and Make more money that means by the way if you've done the math 17.5% refused to pick a side and actually use both This is obviously a tremendously controversial and a CERBIC Argument in the developer community one that has raged for years and years and years and years and got a mainstream Moment in the Sun on this season of Silicon Valley Yeah, if you don't understand the tabs versus spaces thing you watch that episode of Silicon Yeah, that does a pretty good job of explaining. Hey, not only what they are talking about but also exactly how angry people get when Discussing something like this But that is kind of fascinating. I wonder whether or not it's just company culture at bigger companies I don't know I'm also distracted because p-squared in our live chat room at diamondclub.tv just said What if I map the tab key to insert time spaces? Which is just gonna set off a whole rat hole here But yeah, I I don't know if it if it's a company culture thing or a personal culture thing I mean, I imagine certain company cultures will have Lead developers who mandate like you you're doing you're doing spaces or you're off my team, right? I wouldn't be surprised That's what I would assume because to bump it up by that far on average It would seem like you would have to come from somewhere that there are Uh cadre of zealots that are are mandating this and therefore pushing that number Up over the top I mean, but in the annals of gif versus jiff Or or uh vim as your text, you know, what's your favorite text editor? this this is one of the longest running battles and I generally look at these and I say, you know what it really is personal preference This is just this is why humans try the lies Because we look at these things that really don't have an a very obvious difference And we pick a side and we stick to it and we defend it So most of the time I look at these and I say, you know what? Have your fun debating it, but it really doesn't matter Yeah, in this case those spaces spaces. Come on. It's spaces. You use spaces Yeah, that's very very nice. It's a very nice way to make these broke tabs tabs What are you gonna use the the break key next all right to get all the tech headlines each day at about five minutes Subscribe to daily tech headlines.com. You don't use backspace, do you? And let's look at our top stories Hey Bloomberg sources say amazon has made inquiries into acquiring slack the business oriented chat and collaboration client In case you didn't know about slack slack can be valued at up to nine billion dollars according to Bloomberg sources It was last valued at three point eight billion dollars during a round of funding last year Slack has five million daily active users 1.5 million who pay for the service and would fit in amazon's enterprise offerings like chime It's video conferencing service. In fact, rich straffolino Who helps write daily tech headlines? And occasionally appears on this show Wrote that in our slack in our slack that the amazon buying slack rumors are interesting because it would fit Into not only chime which they got in february But they've acquired some business focused chat and ai assets last year like angel.ai They could pivot either s3 or amazon drive into something with more of a business front end I'll allow what box just did and offer an interesting productivity stack or This is the part that really got me up. Maybe some kind of prime subscription for business based around that You can have an amazon business account instead of amazon personal account And what if you had prime for business that gave you access to a bunch of these tools? Yeah, uh, this is a very very very interesting story to me Mainly because I think amazon and slack are both very smart companies that I think would work well together if you look at amazon's acquisition record they seem to be the kind of model company that you want to get acquired by uh, and and They are there for your uh, you know, thanks to aws They can power a lot of stuff very cheaply and they seem to let these companies just sort of do what they were doing before With maybe a little bit more of an aggressive mindset toward growth But since amazon is so profitable in so many different ways. It's not like Getting acquired by facebook, which has done very very good at preserving the brands That they have acquired as separate entities, but you've already begun to see Pangea sort of come together when it comes to sharing Add uh stuff and privacy has been eroded in in platforms like Instagram and and and stuff like that where facebook facebook is like the food court Where you find out that these seven different restaurants are all coming out of one kitchen Yeah Meanwhile, you know, uh amazon has done Seemingly pretty well by audible and twitch and Slack would be very very interesting now it reads. Yeah reads Here's what I find Very very interesting is where is slack going from now? For the next five years because they are an enterprise company. They are something that More and more people will use and the more that they become uh tied into businesses Which do not like change And and uh tend to lock in to a business solution for not years but often decades This is a company that very much could be worth a lot of money going forward and for amazon To use it to build Their enterprise suite. I think is kind of fascinating Yeah, amazon's largest acquisition to date was twitch, which they bought for 970 million call it a billion Uh at a 10 billion dollar valuation. So Slack would likely not be larger than that But it would be close to it if we're talking a nine billion valuation The other thing about slack and fits in with what you're saying is slack Has a fast approaching ceiling. Oh, maybe it's not that fast, but You know what slack has been wanting to do is Sell enterprise versions to larger companies. So, uh, uh, IBM They've got they've got a version that can have tens of thousands of users for IBM That's their growth opportunity But at a certain point they're going to run into people saying well, I'd love slack I prefer slack But you don't give me anything else when I buy slack Uh, I I go to microsoft and I'm gonna get azure and I'm gonna get cloud services I'm gonna get office and I'm gonna get microsoft teams and granted And I you know in the meeting, right? I love slack way more than teams, but sorry guys I got to go with this so slack may benefit from amazon If amazon can say hey, we've got aws and chime and we've got we've got this whole suite of services And in fact amazon needs that too if they want to compete with microsoft and google and others And that's what I find So fascinating about slack and for all that it deservedly gets as being this Very twi hipster san francisco silicon valley little toy that people like to play with It is a breath of fresh air in what is a very stagnant and commoditized enterprise Sweet of stuff. I mean post microsoft Really kind of Changing the game with their suite of you know word and excel and stuff like that Everything past there for 30 years has been about making that stuff cheaper and uh more Available the entire business model for google Was to take the the the suite of productivity apps that microsoft had made an entire career on And to chip away at it bit by bit by making those products free now You have something that is Markedly different that is uh unique that is Being adopted by people because it actually makes their lives easier and I think you're absolutely 100 right tom This is Going to be the the play that that slack has to see coming down the road is that they are never going To be able the the the future for them will always be more As the lead dog in a productivity suite that you try to sell businesses on as opposed to an a la carte offering that again, although it definitely has it's uh It's followers and debautees In terms of uh of how well it works the people that are buying these the buyers for these major companies Are just going to want more bang for their buck and uh You know if you look at where slack is now slack has five million daily active users 1.5 of them Pay for that service the average that I found was about $10 a user on average is what that You know per user is so at 1.5 million. It's not an insignificant chunk of change Definitely not and uh my apologies for the brief absence there if you're watching the video AC guy came early All right, let's uh finish up with some messages of the day Scott was asking on yesterday's show how uber and lift drivers felt about driving around passengers with criminal records In regards to those with drunk driving convictions as mentioned in the news story about the judge from ohio This is actually nothing new ride share drivers get a lot of businesses from those with duis Are those who're trying to avoid them? These riders are actually some of our best fares since they realize that even with crazy surge multipliers The cost of an uber or lift is a fraction of the financial impact from a dui conviction Drivers are not notified that a passenger has a dui by the way This information has always been volunteered as part of the conversation Passengers actually are not subject to any sort of screening processes at all A five-year-old with a manslaughter charge could get an uber account This is a source of some contention among drivers who feel that uber and lift are not doing enough to ensure their safety Everyone advocates for ways to make sure that your uber driver isn't a rapist or serial killer But not the other way around Drivers are largely on their own in cases of assault with the corporate office getting involved only to issue statements to media organizations By the time the rating system catches up with an offending passenger They've likely received multiple reports from multiple drivers in extreme cases. They may have their accounts suspended But it's easy enough to create another one in short as a driver I would definitely like to know if my passenger had some history of violent behavior as things currently stand We're left to rely on dash cameras and pepper spray to protect ourselves in the case the worst happens Sakane right who does our your private driver column wrote that? Yeah, that's Listen, it's a real problem and it's a problem of of the digital age that we need to continue to be better and better about but uh If anything You're going to look at at those issues and say well There is it's only because this has become so prevalent that we have Issues like this and and you know I think that there can be something better done in terms of like if you get to you get like multiple Uh, you know excoriating ratings or or reviews or there should be some kind of panic button that That drivers can hit or something. I don't think people think about that often enough Like you say, I mean, and it's not bad. I don't think Sakane saying it's bad to focus on passenger safety But you need somebody focusing on driver safety too You want me to take this next one here? Yeah, uh, sure. We we actually talked about uh a judge Advocate and this is what Sakane was responding to a judge advocating that uh drunk drivers people convicted of drunk driving Should have to install uber or lift and and set up an account. It's judge mike chicken netty Uh, and yeah, read this first email because it's somebody who knows mike Well, look at this strange to hear something unfamiliar with on the show judge might Uh, is it chicken? It's chicken netty. Yeah You know, so he he phonetically spells it c i c k a I checked I checked it online with a youtube story about it All right. Well, there we go chicken netty is a family friend And he's been in the news for years with unusual sentencing options where we live a taxi can't be flagged down It's more like making an appointment. I almost always call the day before so when the bars close a quick press On their smartphones would probably be easier than calling a cab Lest you worry mike offered some of the option of 30 days in jail Or walking 30 miles because they didn't pay a taxi driver. So he's not anti-taxi either that comes from analyst chris I can't believe that I didn't actually run into this guy's name before remember it because apparently he makes the news All the time with these kinds of decisions In fact vaughn from not quite cleveland but close enough said on wednesday's episode You mentioned a story about judge chicken netty or ordering some defendants to download uber lift as creative sentences go This is actually rather tame as someone who has grown up in his jurisdiction I've watched with amusement as various sentences of his have gone viral across the country one thing to note about his creative sentences However, as they are always voluntary as in you can choose to serve the normal sentence for the crime Or you can agree to a reduction in the sentence for in exchange for agreeing to one of his creative sentences Because of his antics he has a wikipedia page that lists many of his unique sentences Some of them are very unusual But always in some way are tied to the crime that was committed One of my favorites was when he ordered some teens who flattened all the school's bus tires To host and run a picnic for an elementary class that had their field trip canceled due to the vandalism Oh Oh, look at that. Say yeah, but not all heroes wear capes. That's right. Some of them wear robes Uh, thank you everybody for writing in about that. We got a few other emails about judge chicken netty He is a he's a folk hero to some it seems like and thank you. Justin robber young for joining us. Uh, what else is going on? Well, you know, uh, we are in the building building building phases of our Action news Kickstarter the brand new card game from the folks who brought you the contender much more on that in the coming weeks Uh, but you can go ahead and check me out every single morning on twitch.tv Uh slash justin are young and uh, Yeah, or more to come more in the offing keep an eye out By the way, thanks to everybody who gives a little value back to this show for the value They get from it at patreon.com slash dts. 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Oh wow Does he flick his hair back when he's like Uh, I I kind of like amazon picking up the slack question mark I just i'm i'm i'm good with with more like i'm just glad we're working in some new companies in so we can Just start wearing out these puns as well. Yeah, right? Like slack Taking the wind out of sails this judge a no chicken chicken at ease nuggets of justice Nugs everybody's got to get in nugs these days Uh The twi hipster silicon valley toy The ac guy amazon picking up the slack. I like that For the record, you're going to be able to hear my slack go off during the show Hey, see that's just it's a nat sound good that sound so amazon picking up the slack. Yeah Yeah, you sure you don't want if if a five-year-old is a manslaughter or maybe I'm pretty sure I know what that. Yeah. Thank you Thank you for checking All right That's breakfast sausages and bread don't cut it You got to eat before the show no, that's what I eat before the show Oh, you ate that just right before the show.  Are you right? It's like generally I don't like like bread because it's they're like that store brought stuff because it's so bland and tasteless Shane says this sounds like my grandparents talking what Oh, I didn't eat enough. When did you last eat? Have you seen the doctor? My lumbago is acting up I09 has a piece imploring women That despite their fandom for Wonder Woman, please Remember that putting a sword down the back of your ball gown is is For for movie professionals and amazons only It is not safe. Yeah, not a real sword. Anyway, please do not put real swords down the back of your ball gown. I mean That's fair, right Yeah, she she makes it look so easy It's like she's tried it a thousand times before Although to be fair the top commenter has a really good point that as long as you're not drawing your sword Which you probably shouldn't at a party anyway. Mm-hmm, you know build the sheath in there, too You should be totally fine. Yeah, but doesn't that kind of threatening? I mean people will notice it Hey, listen, uh I was gonna say something but it's only gonna start a thing Oh, all right. No that the punchline was a good guy with a sword Billy Mitchell Billy Hey, let's talk about something another thing that's totally uncontroversial. What do y'all think about the new patreon logo? Oh, so what's the controversy there? Yeah, somebody from somebody from the outline contacted me to ask me if I thought it would affect my pledges And I said no I don't So the logo is weird.  It's almost like the twitter thing, right? Like you change something and people are Because I mean I was looking at i'm like is there some hidden thing that i'm not seeing that's making people angry. Is it just that it changed? Yeah, I A patreon was well overdue for for a a big boy redesign because they had pretty much had the exact same design since it launched when it was a uh, you know a far smaller company than it is now But to be honest man They could make that website look Hella uglier and I would give a little care as as long as it continued to pay my rent So, I mean just because it's a line in a circle Yeah, and so you got a lot of armchair designers, uh, you know making better versions load and fair enough really they're just making illusions to pong so it's Yeah, it's not my favorite. I don't think it's where I would have gone. Uh, it it But whatever man patreon and also their lead That's just their logo that shows up in like the favacons and everything. Yeah the dominant Uh a representation in the top left hand corner is just patreon in a nice font with a line next to it So, you know whatever this might be also be a good time to Uh To remind everybody that uh, my patreon patreon.com slash j u r y Just went over a thousand dollars a week. Hey, congratulations Uh a goal. I did not think I would ever clear so Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's awesome, man. Congratulations. That's that's great. So what do you did you have a, um A goal at that Marth or yeah, and and it's a goal that I've been meaning to clarify and change that I didn't Hit it. So, uh, I'm gonna have to figure out exactly how I'm gonna do this but I and I'm definitely gonna have to change the goal for 2000 because that That may or may not happen Well, technically it's kind of already happening. Anywho, um I uh I said that I will do four in your house shows A year Which uh, would be me doing house shows and coming into people's living rooms and uh thousand really? At a thousand. Okay I I I'm gonna have to massage that a little like I think that there's gonna be more shows not necessarily in your house shows and uh I think two trips that result in a couple shows because I don't think I can afford to do four Like you didn't do the cost the cost analysis Four trips a year seems a little expensive. Maybe they could be in your own house Yeah, I mean I'm I'm all for I think that the spirit of the of the level is just more places where people can see me live Yeah, right Jerry and brett roundseville's house Hey, what? Or should do the house of blues check the house Then you can maybe Uh, get some free wings or grubs Actually, how's that how's that not not to go back to uh billy mitral But how how's his family like their food is is it good? 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Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I wanted to record today a video about the technical logistical factors of backing up your video content. So there have been some really good videos on YouTube about how videographers and filmmakers can back up their precious video content. And those are really great, but something I haven't seen covered in so much depth is the kind of technical factors of well, how many backup copies should you have and where should those backup copies be in order for your video to be really, really well protected. So my standing in this is that I've been really interested in backup for a number of years. I've been writing about backups for both my freelance clients. I've written about backups for Linux magazine and Linux backups pretty extensively. So as a sort of backup enthusiast, I thought I would just give a few thoughts about where the best, what a good is robust strategy for backing up your videos might look like. So let's jump straight into this slide show I prepared. So the guiding principle for backups and this doesn't, it doesn't matter whether we're talking about video backups or audio backups or backing up documents or backing up websites, because ultimately we're just talking about data. The unique quality of video is that it's pretty heavy data wise.  So that's the kind of challenge I'll get into just in a small bit. Why the size of that data matters, because in certain circumstances, it does matter. In any event, the general rule for backups is what's called a three to one approach. And what this means essentially is that it's a methodology for de-risking data protection. Now, basically what that means is that you'll always want to have two backup copies and one of those backup copies should be located off site. The problem with having one backup copy, and this is something that a lot of these video tutorials say as well, you know, the way to back up your video is to just put it on an NAS, a network attached storage. And I think most serious videographers have an NAS or a media server, an NAS is just a specialized type of server for data storage. So the problem with that approach is that it's only one copy of your data. So if your office or your studio or whatever gets hit by a tornado or gets flooded or whatever, then you're going to be left without your original copies.  But the problem there is that you're not going, you're going to be getting back the video files after YouTube's compression and they're going to have lost a substantial amount of quality. So you really want to have when we're talking about backups, don't rely on stuff like YouTube's backup mechanism as part of your strategy, you want to be protecting your original full quality master mixes, let's say. So the three to one rule here, we're talking about having your original data. So if it's active data, you want to have your data. So if you're working a video project, you want to have those raw clips and your project files and your overlays and whatever else you have, as well as video clips, and you're going to want to have that data backed up in two places. If you've wrapped up a video project, then the original data source, you can delete that file once it's properly backed up, but not no sooner than that happens. So I've given an example of how this could be done well and how this could be done poorly. So let's say I've done correctly, and let's start with the three copies of data, primary plus two backup. So if you have your master copy on your NAS, and it's in cloud storage, and you've got the originals, if you're still working on them, then you fulfill the first part of the three to one rule, you've got three extant copies of your data, the data you're working on, the first, the onsite backup on the NAS, and you've got it in the cloud. So you're good. Two different storage media. So basically what this means is, you know, when we're thinking about backup protection, we don't want we want to factor in all kinds of contingencies, whether those contingencies are electrical over surges, or just disk failure. So you wouldn't want to have two backup copies. You could say, oh, well, I'm supposed to have two backups. So I'm just going to put two backups on my computer. I'm going to have them on different disks. Now technically, those would be different storage media. So let's say you have two hard drives on your computer, and you're like, okay, I'm going to back it up to my computer, and I'm going to back it up to another drive of my computer. Firstly, that's going to fail the offsite test because neither of those are offsite. But secondly, what happens if the computer gets fried and all the disks in it get fried. So you want to diversify as much as possible. So done correctly to two different storage media. Well, one's on the NAS, one's in the cloud. So it's sitting in a Amazon or a backblaze or even a Google Drive or Dropbox data center. So if your NAS is fried or the disk fails, and that's the good thing about NAS, you do have redundancy. So you're protected from disk failure to a large extent. But nevertheless, I don't know, the NAS can can just fail. So then you've got your two different storage. Finally, offsite. So again, as I mentioned, the purpose of an offsite backup is because it does happen that houses get flooded or you're not using an NAS, you're just doing cold storage, and I'll talk about that later. And the disk fails so that your onsite backup is gone kaput. So you want to have an offsite so that any of these in any of these instances, that's not the only backup copy. So again, when we're talking about video, if you're uploading it to cloud platforms, and those cloud platforms are compressing, then you can consider that part of your backup strategy, because at best, you're going to be able to liberate from those clouds if they allow a data liberation function, don't take that for granted. But if they do, you're going to get a D, you're going to get a post compression video file. So that's why when we're talking about this, this specifically backup for video projects, we want to be making sure that we're backing up the full original copies. So here's a worked out example of a viable cloud backup workflow. So I have here, let's say you have your editing workbench or your workstation and you're working on your video clips. Once you're finished, and let's just say for simplicity's sake, you don't want to keep the raw footage, the raw clips, if you want to use them for stock, you've put them onto a stock folder on the NAS, if you want to, in other words, bureau, and you've got the finished projects on another volume in your NAS. So anything else is done. The project's a wrap. So in that case, once you've got to that point, we don't really require the primary data source, but we're going to have it firstly on the NAS. Now that's going to be backup one, while the project's going on. Then we're going to want to put that up to an offset backup. So in terms of how easy it is to actually achieve a three to one compliant backup workflow, well, it's actually pretty easy. If you happen to own a Synology NAS, and a lot of people do because Synology is like the leading brand of NAS's, then Synology has a very, very good tool built into DSM called Cloud Sync. And you can create very, very simple automations that will move volumes up to the cloud. So I could say, I'm going to have a volume on my NAS called stock, and I'm going to automatically sync everything that goes into the stock volume up to back plays.  And this is totally automatic. Now the problem for folks like me is that if you unfortunately have a really bad home internet connection, or you know, there's just nothing better in your area, the only thing I can get is DSL in this part of Jerusalem, then this is a bit problematic because the Synology runs automatically the cloud sync in the background. That means if you're creating gigabytes of data per day, and you've got a really slow upload speed, there's pretty much always going to be data uploading on your network. And if your bandwidth is limited, then that's going to be limiting your bandwidth kind of constantly. So you'll be trying to watch Netflix or just do regular internet usage or upload finished videos to YouTube. And you'll find that the internet is painstakingly slow. So this workflow would be brilliant if you have a great internet connection, you've got something like symmetrical fiber, and you don't need to worry about these petty concerns. Then this is a really, really easy way to do it. Buy yourself a Synology NAS. I'm not selling Synology, I happen to own one. But this would be a very, very simple data workflow. Set up your volumes on the NAS, copy your folders over to the NAS, and then use cloud sync to set up automatic backup to the cloud. And you're going to have to pay for some back believe storage or for storage in S3. If you're doing this professionally, then it's just a business cost. Backlays is really, really affordable. And it's a lot, this is going to be a lot cheaper than trying to use something like Google Drive or Dropbox, which are not really intended for archival storage. If you're using AWS, then use the glacier class of storage on S3, because you're not expecting to have to use access this cloud storage at all. It's just a safeguard against the onsite backup being destroyed. And what happens if you do have a sucky home internet connection like me? Well, I can tell you one option because this is what I actually have to do. So firstly, you can get an NAS, that's not a problem. So you're doing your backup from your editing computer onto your NAS, you can either just manually upload copy and paste, or if you're a bit more sophisticated, you can set up a script pretty easily too.  Then what happens regarding the off site? So this is where it gets a little bit trickier. So you've got a couple of options. One is that if again, talking about Synology, they have a program called Hyperbackup. And Hyperbackup is intended to back up the NAS, meaning not just a volume on the NAS, it's supposed it's intended for backing up the whole machine, the whole physical machine, whoops. But you can also just use it to backup parts of it. And the good thing about Hyperbackup is it's a incremental backup approach. So you're not going to have to back up the whole volume every single time. In backup, you have full backups, differential backups and incremental backups. And you don't want to be doing a full backup if you can avoid it. So Hyperbackup is a really nice utility within the DSM, Synology DSM tool suite. And so what you could do, the problem about Hyperbackup, let's say you have a four bay NAS that's holding about three terabytes of video. Now, it's designed to mirror either the NAS or volumes onto one external media. Now, you could probably find some way to connect a whole NAS into NAS 2 into NAS 1 and then bring over NAS 2 to your friend's place. That's kind of a crazy, crazy thing to do. There's another Synology tool there for buddying up with a friend. He also has a Synology NAS and you can move, you can sync across the internet. But again, if your internet is sucky, if your internet is not sucky, I think you're better off doing the cloud. If your internet is sucky, I think you're probably better off doing this. So I can't really see a use case when using that utility. I can't remember off the top of my head what it's called, wouldn't make sense. So here's the sucky internet use case is with the caveas in mind about hyper backups limitation. What you could do is hyper backup to a HDD to a hard drive and keep that hard drive in your office or in a friend's house. And then every, you know, every month, every two weeks, every week, if you wanted to, you just do the hyper backup again, update the offsite backup and move that to your friend's house. That's called discrotation. So that would be the option there. It's obviously more inconvenient. The beauty of the cloud backup approach is modern, right? People are using the cloud for offsite storage now and not stuff like keeping disks in their car or well, don't do your car in your friend's house or whatever. It's ugly. If you have internet great, I advise doing this. If you don't have good internet, and I'm doing this because I know a lot of people are like me, they know how to do this, but they're like, well, great, but my upload speed is like two megabits per second. That's not going to fly. So this is another option you can use any backup approach is better than no backup approach in my book. So even though this is kind of cumbersome, you're going to have to upload hard drives and use enclosures repeatedly and go over and back to your friend's house. It's effort that if video is your livelihood or just your passion, I think it's worth doing this once a month won't inconvenience most people too much. Constraints and limitations involved in this slow upload speeds. So this is my problem. Cloud backups become painstakingly slow and no great residential connections can hamper bandwidth. So that's something I experience is my upload. My bandwidth is so bad that like when I'm uploading to YouTube, my download gets slow. So if you've also got such bad internet, this is a problem. So the solution is use physical offsite disk replication. When better internet becomes available, store in the cloud. So I'm waiting for the day fiber internet, symmetrical internet and good bandwidth becomes available here. In which case, I will be very rapidly switching over to this strategy. The second problem you could run into is you're just generating tons of data.  In which case the cloud could become very, very expensive. So you have to do a cost analysis comparing the cost of cloud storage with the cost of physical data storage. And if you do that, you might find that the physical data storage comes out substantially cheaper. Especially if you're using tape. So LTO as a storage class is still more affordable than HDD hard drives. The caveat is that if you want to use tape, it's harder to find tape nowadays because it's it's a pretty obscure technology at this point in the consumer realm. And tape LTO machines are also more expensive. So if you want to just use HDD for physical storage, you can buy a hard drive enclosure for like 30 bucks. You can buy a hard drive in any computer store and you're good. If you want to go down the LTO approach, you're going to have to spend more upfront on your CAPEX capital expenditure to buy them to buy an LTO machine, then you're going to have to buy your tapes from a specialist supplier. So it's a little bit more headache, but it can be done. Final point here. The difference is between cold and NAS storage for your onsite backup. So this is a video. This is a picture I took yesterday. I decided because I'm a data paranoid Android, I want to keep my NAS for backing up the good quality stuff. In other words, the projects are care about. And the stuff I don't really care about preserving the original resolution, I put this video in that category B role in that category. It's like, you know, I don't want to lose it. I want to have I want to cover myself. But if there is data rod, it's not the end of the world. So cold storage would mean just storing your data on a shelf. So let's say you want to put your bureau onto a hard drive like I've done here, and you just want to keep that in an anti static bag ideally, and sitting on your shelf. That's cold storage. The downgrades the problem with cold storage is that it's the data is susceptible to bit rot. Unfortunately, all to the best of my knowledge, all storage currently is. You also don't have RAID. So on the NAS you have, if you've got multiple disks, you have you're actually protected against disk failure. The NAS can survive, can survive disk failure. On the plus side, if you're just keeping it on your shelf and periodically moving data onto it, it's disconnected from electricity from power.  There's a chance the NAS could be fried. On the plus side for NAS storage, it's kind of more professional, I would say as a generality. And it's always there on the network. So if you want to move stuff onto your cold storage, you need to plug it in. You need to, if you've got an enclosure, power that up. Whereas the NAS is just live on the network. That's literally what it is, network attached storage. You've got RAID. I mean, it's really hardware that's optimized for data storage. I know my Synology NAS has some technologies for constantly checking the integrity of the disks. So it's a really, NASs are beautiful devices. This is what they excel in is building a mini data center on your network. So what I'm doing personally is a mixture of the two actually. For my primary on site storage, I'm using NAS. For the stuff I don't care about that I don't want taking up space on the NAS, I'm throwing it on to some hard drives. And I'm trying to move stuff off site in the best way possible to me. It would be great to do cloud backup.  So I'm doing the best I can basically. So I hope this video is useful if you're interested in backup approaches for larger data files like video files, even AutoCAD projects and stuff like that. These are some ways you can use in order to protect and safeguard your hard, creative data. Thank you guys for watching. If you'd like to get more videos from me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel.


Welcome to another episode in the 23 part collection. We are currently doing 23 LeBron James videos in 23 weeks and today's episode is on the Golden State Warriors, the 73 and 9 record breaking Golden State Warriors who failed to win an NBA championship because of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. And in this video, each NBA player from the Warriors roster goes in depth on what their thoughts are on LeBron and also what happened in 2016. If you're enjoying the content and you're enjoying the weekly LeBron James videos as a part of this series, there's a playlist on the top right of your screen if you've missed any of the episodes in this series and also link down below in the comment section so be sure to check it out. If you appreciate the editing that gets involved within this video, I'd greatly appreciate if you guys could hit that like button, let's aim for 1000 likes on the next episode. Be sure to hit that subscribe button if you are new and of course full credit to all the interviews, podcasts and clips, they are on the screen right now so be sure to check them out in their entirities. And I don't want to keep you guys waiting so I hope you guys enjoy the video. After this game and expect moments like that to never happen. After the game, honestly it wasn't too much emotional. Like everybody was mad but it wasn't too much like you would think because guys know like it's been a long season, guys are chasing the record. I think it's the most, the highest ratings the NBA's ever had of their fondants, right? Whole world is watching and we lost. We lost a championship. That team that broke the record for 73 wins, we lost. Damn, what happened? The thought of us losing that series just did not cross our mind. And so it was just, it was shocked man. You're up 3-1 and you're already kind of counting. The win is like, just get it done. We're about to be two times like defending champs back to back in the whole vibe.  Like we like dominated the cast. Like they had no answer for whatever we were doing. We're going through, we're up and we're winning games because we're used to winning games. But then we're starting to lose people. People are starting to get banged up. Bogey gets hurt. Our kind of rotation got smacked out of whack versus Draymond being out. I get hurt in game five and our fastest has to start. Hasn't played a lot of minutes. This happens, that happens, this happens. I get hurt. It just threw everything out of whack. And then because it was 3-1 it got to 3-2. And then Draymond ended up getting suspended. And that like, that momentum switch was like crazy. And ironically the game Draymond's out. Both Braun and Kyrie go for 40. The first time there they go in the final they go for 40 a piece. I'm like, oh, could have used Draymond back there. And then that's when like LeBron and those guys just started going crazy. LeBron took over that series the last four games. I mean to come back in 3-1 it's just crazy to even think about. And I think they don't get enough credit too, you know. We had no answer for what LeBron was doing in the last three games. Kyrie hit that big shot game seven and man it was all she wrote. That was one game with the playoffs. They stole momentum and that's a beauty. They get the game six home game. Of a seven game series that's a beauty of it. It's not over. We get four wins and they stole momentum. You got to give them credit. A lot of things went their way. And should the league suspend the Draymond? It's questionable. Definitely. LeBron did stand over him and all that. And it wasn't really, it was a kind of a nut shot. But he was getting up off the floor. Yeah. Contentious issue there. But they came back. You know what I mean? Got to respect those guys over there. Where the Brown was doing his man every single game which is unbelievable. Oh man. This dude is incredible. I mean just showing crowds on great players. I mean that's what we have to do. We know that, you know he leads, he's one of the top guys in the league in transition in terms of scoring. So we're trying to make things difficult for him and try to make him just fine teammates. I don't know much about Michael Jordan. I always, we always have these conversations about who is the greatest ever. And the fact that you guys keep comparing him to MJ doesn't help at all because he's chasing rings. It's like, yo, like the main argument is, well MJ has six rings and I don't understand that whole argument. I didn't watch Michael play because I was back in Nigeria. And I see his stuff in arrears now. I always watch his videos and retrospect and all these things and he was incredible. But I can tell you from firsthand that LeBron James, if God created somebody to be just an athlete, that is what that person is. Being an NBA player playing in the NBA at this point in my life and seeing what he's doing, I went to two finals back to back. And I know the toll that that takes on you. He went to nine. The mental fatigue, it's incredible. He went to nine finals and it was an eight straight. This will be, this is eight straight. Yeah, this is eight. I mean, the level of what he's doing right now is unbelievable. What Brian has done, like when you talk about Sicily Tyson. Yeah. Brian started in the 0-3. By 2005, Brian was the best player in the NBA. In 2020, he was still the best player in the NBA. He was the best player in the NBA, no matter what the game did.   And he's been the best, no matter what. When you look at the teams that Brian has carried to championship or carried to the finals, MJ didn't beat the greatest team ever assembled, nor did he run up against the greatest team ever assembled every year. You look at the skill set that Brian has. There's nobody that has ever played the game of basketball that can do what LeBron James does on basketball court. Nobody. LeBron James is incredible. And it just felt like the whole time and just like, each game we're getting more, we're getting tired. He's just going up and up and up, jumping high or running faster. In terms of, you know, one guy being able to change the course of the game the way he can, he controls the pace, he does things that kind of look like, how did he, how did he do that? And some of the stuff that he did on a nightly basis, it was, it was, it was spectacular. It was one of the loudest, the loudest sounds I ever heard. And when it happened, I kind of, I was like, damn. I was like, yo, that was the loudest. I'm like, what just happened? I didn't even know he blocked it, but I heard boom. And I was like, man, that was cold. Where did he come from? You know what I mean? Like seeing it in life in real time, it happened so fast. But obviously, you know, it's been broadcasted everywhere in slow motion. So you can see, you know, just him coming. It was like a fan moment. I was like, man, that was beautiful. When he blocked the shot, I'm like, God dang, that was amazing. Like I had that energy. Right. Well, I remember one time in the finals, I got the ball on a break and Andre was behind me, Godalla, and the bronze chased me. He said, you better dunk it. You better dunk it.   Like his steps are small, but they're so quick. That's incredible. And like, sometimes you're in, even when you're playing against him, you're in awe. Because it's like the way he can control the tempo of the game, the way he can dominate scoring, passing, you know, just his overall just presence in his IQ. Like, oh, that's the way we all talk about it. And you have to appreciate your competition if you want to beat him. It sucks that we didn't win it because like you'd always hear about that performance how we won. That was obviously, you know, a low point for the Dubs at that time. Because everything we went through to get that record too, like we went after that record, knowing that probably, you know, it was a lot of slippage towards the end of the year. Like we was a team who knew how to win. You can always take your hat to somebody who just outplayed you. And that's what they did for three-story games. Shout out to them, man. They, you know, obviously we had some controversial calls and things that went on about guys getting suspended and things like that and injuries. Obviously Bows got hurt too in that game six. But shout out to them, those guys put on the show. And know how it ended. What I say about that 3-1 situation is I've never seen two guys play at that level. For three-story games. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. Like, Braun and Kurt Kairi were just on. Like, we played well. They just played better. But that was special, man. Still a special team. We didn't finish the job, but that was such a special season. No, I hope that record is still dear in my heart, man. Yeah, but Braun is a beast. My goodness. See, I was like a triple double with that series. Because LeBron has some of the highest knowledge when it comes to basketball. You know, making these runs, to me, that's why what LeBron has done. Incredible. It makes no sense. That's insane. That's insane. Yeah. And you guys had a lot to do with his record in the finals too. But you're back to your, yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, he got us. He got our best team. He did. Yeah, the 73-win team was, you know, not our most talented team. But, you know, that team was, oh, steam rolled through everybody. And then they got us. So that one's done. I get asked all the time about MJ, LeBron, and it's such a difficult question to ask. All I know is they're the two best players that I've ever witnessed. They're very different.  And let me know what you thought about the video down below in the comment section. Be sure to hit that like button if you enjoyed. Hit that subscribe button if you're new. And also, here are two new videos I think that you will also enjoy as a part of this LeBron James series. So be sure to check it out. And I'll catch you guys next week.