So we are very happy to have our digital minister of Taiwan, his counterpart, DEPCOV-18, and I don't even have to tell him what to say because he knows what to do. Thank you everyone. Happy to be here. So to somewhat compensate the lack of Q&A time in the previous session, we will start with the Q&A. And if you have any device connected to the internet, please go to this website. It's called slido.com. And once you're on this website, it will be asked to enter a number. So without a hash, it's just 7, 2, 8, or today's date. And once you enter the three digits and you can press Join or a small, like, green button, and then you'll be dropped into this anonymous or pseudonymous chat channel. And here, feel free to ask me anything, like literally anything. And if you see other people's questions that you would also like to see me answer, you can just press Like. And the questions with the most number of likes will float to the top on this projection here. And for the rest of this hour, I guess, the next 15 minutes, I'll begin with a short introduction, maybe 15 minutes, maybe 20 minutes, about my work in the Taiwan administration in the public digital innovation space, the PEDIS, as you're seeing here. But meanwhile, as I'm talking, feel free to ask me any and all questions, which will show up in the phone here. And once there's sufficient number of questions, then I'll switch right back to Slido. My current favorite programming language is text slash plain. Character set, UTF-8. Yeah. It's one of the most versatile programming language there is, and I'll explore that more in my talk. I'm sure it's your favorite programming language, too. Okay. So let's get started. So unlike many people working on democracy today, I'm an optimist when it comes to democracy and especially internet democracy. This strange condition began when I was 15 years old. That was 1996. I discovered that the future of human knowledge and indeed future of democracy is happening on the web. And my education in the school is all out of date. So I told my teachers that I found this wonderful constitutional democracy called Debian. No, really I did. On the internet where people use counter-set methods and those very advanced algorithms and, you know, policy development process and so on. And I went to quit school and became my education on the wide web. And surprisingly, my teachers were very reasonable people and they all agree with it. And so after that, I just drove out of high school and started a few web startups and just participate in this wonderful community like the Internet Society and the open source and free software communities to basically see that how people can come to consensus or at least consent through radical transparency and rough consensus and so on. And so today I'm Thomas Digital Minister for a year and a half now. I'm applying the lessons that I learned when I was 15 years old that is to say civic participation, rough consensus, radical transparency to the representative democratic system here and surprisingly it's working and it's changing gradually our society. Now, right, so a year and a half, two years ago actually when President Tsai Ing-wen first became inaugurated as our president she said an inspiring statement in her inauguration speech. She said before when we think of democracy we think about the opposition between two opposing values. But now, from now on Taiwan's democracy need to become a conversation between many diverse values. So the key point here is the plural of this word value. So there's many values in Taiwan and we're going to build a conversational, deliberative democracy out of those very different but diverse values. And indeed previously, when people think about the government or the state or things like that people tend to have this picture. Like we have different departments, we have different ministries, we have different council within the parliament who talk to, for example, the environmental agency may talk to the environmentalist groups, the ministry of economy may talk to you know, developmental, you know, more capitalistic groups and so on. So there's different notes within the government to talk to the different sides of stakeholders and people imagined that the government is what brings people together and who arbitrates between those conflicting or opposing forces. Now this model of governance, as all of you know, has become bankrupt within the previous decade or so with the advent of the social web and indeed internet activism. And the reason is that people can organize now perfectly fine without a representative organizer from the mainstream media or from the representative democracy. And also because there's so many emerging issues, we can't have a different ministry or a different agency for each of them. And so if the government insists on being still this kind of rope in between, not only is this organizational value much lower than before, it will be torn between so many different interests that it becomes paralyzed. And so the distance between the government and the people while not increasing, the distance between people and people have much shortened and it leads to a recession or a distrust to the democratic institutions. So the way we're working on this is basically re-imagining the questions governance systems ask. Instead of asking who we need to represent or what is fair arbitration, we ask instead what is the due process in which the various different stakeholders can find common values. And given the common values, can we come up with solutions that works for everyone that everyone can live with? And so this is the idea of civic tech or basically technology that enables people to understand what's going to happen or basically technology that enable people to listen to one another. And this has basically a lot of international metrics measuring this like the diversity of gender and participation in the internet like the rank of open data and accessibility like the access to e-participation platforms and things like that. And since 2015 Taiwan has been consistently ranked number one or number two in all of those metrics worldwide. And the reason is that at the end of 2014 there's a radical U-turn of national direction by embracing the wisdom of the crowd and open government as the national direction. And it was kind of catalyzed and epitomized by a Occupy movement back in 2014 where people occupied the parliament for 22 days in a nonviolent demonstration. And when we say demonstration it in like the demo day since, right? It's a demo because at the time the members of parliament Taiwan refused to deliberate a cross-strait service-trade agreement because they think constitutionally Beijing is part of Taiwan or something like that. But in any case they refused to deliberate a statement, a treaty.  And there's more than 20 different NGOs in all the different streets around the parliament in a nonviolent way just deliberating aspects of this cross-strait service agreement. And it was part of the movement that supported the logistics and the ICT communication for this movement. And it's called G0V.TW or just GOV0. And the idea of GOV0 is very simple for any Taiwan government services G0V.TW we just registered this domain G0V.TW so that people whenever they see a government service or website that's not to the people's liking they can just fork that website and build a more interactive open version that just changes the O to a zero on your URL and it's very easy to discover. It solves the discoverability problem. So like for the legislation legislative UNGOV.TW the shadow government is just LY.G0V.TW it's very easy to remember it's a very neat hack. So the first project of the GOV0 movement back in 2012 before I joined was called budget.G0V.TW and it's essentially interactive platform that shows a visualization of the national budget and everybody can just look on the part the specific project that they're interested in if a real-time discussion on the discussion forum center on that budget item as the social object instead of on the budget as a whole and the idea again is forking the government and usually the GOV.0 projects are under a free software license or really the creative common zero license which is not a license it's just a declaration donation to the public domain and the result is that when the state level government at the end of 2014 want to incorporate this into like the participatory budget program and things like that and they have to ask anyone they just take the GOV.0 forked versions and merge it back to the state level governments and so far there's like seven different cities adopting this and as of this year the national government also merged this in so that today in joined the GOV.TW we can see all the 1300 national projects and all its KPIs deliverables and things like that and have a real-time discussion with the career public servants in charge of this project essentially bypassing the representative democratic system and so it enables a real discussion. So why are there so many civic hackers in Taiwan who during the sunflower movement just like me I just you know talk to my clients that I need to take a three-week leave because democracy needs me right there's hundreds of people who did that back in 2014 and why is that because I think I'm 37 now we're the first one that can actually do democracy after three decades of martial law which was lifted in 1989 around the time of personal computers and we only had our first presidential election in 1996 which is about a year of the popularization of the Royal Web. So internet and democracy they're not two things they're not two different branches people it's the same generation people it's the same thing in Taiwan and so the advent of democracy and the advent of internet and direct democracy it's the same time in Taiwan we don't have like 200 or 300 years of representative democracy tradition when we had democracy we had also the internet. So in Taiwan when we see or when we talk about free software we translate it as 自由 so it's always free as in freedom to you know assemble freedom of speech freedom to express and never free of cost because we know that freedom is never free of cost our parents generation our grandparents generation fought very hard to get those freedoms and it's up to us to use the software freedoms to keep the society free. And so at the end of 2014 and after the Occupy there's many mayors mayor candidates who were Occupy supporters or occupiers themselves who very surprisingly found themselves elected mayors when they did not expect it's something that also happened in Spain also right and in many other you know occupies in that time and so at a time the premier during the Occupy resigned saying I don't understand you people and so he just resigned and a new premier engineer said okay so from now on crowdsourcing and open governance it's just going to be the national direction and so the occupiers and us the supporters of the occupies the facilitators and the ICT experts were then hired into the international government in early 2015 to help designing systems to collaboratively solve issues such as Uber at a time and Uber in 2015 has entered Taiwan and operated legally using rental cars and professional drivers for a while but in 2015 they also introduced a new line of service called UberX and it is using unlicensed drivers and unlicensed cars and without insurance and the PR idea of Uber at a time is to use this MIM which is a virus of the mind right this MIM called sharing economy this MIM means very different thing to different people but for the Uber PR department at a time it means very specifically that code dispatch cars better than loss so we obey code not loss so it's like very simple message that spreads around the world it's not just in Taiwan and so it's a like epidemic of the mind so people after becoming a driver for a couple weeks maybe they feel that there's no protection that they didn't actually earn that much and they quit driving for UberX but during that two weeks time just like a common flu they would have spread through apps to their passengers and to other drivers and to other passengers and so it's impossible actually at a time for us to negotiate with an app or with a virus of the mind like the MIM quote unquote because it's in a different category it's impossible to argue with the common flu either right so at a time many state governments try to use old world methods such as confiscating like in Paris they confiscate the office confiscate the machines put people to jail and then the next morning Uber still operates right so it doesn't really work in the old governmental methods and so we thought about it and we thought that you know during the Occupy where people listen to each other's positions deeply and feel each other's feelings around the CSSTA maybe we can reuse some of that technique and to work on the Uber issue basically we think that deliberation is a vaccine of the mind once people have really felt and empathized with different sides positions and come up with common values people become immune to specific virus of the mind in the future so I promise to check the questions at this point so I'm just going to do it right now there's 17 questions maybe I'll just right so I'll finish this section and then switch right back to questions so a proper deliberation involves four different stages we use the system invented in Canada in 2005 it's called a focus conversation method or FCM and it's known as the ORI method also because it separates the discussion to four different stages the first is objective or facts where people ask each other like the government publishes open data all we know about UberX and we also ask all the private sector and civil society to donate data into this shared fact checked database and once people check the facts on the timeline we can all agree with the facts the various stakeholders then express their feelings for the same I'm angry and I may feel happy and it's all okay and it's not until we checked everybody's feelings that we find that there are some resonating feelings that people all feel as important concerns to ideate on so after the facts the feelings is the ideas the best ideas are the ideas that takes care of the most people's feelings and once we uncovered those ideas we then translated into legal ease now using the OAT governmental methods the main barrier is the language barrier the professional public servants the private sector lobbyists and the independent like academics and so on use a professional language while people on the street using a different language and so under this under this situation when people say the same thing but mean very different things the facts and the feelings gets clouded and ideas in this environment become ideologies ideologies are even more potent virus of mind that blinds people to new facts and to each other's feelings and so after we get everybody on the same page checking the facts that by itself is important we use a free software system under HEPL called PULIS and PULIS is a so-called AI power conversation that basically just provides a face to the crowd so we ask everybody to basically look at one statement that their friends are just a random person on the internet propose about their feeling their something so I think or I feel that passenger liability insurance is important so as you agree or disagree with the statements your avatar will move among your social media friends or you don't have to log in among well-known people on social media so that you can discover that so your friends and your family actually think about this in a very different perspective but they're still your friends and family you just didn't talk about this over dinner so it makes it difficult for people to antagonize to treat people with different viewpoints as enemies but rather it enables people to say that okay after answering a few yes and no questions I can also contribute my feelings and people kind of compete on feelings that resonates with the most number of people because we say if your ideas or if your feelings resonates with a super majority amount of people like that is across all the groups every group has more than majority agreeing with you then the feelings and proposals with the most resonance with the most consensus we use that as the agenda to talk with the stakeholders with the taxi unions with the Uber people and so on and so in this way we send the same URL to everybody and they spread it and one of the key interface design decisions during a pollist discussion unlike many other social media venues is that you don't see the reply button here there is no reply and what we discovered is if you have reply people focus their energy on discrediting the person who posted a comment that they don't agree with but like Slido pollist basically if you see something that you don't agree with your best recourse is to propose something more nuanced that other people can agree with and so after a few weeks in all the pollist discussions what we see is people recognize their differences in those devices statements but they don't spend more time on it and people instead spend a lot of time on refining the nuanced consensus so that people can resonate kind of compete with the most resonance across the different groups and so we use a life consultation method where all the stakeholders are invited the taxi company, Uber union people and so on the co-ops and so on and we just check with them all the agenda that by this pollist conversation one by one saying do you agree and if you don't why, if you do why and because it's live stream with thousands of people watching people become bound to whatever they have said so Uber at the time said okay so we will work with our drivers to help them obtain professional driver's license and they're bound by the words they spoke at this live stream meeting and so just after this we then work on ratifying the new what we call the diversification of taxi and one of the highest score is actually contributed by the free software community by Irvin from the Mozilla community here who said that we should take this opportunity to upgrade the taxi regulations so that the best practices from Uber for example taxi doesn't have to be painted yellow and there's a two way rating system and so on could be used to facilitate better tax equalities here inside one and so led by that consensus and six other consensus items we then created a law so that now Uber is operating legally in Taiwan but only with registered drivers license cards and you also get email about your rides and insurance and so on every Uber ride and you can also call taxi with Uber and actually vice versa and so this is what we call a multi stakeholder consultation and after which people's consensus set agenda for the politicians to talk about so let's take some questions so there's 13 people I think 15 now would like to know how can we help other governments enable open standards this is an excellent question so in Taiwan we have this idea of the GDSB or the government digital service principle it is modelled loosely after the government digital service in the UK will also publish their digital standards and the GDS is kind of a thought leader in this area and they pioneer a lot of digital standards that are not just open as in open source or open as in open political or format but open as in open innovation where people everybody can contribute and one of their key principles is being user centric which we hear expanded in Taiwan meaning that the users here not only include citizens but also people working in the front line in the public service and the second thing that the UK GDS also basically advocates is that when you build a digital service you need not to only test with people and the front line staff but also test with the minister in the cabinet from the beginning to the end because ultimately they're accountable for this digital service and they can then solicit more idea of innovation from this service and again we adopted this in a way that we can contribute to this and also call for the leader to be basically cross disciplinary but I think the person who asked this question is maybe most interested in our GDSP number eight which says open first basically open is the priority and basically to reduce the time spent on developing services ownership open should be the foremost principle when designing and building services and by open we mean specifically that all the machine to machine data built by this system need to be available under an open license most commonly the Creative Commons attribution 4.0 license which is the default license for all the ICT systems built in Taiwan and also we prioritize open source and if the service component reuses existing open source components we recommend people to use Linux foundation speedix or SPDX manifest to basically solve this warranty issue for the system integrators because once they declare their reusable free software components under speedix the warranty in the legal perspective has a clear delineation and so by this we want to encourage people to innovate based on what the government has delivered and improve on existing government services by forking the government and occasionally getting it right and getting governments merging it back but not only open data and open source we also say that it need to conform with open standards and so that it could be reused and also it's built on common API and common components and all this is so that we can quickly reiterate and improve the services and so we have a support group of all the governments who endorse this standard it's called digital nations and previously known as digital five or digital seven depending on the number of people in it but we have a chat channel we share github repositories we basically communicate very regularly so that the governments who embrace open by default has this venue and I think our next meeting is in forward 50 in Ottawa in Canada this November and so basically all the governments are solving very much similar issues and all the components that we deliver is not just for improvement of our citizens but also offering it so that it could be reused by the government and people building their own self-governance system not necessarily state government or representative governments worldwide the answer to this is to develop and adhere to a clear government digital service principle to publish and circulate this widely to encourage this in the procurement laws and to encourage this in the accountability in the auditing laws in the statistics laws which we all have done and then participate internationally in support groups in the democratic and open governance governments and basically share these best practice or at least better practices as open tool kits and that's the thing that we're doing 12 people would like me to answer what do I wish from Debian I wish that Debian live long and prosper because because really along with other large end of us like the Mozilla Foundation and the Linux Foundation the Wikimedia Foundation so you fix the foundation upon which that we're advocating to the representative democratic system that hey there is some merit in this kind of radical transparency in a kind of radical participation and as a anarchist conservative anarchist minister I have three conditions going in the cabinets the first is that I don't issue a command to anyone nor do I take a command everything is by voluntary association and this is straight from the Debian constitution where by constitution nobody can really be forced into doing any non-voluntary work and the second one is that I get to work anywhere on the planet and it still counts as working so it's teleworking and it also enabled a lot of e-government apparatus when people discovered that by a paper based delivery well they can reach me after a week or so it is far easier if you just use email but the third thing also very important is that when I develop this voluntary co-creation methodologies it is important for me to be radically transparent and by radical transparency not just meeting with lobbyists and journalists are all published online even internal meetings that I chair we also publish everything as a transcript two weeks after every internal meeting and so it looks like this is also using a free software system called Say It developed by I think my society in the UK so like when Debbie Plou speaking for Uber at the time come to lobby and have a conversation not only is our discussion on the record it's on 360 record so we can put on a VR cardboard and relive the conversation and every utterance has a permanent URL so you can get full accountability of who said what where and this is important for the government service because the public servants in this situation they become very innovative contrary to popular belief because previously when something gets right and people like it the minister always takes all the credit and if something gets wrong always the career public servants who didn't execute well and netizens has a way to blame the people in charge for it so in that situation there's no motivation for them to innovate but now with this radically transparent system not only is the civil society more understanding of the context before making a decision but also all the credit gets shared to the actual career public servants who propose something innovative in the first place and if anything goes wrong well because far as I know I'm the only minister in the world doing this it's all Audrey's fault so basically people I can absorb the blame while people share the credit so we get a lot of very innovative ideas frankly from the public service such as adopting a thoroughly free software system called Sandstorm IO for our entire public service and in all the different branches of government not just the administration and so basically we use early free software on this Sandstorm IO system, DAFAROS replaces drawbacks, either Calgary replaces Google spreadsheet, either PAW replaces Google doc, we can replace Trello and there's also Rocket Chat and I'm sure you know the other tools that the free software people use and basically we say any public servants as long as they have a GOVTW email address can enjoy this for free and even develop new applications on it because it's cyber security hardened we ask our best white hackers to attack it and filed a few CVEs so that we're reasonably sure that it's very secure now so that people can develop applications by themselves which is free software and like I don't know planning travels together, ordering lunch boxes together and things like and unleash innovation within the government because they know that this system can absorb the cyber security risk and I can absorb the political risk 17 people would like to know how to discover Dabian and what makes it interesting at such a young age do you run Dabian yourself, have you contributed to Dabian? Personally my desktop environment when I started learning I think it's around 1999 like system level programming I'm sorry has always been free BSD and so I've never actually I used the Dabian compatibility layer, I don't know whether that counts or not but I've always been a free BSD developer and contributed to also driver support in free BSD and also most of my contributions in the Pearl community and in Open Foundry here in Taiwan in the early 2000s were first committed to the free BSD port system so it's a different culture it's not copy lab, it's not copyright, it's copy center you go to the copy center and make many copies and so that's a very permissive community that's my primary community, the free BSD community but there's various efforts within Dabian to reconcile with for example the module signing system I piloted the module signing system in C-Pen in the comprehensive pro archive network and so there's a lot of packaging issues and so on so I basically chime in from here to there but I did not participate in the Dabian democracy but I really admire it from afar in the free BSD camp this Taiwan has an open source strategy, yes I'm glad you asked so it's called DigiPlus and I don't know how much of this is translated into English oh all of it, okay it's good so if you go to smart.taiwan.gov.tw so we tend to have one webpage for each major government policies so there's smart Taiwan, GOV, TW, there's AI Taiwan, there's BioTaiwan, there's also CI Taiwan I think that's not yet translated where the CI stands for Civil IOC which is shared open data and also open algorithm platform for all the different environmental data aggregated in a supercomputing standard that combines the peoples like the Gulf Zero side of our sensors and also the government side of government sensors so that we can all talk with the same fact based or evident based policy making process so I encourage you to check out smart Taiwan and also links to Asia, Silicon Valley and things like that and so when we talk about open society here and also about the education like interdisciplinary digital talents in the DigiPlus plan we specifically said especially in the education level that is to say K to 12 level but also because in the next 5 years all the college level students also need to learn computational thinking and programming half of it I think by the year like 2021 or something all of it needs to be based on free software if the student graduates and joins the private sector and choose to use proprietary software that is their choice and of course there is no doubt about it but while they are still children while they are still in the schools it is very important for us to not let the children or the students to be subject to vendor login so that by the time they graduate maybe the vendor has already moved somewhere else maybe the vendor lose interest in that product line and we see a lot of that dynamic so at least in the education system we are very firm that we prefer free software for education when teaching all those different you know digital plus power, smart machinery green energy technology and so on we prefer free software when it is in the school and so in the digital plus there is a strategy to raise awareness and have talents in school and there is also TWSS.io I think I hope I remember this right which is a again not yet translated into English oh it is somewhat translated to English but in any case yes so what this tries to do is basically by getting people sufficient education materials so people working on any level of education can point to existing communities and introduce their students to such community and even people working in like city level government or national level government can also point to the work cases of incorporating like PostgreSQL or like OpenStack or Docker ecosystem or TensorFlow or whatever and which is the success story and you are replacing proprietary systems because it is not about procurement anymore we already change our procurement regulations and the government digital service principle all that people need now is a boost of confidence, of gulish basically by people keep telling them it is okay to use free software and so this is the TWSS.io endeavor and if you find anything wrong with it or anything you can contribute please feel free to let us know in TWSS what is time is so restrictive on internet access captive mortals, registrar's ID for ITOM, Wi-Fi access etc is there a reason, bad experiences or not? Well the reason is usually cited as quote cybersecurity unquote but it is not a very strong reason. We are actively looking actually like in the Taiwan high speed rails to relax the captive portal because especially when you are on a high speed moving train it is very difficult to actually resume from hotspot to hotspots if you need to go through like five or three screens to register so that's the first place where we will relax this captive portal thing and then once this is done and piloted and proven that there really doesn't need to more you know cybersecurity guards that we can put out here cybersecurity guards elsewhere on the stack, not necessarily on the personal identification level then we will also relax the like internal within the government agencies we often provide two Wi-Fi one for employees of the government and one called ITI one also for visitors so the visitor Wi-Fi we then will also look to relax more and that's because in those two venues in the high speed rails and also in visitors to government agencies you already did your registration somewhere else where we don't physically actually need you to register again. I'm less sure about the city level public Wi-Fi like TPE3 or other city level Wi-Fi because they have a certain level of autonomy and we don't actually dictate what they do but we just pilot this relaxed logging portal thing and also establish corresponding cybersecurity rules and maybe the city level people will also get enlightened we'll see. There's 11 people who want to know is it possible to be a citizen to interact fully with the government without using any proprietary software and Clio asked because that's one of the cases that I'd like to show. It used to be very very difficult so just last May actually there was a petition that talks explicitly about it and very explicit last May there was a e-petition or national e-petition system which after 5,000 people participate online you can use email or SMS it's not a real name basis but basically after 5,000 people counter-signed a petition the government is oblique to respond to it and this petition is by this user experience designer Georgian which says that our text filing system is explosively hostile to users so it's kind of negative energy in that petition there's more negative energy in the body which I will spare you the quote but basically at time about 80% of comments in that petition are in the discussion area it's very negative it costs for the resignment of the minister of finance it costs there's a lot of accusations to the vendors who provide the system and all because in Windows there is a proprietary Windows-based application for text filing but for Linux and for Mac and basically non-Windows systems there's a Java applet and because last year the user experience become very, very bad people will see that please wait it's still installing some applet components but because the pop-up is by default blocked right so nothing happens and after 40 minutes people are still waiting and so it really is very very difficult to use and after the petition we basically there's a participation officer team in each ministry and each participation office or a PO is responsible just like media officer who talk to journalists or parliamentary officer who talk to MPs POs talk to such emergent petitions and by basically saying I think not only very quickly 36 hours after this petition our PO Yang Jing-heng just posted publicly that everybody who complain about our text filing experience on non-Windows systems is cordially invited to a co-creation workshop some Friday in the ministry of finance and this is very interesting because just by proposing this invitation previously like 80% of people were just flaming and 20% of people were saying we're using Windows it works kind of okay but nobody really take key to them after this invitation is sent 80% of people started proposing useful suggestions useful recommendations and only less than 20% still remains trolling or flaming people but people don't pay attention to them anymore so basically what we did was inviting the trolls and who turns out to be not trolls they were just fed up with the text filing system and they had to vent their feelings but after they vent their feelings we then solicited ideas from them and people who can make it to Taipei make it to Taipei otherwise people can still participate using live streaming and one of the key thing here is radical transparency and also accountability meaning that people who say that it's you know the words are explosively crowded we just put that post it as words are explosively crowded that it is so brilliantly written that people are confused and then we just post it and people say you know instead of designing a system that makes people feel better people don't feel good at all when they think about filing taxes and so we should shorten the experience instead of trying to make people feel better and so on and so basically people who propose such variations online we just use service design methodologies and HODE 5 co-creation workshops with all the different stakeholders involving the text filing experience so this year the text filing experience for non-windows systems is entirely HTML5 based it adheres to the open standards people can just using any platform that can run a browser to access the text filing system so the short question to short answer to this question is that it has become more and more possible while we transform existing desktop oriented or window specific or Java applets into web based situations now if you insist that all the JavaScript libraries and CSS libraries that government system use has also to be open source or free software that would take a little bit more time you will need the current generation of system to be wholly replaced by post government digital service principle post GDSP systems but we are focusing on reducing the load on the client side first so at the time I think you can complete most of the interactions of the governmental issues like filing taxes and so on if you're okay with using a free software browser but there's still some proprietary JavaScript code this is kind of the question we're in at the moment but with the role of GDSP we're also looking to make the JavaScript and CSS and also the back end systems more non proprietary Anonymous would like to know the shared objects in the text filing plugin is not open source why because the copyright belongs to I think the vendor and back when we signed the agreement with the the GDSP was not in effect and so the contract basically attributed the copyright to the vendor who only conferred usage right to the government and the citizens this is a mistake that we will not repeat but at the moment we don't have the legal records for the current generation of plugin systems to be re-licensed as free software I tried but the easiest way is just for the next version of identification methods such as the national healthcare card which by the way is currently in public consultation if you want to contribute like you demand free software stack for the entire Medicare system please feel free to go to join GOVTW where we are now asking for consultation on people who are looking to virtualize the universal Medicare card and or to use NFC based authentication so we want to know about people's preference when it comes to the technology to the regulations as well as to the total cost of ownership and also of usage and so if you feel strongly about it please do contribute online on joint platform so that we can say to the people right in the contracts that people really feel that is very important for our next generation authentication methods to be non proprietary so please so 8 people would like to know what is your opinion on e-commerce application refusing to operating a restriction of free devices like rooted androids and jailbroken i-devices is it fair? well mostly I think they do this with the call to you know quote fraud prevention unquote it's not about fairness I think it's about the choice or the freedom of choice or the liberty of users the reason why GDSP prefers free software is because when it comes to healthcare or tax filing there really is no choice to be a citizen in Taiwan you have to go through some government sponsored API endpoints to produce some you know government sponsored form data and so on and because there is no choice we really need to be open so that people can hold us to account to be more transparent and also innovate on existing solutions but for e-commerce applications where there are no de facto monopolies when people still have a choice the government at the moment does not take a stance against the e-commerce apps who uses you know fraud detection or prevention methods that results in incompatibility with rooted Android and Android devices I think one of the possible direction out of this dilemma is to basically talk to people who work on quote fraud prevention unquote and just like how we talked with the high speed rails and the government agencies providing itaewon software and sorry Wi-Fi for free we basically said you can do your fraud prevention or cybersecurity on another layer in this system and not in the particular layer of requiring a captive portal and the MAC which is very easy to spoof anyway so I think just by talking to people like this or we talk to people who advocate copyright protection through blocking of the internet we say you know with IPv6 it's getting more and more impossible and watermarking or real-time watermarking methodologies it infringes on the consumers or customers experiences less and it is actually a better solution overall than just banning entire websites and so on so people have legitimate interests there are legitimate mistakes but as I said often we think of it as like a tug of war but in many different cases it is possible actually with some what we call social innovation a innovation that basically takes care of all the different sides of interest and leaves nobody worse off so I would encourage people who feel strongly about it to contact your local friendly e-commerce association like Wu Dianmian, Xiang Ye, Tong Ye, Gong Hui and so on who does have a forum to talk about things like this we use that forum to talk about fraud detection and prevention of like people selling counterfeit goods on Facebook to pretty good effect so I would also encourage you to contact your local association about fraud detection. Can we see any legislators supporting free software in the government movement like public money public code from the EFF well in Taiwan when you see this government the GDSP we already say this this is public code this is open data and this is open standards and also common APIs also a Linux foundation project called OAS3 which was Swagger to say that all the different systems built as long as it has a machine to machine component need to adhere to this machine to machine open API specification and the reason why we put an equal amount of attention on the source code license versus the machine to machine integration is that if we only talk about public code or the license it is very often that the system integrator would deliver something that is technically free software but it depends on for example expensive Oracle systems or even more expensive DB2 systems and things like that and that basically still restricts the reuse across different ministries and agencies but by saying you know for all the important export for all the batch level access that basically treating machine to machine accessibility the same way we treat universal access like for blind people we basically say while you may still depend on Oracle or DB2 at a point the next vendor can just build on your API and even batch export what's in this public money page database and rebuild a service without depending on any proprietary technological stack so I would argue that the freedom of portability is as important as freedom to fork and freedom to reuse and both are of course very important and constitutional I'm not supposed to speculate on legislators but there's various younger legislators in all the different parties who are also interested in this area is there any chance 8 people would like to know that I can urge deans of higher education facilities like NCTU to deploy IP version 6 well it's kind of a bootstrapping problem isn't it but this year we see a surge of IPv6 adoption actually after Taiwanese changed hands and embrace a very IPv6 first roadmap we see for example Zhonghua telecom has drastically increased the IPv6 connectivity of their mobile clients and we also see other telecoms and other appearing institutions and ISPs starting to adopt this trend and so once there's sufficient amount of people using the clients that are IPv6 enabled and even IPv6 preferred there will be sufficient pressure then for the service providers to provide as good if not better service over IPv6 and so I feel you're QQ I help you you're QQ but I'm QQ but I think really it is up to the students and the clients and the users of the internet the last mile providers to first build a useful and usable IPv6 environment before we can then demand the service providers to do so but we are seeing pretty good trends as of this year and so if you come back next year I think there will be sufficient demand from the user side to have the institutional internet service providers to provide IPv6 also so I'm technically out of time so I'll just take one last question what is my opinion of the European Union Journal of Data Protection Regulation or the GDPR my opinion is that the GDPR is a much needed conversation that translates the idea of data from what people will confuse with assets intellectual properties which are leaky abstractions that doesn't mean anything to a what we call data agency or a relationship based world view basically as a government institution if I hold your data this is the beginning of a relationship where you can ask what happens to the data who can update the data so it reflects the purpose and if I try to use the data in any way other than pure statistics I need to check with you first so that you can know what's going on and provide the most up to date data instead of leaving just a shadow of a digital trail that's five years out of date that results in more bias and so I think data agency and data as a relationship and also data accountability interestingly translate in Mandarin as three different words for people who ask for accountability it's called Wenzel for us who are held accountable it's called Dangze we should be accountable and the system within it that holds both sides together so it's not an agency or an accountability mechanism so Wenzel, Dangze and Kertz is a relational concept it is not a one-time transactional concept and I think GDPR is a much needed wake-up call for everybody to see data as a relationship and not as some digital asset or intellectual property so thank you very much


Good day wonderful people! Welcome back to the Asperger's Growth YouTube channel with your host, Mr Thomas Henley of course. Today I'm coming at you with another video, one that is long-awaited. We're going to be talking about the four life-changing things that you can expect from getting an autism diagnosis. Indeed, being an autistic person, finding out that you have somehow made it into this very select group of people that everybody wants to be a part of. Poply. We are popular, you know. I'm going to preface this by saying that you don't really need to have that medical diagnosis if you don't want to. You may just be debating going for an autism diagnosis or debating reading into it or debating taking a test and you want to know what it's going to be like post-knowing. This is the video for you. Today I am sporting the new merch. Indeed, recently I've been in contact with a lovely company called Born anxious who produced a lot of different autism related clothes for autistic people and the people who admire them. God, that was cringy. Born anxious has supported many different creators including Katie Price recently who pretty much fumbled up my release date. She decided or out the blue that she was going to release her Harvey Price stuff and it just so happened to be about two days before we were going to release mine. So go figure. The whole premise of this is that it's supposed to be sporting apparel for autistic people and due to the Olympics currently currently doing itself, God, due to the Olympics currently being on and you know having all the hype around it we've decided to release t-shirts like this in the colours of the Olympic rings which I thought was a brilliant idea wasn't my idea but still a great idea. More information at the end of the video of course to prevent me from rambling too much let's get straight into those top four things. Life changing things that may happen from getting an autism diagnosis into that special club that everybody wants to be in. The 1% or not the 1%. I think it's more like 2% nowadays but first a quick mention from our sponsors. Just kidding.  Now let's see what these points are Tom. Numero one getting an autism diagnosis or finding out that you are likely on the autistic spectrum you you obviously have a lot of stuff wheeling around in your brain you're trying to figure out what's you and what parts of you is the autism what parts of you come from the the gifts that this wonderful difference in the brain gives you the number one benefit that I would say which is why it's number one obviously processing traumatic events now growing up autistic people really don't have the best deal in life we have a lot of difficulties with bullying we have a lot of misunderstandings in social interactions lots of difficulties with certain things in life like education or dating or getting into a workplace and so depending on how far you are along along your life journey depends on how much you've got to work through one thing that you will probably gather from doing all of this research is that sometimes something will come come across you you might watch an autism youtuber you might read something in in research and you may think about some past event though that that's happened to you like a weird social interaction that went wrong and you know maybe you were blunt and direct and you didn't really understand the social situation so you said something out of context you said something that wasn't appropriate in most people's eyes and you had a really bad reaction to it and you felt like an asshole those kind of things that I'm talking about it may also be that that maybe you are being bullied and you think that it's something to do with you personally you know you may think you may be down on yourself because of it you may feel a tense low confidence from the fact that you can't stand up to people and you can't talk under pressure I suppose it's a bit better to give myself as an example I grew up knowing that I was autistic I didn't grow up knowing everything about autism a lot of the social difficulties that I had at school I just bogged down to me just not being an interesting person me just not having the ability to talk to people and for people to like me and obviously that took a really big hit to my self-esteem learning that I I inherently struggle in certain situations such as socializing or you know standing up to bullies or talking to girls it helps you just view that situation in such a different lens another good example of this would be uh in dating you know perhaps maybe I got the wrong end of the straw someone didn't like me in you know the way that I fought and I went to give him a kiss and got shot down and felt bad about it and felt like I overstepped my boundaries maybe it was just that I just didn't understand I didn't understand those non-verbal cues I didn't understand many things that they were trying to communicate to me but not directly and so there's a lot of cases like that and you can transfer that into friendships and any any sort of relationships another thing that you could also say is that perhaps in maybe a high-pressure scenario you know for example in in my taekwondo days there's a lot of noise in a taekwondo venue a lot of noise in competition halls lots of people shouting and bright lights and sometimes if I felt like it I just really didn't belong there because I just my anxiety was just so high all the time and I didn't really understand until I did a lot of thinking and a lot of research into autism that maybe my anxiety was not a factor of fighting someone which I actually quite enjoyed weirdly but it was the the other stuff the environment this self-reflection is quite an important part of knowing that you're autistic once you know it's the number one thing that I promote everyone to do is to look at those incidents in your life where you felt like things went wrong where you felt like you did something wrong where you felt someone was justified in doing something wrong to you more often than not looking at it in the lens of autism and the lens of difficulties and traits that you have it really does shine a light on what really happened and why it really happened in that sense it gives a stable or not a stable but it gives a more direct route in for you understanding your life in a more positive outlook but it also gives you opportunity to work on yourself and highlight areas that perhaps you're not so great at like with me wasn't so great at talking didn't really like it so I started up a youtube channel I started up a podcast so that I could interact with people those types of things you know just giving yourself experience and and knowing what you struggle with and knowing what to improve on it's a really great thing to do obviously processing those traumatic events is so much easier once you know all of the factors involved so I would definitely definitely push for you to do that too number two finding your tribe finding your people the people who are out there waiting for you waiting to involve them involve you in those their communities and the online groups it's a very important aspect of being diagnosed because you kind of feel like a loose screw all your life you feel like an alien you feel like you just don't slot in anywhere in any social context there's always something a bit off either you don't understand it or they don't understand you there's a lot of things that that make being autistic quite isolating if you don't know that you're autistic it's it's quite hard to relate to other people to to the extent you can do with another autistic person there's a lot of differences in the way that we think about things behave feel emotions the general struggles that we we tend to have you're more likely to to to feel understood in a community of autistic people than in regular old society due to the wonders of technology we have the ability to talk to other autistic people and form groups and and socialize and trade tips on on overcoming some difficulties and and sharing the the positives and the the brilliance of it and forming advocacy networks you know people to to advocate for autistic people that for someone who who feels like have felt like an alien for their entire life it's incredibly incredibly meaningful to find that group of people it's not always great you know there's people can be very harsh and I think in general if you don't use the type of language that other people want or you don't share the same views it can be a little bit difficult not not being a part of that larger social sphere and tweeting and instagram and and stuff like that actually like messaging other people in in friendship groups or dating groups and and building relationships with other autistic people it's a really useful thing and it will help you so much if you're isolated it for some people when they realize that they're autistic because they realize that everyone else is different and they're different in very similar ways that that that you are on one side of coin you feel less alone and you feel like part of a community and a group of people which is all important for for human beings on the other side you don't feel as special you don't feel as you don't feel like you're the the golden egg the different person and that was one thing that I struggled with a little bit but in general finding your own group feeling less alone obviously it's a good thing number three why am i doing that no idea crafting your own environment that's not the right one living a more comfortable life more comfortable and confident life what does that mean I guess one of the first things that would contribute to a more comfortable life would be understanding your own boundaries often our boundaries are dictated a lot by what everyone else is saying why everyone agrees with when I talk about boundaries I mean things that you would do on things that you want to do and things that you would say no to and this quite often comes across in social interaction it could be going to somewhere that perhaps is a bit too sensory a bit too loud the ability to to say no to that basically knowing what you struggle with what you what you thrive in and being able to tell you tailor your life and so that you you have a more comfortable existence obviously with this this whole comfort thing I'm not talking about just constantly staying a very low you know very sensory friendly lovely environment and never challenge yourself it's just you'll know when to push and when to pull you know you'll know when to push yourself when you're in a good place and you'll know when to pull back when you need a bit of alone time after a bit of time you'll craft your life your hobbies your clothing style your work everything around these these new traits that you've you've uncovered this new part of yourself and you'll feel confident in making those changes because you know that there is a reason if you don't have any reason to to make those changes you don't know what you why or if you should struggle with things you probably won't do them you probably won't make those changes because you feel a lot of social pressure to to conform to what everybody else is doing if you know that you're different is more likely that you'll know that your life needs to be different though the way that you conduct yourself needs to be different this can go as as superficial as wearing the clothes that you like or picking up a hobby that you had as a child but you you ditched because everyone thought it was silly for an adult to to do little things like that it they really do add up and if you can craft your life around you and what's what's best for you using this this new found knowledge it's it's incredibly fruitful and those little things every day those little things that you like but other people aren't too keen on they add up and they they make you feel happier about your life they make you look forward to the things that you want to do and that is incredibly important you might wear clothing that is more sensory friendly you may realize that yeah actually these tags on me my clothing and this rough material it doesn't really lend to a comfortable existence and so i'm going to buy some nice soft clothing just like this from born anxious of course for a little bit of a product placement in there the first time i've done one so please don't click off because i'll feel incredibly depressed if if you do this is my own form of product placement my own advertisement self advertisement if you will this t-shirt in particular neurodiverse squad like what a gem i absolutely love it i've been wearing it to the gym many many times obviously i'm going to do a video a video about that and so my experience is being openly autistic you can look forward to that soon they come to you and all of the labels are cut out the the seams on all rough and horrible honestly like i'm so glad to be working with born anxious because they're such a great organization if you want to check them out i'll put a link down in my um description please go check it out if you want to there might be some colors that you like as i said it is the olympic colors that we're doing it the colors of the olympic ring rings yeah go give it a look see what you think product placement out of the way lastly the the probably one of the top things is that it at least gives you a fighting chance when it comes to getting support this could mean getting support from advocacy organizations when you have difficulties with other organizations and people you know maybe someone's discriminating against you if you've got an autism diagnosis then or you know that you're autistic then you're more likely to get more support in terms of advocacy another thing would be perhaps going through the the medical system a bit easier getting support for you know links to get to go to different social groups to to practice your social skills and to to meet other autistic people i have to say that although it sounds like a great thing it is extensively difficult to get a diagnosis to get support you really do have to push it but at least you have some way of pushing it and that is another great reason why knowing you're autistic leads to a more comfortable and confident existence number four yes we're finally there but i'm not going to spoil anything if you wait until after my little outro sequence you can get a bonus point i know right crazy craziness a bonus one so look forward to that number four of course get on with it tom you will gain a deeper understanding of the human condition you may be thinking like what are you talking about tom we're talking about autistic people the thing is autistic people are humans too you know it we may be a very different brain very different person with a very different brain to your average joe but also many people out there have different things you know they may have schizophrenia or they may have depression or anxiety or difficulties with socializing any sort of arduous thing that that someone has to overcome due to their differences and so knowing that you're autistic and and knowing some of the struggles that you have you have a greater or a wider ability to to to perceive and to to empathize with people who who aren't normal and normal is not a bad word you do you do get that that sense that you know maybe that that person that's maybe a bit more rude or blunt maybe they've got some issues themselves maybe that weird person who always stinks and uh stays at the side and talks to himself maybe they've got schizophrenia and they need someone to talk to and they want friends as well there's a lot of things like that you know people may see an autistic person and think they don't really like people they seem a bit rude they don't feel like they don't sound like they want to interact with me they sound like they want to have friends and so we're just going to leave them you can apply that in in lots of different senses to to different you know different brains people with personality disorders you may have more empathy towards the the vast varying human condition you think you have life figured out you think you know why that person acts the way they do why these people act in a certain way and autism comes along and it shows you that perhaps maybe you don't have the awareness that you thought you had maybe there's more to life more beneath the surface and it allows you to realize that you know hey maybe i do need to learn more maybe i still need to progress myself maybe i need to increase my understanding of the human experience you know that's just one step in in that but it really does shine a light on you know the ways that you can improve yourself after all we as humans we all suffer we all suffer every day we're different things sometimes we don't sometimes we have an easy coasting ride but more often than not there's something bothering us just the nature of being a person and to understand that and to understand the the varying degrees of which people can suffer and in what ways people can suffer and be interested in that it's a really great path to go down because it allows you to connect with so many different people and to learn from so many different people so i highly encourage you to incorporate that into your life i mean it's just going to happen anyway i'm not saying like there's a list of things that you should do it's just going to happen if you put the work in learn about autism learn about people improve yourself all of these things they're going to add up and you know these things are just going to happen eventually okay so that ends another ranting video by mr tom mr tom good night mr tom where you wet boy if you want to stay up to date with all the work that i'm doing best place to do that is over on instagram you can follow my twitter and my um facebook but it's not as popular as my instagram so so if you want to get in contact with me either instagram at aspergers growth twitter and facebook you can you can follow those if you like but you can also contact me via my email address aspergersgrowth at gmail.com and i try to reply to people as frequently as i can i'm a very busy boy i do a lot of things i can't just sit still and mellow so if i do reply to you it's very likely that i'm doing it in between sets at the gym i've become a little bit obsessed with the old gym i don't know i feel i feel good feel good i was i had a long period a long one year and a half period of bulking and now i'm cutting down and it i just i mean it's lovely because you know my belly is going away all that chub but i don't know i just feel so all my muscles are going i'm trying to prepare for a photo shoot everybody maybe a little bit of narcissism on the side possibly of course check out the t-shirts if you want you can find them at born anxious.co.uk very lovely t-shirts very sensory friendly very gym related and if you watch some of my later videos after this one you will see an array of different t-shirts and tank tops i'll be wearing anyway stay cool stay fresh let me know how are you doing drop a comment down below liking it really does help with the whole youtube thing but what helps even more is um clicking that little subscribey box you know that little red box that just sits there you don't need to click that notification bell just click that little subscribe it doesn't matter it doesn't matter about that bell just click that box and we'll be all good it would it would help a lot because i put a lot of work into these videos and sometimes it's the youtube grand is a slow grand and you gotta keep going you gotta keep pushing you gotta be an openly autistic person oh yes so what about the bonus one that's what you're here for that's what you're waiting for being autistic it's likely going to make you more of a polarizing person and from what i know about psychology and dating and friendships being a polarizing person is a good thing it means that some people don't like you but it means that some people really like you being a bland person is boring if you're just sitting in the middle nobody really likes you nobody really dislikes you you're just there that sucks if you're openly autistic and you're polarizing that's a good thing now i'm not saying go out there and be an asshole and spat out a bunch of opinions that are going to offend everybody and make you a social reject but maybe catch the eye of some other social reject that also offended many people that's not a good thing i'm talking about being your confident true self and going out into the world and expressing yourself as you wish and just just living a nice life you know that's it that's your bonus one oh


Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to do a video today about the TZ database system. The TZ database system is a way of conveniently referencing time zones. Now, if you've spent the last year trying to organize meetings on Zoom, then you don't need me telling you that there are lots and lots of time zones in the world. And time zones are complicated. There is daylight saving time and universal time coordinated, which is not the same thing as GMT exactly. And lots and lots of kind of finicky detail that sometimes you do need to know to put those into programs in order that you can know what time it is. So I wanted to just show why you might want to assist an instance where you might want to know this and where you can sort of get this data from. Now, the easiest place is there is a good Wikipedia article that is well updated because this is such a sort of low level in the computing sense of the word. This is such a low level and essential database for pulling in time zone data to different programs and operating systems. So this is just kind of a quick and dirty reference, if you will, that just gives you a chart here listing out the different longitude and latitude, the TZ database name. This is basically fine. That's what you need for most programs. As well as very importantly, the status. And that's divided into you have some deprecated entries here and you have aliases and canonicals. UTC offsets given as well. That's the offset as an integer positive or negative against universal time coordinated, also known as Zulu time. And there's also a UTC DST offset for daylight saving times, daylight saving time. So that's a Wikipedia source, but naturally you might want to sort of dig a little bit further and get data always, always better if you really needed to be robust to get data from the original source and the maintainers of that data. So in order to track down where I could find this, I plugged TZ database into the Google machine and I quickly chanced upon the second entry here that came up in Google was from IANA. This is all kind of oddly fascinating stuff. Like who are these people? The International Assign Numbers Authority. It's fascinating. What's actually more fascinating or most fascinating is the fact that there is like a guy, there is a guy who's responsible for maintaining the time zone database. I don't know, I find that kind of hilarious. It was founded by, there is another Wikipedia entry called TZ database in which you can actually read the history of the database as opposed to just the list. And it will tell you that Paul Eger is its current editor and maintainer. Like there is a guy out there, Paul Eger. And he's like the world time zone computer guy. A lot of weight on his shoulders. So, but getting back to this, so you can click into the IANA website. And they have the time zone database. And it looks like your average tech, something like a GitHub site where you can see the latest version and the previous versions. And they have them packaged up as tar.gz, which as anyone who uses Linux knows is pretty easy to work with. So that is that. Now, just to show you, bring this down to a more practical level when you might need to know these time zone entries. So I just installed G world clock, which is a multiple time zone editing program in Ubuntu. And this is why I always say that when your computer, this is why I love taking backups.  So it must be many years since I last used this program because it wasn't there. So I just put it on to my new computer. And I know in the process of setting up something that is vaguely useful. So I'm going to refer to the Wikipedia chart here. And just to show you how this works very simply, G world clocks has a system where you can search your way through countries and regions. But you can also just plug in the tz value. So the tz value, well, I'm going to go for Jerusalem as one. And the tz value for this is Asia. Now there's no leading trail. There is a trail after the continent. So Asia for its last Jerusalem is the current canonical time zone denotation for this time zone. So what I can do is say Jerusalem. And I can say Asia Jerusalem. And I can go add zone. And now I have Jerusalem. If you want to watch my last video on how to use this notation system, you can also watch that. So OK, we've got going. Now Zulu time, or GMT is available. You can also have notations for GMT and for GMT offsets. You can actually add those manually to a program as well if instead of adding a particular geographical entity, you can actually add any offset positive or negative. But the one I would always want to add is UTC. And you can see UTC is listed here as the canonical. And Zulu's deprecated. So I'm going to go into my world clock program here again on Ubuntu. And I'm going to just add this and call it UTC. And I'm going to say ETC forward slash UTC in capital. Now, this is pretty easy to work with. But it's a really nice standardized system for referring to time zones. Now, because I am a finicky person and I like to remember that ETC and UTC and GMT are not always equal, I'm going to throw in GMT in there as well. So that's ETC forward slash GMT. So I'm going to put in also GMT at that time zone. And I always put in Cork, which is where I'm originally from in the world. But sorry, I mean, it focuses on major cities. So it's going to be Dublin. And you can see that is Europe Dublin.  But I'm going to, it's always, there's no, there's only one time zone in Ireland. So it's the same thing effectively. So Europe Dublin. So we have Cork Dublin. Where else would be useful? I mean, think, where do I currently have people I'm talking to in the world?  It'd be interesting to see if they have one for Eastern time. EST as a whole, EST, New York with an underscore. So America. So these are quite specific. So I'm just going to call that in my system EST. And I'm going to go for America forward slash New underscore York. Instead of CST, I'm going to put in, I'm going to put in Dallas as well. What else is on CST? Central Standard Time. Central, I just saw it come up there, Chicago. So anyway, this is a really, really big database. So I'm not going to bore, make this video super long by going through everything I want to add. What I do want to show is the original data what that looks like, just in case anyone watching this has become curious. So this is that tar.gz that I downloaded there from the website of the International Assigned Numbers Authority. I'm so curious about these people. It feels like the matrix or something. There's all these kind of vague entities and vague people like Paul Egger controlling all these things about the internet. So, Lea, let me just jump back here. So this is the source data coming from the IANA, the maintainer of this data. And you can see the way it's batched. I've just downloaded this. They have it batched by continent. So let's jump into Europe, which was modified on the 29th of September. Ah, because it just opened on my machine. So I'm just going to, sorry for these technical mishaps here, let us take a look into, I looked at Antarctica because I was curious, but let's look at Europe. Here we go. So this is the real hardcore source data as such, right? So it looks like kind of more like a program file where you're going to have tons and tons of stuff commented off at the start, talking about the originator of this project, talking about who's currently maintaining it. But let me show you some of the actual information. And this is actually, this is quite entertaining stuff. There's these little kind of historical notes added by the maintainers of this document, time zone trivia. There is, this is kind of a combination of a text file and sort of a, look the Irish statute book, incredible. Anyway, skip through all the comments and you'll get to the actual things in this document. You can see just look at the uncommitted lines and you'll see where the data is. There was ones that were more useful. There is 11 mentions of Dublin in this document, but let's jump to the actual Dublin, the actual data entry because this is just so, so long. Here we go. So you can see the formats use zone and the official name being Europe forward slash Dublin. And that's basically most of what there is to be found in this document. So just out of curiosity, I find this kind of interesting because it's just so essential to the operation of not just the internet, but operating systems and computing in general. Hope that video was interesting and if you would like to get more videos about everything related to Linux, Ubuntu, time zones, technology, feel free to hit the subscribe button.


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