Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in cryptocurrency and digital assets and break them down to bite-sized pieces. Today, I've got some really interesting stuff. First up, this is CEO of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor, and he's going to tell us not only exactly why he got into Bitcoin, but why gold is far inferior to Bitcoin, what's going to happen in five to 10 years, price predictions, and overall just why he made this enormous decision. So, this is going to be a great video for anybody that you talk to about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and digital assets, especially the goldbugs because his argument crushes everything they say. Also, good news, bad news for Ethereum. The top butane updates the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap, details plan to exponentially increase scalability, and what he's talking about here is going from 15 transactions per second, which is absolutely nothing, all the way up to a potential 100,000 TPS using a thing called rollups. In good news, Kutco and crypto exchange alleges to have found Ethereum hackers, which is really not the big story. The big story is, is why we're supposedly some decentralized projects able to stop, potentially reverse, as opposed to other projects like Ethereum, which were not able to be blacklisted. And finally, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton backs the innovation and crypto, but warms up tricky play. And this is always an interesting topic. I've been in the game since 2017. Some of you have been here for a lot longer, and we've all heard the same song and dance. The ATF is right around the corner. Well, this could actually be it, but I will just tell you right now. Don't hold your, don't hold your breath. First, let's jump in on what's going on today's market. So today, it is Saturday, October 3rd. And just so you know, I try to do a live stream and totally failed on the digital asset news channel. But I was able to do a live stream over a digital asset news clip. So everything we're going to talk about here, we did a live stream over there. If you can go check that out. I created Dan clips for two reasons. One is because sometimes I go a little bit too long on these videos, like 30, 40 minutes. So I want to break down all the clips. So instead of having 40 minutes, you can just watch clips of three to five, maybe seven minutes.  And I'll get out of here. So I have that as a backup. And also we do exclusive videos over there. So check it out when you got time, digital asset news clips, but here's what's happening with the market. So this was actually a great day considering what is going on. So we had the Bitmex scandal where the CFTC came down and said, Hey, you guys aren't doing the right things. You are violating the anti-money laundering act. And you've opened up an exchange without getting proper approval. And we don't like that. So there are some problems there. And on top of that, we had tens of thousands, I think maybe hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin that were siphoned out of Bitmex, not by hackers, just by people who said, Hey, I want to deal with this. So I'm going to take my Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies out of here now before the CFTC comes down and does who knows what. I don't know if that's going to happen, but I always err on the side of caution so I can see why people definitely do that. So we had that part. And then also the second part, President of the United States came down with the coronavirus. So we thought that there would be a huge tumble, but hey, here we are. Bitcoin's up 0.3%. I like to see that. And Ethereum, 2% hitting my threshold of 350. Great job, Ethereum. Tether's Tether, XRP. I think, as far as stablecoins, I know Tether is tethered to the US dollar. I think XRP is tethered to the quarter because it's always around 25 cents. Binance coin up $3.7, $28 and in that fifth spot. So congratulations to all you Binance coin holders. I do not, but hey, I'm a big cheerleader for everything that's cryptocurrency. So congratulations. Bitcoin cash up 1%, polka dot half, chain link up 3.2, but still below that $10. What are you going to do? Litecoin, crypto, everything's up. It's a pretty good day. Jeez, 10.6% for Tron. I don't know why that is, but maybe someone can enlighten me in the comment section. Also, big news. Wow, Theta Network's in the top 30. Look at that. 10.5%. And I was on Alex Maschioli's show yesterday. And they've got a couple of really smart guys with us and TA people from Market Rebellion. And they've actually called a lot of good calls that I thought they were like full of it. But actually, I remember one was Monty, he said, yeah, chain link is going to go to below 10. I'm like, you're full of it. And hey, here we are. But I got a chance to tell them about Theta and just talk about how great I think it's going to be and where it actually is going. And yeah, I mean, I see big things for Theta. It's one of my new holds and so far so good. Also on top of new holds, Uniswap. Of course, I got to have it free just like everybody else. But I do believe in the project. I like how they did the airdrop to the community, not to Wales. So looking pretty good. Ave up 5.6. Synthetics up 2.4. UMA, UMA, 4.93. Anything fantastic. Wow, Celsius Network. Make it up. Just crushing it. 30% up for the week. 13% 24 hours, $1.21. I remember when it was like 75, you know, 50 cents. And here we are. So take a look at Celsius. If you don't know, Celsius is one of my, I have 30% of my entire portfolio in the Celsius Network, not in Celsius itself, just in the wallet. I believe in it. It's a great project. And he gets a really good interest. Now, there's other places that might give you more interest, but I trust it. So I'm allowed to sleep soundly at night. Just saying. All right. So let's jump in a day's top story. So first up, I've already prefaced this. I think this is huge. I like where Michael Saylor is going. So let's just jump in. So this as a recap, MicroStrategy is a billion dollar company, one of those Silicon Valley places, data analytics firm. And Saylor said, Hey, he had like 500 million dollars. He goes, I'm sitting on a melting ice cube, essentially because of the quantitative easing, the money printing and the amazingly amount of inflation.  I think this guy, I believe he went, I'm pretty sure it went to MIT. He started his company at 24, made into a billion dollar company. And he's done a lot of research and he set up all the different assets. Bitcoin was the one. And he was going to go into gold, but he explains why. And I think this is important for everybody to listen to as a, because of what all the gold bugs will tell you. And Michael just shoots holes in all their theories. So let's just start with the very first one. Why made the move? Quote, where you said you were sitting on, what, a 500 million dollar melting ice cube. Why do you see it like that? Well, you know, for the last decade, I didn't pay much attention to macroeconomics. And I just thought of it as we had a conservative treasury policy and we had 500 million dollars and more. And we're going to generate two or three percent interest on it and we'll use it when we need it. But of course, over the past year or so, that interest rate went from two to zero. And then everybody woke up to the world of macroeconomics this year because we had the largest intervention of the Federal Reserve, maybe in the history of the country. And that drew me into a deep dive. And I started studying the expansion of the monetary supply. And I realized that for the past decade, the monetary supply has been expanding by 7%. And the actual inflation rate on assets is not 2%. The inflation rate on assets is 7% to 8% if you're holding equity and the inflation rate on a bond is 22% if you're holding a long bond. And now I realize that the estimate for the next few years has got to be 10% or more. And so when you start thinking about your cost of capital being 10% and you're holding 500 million in cash that's yielding zero, I realize my real yield is negative 10% at least for the next three years. And so I imagined $150 million getting burned or melted away and it made me very anxiety-rich. That's amazing. So this is just one CEO talking about one business about what's going on and he realizes that, hey, if I don't get off this fiat, I'm going to just lose money just sitting here. This is just one person. What do you think is going to happen over the next year? Three years, 10 years, 20 years? When all the different CEO's figured out like, hey, we're sitting on this money and we have all our investors and all our stockholders and they're going, what's going on with the business? Because we're losing money. You're losing money because of the inflation. And they're going to say, well, what's an asset that we can get into? They can definitely get into gold. They can definitely get into other options. But I mean Bitcoin, the way that sailors talk about it here, it's like a no-brainer. So I think that people will actually migrate that way. And then this next part, the question is, well, why didn't she go into gold? Because gold has been the safe asset for a millennia and he answers it perfectly. And this is what I think everybody should be answering when they talk about gold versus Bitcoin. I considered gold and then I started studying the two. And then I realized that gold miners are going to produce about 2% more gold every year. And then I realized that there is a possibility over the next 100 years that more than 2% of gold will be increased. But let's just say in the best of the world for 100 years, we produce 2% more gold. That means $100 million will be debased down to $12.5 million in 100 years. But on the other hand, Bitcoin is exponentially going to infinity stock to flow. There's never going to be more than 21 million Bitcoin. So you're really talking about at most diluting $190 of Bitcoin by 10 million over the 100 years. Given the fact that Bitcoin is an infinitely hard asset, whereas gold can be produced by human beings, given enough incentive, I realized that over the long term, Bitcoin is the harder asset than gold. Interesting. So he's going to get into this because I know when I first saw this, I was like, okay, so you're telling me that people can just make gold? And that's not what he's saying. He's saying about mining and finding gold and things like that. So we're going to get into the weeds a little bit more about actually getting gold, mining gold, and how it can actually be hyper accelerated. I guess you might want to call it. So it's a pretty good argument because, hey, there's a difference between finite and scarce. When you have a scarcity, there's just not much of it around, right? But there's some around and you can find more of it. But finite means it's finite. That's only 100, 200, 21 million. And with Bitcoin, that's it. There is no more. We're going to find some more. We're going to get more computers to make some more. It doesn't work like that. So I mean, he's got a great point. And this is one of those things where you start to poke the holes in the goldbugs arguments. All right. So next part, they're going to talk about, and it's a pretty good question because the moderator here is saying, hey, I talked to a lot of goldbugs and they say that gold is going to go to 20,000 per ounce because of all the money that's going to escape from the bonds market. So how is that going to work? Because if all the money's going to go to bonds, where's the money for Bitcoin? And before I go on, I just want to make mention that Stansberry Research, I'm actually going to like this one and subscribe because it's really worth it. Stansberry Research, if you don't know, they're a subscription based publisher of financial information and software, serving millions of investors around the world. They got a lot of smart people, a lot of good people. Max Keiser is there. So how good can it be? Now I'm just kidding. Max Keiser is a pretty entertaining guy, but he's got a lot of great information on here. So I would highly recommend to take a look at what's going on macro wise. And they also cover a lot of things with cryptocurrency assets. So jumping back to get off the topic, let's talk about the whole argument of gold going to 20,000 per ounce. When the money starts leaving the bond market, which it already has, it will naturally flow into gold. And that's what will drive gold to $5,000, $10,000, $20,000 an ounce. What are your thoughts on that reasoning? I don't think it's a very intellectually deep argument. For example, I do believe that money will flow from the market to something different. And by the way, gold would be my number two choice. But if you double the price of gold, you're going to double the incentive of miners to produce gold. And if gold goes up by a factor of 10, human beings have a way of putting capital on the mining and ingenuity, and they'll invent better ways to mine it. And at some point they'll melt down their jewelry, or they'll find other gold. On the other hand, if Bitcoin goes up by a factor of 10, no amount of investment in Bitcoin mining can produce more Bitcoin. It's extremely hard. So the history of commodities and gold is simply the most pristine of all commodities. The history of commodities is that when the price goes up, human ingenuity and human capital produces more. And we have in front of our face the best example, which is fracking. The country had an oil capacity limit, and we thought it was a problem. And when oil prices got to $100 a barrel, we invented fracking. The amount of oil produced in the United States went from 5 million barrels a day to 10 million barrels a day in five years. There's no oil crisis in America anymore. And so really anything that can be produced by people at a high enough price will be produced. So there you go. It's a great example about so when Goldbug said, you know what, there's only so much gold in the world. That is true, but we don't know exactly how much. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can tell you exactly how much gold there actually is. We can speculate, but we have no idea what's in the ground. We could at some point find some large reserve under the ocean. I have no idea. I'm not a geologist. I don't even play one on TV. So I don't know exactly how much gold there is out there, but we keep finding more of it. And that's pretty amazing. So we will never find more Bitcoin. That's just the hard truth. And I know people say, I mean, some Goldbugs say, well, you can do these forks, whatever else. Yeah, we'll look how good the other forks did. Have you heard of Bitcoin Diamond? Have you heard of Bitcoin Potato? No. Well, first of all, Bitcoin doesn't work. Bitcoin Diamond, nobody cares about, because it doesn't really even have a serving function. So all these hard forks, they talk about, sure, you can hard fork, but there really is nothing else like Bitcoin. And that's just how it's going to be. So the next one is just like a little caveat. The moderator here says, or the interviewer says, Hey, you know, we haven't found any more major gold mines anymore. So that means that there's not going to be any more gold. He's like, that's not true. Given enough money and given it up where we thought, no one's going to melt down their Bitcoin jury to sell at the price. Right. And the key point here is, if I put $100 billion into gold mining, I will produce more gold. How much more we can debate? If I put $100 billion into Bitcoin mining, I will produce no more Bitcoin. I will just produce more security. Right. It's impossible. Even if you put a trillion dollars into Bitcoin mining, it's impossible to produce more than 21 million Bitcoin. All you're doing is making the network better and safer. But at a trillion dollars of gold mining, you will produce more gold. We're just going to debate about how much gold. Perfect answer. Exactly. How much is going to be produced? Don't know. But there's going to be more. Let's just be honest. So now he goes into and starts to talk about what really makes Bitcoin so great. And will the central banks start to buy Bitcoin? I think they're already buying Bitcoin, but that's just my personal opinion. So let's hear what we got. I think that Bitcoin is digital gold. And that means it's faster. I can move it 1000 places in a couple of seconds. It's stronger. I can pledge $100 million for three hours in Japan on a Saturday afternoon. Right. It's smarter. I can write a computer program that will slice it in million pieces and do complicated things with it. It's only going to get better every year forever because it's software. And what that means is people that are attracted to Apple and Amazon and Google and Facebook because they're smarter, faster, stronger networks, they're going to be attracted to Bitcoin. Logically, that means both central banks weren't buying Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google initially. It'll first be technology investors, then it will be super high enough worth individuals. It'll be private companies. It'll be public companies. It'll be the institutions that bought Apple stock, actually Warren Buffett bought Apple stock, but he bought it 10 years after I bought it. So eventually then, and then you read about central banks today buying the Nasdaq today, right? But five years ago, central banks wouldn't have bought Nasdaq stock. So maybe they'll get there, but it's going to be a natural adoption cycle with waves of other investors taking the asset position first. So that's like one of my things where I think about, I'm like, how far are we? How far down this rabbit hole are we? How much time do we have before it really just becomes the big thing? And it's in the public consciousness, not just like me and you. Me and you are just here early. But I'm talking about the people when you walk on the street and go, hey, did you hear about Tron's price? Oh yeah, I went up 10%. That's what I'm talking about. So not just Bitcoin, but Cryptocurrency assets. Like how far are we? I think that we're in with the initial investors and we're slowly getting into the big institutional investors and they're starting to get their claws into it. And I think that once we start to get more regulation, and this is not me talking, this is big money players telling me, hey, when we get more regulation, you're going to see a lot more of the institutional investors come in in droves. So we're going to talk about that in a bit with the SEC, but that's where I think we're at. And once that happens, it's game over. I mean, it's congratulations.  And the next part, he's going to talk about investors versus traders. And he's going to take a hard line stance.  I just don't have the time for it. I don't have the stomach for it. I just don't like to do it. So to me, it kind of seems like there's a lot of just investors who said it and forget it. There's just a lot of people who just like to trade and they trade. And then there's a little bit in the middle. Some people like the dabble, you know, like the 80-20 rule. But for me, I just don't see it. Now here, Michael's going to say, hey, I have no respect for traders. But in all honesty, I have respect for traders because you guys and gals are out there just really, really putting it out there. And it's a nerve-wrecking experience. And if you can, hey, that's it. But just so you know, don't fall in that trap like I did when I first got in, that the only way to make money is to day trade, swing trade, leverage trade. That's not the only way to make money. Let's just be honest. Warren Buffett worked out pretty well for him just investing. You don't see him talk about trading. So this is just real quick little snippet and off we go. Paul, the last one I saw was, you know, it could go to a million. What kind of forecast do you hold? You know, I believe that the price of Bitcoin and the value of Bitcoin is going to go up as more people adopt it as their Treasury Reserve asset, as the technical utility increases, as the productivity of all the people that adopt it goes up, they'll sweep their cash flows into it. And then as the inflation rates of all the fiat currencies it trades in increases, and I'm talking about asset inflation rates, like the 10% a year. I'm not talking about CPI inflation rates. Those four drivers are going to drive it up. At what rate? I'm not a trader. I don't really respect traders, to tell you the truth. I'm not in the market to buy it this week, sell it next week, and buy it back the next week. I'm more in the Warren Buffett School of Thought, which is you buy it because you expect to hold it. And it will go up over time. I just don't know at what rate and to what level, except obviously I believe it's extraordinarily valuable. So yeah, I don't know where it's going to go either. My price prediction is anywhere from 100,000 to 250,000. If you're Ralph Paul and Mike Novigratz, you're talking a million, and then everyone's in between. Tim Draper I think is 250k as well, but it will go up. And especially when people, especially the big money players, the CEOs, the big corporations figure out, hey, our money's on fire. We need to do something about it. Oh, let's put in this asset where it's quantitative hardening, no easing to do. And then lastly, and this was just a great way to talk to the people that you know about how this is going to change and how it's going to actually improve the lives of people as far as like cryptocurrencies assets. And Ray just talks about, hey, Bitcoin's going to dematerialize gold on top of each other thing. So just take a listen. Our company's full of technology lovers. And Bitcoin is digital gold. It's the dematerialization of gold in the same way that Apple dematerialized your camera and Facebook dematerialized your photos and Google dematerialized your library. So it's really cool to be on the edge of the virtual wave where you're doing something that's going to be a million times better than what came before it. Perfectly said, right? Are we going to stay in a standstill? Are we going to keep using pay phones or maybe we could use our cell phone? Are we going to keep using faxes? We're going to use the internet while somebody actually still use fax, which is crazy. Are we going to put our money into gold, which is heavy, which can't be transported too easily, which is not really divisible, which isn't open source, which is not decentralized, which has a different other problems that that Bitcoin can actually solve. Or are we going to use cryptographic assets? Come on. I mean, that's just only, only to me, it only makes sense. I could be wrong. Let me wish you think in the comment section and let's move on. Next up, that was a great segment I felt. So let's, let's breeze through these. Vitalik Buterin updates Ethereum 2.0 roadmap. So what is going on? So the Ethereum co-founder says the leading smart contract protocol will rely on rollups to massively elevate the throughput of the leading smart contracts by 660,000%. That's pretty big. How's he going to do that? Well, he says today Ethereum has 15 TPS transactions per second. If everyone moves to rollups, we will have soon 3000 TPS. So to give you a comparison of what transaction per seconds actually mean and what the different corporations can do, we've got Bitcoin at seven. Oh my God, seven. Ethereum 20, well, 15. Dash, Litecoin, Bitcoin cash out of 60. It's pretty good. PayPal. Look, PayPal is 193, not too bad. Ripple 1500 and Visa, I was a bit off, 24,000. And that's just what they talk about. But in reality, I think it's a little bit lower than that. So if they can get to 3000 and so much the better, but if we're talking about a 100,000 TPS, then you're beating the pants off of Visa. And I'd like to see that. But he says once phase one comes along and rollups move to ETH two-sharded chains for the data storage, we go to a theoretical max of 100,000. Eventually phase two will come along, bring ETH two-sharded chains with native computation, which give us a thousand and five thousand. So definitely one to watch. Hopefully they can actually do it. Peter explains that rollups are a scaling method that enables Ethereum to keep compressed transactions on chain while delegating computations such as contract execution off chain. So it just speeds everything up in an off chain fashion. But the question that I have is with the advancement and the way that things move into space, I mean the roadmap from phase zero, one and two is two years. Look at what just happened with DeFi in the last month. So do we really have two years to really get to that point? Look, I love Ethereum. I think it's fantastic. And I've got a pretty big amount of my stash in there. But I have to hedge my bet. And I have to take a look at our smart contracts and other oracles. And one of those would be like Tezos, also Cardano, also EOS. And then XRP is actually always get actually getting into the game with the smart contract and oracles, which they just announced yesterday because they just got approved for a patent for Oracle. And then of course, with the flare token drop, they're getting into smart contracts. So we'll see how it goes. But I don't feel like it's ever a great idea to put your eggs all in one basket. That's why I talk about Bitcoin Maximus. I think that they're a little short-sighted and they should kind of take the horse binders off and see what else is out there because I'm like Bitcoin can do it all. I don't think it can do it all. Anyhow, let me know what you think in the comments section. Let's move on. So KuCoin, they found the hackers. Fantastic. So what's going on? So KuCoin found the hackers and the CEO, Johnny Liu, said law enforcement are now involved in pursuing the case. So they must have some pretty concrete leads. Now, if you're unfamiliar, about a week ago, I thought it was 150 million, but they're saying it's 150 to 280 million in digital assets were hacked from the exchange. This was on September 26th and not a good day if you're KuCoin. But not a bad day if you had actually some of your assets on there because they state if any user fund is affected by this incident, it'll be covered completely by KuCoin and are insurance fund. I'm sure the insurance fund is really ecstatic about paying out on that. But this was the big story because I don't think it was just about the hack and the finding. But the big story to me was what it states here, many projects behind the hacked tokens prevented the thieves from liquidating their assets were possible. Let me read that again. Many projects behind the hacked tokens prevented them from liquidating projects like Tether, Ampliforth, Ocean Protocol and others. I don't know what the end of this is, but Ocean, Ampliforth and Tether, they are not decentralized because if you are decentralized, you cannot do that. And what happened with the other ones that were like Synthetix and Ethereum, they were blocked or blocked because this is because these tokens are sufficiently decentralized to prevent back listing. And that's the beauty of decentralization, good or bad. That's what happens when you are decentralized, you can't just stop these things.  We got nodes all over the world. So go talk to those guys. And good luck with that. So I think it was just an interesting article about decentralization for decentralization of what really is, and we should kind of open our eyes and see, all these different projects, what actually is to come. And then lastly, it's they lose the CEO so the Kucoin is slowing reopening, slowly reopening. My question to you is, if you had money on Kucoin, would you leave it on there? Would you be like, they probably got it figured out or would you take it off? Me personally, I got to take it off. I'm not a big fan of hacks. So I got to take it to someplace where it's a little bit safer. That's just me. Let me just think of the comment section. Last story. So last up, SEC chairman, Jay Clayton backs innovation and crypto, but warns of any tricky play before I get into this. I have to preface it with this. I've been hearing this song and dance for four years. And it has not happened. I actually did a video. It was, it was called message from 2012. And it was Roger Vier was fascinating because he was talking about how great Bitcoin is and how it's going to take over the world, which kind of has or is going to do. But what he talked about there was like, you know what, that ETF is right around the corner. And I had to laugh because I'm like, even back then eight years ago, and here we are come up in 2021. So interesting. But this is news because this is the first time the commissioner of the SEC actually said, hey, we're open to it. So what's happened here? Speaking at an event by the digital chamber of commerce, SEC chairman Jay Clayton opened up his views about crypto and blockchain. And surprisingly, Mr Clayton had a positive stand while talking about the tokenized exchange traded fund or ETF. He said the regulators are open to it, meaning him. However, he passed the honest onto the crypto community to create an efficient way to tokenize the ETF product. He would be open to facilitate it if the crypto community has a strong position. So interesting.  And if it screws up, I'm going to give it on you. I don't know. Maybe that's not it. It's really falls in the SEC. They are the regulators. So we'll see what happens. But I was kind of thinking about this. And I was like, why now? Why is this, why is the commissioner going? Yeah, we can do this right now. And I really think it comes down to what's going on in a global economy. And you take a look at things like this for Russia's ditching the dollar, China's doing the same thing. You got other countries, I mean, North Korea is going, hey, we're going to get around all these different things using cryptocurrencies. On top of Maduro, the Venezuelan president just came out this week and said, hey, we're going to get around sanctions because we're going to use all the cryptocurrencies assets that we can. And we're looking into our central bank to see if we can viably store cryptocurrencies assets to get around sanctions. So when you have something like that, maybe, because look, everybody's got a boss. Everybody's got a boss. Doesn't matter who you are. The SEC's got a boss. They are the chief. The SEC's got a boss. I got a boss. That's my wife. You got the, I mean, vice president's got a boss. Even the president's got a boss, I think. And they probably sat Clayton down and said, look, we got to be on the forefront of this. And we got to make sure that we maintain our lead globally as an economic superpower. And the way to do that is to move along with the times. Get on this ETF. Let's make sure this actually happens. That's just a theory. No one told me this, just how I seize it. Let me just think of the comments section. But moving on, it is interesting to state that SEC has turned on all the Bitcoin ETFs before, but the chief did say this. One of the problems that we had was we got off on the wrong foot in this innovation. There was the theory that because it was so efficient, because it had so much promise, we could toss aside some of those principles of responsibility and transparency. I think now three years later, four years, we're in a much better spot. And yeah, I mean, we are. It's like we just talked about all the different rails that have been put in, the infrastructure, the business that are involved, the big institutional players. I mean, this is not 2017. This isn't 2010. This isn't 2015. This isn't 2017 in the bull run. We've actually got more than vaporware and white papers that just promised everything and delivered nothing. So I think this is actually a good play. And I expect big things. It's, but I honestly between me and you, it's just me and you. I don't think this is going to happen not for a while. Just me because I've heard it for so long. Lastly, Mr. Clayton didn't fail to give a subtle hint that the SEC won't be taking it easy. He added that when you're throwing a financial vehicle in the market, don't try to trick the regulator saying the function is payments. That's actually what we don't like. And I know he's referencing Ethereum. Really, that's what he is. I'm reading this book. It's called The Infinite Machine. And it is the history of the Ethereum Foundation and how Vitalik created Ethereum, how it went through the Ethereum mafia, how they got it to market, and how they did things.  They said, well, can you say that the gas is the payment part? Yeah, we can do that. Well, just do that. And that's pretty much how they did it. So I think it's a different time. I think they're a little bit more savvy about what to look for. And again, if it happens, fantastic, I'm just not going to hold my breath. But let me just think of the comment section, but that's all I got for today. Lastly, random shout out days. 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This is an Australian film from 2009 I have my notes here Just gonna go over these So 2009 film the first time I saw it I remember being pretty impressed with it because I didn't know a whole lot going into it except what's on the cover of the at that time DVD It does have a blue or blu-ray release at this point. I do believe so Written and directed by Sean Byrne. This guy also did the film Devil's Candy, which is I don't know if it still is But at least was on Netflix so check right now and see if it's on there I haven't seen it. I've actually heard really good things about Devil's Candy So I have been meaning to check it out, especially because this guy did the loved ones. I enjoy the loved ones. So yeah The budget for this film was actually four million dollars in Australia. I mean, obviously it's converted Australian box office this film made two hundred and fifty four thousand one hundred and seventy dollars So obviously it lost big time now That doesn't necessarily mean that this was a bad film though Or that it's not gonna gather any sort of following because as we all know there are films all the time that bomb But then get a cult following, you know, not long after they come out theaters but what's more common is many years after they come out of theaters and people kind of had to have time to Watch it get get the word out there a lot of word of mouth goes on So then you start to get the cult followings going on then This one I know a lot of people within the horror community when you bring this film up if they've seen it or like Oh, man, I really love the loved ones. So I haven't heard anyone who's like Oh, I saw that and I didn't like it. So this one's one of those films that didn't do well in the box office But was it has really picked up steam sense So originally this film when it was sent to the rating sent to the rating board in Australia It was going to be given an R 18 plus Which I guess is there kind of like our rating 18 and over it was gonna get an R 18 plus but it ended up being lowered to an MA 15 plus rating and That was because of an appeal that Sean Burn and the others on the film made to the to that review board and they ended up adding some kind of comedic stuff to the film and For that reason the board said okay fine You can get a lower rating on it because they then felt like the comedic stuff kind of took a lot of the what did they say? It said it mitigated aspects of the violence basically that it was a sadistic film And when you put that kind of comedic stuff in it lightens it a little bit doesn't make it as intense as sadistic Which I agree with and honestly I really do like the kind of comedic stuff because it it feels like it gives you a break From the intensity because it is an intense film This film actually Like I was saying, you know cult following on rotten tomatoes It is number 37 on the rotten tomatoes all-time top-rated horror movie list So they have a top 100 and it is number 37 the loved ones so Speaks to how good it is or at least how good people think it is Myself included. I do enjoy it. So For me oh Spoilers just so you know before I go any further there will be spoilers for this film If you haven't seen it stop go watch it come back. Anyway What I love about this film is how the main character of Brent Goes through so much, you know the beginning of the film is him losing his father in a car accident a car accident that you find out later was indirectly caused by Lola the main villain of the film and That's also interesting because because not only is it about his Emotional pain versus his physical pain, but it's also about the The fact that Lola causes all of it, you know He doesn't understand that in the beginning like his father's dead because of what Lola was doing But he ends up understanding that later and that kind of like spurs him further even more for revenge And one of the really interesting things too about the emotional versus the physical pain in this film is that it really seems like at least the way Brent's character was written and acted that when it comes to the emotional pain He can't get over it and it kind of feels like He's willing to give up and he's going to give up and he kind of like wants to die because he's so apathetic about life and that's kind of how he goes into his encounter with Lola is He's resilient, but he's also kind of not so much fighting for himself. It's more like resigned to Nothingness in a sense, you know, he's kind of nihilistic at that point, but When he is then dealt this physical pain It's it becomes more of a motivator for him to want to live and then spurred on even further when he basically finds out that It's because of what Lola has been doing that that guy was out on the road He swerved and hit a tree and his you know father ended up dying So that's where he really gets the fight in him and is like I'm not going down And that's where he gets this renewed feeling of I actually want to live So it kind of turns everything around for him But I found it really interesting how it was like the emotional pain was way too much to handle But the physical pain was not and I kind of like that dichotomy within this film. So just saying What is made work, okay, I'm sorry if you end up hearing my cat in the background, she's You know if she's not being paid attention to she goes crazy, but anyway, so One of the things that makes what happens with Brent even worse and makes Lola look even worse is the fact that in the beginning Brent is very much coming to her aid in a sense. He's shielding her really from being from ridicule from people in In the school that they're that they're going to so it kind of paints Brent really quickly as a decent person And kind of like feeling for her and looking out for her feelings So he does reject her, but it's like a very light rejection and it's not mean and he then shields her and she knows this So it makes it even worse later when she's like totally Basically killing him. I mean she it's slowly but you know inflicting all this pain So it just makes her much worse and makes him seem even more sympathetic Within the film. So I like that aspect of it I think the the soundtrack in the beginning really hits the high school teenage feel It was very like lights a lot of the type about mixed with some heavy metal But it kind of hit everything that makes you think like oh teen music, you know It kind of helps set the mood of they're in high school So I talk about the that So Lola and her father obviously their relationship is super messed up So in many ways, she's daddy's girl She's daddy's girl because he will do anything for her But she's daddy's girl in like a sexual way too, which is a whole another aspect to this film That is just like totally creepy and totally nasty, but at the same time Sean Byrne did a really good job in his directing of this of kind of Well writing as well making it making you see the connection between these two characters between Lola and her father and It like at moments. You're like, oh, it's kind of sweet in this moment But it's also terrible and nasty and just awful I don't know it's so weird and I think a lot of that has to do with musical choices Especially the part where she's dancing and she asked her father to dance and she's kind of like oh You know, I've been looking for my prince, but it's always been you it's always been you like the mute that nice Musical backdrop Makes you feel like a nicer emotion than what you really should be feeling there and I like that because it You know, it says to me. It's an awesome film. It's really well done when you can make me feel something I either normally wouldn't or really don't want to and in those case in those cases Well in that case of that film, you don't want to feel that you don't want to be like Oh, this is kind of a sweet moment because you are like that for a split second and then you're just like oh No, no, this is not a sweet moment. This is awful in so many ways. It's terrible And then you realize it's this really nice music. That's making it emotional Really good use of music Sean Byrne really great job on that. So Yeah next thing This film actually ended up coming out towards the end of the torture porn I Guess movement at that point, you know I think the the fifth saw film had just come out at this point. Obviously they went to Seven and then they did jig jigsaw on top of that. So eight total of those But this was towards the end of the torture porn So that being said people were getting a little bit tired of it Which is maybe part of the reason it didn't do all that well in the box office but I think it's still fit for the time because If you're going to do something in the same vein as what's been going on You need to do something different you need to bring something fresh to it And I think this film really brought something fresh to the whole torture porn thing it no one had been doing it from a high school dance aspect and Or a point of view and it's totally original and was really interesting and you know Not only was an original idea, but it was really executed extremely well and on that note the cinematography was outstanding the film looked so good and the directing a lot of the shot choices a lot of the You know movements and how they made the the characters interact with each other Really spot-on and just kind of moved everything forward very very well in my opinion So because it was so different it kind of stood out within the torture porn sub-genre, which is good Great job with acting the pacing was really awesome in this film. I think it was perfect It didn't seem like it was too long didn't seem like it was too short It was pretty much right on it really kept the intensity kind of the whole time. You really didn't know when Lola or her father were gonna do something, you know, they they were On the edge of doing the next thing kind of all the time And I think partially a lot of the more silent portions of the soundtrack really helped with that It made you kind of feel more tense and like what's coming next but also kind of the pacing of how they needed out When the terrible things were done to Brent were so all those things came together and made it You know move very well and keep the tension up the Muffled screaming though the muffled screaming is very effective in this film because it's so unnerving and it's just so scary in a sense You know, he has his vocal cords just totally messed up from that kind of you know Drain cleaner and the other people who were you know being kept there and when you just hear that kind of like Noise I can't do it, but you know if you've seen the film You know hearing that noise is so unnerving and it's you're just it just makes you like oh It's tough. So it was a very effective noise to use for this film. I liked it Obviously we talked about the fact, you know this incest territory thing is just like so messed up But it's not just about the relationship of oh, it's his daughter and it's you know He'd do anything for her plus. There's the sexual thing going on But it's also the aspect of he's teaching her to be him You know, obviously they're doing a lot of the same stuff he's even walking her through like doing the hole in the forehead and You know with a lot of detail as you can see, you know, he's just like oh you do it this way You don't go in too far. You got to make the hole big enough, you know all these things So he's also trying to turn her into him Chloe Please stop. Sorry So she's trying he's trying to turn her into him and it's just it's terrible Sickening really like this is what happens when terrible parents the worst rate the worst kid rearing you could do The pit of the people when it's revealed is kind of I'm not gonna say it's it's not like a left turn What I guess what I want to say is it's a pretty big surprise It's a really crazy reveal because you don't really see that coming like you know that she's done stuff with other guys And you but you don't think that they're still around you assume That they've been killed and buried ditched somewhere But the fact that there's that reveal where you're like they're being kept in like this feral state makes everything even worse It's just like this film with with the actions of the father and Lola just keep getting worse and worse and worse and worse And it just ratchets up the what's at stake here because it's not just about Brent at this point It's about you know, if Brent doesn't stop this then it's gonna keep going on There will be another and then another and another and another and as she gets older. She becomes more capable too Terrible, but good for you know interest in the film This answers the question what happens when you turn someone down who is a Psychopath a a violent psychopath and I think that's probably where Sean Burns started with with his idea the question that popped into his head when he wanted to start writing this film Seems like it was a logical start for it. And I thought that was funny. Oh And in the end of the film, I'm all done with this in the end of the film It's such an amazing shot like that really long shot of the car After Lola's all messed up and she was hit by the car By the Brent was driving and she's like off-screen and then she comes crawling on the screen With a knife like helping herself like crawl on the asphalt and coming for the car basically it just How far back that that shot was set just makes it look so good And I don't know how he would come up with that idea, but it was really awesome It looked really cool and it's just like this kind of creeping dread type moment And I think it played extremely well and all for it So yeah, I mean honestly as you could tell I quite enjoy this film I think it's definitely worth seeing if you Watch this and listen to me and you haven't seen the film I wouldn't say it's totally ruined because you can't convey the intensity through through a movie review You can't convey what the shots are like You know you have to really experience that stuff and this film looks so good They did such a good job the sound the acting the writing directing cinematography just it's all Really well done now that said I don't think it's the most amazing film So I do a rating scale on this out of five stars and you can do halves I would put this at a very solid three and a half. I thought about giving it a four So if I was doing quarters, I would probably do three and three quarters, but I'm not so I feel like more It's it's on the three and a half range But good film definitely recommend people seeing it One thing that was recommended and asked for by subscriber uncle Pete for the last review that I did He's he said hey at the end. Could you give some recommendations? So with these reviews, I want to just give one recommendation and kind of say if you like this film see this so if you enjoyed the loved ones and you could handle all the Intensity all the violence all the torture involved with it I would say try to watch the French extreme film Martyrs do not see the American remake. I haven't seen it. I've heard it's not good though See the original French extreme film Martyrs now That is even further with the violence and the brutality than what the loved one is is so just know that going into it when I first saw that film I Was kind of like this is really over the top brutal and I really hope there's a point to all this Trust me. There is actually a point to all of it. So Pascal log. Yeah, did that film He did an outstanding job, but it's super dark. It's super brutal. So just know that going into it But that is my recommendation based off of this if you like the loved ones check out Martyrs I guess I could do a recommendation of if you didn't like the loved ones. Which what should you see? I would have to go ahead and say if you didn't like the loved ones See something a little bit more on the light side. One of my favorite horror comedies is Tucker and Dale versus evil Go check out that it's got horror to it. It's got gore to it But it's super light and there's a lot of good comedy Tyler LeBine Alan Tudyk in there are amazingly funny and it's really well put together. So Hey, if you like the loved ones you can check that out too. That's a really good film for horror comedy Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out Please once again subscribe if you can then put a recommendation for a movie for me to review down there I will see if I can get on that and if you can give me some likes Just comments in general we can talk film But thank you so much for checking this out spread the word and until next time keep it brutal


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How far is it going to talk about Haiku, another retro desktop? Well, kind of, yeah. Well, it's, yeah, it's inspired by retro stuff, actually, because it's now vintage, so, yeah. So, welcome. Yes, I'm a user and developer for Haiku. And I think there are still some interesting bits to copy from us. So, we are sharing. So, what's Haiku? Haiku is a free software operating system. So, it's inspired by the BUS that most of you don't know what it's about. It was a proprietary operating system up to, like, 2001 until the company shut down. People tried to maintain it, but it didn't work out. And despite the fact that it was proprietary, some of us used it, and we thought it had interesting ideas. So, we just thought, oh, let's rewrite it as free software. So, it won't be able to disappear anymore. So, basically, Haiku is to be read what GNU Linux is to Unix and what ReactOS is to Windows, if you don't know about ReactOS. We use our own kernel and our own graphics server. So, it's interesting because we control the whole stack. So, if there's something we need from the kernel, we don't have to call Linux and ask, please add this Cisco. We just patch it, and that's it. On the other hand, it means, well, porting stuff from GNU Linux that uses X11. It's a bit harder, especially because, well, some Linux devs, when they get patches for Haiku, they complain, oh, but that's not POSIX, whatever, even though we do add proper configure detection of the feature and whatever. But then they just forget that they also use private, well, Linux only sees calls that aren't POSIX either. But, well, they are Linux, they don't care. And also, we have AC++ API that has some interesting consequences, like the fact that we have to still use GCC2 to compile the base system, but we also support GCC5. It's 6 now, I think, I don't know. So, yeah. So, that's what we were inspired by. We have an old screenshot of the US, and, oh, look, there's a dock. But it got changed to the desk bar later on. But, yeah, docks are naturally new. Sorry. So, that's just to give you an idea of the Haiku in heritage. So, BUS borrowed stuff from Unix, from macOS, because it was created by an ex-Apple CEO, Apple Europe CEO, so, yeah. And so, I said we use our own kernel. We actually forked the new US kernel, which was written by an ex-Bink engineer who was frustrated because it couldn't work on the BUS kernel.  And we forked it, and now it's our own version. So, you might think, okay, this looks like 1990s stuff to me. Most of us don't really fancy stuff like, wow, animations and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, animations are cool, but when you're in macOS and you're trying to switch from one space to another, you have to wait for the thing to move.  So, yeah, we prefer just to have the thing work, and it's faster this way. And there's more to it. Of course, we've added some new stuff in Haiku that weren't really current standards at the BUS time like layout supports, which was necessary then for the translation because some strings are not the same width in different languages. And it works quite well now. Some applications still need to be brought to this API, but most actually work this way. The design of our graphic server and interface kit, which is our own toolkit, is a bit weird because we use threads everywhere, maybe a bit too much for some people. App server, which actually is the graphic server, spawns a thread per window to handle the repainting and stuff like that. The application itself also has several so-called B loopers objects, which actually spawn their own thread. So the main thread is taken over by the B application object, which runs the messaging loop for the whole application. So messages like, hey, let's quit or whatever, or you've got a new file to open or something. And also, every time you create a new window, well, we create a new thread to handle the window's messaging itself, like you need to repaint, it has been resized, whatever. This means that when a window is stuck calculating, well, if a window is stuck calculating something, the whole application won't freeze just because of it. Usually we separate large calculation in yet another thread, but like video decoding. VLC does that. It has a lot of thread even on other platforms, but if you look at most applications on GNU Linux, it's basically the main thread, which is a loop on select, which works, but, well, it just serializes stuff. So it's good for responsiveness, but on the other hand, when we have to port Linux-ish applications, we have to serialize back all the messages into a pipe and add it to the select loop. And, well, it works, but it's not as good as it should be, but, well, it just works. We have what we call replicants. You've seen Plasma earlier with widgets. It's a bit like this, except that's one application that can provide a preview. So it's the base canvas of the toolkit to another application, and it's not limited to the desktop. It can be used by another application. So for example, there's a documentation browser, which is called Be Happy, which actually used to load the net positive replicant, and I fixed it to use the net surf replicant to display the HTML documentation. There's one thing that I really miss on other systems. It's called the HRA navigation. So basically, it means you don't have to open yet another window just to go down a folder. So, well, I can show you live. So that's just my main development virtual machine in VirtualBox. So it's a bit slow to boot, but it's still faster than most other operating systems I know. So, yeah, folders, lots of folders. So you go to the desktop, and then you can just browse for them. Oh, that's from a talk of me. Oh, that was last year. So, yeah, you can browse the file system this way, and you can even just take one folder and move it, well, yeah, whatever, there, there, and, yeah. So, yeah, you can just move things around without having to open windows every time. And there's also move to copy to with the same thing. We have a scripting API, which, well, on Linux you have debuts. It's a bit alike. And so we can actually, the base toolkit actually understands it. So you can actually say, hey, give me the title of the window or simulate a click on this button, whatever. So it could be interesting like for a screen reader to just get the details of the interface. Node monitoring, the tracker uses it to, the tracker is the file browser. It uses it to see which files have been moved and whatever. So, well, iNotify is not really a new invention. We also have a lot of use of extended attributes. We just call them attributes, but, except ours are typed. So you can actually say it's a string, it's an integer, a float or whatever, or just binary. And like on Linux and most OSes, it's just a name and a value, which is either a string or a binary or whatever. And the fact that it's typed means the file system also can index it. So, because if you want to index a float or an integer, a string is a bit different to handle. So BFS, which is the file system we use, actually can index those and make them searchable way faster than having to call files, extract stuff, and make a separate database in the file system. And it's also always consistent. So it's used for emails, contacts, whatever. So it's really used everywhere. As I said, most operating systems know about extended attributes, but they usually have their own twist about it. There's an effort to standardize it, at least on Linux. That's called the common extended attributes standard from the free desktop website. It's been used like, well, in some places, but I don't really see much of usage of them. And, well, when you move files around on NTFS, whatever, then they get mangled, and this results in just a blob you don't know what's inside. So I try to propose a solution, but, well, it seems nobody cares, so we'll just do it our way. We also have live queries. So basically, the kernel knows about attributes indices and also queries. So you can talk to the kernel and ask, hey, what are the files that have this in the name, that have been modified since, that have the mail colon status status equals new? So you can actually get the list of the new mails in the file browser. So you don't have to open the mail client to see if you've got new mails. So, and it's updated live, of course. So when the new mails are fetched, they get in the list. So you can search by attribute, and it ends up as a formula. Some of you might have seen Spotlight, the search stuff in macOS. At some point, you could enter the formula. Well, the same guy who wrote BFS, actually wrote this stuff in Spotlight for Apple. So it's quite similar. We also have a MIME database, like you do have on Linux. It's more integrated and it's also used for applications. Like each application has its own signature. So you can actually do interesting things like, say, open with the MIME signature. So either it's the application itself or one of the MIME types it supports. So it just works the same way. And we also use it for clipboards. I think on Linux now, it's also used by the X, Facebook or whatever, clipboard, whatever. Not all applications really handle it correctly. I've sent patches to virtual box to support images, but it's not really there yet. At least the X11 clipboard now supports UTF-8. Wow, that's great. And Dragonrub as well. Like... Well, it's not really easy here. Well, if you open an image and you select a rectangle from it and you just right drag it on the desktop, you can get a list of the file formats that the application can save to. And then you can decide which format you want and just ask the application back for, oh, I need this MIME type, please convert. Oh, and yes, we also abuse it for URI scheme handlers. But well, it also exists on Linux. It's just not the same prefix, but it also works. We have our own icon format. Back in the days, BUS used to have bitmap icons because, well, it was just the way things were at the time. It was stored as in extended attributes in the small section of the iNode because there was still some space in the file system, so it was just faster this way. And Zeta was an attempt to revive BUS a bit later. We tried to, because I worked there at the time, we tried to put SVG in there, but, well, SVG is text. It's like, oh, 128 kilobytes just for an icon. Bit large, even compressed. And so for Haiku, Stefan, which is one of the developers, designed our own icon format that's simplified. The coordinates, for example, are on 8 bits, 8 bits for X, 8 bits for Y. So it's much smaller and it's still vector format. It has gradients and transparency and the icon editor can import and export SVG, so we should be able to import the SVG icons from GNULA themes, for example. And we now have our own packaging system. It's brand new. Well, it has, like, one or two years since we actually switched to it. So by the way, if you want to try Haiku, you can have images on the website for virtual bugs and VMware and whatnot, and the ISO, you can either drive burners CD or dump it to a USB key and boot from it. Just make sure you take a nightly build, not the official alpha, because it's like three years old and it doesn't have the packaging stuff, so it's a bit of a shame. We should get a beta version someday. So we went a bit like the Snap stuff from Ubuntu. I won't say who copied who, but it's a package FS, basically it's a file system that mounts the content of the package inside the file system. So it's read-only. So it's nice because you make, you are sure the files weren't modified by any other third party, but then some things like Python and Ruby or whatever, they always want to modify the file to add something, either line when the package has been installed or whatever, but we handle that. And it's nice because there are transactions, so when you update, I can show you an update there. It should work. So that's, we do have a graphics application store, but the update isn't handled by the GUI for now. So yeah, it just wants to update it. So, and that is nice Unicode progress bar. Yeah, I'll just leave it running. Oh, by the way, yeah. The blue lines here are just the resize size, so you can actually use some modifiers and move them out to resize the window on one side without having to hit the spot here. So yeah, it's updated. So it has some similarities with GNU Geeks, if you've heard about it. It's not really the same, but it has some similar concepts. And also it's way faster. It was already really fast, even now way faster to install Heiko because it only means copying 200 files and that's it. Workspaces, well, everyone has virtual desktops. We have our own twist. So each window can be mapped to any and all of the workspaces. There's basically a bitmap, a 32-bit field, which one bits per workspace. And they can have their own resolution. It's much less useful now, but in the BOS days, when you wanted to see if websites were working in 266 colors, you would just take the browser window and switch to another workspace and see, oh, this color is, let's change it. And we also have a nice stack-and-tie feature, which allows you to superimpose windows and have them stick together with the tabs arranged automatically. You can actually slide the tabs if you want, just hold shift and click the tab. And you can actually also glue them side-by-side and move them as a group. So when you're working on a project, you want some applications to just stay together. Yeah, that's about it. I could show you probably... So yeah, that's the updates. When you're updating the system packages, you actually have to reboot for now to actually handle... to actually install more packages because it just has the transaction. It's waiting for the old versions of the package to be left unused. So I'll just reboot. And then I'll show you the interface for the package manager. Yeah, that's... Yeah, my desktop is a bit messy, but it's bigger on the inside. Yeah. It would be easier than going to the desk bar. That's a bit wide. So yeah, that's how it looks, just like any other package manager. Just like any other package manager, you can even rate applications and whatever. And... So the file system is a bit different than on Unix, but we have a root folder and whatever. Oh, I can show you this. Yeah, so that's the file system currently mounted. So Slash Boot is actually the root file system because Slash is a virtual file system as well. And those are the package FS instances. So inside Slash System, it's read-only. But you can actually install to Slash Boot Slash System slash non-dash package to have the read-write version if you really need to for some reason. And yeah. So that's where the packages are stored. There's this folder which holds the previous transactions. So if you reboot... Well, if you can boot after an update, you can actually go into the bootloader and say, oh, let's boot this version or this version. So it's really, really handy to resolve a broken update. So, and just last thing. Well, I've got set a record here, installed. And if I just click and move the package away, yeah, it wants to uninstall another package that depends on it. And then CDR, I can just... I can just use it if I just take the package back in and it's back. And it also shuts down really fast. So thanks for the question, for the presentation, for attending. And we have some time for questions, I think. I mean hardware support. I mean graphic and media or CDR. So what about hardware support? Why is not really a desktop question, but... We do have a glue library to reuse FreeBSD network drivers. So that's really useful. We have an HDO driver that works on most recent hardware. I also bought it open-sale when it was open-sourced like five years ago or something. The current issue is mostly about graphics card. We support visa mode. So at least you should be able to get to desktop. The problem with this machine is because it costs like 1,400 euros. I have a full HD panel, but when I retire, I'm in visa mode in 1,024x700. Ah, come on, NVIDIA. So yeah, I think they did publish specs now. I really should have a look at them. And I think the bug... I think the bug in Nuvo that crashed like three times a week on this machine has been fixed. So I should probably be able to port Nuvo to Haiku when I've got the time. Yeah, we do have some OpenGL support with MISA. So software rendering, I think it's called SWPype. So it's a bit faster than the default software rendering. But we don't really have 3D acceleration for now. Patch is welcome, I would say. So yeah, that's mostly... Most of the problems are with graphics cards. So you use GCC2, but you can use GCC6. So how does that work? You have both versions of the NVIDIA, like on Windows before, side by side you can run both apps. So yeah, question was... You use GCC2, but you also use GCC5 or 6. And how is it handled? Yes, we basically do the same way as on Linux. You have slash lib slash and slash lib slash 64, whatever. So we also have slash system slash lib and slash system slash lib slash x86, which is the architecture, a separate architecture nickname for GCC6. The old one is named x86 underscore GCC2 to make sure we know the difference. And our Hikoporter tool can also build both when the recipe supports both. So usually the recipe declares architecture equals x86 GCC2. Secondary architecture equals x86. And for things like the native web browser, we use WebKit and WebKit doesn't really care about GCC2. So yeah, we have to support it anyway. And the goal was to have binary compatibility with BUS for R1 and to drop that afterwards. So we are working also on newer stuff. We just still want to have the binary compatibility because it sets a precise goal for R1 mostly. Yeah, go ahead. So yeah, we support C++. What about other languages? We are officially supported by OpenJDK, which is quite rare to say. And so our Java part is mostly working. I didn't really use it much, but things like the Arduino IDE has been packaged. I think the last time I tried to install it, one of the dependency was broken, but it should run. There's... Minecraft? I didn't try running Minecraft. That would be interesting. There are free software alternatives to Minecraft, by the way. Yeah, there's Python. We do have a Qt port, by the way. There's Qt4 and Qt5, which is quite handy because some software are huge and we don't want to rewrite them from scratch. So you should be able to use Qt with Python, maybe. I didn't try. Python, I think there's Perl, Ruby. Someone started the Go port, like long ago, but it's an ancient version. I think somebody updated the port, but I'm not sure which state it is at. Sorry, I have some. Time is over. Okay, thanks. Thank you.


Hey, it's time for part two of my series on BlackRock.  And this week, I just wanna get a little bit more in depth how BlackRock has really perfected the craft of investing in global warming and war crimes at the same time. So basically BlackRock offers an investment package to its client investors, which takes advantage of its shareholdings across the aerospace and defense sectors. That investment package is called ITA. And if you invest in ITA, you're investing in companies like Raytheon, which makes nukes and Lockheed Martin, which makes bombs that kills villains. And at this point, it's pretty common knowledge that BlackRock hosts the biggest fund in the world for weaponry. In fact, there's like a little blurb on the information page that shows how much of the fund goes towards quote, controversial weapons. You know, like jets, missiles, tanks, nukes, guns, bombs and stuff. So again, not good stuff. I've said it once and I'll say it a million times more, the United States military is the planet's biggest single institutional emitter of greenhouse gases. Actually like way too hot on this roof to be doing TikToks right now and I at least partially blame Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO. Because BlackRock is actively lying to its clients about how bad this fund is for the climate. And they're doing it in the most ridiculous, annoying way.  You know, like that kind of lie. Does that make any sense? If you look at the sustainability metrics for the companies represented in ITA, all those companies together are on track to help produce greater than three degrees Celsius global warming. But if you look right above this greater than three degree metric, you see that ITA has a triple A ESG score which is basically a blue ribbon for sustainable investing.  So we have to do something about this, right? Well, we are. And I'm gonna tell you all about what we're doing next week.


Okay, we're back here live inside theCUBE. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise and this segment is day two and we're going to break down with our chief analyst, David Flawyer, who's on the ground here inside theCUBE to share with us what the hell's happening in the sessions because there's so much signal. Not a lot of noise and we can't keep track of it. We need another, we need another cube. We need another analyst, Dave Vellante, if you're out there, you know, come out, come out here. I know he's watching. Shout out to Dave Vellante. He's tweeting. My co-host is because Jeff Frick, Jeff, David, let's break this down real quick. First of all, horses on the track, okay? Let's get the horses on the track and then we'll dive into the sessions. So, David Flawyer, first to get here from you. Who are the main horses here that are running in this open space? I see Rackspace, they were on theCUBE. I see a big proponent of it and props to Rackspace. Big halo effect, no need to drill down there. What are the horses we have on the track? So there's a combination of categories. So first of all, there's the vendor category itself. So you've got key players like IBM, like Dell, like EMC in conjunction with Cisco and Cisco themselves. You've got those, as you've got HP with a recent moonshot and that converged infrastructure. All of these are offering converged infrastructure in one way or another, either as reference architectures and or actual products themselves. You've got VCE from EMC and Cisco. You've got Pure from IBM, et cetera. You've got all of these players in this space and they are providing economies of scale. They are providing a reference architecture for specific workloads, like for example, an SAP installation or a VDI installation. So they're offering economies of reduction in the complexity and the speed to deliver. That's one thrust that's going through there. The other thrust is people like Google, people like Amazon, people like Yahoo, people like Microsoft, Azure, who have a huge amount of compute power and are providing access to that compute power and those services and are delivering other services, a lot of them consumer to begin with, but increasing the enterprise services, if Google, for example, providing all of the services like Google Docs and all of those services the same way as Microsoft is. So there's another set of services coming from those sets of people. And then the third are the open, like a rack space, are the open compute foundation, the rack space foundation, eucalyptus, and a few others as well, who are providing a cloud architecture, a cloud platform on which to develop these sorts of applications. And of course, VMware is very much in that space as well with there. So I think those are three categories which is useful to break down because there's a lot of similarities. And what was the second category again? The first was users, the second was the traditional cloud vendors like Microsoft, Google, and the others. And then the cloud vendors in the middle of the day. The users compute power on task. The guys have computing power. But she said something very interesting, David, the last segment, as you talked about separating the hardware from the software before you had an integrated unit that solved the problem and now you're separating it. But the flip side of that coin has always been if you try to run best of breathe then you always have an extra layer of integration. And there's a whole different kind of management thing. So what's happening now that's different that's kind of swinging the pendulum back towards separation and best of breathe? Well, the key is that what you want to be able to do, the model originally was, I'm the developer, I decide what is going to be developed on. I will design the hardware and my development software to run as a unit. And that was a vertical stack if you like. That was the application, either the ISV or the developer, in-house developer. That was the way that they did things. And what's happening now is the DevOps is much more about how can I separate out the software, make the software run itself, the application itself, and then point it at a hardware stack which is a set of resources, compute resources, network resources, storage resources, and separate out those two. So you've got a hardware stack with those resources, you've got the application which is managing itself and assuming that it's going to have to go and find those resources. So it's a different model. Now that model is what cloud providers are using. That's what all modern platforms are starting to move towards very, very quickly indeed. And the advantage of that model is that it is self-tuning, it's self-providing. And the other advantage of it is that it's much easier to put into the cloud and much faster in its turnover. You don't have to worry about the hardware side of it. You can do something every three months, every six months, as opposed to the old way of doing things with ISVs, but at the time they got through the whole of the stack, it's a two-year cycle. So the rate of change and the rate of adaption is much, much faster in that environment. David, I want to ask you a question. You and I were talking prior to the morning when we kicked off that we were both amazed, but you made a comment I want to share with the crowd. This is a vendor hype-free zone and there's a lot of real users stepping up, demonstrating, sharing, proud and loud what they're doing with OpenStack. Can you elaborate on the comments and then talk about some of the use cases? And this is not like, you know, small and never heard of this.com company, but like big names, so talk about that. Yeah, I mean, what we had the privilege of with the Analyst Day was one of the best Analyst Days I've ever been to, if not the best. And it was a very simple introduction. Here's OpenStack, here's the principles. And then here are the people using it. And so they were able to go straight into the meat and potatoes rather than have this highly orchestrated vendor type of communication. So it was an excellent day. So to give a few examples, for example, Best Buy, they are one of the largest retailers in the world. They have a huge peak in a Thanksgiving day of every year, seven times the average. I mean, that's a huge peak to have in the middle of the year. So they needed something elastic, something that they could expand into. They needed to be able to build architectures which, A, on one side, were much more intuitive for the end users, gave a lot more help to the end users. And secondly, could expand to meet these huge volumes that they were getting. So that was one example, and they've put their new work onto OpenStack, a new roll out of some of their services. One of the key metrics there is that traditionally it takes them 30 seconds or so to get out a page because it has so many additional services that it's added onto. They've taken all of that, brought it in-house, brought it inside the cloud, they can now render that page in two and a half seconds. So from an end user perspective, it's now like a Google page. It comes up straight away within seconds as opposed to being something that is, comes up 30 seconds later. So let's break that down. So in our world, we talk to all these big whales, IBM, Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, all the top companies. And they have an old architecture of all. They come from the old generation and are actually part of inventing the news. So those guys are doing a good job. But that world that you just described with Best Buy was hard to do five years ago. Databases were different. Converged infrastructure is now software-led infrastructure. Can you explain some of the under the hood things that are relevant in the hot areas that are the most explosive from an innovation standpoint? Well, the innovation is happening in the cloud. These new ways of designing applications. One of the most important innovations now is much lower latency on IO. So instead of having the old fashioned IO which took milliseconds to do, you can now, or tens of milliseconds to do, you can now get down to IO's of one millisecond much lower than that. Actually down to now to the microseconds and even into the nanosecond space. Now that has a huge implication on the quality of the application that you can make. If you've got all of this compute power and you've got all of this data, now suddenly you can make applications which are much richer in the quality and do more. And you can make your database structures much simpler, much flatter. And instead of having to run lots of different modules and having to the workflow dictated by the flow of the modules, you can take a flatter database and you can define your workload onto that database. So I want to ask you because there's a company that's in Silicon Valley, NetApp, who's in that you follow. They have a cool expression called Agile Infrastructure. Yeah. Agile, I think it was called Agile Data, whatever, Agile Infrastructure. But that is a core thesis of theirs. Agility, Agile Enterprises. At the same time, they also have a phrase called non-disruptive operations, which kind of doesn't mean anything. It's just more of a management consulting phrase, but it does, it's categorically mean something. Could you talk about non-disruptive operations from the sense of what you just talked about? I mean, Best Buy has to have variability, agile capabilities to serve and power their business model. At the same time, there's still the emphasis of non-disruptive operations means we've got to have availability. So could you break down what non-disruptive operations means from an industry standpoint? Well, so you've got planned outages and you've got unplanned outages. Well, first of all, you have to build the application assuming that there are unplanned outages. Oh, for the best plan, for the worst. Well, no, a server is going to go down. Your storage is going to go down. You have to build that into the structure of saying this service is not 100%. This is what I do. As a design criteria. As a design criteria of the application and the infrastructure within it. So that's the number of the first thing you have to do is assume that it's going to go down and have sets of extra compute and data resources and network resources available to you. The other point of the architecture is that you've got to design in the ability to have planned outage. In other words, that you have rolling changes. So beforehand, it was a change every two years. Now, it's a change every three months. And that's again a major change in the design that you have to apply to it. Which means that you have to be able to swap out the hardware. So non-stop outage doesn't mean high availability. It means basically plan and have an architecture. Assume that you're going to have to change on the fly. Whether it's software upgrades or other things. Absolutely. Everything has to be applied in that way. Tell me about what is the definition of in your mind agile infrastructure? What is the, what is, what needs to happen for an infrastructure to be agile? Support developers, it has kind of a developer angle to it. I mean, what does that mean? So the developers and the analysts themselves have to be working together to supply an ever-changing, quick, rapid ability to put in new levels of software, new levels of hardware, and ensure a seamless transition from one cloud to another cloud to one version to another version. As David Vellante always says, you're our Peter Gammons of the tech business. You come in and give the analysis on the inside baseballs. But I have the final question before we break is I want to ask you is, in your expert opinion and surveying the field here and looking at the horses on the track, so to speak, and knowing what's happening in OpenStack, AWS and stuff we're covering in software infrastructure, how much impact will DevOps and infrastructure as code have on existing legacy are all environments right now in the industry? And the data center in particular and service providers. So the impact on current applications with the legacy code within that, it'll have very little impact at all. It's going to be for new code that's coming out and new applications. So the interesting thing is what do you do about those legacy applications and how do you bridge that gap between today's environment, mainly legacy, to tomorrow's environment, mainly cloud-based services? So one of the ways, there are many ways of that can happen. The hybrid cloud is one of those architectures that may contribute. But personally, I believe the better way of doing it is to move the traditional IT resources into a co-location facility, into a mega data center, outsource them and have the cloud services that you're going to use and move over to in that same data center so that you minimize the data flow between them and then maximize the speed at which you can migrate applications to that new environment. And I'm going to put you on the spot for a final word here. Of all the big whales we've been talking about, who's best positioned for this new world? Well, clearly Amazon has got a lot of meat behind it. Clearly VMware have a lot of marketplace to lose in this space. But people like Rackspace a year ago, they would have been still way at the back of the pack, they have accelerated and come forward at a huge rate. And how about the Cisco's EMC's net asset of the world? Where are they standing, IBM? Well, they are going to win anyway for a long time with the traditional IT. These things don't happen in one year or two years. These are five, 10 year horizons. Still they do very well. They have to learn how to work in an open environment, how to contribute to it, and they are very fast. And they're here, they're putting a stake in for it. Exactly, they're here, EMC is here, and IBM is here, NetApp is here. They're contributing to this. Okay, David Floyer, again, disruptive technology, disruptive transformative environment, new brands are emerging, new names, startups, but also the big guys are here. They're not going to lose their market share easily. They're going to reinvent the new and be part of it. So we'll be right back with one of those in a minute, we're going to hear from HP inside the cube after the short break. We'll be right back to SiliconANGLE's exclusive coverage of OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. Happy Tuesday, coming at you with our final sell-up. These went fast. Our final mini break to sell out the mixer. The final six spots being given away and all the straight up spots have been sold out. So in a separate video will be that 11 box basketball mixer right here on jaspyscasebrakes.com. So as always, we're gonna do the break itself first. There are the names right there. There are the teams right there. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Five into six, 11 times, one, two, three, four, five. Nine, 10, and 11 the final time. After 11 times, we've got Guy down to Dustin. And after 11 times, teams, two, three. And 11 the final time. After 11 times, we got the Jazzy Jazz and the Denver Nuggets. All right, so there's the first half of the list right there, John McCall, Pelicans, and where's Memphis? There's Oliver with the Grizzlies. Again, just a cello pack break, but have we seen surprises? Yes, we have. All right, so no trade windows and stuff like this with print and then we'll do the randomize thing. I'm not sure, Corey, probably not too much of that left. All right, so there's the final print out right here. Nice, that's the pink candle exclusive to the cello set. We've got Tristan Thompson, Mosaic. The Seiku Damboya rookie. Spudweb, there he is, Spudweb. Spudweb, making short people like me dream. Maybe I could dunk too. Maybe I could dunk like Spudweb. Breaking news, folks, I cannot dunk like Spudweb. Just don't have the muscle group to do that. All right, that's the break. Nothing earth-shattering there. David down to Danny and everybody in between. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it 11 times. So after 11, it's gonna be top six after 11. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11, then final time after 11. Big thanks to seven down to 30. Appreciate you getting in. We'll get in next time. And congrats to David, Chris, Guy, Guy, Chris, and John. There you go. You're in the mixer, which is coming up next. Jaspyscasebreaks.com, bye-bye.


She'll be up on the hot seat first. I think the the phrase that I used most today was a CT and a GB For GD because Gabby here slide in the middle between us if you would You had a tough assignment today. Yeah, you I'm assuming you were excited for a tough assignment today Yeah, absolutely. I mean after the week that we had it's good to challenge yourself at the end of that I took her last year and had so much help from the defensive unit last year and the same thing carried over today We really as a team so many subs came in we really, you know, it wasn't just me It was everybody even we went deep into the bench today and that was great experience for the younger girls And I think they did amazing and we really came together as a unit I think today to handle to handle her and the other girls don't always talk about what a good team leader She is absolutely All of this and her play on the field today So we talked about you a lot today because of the assignment that you had I knew that previously that you had I you know, I got that information free game Of course, but so I knew you had that assignment today And so we were talking a lot and watching you a lot and your defensive play was so on point today So did you did you take a lot of one-on-ones this week because you're you moved your feet so well You had so many calls turnovers. What was it? What was the success? Well, we do one-on-ones like every day I practice like coach order like instituting that and I think it's helped tremendously like today Um, and I also think playing Washington on Thursday I was on the lefty for Washington, too So I think having that prior experience so close to today really really helped me Adjust my footwork to play at lefty like that. So Gabby is a hole where this team is winning eight in a row 11 of your last 12 going into now what shapes up to be, you know, a really big one on Wednesday night Can you speak to the confidence that this team has and how this has happened with a group that is so young 19 freshmen on this team. I think it's amazing. Like I think we always find a way even when we're down I'm like, oh, we got this. I never for a second doubt our confidence in our play throughout the field or every position I think the momentum from this week, especially just beating Washington, which is huge for us I think our momentum is just gonna carry us into the week for Albright Messiah Arcadia our senior night on Saturday I think we're gonna keep the ball rolling and the confidence will just build with every game and every minute that we're out They're playing together. It's been impressive to watch Gabby. Congratulations on a huge win and best of luck on Wednesday Thank you so much. Gabby to Jello. Now we bring in five goals and an assist to