Hi, I'm Peter Burris, and welcome to another CUBE Conversation from theCUBE Studios in beautiful Palo Alto, California. Got a great conversation today. We're going to be talking about some of the new advances that are associated with big data analytics and improving the rate at which human beings, people who actually work with data, can get more out of their data, be more certain about their data and improve the social system that actually is dependent upon data. And to do that, we've got Aaron Kalb of Elation here with us. Aaron is the co-founder and is VP of Design and Strategic Initiatives. Aaron, welcome back to theCUBE. Thanks so much for having me, Peter. So Aaron, let's start this off. The concern that a lot of folks have when they think about analytics, big data, and the promise of some of these new advanced technologies is they see how they could be generating significant business value, but they observe that it often falls short. And it falls short for technological reasons. Setting up the infrastructure is very, very difficult, but we've started solving that by moving a lot of these workloads to the cloud. They also are discovering that the tool change could be very complex, but they're starting to solve that by working with companies, with vision like Elation, about how you can bring these things together more easily. So there are some good things happening within the analytics space, but one of the biggest challenges is that even if you set up your pipelines and your analytics systems and applications right, you still encounter resistance inside the business because human beings don't necessarily have a natural affinity for data. Data is not something that's easy to consume. It's not something that's easy to recognize. People just haven't been trained in it. So we need more that makes it easy to identify data quality, data issues, et cetera. Tell us a little bit about what Elation's doing to solve that human side, the adoption side of the challenge. It's a great point and a great question, Peter. So fundamentally what we see is it used to be a problem of quantity. There wasn't enough ability to generate data assets and to distribute them and to get to them. And now there's just an overwhelming amount of places to gather data. And so the problem becomes finding development data for your need, understanding it and putting it into context and most fundamentally trusting that it's actually telling you a true story about the world. And what we find now is there's been more and more self-service analytics. There's more and more dashboards and queries and content being generated. And often an executive will look at two different answers to the same question that are trending in totally different directions and they'll say I can't trust any of this. On paper I want to be data driven, but in actuality I'm just going to go back to my gut because the data is not always trustworthy and it's hard to tell what's trustworthy and what's not. So this is even after they found the data and enough people have been working on it to say, to put it in context, to say yes, this data is being used in marketing or this data is being used in operations production. So there's another layer of branding or whatnot that we can put on data that says this data is appropriate for use in this way. Is that kind of what we're talking about here? Absolutely right. So to help with finding and understanding data, you can sort of group it and make it browsable by topic. You can enable keyword search over it in natural language and stuff that Elation has done in the past. And what we're excited to unveil now is this idea of trust check, which is all about saying wherever you're at and sort of that data value chain of taking raw data and schematizing it and eventually producing pretty dashboards and visualizations that at every step we can ensure that only the most trustworthy data sets are being used because any problem upstream flows downstream. So trust check. Trust check. So trust check, it's something that comes out of Elation. Is it also being used with other visualization tools or other sources or other applications? That's, it's a great question. So it's all over the above. So trust check starts with saying if I'm an analyst who wants to create a dashboard or a visualization, I might have to write some SQL query to do that. And what we've done in that context with Elation Compose is our sort of homegrown SQL tool. It's provided a tool and trust check kind of gets its name from spell check, right? It used to be there was a dictionary and you could look it up by hand and you could look it up online, but that's a lot of work for every single word to check it.  So you didn't have to go to it. It comes to you. And we do the exact same thing. I'm about to query a table that is, you know, deprecated or has a data quality issue. I immediately see bright red on my screen, can't miss it, and I can fix my behavior. That's as I'm creating a data asset. We also, through our partnerships with Salesforce and with Tableau, each of whom have, you know, very popular visualization tools to say if people are consuming a dashboard, not a SQL query, but looking at a Tableau dashboard or visualization in Salesforce, Einstein Analytics, what would it mean to badge right there in them but a stamp of approval on the most trustworthy sources and a warning or caveat on things that might have an upstream data quality problem? So when you say warning or caveat, you're saying literally that there are exceptions or there are other concerns associated with data and revealing that as part of the analytic process. That's exactly right. So much like, again, spell check, you know, underlines or looking at, if you think about, you know, if I'm driving in my car with ways and it says, oh, traffic up ahead, you know, view out this way, what does it mean to get in the user interface, where people live, whether they're a business user in Salesforce or Tableau or a data analyst in a query tool, right there in their flow having on-screen indications of everything happening kind of below that tip of the iceberg that affects their work and the trustworthiness of the data sets they're using. So that's what it is. So I'll tell you a quick story about spell check. Many years ago, I'm old enough that I was one of the first users of some of these tools. And when you typed in IBM, Microsoft Word often changed it to D-U-M, which was kind of interesting, given the things that were going on between them. But it lead you to ask questions. So how does this work? I mean, how does spell check work? Well, how does trust check work? Because that's going to have an enormous implication. People have to trust how trust test works. Tell us a little bit about how trust check works. Absolutely. So how do you trust trust check? So the little red or yellow or kind of bright salient indicators we've designed are just to get your attention. Then as a user, you can sort of click into those indicators and see why is this appearing. And the biggest reason that an indicator will appear in a trust check context is that a person, a data curator or data steward, has put a warning or a deprecation on the data set. So it's not, oh, IBM doesn't like Microsoft or vice versa. You can kind of see the sourcing. It isn't just, oh, because maybe Webster says so. It sort of emerges from the logic of your own organization. But now Elation has this entire catalog backing trust check where it gives a bunch of signals that can help those curators and stewards to decide what indicators to put on what objects. So for example, we might observe, this table used to be refreshed frequently. It hasn't in a while. Does that mean it's right for getting a bit of a warning on it? Or people aren't really using this data set. Is there a reason for that? Something upstream was just flag having to get a quality issue. That data quality issue might flow downstream like pollution in a creek. And that can be an indication of another reason why you might want to label data as not trustworthy. So in Elation context with Salesforce and Tableau partners and perhaps some others, this trust check ends up being a social moniker for what constitutes good data that is branded as a consequence of both technological as well as social activities around that data captured violation. Have I got that right? That's exactly right. We're taking technical signals and social signals because what happens in our customers today before we launch trust check, what they would do is if you had the time you would phone a friend and you'd say, hey, you seem to be data savvy. Does this number look weird to you? Do you know what's going on? Is something wrong with the table that it sourced from? And the problem is, that happens on vacation and you're out of luck, right? And this is saying, let's push everything we know across that entire chain from the rawest data to the most polished asset and all that information pushed up to where you live in the moment you're making a decision. Should I trust this data? How should I use it? So in the whole, going back to this whole world, the big data analytics, we're moving more of the workloads to the cloud to get rid of the infrastructure problems. We're utilizing more integrated tool chains to get rid of the complexity associated with a lot of the analytic pipelines. How does trust check then applied go back to this notion of human beings not being willing to accept somebody else's data? Give us that kind of use case of how someone's going to sit down in a board room or in a strategic meeting or whatever else it is and see trust check and go, I get it. Absolutely, it's a fantastic question. So there's two reasons why even though all organizations are 80% according to Gartner, claim they're committed to being data driven, you still have these moments where people say, yeah, I see the numbers, but I'm going to ignore them or discount them or be very skeptical of them. One issue is just how much of the data that gets to you in the board room or the exact team meeting is wrong. We had an incredibly successful data driven customer who did an internal audit and found that a third of the numbers that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations on which major business decisions were being made, a full third of them were off by an extraordinary amount so big that it would, the decision would have cut the other way had the number been accurate. So the sheer volume of bad data coming in to undermine trust and the second is even if only 5% of the data were untrustworthy, if you don't know which is which, the 95% of the trustworthy and the 5% it's not, you still might not be able to use it with confidence. And we believe that having trust check be at every stage in this data value chain will solve actually both problems by having that sort of spell check experience in the query tool which is where most analytics projects start. We can reduce the amount of garbage going into the meeting rooms where business choices are being made and by putting that badge saying this is certified or takes with grain of salt or this is totally wrong by putting that badge on the visualizations that business leaders are looking at in Salesforce and Tableau and over time and ideally every tool that anybody would use in an enterprise. We can also help distinguish the wheat from the chaff in that context as well. So we think we're attacking both parts of this problem and that will really drive a data-driven culture truly being adoptable in order to do so. I want to tie a couple of things as you said here. You mentioned the word design a couple of times and you're the VP of design at Elation but it also sounds like when you're talking about design you're not just talking about design of the interface or the software you're talking about design of how people are going to use the software. What is the extent to which design or what's the scope of design as you see it in this context of advanced analytics and is trust check just a first step that you're taking? Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, it's a great set of questions Peter. So design for us means really looking at humans and starting by listening and watching. You know, a lot of people in the cataloging space and the governance space, they list a lot of should statements. People should adopt this process because otherwise mistakes will be made. As Gardner said, 80% of you dev. Right, exactly. And we think the shoulds only get you so far. We want to really understand the human psychology. How do people actually behave when they're under pressured to move quickly in a rapidly changing environment? When they're afraid of being caught having made a mistake. There's all these precious people are under. And so it's not realistic to say, again you could imagine saying, oh, every time before you go out the door go to MapQuest or some sort of traffic website and look up the route and print it out so you make sure you plot correctly. No one has time for that. Just like no one has time to look up every single word in their essay or their memo or their email and look it up in the dictionary to see if it's right. But when you have an intervention that comes into somebody's flow and is impossible to miss and is an angel on your shoulder keeping you from making a mistake or in car navigation that tells you in real time here's how you should route. Those sort of things fit into somebody's lifestyle and actually move impact. So our idea is let's meet people where they are, acknowledge the challenges that humans face and make technology that really helps them and comes to them instead of scolding them and saying, oh, you should change your flow in this uncomfortable way and come to us and it's the only way you'll achieve the outcome. So invest the tool into the process and then the activity as opposed to force people to alter the activity around the limitations and capabilities of the tool. Exactly right. And so while design is optimizing the exact color and size and UI, UX both in our own tools and working with our partners to optimize that it's sort of an even bigger level of saying how do we design the entire workflow so humans can do what they do best and the computer just gives them what they need in real time. And if something is important and kind of takes a full circle if something is important and potentially strategic as advanced analytics having that holistic view is really going to determine success or failure in a lot of businesses. That is absolutely right, Peter. And you asked earlier, is this just the beginning? And that's absolutely true. Our goal is to say whatever part of the analytics process you are in that you get these real time interventions to help you get the information that's relevant to you understand what it means in the context you're in, right? And make sure that it's trustworthy and reliable so people can be truly data driven. Yeah, well there's a lot of invention going on but what we're really seeking here is changes in social behavior that lead to consequential improvements in business. Aaron Kalb, VP of Design and Strategic Initiatives at Elation, thanks very much for talking about this important advance and how we think about analytics. Thanks much for having me, Peter. And this is again, Peter Burris. This has been a CUBE conversation. Until next time.


Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. Yes as I said in the intro it is spook-a-thon time which means I will be starting my vlogs for book and lala's books and lala's spook-a-thon challenge which is the read-a-thon for the next week the 14th to the 20th and I will be reading five books to complete the five different challenges. So the first book that I'm gonna be reading is actually gonna complete challenge number four so I'm not gonna do all the challenges in order one two three four five just because of the length of the book and what I think I can actually finish in a week and why. So I'm gonna be starting off completing the fourth challenge which is a spooky setting. So anywhere that seems spooky, creepy, scary, Halloween-y whatever and so as I said in my announcement video the book I chose for that is the House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A Craig. I'm really excited to read this one this has been recommended a lot on booktube and I've seen it everywhere in bookstores and everything like that so I'm really excited to read it and form my own opinion on it and see what I really think of it. I say it's set in a spooky setting because it's in a house where all the daughters keep getting murdered. I wouldn't want to live there so therefore it is spooky and I say it fits the challenge. So this is what I will be starting with tonight as soon as it turns midnight which should be in about six minutes but I'm honestly gonna say this now is that I'm gonna read like a chapter of this and then I'm gonna go to bed because I have class in the morning and I want to have sleep for class so this is gonna be a very interesting readathon because it's gonna be balancing class, homework, sleep, and reading. So we'll see how this goes. The second book I'm going to read actually completes the fifth challenge which is something you wouldn't normally read. I just flat out don't normally read mystery, thriller, horror just because every time I try to read a mystery book especially mystery books I always choose the bad ones that I predict and are duds and I know that they're not all like that but I just I have bad choice apparently and it bothers me because I know I would love them. But oh well what can I do I just keep searching and so I figured for this one I can't go wrong with Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. I chose this one to be next because it's a shorter book and it's obviously a classic and it's something I don't normally read. It's only 250 pages and it's a beautiful book to carry around so I'm really excited. So I chose this one to be the second one I'm gonna do because after the one I most excited for I'm gonna start doing with what are the shortest and more likely that I can get done in a week. So challenge number five. The next shortest book that I have I mean book that I'm going to read completes challenge number two which is to have red on the cover and in my TBR I kind of went back and forth between two books I divided on for this. One was the Scythe book which I really want to read but I think it's just too big for me to attempt to read that and for other books in a week so I opted to go with my other choice Frankenstein because again it's another classic that I haven't read which is completely disastrous of me. I know it's horrible. I love classics and yet I haven't read the most famous classics. I don't know how but Frankenstein isn't gonna be too long. It is a bit of an older read so we'll see how well I get through that but I'm gonna do my best. So my third book is going to be Frankenstein and it completes challenge number three and I'm hoping that I can read at least these three books plus the audiobook. I'll explain that right about now. So as I just mentioned I will be listening to an audiobook and therefore I don't have a actual physical book but it's going to be the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman. That's gonna complete the third challenge which is having something spooky in the title. I mean a graveyard is pretty spooky especially around this time of year. So I decided to go with that one and it will be an audiobooks. I'm hoping I can get that done especially since it's actually due for the library online. In four days so I have to actually finish it before this week is up and I just bought a new pair of headphones so that I can walk between classes and listen to it because my last headphones broke. I'm not going down that route but so my goal is to finish at least those three books as well as the audiobooks so I can get four out of the five challenges done. That's the goal that's the plan and we're gonna find out how that goes but if I do manage to finish all that and have a day or two to spare then yes I will try and finish challenge number one the one they keep the same every year of course is the one I might not get to. Casual classic I know. But challenge number one is read a thriller and so for that one I've chosen another book that's gotten a lot of chatter recently and I've been seeing everywhere but I'm really excited for and that's stalking Jack the Ripper by Carrie Menestecala. I chose this one because it's not just a thriller but it's also historical fiction and so it's gonna be a little bit more than that which peaks my interest a little bit more than just a thriller because I actually tried listening to a Stephen King book. I tried listening to Pet Sematary and I only got a couple hours in because I just didn't care for it. I liked the premise of it but I just didn't like like his writing or his characters all that much so I just kind of dropped it and just returned it to the library. I'm sorry I tried so thrillers just aren't my thing which is why I chose this because it'll have a historical element to it and hopefully it'll just be something that peaks my interest a lot more than just a plain thriller. So yes those are the five books that I plan on reading slash listening to for one of them for the next week and it is actually 12 o'clock right now so I'm going to read a chapter of my first book and get started on it and then just go to bed and see what all I can do tomorrow so I will see you in the morning although you're not gonna see this until probably the week is done because I'm just gonna do one giant vlog so but I will start recording in the morning as soon as I get a chance to crack this book open again but for now a chapter and good night. Yo so I stayed up way too late last night and read way too much because I am now on chapter 13 on page 113 I said I'd read one chapter and then that just didn't happen so I'm like really tired I had to wake up this morning to do homework so I made a bad decision but it's also a really good head start on this read-a-thon so we'll see how it goes if I can keep up this pacing it'd be great but we will see hopefully I can get some reading done at work I won't be able to vlog very much throughout today at my daily life because you know I'll be at classes and like moving around and people and what not so I will mostly just update you when I'm actually in my dorm but I have a very busy day so we'll see how that is but I have one of those wonderful jobs where it's like if there's no work to do then do your homework if you have no homework to do then do whatever you want so if I can get all my homework done then I will for sure be able to read for a couple hours today at work so we'll see but yeah I'm dead tired and I made that mistake but I also kind of don't regret it so haha so a couple of updates first off I have the best job in the world okay maybe not in the world best college job ever my bosses are amazing and I have so much time and it's wonderful also college is hard it's no easy math it's no easy magic trick you can't just snap your fingers and oh everything is done and perfectly completed and what did you know not even close and but going back to the first point I have the best job in the world because I can read and I'm now on page 208 of the House of Salt and Sorrow which is exactly halfway through the book so I have managed to read half of this book I'm slightly frazzled both by real-life events and also what's happening in this book because I feel like there are so many things going on and like as soon as it talks about one thing I'm like oh so excited and it switches to another and I'm like oh wait for the last thing oh but this thing and I'm bouncing from thing to thing and I'm just I need to read it and finish it I'm not even listening to the audiobook of the graveyard book yet because I am reading this book as I'm walking so because I'm just so entranced by it right now a couple of things so far on the horizon that I'm not super on board with like there's a love triangle forming which I'm just not the biggest fan of for a couple of reasons one so many love triangles and so many books I'm just I want something new and different I'm kind of sick of love triangles and two it's very I it's a very clear I want her to be with this guy and it's I have the exact same opinion for every single love triangle because it's again it's the childhood friend and this new mysterious stranger I will almost always go for the childhood friend and they always go for the mysterious stranger and then that fails and then they go back to the friend and it just I it annoys me so much because everybody does it it's no longer a new unique thing like everyone has done it and so that's starting to form the book and I'm not super excited about that because I just want her to be the childhood friend because it's just so obvious but no she has to go it's a whole thing but yeah so that's the update it's 532 so I am done with all my required things I do have a couple of things yet that I have to do this evening so I should probably get started on those and then once I'm done with that I'm just planning on spending the rest of my time reading so my my goal is to get the 300 pages is to be three-fourths of the way through the book so that I can finish it tomorrow and hopefully start the next book tomorrow which is Murder on the Orient Express I had to check it's Murder on the Orient Express to start tomorrow and obviously I'm gonna hopefully get going on that audiobook so yeah that's the update let's go continue to be productive I'm back stuff got done home Rick is finished tap was tabbed reading was read I'm now on page 286 of the house of salt and sorrows and oh my word it is a page turner let me tell you I am going through it quickly and I'm reading much faster than I normally do I'm so excited like I have a theory and then there's this whole twist that came in that I actually wasn't expecting but like I'm still holding strong to my theory but I might be wrong I don't know I have ideas and I'm almost done I'm probably gonna finish it tonight even though it's just past 10 o'clock and I should go to bed but I could also finish this book and I honestly I'm having a hard time blogging right now because I just want to sit and read the book I've got 124 pages left and I'm like so I really want to know and it's driving me crazy so I'm just doing a short little update okay two things one I'm ditching my old theory I don't think I was right so my initial thought was that the oldest daughter died and then got lonely in death and started killing her sister so that she wouldn't be alone I think I'm wrong I'm on page 294 chapter 30 and so I'm completely abandoning that theory at this point so I think I'm wrong and it's something else and I'm intrigued and then the second thing was what was the second thing I don't remember what the second thing was but like oh I remember what the second thing was the second thing was so I complained earlier about the love triangle and how I'm just sick and tired of those and it's in this novel and I'm like hey they've kind of stepped away from it which I am enjoying well but like one of the guys was very mature about it and was like all right yep she didn't go for me all right he's out which was really nice it was a very non-dramatic and not in very subtle way of just like getting rid of the love triangle thus far at least hmm so I'm not I'm obviously not gonna spoil who she picks and stuff like that but I'm just happy that they kind of moved away from it and it's not a main thing slash it's kind of not a thing anymore at this point so yeah that was the second thing I have a hundred and six pages left in this book and I'm just so excited but the time is I'm a check 10 35 at night so I really should sleep but also my roommate isn't here and I don't want to go to bed without her so like I'm just gonna keep reading she keeps mentioning we all grieve in our own way which I like because that is true we all grieve differently and it's very interesting to see in this book how everybody grieves differently and how other people handle that but yeah so confused this book is really starting seriously like I'm scared out of my mind a little bit I know I cannot stop tonight because if I do I'm gonna like stay up not be able to sleep or I'm gonna have nightmares or something and I like slightly freaked out anything that makes a noise in my room I'm just like it is 12 17 in the morning and I just finished the house of salt and sorrow don't quite know how to react cuz it was so good and phenomenal but at the same time like I'm thinking so much I loved this book I really enjoyed it oh it's just crazy I would probably my instinct is to give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars cuz I don't like giving out perfect scores I don't like giving out perfect 5 stars but like this comes pretty darn close because oh my goodness like the twists and turns but the possibilities and it's like oh I thought this but then I was wrong but then I was actually right but then like wait not quite it was crazy but it's late at night and so I finished a book I read this book all today so one book for spookathon done on day one and it was probably the longest book of them all it was exactly 400 pages like exactly and what's really cool is the author went to the University of Michigan wood wood I'm not a student there but I am from Michigan so Michigan pride I mean Detroit wood wood but yeah so I'm gonna go to bed now and just kind of let this book incubate in my mind cuz I can't quite formulate a response or a view yet because I just need to let it sink in because I knew I wasn't gonna be able to go to bed without finishing it and I'm really glad I stayed up and finished it but now I'm gonna be dead tired tomorrow but we'll see at least the murder on the word express is only 240 pages so I mean hey but yeah so with that it's 1220 I'm gonna sleep but it was a good day hello everyone it is now Tuesday the second day of spookathon and it is 322 in the afternoon I'm sorry I didn't have time to vlog this morning and give an update I had to wake up and immediately get out the door to meet people and do things and it was slightly hectic especially since I did not go to bed until a little bit later last night because I stayed up finishing the house of sultan sorrow yeah I read all 400 pages and I finished it and you all know this because literally the last clip was me freaking out about it and I think at the end of this vlog I'm gonna give a review of all the books that I've read throughout this week just so that I can have time to process it all and also just kind of say which was my favorite of the five and which was my least favorite and etc and so forth because of that I have I have been able to start murder only Orient Express I'm only reading the first story even though in here there are three different stories and I am four chapters into this already on page 30 I'm right at the beginning of chapter four so that's coming along but yeah I have one more thing to do tonight and to get dinner so hopefully I can get a lot of reading done it'd be nice if I could finish the book but we'll see I'm not super set on I have to finish it because I was expecting house of something sorrow to take longer and then it didn't so now I can just kind of coast my way through but also still make sure I'm reading things it's because it's seven days to read five books and like I said one's an audiobook and one is already done update on the audiobook I haven't really started it yet because my headphones they have to go through a converter for my phone and that converter no longer works so I can't listen to anything on my phone without or with headphones so I'm slightly stressed and annoyed at that so I have to go out and find a new converter which I'm not excited about otherwise I have to read a seven and a half hour long book in my dorm room or in a room where I'm not disturbing people by not having headphones so pretty much my dorm room when my roommate either isn't here or does have headphones so we'll see how that goes yeah good afternoon it is 207 no that's when I went to bed last night 207 p.m. thank you roommate and I had a very busy morning which is why I didn't do any sort of vlogging this morning but yes I did go to bed at 2 a.m. technically this morning slash last night and I really didn't do any reading I stayed up doing other things which is not the smartest thing to do in college or for a readathon they were bookie things they were just creating books rather than consuming books did get a bunch of reading well maybe not a bunch but I did get to read during work today which was nice so I've murdered on the orange express is divided into three parts and so this morning at work I finished the first part and I'm about halfway through the second part so I'm like halfway through the book my goal is to finish the second part before I have to go to another thing at three so that gives me just under an hour to do that and then today I want to just finish the book and I will be all caught up with what my plan is and then I can get started on my third book which is Frankenstein haha but first I need to finish murder on the orange express and I'm really enjoying the books before I didn't actually think I would because like for the first third the first section of it I was like kind of confused because there are so many characters and like some of them have personalities and some of them kind of didn't I was just like trying to figure everything out but like how she did the second part of it was just all the interviews and gathering evidence so each chapter was interviewing a different person and I love I love that format it's so much easier to keep the character straight to understand what's going on to really just take a minute and be like so what happened okay next person so what happened okay next person so what happened you're starting to get piece-by-piece what's going on so this the second section is so far my favorite but you know we'll see until I get to the third section when everything actually comes to a close and we find out who actually did it but um who knows maybe that'll be my favorite maybe the second bit will still be my favorite don't know but I need to get reading so I will update you tonight before I go to bed or before I start reading before I go to bed who knows it honestly just depends on how late I stay up reading and how much I read but yeah so I hope your spookathon is going well at this point probably more productive than mine but hey I chose shorter books what can I say it's probably the smartest thing to do for a college student yeah I'm gonna read now so goodbye and I'm back and it's 10 19 at night I have finished everything I need to do I've had a little bit of a flexing time I got a lot of cleaning done in my room and in the dorm which has been great because I've been able to listen to the audiobook for that the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I'm really really happy about it I'm a good two hours in I've got another five hours to go in the book but I'm listening to it at 1.6 speed so it tells me that I have five hours to go but it's gonna be more like two and a half maybe two hours to go before I finish it which is good because it's due in one day and 21 hours so I pretty much need to finish it tomorrow which is not a lot to ask or at least the day after tomorrow before that time kind of thing so yeah I finally started and have made a good chunk of progress on the audiobook and then for and then for the murder on the Orient Express I'm hoping to stay up and finish that hopefully it won't take me too long because I really want to sleep because of the lack of sleep I have a last night so and the night before that because I stayed up reading so we'll see I definitely am going to finish murder on the Orient Express tonight no matter what because that was the goal that was the plan and I can sleep in a little bit tomorrow but yeah I'm about halfway through it right now but it's a pretty quick read and it's only a total of like 200 something maybe 250 at the most yeah something like that so it really shouldn't take me that long so but I'm gonna get to that and I'll see you in the morning hopefully I don't snooze my alarm too much in the morning and I'll update you then sorry this vlog has not been very entertaining at this point but um so I haven't vlogged at all today and I'm so sorry it is 9 20 at night college life it really does get too busy but I was able to get a lot of reading done at work today I am now three chapters away three or four chapters away from finishing murder on the Orient Express it took me a moment there it looks like I have a lot more that's because this is the addition that has and other hercule puerro mysteries so the detective it's murder on the Orient Express plus two more books in here actually so it looks like I'm not quite close to being done but I am actually really close to being done I am 25 30 pages from the end and I'm really excited because it's like you're this is the time when everyone's figuring out who is lying about what and why they're lying and like how that affects the case and things like that so it's really it's not super intense it's like a good relaxing just traditional who done it like Agatha Christie who done it they're all on a train someone died there are a bunch of people now you know most of the information except for like the lies and who actually did it and why so I'm gonna finish that right now and then afterwards I'm going to listen to the audio book and do some things as I listen to the audio book I'm hoping to finish both books tonight because I have let's see I'm three hours into it so I've got like four and a half hours left but again it tells me I have four and a half hours left but like I'm also listening to it just over double that so it should only really be just over two hours left for me so then that way I can get started on Frankenstein and I'm really excited to do that yeah so I've also got my trusty tea here I made this tea a while ago so like the mug doesn't show but it's got like the marauders map around it and it's a Harry Potter themed mug it's one of those ones where it like it heats up and the design comes out but I've been letting it sit for a little bit now and so it's not there anymore but I've got my crayon I've got my apple cinnamon tea with me because it's fall so I'm gonna have those themed drinks okay no more stalling I'm going to finish this book last 10 pages you would go find out who it was apparently he knows but I don't so I'm gonna read now and find out Mrs. Hubbard very accurate of certain American women but she's so funny I'm not done think I see where he's going with this I think it's all coming together I really should read more mystery novels especially novels of this style easy to comprehend calm but still want to know who did it so that is the second book done for this readathon murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie completes challenge it completes the challenge number five something I wouldn't normally read because I don't only read mystery mysteries I should but I don't but so now that this is done and I have two of the challenges completed and two books completed and it is what time it is 9.52 I do have to wake up early tomorrow to go to work but I still want to listen to the audiobook and see if I can't get it done tonight because you know how awesome would that be plus it's the audio book is due tomorrow before like dinner time ish so I really do need to get it done very soon I have less than 24 hours I know that so I am going to just do some other things and listen to that I can't really record or film when I do that because I'm listening to the audiobook on my phone so I'm just gonna go ahead turn this off and if I finish the audiobook tonight I will give you an update if I don't then I probably won't because I'll probably be really tired so yeah so if this is good night then good night good morning I'm at least trying to have some fucks behind me for one of these vlog videos just to get the aesthetic together but yes it is 7 23 in the morning I've woken up and I've gotten ready so that I can go to work and then go to class I did finish murder on the earnings for us last night as it was very obvious in my vlog that I did so I did listen to a lot more the audiobook I have but I haven't finished it I have about two hours left but I bumped my readings beat up to 1.8 times quickly so hopefully I'll have just a little over an hour left of actual listening to it instead of a full two hours I'm really enjoying the graveyard book though it's like one of those things I don't want to rush it because I love it but I also need to finish it today or the library will take it back so we're gonna see what we can do about that but yeah so that's my morning update that's my morning update 7 30 in the morning I need to go to work I am starting Frankenstein today I did not start it last night cuz I need to go to sleep so I could wake up early and woke up at 6 30 and so at work today I'll work a couple of hours and I'll probably get some good reading down there and I'm really excited and I'm especially really excited to read Frankenstein because it's a classic that I haven't read yet and I do love reading classics so yeah we'll see how this thing goes and I'll update you later I know I know it's Saturday morning and I haven't been vlogging but I have been reading


Almost everyone agrees that Britain has a serious housing crisis indeed our Tory government often admits so However, nothing ever seems to be done about it and a recent report in the Financial Times gave us a clue Why the FT have revealed that the Conservative Party's received almost 18 million pounds in donations from 154 donors with property interests since Boris Johnson became UK Prime Minister two years ago a Quarter of the Conservatives party income comes from pleasing landlords There was no data available on donations from private renters as you can imagine I'm pretty sure that doesn't make up a large proportion of income for the Conservative Party To get an idea of why this matters We can take a look at some of the key donors some of the key individuals involved Anthony Gallagher is a billionaire property tycoon specializing in buying and preparing land plots for residential and commercial Development he sold his land business in 2017 for 505 million pounds, but then he reinvested the money in the private rental sector According to the FT Gallagher has been the most generous property donor to the Tories since Johnson took office in 2019 he's given 1.5 million pounds through his company County-wide Development now you might be wondering.  You know, if you're if you've invested millions of pounds into the private rental market, then you get quite a lot of the Tory government Also And obviously it's not for me to suggest there was anything transactional here It just so happens that Gallagher received a knighthood in 2020 for services to land development and property He began donating to the Tories as just Tony. He's now sir Tony Another big donor was John Stuart Bloor He's the billionaire owner of Bloor homes, which is one of the biggest private house builders in the UK He's donated 1.1 million to the conservative since Boris Johnson took charge As you'd expect as with all of these donors Bloor has denied he wanted any favours in return for that 1.1 million pounds. He told the FT I have never met Boris Johnson or spoken to him or his ministers neither have I employed lobbyists We donate money to the conservative party and charities because we agree with their ethos of aspiration and hope for individuals and children And expect nothing in return for these donations a very very reassuring statement there There are some coincidences Which might raise suspicions though. We know from an earlier report in the sunday times that the timing of these donations is Let's say notable. That's because earlier this year Bloor donated 150,000 pounds to the Tories Two days after a housing minister gave the green light to a Bloor proposal to build hundreds of homes on rural land in Herefordshire Aaron we talked last week about your brilliant piece on some of the effects Of the housing crisis on mental health among many other issues This story suggests it won't be resolved anytime soon I mean unbelievable Michael, you know between 2005 2015 the Tories fundraised a quarter of a billion pounds 250 million pounds That's the kind of money it took for them to To re-end the political sort of mainstream and form a government and nothing's really changed since then And then you compare it to labor Right and labor have made huge and of course you'd hope that there's a labor government in order to change housing policies So that we can stop this rat run that so many people are stuck in Which is a deep dysfunctional way to run society And labor, you know, I saw a funny story being spun by the times last week about how donors are returning to labor One was Dale vintz From ecotricity. Well, he donated money under Corbin Another was a somebody in the gambling industry, but apparently according to matzab, he's he's not particularly bad He donated money under Corbin And then finally there was a donation from trevor chin, which I think was in the tens of thousands of pounds So the the ballpark the Tories are in russian oligarchs property developers people who are Absolutely invested in literally bristons casino economy squeezing the poor and the working class of this country Against trevor chin giving 20 30 40 50 000 pounds And what's super interesting is that many people Were perfectly happy to fund kia stamens become labor leader But they're not willing i.e to remove the left from any position of political influence in this country But they're not willing to fund him against the Tories because fundamentally they they want things to stay the same and I think you know, you have to follow the money in politics and That quote that you just you just read out on air michael was sickening because it said that we support the Tories Because of aspiration for people and for for kids There are 4.3 million people in this country 4.3 million young people children minors Who are in poverty 4.3 million it's gone up pretty much every year since the Tories have been in power since 2010 The people who are renting in private accommodation Has been going up comparative to home ownership or social housing every year since 2010 ditto rough sleeping would have with of course the exception of the the pandemic And and so you're you're effectively looking at you know corruption in plain sight And clearly the only political alternative clearly, you know the whole thing about corbin or bernie sanders and you know You know the the wisdom of crowds and people powered movement and bringing in money, you know this was kind of diminished and mocked by the centrist commentary As if labor have an alternative as if people like this are going to fund the labor party And we're going to start seeing loads of social housing being built or we're going to see greater regular Regulation on hmo's or rent caps of course we are so clearly the only political alternative That could take that on which could find funding would have to be from a different source And and we've just been dealing with hypnotic centrist zombies michael For six seven years and it's it's terrifying and in the meantime these people these kinds of donors like this gentleman the russian oligarchs and You know the fact frankly speaking the parasitic renciers that run britain's economy in their own interest the not not the 1% the not point 1% they're laughing While we have the sort of centrist commentary at thinking that they can do what those guys do and at the same time they can Sort of you know implement better policy when you can't The reason why we have a broken housing system the reason why the Tories are happy to keep on with that is it It's in their interests You know we need to bring people together. It's not about dividing people No, we need to divide landlords from tenants. They don't have the same interests That's not that's not me being nasty and divisive.  They don't have shared interests And sadly women stuck in this very strange rhetorical cycle For too long where it's been dominated by like I say centrist zombies, but this is why our politics has broken michael follow the money We're going to continue following the money There was another ft report on the influence of Tory donors on the party a couple of really good reports from the ft this week in this report they Revealed that there is a secretive club for major conservative donors known as the advisory board And it has been holding regular meetings and calls with the prime minister boris johnson and the chancellor Rishi sunak the club some of whose members have given at least 250,000 pounds to the party has been developed by ben elliot tori co-chair as a means of connecting major conservative backers With its top figures the club does not appear in party literature But conservative officials confirmed the advisory board Occasionally meets with johnson and sunak for an update on the political landscape One person briefed on the advisory board's activities Said it held monthly meetings or conference calls with either the prime minister or the chancellor Some members have used those discussions to call for public spending cuts and lower taxes a donor said The report did speak to some sources who defended The core the tori co-chair for setting up this advisory group They write supporters of elliot say the conservatives have long had a leaders group where donors who give 50 000 pounds are offered regular Meetings with ministers the advisory board operates at a more rarefied level with some members giving the party five times that amount Well-placed conservatives say that not everyone on the advisory board has given 250 000 pounds But some had Now aron the thing that strikes me about this now I think we all you know We knew that people who give 250 000 pounds to the conservative party aren't just doing it out the goodness of their heart Because you know as that property developer said oh because we believe in personal inspiration No, we're not that naive right you know that what is happening is that they want influence over government That's why they do it What shot me about this one those they call them the advisory group Right, you're at least supposed to maintain the pretense right that we don't take direction from our donors The donors donate to us because we do what they believe But we don't do what we do because they believe it, you know, we don't take advice from our donors but they've called the group of five figure donors Six figure donors the the advisory group Well, it goes on there Well, it goes back to the thing I said to you Michael between 2005 2015 Right, the conservatives raise a quarter of a billion pounds It's no coincidence that after 2010 you get austerity and you get a massive growth in inequality Between rich and poor you see a direct funneling of money and funds from the poorest most vulnerable in society to the wealthiest You see the erosion of of the of the state infrastructure Basically to enrich private corporate interests, particularly throughout sourcing zeros contracts privatizations You see the privatization for instance of you know, royal mail You see the Cameron government trying to sell off it sells off for instance East coast mainline It sells off, you know equity and banks those people gave that quarter of a billion pounds the conservative party You know the labor party won't particularly radical under Blair and brown Michael But the point is with the rich that it's never it's never enough It's never enough And so they said look we want our lower taxes. We don't want to actually fund, you know the NHS And their reward was a conservative government from 2010 and shame on them with the liberal democrats Which implemented austerity that is a quid pro quo That was a direct transaction of money resources and funds for certain political outcomes, right? It wasn't an accident if the Tories after 2005 particularly after the financial crisis was saying we're going to increase taxes And we're going to bring things into public ownership. They wouldn't be getting that money, would they? pretty obvious And it's pretty obvious why you know millionaires weren't donating to labor and they still aren't but Particularly weren't donating to labor when when Jeremy Corbyn was labor leader because there's a transaction going on And I find it supremely odd Michael that the exact same people the literally the exact same people Will say on the one hand you get you know Everything has a price. It's all about you know profit maximization Return and investment all these people really cold-hearted ruthless business killers These exact same people will say I'm giving tens of millions of pounds or hundreds of thousands of pounds to political party I don't want anything of return Come on. We weren't born yesterday and again To return to my previous points Michael about the sort of centrist punditocracy Who actually are among the stupidest people in this country if it is willful ignorance Then that's a different proposition, but I think actually sadly a lot of this time. It isn't I think a lot of time They actually believe what they're saying they are the most naive Credulous people imaginable. I think the average person recognizes the fact Big money donors do these things to get influence to shape outcomes So yes, they call it the advisory board, but even if they didn't do that Michael We kind of know why why they're doing this and it's the exact same thing, you know with trade unions trade unions fund the labor party So that we can get political outcomes, which are more advantageous to trade unions and organized labor We we should just be open about it and it's not about oh where they're just equally bad No, this is good. This other thing is bad This other thing is bad a society where jeff bezos can have amazon workers pissing in water bottles And he spends the money on a jolly into space is bad A society where we have universal literacy publicly funded healthcare Everybody has access to a home A job clean drinking water food. This is good. This is qualitatively better than that. They're not both equally bad I think anybody that says otherwise is it's clearly ridiculous or or is actually just incredibly wealthy and wants to kind of Mask the fact they're advancing their own interests


So this will 100% earn you fast gold coins and the reason being is these items people need to craft better items which they then sell for even more money. Yet people don't like running about farming for these as they're quite hard to come by if you don't know where to farm them and it's people like us that do that keep this marketplace running and that is it people that's how we make our gold. How's it going guys my name is DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leave a like really helps out and if you like what you see want to see more be sure to subscribe. Now I will state and I say and I will say this on every single guide I post when it comes to making that gold coin. Check the prices on your server before following this guide or any guide into making fast gold if prices ain't worth it don't bother. Okay so essences I use are quite a few things but mainly they're used to cut gems they're better gems any kind of gem which then they're used on weapons and armor for certain boosts so these are things people are always going to need the thing is if you don't know a certain farm or route to take to farm these then it can take ages to actually craft said gem and that is why just 99% of people out there just go ahead and buy them instead that's why prices are good for them. Now you also need to be a level 75 on the RKN repository bench to make the most out of this so you can craft those essences or if you ain't have a friend do it for you. But either way you can still sell the mounts for profit which we will be farming today. As this run I will show you will take you about an hour to do so once you get it down about 45 minutes but you will see you if all mounts are there to farm you'll easily see over 1000 mounts here easily guys. Now I simply listed mine for around a 10 at each just undercutting the lowest selling option I could probably have got 12-13 for these and mine sold more or less instantly I think it took about 5 minutes and they were all gone. The thing is these things respawn back pretty quickly so this route can just keep repeating over and over for a whole day and you'll earn thousands of gold guys. So this route starts off here north of Cutlass Keys where we head in this one direction but then we eventually turn back on ourselves and the way I turned it means by the time we reach that certain point we've marked the ones we already farmed will have respawned and we do this before we head in another direction where tons more are. Now we'll warn you some of the areas we farm are pretty popular ones so they may not all be here but I play on one of the busiest servers and even for me most were still here it just goes to show many people aren't really interested in farming these and would rather buy them but yet guys follow the route I take on screen now and get those mounts then either sell them as they are turn them into wisps or essences and there is a massive profit to be made here people. Now as this route goes on I will cut back into the video and tell you what we are doing but I will leave you now to watch this route and I hope it helps you out. If it does leave a like really helps me out if you're new around here once you're on your road be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next video. So from this point here guys we're going to make our way back follow our steps back the way we just come towards our the gate following obviously sticking next to the water because some of the ones you may have missed if they've already been farmed may have respawned if not it's probably too soon for most of the ones you've just farmed to have respawned but this is the route we're going to take before we start a new path and a new route to farm even more of these things so make your way up to elder gate where I mark on the map right here and follow the route I take from here also it's logical that when you get near water follow the water all the way to the point I've marked on the map within elder gate because like I said some of these may have respawned like you see have respawned for me so you may as well harvest them again from here guys continue following the route I take obviously just stick next to this river as some of the watercress may have respawned for you so just follow the river to the point I mark on the map picking up all watercress that have respawned for you


Ac teid. A'n tro'n syni teid. Cydwn ni'n ddim yn ddim yn ddim yn ystod o'r exïtio, ac mae'r dros o'n bwrdd o'n dechrau, mae'n ddwyllaeth o'n ddweud o flyny. Mae'r ddweud o'n ddweud o'i gwell yn y ddweud. Mae'n credu Cystol fath yn y bar. Mae'n rhai o'n dechrau yn y bar. Mae'r ddechrau yn y dystod, unrhyw o'r problemau gennym o ddechrau o'i ddweud o gystafel. felly mae'r cahyfyddiad yn ymgyrch gyda'r ysgol, ond mae'n golygu yn ymgyrch ar gyfer ystod hefyd. Yr ysgol yn osod yn ymgyrch a'r eu cyflawn. Ond o'r gweld, eich gymlwch i'r gafethaf wedi'u gafethaf, o'r gafethaf o'r dda, y system gwraith cyflawn eich gafethaf, eich cyflawn i'r exaffes o'r buddwll, can fill in the gap for you by that. So by using a bit more dispace and putting it full of zeros, it can reduce the extent list from one extent, from three extents to one extents, and make for a smaller extent list. So it basically inserts a phishing block of zeros. The second problem is the converse of that where the optimiser looks at the date and sees there's a huge block of zeros in the middle and thinks it can fill up some dispace by getting zeros and splitting the extents. The problem, but there are problems with that. So things like beam map, phyma map, seek code, seek data can give you false positives and false negatives because the data can change, the extent list can change on view at any time. With the X-T4, if I remember rightly, there's a flag you can turn on, a syscatl leaf or something you can turn on to make this happen, but also defragmentation tools or EFSEC can do this, so you can't rely on the data from those. So in cache files, I was using a hole in the file system. I'm still using a hole in the file system to indicate there's some data I haven't fetched from the server yet. I've been looking at content encryption where a hole is used to mean this block doesn't exist. You can assume it decrypts. It's equivalent to decrypting to zeros. It's an optimization because otherwise you have to fully, if you want to store a block in an encrypted file way out over there, you have to fill everything in between that. Otherwise you can end up with encrypted data. This only appears to affect cache files, but it looks like it can also... this information can be accessed remotely by NFS and SEF. POSPYSIFS is not here to ask. If we're building content encryption on top of that using holes to indicate blocks we don't have, then this could be a problem there as well. There's FScrypt in the AXD4. I think that's not a problem because AXD4 doesn't allow you to do hole bridging and extent filling if the file's encrypted. That's correct. To mitigate the problem, is it possible for us to ask the backing file system not to do that for our purposes because the file is content encrypted? It seems like this is a philosophical question. To some extent. Many file systems have considered sparse to just simply be an optimization. Therefore, whether a chunk of file that contains all zeros is expressed as a gap in the extent tree or just simply unallocated blocks in the indirect block map or by allocated blocks that are then zeroed maybe because you're also trying to avoid free space fragmentation if you know the file is going to eventually be filled or you have caused to believe that. I don't believe... I think C-Cole is something that is used just to, again, optimize a copy, but it is not considered data, right? And the conflict is if you have applications that are expecting that the C-Cole, C-Data information is actually information as opposed to how things happen to be allocated at the moment and are depending on that because that's what FS Cache is doing. And also constant encryption. The thing is that if you're doing encryption, presumably the encryption layer knows about that and can just simply suppress that, right? If you encrypt file systems, you tend to use a Galois counter or other type of cipher that means you're blind to the holes anyway. That's the whole point of using XTS or GCM ciphers. If you're not doing that, you're doing encryption on files wrong. Well, that's how FS Crip... This is how FS Crip does it. It encrypts each block based on the block num and file i node. It doesn't store any data. The problem is you can have a block that when you encrypt, it ends up all zeros. That can be thrown away. But also the file system can insert a block of zeros, which you then say, ah, there's a block there, I'll decrypt it and you get some rubbish out of it. I think a block that encrypts to all zeros is so theoretical that you don't have to worry about it. The false positive isn't really the problem. False positive is a problem here where you've got a block. It inserts a block of all zeros. You don't know that that isn't a valid block. So you try and decrypt it and you get rubbish. Unless you can stop it inserting the bridging block. So I am not aware of any file encryption system that either file encryption systems are either integrated into the file system a la FS Crip, in which case they deal with it. Or if it's external to the file system and it's a sparse file, they don't write sparse files because if you write a sparse file, c, c data is a relatively new interface. I'm not aware of a user space content encryption that wants to write a sparse file and relies on c, c data to find out whether or not there was never any data written to that particular area of the disk. I agree that that is a theoretical possibility but it should also be remembered that not all file systems even support c, c and c data and therefore user space tends not to use that to try to store semantic meaning. It's just what I'm trying to do is avoid re-implementing an FS on top of the FS to store I've got this block or not got this block. Hold on guys, light and we want to say something. So the first thing is that we only really need the granularity of a FScript block. So if we can guarantee that we can get like using 4k blocks and set and if we can guarantee that we can get at least 4k granularity out of the backend store, then we're fine. Also the other problem too with an all zeros block is that you don't know that until you re-gold thing in memcom. So there's no way to know it can be mostly zeros until you get still some whole bit of the end, right? Anyway that's all I got. I think this is like not a problem because ecrypt FS and Butterfus uses ecrypt FS like anything that we zero will be in a page that's being allocated in a block that's being written and that will be encrypted. If there is a literal hole there's no extent for it. So you're not going to read it back and we don't do this like optimistic filling. Does the XD4 do this? Oh, okay. And XFS does apparently. Okay, Butterfus doesn't do this so we don't care. What if? Sorry, I mean when you... Go ahead, Jeff. Oh, I was just saying that I lost my train of thought because I had something I was going to say. But never mind, go ahead. Okay, so my question. If you had like a larger block like the erasure block or IO block you could query the file system what is your optimization block? And you would know for example that one megabyte gaps are not filled, right? You could rely on one megabyte holes but you don't know the limitation. I don't know that I can rely on that. If you could, if you could. If I could I could encrypt that block size. But I don't know whether I can because that's a function of the XD4 and XFS. Look, Ted can answer this question but I think the reason for optimizing extents is keeping a smaller B3 and a consecutive block I don't think that filling out one megabyte holes is an issue. Again, ultimately the question is whether a file system is obligated to maintain a semantic difference between a sparse file where there's a gap in the file versus a block that's written by all zeros. I was actually trying to look because as I recall I'm not even sure that like if someone uses the zero range F-allocate operation I think it says that it's preferred that you write all zeros. It's not clear to me whether it's invalid to actually deallocate to get the effect of F-allocate zero range. I'd have to go and look because I don't remember that. Historically there hasn't been considered to be different. I could imagine that file systems could agree to implement a flag that says don't do this thing because the underlying user the user of that file actually wants to assign semantic difference to blocks not allocated versus blocks are allocated and contains all zeros. At the moment it happens to be the case that EXT4 and XFS are the only ones pursuing this particular optimization. The basic rationale behind that was if you're going to be writing 32K of zeros on a hard drive that's actually faster than to have to seek around and mess around with the extent tree. Why not just do that? We could implement a flag that says don't do this optimization but that actually doesn't completely solve the problem unless we also effectively prohibit all file systems from doing this optimization without implementing this flag that says I promise not to do the optimization. Jeffrey on the virtual call has comments. Go ahead. Several years ago we had You muted yourself again, man. We had you in the beginning. Sorry. Several years ago we had a series of bug reports filed against AFS from CERN regarding applications that they wrote for that leveraged parallel IO systems. These systems essentially protect access to different portions. Use a common file potentially two petabytes in size where they allocate the file sparsely. They actually rely upon reading where the holes are in the file from their applications to figure out where their records end and begin. One of the problems that they had report us is that a hole they left that was 12 bytes in size would suddenly disappear out from underneath them corrupting their data. Clearly we pointed out that they were relying upon behavior that was not guaranteed but there certainly are user land applications unrelated to encryption that want this behavior to go away. It sounds like something that would be reasonable to turn off per file. How we have no compress and stuff like that. Right, so with ECS-D4 today there is a tunable where you can actually say what's the maximum size where we will actually bridge the gap with allocated blocks that are all zeroed and the default happens to be eight file system blocks. The workaround that I told David about was you could just simply set the tunable to zero and that solves the problem on a per file system basis. I think a file flag is probably more appropriate so that it's now on a per file basis as opposed to a per file system basis. I don't have an objection to doing that. Modulo finding a free bit in the chatter bit namespace that isn't being used by somebody else but sure, right? I can't speak for the XFS folks if they would be willing to implement a similar feature and I note that this is the sort of thing which is best if all of the file systems that do this optimization agree on the same flag to turn it off. Do we have any of the XFS guys on the... No, Eric failed. I would like to do a similar optimization for ButterFS at least for bridging. I would be fine. I don't have a great picture in my head for how often these bridgeable holes actually happen.  It just actually makes it much worse but we could still send it a scar down to the device and just now punch the hole, something like that. One of the reasons why we were doing this was at the time LibBFD, which is used by binutils had this really bad habit of writing files randomly that would eventually become sequential and they would leave these weird 4k gaps that would then later get filled and the optimization made sense if you were doing some silly benchmark-like kernel compilation. I think he still does that. I just wanted to point out that there is already an API in XFS. The same API has been used to set the project ID. It can be used to set extend-size-hint and cow-extend-size-hint. It's not exactly the same thing but it's a similar thing. I don't know if it can be used or shared or extended or whatever. I really need Kristoff in the room for this. That's all I've got for this in here. John. I think Kristoff was trying to talk and he's muted himself. Go ahead, you're good now. Hello? The API Amira has been speaking about is IOCTL called set extended attribute or something like that. There are definitely flag flags which are available there. If we don't have standard flags, we could use this call to set the flag. I believe we already like set project IDs as a summer set and the project ID inheritance via this API already. There are some precedents both in EXT4 and XFS4. I think I know flags with this API. That should be definitely available. You're good, David? I'm not sure if Italian is still what he said. The interface that Amira was talking about could definitely be used for this. This is in EXT4. But that's only if we don't have space. I think we do. It sounds doable. Excellent. Thank you very much. I think that's it for the file system track. We're going to wander off and get drunk. We will be back for the evening wrap up and lightning talks. People on the call, you wander off for three hours and seven minutes. Let me look before I say that for real. Five o'clock. Three hours and seven minutes when we're back and it's the lightning talks and the little wrap up. Thanks everybody.


Would you rather have fingers as long as arms? What? Would you rather have fingers as long as arms? Or arms as long as fingers? Oh, fingers as long as arms, I could get more done. Yeah, otherwise you're kind of helpless. I just realized this is quite a departure from my politics. I'm so happy somebody finally asked me that. Oh, fingers as long as arms. How come? Well, because I have my arms and then I'll have like, I'll have double situation going on. I could tickle you from here. I could re-arrange your hairstyle. But if I had arms as short as fingers, but then would my fingers be? They'd just be the same size as fingers. If I had the option, I'd have really long fingers as well. Yeah, fingers as long as arms. Long fingers? Yeah, because then you can reach out. Otherwise you're really limited.  What's your go-to selfie pose? I don't have one. If I'm taking selfies with other people, I always turn my face to the side when I smile because my cheeks are so gigantic. My dad should have never bred with his cheeks. So I just do it. Definitely from the left. And I actually don't mind sort of, you know, definite or from like right above. But yeah, and I definitely go black and white.  Not because it's like old and dyes, but just because the name is out of complexion. Something like that. What's your most used emoji? The Bard tube. No, it's passion-fixing. What with no mouth? You know, just a straight mouth? The one where one eye goes there, one eye goes there, and the tongue goes like that one. If you could be any type of sandwich, what would you be? I'd definitely be from Bay City, some Lincoln and Santa Monica. And I think it's the Mamma G. It's like you've got your pastrami, your ham, salami, that white cheese, whatever that's called. It starts with a P, pepper sauce. But now I'm thinking about a Philly cheese steak. I'm gonna stick with the Mamma G's from Bay City's. Proper meat feast. Yeah, but now I'm thinking about grilled cheese. I gotta eat. Pastrami, BLT Deluxe. What's your best joke? I don't know. I don't, I mean, I'm not a dad. I don't have like a go-to. I don't have a go-to joke. If I always tell my agent, it's funny, I don't really think of you as a man, but he knows it's a joke. I think. Or he's crying at night. It's too rude to tell it on the inside.  What did I do? That's, that's elegant, right? That's very, I find it a very, you know, discreet, refined joke. And I'm not gonna say it's my best one, but I like it. What was your last costume party, costume? I was Baby Spice at a karaoke party like two weeks ago, and I just met Baby Spice. This woman came in at the radio and she was like, hi, I'm Emma. And I was like, looked at her and I was like, you kind of look like Baby Spice. And she was like, I am. And I flipped out. I was so not cool. Nobody listened to that radio. Did you do Splice Girls song karaoke? Yeah, four girlfriends of mine did. I see, yeah, hold tight.


First off, I'd like to say thank you to Snanomukh for allowing this to happen in their territory. I'll be introducing myself in my language of Nujanol. I'd like to say thank you to Snanomukh for allowing this to happen in their territory. I'd like to say thank you to the late Eileen Charles and the late Spider Thomas. I'd like to say thank you to the late Eileen Charles and the late Spider Thomas. It's my family who I come from and where I come from. It's really important for me to know that because it helps me to identify with all of my ancestors, with my grandparents and with everything that makes me me today. Well, just by introducing myself there in my language and saying where I come from is the protocol and all of the business that we do, not just as elders and elders in training, but as youth, as children to know where they come from. For me, as a residential school survivor, it took me many years to identify where I came from, even though I knew.  And for me, protocol makes you strong inside. It makes you proud of who you are, but it also helps mostly for identity because again, as a residential school survivor and for our youth today who are going through the same kinds of living and surviving what they're going through today, I've heard some of our youth say they don't know who they are or where they come from. And for me, that's a call to my spirit to help our youth, to help kids, to help adults who are hurting it and to be able to bring that kind of knowledge upfront and to share that with anybody and everybody that asks. I worked here helping kids to identify that and I wouldn't trade it in the world for anything because it helps me to connect. It helps that circle of healing, that circle of connecting, that circle of knowledge so that it may be shared, so that it may be taught, so that it may be learned. So for me, I really can't speak enough about what protocol means to not just me but to all nations. I really truly believe that every nation here on the coast, every nation across this great Turtle Island protocol is important because when you go somewhere to know who you are, to be able to share that with the people you're meeting, it's a great power, it's a great power of bringing all your ancestors with you because you know who you are and for me that's true spiritual power to be able to have that recognition within your own self saying who you are. I really value that and it's something that helps me to help my kids that we know who we are when we're drumming, when we're singing, when we're dancing, when we're speaking and when we go out to do those things. It's really important. My boys are traveling to New Zealand and protocol is a really big part of their journey as they journey to New Zealand to be able to speak their protocol but also to listen to the protocols that are coming to them from the people in New Zealand, from the Māori. It's been a really strong healing experience for us all to grow together, the kids to be able to give them our language. I don't speak fluently but I can understand a lot of it and a lot of it is coming through healing. A lot of it has come back because I can take care of my spirit too, not just take medicines when I'm ill or different things but to feed my spirit. It's really important to me today as an elder and I say that because that's what I'm... Those are my steps in my healing where I'm growing to be a keeper of knowledge and from what my understanding of an elder is as somebody who is forgiving of their knowledge. For me that means a lot because of a lot of those good people in my life. A lot of what I've learned about who I truly am comes from good people. It comes from good people in my life. These people have helped me to see the importance of forgiveness, the importance of connection, the importance of moving forward. I don't have enough fingers or toes to appreciate the amount of elders, the amount of good people in my life that have helped me to be who I know I truly am as coming from residential school. I have those scars, I have those hurts and being able to share those with my family, to be able to tell stories, to be able to tell my story because it's important that I can share my story and not let the shame, not let the energy of it steer me this way or steer me away from a direction that is made for me purpose. That purpose when one finds purpose in their life, their life generally becomes more enjoyable and for me that's what protocol and working with youth does. It gives me satisfaction in my spirit because that purpose is being lived, being breathed and being practiced through song, through eating, you know. Having you here come into my house, we call it haosmus, we put on coffee, we put on food and then we start to talk and share because when we do that teaching and we acknowledge people in our homes, we make them feel comfortable, we make them feel safe and therefore conversation happens the way it's supposed to happen and it's not fabricated or thought about too much because for me teaching through feeding, through eating is gathering when my family sits here at the table to be able to have a conversation about our day and also that feeding is something that was taught to me by my grandmother with gathering that when you feed the bellies and you feed the spirits of people, of your family it shows how much you love, how much you value people, individuals, family you can make your best meal for them, you can pull out your finest sakkai salmon or your food that you save for special purposes, for special occasions and when good people come in you pull it out and so yeah through that as well as storytelling to me is really important when you can sit and tell a story to youth, to children, to each other and then you can relate that story to a time the stories of our dance practices and how many times we can talk, we can share, we can feel free we can ask for support and that all comes through feeding, through eating together through sharing a meal, through blessing, through praying and I know wherever you go when you're involved with Coas, with First Nations people when it's a meal it always starts with a prayer so for me that shows so many other parts of who we are by eating because we get brought into prayer, we get brought into song, we get brought into connection so that is something that my grandmother taught me that is something that in our family I know is a strength and it's something that needs to be spoken about because my grandparents are getting old and we can't lose those teachings when we lose our elders, when we lose our grandparents so to me again that's why storytelling is important so many of my stories of who I am and who my grandparents are to me comes by going to hear stories being told over and over and over and to me that has purpose because we're oral people we talk, we speak from here, we connect our hands to who we are and when we speak that way as opposed to flailing like the different types of people in this world that speak with more about being out there than being in here, the most important journey and so I extend a lot of gratitude to my grandparents for seeing in me what I couldn't see at the time and I guess that's something that can be strengthened and so many of our teachings is that a lot of the times we don't see what other people see in us and when we can feed that, when we can grow that, when we can believe in that and those people in ourselves and how important that is because with elders in our lives we're strong when elders in our lives, when they're gone we're still strong because we've got to keep on practicing that we've got to keep on speaking of it not gossiping, not the lateral violence but telling a story that brings family strength, unity, connection to one another and helping other families come together and speak of similar stories in their family again that brings connection for me connection is always the correction there's no other way to be and then connecting with other people spiritual experiences, cultural experiences, social experiences all of these things that we have that is cultural, that sometimes our young people don't see that just sitting at the table and talking in any circle the dinner circle, drumming circle circles and AA or whatever it might be these circles all have meaning and purpose so those are just some of the things that seem to fall naturally like I don't sit and plan these were teachings that were taught a long time ago and to have those teachings flourish not only in me but my kids when dad's not home or they can serve their auntie, their grandma and people like that when they come in some people call it courtesy but it really is a teaching which brings our family unity and the strength that we have as a family to flourish because we have identity through storytelling, through sharing, through connecting one of the stories and teachings that I want my family and everybody after me, grandchildren, great-grandchildren would be a story that happened in my time that comes with mystique it comes with all kinds of the stuff that our culture is based on and Heshko Territory probably about 20 years ago we had a Mamashni scientist out in our territory counting sea otters and these guys are out there with three local brothers from the territories and they're out there counting sea otters and it was a really calm day and I guess it gets monotonous just sitting in the skiff counting and waiting for sea otters and out of the blue the scientist and they see coming two large killer whales, males steaming full board, swimming full board towards them and it brings a lot of excitement that makes them stand up in their skiff because they believe they're going to witness the killer whales attacking the sea otters so they're watching now but the scientist says that the funny thing was that sea otters weren't scared and they were just sitting there flipping in their kelp, rolling around and they didn't sound no alarms as these two big bull male killer whales got closer and closer and finally they got close enough where they dove down and where all the sea otters where they thought they were going to come up underneath them started wreaking havoc and so they're watching these three koas guys from the territory and this white scientist are watching on each side of the boat for mayhem with the killer whales and the sea otters but nothing happened they're still watching and they're watching for the killer whales to come up now there's still no sight of the killer whales a minute or two went by and they all looked they see at the beach there's two wolves at the water wet they walk out from the water and they're up on the beach and they look back at the same time at the scientist and these three guys on the boat and they start shaking they dried their fur and they walked up the beach and the scientist seen this he's a man of science he's a man of facts this is his story being told at an NTC gathering he said I'm a man of facts but what I've seen I can't explain he was he was privileged by the creator by our ancestors because he works for us and he works for us not just up here but from his heart too as well where he sees the struggles or people are going through on our foreshores in our waters with the resources that are being depleted so now the scientist told this story to his science field and he says you can't mock me unless you live there unless you come to see and what this was what this is is an expression of transformation when you see this happen when you see killer whale turn into wolves or deer turn into Sasquatch these transformations are a blessing but they're also a message because transforming means things are changing and that's what transformation in our story and our legends is that times are changing and that is something that for me because when I walk outside and I see something different I see birds here for the springtime coming now or you see swallows showing up because it's June and the Sakka fish are coming all of these transformations that nature shows us these stories in our paintings these stories in the artwork and the carvings all reflect transformation that things are going to change and it's up to us to recognize that change and be a part of that change but to also keep intact that identity that connection to our waters to our lands to our resources because those stories whether they were 10,000 years ago a thousand years ago or whether they were from 20 years ago when they're told when they're shared it gives that story meaning because it's coming from this family songs, history, legends all come up from when you see transformation take place our people really are spiritual selves those are the eyes, those are the ears that see those things happening and for me I can only acknowledge and breathe life into what I truly feel because that was in my territory that was in my homeland and I live here in Nanaimo but I can tell that story because it gives me power and it gives me insight to being part of change to adapt because being able to adapt to change means we're going to survive and I think that story has been told throughout first contact residential school through kids in care those transformations that are happening and those stories that need to be told so that we ensure that change that we can adapt to that change and how change for us, for me in particular changes is healing because you're looking for a different way a better way a safer way through something so that's what it means for me that story too well this one here is really meaningful to me because it's been told by a few elders and I've seen it shared in different places and that's about where I come from from Heshqut where Mamashna was first seen Mamashna in our language means the big sails on the boat not the people and it talks about Jesus in the time of the Bible and how Jesus fled to keep the story alive to keep again the transformation in time was happening and Jesus knew of his demise he knew what was going to happen to him and he knew that the true teachings of the Creator were going to live through the people that were connected to the land, to the water those were the people that were going to keep those true teachings alive by sharing, by talking by connecting and Jesus knew of his demise and he said to the people on this side what's going to happen to me is going to happen to you so I need you to flee into the morning sunrise and he looked on this side and he said the same thing to these people what's going to happen to me is going to happen to you for they wish to destroy and I need for you to flee into the sunset so these two bodies of people that were there with Jesus in the hill the one he said to go into the sunrise but Creator would have we fall off the edge of the earth and Jesus answers trust in me I will be with you on this journey and so they journey do not stop until you meet again so these people took off on this journey only following the morning sunrise and the evening sunset do not stop until you meet again so they journeyed on this journey around the world and however many years that took maybe 100 years who knows but that is on the 49th parallel and that 49th parallel of healing that comes and circumnavigates the globe comes together teachings comes together people like me and you and it brings the teaching of a circle and how powerful a circle is with the red with the black with the yellow with the white and with our spirit in the middle of it all and bringing those things together having those connections having those virtues in there is what kept us alive today our people have endured so much and for this story this is what it is for me it brings everything full circle Suwa those teachings come back again you know and for that for me is a story that I believe in here you know I believe that I feel emotion every time I tell it because I feel the energy of my ancestors the the presence of my ancestors standing beside me as I tell the story and it is something that I'll always tell because the way it was told to me and being hearing it multiple times in my life by different people so different walks of life and different parts of the earth telling that same story and for me again it's just that bringing the circle of life back together bringing our commonalities back together because when we look what we have in common more than what we don't have in common you know that brings separation whereas we can bring connection with it we do have in common and that story will resonate in my life forever and I will tell that story forever the same way it was told to me


Have you heard of the concept of inner child? The inner child concept was created by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist who described your inner child as a part of your subconscious that recalls all of your past experiences and what you felt when that event happened. The good and the traumatizing. When your inner child is wounded, the negative emotions they cause you to feel can seep into present day and impact your daily activities and relationships. A great example is Rapunzel. Having a narcissistic parent like mother Gothel taught Rapunzel and her inner child that she is an intelligent, she can't do anything without her mother and she can't do anything right. Had Rapunzel not escaped the tower and experienced the world her way, she would have grown to be a woman with that wounded inner child who still believed those awful things about herself and stayed locked in that tower. This is exactly what can happen when your wounded inner child isn't cared for.   So let's talk about five ways you can begin to care for your wounded inner child. Be sure to watch until the end for a little disclaimer on this topic. Number one, re-parenting. When there's a child, there's typically someone in a parenting role to teach and nurture them. In her YouTube video, How to Heal the Inner Child, Dr. Nicole Lepera explains how learning to be that strong, wise parent you wish you had can help care for your wounded inner child. Let's say you're really anxious about a medical procedure coming up and you can't seem to think about anything else. You feel the anxiety and fear consuming you. But what do you do? You can practice re-parenting your wounded inner child. How?  Maybe it goes like, hey kiddo, I know you're pretty scared about your procedure today. It's absolutely valid to be afraid since you're not sure what to expect, but you have to be brave. This will help you to be healthy and live a long life. The holistic psychologist suggests acknowledging the emotion being felt rather than dismissing or criticizing it. At first it might seem weird, but with practice, parenting your inner child will become easier and the wound may begin to heal too. Number two, earning trust when your inner child is wounded.  As Carl Jung details in his book, Healing the Inner Child.  Whether it's to look both ways before crossing the road or not speak when dad is in the room, our conscious mind uses these lessons to help us shape our outlooks as adults. Think back to our friend, Ms. Rapunzel and mother Gothel.  After all of the negativity, Rapunzel's inner child believed that she was better off locked away. In reality, Rapunzel knows her way around a frying pan and can take care of herself. When you approach the inner child as that wise inner parent, you need to show them it's okay to trust you by providing healthy advice for Rapunzel that might sound like, you are smart, strong and brave. You have plenty to share with this world. It sounds a lot better than being locked away in a tower, am I right? Number three, explore the past.  In the book, Recovery of Your Inner Child by Lucia Cappuccioni, they suggest calling on your inner child to help uncover all types of memories and even some to help explain your trauma or triggers. One method Cappuccioni suggests is calling on your inner child. Grab a piece of paper and something to write with, that can even be a crayon and put it in your non-dominant hand and draw a time your inner child was truly happy or truly upset. This can be a full-blown picture or symbols that remind you of that time and why you may have held on to certain emotions. Another option can be writing a letter of forgiveness to your parent, caregiver, for any trauma you experienced. This can help recover lost memories or create closure in a situation where there may not be any. The step is best done with a mental health professional to help navigate this exercise safely and to help unpack anything that comes up. Number four, confront childhood trauma lies. Sometimes trauma can come from things you were told from your caregiver. These can be lies about you, your thoughts and opinions or even your actions. They may not necessarily be true, but you were taught that they are fact licensed clinical social worker and YouTuber, Patrick T. Han, breaks down some of these lines in his video, Six Lies from Childhood Trauma 2022. Some examples are, the real you isn't acceptable or people don't wanna get to know you.  Anyone remember the movie Black Swan? You have a 20-something young adult Nina living with mom in New York City. With those rent prices, okay, I get it, but mother keeps telling her that she's basically incapable of doing anything without her. Not cool and not true. When these lies come up, Patrick tells us it's best to identify the source of the words. Is this something you say and believe or is this something you've been conditioned to believe from a caregiver? And number five, be mindful. It can be really easy to get wrapped up in old habits, especially when you're trying to create new ones. Believe me. Say you have a parent with very narcissistic tendencies. It may be a daily uphill battle to not act like them when in a parenting or authoritative role. However, it may be a bit easier when they're being mindful of their actions, thoughts and words. Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen master and author explains that the first function of mindfulness is for us to open our awareness enough to recognize those unhealthy thoughts, words, actions and patterns. Through this way of thinking, you can also become aware of your inner child and what they need to continue healing. How do you do this? Just think before you speak and act. When you make a point to ask yourself if this is a healthy act, it becomes easier to identify and stop unhealthy behaviors. This one is kind of tricky because it can be really discouraging when you realize you're falling into the same patterns, but be patient and kind with yourself. It's just like any other skill. You have to work at it to be good at it. And it's okay to ask for help along the way from loved ones, a trusted teacher or a mental health professional. Unfortunately, it's true what they say. History does repeat itself and a wounded inner child can be the root cause of this cycle. It's time to break it. This is something that may never be totally cured, but it will help to heal both your trauma and your wounded inner child. How else can you care for a wounded inner child to promote healing? Let us know down below. As always, keep an eye on site for more Psych2Go content. Until next time.