Coming up on DTNS, an elevator button you can push without touching it. Using AI to find craters on Mars. And Dr. Kiki is here to help us understand China's developments in quantum communications. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, January 22nd, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. I'm drawing the top tech from Cleveland. I'm Len Peralta. And the show's producer, Roger Chang. As I mentioned, Dr. Kiki Sanford, host of This Week in Science, is back with us. Good to have you back, Kiki. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. That's right. We are into it. Thank you so much for having me back. We were just having a long discussion of quantum tacos on good day internet. If you'd like that wider conversation, become a member at patreon.com. Slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Balloonberg's Mark Gurman sources say that Apple is working on a higher end, thinner and lighter redesign of the MacBook Air. Yes, the one I just bought. Actually, Tom bought it for me. It was a potential release in the second half of 2021, maybe early 2022. It would include the return of the MagSafe charging ports. Apple may also consider building a 15 inch MacBook Air in future generations. The sources also said that the next MacBook Pro would get an SD card slot, something that it hasn't seen since 2016 and made a lot of creative professionals very upset about that. Face ID and cellular modems and Macs are also reportedly in development, but unlikely to be released in the 2021 hardware. Bloomberg sources say Samsung is thinking about investing $10 billion to build a chip fabrication plant in Austin, Texas. A plan would target fabrication at three nanometers for future chips with preliminary plans to begin construction later this year and begin operations as early as 2023. If constructed, it would be the first US chip fab to use extreme ultraviolet lithography. New rules drafted by Chinese authorities and released by the People's Bank of China said any non-bank payments processor with over one third of the non-bank payments market or two companies with a combined half of the market could be looking at regulatory warnings from the anti-monopoly authority under the state council. A single non-payments, payments provider, non-bank payments provider with what over one half of the digital payments market. So it's a little different or two companies with a combined two thirds of the digital payments market could also be investigated for monopolistic behavior. Yeah, that is the definition of ant and Tencent right there. Yeah, Intel earned a buck 52 per share in Q4 on revenue of 20 billion dollars, beating analyst expectations of 17.49 billion on earnings of $1.10. Good news for Intel. Strong PC sales in the quarter helped buoy the earnings with Intel saying that 33 percent more PCs with Intel chips were sold in the quarter compared to last year. Data center revenue was down 16 percent on the year while it's self-driving car subsidiary Mobileye saw revenue rise 39 percent accounting for $967 million for all of 2020 on the earnings call incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger said chips using the company's seven nanometer process are on track for 2023, but Intel is still going to outsource chip fabrication for some things going forward. Honor announced the V45G flagship phone, it might pwn you. It's first device since being sold off by Huawei. Might remember that honor was part of Huawei at one time. The V40 offers a 6.72 inch 120 Hertz OLED display, a MediaTek Dimensity 1000 plus system on a chip, which includes a sub six G modem and a 4000 milliamp battery with support for 50 watt wireless charging. The device is only in China for now, but an international version may be able to ship with Google Play services. It's available starting at 3599 one, which is about $550 US dollars with an eight gig with eight gigs of Ram and 128 gigs of storage. All right, let's talk about alphabet shutting down the sky. Alphabet announced it's winding down its Loon company. Loon provides wireless broadband from balloons in the stratosphere. Company said Loon was unable to lower cost enough to sustain operations. Loon began back in 2011, had a public launch in New Zealand in 2013, had been deployed in emergency situations to offer internet service like in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. It had deals in Indonesia. Most recently launched a full pilot in Kenya last July. And it looked like it was very slowly making its way into being a company, but not fast enough for alphabet, which alphabet hasn't shut down a lot of its other bets yet. Waymo is doing well, Verily is doing well. Sidewalk pulled out of Toronto, but they didn't shut down the company. So this is one of the more high profile alphabet other bets to shut down. And it makes me think that maybe Alphabet realizes that Google money is not going to go up and up and up forever. And they need to start cracking down on the other bets that aren't going to pay for themselves soon. Yeah, well, the news broke after our show yesterday, saw a lot of folks online saying, Oh, yeah, you know, shocker Alphabet's weird project X loon project was too lofty.  And I was kind of like, Listen, there were advancements, the company certainly wasn't talking about loon every single day. But we were like you said, Tom, we were seeing tests happening in various areas, emergency situations happening. So it sounds like it was a really viable solution for certain situations, just not a scalable solution. Yeah. Kiki, any thoughts on that? Yeah, I'm just gonna say in terms of the scalability. I mean, perhaps it is not going to be that low cost solution for for access for so many people as they were envisioning it to be, but perhaps the one, the one application is for disasters so that there is an easily deployable technology to be able to get people back online. When hurricanes have come through and destroyed infrastructure. Yeah, maybe yeah, maybe there's another business alphabet could salvage out of that. It'll be interesting to see what they do. They're not laying off those employees. At least they haven't said that yet. And if if you were counting on this for for access in areas with without infrastructure, there are other options, the SpaceX option one web. There's there's good half dozen operations out there to do satellite based internet. This was the only balloon based one Yeah, I went to a hackathon years ago in San Francisco and there were people doing they had a weather balloon and engineers attached a cell phone to a weather balloon and tried to use it as a tethered hotspot. And it was it was over a decade ago, but it was this fascinating kind of proof of concept. Yeah, that you could put a balloon up in the air and be able to transmit data and it's neat to see where it is gone. And it'll be interesting to see where it goes. Well, draft legislation for Australia's digital news code includes a requirement that Facebook and Google pay publishers for linking to news content, whether it uses a snippet description or not, and a statement to the Australian Senate Economics Committee inquiry, Google's VP for Australia and New Zealand Mel Silva said, quote, if this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google search available in Australia. Google Australia made 134 million Australian dollars in profit in 2019. Google's got a lot more than that has 100 billion dollars in cash on hand. But then Australian Senator Rex Patrick said, quote, it's going to go worldwide. Are you going to pull out of every market? Are you? Even Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned in written testimony that, quote, the ability to link freely, meaning without limitations regarding the content of the linked site and without monetary fees is fundamental to how the web operates. Google wants the code to not only apply to its new showcase, a product it recently set up to pay publishers for content. Yeah, yeah, so this is bargaining. Google is playing hardball by saying, fine, if you push it this far, we'll just leave Australia and Australia's Senator is trying to call their bluff like, really, you're gonna leave Australia? What if Indonesia does this? What if Japan does this? Europe has a different thing that they've done that Google is not loving, but they're cooperating. We mentioned that on yesterday's show in France. It's not replying to links in search. It's only applying to snippets, and it's only applying to news, not every search result. So Google doesn't love that, but they'll deal with it. This is a bit too far. And I agree with Tim Berners-Lee. If Australia really wants to make companies pay for links simply based on the content, like, oh, you don't have to pay for a link to dailytechnewshow.com. But this list of Australian sites you have to pay for it. That's not good for the web. On the other hand, I think Australia knows that. And I think they're hoping to strike a bargain and say, all right, fine, what if we what if we only apply it to snippets, but you have to pay this much. I fully expect to see a compromise come out of this. It's just two sides playing the hardest ball that they can play. Groups trying to get money where there is money. And hopefully it doesn't break the internet. Well, I mean, it would break it somewhat if Google were to call Australia's bluff and say, okay, I mean, you're just asking something of us that we can't provide. So we just can't operate in the country. I mean, certainly there's workarounds. You know, you live in Australia, you're not like suddenly just never going to be able to search something on Google again. But it's when it comes to a new story. But it it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that Australia would be pushing it this far. And yeah, like you said, it's it's Tom, it's it's sort of asking for too much and hoping to get halfway there type of thing. That's the only that's the only way this makes sense. I because I mean, if I'm Bing and duck duck go, I'm over there going Yeah, pull right on out. That'd be great. We'd love that. A lot of people are wondering like, well, would this mean they pull out Gmail? Would this mean they pull out Google Docs? Or no, they're not going to pull out all business, even if they did pull it out. I don't even really believe they will pull out Google search. It's too much. They they called Spain's bluff. Spain tried to make them pay for Google news and they stopped doing Google news in Spain. But they seem to have found a better way to deal with it in the rest of Europe. And so I I imagine that this will not end up with Google leaving Australia. It will probably not end up with Australia requiring you to pay for links without snippets. But Australia will get a better deal out of Google and Facebook. Don't forget Facebook has also said we'll just pull news off of Facebook in Australia if you do this. So they're they're also in this and they're also playing hardball. Well, in this COVID world, touchless interaction has become more of a priority. Most touchless interactions will use light or sound. If they're doing some kind of motion detection to let you know that your intention, your intended input was detected. Singapore's stuck design, however, is demonstrating a way for motion detection to cause motion. They call it kinetic touchless. The prototype they designed is an elevator button that has a motor that moves the button backwards as it detects your finger coming near it, or pretty much any object getting close enough, I'd imagine. This lets you push, quote unquote, the button without actually touching the button. The technology could be applied to other gestures as well, like sliding or pushing up for other kinds of inputs. Yeah, I mean, I think that the elevator button, I had a hard time with it at first, because I was like, couldn't I just wave my hand? Because all you're really going to do is push the button for the elevator, right? There's not a whole lot of pulling or sliding that that happens. It's pretty pretty automated. But but yeah, some some other, some other solutions, I don't know, sliding glass door, I guess that would be one way where you can kind of pull along the door without touching it. Yeah, exactly. It's I mean, it's that sounds so foreign to me. But I feel like if that's something that could happen, not tomorrow, but in the future, easily enough, we're not going to be touching anything. They're vending machines.  Or perhaps, you know, perhaps there are apps that will connect you to these things beyond just the the motion control, maybe you just choose things on your phone, and then it connects with whatever piece of technology you're trying to manipulate. But I'm just imagining the elevator buttons with a child, when you go in an elevator with a child and they want to touch all the buttons, but instead they're waving your hands and touching all the buttons. I just don't know how they're going to be able to discriminate between I want to touch this button to go up or to go to the seventh floor versus just getting them all accidentally. Yeah, and just in case people are having a hard time imagining this, you have to be pretty close for it to register, right? You can't be standing at the back of the elevator. So don't worry about if there's, you know, three kids at the back of the elevator, they're going to be able to easily push all the buttons. I think this is cool. I don't know if it really is necessary. Their argument here is having light and a buzz to let you know you push something isn't as gratifying as seeing the thing move. And I agree with that. But in practice, when you got moving parts, that means you have more things to break, which means you need to have more maintenance. I worked when I worked at CNET, the elevator there didn't have buttons. It had touch sensitive thing that when you touched it, it lit up to let you know that it had read your input. And that could easily just have become motion sensitive, where you didn't have to actually touch as soon as you got close enough, it would light up. And that seems more practical to me, even if it is cool and satisfying to see the stuff move. Or you could go even smart building route, you know, and if you if you have an ID that gets you into the building, it only allows you to go in the elevator to a certain floor. And then you don't have to touch anything. You are your ID with its RFID chip is automatically automatically identified. And the elevator works for you and no one else. Star Trek has taught us we'll just be able to say where we want to go. We don't have to engage if you don't feel like talking. I'm sure there's somebody listening right now. We're watching if you watch our live streams and no, there's a perfect reason for this. And if you have that perfect reason, I would love to know about it because often the stuff is just you just haven't thought of it because you just haven't thought of it before. Feedback at dillitechniche.com. And you could also throw it in our Discord. Join in our conversation there by linking your Patreon account at Patreon.com All right, Dr. Kiki Sanford, we're glad to have you on the show today because we need you. We need you to help us understand quantum communication. Quantum communication. Yes, it's really exciting. Researchers are working to create unhackable networks for our data communication. And in China, they have been pushing this technology forward year after year and a team earlier this month from the University of Science and Technology of China in Wefe published an article in Nature on an integrated quantum communication network that achieved quantum key distribution. That's the QKD Tom mentioned earlier across 4,600 kilometers. Now, this is really extending the distance over which we have ever used this kind of communication before. The network in able to do that used 700 optical fibers and two ground to satellite links. So they're really creating a ground-based and space-based communication network. This QKD quantum key distribution uses quantum states for encryption. So it's based on photons of light and that's why they used optical fibers. So these photons of light can be sent as bits, individual photons being a bit down the fiber in the direction that they're spinning can be determined at either end. Observation of the quantum states, which would be which direction it's spinning, it changes them meaning any attempt to read the key outside the end points is noticed. And so if it's noticed, you can say, hey, we've been hacked and you can protect the data. Fiber can transmit quantum keys successfully over hundreds of meters and satellites can now do it for thousands of kilometers. And China in 2016 transmitted QKD 2600 kilometers and in 2017, 2000 kilometers by a series of fibers. They're also working with the international community in doing this, but really they have focused on their internal to China network. And this nature paper described the integration of these two methods as an average key generation of 47.8 kilobytes per second. And if you remember old dial-up modems being around 56 kilobytes per second, that is almost on par with old dial-up modem speed. The quantum communication network served industry banks, power grids, and government websites. They were working, they're already running this network and using it to protect data. The paper was just describing what they have put together. Quantum networks are going to exist alongside the current internet and in addition to QKD, you can link quantum devices that are physically separated so they can act as one big supercomputer carrying out large-scale sensing experiments for astronomy, materials discovery, life sciences. And the team is hoping to extend the range to 10,000 kilometers or more expanding its network within China and through its partners in Austria, Italy, Russia, and Canada. The US is working on its own quantum communication network, but we aren't good enough to get in that club yet. Yeah, if you remember back in December on DTS, we mentioned the Fermilab experiment, which was sustained, that was its big advantage, is it was sustained quantum communication across 44 kilometers and there's an effort to lay the foundation for a Chicago area metropolitan quantum network. But yeah, China definitely ahead in this particular case. Yeah, the really exciting aspect of this, I mean I emailed you late at night, early January, Tom, with this story going, you need to talk about this because this is huge! This really is the beginning of quantum communication networks. We actually have a quantum communication network on the planet right now. This is a first, this is going to set the direction for secure encrypted communications moving forward and it's just really amazing and I mean I applaud the Chinese for putting this together, putting the resources behind it to make it happen. They really are first in this right now. Yeah, and there's a few people, and rightly so, in our chat room saying like, okay, whenever you say unhackable, eventually somebody figures out how to hack it and that's fair, probably at some point someone will, but it's a really hard problem that's not going to be broken anytime soon. I mean you have to, in order to hack it you'll have to figure out how to observe a quantum phenomenon without changing it and that is something that I don't think anybody knows how to do yet. So if you can work around physics then you know, call me. Yeah, probably the easier way to crack something like this is with some kind of social engineering, some kind of end point where you wait until it's decrypted and then you siphon it off really quick without noticing. So you know, when you say unhackable it's like, sure, that spin as soon as you observe it has now changed and as soon as you detect that you can shut it off and they don't get any more data and that is unhackable. Right. So yes, that is a really really difficult physics problem. Will there be other ways to work around it that doesn't have to break physics? Probably. Okay, yeah and bringing that up, the NSA actually when on their website talking about QKD they say that that is one of the problems and having secure end points is going to be one of the biggest issues with this technology. Yeah, ENAP 49 in our chat says the hacker would get a jail term and a Nobel Prize. Yeah, exactly. All at the same time. Yeah, no, this is like you said, this is a huge advancement because it's implementing quantum communication. And if I understand this right, you don't need quantum computers no necessary. This is no quantum communication part of this. Yeah, it basically takes text-based data encrypts it in a in that optical quantum state and then decrypts at the other end and puts it back into a text-based format. So the computers on the ground do not have to be quantum computers but there is off-the-shelf equipment that can be used to create the end points for encrypting in this manner. Huge advance in secure communication. Yeah. Yeah, huge. All right, scientists can use the age of new craters on Mars to estimate the age of older craters. It's probably not surprising. We do that all the time on earth too. A little harder to get to Mars and see those craters. If they can look at new craters they can also discover things about ice and water distribution based on, you know, if a new crater get throws up a bunch of ice how long does it stay? Does it sublimate? Where does it go? How much ice was there? All of that sort of stuff. So you can learn a lot from new craters but they're hard to find. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been swinging around Mars for 15 years taking a lot of pictures of the entire planet multiple times. So they have a lot of images. Images of new craters that could be used for benchmarks definitely exist but there's a lot of image data to go through and it takes a long time for humans to work through that and see if they've really found a new crater. So Wired reports NASA has developed a convolutional network machine learning algorithm to do the looking and last year put it into action and was able to identify probably 60 to 70 recent craters. They're still verifying them. The algorithm was trained on 7,000 images that they knew whether they were new craters or old craters. Once it got good at only detecting the known new ones they loaded it into a supercomputer at JPL and had it look through 112,000 images then followed up on identified new craters with the high res imager on the actual MRO and said all right let's look at it now and see if it looks like a new crater and if it was actually there if it was some kind of artifact. First confirmation came last august eventually orbiters can run their own algorithms on the orbiter without having to use the 75 core supercomputer back on earth but right now spacecraft don't even use multi-core processors so you're going to need very efficient code but that that is the long-term goal but either way this is definitely going to speed things up quite a bit. Yeah I think it's it's I love the advance I love the using of this networked machine learning to be able to identify these new craters versus old craters. We see examples of this in all sorts of areas of science where machine learning is starting to impact discovery and in addition to being able to just figure out what's going on on the surface of Mars it can also tell us a lot about the solar system itself so if we know when craters have been formed it can help give us information about when you know when asteroids when foreign bodies we're flying through space and we can correlate that with with impacts on Venus on earth on our own moon and and further out so there's a lot of information to be gained not just about Mars but the whole system. Yeah the more data we have the more we can correlate it and say like oh it looks like a bunch of things moved in at this point what was that about was it a comet was it an extra solar object who knows. Yeah and these these machine learners they're quick. And as we joke about Skynet and they're going to take over and all that I mean really they just take the so far what they're doing is taking the TD amount of stuff and helping us speed stuff up. Yep Well companies get patents all the time for all sorts of things Microsoft has been granted a new patent to create chatbots using the personal information of deceased people from images voice data social media posts electronic messages you know like email the patent states quote the specific person who the chatbot represents may correspond to a past or present entity or a version thereof such as a friend a relative an acquaintance a celebrity a fictional character a historical figure a random entity etc. Microsoft also describes how a living user could train a digital replacement before the event of their own death but before you get too excited or freaked out about this Tim O'Brien general manager of AI programs at Microsoft confirmed on Twitter Friday that there is no plan for this so they got a patent they don't necessarily have a plan but they don't want to tell somebody yet. Yeah you know there's a lot of debate over this sort of thing and whether you should do that even if you can so I think Microsoft is responsible to say hey we figured out a thing let's patent it so we're in control of it for now and we can decide what it could be good for. I noticed today an article about funding for event surf backed product called immortal that lets you preserve your digital legacy so that it won't get locked away on an outdated device or operating system by uploading it to the cloud documents photos videos like all the stuff that the Microsoft chatbot could use to you know man I just want all that stuff to die with me you know all the things to make Sarah chatbot just come visit my grave someday so so okay you don't necessarily want people to be making virtual seras but what about being able to have that dinner party the virtual dinner party with people from history well what if historical figures right who were they what would they have said to you asking a particular question and I love that I was already playing around with that whole idea of what would William Shakespeare maybe have said you know when asked a specific question I get that I do but I've also read pet cemetery and I know that they don't always come back the way you 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FreeNAS 11.3 Beta 1 was released on November 5th, 2019. I updated one of the test systems we have to it and I really like the updates to the new interface. This is the first kind of refresh, was an 11.2 of the interface and then 11.3, they've tweaked it, tuned it, improved it. Now, they've been doing it with each one of the updates. U7 should be out just in a few weeks, I believe. And while that does represent seven updates of the 11.2 series, 11.3, they've really polished it up a bit. And I'm gonna get into that in a second here. Now, of course, at your own risk, this is Beta 1, so obviously if this is probably not something good for production. And this is not something I've really worked with much and maybe at some point I'll do a video on there. Setting up FreeNAS as a domain controller, they have some very specific instructions if you're doing that to make sure that the beta works. So if you wanna use or continue to use that, just updating it will bring settings in, but they won't work properly and they have some instructions down below for like the migration process. And it's basically dropping down into Samba level to do each step of the migration, but they have the instructions here. All right, let's talk about real quick how to load it. Drops to the command line. It's not yet supported for an update so you can't switch to the beta train yet when you're doing the update. So you do have to do the command line, but let's talk about what is actually built in here. So new peer credentials for API, creating managing credentials, the SSH connection and SSH keypeer screen have been added as a wizard to make it. So this is it for connecting things via SSH, believe other FreeNAS boxes. And that's actually done here, system SSH connections, add, and you can connect it to, and I haven't really tested this, but another FreeNAS box. So I thought that was kinda cool. They added that. That's something I've used a lot, but I guess I've used a wizard to do when I did my replication demo. So I guess it's kind of an extension of that so the FreeNAS can talk to each other. New transport API as Netcat support, Netcat support for getting improved speed of transfers. Snapshot creation has been decoupled from replication tasks. A lot of replications mainly created. This is kinda cool because it was always kind of a one thing, it was one piece. Now they've got it so you have options and added more expandability in there. Configurable snapshot retention on the remote side. So that's cool. Replication wizard. It sounds like they added this because it was already kind of a replication wizard, but I haven't played with this too much yet. Because I need to set up, I'm gonna set two of them up both on the new one so I can completely understand how the replication wizard works, but it has a couple different, including local replication, which if I'm not mistaken, I didn't test this, but a few people had mentioned in the comments on my replication video. You can replicate between pools on the same system by, instead of specifying a remote free NAS, but by specifying a local host. I think that's still true. Sounds like they just added it in there as a feature. So we go over here and let's build a replication task. On this system, destination, on this system, source, dataset, data. I only have one on here. So that's actually kinda cool. So you can actually replicate internally right here through the replication task and then have another dataset be the destination for the replication. That's kinda cool. And the reason you may wanna do this, the use case would be, so you could go through and have two groups of drives, two separate ones, and then maybe you want to have it copy all of it from these drives over to another set of drives. Because obviously copying out to the same drives, it may have a more limited use case versus when you wanna do it between sets of drives. If not, you'd probably just do normal snapshots because if it's all in the same drive pool, you can just do it. But depending on your use case, that is now done right through here through the replication tasks. Network interface management has been redesigned to streamline the management on both physical and virtual interfaces using one screen. Now, that is something that I guess was a little confusing in the past, and this is the way, well, confusing if you're new to FreeNAS, I should say, it's something because I've been doing it for a while, I never really had a problem with it, but it was the way they handled the networking tasks in here. So it would be all separated. Now they've made it just one. So if we go over here to network summary, here's the default route, here's the VLAN 69 that's set up on here and this. So we can get this and go to interfaces. Now we can add as one type. So we choose the type, is it a bridge, link aggregation, or VLAN. It's not in any separate places. And just for reference, if we go over here, we go to network, and this is the 11.2 U6. This is one of my, this is actually my video storage server. And we go over here to interfaces, add, you choose the nick, name the interface, and you can see that it would VLANs is still a separate piece over here. And of course, separate again is, you would do link aggregation. So now they've just merged it all into one. So I like that that's definitely a nice feature. And it's consolidation. The alert system has been improved support for one-shot critical errors have been added. These alerts remain active until dismissed by the user. Alert settings have been recognized. Alerts group functionality rather than alphabetically or per alert severity thresholds are configurable. And periodic alert scripts by the alert framework. And this is something I like that they've kind of expanded all this so the system can kind of easily notify you when there's a problem. It did notify you, but it didn't give you certain amounts of granular control over that information. Now they've expanded that a lot. So it's great. Now the dashboard rewrite is something I like. You're gonna notice the dashboard being a lot faster and a lot cleaner. I really like the way they laid this out. So when you go here, matter of fact, when you go from different, let's just drop over here. Now if we do that here, and sometimes I just didn't feel as though it was quite a snappy. And I've had times and I remember in the very first in U1, like right here, how long it took to pull the bandwidth. That was a common thing where it just didn't, it kind of paused a lot. And they've done a lot of enhancements, but I guess they did a lot of code rework to lazy load it better and things like that. Also the way that dynamically loads and has this information on here, this is kind of cool.  Also this little graphics, they've added behind each thing to show like the network interfaces on the panel here. This is nice. And then the reporting menus, same thing. It's doing the lazy load. So it's trying to load everything at once.   And this is a weird thing I've noticed sometimes if I leave free NAS up on the screen for a long time, like in a browser tab, sometimes that browser tab may pause or lock up. I don't know if it's just some memory issues or whatnot, but same problems do not seem to be occurring in the new one. So I think they've just streamlined it and made it a lot more efficient. When you get a lot of detail, I'll leave a link to all this for you through all the detail in here. The ACL manager is probably gonna need its own video. And I bring that up because when you're setting up the services and you do window sharing, I actually go over to your storage and pool and I created just a basic window share and the data set here. And I go to edit permissions. Data set has complex ACLs. So instead of going to normal permissions like if it was a UNIX or NFS share, it says, oh wait, you've set this up as Samba. Let's go advanced. And it gives you group options, group allow, basic permission types, full permissions, flag type, basic advanced. And it lets you dig in a lot more to some of the permissions. And it's got some of the wizards in here. So you can go through here and add ACL item. Actually you can add, add, add, add, add, add. And brand new change and delegate some of these permission types. So who has permission to what? So you can create group owner, everyone. And this is, I'm not dug into all the features and what all it can do, but there is a lot in here it can do. So it also has the option to strip them out if you goof it all up. So I'm gonna take canceled, so I don't have to mess with that. But I like this effect that this gives you way more advanced features for natively handling all the access control lists inside of here. So that's a pretty big improvement they're gonna have. The ice cozy wizard. Let's play with that real quick. So you go to your services and we go over to ice cozy. We have a wizard button. And I already have a Zvol created. It does require that you at least have done that already. So we're on device and we'll go scuzzy wizard. I just created a device called scuzzy wizard. And then was it gonna connect to a VMware, a Zen server, legacy OS or modern, modern OS. So it kind of has some different options on there. So legacy OS extent block 512, modern OS extent block 4K, extent block 512 with Zen compact mode. So now we can just go next. What is the portal? Create a new one. I have an existing portal already created. So it'll work for that. I'm not gonna use any of that and submit. Whoops. Gotta use lowercase. This is one bug I did notice. I actually repeated this kind of on purpose. Maybe mental accident again. It does require that you have it lowercase but it should give you that error at the beginning, I think, not wait till you get through it all. But it remembers the things you selected. Submit and voila, we have now created another scuzzy target in there called the scuzzy wizard. So now we have that. So pretty straightforward on actually, it should not allow me, another bug I found, one of these should be one. Let's go back. Can I change it back to zero or would it give me an error? Oh, they have different targets. I had done this before, that's why it's allowing me in different initiators. Okay, so it allowed me to have the same one because there's gonna be a different choice in there. But you get the idea that they've not as a wizard to make it easier. As you can tell, I play with this a couple times and it's definitely handy when you're starting out and I have a whole more in-depth video on how to set up some of the scuzzy types on there. So that's really cool. Significant improvements to SMB sharing include ZFS user quota support, web service discovery support and improved directory listing performance of our newly created shares. So that's really cool that they've done that. And the middleware WebSockets API V2 rewrite is complete, APF A1's backwards compatibility, but we deprecated and no longer available next range release. Things they got rid of. The legacy web interface, sorry, if you're going to the 11.3 train, you're on the new interface, there's no more legacy support. That has been removed. Warden has been removed, which is the older jails manager. So your older jails are broken. And I thought this was interesting, but I have seen this as a problem. If you leave net data running all the time, it has a memory leak apparently that will cause it to eventually exhaust memory. I don't know if this is something because I'm not seeing this on my Linux servers running this, but apparently it is definitely something I've seen on my 11.2 free NAS where it seems to just start sucking up a lot of memory. So they fix whatever problem by removing it. I can't say they fixed it. They just removed it instead of fixing the problem because well, net data didn't fix the problem. And I'm going to do a video at some point on the true command which provides similar reporting plus advanced management capabilities for single or multiple services. If you're not familiar with the true command product, it is a free for the first 50 servers, which I think is kind of a cool feature and a charge after that. So it still is free for the home users, essentially unless you have more than 50 servers at your house, then well, that's a very special use case you have. But true command expands the easy use and power of true NAS and free NAS. So it's kind of giving you a NAS fleet dashboard, single sign on, customized alerts. And it's something I want to dig into at some point. I'm going to do a separate video on this because I have some clients that were asking me about it because they do manage at a data center level a bunch of true NAS boxes. And they have some free NAS boxes as backup. So I've been on my to-do list. I know a few people are asking about it. It's something I'm going to look into. The built-in Docker template has been removed through Docker and so we deploy through the Linux virtual machine. Now, I have not dove into Docker or the VMs that much because I've played a little bit with them on free NAS. I've not really figured it out. And I see that because I've just had a lot of little quirky issues with it. I don't think that the Beehive system feels as developed as other hypervisors I've used. So not really a, maybe a later point when I learn it better or if I take the time to learn it better, I'll dig into it. But I also just don't really have a use case for it. I know some people do is they want to run one run system, but it really, it doesn't have all those advanced migration features that you get in a lot of the other modern hypervisors. So it's pretty basic for running maybe small virtual machines because you want to have one system that runs it. An ideal weighted or an ideal system maybe would be if you wanted to run some type of MDR software in there for recording, having it inside of that type of, instead of a jail, but actually running as its own VM. And then of course living on a great storage pool with ZFS would be a good use case for it. But I just had some issues with it. Known impacts. The system no longer allows some data set to, to an encrypted pool containing a passphrase and some directory services and some SMB state information stored in the system data set. These services not functionally, the system data set is locked or otherwise unavailable is recommended you move the data set to a non-encrypted pool or an encrypted pool not containing a pass phase. I thought this was a little confusing to me so I'll have to dig into that further. But it sounds like allows moving the system data set to an encrypted pool containing. So you can't move it, but I can have an encrypted one. I'm a little fuzzy on that. So I guess I'll need some clarification later. Time machine over SMB shares has been configured to use auxiliary parameter backups and may fail since middleware now performs SMB, et cetera on there. I've not really used time machine much so I can't really speak a lot to that. The default NFS, NFS form mode changed from special to simple. This change recommended synchronized with Samba to false provide better user experience and the legacy behavior is required. And the following auxiliary parameter to all SMB shares special is important at all shares have the same mode settings so they're in a common caching back end to the CID lookups. So hopefully this doesn't break anything. This isn't the way I have to test is how that works. I'll do some testing later, but I'm not, it is still beta. So we're gonna have to do that. A legacy AD monitoring has been replaced by the family health checks. So I really clock skewed check DC with PDC emulator for FISMO roles, test connection to net log on to share connected DC every 10 minutes and instantaneous start of windbind status of domain transition offline. Once again, I'm gonna have to see how this works. I don't know if I'll really be testing this in the beta. We have clients that do have active directory tied in with their pre-nast and it actually works really well. Ever since the 11-2 they've really come a long way from the, I'm thinking way back to the nine series when this was just a big headache to make work. So you can do it pretty well. So it looks like they're fine tuning it a bit more. And the team has really done a great job. I remember speaking a long time ago with Chris Moraday said they, you know, got some really good talents of people that were good at that integration level of active directory nets which really brought the project on. They've been there a little while now. So we're seeing the results of all that of a lot of fine tuning because whether you like the Microsoft's world or not active directory is the glue that holds our access control list together essentially for delegating out permissions in the world of file sharing. So the reality is as much as I wanna be a Linux fanboy all the time I work in the business world and I have to deal with Windows permissions and everything else and Freenance is actually able to handle that as a file server at scale with all the power of ZFS but still having those nice delegated file permissions that you can do with active directory. Now that's the end of the list here. So I'll be doing some more testing with this. I may wait till beta two when it shows up in there because if you go over here to system like I said you have to do it from the command line. So if I go to updates it is not in the list yet. They have the 11 nightlies but that's not the same as the 11 three series. So I don't think until it's beta two which maybe one they're gonna have this updated on there. So I may wait till beta two before I switch my main system over to it but I do wanna do some testing with it and I do welcome this new UI. I will miss net data which means I will be forced if I wanna look at fancy graphs to load true command. So now I have more of a push to get into and dive into true command and take a look at it. But this was running on a FreeNAS Minix XL plus provided by IX systems. The box I've been doing my testing with for some of the VM stuff and a few different well that last handful of FreeNAS videos that I've done. And it's been just rocking and rolling really well here. Right now it's got a handful. We got about 20 terabytes of space for, I call it the red tanks as a bus from Western Digital Red Drives and it didn't have any problems switching back and forth. I did manage to screw up the install. Don't run the install a second time. Trying to do, well I messed it up. I ran it a second time. The good news is if you're familiar with FreeNAS I have a video about recovering it.  So here is the beta that is now on reboot. I deleted the extra one. I somehow installed it twice because I thought, hey it didn't run and it's because I didn't reboot it and I ran the command twice for the update like the show there. But if you have a system that you feel that you wanna do some digging around in and talk about some of the availability and update they have it here, I will also leave you this. Here's an entire read you can do sort of started by Chris Moran. He's talks about some of the overhaul dashboard et cetera, some of the things in here and then a discussion. Now there are some finite discussions in here and some people love it, some people hate it. It's of course the fun of forums and they talk about the different versions that they're going to be running. Because the question that came up to me is which version and why they do what they do when it comes to which version of free BST they're gonna be on. That's all actually discussed and Chris gives all the reasons for the whys of why they do this and how they backport things. So if you want a more in depth read and this is actually still being updated even as of today, which is November 9th there was still a post going back and forth in here. And you know like I said it's a good banter back and forth in discussions but if you want to try this out and you do find problems please file a bug report. And like I said I may switch my main well not my main system to it but the system that manages all my videos which is right here. I may switch this over and see how it works on the new 11.3 train and go from there. All right thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video. 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A very good social Friday morning to you. You are watching Y2Py4 channel and this is why in the morning, your favorite breakfast show, we do this every day from Monday to Friday between 7 and 10 o'clock in the morning. My name is Hilda Wadidhi and a very happy International Women's Day to you. So now in the spirit of the day and as we commemorate the day, I have some young people with me in studio who are advocates and they are very young, let me just put it like that. Because I remember when I also wanted to become an advocate, I did not think I would be able to do it as early as they have. So a big congratulations to them and it's about time I introduced them to you. The theme of this year's International Women's Day is advancement of gender equality and women empowerment. And the young people are here with us today to let us know what they are doing about this particular movement and why we should even have this conversation in the first place. So please, Karibu Nisana Studio, introduce yourselves and make sure you let us know where you're coming from. Let me start with Georgina. So my name is Georgina Ayuma. I am 19 years old, a girl advocate and a plan international and I'm also a youth advocate. So meaning that I'm advocating for both boys and girls and majorly on girls because I feel that it is time that we as girls stood up for what belongs to us, stood up for our rights, for us to be represented and for us to be seen by other people. Thank you. Okay, I'm Kevin Ochieno. I'm a student at the University of Nairobi taking medical lab. I come from Pondo in the county. I'm a youth advocate. Before I joined the plan, I did some youth stuff with a girl child in Garisa County and in Gori County in Korea. Then later earlier this year with a team, I had a team. It's called Society of Central Saguas Scholars. We did some youth program assisting girls and then I had a plan. I decided to partner with them. So currently we are doing several projects. We are empowering girls deep down in the village. At the same time, we look for young mothers in the village and we empower them. We advise some of them are taking that to school through the aid of the plan international. Okay. Yes. All right. You said? Yeah. I'm Kamara Newton from Rakanidhi County. I'm a youth advocate currently studying at Meru Compass pursuing mass media communication. As I use that forget, in my area where I come from, I have mobilized a lot of young people so that they can earn their living in a good way. This is by ensuring that they are equal and cause that voice without negligence. And in this case, I've also tried to meet with their parents so that they will understand what I'm trying to mean to be achieved by their children. So I've even mentored many parents in Daraka where I come from. Thank you. We have also mentored parents. I like that. Okay. My name is Jacinta Mwendoff from Kilefi County. I just completed my form for last year and especially this time when I'm waiting to join University, the issue and the topic about gender equality and women empowerment, I've actually been trying to go to some schools and actually talk to the girls and show that they know their rights so that they're not, their rights are not followed the right way. And that when they know their rights, illiteracy is really killing them. And when they know their rights, then they're able to know what they want and go for it. So during this time, I've actually since now I'm not with my school life, I'm actually free. I try as much as possible to go to most of the schools and talk to them and try to empower them. I like that. In fact, in the spirit of supporting, somebody here talks about rights and someone else has talked about mothers. And there's some statistics that we have here. We have the Kenya medical practitioners and dentists data reports that reveal that mothers in Kenya are recorded the highest medical negligence cases. So you can imagine when we are in a country where we're trying to achieve universal health care. I'm glad that somebody has talked about young mothers. So before we go into the details of that, let's first talk about how you guys got involved in this. Why did you, why should we have a conversation about girls and boys? Why should we have a conversation about equality? Why is it important to you? Let me start with Georgine. For me, what I would say is that it's for a long time that the girl child has been left behind. When you look at things like leadership in terms of being represented in leadership, the girl child has been left behind. Now let's get out of the urban setting. Let's go back to the rural setting whereby a girl is only seen like a person who's supposed to stay in the kitchen, who's supposed to stay at home and look after the kids, go to the chamber and do all sorts of things in the houses. But the man is seen as someone who's supposed to go work, supposed to be someone who has the voice to talk. When a man talks, a woman should not talk in the rural setting. That is what is happening. So I think it's time that we, as women, we stand up for our rights and even we bring on board other men who believe that the woman or the girl child should be heard and should be seen. Yes. I like that. It should not only be seen but also heard. Yes. And listened to. And listened to. Yes. Okay. Kevin, let's talk about how you found yourself in this line of fashion. What was it that brought you to this particular quality forum? Okay, first of all, it's dated back in 2016 when I was out of school for some time and I went for peer teaching in Garisa. So I happened to be in a school, a girl's school. It's Masa, Yusuf Hajj, girl's secondary school. Yusuf Hajj, girl's? Yeah, Masalani. So I actually, I was a class teacher at the same time I was head of some subjects. So I decided to follow up these girls. Their performance sometimes were not good. Then some of them came and told me, you know, teacher, we as girls, we are in a society where we are just seen as we are supposed to be married off after we have reached our adolescence. Oh, so they were not motivated to do it because they were told they were just married? They were not motivated to study. Some of them would tell me, me, I'm just studying to get my day or my something. Then I go back. The best some of them could do was to tell you they want to join the forces. So I saw this and my contract, they are ended. They started to travel back home. Then on the way, I met a government, I was in Korea and sometimes in Korea. So I met this deputy county commissioner. And then within these programs, we decided to hunt for the FGM. So through the help, through the help of the county, the office of the deputy county commissioner, we decided to stall down some FGM culprits. Yeah, I was like I acted like a snitch. So oh, so you have not a snitch, a spy, a proper spy to make sure that these things don't happen. So after that, that also ended. Then now I get back home where we formed a group and this group consisted of university and college students. So we wanted the girls and the boys to reach the level we had reached. Yes. So this group, we did some mentorship programs. We did some, we did some, we decided to collect these together. The girls and boys together.  So when they tell you, let's do this, let's do this, some of them will definitely listen to you. So we used this platform and look for our other fellow students from other universities that reside within our community. So here came Plan International. Since we had no finance, we were just students. So they came in and now they could assist us with the materials, the transport. Now we have so many schools. All right, all right. So we decided to reach so many schools. They even organized for action. All right, we have to, we have to, it's just a little bit short because you need to fix a technical hitch with your microphone. But in the meantime, we can hear from Newton as well. Why did you join this movement and what was it that captivated you so much that you thought we should have a conversation about men and women when it comes to equality? First of all, let me say to be here, it's not my will, it's God's will. God's will, hallelujah. So for me to be here, I first of all faced a lot of challenges in my life. When I was informed to, I nearly dropped out of school. Why? Just due to lack of school fee. So on my way, I met with Plan International. They just paid my school fee. Wow. That was miraculously. So after there, I decided because they have paid the school fees for me, I must also do it. Teach for 30 is a fair game. If you are helped, help someone. Okay, I like that. If you are helped, help someone. So after there, I just, you know, I'm a person who likes to socialize with very many people. As you know through socialization, you really understand the challenges and the problems or the norms that other people are facing. So as a person of interest, I just interacted with very many people, especially youth. I heard that they have a lot of fear in their heart, such that they are saying some works are meant for men. These works include mechanics and wiring. They say that this one belongs to men. And in my case, where I come from, again I see that there is a lot of female genital mutilation. This one motivated me a lot so that I can encourage these girls that they can be equal to boys. This work that we are saying that is meant for men, they can also do them on their own. They are living.  So I just mentored them and tell them that they can also achieve more in this life. So that's why I was motivated in this work of being a young ambassador. I would like to, when let me first go to Jojina first, then let's talk to Jojina, then I'll ask you the question I really want to ask. Okay, so Jojina, let's go. Yes, so this actually started when I was in primary school, that was in the year 2015, I was still in class 8. So we had to give the speech for our people from the children's assembly in my county, so they needed me to join the children's assembly. You remember the children's assembly? Yes, I was. I'm proud of you. Thank you. So I had to give a speech for them to confirm my confidence that I can really express myself in public. I can now speak in front of so many people and you see girls in my school were so much afraid and they were like, will you really do it? Are you going to do that? Are you sure you'll do it? And I said, since I was the one chosen by the head teacher, I'll make sure I will not let him down. So I had to go there and actually I made it, went to the children's assembly and then time came when I had to buy for the clerk seat and I lost because I was unable to campaign for myself. Why were you unable to campaign for yourself? Who was your, what do you call it? Your running mate? Yes, your running mate or your rival? What was it? Was it a boy or was it a discrimination? What was happening? What I remember was a girl but she came out so strongly more than I was. I just admired her courage and the way she could campaign for herself and where I was and I could not, you know, do that. But I said it's not yet over. They have to be a reason for me to be here because I never actually dreamed for myself to be in that place. And then an opportunity came for planning. They needed two girls from my county to actually be Nairobi. We had some votes because we had to adopt the SDGs to replace the millennium calls. So I actually got the opportunity, myself and some girl in Bondo. So we went and the experience was just nice. And that actually it building my confidence more and more and more. It really built my confidence and from there I've actually, I just thank God for that opportunity and I thank Plan International because it has just been a journey. Not so smooth, a tough one but still we thank God. Ah, congratulations and a big thank you to Plan International. It appears you're making a change for the young people in this country. So let's talk about some of the in fact, I think I want to start the boys for this question because I know the ladies will have a lot to say, but I'd like to hear from the boys first. Kevin, let's talk to you, Kidogo. When you decided you want to pursue this issue of women, when you identified that those girls had no hope and what have you and you decided to then come as pie, you know, to go the extra mile to make sure that this thing is sorted. What kind of backlash did you get from your fellow men and from the society in general? What roadblocks did you meet? Did you face any discrimination and what was it? Apparently, I never faced any. But the question people come about, why you talk of ladies, you talk of women and then you're a man. Yes, I just want to know how you respond to this question. I respond in this way. I would tell them, you as a man, you have sisters, you were born of a mother, you have daughters and actually when you look at, actually when you look at in a family setup, those who contribute much in assisting the parents generally are the ladies. So I would tell them and ask them to look it in that perspective and they get the answer automatically. I like your attitude. If you just study the situation here, you'll get the answer automatically. What kind of backlash did you get from your colleagues or from other men or just generally from the society when you decided you wanted to take women on? Okay, let me say that challenges are always there and in fact when challenges are there, they just motivate you. So in my head, where it comes from, I was motivated by one thing that goes when you educate a woman, you have the society. But when you educate a boy, you help an individual. So I was motivated by this factor because by this thing because I know that the boys or the men are pursuing a lot to achieve in life, but you see the girls here have a lot of fear that they cannot enjoy the work that the men can do. So in my case, where I come from, there is this issue that is the greatest backlash that is female genital mutilation. As you know, I try to fight with it, but I met a challenge whereby when you are trying to fight against it, and in fact you are going to that affected area, the person or the performer of FGM, sometimes you cannot get them, even if you report to the police. They are using a demonic power so that they can come just like a ghost such that you cannot see them. So this one is the greatest factor that I done me. Okay. So in your fight against FGM, you are finding it very difficult to get culprits? Yeah, because there is a lot of witch doctor there. Witchcraft? Yeah, witchcraft. That is the one that they are using so that you cannot be able to get them. So you see to fight against such a thing, it becomes a very hard task. Yeah. Again, in security purposes, you see that some girls let me say that they are traveling 14 kilometers in the morning from their home to school. You see the way they are passing across, it's a very big bush. But now you see that I try to mobilize and at least talk to the government so that they can put security lights in those places through clarion calls that I made. But there was no effective support that they just mean to me. So also that one is a greater challenge. Another challenge that I met across trying to ensure that there is no gender bias is that some parents do not want to believe in me. They are just filled up with a lot of culture in their minds such that when you try to say that let's get the FGM, they will say no. In Daraka, that is whereby we are trying to conserve our culture. So you're also facing the issue of the culture is already there and also even when it comes to FGM, there's also the issue of those girls that actually want to do it because they think it's a right of passage. I can imagine that might be a struggle here. And also from the government, you see they don't have effective support. Effective support from the government. So that's an issue. Jacinta, let's talk. What are some of the challenges that you faced or you can say that you're continuing to face in your fight towards gender equality? One of my biggest challenges is lack of support from the closest people I know. Be friends and especially parents. Because maybe what you talk about, you're not in terms with them. They kind of don't agree to it. They still think that why are you doing this?  You've got to do something with your life, not actually fighting for this equality for girls. And when you lack that support from the closest people you know that you expect them to support you in whatever you're doing, it becomes difficult for you to move on. So you'll not go ahead and seek support from strangers. It has to start from the closest people actually with you. And again, is the support from actually our fellow girls. Sometimes they don't. It's hard for them to understand what you're doing. You try to explain to them, but it's hard for you to join in the fight and actually to move on with you. So yeah. I like the fact that you mentioned that that's a very big problem and that's also the issue. That's also something else that men feel like that's our problem as ladies because even us we tend to misbehave sometimes and it comes to support. However, let's talk to Georgina. Let's hear. And when it came to your experience with the ladies and what have you, it's gender equality. We have to balance even the boys. So since the boys have been gracious enough to talk about the challenges that the girls are facing, just enter your next video so you better prepare for this one. What do you think are some of the challenges that the boy child is facing that you can do something about? Challenges that the boy child is facing. Let me see. You have to think about it. Yes, you don't have to think about some things because you've never thought about them. But I think one thing that my friend told me some time back when we're arguing about gender equality.  So they don't get a chance to go to school. And I saw that maybe he had a point there because we are forgetting that in some communities some things really happen to these boys. But then that does not mean that I have joined the boys in saying that we should not empower the girls. I'm still on we should not we should empower the girls because you know when you empower a girl you're not making her superior than the men. We just want to have a level playing ground for both men and women. So for me if someone tells me that you're empowering the girl you're making her more superior than the boys. I just tell that person that if you empower me we will help each other in solving issues that affect our community. If you empower me we will create solutions for this country. I will not be superior than you but you will be playing on the same level ground. Level playing field. But what I've heard from you as a challenge for boy child is also education that's our most of them also not getting enough access to education. And I think Newton you've also talked about your personal challenge. But Jacinta let's go to you. Now that we are advocating for gender equality where has the boy child been left out? What are some of the gaps that you see when it comes to the boys? One of the gaps that I see in the boy child especially with my brother is sometime back when now my sister used to call when she's in school and she's like I don't have pocket money and when my bro calls it's like he's a man you can sort himself. For the girl child he she has to be sorted out fast and I think that's very wrong. It's something that should be like these are children. All of them are the boy the girl they are children. So you don't need to say like the girl needs a lot of security and while for the boy he doesn't need much security. He can actually go to the marketplace and stay for whatever time something bad could happen to him. He's also a child so we've got to protect both. And what as we are saying we're trying to create a level playing ground for all of us. So it's something that should be taken care of. I like the fact that you said that yeah from what I've gotten from is that it starts at home also when we start doing when we start dividing we have biasness towards girls towards boys then people grow up with this mentality that we are different and we cannot be the same. So I think the biggest gap is that we are educating the girl on why we should empower her and we are not educating the boys on why we should empower the girl.  So I think as we are also empowering the girls the boys should also be educated on the importance of empowering the girl child. I like that. That's why you see that we have somehow concentrated in a equality in ensuring that the girls have been equal to boys and we have failed to realize that even the boys want maximum concentration. So that's why you see that in the streets most of the people that you see that they have dropped out of schools taking blues and several drugs you see they are boys. This is because we have tried to concentrate to girls' match and then we have forgotten that even the boys want also that care. In my case I met a boy who was kidnapped by an old woman and she was diagnosed with the gonorrhea that she received, he had received from the man, from the woman. So now you can see that if the government or the local administration or the Kenyan people are concentrating to ensure that there is gender equality there cannot be such cases of boys being kidnapped or there cannot be rapist issues like that one because they will concentrate to both of them. So even the boys means attention a lot. The boys need attention. But I really appreciate plan international because they're bringing boys on board on issues to live with girl empowerment so that for example right now we have Newton and Kevin they're on board they're talking about why girls are being empowered why should we should empower them. So plan international has really done a lot in bringing on board boys to discuss about girls issues. Kevin let's talk what are the gaps that you think the boys are facing what are some of the gaps that I like the fact that he's talked about the big the biggest incidents we have of drug use among young boys. Would you have anything to comment when it comes to that? Okay for example where I come from you find that the major economic activity we have is fishing. So if in that at class three a boy will definitely start going to the lake yeah some of them by the time this boy reaches primary seven or eight is a qualified fisherman and then for the girls okay they will always remain at home doing the course but let's say for example now when we have two people they have they have done their exams and now they are going to school yes yes so here okay it was way back then we would take the boys the boy the boy to school but nowadays you find that they would they would tell the boy the boy child to maybe if it's clever it I would be here and then the girl to continue oh yes and now that the aspect of equality is not there and then when we come to punishment you know money and the children they may see and parents are here to take control and the community would ask you to the sentiments will be even if there were two of them the same the same mistake or the girl was the one who has done the mistake they will just say the son of so and so the son of so and so has done this and then they will be forgetting that there is a girl picture there's a character there's a girl in this picture so the punishment will will be will be trust on the boy child so there's an unfair punishment issue when it comes to gender also unfair punishment I like the fact that you mentioned unfair punishment let me run straight back to the ladies ladies there's a match there's a match today that is protesting a femicide femicide in case you don't know is the killing of women and girls especially when it's done by a man and we've been seeing a lot of cases like this in the past few in the past few months in the media we've lost so many women even young women for that matter and I just wanted to understand from you these women most of them were seen as the villain you see like they were villainized yet they were too when some of these crimes were happening I'd like to hear your opinion on how women are are painted by the society when something goes wrong um when something like that happens they try to pick on the woman yes rather than the the person who did it yes so it looks like um it's it's the woman who was wrong on the whole idea and they don't even take time to understand how this situation actually started yes but they pick on her and they don't blame the other person so I think it's kind and fair to her because even before you start to judge someone you should actually understand the situation what brought up to this yes what actually what really happens but our society is even you've heard in most cases if something if um sorry to use this example but if a man cheats on the on the wife it's not that bad to the society yes but when the woman cheats on the husband yes it's really horrible yes you're actually given all sorts of names you know a prostitute whatever yes but I think it's high time we start to understand these situations before actually we start to judge them to to to just throw whatever whatever harsh words you know all those things so it's unfair it's so unfair okay okay let me see that though we are saying that sometimes the women are being killed you see that um so you cannot tell me that we are apparent that way we are playing international is introducing the youths to mentor the rest to start from the grassroots when the child is born he is mentored on the principles and the discipline that he is supposed to fall so that he cannot meet himself entering such a deep in bits of problems or struggles in life that's what I'm saying as our parents you need to have a lot of mentorship sessions with your child both of them both of them both of them okay great all right kevin quickly quickly we'd like to hear your your comment when it comes to the current deaths and the unfair punishment or repetition of punishment oh wait in fact you don't brought it up let me let me start with you um I just like to give an example if a lady dressed in a very short in a very short skirt and then she goes out there and by mistake she's defiled maybe she's under it by mistake there's no mistake anyway she is defiled unfortunately she is defiled people will say why was she in a short dress what time was it where was she going so the sentence to come up with so many things to cover up for a mistake of someone a mistake that someone has does so in my own opinion I would say that before you judge someone before you say anything before you start asking so many questions understand the dynamics of that situation understand what happened understand the rights if I am defiled I am defiled there's no um there's nothing that can be compromised there my dressing where I am going what time is it it will still remain that I am defiled so the society should really be keen on whatever they're saying whenever something happens who they point their fingers to and let them be knowledgeable I don't know if they give them this knowledge but I hope and pray that one day in future the use of this country will stand up and tell the society what things are right and what things are wrong yes and how to be fair and how to be sure okay because it's about time we wind up this segment plan international thank you guys so much for coming to studio and from what I've understood is don't only raise your girls to be good women also raise your sons so that even these girls can have good men around when that time when that time comes indio anyway thank you so much I hope you enjoy your social Friday please don't go anywhere it's international women's day we've had the young people here the young men and women a big congratulations to the boys who are standing with the girls when it comes to this particular fight so please do not go anywhere my name is Hilda Wadidie social Friday continues shortly


Love to welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel for a chronicle of my M1 finance portfolios. This will be my fixed income portfolio, kind of a cool way of investing. It's been, as Al cover, on recovery for the better part of last year and coming into 2023. It's actually got a chance here to actually fight back into positive territory. You can see here the divergence between the funding and how that's actually appreciated the account value over time, as opposed to what has been a pretty poor bond market, especially latter 2021 and into 2022 in its entirety. It was really, really bad. It was multi-decade lows, but the portfolio stood in nicely. I funded it over time. I disclosed those amounts to you. The bond portfolio is available to you in its entirety in the description below. It is affiliate linked. I can receive compensation to help support the channel for offering content like this. With that guys, we'll kick into the bond portfolio. Please enjoy. I like these opportunities where I can invite the grander subscriber base actually into real accounts. This is a unique Vanguard bond portfolio. It's comprised of all fixed equity ETFs or fixed income ETFs. The thing that I want to kind of point out here, there's a few things going on. This is a relatively new account for me. The idea here was to move off of the sidelines, pick up some exposure to fixed income. This has performed just about as bad as I could expect it to perform. I say that tongue-in-cheek to kind of put you on notice here and to put you on a couple of things here. The total cash flow into the portfolio is just over 4,000. You can see here that the value is just shy of 3,800. So we actually are down an aggregate of $175 in this portfolio. The bright spot in the portfolio, there are two. The one is the dividends rendered. They all pay out the same time. They pay four times each per year. So total payouts four times per year and those payouts are fairly large. Now the market gain here is slowly improving over time. That is a positive. The real big positive I want to show you here is the value over time. The value over time has come by way of funding this account over time. We started with a thousand bucks back in late 2021 and we have built this thing up over time by funding it at some point in the beginning with amounts as low as 25 bucks to this account. I actually believe that right now we're funding this account with about 50 bucks. We're funding it with about $50 I think every month or every couple of weeks. I need to look at that frequency but it's that amount. I just need to check the frequency and you can see here the value over time. Even though we've had zero help on the appreciation side, as bonds just took a bath there, they were at historic multi-decade lows. Right at around the time that I bought it of course and I got to watch it absolutely nosedive. That was a lot of fun for me. Butt par for the course and we live to fight another day. This is slowly recovering and my dollar cost averages will pay off on the back end only to see these ETFs come from the doldrums which some of these are right close to sneaking out of the basement here at $1.23 and $2 respectively on the short-term corporate and the short-term bond ETFs here. It'd be a nice feeling because I've really weighted these out since late 2021 when I started this. I have owned the account exclusively through 2022 and coming into 2023 I've never seen these accounts in the green. Never. I think this is a really cool way of investing in bonds. I think the total bond ETF by Vanguard probably could have been a better way to play bonds in all actuality because the total overall interest rate in this is about 3.13%. The total rendering of the total bonds market ETF is close to if not over 4%. It is a product that I will be looking to add to my portfolio in the near future. But as it pertains to this portfolio you can kind of see here how I've put the weighting on the intermediate-term bonds at the top, short-term bonds and then long-term bonds and then an extended duration as well as a long-term treasury ETF. So I've comprised this with specific targets. Most of them are, I tried to just go equal weight with the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 products total. But you can see here most of these are at or around 10 to at most 15% on the weighted exposure within this portfolio. But I wanted to give you guys an update on this. This is just one aspect and just angle basically cornerstone, which is kind of what I try to convey to investors is to establish these different cornerstones in the portfolio. And individually they may not make you wealthy overnight, but collectively, while one is actually digressing in value you can have certain cornerstones in the portfolio actually performing for you over time. And given a long enough time horizon that diversity of your cornerstones really can make a huge difference when we're talking about long-term performance. And this is just one aspect of how I seek out that performance in the equity market or excuse me in the fixed income market in my bond ETF portfolio. So with that guys, we'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. So we've come out of the bond portfolio. I hope you enjoyed that and understanding my explanation on how I've interpreted the performance of the portfolio up to date. We will continue to chronicle that on our way to our next financial threshold, which we're staring down the $5,000 mark in route to the all-elusive $10,000 mark. We'll get that portfolio up above that mark and we'll evaluate it at that time. But I've been pretty satisfied with its recovery. That's for sure. This got me from a non-bond investor to a bond investor to put some work in play with the idea of capital preservation in mind. 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What I'm going to focus on this year is scoring from quad pod. Now, one thing different from folk style and freestyle for you guys that never has a freestyle and folk style is if a guy is behind me and I'm in a quad pod that's not a take down. I got to put a knee and elbow or a head to the ground. Okay, so me and Reeves, if me and Reeves are wrestling say he ducks under. If he ducks me, he's behind me and I go here. In folk style this is take down. In freestyle it's not. Reco it's not. He's got to get an elbow a knee or my head to the mat. So one thing we're going to work on as a club this year is scoring when we're Reeves. But one thing we got to start doing is recognizing opportunities to break this quad pod down. Now, continuing with our lock drills before we even start focusing on breaking this guy down we're just going to get our lock in nice and tight. And I want you to think about your laces on the back of their knees on either side. He's got to give me a good solid quad pod. Okay, I'm locking right there on the floater rib not slip to one side of the other. Locking straight in I just can start on one side. Okay, and I'm just hopping right here. Hopping side to side. Notice my lock isn't slipping. I'm just hopping side to side right here. And when we get used to running our gut wrenches and really getting that knee under and that shoulder drive we'll get real tight in there. It's going to be real tough for that guy. Whether they're flat on the mat or whether they're in their quad pod.  Don't have your feet too far away from you. Get a good solid position. Okay, he's just going to hop from side to side. Okay, see how his laces are catching behind both my knees. Hopping side to side and the focus is not to let your lock slip. Squeezing that lock down nice and tight. Five each side, two sets, go!


Well, it has finally happened. On the 19th of September 2019, it was revealed that Xbox exclusive indie platformer Ori and the Blind Forest would be making its way to the Nintendo Switch. The delay in Ori's arrival on the platform was not for a lack of trying. The indie team behind the game, Moon Studios, had been trying since 2016 to develop something for the Switch, only to be flat out rejected by Nintendo. Ultimately, it was only thanks to the intervention of Microsoft that Ori and the Blind Forest ever made it to Nintendo, and only after Moon Studios got a cheeky form of revenge by hiring another indie developer that Nintendo had mistreated. This is the utterly bizarre story of how Nintendo burned its bridges at every turn, until finally, Microsoft swept in to save the day and bring Ori and the Blind Forest to the Switch. Ori and the Blind Forest started life in 2010, when a group of seasoned developers got together to try something new. Genadie Coroll, former Senior Graphics Engineer at Animation Lab, and Thomas Mahler, former cinematic artist at Blizzard Entertainment, decided to form their own small development team, named Moon Studios, to try to make an atmospheric 2D platformer. Because of the clout that these two developers possessed, it wasn't long before their little studio started turning heads among the industry. A year after Moon Studios was formed, it became an official first-party developer for Microsoft. Not that the team were satisfied with solely making games for the Xbox, of course. In 2016, at around the time that Ori and the Blind Forest was officially released, Thomas was growing curious about developing something for the then-upcoming Nintendo console, the NX. To his dismay, it turned out that Nintendo was far less friendly towards indie developers than Microsoft had been when purchasing Moon Studios. While development kits for the NX had been sent out to some select AAA companies, it seemed that Nintendo didn't want to deal with Mahler. They flat-out rejected his attempts to get hold of a development kit. Having a bit of a rant about the experience, Thomas said, This is actually THE singlass most annoying thing for every dev out there. We also talked to Nintendo and got absolutely nothing. I'll never understand that. And just to be clear, it's not just Nintendo.  It's not even that the hardware isn't finished, duh, but you could at least give me the specs so we'd know what to build for. It's worth remembering that at this time, Nintendo was very much the underdog. The Wii U had underperformed, and the rumoured NX was to be the company's make-or-break console. That Nintendo still wasn't willing to play ball with third-party developers was the subject of general frustration among the entire games industry. It's also worth pointing out that, as the CEO of a studio connected to Microsoft, Thomas would have been viewed with extra suspicion by Nintendo, who were desperate to keep the Switch a secret for as long as possible before the console was ready. Thomas went on to blast Nintendo's restrictive, secretive policies. He made it very clear that he thought that Nintendo's new console would flop without adequate indie support. What's needed to sell hardware is good software. With Nintendo not having any dev kits out there at this point, and probably even wanting to sell it in 2016, I can already guarantee that they'll just not have any software support, since nobody can just jumble games together in less than a year.  Thankfully, Thomas's predictions did not come true, when the Nintendo NX, eventually renamed the Switch, did finally release. It initially did so without very much in the way of indie support. Aside from a few games such as Snake Pass and Snipperclips, the majority of early Switch titles were made by larger studios. Over the next few months, though, the studio began welcoming all kinds of new indie titles to the device, and its native support of the Unity games engine meant that developing for the Switch was relatively easy even without a dev kit. All of this was inconsequential to the team at Moon Studios. They'd been rejected by Nintendo, and they'd channeled their energy elsewhere. They were hard at work on a new game, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, a sequel to their original work. What's more, they'd found the perfect way to vent their frustration at Nintendo for rejecting them. They'd hired Milton Guasti, the creator of AM2R, another Metroid 2 remake. Milton had begun work on AM2R long before Moon Studios had formed, and before Ori and the Blind Forest had begun development. A sound engineer by profession, Milton had decided that he wanted to learn game coding, and decided that the best way to do this was to remake the classic Game Boy game, Metroid 2, The Return of Samus. For two years, Milton worked on this game until, in 2010, he finally revealed his creation to the public. He chose the name Another Metroid 2 Remake, because he was far from the only person working on this kind of project. Where other Metroid 2 Remake projects eventually fizzled out, though, Milton kept going strong. It took until 2016 before AM2R was released for free in a relatively completed state, at around the same time that Ori and the Blind Forest first went on sale. Then it all came crashing down. Nintendo started issuing takedown notices to various servers that hosted Milton's work. He was optimistic about continuing for a while, until it became very clear that Nintendo was not going to give up. For some strange reason, the company had decided that they were going to wipe AM2R from the face of the internet by any means necessary. In a full-on blog post in September 2016, Milton simply stated, Nintendo of America Inc. has filed a takedown request under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, DMCA. I received the request on my personal email, so I am complying with their requests. There will be no more AM2R updates and no more releases under any platform. Thank you for the support during all these years. That was that. Nintendo had effectively ended a project that had taken eight years of Milton's life. It later transpired that Nintendo had in fact begun working on their own official remake of Metroid 2 for the 3DS. Many speculate that this was why the company saw a passionate fan project as such a threat to their bottom line. Regardless, Milton felt that he couldn't be bitter. Over the course of the time he'd been working on AM2R, he'd learnt everything that he'd wanted to know about game development and programming. In his own words, Now I'm making a living as a professional programmer thanks to what I learned developing a fan game. Technically speaking, I'm satisfied. Besides, Milton eventually received a very intriguing offer from a fellow developer. Thomas Mahler had played AM2R and had seen how Milton had been treated by Nintendo. Perhaps there was an opportunity for Milton to join Moon Studios on Ori and the Will of the Wisps. A year after receiving his first takedown notices from Nintendo, Milton made another post on the AM2R blog. Some time ago, the CEO of Moon Studios, creators of Ori and the Blind Forest, reached out with an offer. They needed a level designer for their upcoming sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and I was a potential candidate for the job. I gladly accepted the offer. Ori is one of the many games I was able to enjoy lately. One can see the love and attention to detail that went into its design. I feel like I'll be right at home working with this team. It's a pretty huge change in my life, since it's a full-time job. But dreams are there to be chased. My family supports this decision, and it could be the beginning of a new career. Ordinarily, this would be a good end to a story. A game studio that was rejected by Nintendo was able to help give another developer the chance to grow past Nintendo's aggression. There is, though, an epilogue to this tale. Several years after the release of Ori and the Blind Forest, and the disintegration of AM2R, Microsoft began partnering with Nintendo to bring some of their platform exclusives to the Switch. Speaking about the notion of console-exclusive titles, Microsoft's Phil Spencer said, I just get stuck in who this is helping. It doesn't help the developer. The developer just wants more people to play their game. It doesn't help the player. The players just want to play with their friends who also play games on console. First, Minecraft stayed on Nintendo and Sony platforms even after Microsoft bought developer Mojang. Then came online cross-play between the Switch and the Xbox. Finally, Microsoft became a publisher on the Switch, bringing titles like Cuphead, Hotline Miami, and finally, Ori and the Blind Forest, to the Hybrid console. While Nintendo once rejected Moon Studios outright, the company is now eagerly advertising the arrival of Ori and the Blind Forest to their platform. If there's a moral to this story, it's that you shouldn't take rejection too personally. It can be hard to take when someone shuts you down or is standing in the way of your success. You may feel frustrated at additional roadblocks that clutter your path for no particular reason. Keep pushing forward. Given time, who knows? Perhaps your one-time adversaries will join the ranks of your most faithful supporters. In the meantime, see who else might be struggling and think of what you can do to help. Just as Thomas Mahler reached out to Milton Guasty when his game was crushed by Nintendo, you too can help others who need your support. If the tale of Ori and the Blind Forest coming to the Switch can teach us anything, it's that life is better when we all work together.