Hello everybody! In today's video, I'm going to tell you about monitoring temperature of your HDD and SSD drives. How to find out the current temperature, what is the normal range of temps to use them in, what values are critical, and how to cool the drives down. A hard disk is one of the most important components in any desktop computer or laptop. Its reliability determines the integrity of your data. As any other component, it is supposed to have a certain lifespan. The length of this period is seriously affected by the temperature which the hard disk reaches as it operates. That is why it is important to monitor its temperature from time to time, especially when the weather is hot, and do something to help your disk exist in a cooler environment if necessary. There are a multitude of factors that affect the disk temperature. First of all, the temperature in the room where the computer works. The number and type of cooling fans in the computer case. The amount of dust, intensity of work, and more. In today's video, you will find answers to most popular questions related to monitoring temperature of your HDD and SSD drives. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browse in history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description. Download the necessary program for free. Install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it, to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. For starters, let's see how you can tell if the disk is too hot or too cold. There are many ways to do it and specialized programs to help you. Visit our channel for a detailed video tutorial on learning the temperature of a hard disk, central processor and other components. Just check the link below. To monitor temperature, I use the well-known tool, ADA64. Go to the tab computer, sensor. In the temperature section, you will find everything you need. Temperature readings are shown in real-time mode. Talking of SSDs, you may or may not see the temperature data depending on whether your device has a built-in sensor or not. ADA64 is an excellent tool, which is a must-have for every PC user. In addition to temperature, you can get tons of information on almost every device or program you are using. It provides access to so many things which you will never see, even if you use integrated Windows tools. It's even better if there is a dedicated utility to monitor the disk temperature and overall health. I mean real-time permanent monitoring, instead of the one-time check as provided by ADA64. For this purpose, the best choice is specialized utilities for hard disk diagnostics. Previously, I've already covered this topic in one of my videos, so I will leave the link in the description below. One of the tools I can recommend is HDD Live. This utility monitors voice temperature and smart values and will warn you immediately as soon as the disk condition deteriorates to the point when data loss becomes probable. Also, it will inform you if the disk temperature gets higher than normal. It's very convenient because you don't need to think about having to check temperatures now and then. The utility will do it for you and let you know if something goes wrong. If you decided to monitor temperature on your own and you must be wondering which figure is normal temperature and which is critical, actually, recommendations are very depending on the manufacturer. Most of them agree that 30 to 45 degrees centigrade is the optimal temperature range for a hard disk. Temperatures from 45 to 52 degrees centigrade are undesirable, nothing to worry about, but you'd better consider your cooling options. If your hard disk operates within the 40 to 45 degrees range in winter, summer heat can easily raise it to 50 degrees or even more. The point is that the rising temperature causes all materials to expand and that is very harmful for the hard disk. Talking of SSDs, their critical temperature is much higher, up to 70 or 80 degrees centigrade. If your HDD gets hotter than 55 degrees, this is the critical temperature you should avoid at all costs. It can reduce the disk lifespan considerably. It may work two or three times less than it would if the temperature was within the normal range. Any temperature below 25 degrees centigrade is as bad for the hard disk as that, although many people tend to believe that the colder the hard disk, the better. With low temperature, materials tend to shrink, which is not good for any hard disk. However, except for cases of using excessively powerful cooling systems or condemning FSC to working in an unheated premise, the disk temperature should never go lower than that. So, how can we bring down on the hard disk temperature? First of all, have a look inside your computer or laptop and clean it from dust. Most of the time rising temperature stands in direct connection with poor ventilation, as air holes and cooling fans get clogged with a thick layer of dust. Talking of laptops, users often place them on surface and other soft surfaces that cover air holes effectively and the hot air just can't get out. In our channel, there is a good video about cleaning computer from dust, and I will leave the link below. If your computer has several HDDs, make sure that they are installed at a distance from each other. If they are packed too close, rearrange the disks to create more space between them. This will prevent them from hitting up each other. Usually, every computer case has several slots for hard disks, so I recommend putting hard disks into, say, the first and the third slots. If you place the two disks as far from each other as possible, their temperature will certainly drop by 5 or even 10 degrees. If this step doesn't help, add an extra cooling fan to blow some air on the hard disk and reduce its temperature. For laptops, there are special cooling pads in average shop, but it could be much cheaper to just remember that a laptop should be used on a clean, firm level and dry surface. Before the overheating problem is solved, don't run disks to fragmentation. Use torrent-type applications or start processes that load the disk considerably because it can harm your storage device. I have already told you how high temperatures affect the hard disk. What is more, how hot a disk can become also depends on the disk type and model. For example, disks designed to operate at 5400 rpm are almost immune to overheating, while those doing 7200 rpm or more are at risk. To learn the normal temperature range for your specific hard disk, the best way is to visit the manufacturer's website. And that is all for now. Hopefully this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Hit the bell button to receive notifications and never miss new videos. Good comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching and good luck.


Before we get into the video guys, I am giving away 11,500 Apex coins to be a chance of winning them. Make sure you are subbed to this channel, drop a like and a video, only they comment down below. More details on the giveaway are in the video description. What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I am Paris, she ate you being here. Today I bring you another Apex Legends video, and today I bring you more Apex Legends news including the Battle Pass, an insane in-game luckness month, the Easter egg where you actually spawn this big new weapons coming, new details on solos and jewels and much more. But before we go any further guys, if you do enjoy the video and would like to show you support, you can by smashing that like button and if you are new around here, and enjoy daily Apex Legends videos, make sure you subscribe. So let's start with the Battle Pass. Now official details under Battle Pass are kind of scarce, we only have the roadmap from Respawn that mentions anything about it, and that's it's release window, it's release time gate, it's somewhere in March, that is it, we don't know an exact date yet at all, but datamine files suggest and give us a little bit more information on it. Thanks to gaming intel for some of the information, their website can be found linked within the video description. So within the datamine files, we see files that suggest there will be two variants to this battle pass, much like we see in Fortnite, a free version and a paid version. As we see within their files, files that actually suggest something will be free and others will be paid for, which kind of makes sense. We see or saw something very similar within Fortnite and I doubt it will be much different here within Apex Legends, because let's face it the concept is great. A free season pass for all the kids out there who can't afford this but still want to play and earn things and a paid season pass for all the hardcore players much like myself and many of you guys. So when exactly in March will we get this season pass? At the start kind of makes sense around the fourth as that is a Monday, but game files fans which could be clues stay around the 25th of March. Now you may not know this but many characters have been datamined, both legends and NPCs. The two that pop up the most, the two legends that pop up the most, including their abilities are Watson who is believed to be a robot with a Tesla trap ability and then there's Octane who has a Stimpak ability, yes believed to be the same Stimpak we saw in Titanfall do you remember that. Now we know these new seasons will introduce new legends and it's believed Octane and Watson will be the first ones we get and data my file suggests as you can see on screen now via their post launch playlist data my file it suggests we will get an Octane preview at a post playlist for week 8 which from release would be around the 25th of March. So the actual times on this battle pass at the moment ain't secured in place as a guarantee yet. We will wait for official info from Respawn here because all we know for sure is there will be extra things to play for more weapons added new legends new loot and much more and these will all come in March sometime with this new battle pass for apex legends like I said it makes sense it would be the that around the first of March would be the fourth would be that Monday but I mean this leak playlist data my file to just that a post playlist will come at week 8 which would be around the 25th and then we should get a preview of Octane if Octane is believed to be one of the first legends coming with these new seasons I mean could it be the 25th of March I mean it's still March the roadmap wouldn't be lying but who knows people until an official statement has been dropped by Respawn we are actually kind of guessing here but all we know is March sometime we will get a battle pass whether there will be a free version and a paid version to it I mean it kind of makes sense and Respawn ain't stupid as we know it hasn't been confirmed as of yet so let's move on people and one of the big things so many people are wanting right now in game are solos and jewels well more data my files have been found seen on screen now and we can see the addition of two man's squads and solo play interestingly we see big changes made to the solo as you would expect because things like the knockdown shield will be absolutely useless and not necessary in solos as you can't be revived much you are down you are down people but I mean I know we are getting so many data my files and solos and jewels I mean it's kind of a guarantee these modes will be coming it's something we all want and Respawn are definitely aware of that and even though the audience mentioned anything about it publicly I can guarantee you guys it's coming I just guess we've got to be patient here okay so let's move on people and via newly found data my files we can see the addition of new grenades coming to the game now these grenades although a couple seem to act a lot like a few legend abilities I can reassure you these are not the same files as we see character abilities and have been added into the game file since the latest update a few days ago the first we see is a small grenade I'm guessing it will act a lot like one little small grenade but I'd say it won't be as potent I mean as it would just make her ability useless then the next grenade is called the tick now you guys should remember these from Titanfall little butt things that used to chase your ass around and explode upon getting close to you pretty cool to see them returning to should be fun and then we have an orbital strike this again I'm guessing will be a lot like Gibraltar's defensive bombardment but again but again it just won't be as potent as Gibraltar's ultimate I mean it just wouldn't make sense at all maybe it'll be about one tenth or one fifth the scale who knows these grenades no doubt will land as part of a new season in my opinion also so we will see people we will see but yeah new loot good shit and lastly guys a crazy easter egg in game which actually allows you to summon the luckness monster yes you heard this right and when I first saw this video I thought it was the ultimate clickbait crap or when I clicked it I was absolutely left gobsmacked my jaw was drew up people now you guys know of the little lotless teddies you can find around kings canyon while there is a guide on youtube to exactly how this is done and you'll find that linked within the video description but if you actually shoot these in a certain order you actually spawn the luckness monster like what you can see these images on screen now if this thing being spawned absolute craziness and like I said guys if you do want to check out exactly how this is done and try it for yourself you can find a link within the video description it is a big process and I don't want to take away from these dudes work on getting this done and uploading it to youtube so do go check them out but guys on that note we have come to the end of the video and that's it for today the latest new show and in the game if any new information drops people I'll have you covered right here on my channel as per usual but guys on that note we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really does help out if you want new rides here and enjoy daily apex legion videos like guides top 5 gameplays reviews just about everything make sure you subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I'll see you on that next one


So one second. All right, we are live. All right, so I'm hello and welcome and I'm handing over to Jackie. Hi everyone, I am Jackie Kerner. I am a board governance facilitator for the Wikimedia Foundation and thank you everyone for joining us and we're glad you all are here. We are very fortunate to have those of you here but also those of you viewing us in the future. So we will have this online for you and available. So I'm gonna pivot to Maggie so that she can introduce herself and then I'll come back for some logistics. Thank you very much, Jackie and hello everyone. So I'm gonna start off just by very briefly telling you who I am. In my volunteer perspective, I've been a Wikimedian since I believe 2007. I edit as user moon with new girl at work. I am the vice president of community resilience and sustainability and I am currently in charge of trust and safety, human rights, community development, the board governance conversations we're having around the elections and movement strategy. Before I get started, I'd like to visit a couple of things. First, my own friendly space requirements. I can and I won't discuss specific trust and safety cases. Instead, I can talk about trust and safety protocols and practices and approaches as well as some of the mistakes we've made, some of the things I'm proud of and some of the things we're hoping to do. Second, I will not respond to comments or questions that are disrespectful to me, to my colleagues or to anyone in our communities. I can talk civilly about our work even if you disagree with me or I disagree with you. I'm not kidding on that, y'all. I am okay with hard conversations. I just really need them to be safe for everyone involved. I can't compromise on that. But in addition to visiting what I'm hoping for from you, I wanted to visit what my commitment is to you. So I'm a very nervous public speaker. People tell me I don't look like it, which makes me very happy, but I am. I will do my best to be brave and honest in this and respectful to all of you as my colleagues because I consider you my colleagues. We're working together on something that I think is astronomical and great. I will commit that any question that is submitted in this hour or for this hour that I don't have time to respond to, I will respond to in writing on meta within a week. I will also commit because Derhetser tries to help show that I always remember to do this, to speak slowly and clearly. I do get excited, I do get nervous and sometimes I forget and I go too fast. If that happens, please remind me because I really want to do this right so that you all understand me and that I'm not making this harder on those of you who are being generous by participating with me in the only language in which I can speak. So that's me and I'm passing it over to Jackie to talk about the process. Hi everyone, thanks for joining us. Those of you who've just popped in the last few minutes, we appreciate you being here. I'm Jackie Kerner, I'm a board governance facilitator and just questions that were submitted ahead of time. Thank you for those, we appreciate that. We have those on our list. We're gonna mix between those of you who are live asking questions and those that were submitted ahead of time. So we'll be monitoring IRC, telegram and YouTube and questions not addressed during this office hour. You'll be happy to know those will receive a written response afterward and please ping us again if we accidentally miss your question. And I'll go ahead and start with a submitted question to give a live participants a chance to type questions. And there are, oops, I forgot. You may raise your hand for those of you who are in the Zoom room or you may do the fun little notification in the chat. We'll be looking at both of those. And if you do take the microphone in the Zoom room, I do encourage you to be concise for interest of time. I appreciate that. And let's get that submitted question. So Maggie, question one, what's going on with the trust and safety case review committee? Will their term be renewed? Okay, so yes, we've been talking with the trust and safety case review committee about their willingness to extend their term a little longer. As many of you will remember, this is a committee that was created to hear appeals to trust and safety cases. And we had somewhat hoped to have the universal code of conduct enforcement pathways completed by the end of this fiscal year, which would be by the end of June, but that is not where we are at the moment. Because of that, we would like to ask this interim committee to continue their work with us until we know what the permanent process looks like and can put out another call for volunteers. And a second part of that question, do you have any statistics about their outcomes right now? Statistics, no, we do put out, I think it's a quarterly report on META. So, sorry, but, if the quarterly report hasn't gone out recently, I'll find out when the next one is and we'll put the links to that in the office hours notes. Oh, thank you, Dr. Hexer. He put it in the chat on Zoom so we can make sure that everybody gets a chance to see that. Well, thanks for that participation. That's so helpful.  There were quite a few questions about grants and the strategy process. Let's move to one of those questions to mix those in. So, Kim posted there would be $2,000 grants for the strategy process. On what conditions will IGC members be eligible for such a grant? Okay, I don't know. We are working on this. We have money to distribute for grants by the end of the year. I'm not sure what the process is, but I do know that Kim and Carol undoubtedly do know as they are very heavily working on movement strategy. So that's another thing I will have to put into links in that to make sure that you have access. Oh, Kim is here. I forgot Kim, you were here. That's my nervousness. Do you have an answer to that, Kim? The only problem is I just landed literally because domestic stuff. So what's the question? Sorry. What wonderful timing. They were asking about how to request grants for the remainder of the fiscal year for related to movement strategy. Yes, just wait a few days. We are just putting all the last details together, but expect an announcement from us, expect a simple form, expect a simple process and a quick process too. So just wait a few days more. We are still connecting the other thoughts. Great, let's pause here and see if we have any submitted questions or anyone who wants to raise their hand in the chat to ask one live in the Zoom room. Okay, I don't see any. So we'll move forward with the submitted questions. So we'll actually jump to one about the Universal Code of Conduct. So that's something that's very, very exciting and on a lot of everyone's mind right now. So do you think that cross community ratification of the UCOC will be important for getting communities to accept it? Let's see. Well, I know there's a lot of interest in a cross communities ratification process. I'm not sure what that would look like. We have to think very carefully about how we do it in a way that is respectful to all participants in different regions. We have to think about how we do it in a way that makes everybody feel like it is something that is in their best interests, that meets their best needs and that we are all pulling together on it. So do I think that it is important? I think it's important that we all come together on a process that works. I'm not sure what that process is going to be. So yes, but I don't have information on what that would look like. And the second part of the question, are there plans to have a discussion about what that ratification would look like? So you somewhat answered that. Yeah, yeah, we have to have that discussion because I don't have that answer. So great minds think alike. Let's just say that. All right, so let's jump back to something reflecting UCOC and grants and now we're combining some topics. So presently, affiliate grant agreements require groups to have a safety policy for events. Will the UCOC create more requirements for responsibilities for affiliates when running events? Well, I'd have to honestly, in order for me to answer this question, I'd have to look at the friendly space policy and the UCOC and say, is there anything missing? I've always considered that our friendly space policies are fairly robust, but I say that as a person who has never facilitated an event, which means I do not know them like the back of my hand. So there's a possibility, but I don't think that we're anywhere near there yet. I think that the important thing that we'll all need to keep in mind is the intention of these policies is to make sure that participants are safe everywhere in our movement and where we seek gaps to address that. Great, and just going to speak to those just joining. You may raise your hand in the chat or the raise hand feature if you're here in the Zoom room to take the mic. And we encourage you to do so. Just please be concise when you do. And let me just also add really quickly, Jackie, if you're an IRC or YouTube, you can also type your questions in the stream. We have people watching those channels. So live questions are welcome, even though I've been told we have quite a few already in queue. So we got a lot. There's a lot of fun stuff going on. Lots of good things going on. All right, so let's go ahead and go to the next question. It focuses on movement charter. So I'm interested to be on the movement charter drafting team. Where should I express that? Kim, are you able to speak to that since you're facilitating all that work? Yes, I wish I had another different answer that is not just wait a couple of days, but briefly, what we know until now is that there's been two proposals, different proposals coming from different areas of the movement. There's also been some conversation on meta about this. We have also done our homework inside the foundation just to be ready to facilitate the next steps. So I actually, there's movement going on these days. So next week, probably next week, I would say, let me say this. I think I'm convinced that by next Saturday, so during the next week, we are going to all know what are the next steps for a question like this. And by that, I mean, it's not that we the foundation have the answer and we will announce it is that we need to just agree on the very first steps for that. But in any case, yes, it needs to move fast. What we want is that that group is formed by the end of June, if possible. And here's a follow-up part to the question, which you may or may not know as well. Who will recruit and select members? Proposals presented have ideas about that, but they are different. So if I would have now an answer, I would be already doing something wrong. So we need to discuss these very first steps in order to just put strap this movement charter process. All right, I'll pause again briefly and see if there are any questions that were submitted live. And again, we encourage you to do so wherever you are watching us. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and move on to the next question. Wikimedia Deutschland posted a letter on META about compensating volunteers from emerging and marginalized communities so they can take part in these important councils and drafting processes. What are the intentions around that? Boy, are you all going to get tired of hearing me say that I don't know. I read the letter with great interest. As many of you know, I really came into movement strategy quite recently. So I'm still getting up to speed on a lot of the conversations that have been had. And people are helping me understand some of the challenges that participants in some of our communities are having in terms of taking part in these important conversations because of their inability to do so without some form of compensation. There are big questions around how we do this. And I'm still working to understand what some of those questions are and where some of the answers are. For instance, I know that the call is to do it with our emerging communities and underrepresented communities, but we have challenges with payment processing in some of those very same communities. Does that mean that we might offer a stipend to somebody in an emerging region but not somebody else in an emerging region because we can't get money to them? So I need to understand what research has been done and what is possible. But to me, it seems clear that figuring this question out is a top priority because we can't really constitute a charter writing committee until we understand what we are able to do to facilitate participation. Can there's a request in the Zoom chat for the link to the letter on meta if somebody could help with that, I'd be grateful. All right, now we'll go back to a UCOC question if we can pivot to that. So some harassment is organized off wiki by organized groups and forums. How can the system to review situations that might span hundreds of interactions are involved many users? Can you repeat the first part of that question? It was a little complex. Yeah, so some harassment, organized harassment in various places. How can this system to review these situations encompass all of the instances whether hundreds and involved many users? So I think it's asking for what can we do about these situations that aren't just one off or one large situation but many little situations that accumulate in different areas. I think that's a really good question and one that we have to solve collectively. The way I see it, this is organized off wiki challenges or some of the biggest we face whether it is from people who are trying to subvert the neutrality of our content or people who are trying to attack others who they feel like don't represent their best interests. We've seen issues around this in the Wikipedia universe with some hot topics around the elections, around, I hate to even mention the term because it's polarizing gamer date and we really do need better systems of review. How can we do it? Well, in Maggie's imaginary world, we have a brilliant wise council of people who are able to look at evidence that is submitted and collated. Who collates it? I don't know. Maybe trust and safety has a role in that. Maybe not. Maybe it's volunteer driven and we are able to look at it in context globally and make very wise decisions that will solve all the problems of the world. All right, so first second, I'm gonna put my educator hat on and call out YouTube. YouTube, do you wanna submit any questions? We know there are people out there watching on YouTube so do you have any questions to submit? Aha, we have some. So two questions. Is there an interim ED or CEO? That is, well, first I know the answer but second that is not actually part of my job but I do know the answer. So I will say we have a transition team that is working with a board of trustees while the CEO slash ED search is going on and that team includes Amanda Keaton who's in this hangout with us, our general council. I am A. Villa Gomez, our chief financial officer and I suddenly don't remember Robin's last name which is very embarrassing. Arville. Thank you, Robin Arville who is our chief of HR, what we call talent and culture at the foundation and some other people do too but I know that's not universally understood. And then another question that was submitted via YouTube thank you for that. When are board of trustees elections expected? The answer to that is I'm not sure but I know there's gonna be a communication about it I believe this week. They had conversations around it this past week and all of the board governance conversations have been rolled up to them to review. So I think we will all know the answer to that in very short order. You're muted, Jackie. I'll give another pause to see if we have any friends who are watching us live that want to submit questions and otherwise I will go to another submitted question beforehand. I don't see any just yet. So we're going to move on to the next submitted question. So this one has to deal with movement strategy in the charter and IGC so I'm gonna break it down a little bit into chunks. So in the strategy recommendations it was envisioned as an interim global council that would be tasked with drafting the movement charter. Is that still the intention? So my understanding is that some of the thinking around that is evolving and that there are some people who have proposed that we move straight into the movement charter drafting committee rather than going through the process of figuring out what an interim global council would look like. I will tell you all honestly, to me, that makes sense. I think it makes sense to have people who are expert in policy and focused on policy come in and define what the charter would be for the global council and then to look for people who match the needs and the evolution of that document to begin doing that work. All right, great. We have another question submitted from YouTube. So give me just a moment just to read it so I can parse it. Okay, so what can the WMF and trust and safety do with what we need? Let's see, I'm sorry, Murdad. Could you help me clarify that, please? I'm not quite understanding the intention. While Mayor Dodd does, let's go to the next question that you already had submitted. Yeah, I appreciate that Murdad. Thank you for clarifying that. So let's go back to another movement strategy one. So while we're on a roll. So they also asked for a commitment for grants for strategic initiatives through the community resources team in your annual plan. What are the plans for that? And there again, that seems like this is a theme coming here that lots of interest around this. Yes. So we are in annual planning right now for those of you who don't know it's one of the busiest seasons of the foundation. So there's a lot of work and discussions going on. My intention is to request generous grant set aside and don't ask me what generous means because I don't have that answer on my head. But my intention is to submit a request for the grants whether and how community resources is going to be involved in that is still being determined. I believe community resources is involved whenever grants are given out but whether they're the ones who decide how I think there's still a lot of questions to be answered around that in the next few weeks. All right, now we have clarification on that question from YouTube. So I think it's what can the WMF do with real world situations working with legal PR tech admins, editors in order to get disruptive individuals and long-term abusers off the site when on wiki sanctions don't succeed. So what can the WMF and TNS do? All right, so this is a question asked from the perspective of how staff can support. And I'm gonna be a bit vague about some of this because the people who watch this video some of them may be long-term abusers who are trying to stay on the site. And because of that I don't wanna tell them everything we have in our toolkit but I will say that working with our legal team we do have opportunities to work with ISPs on occasion when we have long-term persistent abusers for them to help see if there's anything they can do to support us. I will say that there are some occasions when we have worked with law enforcement when there are long-term abusers obviously it depends on the nature of the long-term abuse. I don't believe that we have explored PR approaches and I think we'd have to think very carefully about that because sometimes you can encourage bad behavior just by letting people know that bad behavior actually gets attention. I remember years ago when I started at the foundation we had recently done some work with Gavin DeBekker who wrote The Gift of Fear which talks about what to do with stalkers and harassers and one of the things that they recommend is that you don't give them oxygen at all because when you do it encourages more of them to flourish. So I think we'd have to think very carefully about the balance between using PR to stop long-term abuse versus not using PR to encourage long-term abuse. All right, thanks for that. Now we have a question. Would you like to ask this question live? Can I ask the barkeep? Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead and ask it for you. So acknowledging this isn't strictly under this umbrella of Maggie, I'm going to ask anyway. It seems that a number of us feel the community tech team has rather limited resources. How as volunteers could we advocate for that team getting more resources? That's a good question. Well, I feel like in some ways you just did but I would say by participating in the community tech processes to help them understand what the priorities are by giving your comment on the annual plan proposals as they start coming out, making sure that we recognize gaps in tech more globally and make sure that we prioritize the work that is needed most. I hope that's helpful. All right, well, thank you for that question. And again, please, anyone wherever you're watching, feel free to submit questions and we will try to get you an answer. Or otherwise, if you feel more comfortable, please reach out in another method and we can answer your writing. So thank you for being present today. For those of you who are able to be present. So let's go ahead and go on to the next question. I'm actually going to go into my umbrella of places now. Do you have any plans to increase the awareness about the board's work across the communities? Well, me personally, we have a communications department and the communications department, as I understand it, is submitting a request to focus programmatically this coming year on increasing understanding of what the movement is doing, which will certainly increase understanding of the board's role. I know that the board, many of you are probably aware, has recently created a community affairs committee. They're very interested in how the community can learn more about their work, the work of the board generally, not just the committee. So I would say there are plans. It's probably not my major focus in community resilience and sustainability, but I'm certainly very interested in them and involved in them in my role for community development and board governance. Now here's a really good question that was submitted. What's left for me to do if I want to get involved with movement strategy? I, one of the things that really interests me about movement strategy, I was kind of involved in it at the very beginning, but then my work veered in a different direction for a few years in the middle, and now I'm coming back. So one of the things that interests me about movement strategy is the way that I think about it is movement strategy is everything. It is the water we swim in, it is the air we breathe. Everything we all do all the time should be working towards the movement strategy. If this really is our strategy, then this is our focus. Now I've realized there are some keep the lights on work that people do and not every volunteer is super interested in working on movement strategy, but when you fill content gaps, you're working on movement strategy. When you bring in new editors, you're working on movement strategy. When you curate content, when you enforce standards of behavior, it's all movement strategy related. So what I want to say with all this, getting back to the question of how you can get involved, there are big conversations that we are having around, especially how we organize ourselves to do our work. So like what the movement charter is, what the global council is, what these hubs will be, these are all big, important internal structural questions that we need to grapple with in the coming year around movement strategy. There are also big externally facing components we have to deal with. How do we make sure that knowledge is complete in regions of the world where it's currently underrepresented? So you can get involved in movement strategy by joining these big conversations or by doing the work. One of the hopes that I have is that by the end of next year, we're going to have ways for people to plug in to movement strategy that is from the highest level to the lowest. And I will share with you that when I started as a Wikipedia, I focused on a list of missing articles. I didn't know how to contribute, but I really wanted to. And I found a list of music articles that were considered important because they were in other encyclopedias or what have you. And I just started writing articles. And I wrote hundreds of them. This was movement strategy work, even though I didn't know it. And I would like to make it very easy for people to do important movement work at every level. And Kim puts in note, when I say next year, I mean next fiscal year. Yes, I do. When I had a child, when I was a child, I thought of the year as the school year. Now I think of the year as the fiscal year. It's very confusing. We should all just use calendar years. But even then, the calendar year starts and ends with different dates around the world. So I guess there's no hope for us. Well, thank you for that answer. And thanks for everyone who's gotten involved with movement strategy. It's really a great, great seeing everyone come together. And I do appreciate, I also wanna speak this truth that it's difficult for everyone to be involved with everything. So thank you for those of you who are able to be involved. And we appreciate you folks who are unable to be involved as well. Let's go ahead and go on to a question that's somewhat related about regional representation. Let's see, I've lost in here. I've gotten lost in my notes. Give me just a moment to find that question again. So with regards to regional representation, we have been hearing that regional representation, eventually with hubs, might take place. I've also been following discussions with the grant strategy relaunch, in which there is a discussion on regional representation. I think it's a theme. Are you and the grants team agreeing on what these regions are? And are these two processes in which the idea of regions is being conceived independent of each other? Okay, I guess. Is everyone connecting about regional discussions and regional representation through the processes? Well, all right. Everyone connecting probably not, but I think that we are working to pull together these concepts. I mean, I've heard mixed responses to the idea of regions. I hear some people have a concern that regional clustering may not make the most sense, whereas other people say that regional support is the best way to make things happen. And I think both of these things are true, depending on where you stand. So I remember early in the discussion when we were talking about a regional system because I was plugged into the movement strategy then, we thought a lot about how people in regions could mobilize to get, for example, financial support from grant-making organizations in their environments. In this case, regions make a lot of sense. Regions don't make sense to the extent to which they limit people participating in areas of interest. I think it would be a mistake for us to create silos because we're trying to increase regional support. That to me would be a misstep. In terms of grant-making and other people and whether regions means the same thing to everybody, I think probably not yet. I think we have looked a lot at regions in terms of who is currently participating in the movement, who's not here yet, where growth in the internet is happening in the world and where we could be engaging people in a more sustained way. But I think that these are conversations that are probably going to be continuing and then coalescing in this coming fiscal year, which begins in July. All right, we're gonna move to something related as far as different regions and appreciating the different regions. Will the universal code of conduct be forced on communities that oppose and don't sign it? I will say that this is the kind of language that I set forth at the beginning that I'm not interested in engaging with. When you say, if you say forced on an individual, I will say yes. People can say I don't want to adhere to a code and I would say yes. But when you say forced on communities who don't wanna sign it, then you're putting us in an adversarial position. And I would say if a community has a problem, I've said this repeatedly through the whole process. If a community has a problem, not an individual, but a community with a code of conduct, then the question is not do we force it on them? The question is how do we evaluate the code of conduct to see what the problem is? How do we find out whether the problem is valid, whether it is an issue of impact to a community or whether a community is looking towards being exclusive, not allowing outsiders to join, not interested in working well with the rest of us? It is important that we all come together as a movement around behaviors in a way that makes sense. We have a really hard job. We are trying to pull together knowledge for the whole world to engage in. And we can't do that if we are so caught up in internal fights and hostility that we are not able to get this work done. So I think that we are at a point, especially as we are going more global and we are seeing more permeation between projects that we have to agree on how we treat each other. But please try to, like I said, I'll talk about anything. I swear I will talk about anything, but let's try to come at it from a problem-solving language. Well, speaking of problem-solving language, we have a question submitted asking, have there been talks to improve the OTRS system and make it more efficient? So the OTRS system isn't part of my wheelhouse, but I do know a bit about it because as an OTRS agent myself, I care a lot about it. And in fact, years ago, I was the foundation's liaison for working with the OTRS administrators. Some of you may be aware that the reason why we call it OTRS is because OTRS is the software we use. And that has been both good and bad. No software is perfect. This particular software we've had challenges with because we are, as I was told some years ago when we upgraded the software, the world's largest instance of OTRS, which means even the programmers for OTRS don't always know how to support us. This year, the OTRS software system announced that it was discontinuing its community version, which means that as I understand it, we have to stop using OTRS because it will become a security issue overnight. So as I understand it, although my team is not leading this work, we have to transition out of OTRS at some point. Right now, I believe the intention may be to make sure that we attend to the security matters until we can and do. The other things, I see a lot of room for OTRS improvement, but it's outside of my remit to get involved in it. I think one of the issues that we face with OTRS is that the movement writ large doesn't really know how to work with this. And the volunteer response team has one of the most critical volunteer roles we have, which is being the interface with the world. And a lot of people don't know how to use talk pages and never will, but they have to have someone they can reach out to when there are problems. And I wish that we could create better systems of working together with the volunteer response team members who have a really difficult job of trying to remain neutral in the projects. Some communities do very well with this, but I know from the time when I was the liaison that some language Wikipedia's are not integrated into the system and don't know how to respond when volunteers from that system engage them. Sorry, I could talk about this one all day because I do care so much about that work. Well, thank you for that answer. Now, here's something that's a bit near and dear to my heart and my curiosity as a researcher and my other cat. Some conduct problems are the result of stress and mental health challenges. What would the foundation consider providing mental health support for services for volunteers? And I'll add on to that resources, but that's something that I talked about a lot during the work with the working group for community health. Would it consider offering resources? Well, I would say that we already do. Do we offer enough resources? No. And in fact, this is something that we've been actively talking and thinking about. So it's a really big question, right? There are so many big questions around the wellbeing of our community that we have to engage in. As many of you know, we just hired our human rights lead to work on helping people around the world who become targeted by organized oppression, whether that's governmental or terrorist. So there's a mental health, certainly a mental health aspect in that and ensuring the basics of safety. We have a policy person in trust and safety whose job it is to provide victim support. And I use the word victim there very specifically as a term of art in people who are in the immediate aftermath of having been harassed or otherwise abused. It does not mean that people who are harassed and abused are stuck with a victim's identity. It is just referring to a specific window of time. We're talking with some groups like the LGBT plus group about peer support, something that we're really interested in exploring as part of the universal code of conduct next phases. Someone comments in the Zoom chat, which I can see about the fact that mental health should be addressed by professional psychologists and social workers. And this is something that I do know is a concern. My teams have been involved since I started at the foundation in what we call our emergency response network. So when there are threats of suicide or violence on our sites, we work with communities to make sure these are presented to professionals. Early on in my work in that area, I attempted myself based on some experiences I had had with manning a suicide hotline to talk to a volunteer who was expressing suicidal ideas. And our then chief of talent and culture had a background in psychology and very gently helped me to understand that that was overreach on my part because I am not a trained professional capable of understanding what would trigger a person like that. That is a lesson that I took to heart. It is important to us that we make sure that people who are in distress work with professionals. So trust and safety has a page trying to help people find professional resources. And even as we move more into peer support, I think it is absolutely critical that we not fool ourselves into thinking that we are qualified to replace professional service. So sorry for that very dark topic. And if I didn't answer the question fully because I think I got off on my own little subtract, let me know. All right, now we have a question submitted from IRC. So thank you for that. What do you feel are the areas where trust and safety has the most room for improvement? Well, first of all, trust and safety, a lot of people don't realize that trust and safety is actually two divisions, three soon. So we have trust and safety operations who are the people who address issues that occur on our sites. They work very closely with our legal team. Well, we're in the legal team now. They work very closely with the lawyers on our legal team to make sure that we are maintaining the essential conditions to keep with the media going. Then we have trust and safety policy which is led by Patrick who is here. I have not asked Patrick to speak to the Universal Code of Conduct and Patrick if you would like to interrupt me. But his group is working towards policy evolution to ensure that we do have good, clear policies and that everyone has equal and equitable access to systems of empowerment and justice. And then we are building out a new disinformation wing whose job it will be to work with communities to help them from targeted disinformation campaigns. So I suspect the question is referring to operations because I think that is what people think about first when they think trust and safety. And I wanna start also by saying my trust and safety people rock. I know them. I know the hard job they have. I know the stress that it puts them under. I have been with them through the threats they've received from people, some of whom are very bad people and nothing I say is meant to be in any way critical of them as people and only to own my own areas of improvement. Communication, it is difficult for us to communicate properly with people in all circumstances quickly and efficiently and compassionately. There's a lot of work. They always have a full table of work to do. And when people are in distress either because they feel they've been harassed or because they've just learned that someone else thinks they've been harassing them, they need a lot of time and emotional support and care sometimes more than we have the time or the training to offer. So we are working with the trust and safety operations team to continue to improve this capacity to bring them the support they need to have these delicate communications while also being able to focus on processing the constant workflows. The other area where I see that we really need to improve is I think one of the biggest threats we face around the universal code of conduct and trust and safety in our movement is people not necessarily feeling like it is fair. I think probably everybody listening to me will agree that there is no perfect system of justice in this world. It is something that we constantly strive to achieve. It is important to me that our trust and safety staff be given every opportunity to be fair and to be seen as fair, which means that I would like to create a better world where the people who are accused of misbehavior trust that that accusation is being handled fairly with compassion and with understanding for the stress of taking part in this movement. I don't want anybody to be afraid that some arbitrary hand of law is going to smash down and knock them away from doing work that is important to us. I myself believe that all of us have room to improve in how we treat each other and that everyone should be given every opportunity to engage usefully and collegially in this environment. And that means not necessarily being penalized for a first instance. On the other hand, I also want everybody in our movement who has been abused by someone else and I could tell you some horror stories to know that they will have the support and care they need to be safe here. So those are the challenges. Well, thank you for that answer. I'm gonna say let's change topics just a little bit because we had a few heavy questions in a row. So let's pivot a little bit. And thank you to those of you who've just joined. If you are wherever you are, whether you're Zoom, IRC, YouTube, ask your questions, please. And if you're here in the Zoom room with us, feel free to raise your hand with the chat feature or the fun little notation. And we will have you ask your question live if you wish to do so or you may type it. And as always, you may submit your questions and we will respond to them afterward if that is more comfortable to you or if something comes up in your mind afterward. So our next question to take it on a bit of a lighter note, how can Wikimedia affiliates engage in implementing the movement strategy? So that might be a different from the individuals but how can affiliates get connected with us? Okay. Well, it does tie back to what I said about plugging in at every level. And when I think about affiliates and their unique and special role in the movement, it is in their ability to mobilize people in their areas to do important work. So I hope that affiliates will stay closely plugged in in conversations to make sure that the unique conditions of contributing to the movement are understood in their areas. I hope that affiliates will also come thinking about the needs of users that don't yet exist. So what accommodations do we need to bring in more people that is also still maintaining a useful productive environment for their own? And there's gonna be a lot of conversations and a lot of activity over the next few months, especially as we get the movement charter worked out. So I hope that the affiliates will stay very closely plugged in. All right, great. I'll put a pause for another moment to see if we have any more questions come forward. All right, nose back bear, give me just a moment. I'm gonna start us on another question if you feel like you want to answer this post, that's absolutely fine, or we can try and answer it now. So I'm gonna go ahead and move to another question and then I will read your question to see what we can do. So I have a question here on the list. How can volunteers help with the upcoming board election and how can affiliates get involved with the upcoming election and sharing that information, supporting this being a community? So, okay. So as I said earlier, there's gonna be information about the election very soon.  And I think I'd like for us all to take this election very seriously and think about who we are asking to take important leadership roles in our movement and think about how we want to have representation in these roles. And that goes for the global council and for anybody else that we are putting into power. Let's be very careful and thoughtful about who we engage with. Let's make sure that we are reaching out to people we see that could actually have the qualities for this and getting them into the visible eyes so that people know, people see them, people can help amplify them and people can put them in the position of being able to lead this work. Let's stay engaged with the process and make sure, yeah, okay. Somebody asks inside, I live in the United States. I'm most, I shouldn't say most. I assume most people recognize my accent is very Southern United States and the United States has been. We've had a rough couple of years, yes. So anyway, stay engaged. Take it seriously. Be part of it. Help us find the right people to lead us into the future. All right, so we're gonna go back to a question that was asked in the Zoom room. So there's been, oh, okay. So Nosebag Bear, please take the mic. Oh yeah, hi Maggie. So multiple contractors and editors who do a lot in the sort of the four, I should say the formal strategy discussions is sort of the broader area. I've been saying that we'd be getting overwhelmed, sort of not able to participate actively in all of the ongoing major discussions. The average amount of feedback has been dropping over time. I think that's because for an over a year now we've had sort of multiple top tier topics, not just importance but critical. And that looks like we need to continue for the foreseeable future. We can always stop, but that sort of reduces rendering our voices on these topics. Do you have any thoughts on how to reduce this issue of sort of falling feedback over time just from sheer overload of such critical discussions? That's a really good question. And do I have, do I have thoughts on it? Well, I resonate. I will say that in my years at the foundation, it's one big important topic after another. And I know it's exhausting because there are days when things show up in my inbox and I just find myself thinking, where am I going to find the energy to deal with this? And I always try to keep conscious of the fact with volunteers that this is their, this is their spare time that people are giving us. This is in addition to everything else, which means the burden on them is even higher and the responsibility is on us to make sure that it's not overwhelming. How to do that without overwhelming people when we do, in fact, have so many critical things going on is a really good question. The one thing that I will say, the foundation has been trying to do. Over the past year, our communications department has been trying to do a rallying job of pulling together all of the foundations outwardly facing work. So not about like, is our pay software the right pay software? But the stuff that actually does involve community input is trying to make sure that it is spaced so that it's not overwhelming. But I will acknowledge that there is a polarity, that's one of our bingo words, a polarity around making sure that we bring people in early and often and yet not bring them in too much and give them the space to engage thoughtfully. So we've been trying to stage it. I think we can still get better at staging it. And I think it's probably important for us to build in opportunities to pause. For example, the universal code of conduct, it had been our original goal to wrap up both phases in one fiscal year. And we put in a pause on phase one when it was apparent that it was overwhelming people. And now we put in a pause on phase two for the same reason to build in more space. Pause is a wrong word, because we didn't stop. We just built in more flexibility for the deadline. So we are trying to get better about both making sure things get done, but making sure that we don't lose sight of the weight that comes on people as we push to get it done on time and making sure that we recognize the priorities and that we focus on getting the things that must be done first, done first. So hopefully that's helpful. I wish I had a better answer. Now we're gonna take it to something somewhat related. So thank you for this question from YouTube. So that we all know that we're doing the best we can, but looking back at things can provide some great opportunity for reflection. So how would the Wick Community Foundation reach out to communities that had not been engaged in any of the movement-wide activities due to time zone, no affiliate, language barriers? This is an area where I've been at the foundation for 10 years. So I would say this is an area where I've seen tremendous improvement over the last few years. And I'm pretty proud of that. When I first started at the foundation, we didn't have a liaison's program. I was actually the first pilot liaison hired. And we didn't have a ton of outreach into the parts of the world that didn't just show up. So over the last couple of years, we have been more and more intentionally inclusive, bringing in people to take conversations around the world to people in their own language. Now, once again, I'm gonna use the bingo word of polarity. This has caused a little bit of tension, particularly with questions around the universal code of conduct. How do you make sure that you get representative feedback? How do you balance that against the question of numbers? How do we make sure that we are reaching out to people from around the world and getting them in the conversations in a movement that has systems mostly set up in English, mostly, or larger affiliates who have heavy staffing? So more and more, we are trying to take it out to people. And I know, because I have secret insight into the annual planning, I'm not, please don't tell anybody I told you all this, I know that the communications department is really thinking about how to build up better regional outreach to make sure that people in those areas know who to talk to and where to get the help they need. So this is a major focus. We've come a long way in the last few years and we still have work to do. All right, we only have a few more minutes here. So now is the time, if you wish to ask your question live. I'm about to survive another office hour. And let's, Harold, I'll hand you another question and let's end this on a good positive note for the rest of our day today. How will the UCOC help encourage active modeling of good behavior? Well, okay, all right, let me give you an example. When I first came into this meeting before it even started, Cornelius was here and Cornelius of Maggie changed your pronoun. And I didn't understand a few years ago why this mattered to some people. I didn't understand the way that my following this best practice would make it feel safer for people who live in a world that challenges the pronouns they use. The code of conduct by helping us understand the behaviors that make other people feel safe will allow us to intentionally take up those safe behaviors. Another example, I've already mentioned Dure-Hexer, sorry if I'm embarrassing you, but I really do appreciate that you remind me to talk slowly. I get excited, I forget, I talk too fast, but because you remind me, it matters to people that you do this, I try to do it. So with the universal code of conduct, I really hope that what it will help us realize is what matters to other people to feel safe and to intentionally choose to behave in ways that increase that. All right, for the final question of the hour, I'm gonna say Maggie, what is a question that you have been thinking about within all these things happening that's really encouraging you right now? So what is something in all of this that's really encouraging you in the forward since you have been around for so long and seeing all this happening? So what's something that's really exciting you right now for the, I guess the final point of the hour since we have one minute. Okay, so since we only have one minute, I'm gonna try to keep it very high level. I am very excited by the amount of passion and the amount of care that people have for the work we do. So the fact that people are coming together to have these hard conversations excites me because it would be easy to pick up a hobby that doesn't involve this. And yet I think the Wikimedia movement is one of the most important and powerful things in the world. And I know there are some people who think I'm overselling that but I swear when I was a little girl all I wanted was to know everything. I haunted my library, interlibrary loan and now there's the internet and the Wikimedia movement is creating knowledge banks for kids like I was and I can't think of anything better than that. So I am so grateful that there are so many people who care about this. Also just for clarity, Jair Hexer is reminding me for the benefit of other people. He is actually probably better at my language than I am in my own. And certainly I've heard him speak several other languages that I wish I could speak. So anyway, thank you all for coming. I am so relieved that I've survived another hour. I appreciate you engaging with hard questions and I appreciate you doing it in a way that makes me feel safe to participate because I care about my own sense of safety too. So we will follow up if there are questions not answered and I'm sure there are. Annual planning is very busy week but by the end of the week, we will have answers up. Thank you. Deep breaths. Are we still live?


Hey, hello, and welcome to the show. It's me, John Park, and it's time for John Park's workshop. I have had quite an adventure bringing this show to you today with various technical difficulties, including a computer that just won't behave. And then I'm moved to a second computer, and now the audio on it is sort of behaving. Couldn't play music, so I'm guessing you were shocked by the no bleeps and bloops. That's right, Andy Callaway over in our Discord chat said, hey, no bloops. That's correct, no bloops. But I think, more importantly, I've got the microphone working, and we can do a show. So how about that? I will be working to try to improve this thing. I had a major hiccup with the computer that I usually use in here. It has been crashing into a recovery mode that takes a while to get back out of, and then it did it again. So it could be time to swap a hard drive out, and that we'll see. But here I am on my laptop as a MacBook Pro. It's performing admirably. It's a 2019 MacBook Pro, 16 inch, super fast machine. Not the new silicon, not the new Apple M1, but pretty good. Yeah, we'll try again at the end of the show and see if we can get any bleeps and bloops. But I don't think so. I'll just beat box for you or something. Let's see. What's going on in the chat? Hey, Mr. Certainly, Andy Callaway, Dr. C Grover. OK, you're on. OK, you're on, says, but? Question mark? But what? Did I say something and then not finish it? Who knows? So let's see. Let's get on with it. First of all, I want to mention that we have a jobs board. You may have heard of it. I don't know. You should go check it out. It is at jobs.aderfruit.com. And if you give me a moment here, I'm going to fix a screen cap so that I can bring in, let's see, that's going to go to, yeah. OK, this will go to wacky mode here for a second while I try to bring this in. But it's going to be a lot of that today because these configurations are touchy. So hang in there, please. Here we go. Here's the jobs board. And let me try to scale that out a little bit. Let's see, what's the scale percentage looking like on there? All right, we'll go a little bit smaller. That's the jobs board. It is totally free. Go to jobs.aderfruit.com. And you can look for positions that people have posted where they're hiring. This is open to anyone. It's free. You can post a job if you're looking to hire someone, if you're looking to bring someone on freelance or as a contractor. If you are looking for work, you can sign in with your email address. We promise to never spam you. And then you can post your resume and info in this Available for Hire section up here.  So go check that out. It's at jobs.aderfruit.com. Let's see, what is next? Oh, I have a show on Tuesdays. In fact, if you're watching this Tuesday, that's when all of my computer problems began. The computer just exploded on me. And I had to very quickly get the laptop up and running. So this setup I have right now is a little fancier than the one that was going on on Tuesday. But the show on Tuesday is called JPS Product Pick of the Week. About 15 minutes long, I do a little intro to a new product, a little demo. And you get a great discount during the show. So if you watch that show live, it's usually a 50% off discount. This week was this Neo Key Socket Key Switch Breakout. And I'll show you a little recap, unless the audio for it doesn't work. You tell me. The Neo Key Socket Breakout for Mechanical Key Switches. It has a Neo Pixel built into it so that it can underlight your keys. It has sockets so that you can push your mechanical key switch into it without soldering. And then you can try different switches out whenever you want. I have these set up as USB HID keys. So these are sending shortcuts to my broadcast software, which means if I press one, we get this current camera view of me in the corner. Two, it switches to a duplicate. Three, is that little product webpage. Four goes to a little product photo. And five clears that layer out entirely. It is the Neo Key Socket Mechanical Key Switch Breakout. Hey, that's gonna loop there. How about that? So I was told that the audio was funky, but acceptable. Also, I am now, after jumping back from that video, seeing a audio lag. So tell me, does my audio lag from my video? Because that was a problem that I think PT was having, although he said it was related to animated GIFs, but having played that video now jumping back, I'm seeing a lag. So you tell me when that catches up to this part, if you see that, I will start and restock the stream real quick so that my video and audio can catch up to each other. So I'm checking the chat. By the way, if you're wondering about the chat, Adafruit is a great chat channel in Discord. It's adafruit.it slash discord, and that will get you an instant link to go and join in. Minor lag, less than a second, says Mr. Certainly. Love the factory, says no audio lag. All right, I'll give it a, let me just take a one second pause here to stop and restart this stream. See Grover says live mic audio is in sync. Okay, I'm wondering who's seeing it on what? Any Twitch people, any YouTube people? So YouTube is not lagging, says Todd Bot. Hi, Todd Bot, thanks. But Mr. Certainly on Twitch, got a little lag on Twitch, okay. Let me know if it gets bad and I will attempt fate and hit a button. All right, let's see. Next up, how about the new thing? You ready for the new thing? The new thing is the circuit, Python, par, sac, sac, sac, sac, sac, sac, sac, sac, sac. All right, I made up that song. I have a song that I started working on, but I'm waiting on some time to properly fill that song out before I add it to the live stream, but it will be in the recap. Okay, so let's see for the, I'm gonna do another little bit of setup here because we lost my Atom capture, not that one. Let's go to this one, back to that one.  That's my text editor, by the way, that I like to use. And let's see, let's switch out what we're looking at. Not that, not that. It might have been that, no, I don't think it was that. Let's open up this, okay. I know you're not seeing anything when I'm going to the file browser here. Sorry about that. All right, so let's load that up. Yes, that. Okay, I have so many layers to contend with. All right, let me make that a manageable size. And let's bring in, how about this down camera? Move that over there a little bit and a me. Yeah, that'll do it. For the Circuit Python Parsec today, what I wanted to do is show you a little bit about digital out. So last week, in fact, we looked at digital input, which is using these general purpose input output pins as an input. We want to read buttons, we want to read switches and that sort of thing. These pins are very versatile. That's why they're called GPIO. Last week, we used the I, now we're going to use the O, which is output. So these pins can be configured instead of reading and waiting for voltage. This says a switch has been closed. These can send out voltage or output voltage. So in this case, I'm going to use the output pins to light up some LEDs. So what you can see here is I have a Metro. This is the ESP32-S2 Express. And I have five of these GPIO pins. I'm going to set them as outputs and they're going to write voltage out to these LEDs, which are then going through a set of resistors to ground so that we don't send too much current through them. And here you can see what the code does. I've got importing times that I can pause, importing boards, so I get a definition of all these pins. And then I have the digital IO, import digital in out and import direction so that I can tell it to be an output instead of an input. Then I'm setting up a series of pins. So I'm using on this board IO 12, 11, 10, nine and eight. That's this little set right here. And then I'm creating a list called LEDs. And I'm setting all of those LEDs in this one for loop here for pin and pins. I'm setting up the pins as digital out, digital in out. I'm setting their direction to be output, and then I'm adding them to that list. So then what happens in this true loop, I'm going to go ahead and turn this on. And you can see it is going to, for each number, zero through four, it's going to send current, send an output to an LED and then move on to the next one, turn them off and then start all over again. And this could be anything that you want that's low enough current. So you're not usually going to drive motors and things like that, but LEDs are perfect type of indicator and a way to tell that you have something happening, but it can also be other control voltage level signals. So that is how you can, inside of Circuit Python, set up digital output pins. And that is your Circuit Python Parsec, or should I say Circuit Python Parsec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec, sec. Having fun with that. Doctor over in the chat says, I need to learn Python. Hey, Circuit Python is a really terrific way to learn Python. So go to our learn guides and check it out. You can also just go to circuitpython.org and you will find a lot of links there about how to get started, which boards you can use. There's I think over 200 boards now that run Circuit Python and not just Adafruit boards. In fact, let's pop over there for a second. Let's see where that Chrome capture window go. There's one. I'm going to open up a new tab in here and go to circuitpython.org. And here you can see there are sort of the key sections are downloads, libraries and Blinka, which is for using Circuit Python on a single board computer, like a Linux or single board computers. If we head to downloads, you'll see a list of microcontrollers that run Circuit Python. And in fact, there's 202 of them here. The first one that shows up there is actually not from Adafruit. That's from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. That's that Pico RP2040 board. And then as you scroll through here, you'll see all sorts of boards, general purpose boards, some really specific ones. I think this one might be for driving higher current stuff. There are a few like that and on and on. And since it's such a big list now, rather than scrolling through forever and ever to find something, you can use the search. If you're looking for a particular board, you can type in a search here, let's say seed. And here are boards by seed studios that run Circuit Python. You can also set up filters here to say, okay, I wanna find one that has GPS on it and is a particular, let's say it's also got wifi and so on, so you can do some filtering there to pick a board. All right, so let's now, head on over to the workbench to look at a new project that I've got coming up that I've just started working on, in fact. By the way, my camera switcher is the one thing I didn't get hooked up in time. I actually, part of the process of taking this whole setup that was going all plugged into my iMac Pro and moving it to this MacBook Pro is just a ton of ports are needed. And I miss, I have like, I don't have a hub for USB-C and I needed one more hub to be able to get enough things plugged in. So actually, you know what I'll do? I'm gonna unplug that. I do have enough. In fact, I'm gonna unplug this metro and plug in this extender. And that actually should allow me to use the camera switcher over there. So I'm gonna manually switch, then I'll head over there and, oh, you know what, I think I'm lacking, yeah, I'm lacking the necessary USB cable over there. So forget it, no fancy camera switching today. But what I'll do is head over to the workbench and I'll set up a overhead view in the corner there. And then I'll talk a bit and then I'll switch them. So what I've got set up this week for the project of the week, let me take off these glasses here, is a little simulator of a parking assistant. So if you have a garage or a wall or a fence that you always park against and it's pretty tight, you need to make sure you get right up close to it, but you don't wanna go too far. Some people, if they have a garage, they'll, at least in the old days, used to hang a tennis ball from a string. And if one particular car with the windshield in the right position in the right angle touched that tennis ball, then you knew you had parked deep enough in. Some cars, of course, have cameras and other assistants, but on a car that doesn't, you may wanna set up your own little ultrasonic parking assistant. So the way the ultrasonic parking assistant works here, I have it set up with, okay, I'm gonna switch cameras now. I have it set up with a fun house, which I've stuck against this little wall here, just using some magnets. And I have a ultrasonic sensor. And the ultrasonic sensor is essentially like sonar. The idea is there are two little elements there. One sends out a ping, a high-pitched frequency ping. And the other waits to hear that reflected sound and it essentially counts the time. How long does it take for that echo to go and come back? With this, you can estimate distance. And this one is particularly good for distances of about a couple of feet down to an inch or so. So I think maybe up a five, three centimeters, something like that. I'll check the specs and I'll show you that in a second. But for this demo, what I have set up is I've got a toy truck here.  And right now, actually, I have something that I'll have to try to figure out what's going on because I have an external Neo's Pixel strip here that's not working at the moment it was. And I think it works when I have it plugged into the computer and not on this power supply, which is weird because it's a pretty beefy one. So the only thing we're gonna see change are these LEDs up at the top. And I've put a little diffuser up here so you can see this top one. So if you see this green light, watch that. And as we get closer to our parking spot, you're gonna see that change to yellow. So you can see the light there just changed to yellow. And now as I get closer, it's gonna change to red. And so that means we've, let's go a little closer. We've reached the limit. You don't wanna get any closer. So you could tune that, tune those values. That's all I did was I just kind of held my hand over it while I was coding it and set up some numbers. I think 20 centimeters is yellow, anything beyond that screen, anything closer than five is red. So you can see as we back out, we get a little change in that light there. My hand there so you can see the reflection. There we go. And so this is just my first sort of prototype version of this and what I like to do is first of all, get these neopixel strip working and maybe do some flashing of lights, maybe increase the speed of the flashing as we get closer and closer.  So what I'll do is actually, I'm gonna take this off of here and we'll plug this in over on my work station where I think these LEDs are gonna work. This neopixel strip is gonna work again weirdly. And then we'll take a look at the code for it. And I've also got a little bit of a hack here for turning this sensor 90 degrees when you're working on it. So I'll show you how that all is set up. So let me switch to this camera here and get that out of the way. So are people blaming Lars for my neopixel strip not working? It's probably accurate. Oh, someone's, there's a, if you had to discord there's a terrifying photo of a Lars claw. What's he doing back there? Gross. All right, so I'm gonna plug this USB cable back in. And what you'll see here is so with the breadboard and this ultrasonic sensor in sort of the normal orientation, it works well for this angle. So it's essentially parallel to the desktop here. If I wanna point this up, which is really helpful when you're coding on your desk and you wanna put your hand over it, what we wanna do is we want to point it up so I need a 90 degree angle bend. So what I'm gonna use is a little set of header pins that I've bent. And I do need to flop the orientation of these cables. So I'm gonna take those, flip them around. Sorry, that's probably just my hand in the way of the camera. There we go. And if I plug in like that, now I can, you'll see here I'm matching up the voltage trigger of the ping, echo and ground. So that lines up with that. And then I have those plugged into power and ground and a couple of pins A1 and A0 is what this requires, is two digital IO pins so that it can send and receive. And let me try to get everything in view here. Yeah, that should work. And I'll go ahead and give it power. All right, I have to switch over to Discord for a second and reconfigure that so that I can share this terror on the stream. Yeah, there's Lars, our murder puppet friend. If you're just joining us, he's a real hero around here. Thanks for that. Doctor says I can't tell if it's normal part of the show or because I'm new and unfamiliar with the memes. Yeah, there should be a primer on Lars, Lars. We don't have a lot of in-jokes around here, but we do have a soft serve ice cream truck based murder sloth puppet. If you look up Lars in the learn guides, you will find I did a learn guide on adding a sound chip to a stuffed animal that features our friend Lars. So here you can see weirdly enough the neopixels are working. And I'm very confused by that because I'm just powering over a sort of typical, maybe two amp or even one amp USB hub here. And back there I was on a three amp USB wall outlet. So don't know why that's happening, but what we should see is as I move something in front of the sensor there, sometimes your hand actually isn't the greatest thing for reflecting it back point blank as you get closer, it kind of reflects off at weird angles, I've noticed. This works well, it's just got a coaster. And then as I get lower, you can see there we're gonna go to red, yellow and green. And if you look at the screen here, you get some of the glare off of there, you can see, yeah, it's pretty in focus, you can see the distances it's measuring. So I think this is in centimeters. So right now we have about 29 centimeters, it's probably seen the camera that's looking at it. And then there I've got about 10 centimeters, six, five and a little less than five we get to that red light there. So let's have a look at the code there. I'm gonna go back to Adam and close this and open up the code that's on the board. If you're new to CircuitPython, by the way, one of the convenient things is that it's a runtime executable that you feed these code.py files to, so you can open up your microcontroller as a USB drive and open up the code that's running on it. And in this case it's just this plain Python file plain text file. So here is what's going on with this code. I've got some library imports of time, board for pin definitions. The HCSRO4 is the library for the little ultrasonic sensor here. I'm importing NeoPixel so I can do this external strip and then I'm also importing FunHouse. So the FunHouse library, the main things I'm using it for are the dot stars that are on top of it. So these glow-in lights up here that we're also changing the color of, those are dot stars. It's easy to use the FunHouse library to talk to those. And then the next thing I'm doing is I'm setting up three variables for some colors that I wanna use, green, amber, and red as hexadecimal values. And then I set up the FunHouse and turn on the dot star brightness to something pretty dim in this case, you might brighten this up if you're using this in practice as a nighttime garage or parking space alert. As long as you have like a covered garage or you put this inside of a waterproof case, like an OtterBox or something like that, you should be okay. And then I'm filling the dot stars with green. So this is this command, FunHouse.perforals.dotstars.fill and then that variable that I created for the green color. The next thing we're doing is, you know what, I'm gonna see if I can scale up this screen a little. I should leave well enough alone, honestly, cause I can't believe the stream is working given given all that went into making things work today. Whoa, my audio just echoed. Sorry about that. Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if that was going on with the audio. That's a little bit bigger. All right, then I am setting up the board A2 pin for the NeoPixels. That's what this NeoPixel strip is plugged into is this A2 JST connector right here. So that supplies ground, power and signal to the NeoPixels. And then I set those up as 30 pixels as a strip called pixels. The Sonar is the name being given to setting up this little ultrasonic sensor using the library. You set the trigger pin, in this case to A0. So that sends the impulse. And then the echo pin is the one that receives it. And that's set up on A1. And then here's what's happening in my main loop. This sometimes doesn't return anything so you can set it up inside of a try accept loop so that it doesn't just crash. So you will see that in my serial output here. Let me open up the serial display. So you'll see sometimes it sends a ping and doesn't get an answer. Sometimes it does and so that try accept loop helps us not to have any problems with that. Then what I'm doing here is pretty straightforward. If loop, so I have if the Sonar distance is greater than 20 then I fill the NeoPixels strip and the dot stars with green. So pixels fill show and Funhaus peripherals fill. Then when we're between five and 20, so less than 20 greater than five, that's when it goes to amber. And then when we're less than five, that's when it goes to red. And then we do a little bit of a sleep here, this 0.1 second delay. And that is it, that's all it does. You can of course add some sound to this if you wanna get a shrieking alarm. That would be a nice addition to it. You could do some graphics for it, maybe a little setup, either calibration so that you can set it up from the on screen or just use the buttons on the Funhaus to increase or decrease the levels. But I think it's a pretty fun project. I'm gonna build this out a bit and I will be putting together a learn guide on it. You can look for that in a couple of weeks. You can also expect the water sensor one and I'm just about done with the mail slot sensor one. So I have a little bit of a backlog of learn guides but I think I'll be putting out the mail slot one today or tomorrow, so that one will be coming up next. Here's another fun photo from the Discord that C Grover has put in that is a, looks like a variation on the tennis ball from a string. Low self-storing parking alignment system. Low tech self-storing parking alignment system. That's great. All right, so let's see. What else have we got? Any questions in the chat? I'll bring, let me bring that chat back. Where'd you go, Discord? I'm gonna turn this off so I don't have a green underglow. It's kind of creepy. Bring this, scroll back a little bit. Let's see, what else has been going on? Yeah, thanks, who did this? Thanks Andy Calloway for the Lars the Prince. I love. Oh gosh, yeah, that's upsetting, that photo you found there. Let's send it right back there. Ooh, nice photo Hugo making your own garage door. A brick under the front wheel, that's a good one. Dexter Starboard says, amazing how little code it takes to make a useful gadget. Yeah, boy, I agree. I mean, I really do think that modern microcontrollers with Arduino and circuit Python or with make code, you can get a lot done, actually a lot of useful stuff done in a tiny amount of code. And it's a lot of fun, it also would be pretty functional. All right, well, thank you all so much for coming by. Sorry that I had to delay it an hour, but cross fingers, I will get to work on my main workstation and get things set up again. I gotta get this laptop back into my studio to use it in there, but that's gonna do it for today. So thank you so much. And let's see, we've got Scott is gonna be doing his deep dive. I believe he's got one tomorrow. Usually does them on Friday at two o'clock, I believe. So check the blogs, check for also here on the Discord for any announcements about that. And then I'll have another JP's product pick of the week next Tuesday and this workstation on Thursday. So I hope to see you all there. And we got a bunch of shows in between there too. Noam Pedro, we got a bunch of great content from Colin Cunningham that you can check out on our socials. And we have the show and tell featuring all of you, our community and Desk of Lady Ada and Ask an Engineer. I hope I didn't miss any in there. We also usually have a layer by layer and three hangouts, I should say. So a lot of good content here for you to watch if you're into this stuff. All right, thank you everyone so much and I will see you next time. Let's see if the song plays on the way out. Bye.


Welcome back everyone. Here we have another review of a sear point roller coaster. Today I'm going to be discussing Raptor, a B&M inverted coaster that opened in the year 1994. B&M was a very new company at the time and they had just very recently introduced the inverted coaster concept with Batman the Right at Six Legs Great America in 1992. So Raptor is one of the very early inverts and it features a unique layout with six inversions. When it opened it was the tallest and fastest invert. It stands at a height of 137 feet, has a drop of 119 feet, a track length of 3790 feet and reaches top speed of 57 miles per hour. So by today's standards nothing spectacular with the stats but pretty good for an inverted coaster.  Overall Raptor is a really intense ride and it still holds up very well 25 years later. Raptor has a lot of big fans. There's a huge fan base surrounding this ride. It's pretty understandable. I mean this is a classic ride very iconic for sear point going along that main midway there and it's just really fun and intense. Raptor is a very smooth ride. I have had a few really rough rides on it in the past but for the most part Raptor is a really smooth ride with the slightest rattle sometimes. I will say I think the roughest part of Raptor is definitely that cobra roll. I still don't really find it to be awful. It's pretty good actually but it is pretty bumpy there. I usually get some head banging going through that cobra roll. Being an old school BNM invert Raptor is pretty intense as you might expect. The most intense parts of the ride are the 0g roll, the two corkscrews and that leg numbing helix at the end. It's great. So Raptor has a lot of great whip going through the inversions especially if you're sitting in the back seat. Front seat not so much but if you're sitting in the middle or in the back you're going to get some great whip over those inversions especially that 0g roll. I love the 0g roll on this ride. I've never had a trimless ride on Raptor. I can only imagine what that would be like. I'm sure that second half of the ride would be quite amazing without those trim brakes on. I've never experienced it. Hopefully I'll get to one day. But as it stands Raptor is one of my favorite coasters at Cedar Point and I think a lot of people could agree with that as well. It's a very intense ride that features a nice variety of inversions and it's very nice looking. There's not really any theme to Raptor. Literally the only theming is the name and that's it but it's Cedar Point once again. So theming definitely is not an important part of this coaster. Overall I think for the time that this ride opened B&M did the best that they could have done with this. They utilized the land very well having it run along the main midway there. It's a very iconic looking ride and it's a great way to greet guests as they enter Cedar Point. Raptor is just a really iconic ride on the Cedar Point midway and I just love hearing that good old B&M roar as it flies through the steel track. Of course now you have Gatekeeper at the front which opened almost 20 years afterwards. But this was definitely the major front gate coaster for a long time and arguably still is. Overall Raptor is not a perfect ride but it's very intense. Focuses a lot on those G-forces. Has a pretty good variety of elements. It's a long ride. I'm going to give Raptor a score of 8 out of 10. It doesn't rank nearly as highly for me as it did at one time but this ride has been around for 25 years. It still holds up very well. One of the best coasters at Cedar Point and it's truly stood the test of time. What are your guys' thoughts on Raptor? Is it one of your favorite coasters at Cedar Point? Be sure to let me know in the comments below. I would love to hear your thoughts on it. Like this video and subscribe to my channel. I have more reviews coming out in the near future from some different parks and be sure to like my page on Facebook which is CoasterDaddy and follow me on Instagram at CoasterDaddyOfficial. Thank you guys so much again for watching. Bye.