So, Ted, how do you see all those stars and things in the sky? Well, these objects give out light, but lots of different colours of light, including lots of colours that we can't see. Wait, there are colours of light that we can't see? Yes, so we see all the colours of the rainbow, from red to yellow to green to blue and purple, but there are other colours too. So you've heard of x-rays, and these let you take pictures of the bones inside your body, but we can't actually see the x-rays. So x-rays are a colour of light that we can't see. Another colour of light we can't see is microwave light. So you'll have heard of microwaves. Microwaves are used to cook food in microwave ovens. I look at another colour of light which we call gamma rays. Some objects in the night sky give out this colour of light, and we want to learn more about these things by looking at the gamma rays they give out. So, is it these gamma rays that you take pictures of? Yes, in a way, but not quite. These gamma rays travel through space and reach the Earth, but when they touch the Earth's sky, they interact with it. When the gamma ray interacts with the sky, it makes a lot of particles which have loads of energy and are really excited, and these rain down onto the ground from the sky. So, what are particles?  When we put them all together, make up everything you can see, like the ground, clouds, even you and me. Oh, OK. Wow. So yes, these particles move really fast. Now, the fastest thing in the universe is light. It's so speedy that in just one second, it could go around the Earth seven and a half times. That's amazing. Light can go at this super-fast speed when it travels through empty space. But when light goes through air, it travels a little bit slower because the air is in the way, so slows it down a little. Now, these mega-fast particles I was talking about earlier, they go so fast that they travel faster than light in air. And these really fast-moving particles are so speedy that they make a flash of blue light, which we call Turenkov light, after the scientists who found it. The effect is just like the wake of a boat. When the boat is moving, it makes waves. The waves move out from the boat in a circle shape. As the boat moves faster, the waves in front of the boat start to get all bunched up. Then, when the boat moves through the water faster than the speed of the waves it is making, it creates a wake. This means you get a V shape which follows behind the boat. We call this a shock wave. For gamma rays, those super-fast particles that are made when the gamma rays interact with the sky travel faster than light does in air. This makes a shock wave of light that we call Turenkov light. The Turenkov light is what my friends and I look for. I didn't realise so much was going on in the sky above us. That's really interesting, Ted. Yeah, really interesting. I didn't know all that. A lot to take in. I think it might be time for Little Bear and I to head back and get some sleep though. Thanks, Ted. See you again soon.


Welcome. Thank you for your patience. This talk takes some amazing setup. I took some pictures of the tables up here because this is by far the most elaborate setup we've had for any talk. As far as I'm aware at EMF camp this year, I've seen this man do key impressioning in videos that I've seen presented by other people, but this is the first time I've had a chance to see him in person. I can't wait and I'm sure you're as excited as I am. Presenting key impressioning, please welcome Joss Weyers. Good day. Is this? Yes. There we go. Hello. Well, I'm Joss Weyers. I'm going to talk about impressioning, lock impressioning. That's a technique of opening locks, maybe in a different way than normal, and I'll also be explaining what lockpicking is all about for the four of you who didn't go to the lockpick village this week. So that's good. Like I said, I'm a member of Tool. The tool is the open organization of lock pickers. We open locks as a sport, because we like it. We do that without force, mostly without the keys, and basically it. Being a sportive lock picker, so doing lock sports, you have to abide to a couple of quite simple rules. Rule number one, only pick your own locks. Rule number two, or 1.5, whatever. If you do not own that lock, you need explicit permission from the actual owner to pick that. And another rule is do not pick locks that you rely on, because if you will start practicing on your front door, at some point you will fail, and then maybe your door won't open or won't close again. Both are bad. So abiding to living up to those three rules will keep you out of troubles-ish. So that's the idea. Okay, we're going to open locks. Sorry, I'm also a member of Hack 42, which is an awesome hacker space in Arnhem, that is the Netherlands. We're going to open locks. First, we have to look at locks, so now how to open that. Hold on a sec. Yeah, this is a lock. It's a euro profile cylinder, like commonly used in Europe, as we all know. If you look at the lock, you see a cylinder, a round thing that we want turning. If it's actually mounted in a door, it matters which way it turns. As a sports picker, I don't care. Normally I'm having the lock in my hand, and as long as it turns, we consider it open, and you get points or timing or whatever. Well, if we try to turn this lock now, it won't turn. If you look at that schematically, you see a round bit with a hole in it, and if you look into that hole, you see something, no idea what, and that won't turn. So let's take one layer off and figure out what's going on here. Well, actually, there's not just one bit. There's a red bit, so a blue bit, and the blue bit is actually the part that's preventing it from turning. Because if you turn, the blue bit gets squished between those metal sides, and the spring all keeps it up. So what you need to do is put it down to the correct level so that your lock will turn. That's quite straightforward. I'm doing it like kindergarten technique, and we'll speed it up later. Okay. Well, that's just one pin stack lock. These two pins stacked on each other with a spring under it is called a pin stack. A normal lock, if it's a decent lock, if it's a half, they have decent luck, consists of more pin stacks. This one has five. Five is a typical number. In the UK, you see a lot of six pin stack locks. That can go up to way higher. I've seen 21s. So whatever. In order to open this lock, there are, if you turn this lock, there are eight blue bits preventing this from turning. No, there are eight blue bits preventing this lock from turning. So what you should do is push all the pins down to a level that those are out of the way. We use the special key for that, well, special tool. And now you see all the blue bits are lined up. And so the dividing space between the blue and the red bits, those are of the exact shear line where the lock will turn. If that one is even off on one position, it won't turn. That's when it's too deep on position number five, because we start counting off from the shoulder, one, two, three, four, five. And this one is too high and it still don't work. So the idea, so like I said, the idea that if you start turning this lock, there are five bits of metal preventing it from turning. Now, if you don't have the key and you want to pick this, it will be quite hard to put all those five pins at the correct depth simultaneously. That's hard.  Luckily, this is not the perfect world for us. There are tolerances because locks get made amass. So you have a machine that keeps on drilling holes. There is a rod that will produce the pins. And if you look at these pins, they're supposed to be cylindrical. Well, there are ash, but it's the ash that counts. And if you see the holes, those holes are in the cylinder that should turn. Those edges are supposed to be 90 degrees angle straight. We say clearly are. We say clearly aren't. There is a, they have a give. And if you look closely, you also see that those holes are not completely aligned. They are a bit crooked. Actually, I don't care what's wrong with this lock, but as long as I know there's something wrong with the lock. And if you look closely enough, there's always something wrong, well, wrong, there's always tolerances because you can't make two metal objects exactly alike. You can make them look alike, but if you zoom in enough, you'll see differences and that could be on the micron level or even further. I don't care, but they won't be exactly the same. So what that means, if I start turning this lock, there are not five pieces preventing it from turning. There's one piece preventing it from turning first. So if I start turning that cylinder, the first bit of metal that they get stuck, that's the one I'm after first. And well, and that could be because the hole is a bit more to the left or the pin is thicker or care. I do not care. So what we can do is just look at that one pin stick. Then what happens is, well, if you turn it, it gets pushed to the side. We saw that already. And if we push that down ever so slightly until we reach the shear line, that lock, that tiny piece of a lock, will open. So that pin stack will be open. The lock won't because there's more pin stacks, but then this one does. So basically now your lock is 20% open because one out of five and you repeat the process. Schematically, we apply some turning force. This is just spring, spring, spring. That's one doesn't want to get down because it's quish to the side. That's the one we push down and we keep on feeling for the one that doesn't want to go down and that's the one we push down. We repeat that over and over again about five times and then it opens. That's lock making. Okay. Demo. A lock. I use an American quick set because I do not want my demo to fail. And a tiny pick, not unlike the one you see there. Go in, feel about one that doesn't want, that goes in and we have an open lock. So like I said, American. Better. That single pin picking is that's called because I go for pin for pin for pin one at a time.  If you go in with a Reiki or a snake or there are several weird terms for different picks and basically brute force is a bit and we're going to do that with a different tool. There's a mountain six actually. We have weird names and that's supposed to go. There you go. It's a bit faster than the other one. So it's actually in and boom open and yes, this is normal pick. This has not been altered. Actually, when I bought this on one of my first trips in the US quite some time ago, it took me way longer to get it out of the shrink wrap than actually open it. We have good shrink wrap. You can do this with lock picks and you can buy these quite legally. Well, not everywhere. France is a bit picky about them. So is Bulgaria I think. So I'm definitely not a legal counsel. So don't call me. Basically, in most countries, it's considered a form of a burglary tool. So it's as illegal as a crowbar.  And same goes for so if you behave, you can carry lock picks. I carry lock picks all the time. Last week I came back from the US even there. I carry them all the time. I do not leave the house without lock picks. So I do that. They look like this. That's a decent beginner set. And if we look at keys, our locks actually, this technique also works on these locks. Well, on the locks that these keys belong to, that key belongs to Jesus. Because this is still a pin stack. It's just coming at a weird angle. It's still a pin stack. You can get in with a piece of metal and feel those pins and which one is stuck before. And you see that there's a, well, quite a lot of holes in there. Well, actually this is a Lips Wendish Lussel. That means that you can take the key out, turn it 180 and put it back in. Because, well, there's no up and there's no down on that. Both sides work. So only half of those pins are actually working because they have to have it for all of them. The Kensington-like lock at the bottom, basically the same as long as you can turn it, you see the pins actually. So you can push them down like that. So technically that will be easier, but there are some other, with a normal pin, with a normal pick set, you can do that. It's a bit more work because every time you turn what is it, 20 something degrees, everything gets stuck again because it reached a new hole. So you have to pick it seven times to open, but still doable. So that's normal pin stacks. But if you look at rooms, oh, wait a minute. Yes, if you look at rooms like this, actually, if you look at computer cabinets, they have, most of the time, they have different locks and they look like this on the left, I hope, on the right, that's, I have gutted. These work a bit differently. So schematically you still have a circle we want to turn and there's a hole in there, that's the black part and there's some metal, that's the red part. If we take a layer of material off of that, we see why it's not turning, because now there's no blue part or springs in this particular moment. You see that the red bit is stuck on the bottom, that's why it can't turn, because if you do want to turn it won't, now it's too deep, now it's too high, and in the middle it does open. These things want to open. There's one. And I'm going to hold on a second. I'll just take my pick, go in there and it's open. Now this could be the lock protecting your infrastructure from the guy who is renting the computer box that's next to you. So if you're hosting in a code location, this could be your ultimate security. I don't think so. That should be the case. So that's it. And if you, most of the time, if you go to the supplier and said, I want to change this lock, they do that for you and they give you the other lock. So it's same diff, so that's wrong. It can be opened with normal picks, as it just described, but if that's even too slow for you, you can use a set of jigglers. Those are in the middle at the top. Those are specially made for these kind of locks, and then it should be even easier, but I don't think I can beat this time, but try it again. Take a nice one. That should work, I think. Normally it's mounted, should be easier.  Need to have the proper size because, well, size matters, right? Yeah, in open. So that's almost like a key. I mean, if I would be doing that in your computer room and I'm allowed to go in that box, and I'm trying to get in this box, which I don't have the key for, if it takes me this long to open it, you'll assume I have a key, right? So I will probably not be questioned how to, well, what the heck am I doing there? Mr. Newton. Billiards. What happens if the white ball hits the red ball? Come on, you got this. The blue one moves. What does the red one? Nothing, it stays, correct. And to prove that scientifically, we have an animation. So, yeah, that's what happens. That scholar scheme is, of course, not chosen on randomly, because what happens if we hit, well, actually, it moves already. If we have a way of putting a piece of metal in that lock and hit all the red bits at the same time, Newton says they stay in place-ish and the blue bits should shoot away. Of course, there are some springs under it pushing them up, so you have to hit it quite hard. But if you timed it correctly, now it's open. Because there's a gap, now I can turn that lock. Let's see how that happens. So we have the high-tech American lock. I need more hands. Okay. Still need a turning force, ever so slightly.  This one is just this straight thing, and that goes up and down, down quite forcefully. Put that in, align it, open. That's not really a lot of technique needed. Of course, that took a long time. So let's speed it up a bit. Of course, it doesn't. Should have slaughtered more sheep to the demo guards. There you go, open. Okay, so that works. But then again, that looks like a gun.  Of course, well, that's basically what it does. It has a trigger and picks a lock. On an x-ray, that looks quite interesting.  This one is basically a hunk of metal that vibrates. It gets me different questions, but it still gets me questions. And well, it's sturdy enough to be a weapon, I reckon. So this is not nice in travel. And of course, well, they're bulky. So what if there would be a way to get inside a lock and touch all the pins at the same time? What could we use for that? Well, actually, we have stuff for that, and that's called a key. I mean, your key goes in and touches all the pins at the same time. That's what it's supposed to do. So what you can do is take a key that fits the lock and cut it to the deepest, well, this is, well, cut, make the cut as deep as possible and take a bit of material off the shoulder. So the key has some give. So if you let it go, then it'll spring back. Just a mil or something like that, or half a mil, play with it. So what you see, if you push that key in, the pins go down, right? So if we push that key in a bit more forcefully, wait for it. There it is, bang. Newton kicks in. Let's see how that works. We have a, whoa, this is kind of destructive. I mean, you get dents in your, so this one didn't slide in. This is a lock and this is the bump key as it's called. So if I push that in, it comes out automatically just a bit and of course it doesn't open it. That would be cheating. Take a mallet or something hit-ish, open. So I guess I did slaughter enough sheep. Again, ah! There you go, open. So now you have an open lock and that's quite easy. But of course the key I use for this has to fit in the lock. So it has to be, well, same brand-ish, and of course the pin positions also have to match. So I kind of need a key for every brand of lock. Well, in America, that's an easy feat, because in America you don't have that much choices of normal consumer locks that you want to have. You have Schlag, you have Quitsect, and the rest is very expensive. They do have very good locks, but they tend to be very expensive. And so a normal consumer will go for a Schlag of a Quitsect, which means I need two bump keys to open up, let's say, 80% of all households. Now, mind you, they do have guns. So in Europe, well, actually there are some protections against this, but when this first came out there weren't hardly any. At that time, this set of keys would open up, I don't know, 95% of all Dutch households, because if you go into a key copy shop, you see this whole stack of keys scattered about, and you go like, well, you can't have all those keys turned into a bump key because you need a van to actually go. Well, proper locksmith does take a van, but if you ask that key copying guy, actually what do you sell the most? They'll probably go, oh, these eight, or these 20, whatever. So if you take those, there you go. So this is an opening technique that is, well, you saw it's easy. So when some Germans from SS Dev, that's basically a tool in Germany, when they looked at this and, well, they basically... This is a very old technique, but a couple of years ago, they did some extra research, and... What? Oh. I've just been informed that we are now the only talk, so I'm the keynote. Hi. So let's start over, then. That's not... Welcome to this keynote. So that's an alternate way of opening a lock, and that's quite easy. So we, as stool, we decided to go public with this, which is kind of unheard of within the lock community, but it is this easy that, well, any layman can do this, and we think that's wrong. And a couple of lock manufacturers said, no, it's not really a problem. So we basically challenged them to up their locks. And now, I believe every European lock manufacturer at least has a bump-proof choice within their repertoire. And there are several ways to actually... There are several ways to undo this, and, well, a couple of them actually work. Some just don't. But the talk is called impressioning, not picking. Impressioning. The question is, how long can our standers in front of a important door, like your front door, computer room, whatever, without being shot, questioned, dragged away, or whatever? Would that be two seconds? Would I get arrested within two seconds if I stand at the wrong place? I think two seconds is a bit of a short timeframe. Can I be there for a minute?  I don't know, 10 minutes? I think if I can stand 10 minutes in front of your server room without getting questioned, you have other problems, because that shouldn't be the case, because within that timeframe, I can pick the lock properly. But what if, option one, two seconds would be all I need, but just a couple of time. So two seconds for twice a day for about a week. I'm pretty sure I will not get questioned within two seconds, especially if I'm holding a phone in the wrong door. If I do that twice a day for about a week, I could be in. Bit of a background. This is Mr. Tickle. Well, it was Mr. Tickle, because he died a couple of years ago. And before I heard that he died, I had his picture in my slide deck also, and normally I asked, does anybody know this guy? Because I really want to pick his brain. He used to be the FBI go-to guy when they had to go into a door that they didn't have keys to. And he used this technique over and over again. One of the stories is that at one of his first assignments, the FBI at that time, they wanted to get into the house of a mafia boss, and he wasn't at home. And actually they wanted the key to that house so they could enter over and over again to play some wiretaps or something like that. At that time, they couldn't be done digitally just talking ages ago. What they did, they put at in a cardboard box like as if they were delivering a refrigerator. And they did deliver that box next to the front door. That's scary. And there was a hole cut in the cardboard and it went out and did his stuff. And in the morning they picked the box up and he had a key. Interesting. How did he do that? Well, there's actually books written about, well, not that story, but about impressioning technique. This book is called impressioning technique. This is the German version. It does exist in English-ish. But that doesn't really matter because it's all about the pictures. The pictures are awesome. This book is written by Oliver Dietrichsen. He's been championing this technique for about three times now, so he knows his stuff. And he literally wrote the book about it. There are pictures in there, well, even with other kind of keys, as you can see, the dimple keys. They also work car keys. They work like a charm. And it even has pictures of the Kaminal Prüflabor, which is basically CSI in Germany. Okay, enough about the background. How does this actually work? Impressioning, I do not start with a cut-down key like a bump key. I start off with a solid key. So this is a totally uncut key. And of course, in all those previous slides, the blue bits were preventing it from turning. But now it's the red bits because there's a chuckload of metal in there. There's a chuckload of metal in there. So all the pins are lifted up to their highest position. So, yeah. So what we can do now, if we turn this key same as before as with the picking, yes, there are five bits of metal preventing this cylinder from turning, but there's one bits preventing it from turning first. Okay, that's interesting. And also, now because there's metal in the middle, the key, I can move... I can turn the key to the other side as well without everything falling down because the pin stacks are holding up. With some luck, another pin will be preventing it from turning first. Okay, what can we do with that? Another thing is... Yes, so if I start turning it, there's one key that doesn't want to move up because you can wiggle your key because if you come home at night and you'd have your key, yes, it fits in your keyhole, but it has some slack. You can still move it up and down because if it would just fit, so not moving up and down, it would be quite hard to put that key in. So there is some give. So you put your key in, turn to one side, move your key up and down, turn to the other side, move your key up and down. It's totally animated. Yes, so turn, up and down, turn, up and down. With some luck, on position one that's close to the shoulder, that pin stack is moved basically against the spring. That's all. The other one will be forced, the second one will be forced harder into that key because both are quite soft metals. So if you look at that key closely, so you probably need some magnification aid or very weird eyes, then you would see tiny dense spots on that key that something has happened. On UV light it looks like this. They are tiny. So what we can do now, on the places where we spotted those spots, we take away a bit of material, not too much. And if you know the brand type of your lock, you could probably go online and figure out what that exact depth should be. That's still not a working key. So what we do then, we reinsert that lock. You see it's not a working key, there's still five bits preventing it from turning. So rinse and repeat, we go over. We start turning this, and again the same pin is preventing it from turning because it's the widest or bit more to the left, whatever. So that'll make a mark in the valley we just created. And well, same goes for the other one. So we end up with a key with marks in the valleys we just created. Easy peasy. So we have valleys with marks, and what we do, we take away even more material on the spots that have those marks. Rinse and repeat. We keep on doing this. But now something happened, because if you start turning this, that pin is on the correct level. So according to that pin, the lock is open. So if we start turning this lock, the other one on position two, that one is still on the correct level. So that will mark if you start turning it one way and moving it up about. But pin number four will not mark anymore because that will just slide. That's open. Ever so slightly, but it's slide a bit. So with some luck, we'll get marks on a different position. And indeed, it's on position number one. So going through this process step by step, in the end, we'll get you a weird key that opens your door. A copus d door. And it will look weird like this one. The lower one, that's the one I did. And the top one is the one that's the original key that I didn't have when I was filing, of course. And they both work. And they don't look the same. But if you look at the bottom of the valleys on both keys, they are alike. So the important bits, those work. And if you're any good at it, you win medals. And now it's time for a demo. Test. Yeah. There you go. That works. Everybody can hear me? No answer? Hello? Okay, good, good, good. Key. Actually, a factory cut key is a bit higher than actually needed on our position. So I'm going to take off some material even before I start. I normally use a workbench for this, which is controlling all the factors a bit more. Okay, so now we have, are we there? Yes, hello. So now we have a key that is cut to, well, quite shallow actually. So I put it in. Turn one way up and down, up and down, up and down. Turn the other way up and down, up and down. It should be enough, but I'll repeat it a couple of times so we got very good, fresh marks. And indeed, I got marks. As you can see, I'm not that much at the lock. I mean, if I go in, it just takes a couple of seconds and I'm out. Those are the two seconds I was talking about. A friend of mine, he's a pentester and his office is on the fifth floor. And he's not allowed to go to the seventh because that's seven because that's a different company. So he started by, every day he's in the elevator because that's got operated by a key.  Every day he's in the elevator alone. He does this in one time, one time. And it took him two weeks and then he had to work from 17 to the seventh, which he didn't go to, of course, because, well, not allowed. Second, mind you, there are competitions on this. And first round normally lasts an hour and about half of the field opens within that time. So this could be a long talk. Hello, newcomers. I think I overfiled at some point so I have to start over again. Yes, you get more action for your buck. Thank you, yes, thank you. No pressure. Keep it coming. He did it.


Okay, so, yeah, we're going to talk about Fedora Kinoite, which has just been released and it's the Fedora Certified Release Party. So it's the right time to talk about that. So quick agenda, I'll discuss where we are, what's coming like real soon, like in the next few months and then coming next, although the next releases and things like that. Okay, so a quick reminder for Zoos that haven't been following and for newcomers, it's always fine to get our minds updated. What's Fedora Kinoite? So essentially, Fedora Kinoite is a variant of Fedora. So it's just Fedora, but packaged in a little bit different way. So it's attached to the Kidi SIG, the Special Interest Group, which maintains essentially all the Kidi packages in Fedora. So it's 100% from Fedora RPM packages. So what's in Kinoite? What's in Fedora? There is no changes. The basics ID behind this is that you are trying to create an immutable desktop operating system. So immutable does not mean that it does not change, but means that you control or it changes. It's just like the words we use for, for example, in infrastructure, when you say immutable infrastructure, you do not say that your infrastructure would not change. You say that you control precisely how it changes. And that's the same idea here. We wanna make a desktop variant of Fedora with the Kidi desktop where we have a great control of all the desktop change. So yeah, as I've said, we're featuring the Kidi Plasma desktop environment in this full glory. And we are now officially released as part of Fedora certified. So it's body time. Okay, so what comes with Fedora? So initially, this is titled Why Fedora? Because outside of Fedora, folks might wonder why we want to base this on Fedora. And but here it's more about, okay, what's in Fedora right now in Kidi Fedora that we take advantage of? And well, okay, we'll know that Fedora gives us a stable and up-to-date software stack. And in Fedora, we've enabled Wayland by default, Piper by default, system to user sessions for Kidi sessions. So all that comes in and it's even been available for one release right now. So it's all in Fedora certified. We as the Kidi Seag Special Interest Group, we try to follow the latest upstream release of all Kidi. So if anything is out of date, if it's not there already in raw hide, it's in a sense it's a bug. So it should be there. And we try to make sure we update on time. We are very active, we are active and we meet all weekly on Monday. So feel free to drop by if you wanna to work with us. All right, so what makes it different from a classic Fedora workstation installation or the like that? Well, we're based on RPM history to manage the system. So we'll see what this implies, but essentially it's replacing the classic DNF way of doing things and the way of managing packages by RPM history. We use flatback to manage applications. So most of the time you will want to use flatbacks because it's a better user experience.  But here it's much more emphasized because as the system by itself is more control regarding changes, you will want to run most of your tools, development environment, and the like that in containers via potman. So in a sense, we are very, very close siblings, sibling of Fedora Silver Blue, which is based on the same technologies. Okay, so yeah, the end goal of all of that is to make sure that we provide an easy dissatisfaction for users. So RPM history manages the system and makes updates of the system basically a non-event. So when you update, everything happens in the background. You just reboot into the new version and that's it. You don't have package conflicts or things like that or broken systems or partial updates, none of that happens without RPM history. It's just like either it's there or it's not there. And you know the errors, the conflicts before hand, you can resolve them quite frankly at your own pace on the common line or anything like that. And you just reboot and there you go, you're into the new version. So the database are atomic. It's like they work as a single image. You can still modify a little bit of things in there, but essentially that's the idea. On top of that, we use flatback. So flatbacks makes installing application really easy for users because they don't conflict with anything on a system. It's just essentially they are independent and you can get that from several sources. You either get them from federality, you've got pure open source software from there and you can get a mix of proprietary or free and open source software from flatback too, which makes this really useful. And finally, you get toolbox. So toolbox builds on top of Podman and you get to install any packages that are already in Fedora or any other distribution for that matter. And you run them in toolboxes and you get all the packages directly onto this. And it's a great way to work around the current limitations of the system. So the other thing we're gonna do is make things great for testers and early adopters. So all of those who wants to try the new version, try a new package, trade bugfix, or even a regular user, which for example, might wanna try the bugfix of a specific package that has been made by developer and provided as a flatback. And for that, you can do two things. So with our industry, you can try new versions very easily because you just rebase your new version if things don't work or if you just wanna go back, you can easily go back to the previous one and that's it. And with flatbacks, you can do the same. You can install several versions at the same time in parallel and there's no issue. You can even test like versions from PROS, for example, for those that have set up to get a version example here. And finally, we wanna make this a very safe environment for developers. So the idea is when you have our industry, I can even maybe show this if I have time in demo. You control all the system gets changed. So you control or you wanna do development or change specific packages for development. And this makes really easy because if you screw up anything or if you just wanna go back to stable version, you just reboot essentially your system and that's it. Yeah, and you get the same experience with flatbacks because as flatback don't mess up your own system, don't touch your system directly. You can just install any version of any library or any framework, even outdated ones when you need it for some applications. And that's fine, you don't have restrictions, you can use anything that's available. Okay, so that's like the safe right now, what we have. And yeah, I'll make a short demo right after and just for that, I wanna talk about what like the biggest things we have missing right now and we will work on focusing on work right now. To make this coming hopefully before Fedora 36. So the first thing, the first item is the latest Plasma the new version of Plasma, which has been released a little bit while ago, like a couple of weeks ago, short to approximately a month now. And as the KDC, we follow the upstream releases. And so the latest version has already been in Rohit for a while, we made the essentially the releases as soon as they were available in Rohit. But for Fedora 34, 35 right now, we're still on the Plasma 22 because of an unfortunate timing between the release cycles for Fedora and the recycle focus for the KDC Plasma desktop. So essentially they're a little bit hard to think. So we had to block, essentially we had to say, okay, we don't wanna block the release, we'll skip this one and we'll do this right after. And that's fine. So essentially it will come as an update really, really soon, so in the coming weeks. And we'll do that very soon. So we will come for Fedora 35 first and then for Fedora 34 next. And of course, as Fedora Kinoai is Fedora, don't forget it, we'll just get the dates like everybody else when it gets released to Fedora 35. All right, so we have a couple of known issues and I'll try and focus on that in the coming months. They all tracked into the Fedora KDC tracker which is linked there and you can find it easily from the KDC patch. Essentially they are not like big issues. Well, some of them are blocking for some users and understand that but essentially it's mostly like paper cuts. So things that impact the user experience and makes it not great to use the system. And sometimes you, most of the time we have got work rounds to make sure that things work, still work. So yeah, the general idea is, yeah, we don't have a gris for everything right now and you still need to use the command line. So that's something good to know if you wanna try a Kinoai. So first, the flatbacks. We don't have yet Kili flatbacks available. We'll talk about that every soon, just after. We're missing our PMO Street supporting Discover. It's still in progress, there's still some bugs. And we've got a big bug if you use UTC time zone. It creates havox on the desktop. So please don't use UTC time zone for now. Just switch and switch back later. Okay, so our PMO Street supporting Discover. It's the initial support was made as part of the season of KDE by a student by an Egyptian students. And she did a great work to get this started but unfortunately we still have like one big bug that's there and I haven't been able to track it down. So it's still in progress, upstream is linked here, the work and well, the command line, you can still use a command line. It's not great, but it works perfectly from the command line. So what would it look like? So essentially you get this kind of things that when you open this Google when I fix this last bug, you will get the older versions of Fedora can write your install in system, the packages you've layered on top and you can just get updates directly and apply them from Discover. So this should work once the bug is fixed. Flatbacks, so essentially we are flatback support building and we just don't have any KDE application built on the Fedora infrastructure. So you've got already all the non-KDE application that are available in Fedora. You can install all of those and they just work but the KDE apps themselves, they are not yet available in as Fedora flatbacks. So we're still working on that. I hope and I think I've got good hope that we should be able to bring that during the Fedora certified release. It's not breaking change. So it's just adding packages into the remote. So it's fine. Once we've got figured out the few bugs that are blocking us here, things should progress much more quickly because we already have a lot of KDE apps available. But that's not really blocking right now. If you're comfortable with using flatbacks from FlatHub, you can just install Zeus. You've got a lot of non-KDE applications too from FlatHub. You can do everything. And we're quickly trying to bring a lot of KDE applications to FlatHub and essentially what I try to do when I package applications is do FlatHub first, make sure they work well, push the fixes upstream and when everything is upstream and updated and then I work on the one in Fedora. So this is mostly, most probably what we often makes for applications. And FlatHub is also a great place to fix application close to upstream because it's really close. It's using later installables and everything. So usually it makes it easy to develop and fix on things. Yeah, there's another easy task. If you wanna get started with either flatback, KDE development or packaging, it's quite easy to get started in low effort, low involvement. I would say the fixing a bug sometimes takes is difficult, but to get started, it's rather easy and doesn't need to be and can get you started with both KDE development, flatback packaging and things like that. All right, so that's what's coming like really, really soon and then I'll get a brief discussion about what's coming like in the future. So long, more long-term future, maybe if it were such a six, we don't have a specific timeline with just things we're working on. So the main plans are that we wanna make this best platform to try the next version of either KDE Plasma, KDE Plasma or the application. So for that, we have to make sure that we wanna bring like the latest, either the latest get these branches directly as packages, as something built and available as a remote in Fedora Kinoi so that you could try daily builds of the KDE Plasma desktop directly on your system without having any issues. So if you like hit a major one, you can just robot the previous version and keep working. And at the same time, we wanna make this better for KDE applications to bring them from upstream development, likely builds as flatbacks directly on your desktop too so that you can try them and keep their stable ones installed as well. So that you keep all the stable ones, you have the nightly ones on the side and you can try them, report bugs, develop everything. Yeah, so to make that, we wanna do is make a different stream of Kinoi. So right now we have one stream per major Fedora release. So one branch per Fedora release and we'll probably create a new one, which would be based on stable Fedora, but with the latest KDE stuff. So you will get like both things, the benefits of both like trying new Fedora, new KDE with the stable Fedora base so that we don't shift everything at the same time, just like roll height essentially shifts a lot of things at the same time. So it's sometimes difficult to track and difficult to use for testing just a single part of the system. And this would be interesting because you would have just like KDE Plasma being in stable in a sense and the base keep being Fedora stable classic. And yeah, this would be very interesting for early adopters. So here it is. So one last thing we're missing is logo. We still don't have a logo. So if you have any art skills, feel free to join and feel free to drop by. We would really appreciate that. And feel free to join us. So at the KDC, we made on Mondays on 18 Android UTC and we track all the issues in the KDE SIG tracker. We have a website now, which is nice. Thanks to Carl and some docs which did a little bit of love. Even if they are like should be functional right now. And yeah, and that's about it for the demo. And are there any questions right now? Otherwise, well, not for the moon. That's it for the presentation. Now I can do a demo and there are questions. I don't see questions. Did I miss something? Thanks. Okay, so let's share my screen and let's see what I can share. Oopsie, yay. All right. So right now, this is my laptop running Federico Knight. So if I go there and type RPM or S3 status, which is the classic way of using RPM and S3 to get the system. So you don't see my pointer. It's a shame. Oh, you can see the highlight at least. So yeah, so essentially we're running Fedora and there is release of Fedora 35 here. You've got the version there and I've got. So I said that RPM S3 manages the system as an image. So essentially when you update the system, it updates the whole system, a whole set of packages as an image and then you move from version to version. So that's the version number you've got there here. And on top of that image, you can still install packages. So you're not locked into the image and you can change things. You can either remove packages or add new packages and which is what I've done here. So I have a bunch of layered packages here on top, which are used frequently. So I've added them to the image directly to be able to do certain things. And yeah, the common two-studies. And then you've got the rollback deployment as we call it. So essentially you usually have always two versions of the system available at once on the system. So it's just like Fedora CID VABU. You get two when you update the previous one, the latest one gets cleaned up garbage collected. And the one you were running gets pulled back at the previous deployment. And so if I do an update, essentially I will get a new deployment here. So if I go ahead and type sudo rpm3grade, yep, essentially I will be pulling the new version and deploy it right. So that should be fairly rather quick. We'll see. If it's too long. Yes, well, it's the wrong, let's keep moving on. So yeah, rpm3 status. What can I show you next? So yeah, so for those who are not familiar with all rpm3 system work, essentially, yes, I don't have to use sudo with rpm3 for all the operations that I'm used to doing that. Sometimes I forget. Yeah, the file system is laid out a little bit different. So maybe not as the key to this one. So essentially we'll have slash user being read only here and the system slash here being still read only, but it's planning to date that to be read write, but planning to date that to be read only. And slash boot is still read write right now, but hopefully we'll make it read only too, just like slash boot UEFI should be read only. And that's the main difference. So you know, it's still running. So yeah, I've got a bunch of flatbacks installed. So if you look at the flatbacks I have right now and so my systems, I got a good chunk of them. I've got the GNOME builder, the game, boxes, I think that's like a lot of things. Other key applications, most of them are for a Flap Hub because right now most of them are available there. Okay, how are we going to do the date? So yeah, so I'm looking at the date and this is both at the same time, if dating is a system and dating all the packages that I've overlaid. So this takes a little bit of time. It's much faster when you only have just the image because it doesn't, our industry doesn't have to do all the work for you and you can just move to new ones, but here I've got both the image and packages. So it has to do both and reduce it and need drawing first and either that. So it takes a while. Do I still have questions? Yeah, I do have questions. Okay, if I had to pick one thing that I need help with right now, what would it be? I would say a Flat Pax because right now what we're missing the most on the system is Flat Pax. So we don't have Flat Pax as built by Federal Infra and it's needed a little bit of debugging to figure out why they don't build as Flat Pax. And any help, any application that you like, that you wanna see be in Fedora via the Flat Pax either in Flat Hub or in Fedora, feel free to reach out and try to work on it because like packaging, key application from Flat Hub is not difficult usually. And what's like missing usually is like a little bit of tweaking or some fixes, small fixes in upstream packaging, in upstream sources to make this work better with Flat Pax. And that's where we would really benefit from the help. So the other question is, what's this question? Yes, you can do, yeah, so you can either, if you wanna run the key application right now, you can either, you have three options essentially, you can either get them from Flat Hub if they are there, you can install them into a box and run them directly from the outside from the toolbox it should work mostly because the toolbox essentially has access to all the things usually some Flat Pax application have, even more, most of the time. And the third option is directly overlaying them on the system using RPMO history installed. So it's just fine. You will just get an overlay packages on top and just like a classic Fedora KD installation, you will get the application and it will be available. So when I should use a package as a layout package versus toolbox, so it depends on the, it very much depends on what the application do. So sometimes if you wanna have the application modify things, access things on the host or thing like that, you will have to use them as a overlay packages. But most of the time you can run them from toolbox and they will work just fine. And which is like not really nice, not fully there yet, but it just works. And that solves most of the issues, especially the availability right now. But yeah, I'll say try toolbox first and if things break, add them as an overlay package because it's much faster. One thing to note is so right now I've finished your date right now here. And so if they did a bunch of packages, I won't reboot because this will leave me out of here. So I don't want that to happen. But yeah, if I go and see the status, you will see we have got three versions now and the next one is just right here waiting for me to reboot to get into it. Yeah, it's usually it's better to try with toolbox because running them in toolbox is just free. Essentially, you don't get any issues. But as you can see here, we've got a bunch of application there and most of the kitty applications aren't really special so you can just overlay them and it will be fine. So overlaying packages is fully supported. It's just not always as convenient. And one thing I want to point out is that you can do art industry install and then dash dash live, dash dash apply live, apply live like this and use specific packages. So let's say I wanna add a straight and what this will do is it will install a package and switch the currently running version of the system with the version with this package temporarily. So you will get this in the next reboot and in the current boot. So you don't have to reboot every time you install one package. You can do that live now. It's a new feature in our industry. Keyboard mappings or macros. So essentially what's in slash home. So it's VAR home on our chemistry systems is untouched by our chemistry. So anything you have in slash VAR home, so all your home directory is completely untouched by our chemistry and you won't get anything change. If you want to move from, let's say, Libreface configuration that you have right now into the one used by a flatback, you will have to copy to import it into the right places because this won't get auto-imported. All right, I'm meeting the mark for this session. So thanks everyone. I hope this was a nice, gives you a nice introduction of what we've done here. And yeah, see you shortly and see you in the key to meetings if you want to help. Thanks everyone.


Guys, that is pretty much my thought process on curly hair. I hope, I hope that that helps you out. I'm gonna end the day today. This is the end result. Today we are picking up some supplies. I have an idea for a video.  I've gotten a lot of questions about this particular subject, which is curly hair. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna break down everything I know about curly hair today and show you guys that curly hair is the same as straight hair if you understand hair density and all of that in general. So I'm gonna pick up some things I can show you guys visually what curly hair is all about and how you go about cutting it. So I'm gonna pick up those supplies and then we're gonna get started. Well folks, it's time to kick it old school. So you can feel cool. Give it to me baby. So I made a goal that I wanna make a video Monday through Friday every day of the week for you guys. So today, like I said, we're gonna focus on curly hair. I'm gonna have to create a couple things. I wanna get everything set up and we'll get started. We're pretty much set up. One more thing I have to get, which is the secret weapon of today. So I'm gonna grab it real quick. So I think I finally got everything together. I got all my supplies. I got dry erase markers, dry erase board. And the key factor in this whole thing is these magnetic sketch heads from Pivot Point. You can get on freeslideeducation.com. I'm going to use these to draw out my thought process on curly hair.  Yes, I'm gonna perm. And this will be my third perm this year, or not this year. In the last year, this will be my third perm. So don't judge my permming skills. We're gonna perm the mannequin real quick. Then I'm gonna lay down my thoughts with the magnetic sketch heads. Then we're gonna go over the mannequin after processes. So here we go. Okay, so I just realized that halfway through permming this mannequin head, that first off, there was no skill involved in that whatsoever. But I did go through vertically with elevation. So I'm hoping to show you guys kind of that curl bouncing up. What I realized is I probably could have done this same thing with a curling iron if I would have thought about it. And it would have been faster and had the same effect. But whatever, we permed it. Now we're gonna let it process and then I'll show you the end result. So one of the main reasons why I wanted to do this and why I wanted to put out a video every single day for you guys is this really, it opens up my mind to haircuts that I've thought about or ways of cutting hair that I've thought about pushes me to everyday think about haircutting in a different way. So what we're gonna talk about in this is haircut shape. Because a lot of you have questions about curly hair and curly hair to me, I don't understand why there's systems on cutting curly hair because honestly it's all about shape and it's all about how much weight you take out, how much weight you leave on and it really has nothing to do with the fact that the hair is curly. So you don't need to go to a curly hair specialist. Everyone of us as hair cutters should be curly hair specialists if we're hair cutting specialists. The way that we become hair cutting specialists is understanding what we're doing when we remove hair from the head or when we leave hair on the head. So let's break down this in its most simple form possible. Let's start off with the back of the head. When we look at the back of the head, you can go about this in two different ways. Each way is gonna control things differently, right? So we have horizontally parting the hair, bringing it out and cutting it horizontal. The problem with cutting it horizontal is as I work through this section, I have a lot of this part of the haircut in my hand, but when you're cutting curly hair, you want to be controlling the weight removal. The way that you work on weight removal is within the elevation of the haircut. If I elevate the hair higher in the head, I'm gonna remove more weight. If I keep my hand lower, I'm going to keep more weight. So if I work horizontally through the head, and this is horizontal here, if I work horizontally and I'm pulling out through there, what's gonna happen is I'm inconsistently going to be holding that section in my hand. So now I get a sporadic line within my elevation. That doesn't mean that this is the wrong way to do it. You can absolutely go in horizontally. The challenge is you're not focused so much on your weight removal. You're way more focused on the outer perimeter shape, the actual shape of the haircut. So you need to really focus on your elevation. Now, when you have curly hair, curly hair is going to expand more. The more it expands, the bigger it's going to get. If you don't want the hair to get bigger, you're not necessarily with curly hair going to remove more weight. You're not gonna elevate the hair higher. With straight hair, you would elevate the hair higher and it would collapse the shape. When you elevate curly hair, it expands the shape, makes it even bigger. What you wanna do with curly hair is you want to remove some of the interior. I call it the interior. Some people call it the exterior. I think that the exterior is what falls over the top and then the interior is what is underneath of that. The exterior to me would be the roof. The interior would be the base of where everything is sitting on top of. So when we look at the interior of a haircut, the interior of the haircut is what we wanna start removing weight out of. You don't wanna remove the weight from the top. The more I remove from the interior, then I allow the top to fall over. That is most of the time going to be your best bet. Not all of the time, but most of the time. So let's say they have really thick curly hair. I'm gonna go in. I can remove a ton of weight from the underneath and then allow that roof to collapse over top and then go into the roof and skinny it up, maybe using some texturizing techniques or different things like that to help lighten up the curl. What curly hair does, what you guys can see here, curly hair, this is straight hair. So straight hair would come out. It would fall down on top of each other and then you wouldn't have to worry about the hair expanding too much. Curly hair starts off curly, stacks on top of itself very quickly and then before you know it, you have this huge wave of hair expanding out and growing bigger. So with curly hair, what you need to do is you need to skinny up this interior part, allow this top part to come through and then use texturizing techniques to then go in and lighten up this area to allow the shape to fall down. Now, curly hair people are not trying to get super flat hair. That's not the goal. What they don't want is it to be too big. Some people do. I wish they all did because it's more fun to cut shapes like that. But if they want some weight removed, all you have to do is focus on how you're doing your elevation. I feel like I just talked a lot. I'm not sure if that answered anybody's questions, but hopefully it did. All right, so our mannequin head is done. We're almost done with this video. What I wanna do is show you guys a couple of things and I have to be honest with you guys, this is the first time I've ever permed a haircut on half of a head that is the same exact haircut throughout. So it's pretty cool, nice discovery. That's the whole point of me doing these education videos every day because it pushes me as well as pushing you guys. It's pushing me to do things that I probably wouldn't normally do. So I wanna show you guys the end result of this mannequin. So this is the same exact haircut all over the head. So we went through it. It's a haircut that we did a few days ago. I went through, I permed one half of it, which you guys saw, and this is the end result. So a couple of things that I wanna share with you. We talked about elevation and density and all of that stuff, removing weight, keeping weight. This is the big difference between curly hair and straight hair. The biggest difference is you really have to focus on weight removal and length. So if you look at, this is the exact same cut on both sides, which I've already said, but you can see how short this side is because of the curl. I think that that's the biggest challenge that a lot of people in cutting curly hair is they cut it too short, not keeping in mind how that hair's gonna expand and curl up and shrink a little bit. Biggest things there, because if you look at the actual weight of this haircut because the density was the same throughout, the actual expansion of the shape is out there, but it's not crazy. So I can go in with some dry cutting techniques, which I will show you guys right before the end, but really, I mean, you would do the haircut the same way. There isn't really a difference. So the key part of this video and what I really wanted to get through to you guys today was I get all these questions about could you do it on curly hair? Of course, you can do every single haircut on curly hair. Don't worry about that. It's the execution that you're gonna make different with every single person. Am I gonna do, just because they have curly hair, am I gonna do it the same on every person that has curly hair? No, I'm not gonna do it the same because their density could be different. The formation of their curls could be different. They could have tight curls. They could have really, really loose curls. They could have straight hair. It doesn't matter. Every single person's hair is different. So you have to understand hair type, hair formation, hair density, and then focus on elevation and your shape and your detail work at the end. All of that is going to make it so you can do every single haircut on every single person. So as I move forward and I make these videos every single day for everyone, that's what we have to keep in mind. It doesn't matter what type of hair they have. You're going to work it differently no matter what. I don't wanna keep going along with this because you're probably sick of hearing it already but I hope you guys like this. I hope I got through to you to just share with you guys that haircutting is haircutting in general. Don't go to a specialist for this and that. Become the specialist in every single type of hair and then you don't have to worry about it anymore and you'll know what to do. We're gonna go over to the mannequin stand. I wanna show you guys a couple dry cutting techniques for curly hair since we already went through it and we did the perm anyways. I can't believe I did a perm today. So let's do that real quick and then we'll end the video. Okay, so I'm gonna grab out my dry cutting scissors. I got my Mizzatani Puffin, there we go. So Mizzatani Puffin, definitely my all time favorite dry cutting scissor ever. So I wanna show you guys, I got these in a five and a half. I really like a five and a half inch scissor because of the fact that the blade stays really strong. There's not a lot of blade in between the screw. The shorter the blade, the stronger the blade. So when it's working through dry cutting I don't get a lot of slip. I get gliding because it's really sharp but I don't get the slip from the blade being weak from not cutting it. So a couple things with dry cutting. Now, I have a comb in my hand. Once the hair is dry and it's curly, I don't want to really go in with a comb too much. So what I'm gonna do is just kind of expand the shape out, find little pieces that I wanna work through and just add a little bit of that tease cutting to build up the shape. That's what I'm looking for. So just airing out some of these pieces. What I wanna do is cut in grooves into the hair so that I have that, so there's a lot more flow and it collapses the shape just a little bit because you don't want it to expand too much out. So I'll just go into the interior part of the haircut. Little bit of tease cutting gives it a nice shape. The other technique that I would do and I'm gonna zoom in on this. Now because my perm skills are not up to par, I didn't even attempt the base part of it. So let me zoom in. As I go in, I want to see the shape here and all I'm gonna do is work my way with my scissor and clean up the hairline. So I can work, I will comb this out just a little bit because I wanna see where those little hairs are gonna stick out and then I'll work through with the tip of the scissor and just clean up that line. Again, probably have the guests twirl their hair around, see how that line is looking. It actually looks pretty good. So there's not much in there and that expands that shape out and gives us some nice, nice curls in the haircut. That is pretty much my thought process on curly hair. I hope that that helps you out. I'm gonna end the day today. This is the end result of our cut, really cool, nice, fun, curly hair for you guys. So I hope you enjoyed this perm experience and all of these other things and I hope if you have any other questions about curly hair, post them in the comments below and hopefully as we move forward, even though I'm not doing a curly haircut, doesn't mean it can't be done on curly hair and I would love to know your thoughts on that, what you guys are thinking and what you wanna see next because let's keep this thing going. I love your comments. I love all the feedback. So thank you guys so much for watching, share it with your friends and we'll see you guys tomorrow.


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brendan today. We are on episode 10 of completionist crafter Been a while. I know being collecting a lot of reagents today we are doing Some more more crafting obviously And we're doing the exquisite disc the large keeper aquarium the large small fry aquarium the large whopper the large whopper aquarium the padded stool the red food cart the regular keeper aquarium the regular small fry aquarium and the regular whopper aquarium lots and lots of crafting today and Collecting these reagents took forever. I've I Did a bit on stream the other day and I showed you my list of things that I had to collect and it's ridiculously huge So yeah, let's quickly just head through the look through these and see what we need um It's probably easier actually to do it. I'm at at Adam Adam Adam adored it Probably the best idea just so we don't get confused between other things So you need five five dark sprite a whole bunch of miss would just get all of the miss would you can find? Two Onyx, we need five fire shields 15 rubies 10 catfish 50 mistwood 35 leather straps actually a lot of leather straps if you need just get a lot of leather straps really five blood moss five death shield 15 amethyst 10 char decoy 50 more mistwood just get a lot of that as well. Let the straps again a lock five Grindelweed Five snow shields 15 black coal at 10 fabled decoys You actually 20 because there's one for the wrong woods again miss would let the straps get a lot of water lily five imps three cat tails two rubies One fire cat one black coal two simple bios eight mistwood and let the straps Life shield for five of those Jade 15 of those 10 life of cooters 50 mistwood leather straps five diamonds Five fire shields. Oh, we did not get enough on X. How do they miss that? We need 15 Onyx, which I'll get in the sick 10 frost decoy 20 mistwood leather straps five fire blossoms Five life shields 15 sapphire 10 frost decoy mistwood leather straps black pearl So what was it that we needed still we just needed? 15 Onyx, okay Well, we can do that really quick. Luckily, that's right here So yeah, I've been collecting reagents for crazy long periods of time recently So yeah looking forward to crafting these things finally The hardest part was generally was the fishing it always is fishing takes a while especially When you have to use energy So yeah, if you're doing something like this, I recommend kind of just planning ahead of like for me I need to plan ahead way before So yeah, if you can that's what I would suggest I believe this is all furniture stuff I think housing crafting station. I think I Think I think this is all this stuff. So the exquisite desk was one of them There we go fantastic We also had the large keeper aquarium We had the large small fry aquarium We had the large whopper aquarium Large and whopper really funny because it's like the same thing. We have the padded stool We have the red food cart Look at all these reagents just going away. It's so sad. We have the regular keeper the regular small fry and The regular whopper and we don't have enough stuff Damn it. What did I? How did I miscalculate things? I don't know. Well We will be back once we've got a whole bunch more stuff Okay, I am back finally collected all of that. It's like a long time after I've finished that first But but we can finally craft this whopper Whopper aquarium Frosty koi bucking palace and this would just bizarre or wherever you can find it really There we go. Fantastic. So that is the end of this episode Thank you for coming along and Watching our room to the right and subscribe and if you're very subscribed press the wee little bell to know exactly When I post another video and a member craft outside the box


assignment, submitted work. As a teacher you can have your learners submit work through your Moodle course. This saves on paper and it's better than email because when they submit you'll see a list of your class only on your Moodle course, not cluttered up with emails from colleagues and companies. What they submit can be uploaded files or text written directly on Moodle and as we see if we look at this example of an assignment, because you can type your instructions into Moodle's text editor it doesn't only have to be text. You can add links, images or videos relevant to your assignment. An assignment may be for one individual or it may be for a group and as a teacher you can choose whether or not to see the identities of your learners as you're grading it. So if we want to add an assignment we need to turn the editing on either by clicking the button top right or in the administration block clicking the link turn editing on and then in the section where we want to add the assignment we click the link add an activity or resource to bring up Moodle's activity chooser. Assignment is the first on the list and we can either click it once to read the explanation about an assignment with some examples for using it and then click the add button at the bottom or we can simply click the radio button twice. This then takes us to the assignment setup screen. Because assignment is so powerful it has many different options we're only going to look at a few in this video. The name is important because this is what the learners will see on the course page and then in the description you add what you want them to do for the assignment. If you want to include images, media, links you click the appropriate icons. I'm just going to write a short description of what they must do and if you want to display these instructions on the course page you check the box. Scrolling down you can then choose when you want them to send in their work and due dates or a cutoff date beyond which they won't be able to send it in. What's important next is to decide your submission type. In other words if you want them to upload one or several files you make sure that file submission is checked and you can choose the number of files you want them to send in. If you want them merely to type an essay using Moodle's text editor you select online text and you can also get Moodle to give them a word count. Once we've done this we can actually scroll down and save and return to course and we're ready to go but it is worth exploring some of the other options in the other links. For example in feedback types setting comments in line will allow you to type directly on the learner's work just as you would when grading on paper. In submission settings you can decide whether you want them to accept an agreement that the work is their own. In group submission settings you can get them to work and submit in a group and in notifications we can choose whether or not to be messaged when students submit and also whether or not by default students will be messaged when we've graded their work. If we click grade we can see that it's possible to choose a number out of which the assignment can be graded and it's also possible to create our own scales which we will look at briefly in another video. If you check blind marking then you won't initially be able to see which learner has submitted which piece of work. Marking workflow and allocation are useful when sharing a course with other teachers to divide up, moderate and keep an eye on the progress of grading. But for now let's just save and return to course and our assignment is ready for our students to submit and you can see that it has its own icon which enables the learner to identify what particular activity they're going to be doing when they click the link.


Paul goes on then in verse 12, he goes on, truly, in support of that statement, in nothing I was behind the most eminent apostles, Paul says, truly, the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. Can you imagine? Right? Can you imagine? Truly, without question, Paul's ministry was validated. It was authenticated in their sight. In their sight, surely they could see it. Right? Surely it was unmistakable, signs, wonders, mighty deeds. They witnessed those acts, those acts uniquely set apart the apostle Paul from the false apostles. Right? God himself, through those works, testified to the truthfulness of Paul's claims through signs, wonders, mighty deeds. According to the ungrateful Corinthians, it just seems as though that wasn't good enough. Beyond contempt, right? Beyond contempt, notice how their ingratitude expresses a greed for something else, something better, something different, right? In gratitude will show up in greed. Notice how they greedily take for granted all that God had given to them, all that Paul had done. Now notice in verse 12, the word translated signs. That word for signs is a word that pulls double duty in verse 12. The first time it's used at the beginning of the verse, it means marks or characteristics of an apostle. Those signs of an apostle are those marks, those characteristics that distinguish an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ in distinction from those who are false apostles here. Right? And so what follows, what follows will be signs or marks, characteristics that point to the authenticity of Paul's apostleship. Now these signs, these marks of authenticity were accomplished. Notice that. Were accomplished. That word is passive. Passive. This is another example of a divine passive where God is the agent behind the work. It wasn't that Paul accomplished them in his own strength, Paul accomplished them in his own power. In the grammar, it's a divine passive. God is the agent behind those works. Notice that the one is the one working through the apostle Paul to accomplish these mighty deeds. Right? Paul knows he's not the one producing these signs. He's already said that he's nothing. And further he says in Romans chapter 15 verse 17, Paul says, I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ himself has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done by the power of signs and wonders through the power of the spirit of God. In other words, not by my own power, right? Not by my own power. These signs, these signs authenticate a genuine apostle and notice they were accomplished among you in the midst of the Corinthians. These authenticating signs were accomplished. You see these signs in verse 12 manifested in two ways, in perseverance and in power. In perseverance and in power, first these signs verse 12 accomplished in the midst of the Corinthians with all perseverance. That word perseverance refers to patient endurance. Paul patiently endured in faithfulness to his ministry in their sight through great affliction, great trial, right? All perseverance here referring to patient endurance to the highest degree, the false teachers in Corinth faced no persecution. They were refusing Paul of being weak because he was constantly suffering, weak because he was constantly being persecuted. There was no opportunity for them to endure affliction as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. They were false apostles, but Paul sees a distinguishing characteristic of God's minister here being patient endurance, patient endurance through persecution, through trial, through affliction, through difficulty, right? That perseverance, these signs, secondly, these marks of an apostle accomplished with a great display of God's power, God's power, signs, wonders and mighty deeds. Remember the word signs, not referring now to marks or characteristics of an apostle, but now referring to signs, wonders, and mighty deeds, signs refers to miracles, right? Miracles performed at Paul's hands in the power of the Holy Spirit among them in their midst and not three different kinds of miracles here, right? Not signs, wonders, and mighty deeds as three different kinds of miracles, but three different perspectives on the miracles, right? Signs, what does a sign do? A sign authenticates, it validates, hear these signs, authenticate Paul as a genuine apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, signs authenticate the preaching and teaching of God's Word as it is God's Word, signs authenticate, wonders, that word speaks of arousing awe and amazement. These would have been amazing, astonishing miracles. You see a genuine miracle, it's going to be astonishing, right?  My toothache disappeared, you know. My arthritis feels better all of a sudden. These were miraculous displays that aroused awe and amazement. Mostly mighty deeds displayed divine power. These were mighty deeds. We don't have a record in 2 Corinthians of the miracles that Paul performed in Corinth during this time, but we can use our imagination, right, from the record that was provided elsewhere in the New Testament. We see this time period being a time period where miracles are performed for the purposes of validating or authenticating God's Word. So we can imagine that, right, healing, casting out demons, miraculous circumstances, accompanying conversion, we certainly see that, spiritual gifts. In all of this, Paul says he does this with patient endurance, right, with perseverance. He did this under duress, under great opposition in the face of great persecution he endured with great perseverance. The Bible is abundantly clear that these signs were meant to validate the Word of God, to authenticate the Word as the Word of the living God. Mark 16, verse 20, the disciples went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through the accompanying signs, right? What were the accompanying signs? Signs, wonders, mighty deeds. They did what? They confirmed the Word. That was the purpose of signs, wonders, and mighty deeds. Acts chapter 14, verse 3, the disciples were speaking boldly in the Lord who was bearing witness to the Word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. Same principle, right? Signs and wonders bearing witness to what? The Word. That's the purpose of signs, wonders, and mighty deeds in the Bible. It authenticates God's Word. It points to, confirms, and bears witness to it as the Word of his grace, as the very Word of God. In other words, in other words, those signs not done for the aggrandizement or the pride of the preacher, wasn't done to exalt a preacher, wasn't done to even exalt a ministry. It was done to validate God's Word, to attest to God's Word. They weren't done in contradiction to God's Word. In other words, when God says tongues or languages, they didn't come along and speak gibberish. These signs attested to the validity of God's Word. They were authentications of God's Word. They were not done to validate or bear witness to the false doctrine of a false teacher. They were to validate or bear witness to the very Word of God. When the New Testament was complete, when the canon was closed, we see those miraculous works fade away. You see that even in the New Testament. What you see today are parter tricks performed by liars. We have now, as Peter says, the prophetic Word confirmed which you do well to heed. God doesn't produce these characteristics, these signs, wonders, mightedies. He doesn't produce them through false teachers. He doesn't. Some miracles can be counterfeited. You get a snake oil salesman, a charlatan. Some miracles can be counterfeited. Really difficult to counterfeit a restored, withered hand. The withering or the restoring before your eyes. So we'll heal a toothache. Won't go to the hospital to heal a toothache, right? So those some miracles can be counterfeited. Miracles aren't the only sign of a true apostle, according to Paul here. Paul specifically mentions a godly and steadfast perseverance, patient endurance through trial and affliction that we've seen from Paul throughout this letter. In other words, Paul's godly life, Paul's godly example is an authenticating, validating mark of God's true apostle. Paul's example, the false teachers then and false teachers today, those that would claim to be apostles, simply can't fake that. Cannot fake it. It's a work of the spirit. Now all of this, right? What's the purpose of this in this text? All of this, all of this is unmistakable evidence that Paul is ordained by God in his ministry to this church at Corinth. Unmissible. You can't mistake it. It is unmistakable evidence that Paul is the Lord's apostle and he's ministering the church in Corinth. The perseverance of Paul's godly life, Paul's godly example, his godly perseverance, his endurance under trial, connected with the power of God, displayed through signs, wonders, mighty deeds, validating and attesting to the words that Paul's preaching as the very word of God. And in the midst of that, the Corinthians are estranged from him. Can you imagine? They're keeping Paul at arm's length. They had begun already to replace Paul in their affections. Paul has to cry out to them earlier. Remember in chapter 6, open your hearts to us. We've wronged no one. We've not cheated you. We've not deceived you. They were courting other suitors. This goes way beyond a mere issue of discernment. Someone claimed, well, in the Corinthians, they lacked discernment. No, no, no, no. It's not just discernment. These things were obvious, signs, wonders, mighty deeds. The apostle Paul, the word of God, conversions, their own salvation, if they are. This goes way beyond discernment. The Corinthians knew better. In fact, there's an interesting contrast. Look at Revelation chapter 2 with me quickly. Revelation chapter 2, there's an interesting contrast here with the church at Ephesus. Some would say, well, the Corinthian church, they lack discernment, and so lacking discernment, they let these false teachers in, got their nose under the tent, so to speak, and now they're being influenced by false teachers and they're being led astray. True. There's an interesting contrast here with the church at Ephesus in Revelation chapter 2. Look at verse 1. An angel of the church of Ephesus writes, these things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, he says, the Lord says, I know your works, your labor, your patience, that you cannot bear those who are evil and you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not and have found them liars. You don't mind using that word of lying false apostles today because the Lord Jesus Christ himself calls them liars. They are liars, liars. Here the church at Ephesus had that discernment. The Lord commends them for testing those who say they are apostles and are not. They are false apostles, they are liars. You have persevered and have patience and have labored for my namesake and have not become weary. In contrast with the church at Corinth, the church at Ephesus has tested those. They found them to be liars. What's the difference here? What's the difference? In Corinth, it's not an issue of discernment, only or merely. This was willful. It was willful on the part of the church at Corinth to ignore signs, wonders, mighty deeds, to disregard the example of the Lord's apostle, to set aside the preaching of the apostolic word. Why? Why? This was the fruit, the fruit of ingratitude. Manifested in contempt. Manifested in a groovy covetousness for something else, something different. A fruit of an ungrateful heart. This is, like the Israelites, rejecting God as king for what they thought would be better. God tells Samuel, right? They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting me. In other words, they were taking these gifts for granted. They were taking them for granted. They were, in fact, despising the gifts of God himself, despising the gifts to them, despising Paul. It seems that for the Corinthians, these amazing blessings simply weren't good enough. It's on point, right? How does that work? They just become ordinary? Yeah, I went out and Paul healed this guy again, and the priest says, well, this guy got converted, right? I don't feel like going to church today.  I don't want to go, you know? They were despising the gifts, receiving the grace of God in vain. Blessings simply weren't good enough any longer. There was something else that they wanted. They simply didn't want Paul. Whatever it was, whatever it was, they thought they could get by trailing off following after false teachers. I'm not going to listen to that any longer. This is what I want. Maybe it's, listen, I'm convicted every time he opens his mouth. I don't want to listen to him anymore, right? I'm weary under the accountability. Listen, I've had a couple of hard letters from this guy, and I just don't want to listen to him anymore. You know what? What the false teachers are saying sounds pretty good to me. I'm willing to disregard all of that so I could have this over here because it makes me feel better. It makes me feel what we can use our sanctified imagination to consider these things. It leads us to think about whatever it was as it pertains to us. What is it that causes the same lust in people today? Maybe even some of you or me when at times I am ungrateful. What is it that causes the same ingratitude, discontentment, selfishness, self-centeredness, self-exaltation, right? Gratitude takes humility. In order for me to be grateful, sincerely grateful to someone else, I've taken myself out of the equation. It humbles me. I'm grateful to them. And to express gratitude is humbling, right? So maybe it's selfishness, maybe it's self-exaltation, it's self-involvement, self-indulgence, discontentment, complaining, that's all what it is, and that's all that. Weary of the oversight, maybe tired of battling sin, tired of the conviction, Christian life becoming wearisome, whatever it is, not acknowledging in all of that the goodness of God. I am just tired, or I don't want to do it anymore, whatever the case may be, right? Whatever you think to yourselves, not acknowledging the goodness of God, what they've been given, maybe what you've been given, what I've been given, maybe sometimes you don't think that's sufficient. Those words might not come out of your mouth, that's certainly how you're acting toward those things. If not by your words, then by your heart attitude, what I've been given isn't good enough anymore, isn't sufficient. The word of God being preached isn't sufficient. I need something else, I need a kids program over the summer, I need fellowship with these people and not with these people. I need warmer temperatures in the auditorium, whatever it is, pick your discontentment. I don't like the way that guy talks, he sounds negative. I'm tired of the conviction. I'm weary of being talked to, weary of being accountable, weary of whatever it is, right? Living the Christian life in a group of people who love you. And all of a sudden, that isn't what you want anymore. Where does that come from? It comes from ingratitude, comes from a thankless, ungrateful heart. We don't see the good of God in the preaching of God's word, the blessing that we have. We don't see the goodness of God in an auditorium you've come to that is actually air-conditions. Right? Somehow we start despising those blessings and we complain and we grumble. We become self-involved, self-exalting. My desires, my wishes, my, my, my, my, and we show contempt for the gifts that we've been given. We show contempt for the gift-giver and their discontented, ungrateful, wandering heart follows off after what they think will be greener pastures. They count the gifts and graces of God to be a common thing. They despise them. Right? They despise them. Often, you don't realize that greener pastures are become because there's a big pile of manure over there and it's not going to be good for you and your ungrateful heart will only lead you into further and further sin the more that you indulge it. Be grateful. We need to be a grateful people. The Lord has tremendously, unimaginably, into such a degree blessed this church. We must be grateful people. It is shameful to the degree that we aren't abounding in gratefulness for what God has done here. This is the sin of the Israelites again, isn't it? In the wilderness, God rescued them out of Egypt. Mighty signs. Right? Signs, wonders, mighty deeds brought them out of the iron furnace. From out of their bondage to slavery brought them out of Egypt, part of the Red Sea for them destroyed the armies of Pharaoh. Exodus 15, they complain because they didn't have enough to drink. Exodus 16, they complain because they didn't have bread. Exodus 17, they complain about the water again. Numbers 11, they're complaining because they don't have meat. Numbers 14, oh, that we were back in Egypt, right? They hardened their hearts to the point that they no longer saw God as the source of all their blessing. They hardened their heart to the point where they no longer acknowledged God for His goodness to them, His grace toward them. And they stopped seeing the gifts of God as blessings at all. They were blinded to it, right? Those things were not seen as blessings. It's as if they passed from their sight as blessings at all. This is what's happening in Corinth. You have an apostle, the apostle Paul, an exemplary, eminent man of God preaching the word of God to you in the midst of all perseverance with signs, wonders, mighty deeds. And it somehow vanishes from your sight as a gift and as a blessing and as a grace of God. In gratitude, ungrateful hearts, selfish, greedy, heart-hearted in gratitude. Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful. But they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Congratulations, you won a new car. Six months later you don't like it because it's not the right color, right? Someone may experience the grace of God through a church like this, and a while later they're often looking for greener pastures. What God has given them here is no longer good enough. They despise the gift of God. They count the gifts and graces of God a common thing. They want their own desires instead. It's amazing to me how, in gratitude, breeds within the heart of a person this continuous drive to leave, to escape, right? This isn't a grace of God. I'm going to go over here and then eventually, I don't see that as a grace of God anymore, I'm going to go over here, never satisfying, not sufficient, preaching of God's word is not sufficient, the fellowship of God's people is not sufficient, the work of God is not sufficient, what He does here is not sufficient, it's not sufficient, why? In gratitude, ungrateful, always seeking some new thing, counting the gifts of God as a common thing, counting the gift giver, as someone who is common. It's the Corinthian disease that Paul is referencing in verse 12. It all flows from in gratitude. Incidentally, with respect to verse 12, the authenticity of a sound ministry today is still the same. The authenticity of a sound biblical ministry is still the same. What is it? Apostolic authority. Apostolic authority. Not come and follow me, I'm an apostle, but it's not that. Not come and follow me, we're performing miracles here. But rather, our adherence to apostolic doctrine, our adherence to the teaching, preaching of the apostles, perseverance in godly living, endurance through trial, through adversity, and the power of God at work through that which the signs were meant to validate. Now, the power of God, signs, wonders, mighty deeds, the power of God is at work through that means that the signs, wonders, and mighty deeds were pointing to. It's at work through that which the signs were meant to validate. That is the word of the living God. We have the word confirmed. The problem with that today is that it's not sufficient. We're greedy for something different, greedy for experience, right? Greedy for the country-western band, you know, it's going to get me on my feet before and right, I'm worshiping God. Listen, right, it's the word of God. It's the word of God, and if that's not sufficient for you, you have a heart problem. You are ungrateful. You don't have a gratitude, an appreciation, an acknowledgement of the value of God's word. It is God's word, all right, furthermore now in Corinth, they're in gratitude, not only seen in contempt or in greed, but it shows up in their pride. Look at verse 13, shows up in their pride. Paul asks them in verse 13, for what is it in? In which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you. Forgive me this wrong. There's some sarcasm on the part of the Apostle Paul there in verse 13. But Paul here in verse 13 is addressing another accusation against him. This accusation, not coming from false teachers this time, this is coming out of the Corinthians themselves. This is coming out of the Corinthians themselves. Inferior verse 13 means worse off. In what way were you worse off than other churches? In what way have I slighted you? In other words, the Corinthians felt slighted by the Apostle Paul. Can you imagine? Right? Can you imagine? The Corinthians felt slighted by Paul. This is textbook in gratitude. They are ungrateful, shamefully so. They have witnessed miracles. They themselves converted under his ministry. They know the way that he has suffered for them in love. And the one way in which they differed, Paul says, was that they had been charged absolutely nothing for his services, right? And even that was a gift in love from Paul that he intended for their good, that he would not be burdensome to them. Think about that with me for just a moment, right? That's the one thing they pick out. The one thing they point out, Paul, he's here, free. It's even difficult to imagine how they found fault in that, right? He's laboring at night, making tents, working with his hands, support himself to support others around him. He's not taking anything from us and that just sounds wrong to us for some reason. By picking out that one thing, what are they doing?  He sacrificed for them in love. That was a loving act on the part of the apostle Paul toward them for their good. They picked that one thing. They jumped to use it against him and they ignore countless other sacrifices he's made for them. How many times had Paul been persecuted and slandered and accused? We just got done with a record of that in chapter 11, didn't we? And they ignore all of Paul's other sacrifices on their behalf. It's just appalling pride, isn't it? Appalling, ingratitude. You can see the poisonous, diseased fruit of an ungrateful heart. It seems to me, and I'm thinking about this, it seems to me as though they had just become ashamed of Paul. They were ashamed of him. Paul's teachers were accusing him of being weak, Paul being nothing, his speech is contemptible, his physical appearance, right? All these things that they had, these accusations, it seems as though in the hearts and minds of the Corinthians who were, they got started from ingratitude, right? They're just ungrateful, began to view Paul in that light. They didn't come to his defense because they were, at the end of the day, ashamed of him. Ungrateful. It's like the teenage kid, right?  They are blinded, blinded by ingratitude, manifesting itself in a deplorable, a deplorable form of pride. I believe it was this ingratitude, right? It was an ungrateful heart that then opened them up to the influence of false teachers. Not the other way around. Why not the other way around? Their ungrateful heart led them to look elsewhere, unlike those faithful disciples in Ephesus. Their ungrateful heart led them to be attracted to the false teachers, attracted to something different. Their ungrateful heart painted Paul as insufficient. The goodness, the grace of God is insufficient. Rather than acknowledging the gifts of God, loving the gift giver, they looked at him with animosity as insufficient. The attitudes and actions of the ungrateful are shameful. They're shameful. Paul says in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 1, he says, But know this, know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unthankful. Kids, when you're disobedient to your parents, you are ungrateful, unthankful. When you blaspheme God, you are ungrateful. When you continue to turn a deaf ear to his gracious offers to you in the gospel to turn from your sin and put your faith and trust in him, you are ungrateful, ungrateful.  A grateful heart is a humble heart. The ungrateful are proud. The ungrateful exalt themselves. They despise the grace of God, receiving it in vain. The grateful heart is a glad heart. How hard is it to get a grateful guy down? Just a grateful heart is a glad heart. Hard to find, isn't it difficult to find a bitter, grateful person? Impossible! They're not bitter, they're not angry, they're not discontent, they are grateful. One said this. If we do not believe that we are deeply indebted to God for all that we have, then the very spring of gratitude has gone dry. When the high spring of gratitude to God fails at the top of the mountain, soon all the pools of thankfulness begin to dry up further down the mountain. And when gratitude goes, the sovereignty of the self condones more and more corruption for its pleasure. When gratitude goes, the sovereignty of the self condones more and more corruption for its pleasure. The antidote to that is gratitude, grateful heart. We need to pray for a great awakening of humble gratitude, right? At the heart of all in gratitude is the love of self. Genuine gratitude acknowledges that all the good that we have is unearned, undeserved. You don't deserve it. The ungodly hate to think of it that way, right? To think of things that they don't deserve. I'm entitled. Not by your words, by your actions. You walk around like you're entitled, ungrateful, right? The ungodly hate to think of it that way because it robs them of the glory that they are currently attempting to rob God of, right? They want it for themselves. And so they hate to hear of it that way because it robs them of their own self-exalting glory. Jesus said, those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. We are undeserving. We need to acknowledge His goodness. We need to acknowledge our need of Him. The Lord says, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. We need to pray for grateful hearts. Amen. Let's be grateful. We have so much to be grateful for. It's incalculable. We don't see the ends of it. It stretches out beyond our capacity to know or understand. We have so much to be grateful for. All praise, honor, and glory to Him from whom all blessings flow. All praise, honor, and glory to Him from whom all blessings flow.