So we're checking here the new Amazon AWS arm server here with smug mug and hi, so who are you? Hi, so I'm Shane Myers. I'm a principal operations engineer with smug mug and I'm here to talk about the Amazon a1 incense So you're using the arm server on the Amazon AWS? We are and and smug mug is famous for photo. So we're a premium photo her suit company We're the safe beautiful home for all of your photos. Yeah, and so we're using a1 instances for scale-out workloads such as serving photos out to customers and overtime Start my grading others. So you've been using AWS for a long time. Yeah, we were one of the first customers of S3 and It's been great. It's like S3 is amazing. S3 is amazing.  I've the rumors. I've heard is about a third of the internet overall is a is AWS We've been customer for a long time and we use probably about well over half the services that Amazon offers and They continue for turning out, you know great things all the time and enable your business, right? Absolutely because have you ever had your own servers also? We did. We had data centers at multiple data centers including our own Stacks of spending disks and all that kind of stuff to host our photos But over time we moved all these workloads into AWS because there's a cost savings It wasn't our core competency maintaining data centers instead by using AWS were able to leverage the power of the cloud and Be able to really focus on our core composite of serving beautiful photos for our customers So I've been doing arm server videos for eight years for maybe nine I don't know so long time and it's very exciting to see Amazon They do that on chip and it goes over there. Everybody can just buy instances right now. That's correct, and you are Just experimenting or you're buying a lot. We're buying some we're not buying a lot But some some and as as we are able to have time to work move workloads onto our instances We will it is a cost savings for us You're already seeing results some results. Yeah for some some applications. It's perfect. Yeah We use a lot of C5 instances and arm instances in the C5s for a price comparison for the same memory and core count is About 40% cheaper with our instances And it's exactly the kind of stuff that's good for smuggler. It is because we're have we're a PHP shop We're scale out workloads as we need to add capacity for Additional traffic for you know during daytime to nighttime We scale up scale out we add cores by adding adding more instances So is this how it looks like? So this is a smuggler gap these are various hero photos So what part of this goes on the a1 So the actual serving the photos out to the customer so like the web hosting kind of thing Yeah, the web hosting the photo serving portion of the we're we're broken up to the multiple what we call tiers of servers There's the photo serving ones that the web web servers that serve HTML and right now it's the photo serving Is it easy for you to combine the arm stuff and the other stuff? So some of it does this and the other does that and it is storage somewhere else maybe or yeah Well, it's kind of a microservice architecture So we were able to take this one microservice the photo serving and move to a1 with with relatively Little pain just click something it works. So what did you recompile in something? So for us it was a little bit of a jump because the a1 instances work with Ubuntu Bionic 1804 and later and we're still on trusty for some of our applications, which is 1404 So most of my work was actually it was an OS upgrade Getting our stuff migrated up to the new operating system We do run our own custom PHP build so I had to recompile that on it on arm, but that was Pretty simple. It's already scripted just basically rerun it and we're done But all of our PHP Python Perl, etc. That runs the site or runs another behind-the-scenes arc infrastructure Just works so upgrading the stuff for the latest version of the OS is good to do anyways, right? It is good to do anyway. It's not just for the arm. No, we're still in the support window for trusty So we had it hadn't been a huge priority, but it is one of those things that as we go we are upgrading And so how smooth is this? What are you showing here? So what is showing here? I don't have Can you come a little bit closer to me? Yeah, the full demo is not not really working right now Just do two glitches, but then I'm working through but essentially I'm able to launch EC2 instances This is the review launch screen and so I can pick an a1 instance type It's got two CPUs for big bytes RAM And you want to launch the instance and have things And it says up to 10 gigabits And you can choose how many one of these and how much of that or it was based on the Amazons How they play these out so the a1 large instance has two CPU cores and four gigs of RAM the a1 extra large has Four CPUs and a gigabyte RAM.  I was and what can we talk about? So what you just said pretty much. Yeah, so I was part of the breakout session for the for the a1 instances the arm instances and so I talked about how by, you know difficulties and where I lack there and really of upgrading not to use up day one instances mostly like in the operating system upgrade the Hardware arm aspect of it is actually very simple So pretty seamless and who else was there and on the panel with you? Is there some other companies to know for that session? It was just myself and Amazon to other gentlemen from Amazon But I have you heard stories or you don't have to say maybe if it's secret But have you heard stories of other companies embracing this and it just works for them I haven't talked to too many other companies about this still is still still new to the industry a lot of people are Kind of gun-shy about trying out new things like our it's pretty much last month or two months ago It is but but in some respects, you know It takes months to years to still roll things out and a lot of people are comfortable or have workloads that they just don't understand enough to give a shot at So this is 40% cheaper better than Intel for something specific not for everything, right? Not for everything it is I am a strong proponent and use the right tool for the job So we also use a lot of GPUs for image processing as our buddy from NVIDIA We use the P2 instances for those and so we use those for we use GPUs for the image jobs We use arm instances for some of the web loads And you know just use the right tool for the job The AWS say if it's a 20 nanometer or 14 or what it is. I didn't say right? They didn't say it's probably not the fastest one it could they could make a faster one That's why it's called a one. Yeah, I think I suspect like I mean we saw it the M1 ten years ago Over time it grew to the M2 and M4 like we've now got a hundred hundred forty five different instance types available I would imagine the a once would grow over time as well I'm sorry the arm instances for over time as well So it's fun. It's exciting to work with us. It is To save some save some money right? Yeah, try to optimize things absolutely. It's great to optimize things Save money, you know that's money saved is We're able to reinvest in other areas instead of just spending on an infrastructure potentially making the service cheaper Yeah, potentially. Yeah, and then we can you know reinvest where needed to make the best service possible for investors


So my experience in the exercise, we went out to San Clemente Island. We simulated being a down pilot to where the PJs would come out there, find their down pilots and they rescue them. They get them there and then they hoist you out of the water into an aircraft. For this exercise, we actually had the Navy involved. They took us to the Navy's ship. We're able to give us care. And then from there, we got back onto another helicopter where we went to an airfield. They put us on a C-130 where the CAD team worked on us until they can get us into a hospital.


We have Silver up $1.26, $24.46 an ounce, Light Sweet Crew up $0.90, $76.09 a barrel, notes and bonds, a 10-year note, down $26, trading at a price point of $113.16, the 30-year off a full point plus 23 ticks at $128.02, you get the 10-year right now folks at yielding 3.686 and Kingdoll, Kingdoll's down 734 ticks trading at $103.88, Euro is at $106, Yen, that's the move out there, Yen, down 5.37, that's 5.37 points, $131.54, that means the Yen is getting stronger folks.  Let's go to the gold market because it's all about the metals, the metals took off, that being said, I don't like the setup, this is like sad, you know, you hear me talk about this a lot, I mean, you're going into a holiday, now what's happening is this, this is the third time that gold has taken off, okay, and you know, when we take a look at this, what you're going to see is that, yeah, yeah, first, we had the date of the, let's see, the first of November, the first of December, gives it up, then we had the next one, which is the 13th, and then we have today, we'll see where this shakes out, if you go, if you look at any of the gold equities, they're up but they don't have volume, gold should be through the roof right now, and the dollar, my take on the dollar is it still wants higher price, so you had the, you know, the Bank of Japan last night, turn around and saying that they're going to go have their boundary to 0.50 versus 0.25, and listen to the ends, a small part of the dollar index, but the dollar index didn't break as low, I mean, the low on the dollar index right now from five days ago is 103, my take, this thing's going to reject it, and you're going to go higher once again, so we'll see where this baby shakes out, but markets, including, you know, basically the golden silvers, and we'll see where it shakes out, but I don't like the setup right now, stay right there folks, come right back.


Our first inductee is Tracy Wetstone-Cantavine. Tracy was the first female athlete of the year at Villa Julie in 1995. A four-sport athlete, she competed in field hockey, lacrosse, indoor track, and cross country for the Mustangs and was later head coach of the field hockey program in 1996. When I think of Tracy I don't think of her as a complainer. She's always just a go-getter and if something happens she's looking for a way to solve it and move forward. You know she's had some, I've been with her through ankle surgeries and knee surgeries and they've never really held her back. She just kind of moves forward. She was never the kind of person to, she would probably never even call herself injured in a certain situation. It was just, you know, put advantage on it and keep going. If there was something that wasn't working optimally, I think her philosophy is fix it and keep going. But I don't know that she would ever consider herself injured at any point during her athletic career because that would typically represent somebody who sits on the sidelines and that's just not who she is. I think Tracy achieves excellence in all that she does and she promotes the community, any community that she's involved in she's always promoted. Just in our field hockey, when we were at the Baltimore Field Hockey Association she was always involved actively in that she was always being awarded for something. They just define Tracy I think. What I find different about her is there's not a time that I've interacted with her where she hasn't immediately had a smile on her face and immediately had a positive attitude. She's extremely outgoing. I won't call her loud but she's not quiet. And you just know she's a presence and that's a fantastic thing but you do kind of feel a certain energy that comes from her and that's probably what speaks to other people and makes them want to come here when she's talking to them about Stevenson Athletics and the pride that she has for the school. I think she just sort of exudes a certain energy that is contagious and makes other people want to be part of that. So I can really see where she's been successful in that role but she definitely has something about her that is happy, inspiring, outgoing and it doesn't make you just want to be part of that. It sort of makes you want to emulate that as well. From the Class of 1995, it is my honor to welcome Tracy Cantabine into the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame. I'm getting old. Sorry. Thank you for this honor. Being a team sport, I've always been on the field with novice to international players that have contributed to the player that I was, although I still think I can be. Who knew that when I picked up a stick in 9th grade it would lead me on a path to a multitude of great people and experiences. Thank you to all my teammates and coaches. When I arrived at BJC, I was already coaching hockey and playing club but as many of you know, this is a special place. I met some other athletes and contributing to the birth of an athletic program seemed exciting and boy did we have excitement. With only one field, we were often dodging soccer balls, large rocks, divots and other athletes. But the close quarters forged a special bond between the athletes, especially when doing our part to meet the NCAA-required number of teams to be considered D3. Playing a soccer scrimmage? Okay. Run cost crunchy? Sure. Participate in indoor track? Oh, pick me. Carol Zimmerman still haunts me with knowing my time in the 50-yard dash selected because it was the least amount of running. I remember sitting in the Towson Fieldhouse to conserve energy and watching the other schools run laps to warm up. And who could forget Trey running cross country in work boots? We weren't the most orthodox running bunch. For many games, we played short. Walking to our bench at Wesley College, the other team remarked, their other van must be lost. Playing with one less player, we beat them to nothing and I received my first set of stitches for the season. That was in the video there. The second set, but not the last, happened in practice from a stick to my ear.  I had to remind her that it was my ear and everything was going to be okay. And yes, I received stitches again in a post-season regional tournament. But not to worry, we had kit. Our wonderful trainer, comedian, friend, and van driver, if you are lucky enough to have a large team. Our training room, which could only fit three people, could fit half of a table, a few folding chairs, and a stack of buckets. Ah, the dreaded bucket. If you had an ankle injury, you'd grab a bucket, fill it with ice and water, and soak for 20 minutes. I think kit took great pleasure in kicking the bucket, which would somehow drop the temperature 10 degrees. Did I say it was special here? The training room wasn't the only place where fond memories were made. Van rides were also comical because sometimes at the expense of our coach, Anna Banana. Growing up in Hereford, Anna was able to identify the different types of cows as we'd pass on road trips. Who knew that like cats, there was more than one? For myself and for many of my athletic peers, we transferred to Villa Jolie because of the friendly, feel-at-home environment, which included the likes of Chip Rouse, Chris Noia, Steve Angorn, and Mark Ergen, all steadfast supporters of us on the field and in the classroom. Barely missing a game, they were easy to spot, partly because we didn't have a lot of spectators or bleachers. It was the likes of their support on and off the field that has never changed at this institution. In the early days, we played purely for the love of the sport. There were no conference titles, ECA bids, or NCAA bursts to be had. There were no team rooms, night practices or games, multiple facilities, or full-time coaches. Our hockey uniform was a t-shirt, and we supplied our own equipment. Yet we knew we were laying the foundation for something great. Maybe not that day or that season, but we knew VJC, now Stevenson, was and is a special place. Thank you to Brett and Ms. Fran, where's Brett? Sorry, Ms. Fran, Brett, wherever you are, for being the athletic department in the early days, and to Dr. Manning for taking our dream and turning it into a reality. And to my fellow athletes from back in the day, thank you for the laughs and good memories. Anytime the Garth Brooks song, I got friends in low places, please, I can't help but think of the spring formal. Thank you to my family and friends, who I consider my friend, my family, for humbling me by sharing in this special honor and for your love and support. And to my greatest accomplishments, Lillian and Curry, find your special place, go out and do amazing things. Lillian is the starter on the eighth, ninth grade field hockey team and is only in seventh grade. He picks up a hockey stick with us on Friday nights and has a wicked drive. Watch out. Thank goodness neither one has my speed or lack of speed. And to my rock, best friend and internal teammate, Paul, I can't imagine going through the game of life with anyone else. Thank you again for this honor, go Mustangs.


Okay. Thank you very much for coming. This is just a presentation about using XMPPE to connect Internet of Things. Just kind of a word about TIGASAY, who we are. We began as an open source XMPPE server in 2004 from One Person Project. We're now six people. Our flagship product is the TIGASAY XMPPE server. It is open source and platform independent. It runs off of Java. And we specialized in custom application and modification of XMPPE servers for specific applications. And we just released version 7.1 just a couple of days ago. So we're kind of fresh off of that and onto some new stuff. So what is XMPPE? It stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Most of that is pretty self-explanatory. So I'll kind of skip the next couple of ones here to kind of go on to the next thing. XMPPE takes place, of course, in a single stream of data. So it goes back and forth until you no longer need to communicate with the server and the stream ends. As you can see here, it is all based in an XML markup. So everything has its own child elements from there. Communication is broken into three different types of standards. There are short contained XML messages sent through the server to either a component or another user. And they come in three types, presence, IQ, and message. And the addressing standard is known as the Jabber ID or JID. And can either be broken up into a bare JID, kind of like an email here, or a full JID which has a resource. The resource can be used, say, if you have a tablet, a mobile phone, and a desktop computer. They can all have the same log on, but they all have different resources, so you can address them specifically. Just a little bit more. The basic structure of a stanza will have a type, usually a from or a to, and related child elements. So moving on to presence types, you have, excuse me, stanza types, you have presence. This can indicate a user status, whether they're away, they're away, unavailable, or available for chat. They can be used for triggers for events, so if somebody signs off, hey, some other stuff happens inside the server as far as logic is concerned. They can be sent by servers, clients, or components. There are five different show tags, and they can all be extended using the status element. And that's kind of a text string that'll explain what's going on. I'll skip priority and see elements. That's just kind of a basic presence stanza that you can see inside an XMPP server. Messages are kind of the bulk of what most chat servers will use, and they're designed to carry person to person text. They can be enriched if needed, and we have five different message types. Chat, group chat, headline, and normal, I'm sorry, and finally error. Again, I'm kind of moving through this kind of quickly to get to the other real meat of this presentation. They can have some specific elements, but body is really the main one we're concerned about. That's kind of where the meat of messages will work. And we can use things like, for example, we can use HTML to enhance those messages, make them look sort of fancy. Info query is the last type of message stanza. This is kind of how you can get and receive information to the server. It opens up a method for a response and request mechanism, and we have four types of there as well. Set, get, result, and error, which I'm sure you can discern the meanings thereof. This is sort of a pair of examples using disco info protocol. How can I get information about, for example, information for multi-user chat? And this returns some information about which ones are available on that room. And then components are items of code that extend these server operations. They will typically have a jet assigned. Three typical ones you'll see is PubSub, Jingle, or Muck on a server. And PubSub is kind of an important one as we'll see in a moment. And it's designed to provide a polling service. You can find information there. Things will publish information. You can receive information and receive pushes from those spots. They're organized into nodes. Nodes will be stored relevant information. So in a moment you'll see kind of how useful nodes can be in this scope. And users can subscribe. They'll receive notifications about new information that's pushed there. And then you can also look up older information if you want to have, say, the last several publishes to that node. You can get historical information from a PubSub node. Kind of moving on to our second topic, Internet of Things. Is it really secure? Most consumer devices will have a login page like this and that's it. And probably about 90% of the ones out there you could log into with admin-admin. Oh, wow, I have access to this device. Not exactly the most secure platform out there. And this is kind of what things look like right now. And this is a bit of an issue because I'm sure many of you are aware of the DOIN attack that happened back in October. That's kind of a heat map of what we're looking for, which was primarily done by malicious code on Internet of Things devices that were insecure. Small bits of codes were thrown in there. And this is the largest denial of service attack that we've had up to date. These will probably be more frequent if nothing is done to sort of secure that end of things. To that end, why would we want to use XMPP as a solution? One big one is security. The XMPP server can use limit to network traffic only. So, for example, if you want to just set up a home security system and only have people inside the house control it, that's easily done. We can filter traffic using the XMPP server logic. And we have some device isolation that allows for devices not to be touched by anybody outside the network or indirectly affected by people. And again, authentication can be more than just a simple password using some standard features that XMPP servers come with. There is a bit of an ease of use as well. XMPP servers already designed to handle that two-way communication that you would expect. So you wouldn't have to worry about, okay, how do I get this device to talk to a phone or another device or a hub? There can be scripts for automatic setup. If you turn on another device inside your network, the hub or the XMPP server says, oh, that's there or he sets it up for use. User can change the name of these pub sub nodes. We'll see in a minute. So users can configure how these work. And again, easy network configuration. XMPP already does NAT translation. So you really don't have to worry about accessing it from outside of the network and creating certain holes if you need. And we can have out of the box secure functionality with an XMPP server. Cost is kind of interesting too as well in terms of if you're developing some hardware. It's a well established platform. We've been around for a while as XMPP. It is an open source protocol and you can customize to whatever you need. But you don't have to basically spend money to use XMPP is that particular thing. And again, our solution and other solutions are platform independence. You don't have to use one specific device or one specific operating environment. So in this case, what we've produced is sort of a particular use case, for example, and I Internet of Things thermostat. Really all we're looking for is, okay, we want to get what the temperature is. In this case, it would publish to the PubSub component on the XMPP server. And that alone isolates that device from anybody who wants to put malicious code on there. Any sort of information that's passed to the thermostat has to go through the server and the PubSub component, which means that has to be formatted correctly. Otherwise it's going to get rejected almost immediately. And there is another step to go through in terms of if you want to connect to the actual thermostat. So how can this be done? As again, we saw on the diagram, the PubSub node acts as an intermediary. So we can have and what we've designed is that the devices is a root node. And then underneath that root node, you have a device name for each device that may be on your network. And then you have a state and a config node. State, obviously, what's the current temperature and config if you want to send some configuration to it. That will only be allowed through an admin user, but typically somebody who just wants to get in isn't an authorized admin, can only receive the state information from the node. And information is published to their associated node. So you can have multiple thermometers. Each node can be renamed on the fly. So you can have it upstairs downstairs or living room, whatever it might be just sticking on that. And the device itself is responsible for running the application and obtaining configuration from the PubSub node. So it kind of separates the two a little bit. Here's kind of an example that we're using. We're using 323, which is IoT sensor data that is contained within a time stamp. In this case, we're just showing that in this case, this is a light sensor and we just have a value of 37 lumens. And users can connect to that node and just attain current temperature, lumen, whatever they might need. So the configuration nodes are reserved to push information and configuration changes, and they can only allow local traffic or admins, however you might want to set that up, to change your settings depending on how the hub may be configured. And again, they can only be limited to data forms that we're looking for. So we can't put malicious code in there. It's only going to look for properly formatted stanzas to pass through. These are some X and PP stanzas of how to connect and what we're going to see as far as the transmission, just in raw stanza. So in this case, we're just asking for the initial state from the device. And MaxItems1 is just showing the most recent published one. The sensor will then respond with its current read state. In this case, we're getting a 23.25 degrees Celsius temperature readout again in that time stamp form. And that's pretty easy to scrape in terms of where to pull that information and what you're expecting. It's going to show in that format. So it'll be nice and simple there. When a sensor has new data, it wants to publish to the PubSub node, it'll send another IQ stanza to the PubSub node specifically. It will report a new temperature, and that will be given an item value by the server itself. So we can, excuse me, each new publish will have its own item so you can look up historical value later if you want to do that. In this case, if we want to publish a configuration change, the device will publish its initial settings on startup to the configuration node. This is much longer, but this is just a couple of values. The server will respond with an item set, and if you want to change those settings, obviously you would have to be in the same form and all the values that we're expecting. We've also created a user interface which completely obscures the XMPP portion. And again, we'll just take that information, put it in user-reasonable data, which is kind of handy if you want to have something as a complete solution. As far as being able to expand this sort of thing, new devices and values are easily added. We don't have to, you don't have to use any XMPP as far as new drivers and devices. It can all be done in Java. The framework is similar to previous TigerStay frameworks. If you ever worked with one, it'll be pretty easy to pick up and go with. And device types and sensor data are independent, so you can have multiple types with different sensor data if you want. And again, intense knowledge of XMPP is not necessary as coded in Java. Oh, I just went one by one. This is sort of a quick example of our little system working here, running a, just a light setting example. Just have a camera on the side there, just kind of turning lights on and off, so to speak. But we do have a functional example running. And here we're changing the name of the PubSub node from lights dimmer to, I think, just dimmer. And this is done quickly on the fly and the server just adjusts automatically, which makes that nice and customizable. Again, here we can see quite a few settings that are available that can be changed using publishing new configuration settings to the config PubSub node. And again, just to show how quick it is, XMPP is rather instant in terms of changing these settings, so it is something that can work. And the nice part is we do have several zips available on the XMPP website, but we've used basically one that's pre-existing and one that already exists. So we, the option to, I think, what has happened here? I think it broke. Okay, thank you. The computer has decided not to display anymore, so we may have to just look at the smaller preview for the moment. So we've had a couple of options as well as terms of solution. PubSub is one instance that we can fix this Internet of Things solution. Another one is being able to send a direct message through an XMPP server to a device. And in fact, we have a sort of a live demonstration here. Unfortunately, people in the back can't see, but we do have a little robot down here that's receiving XMPP commands and returning sensor data to the XMPP server to say, hey, I've stopped, I've turned, I've gone left and right. And this bot is actually just receiving messages, message stances directly to the device. And all it's doing is carrying out those commands as asked. Unfortunately, I don't have... I think your presentation's in the background. At the bottom there's a bar. Oh, is it? Oh, thank you very much. Okay. So in this case, we will require some log-ons to address those things directly. But the nice part is we can do some reduced overhead. And again, the device still requires a properly formatted XML stanza, so we can't really send anything malicious or anything that it's not expecting. In this case, we're just sending stanzas like these. And if, for example, to move forward, the bot will respond, hey, I've moved forward and it will use chat states to basically say, I'm executing command. Once it's done, the chat state will basically go to idle and then it will send back a message saying that it is done. Our framework is open source. And as of this morning, we've opened it up to anybody who wants to jump in and kind of mess with the code. It's available on projects.tigase.org. And they're separated. We have an IoT home, which we saw earlier in the demo. This turtle bot is there. The only requirements we have right now is a device bridge, which we've used Raspberry Pi 3s. And Tigase server 720 are newer operating on the same network. That's all I have for now. Any questions about this implementation or source code thereof? We have three minutes. A couple of questions. Questions? Just a curiosity actually. Isn't XML in general a bit verbose, for small devices? Or did you add some improvements and adjustments to make this, let's say, verbosity in the terms of messages that are being exchanged less problematic? We haven't really worked on the verbosity of XML very much. But what we've done is essentially we wanted to make a representational case. So essentially this works. Here's how it could be done is more what we're going towards. In terms of truncating any of that, we haven't done any work there, but I'm sure it could be done. Thank you. Yes, sir? How do you handle authentication? In this case, for authentication, for Pub-Sub, we can use anonymous users if we just want to use, if we just want to collect data. For the message bot, well, yeah. It can be also done in such a way that each device will have embedded its own private JIT and its own private password. So every device will have separate passwords, separate logging, let's say, and it will create a specific account on our server. And our server can allow it or not. It's up to us or user on the end to decide if you want to decide if this device should be allowed to attach to the server or not. When you say our server, do you mean tiger say server or the users? Generally, it would be any XMPP server, right? Yes, sir? MQTT seems to be popular also on IoT devices. So what's the disadvantage that they're against the solution? MQTT is fine in local networks, right? However, when you would like to expose or access this network from the internet, then you will need to go through navs, issues, et cetera. With XMPP, you can connect or explore, allow connection to XMPP server from outside networks. Easier, and it's already done, so this is the advantage of this solution. This small talk to us is connected to our company server. So it works as XMPP client and I have XMPP client on my laptop. That's all. That's all I have to tell you guys. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, man.


We can do things in the M-BAR that we can't typically do in the Cassidy and Cooney. One of those things is cruiser weapon suits so we can do our light and medium machine guns and we can go out and maintain propensity in those weapon systems because it's defensive and air-based would fall upon where the company be. So letting Marines come out in the field and actually see what it's like working in a cold environment or a rainy environment. Success to me is all of our gear, equipment and Marines account for back and forth in Cassidy and Cooney and our Marines have taken away some good training lessons from Sneaky Rath.


For all your NRG innovation product needs make sure you check out driveenerg.com that's D-R-I-V-E-N-R-G dot com. What's up everybody welcome back to the channel I'm EvilRabbit and I am joined by who ate my hamster who will join in a little bit later but today we are here on Forza Horizon 3 in the parking lot staring down my get nut slab NRG innovations Logitech EvilRabbit tuning S13 that I will be using in the EVL drift invitationals. Quickly before I get into the course demonstration all that for the first event if you notice on the back of the door or on the trunk there is the new 2018 Team EvilRabbit TE logo it is available for download if you guys want to rock the TE Team EvilRabbit logo it is available just search EvilRabbit07 as well just to find the door cards that you will need on the car as well. So there has been some rule changes since the last video hamster and I have been running some tandems as well as urgent some of the other Team EvilRabbit members and we've been looking and we have changed it to street tires from sports to slow the speeds down a little bit and try and make the tandems a little bit closer so check the addendums so the rules a link will be in the description box below. So big thank you to T-John as well for making it obvious that I should probably adjust the tires a little bit. I was using the FD tire widths so it was kind of different because it was like oh 300 millimeters or 400 millimeters instead of like a 335 and stuff like that so I changed it to basically accommodate the actual tire sizes in Forza and so if you've already built a car your car still should be okay I didn't change them dramatically they only went down by five so you still should be okay and you're tired of weight if you've already built a car. So today we are going to go through the course layout for the event one I do have a lot of the members that I want in event one already set to be invited but if you guys want to be in any of these EVL drift invitations make sure you comment on this video comment down below comment your gamer tag and I'll add you to the list of invitees that I have on the computer so that I will get you invited to other ones I plan on hopefully doing one to two of these maybe three a month different course layouts maybe we'll go from eight invitations to a 16 depending on how it goes so we're here today to check the course layout for the event number one and like I said comment your gamer tag down below because I do have people that I want in the event one but there may be some spots opening up due to people not available to show so if you guys want to be a part of it make sure you guys get a car built to the rules that will be in the description box as well and make sure you comment your gamer tag because if I don't know your gamer tag can't really send you an invite so course layout for one is we are gonna be running in the parking lot so basically we're gonna be running a short tandem course I'm gonna run it real quick show you where the car should be and then I'll try running it myself and see if I can get the car where it should be but you know this is this is me and this is for the present three I'm still on for the seven feel so basically both cars are gonna start here in the back in these parking spots and we will do so the drivers will do like a 20 roll to these first markers and then you'll be on full throttle the first the initiation point will be about this third yellow parking spot you're gonna want to initiate at that or the parking meters you're gonna want to initiate there try to get as far out deep to the fence as you can coming around to a about a midline around here getting your back wheels out to this white parking hash marks over here so you want to get your back tires at least close as you can into the white try not to go all the way deep in the light so you don't pull down and we have to you know move it out of the way then you're gonna want to try and cut back and shoot to have your back tires clip this rear island right here as well as this island here which puts you in enough place to get your car out into these parking spots here you're gonna run these parking spots as much as you can and get it all the way out here as close as you can to the wall capping it as good if you don't change your angle from there you're gonna pretty much shoot your car into these islands here and then you're gonna want to get your back bumper out to about this island for a clip here and then you're gonna transition it through this section getting your front bumper as close as you can to the island on the left and basically shoot your car all the way out again but this time getting your car completely out into the yellow as close as you can to the wall pushing it all the way out to the wall as well here staying nice and high against the wall and then bring it back and bring your back bumper around to this island here on the outro and then you're gonna bring the car through that island to this island here and that is where the run will end so I'm gonna try to give it a run here myself and see if I can actually get my points down it's been a little bit shaky still trying to tune this car a little bit more but you know like I said four seven physics are still on my mind so here we are we give it a shot slight roll on power initiate about that third yellow get it out to the wall nice and wide get my car into the white that's too much on the islands but you want to get the rear bumper there into the white and then we're gonna run it out to the wall bring it out this way get the bumper out there kick it back and run it out into the yellow little handbrake there out to the wall tapping it is okay like I said then you want to get to that island and then finish it off close to there so that run was not that great my driving has definitely lax to your horizon three definitely gonna be doing a lot more driving in here but also be going back to seven because hamster and I I believe are both going to be trying to qualify for round three ESDA and Jello so we're gonna try to run this one more time that's a little bit better of an initiation out to the white there we go kick it back that's a little better on those two islands got my car in the wrong gear but we're gonna try and salvage this run we're gonna cut it back just a gentle tap on that island it's basically the figure eight we're gonna go into the yellow could have gone deeper and then I saw that but you guys get the general idea of the course now I'm gonna probably try and get hamster in here we're gonna try and run some tandems and see if we can't get some tandems in here and go from there and have a little fun but like I said we should guys check the description box for the rules and also comment your game of tag if you want to be a part of this one or any of the other upcoming EVL distiguitational events that I'll be running here on horizon three oh oh hello I like the reversed NRG logos did you make those hamster oh my gosh get wrecked or IDC'd one of the two so I found out that it was not me that DC it was actually hamster I thought IDC'd so I thought I wrecked myself but no it was hamster so he is resetting brother be right back so we are gonna try and run this a little bit more see if you can get a little bit better of a run not throwing it in like that we won't try to hang it out like I said I have not drifting on horizon three much but we are deep in that white zone that is a very good white zone run bumper right there we go kick it nice and wide so it was good in the latter part of the track a little laxing in the first port and a little straight in there but there will be no qualifying like I said before the other important thing that will be happening on the championship is everybody not championship the rounds everybody who is in competition will have to be on cosmetic so that the hitboxes are smaller so that is one other thing that we will be doing is make sure everybody's on cosmetic damage throw it in forth nice and wide there we go right to the light there we go this is looking like a lot better run not as deep as I wanted to there and not as deep as I wanted there but you guys get the idea put that island there we go condition on the front a little bit shaky but we got we got it so far so I think this will be a lot of fun running this little section and then there's other sections of the later events so like I said make sure you guys comment your game attack down below if you guys want to be a part of any of the drift invitationals there we go and it will be bringing the entire event to the channel have not decided from we'll be running the events live stream or if I will just run them as a normal video and bring them up for you guys now I'm getting hang of this track a little bit better kind of getting my horizon horizon three drift arms back well no as I say that I go right into the walls we're gonna try and smash each other again I say try because it's actually really hard on tandem brakes as I almost go into hamsters drivers door or passengers door sorry that's right hand drive what do you do yeah that's your door why are you over there oh wait wrong course I get rekt of course you're doing well I mean it's good I haven't even released technically the video yet no I'm just kidding are you ready yep what I somehow held on to that just tap don't hit the light pole hamster that was a that was actually that bad it was a very bit of a shaky run but yes it needs a lot of adjustment on break I'm only running 35% brakes and it's not too much I'm running 40 and it seems like it's a lot I'm in such a weird camera in the rear turn up the gear all right now see if I can get a see if I can get a follow-in that was almost the wall all right you're ready yeah oh it's all the car that's what that that's a good thing that's what that role is for as I'd like to be myself a little room maybe give myself a little bit too much room sacrifice angle distance proximity and it's not working that cross pretty quick we didn't really get me I kind of stayed the same distance the entire time so it wasn't too bad this course layoffs pretty good no breaks yeah I use my I use my handbrake handbrakes and clutch all at same time just to stop because that's what I need to do I can't wait till I get my wheels set up back why aren't you using it now because of no shifter well well the shifter yeah because I don't want to use paddle shifters oh you got to put a handbrake in all right ready such short gear ratios push out there we go oh that was nice this is a pretty nice lead run if I can hold it transition there we go out to the yellow over on the fence line that was a primo lead run that was a awesome lead run I'm hit oh and there it is there it is and there's we gotta not we gotta not do that in the actual like event because I don't want to wreck anybody else's car now I got a broken windshield what the hell got a scratch on my front bumper yeah I got some broken taillights too all right ready yep yeah let's go really break adjustment to get back all right there I saw that hamster I'm right there though I'm right here hamster you ain't really left me I was right there that entire time that was gonna be fun oh this this this this event's gonna be a blast because it's a supercharged v8 fd or fc uh so everything I built supercharged v8 all right so uh back up let's roll you know we went to a plan instead of yeah it's like syndrome reverse what happened there he like glitched weirdly into my line I was like wait what happened surging forward and I couldn't hold it I pulled the I pulled the e-brake instead of brakes that was a really bad surge though oh man so they're gonna do one more lead and I'm gonna leave this and then we'll do one more chase and then that will probably do it for this episode here I'm forza horizon 3 with my hamster and uh the evl gives invitation around one track layout so I just realized I don't have door cards on this car nope you do not you are not legal all right let's do it yeah fuck that was right out to that that's gonna be too much this car likes to slide very wide oh no oh and I over rotated I had a itchy nose I wasn't ready all right so we're gonna give one more chase on hamster here so I guess I guys make sure you guys comment your gamer tag down below if you guys want to get on the list for any invites for the evl drift invitational with that myself hamster and some other members of team evil rabbit I'm not good back in you am I I saw your headlights I got scared so if you guys like seeing watching my word don't forget to subscribe to the channel I do appreciate all the support as well as comment and like this video if you want to see more and uh let me know your predictions do you think I'm gonna be able to win in my own event or am I gonna choke because usually I choke in my own event again shush shush all right hamster let's do it if you guys don't know last time we did a tandem comp hamster and I went I believe four one more times in the finals and I ended up choking on initiation and hitting too much breaks and over rotating my car causing myself to lose after a fourth one more time against hamster oh hamster and uh I I'm starting to see very reminisce of that competition between us right now so that's gonna do it for me here I'm for the horizon three you know you can follow me on facebook twitter and instagram all which found in the description box below hamster that was perfect so until next time guys I'm evil rabbit and he's who ate my hamster we will and we'll see you guys in the next video and or in some of the open lobby drift tandem practices for the EVL drift and rotational so until next time guys I like thank you guys for watching I'm evil rabbit I'm out


We are going to learn about proportion. So let's say you are going to make an orange beverage for you and your friend and You have two glasses and you also know the recipe for that How do you make orange beverage is you take one part of the orange syrup? Let's say and then you take six parts of water and this is how you make orange beverage for your friend and you this is your glass and The ratio for orange syrup and the water is one by six here Now you take the another glass again You take one part of the orange syrup and you again take six parts of water And then you have another glass of the beverage where the ratio of orange syrup to water is One by six, but can you also make this beverage for two people in a single beaker? Yes, you can So let's say if you had this big beaker You already know the ratio of orange syrup to water for two people in that big beaker you can take two parts of the orange syrup and 12 parts of water by 12 parts now because you are making the beverage for two people in the single beaker and six parts of water for each part of the orange syrup and so the ratio of orange syrup To water in this case is going to be two by twelve here for the single person the ratio was one by six Do you notice something you can see that these two ratios are? Equivalent fractions and so we can safely write that one by six is equal to two by twelve and this is the concept of proportion when two ratios are equal Then we say that the numbers representing those ratios are in proportion So now going back to the earlier example. We saw one by six was equal to two by twelve So the ratio one was equal to this ratio two while describing the proportion We can say that one by six or the ratio of one to six is in proportion with the ratio two by twelve This can also be read as one six two and twelve are in proportion Please note this sign here the four dots placed in such a manner Show that the ratio on the left and ratio on the right are equal You can also write the four numbers using the comma and the order here is very important The numbers on the left show the numerator and denominator of the first ratio and numbers on the right Show the numerator and denominator of the other ratio now The problems are asked in a way that we are given with any four numbers like this and people ask whether These four numbers are in proportion So for four numbers to be in proportion for example the given numbers then one by two has to be equal to three by four Whether this is correct or not to see whether these are equal fractions We perform cross multiplication if the cross multiplication is equal then we say that two fractions are equal So the same principle goes here as well We multiply one with four and see if it is equal to the multiplication of three and two And if we look at the original number, let me just write those again We are multiplying one and four together Which are extreme numbers we are writing the multiplication of one and four And then we are checking if it is equal to the multiplication of the middle numbers Which are two and three the multiplication on the left is four Whereas multiplication on the right is six and since the multiplication is not equal We can say that the given numbers one two three four are not in proportion Let's take another example. So let's say we have three and nine and Four and twelve are these four numbers in proportion now. We will first multiply the extreme numbers Which gives us 12 times three and we will see whether this is equal to the the multiplication of the middle numbers Which is nine and four so the multiplication of extremes is 36 Whereas multiplication of middle numbers is 36 and both are equal And so we can say that the given numbers three nine four and twelve Are in proportion and this is how you test whether the given four numbers are in proportion Note that the order here is important If you change the order you will have to check the product of extreme and product of the middle numbers again


Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalling Decon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding, and much more. These are our stories. The gentleman in his 50s was found after three or four days. He comes down and around and this is where his feet were. So, we are in St. Pete's. A gentleman in his 50s was found after three or four days. Automatically it's freezing in here. It smells not overpowering and all it does is go out of here. Wow, that's... yeah, so... This is it. Probably going to remove the bed cover as well because we see biohazard there. There's a dryer in here. One stop shop. So, smell isn't bad even in here. Three days facing it's got to be... it's got to be 65 degrees in here. It is cold. We're going to end up looping in those own machine though because the smell is here. We don't want it in here. We've got the air conditioner and the fan running. Yeah, let me go set that up. Let me go. We're off to see the wizard of the wonderful Wizard of Oz because because because because because because of the wonderful things he got. They were prepared. They had a fan waiting for us already turned on. The police department was amazing. It showed us exactly where he was. How he laid.  Sitting in front of a fan.  Really? Your fans turn it towards me. It's walking. I need to indicate that so I can see where we're cleaning. Make sure you grab the both of them or you're going to walk down three more flights. Bio, bio, bio. So speaking with St. Petersburg police. He was a sick guy. They took medication that needed to be taken. They took all of the weapons that needed to be taken. Natural causes being sick and dive in and see exactly where he was. He said his feet were under the bed.  So we're going to kind of go from here and see what's up. The police officer said they slid the bed over because he was here. His feet were underneath the bed. So the bed was actually right over here. Which makes sense and lines up with where the impressions are in the carpet. So the closet we're actually not going to have to remove the whole closet. We can actually cut straight across fingers crossed. So if you look, if you look here, it's like right at the line. And then he comes down and around as I fall over comes down and around. And this is where his feet were. So he wasn't a very big gentleman. They did say he was sick and they were here for about seven hours yesterday. I'm hoping the cleanup doesn't take very long. But I do have to keep a very close eye out for family because they were wanting to come in and get some belongings. With this stuff going on, they can't come in here. Just let it go. Sorry, Juan is dancing. And Ben's dancing too now. So they're both dancing as I'm trying to do this. I don't think we have to cut the closet out because it's right here at the line with the closet door. Backing like that. We can't scrub anymore because it's literally going through the floor.  So we're going to seal it as the extra precaution. So the ozone, I actually stuck that on the door prior to us starting the job inside because family is trying to get in what had happened. We don't want that. So I always try to do this if I know family is in the area. That way we can avoid that. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this short clip of us just doing our thing. See you guys soon.


Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar La Inaha Inna Allah Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Wa Lillahin Hamd These are phrases, Allahu Akbar, the phrase that we say throughout the days of Eid. This is a phrase that we say and we repeat to ourselves that Allah is greater and Allah is greater. We affirm to ourselves over and over again that Allah is the greatest and this Eid signifies the sacrifice of Ibrahim A.S. That he sacrificed his own love and desire for his son with the command of Allah, in the place of the command of Allah Azza wa Jalla When Allah Azza wa Jalla asks him to sacrifice his own son, his own beloved son, he says, what is his response? Of course, if this is your command I should do it. And he tells, that's the sacrifice of Ibrahim A.S. Then we look at the sacrifice of the son, Ismail A.S. When he's told that my Lord says that I'm to sacrifice you, what is his response? That you're going to find me Allah willing, God willing, amongst those who are patient. That this is the sacrifice of Ibrahim A.S. That, ya Allah, if this is the command that you gave me, then this is what I accept. I sacrifice what I desire or what I perceive to a desire for what you asked of me Allah. And this is something that we should inculcate in ourselves, the concept of sacrifice.  We might be sacrificing time off of work today. We're sacrificing the shade of the trees over here by sitting here in the sun. That we're sacrificing a day off, people want to sleep in. There's a lot we're sacrificing throughout our nights and days. But is it sufficient and is it in the way that Allah A.S. asks us to sacrifice? That's a question we should ask to ourselves. And if we find, if we look towards the guidance of the Prophet S.A.W. If we look towards the guidance of the Quran, then the method of which we sacrifice what we want versus what Allah commands. The method by which we recognize Allah Akbar, that Allah is greater beyond. Allah is better than what I desire. Allah is greater than my comfort. Allah is greater than this luxury that I want to have. If we recognize that and we find that in the sunnah and implement that in our lives, whether we have the comfort in this dunya or not, whether we are able to find the comfort through our sacrifice in this dunya or not with absolute assurance, we'll find it in the akhirah. And we say that the best speech is the speech of Allah. The truest speech is the speech of Allah. And that the best guidance is the guidance of the Prophet S.A.W. This is a word that we repeat every single khutba. And there's not much further than we look towards these two statements. That in the astakhad hadith, the Kitab of Allah, that the best of speech is the speech of Allah. And that the guidance, the best of guidance is the guidance of our Prophet S.A.W. There's not much more that we need to explain on this. We've already started the khutba late. We're already sitting in the sun for a while. So insha'Allah, And so be it, And so be it, You have the forgiveness And the forgiveness of the Qur'an. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the most Merciful. The Most Merciful. We ask Allah, Allah the Almighty, He makes us people whose desires and the burdens which went to Allah, Allah the Almighty, to ask us. We ask Allah that our Allah that the thing that we desire that the things that we have, that is in absolute accordance without the promise of Allah, Allah the Almighty says, So we ask Allah Azza wa Jalla makes us people who are people of sacrifice We're willing to sacrifice those comforts and those long jays that we might have in the heart And then we do that for the sake of Allah Azza wa Jalla makes us people of sacrifice makes the people of solace in that sacrifice But we have serenity when we do that sacrifice We have a sense of salat when we do that sacrifice And then our only source of salami and Allah Azza wa Jalla says We ask Allah Azza wa Jalla knows and he loves and recognize that Allah and His angels So the prayers and peace upon the promise of Allah Azza wa Jalla and the prayers of the same


Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you, the listener, thanks to all of you, including Paul Teeson, Allyson Jobby, A.B. Puppy, and brand-new patrons Gregory and David! On this episode of DTNS, Scott Johnson talks about the importance of preserving video game history, not just the games themselves, plus Klarna turns a good news A.I. story into a bad news A.I. story, and sir, this is How You Wendy's. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Animal House, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. You know, I've been joking around about how February 29th should not happen, it's against nature, but she paid 84, asked a good question, whatever we do tomorrow doesn't count then, right? Because it's a big day. I'm going to remember that and blame them after I do it. It's kind of like The Purge. It's Mayhem Day. It's The Purge! All right, sweet. Finally. No, Mayhem Day comes in May. Oh, right. Chaos Day. Mm, Chaos Day. Well then, let's start today's show with the quick hits. Speaking of chaos, Google CEO Sundar Prachai wrote a memo addressing Gemini's image generation controversy, where it sometimes made inaccurate historical images. Prachai wrote, I know some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias. To be clear, that's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong. Last week, Google suspended image generation creation, rather, in Gemini. As for a fix, Prachai says, Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues. We're already seeing a substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts. So, didn't really give a lot of information about what had happened, but looks like they're working on it. Talk about Mayhem. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says his analysis of supply chain data indicates that demand for the Apple Vision Pro is higher than Apple originally expected. Kuo says it looks like US shipments will reach 200 to 250,000 units in 2024. Says Apple originally only expected 150 to 200,000 units. He also estimates the current return rate is just 1%. So, all those early return things, those are just people making videos and then bringing it back. Vision Pro shipping times have also improved to three to five days. Kuo says he thinks this is all a combination of relatively high US demand and plans to roll out sales to other countries in the coming months. The President of the United States signed an executive order limiting, not banning, but limiting the bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health, and other personally identifying information of US citizens to companies in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. The order says the bulk sale of such data poses a national security risk. Companies ability to sell data as part of cloud service contracts, investment agreements, and employment agreements will likely be affected as well. Nintendo is suing someone. Shocker, this time they're suing the developers of emulator Yuzu, Y-U-Z-U, in US federal court alleging Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the good old digital millennium copyright act. The DMCA strikes again. Nintendo also accuses Yuzu of copyright infringement, arguing that Yuzu is primarily designed to circumvent several layers of Nintendo's encryption so that its users can play copyrighted Nintendo games. So if that wasn't clear, they're suing them for circumvention, which could be a fair use, but under the DMCA, if you're doing it to get around copyright, you're violating the law and direct infringement, which is like, you're actually encouraging people to do this. Nintendo wants Yuzu to lose its domain names, URLs, chatrooms, and social media presence, give Yuzu-EMU.org to Nintendo and seize and destroy Yuzu hard drives to help wipe out the emulator, and of course, money damages as well, because why not? Nintendo. Okay. Yeah, not happy with Yuzu. Okay. The chairman of the EU's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs accused Amazon of blocking investigation into breaches of Amazon employees' rights and requested that the European Parliament revoke passes for Amazon's 14 lobbyists. The passes have now been revoked. He said Amazon constantly said it was unavailable to appeared hearings or take visits from committee members. Amazon said it declined to participate because the sessions were clearly one-sided and not designed to encourage constructive debate. It also said it didn't host committee members at its facility because the request to date was shortly before Christmas during peak season. At Christmas? He's with Humbug. Yeah. All right. Well, there you go. That's a look at the news. All right. If you're not familiar with Swedish fintech firm, Klarna provides things like payment processing services for the e-commerce industry, managing store claims, customer payments, buy now, pay later provider. You have likely used Klarna if you do a lot of online shopping. At some point. Now, Klarna back in 2022 laid off around 700 people. Tough times. Made some news. A small amount of its whole employee base, but still a relatively large amount of folks. This year it's expected to go public. The reason we're talking about Klarna now and talking about those numbers is because Klarna now says its AI assistant does equivalent work of around 700 people. Klarna partnered with OpenAI last year, 2023, to offer chat GPT technology as a plugin for shopping. Last month, Klarna took that powered virtual assistant global using it across the board. Now says after that month is up, the bot handles customer communications well, makes shoppers happier, drives better financial results. Things seem to be wrapped up quicker. You're getting fewer repeat questions about the same issue. Klarna also says the chat bot now handles two thirds of all customer service chats, which amounts to around 2.3 million conversations in a month. And some estimates show in improving Klarna's profits by $40 million in 2024. Now, as a company who wants to go public, the bottom line makes a lot of sense, but boy that 700 number stings a bit. This is an estimate. It's not something that had to be 700. I'm not advocating massaging numbers, but when you have a range to choose from, don't choose the range that's going to make people immediately jump to the conclusion that you've replaced people with the bot. The 700 people they laid off in 2022 were not part of the customer service because the customer service part of this is all farmed out to independent companies. I'm not saying it's great that they laid off 700 people, but it had nothing to do with this.  It's like, yeah, but not all 65,000 are working on your account. Still, the point is these 700 people that were laid off in 2022 were not the mythical 700 people that they say this new chatbot has does the equivalent of work of. So just make it 600 or 800 or something. You're still going to get people having this conversation, but when you make it the exact number, of course, people are going to jump to the conclusion that, oh, so you replaced the people, which they did not. It's a little bit like way back in the day when Apple canceled the Lisa, and somebody named Lisa also got laid off that week. It's just hard not to, our brains do this. We look for patterns. We look for stuff that looks like it fits, and this looks like it fits. Even if it doesn't fit at all, you said 700. Two years ago, you laid off 700 people.  Exactly. Yeah, I guess it's just a matter of, you know, you got to think critically about this. That's on us, but I still think that's a very unfortunate thing to report. It's kind of on them. They should have said, it's, I like percentage, like Sarah said, do a percentage or something. Yeah, do a percentage. That's sort of like unfortunate PR thing aside. What I think this does show is a company like Klarna is going to benefit a lot from chatbot assistance, AI assistance, language model assistance going forward. Other companies will too, but we talk all the time about like, but which companies are really going to benefit from this? Sounds like Klarna is a great example of this. So much customer service kind of back and forth about probably for the most part, fairly basic questions, you know, about like, where's my order? Or, you know, I didn't get the discount that I thought I was getting. That kind of stuff. That makes sense. It does. There are going to be industries where this does make sense and humans aren't needed as much. Well, and here's the other thing that's interesting, because you have to keep in mind, there's an IPO coming. So they want to, they want to make their story sound as good as possible to potential investors, which is why they wanted to say, Hey, we're doing the work of 700 people here because it shows how efficient their operation is. But what they actually said was this chatbot has the same customer satisfaction ratings as human agents. Not better. Not worse. It doesn't say how good the customer service of Klarna was before. So, you know, it could be horrible customer service. And the chatbot is just able to do also horrible customer service. But not worse, Tom, not worse. They just don't have sick days. That's the difference. Now, there's something to that. So, so Klarna took what should have been a good news story, which is like, oh, we were able to provide better customer service to people, even if it isn't exactly better. They could have said that. And they turned it into a bad news story by picking a wrong number. They should look at what Wendy's does. Wendy said Tuesday that its new digital menu boards would give it more flexibility to change the display of featured items based on demand. That was almost entirely reported. And they never said this, but they implied it. So, it was reported as Wendy's will implement surge pricing. Raise your hand if you saw that headline out there in the world, because it was everywhere. Local news stations were doing it. National news stations were doing it. It was all over the place. They never said surge pricing. So, they came back to Reuters on Wednesday and said those reports were misconstrued. Our intention is that we, quote, would not raise prices when our customers are visiting us most. So, directly disputing surge pricing. We are not going to raise prices when our customers are visiting us most. Instead, we're going to offer discounts to customers, quote, particularly in the slower times of day. So, it's not that we're making it more expensive when we have a lot of people. We're making it less expensive when there aren't a lot of people. So, here's my question. Because surge pricing was something that, I don't know, I guess I became most familiar with it when I lived in San Francisco and took a lot of ubers. Yeah, sure. That makes sense. You know, on a Friday night, it's like surge pricing. You know, deal with it or not. You need to encourage more drivers out here so we raise the prices. That's right. So, but that always, you know, if I was going from my house to you know, said Takaria, and I kind of knew it was going to be six bucks, seven bucks, and then it's like, oh, it's 12 bucks tonight. You know, that's surge pricing to me. Does surge pricing go the other way? Like, can Wendy say, you know, that hamburger that you want? We know it's 450, but maybe if you come at an off time, it's 350. It's only 350. Yeah, turns out the way numbers work, you can set them at any level you want. Now, I'm going to play both sides of this argument, because when I first saw the surge pricing story yesterday, I'm like, look, folks, surge pricing actually does save you money in other times, because instead of having to have the same price all the time, you can afford to have a lower price in the less demand times and then raise the price and have a higher price when there's more demand. Otherwise, everybody has to pay a more expensive price. That's go look it up. That's the economics of doing dynamic pricing, right? You end up, everybody shares the burden, whether there's demand or not, if you only have one price all the time. So surge pricing sucks when you're in the surge, but it actually does, you know, vary things out, and it's better when you're not in the surge. What Wendy's did is they didn't change anything. They just redefined it and said, no, no, no, we're not raising prices when it's busy, we're lowering prices when there's less demand. It's the same thing. It's just, which price are you going to call the base that changes? The price is the same. They're saying, we're not going to have the same price all the time, but it goes down better to say, no, we're lowering the price than it does to have people say you're raising the price. And it worked because every story today says, Wendy's backs off from surge pricing. And everybody's like, yeah, that'll teach them. Bunch of dummies that we bought into that. Look, here's the thing. This little, this little fluctuating short term inflation idea, I kind of hate no matter what. I just hate it. I think it's weird. I think it's manipulative and I don't like it. You want your burger to be 450. I want it to be 450. Stay that way. I'd like it low or then 450, but if it's going to be that, then great. Stick with it or whatever, because they kind of can do whatever they want. But this is how I felt when Prime did their whole, for an extra three bucks, you'll get no ads. And they did the same kind of talk bag. It was the half a glass, half full, half empty thing where they were like, well, we're not raising prices on Prime. We're just inserting a few commercials in there. It's the same price. We're not changing it. But if you don't even like those extra commercials, that's only 2.99. And we're not raising the price, but we're raising the price. That's what you're doing. And so to me, this kind of like fiddling around, I hate it. I just hate it. I mean, this is so... They want you to think they're in damage control, and you've forced them to do discounts, but they haven't changed anything. No, no. Don't like it. I just, I don't know how different this is than any store being like, hey, these t-shirts are on sale. You know, they're trying to move some merch.  Now the price is lower and we might get more interest because of that. I mean, that's what Wendy's is doing. Clinton in our YouTube channel is just saying, grocery stores do this all the time. The week before the sale, they raise the price because grocery stores change your prices all the time. Unless you're really paying attention, you don't notice this. The prices go all over the place because they're trying to move stock. Again, I say this all the time, prices are not based on the cost of the good. Prices are based on how much will people pay for it as long as it's above the cost of the good. This idea that like, oh, you should take the cost of the good and just add a little, that's not how pricing works. And Clinton was pointing out they do, they do exactly that. You raise the price a week before a sale and then you make it by one, get one free or, you know, or you make it 20% off and you bring it back down to the same price it was a week ago. Yeah. They did this with video games. Everyone always wondered why gaming is so resistant to inflation. We've had $45, $49 triple A titles for 30 years. And it really is a little weird that it's never gone up. And people say, why is that? What's the deal? It's us. We don't want to pay more than that. Now we finally are a psychological game. Exactly. It is. It absolutely is all in our heads. And now they're 59, they're 69. We're just now starting to try to pry more money out of people.  Amish Overlord nailed it. He's like, it's like happy hour pricing. This is Wendy's, Wendy's should call it Wendy's happy hour. Like, oh, that's exactly what it is. Exactly what it is. The only difference is in old without technology, happy hour has to be at the same time every day. Now Wendy's contract demand to be like, ah, happy hour is happening right now. You know, it could happen at any time. Nailed it. I will say before we move on that I have never been able to say no to a buy one, get one free. Even if I just wanted the one, I have to have both, you know. I'm a sucker for that too. Psychological again. That's why we're doing a special buy one episode of DTNS on Patreon get 19 episodes free. It's just one price per month. We do this because we love y'all so much because we love you. That's right. Happy hour is on. You know what? If you want to recap of the week's tech headlines with insights into how technology affects and disaffects communities of color, you must subscribe to the tech, John Rob Dunwood, Stephanie Humphrey and Terence Gaines do a great job diving into the top tech stories of the week, not with an agenda, but not hiding their own point of view. And it's a point of view you don't always hear in mainstream media. New episodes, land Tuesday afternoons, find it wherever you get your podcast. Go visit tech, J-A-W-N dot com. All right, we talked a little bit about video games. So let's talk more about them. The Verge wrote a great story about the Video Game History Foundation or VGHF, a charitable organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating and teaching the history of video games. Now, unlike other game preservation groups, because there are others, the VGHF is more concerned about the associated material surrounding video games, gaming magazines, trade publications, marketing material, concept art. The foundation has 8,000 magazines across 200 publications. It's working to make available online for anybody who's interested. Hurdles, though, because there are, include publishers who are a little wary of copyright violations and the ephemeral nature of the material, which is often thrown away. Now, Scott, as a game preservationist, if I can call you that, you're excited about what the VGHF is doing here. So let's talk a little bit more about what's good, what's bad, and what might be difficult for the foundation going forward. Well, it's interesting because the culture of gaming is the one thing that seems to just sort of exist in its current day and pass us by and we don't think much about it. The games themselves, we get all up in arms about preserving, like make sure we've got plenty of copies of the original Super Mario Brothers for the Nintendo entertainment system and let's make sure we don't lose digital copies of stuff that were on digital stores that have now shut down. These are all worthy things, but a lot of that's already kind of being done. It's being done whether it's being done officially or not, but it's being done. These guys swoop in and say, all right, that's great and all, but let's look at this industry which combined the music, television, and film industries combined do not equal how much revenue the video game industry does on an annual basis. And you might think, well, that should also extend to things like coverage of it and documentaries about it and archival information about it. And the answer is, or the truth is, it's not even close. So for example, I mentioned that only 4% of books and 2% of documentaries have anything to do with gaming. The rest of that is film and this is just film and television documentaries as opposed to game documentaries. And there's a big disparity. A lot of people ask, well, why this disparity? Why don't we have the same preservationist sort of ideals or even just historical observation of the gaming industry as we do other entertainment industries? And I think the answer is a simple one. It's still relatively new. We're talking 30 years a little more than that of real content where you can say that's an industry. And these other things go back way further than that. And they also are a little bit more mainstream than that. Now gaming has gotten to be very mainstream to this point. And so I think this is why now is the important time to do this and better late than never in my opinion. Because what interests me as a gamer it's kind of all over the map. I love games. I love playing them. I love getting the newest thing and playing my friends. That's all good and important. But what I really actually like is going back and saying let's talk about the 16 bit era and why Nintendo did this and why Sega did that and why isn't Sega a platform provider today? Well, there's a million points of information in between those two statements that are extremely interesting. And there's content out there, most of it YouTube, I have to admit, but a lot of content about history and the movers and the shakers and shiguro moomoto and what his role was in Nintendo and when did he start and why is he so important and these kinds of things can be found. But we don't give it the priority that we do somebody's film retrospective or a director who's who's finally retiring. Now let's go look at his 50 movies and why they were so impactful.  Sarah, you mentioned there's kind of an ephemeral nature to this content. At least that's our thinking around it. And I think that needs to change. And these guys are sort of all about that. I love this one story from the Verge article. And this whole thing, by the way, deals with the founder of this site or the founder of this organization, the VGHF is actually Frank Cavaldy, Cavaldy, I believe is how you say it. He is the retired former head editor editor-in-chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly, a massively influential magazine at the time. And people still refer to it all the time. But anyway, the story is pretty great. He says there was this game called Super Sushi Pinball. This is a game that does not prominently feature sushi and never actually launched, he says. It was meant to be Sony's second game in the US ever. It was intended for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This is well before the PlayStation. And this is during a time when such news would not have melted the brains of console people because again, Sony didn't have a skin in the game. We should mention that this is what Ash Parish wrote on Verge. You're just reading Ash's. I'm just reading some of this, yeah. And it says that it was marketed in video game magazines over a year. Then this is his quote. This is a game that was last seen by anyone in 1990 at a trade show, says, again, Frank. He says, it's just disappeared from the world. I'd never heard of it. And I know a lot of this stuff. I've got some pretty deep trivia in retro gaming and this is something I didn't even know existed until today. Well, I think that if the game were in development today and just got scrapped, we would all know about it. Today, all of this is pretty well documented. A lot of people care enough, you know, are following game releases. But you describing this got I was sort of like, OK, well, if I compared it to like, I don't know, Hollywood rumors. Well, the Hollywood industry has been around for a century and more than that. So maybe that maybe that has a lot to do with it. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's absolutely true. Train pulling into station or arrival train at station. The Lumiere film was 1895. Yeah. So well over a century. When was space war, which is the equivalent in video games? 70 or no, 69. 62. 62. Yeah. So you've got, you know, 67 years film has had on it. And in my living memory, I remember debates being had about the preservation of film, you know, Scorsese and those guys were like, you know, these these film canisters are not being properly taken care of. They're degrading. We need to do work to preserve them. It's normal when something's new, nobody knows if it's going to be a long lasting important part of our culture. So nobody cares about it, right? Right. But once it sticks around, then you start getting preservation. Same thing happened with television back in the 60s. The BBC just threw out the videotapes of Doctor Who because it was a kid show, you know, but why do we need to keep it? Nobody knew it would become an important decades long juggernaut of a franchise. So they didn't bother preserving it. And video games is getting to that stage in its history. I agree. There was a time in Hollywood where they threw away bloopers by people. Yeah, right. It was not a thing you'd hang on to. It's like, what's the point? You don't need those. You're not going to use them. No. And now we miss all others. There's some and it makes it really interesting because it's so rare. But in the game space, there is now plenty of reasons, especially because we live in a modern day where our digital archival is the easiest it's ever been. There's zero reason why they shouldn't get some priority. And I cannot applaud these guys enough for doing this. Again, this is these guys over at gamehistory.org. Just go check it out. And you'll find all sorts of amazing content already, kind of their mission statement, what they plan to do. People can contribute to it. And not only that, it is going to all be public and they're going to just keep pumping it full of stuff. So, yeah, this is this is great. To me, this is the this is the Wikipedia verification of gaming or it could be the beginning of it's a library. It's a library. I mean, we love libraries. How are they missing calling it the video game archives VGA? Oh, that's a because then Nintendo. No, who owns VGA? Yeah, somebody has that. All right. While we get sued, let's check out the mail. Let's do it. This one comes from Lisa and John. Oh, sorry. Lisa and John, I'm happy. I just, I don't know, something weird happened with my breath. She'll choke up because it's so nice. Lisa and John say, in the Scottish borders, we enjoy your well presented informative and balanced show very much. It is excellent in a nutshell, winky face. We understand most of each topic, although occasionally we look at each other baffled. We've learned lots over the years from DTNS. Hopefully it'll keep us tech savvy in our dotage. One thing we wondered though, over a year ago, NFTs seem to dominate tech news. DTNS explained and reported on them many times we recall. Len Peralta said he had them on his website. Now nobody mentions them. Have they disappeared? Has anyone got any? And if so, what do they do with them? Have people lost money by NFTs? I recall large sums of money being mentioned for a cartoon character. Preciated NFTs may not count as news now. We were just curious. Yeah, first of all, lovely to hear from you, Lisa and John below the Alden Hills. Thank you so much for writing it. This is a wonderfully phrased email. I enjoyed this very much. NFTs are still around. They were getting most of the press because they were new. And sadly, a lot of the reporting around them focused on the get rich quick aspect versus the technology aspect. And the get rich quick aspect has busted. That's why you don't see people reporting on them as much. The technology aspect has not progressed on NFTs much since then, but they're still out there. There's still a lot of companies issuing them. And there's a niche group of collectors still collecting them, but they've become an actual subculture now instead of when they were like, hey, they might make you a lot of money. They were more mainstream. Yeah. And instead of just barfing something up in Windows Paint and saying, here's my NFT, that's what was happening is people were just shoveling it. It was shoveling. It was getting really bad. And this is what happens with the bubble.  The bubble popped and now it's settling into what it will be. And it turns out there's lots of legitimacy for what it actually is and where it's actually going. But it ain't that weird bubble we had for a hot minute. That was crazy. I think speaking of bubbles, it'll bubble back up at some point once someone has figured out a use that is more substantive for it. But it will. And it won't be the kind of bubble that pops. Hopefully it'll be one that simmers. It'll be just chilling. Like a delicious, like a delicious seafood pancake. There you go. On the grill. Regarding yesterday's show with Dr. Nikki, Venura commented on Patreon. Fantastic show had no idea that the blue on birds, for example, were due to physical structures. Nature is amazing and scary. 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that's because I was making all the noise tomorrow with the cows or just in such a deep rut mode that these deer just locked down in the woods right now. I had two deer come out when I rattled and I grunted and to be honest with you I couldn't even tell if they were does or bucks. Acting like a buck obviously responding to the rattle and calls but one looked like a doe to me. I'm starting to get hungry again. I haven't eaten since like 11 o'clock yesterday. I'm starting to get my appetite but I've lost like eight pounds so I need to eat and I also haven't drank anything. Haven't drank any water since uh probably about five o'clock yesterday. I'm out of water. Let's get down out of the tree. Let's get our belly full. Let's get back to work. Here I am at the cleaning station. I wish I was cleaning something right now but I'm just here to get some water. I'm kind of becoming like a hippie on the bottled water thing. I think there's something too, plastics hanging around.  It's kind of leaking around in there. I don't think it's good. So anyway I use this filter when I'm RVing or you know just use my camber and I'm just slide it on to the the old spigot here and it gives you clean drinking water really fast. I'm not sure if it takes out viruses or not but you know what? What's one more stomach virus after uh after getting over one? That was step one. Step two. I'm gonna make some tea and I know you're saying tea why not coffee? I love tea. I know you love coffee. I do. I love it so much. I really drink coffee about half the week uh so I either go full week of coffee and then a full week off coffee or I kind of switch it up but when I'm traveling and when I'm hunting and camping I like to go with the tea because it's just a lot easier. So this is actually what I make and I get honey so I got raw honey right here. I do a mushroom tea chaga, lion's mane, miatake, turkey tail, all that good stuff good for immune system and then I do some chai. So stuff will stuff will wake you up a little bit. It's got a little bit of caffeine but it's not crazy and all I gotta do is just mix that in hot water. I don't have to filter anything. There's no cleanup afterwards. I just stirred in a cup. All right let's make our mixture. We're gonna get a nice healthy scoop of the shrooms in there. Oh yeah a little bit of the chai spices. I don't want to go too extreme and upset the old tum-tum. Library up in the trees. Solo. Oh goodness. I felt that one y'all. Wow. I don't really know what the best move is but I'm just gonna try a bunch of things. Uh something is going to die this week. Okay putting that reverberating that out into the woods right now. Something one of you animals with four legs is going down. I don't care if it's by broad head or by bullet. It's happening. Let it be known. Okay I've alerted the animals. Now I'm gonna drink my tea. Just have a little reset. We're gonna get back into hunting mode. Oh there it is right there now. Oh yeah. Cheers guys. Y'all there's uh there's not a whole lot left in this world that you can put your trust in. You got the good lord. You got your wife your best friend if you're lucky. Your trusty dog. And then you got your 308 bolt action rifle. And when you need to get something down uh this is what I'm going with right here. I'm just gonna take a shot with this just to make sure we we've got an accurate gun. You know it's been sitting since um my elk hunt I guess.  So little 200 yard pop shot. Just see if we are still on and good to go. Good to go. Literally like 75 yards from where that bullet just made impact on the gong over there. And uh I came over just to check a feeder and then look right here. It's great. Fairly fresh grape. Rubs. This was not like this just a few weeks ago. It's obviously it's there's things happening right here. So I may I may go ahead and try to set up some sort of ground blind. All right so we're going to be hunting right down there. All right really just 200 yards from here. I'm going to take a couple of 40 yard broad head shots from right here. It's a little windy up on the top of the hill but I just want to make sure everything going well. I'm going to switch up the bow. Switch up to my peeped bow because I think I'm going to have to take a longer shot down here. I don't like it grouping. Yeah so I was aiming here and some of that is that wind drift. Uh it's not great.  This is really the only opportunity I'm going to have to hunt this spot because of the wind direction. It's kind of a weird spot to hunt with the usual winds and we just have sort of a unique wind right now uh where it's just blowing away from the feeder so when deer come in there I'll be able to to be covered and be all right. But tomorrow it's going to shift. I won't be able to to hunt in that spot and that's the only dark spot with a lot of cover that I can set up blind. So we'll have to make a game plan tonight but I'm just vlogging these days because every day is is different and I hope you guys are enjoying it so go ahead and smash that like button. Hopefully we're going to get something down. Come on. I'm not sure if y'all could hear the last noise that I heard in the blind there. Actually I know you could hear it. It was really loud and it was right behind me and it it spooked me for a second. I thought I heard a buck chasing a doe and then I could hear him you know hooves to to to to to I can hear little bleats and then all of a sudden I hear a roar so I'm sure it was it was a buck and I think what happened was the buck that I saw that 10 point he ended up finding the doe that he wanted and then chasing her all over the place. They did a couple of raps laps around me and I thought I was going to get an opportunity you know knocked an arrow and just got ready but then instead of running in front of me they ran right behind me but he sounded like he just got out of prison like a pig like a bored grr like I don't know it was way more aggressive than I was thinking but just another crazy day in the woods y'all with nothing down again I mean it's it's gonna happen eventually it's not gonna happen if I don't sit out there and try but we definitely didn't sit around today we actively hunted rattled in three bucks probably totally and about a hundred inches in antler length between all three of them it just seems like a lot of the does are locked down in the woods with with bucks I guess next video it's it's really my last full day of hunting and we're gonna switch things up a little bit so stay tuned for that thank you guys for being with me in the woods again just every time you go out in the wilderness in the woods just sit I don't care if you're looking at squirrels it's just entertaining it's entertaining to watch animals you hear and see things that a lot of people don't get to see it's really only hunters and people that enjoy just sitting in nature get to see it's um it's a blessing so every time you get to do it enjoy your time in the woods soak it in and those are sacred moments man so thank you guys for being here subscribe to the channel if you want to stay tuned for more outdoor action and I will see you guys on the next one


All the other religions, they take zakat, they take monthly tits and so on. What do the Hindus give? Nothing. In the ancient times, you were supposed to do one-fifth of what you earned, twenty percent was supposed to go for dharma, one-fifth for your parents, one-fifth for your own life, one-fifth for your children and one-fifth for your savings. That was how it was done. Who does that today? Nobody. You do twenty percent. That's very good. Well, now you have to increase it, since you have come here. And not to buy as many jeans, maybe, or... I didn't use jeans. You're very stylish then. But you understand what I'm saying. Yeah, got it.