Hello everyone. Thank you to attend this meeting. Why today is possible to switch to an open hardware Genneulinux PowerPC laptop? My name is Roberto Inocenti from Power Progress Community and a Profit Association. I'll give you a brief history. The beginning, six years ago, there was already other open-hardware notebook projects. There was a good number of Linux distro. We was a little group of opists. Nobody knew our project and we had already briefed the feasibility of the project. We have to solve the notebook chassis body problem. You can see a few pictures about the core team members and the founders members. In 2016, we have founded the association because it was needed to set up the project to collect the donation. We have continued that year to try to solve the notebook chassis body solution. At that moment, we used a video card with a development kit based on our PowerPC processor. In any case, our association that was set up four years ago had a different goal. One is to design open hardware accessible to the widest number of people. Another point is to facilitate and reuse of dismissal of cost hardware. Another point is to encourage people to use open software. The last one is to promote innovation in library scientific progress, supporting multi-cipity and variety in order to avoid monopolies. We are hobbyists. We work for fun on this project, on engineering our projects in our spare time. We are not getting paid, and so our project is realized thanks to engineers that we need to pay. So we have a very flexible business plan because it depends on donations. We have the need from the beginning to organize the nation campaign that doesn't depend on crown funding rules. And so we have set up our platform to receive donations. So we are around 50 volunteers, only few of us are electronic experts, and we have enough spare time to design an entire motherboard. And so the donation campaign are needed to pay the engineers. We have started three years ago the first donation campaign. We have set up a platform, our own platform to collect donations without a limit of time. And in that year 2017, we had defined a list of hardware requirements, and we was able to run the buy-in for power PC64 bit in our DevKit with the same processor of our motherboard. In 2018, we have started to design the electrical schematic, so the motherboard, and we have collected the needed donation to do it. And so the schematic was in progress in 2019. The electrical schematics was realized. We have started to visit the PCB donation campaign and the design of the PCB. And now we are very near to complete this project. One different difficult situation that we encountered was difficult to have a notebook chassis for a reduced number of pieces, because our projects cannot arrive to thousands of people. And so the numbers are so small that it is impossible to afford the cost to produce our own notebook chassis body from scratch. So we have one important task was to find a supplier that can give us a reduced number of pieces of notebook chassis already built for other architectures. It takes time, but we have found, two years ago, a slim book that allowed us to have this notebook chassis. And so this year we have designed our board to fit exactly in the slim book eclipse chassis. So thanks to the collaboration between our association, Slimbook and Acube System that designed the motherboard and we'll produce it. We was able to solve this difficult task. We have already, a few days ago, published the board layout of our motherboard. It is designed to fit in the Slimbook Eclipse body. This chassis is enough big to host our motherboard, even if it was not so simple to design the motherboard because we use a MXM graphics card and the original Slimbook Eclipse not, so it was not so simple to. We had in these last two years make a few steps to certify our motherboard our open source hardware. In any case, the certification process will be done after we finish to produce the design. And in any case, we have already clear that thanks to the collaboration of New York Technical Love and Policy Clinic, we have clear that the certification allow any open hardware project to have some part of the design that is not open source in case is not possible for us to force the vendors to permit us to open source everything. So nowadays, we have already contacted the more the major chip vendor of the biggest chip that we use in our motherboard. And at the moment, we have not received any stop about publish all the schematics and PCB. In any case, in case is not under our control to share everything. In any case, the certification is not lost because we need to do everything we can do to share what is needed to permit to other to modify read and improve our design. So we have selected the CERN license, the publication that we have done of the schematic are in ORCAD format because the designers use this. The selection of CERN open hardware license is because it's more written for hardware instead of GPL or other licensing. We have a see that there is a better protection for the licensor. Better, I mean, there are even other hardware license, open hardware license like TPR open hardware license, but the CERN look like more in protection to the licensor. So in this case, power provider community is the licensor and the producer will be the licensi. So licensi could modify our work, but modification must be available in the same equivalent license. So licensor is protected. Other important note related to this CERN open hardware license, that firmware driver any other software would require the home license. Intellectual property belongs to the licensor. The documentation must be provided in the right format to be modified. So we need to publish the source as we have already done with the schematics and we will do at the end of the process of the PCB design with the source of the PCB design. So it was not simple the choice of the processor because the processor that we have fined in six years ago, at the moment even today, was a processor Bigendian only, but in the same time that the hear pass or many of the distribution that use our PC architecture have dropped the support for Bigendian variant. And so for us it's very difficult to solve these Endian issues. And so there is a problem because, in fact, for us it's difficult to adopt a Bigendian processor, but we have not chose for notebook sector. And in the same time as in these years there are not other Bigendian hardware. So even the PowerPC distribution have not supported the Bigendian and so nowadays support PowerPC 64. In any case, for our point of view, if a software is designed from source only for an Endian architecture, I mean Bigendian only for Little Endian, in some way this block the possibility to reuse hardware to reuse the software. And so it's not good even for the environment, even for the possibility to not use only a few hardware solutions to have the possibility to choice. So we want to ask the developer to take care about some good code practices that we will illustrate later. And in any case we are working to this activity to port the software in Bigendian and Little Endian, I mean that run to patch the software in the way that the software can run even in different Endian. And so we have started to work in particular to take care to port this software that is more influential in dependency. I mean that library like library that many other software use. So we are working to convert to patch these libraries, but we need the help because we are a few and there is a huge work to permit to other software that depend from these libraries to be compiled. So Endian is what is Endian is, is the way of the data is placed inside a memory computer. Effect Integer that is bigger than one byte, could be a problem when to architecture exchange data. And it is important for a developer to keep in mind when writing portable code. We see there is here an example of the data Bigendian, they read the left to right. And this is the example when the data is written right to left in Little Endian. There are a couple of methods to swap Endianess, a manual swapping or how to swapping. Here there are two different examples, one for 16 bit, another for 32 bit. You can see this different function for swap between Endian. So it is best to use this implementation. There are some useful tools that come from, for example, Endian.h and this is an example regarding this solution. There are useful automatic tools that make conversion in particular way because networking is Bigendian. And so every time the data will be exchanged in the network, it should be converting Bigendian. Here there are lists of standard Bigendian conversion and even there are not standard functions that are very useful. And there are a few examples about, for example, there is the work that some of us have done patching WebRG audio processing. There is here the example. So the data are stored in Little Endian and there is this approach to convert it. You can see different. Here there is one situation is when you write the data. And here there are more consideration and even other more that is about the header of the health file. Here there is a patch to translate one by one the content of other files. It is huge work. So we need the help. This, as this talk is not deep technical. I don't go deeper in this example even because I have no competence and even because it's not the primary topic. But in any case, if there are people that want to go more deep, they can contact us and our developer can go more deeper in this topic. And there is, you can find many of our patch that we have done in, to some libraries. So we have, you can see the examples. How to finance it? All this project is complex that have a different part. How to finance it? We have done already the two donation campaigns. We are in the third one and we have the next one that are the prototypes that are something very, very, very interesting. We have selected the donation campaign because we doesn't product anything because we have do an activity to support the design. But we are not a company. We are, as I already explained, a nonprofit association. So we cannot show before any prototype. We will arrive to the prototype now after already done donation campaign. If we have divided, as you can see before, sorry, we have divided in different phase, a donation in different campaign. So if a phase fail, we cannot give back the money because they are not refundable. No profit association in Italy that are not commercial cannot give back the donation. The donation are free, I mean for free, not forever in to receive anything in change. So in any case, donor, in case a phase fails, donor together decide the destination to be found to other projects of the association itself. We have a work to patch the PowerPCC64 packages. There is even a project about an open source laptop such a chassis design. And there are even activity to reuse dismisses computer for the schools. In any case, association activity are decided by its member. So potential donor might want to join PowerProgress community by paying the yearly membership fee. So anyone that want to join the association can. There are people that collaborate with the creation of multimedia design advertisement, people that help on translation, other on spreading the project on blog, form and social. Some other can assist us about Louvre and to support the licensing that we have. Other can help on maintain update software and other can help on make seminar in high schools and university. So we can spread the knowledge about design and open hardware mother board. Thank you. Now we have the possibility to talk together so you can ask me, we can go more deeper on the topics. Thank you.


Libya's High National Electoral Commission has reaffirmed its determination to make the upcoming 24 December elections a success. In a statement issued on Saturday, the anniversary of the 2014 parliamentary elections, the HNEC stressed that, as the date of the new election approaches, its staff is looking forward to using the polls to make Libya a country worthy to be called a democratic nation based on good security, peace, progress and stability. A three-day preliminary meeting of the members of the Libyan political dialogue firm started on Thursday in Tunisia, under the auspices of the UN support mission to fine-tune decisions ahead of the June 28-July 1 meeting in Switzerland, the voted to adopt a constitutional basis for the elections after the failure of the meetings in late last May. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


We meet on a monthly basis to share best practices and different things that they've done within their work sites. Through Crow Wing Energize, a workplace wellness committee has formed at many local businesses. Not just healthy eating and not just active living, but promoting resiliency and learning how to bounce back and reduce stigma of mental health and all the stress and pressures of the world in our workplaces. Even though the programs run all year long, the participation tends to increase during this time of year. There are still a lot of people who, at the beginning of the year, they kind of reflect and go, okay, it's winter, I just got through Thanksgiving, I just got through Christmas. Wow, my jeans are kind of tight. Instead of heading to the vending machine, many employees at Crow Wing Power head to the refrigerator that's stacked full of healthy options. It's on an honor system to see you.  And for committee member Laura, it's all about motivating others and leading by example. I've lost 75 pounds and I've kept that off the last probably 12 years. So I've seen my fluctuations up and down and I know how hard it is. Crow Wing Power has also added some new tools for employees to stay active while at their desk, including their increasingly popular stand-up desk. Love, love, love it. And for days when it's a little warmer out, they have a walking trail on the property. That's a half a mile walk, so if you can make it around twice, you get a mile in on your lunch hour. Other businesses like CTC, Mills Fleet Farm and about 20 others in the area have put healthy initiatives in place. If we have a healthy workforce, we will be more productive. We will have less time away from our desks because we're going to be healthy and on top of it usually is a trickle effect for our families. Businesses are creating a healthy and happy workforce. Reporting in Brainerd, Sarah Winckelman, Lakeland News.


Exiting the backrooms is probably one of the most confusing and terrifying things imaginable. You're already in an infinite labyrinth of unknown places with seemingly no escape. How in the world could you ever find a way out? Well, fear not, friend, because Broogly is here to help. In this video, I have compiled all of the theoretical backrooms exits that I have ever gone over. Of course, no one knows if these are real or not. No one knows if they even work. We're just assuming here, but I would rather have an assumption than be stuck in the backrooms forever. Thank you all for watching. Enjoy the video. The level is called Level<PHONE_NUMBER>854775810. Yes, that is a really long number, but the shorter name is Level Memories. That's the level name, and it is classified as a class undetermined due to a bunch of mysterious properties, unknown information, and undocumented entities. Now, if you remember that video that I posted eight months ago called The End, well, that level was supposed to be the very last level of the backrooms because it was the signed 64-bit integer number. And it seemed like nothing could be found past it because it's an infinite staircase and no one knew what was after. But this level was found recently and it pretty much proves all of that wrong. Level Memories is some kind of a mishmash backrooms level museum. It's made up of a bunch of different rooms or exhibits that all look like different parts of different backrooms levels. So one room could look like level zero and the one next to it could look like level seven or level 999. It's whatever. Very interesting. There are also rooms for levels that have been classified as negative levels or sub-levels, which means that every single possibility can be seen here. There's also a ton of different entities here, but they're all in exhibits or cages for the most part, you know, kind of like cavemen from real life museums and stuff like that. And because of this layout, the level has also been nicknamed, like I said earlier, the Backrooms Museum. Not all the entities are in cages and every once in a while you'll run into an entity that's just wandering around and these are very dangerous because they're the most dangerous versions of that entity.  The rooms or exhibits that are made up of different levels also have entities that are common in those levels. So if there's a level seven room, then there's going to be the thing on level seven entity there. Or if there's a level five room, there's going to be the beast of level five on the paintings in there. This level is also hypothesized to be the actual backroom's exit to the front rooms or real life. And there's actually an exhibit room with a floating earth in the very center of it. And around the earth is stuff that's from real life, like beaches and birds and that kind of stuff. It's like an earth exhibit. And supposedly if you touch that floating earth in the center of the room, then you'll wake up in real life and all of the stuff that you experienced in the backrooms will just feel like a dream. The hard part is actually finding the earth exhibit room because there's literally rooms for each level of the backrooms. And since no one knows how big the backrooms is or if there's even a cap on how big it can be, no one knows where the front rooms will fall in this. But if you do manage to find it, I guess congrats on escaping. Also, since this is the hypothetical real backroom's exit, maybe the other backroom's exits that I've talked about have not been real exits and have been fake exits. Who knows?  No one knows. Let's be real. There's not even a real exit. You're trapped there forever. As far as groups or colonies goes, there is a small one here called the Guiders. And they try to help people make it to that earth room exhibit to exit and they'll show you around the level to the different exhibits if you want to go to a certain level. To enter this giant backroom's museum level, you have to be on these levels before this and face your biggest fear that's behind the door at the end of the hallway on that level. If you can make it through that fear and are mentally and physically intact, then you'll wake up here in the backroom's museum. And so far, that is the only way possible to enter this level. To leave, you can no clip into the corner of any of the level exhibits that you want to go to. You know, if you roll past level 450, just walk into the exhibit and no clip in there and you'll be sent there. Or you can walk around until you find the reality room with the floating earth in the middle and touch it and you'll be sent to real life, which honestly, I think it's a pretty cool exit. You know, it's hard to get to. It's rare and it might lead to reality.  No one will ever know. So yeah, that was the backroom's level memories or the backroom's museum. I think it was a pretty cool concept to have a place where you can see all of the backroom's levels kind of like their displays at a museum or exhibits at a museum. I think it's pretty neat. And I also like the fact that there might be an exit here. I think it makes it even cooler. Backroom's level, the barrier is classified as a class undetermined, because to be honest with you, not much is known about it. It seems safe, but it almost has no information about it at all. When or if you go to this level, you will wake up in a grass field outside of a tree line. The field is full of rolling little hills and lush grass and these hills and grasses lead into a big, thick, dense population of woods. This wooded area has lakes and abandoned cabins and all sorts of different types of trees in it. It kind of gives you a sense of nostalgia because it feels almost like the woods from reality, our earth. The liquid in the lakes doesn't seem to be water, which is weird, but it is drinkable and there's even been fish seen swimming in it. So I guess you can get in it, if you want to. Also, it's pretty weird that fish are in lakes here because normally bodies of water in the backrooms are empty. So that might mean this is somehow aligned with earth. The cabins I mentioned earlier are abandoned, but as far as we know, they're safe to go into. Inside of the cabins, you'll notice that they're just like earths. Most of them have a small kitchen area and a bedroom slash living area together as well. Sometimes though, people have been seen walking into the cabins and never coming out. It's thought that when this happens, the person is likely sent to level negative one eight eight, so watch out for that. But again, inside of the cabins feels like home. It feels like you're in an earth cabin. And to add to that feeling, every once in a while, you'll see a wild animal running through the woods. And these animals aren't just any backroom's creature though, they're animals from real life, like completely normal ones. Deer, bear, moose, literally like real creatures, real creatures from earth, except these creatures aren't aggressive. They're more docile and friendly, but between the relaxing feelings of the woods and the home feeling of the cabins and the exact animals from real life, you might get the sense that this level is connected to earth somehow, some way. Because so far it feels like you're just there already. Now there are some other weird things that happen in the barrier level as well. Like sometimes it'll just completely downpour the rain here, and the rain itself will cause the sky and the air to turn different colors and to swirl together. The rain also changes the barrier's temperature drastically, which is pretty weird because it doesn't happen to that extent in real life. There are some other weird things that happen here as well. One of those weird things is actually how you get to this level. If you notice at the beginning, I didn't say when you get here, I said if you get here, because barely anybody can. To get to this level, it is done by following a glint in the sky for weeks on end. Now a glint is like a light or a shining blinking thing. The glint can appear in any level and it can be seen when traversing or going between different levels as well. It sort of calls you to it and draws you in and you know you're supposed to be following it. You just know you have that feeling. However, this glint does not appear to everyone and evidently, only a few people can even see it. And even out of those few people who can see it, almost none of them make the full journey to the barrier level and they end up giving up or perishing along the way. Sometimes a person could have followed the glint in the sky for weeks and then randomly lost it and they were forced to stop. But for the very few who have made it to the barrier, they saw the level I just described. Rolling fields leading into woods dotted with cabins. Now this is where it gets tricky. It's thought that if you go deep into the woods, there is supposedly a massive tower place there. It's been nicknamed the viewing point and there is no known purpose for it other than just to be weird. But it's somewhere past that tower where there's supposed to be a location to get back to earth. Now the exact possible location for this quote unquote portal to reality has not been found. Like I said earlier, no one knows if it actually exists or if it's just folklore or made up or whatever. But people have been seen going into the woods and have never been heard from, seen, smelt, or anything again. So they have to go somewhere, right? I mean they're not just walking off the face of the earth or are they? People think since this level is so similar to how reality looks that it itself is some kind of gateway. Like the woods itself will eventually transition over to the woods from earth. I mean the wilderness, the cabins, the animals, they're all like the ones on earth and even the air feels the same. What do you think? Do you get back to reality by wandering deeply into the woods? Or do you end up like the nameless people who have walked in and have never walked out? There's thought to be one colony outpost in the barrier, but the people who are a part of it uh they don't talk and they don't even open their mouths at all. No one knows why but they could be hiding some kind of secret. To enter this level you have to be one of the lucky few to have seen the light in the sky and then follow it until you get here. Now if you truly see the light then it'll only take you to the levels that take place outside for an unknown amount of time until you make it to the barrier. To exit the barrier you can walk into the woods for a very very very low chance of being sent to reality. If that's even how it works we still don't know. It's just heavily speculated that that's how it would work. Or you can walk into a cabin and be sent to level negative one eight eight or you can just sometimes randomly get sent wherever the level chooses. It almost seems like the level has some sort of brain or consciousness because it chooses who gets led here and it chooses who gets sent out or not. What do you think? Do you think the woods of the level eventually fade into a forest from earth and if you walk a deep enough into them will you just walk into a national park or a forest or do you think that it's not a real exit and the back rooms or something or someone lures people deep into this level for evil reasons? Let me know in the comments down below. The Promised Land is classified as a class zero and is extremely safe and secure and it actually used to be considered a level only in legends or tales because no one actually knew if it existed or not. But now it's been pretty much explored extensively so most of the level is documented. The level itself is a huge building with exactly 300 floors and around 1000 rooms that are spread throughout and each floor has these pink glowing lights in the ceilings which would drive me crazy to be honest but whatever. These lights have been known to randomly turn on or off so just be aware of that and all the floors have windows that look out to the outside area and when it turns daylight outside the curtains and the windows will disappear and a floor made out of clouds will appear directly outside the window kind of like the floor of level zenith. This cloud floor actually has these trees that grows in the ground and they produce a weird fruit which you can actually eat. The day-night cycle here is pretty much the same as real life so the windows disappear during the day but they'll reappear at night time. I mentioned earlier that there are over 1000 room types so here are some of them. There are bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bathrooms, infirmaries, lounges, shops and outside area, nightclub area, the business area and the promise land resort. Each of these areas are pretty much exactly how their name sounds so I'm not going to describe them like the bedrooms, the bedrooms, the dining rooms, the dining rooms it's pretty simple. Now a common question asked is well where did the promise land come from or how did it get figured out? Well according to the fandom the level's first ever mention was found on a note in level zero near a ripped party goers mask. The note said quote the last of us are here and there was a picture of the promise land level next to it. Now nearby that note there was a book called the promise land that pretty much had all the levels explanation inside of it. Obviously the level's really chill and as soon as the book was read rumors of this sanctuary level spread quickly throughout the back rooms so lots of people tried to get there but very few did. There are only two entities here and those are the cloud trees which I mentioned earlier and storks which are pretty much storks from real life except they're more intelligent and tamable. As far as bases here there are actually a few. The first one is the back rooms colonists which is just a conglomerate of colonies that are loosely linked together. Then there are the forgiven FOJs which is a group of the followers of Jerry that somehow got to the level and as always they're nice unless you talk trash about Jerry. Lastly there's the reliquae outpost not sure if that's a pronounce it which is just an outpost of soldiers that fought in a war that actually happened on this level a long time ago called the summer war. To enter this level you can dive through a painting on level 384 but just like all of the entrances I'm about to say it's extremely rare for them to work and there's also a rumor that no clipping into a pink light on level negative 150 will work but again just a rumor. It's thought that you can also fall downstairs on that big long numbered level that I went over a few months ago to get here but as always you just got to get lucky. To exit this level you'll actually be exiting the back rooms so you just got to find a door labeled exit and when you walk through that door you'll be at the same place where you entered the back rooms from. Pretty cool. This might be one of my favorite theorized exits because it's literally so rare. I feel like it's kind of a myth in a way you know. Pretty cool. Now unlike most other levels I've covered there's actually been some documented expeditions to try to find how to get here. There are six expeditions and the first one was made by four members of the Republic back in 2004. They were sent back to level zero after making it to level 1051. Now the second and third expeditions were not documented but the fourth one was. This one was made by seven people from the back rooms colonist group. It happened last year in 2021 and this is marked as the first conclusive successful mission to get to the promised land because when the group made it to level 384 where that painting is which by the way is an extremely safe level a member of the group disappeared and it's thought that they went through the painting and made it to the promised land and feasibly out of the back rooms. The fifth expedition had five more explorers no clip into the painting on level 384 and they haven't been heard from since so it's just thought they either made it or they're somewhere else. The last expedition had 17 explorers and it's officially known that four of them are currently in the promised land and have not escaped the back rooms. So back rooms level 710 or ring and ruin is a newly found level. It's classified as a class undetermined since it's pretty new and because several of the properties here are extremely mysterious and not really understood at all. The level entry starts with a quote from a wanderer named Amy quote I open my eyes to see a hound so close that I could taste its hot breath foul saliva drips from those deadly fangs a hunting knife materializes in my right hand I know this place keeps the hounds from hurting me it is as terrified as I am poor thing it disappears and the knife becomes a chocolate chip cookie so as you can see off the bat this level is already showing some weird properties level description the level is made up of two distinct areas the first is a silvery ring that's floating in the sky the second is the ground under this ring with some ruins and an archway and you'll want to hear what those things are all about in a second so the silver ring floats horizontally in the sky directly above those ruins on the ground it never moves position and never goes up or down but it's absolutely massive and is around 400 feet in diameter which is the distance from one side of the ring to the other and 400 feet is actually taller than the statue of liberty so that kind of gives you a gauge on how big this thing is there's no visible propulsion system or way that it's holding itself up there in the sky so it's a complete mystery how it floats although it might be a supernatural intelligence that keeps it up there the ring interacts with one person at a time on the level and that person is seemingly chosen from any other backroom's level to be sent to the ring randomly like they could just be walking on any level and get no clipped to this ring inside of it and that person will be stuck inside the ring anywhere from three days to 23 days before they returned so the inside of the ring is just a large hallway and that Amy person from earlier was sent here for 20 days and was able to remember some of what it was like she says the ring has no doors from the inside only four distinct windows on each cardinal point so like north southeast west like a compass each of these four windows has a little room next to it with different purposes the room by the north window has a desk and a chair in it with paper and pencil the east window has almond water and food there the south window is a bedroom and the west window has a room next to it with a very small box inside that each person has to put a personal item in as sort of a sacrifice apparently when you're here you're motivated to do certain things from this gut feeling that the level gives you the ring itself seems to be alive in some way because it communicates with people on an intellectual level it doesn't use language or signals it just gives these people the feelings or the instincts to go do things so for example it could give a person the instinct to go to the south room or the north room the ring itself seems to be like some kind of observation and evaluation structure that literally has the sole goal of studying humans to see how they interact with certain stimuli like those four different rooms it's also thought that the ring was put here by maybe a higher power or an artificial intelligence because of how futuristic the technology is summary of the ring so pretty much to summarize what i just said the ring is a circular hallway with four rooms and each room has different things in it the ring itself interacts with each person that goes there through instinctual brain waves and it's almost as if it's observing how humans respond to stimulus sometimes this ring intelligence will even put entities or pictures of different backroom levels in the hallways to see how people will react to them even though nothing will actually hurt you they're just put there to see how you interact and change based off of what it shows you it's kind of like a science experiment and the humans are the test subjects you know you've seen those things with the rats in the mazes that's kind of like what this is but who's the scientist and who's studying us no one knows the ruins on the ground under this ring is a circle of earth with no vegetation this circle is 1320 feet in diameter and in the middle of it there's this huge archway called the harbinger arch along with some other stones standing up beside it no one knows how this got here who built it or what it actually means but it's thought that this archway is a portal to different realms and maybe even just maybe a true exit to the backrooms sometimes if you look through the arch you can actually see into different realities even outside of the backrooms or the front rooms these are completely different universes and sometimes you can look through and see the real earth people have been witnessed walking under the arch and into it and never walking out on the other side so it definitely does lead somewhere but no one knows where or if it's trustworthy to go into the arch and the ruins are kind of treated as some kind of spiritual thing in the backrooms and you get the vibe that they're sacred after these ruins were discovered other things that have been discovered previously in the backrooms kind of started to make more sense like there's these small carvings in wood and stone circulating through the backrooms in the shape of arches or rings or there's whispers floating about of a so-called pilgrim's path being talked about in notes on the walls and in carvings either way the ring and its intelligence and the archway in the ruins with their supernatural and interdimensional powers are some of the most unique things in all of the backrooms it seems so level 922-337-203-685-4775-807 is the signed 64-bit integer limit on a computer in real life and that same number just so happens to be the supposed highest backrooms level and the most dangerous level in existence lots of people think that the backrooms go on for an eternity but people who know about this level know that they do not go on forever the entities that have been able to get to this level have not been able to get any further for thousands of years and this level is not only extremely dangerous but it's also extremely hard to enter i don't know why you'd want to but we'll talk about that later the only description available of this level is that it's a simple cold brutal staircase that goes on for seemingly an infinite amount up and down the color of the staircase is said to be indescribable either a black white color which yes that's a juxtaposition yet at the same time it's devoid of color and if you look at the stairs for too long it'll make your eyes teary because of the lack of color and your brain can't comprehend it you can't even fill your weight on this level which allows you to walk up the stairs for an infinite amount of time there is no known level above this level and the stairs continue for what is theorized as billions of miles in each direction and as far as the entrances and exits go there are only possible ways to get into this level both of these are just hypothesized they're not for sure the first one is that there is another level called the end and it's that library room I talked about in my liminal spaces iceberg video and that level is a fake end and it's actually a decoy for this level and something that there is a secret entrance among all the books to the real end this level the other entrance is theorized to be on level another big long 344 1684 1123 150 98764 90285 it said that there is an extremely rare chance of that level leading to this level and as far as exits there are only theorized ones as well for example some think if you climb 5000 stairs exactly and then jump over the rail into the middle this will send you back to reality and some people think if you climb just 85 stairs and then jump off into the middle this will take you to level question mark question mark question mark this is an unknown level full of skin stealers hounds and as well as insanities and level question mark question mark question mark has no known escape so don't even try to go there your best bet is to try to climb 5000 stairs to get back to reality but no one even knows if that works or not there is another level that is numbered the exact same as this one except its negative<PHONE_NUMBER>854775807 and this is theorized by some to be the furthest down you can go in the back rooms while the positive version of this number is the highest you can go the negative is the furthest down you can go this negative version is known to be an infinite void of glitches the walls the ceilings the floors the air everything is glitched and lines of code fly through the air and roll on the walls around everything if you for some reason go to this level you will cease to exist as you know it because your brain won't be able to comprehend the glitches you're left alone with all your memories and the constant buzzing and glitching noises and this will drive you to insanity unlike the positive version of this number there is no known way to get into the negative version so how about don't even try so to do a quick recap the supposed highest level of the back rooms is level<PHONE_NUMBER>854775807 and is apparently an infinite staircase that goes up and down with only two theorized exits and the supposed lowest level of the back rooms is the exact same number but negative and it's an infinite void of glitches and lines of code both sound pretty fun to me so in the fandom universe the way out is widely accepted as the back exit the physical way out will appear to each person differently but no matter what form it takes it will always be surrounded with this intense yellow light nice the way out typically appears randomly on any level of the back rooms and is extremely rare obviously pretty much to the point where it's almost impossible to appear so far only one confirmed person has even escaped through this exit ready user enigmatic Eva that's according to the fandom not me it's also important to note that the way out leads to a random place in reality so you have no idea where you are unless you just know geography I guess there is one small issue with this exit though and that's when you go through it you'll temporarily be in this weird position where you're not in actual reality but you're kind of in reality for example the person that I mentioned earlier enigmatic Eva that has supposedly exited the back rooms says that there were some anomalies when they went through the exit to start with there was an insane amount of security cameras everywhere Eva exited or that they still heard the buzzing noise from the back rooms in her head and there wasn't any life in this reality there was no people no cars no animals nothing like that enigmatic Eva did continuously mention a weird creature that she only referred to as quote them in their reddit thread and that it was hostile and creepy so that's really weird when Eva went through the way out she ended up in London but she lived before she went to the back rooms in the United States so that made Eva think that the back rooms is somehow connected and intertwined with our reality so like you can physically travel around the world to different places but you just don't know it nice soon after Eva recounted those weird things in her reddit posts her replies started to not make any sense but her reddit history did seem like she's living a normal life so it really seems like when the person exits the back rooms through the way out the real world and the back rooms sort of overlap temporarily and blend together until it slowly fixes itself and puts you back in your real world nice so to summarize the fandom posits that the way out is an exit that can appear on any level of the back rooms it can appear in any form but in this case it was a staircase see what i did there and every time it appears it's got a bright yellow light that is flashing and strobing inside of it if you go through the gateway you'll be in some sort of in between state between reality and the back rooms until eventually reality will go back to normal and you'll be back to how your old life was nice it's got a survival difficulty of zero and it looks like an infinite arcade this arcade looks like it's from real life but it's obviously not it's in the back rooms the outside of the place looks normal you can see cars and trees and street lights just basic outside stuff only problem is you can't get out there until you've done a few things which we'll talk about later the arcade games here are not like retro arcade games like you're probably thinking they're actually games from real life like minecraft terraria roblox you know that kind of stuff call of duty even and the machines are known to induce this really relaxing effect on you and this effect can actually increase your sanity if you've lost any so nice they also induce feelings of normalcy obviously because they're from real life and anything from real life in the back rooms will induce comfort and normalcy the only downside to playing these games is if you have rage issues because if you hit the machines or if you break something you'll instantly faint and every time you do that again you'll faint over and over again so don't do that there's hardly ever anyone here though except in the colonies that i'll talk about later that aspect alone can make people kind of uneasy about this level because it's just a huge infinite empty arcade sometimes though these weird meteorites fall from the ceiling inside of the building but they don't do any damage to the machines for the floors the ceilings or anything which leads people to believe that they're just an illusion caused by the lights on the level which is kind of weird but what in the back rooms isn't weird now as i mentioned earlier you can indeed get back to the front rooms or reality from this level but to do so you kind of have to complete a checklist kind of like the 13 tasks hercules had before he can you know become what he was these things can last anywhere from four minutes to 12 years and the longevity of the task depends on how hard it is there can be anything from slaying and entity or a creature to eating a certain amount of food or drinking a certain amount of water it really just depends if you don't complete the tasks that you've been given you'll either be unalived or you'll be condemned to stay in the back rooms forever and never escape nice to get one of these checklists you have to walk towards the sunset on this level which i guess you can see through the glass panes in the windows for an unknown amount of time and then you'll be given a checklist in an unknown way i really like the details here but yeah after you walk towards the sunset and get your checklist you'll have it and then you'll have to start completing your task there doesn't seem to be a correlation on why these tasks are given to certain people or why some of them are a lot harder than other ones but it is what it is if you do complete your tasks the glass doors to the level will be opened up and you can walk out and you can go back to reality through those doors there are actually a couple colonies here like the back rooms colonists and cafe studio 52 one now these areas are just kind of chill relaxing eatery kind of areas that are on the level and these are really the only people that are here at one time other than that there aren't really many wonders here because they're out completing their tasks that they've been given by the level the next colony is the waiters these are the people who help you learn how to use the arcades and stuff like that the last colony is called the front rooms organization and this is a really weird mysterious outpost that not really many people know about they leave people to glass doors to escape the back rooms but again it's unknown how that works but it is known that they're there now i'm sure you've all been waiting on how to enter this level and you can enter this level by running true end dot exe on the computer from the end level or you can even get here by glitching through a purple glitchy wall on level 11 which that'd be really easy you'd have to be really lucky to get that one there's also like nine other ways to enter but these ones are the coolest ones there are other ways to enter the level but the level 11 one is pretty much the easiest and the running the true end dot exe file is also the easiest to exit you can complete your given tasks and be freed from the back rooms by walking out the glass doors on the level or you can fail your given tasks and be condemned to wander the back rooms for an eternity there are other ways to exit the specific level of level 3099 but who cares about those we're talking about how to leave the back rooms here


and welcome back to our channel. I am in Chicago right now, we got Megan in the back, say hi mom. And you got Esmeralda over there. And Oakland. And Oakland. And your fiance. Oh and my fiance, sorry. And then Anna's upstairs getting ready. We're about to leave. Say hi Oakland. I don't think you've ever been featured on this channel. Say hi. But today is a big day. I am gonna be going wedding dress shopping literally about 30 minutes ago. I started getting like nauseous and like sick to my stomach cause I'm so nervous. I don't know why I'm nervous, but I'm nervous. Cause this is a big day and I've been waiting for this moment. And I don't know, I just want it to be perfect. And I don't know, there's just a lot of emotions and like feelings. So I'm a little nervous. I can't even imagine my wedding day. God, I'm gonna be freaking out. But I wanna show you my fit that I have. Here it is. This is the dress that I chose. I think it's super cute. Maybe shoes on. I need to get a safety pin because this is like too open. See, and I don't like that. But wish me luck. I am so nervous, but I'm gonna take you guys along with me. I'm gonna show you guys all the dresses that I do try on. I'm obviously not the dress that I pick, but I'm gonna take you guys along the whole journey showing you guys all the dresses, sneak peeks of everything. And I'm so excited. Everyone in my bridal party will be here today besides my older sister Ashley and then one of my best friends, Julia. So those are the only two that won't be there, but everyone else will be there. And I'm just so excited to be with everyone. Just have a good time. And I'm gonna show you guys around the whole boutique that I'm going to. And wish me luck and let's go. Okay, Anna. You look better than me today. What the heck? Anna, you're glowing.  Look at this in your dress. Oh my gosh, cowgirl, bye.   We're kind of wearing like boots. We didn't even plan this. We didn't plan this. We went. You look amazing though.  Thank you. Stop it. Alive, you just said it. You haven't even been on our videos yet. To your girl, to your girl. Guys, we made it. We made it to Bella Spousa's bridal boutique and formal wear. If you guys live in the Tinley Park area, make sure you guys go check them out. Just seeing the view right here, it looks freaking beautiful. Like I am so excited to just walk in there, try on my dresses. I'm so nervous, but I'm so excited. I cannot believe it is finally happening. I have had knots in my stomach the whole way here. Like literally knots. Like I can't believe like I'm actually about to try on wedding dresses. Like it just doesn't seem real or, I don't know, it's just crazy. All knots. Yeah.  You just have to find the perfect one. Well, thank you, Anna. Love you. Love you all. Love you all for being here with me. Love you. Okay, you guys, we made it. I'm getting nervous. I'm excited. We got everyone here. Say hi. Really?  Hold on one second. Look at how cute all these dresses are over here. Oh my gosh. I can't even believe I'm here. This is crazy. Like look at all of these dresses. It is so beautiful. So many to choose from. Seriously, if you guys live in the Tinley Park area, come check them out. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. This is the dress. Here's like the full fit. You guys can see it's nice and sparkly and let's go try new dresses. Okay. So I got some of your pictures. I'm gonna pull a couple and then we'll get started. Okay. Sounds good. You ready? Yeah. Oh. Okay. Great in here. First dress. Mariah, stop. Stop. Okay. Is that your, is that the, I'm ready? Oh, the veil is so perfect with that. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, it's making me so emotional. I think you found the dress. How do you feel? Oh my God. Oh, I'm like shaking. I can't, it's just so funny.  I was getting so emotional in here. I'm like, trying to pull it together. This is crazy. Yeah, we can go home now. This is it. You're sure? That was easy. You definitely need to try it some more. For sure. Yeah. Do you like the straps? I do like the straps. You have that double banded lace on this one with that, you have a cut out in the center and then you also have side cut outs on this. Oh yeah, I see that. I think it's a very, it's very elegant. It is elegant. Yeah. Okay. Woo! I know it is. Oh my gosh. Oh, the band is so, oh my gosh. The detail is a little bit different on this one. It's got more of a leafy pattern. Yeah. This is the ivory. Yeah, yeah, I do like ivory. I like ivory. I like ivory. That's super cute, too. It's simple. Yes. This sparkly veil looks awesome with it. Ooh, it does. Ooh, look at that belt. That's more like an elegant. Yeah. Do you have packets in this one? Ooh! Okay. Pocket. Okay, Mariah. Pocket. Put my lip gloss in here. Or your phone. Or your phone. Look at that sparkle. This is really pretty though. Wow. I feel like you're extra like this. I know. I know I'm extra like this. I didn't think I would feel like it, but I do. No, I really like it. Do you think Billy will like it though? Billy will like anything. So, whatever you like, Mariah. With like a heavy color on you. It's just okay. It's for like a ceremony. Every dress I feel like has something. Yeah, yeah. You're right. How do you feel? Ooh! You look good. Wow, the fact with all the beauty in the color. Oh, wow.  Yeah, absolutely. That's really pretty. Ooh, it's like a corset top. That's kind of cool. Oh, wow. Oh, I'd love to try this. This sparkle. That looks good. I like this sparkle. It's like the half and half too. It's like fitted on the loose. I really like this sparkle. It looks like a mermaid. Yeah. Is this your dress? Yes. Guess who's back from wedding dress shopping? Me. My fiance. So I heard you said yes to a dress. Yes. Also guys, I know you guys are wondering who's Davie this is as Mariah. This is not our baby. No. Disclaimer, not our baby. She loves her, Mariah. You said yes. I said yes. That's crazy. You guys, this dress that I chose is absolutely insane. Like I don't think it still has any idea. What? I can't even know what it looks like until the day of our wedding. Literally a year from now. Guys, if you live in like the Tinley Park, Illinois area, you guys have to check out Bella Spousa Boutique. They have so many variety of dresses. They make it so easy and fun. Literally you tell them an idea and they will hand pick and literally make your dream dress come to life. I have literally dreamed of this moment for so long and they made my dreams come true. Like I am just saying like that was the most memorable experience I could ever imagine. Just hearing their conversations, like they had a lot of fun. I wish I could have been there, but it's insane. I heard you thought your first dress that you put on was gonna be it. Was gonna be it. Like they pick out dresses so good. I thought it would take longer. I know a lot of boutiques that are like people don't really care to like help you and make you feel comfortable and find the things that you love. But this boutique specializes in that and that's why I love it because they get personable with you. They wanna hear all about you and your story and like what your vibes are and that's what I absolutely adore about it.  I'm so jealous. I can't even see the video that you filmed there because I don't wanna like have any sneak peeks. He's not watching the video at all. Like he's not seeing any sneak peeks, nothing. So this whole video I can't see. I can't see until our wedding, after our wedding. Just to say, all the dresses that I tried on, you guys might think you have an idea. It is insane. Like the actual dress compared to this. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And that's why she saved this dress for last because she knew I was gonna, cause it's like the dress that I wanted and she knew it. So she's like, nope. I mean can you try all the other ones first and then that one cause I would have been one and done. Yeah. And that would have not been good. That would have been like. The veto of purpose of trying it on. Yeah, I know. You only do that once in your life. That's why she said she saved it for the last. But oh my gosh you guys, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I am so excited to like show you guys everything and I can't wait to just show you and see. I can't wait to see it. I got a year. I got a year of just thinking what I think the dress gonna look like. He's gonna have no, he's gonna be bawling. But I've probably never even. And everyone there. I'm gonna call me out like that. Everyone there's like, oh he's done for. He's bawling. He's gonna be sobbing. I just know it. If my mom was sobbing, I'm gonna be sobbing. Are you kidding? I was getting so emotional. The dress that I picked, I was sitting in there just staring at myself and I started crying so I'm like, oh my god. I'm like, this is the dress. I was like, I didn't put on any dress and feel like that. Besides the first dress I put on, I think it's because it was the first dress. But you guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video. We will see you in the next one. We'll see you at our engagement party. Oh yes, I forgot about that, that's it. It's doing it for our next video, but until then, peace. Love you guys. Woo!


Western officials admit Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel. The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what's happening on the ground in Ukraine. This would also, obviously, put the final nail in the coffin of the claim that this is not a US proxy war. In an article titled Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Western officials inform us of the following through their stenographers at the New York Times, quote. As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize Eastern Ukraine, the nation's ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on the help from the United States and its allies, including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence, and training, according to US and European officials. Much of this work happens outside of Ukraine at bases in Germany, France, and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops in Ukraine, some CIA personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials. At the same time, a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada, and Lithuania, also have been working inside Ukraine, end quote. The revelation that the CIA and US special forces are conducting military operations in Ukraine does indeed make a lie of the Biden administration's insistence at the start of the war that there would be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine. And the admission that NATO powers are so involved in operations against a nuclear superpower means we are closer to seeing a nuclear exchange than anyone should be comfortable with. This news should surprise no one who knows anything about the usual behavior of the US intelligence cartel, but interestingly it contradicts something we were told by the same New York Times not three weeks ago. American intelligence agencies have less information than they would like about Ukraine's operations and possess a far better picture of Russia's military, its planned operations and successes and failures, New York Times told us earlier this month. US officials said the Ukrainian government gave them few classified briefings or details about their operational plans, and Ukrainian officials acknowledged that they did not tell the Americans everything. It seems a bit unlikely that US intelligence agencies would have a hard time getting information about what's happening in a country where they themselves are physically located. Moon of Alabama theorized at the time that this ridiculous we don't know what's happening in our own proxy war line was being pushed to give the US plausible deniability about Ukraine's failures on the battlefield, which have only gotten worse since then. So why are they telling us all this now? It could be that we're being paced into accepting an increasingly active role of the US and its allies in Ukraine. The other day anti-war is Daniel Larison tweeted, Hawks in April. Don't call it a proxy war, Hawks in May. Of course it's a proxy war, Hawks in June. It's not their war, it's our war. This is indeed exactly how it happened. Back in April, President Biden told the press the idea that this is a proxy war between the US and Russia was not true. And Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said it's not. This is clearly Ukraine's fight when asked if this is a proxy war. The mainstream media were still framing this claim as merely an accusation by the Russian government. And Empire spinmeisters were regularly admonishing anyone who used that term on the grounds that it deprives Ukrainians of their agency. Then May rolled around and all of a sudden we had the New Yorker unequivocally telling us that the US is in a full proxy war with Russia and Hawks like US Congressman Seth Moulton saying things like, we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians, we're fundamentally at war, although somewhat through a proxy with Russia. And it's important that we win. And now here in June we've got war Hawks like Max Boot coming right out and saying that this is actually America's war. And it is therefore important for the US to drastically escalate the war in order to hand the Russians devastating losses. So the previously unthinkable idea that the US is at war with Russia has been gradually normalized with the heat turned up so slowly that the frog doesn't even notice it's being boiled alive. If that idea can be sufficiently normalized, public consent for greater escalations will likely be forthcoming, even if those escalations are extremely psychotic. Back in March when I said the only agency Ukraine has in this conflict is the Central Intelligence kind, Empire Loyalists jumped down my throat. They couldn't believe I was saying something so evil and wrong. Now they've been told that the Central Intelligence Agency is indeed conducting operations and directing intelligence on the ground in Ukraine, but I somehow doubt that this will stir any self-reflection on their part.


Coming up on DTNS, it's the internet's birthday. Sony announces the end of PlayStation View and EA returns to Steam. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, October 29, 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt in Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson, not Patrick. And I'm Roger Chang, the show's producer. Yes, indeed. We're swapping Patrick and Scott's days if you're if you're into paying attention to that sort of thing, because Patrick Beja is in the air on his way to my house. He's not going to land the plane at my house, but he is going to be here tomorrow in the studio with me. I can't wait. Yeah, it's a good switch. He's actually going to be in town for BlizzCon. He's going to be our eyes on the ground for that thing this year. And yes, indeed. The fact that he gets to hang out with you a little bit bonus, I would say. Yeah, it's absolute bonus for me. That's for sure. We actually just had a conversation with Sarah Lane. She's doing fine. She's not able to get into her new place. And so she will not be on the show today. But if you want to hear our talk with her, we had it on Good Day Internet, which you can get as a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. The short version is it's been a rough few days for her, but she's doing fine.  So that's the important thing. And it was good to hear from her and hopefully, you know, fingers crossed we might get her back tomorrow, certainly by Thursday it's looking at. All right, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Well, it turns out WhatsApp is suing mobile surveillance company, NSO group in federal US court. WhatsApp accuses NSO group of creating malware used to quote access messages and other communications after they were decrypted on targeted devices. WhatsApp patched an exploit in May that may have been used. WhatsApp says more than a hundred human rights defenders, journalists and other members of civil society in their words were targeted. Yeah, so it's suing over damages for breaking into their system. It's an interesting approach. Nvidia announced the GeForce GTX 1650 supercard launching November 22nd, though a price has not yet been announced. At least I haven't seen one GPU throughput of the 1650 supercard will rise 46% and the card comes with 12 gigabit per second GDDR6 memory, the TU 116 GPU. That is the same one used on the 1660 and is a significant upgrade over the not super GTX 1650. It'll also be a hundred watt card compared to the not super 1650 75 watts. So that's something to take into account. Nvidia also launched a super version of the GTX 1660 with faster GDDR6 memory that one shipping late November for $229. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is suing Google for false or misleading representations to consumers about the personal location data Google collects, keeps and uses. That's a quote. The issue sorry. The issue is that when setting up an Android phone, users can disable location history, but that does not disable collection of all location data to do that. You have to go to the web and activity setting as well. I didn't mean to give you all the lawsuit stories. It's just kind of the way it happened. Correspondent Scott Johnson. Hello Apple released Mac OS Catalina 1015 one adding support for new emojis support for the AirPods Pro the same Siri privacy controls that went into iOS this week also includes HomeKit secure video support and support for airplay to enabled speakers and Apple released an update for watch OS watch OS 6.1. That also adds AirPods Pro compatibility and can run on Apple Watch Series one and series two. Nice also at the same time Apple pulled the latest update to its home pod speakers because users were reporting it made some speakers unusable. If you have installed the 13.2 home pod update Apple recommends avoiding resetting it or removing it from home app until or correct or removing it from the home app until a fix is released. Yeah, and if it does get bricked, you know, I mean do what you would do, which is contact Apple support. They say they will try to help you. All right. 50 years ago today in room 3420 at UCLA's Belter Hall, a graduate student named Charlie Klein sat at an imp the internet message processor and ITT teletype terminal and sent a digital data transmission to Bill Duvall a scientist sitting at a terminal at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto California 350 miles to the north. Klein typed L and L appeared on Duvall screen. They were on the phone with each other so they could confirm this then Klein typed O and then Duvall's computer crashed. So they got the L and the O through then it crashed after about a 20 minute software fix on Duvall's and they tried again and sent the word log in Klein was then able to use the Stanford computer from UCLA to run programs. It was a test of linking academic computers into something called the ARPA net. That was a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency aka ARPA set up in the Department of Defense in 1958 by Professor Leonard Klein Rock of UCLA. Within a few weeks of this successful test by Stanford and UCLA, the network had added computers at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah and room 3420 has recently been restored to its 1969 look and is called the Klein Rock Internet History Center. There's an excellent article with more about what happened on that day some interviews with Klein and Duvall and Klein Rock and it's all by Mark Sullivan at FastCompany.com. Wow, that's cool. What a cool thing to look back on. I think a lot of people think the Internet started in 1994 and maybe effectively for you it did given those advances at that time with the web and everything. But yeah, it goes back this far. I was literally in diapers and breastfeeding. Tom was probably still incubating. I was in a womb. Yeah, I was further in sconce weren't even here yet. But but yeah, I also love this story obviously because it's got a nice Utah connection. There's a lot of cool stuff up at the U now that talks about this history and its role in it and and sort of what came after but but yeah, a big deal for the Internet and us because look at where we are now. Look at us talking over this weird Internet we're doing. Yeah, it's funny. One of the things they were doing was getting around having to pay the phone company because you could connect to computers before, but you had to lease a line and you had to do it every time for two computers. They wanted to just be able to connect to a computer whenever they wanted, which just seems outrageous and and they wanted to connect more than one computer at a time. And so so hence the ARPA net was born and thank goodness for us. It did or we wouldn't be talking to you right now. Hapa are happy ARPA Internet days. Happy birthday Internet. You don't look a day over fish. You really don't. You don't look that much older. Google uses dot new domains so that users create new things like Google Docs or calendar entries. Well, they have now opened the domain for others to register. Trademark owners can register a domain until January 14th and others can apply for a new dot new domain starting December 2nd. Microsoft has registered word dot new to start a new word document and Spotify registered playlist dot new and play and podcast dot new, which is interesting eb registered sell dot new and stripe registered invoice dot new even Drake's label Ovo sound registered music dot new. Tom, how quick are you going to make a dot new domain? I don't know that I will. I don't know that I need to some of these are cool like the ability to start an invoice by doing invoice dot new. If you're a stripe user, they only work really well if you're already logged in. So some of these like if I'm not always logged into eBay, maybe if I'm a big seller, this would be great to be able to just type sell dot new and Drake. I mean, I don't think you're creating new music on his label. I think this just takes you to his website. So it doesn't have to cause something but word dot new if you're always logged in to office 365 and you just want to start, you know, a cloud version of a document. It's kind of cool and I'm very glad that Google is opening this up to others. It would be unconscionable for them not to and they've got some cool uses of their own there. Can you only register through Google's domain registration stuff or do you kind of get a home? This is one of those top level domains that that you can own and Google owns it. So they administer it and they're the only places you can register. I don't know if you could use a third-party register to buy it from Google, but Google's the one you end up buying it from. Gotcha. Razer launched its low latency wireless earbuds. The hammerhead true wireless Razer modified Bluetooth 5 to be claimed 60 millisecond latency. So these are these are typical earbuds with all the typical earbud controls and taps and everything that you would expect. But if you use them for gaming, they have 60 millisecond latency, which is a much better latency than other wireless earbuds, buds last three hours on a charge. Case can give an additional 15 hours and they're available now for a hundred bucks. They look actually weirdly a lot like black AirPods and and that's cool because I like that look and I think it's a good fit and these are fit my ears really well, but it is an interesting move by a company like Razer to say, Hey, I'll bet you want a game with earbuds in because that is typically the domain of a purely wired setup. Most gamers are not interested typically in some sort of, you know, wireless sort of solution, but these look great. I also I question whether they'll be able to market it outside of that narrow group because that's really where they cater. That's their market. What would drive somebody who just is looking for a good new pair of earbuds to find these and you make this their choice? I don't know, but I think a hundred bucks isn't bad, especially in light of the cost of some of these other higher end version.  They're just from, you know, they're not from Apple and and Samsung and Microsoft. They're there from other other folks. I saw some for $29 today that had some pretty good reviews. So they're definitely out there. Razer getting into it. I think it's smart for Razer, but it also to me, the first thing that hit me when I saw this was this shows that the earbud industry, the earbud section, the wireless earbud without any kind of wire connected to it is definitely the dominant one right now. And I have to say, my new Pixel 4 I can use with AirPods, but I don't want to have to keep switching it back and forth and repairing it every time. And I haven't found an elegant way to do that. So I got these USB C headphones in the meantime because they were cheap and I don't want to use them because they have wires. Scott, I'm spoiled. I just want to stick things in my ear and have them automatically connect without me having to do anything, which is what all of these do now. And it's great. No, I've gotten completely spoiled by it. I don't want to go back. I use nothing but wireless headphones now. I don't remember the last time I plugged regular wired buds or headphones into my phone and I split between a pair of AirPods and a big sort of over the ear cans, kind of like these, but they're wireless that I get from Jabra and I really like them and it's to the point where I don't want to. And I know I'm not getting perfect sound, right? I know that wired people are definitely going to get better audio quality than I am, but I find to myself not caring at all because the convenience is more important and also the quality quite frankly is better than it's ever been and will probably just keep getting better. So yeah, I'm all in on this. You sold me. I'm not I just want them to make it way easier to use wireless Bluetooth earbuds on multiple devices. I agree. I want that Apple ease of use on every phone. I put them on even Apple could be easier. But yeah, I want it to be cross platform. I totally agree. Now please ruin my day, Scott. Now here comes the funeral news. So we had the birthday of the internet. Now we have the funeral of PlayStation Views. Sony's going to shut it down. This is their PlayStation View live TV subscription service and that's going to happen on January 30th. So in a blog post, Sony said the highly competitive pay TV industry with expensive content network deals has been slower to change than we expected. P.S. View launched in 2015. All those head of years ago. Sony sold its crackle video service to SC or excuse me, CC SC last year. Tom is a avid user of PlayStation View and I am very curious how this news lands on you. It hurts. PlayStation View is not the best service. It has its especially its streaming issues, but it has all the channels I need and it has them at a price that I can agree to. So it is one of the few that has all those channels. It also has the widest number of integrations with network apps. So even when PlayStation Views own app isn't really working, which does happen, I can always go to the network app and it works great. And so I don't even think of PlayStation View as an app. I think of it as a thing I pay to get access to a bunch of channels that I want. And in that respect, it's been the perfect situation. I haven't looked at suppose.tv lately, but I'm going too shortly because I the last time I looked, PlayStation View was the only one that had all the channels I needed in one place. Sling TV I know still doesn't, although it does have NHL and MLB I think still. So maybe it's close, but those are usually the two I have a hard time finding in one package and actually and still recently PlayStation View didn't have the NHL network either. So once they got it, I'm like, Oh, now it's perfect. Oh, wait, now it's shutting down going away from the personal though. This is not shocking to me. Sony is there's two things going on here. The biggest reason I think the one that I don't see people talking about enough is that Sony is focusing on gaming. This department has realized what Microsoft also realizes, which is if you want to have a successful game console, you need to have a wide number of apps available for it, but you don't need to run them. You don't need to be the provider of entertainment. And so shutting down PlayStation View is mostly a symptom of them wanting to focus on gaming on that rig and say, Yeah, you know what? We want Sling TV and YouTube TV and all of those to be available on PlayStation. We want to provide the gaming service. That's what we want to do. I'm glad that's why we had the rumors that they were going to sell PlayStation View, but apparently they just couldn't find a buyer. I'm glad you brought that up in context with Microsoft because if there was any hallmark moment of learning that happened during the current generation of consoles as we get ready to roll into new hardware, new services is Microsoft's very early education that people didn't want them to force this thing down our throats as a set top box that was all about entertainment and other computing uses that really gamers wanted the focus to be on gamers and they have fully gone the other way now and embrace that. And I think this is a sign of Sony doing something similar, even though you could argue this generation, they have been very focused on games and they certainly led this generation. But while why, you know, meanwhile, they've got they've got this small effort PlayStation View and other things to try to get more stuff happening with home entertainment that isn't video game related. And sadly, there are a million companies trying to do that, including some very, very big ones that are doing it successfully. And why fight with that? So I see no problem with this other than of all the services I tried and I did do a little taste test of a few of them is the only one I liked. So Sony Sony also doesn't want to operate streaming services. So if you're like, well, why don't they just move you to another department? They, you know, they have movies and stuff. They make TV shows. They want to be a producer. They don't want to be a provider. That seems to be clear and that's why they sold off crackle. So yeah, at that point, it's let's sell it and it didn't sell because I think because of the PlayStation brand being attached to it. They just haven't really got the usage and they weren't apparently going to be able to transfer all the deals over. So in the end, they just didn't have a valuable enough piece of property to sell. And this is this. This is not the death of cable online. This is the maturity of it. This is what happens. You start to see people withdraw from the market. There's plenty of options out there. There's Fubo. There's sling. There's Hulu live. There's YouTube TV. And those are now pulling ahead as the winners. There's AT&T TV now. So there's plenty of competition. This is the first victim of that competition. We'll see the same thing to happen to these Disney plus HBO Max Peacock Netflix competitors in a few years as well. Amazon announced its grocery delivery service will now be free to members of Amazon Prime in the US firing a shot across the bow of Kroger and Walmart. The service will offer one and two hour delivery windows for both Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods. You won't be able to shop cross-platform though. You have to pick whether you want to shop at Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods, whichever ones are available in your area. The service used to cost you $15 a month, but if you are subscribing to that, you will just stop paying if you're a Prime member anyway and you'll get that for free. I saw some people say you had to sign up to apply to get invited to the grocery delivery service. But when I went into my Amazon, it was just there. So I don't know if I was grandfathered in somehow for some reason or what, but you may want to look you might have to sign up or you might just get into it and get free grocery delivery, which is Amazon's way of saying we just want to take this market. Yeah.  So it was actually a surprise to me to see a $15 a month subscription item get nestled in here. My only answer as to why they're doing that is they very much want to grow that side of the business. They want to make that investment in Whole Foods and for that matter, Amazon Fresh pay off in a much bigger way. So what better way to do that than make it a value added product to a subscription you already have. It does slim their margins, but like you were saying in our prep show today or a prep conversation, there's no, you know, there's no margin too thin for Amazon. They're happy to do it. They still care about margin. No, he doesn't care at all. But I'm this is.  This is the first day that subscription or a grocery delivery service has had any interest in my head because up till now just haven't done it. Haven't tried, haven't cared. Just go to the grocery store, get the job done. I don't want to pay the extra fees. It's not worth it. I'm happy to drive over there to Smith's or whatever. This is interesting to me because I'm already paying that Prime and they got me on there. So why not take advantage of it? So I think, I mean, I'm anecdotal here, but I think it's going to work. They will make more money off this product this way than they would have leaving it at $15. They already reduced the price. It used to be $99 a year. I think it used to be 250 before that, but they did the envelope calculation. They said, how many Scott Johnson's can we convince to use this by making it free and how much will they spend even though groceries are low margin? That probably brings in more money and has a halo effect on our other products in a way that leaving it as a pay hasn't because it hasn't caught on. Kroger is doing a great job with grocery delivery. I would use them if I weren't so close to the nearest Ralph's, which is owned by Kroger. Walmart is really ramping up grocery delivery in a big way. And so Amazon needed to do something like this. If they didn't want to lose that market to those too. Yep. Well, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, don't forget to subscribe to daily tech headlines.com. Electronic Arts announced it is publishing games on Steam again first time since 2012. I guess they had some DLC still kind of trailing along into 2013, but the last time they published an actual game on Steam was 2012. And now they're back with a pre-order page for Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. EA says other major titles like the Sims 4 and Unraveled 2 will arrive in the next few months and even multiplayer titles like Apex Legends, FIFA 20, Battlefield 5. Those are going to arrive next year and they're going to enable, they say, cross-play with folks who get them from EA Origin. Yeah, this is fascinating in so many ways. This is a part of the industry that I've followed very closely for years. And the stuff that you would see after Origin happen, stay around on Steam, like you said, is some DLC, but mostly it was old games that had a publishing agreement that people paid for it there. And so yeah, I can still go get my old copy of Kingdoms of Amalur, because that came out before this all changed over and got away from Steam. But really, since then, if you wanted to be a PC player and enjoy anything EA made, you had to go over to Origin. And Origin has never been great. It's always been, you know, good games that EA makes when they make good games, but not a huge selection otherwise, some decent stuff. They also were the first to introduce kind of a subscription model. That was super interesting. Like there's a lot of reasons to actually look at Origin and see some innovation there, because now there are people copying it and doing pretty well with it, including Microsoft, I would point out. But this is kind of a big deal. First of all, nobody expected or saw this coming. We all knew this game was coming. It's a big, highly anticipated game. The same makers of Apex Legends are making Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, Respawn Entertainment, big developer. Everybody loves those guys. And this makes me wonderful to see the Titanfall series to come over, because that's also their games. But anyway, to make a long story short, the fact that they're coming over here at all to me signals something that seems to be happening in general. Microsoft's doing the same thing with a little less fanfare, but I can now play a bunch of games, including their most recent and popular releases like Gears 5, for example, on Steam. That's unheard of. They've never put Microsoft products. Well, actually, Microsoft's been kind of bad about making PC versions of their Xbox titles as it is. But when they started doing that, the idea that we could just go get them on Steam is pretty crazy. At the same time, they've got their Xbox Gamer Pass for PC at a very low price right now on PCs for their own store, which I can go get Gears 5 and only pay, I think, four bucks a month right now is what I'm paying to play that in any other new games they put on there. So they're they're not leaving their other plans, but I feel like everybody and their other examples of this are kind of going, you know what? Maybe Ubisoft is right because Ubisoft never let let or never left Steam. They just had you play as an as another option, right? It was another way to go buy their games, but they never totally left. Well, now everybody else is like, yeah, we probably ought to just take it back because the gorilla in the room is the gorilla, whether you like it or not.  And yeah, Valve gets a cut, but we'll also sell a bunch over here because we've got some pretty good reasons to use our launchers. So a lot of savvy gamers are going to come here anyway and we'll make more of that money. I feel like there's a move back. There was kind of a move away, obviously. And now there's like this weird trickle back into, you know, Steam should be our friend again. Yeah, I think it I think part of the calculation is looking at Stadia and Microsoft's upcoming service companies are starting to realize that they won't be if these things take off, they won't be able to keep their games to themselves unless they want to run their own streaming service, which yeah, maybe some of them could get away with that, but that's a whole other business and a whole other competency. And that way for a company like EA, I think would lie madness, you know, the first time the EA streaming service went down, it's, you know, forget it. That's non-starter for EA. So I think when they look at that and say, well, we're not going to be able to keep everybody in origin anyway, unless we spend a lot of money making a streaming service, let's just loosen it back up. Well, keep origin because we still want to take more of people's money when we can because when they sell it direct, they get to keep more of it, but we shouldn't limit the audience. And who knows, maybe there's also a part of it where they want to keep Steam around as a competitor to these other services as well and not just seed the ground. Yeah, it's smart. I believe this is the smart way to do it because there is a sense in the industry that platform exclusivity and truly the the walled gardens that have always been console gaming are going and PC gaming for that matter and launchers and all that it's going away or at the very least we're starting to see the artifice of it fall away and things like cross play, which you never used to happen is happening. You mentioned a bunch here with these titles, but this has been a thing for a while. It was most most explosive in the news when Epic wanted to, you know, push it so that Fortnite was playable everywhere. If it was your phone, if it was your console, if your PC didn't matter, they wanted all of that save data that one account serves them all and Sony resisted and they fought and fought fought against that. And then Nintendo and Microsoft both kind of jointly came out and said, yeah, we're going to let that happen on our platforms. Don't know what wrong with Sony over there. And then Sony had to capitulate and now they do it. That's a huge breaking down of a barrier, especially from the leader in the console wars. That also speaks to the power of Epic right now. But anyway, aside from all of that, there is a sense that all of that stuff is lifting and what we're left with is this platform really matter when you want to make sure your game is kind of everywhere. That's certainly now Microsoft method without actually putting their games on PlayStation or Nintendo device, but they are wanting to say, look, as far as the PC crossover, we should be as crossover as possible and on those platforms as agnostic as possible. And this is all good. I mean, in some ways we're talking about steam getting back some exclusivity, but really we're not. We're just we're just acknowledging that steam is a monolith. It's Coke. You probably should carry Coke if you're going to sell Coke. You know what I mean? You better have it, but that's okay. Because you got all these other specialty ones over here, but Coke's not going anywhere. And that's not so much a brave thing, but I think just the obvious step right now. But I love watching this so much fun to watch these guys kind of, you know, twist and turn and change and to see that pop up in steam was a bit of a shock. So, uh, and currently number two, by the way, on the, on the sales charts on, on steam, it's not even out yet. So it's doing well already. Well, it'll be interesting to see, uh, uh, what people find wrong with this story because it involves steam and EA. So who knows? It's video games. You know, it's got video guarantee though. Someone will find something wrong. Thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit. 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