The Cavalcade of America presented by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. The Cavalcade of America presents Madeline Carroll, brilliant star of the American screen in The Heart and the Fountain, an original radio play written by Margaret Riley. The story of a woman of astonishing genius in American journalism, Margaret Fuller. The achievements of Margaret Fuller as this nation's first woman, foreign correspondent, and in the powerful intellectual advance of the 19th century, mark another triumph of the human spirit. Supporting Madeline Carroll in the role of Margaret Fuller are the Cavalcade players. Our orchestra and the original musical score are under the direction of Don Worries. DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Madeline Carroll as Margaret Fuller on the Cavalcade of America. Tonight in the year 1835 in Groton, Massachusetts, a large house at the top of a hill. In an upstairs bedroom, the light of a lamp falls on the pallid face of a girl murmuring in the illness of fever. Nothing to be afraid of. Wind and sea, wild sea. Margaret, Margaret wake up. Bursting, throbbing. Margaret. Yes. Yes. Why are you shaking me, Doctor? You were dreaming Margaret. When I sleep, I always dream of death. Don't talk, Margaret. Doctor, I want freedom. I want my life to be my own, to think and write what I believe. I must leave here and go to Boston. You'll get over that idea, Margaret. I know.  They all married and had children. That's where you'll find your happiness, Margaret. No, Doctor, you're wrong. Someday you'll understand what I mean. Supposing you do go to Boston. You'll be one woman against the world. You can't vote. You can't work like a man. You can't even depend upon other women to understand and help you. I'll have help. Who will help you? Ralph Waldo Emerson. He's very much interested in my writing. I know he'll understand. But Emerson is not enough. The world won't accept women writers no matter how good they are. I believe they will. Besides, I must be a part of the work they're doing. They're planning a colony. A farm where they're all lived together. A modern utopia. The greatest men in America. Emerson and Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott. All working together to show the world how to live. That's where I must be. Mr. Hawthorne, that you don't approve? Am I being edited of the dial? I had hoped that all you men at Brook Farm would help me and support me. Frankly, Miss Fuller, I don't approve. Why not, Hawthorne? It's no job for a woman. But Margaret's better equipped than anyone in America. Don't you agree, Mr. Hawthorne? Yes, yes, I do, Emerson. But of course we men will have to do the actual writing. Good afternoon, everyone. I thought I saw visitors. I hope Ripley's porch isn't sensitive, Thoreau. Your boots are uncommonly muddy. Oh, I'm indeed sorry. I've been walking with a muskrat. And his conversation was so entertaining, I didn't notice my feet. And what did the muskrat have to say, Mr. Thoreau? Ah, great deal, Miss Fuller. Between us we decided that the creator meant us to toil on the seventh day and to reserve the other six for joy in one night. It sounds to me, sir, that you're trying to make a religion of laziness. Is that what you mean by transcendentalism? Meaning is very simple, Miss Fuller. Anyone who knows the word of Latin can understand it. I think people should know what it means in English. Well, I explain it very carefully to my Orphic sayings. We're going to climb beyond the present conditions of life to something better. But the word itself is so vague. I think somebody should explain it. Everyone in the country is talking about what you're doing here at Brook Farm, but no two people seem to agree on what it is. The explanation is before you, Miss Fuller. This is the kind of social and economic reorganization the world needs. No, I don't agree with you, Ripley. Brook Farm is trying to establish a new philosophy. A better way of thinking. Now, just a minute, Emerson, you're forgetting this is an artistic experiment to create a truly American literature. If you wish you'd all read my Orphic sayings, then you'd know this is a religious problem. Pardon me, gentlemen, but our purpose here is to live according to the laws of nature. Oh, no, Fuller, we're here to reorganize society. But nature is the answer. I tell you, from an artistic standpoint, you must consider religion first. As I explained it in my Orphic sayings... Chancellor, I'm completely confused. You say you want to help humanity. How can you when you shut yourselves away from the rest of the world? Your ideas are all very fine, but you don't make them work. If you really want to help people, you must go out and live with them. May I interrupt your work a moment? Certainly, Warder. What is it? Horace Greeley has come up to Boston to see me. About you. Uh, Horace Greeley? Me? Yes, he asks that we release you from the dial so that you can become literary critic for the New York Tribune. The Tribune? I can't believe it. It's true, my dear. But, Warder, what does he mean that I should use a man's name? No, Margaret, you're to sign your work with your own name.  But for people read a woman? George Sand is compelled to write under a man's name. People have never accepted a woman's writing before. So I remind it, Mr. Greeley. His reply was that you don't write like a woman. I don't know what to say. If I were true to my sex, I would swoon and require smelling thoughts. Please don't. Margaret, you have more important work to do. The world is larger in New York. Take my love and my blessing and go. And you, mine, Warder. This is like the moment in a play when... when words become futile, when only silence can speak what is in the heart. Wait until you hear what the fuller woman is doing for the Tribune now, Anderson. What now? She's going over to the prison to talk to the prisoners. Well, that's a woman for you. I tell you, if Greeley doesn't restrain her, people are going to stop buying the Tribune. Of course. She wants to associate with criminals even in print. Well, it's clear to me. As a woman, Fuller has no self-respect. I doubt the truth of that remark, Mr. Wilkins. Oh, Miss Fuller, I... I have a great deal of self-respect. So much that I can't allow other women to be trampled in the mud and still hold my head high.  Come on, let's help these women, and I'm not afraid to try. It may interest you to know that I'm going to visit Blackwells Island tomorrow. Blackwells Island? Why, you can't. If you'd read the Tribune, Miss Fuller, you'd know the plague has broken out there. I have read it. That's why I'm going. They'll need help now more than ever. Here, Miss Fuller. Here's a cell where both prisoners don't have the plague. You mean you don't segregate them, Matron? No. We haven't enough money to handle them. Girls, this is Miss Fuller. She's here to talk to you. Girls, I... If you don't mind, there are some things I'd like to know about you. I'm not going to say anything. You don't understand. I want to help you. What can you do? If you'll only tell me, I... All you'll hear from me is this. I killed a man. How and why is my own business? Be careful, young lady. You'll go back to solitary confinement. If you want to, Miss Fuller, you can try talking to the other one. Molly, pay attention. Tell me, Molly. Do you have a husband and children? Yeah. Well, where are they? Well, I don't know. But don't you ever hear from your husband? No. No, he left me. He didn't like the baby. Hasn't anyone tried to find him for you? No. But that's appalling. It's cruel. Who else thinks so? Mind your tongue, you. Please. Tell me, Molly, what brought you here? Stealing. But wasn't there any other way? No. I tried begging. What happened to your baby? I don't know. I don't know where he is. He was a pretty baby. I'm sorry, Molly. That's all we have time for, Miss Fuller. You'll have to stop. Very well. Thank you, girls. I hope there's something that I'm Miss Fuller. Well, young woman, now you know what these creatures are like. They don't want help. What else can you expect, matron? How can they recognize kindness when they've never known it? I won't stop until every one of these women gets a chance to live like a human being. You'd better stay away from us, Miss Fuller. This is no place for a woman. Matron, for the first time I agree with you. It's no place for anybody. I could go on reading complaints from tribune subscribers in different ways. Miss Fuller, I demand that you stop meddling in public affairs that are none of your business. Mr. Greeley, I thought you hired Miss Fuller to be a female literary critic, not a reformer. Critic makes a practice of understanding life, as too. Margaret's a literary critic. She's consequently got the right to raise a few questions for society to think about, too. And I haven't neglected my criticisms in order to do other work, Mr. McElriff. Of course you haven't, Margaret. Everyone knows, gentlemen, Miss Fuller's work is a critic who's second only to Ed Garland Polls. And that's another thing. You've been insulting the best writers of the day, Miss Fuller. What I said about them is true. Why did you hire a critic if you don't want criticism? Gentlemen, I've heard enough. If you don't approve Miss Fuller as a critic, I'll give her a more important job. She's going to Europe as our foreign correspondent. What? Foreign correspondent?  I can't do it, really. Why no woman's ever done such a thing? Of course not. No woman's ever been capable of having a job before. You coming to my office now, Margaret? Yes. Good day, gentlemen. Look here, Greeley, you stupid... Mr. Greeley, you know how much this means to me, but I don't know if I can do it. I've never had experience in that kind of work.  Right now, Europe's at the boiling point. Has been ever since Matanik seized power from Napoleon 20 years ago. Now Italy's getting ready to fight for independence. She won't tolerate Austrian oppression much longer. I'm surprised she has this long. Nobody knows exactly what's happening in Italy, except the Pope. We'll have to get an audience with him. He may not grant one to a woman journalist. The person who can help us is Giuseppe Mazzini. He's in exile now in England. You'd better go there first. I'll arrange for it to be Thomas Carlisle. Get him to introduce you to Mazzini. Then when everything's arranged, go to Rome. Now, Margaret, I'll give you a new job. Thank you, Mr. Greeley. Well? I was just waiting to hear you say, Go east, young woman, go east. Mazzini and her ideas are in Mazzini. Please, please, Mr. Carlisle, if you would shout a little less, man, you rattle the dishes. I am sorry, Mrs. Carlisle, indeed I am, but I cannot listen to this foolishness from Mazzini and Miss Fuller. The divine right to liberty.  You do not know what it means, Carlisle, to send your friends to the scaffold in pursuit of liberty. I have done that. I have watched them die. These are only opinions to you, but to me, they're life and death. And I am being sentimental, Mazzini, like a woman, like Miss Fuller.  If you want, Mr. Carlisle, I will. Don't you see what idyll is doing? She's not just fighting to rid herself of wastrel and tyranny, but for the freedom of the world, and I want to be a part of that fight. Oh, you will help us, senorina. You will write for us in the American newspapers. I will, senor, gladly. I will do anything to rid the world of tyrants. There's no other difference between strength and tyranny. I do, Mr. Carlisle. Only tyrants make people pay for progress with their lives.  You can't fight until you're prepared. We will be prepared, Carlisle. Garibaldi is organizing the people now. When I return to Italy, we will work together to help the Holy Father. He's our real leader. When you get to Rome, senorina Fuller, you must see him. I will arrange it. And I will do all that I can to help you. Hey, you're out of your minds.  You can't be expected to know better. But for you, Mazzini, there's no excuse. You have the dreams of a child. I agree with you, Carlisle. And it is because I have not lost the dreams of a child that I am going to fight for liberty. Right, senor Mazzini, right. Our trouble is that we have forgotten the things we wanted as children. If we could remember that freedom, the world would not know of tyranny. Yeah, I'm back. I present to Marquesi Giovanni Dorsely. Marquesa. I am charmed, senorina. Senorina has just had an audience with the Holy Father. Do you have time to escort her through the chaffers? I should be delighted. Thank you, senor. Good day, senorina. Good day, Monsignor. Pardon, senorina, I have not heard your name. Your eyes... I was looking in your eyes. And the Monsignor speaks English so well. However, senorina, no language can say what eyes can say. Do you know what your eyes tell me? That we should not look at each other again until we stop talking. Then I think that we should keep on talking. Marquesa, please be sensible. What shall I talk, senorina? To a woman like you?  I recognize your uniform. Talk to me about that. Things I can write about in my work. In your work, senorina? Yes, I'm a writer. I work for the New York Tribune. That's, senorina, I cannot believe. Marquesa, don't treat me like a woman. Tell me things I can write home to my people. I have work to do. Don't talk to me as you do to silly girls about my eyes.  Look at me, senorina. In this country you will learn that women are for love and laughing and life. Am I the first man to tell you this? Senorina, for one moment, look at me. Yes, I will look at you. But I will remember that all my life I have worked without thought of happiness for the things I believe. This is a dangerous time in Rome, Marquesa, and you choose our little time together for love-making. Is that not work for a woman, senorina? To make one man happy. You being the man, I suppose. Why are you laughing? I had forgotten, senorina. I do not yet know your name. Here, Giovanni. Here I am on the balcony. Beautiful you are tonight. You should stand like this through all time, leaning against my heart. You should not be working, Marquesa. I was working. But somehow I couldn't go on with it. Perhaps I'm tired. No. That did not stop you worth, Marquesa. Did you think of me? Tell me. This little pulse in your throat tells me it is true. You were thinking of me. Yes. Yes, I thought of you. Listen, Giovanni. Listen to the music down there. The people sing and dance when the fighting may begin at any minute. It hurts me. It frightens me. Do not think of the revolution, dear. Be like them down there. Take a little happiness while you can.  This is what I want. To be here with you, I thought I wanted to change the world. And I find I cannot even change myself.  Is that then so difficult? This moment is ours. And we must live our lives as if tomorrow were the end. Yes. That's what I thought when I came out to the balcony tonight. Words. Words cannot speak for us now, Giovanni. There's a taste of death in the air. Do you feel it?  No, soft, sweetheart. Be calm. Think not of the world or of death, Carissima. But of our lives together. Our lives together. Look at yourself in my eyes again. See how beloved you are. Here I am, all the way across the world to be a mirror for your love. How strange it is. Yes, Amore? That I should come so close to death that I should be here waiting for this fury to break and touch for the first time. The first time in my whole life. Lovely stuff of life. A night in May 1850. There now. Try to rest. Don't move. You're going to be all right. Mattzini, what's happened? Where's Giovanni? He's safe. He has gone to the mountains to get your baby. Come, you must hurry. You must leave Rome as soon as he returns. What do you mean? Garibaldi has been forced to flee the city. Hurry, Marqueso, you have little time. I beg you to go back to America. You can't pay as much as we can with a sword. If you say I must, I will. And I will make them listen to the truth. But you, Mattzini, where are you going? I must stay here. I go down with my ship. This is goodbye, Marqueso. Not goodbye, Mattzini. Your ship will not go down.  Oh, Giovanni, you startled me. Oh, your hands are cold, Marqueso. Is anything wrong, dear? No, no. About what were you thinking, Marguerita? I see, Giovanni. Stereo. Exciting, terrible, exciting. No, you should not be here on the deck, dear. There is a storm coming. There is such a dark feeling around my heart. Oh, Giovanni, will I ever see America again? Of course you will, Marguerita. You have the nerves from worry about the baby that is all. You are tired now. But you have important things to do. I know, Giovanni. But I may not have time for them. Now I feel only a strange calm, as if the sea is reaching out her wide arms to come to life. Oh, that is not strange, Marguerita. Each of us feels close to one part of the universe. Souls are made of different things, earth or air, frost or fire, wind or sea. Mine is the sea. Oh, come, Marguerita. Come inside, dear. You shiver with the cold. In just a moment, darling. I want to stay here a while. Alone. Only the wind and night in my heart. Only the doom of the sea. Only a vast, eternal emptiness. There is no beginning here. No end. I am not of the dust of earth, but of the wild, deep sea. How it is calling me. How strange. At sea. Shipwreck, July 19th, 1850. By birth, a citizen of New England. By profession and a parcel of freedom. By genius, belonging to the world. For their performance of the Heart and the Fasten, the story of Margaret Fuller, who opened a whole new field of opportunity to women in the American way of life. And our depart brings you news of chemistry at work in our world. Milk is often called the perfect food. The series of chemical reactions that enable a cow to manufacture valuable proteins, vitamins, and minerals out of the ordinary fodder she eats is one of nature's miracles. But there was a day not so long ago when we couldn't be sure milk was safe. Flies infested dairy barns. Storekeepers dipped raw milk out of unprotected cans and sold it in bulk. Today America drinks better, safer milk. 100 billion pounds a year. More milk per capita than any other country but Switzerland. Chemistry stands guard over this white, nutritious river of milk flowing from green pastures of America to your table. 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Julius, the street boy. Sink or swim, bound to rise. Tom the boot black and Nelson the news boy. Remember them? They were written by Horatio Alger, whose life story we dramatize on Cavalcade next week. Alger's dream was to write a great novel. He never did. But what he did write instilled in countless American boys his simple creed, the will to succeed. We hope you will join us next week when we present his story on Cavalcade of America. The Cavalcade of America joins this month in honoring the centenary of a famous newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune. Almost a century from the day Margaret Fuller joined its staff. Your announcer is Clayton Collier, sending best wishes from DuPont. National Broadcasting Company.


Hey everybody, welcome back to the next cast. I'm your host met. I'm joined by Tyler. How are you doing Tyler doing good? So we're back for another Linux cast we talk about Linux and other open source stuff and this week is going to be no different So what have you been doing this week in Linux? Well, I have hopped back over and has started using Qtile again it's It's I'm glad to be back. I I did like DWM And I do still like DWM. I don't care for the patching as everyone says, but I didn't have to leave DWM. I just decided I'd hop back over on Qtile And yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be going back over to DWM anytime soon. I I like Qtile I like where I'm at. Qtile's good. I like Qtile. Um, I Don't have installed right now, which is like usually it's one of the ones that I do have installed But Qtile is good. Um Right now the ones I have installed are DWM awesome and Xmone ad Xmone ad has not seen any business for me in a week. I was about to say Xmone ad probably won't be visited again Yeah, for a while. I'm not gonna uninstall it Because the developer of Xmone actually came into the comment of my last video and said that I could get an IRC and ask questions So eventually I might do that but right now I'm still kind of You know, yeah, yeah, I I don't know about Xmone adds one of those things where like I Just don't see the point like for one if you're not already like into Haskell like I don't really see the point But everyone who loves Xmone it out there what we'll tell you that's ridiculous just it's it's awesome You need to use it, but I don't know I've always preferred Qtile over Xmone ad just because it's Python like it's it's easier to get around in and I know I've said this before probably here on the podcast, but Qtiles not slow like it being Python based does not make it slow It DWM is you can sort of maybe tell there's a it's a it's faster on a slow system But yeah, you'd be be hard-pressed to show me numbers where I'm like, oh, it's way faster That whole stereotype of Python being slow is just so totally overblown I mean, yes, there are some applications out there written in Python that are slow But that just seems like it's poor development and not Python being slow now Compiling Python is slower. So if you have to compile something in Python is slow So maybe that's where the stereotype comes from but actually using the programs and stuff and using the window managers It's written in I don't find it to be slow at all Yeah Yeah, all right. So before we before I jump into mine Just let everybody know who's watching the video version of this.  So I'll get it. It's just the first time. Just leave me alone. I'll get it. It's gonna be okay. Alright, so just gotta practice Well, see I I just created the scene so When I get the map to keybinding is a little bit easier So I've been messing around with a program called keymapper now keymapper is a cool little program That allows you to have multiple keyboards So if you have like a stream deck or something like that You could go through and use this program to you on Linux to associate those little buttons on the stream deck to certain keybinding so I Can't afford a Stream deck, but and I'm gonna show this to the camera I bought one of these things you can't really see it because it has a Like a ton of RB RGB. So it kind of blows out the camera. It's so bright. I've been using it as a nightlight But it basically it's a Has about 24 keys on it like you really can't see it but um, it's just like a keyboard like 60 bucks on Amazon and then I use keymapper to go through and Associate each of these Keys with a certain keybinding and OBS and I have my own little stream deck. So That's what I've been messing around with. It's really cool. It's kind of janky sometimes At the at least at the beginning because you have to make sure you start the associated service with keymapper Otherwise when you restart your computer or log out of your window manager, it doesn't work And that's not something that they actually should tell you to do in the documentation Unless you've compiled it from source they tell you if you've compiled it from source to do it But not if you install from the AOR. So if you even if you install from the AOR You have to install start the service yourself But once you do it's really great and The only thing I don't care for about this keyboard this keyboard I bought it doesn't have any modifier keys So if I wanted to create like a second layer of keybindings, I couldn't do that Because it just doesn't have any modified here's modifier keys other than Tab and escape and those aren't really modifier keys. So I wish I had a shift button. That's my only sad face about that, but it's really cool and Maybe someday I get like because the stream decks they're really nice because you can like change the screens of those little buttons So they can go through and like, you know what you're talking about like these are just like It says QWERTY on it. It's just it's just a keyboard even though it the T in the is in the wrong spot But anyways, yeah, that's what I've been doing It's cool.  Well, yeah, they're like, I don't know like a hundred and ninety nine dollars or two hundred bucks or something and I mean, maybe someday, but I just don't I Want first, I mean I wanted to do it this way first because I wanted to make sure that this system would work And then maybe someday I'll invest in that but this I mean this seems to be working perfectly fine And also when it comes to Linux getting a stream deck working like half decent is Pretty difficult. There's some programs out there that are for it, but They're they're normally pretty chank Yeah, I think this key mapper would actually work fairly well because it would just read it as another keyboard Cuz it'll actually go through and work with like your mouse or whatever So like I have this MX master 2 and there's like a Button on here that I didn't know about it gets underneath your thumb I like I had no clue that was a button But if you get into this key mapper software You can actually select this mouse as the source and remap any of the buttons to whatever you want So yeah, so it works with mice it works with keyboards and it works with it would work with a key with a stream deck So yeah, it's really cool and it's on a good hub I'll put a link in the show notes if I remember to do it. If not, it'll be in Somewhere you just search for key mapper So, yeah, that's what I've been doing. Let's go ahead and jump into the contact information You all have to forgive me if I'm I seem a little bit disorganized. I'm just that way. It's natural You can follow us on Twitter at the Linux cast. I'm at MTWB I forgot to go through and actually cut out some of the lines here So this is gonna be extra long as usual you can subscribe to us all the law You can subscribe to all of our audio stuff at the linuxcast.org and I can't talk with the damn either All right, you can subscribe to it subscribe you can subscribe to us.  No This is dumb and support us on patreon I don't know why you would after listening to this nonsense patreon.com slash linuxcasts facebook.com slash linuxcasts Follow Tyler He's official zany on odyssey and the link to his youtube channel is in the video description below and he can follow us on youtube at youtube.com slash linuxcast Wasn't too bad. It was horrible. Don't sugarcoat it. It was bad We don't need to talk about that ever again. That was just the worst transition to anything ever and apparently there's Words that need to be said that can't be said because I don't know how to say them That's just way too. It's sorry. So every week Tyler and I pick a news link of the week So Tyler, what is your news link? Mine is Arbian? it's the 21.05 release just just got well released and It's The article that I linked to it's really what I found interesting about it had Nothing to do with what the article is about because it's talking about you know that the new features or updates and support That's that comes with it. I Wanted to talk about the fact that can we get more linux distributions that have Names like this Arbian. It's just it's it's Debian for arm. It it's it rolls off the tongue. It sounds good. It's not confusing I feel like a lot of linux distros out there could learn a thing or two from this Maybe I'm wrong there, but Just wanted to see your opinion on it. So it reminds me of Raspian mm-hmm, like but This is kind of like more general purpose for things that aren't just the Raspberry Pi, right? So it looks very interesting so defaults to X FCE Also supports, you know, well, I mean that sounds like bloat to me Support X FCE man, you don't need to bring on that extra stuff. What is no now I I I do like the fact that they have improved Nvidia Jets and nano support because I've I've really wanted to get me one Of those and play around with it. I think they're really neat. You'll have to explain that to me. What is that? It's a it's it's it's Essentially like an SoC like a Raspberry Pi, but with a dedicated Nvidia chip on it as well So you can do a lot more interesting things There are quite a few people out there who think that you're gonna get like something like a Jets and nano and turn it into like an Nvidia shield or something They're not the same thing. It's a it's a development board. It's not the same thing. It's not meant to be a home home PC I have talked to somebody who legit thought they were just gonna buy it Install Android on it and make it into a shield as far as I know. That's not how it It's it's that's not how it works, but I think they're really cool I want I want to get one and play with it for sure They're also not too expensive. What are they? Are they are they they're not as cheap as the raspberry stuff? They're right Yeah, they're definitely not that cheap. I I think they're I can't remember what the nano is, but I know the regular Jets and was like I don't know how much it was at launch, but I know that you can get it for like a round a hundred hundred fifty dollars So I think the nano is is about the same price. Maybe a little bit cheaper But they're they're really cool boards. I want to play with one pretty bad and then you can put this arm be a knot Yeah, see if I were to get one of those I'd probably put manjaro arm on it Just because you know arch Like if they don't want to deal with apt and stuff It's you know, just the way that I would work But eventually my eventual goal is to get a raspberry pie and create a NAS But I really want to build my own NAS because the if you buy like a regular NAS box like on Amazon or whatever There's a really really expensive and then you still have to buy Hard drives on top of it and hard drives are really being expensive. So and Now this is a little bit off topic, but I'll go ahead and say it because we're talking about NASA's when it comes to cheap NASA's Typically, you don't want to buy them. I don't know if you've seen it, but I can't remember what the company's name is It starts with like a Q But they just had it's a NAS like manufacturer And they just had a yeah. Yeah, and they just had a huge huge malware Yeah, pretty bad I'll lead into the big topic later on. So all right, let's go ahead and move to my News item of the week and mine is hold on a second. We'll get this up on the screen here So nitrix is a Linux distribution that is based on Debbie and said and the developer that Develops nitrix has been going back and forth with the maintain our distro watch Because the distro watch page for them displays it as if it's as if the distribution is based on Ubuntu and apparently the distro watch guys don't think that the Distribution is based on Debbie and said they think it's based on Ubuntu and they think that the the nitrix guy is lying about it for some Weird reason and they're refusing to change it and they have a whole bunch of stuff in the description of the distribution that is apparently wrong and Then the it's this whole drama of the nitrix guys demanding an apology For the distro watch being the what the distro watch guys being douchebags So there's I mean, this is the kind of drama that the Linux guys kind of you know, this is the nerdiest drama drama so but it's The reason why I linked to this was mostly so that we can say that distro watch is the is dumb Yeah, I think just think that distro watch is the dumbest thing now. I Understand it has a function But it it it's kind of like the Oscars, you know, it feels political to me You know, well, I was about to ask so what's the function of distro watch? well, it's supposed to be a like a Like a dump for all the Linux distribution release news and it is If you go if you if you just go there to keep an eye on what distros have been updated and released It's really good. You know, it actually Serves that function, but it's the extra pieces that it tries to do It's kind of they've like they've tried to create an IMDB style Thing for Linux distribution. So they have a distro ranking thing for Linux distros, but it's not like Those are the most popular distros. That's just how many page views those distros have gotten on distro watch, right and It's really easy to write like a Python script to have a bot go to that Page like 25,000 times a day or whatever and that's the reason why supposedly MX Linux has made it to the top of the list For the last six months now that doesn't mean that MX Linux is bad MX Linux is actually really good But that we all know everybody knows if they were actually counting downloads and stuff like that Ubuntu would be the top distro Everyone uses Ubuntu. There's like five people in comparison. There's like five people who use other distros I mean everybody uses Ubuntu So this watch, I mean, that's just one area where this watch is done but it seems like About three times a year the maintainers of distro watch get into her fuffles with Linux distro maintainers over stupid shit like this So first of all the night guy, he knows what his distros based on He has no reason to lie now like He it was at one point Based on partially based on Ubuntu It was based mostly on Debian, but it you pulled from Ubuntu repo so they had access to snaps and Most more software and stuff, right? But now it's almost all Debian said in app images They don't pull from the Ubuntu repos But the distro guy distro watch guys won't change it for whatever reason because they think they're lying, which is I mean first of all What? Yeah, what purpose would he have to lie?  So I mean first of all just It's okay, man. Just calm down. So this I just want to read this like this is the the response that in this open letter I'm see if I can find this scrolling down Okay, in the open letter the nitrous guy says because of this We make a request publicly that you and your staff amend their ronious information that you display on your website About our product including logos names links descriptions and versions. Additionally, we demand an apology in italics so Emphasized From you and the staff member responsible for the incident that finally led to this open letter Our request is non-negotiable and we will not accept anything less from our demand. So first of all Dude, what are you gonna do? What kind of leverage do you have to demand the apology?   It seems like I mean a waste of a lawyer And a lot of money, right? I mean Just calm down. Yes district watch the maintainers district watches douche bag I Think most people can agree that he likes drama and gets embroiled in stuff like this all the time So we can all agree on that but it's just move on Like understand that He probably wants this change so people can who go to district watch to get the information Aren't misinformed as to his district.  It's just I think it's weird because like why why By so hard about it because I Know I'm I might be in the minority here But I don't look at district watch at all and when I go to district watch I take everything on district watch with a grain of salt. I view district watches Just a very heavily Misinformation prevalent platform like they there's a lot of You have to know about district watch and exactly what district watch is to not get confused when you go to the site Because most people view those rankings and think oh these are the most popular Linux sisters No, not by any not by any means So I don't I don't know like to get upset enough to demand an apology from district Watch I Have a feeling it's just one of those things where he's been going back and forth with him over this small issue For so long and it's gotten so he did privately that now it's he's just fed up But still I don't know how you don't type out a letter like this and like halfway there you go Now now that I've had a minute to think about it. I think I might be a little too hot-headed right now Yeah, I'm gonna take a breath. All right, so I'm about to drop something I'm going to fix this district watch. I'm gonna fix it right here on the podcast Not technologically, but I got the idea that needed to fix district watch district watch should not have a maintainer at all District watch should be Wikipedia. It should be compute community maintained at all the district pages all the Rankings and everything like that should all be done by the community So when a page needs to be updated the community does it now granted obviously Wikipedia not necessarily the most accurate place in the world but When there's misinformation and stuff like that other people can go on there and create it there's stuff There's source links and all that kind of stuff. It should be community maintained not maintained by just a small group of people This is open source software. It should be open source You should be able to find district hub on github or district watch on github, you know I completely agree To your to your point about misinformation Well, I mean, it's not like district watch isn't already like Wikipedia. It's already just as misinformed as Wikipedia is so The community pitch in and maintaining it. I don't I don't think that could possibly make it any worse Oh, I think it'd be way better because I mean I mean yes, there's good there's Areas like especially the political stuff on Wikipedia That's just horribly biased and something gets changed every day because the two sides are like fighting or whatever but For the most part if you go to something like look up Abraham Lincoln or something like that You're gonna find mostly fairly good information now. You won't want to use it in some kind of scholarly paper or something I mean that'd be dumb, but For the most part you can believe what you see on what Wikipedia I think that'd be that I think it'd be even more so here because there'd be no reason for the community to say Uh, lie about what a distribution is based on All right Enough of that nonsense. Let's go ahead and move to the main topic. So the main topic this week is a question does Linux need antivirus and When I came up with this I was thinking more along the line of you know virus software and viruses and stuff, but With the like the ransomware hack to happen here in the United States this week this last week It made me more think about a just a more broader question. Does Linux need like antivirus and anti malware software because It seems to be that this is going to be a much bigger problem than it used to be so Tyler. What are your thoughts? I Think Linux Doesn't need antivirus in the same way that Windows does I think I think eventually we will see Antivirus on Linux and by antivirus on Linux. I'm talking about useful Antivirus on Linux. I'm sure there's already antivirus made for Linux. Microsoft defender exists for Linux Your story it does Like it's there a soul on earth that runs it. I don't I don't know I'm sure there probably is like five people at Microsoft who run Linux like they're there They live in a closet. They They're the Linux developers for Microsoft. They focus on like Microsoft teams and the edge browser for Linux And in their little closet, they need to use Linux But they also have to have virus software because they work in You know they work in a virus So those are probably the five people that use Microsoft defender But it does exist you can actually go through and download it and use it on your computer now Why you would do that? I don't know. I'm but you know, I'm also fairly certain that Norton make something for Linux I'm pretty sure now. I could just have been making that up in the back of my mind somewhere completely possible I have a very good imagination, but I'm pretty sure I remember this somewhere that Norton makes Linux software as well It might not have been more than it might been McAfee, but something but so Linux Antivirus and antimalware stuff does exist. It's it's there. You can download it now if you want to don't download it now Yeah, we'll see that's the thing I think one day there might be a valid reason for having antivirus on Linux But Linux is it's just not a like running antivirus on Linux feels like trying to install Norton on like open nbsd like You're running a secure operating system from the ground up and you're trying to tack on something That's not needed. I feel like that's what you're doing when you try install antivirus software on Linux now There's just no real-world use case for it But I foresee a day when there definitely is a use for it I still think viruses will never be as prevalent and as vicious as they are on Windows At least eat like on Linux. It's just harder to contract a virus than compared to Windows Windows written for Windows, right? Yeah, they're dot exe files. They can't run on Linux very easily. I mean like let's use wine to run a virus Silly alright, so for the most part I agree But I think that this is a question that needs to be split into two parts depending on and I think it depends on who you are so if you're Matt and you're Tyler and you're just a dude running Windows or running Linux on your Standard computer and using it to browse the web and stream YouTube videos and stuff like that No, you don't need antivirus software right now and probably installing it would actually slow your computer down and Actually act like a virus But if on if you're a company that runs a whole bunch of Linux servers, I can see Then you wanting some kind of protection against malware even if the malware on Linux isn't as prevalent because I Think maybe not antivirus so much as anti malware because you There is malware written for Linux and it's growing every day But all that stuff is targeted towards the servers and people who use Linux in a corporate environment so people who maybe run a pipeline or something, you know, I can you know Those kinds of uses for Linux. I think do need some type of protection now what that protection is I'm not sure it is. It's not Microsoft Defender. We'll just put that out there Right now. It's not Microsoft Defender. It's I Can think of three thousand choices that would be better. Well, the biggest thing if you're All right, so let's just step off the step back a little bit and get more general doesn't matter what operating system you're on the best anti-malware virus Protection is you. Okay. Don't click on links in emails That should be like the first thing you learn when you're using a computer. Don't click on links and emails ever Okay, it doesn't matter if you know the person the link was sent from don't click on it. It's not a good idea Relatedly don't open up emails From people you don't know Don't even open them. So if you get an email that says you got a $500 gift card from Target Don't open the email because I guarantee you didn't win a $500 gift card from Target You didn't win a laptop. You didn't win a million dollars. The IRS isn't coming to arrest you Don't open those emails. Those are scam emails. They either want you to they either want to catfish you or They want to con you out of money send them gift cards from iTunes Or they want to sell something on your computer Those are the only purposes that those sometimes both. Yeah, maybe both, you know, just email only email People you know and never click on links and the same thing for Facebook Don't friend people you don't know on Facebook because it's the same thing as email They'll send you links. They'll send you stuff via chat. They'll want to chat you up and try this, you know Whatever You know, so these are just general security things and then I add on top of that Maybe don't use password for your password Just I mean one two three four is not a secure password. I can break it via You know, I don't know any Python at all like zero Python But I could write a Python script to break that password or write it and see I could whatever it's it'd be so easy don't Just use a password manager. It's okay If you're worried about some company having access to your password, they have self-hosted password managers You can download bit warden host it yourself. You can use pass You can use key past xc. You can use and pass any of these things all of them have set self-hosted options So that that rant was mostly being no, I don't think that Linux needs malware protection I think Computer users need to be fucking smarter isn't my thing I agree because Malware doesn't get on your system And I'm talking about just regular users It doesn't get on your system unless you agree to put it on your system for the most part There's not some hacker out there just randomly targeting small people because it's not lucrative enough to target just one person For the most, I mean, that's your name's Bill Gates Then maybe you should have some protection But if you're just regular Joe Snow working for minimum wage, you don't have enough money for tar from for hackers to go through and want to Steal all of your money because guess what you don't have any money. Okay?  Okay, just always have a backup that's not convicted to your computer It may be a little bit out of dates, but who cares so what you lose a little bit of stuff But you won't and here's a big thing people do not understand this offline backups are very important Have a completely separate if you want to have a full computer that you just keep offline do that or just disconnect the hard drive complete offline backup storage you need the Not everybody understands this, but you need to have three backups one One local offline backup one just local backup and then a cloud backup all three of those There's no way that you're ever gonna have any problems like well because I mean look at it this way people if you Let's just say you've clicked on something which we've told you not to do so first of all bad person bad Smacking on a nose But if you have a backup and you've ran into ransomware somewhere All you have to do is wipe your hard drive and put your backup on there. You're done.  Yeah, that's that's that's your lesson um like I said the The equation changes obviously when you are a company So that's reason why I said malware for companies is I think it's going to be Protection breaking again companies are just made up of people and I'm most guaranteed that the person who the reason why this colonial Pipeline got into ransomware was somebody somewhere clicked on something.  They just don't click on it Yeah, and I will say one thing now This is probably going to be a little bit of a crazy statement But I want windows to continue to exist and I want windows to continue to have Maybe not the largest market share, but at least a solid portion of the desktop market share because As long as there are people out there who do not care that their operating system spies on them that their operating system is Poo-Poo as long as there are those people out there The target stays off the back of Linux when it comes to this type of just general Malware targeting anybody so To everyone who thinks that every Linux person out there just wants everybody on earth to use windows, no We just want the people who at least care about what they use to use it The people who don't can continue to use it because they're the ones who have a target on their back every day We on the other hand enjoy nice solace privacy and Yeah You know, it's interesting There's the whole argument that people should just be They should run the these Anti-software antivirus and anti-malware programs on the computer and for the most part I think even if you're on Windows Windows defenders probably okay for you Because the last majority of people are gonna be perfectly fine as long as they use their head Yeah, you know, well, I mean that that's sort of the thing like It just sort of depends on your level of I wouldn't say Computer knowledge, but it it depends on your level of common sense when it comes to using a computer Because I've loved my grandmother to death But she is that type of person who will get those emails of like the IRS is like and she will click on those My mom was the same way when she so it took her ages and ages to want to get on the internet at all Like it took her. I mean she's only been on now for I mean, that's probably been 15 years now, but maybe 10 but It was I mean we had the internet ages before she ever wanted to get on it So we eventually got her a laptop when she first got on there. She was signing up for You know emails left right because she was on Yahoo answers. So she had several different accounts. It was you know You know, she had fun, but she was always getting these emails where she Won gift cards like and she it was it Like it hurt me to say mom. You didn't really win a gift card So you hurt my feelings like I don't want to I don't want to be mean but you didn't actually win a good card This person is trying to steal from you. Yeah, and it's even worse trying to trying to not sound condescending when you're telling them No, what you just did could probably get you in a lot of like could cost you a lot of money and problems Because I that's that's how my grandfather finally learned to not open random emails He signed up for something and they charged his credit card for like $800 Luckily as a good credit card company they caught well I mean regardless they take care of it, but still they caught it before it was even a problem, but I don't I don't know. I feel like a lot of people out there Have those issues where they do that and they sign up for those things and they don't have a negative repercussion right away So they don't learn that it's a problem until they've done it 15 times and compromised like all their credit cards Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you ever watched dr. Phil, but every once in a while He'll have these people have been scammed out of hundreds of thousands. They've been a million dollars Because they've been caught online and fallen in love with some person that they've never met and they're trying to bring that person over and this is all the same stuff it all starts with You interacting with someone else online that you don't know Either whether it's from a random email or finding them on match.com or whatever And it all comes back down to the you know trust but verify, you know And That's the case if you're actually interacting with somebody, but if you're just get a random email No trust no verify. We've already verified. That's bad so and We just want to reiterate that we're not picking on old people. We just use Tyler's grandmother and my mother as Examples this happens to young people too. Yeah. Yeah, this has nothing to do with age It's more a level of I mean you say common sense, but I don't even think it's common sense because I mean Older people have way more common sense than young people. Yeah, it's more of a Awareness of what happens on the internet when you're just especially when you're just starting I mean now my mom watches the dr. Phil examples and mocks those people, you know So yeah, so she now knows and she learned that and your grandmother and grandfather They learned That's just something that everybody has to go through and it doesn't matter what your age is.  Yeah, they're good people.  I couldn't use it as an example. Okay. Yeah Have you ever seen scary movie for? Yes. Yes Detroit before the alien attack and the Detroit after the alien attack. They're exactly the same only one has aliens. I Wish they still made those movies, but I didn't Leslie Nielsen die. I think so. I think so Yeah, that was completely off the rails, but Those are good movies. They really are Just so fun because they didn't they didn't care about making fun of people. It was just good. Um, I Think that we've covered that enough so Let's go ahead and jump into our absolute Tyler your Apple the week mine is a VS podium and so I've been Doing some stuff in unity I've switched over from Godot had spent quite a bit of time working in Godot, but their 3d is Neat need some work. I'm I'm just waiting on Hopefully with the 4.0 release. It's coming and some more updates after that. It'll you don't get much better But stick it with unity and I got to use Like I'm very used to using unity with VS code So I wanted something similar and when I was looking for alternatives I found VS podium which is literally VS code just without the proprietary Microsoft crap and telemetry And as far as I can tell they do a lot of extra work going through and we're and just carving out a lot of the telemetry That's in VS code As far as I know like removing the binary like Mike Microsoft bits is really easy But they spend a lot of effort going through there and making sure that they get rid of all the extra telemetry so I Really like it. Um, if you're somebody who likes VS code, it's literally VS code. Just D Microsoft Which is pretty nice. It looks good. I'm not a coder like at all. So It looks cool, but it's one of those things where I just would have no use for I did go through and make Vim at one point into a clone of VS code because here's a lot of stuff You can do in Vim to make it do the same stuff as VS code with all these plugins and stuff, but Eventually, I realized that I just have no use for any of that stuff because I did add that the only Quote-unquote coding that I do is Configuration on window managers as far as I go now I do a little bit of scripting, but you don't need it for batch scripting either. So no, you don't need an ID for bash Scripting whatsoever. It's just bloat But that's as far as I've gone in terms of actually doing it, you know coding So anyway, so mine is called Envy. So If you have ever opened up the the application blender and Taking a look at blender, you'll know the confusion that almost everybody who's ever opened up the application blender has experienced It is the most confusing piece of software you'll ever see now It's very powerful, right? There's a ton of stuff You can even edit videos. You can make animations. You can make 3d modelers. You can do a ton of stuff in blender, right and Because you can do all this stuff. It's it's super complicated so my pick is called Envy and it is a 2d animation software it's a open source and Basically, it just allows you to make Animation now you can go through and make complex animations like they show making like 2d games and stuff in it and it looks really cool I Haven't gotten to it a lot yet But when I'm thinking about trying to do is creating like a like a YouTube intro thing in it You know just something simple to kind of play around with it, but it looks really good and now it's not nearly as powerful as blender, but Just looking at the interface you'll be able to tell that it's not nearly as complex as blender either So it's gonna be easier to learn So that's definitely what I'm going to be messing around with In the next week or so to trying to see if I can learn this maybe make a YouTube intro Maybe a subscribe button or something like that Because the subscribe button and patreon stuff that I have now is kind of Amateur Just to just to say some so that's a this seems pretty neat to be honest like I don't know this seems like Like asus bright but just its animation like The animation feature in it seemed it seems pretty similar to this like the way it's got the track laid out and Or the keyframe track and the sort of general UI layout. I Love it because to be honest ace is bright. It's one of those I think ace is bright or ace bright. I can't remember which is how you're supposed to pronounce it but either way that program's like $15 and And Definitely not open source. So Have you used it extensively yet, like have you played around with it at all? I've opened it and I've used it like maybe for 10 or 15 minutes and Then I've watched some like tutorials online for it. That's as far as I've gotten It looks like I said looks like there's quite a bit of stuff you can do But you you're only going to be doing 2d animation never going to do anything 3d in it So it's very limited if you're not going to get into it knowing that you're doing 3d or doing it doing 2d You're gonna be disappointed if you want to try to make it do something else because it's just literally it's a linear But time thing with a 2d Palette or whatever that's all there is to it And that's basically what you can do now you can put like artwork and stuff like they're in there But it's not making something into it Putting something into it and trying to make it look like it's something like cut They would come out of blunder in terms of 3d text or whatever in animation isn't something you're gonna be able to do with it At least as far as I've been able to see so It's definitely one of those things where it's just it does this one thing it looks like it's going to do You know very well, so I'm definitely looking forward to into jumping into it now. I'm not a artist Like like at all. So whatever comes out of it may look really janky and that's not necessarily going to be the apps fault It's just gonna be the fact that I can't design anything with the damn So well seeing that I can't design anything. I'm excited to see a video where you use it and see see what you can make with it If you can make something great with it That means I can too and I am gonna be jumping on it Maybe I'll do that in a live stream or something. That'd be kind of fun. Oh, yeah, and hopefully I can catch it Anyone who's watched this podcast might know Almost every time you go live I watched the live stream about an hour to two hours after it's gone up. Oh, it's always always 730 Eastern time every Sunday. That's when I that's when I stream. I was gonna move the streams around To try to accommodate, you know, like other people but Just the way the real life has been going 730 on Sundays just seems to be the time frame Where I can actually schedule time to be on here just chatting with people in the chat without being interrupted by the rest of the Family so like I just tell them. Yeah, I'm gonna be doing a podcast. You know, even though I'm not doing a podcast It's just easier to explain to them That way so I don't you know have people knocking on the door saying hey, what you doing? I got I'm recording. Leave me alone All right, so that is it for Linuxcast coming up next week. I have no clue what we're talking about we have Is that Google cares about Linux security? Is that yours? Yes, okay, so that's where we're gonna talk about Google and caring about Linux security I don't know what any of that means but We're definitely gonna find out next week on Linuxcast, so thanks everybody for watching. 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