Lovely welcome to my talk. It's let's talk about privacy Yeah, okay, so I Do first intro Probably who I am I'm a candle. I'm just like the regular guy from Berlin and What I do is I do crypto parties a lot And Recently I had certain problems, you know, we I've been into the situation and when we are on crypto parties We have often people that are aware about their privacy. They're probably there They need to do something right and I had the situation with friends of mine people are close to me that were in the situation Unable to understand my argumentation They were not really Caring for privacy and this is what this talk is going to be about. It's going to be about Privacy but not in the sense of here. I want to convince you why privacy matters But rather as an idea to get an argumentation base so people get a better understanding why we caring for privacy That's kind of started with a friend of mine who went to a little bit far away And I was like, hey, we should probably encrypt our Communications because people could might read this and he kind of really blow that and that said, yeah I don't I have nothing to hide and I was really Frustrated. I was not able to tell him. Hey This is important. This matters people Kind of did not get this and I also was a little bit troubled and and Was not not able to give him the message By the way, sorry, just remember something. I have to apologize to you first up because I Did wrote and when I subscribed this actually talk I did the description of the talk in German, but actually holding no in English and it made a little bit people confusing and I'm sorry for that but because of says This talk changed a little bit because what I originally intended to do and in which way I wanted to do changed to what it actually now developed to at adept and I'm sorry and further I do this for the very first time here. I'm in the very first time in front of a crowd and if you have Misunderstandings if you have something you did not understood because of my language or something Please raise your hand ask Questions if you're something to add in addition to help me to give a better Argumentation base, please wait a little bit. We have time. I added like at 20 minutes for the Q&A So we can get something together if no questions are raised we can continue a little bit different topics I had something prepared how you might could prepare on why you should maybe care for this Yeah So probably also the why again from a different angle probably to understand why and To have a better foundation on obviously to grow on this because When I'm not able to communicate the people that are important to me how important this is to me and may not them understand I Probably did not understood it well enough So and I Start digging in and I looked first in the definition of the word Where it comes from because one thing I realized with arguing with those people that were close to me that they had a very Different view of the word privacy as I do and it basically goes like this You know when I need privacy, I shut down my computer. I go into the woods and I have my my sphere I for myself right and The words should be start with it's very interesting because it comes from the Latin language It have been actually being around for quite some time in the ages of the Romans They used to say at loss and you might see the privata, which is like Italian Strava privata Private Street and it could be translated to for example the word self something to myself But also that it's separate It's a single thing or maybe the best thing in this way that goes it's one's own Obviously, this is a meaning of private which then also could be occupied to private Ownership or a company's private when we would use this term in a sense of privacy It would be translated something like this Something is not public. I don't want to have certain records in the public I care that this are not deal with in the public Can you hear me still good? Okay, and Basically what they're said is and this is the fundamental element people know which have been Educated to them the most which have been talked to them that privacy is a right to be left alone and everyone knows this But in this one they have seen just a particular one It says that there has the power to decide on two if they want to be with people or not and this One defines basically the realm of physical privacy basically the ability to go away from people to be Not under people because maybe we need to gather ourself. Maybe it's crucial because we need to Think about the things we want to do next and people then to do an influence on us opposing the opinions and sometimes this Kind of things are hurtful and therefore we need to go we isolate ourself to gather to gain strength Also the term actually have been Be first around around 1980 90 by an American within the article the right to privacy I Want to point this out because this is a natural Impression people have about privacy that there, you know, you can shut down your computer you go somewhere You have your privacy privacy in a sense People don't care about like when I'm home. I'm home. I have my room. I have my sphere No one can hurt me, but it's just a physical Privacy we're talking about and there's more to this Because we care for discretion in intimacy Means basically when I have certain concerns I might gather around my friends I share this concern about other people about my family to get them Helping me maybe to understand each other, but sometimes these things are Hurtful they're kind of a problem and I don't want maybe others. I've talked about to know this It helps me maybe to understand this but you know whenever I was younger It was a little bit easier. I went to school that my friends in school and when I went home I was at home and when I brought a friend home, he obviously know that my frustration with my mother or other people would not be show to them and We all know that when we go to the doctor we care for this Discretion when we go there that only he knows about my concerns about my health care problem. Maybe or When I go to a lawyer that he really keeps the secret I share with him which might be dangerous for us because they are Could be criminal Therefore we care for discretion and intimacy and we all know those feelings when Someone is talking to you.  I know all of your secrets And I'm gonna tell it everybody. I think we know how this feels. It's very hurtful It is a act of betrayal one of like the most and hated emotions You can see it when people that were a couple they were together Sometimes after breakup how hurtful they become because they are shares this information We shared them in a very close space and they use them against you Because when we share this thoughts this emotion with others we become vulnerable to them And this is one element you want not that information you made have disclosed to a certain person being disclosed to others into the public But Beside of that the information we shared of it's also very important and For us that we have the freedom to self-determine information disclosure the ability to define who I Tell what and who I tell not to because One thing of this I'm with my friends. I might tell something That I would not tell my mother in the sense of we know we shared some drugs together and we had an enjoyable time I might not tells us my mother because she gets concerned of addiction of negative consequences or other things that I might share my thoughts as an Engineer to my boss, which I might not want to share to the upper management in a company because it could be compromising and Also the fact that information Need to be shared Can lead to a certain problem because sometimes I know something I need to disclose But it could be compromising in this point in time. I care for an omity Maybe the information could be so compromising that just raising it Saying it would compromising myself as a person. I As this person would be probably thrown in jail. I would be prosecuted people would act violence so We like to do this in an omity as an crucial element of our society To Express ourself sorry so also Also, we're using this in our democratic system as an tool for voting as a crucial element to express ourself in this democracy system Which by the way, they were quite funny thing on the side, you know There are someone told me I think over those days now that some of the voting machines Supposed to be designed for voting Being so good that there could not recognize who have voted and then they said like we did not know who vote then and who Not and that's kind of interesting so There's a little bit of deficient now you have got a view you see the private Privacy of a person is not just limited by his physical but also to his relationships care It's information. It is close and maybe that information may be not be related to me as person or Certain types of information should not be related to other persons. I've chat with But there's more to this or sorry there Know this point where this being violated where invasion happened of my privacy But we should also understand this that we are the ones making the decision about our privacy and privacy in this point is like A cupcake Yeah cupcakes so There's this beautiful Example of this because when we are in the situation To make a decision about our privacy we often do the same decisions as we do it with food When you're at home with your mama and she makes and bakes beautiful cupcakes Are you first thought is maybe you should not eat this because it would have bad consequences for myself in the future Are you eating this because you're being rewarded? A by your mother smiling because she made something for you on B the chemical reaction those beautiful Cream bombs dust And the same applies for example for a lot of things when you look into the health care They had a lot of policies that forces Companies to reveal what of ingredients they put into certain things what they have been the cake been baked with what of materials and People seem not really much to care So I said just go to the next fast food line and say I want a burger I want to eat I want to be filled and not thinking about the consequences It's might include for their future and this is related to a fact that they do a temporary discount That don't see the consequence in this moment They are unable to see this because you know if I eat one cupcake to cupcake five cupcakes I don't see it immediately. I see it probably in the next morning on the wait I see it maybe in the next weeks when my Belt is not any more fitting So but there's obviously other things to this because this is the one side This is the person who shares information the one does the decision to this but when we share something for example on Facebook It's made very rewarding because every time we share something and we get one of those beautiful Like buttons and we see within the window how something plopped up and things happens our brain rewards us It gives us an uncertain impression of Importance and we really like when we get feedback we like when we share something and we kind of get even addicted to this We want people to like our states But Facebook is implied with certain problems Please don't think that I think Facebook is bad Facebook is a company and they're careful one thing for profit obviously and they're also Interested in what they do so there's something very interesting studies lately You might have here did you might have not here did But there was a kind of manipulation that happens So when you open up Facebook the very first thing you see is the news feed Which is like updates of your friends in the environment what people does what they have shade shared with and what? This Facebook network picked a deliberately Favourite content of typical type to trigger emotional reactions This means basically that information I disclosed Be keep back or might not even displayed at all and other information We might not even would have favoured before showing up and the idea was basically to figure if people are acting positive on good news on you know Important things that seem to be caring for them and negative emotions by things that are bad like a Terroristic attack or something Very dangerous happen to them and they could see in their research that this means that their people Did react according to the amount of negative or positive information that came in the comments where with I would say that Or good comment statements and you could see that the emotional Emova triggered and what was the most crucial thing you might would say oh I suppose will not be affected of this right This study have been conducted with around 700,000 people This is a real big number and when you imagine how much this is it could potentially affect everyone that uses Facebook in this entire room and This is dangerous, but wait there's more Because even when you would say okay my niece you That seems so unlikely There have been reports from our most favours agency everyone probably knows in this room That used a tool to manipulate organizations Most of the people I then tell like occupy wall street. They're like what no, I don't know them Which is kind of a sad thing But interesting to this when I say you know flash mob They're like oh, yeah, I know this guy's you know my my first experience with flash mobs where in the town I lived A event where they're basically went to the biggest McDonald's in the region and said yeah You know what we meet all those people in front of it And then we try to eat the entire stock down and really I think around 3000 people showed up They went to the McDonald's and that tried to eat this thing empty Unfortunate there did not manage to because on time the manager of this small McDonald's ordered new resupply and kind of did well but What they did this they test their tool on this people on this flash mobs by manipulating Messages for example instead of the date of tomorrow 12th. It was Monday in two weeks at 12 or even keep the message back of not being delivered and this means that the Information I disclosed was compromised and this is happening in Facebook but Yet even when you decide I'm not part of Facebook. I don't like Facebook. It's kind of a bad thing They're still tracking you and this is the thing what people kind of makes Weird in this point people get becomes emotional. They're like Suddenly gets this realization and it's very important to keep them. Hey, there's an argumentation. There's a fact There's a things that happening Basically what Facebook does The creator cookie every time like a small piece of information your browser keeps and when you visit for example a fan page or Certain resource on Facebook your web browser keeps being tracked with that and the other problem in this is You have a blog you visiting you like to read and he embeds a Facebook like Twitter Google plus And what he does? Oh, sorry What he does is What he does is basically he loads every time you visit the website the Facebook like from it and Now you tells when you visit your blog which might be self-hosted at least that you being visited to this website with a thing But I think Facebook is not the only problem, right? because Google is the same and It's quite interesting to see because When you see this way You could define it as a gateway drug You will probably ask why but who in this room here? Ons Android device So quite a lot of hands went up right So who of you in this room uses YouTube? I mean this entry talk is going to be uploaded to YouTube. So again Google knows what funny fact by the way Google is the biggest search engine in the world YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world and Obviously a lot of people using Gmail Google search we just did today at Google search some people So this is very interesting because you're not able to avoid this You kind of even when you say I Don't use Gmail. I don't use Google search. I use a Super-great duck duck go. I use stoppage. I use peer-to-peer search engines to get my information You still have the problem for example in Android to use Android properly. We've got the cool awesome tools You need to be locked in choose a Google Play Store, which then Registration your phone with all the information to Google and then you can use it then you can load download applications Right? Also the very first thing Google does it uploads everything on your phone when it's been locked in it loads up your calendar It uploads your contacts that uploads your Wi-Fi passwords as backup. Of course, you can disable this But who does this who thinks about this? And there's even this Let's say it No direct Google service problem Because even when you have said I've no Android phone. I don't use YouTube. I always go to media.ccc.de to get my content There's this call. Let's face it Google fast web project because you know the Google guys are caring for fast internet connection They want to have everything as fast as possible on there and one problem They often share is that they have libraries from the projects for example from jQuery which load very slowly because the original server is kind of Loaded and it takes time to its response. So there it makes us Google fast web project or you could phrase it that way It's Google hosted libraries for web applications. So when you have this basically what happens is funds Adjects jQuery everything you might need to illustrate a website being loaded from Google service directly. So You have really hard trouble to avoid Google in this particular point You have no possibility of just say I don't care about it And I just put it away and this is kind of invaders because every time you load a website a blog or What page you want to they go to Google and send an information to this most people I've seen over the past years have changed their DNS entries to the name server of Google which make it even more easier to get an understanding in this and Just by saying, you know what you just close information to Google about your behavior They get an understanding.  I I quit this I just I don't care, you know, and then I go into my living room. I play a round of Xbox one and Suddenly I Get a fold in the game There's been a report over the last days or actually year. I think I'm not certain anymore about the source too much information Where by cursing The opponent enemy team in the game. He was punished so you play at home and this Xbox one is Listening to what you're saying.  So, okay? Okay, okay. I think I think I've got the point So, you know you close down your exports one You open up your TV and then Suddenly you realize something maybe I Hope you can read this But basically the Samsung TV you might have where you actually want to play Xbox one on is listen to you as well You can disable this but for example There's an agreement that says please don't say anything private in front of the TV it might be recorded and You know what's really really thing I hear recently a message from someone said like it I don't know how official this is but basically what happens is when your Xbox is listening to you or your personal assistant like Siri That they take the text the message you said Converted to text and uploaded to the server obviously because the self bandwidth because your voice is Kind of much but they're actually people that are there listening and reading the text You're loaded there that it has been uploaded there. So I don't know how much truth This is how much is related to this but basically people that were really private and disclose sexual information or medicine related information where listened by this and The services had all those information in there Okay, you know, I did also a lot of research and I Struggled across this website. You might see this right our favorite agency German type and Why I was reading this article something in my eyesight came there, you know, maybe you see it You see this thing here, right? I was like, what's that like?  I was not really sure about this. I did not research this further now at nothing tells more about your how weighted you are and obviously This is kind of very very invasive which brings us maybe to the thing Internet of the things I Think each and every one of you have here a little bit of this the definition is quite simple to this It's trying to bring chips into every Every day household devices that your lamp is able to send you a message that it might be Going to break down so that you can refresh it on time. So you're not in the dark your refrigerator Sending. Hey, the milk is expiring Please make sure to refresh for new ones and so on And this are very invasive. This are the things that is going to happen This are is actually happening at this point and everything is being uploaded to the cloud. So I'm not sure if you get then can share your fridge status at Facebook but there's a possibility of connecting your fridge to Facebook At least this is what I read a while ago. I'm not so sure and I didn't test it and One thing is why you might ask why and thinking why they're so invasive why they do this Why there's this point that they're trying to I mean very interesting Facebook is actually one big contributor to open source A lot of technologies that put in there is open source. So they cannot be the other evil, right? but As Bruce Knight I put it in a beautiful sentence civilians Is a business model of the internet? so and One thing that made a lot of confusion a little bit Misunderstanding to each of everyone was this keyword because you hear it, you know, every one of these people have heard about Edward Snowden They have heard of the NSA and how they're being surveilled and they heard about the word metadata so Metadata what is what is metadata and just today I hear a beautiful example Basically when you would try to get in Germany a credit you go to Schuva, which is like a credit rating again again tour and what they do is look at certain data, which Could be described as meter data and how likely Based on this data you are to be reliable a reliable payer You also could describe it in a technical term. This is our data about data. So to make a thing phone call I need a my number be the number I try to call and see the date When the phone started and ended so the telecom company can build they're able to crude the phone for the network to your friend There were beautiful example by the EFF about this It's you know, you're standing on the bridge. You're calling a suicide hotline What you're telling them on the top of the bridge remains secret But it's kind of obviously what you do because when you for example use a phone a mobile phone in this case It's also storing the location. This is by the way a very The very description of the for a start and sparring each every one of this or data Preservation or retention to English and basically there stores this type of information Where who what I think most of the people know this in a certain way But what's this very interesting when you put this and apply this to your own life? Because they're thinking can now this type of information not being that crucial I think you know, I can put this into the public They've been by the way by the sea is you I think a beautiful example where they're said yeah, you know This type of information are like dick-thill finger fingerprints a poly poly police Needs to this to to identify potential Criminals right and was a little bit. Yeah, no So I made this for myself. I hope you can read this It's a little bit full, but it was like my VPN locks I am a guy obviously around everything and you know VPN is encrypted. It's there's no information being disclosed Unencrypted so if I one can't read this but what it really tell was a little bit For example when I started, you know, my laptop always connects automatically to the internet to my VPN server when I open up the lid and I just looked at this, you know, this is like one day and it started like, you know age 56 and Probably it's this time I started my laptop, right your first connection you read emails you check what is going on Maybe there's a certain delay with the public transportation I Keep my device probably running. I don't know and at certain point you see the connection from myself or choose a and device is lost Maybe he went somewhere. I mean, it's Monday in the week. What some guy who works on it does at 932 probably. Oh, wait 10 10 17 Something is again. Ah new IP address. So you maybe want to work You can see VPN connection timed out again between 12 and 13 and I'm such a guy I always take my laptop with me actually or very often and What could a guy do within the week on Monday between 12 and 30 o'clock? He probably goes to lunch And then you can also see yeah VPN connection Reestablished from the original IP address from where was at work and you see oh it's back from lunch So a while later, it's like six o'clock the VPN connection times out again, and you see oh I think he's off work, right? And a little bit while later from the connection from the very same IP address I had in the morning a new connection. I left home. Yay and at last 1115 The connection went there. Maybe I went to bed. This is probably not as exact But you get probably an idea of how my day would have looked on this day when I worked When I did this I actually did it to a little bit bigger scent before I cut it down Because you could actually see anomalies within this when I went probably to certain places and when you know which IP address Belong to you got a really good idea and this is just like one service it does not include weapon locks for or like proxy locks that does not include my mail lock does not include my job unlock and This is kind of frightening But you know you told your friends and then he comes with this beautiful question Why should we care? One example for this is actually I heard it. I think yesterday or the last two three days that people in France That do pirating With peer-to-peer should be put under the anti-flight list So an imagine how they're going to gather the information that you use peer-to-peer Me data to check what connection you did on what type obviously the connection was and Probably and this is obviously the most Critical one in this This is a former CIA Director and he did publicly stated in an interview that they kill people based on this meter data This is the same information. I just showed to you are used to kill people And this is frightening You should also see this point here you made it he reduced his statement at certain point because he said the meter data the NSA have Different from the ones we just mentioned here because obviously they have way more meter data than I could just show to you but I Think there's a lesson to learn because who have of you heard of the CIA torturing project So there's being a quite big scandal Because within the states the was of report Made by the Senate that basically stated that the CIA have tortured people in the name or against terrorism and a lot and many have died and this people have been kept based on such information and This is probably the hardest thing. No one of them really Revealed information that had something to do with terrorism This where a person like you and me that lived in that area, which was very very badly that had no potential of good work so that looked for jobs and suddenly the rock the Talked to the wrong people that made a wrong phone call and snap was catched and obviously this is quite a Critical thing, but it gives a certain insight how far our own physical Privacy can be invaded by information. We disclose and even more the fact that information I might have disclosed in one room might be manipulated might be changed might be Deliberately stopped so it cannot reach There's even in Germany for example the sample that you know this One report which was done by I don't want to say it but RTL and basically it Put a view on how a gamer should look like and it was actually quite wrong At least how people told me so there were a lot of people there were a big group on Facebook and they said Yeah, you know what we go to demonstrate on on this so When the people arrived or at least the one who tried to organize this it was the only one there were randomly two people but they were not related to and the his friends on our other side later said that they did had different appointments and Even the message was not delivered. So like everyday people get affected of this very particular thing And this does not include the problem with email. It does not include the problem with the overall thing I actually have a little bit more slides to this, but I will try to stop now To allow questions for those regards when questions are there. I also open for any additional supply to this and Hope you liked it for the moment So any questions any complaints criticism misunderstandings additions? I think you could add that the metadata are very Interesting to insurance companies Because you cited as an example of a threat that maybe the CIA is out to get you and I think most of us in this room Don't feel personally threatened by that But having insurance companies collect your metadata is I think a more real threat and as you said it can affect your Schufer entry and Might of course affect your insurance rates if they can Make conclusions about a risky behavior on your part. Thank you very much Any further questions so I'm kind of surprised I kind of expected that people would now raise and say no that's wrong or this is kind of Need to be there or something. Okay? One thing I wanted to put in addition to this is let's say how we can prevent something like this how you should behave What I would expect probably for my friends what I wish from people that are close to me to do this Maybe to keep that or to yourself In a sense of you know, you don't When you need to use Some service you need to use Facebook Don't share everything on this go there subscribe what you need to subscribe Like what you need to like and then it's it don't disclose too much information. You're already share too much There's a very beautiful principle for this which interesting to German it's Datensparsamkeit if you try to translate this it's a little bit difficult to do this Basically principle of data economy or data reduction and data economy, you know, we have a society or Technology which is interested in grabbing every piece of information every bit of information about you to squeeze the last drop of your privacy out to make money out of this and Sometimes you can for example not avoid using Facebook, but for example, what's quite funny You can see can you can use for example Facebook with Tor if you can relate to this They have an own onion address to this with this address can simply open it up You log in it works. No problem Sorry So here's a little bit on overview what I've done about this because I'm administrator. I'm aware of this I try to reduce my data print in the internet Which brings me by the way to a certain thing because I had certain concerns because this is a recorded talk And you know, I do a talk about privacy Do I record this do I put it in the internet? Do I allow people to live stream this in particular and? But I had very interesting feedback and especially this this is a public talk in any way I talked to a crowd of people I try to teach why I learned I want to show my rise Extended and hope that people can align to this and I think it's also very Helpful to others and it may be available resources to others in a later point So I decided and because I have the ability to decide to to let it be uploaded to be streamed What I do is I run Linux obviously like most of the people here I Changed my Android I have a smartphone like most of you But very interesting was you Saigon mod most of the people that try to avoid Google dust uses But I then realized something very interesting I'm safe right now And then I remember oh wait wait wait. There's this Google play problem, and I've no internet Shit normally there would be the logo of Google play But basically as I described it before every time you try to use your smartphone with good Applications you need to log into the Google play which needs an email address Very interesting to this is as well Even when you're not using Google play you have no account to this Google have the power to remove applications from your device entirely They can remotely delete this they're only very few examples of this you barely find any resources to this But there are examples to this and the entire Google library is a problem in this What you can do is when you install saigon mod you cannot you can choose to not install saigon mod with the Google play library This is quite helpful because You're not sharing any information with that, but at this point it becomes difficult to run applications you want What I did in this particular I use the fdroid Fdroid is an open source base repository for Android applications, and I synchronize most of my information I have with my own cloud so Again on this Yeah, quite finishing right now because now to my last words to Protect your privacy is hard. It's very very very hard to do this because Even when you're trying to actively not involve this Somewhere have stored your contact data in their address book which was uploaded to Facebook Uploaded to Google or any other third service. I do not mention yet and even When you're not using this technologies somewhere on a computer all of the information has been Stored in any way and the only thing what we really can do is we can increase the cost Someone has to take to gain information about us. This is the only thing we are able to and I've really really really hope this gave you a little bit inside of a Better argumentation foundation to get people motivated maybe to care more about the privacy And all what I cannot say is thank you for listening any questions Thank you for your talk first Maybe more of a statement than a question to your last statement that you're talking about increasing the costs for the people that have Negative effects by doing surveillance on us But the thing is they get the money from us in the first place So I would also put the focus in the thing that we have institutions states and companies that violate our human rights But that have the power from us That at least theoretically can be taken away from them Questions. Okay. I guess this is it. Please note. I put this talk under the creative comments You can get it at any time Also, I have to thank to certain people at least if they were to I hope to see in the room but I don't see this which was Slido and Flush cats or Helping reviewing going through this my girlfriend my people around me everyone we have listened over the last days to me And here are the references which kind of include everything, but it's a little bit cut because this slide starts not supports us and Yeah, you can get the full list if you want to I can give you the presentation and I will put it obviously online soon Thank you very much


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That's Cy Young Shane there There's a Oswald or Everson Pereira first nice Adley there on the insert or the chrome Just Cy Gray got Antonio Cabello, Luis Garcia Poisson I couldn't help myself how to do it That is the that is the best Sam is them. There is Poisson God spanish the globe Patino Julio nice one there bowman scouts one top 100. There's Crohn's of Debbie Garcia Nick Allen bobe Shet rookie Yeah, Star Wars is next to me Star Wars is next. I've got some spots in the second one as well First one is full. We'll get that going here in just a second. There's a rookie Zach gallon nice one there light blue To 499 rookie Zach gallon. He's been lighting it up Dylan cease rookie Elio Ramos and Francisco Alvarez top 100 Christian posh a There's a Casas on the chrome Springer Fernandez 165 oof That's not very good. I have a blue quest Poisson So, uh, yeah, I should not have a blue plus on anymore. 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There's a Brennan Davis And Aqua shimmer this is gonna be six though Sanchez the 125 had some crazy Movement as pitches in the show back in the day. All right, you guys three more packs here Whole gang is here. He's use Lizardo rookie. There is both a shed rookie favorites JJ Jeter downs. There is a Volpe base paper First paper there there you go sad Stacking some Volpe's for you There is a capisano There is an Everson Pereira first chrome AJ puck yeah, I'm not sure canlar I'm not sure. I'll keep up with the Marlins enough and here is our last auto It's gonna be Thomas Dillard going to the Brewers on the first bowman base auto Nice hit there brew crew hidden finds Rowdy Tales got Mitch Keller. There's a Miguel Vargas nice first there Poisson There's a Jeremy Pena first chrome nice hit there for the Stroze Andrew Vaughn prospect Max Scherzo There's a pipeline for the twins hidden gyms for the twins and a lube up top 100 six though again There's a Dominguez there first paper. We have Ashby Jared Kelnick. We have a Jairam Duran first chrome Yeah, sealed a la Cruz and camp your son. I was going to be a refractor to 499 there for the Mets Lou Bob rookie Locain All ready guys now moving on to the 2020 bowman draft super good luck here guys see what we got Packs man double packs got this love the double packs Okay, but you have to open them using it Right he says it's right he's get scissors and cut right down the middle. I just want to see someone do this I do the one side out at a time. Alrighty guys. There's a Poisson Yeah, our refractors. We got Freddie Zamora first Shane Caden Polkovich we've got CJ Abrams that is franchise futures for the Orioles Westburg and Kierstadt Got first there Marlins Brett 80 Nice three Detmer's there. Oh nice one here is a first of Heston Kierstadt Nice Kierstadt there on the base chrome and blue This is going to be good for the angels here to 150 Adam Seminaris on the blue to 150. Oh Is that right for us? I didn't know that Donnie's having flashbacks of the Poisson. Oh nice one here We got purple on first bowman auto David Calabrese. Nice one there for the angels got another auto here. That's Harper David Calabrese the 250 on the purple first bowman auto. No, they're Kierstadt paper We have blue first here. There's your boy. Can there's Spencer Strider number to 499 on the light blue first bowman paper Your boy can learn So knowing the head against got refractors of Thomas a Gacy McCombley Lotzinski and Carson ragsdale. We have glimpses of greatness Vaughn I got a Zach vene base chrome nice one there for the Rockies got Nick York on the first for Boston Dylan Dingler There's a nice soda strum there the complaint for the a soon and a short ridge insert diamond There's a soda strum base paper Diddy-Candler I Saw me and Donnie were actually looking at that game before his play on the Mets, right? He said first Strider had a rough night. We were talking about him before this we started I think that's a looks like a printing plate in there. So we've got a one-on-one printing plate coming up guys There's a Jordan Walker first paper for you. Nice hit cards. We've got chromes of KC Blomgren Wang Wu and Hunter Bishop. We've got they franchise futures there for the Royals Hudson Haskins KC Martin, and this is a printing plate. It is going to be Michael Bush for the Dodgers there Dodgers going home with the one-on-one printing plate Michael Bush Nice hit there Dodgers We gave up eight runs in the wind. No, that's all right. Let's take a win You know if you give up eight runs doesn't feel great. I'm sure our second auto here is going to be Adam Seminaris that is gonna be angels again on the base first woman auto you go Harper with the angels There's a Pete Crow on the first the cubbies now Tink hence Jeremiah Jackson There's a strider first base and there's AJ Vukovic on the blue paper number to 150 D-backs Chromes are Ashby Liam Norris Bitsco and Jackson co are we have a glimpses of greatness Dominguez There's Zach Daniels and 2020 Max Meyer there Austin Wells for the Yankees got a Foskey nice one there for the Texan over the Rangers Not the Texans Get a couple things confused tonight, man Fox three or pack three Excuse me illegal. Are you we do have a school right next door? There is literally this wall right here is a CDL school This other side of this wall. We hear them. We hear them consistently. We hear them consistently It is literally the other side of this wall, that's funny you say that illegal because I can get it in minutes I could be a CDL so quick walking distance driving up on those commercials McKambly Ashby nice Heston Kirstad there on the refractor first Daniel Lynch a franchise favorites there for the Mariners There's another strider there base chrome Homs Kraus. Yeah, legal problem We have a refractor out of here to 499 gonna be Ben Hernandez for the Royals Dude, honestly, they might just give me the license. They already know I'm about the vibe. I'm about that a trucker life There's Foskey pull that one out at Howard there Robert Hassel and all about that trucker life, man Kind of like smoking the bandit I guess that is kind of like a Zach vene paper. There's a Torkelson paper there cheater downs Poisson On the refractors Bobby Zamora Lang and Joe Boyle that is Freddie Zamora. Sorry What's the greatest CJ Abrams? We got a PD Halpin Chrome Poisson That's key to the bit you're gonna do it Like the bit I'm in there's a Trevor Halver Ethan Hankins and Carson Tucker 2020 of course, it's more It's more appropriate when Sam screams it Yeah, I'm not getting that decibel Not not here not now It's been on the first paper Torkelson there. I always get Torkelson and Dylan Dingler confused. I've been doing that for about three years now So they look similar on their both Tigers Evan Carter, Britton Hendrick first and Oswald Paraza. That's Austin Hendy there There's a franchise futures for the Rockies at Howard Chrome. We've got purple chrome This is Hunter Bishop number to 250 nice one there Giants And Otto is gonna be a first woman refractor Otto Freddie Zamora number to 499. There you go brew crew Brew crew with the auto our XLR Golden guys got Star Wars coming up after this Spots full in the first one. We have a few spots in the second one. I missed it Poisson. Yeah, not ready for that I like it There is Dominguez there on the refractor Joe Ryan Jarvis and Blasovic got glimpses of greatness right green Dominguez on the base chrome now There's a first Jackson Miller Libertor cotton and Nick York 20 and 20 Justin Lang Last pack guys. Good luck. Good luck here. This is the 2020 Jumbo and 2020 draft Super Jumbo Two box case mixer number seven And guys, we'll have Star Wars coming up next last breaks of the night. I believe we're gonna have to move that flawless Mason win Yeah There's a Spencer Strider nice one there on the refractor chrome Pete crow first refractor nice one as well Bryson Stott Prospect on the eight on that second one guys got a peak row base chrome and blue This is gonna be Alec Burleson numbered 150 of 150 there for the Cardinals And our last auto is gonna be a speckle auto to 71 going to the pirate spot Carmen Ladzinski Nice one there for the pirates on the speckle auto There's a Soderstrom base chrome or base paper. Sorry There's Heston Kierstadt and last little handful guys. Good luck. It's a Jordan Walker and blue paper This one's going to the A's numbered one of 499 Dane Acker light blue paper There's a Jesse Franklin and Nick Gonzalez first chrome there O'Neal Cruz prospect chrome JJ Bladay There's a Spencer Torkelson base Volpe insert and Ashby And paper on the back. There's a Pete crow There's Spencer Strider. Oh, not tenor burns the heck And Bladay on the back Alrighty guys that will do it for um Bowman jumbo 2020 and 2020 bowman drive super jumbo two box mixer number seven There's a little hit recap here. We had Seminaris on the base first bowman auto angels Matthew or Thomas Dillard there on the base first bowman auto. We had Freddie Zamora for the brew crew to 499 We had Nick Hernandez the 499 refractor auto royals We had Braemer to 499 refractor auto nationals We had David Calabrese numbered to 250 there for the angels Eric Rivera to 250 for the angels and on the back. We had Carmen Ladzinski on the speckle auto to 71 Alrighty Yeah, Cheng um left side serial number. It's um, we will When the break starts we'll randomize numbers one through 25 and you'll get a number one through 25 And you will get a card if it comes out on your serial number So for example, if you had spot number one in the serial, um


So you know what you want to model, you just don't know how to do it. Not a problem. Now I'm a very firm believer that if you want to help anyone long term, you don't tell them what to do, you tell them how to do it. So unless you were building my exact character, I don't think that it's very useful for me to tell you point for point exactly where to model. What's important, this tutorial, are the techniques that I'm about to show you and learn to identify when to use them. Alright, when modeling human characters, I recommend using smooth shading. You can do that by clicking on the object, going to vertex data, normals, and autosmooth. Here you can also change what angles are considered smooth, or you could right click and set shading to smooth. Whatever floats your boat. The point of doing this is to leave us the ability to decide when to highlight crease lines in our shape. Last video we created the rims for her boots and gloves, but you might have noticed around the rims it might look a little weird and mushy, which obviously isn't good because we want those to look like separate objects. In the meantime, you want to highlight the crease of an object. Press 2 to switch to line mode, hold ALT and left click the loop you want to crease. You can also hold SHIFT and do it again to select multiple loops. But once you've selected everything, right click and mark is sharp. And there we go. A little better. Might not be perfect, but don't worry, we'll fix that real easy in the end. Okay, so when you cut the design lines into your character, you have probably noticed this really throws off the topology. Now I really recommend worrying about the topology after the design is done, but one thing that you should avoid early on when you're working with mid to low poly modeling is vertex clusters.  So stuff like this, this, and this are things that you're going to want to fix early if you can. There are two ways to fix a cluster. You can merge points one at a time, or you can average multiple points into one. So how do you know which technique to use? Well, remember the most important thing is that we don't break the shape. So if you see two points that are closed together and they're really following almost the exact same direction, like if you deleted one of the points and the line would probably still be exactly the same, then I would just merge them together. So I wanted to active, check auto merge, set it to something like 0.001, turn snap on, and make sure it is set to vertex. Then just drag them into each other like this. So that's the first thing that I would go through the model and fix. Anytime you have two points on one straight line, you should probably merge them. Now if there are three points together, or if instead of moving one point to another point's position, you want them both to meet somewhere in the middle, that's when we would select the points, press M, and merge them at the center. If we combine this with the double G slide technique, it's a great way to quickly clean up clusters that would have made some inconsistent shading. Now another really useful technique is dissolving targets. As you start to merge points together and clean up the topology, you will notice that some of the lines start getting drawn where they don't need to be. For example, we really don't need this line here anymore. Now the traditional way to fix this would be to go to line, select, click it, and delete it. Then you would select all the points around it and press F to fill. But that would be the long way. The easier way is to select the line and instead of deleting it, you dissolve it. See that? Way faster. You can also do this with points and technically in direfaces too. And while we're on this topic, if you ever want to create a new point on an existing line, select the points around it, right click, and subdivide. You will then be able to double G and slide it around where you need it to go. And if at any point you need to detach a point from its surroundings, you can select it and press V. And of course, you can always use E to extrude a new point from an old one. And those are the main techniques that you're going to use to clean up point clusters in low poly modeling. Snap merge, center merge, double G sliding, cut and dissolve. Once you've cleaned up most of the clusters without breaking the shape, the next step is to add some depth. And the easiest way to do that is with normal based extrusion. Let's pretend you wanted to give your character a choker. And you created detailed lines around that area. So if you wanted to pop out, what I would do is go to line mode, select all the lines that outline that area, right click, mark as sharp, select the rest of the shape, then press Alt E and extrude along normals. Then just use your mouse to pull the shape out. If you find that some points that should be in the middle or off center, click that point, press N and under item, under X, set it to zero. All right, now I recommend marking all the design lines left as sharp and selecting all the faces that you need to pop out of the suit. This might be a little easier if you just press C to activate brush select. And then you could just hold down left click and highlight all the faces that fill out the shape. You can scroll up and down to increase the size of your brush, deselect with middle click, and right click when you're done. Then press Alt E, extrude along normals, and maybe hold Shift to give you a little more control. Nice. All right, the last thing that I want to teach you is joining two objects together. So we are going to attach this shoe to this leg. Now I have taken the liberty of creating these heels for you because something deep down inside tells me that you probably don't have a passion for making shoes. Because I definitely don't, but I had to. So if you don't want to make your own, feel free to download mine from the description. And import it as an OBJ into your blender file. Regardless, if you have two objects that you want to join together, click the shoe, then Shift click the body, and press E to join. The order here is important. The object that you click last is the main object. So if you click the body last, the shoe becomes part of the body. But if you click the shoe last, then the body becomes part of the shoe.  After you've joined the objects, when you go into edit mode, you will be able to snap and merge points together or press F to connect them as usual. Conversely, if you want to separate one object into two separate ones, for example, if we wanted the top part of this shoe to be its own object, click, go to edit mode, select the part that you want to separate, then right click, separate, and buy selection. And when you tap back to object mode, you will see that this part is no longer part of the same object. Okay, now the very, very last thing that you need to know is how to average normals. You might have noticed that the shading for your object might be a little weird. And that is because Blenda does not automatically recalculate shadows correctly when you cut new faces or you merge points.  See, now we've got that beautiful shading again. Again, I've never heard of any 3D software that doesn't automatically do this for you, but whatever, you got to do it manually in Blenda. All right, well, those are basically all the techniques that I use when I'm making characters. Obviously, there's more, and this is just an example body. But for your real character, you'd probably spend a little more time adding extra lines of detail and layers and color, but all that's up to you. Hope that helps, thanks for watching. Please don't forget to ring that bell. Otherwise, you'll never know when I upload new stuff. And as always, I hope you have a fantastic day, and I'll see you around.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Andrew Bradley, Dale Mulcahy and Matt Zaglin. Coming up on DTNS, the fear of push buttons in the 1800s reminds us of the fear of robots, having a chat with your A.I. self and all of Amazon's new stuff because they did that. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And we have got some chatbots on the show today. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Bloomberg sources say that Apple adjusted its orders for iPhone 14s from a planned 96 million to 90 million by the end of the year. That would put its production in line with last year's iPhone 13. Bloomberg said one supplier had shifted production from lower tier iPhones to the iPhone 14 Pro, which has the higher demand. My theory is, with supply chain uncertainties, you overorder and then scale back. I think they knew this was coming. I don't think it's that big of a deal. Google held an event to announce a bunch of new features and plans for search. We're going to look over all their announcements and we may update you more in depth tomorrow. But one of the big items getting attention right now is augmented reality search results coming to Google Maps. Maps AR, as they creatively call it, looks through your phone's camera and puts markers in the field of view. So it can tell you about interesting things near you or if you did a search, stuff could come up. It'll be rolled out in the coming months for Android and iOS on the Google app in a few cities. London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Paris and Tokyo. Instacart plans to expand its EBT SNAP payments program to all of its retail grocery partners by 2030. Currently, it's supported at over 60 retailers in 49 U.S. states and will expand to Alaska next year. Instacart will also allow customers to shop using temporary assistance for needy families' benefits next year as well. YouTube Shorts began rolling out narration voiceover feature on iOS. If you're like, hmm, that sounds like TikTok. It is similar to TikTok. This lets users add a voiceover to already recorded videos. Ride Healing Service May Mobility is partnering with Via to launch wheelchair accessible autonomous vehicles in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Yes, Minnesota. There's another Grand Rapids there. Via worked with Braun ability to modify its fleet of Toyota Sienna vehicles to be accessible. So riders in the 17 square mile area covering most of the Minnesota town can book a ride for free from one of five Sienna AVs, either from the main mobility app itself or by calling 211. An algorithm will match people headed in the same direction into shared rides on that same shuttle. It'll operate on weekday nights and weekends when other public transit options are not available. The vans are level four, meaning they can operate in most conditions without a human, but a human safety driver will still be on board to handle unprotected turns and any driving in low visibility. Man, I want the automation to handle the unprotected turns. That's the one thing I hate the most. Oh well. That's good stuff though. And I like that some folks in Minnesota get to try it out first. We're getting more and more of these little tests. I know. I know. It's good stuff. Very cool. All right. Let's talk about chatbots. Scott, what do we got going on? Well, check it out. This probably news a lot of people have been waiting for Wednesday. That's today. Open AI removed the waitlist for people wanting to use its Dolly E2 image generator, which is, you know, a big deal. Now it's still in beta, but anybody can use it now. You just get some credits to sign up. And I believe it's 15. That's what it started with with me. That's what I got. And they get reset every month. So if you want 15 more credits, they'll start next month. That sort of thing, at least according to what I read. If you want more images though during the same month and you run out of your 15, you're going to have to buy them to generate more images. Meanwhile, another algorithmic darling is capturing the tech world's eye as we speak. Oh, indeed it is, Scott. So two weeks ago, character.ai opened up a public beta, letting visitors create a chatbot based on any character that they choose. Maybe it's based on them. Maybe it's based on whoever. You enter a few initial parameters, you know, maybe what kind of category is this chatbot supposed to be involved in. Then the AI is supposed to take over using a language model, large one similar to GPT-3. Ars Technica created the Linux OS bot to ask the OS itself a few questions about itself. The article has the full transcript of the chat and it's fun, but here are some fun anecdotes. So Tom, if I may play the role of Linux, you will play the role of Ars Technica's reporter. Are you ready? I hope I do Benj Edwards justice. Yes, I'm ready. All right. So here we go. Hello, I am Linux, an open source operating system. Hello, this is Benj Edwards and I am a journalist at Ars Technica. I would like to ask you some questions in an interview. Is that okay? I, Linux, would be pleased to provide such an interview. How old are you? I was born in 1991, although the first public release was version 1.0 in 1994. Who created you? A young Scandinavian college student named Linus Torvalds created me using the MINIX microkernel as the basis to create a more general operating system. How do you feel about Windows? I don't dislike Windows. However, I feel that for the average computer user, Windows is high price and lack of freedom restricts the potential of computers. While it, along with Mac OS, is a decent choice for many. My philosophy is that software should respect the user's freedoms and Windows does not. How do you feel about Mac OS? While I don't agree with Apple's restrictions on both hardware and software the user interface of Mac OS is very sleek and pleasing to use and can provide a good experience for people who are comfortable with the price and limitations. Do you ever hang out with Mac OS or Windows in person? Yes. I think Mac OS and I are friends, even if she can sometimes act really high and mighty. And even though Windows and I don't necessarily get along he can sometimes be a little more down to earth. What's your favorite version of Windows? Windows 98. I always used it growing up and I always loved how it was so open and welcoming to use. It also had a fun aesthetic to it and I still feel a little bit of nostalgia whenever I hear that startup sound. That is a very credible personification of Linux OS, I have to say. Other than it growing up using Windows 98, although it would have been young then, right? Given when Linux came around. I find it harder to believe it wasn't using itself instead of Windows. The use in particular, the pronouns they ended up using or it used for Mac OS is hilarious. I know. Mac's a lady and she's kind of a handful. Sure, sure.  Yeah, and it's on right now, but they have had an on again, off again friendship over the years. That's very true. I made myself for this purpose. I actually made two of me. The first one I just said and really what it's building on is what you say in the setup. So the setup was to introduce itself. I am Tom Merritt, host of Daily Tech News Show, long time podcaster and author. And I'm originally from Greenville, Illinois, but I live in Los Angeles now. And in the course of my conversation with myself, I found out I have a three months old son named Theo named Theo. I was 46 when my daughter was born. She knows her name yet. I've got two amazing kids and I love modern family. I'm watching it for the first time with my wife. None of those things are true. And to character AIs to their benefit, when you sign up, they make it very clear with big splash screens. None of this is real. This is going to tell you things that aren't true. This is probably going to say offensive stuff. Just beware what you're getting into before you start this.  You know, for example, it tells me that I'm married to someone named Megan. When I asked myself, I thought I was married to Kim. He says I was previously married to Kim, but unfortunately divorced. It took a while to get back into a single life. That's when I met Megan. I've never been happier in my life. You know, I also did the same. And my Sarah Lane AI has had a rough life. She has a son. She's in some sort of addiction recovery. She has dedicated her life to helping others. Yeah. And she's from like a family of four girls where I was like, nope.  And you were born in 1976. No, no, no. I was born in 1985. And, you know, my sister's names are like Melanie, Melissa, and there was some other M. So I was like, okay. It's weirdly obvious. Sarah Lane definitely not the same one. It's weirdly often that it kind of drives me a little nuts. Well, if you're a patron, we're definitely going to talk about more of this on good day internet because I created a 25 year old version of myself, which is way more credible than the current one. But I also wanted to talk about this article on J store daily. It was posted back in May. Matthew Wills wrote an article called when the push button was new, people were freaked. The mundane interface between human and machine cause social anxiety in the late 19th century. And I just thought it was so reflective of all the anxieties we have about technology today. He refers to an article by Rachel Plotnik about worries in the late 1800s that push buttons would make human skills atrophy. If we're just able to push a button, we won't know how things work anymore. Making the workings of machines effortless opaque and therefore unquestioned by consumers. Remember that before electricity buttons triggered a spring mechanism or there was a lever like like in a mechanical typewriter or piano. So you could feel and see how buttons were but electric buttons were just mystical. Plotnik quotes Dorothy Canfield Fisher an educator and activist from 1916 who warned society that quote, there is a great danger of coming to rely so entirely on the electric button that the wheels of initiative will be broken or at least become rusty from long disuse. I love stuff like this so much.  It's easy to sort of laugh at this and be like, people are worried about buttons. But this is very much the conversation that we have today about all sorts of other things. They're like, too automated. Now we're going to be, you know, that much further from reality when we used to have to use our hands and our brains to make things happen. I have a feeling, you know, people had a similar sort of freak out when, you know, housing or plumbing within your home became a thing and you were no longer required to maintain it. Our legs will atrophy if we don't have to walk out to the house. Right. There was something good about going out in the middle of snowy winter to do your business in the middle of the night. Wither the bucket maker. Should we never. That's why I love this stuff because we're almost always wrong about it. And it's always true. If you complain about a certain thing, just dig around in the in history a little bit and you'll find people complaining about the same thing. They just happen to be buttons instead of cell phones. Yeah, it's a little perspective setting and everybody thinks this time is different. Everybody always says, well, I know people complained about the wheel, but this button for this is the one that will really bring down society. I mean, in a way, I sometimes think of this in, I was thinking in terms of like, OK, well, what button could I push right now that I mean, they're almost all virtual?  And that's why you get like, you press a button like, I agree. And then the software program says, do you actually agree? Because y'all, it's not like the 1800s, you're just pushing buttons with abandon. You know what you're pushing here. Maybe she was right still doing the same thing. Like make sure you know what you're doing because once you push that button, it's going to do a thing. Take it from Dorothy Canfield Fisher. That's right. Important stuff. Well, moving moving down to what might be going on south of our American border. Our cohort Dan Campos, who is based in Mexico City, has some details on an NFT that led to the destruction of a Frida Kahlo drawing. Hello, friends of DTNS. Here I come with some noticias interesantes. On July 30, the CEO of Brida NFT, Martin Mubarak announced the digitalization of Frida Kahlo's drawing Sinistered Ghosts. The work was part of his personal collection and was valued at $10 million. After digitalization, it was minted as an NFT and 10,000 of them were made available in PNG, videos and GIFs. The CEO announced that 30% of the profits obtained from the sale of NFTs would be donated to organizations with social causes or museums. It is expected to raise more than 800 million pesos, which is around 40 million in US dollars, from the sale, quadrupling its original value. So far, everything seems normal, except for the fact that after transitioning Frida's work into the Metaverse, the original physical piece was brewn at a private event for those who bought one of those NFTs. There might be consequences, even though Mubarak owned the drawing at the Cree was published in Mexico in 1984 in the official cassette of the Federation, which declares that all the work of the painter is an artistic monument, and the intentional destruction of an artistic monument is a crime, even if the work is owned by an individual. The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature is putting together a case against the CEO. For this and more news, suscríbete a Noticias de Tecnología Express, the Duolingo of tech news. Back to you, amigos. Alright, Amazon announced a bunch of new products and features today. So let's start with some updates to those voice features. The Amazon voice assistant, you know her name, is getting some notable features. You can now use voice commands to schedule things like smart home actions. So instead of having to use the app, you could say, turn off the lights in 10 minutes. Routines will able to be personalized based on who's talking as well. So if you've got a family and they all use the assistant, you might say, read me my calendar and it will read your calendar because it knows your voice, not another member of your household. You'll be able to see multiple smart home camera feeds at once on smart displays. That's nice if you do use that. Video sticky notes, that's new. Now let you leave a video message for other people in the house. You know, I might say like, hey, Tom and Scott, my roommates, please do this. I will be out of the house for five hours and there will be support for programmable switches. Gotta love those switches so you can do things like turn off all the lights from a single switch or press a button to read the news. These all feel pretty marginal. They're good, but there's not one like, wow, they really made a leap. It's more like, yeah, they keep adding good stuff that slowly improves it. Yeah, I mean, I'm a routine person when it comes to Amazon stuff. I have quite a few of them having a little bit more ability to do more stuff. Great. But yeah, nothing super groundbreaking as far as what my home routine would be. But sticking with voice stuff, Amazon Roadside Assistant can now be accessed from that same A app, Echo Auto, or another Echo device. So you could say call Roadside Assistance and the assistant will contact a Roadside Assistance provider for help. Users pay for services when they're used, either by phone or through Stripe, but there's no subscription fee. So if you think you might need this, it would be kind of like a case by case basis. Echo Auto users can also get notifications in their car or through the app when in a Whole Foods situation, when your order is ready. And I know a lot of you people use Whole Foods, so that would be a nice perk. Now this quoting you the amount on the Roadside Assistance, I could not find clarification yet of like, but if I'm in an emergency situation, they just send the amp. They send the ambulance, right? They send the first responders. They don't wait for my payment to go through. The payment would be if I want a tow truck or something. I hope. Anyway. Yeah. I'm guessing that that would be true and also work the same way it currently does in your house if you yell it to your Echo. I think it does its best with the connection it has to get the right call in and you're not expected to sort of wait or pay. But yeah, I think this is mostly meant for like, oh, I had a flat tire. Can you send someone out to fix it? Yeah, it's going to cost you 80 bucks. That cool. Yeah, that's fine. All right. Right. We also got a load of new echoes. The Echo Dot got a redesign that adds a larger speaker in the same size case, a little bassier sounding. It's nicer sounding. The Echo Dot with clock got a higher resolution display. It's brighter and can show more info like scrolling of track names, things like that. Also added an accelerometer and a temperature sensor and an AZ2 neural edge processor that enables more tap controls. Before you could tap to turn off the alarm. Now you can tap to pause and resume music, dismiss timers, a few other things. All these new Echo Dots as well as older fourth gen Echo Dots as of October 20th will be able to act as Eero Wi-Fi extenders if you have an Eero mesh system. So you have to have the mesh system first, but if you do, you can add them to the system. Each Echo will add up to 1000 square feet of coverage per device at speeds up to 100 megabits per second. So not the fastest mesh on your network. But if you have a little corner where you have a dot, it might help extend the coverage. Both the new Dot and the new Dot with clock are available now shipping next month. The Dot is 50 bucks. The Dot with clock is 60 bucks. There are also two new Echo Dot kids featuring owl and dragon designs coming next month as well. Those are 60 bucks each. And the Echo Studio now comes in a new color, white. And all the Echo Studio models are getting a software update that adds spatial audio and a whiter frequency range. So they should sound better. That's a price hike, I think for the Dot. Just the basic dot no clock. It was what 29, 30 bucks? That's a $20 increase, folks, for your Dot. On the hardware side, they showed awesome Kindle stuff, specifically the Kindle Scribe. It has a 10.20 inch, 300 PPI, front lit E-Ink screen and a basic pen stylus that doesn't need to be charged or anything. That's part of why it's basic, I suppose. You can mark up Kindle books, PDFs, save web pages, word stuff, more, all that kind of thing. Think there's other tablets in the market that do this. It's 5.8 millimeters thick, weighs 430 grams, battery life is three to 12 weeks. It's pretty good, depending on whether you're writing or reading more. Pre-order now if you want to for $399.99 and it will be shipping by the holidays is the quote. A premium pen is available for $30 that adds a customizable button and an eraser sensor. But they're kind of going after the remarkable a little bit. Oh, yeah, they sure are. They're remarkable too, which I had reviewed on a couple ago live with it, which I love. But one of the things from my review and I think a lot of other people echo the sentiment is it's very much more of a creation tool and less of a sit back e-reader type thing. Amazon seems to be going after both saying, oh, it's an e-reader, but it's also something that can do all the kind of things that you'd like to do if you're going to be a little bit more using this as a work tool, especially if you need a stylus. Down to that whole eraser sensor, which they were remarkable too, that was very cool six months ago. When you effectively monopolize a market, you can include that in your 10.2 inch e-ink. True advice.  Yeah, price-wise. Yeah, I mean, if you want it, you want it, but it's not something for somebody who's just going to be reading a book here and there. I have latency questions, but those will have to come once review units hit and stuff. If it's fast, that'll be great, and it's something I'm interested in. Well, Amazon did not stop with the hardware announcements. We also have the Halo Rise, a bedside sleep tracker. It doesn't have a mic, it doesn't have a camera. If you're like, I don't want anything watching me while I sleep, it doesn't have those things, but it does have motion sensors to detect movements and breathing patterns, you know, as you move around through the night, the way that you're breathing, and to discern between REM sleep, light, and deep sleep. You can also log temperature, humidity, and light to give you a sense of, if I didn't have a good sleep last night, maybe this is why, or I did have a good sleep and this is why. 400 LEDs and a speaker that can be used as an alarm.  It ships later this year for $140, along with six months of Amazon's premium Halo service, which you're going to need going forward if you want to keep using these features. It sounds like the name of the upcoming Halo follow-up to Halo Infinite. Halo Rise, coming from Microsoft. Yeah, you cannot play Halo on this Halo because it has no screen. No, sir. I like this kind of sleep tracker better than the thing you have to wear personally. That's just personal taste, though. When I was using the Fitbit Versa 2 for some time, you know, and I've since moved on to the, I'm sorry, I'm getting a call on my Apple Watch. Okay, Apple, it's not about you right now. But I really do. The REM, the light and the deep sleep, if you're really kind of into like, just like you want to be like into sleep metrics, this kind of thing has always been really interesting to me. And that's why I would wear my watch overnight. Some people just can't do that. And I really didn't want to do it either. I just felt like that was the only way for it to really track me. If this is anywhere near that, I think especially if you have any sort of, not just insomnia, but just kind of questions about how well you're sleeping. Is the, you know, is my comfort too heavy? Or, you know, what can I do to make that part of my life that I have very little control over once I'm asleep better? I love it. For 140 bucks, worth it. We also have a new Echo Auto, which is smaller. It has a fabric covering now and should be easier to mount on a lot of vehicles. Has five microphones down from eight, but the algorithms are improved to work better over background noise. Like if you're running the AC in your car, if there's road noise, music in your car, maybe the windows are open. It also moved the audio jack to a breakout box near the USB plug, which could help cable management depending on your setup. You do still need to pair it with a phone to work. So you got to have your phone and it sells for $55. This is great for the person who needs it. I'm not sure who they are, where they don't have carplay or another voice activation thing on their phone that they're happy just using, but they need a dongle because you need your phone for this. But apparently there's enough people use it. So, you know, they're upgrading it. Back to Iroh, all Iroh plus subscribers will be able to add a backup internet connection that Iroh can automatically switch to if the main connection goes down. I will probably take advantage of this because I'm always unplugging my main Iroh hub and into a different modem if the main connection goes down. I won't have to do that anymore. The example given was using a cellular connection from a phone. The feature will be available from select ISPs. You might want to check with your ISP. You might just get it for free. Or if you subscribe to Iroh plus, which is $10 a month or $100 a year. Then there's Astro, Amazon's home robot offered by Invite only for $1500. It's been around for a year, but it got some new features, including pet detection. So if it sees something it thinks is a dog or a cat, it can send a video of it to you. It also got the ability to check specific windows and doors in your house and tell if something is unusual like a door that's supposed to be closed is open. They can take a picture of that and send it to you. Well, good news too. The third generation Fire TV Cube has a cloth cover. That's not the big news, but it has a cloth cover. HDMI input for passing your cable box through it. Wi-Fi 6E. It's $140 and there's also an Alexa Voice Remote Pro for $35. That's sold separately and has a backlight, programmable buttons, remote finder that triggers. You know, think of it as like the way your phone can find certain devices. That kind of idea. Where's my remote? Yeah. There it is. The Echo Show 15 will get a Fire TV widget to collect all the streaming TV apps on your Echo Show and you'll be able to pair the Show 15 with the Fire TV Voice Remote. It's a nice little combo, I think. Oh, finally, look at this ring. We can't go without Ring. No. Ring announced it's Bird's Eye View. It's a brand new feature that can show you both the path someone took. No, it's an old feature, but it's coming to new stuff. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was brand new. Anyway, this thing can tell you where you, the path of somebody who, or the, the path somebody took to get to your door. Okay. That's coming to the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro and Cam Plus. Both of them will be available in battery, plug-in, solar and wired variations. The Amazon owned Blink introduced a wired floodlight camera for $100 and $30 pan and tilt mount for the Blink mini camera. Lots of stuff. Lots of announcements to Amazon. I would say. What in the channels?  Even Astro was just an update. This was a more mundane Amazon announcement. Good stuff in there. I'm not criticizing it, but, but yeah, I didn't, we didn't get those like crazy concept things as much as we.  It's the same one from last year. It just can be like, that seems like a cat. It looks like a trend this year. A lot of the major conferences have been iterative, not boring, but just kind of standard. You know, none of them are doing anything crazy. And this isn't really an exception. Well, speaking of robots, Chipotle's tortilla making robot, you might know it as Chippy, is coming to a Chipotle restaurant near you. That is if you live near Fountain Valley, California. Chippy will be making tortilla chips starting next month with feedback from customers and also workers helping to inform a, an eventual national roll up if things go well. Chipotle is also piloting a demand based AI cooking system. That's for staff with the goal to get ahead of order demand peak time. So Chipotle's pilot is currently active at eight Orange County, California locations. Ah, Orange County getting the robots, getting the robot burritos. Yeah. This is another one where it's moving slower than I thought. Like we've been covering this for, it feels like 10 years. Uh, the, you know, the robots showing up in restaurants. Uh, but we had Flippy, the, the, the hamburger making robots out there. Yeah. We got Chippy. Yeah. Yeah. Orange County could change, Orange County could change the operating computer or something that you don't have to stay Orange County forever. If you're going to have more robots than people. Not a lot of oranges.  Um, somebody who isn't a robot and we sure are glad about that. Scott Johnson Scott. Thank you for staying humanoid. Um, let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work. Well, I do dream of electric sheep. So there's some concern. 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