Hey guys, what is up, welcome to my channel. For today's video, we have another de-clutter. As you can see, I am doing a small de-clutter of my eyeshadow palette. It's been a while since I've done a once-over of my eyeshadow palette viewers. We're gonna do that today.  A large majority of my videos are based off of eyeshadow palette, so I like to, I like to have the works in here. I have my own makeup store in here, but I do think it is time to go into my drawers and take a look and see what I can make some more space for. This is not my entire eyeshadow palette collection. I might have some pulled for videos. Like you'll see up here, I have some pallets pulled for videos. I have piles like that all over my room. My luxury eyeshadow pallets are stored in a different corner of my room. Not de-cluttering those, spent way too much money on those. Yeah, this is the GenPop lives here. So we are going to go through each drawer. Now these two drawers are face pallets, but I figured we'll do that at the end. Just take a quick gander in there. But if you want to know where I got this, I did get it from Ikea. It's pretty good. A couple of the drawers have kind of warped a little bit towards the bottom and the bottom, I don't know if you can see this kinda doesn't close all the way. So it hasn't been perfect because I have too many eyeshadow pallets, but it has surfed me very well and I do think it is a great for makeup nonetheless. If I had this space, I would get another one and not even just put pallets in it. I feel like it's a great height for makeup. So it would hold a lot if you have a big collection. All right, anyways, let's get to the de-clutter portion. So drawer number one. So this drawer specifically I would say is more so my affordable eyeshadow pallet drawers. Yeah, let's get in it. So I am keeping this. I'm keeping most of these, but this is the BH Cosmetics Palette from last year. It's awesome. I love my Mimosa Palette. BH Cosmetics is one of my all-time favorite affordable palette brands. Summer Saint Tropez, one of my favorites. Elf New Classics. This is Decent. Okay, I actually might be cluttered this from Milani. This is Outlaw Olive, it's pretty new, but I just, I don't have a use for it. I don't use it very often. The formula isn't spectacular. I think we can de-clutter this. The Saharan by Juvia's Place. I bought this a couple years ago on a Black Friday sale. I think I'm going to de-clutter it. I just never use it. And honestly, Juvia's Place, since the time of this palette has really stepped it up, so I'm gonna get rid of this. Speaking of Juvia's, we have the Wahala II Palette. This is great. This is a good one. I like this one, so I'm keeping that. What is this? Okay, so this is by ZC, which if you've never heard of ZC, they're a Chinese makeup brand. I really like their products. I am keeping this one. I do have a large collection, so maybe I might de-clutter some of them actually, so let's see. This one is really pretty, but it's a little too monotone, I think. Let's, I have like four right here. Oh no, this one is one of my favorites from ZC, so I'm keeping that one for sure. That cannot be on the chopping block. This one is also one of my favorites. I actually did a de-clutter of these because all of these are like my top notch favorites. I still like this one. It's still really pretty. I guess I'm not de-cluttering. Well, that was embarrassing. Okay, so now I have my BH Lost in Los Angeles and Hanging in Hawaii, keeping those. I just love them. Here I have my collection of elf palettes. I'm keeping because I feature elf a lot on my channel, so I like these for reference. We have the Maybelline New Nudes Palette. This is awesome. One of my favorite neutral drugstore palettes. We have the Milani Most Love Matts. I've had this for a few years. I think I got it in college, so that was 2018 at the latest. So yeah, we're gonna de-clutter that. This is one of my faves from ColourPop. Most of my ColourPop is a drawer above. I really should organize that, but I do love this, this Stone Cold Fox, keeping that. This is one of my Lone Profusion palettes, so I'm keeping that. I have a couple Flower Beauty quads. I'm gonna keep this Petal Play because I think it's super cute. But I think I am going to de-clutter this one. I don't know the name. They're all called Petal Plays. Oh, this is Barry Moore. This is really pretty. I'm going, hmm, this could be a dupe for Charlotte Toebury. Okay, well, these are like, I'm not keeping them because I'm gonna use them, but I'm keeping them for a future video. You guys, my situation is different, okay? I have so many video ideas, okay? We have a couple of these elf quads, which again, really great. I use elf a lot on my channel, so I hold on to those. Okay, this one hurts me. As you can see, I've been letting it rest here, but this is the Desert Oasis from BH Cosmetics. You can't tell me how gorgeous this is because it's stunning, but I think it's run its course in my collection. I really liked it for the time that I've had it, but I think I was either a sophomore or junior in college when I got this, so let's de-clutter that. Colourpop, Going Coconuts, Bomb Palettes. Here we have, oh, these are awesome. These are also from ZC. They are Alice in Wonderland themed palettes. I need to use these. These are so fun. Gonna keep that. I do think though, I'm going to de-clutter the warm toned one just because I'm not into warm tone colours like that, but the packaging's so nice, but I really don't care for warm tones, so I'm gonna let that one go. I have these Alter Ego palettes. We have the Aurora and we have the Gold Palette. So pretty much, if you don't know Alter Ego, they basically dupe Natasha Denona. I'm in the very lucky situation that I'm able to afford the Natasha Denona palettes, so I'm gonna get rid of the Aurora, but I actually do really like the Goddess Palette. I think in some cases where the shades of the Natasha Denona are a little inconsistent, these are a little bit better. Like I think the Natasha Denona Gold Palette is better, but there's a couple of shades where honestly the Alter Ego does it better, so I'm gonna hold on to this one. We have the Rose All Play Palette. I'm going to declutter this. I literally never used it, so I used it once and it wasn't all bad for me. I think I'm gonna keep the Juvia's Warrior Palette. Let me look at these tones. Stunning. Okay, this should be interesting. Now we have my Morphe palettes. So first I have, which one is this one? I bought this on my birthday when I turned 21 or 22, I can't remember. Maybe, no, I turned 22 because I was a senior in college. See, memories, keeping about the OG Jaclyn Hill Palette. I want to hold on. No, this is going to, just kidding, but I'm keeping that. I like this one. It's a bit bright, but I like it. Okay, I'm gonna declutter this. This is the first Morphe Palette that I bought when I was a junior in college. Honestly, I think this is going into my memories box. If you don't know, I have a collection of palettes in my closet of palettes that invoke memory and this invokes memory, the 35F Palette. I don't want it, I won't use it, but I do want it for the memories, but it is technically being cluttered. Here's the OG Jaclyn Hill Palette, going ahead and keeping this because I heard the formula is not as good anymore. Even though that's kind of expired, whatever, powders last longer. This is the 35I Ice Fantasy. This is a decent pastel palette just to get a collection of them, so I'm gonna keep that. And then this one, I don't use this as often as I should, but I just, I love the options in here. This is, I don't even know what it's called, but I'm gonna keep this one. So I ended up only decluttering one Morphe Palette. That did not go as expected. I have my Vault. I like these, I don't know. I do, I think the color stories are pretty. Here we go, we have the Artemis Palette from Alter Ego. This is a really great dupe of the Natasha Denona Palette. I'm gonna keep this because I don't like to travel with my Natasha palettes because they are too expensive to travel with, in my opinion. I keep these for travel, not that I travel, but that's why I like them. Okay, so we have a couple of Sofx Palettes. I'm going to hold on to this because I only bought this like two or three years ago. Should still be good. This is the extra spice, but I am going to declutter the original Sofx Palette, which I've had this for too long and I don't use it, but I'm looking at it right now and I'm like, but I really like it and I like Sofx, but it's time for this to go. This palette, listen, I love how bright this palette is. I love the way it looks when I open it, but I'm gonna be honest, the quality here, it's lacking, but I like to look at it. I like how bright it is. I think next round of declutters, this one's gonna go, but now that it's on my mind, I wanna play with it at least one more time. I'm a packaging person, what can I say? All right, let's fill this back up from this drawer. If you're curious, we got nine palettes out of this drawer, which is pretty good. All right, this one is a little nuts. I'm gonna be honest, looking here, I don't think there's gonna be too much to declutter just because these are brands that I feature on my channel a lot. So I see this one here right away. This is a Colourpop palette that I made during their Black Friday sale, my senior year of college. And I tell you, my collection is loved, I mean it. I might not use all the palettes, but I have stories for all of them. Yes, and my best friend, Becca, she is the one that curated where everything went. So I'm going to get rid of this because it is old. I'm keeping it in my mems box because I think of Becca sitting at our dorm room table, putting this together for me. Hey, this is a declutter. This is the very first Colourpop palette to ever come out and dang, it is just not my color story. So we're gonna declutter that. This is one of my favorite palettes from Colourpop. This is the Limon Cello Palette. It is so pretty, you guys, definitely keeping this. Trying to go through some of my Colourpop palettes first. Your cutie is a really good wine. Sailor Moon, just love it, it's so good, you know? Oh, how did this happen?  This is one of the good OG9 pans. Love Kathleen Lights. I went, oh, this is kind of old now, but I love Kathleen Lights. And the Sojaded is one of the best palettes colors. Okay, I'm having problems opening it, but how could I? Keeping that, bare necessities, great neutral palettes. I mean, I'm keeping all of these, sorry about it. I love my Colourpop palette. See, this is one of the drawers where the bottoms is warping. Nomad Cosmetics, man-o-man. I love everything about packaging, the aesthetic, the color story of this palette, but the quality on this isn't my favorite. I'm gonna keep it because it's cute, but it's not my favorite quality. This is a good one. I don't know, I might declutter this one. I don't know, I'm gonna keep this in the middle. I'll come back to that. This is the second Colourpop palette I ever picked up. This is the Femrosa, or the Shea palette with Karuchi. It's old, so I'm gonna declutter it, but I love this palette though. Let's get rid of that one. You had me at hello. I think I'm going to declutter this one as well. I don't know why, but I just, I love my Colourpop palettes. I don't want to declutter them, but I need to. So let's declutter this one. Sweet Talk is one of my faves though. So we're keeping that. Lush Crush is a great one. Love my nine pans. Uh-huh, honey. Lilac you a lot. Hello Kitty and friends. Okay, this I'll never get rid of ever because it's just too cute. I love hello Kitty. Then Nude Mood, there's something super fab about this quality. So I have a few of these from the Valentine's Day collection, which I loved this collection, but I am going to declutter this one, which is 143 because one of the colors is breaking and I just, I don't need this. I got recently a lot of Colourpop palettes, like quints, like these. And there's a pink one. So I want the one that's not broken and doesn't have a press glitter in it. I'm keeping this light one. I'm getting rid of this vampy one just because I feel like I have deep colors like this. I'm trying to clear out a little bit of my Colourpop collection, y'all. Baby got peach, keeping this. This is cute. Not doing a good job of clearing my Colourpop collection, but I'm doing my best. The first Kathleen lights, but I like keeping that because I love Kathleen. California love keeping that, love that. Cherry Crush is a new one and I was surprised by this one, how much I liked it. Oh, it's a Mood. This is a newer one. How pretty is that? I like this one. So this one's brand new, so I'm keeping it. Not that I need to justify myself to you guys, but Malibu Barbie, this is a good one too. What is not a good one? Okay, I pulled this one to the side. I'm just gonna declutter it. I don't need it. It's old at this point. I have so many Colourpop palette. That was good. Okay, this is really good from Elf. I really like it. It's their collab with Jen Atkin. I just need to put it in the drawer below. All of my Odin's Eyes palette, I have so many. I'm keeping all of them because I work with them a lot because I love their products. I love to compare their products. So none of these are getting decluttered. I'm just pulling them all out. Then same goes for Kaleidos. I have a very similar feeling towards Kaleidos that I do with Odin's Eye. Look at this. This is Angelica Neekist's collab. How fun. So keeping all of the great Kaleidos' palettes, we should have more. Yes. Okay, let's see what else we're working with. Tati Beauty palette, of course I need to keep this because we're not gonna get, unfortunately, another Tati Beauty item. So I'm holding on to this. I am going to declutter my L'Orly Nudie Patoutie. I love this palette. I've held onto it because it's so pretty to look at. But at this point, I mean, you can see this color cracking because it's so dry. This is a palette that I honestly wouldn't mind buying again. I'm not going to because you guys see my collection, but really beautiful colors, but it's old and dry. I don't know, my KKW stuff. See, these are great bridal palettes. And honestly, I haven't even used them. I picked them up when they first came to Ulta. I'm gonna hold onto these because I feel like I could do cool stuff with this. Now this is the first KKW palette to come out with. This is with Mario. I'm going to declutter this just because it's old. My Alomar palettes, which I have a new one to try. It's not their Disney one. It's an old palette, but I haven't tried it yet, but I love these from Alomar. Alomar has a great formula. Pressionism Palette from Muse Beauty. This is a fun one, good color story. I'm gonna hold onto this. Indie brand, oh, Smoke Show from Colourpop. I believe it's been renamed, but this is a bomb palette, great quality. I have a couple Kylie palettes. I really have pared down. I'm going to declutter both of them. I don't need them. I'm not super into Kylie cosmetics anymore as I think most of us are. I did pick up their new stuff. It was like, I love this palette. I've brought it with me on vacation just because it's got so many colors. It's really great, but I don't need them. And I don't think I'll ever feature them. I have some videos, so not to go. This is Beauty by Stony, which I looked them up semi-recently and it seems that the brand has closed down, which is unfortunate because they have a decent formula. So I'm going to declutter this Remedy Eyeshadow Palette and then I'm gonna hold onto this Cocoa Palette because I like it. I don't know, I do like this palette. Okay, getting towards the end here. So I have another Odin's Eye Hiding Back Here and a Kaleidos Lime Crime. I'm keeping both of these. I like these. I think very soon the Venus XL is probably gonna need to be decluttered, but this XL too, super underrated, right? Look how pretty that is. Okay, let's put this drawer back together. I have 12 palettes that we're getting rid of. So that's awesome. All right, next drawer up. This is gonna be kind of those mid-range high-end brands. Let's get into it. So I have this beauty from Florisist that I'm gonna hold onto because look at that. Couple of these definitely I wanna move down like this. Colourpop and Mulan Palette. I need to move in the drawer below, but I'm keeping that. Naked Three Palette I'm going to keep for reference. I'm not in love with this, but I need to keep it for reference for my channel. Too Faced Cinnamon Swirl Palette I'm gonna hold onto. There are some of my indie shadows. I don't know if I'll get rid of too much here. Sigma Dream Palette's awesome. Melt Cosmetics, just too expensive to give away. I'm gonna definitely start getting picky here. This is one of the better palettes that I've tried this year. It's incredible. Kaleidos Flower Punk. Let's put this in the drawer below. Huda Beauty, no, what? Why did I say that? Pure and Raw Beauty Christy Palette. I'm going to declutter this because I just don't like the quality in this unfortunately. My one size palette, pretty new. So I'm gonna hold onto it. It's not amazing, but it's good. We have a Rare Beauty Palette. There should be another one lurking in here somewhere, but I really like those. Stone Vibes Palette, gonna hold onto for reference because I want to compare other formulas that Urban Decay has compared to this, but I don't like this palette. If I wasn't a YouTuber, that would definitely be decluttered. I'm going to declutter this quad. It was in collaboration with Patrick Star and Mac. It's really pretty, but I don't use it. So we'll declutter that. Melt She's in Parties, one of the better melt palettes. And I love the color story. This guy, I'm going to get rid of the box, but I'm keeping the palette just for reference. And it's cute. And I felt so weird reviewing this palette. I remember because I was a teacher. But I love the color story, but the quality, yeah. Here are some more indie shadows. I believe these aren't my Sydney Grace. Sydney Grace shadows are incredible. I'm not getting rid of that. Are you wild? Okay, this Fenty Beauty Palette. So this fun fact was the first ever palette that Fenty came out with. If you guys remember the Galaxy Palette, nobody liked this, but I loved it because I was all about the shimmy shimmy shades. Something tells me I'm not done with this palette. I'm going to put it in my memories box because I know one day in the future I'm going to want to talk about the first ever Fenty Palette to come out. So I'm getting this out of my collection, my general population because it is old. But we're going to want to hold onto this for reference. Again, if I didn't have a YouTube channel, that would go. Look, see? Do you guys remember this? This is another Fenty Palette, the Moroccan spice. This is going to hang out with the Galaxy Palette. Now, this is not as exciting as the Galaxy Palette, but it's getting out of gen pop. But I know I might want to use it for reference later. Heiny Marvel's Palette. I will never, ever, ever get rid of this palette. Of course, this is available in the Sydney Grace website. If you want to pick it up in proceeds, do support Mel's family. So I highly encourage that if you're interested. We have another ColourPop Palette lurking in the corner here. This is a pretty one. I'm definitely keeping this one. Not a lot of palettes that have that color story. We have this one. Okay, so this is kind of old, but I really, really like it and the quality is super good. This is a dose of colors and I love Starry Keeps. And I can tell you now, I'm keeping the Katie and Tessie collab. So I might as well just keep these two together. These two make me think of me starting my YouTube channel. I was obsessed with these. You know what? No, no, I'm keeping them. I actually think I'm going to declutter this. Yeah, it's gotta go. I don't need it. I actually use the Desi and Katie. I don't really use this one. So we'll declutter that. I see this. I'm gonna declutter this. This has to be old, old, old. This is the Sweet Peach Palette. Oh, the memories. Okay, I'm gonna declutter this. I don't know if I'm gonna put this in my memory box or not. The peach smell is starting to fade. It took like five years, but it is starting to fade. Keeping these Huda palettes. I think most of my Huda palettes are in the drawer above, but these are the Wild Chameleon, whatever. No, for this club. The Pi, I don't know what this collection was. The Wild Obsessions. The, it's the name on here. Keeping these, these are new. My lovely Enduring Love Palette from Sydney Grace is here, bomb.com. Ooh, I'm gonna declutter this from Too Faced, the Just Peachy Mats, but this was, I loved this. I got this my senior year in college. It was really great quality mats for the time. Doesn't really smell as much anymore. It's old. Okay, so I have these Maven Beauty Quads. I love the packaging on these and the quality on these is surprisingly good. I believe this is Fashion Nova's makeup brand. They send this to me in PR. But these little quads have come in handy, honestly. So I'm gonna hold onto these because they're pretty new and I like them. And they actually, since I did try them this year, they will be in a video this month, actually. The NABLA Dreamy Palette. NABLA is so underrated, in my opinion. Look at this. Which one is this? This is another Alter Ego, so I'm gonna need to put this in the very bottom drawer. This one is the Glam Palette, right? Yes, okay. So I have this in my collection to travel with because I love my Glam Palette, you all know so much. So this is one that I keep to travel with. Forra, I love, this is good, I've talked about this in a couple videos this year. So essentially also what's in my mind is if I haven't used it in the last year, it's when I think about if I want to declutter it or talk about it in the last year on my channel. So if I haven't talked about it in the last year on my channel, then it probably won't come up. Like this, I've talked about. This is from Wear Beauty and I really like this. So that's saying. This is the Cutie Palette from NABLA. Ooh, definitely keeping that one. We have Odin's Eye hiding here. The Sole Mane, this one is so pretty. Okay, that just needs to go in a different drawer, but I'm keeping that. I have this Ofra Quad Quint. This is super cute, but unfortunately, Ofra Eyeshadows just aren't my favorite. So I'm going to declutter this. I know this was in collaboration with Leora though. And I love Leora so much and I love her color curation. I just don't like Ofra's formula, so I'm gonna declutter this. I think I'll give that away to a friend. We'll do that. Speaking of Ofra, we also have this Samantha March collaboration. Again, I feel the same about the eyeshadow formulas, but I do like how this one has the face elements and I do like the face stuff from Ofra. So I'm gonna hold on to this one. Plus that one is new. Oh, see, can you see the warp at the end? If anybody knows how to fix that, that would be great. I don't wanna get rid of this. This chocolate gold was super used by me for some time, but they feel good. Ew, there's like a, okay, I'm decluttering this because I feel like there's like a film over some of these. Just like love and coat. Yeah, okay. We'll declutter that. Nothing like seeing grossness on it to make me want to declutter it. But the chocolate gold palette was bomb. It's one of Too Faced's better palettes. The shimmers were great. I had a lot of fun with this when I first started my YouTube channel, but it's gotta go. It's gross looking. Have this MAC palette. This is natural vice. This collection from MAC, by the way, was one of my favorite collections. I'm keeping this for bridal. I feel like I could do something with it. Like how pretty of a bridal palette is this? This never actually made it to my kit this season, but I'm gonna put it to the side. This and those KKW palettes would be great. Urban Decay, Naked Heat, keeping it for the memes. Still should be pretty good though. So I'm gonna keep this. My makeup by Mario Palettes. I should have another one hiding back here, yes. Look at that. These are new. So I'm obviously going to keep these, especially for reference. I've seen a lot of people using this palette. I mean, it just has some great colors, right? So true beauty palette from BK Beauty. How beautiful is this? Just a pretty soft everyday palette. Oh, this one is a good one. Side by side, NABLA. One of the better neutral palettes in my collection. Just a great curation. Urban Decay Wild West is a this year palette so I'm gonna need to hold on to it, but it's okay. I'm not like super in love with Urban Decay palette. My goodness. Okay, here's another NABLA palette. This is the Cutie Palette Platinum, I think, yes. Keeping that, we have the Sigma Enchanted Palette. This is one of the most pretty color stories. I'm not in love with the quality of Sigma, unfortunately, but this palette, this color story is really special, which makes it worth keeping. I don't know, man. Dominique Cosmetics, unfortunately, hasn't been inspiring me lately, but when we got the air of these launches, look how fun this is. Berries and cream, rustic glam. This is one of the most unique spring palettes. I mean, I'm holding on to both of these. I really like Dominique. Hope she comes back to making more palettes with inspiring color stories like these. The Latte Palettes, I need to buy for myself too. They're my mom's collection, and I love them. Okay, I'm keeping these. Okay, I didn't declutter that much, sure. How many did we do? Okay, I did nine. I'm not disappointed with that. I think we've decluttered like 30 so far, which is better than I thought. Okay, let's fill this drawer up. All right, guys, this is the final eyeshadow palette drawer. So these are the higher end of shadows. There's some shadows that I'm in brands. I might wanna switch between these two, but let's get into it. So right here, I see this Tarte finger foil or foil finger palette. I actually just recently talked about this. This is a hidden gem kind of formula. I'm gonna keep that. To face gingerbread, it's spice. This one actually doesn't have that much scent. I mean, I have all of these. I did declutter that one. These look okay to me. I mean, let me do some investigative research. These are fun. I compare these every year, honestly. So I'm gonna actually put these in the drawer below with the other one that I have. The Cinnamon Swirl is this year's pal. But we have all of these. Just gonna hold onto those. It just feels right. Okay, back up. Here we go. Yeah, I've been talking about this a lot on my channel recently. So let me put this with the other melt palettes. Here we go. Supreme Nudes, of course, keeping this palette. It's awesome. I don't see myself really getting rid of too many palettes from here, if any Huda Beauty new nude. Of course, I'm going to keep, hmm. Okay, so some of these are quite old. Like mob obsessions right here. Okay, so I'm doing a Huda Beauty ranking very soon. So that's why I'm like, do I want to get rid of the old stuff or not? Like these neons, did you see if you get refunded for these because there was like a lawsuit or whatever? Holding onto these. I don't like them, but it's just the old ones. I'm keeping Ruby obsessions though. This one is super unique. Amethyst obsessions. They just don't do them like this anymore. It's the mob obsessions that I just don't really care for, honestly. It's going to end up ranking super low in my rankings. Okay, I'm going to keep all of these just because they do have a rankings due. They're getting old. They're getting up there. And then we have our newer ones. So I'm not getting rid of Huda Beauty because they're a huge brand on my channel. This is a newer one, but all of these ones in the cardboard would be decluttered if I didn't have a YouTube channel. This one's one of my favorites, those smokey obsessions. I wish I still made them. Toffee brown, nude rich, nude light, sand. Sorry, keeping all of them. The only one that I am going to declutter though, let me show you. There's not a nude and Huda Beauty is Desert Dusk because I noticed this was drying out and I just bought a new one for I'm not even kidding, $14 on the Huda Beauty Black Friday sale. So yeah, we'll get rid of this one, but it's coming back. So I guess that's cheating a little bit. This is a little hidden gem from Bobby Brown. They no longer sell it anymore. It was from a holiday collection a couple of years ago, but I'm voting on to that. Honestly, I don't think I'm decluttering anything. There's nothing in this drawer that needs to clutter. This is a brand new palette. This is a brand new palette from ABH. This is a holiday palette, isn't it? I have to put it in with my other holiday palettes for a holiday palette roundup video. Look at all of these Norvina palettes that I love and I collect. These are staying tartlet palette. This is pretty new. Oh, okay. Do you guys remember this nude pop palette from Kevin Aquana? I don't think you can get it anymore. It's gorgeous, right? Keeping that. My hen dash palette, Port Arosa. Okay, so this drawer kind of failed. There was nothing in here that needed to be cluttered. So let's just reorganize it. All right, let's move on to face palettes. I have a lot. I don't know how this is gonna go, but let's find out like this right here. I have a thing for face palettes, I do. So this is gonna be hard for me. Like this Laura Mercier Holiday Palette Keep, it is freaking gorgeous. This Fizzy Art is new for me. By Terry is a new one that I've recently been talking about. What are you? Morphe Blush Palette? Ooh, I used to love this, but I think this can go. Let this one go. Okay, I have my Sigma Cheek Palettes that I'm gonna hold on to. My Wayne Goss Blush Duo, which is stunning. There should be another one swimming around. Yeah, here's the other one. Love the formula on those. This Nars Orgasm on the Beach Palette is incredible. So good. I actually have been using this recently, surprisingly. It's an older palette. It's a little gungy looking, but it's from Laura Mercier. It's really beautiful. This ABH palette I bought this year, of course, have to keep Pat McGrath. My Dior's I'm holding on to. Here's a fourth Dior hiding. So if I didn't have a YouTube channel and didn't work with Odin's Eye, I probably would especially declutter the Alva 2 palette just because it's colors that I wouldn't wear as often. So main palette, I do like this one and this one has more wearable colors. But just because I love Odin's Eye, we're gonna keep those. Okay, I see this. I want to declutter this. This is my, I like your face. Give me more pressed powder highlight. This is super old. This is from one of my first ever color pop orders. So we can declutter that. Oh my gosh. This seems so clunky from Jacqueline Cosmetics. Definitely keeping that though. It's awesome.  But so this is from Beauty Bakery. This is the Cotton Candy Palette. Basically shimmery blushes, incredible you guys. An underrated palette that nobody talks about. Paid way too much for these Scott Barnes. So, you know, I'm keeping them. See we have this two-faced palette. You know, I might declutter this. I'm not crazy about this. Now I'm gonna keep it because it's so kinda new. It's still good, but I think next round of declutters it's gonna go to Bobby Brown. Oh my gosh, look at that. Keeping that. Oh gosh, this is gonna be a fail, these drawers. This Huda Beauty Quad is pretty new, but I don't like it that much, but it's new. Bobby Brown Shimmer Brick Palette. This is really great because these are like OG products. This is pretty new. I got it a year or two ago at the cosmetic company store and it just has super famous Bobby Brown Shimmer Bricks. It was one of the Holiday Palettes. This is why I love Holiday Palettes. Keep the Balm, the Luminizer Quad. I got this at Riley Rose. If you guys remember Riley Rose, so good. I do not like this. This is the Sephora Pro Face Palette. I'm keeping it because I just got it a few months ago and I've been playing with it and I've been talking about Sephora Collection more, but I don't, I don't like that. I'm going to declutter this. This palette itself is probably older than me. Oh no, just kidding. It's just the palette that's old, but these are like Sydney Grace blushes. Okay, so these blushes are very new and we like Sydney Grace here. So we're going to keep that. The component though was old. We have a Natasha Denona Blush that I'm keeping. This Shoe Blush Palette was my all-time favorite like last year. Sigma Blush Palette. This is beautiful. I just decluttered my single Port Arosa because I had this palette. So definitely want to hold on to that. Nicole Guerrero Palette. This is a beautiful, beautiful highlight palette. I actually used a newer one in my makeup kits because I think these make beautiful highlights and lid colors. It's the lid colors. Okay, is this the one that I wanted to declutter? Is this another Sydney Grace blush? Okay, it's another Sydney Grace blush. Okay, we're going to declutter this from Morphe. Just don't use it. So, bye. So I know Alomar has redone these, but I still have the original blushes from them and they're really nice, but I'm going to get rid of the darkest trio just because I don't need it. Obviously it wouldn't look good on me, but I still like this blush and I like the formula. I'm being interested to try her new formula though. This Smashbox Palette, my poor mother paid a lot of money for this because we fell in love with it one year, but I've had it for a few years now. I'm going to put this in my memory bin because you guys, there's a story behind this. I saw this one year for the holidays and it never left my mind. My mom and I talked about it and we couldn't find it. We never ended up picking it up and then it was one of those purchases. I deeply regretted and the next year she got it for me for Christmas. So while this is old and I'm going to declutter it, I'm holding onto it in my memory box because my mom paid a lot of money for it. We have this Kaleidos contour palette. I think I need to put this in my main set of makeup drawers because I feel like this is kind of small to be in here. I'm trying to pick this thing up and I can't. Do you see me struggling? There we go. Okay, this palette. Oh, I should probably declutter this but I'm not going to. This is a palette that nobody talked about that came out from Nars a few years ago. It's incredible, particularly the highlights, but you do have the bronzers in here. Absolutely gorgeous. Probably needs to cluttered because it's older at this point, but I love it. I have my affordable options right here from BH Cosmetics. This is the Belgian waffle palette and the Bellini blush palette. Going to keep those. We have this from Marc Jacobs. I think I'm going to declutter this. I don't care for this. I just think it's pretty because I like coffee but I'm going to declutter that. Pretty new, but Marc Jacobs is like, we don't know. What's going on with Marc Jacobs? Then I have this contour quad from Alomar which is really fantastic. So I'm going to keep this. Elf, I do a lot of elf videos. So I'm going to keep this quad. And then do I need this? This is another Kaleidos palette. It's still in its packaging. So I think this is the other color that I thought would work for me. So I'm going to put this in with the main body of my makeup collection. So we decluttered like almost nothing from this drawer. Actually six palettes. That's not terrible. Okay, I'm actually just going to go straight into the next drawer. Hold on, let me make my camera a little bit higher. So you can, oh here, this will do. This is this drawer. There's really no organization between the two drawers but let me make this my camera higher and we will go through this. All right guys, here we go. So I'm keeping the Rouge Romance palette from Jacqueline Cosmetics. It's new. I'm going to declutter this Narsh Cheek palette which I collect these. So I'm going to put this in my memory box because I love the packaging on this but this is the Hot Trist palette. It's just old at this point. It probably still works good but I'm going to put this in my memory box because I don't need it. Let's see, we have my Jacqueline Cosmetics Cheek stuff. There should be another one swimming around here. This is one of my very first reviews. This is another Narsh palette. I reviewed this when I first started my channel almost four years ago. So I'm going to put it in my memory box which the memory box is a video in of itself you guys. So I'm going to declutter it but you know what I mean when I say that. I have this Pixie by Petra Quad. I got this in an ipsy bag but I actually think I'm going to declutter this because I don't see myself ever using it. A cream contour palette from ELF which is awesome. We're going to go ahead and keep that being all of my Natasha Denona palettes for reference. See, we have another Narsh palette. This one I'm going to keep. This is the Overlust palette. This one is stunning. I think it's time to declutter my Becca and Chrissy Teigen palette. This was never really the right color for me anyways. It was dark but it is a oldie but goodie but this one's going to go. Then we have this palette. This came out this year from Narsh. I'm keeping this but it's not all that great if you want to click a mini review. Look at this. Becca Be a Lights palette. These were very popular but this came out around the same time that I started my YouTube channel. So I reviewed it but I do think it's time to declutter this. I actually use it a lot but it is time to go. This palette I tried and tried and tried again. I did get this this year but you know what? I think I'm just going to declutter it because I just simply don't like it and I'm trying to figure out, okay now that was a fingerprint. Okay, I was like, what is this? But it's a fingerprint anyways. I don't like this. So I think I'm just going to give it away to somebody. Still new. It's wasted space. This was a good one. From Benefit, this cheek glitter palette. Love it.  Like this one, this one is old. I'm keeping all of them. I don't care. I love them. Here's another Natasha palette that we're keeping. Oh my gosh, I loved this one too. I love these collab palettes that Becca had. This one is, how old is it? Probably like two or three years old. I'm keeping this one though. This one stays and this is a memory box one for sure. The Becca and Jacqueline Hill palette. This one will go in the memories. It is old as ever, but okay then I have this Tom Ford trio which of course I'm going to keep. I have a couple of Physicians formula collabs. So this one by With Whaley. Incredible. Love this, keeping this. I do think though that I am going to declutter the Casey Holmes one just because this is a clunk of a clunk packaging. Nothing bad about it. I'm going to give it away as opposed to like throw it away because it's still perfectly good. I used it actually kind of recently because I felt bad that I never used it. Why is it cracking here? That's weird. Anyways, it's really pretty but it just, it takes up too much space for what it is. Oh my Natasha Denone Diamond and blush we're keeping. I have another Alomar blush palette which should go with the other one. So here is a handmade pre-made color pop palette that I made myself. Some of these aren't newest but some of these aren't the oldest either. I'm just going to keep this but I do think next declutter these will probably go. But let me give them a chance. This, keeping. I picked this up. This Afterglow Becca palette for my makeup kit. Never use it in my makeup kit. It has some iconic Becca shades in here though. Sunlit bronzer in Capricose. Flower Child, Snap Dragon, Champagne Pop. So I'm going to keep this for reference when I want to talk about an iconic Becca shade. Maybe if there's a dupe. Other ones I would have decluttered that. This is awesome. Another great palette from Physicians Formula. Okay, I'm decluttering both of these. Blush bar palette from Benefit. Actually no, this is still good. Okay, I'm keeping this because I decluttered all of my other ones. So this is the last man standing. So I'm going to keep that, sorry. But I am going to declutter my Smashbox contour kit. This is good. I got it at a cosmetic company store a year or two ago but I never use it. Do I need to put this in my makeup kit? Yeah, I'm going to keep this in my makeup kit. I don't know. This, I'm still thinking about. I'm just going to put it to this side here. How many did we declutter in this one? Okay, that was actually pretty good. We got rid of nine palettes. I'm going to stock these up. My camera's not tall enough to really show you filling everything in and for me to feel comfortable, I am literally like breaking my knees right now. I'm going to fill these up and I will show you what it looks like after. All right guys, look. I tend to, in my head, organize things by brands. That's just the easiest way for me to locate things because my channel is so brand based. So I have all of my higher end and luxury bigger face palettes up here. And then I have the more affordable palettes down here. Now, moving down into the eyes, same kind of deal. A little bit more on the pricey side, palettes are in this drawer. And then this is like high end palettes still. And then we have a number of indie brands. We have a lot of indie brands, mid range brands. The store's kind of crazy. And then lastly, we have my more affordable brands. Here's the overview of all of the palettes that I decluttered today. Honestly, like not bad. I'm pretty proud of this. All right, you guys, there we have it. That's with me decluttering all of the palettes in my palette drawer. I think we did a pretty good job. I'm not mad at it. You know, every drawer I felt like it was just a little bit, but then when it came down to it at the end, it really did accumulate. I just wanted to do a little bit of a clean out before I moved, and that was really fun. If you missed it, I did declutter the rest of my makeup collection, where the main drawers of makeup lie. And again, there was a lot of palettes missing in this video. I have a lot pulled out all over my room in preparation for a vlogmas and all of my luxury palettes, of course, are on my luxury show. But that's all I have for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you so much for being subscribed to my channel and liking this video. And make sure you tune in tomorrow for the next day of vlogmas. Bye guys, I'll see you later.


Welcome to another edition of Unfettered Freedom, your weekly GNU slash Linux news video podcast. Packing so much freedom into each episode, it ought to be illegal. There's so much freedom packed into this podcast, I'm pretty sure this episode is a violation of some codes of conduct. On this episode of Unfettered Freedom, we're going to talk about removing Google from free and open source software. How can you get Google out of your lives? How can you de-Google yourself? So there is a U.S. court that recently ordered, basically they're trying to silence a patent troll victim. So this guy who is a victim of one of these patent troll law firms, the court system is actually siding with the patent trolls. We're going to talk about that very disturbing story. Also enough with the Linux security thud. Too many people try to spread false information regarding Linux, how secure it is. Some people want to try to make Linux seem more insecure than what it really is. Also Firefox just had a big release, Mozilla Firefox 80.0 is released, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, some of the security, some of the features that were added. And does installing Arch Linux help you learn Linux? Some people would have you believe that. The Arch fanboys would have you believe that, but is it true? All of that more on this episode of Unfettered Freedom. I am your host, Derek Taylor, also known as DT or DistroTube over on YouTube and on Library. This podcast, as well as all of the video content on the DistroTube channel, is community sponsored. Because of the community support that I receive, there are no corporate sponsors, there's no product shilling of any kind in these episodes. And I can thank as I please, and I can say the things that need to be said because in short, I can be independent. And if you'd like to support my work, I'd greatly appreciate it. Please subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon. So our top story is going to be removing Google from free and open source software. Because we all know Google, it's very hard to get yourself away from Google. It's hard to de-Google your life because of the internet. If you're on the internet, so much is tied into the Google search engine and various other Google services, YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs, and then in the mobile space, if you have an Android phone, increasingly laptops, everybody's buying Chromebooks. Google is Google everywhere all the time. And free and open source software, you would think there wouldn't be that much Google in that stuff. But there's Google stuff, Google trackers and Google analytics and Google search. So much of that stuff is tied into free and open source projects. And we have somebody that's finally trying to call people out on this. So I found this post over on Reddit, on the r slash de-Google subreddit. And I'll read this very briefly, quote, we're a community working to remove Google trackers from open source projects and to inform people of corporate spying and free and open source software. Unfortunately, many free and open source software projects contain spyware. That must be changed. We have created a website that provides alternatives to Google services. And they have also submitted over 100 issues and or merge requests to various free and open source projects, basically asking them to remove some of this stuff, things like the Google analytics and Google search and Facebook SDKs and things like that. And if you go to their website, what's really cool about their website is they are hosted over at reverseeagle.org and they list a lot of good alternatives to things that are not exactly freedom respecting, such as Google fonts. Everybody knows the Google fonts website. It's a font repository. And they suggest alternatives like defont.com, fontlibrary.org, font squirrel, just to name a few. They also have Slack listed on the website. That's proprietary garbage. And they list free and open source alternatives such as element, which used to be called riot. They recently renamed it to element. That is a matrix client. They also suggest other free and open source chat client such as matter most and rocket chat. They also suggest alternatives to GitHub. And I really wanted to spot like this. GitHub is owned by Microsoft and GitHub itself. There is a lot of proprietary closed source stuff to GitHub. And the reverse eagle guys here are suggesting a lot of other Git repositories because you don't have to be on GitHub. People think that because GitHub is the largest repository of software, if you have a project, you have to host your source code on GitHub. Like like their strength and numbers. That's not the case. You can host your code anywhere. And other than GitHub, you know, you could put your code on something like Codeberg, which I've never heard of, but it's free and open source software licensed under the MIT license. There's also Disroute, Git T, which I have heard of. Git T is a great repository to host your stuff. Gogs, not a bug, a source hut. And of course they mentioned GitLab as well. GitLab is free and open source software. They also spotlight Visual Studio Code, another Microsoft project. And VS Code is interesting because a lot of people mistakenly think VS Code is free software. Well, it kind of is and it kind of isn't. VS Code, their source code is licensed under the MIT license. You can go to GitHub and grab the source code. And if you build it yourself, yes, your build of VS Code would be considered free software. But here's the thing, nobody does that. How do you get VS Code? Well, you go and get the binaries for VS Code from your distributions repositories or Windows executables or whatever operating system. You know, you go and grab the official Microsoft binary builds of VS Code. That's how pretty much 99% of the people that run VS Code install it. The binaries of VS Code that Microsoft ships, those are not licensed under the MIT license. Those are actually licensed under upper proprietary license. So if you really must use VS Code, for some reason you just can't use any other IDE or text editor, what this website suggests is go build VS Code yourself. Go install VS Codeium, which is a binary version of VS Code. But they've taken the trouble for you of stripping out all the Microsoft branding, all the telemetry, and the problematic licensing issues. The Reverse Eagle Project also has a website where they list various free and open source projects that they have identified as having some of this Google tracking and proprietary bits in it and that they're trying to eliminate. They also have a list of free and open source projects that they have personally contacted, meaning they have opened issues or merge requests. And some of the projects that they have already filed issues with include things like Riot, which is now Element, again, that's the Matrix client, matrix.org, ProtonMill, Rocket Chat, Telegram, Jitsie, Lutris, looks like they've also contacted people about their websites using things like Google CDNs and Google Search, Google Analytics, Google Fonts, and they've contacted Vim about their website, Neo Vim about their website. They've contacted GitT, they've contacted WordPress, and they've also contacted a number of news sites that focus on free and open source software, because you would think if you have a news publication, an online news publication that primarily focuses on free and open source software, you would not have things like Google Analytics and Google Search boxes on those pages, but a lot of them do, including ItzFos, Veronica's, Linux Uprising, TechMint, Ubuntu Buzz, also they've contacted many free and open source operating systems about some of their websites and forums, web properties, including Linux Mint, OpenSusa, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, NetBSD, Kubuntu, Fedora, Elementary, PopOS, and so many of these sites have the Google Search box because it's basically like an affiliate thing. People use the Google Search box on my website. I get a cut of their percentages, right? That's why you have big websites like the Linux Mint website feature prominently that Google Search box. Yeah, for free and open source software, you don't want that thing there, but the Linux Mint has to make money and it's an easy way, I guess, for them to make money. We have to find alternative ways of monetizing rather than sucking on the Google tit, right? I mean, let's be honest. We just have to get away from Google, especially as a free and open source software community, we gotta get away from this stuff. One of the most disturbing things that I discovered the other day was Google, we all know, is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. Google dominates the Linux Foundation and Linux development, but did you also know that Google is a major contributor of the Free Software Foundation? In particular, the Free Software Foundation Europe, the FSFE. If you go to fsfe.org and look at their donor list, number one is Google and they have an asterisk by Google's name because Google contributes more than 10% of the yearly budget for the Free Software Foundation Europe. That's right, more than 10% of their budget is contributed from Google. You wouldn't think Google would have that big of a hand and what goes on with the Free Software Foundation, but again, it's just, they're tied into everything and we have to try to find ways to solve this. I really love the fact that these guys that over at Reverse Eagle are doing what they're doing. They're really shining a spotlight, I think by filing these bug reports and these issues and these merge requests with these Free and open source software projects, they're going to see gains here because some of these projects are going to change because once you publicly make a issue of it, you know, on GitHub or GitLab, hey, you've got this Google tracking, these Google analytics, these Google fonts, the Google search box, some of these projects are going to strip all of that stuff out now that they've been called out on it and I really want to applaud the good work that these guys are doing. And our second story is there is a court here in the U.S. that is trying to silence a patent-troll victim. This particular story comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's website. So the EFF posted this just a couple of days ago. Courts shouldn't stifle patent-troll victim's speech is the title of the post. So there is a judge in the Western District of Missouri. This judge is named Roseanne Ketchmark and let's talk about the legal case here. Mycroft AI, you guys probably have heard of the company Mycroft. They are a small company of about nine employees. They make open source software, they make open source technology, specifically voice technology, voice command technology.  And they have been threatened by a patent-troll called Voice Tech Corporation and like all patent-trolls, Voice Tech doesn't really do anything other than sue people. They don't really make products, they don't offer any services of any kind. They're just this law firm that collects patents so they can sue people over these ridiculous patents that they own.  Voice Tech apparently owns two patents that they describe as being related to voice commands.  There's no way if you actually fought this in court that Voice Tech would win this lawsuit but a small company can't fight it. You know, if Voice Tech sued a company like Apple or Microsoft or something like that because you know, those companies have devices that accept voice commands, but Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, companies like that, they have teams of lawyers, they would go to court, they would fight it, they would win.  But Voice Tech goes after the small guy because the small guy, you're gonna sue him for a million dollars.  I could sue you for millions of dollars but I tell you what, you write us a check right now for, in this case, $30,000 is what they're demanding. For $30,000, we'll go away. And that's what most companies would do. They just write that check because they can't fight. Well, Microsoft decided they were gonna publicly fight this. They went to the website for Microsoft and Microsoft's first officer is a fella named Joshua Montgomery and he wrote in their blog, quote, math isn't patentable and software shouldn't be either. I don't often ask this, but I'd like for everyone in our community who believes that patent rolls are bad for open source to repost, link, tweet, share this post. Please get the word out by sharing on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or email. So he's basically saying, hey, we're being persecuted here by this patent roll. I want all of you guys in the free and open source software community to help get the word out about what's happening to us. And of course, the open source community is all in an uproar over this. And it didn't just stop there though. Montgomery went on to use even harsher language, stronger language. He says, quote, I've always wanted to be a troll hunter and it's better to be aggressive and stab, shoot and hang them than to solve them in acid. He actually put this on their blog. That's some strong language.  I wanna shoot, stab, hang them. That's tough language. And VoiceTech went to court over that and they've asked a judge to make Microsoft remove all the blog posts that are what VoiceTech calls harassment. And they found a judge in the Western District of Missouri that sided with VoiceTech and they have told them to remove all those blog posts, the ones that were kind of threatening in some way, but also the ones where they were just asking the community to help them out, the community to spread the message about the patent roll. And it's just sad. And this kind of stuff has gotten to the point it's so prevalent in the U.S. At some point, we really need to start thinking about changing laws. What we really have to do at some point, we just have to completely disband the entire patent system because there's nothing ethical about patents. I don't want to go off on a long tangent here, but when you think about it, you have an idea. What makes you think you own the rights to that idea, right? Like I think of something first, it's mine. Just the whole system of patents is really quite antithetical to the free software movement and to open source as well. By the way, this story again came from the EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, their particular website. The EFF is a great organization to be a member of because they really fight for your freedom, they fight for your digital rights and privacy and security and things like that. They are one of the two organizations I often tell you guys you really should be a member of. You should be a member of the EFF and you should be a member of the FSF, the Free Software Foundation, because those two organizations are out there really fighting the fight. And as a member of those organizations, if you ever find yourself in trouble, hey, you've got people that have your back. The next topic is enough with the Linux security fud because every couple of days, it seems, there's another Linux security story out there about how insecure Linux is. Another exploit is found, another whole is found and most of the time, these stories are way overblown. Most of the time, these stories are just completely fake or fake news. They make these problems seem much, much bigger than they actually are. And a lot of this comes from people outside the Linux community, mainly just trying to trash Linux at every opportunity and we really need to start calling these people out on this. So over at ZDNet, Stephen J. Vaughn Nichols, he is a free and open source software journalist, he works for ZDNet, he does a lot of Linux coverage and he wrote this article, enough with the Linux security fud and he goes on to write that like all operating systems, Linux isn't absolutely secure, right? Nothing is perfect when it comes to security. Nothing is impenetrable, right? There's always going to be flaws, there's always gonna be holes that people can find and security is kind of like that, right? It's a process, it's not a product. Security is never a finished product. You never lock something down to the point where we never have to worry about it again, right? There's always new exploits to be had and to be patched and that's with any operating system, whether it be Windows, Mac, Android, Chrome OS or in this case, Gnu slash Linux. And these kinds of stories really bother me, the overblown Linux security stories that come out. For example, a couple of weeks back, right? We got the whole boothole scandal, right? That there is this way to get into your Linux box through the bootloader and this exploit is called Boothole which is the most ridiculous name for an exploit I've ever heard of. I mean, think about telling your friends about Boothole. Hey man, your Linux system is insecure because hackers can get in. Oh, really? How can the hackers get in? Dude, they get in through the boothole. Could we find a better name? But anyway, that whole boothole story was just way overblown. Like all of our machines were just wide open and it's so easy to get in. And now you've got the Drovo rub thing, the Russian security malware thing that's going around. And it is stories in the past. I remember a few months back, there was the evil gnome story where a gnome extension could potentially take over your system because you'd go grab this third-party extension on GitHub, some random script, and you would change the permissions to executable and run that random script you found on GitHub and it would hose your machine like that was news. People were actually making articles about this thing like that was news. Like we don't already know, don't go grab any random script from someplace like GitHub that you don't even know what the script is doing. You didn't even read the script and then you just execute it and then later wonder why your system is trashed. And as somebody that often covers news related to Linux security, I don't cover any of these stories because I recognize the fact that most of these stories are way overblown so I don't give them coverage. I purposely don't cover a lot of these things on my YouTube channel, non-library or here on the Unfettered Freedom Podcast. I'm not going to focus on what I consider normal everyday mundane security bugs. Like again, every piece of software has security vulnerabilities. They're always gonna be there. They're always gonna be new ones cropping up. Old ones will get fixed and the people will find new ones then those will get fixed. It's a never ending process. And I think why a lot of people make it a big deal with Linux is because the community has done itself a disservice here, the Linux community. For a long time, many of us trashed the insecurity of Microsoft Windows. How insecure of an operating system Microsoft Windows is and it is it has a lot of security flaws. And you know, that's the Linux fanboys. Hey, our operating system, we don't have to worry about viruses and Trojans and all these worms.  So naturally when these Linux stories come up, those Windows fanboys, they wanna rub it in our faces. And I think that's really all most of this stuff is. I also think that a lot of the Linux and pre and open source software journalists out there that cover this stuff, some of them blow it up more than it should be because you wanna come out with a really scary title for the click bait, right? You don't want to say that boothole is not something people shouldn't be worried about, right? You want boothole to sound like it is Armageddon about to happen because you want people to actually read your story because when they click on the article and read it, there's ads showing. And of course you get paid for the ad impressions and that, you know, that website makes a little money. The journalist that wrote that article might make a little more money. But I do think we as a community, we have to start calling more and more tech journalists out for some of the ridiculous stuff that they post. And our fourth topic is the big release of Mozilla Firefox 80.0. And I say it's a big release. Actually, you would think it's a big release because it's such a nice round number, version 80.0. But it's just another normal release for Firefox but there are some nice new features that I do briefly wanna discuss. One of the cool things is now with version 80, Firefox can now be set as the default system PDF viewer which most people know you can read PDFs in the web browser but most people probably also have a dedicated PDF reader installed on their system. I think most GNU slash Linux users do this but you don't necessarily have to.  Why not just use Firefox as your default system PDF viewer? It does make a lot of sense. They also worked on a lot of security fixes. I won't focus too much on that but one of the other big changes is that Firefox on Linux now supports the VA API acceleration on X11. That's the video acceleration API. And that's a big deal. That's something that we've been waiting for for a long time as Firefox on Linux users. In fact, I would say that's probably the number one feature for Firefox 80 is the video acceleration. That's one of the big complaints people have had about Firefox for a long time getting that working now. That's a big deal. Most of the other changes in the changelog are really quite minor but those of you that are running Firefox, hey, version 80 should be available in the repositories. It looks like it's going to be offered to release channel users on August 25th. For those of you on rolling release systems, Firefox 80 may already be in your distros repositories. For those of you on static release distros, you may have to jump through some hoops to get the latest Firefox. I will say Firefox has gotten so much better with each and every release, especially in the last year. They're putting in a ton of work on the Firefox browser. And if you're one of those people that left Firefox for Chrome or Vivaldi or some of that proprietary garbage and you haven't checked out Firefox in a while, why not install Firefox right now? I think some of you guys, again, if you've left a long time ago, you haven't checked out Firefox in a long time, I think you will be impressed with what Firefox is doing these days. And the fifth and final topic I wanna touch on is one of these, what I think is a myth that has been prevalent in the Linux community for a long, long time is we have this tribalism in our communities about certain distributions. Certain distributions are for nubes and certain distributions are for the advanced user, the power user, the elitist. And one of the most often heard myths on Linux forums and IRC channels is, it goes something like this, and I guarantee you every single one of you have heard what I'm about to say. Hey, if you really want to learn Linux, install Arch. You hear that all the time. Hey, if you really wanna learn about Linux, install Arch. And you also hear this occasionally with other distributions. You also hear people say the same thing about Gen2, if you really wanna learn about Linux, install Gen2. And is that necessarily the case? I have long argued that this was not the case because you don't learn anything by opening up the Arch Wiki or the Gen2 Wiki and reading their install guide and copying and pasting commands in the terminal. You don't learn anything. All you learn to do is you learn how to copy and paste.  And that I think is what people are trying to imply. Hey, if you install Arch, you're gonna learn Linux. Well, you could learn Linux by installing Arch. That doesn't necessarily mean most people will because there are a lot of people that install Arch and have no idea of the commands that they ran. They don't know what those FDIS commands did. They don't know what the partition do. They don't know what file system they created. They just copied, you know, Extend 4, whatever from the Arch Wiki, whatever it suggests by default. And they don't know the difference between Extend 4 and ButterFS and CFS. They don't know any of this stuff. They don't know MBR versus UEFI. They don't know any of this stuff, right? That they're just copying and pasting stuff from the Wiki and at the end of it, they're hoping when they reboot, everything works. And most of the time, everything will work for them, but they still don't understand what they did. What really bothers me is there is this group of, quote, Linux elitists out there that think learning Linux is really about whether your installation process is a graphical installer or whether it's a command line installer. Or actually there's three kinds of installers. There's the graphical installer. There's the text-based installer, something like the Debian installer. And then there's the command line installer. And there's things like Arch and Gintu, some server distros also have command line installers. And if you do that command line installation, that's where you really learn Linux because you had to type stuff on the keyboard. That graphical installer, it lets you click okay with the mouse as if that magically makes a difference. It doesn't matter what GNU slash Linux distribution you choose to install, whether it has a graphical installer, text-based installer, command line installer, you can learn as much as you want to learn about Linux using any distribution regardless of the installer. You could install something very new user-friendly like Linuxmin or Mancharo and learn everything that there is to know about Linux using those distributions. You can study the kernel and the file system and all of that stuff using those very new user-friendly distributions. You could also use some really advanced distributions what people would have you think are advanced like Arch and Gintu and things like that. And never learn anything about Linux. All you learned is how to copy and paste stuff in the terminal just to get it installed. After that, you really don't know anything. Maybe you've learned a few basic commands to update your system every now and then but you don't really know the nuts and bolts. You don't know what's really working underneath the hood. And I know I'm just ranting a little bit here. I don't want to be too long on this point but really when you see people start telling especially new to Linux users this, hey, if you want to learn Linux because that's the one thing new users often ask when they first come to Linux. Hey, I just installed Ubuntu for the first time. I just switched from Windows. I really want to learn more about Linux. What do you guys suggest? And instead of giving them websites to go read articles on or books to read or stuff like that, you're going to have one or two people in that forum post or in that Reddit thread and say, hey, if you really want to learn Linux, install Arch.  Stop telling people to install Arch to learn Linux because that one has nothing to do with the other. And that's it for this episode of Unfettered Freedom. This was episode four and I try to release Unfettered Freedom every week on Thursday. 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The MBTA announced plans to update its fair media system over the next few years including changing its payment options, adding one more trip protection which allows rider to board with zero balance, and ending the pass back system which stops multiple riders from sharing one card. I think being able to pay when you don't have money on your card is good because I know sometimes I'm in a rush and like adding money to your thing just takes a long time. New payment options will include new Charlie cards, a mobile Charlie card app, credit card and mobile wallet such as Apple Pay. A $3 fee will apply to physical Charlie cards and a mobile app. I'm looking forward to the Apple Pay thing because it means I can leave my card at home. And not everyone has access to like get the cards and stuff like that. It's a bit of struggle still like being able to pay for the card especially like for each ride there's a certain amount of money but I'm just hoping that it'll be more accessible to people. We can see where those newest features make place an undue burden on the people that rely most heavily on public transportation and who the MBTA serves. In response to complaints against the $3 fee, MBTA said this fee will help cover the one more trip protection and they're working on a plan to distribute free Charlie cards for those in need. We'd note that reduced fare program participants will be getting cards for free and will also be partnering with local organizations in low income and minority neighborhoods to ensure that this cost is not a burden to our riders. As the plan has not been finalized yet, MBTA will be holding more virtual public meetings to explain a fair transformation and they'll encourage the public to participate in the meetings and share feedbacks. For new service, I'm Vivi Chen.


Hello, and welcome to DOS, Denial of Shopping, Analyzing and Exploiting Physical Shopping Card Immobilization Systems. In this talk, we'll be talking about Shopping Card Security Wheels as well as the basics of RF Reverse Engineering and some of the tools and techniques that you can use to capture signals in the wild, analyze them, and replay them later for fun and profit.  This is a personal project. There's no reflection here on my employer, any other organization unless explicitly stated otherwise. That out of the way, you might be wondering, who are you and how'd you get in here? Well, my name is Joseph Gebay and amongst other things, I am a hacker, a maker, flat-moo, conspiracy theorist, collector of silly domain names, and random certifications. By day, I build robots. By night, I hack shopping carts. Really, this is just an example of something that caught my interest and I decided to go down the rabbit hole on. Because I think as you'll find out in this talk, there's some pretty cool technology that you really take for granted every time you go shopping. So for those of you who aren't familiar with Shopping Card Security Wheels, and they're not everywhere, usually you only see them in pedestrian accessible parking lots where there's a risk of somebody walking off with a shopping cart. What it is is basically an invisible sense for shopping carts. No, really. When you take a shopping cart outside of an approved boundary, usually a parking lot, one of the wheels will sense this and lock itself using an internal mechanism and you can't take the cart any further. You might be wondering, why shopping cart wheels?  And really, the first time I saw one of these signs warning that these devices were in use, I got real curious. How does the wheel know that it's outside of an approved boundary? How does the wheel actually lock and stop itself? How does the wheel get power? And all of these questions were turning over in my mind until I eventually started doing some research and that led to more questions and that led to a death con talk. But I really think it can be summed up by Terry Pratchett's quote, it's not worth doing something unless someone somewhere would much rather you weren't doing it. Fundamentally, I see this as a challenge, just like someone can see a particularly difficult lock as a challenge in the lock sport community, a bunch of very smart people spent a lot of time and money designing a system to prevent people from doing something that they didn't want them to do. And this is a technical challenge. And for me, I was curious to see whether or not I could overcome it and dissect it. And that's what this talk is. So how does the system work? It's a magnetic loop system where there's an underground perimeter wire that's sending out a signal. You might recall from physics class that when you push current through a wire, it produces a magnetic field in a radius around it according to the right hand rule. So there is a buried wire around the perimeter of the parking lot and that's sending out the signal. When the cart crosses over this signal, it senses it and it uses an internal mechanism to lock up the wheel and the store employees have the remote that they can come by later and unlock it and bring it back into service. And we'll get into that in just a little bit. So I was actually fortunate enough to have a grocery store nearby me replacing their sidewalk. And you can actually see this buried wire in action. And let me zoom in a little bit and you can see highlighted where that wire is. And I don't know, it's rare that you get to see how this works because it's usually cut into the asphalt and buried. So that's the wire right there. That's how the magic happens. How does it work inside the wheel? Well, let's take a look at the anatomy of a shopping cart wheel. There's two main parts. There's the outer housing and you'll notice that on the inside diameter here, there's pairs of ridges and that becomes very important later. And down on the bottom, you have the whole internal assembly and that houses all the electronics, the motors, all that, but the thing to note here is that ring going around the outside. That's a flexible ring and it can expand or contract as that plunger moves up and down. Here's a close-up of that mechanism here. And basically there's a motor that drives that little plunger up and that causes the ring to expand. And if it drives it down, it causes it to contract. When the ring is in the expanded position, the ridges on the inner diameter of the outer housing and the outer diameter of the inner ring interlock and prevent the wheel from rotating.  I've got to give gatekeeper systems some major credit for that. Taking a look at the other side of the inner assembly, we can see what also makes it tick. We have a lithium battery here. That's just a three-volt non-rechargeable lithium battery and assuming it's in standby mode, that should last for a good long while, obviously running a high-current application like that motor a whole bunch is going to reduce the life of the wheel. But modern microcontrollers can sip on a few microamps of current and do stuff like monitoring RF systems. So I can really see this lasting for quite a while. Below that, you have the PCB assembly that houses all the electronics as well as the antennas and other radio equipment. And then you have a motor which connects to a gearbox that drives the mechanism we saw on the last slide. Taking a closer look at the PCB, we see a few interesting things. First of all, there's two separate antennas. Up top highlighted, you can see a PCB trace antenna for 2.4 gigahertz. We'll talk more about that later. And on the underside of the PCB, you can see that little black cylinder. Oh, what that is is it's just an inductor that, and that's the element that senses the magnetic field from the buried wire. These systems generally use a very low frequency. And in this case, as we'll find out later, this is running at 7.8 kilohertz. Going back to the top view, we see a couple other things. You see the microcontroller, which is a Texas Instruments CC2510 microcontroller. It has a built-in 2.4 gigahertz transceiver and is designed around the idea of low power standby modes for the radio to maximize the life. And that makes sense in this application. To the right of it, you can see there is a whole mess of what looks like amplifiers and transistors. And I'm not entirely sure what's going on there, but I'm fairly sure that that's the amplifier circuit that turns the signal from the inductor that it picks up from the magnetic field and turns into something that the microcontroller can reliably use. Below the microcontroller are a couple more transistors and that is the motor driver circuit that actually drives that DC motor to lock and unlock it. And to the left of it, it's kind of covered up by one of the arrows. You can see a 10-pin JTAG port and you can do plenty of fun things with a JTAG port. You can try dumping firmware. You can load it up into a debugger. You can do some pretty interesting things, but all of that's outside of the scope of this talk. So let's say we want to learn more about how this works at a signals level. There's a couple of good places to start. The first one is, of course, FCC.gov. Any consumer product that is going out into the wild that has RF systems has to be approved by the FCC. You basically have to undergo some pretty rigorous testing and submit a test report proving that it's not going to cause any undue interference to nearby devices or pollute the airwaves. All of these documents are public record though and you can see from the screenshot up there, there's a lot of juicy things. You'll generally be able to find out what frequency something uses, sometimes information about the modulation method, as well as in this case, the user manual for the wheel and the remote system, which had a lot of good information. So we're gone. We can see what we learned from these documents. The two big things we learned is that the low frequency is below nine kilohertz, which provides a bit of a problem that we'll go into on capturing that signal, as well as the 2.4 gigahertz ISM band, which we already knew. An interesting tidbit that we learned from it is that it uses either MSK or FSK for modulation on the 2.4 and we'll see later that it uses FSK, which is frequency shift keying. Let's talk about the VLF signals, the sub nine kilohertz signal and why it's so difficult to capture that. So generally speaking in radio applications, you want your antenna to be a, you want your antenna's length to be a multiple of the wavelength of the signal you're trying to catch. For high frequency signals, this is usually fairly small. It's in the millimeters or centimeters range, fairly easy to do. As you get to lower frequency signals, that wavelength gets big. Below nine kilohertz, you're looking at something in the tens of kilometers, which is a little bit outside of my capacity to build an antenna for. Further complicating this, most software defined radios and RF amplifiers are designed to work with frequencies above one megahertz because anything below that and you're running into the problems I just mentioned. Now, some wonderful hackers out of France at template.org were also playing around with these shopping cart wheels around 2008 and they had a very interesting observation, which is nine kilohertz is in the audio range. We can use regular audio amplifier and audio processing equipment to work with these signals. Before I go into that, I want to give a brief apology to any RF engineers in the audience. I'm about to do some pretty janky things to capture this signal. I'm sure there's better ways I could have done this and I'm sure there's worse ways, but if there's something I missed or an approach that I could have taken, please, my contact info is at the end of this talk, shoot me an email. I'd love to learn how I could have done this better. But let's move on to some abominations. So right here is a homemade antenna I made. It's called a loopstick antenna because it's a stick with a whole bunch of loops of conductor around it.  I included a little resistor there and that actually tricks a phone or audio device into thinking that what's plugged into it is a microphone line and not a speaker line so it'll let you record audio from that antenna. And with that, I plugged it into my phone and took it to the local shopping center that has one of these, plopped it on the buried line and hit record in a spectrogram app. And I was actually very surprised to see that we see a signal and a fairly clear signal. So I'm in. Loading this into a spectrogram app, we can see that there is indeed a very low frequency signal there at 7.8 kilohertz as well as one at 15.6 kilohertz but that's just the resonance of the 7.8 kilohertz signal and we can fairly safely ignore that. Zooming in a bit and we loaded this into audacity because as far as anything is concerned this is just a regular audio file. So we load into audacity and we can see the waveform of the signal and start diving into it and see what's going on. Zooming in a bit further, we see that the lock signal takes about an eighth of a second and is followed by an eighth of a second of silence by another lock signal and this signal just gets repeated for infinity and beyond. Zooming into an individual one of these signals we can see that it is an eight bit signal composing of 10 parts. You have a start bit that signals the microcontroller that's starting to send the signal and you have a series of long or short blips that correspond to ones and zeros and after eight of these you have another longer blip that's the stop bit and tells the microcontroller we're done transmitting and from that that's all you need to lock a shopping cart. What about unlocking a shopping cart? Unfortunately, in order to get samples for this I needed one of the actual cart keys to take samples from. Thankfully, eBay is a magical, magical place and these cart keys are available on eBay. So I went ahead and bought one and I played around with a bit and you can see that's the cart key model two up there. I purchased both a cart key one and a cart key two. The big difference is the cart key two implements the 2.4 gigahertz signal for unlock only. The cart key one only uses the 7.8 kilohertz. So let's go ahead and see what these signals look like. So I use the same loopstick antenna and phone set up here and just sat it next to the cart key as I hit the lock and unlock signals and this is what it looks like. You can see the unlock signal looks slightly different from the lock signal just in terms of how many times it's repeated and the spacing between them but when we zoom in and compare them directly we can see that for both devices the lock and unlock signal is the exact same. If we compare the lock and unlock signals and decode them interestingly enough we see that the unlock signal is just the inverse of the lock signal where there's a one and there's a zero and when there's a zero there's a one. Interesting but let's go a bit further let's see if we can use this.  There's lots of ways to protect against this you know various authentication schemes or incrementing a number that's sent being shopping cart wheels they don't implement any of this it's the same signal all the time which is very good for us. So another interesting thing of note is you can perform this attack without an antenna. You can use either a pair of headphones or even your phone's speaker as a really crappy antenna because if you think about it what a speaker is is a coil of wire attached to a membrane with a magnet on it and you send signals through the wire and it causes the membrane to vibrate back and forth producing sound and because you're sending current through a wire you do get a bit of a magnetic field. Now generally this is undesirable in its parasitic EMF but in this case that's close enough to the buried loop of wire for the original signal where it works. So you can take an MP3 file of those signals play it on your speaker phone hold it up next to a cart and it'll lock or unlock. Also a big shout out to the folks at Temflab again. They gave this idea and they have a couple of demos of doing just that. Please go check them out. So here's a video of me doing exactly this. In this case I didn't use the speaker or headphones I've just plugged my antenna back in and instead of receiving I'm using it to transmit. So let's take a look at what this looks like. Here I go locking it, playing the lock MP3 file and I play the unlock MP3 file you can see the ring contracting and this is literally all just it's off screen but that headphone jack is plugged directly into that loopstick antenna. So it's fairly short range as it is. Loopstick antennas aren't particularly good transmitters and that was a pretty small one and I was curious to see how much further I could get it to go. So I picked up a large solenoid coil at the MIT flea as well as a 10 watt audio amplifier. I hooked it all up and played the signal and I got it to work and I was getting a range of maybe two to three feet at 10 watts and that's not great but pretty good. Unfortunately we're hitting an area of diminishing returns here because we're fighting against the laws of physics. Magnetic signals decay according to the inverse square rule which means to double the range you need to quadruple the power. It gets kind of tricky to pump a lot of power through a small bit of magnet wire like that without things getting hot and melty so there is an upper limit to how far you can lock or unlock a cart using this approach. So let's take a look at the 2.4 gigahertz signal now. Much easier to work with and we can use a hack RF which is a software-defined radio that operates in the range of one megahertz to six gigahertz which is a fantastically large range and will be pretty good for any signal you might encounter in the wild. So using GQRX I played around a bit and I found the frequencies that it was transmitting on and you can see the unlocked signal being broadcast here. Loading this into Ultimate Radio Hacker which is another great program for this. You can see that it is a series of three pulses and down here you can see that it uses frequency shift keying modulation. If we zoom in on that we can decode it and we can see that it's zero, one, zero and then a bit of space, zero, one, zero and all of this is happening on a center frequency of 2.417 gigahertz and it's using frequency shift keying. There's two frequencies, one frequency is a zero, the other frequency is a one. A pretty basic, pretty easy to implement and pretty foolproof. So let's try replaying this. The hack RF can act as a transmitter as well and URH can export files as wave files which means we can import them into Audacity. It results in a absolutely insane sample rate of eight megahertz but it works. You have to get a little spicy with some of your settings to make everything work but it works. So from here I was able to slice and dice the waveform that I just captured as well as make new commands from pure tones. So say I want a tone of this frequency for this long and duplicate how the original unlocked signal worked and I can export this as a wave file and don't you know URH lets you directly play wave files through a hack RF, it's great. This is the reconstructed signal I made with some of the length data but this is just made from scratch in Audacity and if I play it through the hack RF I can do this interface here. This is what we get and it takes a bit longer to do it and they're up close right now just because I wanted for the video but this will work from across the room. So much, much better range. Now you're probably wondering because you're all hackers, can you lock it from a long range? Is there a lock signal on the 2.4 gigahertz spectrum and the answer is unfortunately I don't think so. It would be a lot easier to transmit but I tried all the different combinations of three bits, you know ones and zeros and none of them triggered a lock when I broadcast them.  So what can we do with this knowledge? Yeah, not a whole lot. We can lock carts that we're within a few feet of. We can unlock shopping carts that have been locked but if your goal is to walk off with a shopping cart there's a lot easier ways to do it than pulling out a software to find radio and MP3 files and being a hacker.  The only persons whose day you'll make worse is the random grocery store employee who has to go around unlocking carts and that's just not cool. Very briefly, here's the references and some of the software I used and I'd also like to extend a special thanks to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and its coders rights project for giving me advice and guidance as I prepared this talk to make sure I didn't cross any legal lines and get myself into trouble. They're a fantastic resource for hackers and are happy to work with the community for answering questions about responsible disclosure and the intricacies of computer law which is not a simple field. So huge, huge thanks to them. If you're ever in a spot I have questions, give them a call. So thank you for coming to this talk. If you have any questions, anything I missed please feel free to reach out to me for Project and Hobby Contacts, Joseph at bgayducrime.com for any professional inquiries, Joseph at tethis.cc. You can check me out on Twitter, I'm at Stopping Cart, real pleased with that. I post yearly thereabouts, so follow me if you want. And any files I'm able to share will be up on bgayducrime.com slash parts. Thanks for coming.