One topic of great interest to both ancient geometry and even the modern approach of analytics geometry are the so-called conic sections. They get their names from the possible intersections one can make with a plane and a cone, or technically it's a double cone, and you can see the possibilities in front of you. The first possible conic section if you hit your cone with a plane is you actually form what we would usually call a parabola. All right, and college algebra one, we've talked a lot about parabolas, lots of different things we could say, and we have our standard to desert the vertex form of a parabola y equals a times x minus h squared plus k and of significance here was this point h comma k, which act as the vertex of said parabola here. Although we've seen previously that you could slightly re, you could rework this thing and get something of the following form for p times y minus k is equal to x minus h squared, and that way you could talk about this idea of the focus of the parabola for which you might think it's something like here, and the focus was significant because as particles enter the parabola, they always bump towards the focus or things leave the focus, they always bump out and come out straight. So this is nice reflective property for parabolas, and this is a consequence of it being one of these conic sections. The second conic section that we've talked about in this series is the ellipse, like you can see right here. The plane could intersect the cone forming an ellipse. Now the standard equation of an ellipse typically looks like the following. You get x minus h squared over a squared plus y minus k squared over b squared is equal to 1. Now I should mention with the parabola, the location of the square could be on either location, right? Because are we going to square the y-corner, are we going to square the x-corner? That makes a difference between do we have like a concave up parabola or a concave right parabola. With an ellipse, because of its symmetry, you don't have to worry about those things as at all. Now a special type of an ellipse is actually a circle. So some people consider this a fourth conic section. A circle, just the usual equation, x squared, sorry, x minus h squared plus y minus k squared is equal to r squared. The circle is just a special type of ellipse where both the parameters a equal b are the same. We often call it r in that situation. Now it turns out for ellipses, they also have sort of an idea of a focus, right? Unlike a parabola which has a single focus, an ellipse actually has two, two so-called foci, the plural there, which these foci have the property, a very similar reflective property to the parabola here. That is a particle emanates from one focus. It'll always bounce back towards the second focus. And so people have used this idea to create things called like whispering chambers. You're in a large elliptical room. If you have one focus, you can actually talk to someone as in a whisper at the other focus, even though you could be tens or hundreds of feet apart, right? Sort of case in point, if you look at the Latter-day Saint Tabernacle that's built in Salt Lake City, it was built in the 1800s by the Mormon pioneers at the time. And so this was before, of course, you know, and they're on the frontier before there was any kind of modern-day electricity, but they built this elliptical building so they have large religious services and such and what had the way they designed it is actually that the pulpit is at one of the foci of the ellipse and then the other foci is actually in the audience somewhere. If you go on a tour of the Tabernacle there, the tour guides can actually show you this is the other foci here. And so the thing is, you could hear the speaker as if they were right next to you because of the reflective property, the acoustic benefits of that. And so even if you're not sitting in that focal seat, if you're anywhere close to it, it definitely magnifies the volume because it feels like the person is talking to you just from a few feet away instead of like a few hundred feet away. And so there's there are some engineering benefits to the reflective property of the foci of an ellipse. So what I want to talk about now is actually the third and final type of conic section and this is what's known as the hyperbola. So if you tilt your plane in such a way, it turns out that the plane could intersect the both the top and bottom cone simultaneously and the intersection forms what we call a hyperbola. Now, the general equation for a hyperbola will look like one of the following. It'll look like x minus h squared over a squared minus y minus k squared over b squared equals 1. Or it could look like y minus k squared over b squared minus x minus h squared over a squared equals 1. In which case, unlike the ellipse, which has a plus between it, the hyperbola is formed by taking the same formula, but it's taking a negative sign. Now the negative could be in front of the x-coordinate or it could be in front of the y-coordinate. And it'll have different effects on the graph based upon what you see there. And so let's actually switch over to Desmos for a second and let me show you what you can get here. So if you were to take the equation x squared minus y squared equals 1, you get what we will call a horizontal hyperbola. So like I said, we'll call this a horizontal hyperbola. And a hyperbola kind of looks like you have two parabolas looking at each other. It's not exactly true, but in terms of concavity, a horizontal hyperbola will concave to the left and to the right. This is a distinction to the vertical hyperbola, which we'll see in just a second. But this is the basic graph of this hyperbola. And again, it's formed by having the plane intersect the cone at two different places. If we were to switch things up, if you actually put the y squared first, y squared minus x squared, you see now an example of a so-called vertical parabola, excuse me, vertical hyperbola. With the vertical hyperbola, you see going on here that it's going to concave both up and down simultaneously. And so that's what we mean by vertical hyperbola. So vertical or formed when you have a positive y and negative x, the horizontal is formed when you have a positive x squared and a negative y squared as well. And so this hyperbola, some things we should mention, I'm going to switch back to the horizontal one for this exercise here. Well, some important things to pay attention to are going to be the vertex. Just like a parabola has a vertex, just like a ellipse has a vertex, the hyperbolas also have vertices as well. And so we form these by horizontal shifts and vertical shifts. So if we have these parameters, I'm going to plot the point h comma k right here. You can see there in orange. So the vertex actually is not part of the hyperbola, just like the center, the center, I guess that's actually what you usually call the center of the hyperbola, the center of the ellipse. These aren't actually points on the conic section, like the vertex actually is part on the parabola, but it serves the same purpose as you allow h to get bigger and move to the right as h goes smaller and moves to the left. As k gets bigger, it goes up. As k gets smaller, it goes down. So we can set it back equal to zero. And we see our hyperbola goes back to where it was. Well, what about those parameters a and b, like you see with the ellipse, because I, again, whoops, what is that going on there? Try that again. b squared, like so if we put those into play here. At the moment a and b are set equal to one as a gets bigger, you can see that the graph is horizontally stretching out. You know, it's getting ripped away from the center of the hyperbola as a gets smaller. So the coefficient underneath the x actually affects the horizontal. It's a horizontal stretch or compression. Same thing with the b value. As b gets bigger, you're getting a vertical stretch. As b gets smaller, you're getting a vertical compression, like so. With regard to the hyperbola, there are some points of significance. That is the so-called vertices of these things. If we take the point h plus a comma k, and then we also take the point h minus a comma k, we actually do get these, and I'm going to make these ones be blue. Make it blue like a sleepy beauty, right? So as these points get stretched, these vertices are points on, these are points on the hyperbola. They live on the same line that the center has right here. This is if we of course have a vertical, a hyperbola, excuse me. If we switch it to an ellipse, we get this thing, but we put a negative sign in front of the x, then we get this horizontal, this vertical hyperbola in this situation. The vertices aren't quite right this time. So we need to take h k plus b plus b, and then we need to take h comma k minus b to get the vertices that time. And again, this will be true for our stretching and compressing. Now, why do we talk about hyperbolas now? Why not talk about them earlier? Well, it turns out as we've learned about rational functions, there actually is a hyperbola that we've seen previously, y equals one over x. This actually is an example of a hyperbola. It's just it's been rotated. This is actually the exact same hyperbola, but instead of being vertical or horizontal, this hyperbola is actually an oblique hyperbola. I'm going to hide these points here, but you can still see the vertices right, or you can see the center right there, and the vertices would be one one and negative one, negative one, right there. And so it turns out that many of the linear fractional rational functions we've dealt in the past are actually just translated and rotated hyperbolas. Okay, now one thing that's important about hyperbolas, as again, they really are just rational functions that have been rotated, they have asymptotes, like this graph right here has vertical asymptotes of y equals zero and x equals zero, right? Let's modify those. Pink seems like a good color, but let's make them dashed lines so that they look like asymptotes. This hyperbola has these asymptotes attached to it. It turns out that all hyperbolas have asymptotes as well. And so I want to show you what they look like going back to this vertical hyperbola right here. The asymptotes are actually found by the equation, you're going to take y minus k, you're going to take your slope m times x minus h, so they're going to go, they're points that go through the vertex, right? And you can kind of see where it should be. It's going to be kind of like something like this, but we can actually get, we don't have to guess what it is, that the asymptote is actually going to be b divided by a. So b was the number below the y coordinate, a is the number below the x coordinate, so it's rise over run. And so you can now see this matches up perfectly. The other one will look exact same, but it has negative slope, like so. And so every hyperbola has this set of asymptotes. And when you zoom out far away from your hyperbola, that is you can't tell the difference between the asymptotes and the hyperbola itself. It looks like just this big x on the screen here. And that's because that's what things do when they approach their asymptotes from on the grand scale. You can't see the difference. That's why I say that a hyperbola is not really two parabolas looking at each other. It just kind of looks that way on the small scale on the grand scale, though hyperbolas have an asymptotic behavior very different than a parabola. So this is the asymptotes of a vertical hyperbola. If we go back to the horizontal hyperbola, you'll see that with the same center h and k in the same parameters a and b, the same horizontal and vertical radii, the asymptotes actually turn out to be the exact same. So for any pair of asymptotes, there's actually two hyperbolas associated to it. There's the horizontal hyperbola, and then there's also this vertical hyperbola that sits in between them. And so that then talks about the three different types of conic sections, parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas. I do also want to mention one last thing that a hyperbola also has a notion of a focus. You have one focus over here and one focus right here, in which case there's a nice reflective property that if you have any particle that's going towards one, one of the foci, once it hits the hyperbola, it'll actually bounce off and go towards the other focus. And there are some interesting engineering applications of this focal principle. You could talk about like a hyperbolic telescope. The old Lauren Sonar system was based upon these things. The idea about triangulating the epicenter of an earthquake actually has to do with hyperbolas, which I don't necessarily want to go into all of that. I'm just happy with my students having a geometric appreciation of a hyperbola. So try some of these graphing questions for hyperbola in this week's quiz.


The only reason why co-bots are so compelling and why we wanted to do them is that we wanted also to stretch and to see these autonomous aspects because, and I'll explain this, up to then it seemed that people would show the robot and give a demonstration of the robot. I mean they would give the demonstration of the robot giving a tour in the museum, but there was no place where the robot existed as a thing and existed as part of the infrastructure and it would move by itself and it could be on its own.  And so I engaged on this proposal for NSF actually on explaining this concept of continuously having the robots in our environment, not just reliably navigating, reliably interacting with people, learning from people, changing environments, but always there, always. That was really the emphasis here. We went from robots occurring which they wanted to be all by themselves to have these robots move around the building asking press the elevator button, open the door and so forth. And we call these symbiotic autonomy because they were autonomous, yes, but they couldn't do it all. So they were in symbiosis in some sense with the people in the environment and actually they could ask for help by email. I'm here, come and help me. But there was this relief also and you cannot imagine the relief of believing, oh, we can do it, we can do it. Like these they can move, they can be in the building, they can actually do everything. That's it. It's just this concept that they ask for help. When I got to CMU and I told these to my student joy, Steve, Stephanie and Brian, they were not happy. They were not happy at all.  What is this thing about asking for help? I mean, they were supposed to be AI creatures and independent and autonomous being doing it all like humans do. And then I started thinking, no, I'm sorry. I mean, even humans, I need to ask for help from time to time. I need to ask for help for many things.  We are not omnipotent. I mean, I don't reach that high. I don't, I mean, we are in this business after all, intelligence is about asking for help. I mean, this is what this is all about. You figure it out a few things and the others you ask for help and then you learn and you figure out more and, I mean, but what in the world? So I started understanding more about intelligence and my students got convinced and it became very engaging. Everybody loved to see the robot moving around in front of the elevator and asking, can you press the elevator button? They could hold doors. They would get out of the way. It was an amazing accomplishment, I think.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Mark Gibson, Reed Fishler and Larry Bailey. Coming up on DTNS, should you trust Anchor's Yuffie cameras? We'll explain. The EU is going to let 5G onto airplanes and why I believe the children are the metaverse. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday December 2nd, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Cheng. You know, a lot of people think we're too Ohio-centric, but Roger and I are here to balance it out. So, you know, it's... Fight you. Guys know Ohio was awesome. I used to vacation in Ohio as a young lad. There you go. So yeah, I agree. Ohio is pretty great. Sarah Lane's out today, but we have got a great show. So let's start with the quick hits. Thursday around 2 a.m., a man traveling by Snow Machine in Northwest Alaska, wasn't Amos. He was in New York, activated his Apple iPhone Emergency SOS, the Apple Emergency Response Center and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator worked together with Alaska State Troopers and local volunteer search and rescue teams who did a lot of the local work to locate the man using the GPS coordinates provided by Apple. The man was found and brought to Cutsabue. No injuries were reported, and it's the first reported use of Apple's Emergency SOS feature for rescue purposes. Google announced it will start rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS group chats to the Google Messages beta over the next few weeks. Previously, only one-on-one RCS chats were end-to-end encrypted. RCS is a successor standard to SMS, which is supported by Android and most major phone carriers. It is not supported yet by Apple. I wonder if anyone's talked to them about them. You know, I think maybe. Yeah, another day, another game mastered by an algorithm. Researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind published a paper in the journal Science detailing Deep Nash. That is the name of an algorithm that can best human players at Stratego. Because a player cannot see what type of pieces an opponent has in Stratego, it's a much more incomplete information problem than, say, something like Texas Holden poker. Researchers trained Deep Nash with reinforcement learning, playing 5.5 billion games against itself. It's designed to find Nash equilibrium, if you ever watched A Beautiful Mind, you might have heard that, and a set of strategies such that no player benefits by changing strategy on their own. After 50 matches on the game platform project Gravon, Deep Nash now ranks third among all players since 2002. The payment processing company Stripe announced it's launching its own fiat to crypto on-ramp widget, which will let customers easily exchange dollars for cryptocurrency. Stripe will handle fraud, compliance, and know your customer checks as part of the transaction. These kinds of widgets are often used by cryptocurrency companies offering dApps and NFTs so that customers can use their preferred currency without involving a cryptocurrency exchange. You know, like FTX. Privacy-focused Brave software announced it has begun its test of privacy-preserving ads in its search engine. So Brave uses the content of your search query, what you typed in, the country the request appears to be coming from, I'm guessing by IP address, and then the device type. Is it a laptop? Is it an iPhone, etc. And they use those three types of information to determine what ad to show you. None of that information is stored. They don't build a profile. They just look at those three pieces of information, pick an ad, show it to you, and then throw it all away. If you don't even want that amount of tracking, and you don't want to see any ads, Brave Premium is now available for $3 a month. All right, let's talk about the future of being annoyed on airplanes. The BBC reports that the European Commission can provide 5G service aboard airplanes. The EU has reserved certain frequencies for airplane service since 2008. Member States have until June 30th to make the frequency bands available for in-flight 5G service. The EU uses different 5G frequencies than the US and at lower power, so they don't have the concerns that the 5G interfering systems like RADALT have with US carriers. Once those frequency bands are made available, flyers in service areas would not need to put phones in airplane mode.  In Europe? Possibly. My hope, my thought, my expectation even, might be that while 5G on the plane is going to allow you to not have to put it in airplane mode, you'll be able to just keep, you know, saying funny things on Twitter as you're waiting to take off all the way into the air that you will have policies put in place by the airlines about what you can do on those that would not disturb your neighbor.  Don't talk, and don't talk loudly on the phone and disturb the other passengers. I mean, do you think I'm naive to believe that? Well, Tom, I think it's going to be a combination of that and people actually talking on the phones because if you think about big international flights, particularly in first class and business class, those pods have phones in them. You are already able to make phone calls on airplanes. You have been able to do this for quite some time. It's ridiculously expensive to do it. And I think that that's going to be the barrier for a lot of folks. They're just not going to pay the price to have a, you know, a phone call in the air. And then when you're thinking about, you know, if this is just contained within the EU, those flights, you know, in many cases aren't very long. So those aren't the flights where people are going to just be having long phone calls. At least I don't think most people would have long phone calls on those types of flights at the expense that they would probably have to incur to have them. I don't know, man. I've been on some flights where folks just keep talking on the phone and the cabin door is closed and the flight attendants leaning over and like, please wrap up your call. Please wrap up your call. If they don't have to wrap up the call, right? If there's not a policy, like a security policy, right now they can be like, you have to have that thing in airplane mode. They don't have to do that. I feel like there's going to be some people take advantage and just talk from, from the minute they're on the plane till landing. So, so this is the question for me though. When you are using that in flight 5g is that's, that's a different bill. I think, you know, I don't know. I don't know how this is going to work in my cost more. Yeah, you're right. You know, how are you going to be built for that? Is that going to be like a roaming charge that you would get? I would imagine it would because I don't see airplanes or, you know, airlines doing this because they don't think they can make money from it. I mean, I think that this is something that we, you know, we can service our customers and give them something that they want and we can also build them ridiculously for it as we service them. No, you're right. It'll, it'll be a charge. There'll be certain carriers like T-Mobile right now. If you fly on Delta, you don't have to pay for your Wi-Fi, right? There'll be certain carriers will be like, oh, if you're on our carrier, you don't have to pay, but they may limit what you can do on it. They may not, they may not route phone calls from, from an airplane. And that would just take care of it right there. Stealth Dave points out nobody talks on the phone anymore anyway. So maybe we'll just age out of that because, you know, the younger you get, the less likely you are to not just text someone or send a meme instead of calling them. So, so yeah, maybe, maybe there's hope. Maybe the children are our future is what I'm trying to say. And the other thing too, I remember, and this is back in like the blackberry and palm pod days, people would freak out when you would even use your phone on a plane, let alone be connected to data. And over time, we just kind of get used to it to where it is just a thing. Like you said with T-Mobile, you can just, you know, you just hop on a plane and you still have data. You can't make phone calls, but you still have data. I think this may just be an extension of that that over time, people will simply just get used to it. Cause I think about trains. People talk on the phone all the time on trains and it's not terribly disruptive. I mean, you know, you will have a time or two where the porter asked to go say, Hey, can you quiet down? But you already have that on plane. So I don't really see this being a big issue. Now, I think you talked to me down, social norms will develop where, yes, will you have the person who talks too loud? Sure. And then the flight attendant will come over and ask them to, you know, please keep it down. Just like you would if somebody was talking to the other person in the seat next to them too loud and disturbing other passengers. All right. All right. Overall, I think it's a good thing though. I don't want that to get lost. I'm looking forward to being able to just have 5g service and use everything on my phone the way I normally would without having to switch over to wifi and some things work and some things don't. And I won't be able to get it until we're 10,000 feet in the air. Like it's all good stuff to me. Right. That is, I think it's a good trade off. Yeah. Wall Street Journal's Sarah E. Needleman and Sarah Donaldson wrote an article called Kids Don't Want Money Anymore. Virtual currencies have become many families' preferred way to pay allowance. Can you convert this to Robux? Now, that's that's the subtitle in the subtitle. It starts with an anecdote about parents paying kids an allowance for doing chores, and then the kids handing it right back and asking them to convert it to Robux. There's some other anecdotes talking about the freedom kids have to buy virtual items. One example being a virtual Louis Vuitton purse using Robux and without needing the parents to drive them to a store to do it. Before you get outraged, virtual items are way less expensive than real life counterparts. That Louis Vuitton purse costs less than $5 and games like Robux have strong parental controls that help prevent out of control spending. Parents can down, excuse me, parents can control the money supply just like they would with a cash allowance and kids still get lessons in how to spend wisely. Yeah, so it won't cost your kids a lot in the words of Jesse to look good in your Louis Louis. That's good to know. But there's a lot of children doing this. About half of Robux's 60 million daily users are under the age of 13. There's also a lot of money for this. Roblox revenues have grown 600% in the past three years to $1.9 billion last year.  It also makes almost all that money off of selling Robux. It doesn't have a lot of other certainly not anything close to bringing in as much money as Robux does. And Roblox isn't the only one doing this. Minecraft has mine coins. Fortnite has V bucks. Pokemon Go has Poke coins. There's even a company called Moonbug that sells NFTs of kids show characters from Coco Melon and Blippi. Last year, children 12 to 17 spent an average of $92 a month online. That's twice as much as they did two years earlier. Rob, I know your kids are grown now. How do you think you would deal with this if you still had youngins? No differently than how I dealt with it when I had youngins because the story is about Roblox and it's about kids wanting virtual currency to do things inside of these games. But when it comes to allowance, number one, most kids when they first start getting it, they don't understand the concept and the value of money. They just want things. They just want stuff. And in this case, if they're playing this game, and I think a lot of them got into it because they were kind of captive audience inside all the time over the pandemic, then oh, they're stuffing that game. I want it. So it's not about I want my allowance in this way. It's just that I want stuff in that game. And if my allowance allows me to get it, then so be it. So I don't see this as being any different than if your kids are in the go-kart racing, they want to use their allowance on go-kart parts. If they are into pogo sticks, they want to use their allowance on pogo sticks. I think it's just whatever your children are into. That's what they want to use their allowance on. Yeah. Kids want stuff, right? Sometimes it's real stuff. Sometimes these days it's virtual stuff. Roger, you've got youngins. What do you think of this? Honestly, when I first heard about it, this really reminded me of what they used to do when I went back in the olden days in school. When we used to sell magazines, we would collect not money, but we would collect price points. And then when you got a certain amount, you could spend them on a specific thing, whether it was a little radio or a cassette tape album of whatever band you wanted to listen to. It's just a way of taking a sort of value toward an object, whether it's in-game or whatever, and then making it so that it's just one step away from an actual money. I think we'll see a lot more of this, because they've been doing this for kids in some way or fashion for the past 40 years, whether you collect certain stickers, you collect coupons, you collect something that builds up in value that you then exchange for whatever the store offers. Bazooka Joe comics from the bubblegum that you sent in. They do it for adults when they used to let you use your points to buy things from the credit card store, buy yourself a GPS device. They still do that. That's not a gone thing. I'm thinking of Ralphie and all the stuff he had to save up to get the decoder ring from Ovaltine in a classic store. You said 40 years, this has been going on since advertising has existed. And children were the target of it. That makes me think that the point of the story may be a little bit off. The fact that kids want virtual items is just this is the latest thing that kids want. And what the allowance is, is going to let them understand how to allocate resources. If those resources are in game, I don't think there's any problem with that. You just need the parents to understand what's going on in Roblox. So there's a little learning curve there. There are also, I think, some fair concerns about things like blind boxes and such like in games. I think Roblox is really good about managing. Fortnite has gotten better about managing. So you have to be careful what platform the kids are on. But the real popular ones like Minecraft and Roblox are pretty responsible with that stuff. So my way of thinking the article here is pointing out more to me that the children are already in the metaverse. If anyone wants to know what the metaverse is going to be, look at the 12 to 17 year olds. They're living in it. They're going to grow up in it. They're going to change it as they become adults. They already kind of are as some of them have entered their 20s and nobody's going to build a metaverse. The children are already living in it and it's just going to evolve from there. That's what this tells me. No, I think that's a really good point. And I know like in lately in the news, everybody has been on Mark Zuckerberg about you really missed with the metaverse. And it's like, no, she's just really early. He's got to let these kids grow up who are actively going to be the ones using it and kind of driving where the technology goes. And it's going to be very, very consumer driven. Because what I noticed is that the kids, the parents are connected to it through their kids spending by engaging and managing what they can spend. And I think actually this is the one thing I thought was really cool.  But now you know, right? There's kind of parental controls. Yeah, exactly. And so I think there should be a little less resistance to it because parents do have kind of a say that they have a throttle control on where the spending is and where it goes. Yeah, Stoic Squirrel is asking if the kids are using VR or are we using a broad meaning of metaverse? I've always thought the connection between VR and metaverse is just tangential. You can have a metaverse without VR and there's plenty of VR that's not metaverse. They may or may not interact. We're talking about the metaverse in the sense of a virtual world that they live in and value and want to spend $5 on a Louis Vuitton virtual person. If they access it by VR, great. AR, great. Phone, whatever. It's still the virtual landscape that they're treating as real. And if meta wants to build the metaverse, they better start getting 15, 16, 17-year-olds into whatever they think that's going to be and Facebook is not it. Right. Well, they better allow you to take that Louis Vuitton bag that you bought with Roblox and move it to another part of the metaverse. If we're really going to get a broad metaverse, we're going to have to start seeing that. That's the next thing to look for. It's like, you know, Minecraft and Roblox come into some agreement where you can move things back and forth. I'm not saying that's going to happen anytime soon, but if you start to see, talk about that. Metaverse federation. Yeah. Yeah. The fediverse. Wait, we already took that. Mastodon has that. Never mind. Hey, folks, if you have a thought about this, if you're like, hey, that sparks a thought, I wonder if it could be this. Send it to us. Email it. We want your email. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Anchor offers cameras under the Ufi brand. Ufi cameras promise that all recorder footage is encrypted on device and sent straight to your phone. And only you have the key to decrypt and watch the footage, aka in encrypted. The company cites ISO 2701 and ISO 2701 certification from the British Standards Institute for Information Security Management and Privacy Information Management. So it was a little surprising, given Anchor's good reputation and all of this due diligence they've done to get certified, get independently audited, when security researcher Paul Moore claimed that Ufi cameras stored faces without encryption and streamed video without authentication. Moore's statement was followed by SEC Consult, publishing a summary of two years of their research, showing that thumbnails of recorded Ufi images were transferred to an AWS instance. Ufi responded by saying, yes, those thumbnails are transferred. They are restricted by account logins and the URLs for the thumbnails expire after 24 hours unless you share them somewhere. They clarified to ours, Technica, that the thumbnails are only sent off device if you choose mobile push notification images. You don't have to do that. You can choose text notifications, but if you choose image notification, they have to get them to you and that's how they get them to you and they are server side encrypted. Ufi has updated its setup language to make that clear. They said, yep, our setup language could have been better. They've already updated that. If you choose image based notifications, which you don't have to, those images will need to leave your local drive and briefly be hosted in the cloud. So that one kind of makes sense and they've addressed what I think was the problem, which is the unclear language and setup. But there's more. Yeah, but more also claimed that he found that he could remotely start and monitor Ufi cameras through VLC without authentication or encryption. He said he couldn't release a proof of concept, but another security researcher called Wasabi said that he had posted about the problem and worked with the Verge to demonstrate the vulnerability. Now, the Verge says there were two ways that they used to get that URL that you would need in order to monitor a camera that wasn't yours. The first way you would need to log in with the username and password that was in control of that camera, which I mean, you could fish that, hack it, whatever. And then there was an undisclosed technique to get the URL. So it wasn't easy to get to you had to know how to get it, but you could get it and that would show a camera stream. Ufi has since made that technique not work. The Verge says we can't make that work anymore. They did a change in the website. So you can't even even if you get into somebody's account, you can't get that URL. However, the URL included the camera's serial number in base 64, which you could just uncalculate. If you found the serial number, you could calculate base 64 version of it. A UNIX timestamp, that's easy. A token and a four digit random hex. Now, it's possible for someone to recreate that URL without having to go into your account. They would have to have the serial number of the camera. That might be harder to get. They'd either have to get physical access to your camera, trick you into telling them it somehow, but they'd have to get that. So there's some effort involved there. They would have to brute force the hex number, but it's only four digits. So that's fairly easy. The Verge said also it did not appear the token in the URL was validated. They were able to just change it to whatever they wanted and the URL still worked. Thankfully, you fee serial numbers are long, complex and non sequential. So they're not easy to guess. It would probably take some social engineering to get it. The Verge also said that these only work if the camera is already awake. An anchor denies that there is a problem. He told the Verge and ARS Technica that it is not possible to start and monitor a stream and watch live footage from you a you fee camera without a third party player like VLC. And it told ARS Technica that it disagrees with the accusations and encourages customers to contact customer support if they have concerns. Still, Android Central has removed all of its recommendations for you fee cameras. I think the thumbnail image was a misunderstanding. They fixed it. That one doesn't bother me. I think this vulnerability is probably not going to affect 99% or more of you fee users. If you're a high value target, you probably shouldn't be using you fee cameras in this way anyway. What bugs me and I know what's going on here, which is anchor is saying, yeah, we know this is a possible vulnerability, but virtually no one's going to take advantage of it. It's really difficult for someone to use. So we're not worried about it. Why should we spend time and money fixing it? However, they wouldn't have to spend a whole lot of time and money to repair their customer relationship if they just validated that token or explain why that token can't or shouldn't be validated. But just saying this isn't a problem I don't think is going to wash at this point. Yeah. So like you said, this is not going to affect very, very many people, but it could affect some and the fixed it will cost anchor something. I think that something is less than the PR hit that they're taking if they just are not. It's not a big deal. We're not going to worry about it because people are going to say, how I can go buy the anchor is it's a big brand, but it's not the only brand. There are other there are other cameras out there that do similar functions to this. So they've got to be real careful in how they walk this line. And I wouldn't be shocked if they come back and they decide you ever just going to go ahead and you know, authenticate these tokens. Yeah. And again, I don't think it should be lost on folks. How much effort it would be if I wanted to spy on Rob, I'd have to trick him into giving me the serial number or sneak into his house and copy the serial number down or hack into a computer where the serial number was stored. Like it would take effort. This is this is not an easy hack. And I feel like anchor could just make it go away by validating that token. Maybe I'm overlooking something there. But if that token in the URL was validated and you couldn't guess it right now, it doesn't you don't even have to guess it. You just put something else in that space in the URL and it works. All you need is that serial number and then brute force the hex number. Maybe make that hex numbers long longer to to provide a little extra security. In fact, making that hex number a whole lot longer would just reduce this possibility so close so much closer to zero. That might be enough. But I don't know. It seems to me that yes, they're not wrong. This is a very low probability thing. But now that it's out there and people react into it, a little bit of effort to address it probably would go a long way. This is not one of those times where any publicity is good publicity. You know, acre needs to you know, they need to get in front of this and the fix, although it will cost them something will be less costly than the lack of sales of these devices if they don't fix it. All right, folks, we know flight delays and cancellations are a frustrating price to pay for traveling. And we know a lot of you are traveling sometimes for the first time in a couple of years these days. But Chris Christensen is here with a tip that might just help ease that burden. This is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute. There's a new resource that's come out for US domestic carriers from the US Department of Transportation called the airline customer service dashboard. And what it shows you is by airline by carrier, what kind of opportunities will you have if there are cancellations or controllable delays? And so will they for instance, rebook you on a partner airline? Will they give you a meal cash? Will they give you complimentary hotel accommodations if they cancel your flight? So check that out. The easiest way to find it is to Google airline customer service dashboard. I would take it with a grain of salt because I know that I've twice been stranded this year. And by one of the airlines who I shan't call out JetBlue and they did not offer me any hotel credits and they did not do what this document says that they would do, but take it with a grain of salt, but it's a useful resource. This is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler. I think what Chris is trying to say Rob is your frequent flyer mileage may vary. He said they're very eloquently. He didn't call any companies out except for what? Except for the one that sounded like he sneezed to me. Do it. Yeah, I don't know. Are you traveling? JetBlue. Yeah, you know what? That was a sneeze. That was a sneeze. Yeah, that was a bless you. Thank you, sir. Chris Christensen. All right, let's check out the mailbag. So this message comes from Jason Pallado where he says, the other day my slack blew up on me. It's vital to my work. Turns out it was because I use <IP_ADDRESS>. That's I believe that it's cloud flare changing over to open DNS, fix the issue. I was wondering, do the DTNS team use a specific DNS or stick with the default one through their ISP? I know for me, I use the Google one. What is that, you know, 808.8888. So I use that. I've used cloud flare before. My gut tells me that this is not a cloud flare issue. It's just a cloud for may have had an issue at the time that he, you know, that he had. Yeah, they're pretty reliable usually. Yeah, I'm sure if Jason switched back to <IP_ADDRESS>, slack would work fine. I also understand that moment where you're like, I need slack to work right now. And I'm not going to wait for the fix that I'm switching to open DNS. I get that I use <IP_ADDRESS>. And I had forgotten. I had to go look it up because I'd forgotten what I had put in there. And I have not had issues with that. So yeah, it's another your mileage may vary situation. But yeah, I think most of us here, actually, I think it was Roger, were you saying you use <IP_ADDRESS>. I think he was saying that. Yeah, I use the Google. I used to use open DNS, but I found Google just to have less issues over like a eight year period. So if anybody doesn't know what we're talking about, you can go into your network settings, either on your computer or sometimes in your router, people do it. And say, when you're looking up a domain name, don't go to my ISP to look it up.  And one of the reasons you might want to do that is because ISPs sometimes track and monetize that information. Other times people are like, you know what, I just want a more reliable domain name system, one that's putting in all the latest DNS second security things. It's not something you have to do, but a lot of people do it just as one more step towards being secure. And they're easy to remember. All ones always. They're just easy to remember. Indeed. All right. Len Peralta has been busily illustrating today's show. And Len, I'm very curious to find out what you drew for us today. You know, I'm just getting old.   But hey, why can't we, why can't we do something fun like this? This is a, an image of a TV show that's coming out, I would say, probably January 1 called Meet the Rebellionaires.  Yeah, they've got their virtual Balenciagas and tuxedos. Oh, man. Yeah. Maybe, maybe not the Balenciagas, but the Louis Vuitton's for sure. Yeah, if you, if you want to take a look at this, if you want to actually get this print, you can go to my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len, where if you become a backer, you automatically get this print or you can go the traditional way and go to my online store and get it there, which by the way, I am selling my custom drawn holiday cards. And I've got an open commission line. So, so hit me up and, and, and get, you know, celebrate the holidays. There's, there's three levels. You could have three levels of Len in your holiday. If you're, if you're a DTNS patron, you may have already got your holiday card drawn by Len. You can also go to our store and buy holiday cards designed by Len. But the best way to do it is to go to Len yourself and say, draw exactly what I want for the holidays on this card. I love the three levels of Len. That's like, it's not quite Dante's Inferno, but it's close. It gets you out of Dante's Inferno. Exactly. Correct. Yeah. Don't let your holidays turn into Dante's Inferno. No, that's, that's probably good advice for anybody. So, and so that's LenPeraltaStore.com. LenPeraltaStore.com. Fantastic. Thank you, Ray. Also, thanks to our brand new boss, Petey, who just started backing us on Patreon. Thank you, Petey. Yeah. Petey gets it. Petey is a, it's a wave. I would call it a Patreon wave sweeping across the nation that Petey is the leading edge of right now. You could be you tomorrow, Patreon.com slash DTNS. Patrons, stick around for the extended show. We are going to continue along with the folks. I'm sorry. I'm trying to find, I changed my sound board around and now I can't find anything. All right. Here we go. We are going to stick around and we're going to talk some more.  You can also watch the show live Monday through Friday, 4pm Eastern, 2100 UTC. Find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live back on Monday. 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Hello guys, welcome back to my channel. I am filming a simple intro because it is almost midnight and I realized I didn't film an intro for my new video. I am doing an IKEA hacks videos today and IKEA hacks in this video are super, super amazing. Like they are kind of random when you put them together. Like they kind of are for different areas in your home. Like one could be for the living room, one could be for the bedroom. But at the same time, I think that you can definitely like universally use these around your home. And I think you guys are going to love these. So if you are not already make sure to subscribe to my channel. Click that red subscribe button below and make sure to click the bell right next to it. I post brand new home decor and DIY content every single week, but let's just jump into today's IKEA. All right, so first thing is that I need to brush up on my Swedish apparently because this is called the Hemgidjord containers. You get two of them in a pack from IKEA. And I'm starting off with these as the base for this hack. And I'm also going to be using some of the Macrame cord I featured in my last Amazon video. I'll link it below again for you guys. But I'm basically going to start off by cutting these into strips. And I'm cutting a total of 12 strips. Six of them are going to be shorter and then six of them are going to be longer. Here are the exact measurements I used. So the reason that we do this is because the center sections of our weaving is going to be the shorter sections. And then the outermost sections are going to be the longer ones. You're going to see what I'm talking about in a second. So grab two shorter ones and two longer ones and tie them in a knot together.  And these are kind of like a hard wicker material so you can create a hole very easily by just twisting some scissors. Pull through all four strands and then make sure that the two shorter strands are in the center and your two longer strands are on either the left and right side. So what we're going to be doing is creating a spiral knot, as I like to call it. It's probably not even called that. But basically how you have to do this, this is, like I always say, a little bit more easier if you just look at what I'm doing. You're going to take your right strand and pass it over the two on the center and then take your left strand and then go over the top of it, under and through the back side. And from here on out, you're basically going to be repeating those steps until you have your desired length of the actual macrame. I did about 10 inches on mine because I also wanted to add a bead and then I also just wanted some of the rope to be like very free and not macrame. So I did a total of 10 inches of this spiral macrame and as you go, it'll start spiraling. So you're going to kind of have to twist your tray as you actually macrame because it's just a little bit easier like that.  Once you're all done with that, I took one of these Amazon wood beads. These are wide hold wood beads. That was such a hard set of words to say. And I'm going to put all four strands through it. And as you can see, it fits perfectly on top. I just liked the way that this looked. I thought I added a really nice little handmade touch to this and you're going to be repeating this process on three sides. As you could see here, I did three sides. You could do four if you wanted it to be a little bit more sturdy. And then what I am doing is taking the smaller tray that it comes with as well and doing the same process of just punching through three holes and then stringing through the three sections on the backside. Make sure to tie knots at the top too. So that way that it has a little like area for the tray to rest on. You guys can probably see what it looks like here. It's just basically going to be a hanging tray. And then once I got to the end, I actually went ahead and I just wrapped all 12 strands in a loop and then I took one of the longest strands and wrapped it around there to kind of just create a very finished off loop. So I repeated this all the way up, wrapped it around. You can tie this off once you get to the end, snip all your extra threads. And I think this is such a cute little plant holder. You can put big plants on this, collection of small plants, whatever your heart desires. Do this Swedish words, not that hard. We're using the Stefan chair. I'm probably pronouncing that wrong, but it is the cheapest chair at IKEA. It is $25 and it looks like this. It is a dark, dark espresso brown chair. And what I started off by doing was building that or while my friend actually built it for me because he was hanging out with me. And then I took some of the same exact macrame cord that I used in the first project. There are actually a lot of macrame cord projects in this video. And I took off a long section and I'm going to be doing this kind of like weaving technique that I've been doing a lot on my channel lately. I swear, guys, I'm going to stop it soon but I'm just obsessed with it at the moment. And all I'm doing is going in and out, in and out and wrapping around the entire backside of this chair. This is something that's a little bit more easier for you to see, like I always say, if you just look at what I'm doing. So I'm basically going in and out of every other bar to get this kind of rope to sit on the chair back. And it's very repetitive. So you're just going to go all the way up. And if you do run out of cord at one point, you can tie it off and then start again, just try to make sure that you hide your knot on the inside and then start off again. As you can see, I had to do so here. The knot is on the left side. You can kind of see it a little bit there but it's pretty much the head in it. And you're going to be repeating the process going all the way up to the top. You could leave it like half done if you want to or you can just do those center three bars. But in the end, I swear to you guys, this $25 chair looks like it could have been like a West Elm $100 or even $200 chair. I love the way that it turned out. And I think if you do this to a large table, like with a set of eight and you really took your time, it can look so incredibly amazing. And I'm really happy with the outcome. Jumping right into project number three, I'm using the compliment scarf holder. These are woven ring scarf holders. I've actually used this in a past IKEA hacks video but today I wanted to create a wall hanging with some assorted yarns. So I pulled some yarns out of my collection and this is super, super simple and definitely something you can customize to your own space. You can also add things like fabric strips or different textures of strings like maybe hemp rope or something like that. But what I did was I cut different strands of yarns and I like to vary the thicknesses because I feel like it adds a lot of texture. I love this green one too because it has different colors in it and it also has different thicknesses in it. So basically what I did was I just took them, cut them into strips and then looped them and then pulled the ends through the loop and just looped them all across the loops. That was a lot of loops but I think you guys can kind of tell what I'm doing. I'm looping them everywhere, just filling up the entire bottom section. I was originally going to actually fill the entire thing up and I thought this was such a great base for a project like this because when I was thinking to myself like how people make these yarn hangings, I'm always like, what base did they use to create this? This is such a great base that is super, super affordable. I think this is like $5 an IKEA to create a yarn hanging like this and you can even pull the yarns off in the future and maybe do a new color palette if you wanted to. I actually stuck to just doing the bottom section of this because I thought it looked really, really cool having some exposed rings at the top but you can fill it in entirely if you want to do so and that finishes off your wall hanging. Oh my gosh guys, this is the one I've been waiting for. I'm using this shelf unit, actually two of them. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that. I think we're over me trying to pronounce these names but this is a legit hack. It's not really that much DIY'd but I am hacking the system on one of the items. You'll see what I'm talking about. So I'm going to unpack everything from both boxes to start off with and I'm going to be taking the red portions and fully spray painting them white. So here I am naked, just kidding. I'm actually not but it looks like I am.  It was super sunny outside. I still don't understand why Los Angeles decides to be 98 degrees in the fall time but I guess it honestly helps with the drawing process so I can't be that mad at it. So I went ahead and I did a lot of coats of spray paint on all of this to get every single spot of red fully covered. I also ended up going in with like a sealant coat in the end but I forgot to film that portion. So here comes the kind of hack portion. So what you're going to start off by doing is actually assembling one of the units exactly as shown in the instructions. So exactly how IKEA sells it. You're going to be assembling it exactly as it's shown. As I've said nine times now. You probably understand what I'm doing. So if you purchase this, you're going to know what to do. Just follow the instructions. And for the second one, you're going to be assembling it the same exact way but all you have to do is actually just flip the shelves 180 degrees. So you're just going to basically flip them to where the mounting kind of holes are now going to be on the front side because what you're going to want to do with this is actually be able to rotate it 180 degrees and have it be flipped. And you're going to see exactly what I'm talking about. This just makes it so that you have the mounting holes. You could do this if you wanted to but the thing that would happen if you were to assemble both as the instructions would show is that you'd actually be able to see the little metal bits on the underside. So this just allows it to be very clean from all angles. You're going to assemble that with a screwdriver. The shape we're kind of going after is this shape here. So this is what we're going to be mounting it on the wall like. Now I do want to give you guys a disclaimer. I mounted it on the wall using some string hanging over the banister and then I attached them together with some string as well because honestly I didn't want to drill it into the wall because I want to use this in someone's future apartment makeover but as you can see, you can mount it on the wall perfectly. And that was my video for today. I hope that you guys enjoyed those Ikea hacks and I hope that you guys can find maybe one or two or even four of those projects. Very useful and handy for your guys' apartment or bedroom or whatever space is that you want to make over. Very universal as well. So you can kind of change things to fit your color palette or whatever you want to do with those but without further ado, I'm not going to keep you for much longer. So make sure to subscribe to my channel. I post brand new home decor and DIY content every single week here on Lone Fox. You can also follow Lone Fox on Instagram. It is Lone Fox home. For more behind the scenes type of stuff, I post stories over there, polls over there. I interact with you guys a lot over there. So make sure to follow me as well over there. And lastly, if you are new to my channel, I have done multiple Ikea hacks in the past. I'll put a card up there with a couple other videos for you guys to check out after this one because you're going to love those ones as well. And I hope you guys have an amazing rest of your day. Happy Halloween. If you happen to be watching this right before Halloween because I think this is going up right around like October 20, whatever tomorrow was like six or seventh or something. So I hope you guys have a great Halloween and I will catch you all in my next video. Bye guys.


Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this loaded gift card holder I guess. It's kind of a card in a card. I wanted a way to give a gift card but just not in as you know the normal envelopes and I've made a gift card kind of you know cards in the past but I yeah I just was playing around and come up with this. So it fits in a six by six envelope so it's a nice square shape. You could shrink this down to a five by five four by four and you could go big if you like to do eight by eight size cards as well. So like I said this is six by six and it opens up and it stands up nicely like so. So this is nice for obviously if you're sending gifts in the post and you want to combine the card and the gift card all together then I thought this was just a nice way to present it. So the idea is that the gift card is on this one here so when you flip it over I haven't brought my gift card yet. I've got two to get but I do have this little gift card size card and just with a glue dot you will stick that onto there okay and then obviously it will just slide in the pocket in the front. Let me take that off now so we know what we're doing and it will just slide in your little pocket there and you can just see there just how pretty that is. I've used the Jolly Holiday collection with the papers and just fussy cut these kind of little images the 25th and that they're all on different paper packs and just continued that same mat on the back there. This one's lovely so all those trees how they're all shine and then also within the pocket is a four by four card so this I then thought I would then write to you know Merry Christmas I'll stamp something in there and just write a nice little message so it was kind of all combined together so they can have obviously that can be on display and then that can also be next to it if they wanted or they can just keep it all together but I just thought this was just yeah just another nice little way to present gift cards and cards and obviously you know easy to post so I do need to get some string around my ribbon there on that front of that card but I want a nice kind of silver wired kind of string so I need to get some just to finish that off but again on the front there I've just put this on some foam adhesive and yeah just that's what it is I think it's really quite sweet so I'm going to pop that to one side okay so you're going to need just make sure everything's in frame to make your card you need a piece that is six by 12 okay and then along the 12 inch side you want to score at three and at nine okay and then you're going to need for your mini little card here so this is four by four I just cut this from a piece of eight by four cardstock scored along the eight inch side at four fold it in half and it gives you that the mat on top of this is three and three and three quarters squared okay it just gives you that nice frame then all of kind of the mats and layers and bits and pieces so for the pocket inside this piece here you need a piece that is you want it to be just shy mine is six but I'm going to take a slither off of it on my trimmer okay but you know just if you're cutting it you want you know yeah I mean five and seven eighths is too much you want that kind of in between you literally just want to take a slither off which I'll do in a minute but that's by three inches then you will have your mat to go on top of that which is two and three quarters by this is five and three quarters and that is going to stick on top like so then to map your main piece on the back so this big mat at the back there that is a piece of five and three quarters squared it's really I love this one again I don't know if you can see but it's got like a shine and a texture all of the white reindeer's they all sparkle and then for the triangle pieces that I've got here on each of these kind of side panels you want that depends you may need four pieces if you've got if you've got a paper that's directional so this here was directional for this one with the Christmas trees so I actually needed four pieces because of the direction you're cutting obviously I can't turn that upside down because it just it doesn't work whereas with these ones we'll be able to because it doesn't matter which way this paper goes so if it's directional paper you'll need four pieces of this size but if it's just patterned like this and it doesn't matter then you only need two and they are two and three quarters by five and three quarters okay then to make the kind of little gift tag part you need a piece of card stock which is two and three quarters by four and a half and then you want these mats to go on top which are two and a half by four and a quarter and I've got two so that's the one on the front which is going to be the decoration and that's the one on the back which I'll add the little glue dart with the gift card itself on now I've also just die cut this little circle from my punch here which is it's about a one inch yeah one inch circle there and I'm basically just going to stick that on the top there just to finish off the gift tag really you can see there how it looks again it's got that little button on the top there looks really really nice and that is it okay so let's just get rid of that scoreboard okay so first of all with your actual main card you just want to burnish those score lines just make sure everything's nice and straight and it all lines up then what we're going to be doing okay so at the moment we've just got a gate fold card what we're going to do next is we're going to cut from say the left hand side we're going to cut from the top left down to the bottom corner and then on this side we're going to cut from this one down to this bottom corner and the easiest way to do this is just with my trimmer so I'm going to flip this one over so this is the one on the left and I'm going to pop it on an angle I'm lining up the score line here in my where my trimmer will close or where it will cut and then I've got the point of the card just down here you can just see it there so just make sure you get those points perfectly lined up and then just cut that piece off okay and then we've got a nice side there and then this one so you're always going from the top of the card and then across down okay so again pop it in top of the card with that score line make sure they're both lined up like so obviously keep these pieces that handy for scraps but now we have because we need the trimmer again in a minute but we have that style to the card okay then with those two pieces that are for these we're going to now make these triangles so these were your uh two and three quarters by five and three quarters what you want to do is on one of them you want to cut from the top left to the bottom right so that's what I'm going to do on this one like so okay and on the other one you want to cut from the top right down to the bottom left okay like so okay so that's all of those pieces so now just leave that one there I can get rid of my trimmer we can start sticking everything together so first of all I'm going to stick this one down so this is our main mat and that's going to go right in the middle of the card there like so and again I absolutely love love love love this print so I'm going to get this one stuck down first okay so just put some wet glue on there and you should have a nice one-eighth of an inch border and with that pocket piece here this is the one you just want to take a very small amount off and the reason I say so is if you sit that inside the card now as it is and fold over the sides they will catch it just won't let you see there it just doesn't quite go so I'm just going to cut the slither off so it's not quite one-eighth of an inch you can just see what I've taken off there so now if I sit that one back over the top you still want it to cover that mat but before you stick it down just make sure that your sides go over see again it's still a little bit I can still afford to take a tiny bit more off and the good thing about this trimmer is you can take the smallest amount I mean look at that without even buckling this was the best investment I've done in a long time I absolutely adore that trimmer well guillotine should I say so now yeah see now that's perfect because what happens is it actually pushes it slightly and then they both fold down so you they're still bucking a little bit there you can probably still take a little bit more off there go perfect when you close down the side you want this to still stay flat okay so next I'm going to grab some of my red tape and just run a strip along three sides of the card okay and then again very carefully line up the bottom make sure you get this you know perfectly lined up and then the rest will kind of all fall into place like so this one here I've already popped some adizabon I'll just show you what I've done there so again just with those fussy cut images season's greetings I've got some stockings the same little reindeer's there and then the 25th of December and like I said loads of times before if you've got paper packs and they come with those kind of you know gosh what's going on here there we go and they come with you know the little kind of die cuts and stickers and things like that they're brilliant you know it's really good value for money because you don't have to then go out and buy more embellishments to match you've got everything already there so take those off well this one's stuck to me okay and then this one will sit nicely if you line it up with this mat okay so the side of it I'm lining up with that because it's it's that detail making sure things like that kind of all sit together that just finish the whole card there we go you see now all of this runs nicely together and it all still folds over perfectly but now we've got a really nice little pocket so I've got my little card that I'd already done so that can already go in there just sit that down a little bit more there we go like so so I like that because it all matches then we've got these pieces here so I'm going to use my wet glue to stick these down but basically you just want to find which one's going to go where so that one like so now it should fit perfectly if it's a little bit see I don't think that's going to get a little bit tight at the top so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take another just a tiny little piece off as it gets closer to the top so I'm actually just going to keep the bottom lined up can you see if I bring that up I've actually just got a bit of it hanging out here and that's what I just want to cut away so now I sit that one back on there I just want more of a white yet so now I've got a much nicer consistent white border all the way around on that piece there so anyway you want that one and then you'll have one to go inside there and then that one to go there and then this one will go inside there so I've got all four and again as I said before if you're using a card stock for your base that isn't very strong cards like this where there's lots of mats and layers are perfect because they actually then give you the strength that your card needs so don't worry if you're starting off with you know maybe so it's like 160 gsm you know 80 pound card stock something like that it will strengthen so I am now going to go and get all of those triangle pieces stuck down okay so that's now all stuck down how lovely does that look it comes together so quickly I really do like this so next just need to finish off your little kind of gift tag at part so we need to stick all of that together now I have rounded off just the top kind of two corners there I haven't done the bottom or by all means obviously you can and you might want to you know do this different you might want to have a bigger you know gift card section or you know you might put a couple of cards in here it's entirely up to you but I'm just going to stick these down and then I've just popped a little bit of glue just on half of that little circle down just stick that down into the middle and the button just gives it a little bit of texture with a dimension just something fun to look at and that is now ready yeah put on the front to go inside like so so you can add some ribbon there if you want as well but I just love that that's kind of a gift all together there you know you've got your card you've got your present it all fits nicely into an envelope obviously it's a little bit bulky just a little bit there so you would have to pay in the UK we would have to pay probably as a large letter price for that but I think it's lovely I think it's a really really nice way to present a gift card and it would work perfectly obviously for any occasion so for birthdays christnings weddings you know lots of people ask for you know you know money vouchers and cards and stuff now these days so yeah I think this card style would work well for lots of occasions so there you have it guys I hope you like this loaded gift card thing oh you'll see what I ended up calling it anyway but yeah I really like it if you are new as well to the channel and you've missed the paper packs that I am using this is the one here so this is jolly holidays so it's getting down now I haven't got too many bits left so I love it really really fun and again all the links and everything will be shared over on my blog and 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