Coming up on DTN assets WWDC 2021. There's a lot of news we're gonna do our best to break it down. There's other news too plus announcements from this year's WWDC show. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday June 7th 2021 from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane. From lovely Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Rich Strafolino. I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. And joining us today we have Terence Gaines and Nika Montford, the host of the Snob OS podcast. Hello. How are you both doing? Good. Glad to be back. Got a lot to talk about today. Well, it is just kind of the perfect day for both of you. I was watching you both on Twitter, taking your own notes, doing some live tweeting. WWDC, of course, especially when you do anything that's Apple focused. We're certainly Apple focused to a point here on DTNs, but the Snob OS podcast, it's definitely in your wheelhouse. So really great to have both of you. We are going to get into as much of the WWDC details as we can fit into one show in just a few minutes before the show. We were talking on Good Day Internet, just about a little bit about WWDC and what we sort of liked and didn't like. But we also talked about haunted lakes. If you want to know a little bit more about that wider conversation, you can do so by becoming a member at patreon.com. Let's start with a few non-WWDC tech things you should know. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will continue to not charge fees for its paid online events, fan subscriptions and badges through 2023 and will include its upcoming news products in that no fee policy as well. No word on what the rate will be after 2023, but if there's any question why Facebook is doing this, Zuck said, when we do introduce a revenue share, it will be less than the 30% that Apple and others take. Zing. Singapore-based Flex, the world's third biggest largest chip manufacturer, expects chip shortages to continue. Flex's chief procurement and supply chain officer, Lynn Terrell, says, with such strong demand, the expectation is mid to late 2022, depending on the commodity. Some are expected into 2023. Chipmakers continue to invest in new production capacity, but new facilities are not yet complete. The California Public Utilities Commission issued a permit to GM's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Cruise, allowing the company to shuttle passengers in its test vehicles without a human safety operator. Cruise is the first company to get the permit in the state and cannot charge affairs for rides in test AVs. Nine companies, including Cruise, have previously obtained driverless test permits from the California DMV that's different from the Public Utilities Commission, although Nuro remains the only company to have obtained a commercial deployment permit from the DMV. YouTube Shorts, still in beta and previously available in the US and India, is now expanding to the UK, Canada, and Latin America. Users will now be able to use music from YouTube's wider catalog, add captions and overlays on shorts, color correct, and sample audio from other shorts. Sounds familiar. And Google reached a settlement with France's competition authority over charges that had abused its dominant online ad position by favoring its own advertising services to the detriment of rivals. The company agreed to pay a 220 million euro fine and pledged to improve interoperability between its ad manager and third party ad servers. The changes stemmed from a 2019 complaint filed by News Corp. and the French newspaper Le Figaro. All right, before we get into some WWDC news, we did have a pretty big story over the weekend that that spins a tale of sorts about two different national approaches to cryptocurrency. In a broadcast at the Bitcoin 2021 conference, El Salvador's president, Naib Bukele, announced that he will send a bill to the country's Congress to make Bitcoin a legal tender. Currently, the US dollar is legal tender in the country. El Salvador will partner with the digital wallet company Strike to build out Bitcoin financial infrastructure. Strike first launched its mobile payments app in the country back in March, quickly becoming El Salvador's most downloaded app. So there's some demand there. El Salvador largely operates as a cash economy with about 70% of the population without bank accounts or credit cards. One would think ripe for cryptocurrency to be adopted in possibly mass numbers. Currently about 20% of the country's GDP comes from remittances sent home from migrants abroad and Bitcoin transfers for these would avoid international transfer fees or, you know, that would be something that could be sold to a person who's thinking about getting into this. Meanwhile, China continues to crack down on Bitcoin trading and mining. As many cryptocurrency related accounts on Weibo were blocked over the weekend with more actions expected to come in line with the country's criminal law. Access to banned accounts was denied with a message saying that they violate laws and rules. It's a little bit of a general thing, but that's what it said. China's central bank development of its own is developing its own digital currency and is continuing to do so. Yeah, and they're trialing that on some limited basis to kind of get a feel for how that's going to fall. And I think a lot, this is Bitcoin news out of El Salvador. I think a lot of people saw, okay, when Bitcoin first got started, there was a lot of speculation of, oh, what's the future of currency going to be? We've seen various businesses and industries kind of varyingly adopt different types of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin certainly prominent in that group. But I think for a lot of speculation was, okay, so this is showing, having this decentralized approach, being able to avoid some of these gatekeepers and stuff like that, this paves the way maybe for a digital currency. Obviously what China is doing right now, the US, Great Britain, the EU is also all looking into this. What El Salvador is doing, I mean, when you look at that 20% of GDP, some of these fees that come from these remittance international transfers can be up to 10%. So you're looking at something that this could be like, if this seems mass adoption and given that the app that's back in the strike is very popular in the country, it could be a not insignificant boost to their GDP just by this simple move. So it will be interesting to see how they lay that financial infrastructure and are able to, if this is actually able to help people kind of get more advanced, I guess money transfer services, it would still be largely unbanked population, but what kind of difference that could make? Yeah, yeah, no kidding. Well, I guess my question will be real fast is, how developed is El Salvador to where the majority of people don't have bank accounts? Is there a learning curve when it comes to Bitcoin? Is that something they're going to have to overcome in order to do this? Because that seems like a big learning curve. Again, I'm not familiar with El Salvador like that, but are they technologically advanced to where they can jump on this fast enough to be able to take advantage to where it could at their GDP? That's a really good question. I'm not never having been there. I'm not much of an expert myself, but I kind of liken it to the idea of, oh, well, if you're mostly dealing with cash, whether it's going in or coming in or going out and not banking, so not doing a lot of online banking, so you think, well, there's possibly a lot of adoption of home computers yet to be had, but if you can access an app that doesn't require to have a bank account and you're skipping out on some fees, it's almost like folks that jump to the smartphone life without having the computer first type of a thing. The adoption is probably pretty darn easy, because money's money. Yeah, to the point where banking might look like, well, that's the old way of doing things, but it's sure a lot more complicated than what we're being sold. Why crawl when you can fly, I got you. All right, well, we've seen curved displays and foldable displays on consumer electronics for a few years now, certainly prototypes and definitely now things we can actually buy, and we've seen rollable displays on the horizons if CES is any indication. Now, Samsung showed off the prototype of a stretchable OLED display that can be stretched in all directions, like rubber bands, according to the company. The display is able to stretch using a specially designed elastomer, treated to resist the heat of the electronics with a grid like island structure. The current prototype can be stretched up to 30% while operating normally, able to be stretched up to 1000 times. That's just for this prototype, and that's the extent of which they've tested, and it still responds normally. Samsung published a proof of concept showing the display used as a stretchable heart rate monitor about the size of a Band-Aid. It literally just looks like a Band-Aid with a display on it, kind of interesting. Samsung sees this display as having numerous applications in healthcare tech, and just kind of on that Band-Aid design alone, we've seen certainly some kind of wearable tech that's a little bit more passive, right, that has some sort of chemical receptors that can then send some information to a smart device, but having that display on there, I could see a lot of wearable and definitely healthcare tech applications of this. Sarah, you're going to be getting your stretchable display if it's available. Oh well, okay, so we've got, you know, yeah, curved displays, rollable displays, sure, seems cool, no real, you know, precious few products, you know, to speak for all of these prototypes that we keep seeing. However, the stretchable thing, yeah, if you're talking about like, I don't know, something that's tablet-like, I'd be like, eh, that's silly, but yes, anything that would be a wearable, for example, the smartwatch that I use, it gets really finicky about giving me an accurate heart rate, you know, if I'm doing jumping jacks and it's like, oh, it's like, you know, you're at 85, I'm like, ah, it's not working right, like it's not sitting on me properly, you know, it's either too tight or too loose, something that's a little bit more, you know, a second skin would be a great use for this. You mentioned the Band-Aid, it's like, yeah, okay, something like that, you know, not necessarily just on humans, but something that, a piece of technology that can stretch and be sort of flush with whatever surface it's getting data off of.  If they could like put some kind of tech inside of the tape, then I think that would probably be, to me, a better benefit of any type of stretchy type device.  We've certainly seen that in foldables as well. That's kind of the limiting factor right now. So, you know, we will see, in fact, you know, last year, I think South Korea kind of commissioned LG to kind of take over development of this is kind of the next frontier. It's interesting that Samsung has now kind of come out and is showing off some stuff now, although admittedly it was like a render. So we will see if when that comes to life. Well, if you'd like us to talk about stretchy tech, rollable tech or anything on the show, one way to let us know is by submitting stories in our subreddit and voting on others so they rise to the top. Submit stories, vote on them at DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com. Oh, key dokey, WWDC 2021, the keynote, which was prepackaged as Apple has been doing since, you know, pandemic times happened earlier today, although as you as I did notice they had the, you know, Memoji crowd and as if Tim Cook was in an event space. So I feel like they're inching back to wanting to make this an in-person event again. I thought that was kind of clever, but we have lots of stuff to cover. So we're going to do our best to get through them. Nika and Terrence, you're going to help make some sense of all this for us. But iOS, we'll start with iOS. The show kicked off with kind of a big splashy set of updates for FaceTime. A lot of stuff. Spatial audio was one of the first things that FaceTime will get with the assumption that people are using FaceTime the way that they are using Zoom or Skype or all sorts of things where we're in video chats together and spatial audio will help you feel more than ever like you're in a room with folks. Background noise suppression if you're in a loud place or if you want to bring in the background noise when you're in a place, those are things that FaceTime is going to add. Portrait modes with a background blurred to kind of make it look, I don't know, more porchety. That's sort of nice. I mentioned Zoom calls. FaceTime links makes appointments FaceTimes a lot more like a more like corporate Zoom call where you can generate a link, plan ahead, send those links. Those links can open in web browsers as well as mobile devices. That's kind of cool. And SharePlay lets you listen to stuff on Apple Music within a FaceTime call. So there's some inter-app stuff going on. You could also watch a video in a FaceTime call which then gets into watch content with your friends on a FaceTime call. And third-party apps, certain third-party apps will be able to take advantage of SharePlay as well. For example, you could, we could all hear on the show fire up something on Disney Plus and co-watch together, as long as we're subscribers. Terrence and Nika, what of FaceTime, whether I mentioned it or not, jumped out to you the most? Well, you mentioned it. They're trying to be what people are doing on Zoom, especially with the FaceTime links to be able to schedule a FaceTime versus just scheduling and how you schedule it. Everybody get on that call or at that time and say, okay, well, let me then start FaceTime. It's already pre-started.  This is actually grown-up time. Put on your big boy pants and now let's try to get into the office so we can actually look more professional. And the fact that they're allowing it across platform, it's not, the link will work not just with iOS devices, but with Android and with other devices as well. I think they are really trying to find their space in the whole, you know, virtual type meeting space. So for the most part, I think that's what they're doing with FaceTime and giving you the spatial audio. So it gives you more of a feel that you're actually in the same room with the person. So it's not so flat to seeing so much as a more of a robotic type of interaction. It kind of gives you the feel of being in the same room with someone. Yeah, that's a really good point of non iOS people being able to join a FaceTime call, you know, to be invited to one. I was listening to a podcast over the weekend, just, you know, what to expect from WWDC, you know, as everybody had those over the weekend. But, but yeah, one of the, one of the folks who was on a particular podcast was like, yeah, I don't live in the US. I mean, the whole like messages and FaceTime stuff, it's not just iOS specific, but there are so many other options, depending on where you live, that a lot of this just seems like it's this very insular world that so many people are not a part of. And I know Apple knows that. So to be able to, to open up something that is clearly popular with iOS users to others is a big thing. Also in iOS, a lot of notification updates. You've got focus mode that goes beyond do not disturb where someone would get an indication like, oh, she doesn't just have, you know, the whole system off. There's something that Sarah is doing so that she can't get back to you right away. So it's a little bit more context as to why you might text somebody and they don't respond, whether it's going to be for a while or the whole night, or if they're just doing something else. Better notification summaries. So when you're looking at your notifications and a bunch of apps have given you a lot of stuff, you get a little bit more context on what those notifications have. Photos now include live text. This is kind of neat, allowing you to highlight text that's in a photo and using a little, a little AI to be able to give you that text and you could copy and paste it somewhere else. I believe that they mentioned on stage that that would be in seven different languages. In images as well, the idea to attach songs from Apple Music, of course, to add to photos memories. I'm like, photo memories are already so dangerous. Not only are you going to show me a picture of my ex-boyfriend, but that song we broke up to. No, thank you. But I thought that the announcement in the Apple wallet, which wallet is, I don't know, I feel like there have been so many missed opportunities for wallet as of late, but Apple mentioned keys, corporate badges, hotel room keys, keys for smart home locks all able to be stored in wallet. Also, identity cards, a digital photo ID can be in your Apple wallet, something that I think would be, could be replacing your ID going through an airport, for example.  No, it is a big deal. Yeah, go ahead, Terence. Well, because I mean, I dream of the day we can get rid of a wallet. There are frequent times where I'm walking around my neighborhood and since I've got an Apple watch, just got the cellular, I can put my podcasts on here, I can do all the things, I can get in and out of my house. But the one thing I can't do is put my ID on my watch and I would think it would be a nice way to be able to put my ID on my watch because just as a black man out there, I don't want to leave the house without my ID. So the ability to be able to just have my phone with me and then know that I have some form of identification on my phone is a big deal for me. Yeah, and I think, and they mentioned I think coming down the pipeline is for TSA, for you to be able to get through TSA. I don't know if it's specifically if you have like global entry or like your passport, but you're going to be able to add not only like your driver's license, but other identification if you are, you know, in the airport trying to go somewhere. And I think trying to get away from like physical items, because I know I'm mostly digital. I really don't like dealing with like paper. And as much as I can, if I can put it on my phone to scan to go to the grocery store, go to the airport or whatever the case may be, to just have everything, you know, in my phone, because I'm nine times out of 10, I'm going to have my phone on me or my watch on me. So to be able to have that type of identification, you know, on your physical person, not something you actually have to carry that separate. I think that's, I think that's a pretty big game changer that they did. Like you said, they are kind of gloss over. Yeah, yeah. I mean, definitely I, you know, I felt as though if there were a crowd, there would have been some gasps kind of thing like, Oh, this is pretty cool. But, you know, alas, we're all at home. A few more, few more announcements in iOS, weather got new dynamic designs, maps get gets new detailed 3d views in certain cities, you know, rolling out slowly, but maps continues to get better. But over on iPad OS side, we got something called shelf. It's a new way to multitask split screen options within apps. If you're, if you've got a, an app and a shelf, it's, I guess I, if I understand this correctly, and I haven't used iPad OS regularly as, as a productivity tool in some time, but it's sort of fast app switching, but it's more like a dock. So we've got yet yet closer, the iPad OS and the Mac OS operating systems inching closer together, not exactly, but they're getting there. Oh yeah. No, absolutely. Because you can definitely do that on a map. You can have the desktops, what they call it in Macs where you can swipe between the desktops and however you have your desktop set up. You know, in my case, a lot of times when I'm working on our show, I'll have safari and docs next to each other, but I can just swipe to another desktop and have something totally different. Well, this kind of does that. So they're trying to play into that, you know, even more so iPad can in fact be a full production multitasking tool. So this is another way to try to push that point. Yeah. And I think it was very interesting that he brought up specifically podcasts. So he had like one side of the screen was like a podcast and one side was kind of a doc. So it's like, you know, instead of having a full on production to record a podcast or a web show, you can actually do that from your iPad. You have the video screen, you have, you know, the audio portion of it. So yeah, I think it was a very calculated point of them specifically mentioning a podcast. And what's interesting about the concept of the shelf is that it helps finally kind of deal with the fact that iPadOS is a windowed operating system. Like we've all we've had the split screen and the desktop concepts around for quite a for a little bit now. But the fact that like when you open the one of the examples they showed is that when you open a mail app, that mail pane is kind of opened in its own window that's on top of the mail that like is existing on top of kind of everything else. And the shelf is kind of designed to okay, here's how we deal with that. So that is tied to mail because that's where you're going to want to access it. But if you don't want that up, you can you can take that away. You know, people have kind of some people have criticized iPadOS for maybe moving a little slow for in terms of building these elements. But you know, I think this is a very big step for you know, if you want to be kind of iPad only this kind of window management as rudimentary as it may be, is a big step. Yeah, so there, well, we'll get to it in a universal control, which which does bring the iPad into into the Mac universe even more with Mac OS Monterey. But before we move on from iPadOS, bigger widgets on the home screen, quick notes for iPadOS and Mac OS. So it's the notes app, but again, more contacts richer. And developers can build apps with swift playgrounds, essentially just making it easier to to to work on building apps. Those of those of the developers who already do so say, Oh, this is easier. Maybe there are others who just never got their feet wet in the first place, who might want to take a swing. That's pretty cool privacy. Apple. Apple was a bit heavy handed with privacy. That's Apple's thing these days. We would expect nothing less. But quite a few privacy features that they went through, such as being able to hide your IP address when you're sending an email so that the recipient can't do things like, you know, track you, or if you if you if you get an email rather to be able to know when you opened it, that sort of thing, hiding your IP address when you are visiting sites in Safari, providing a new app privacy report.  This is all happening every seven days. And this is if you grant an app permission to do so. So Apple is saying, well, first of all, if you don't grant permission, you don't have to worry about apps being able to access any of the stuff. But if you do, we're still going to give you the information on how this is being used. So then you can, you know, reassess at a later time, if that's exactly what you want the app to be doing. Siri on device processing, not only makes a lot of queries faster, but gives more privacy because your question isn't going out anywhere. It's on device. There's a recovery contact list for gotten password. So if I, I don't know, I'm really shut out. I might say, well, Nick is on my trusted list. I can give her a call and get my information that way. A new digital legacy program. If you are, well, this is something that you would think about before you pass away, but it is, it's designed for your loved ones to be able to deal with what your digital life was, whatever state they want it to be in, in the event of your passing. And we got iCloud plus, which includes hide my email. You know, if you're signing up for a newsletter and you just don't want that, that email address of yours to get out there, it's a way to obfuscate, but to, to, to get that information to your actual email address, private relay for encrypted web searches, home kit video supports. Okay, rich privacy. I know you care about privacy. What, what, what, what felt like lip service here and what felt pretty cool from Apple? I think the app privacy report is super interesting because previously it's kind of an all or, I mean, even though they do give you very granular controls, you know, whether the mic, you can access some photos, location. Once you've kind of enabled that, it was, you know, you kind of just like, okay, I guess this app just forever has this, and maybe I'll turn off location services if I feel uncomfortable getting that report seems really great. iCloud plus, if I'm not mistaken, this just takes over iCloud. There's no iCloud minus or anything like that. That private relay, I'm interested if that's just Apple speak for a VPN, or if that is something a little bit more sophisticated, almost like a, like a Cloudflare 1.1.1 or some sort of DNS, or maybe it's all packaged together. I'm not 100% sure on that. But I really think that, you know, Apple continues to make very meaningful transparency when it comes to privacy. You know, they're not just putting up a wall for customers and stuff like that. They are, you know, giving you some really meaningful tools. App privacy report is kind of number one for me. Yeah, and I was going to say date. And again, I don't know if this is a good thing. Right now it's a good thing. But Apple is making it really hard for somebody that is really into their ecosystem, especially with stuff like privacy, all these meaningful additions, right? They're making it really hard for me to say, okay, something happened. I'm fed up. I'm going to pick something else. Where are you going to go, especially if you're concerned about privacy?   Like I said, I don't know if that's a good thing because of all the reasons why you don't want to leave.  And I don't see one. And that's how they get you. Well, and I feel like the stuff that they announced with their health stuff is very much in that same vein.  So I think that's kind of a shadow theme for WWDC too. Yeah. Well, speaking of health, oh, go ahead, Terrence. No, I was going to say, don't leave or else. Yeah, right. Yeah. You'll get very sick very quickly. The health app definitely wants folks to keep their Apple watch if they already have one and buy one if they don't. Mobility is new for health metrics, which will measure your walking steady, steadiness. Now we all walk differently and Apple knows that the company said used a study of over 1000 people to measure fall risks. So gathered a lot of data about how someone's natural gate may be and how those people differ and how a difference can potentially lead to something and how that kind of information helps Apple get a little bit smarter about this might be an issue. You mentioned Rich, the idea that you can be able to monitor the data of a loved one or somebody who trusts you to, you know, no one in my immediate family has a fall risk, thank goodness, but if they did, yes, I want to know about it, especially if they're in a compromised position. So a little bit more of that family sharing new trends will help you not only be able to monitor steps. Well, you know, Apple is not the only company that's good at monitoring how many steps I took during the day. But if it notices, huh, well, you're really pretty consistent on the step front, but something's a little off here, you know, just want to just want to just alert you to that fact that also goes for things like resting heart rate, blood, glucose level, that sort of thing. Apple also says all health data is encrypted. So the whole idea of being able to share with folks that are in your family or friends or your doctor shouldn't be of worry, even though that's often very sensitive information because all health data is encrypted. Now, I don't have an Apple watch. Every time Apple gets to some cool watch stuff, I always compare it to my Fitbit because I'm in the Fitbit ecosystem and, you know, they are mostly neck and neck, a lot of this stuff. But, you know, I can't use Fitness Plus because I don't have an Apple watch. There are definitely a lot of things about health. Every time Apple announces something new, I think they're very long in this game, and it is probably only a matter of time till I switch over. Yeah, I think, especially with what we've learned through the pandemic, I think they, because I think one of the new features is respiratory, they're capturing that data in some way. And I think with the trends, it gives you the opportunity to see subtle changes.  It's usually something that's gradual. So I think what they're trying to do with trends is just to start to give you kind of a bird's-eye level of your health. And then if things start to fluctuate, it lets you know a little bit sooner that, hey, I may need to send this over to my doctor or let my doctor know that something might be a bit amiss. Yeah. Got a few other updates before we get to Mac OS Monterey. Airpods with UWB, now on the Find My Network. You can add conversation boost for hearing enhancements, support for spatial audio on Apple TV. Siri is also coming to third-party devices using the Matter Smart Home Standard, of which Apple is part of what was mattered, called until a couple of months ago. Click. Chip. Chip. Chip. Connected home, internet, whatever, yeah. Yeah. I knew it started with the C. I don't know. I guess spatial audio, I think spatial audio is one of those things where once you have it, you go, oh yeah, now I can't go back. I just don't have it yet. So some of this is slightly lost on me. The Find My Stuff for the Airpods seems huge to me because I had a friend who bought some new pros and like within a week left them, when we were still traveling, left them in a cab in another country. And those were gone forever. And I don't know if this would have helped them in that particular situation, but that solves a huge pain point for a lot of people. All right, let's get into Mac OS Monterey. We got a sneak peek of what's to come, universal control, controlling access across your iPad, your MacBook Pro, your, what am I, yes, thank you, I'm like, you know, desktop.  It's the dragging and dropping across all of them at once. Oh my gosh, when I saw it, I was like, ah, finally, because I don't, like I said, I don't, I don't use an iPad or iPad Pro in particular, now at all. But I loved the idea of, oh yes, I can, I can, at some point add this to my work setup, but to actually have it as a place that files can go back and forth, and it's less of an airdrop slash iCloud slash email to myself type of a situation that I'm doing now, huge. And of course, Apple made it look seamless, but I think universal control is going to be widely loved. Yeah, that was, I was, that was my favorite part of, of the whole announcement, I think, because just having the devices in proximity to each other, so it's nothing that you have to connect, it's, it, what they showed was extremely seamless. And a lot of times, like you mentioned, if I'm working on something on my iPad, I have to airdrop it to my iMac or to my MacBook or whatever I'm using. And with this, you can actually control your iPad screen with your keyboard or mouse from whatever machine you're using. So you can navigate around an iPad, like a laptop. So I just thought the way that it, you can use multi devices. So they had three different devices, you could drag from your iPad all the way across to your iMac. So that was probably one of the slickest things that I, I probably saw from the, from the announcement. I'm, I'm excited about that. And a little setup, you know, right now you can try to do it. We mentioned in, you know, pre show that there's third party things, there's freeware, even Apple offers their sidecar, I think it's what it's called, where you can just do this, the share to different screens. That's just screen sharing. The fact that you just do it without having to think about it, I think is the benefit. Rich, did anything in macOS Monterey stand up to you or you pumped about a new tab functionality in Safari? So the one thing that kind of I geeked out a little bit about is that they showed off an AR object capture where basically instead of doing a whole 3D model, you can use photometry. That's the wrong word, but basically you use pictures to build of 2D pictures to build a 3D object. And I've seen that done with like, like 100 raspberry pies to do like 3D imaging of people. But like the fact that you could do it with a fixed object with just your phone, obviously that speaks to a lot of Apple's AR ambitions going forward. But I think that, that points to a lot of interesting things to make that kind of AR capture a lot easier for developers and just for regular users. On the developer side, something that is probably going to be pretty helpful to developers, but also people like me who are in the App Store constantly, custom app listings for pages in the App Store that can not only change the, like sort of the app album art depending on who might be viewing the app so that more people say, oh, this is exactly what I'm looking for. But to also highlight events, somebody on Twitter said, yeah, like Travis Scott doing that Fortnite concert, right Apple? That's kind of what we're talking about. That's actually a pretty good example. Exclude cloud access. The limited beta starts today. It's available to all devs in 2022. We've also got test flight on the Mac, on the developer side. Terrence, did you see anything that a developer friend might say, yes, I've been waiting the whole time for this? They're probably just to make it easier for people to eventually get to the point. I think Apple's getting there to where you will eventually be able to make one code, make one app, and it seamlessly work across all devices iOS and Mac for the fact that you can actually do it faster using Exclude cloud access and test flight. You know, they're just getting closer and getting closer and getting closer to where we won't have to have all these differentiations. We got Mac OS, TV OS, iOS and watch OS eventually just be like, just develop it one time and work. So we're just getting very, very closer. And you can test it. You can test your app across the different OS's in the cloud.  It gives you a test report at the end tells you what failed, what worked on each different OS. So I think X, you know, Xcode cloud is going to be extremely, I think the developers are going to love Xcode cloud a lot. Tongue sister there. But I was really, I was really, you know, impressed with what they're doing with Xcode cloud. We've got public betas of iOS 15, iPad OS 15, Mac OS Monterey, TV OS 15 and watch OS 8 all coming in July. We will continue some WWDC news on the show during this week. You know, this is, it was keynote morning, but the show itself will continue throughout the week and there'll be some news coming out. So look for more news on this show as the week rolls on. But final thoughts from Terrence and Nika, what were you the most excited about from what you saw today? Was it lackluster? Was it better than expected? It was a lot. It was definitely on brand and what I mean by that is, you know, I'll let somebody else jump in on this, no hardware. I'll just say that and keep it moving. The fact that it was, you know, devoted to software is WWDC, you know, this is for developers. So they really stayed like I mentioned on brand as far as operating systems, no mention of iOS 16. So I think this is just iOS 15 is going to continue for this year unless they spring something up in September. I don't know. But there's one thing that I also thought that was going to be pretty cool, especially for somebody like me that does Apple iOS support is the screen share in iOS that will enable you to actually walk through your device with a friend with a family member instead of just like I mentioned in the tweet closing my eyes while I'm supporting somebody and imagine what their iPhone screen is supposed to look like. Now we can do the screen share and I can say, okay, click this, swipe this, tap that and I can actually see in real time. So again, it just goes a long way to like I mentioned before to where Apple is making it really hard to gather their ecosystem, especially if you have friends and family member who are on the same ship. Yeah. Again, I share that sentiment. It was just so much information. I don't think I've been able to really digest it all. But again, like I said, I was pretty impressed with the Universal Control Act across the different devices. I think that was probably the biggest thing that I got out of it. And I think just some of the dev apps that they have coming out are going to be really top-notch. Well, very cool. Rich, what about you? Before we wrap up this Monday edition of WTC 2021 and other news as well, what was the stand-up for you? For me, it was looking at FaceTime kind of growing up. There had always kind of been an open joke when it was first announced that FaceTime is going to be this open standard and you're going to be able to use it on other things. And that never, ever, ever happened and seemed to kind of sit in amber even as they added functionality and to see it kind of with iOS 15 becoming a legit Zoom competitor, multi-platform. I think that's huge. Well, if you think something is huge from the show and we talked about it or we may talk about it tomorrow or Wednesday, send us your thoughts. And if you didn't watch it, you can send us thoughts on anything you'd like us to talk about on our future shows. Well, feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. We love your emails. Thank you in advance. Also, shout out to patrons at our Master and Grand Master levels. Today, they include Ms. Music Teacher, James C. Smith, and Justin Zellers. We also have brand new boss. Yes, we do. I'm going to try to get your name right. 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An Ikaduna State High Court has freed the embattled leader of the prescribed Islamic movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zazaki and his wife. In a ruling that lasted more than eight hours, the presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, upheld a no-case submission filed by El-Zazaki and his wife. The Ikaduna State government had charged them with coppable homicide on lawful assembly and disruption of public peace. The court ruled that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against the defendants.


Hello, I'm Alex Dunson. I'm a senior program strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation who is focused on campaigns and organizing, especially around topics for impact. And I'm here today to present a panel of videos we put together about the experience we had with the WikiGap and Wiki for Human Rights campaigns. These are global campaigns in partnership with the UN. And we wanted to focus on what impact or what we've learned by working with these UN level partners to really make an impact both on our content and help our communities connect more with the global international community. John Cummings and I are going to be answering questions on the etherpad. We invite you to join. It's really important that we hear from you. But most of this will be recorded videos from different organizers, both at Wikimedia Sweden. We'll have Eric Luth. We'll have several of our partner experts from the UN. And then we'll have Euphemia from the Nigerian community who was a local organizer for Wiki for Human Rights. To get started, Eric Luth is going to introduce the WikiGap campaign and why we work with the UN and the sustainable development goals. Hi, Alex. We don't have audio on the video. Could you turn up the volume? You may want to reshare again and make sure that you click on Share Audio. For the last few years, I have been coordinating the global WikiGap campaign. WikiGap is, I think, one of the most successful initiatives within the movement to try to bridge the gender gap. We know that four out of five articles, biographies, on most language versions are about men. And of course, this doesn't properly reflect the way that society looks. One large part, I think, of the success of the WikiGap campaign is that we have successfully across the world worked together with partners. The campaign is coordinated by Wikimedia Sverige and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is organized on local level by Swedish embassies. Wikimedia affiliates and other partners in more than 70 countries. Together, partners have identified resources, material, references, they have provided venues, and a lot of other things that have made it possible for the Wikipedia editors to quickly and successfully write more than 60,000 articles on women on Wikipedia. The strategic recommendations of Wikimedia 2013 talk about the topics for impacts. Topics for impact are areas of knowledge, which are important that they are covered well on Wikimedia platforms. We know that the more Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms are used if us to go, the higher responsibility we have as a movement to make sure that knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikimedia platforms is correct, and that all knowledge is actually reflected on the platforms. Across society, there is a large ongoing conversation around the sustainable development goals. These are 17 goals that are also called the global goals as part of Agenda 2013. 17 goals that humanity should work together to overcome before 2013. I was the conference manager for Wikimedia in 2019, the last physical Wikimedia that was held in Stockholm. The theme of Wikimedia in 2019 was stronger together, Wikimedia free knowledge and the sustainable development goals. And we chose that theme because we wanted to focus on how important partnerships are for us as a movement if we want to work together to make sure that important topics are covered well on the Wikimedia platforms. I have worked a lot on the gender gap, which is global goal number five. But there are many gaps on the Wikimedia platforms. We know about this. And now we also, I think, have started an important work to try to change this. But if we want to bridge gaps on our platforms, if we want to contribute to the fulfillment of the global goals in Agenda 2013, we need to work together with partners. Wikipedia, to give one example, doesn't contain primary research. It refers to secondary sources, things that people have said in the media, things scholars have written in articles, things that are part of the ongoing conversation across the world. That means that we need to work with the rest of the world if we want to bridge the gaps on the Wikimedia platforms. And one of the actors across the International Society that sits on the most information is the United Nations. The UN has so much information in their archives, on their platforms, on their websites, in their reports. That could be very useful for the Wikimedia platforms. During Wikimedia in 2019, a partnership was signed between the Wikimedia Foundation and the UN Human Rights on working together to try to shed light on human rights issues across the world. We'll hear more about this partnership based on the discussion. We have also seen partnerships working together to try to overcome and give better information on the current ongoing pandemic. We have worked with the UN Population Fund, FAO, and the World Health Organization and many other actors to try to have better information and knowledge available on the platforms about the current ongoing pandemic. I live in Sweden, a country where four-fifths of the population regularly use Wikipedia. And where Wikipedia remains one of the few non-partisan sources that remain in society. We also know that readership of Wikipedia increases in many parts of the world, either directly through reading articles, for example on Wikipedia or indirectly by other actors reusing the material from the platforms. That means that responsibility on us as a movement is increasing day by day. And if we want to give good information on passing matters on these topics for impact, we need to work together with other partners. We can't do this on our own. We need to be stronger together, identify partners that we can work together with, to upload content, improve content on that already exists, to get the references and resources needed. And one of the first partners I think that we should go to and work together with are all the UN agencies across the world. Welcome to this session and I hope to continue this conversation also after Wikimedia in 2021. Eric was a coordinator for our international campaign with UN Human Rights and the Swedish Foreign Ministry, WikiGap. And I was also a coordinator of the Wiki for Human Rights campaign, which is a global campaign that we coordinate with UN Human Rights. And we found that the UN partners have been very valuable for working with our communities. And this panel that we put together of interviews is about that dialogue between the UN experts and our community. And importantly, campaigns are a good place to start with partners because they're one of the best ways to access one of our great strengths as a movement, the multilingual, multicultural, multi-context that our communities operate in. The ability to translate UN level information and knowledge to local contexts has been very important for our ability to kind of bring value to the expertise that these institutions have, the UN and others. It's also really important for our local communities because when a UN agency puts their name to a global action by the Wikimedia community, our local communities can recruit partners and organize local communities better. We also know that both of these campaigns had different parts. They combined a writing challenge with local editing events. And this is very deliberate to meet the needs of our partners and our communities. Writing challenges in the Wikimedia movement create really good content. They encourage translation and multilingual work and they really reward our community that's already here. They give opportunities for a light competition, playful competition and acknowledgement of the work that people do as Wikimedians. But we also know that as a movement we need to have more of the experts and more of the activists, what I'm increasingly calling knowledge activists on the ground joining our communities and strategically working to fill these gaps, such as human rights, climate issues, sustainable development goals. These local editing events are important for new editors. They're also very important in parts of the world where we don't have big editing communities. Without the local perspective and local context it's very hard to kind of represent all of the different diversity that's involved in achieving the sustainable development goals. In particular, local partners who are very invested in working with the UN and with international communities to address the sustainable development issues have been really kind of important to growing these campaigns. The Wikigap campaign has grown from dozens to nearly 100 events globally. And Wiki for Human Rights in our second year we're already at 25 local events. And that's because of this real opportunity for connecting through local editing events. Next we are gonna have conversations with our UN expert partners so you get a sense of what value they find from these events. Great, I'm here talking with the Ruben Rowers. Can you perhaps present yourself a bit? Yeah, thanks Eric. So I work in the women's rights and gender section at OHEHR and I'm based in Geneva. And as part of my work one of the focus areas that I engage in is the issue of women human rights defenders which I'm sure we'll be talking about today. Great, thanks Ruben. I'm very happy to have you on board. We have been working quite a bit together on the Wikigap campaign and especially on crowdsourcing names of missing women human rights defenders on Wikipedia. But could you start by giving a global picture of the issue that you're working on? Yeah, no for sure. Well, for the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights the issue of civic space is a priority focus area. And just to help you understand what we mean by civic space we see civic space as sort of the public space within which people express their views, assemble, associate and engage in dialogue on all issues that either affect their lives or the lives of their communities. And this is really at the heart of human rights work in a way. And I'm sure also at the heart of the work of Wikipedia and of all of you in the Wikimedia community. But what we see globally is that this space, the civic space is shrinking and this is both online and offline. We see restrictive laws and policies and practices. We see crackdowns on demonstrations. We see judicial harassment, surveillance, attacks and violence against anyone who speaks up in public or who expresses dissent. And this is an issue that affects particularly women human rights defenders. And women human rights defenders for us it includes women and girls who work on any human rights issue but it also includes anyone of any gender who works on rights related to gender equality. And they face restrictions and attacks that all human rights defenders face but in addition they face these attacks and obstacles that really are shaped by their additional and they're shaped by who they are because they're women and girls. What they're part of because they're for example part of the feminist movement or because of the work they do on women's rights issues on gender equality issues including for example, sexual and reproductive health and rights issues. And at times what we see is just by simply speaking out in public they are seen as challenging gender norms that are really deeply entrenched in societies. They're seen as challenging power structures that tend to favor men over women and also tend to confine women to the private sphere to the domestic space and to roles such as caregiving and reproduction. And this then leads to attacks that are very discriminatory in nature that are stigmatizing and oftentimes women human rights defenders also face stigma in their own communities even by some of their own family members just for being that public activists or they're gendered and sexualized attacks that they face and we've seen a lot of that of course online. And most importantly I think for our discussion today is also that there's a lack of recognition that they face of the work that they do. And this is everywhere in the world whether it's in Europe, whether it's in Africa whether it's in Asia Pacific whether it's in the Middle East or whether it's in the Americas, both North and South we see that this is a particular challenge that women human rights defenders in all their diversity face. And that's why it's a priority issue for us as an office and hopefully also for the Wikimedia community as well. You mentioned a bit about the lack of recognition and for many of those who work in this area and Wikipedia and the Wikimedia platforms I think are one of the places that people go to for information and for knowing about what's happening in the world. So what you say is the role of public education in this area and how do you work with public education to change or improve the situation? Yeah, no, thanks, Erica. It's a really good question. And I think it's critical, first and foremost. I think what we see and what often isn't known actually is that historically and nowadays as well if you look at social movements that led to positive social transformation that led to changes that really benefited all societies women human rights defenders are often at the forefront and also often the first to come under attack. The different social justice movement. So it can be Black Lives Matter, it can be climate change issues and it can also be, of course, feminist movements and then women's rights and gender equality issues. But what often is missing is the fact that they have that central role and they played that really critical important piece of that transformation. And a big part of the discrimination that women human rights defenders face and the challenges that they face as well is that they're really essential contributions and the work that they've done for our societies and for our communities often goes unnoticed, often is ignored and sometimes even on purpose as well and often is belittled as well. And this is something that we see in our human rights community even, amongst sort of our allies, so to speak. But we also of course see it on Wikipedia and you'll have all the best information and up to date data, but what we've understood as well is that if you compare the representation of the information women human rights defenders on Wikipedia versus the other human rights defenders, you'll see that there's a massive gap and that's sort of the whole purpose of also the WCGAP challenge. And that's why it's also so important for us to really reflect and recognize women human rights defenders and address that gap, particularly on Wikipedia and then hopefully also in our other areas of life. So for us, I think public education on women human rights defenders really helps recognize their work. It really helps share their views and their diversity of experiences. It really has the power to change these discriminatory social norms that we see particularly around gender and really transform our societies to a more equal and just one, which is really key. And I think generally, there's a lot of work that still needs to be done to improve the legitimacy of women human rights defenders in the public eye to transform the stereotypes that they face, the dehumanization that they face, to inspire also others that they can join and build solidarity with the women human rights defenders that are out there speaking on our behalf. And it really can help expand civic space including its inclusivity and diversity. So there are lots of benefits to public education on this issue. I mean, it's not just benefits, it's essential for our work and our work on civic space. Thanks a lot for that Rubin. I think that's a few really important reflections on both why the topic is very important in itself and also why we as a movement with media movement should continue working and filling those gaps and working together with you, the Office of Human Rights. Thanks a lot, Rubin, and I hope to continue the work forward. If I may just add one last... Yeah, of course. Sorry. No, it's just, I also, I don't want to miss out on the opportunity now that we're also speaking to the Wikimedia community to really express our appreciation and also the appreciation of many of the women human rights defenders that have seen their profiles suddenly reflected in so many different languages around the world and also express their appreciation to us to share with you because it's fantastic for them to be recognized. And for us to have this diversity on the Wikimedia platform is really fantastic and really will help change the narrative and change the space for women human rights defenders. So we really want to appreciate again the participants of the challenge and congratulate them for the great success of all these new profiles and also of course thank the Wikimedia community more broadly and Wikimedia Sweden of course and really look forward to as you said as well to continue to see more women human rights defenders profiles on the Wikimedia page and also to work together to expand that even further. So thank you again. Great and thanks a lot to you to Ruben. I think it's a really important and on my behalf also fun initiative to work with. It's just like it's important and we're actually doing some real change together. So thanks a lot. So that was Eric Loof talking with Ruben Brower. The name is in the etherpad if you are looking for further follow up. Next we have John Cummings who has been coordinating with many different parts of the UN over the years on behalf of different parts of the Wikimedia movement. He's currently working with Wikimedia Sweden on as far as on outreach to some of the UN organizations. And so we have a conversation between him and one of the FAO experts. So hi Suzanne, would you be able to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do at FAO? Sure. So my name is Suzanne Lappston and I work in the Publications Branch of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Within that branch I'm leading the teams responsible for production, dissemination and rights. And I've been here for 10 years now and we have a very big publishing program, approximately 900 books a year. And one of the challenges that we have is making sure that that content reaches the people who should be reading it. Could you tell us a little bit about what FAO does? Yeah, so FAO as I said, it's the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. So a big part of what it does is in the name, Food and Agriculture and all aspects of that which is extremely broad. But not only, it also covers many other subjects so relating to climate change, forests, soils, freshwater resources, oceans and fish and how to manage all of that sustainably. So it's not just making sure it happens but making sure it happens in the right way and also equitably. So benefiting everybody so that economic development is across the board so in all geographic locations so that we don't have gender inequity and we also look at how to increase people's resilience to disasters and conflict. So as you can see, it's really broad. Could you tell me a little bit about how that work connects to the SDGs? Yes, of course, the SDGs really provide a roadmap for our work for the next 10 years. And of course, a major focus is SDG too. So ending hunger, achieving food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture. We don't just focus on hunger as I mentioned, the mandate of FAO is really broad and we're really contributing to all of the SDGs but I'll just mention a couple of other really important ones for us. We have SDG 14, which is conserving and sustainably using the oceans, the sea and marine resources. And FAO, many people don't realize but it's actually the main organization in the world reporting on fisheries and regulating fisheries questions. So even if when you go and buy your fish at the market it may have a little number on it and that corresponds to the FAO defined fishing zone, for example. So the publication that we produce every two years on the state of the world's fisheries it's the reference in the world of fisheries. And then another really important SDG for us is SDG 15 which is protecting, restoring and promoting terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, combating desertification, reversing land degradation and halting biodiversity loss. So this is also a really vast area of work and again we have some really key publications that are reporting for example on deforestation and it's been very interesting working with Wikipedia counterparts to get some of that content up on the pages relating to forests and deforestation, et cetera. And then of course I've wanted to mention SDG 5 on gender because this is also where the wiki gap connection came in because women in agriculture play a really important role but that role is not yet fully recognized. So an area that we're working on within the gender team but also mainstreamed across the organization is to really understand the role of women and to promote the role of women in all the different aspects of agriculture. And so it was very interesting to work on the wiki gap campaign relating to the representation of women in Wikipedia but what we found was really interesting when we did the wiki gap workshop was not just that we were able to improve some of the content online relating to women and women in agriculture but it also shed light on other areas where there were gaps and for example, there was one of your facilitators and I'm really sorry because I can't remember her name right now who had a lot of interesting things to say about climate change and the way that the knowledge is even structured within Wikipedia and how we could potentially work together more also to just think about the way that not just updating pages but also thinking about the way knowledge is structured and I think that would be a really interesting avenue to pursue further and I'm really looking forward to doing that. Could you tell me a little bit about the role of public education in the work that FAO does? Yeah, it's really important. So FAO is a knowledge organization. It's not a humanitarian organization in the same way as let's say the world food program which rushes in when there's a disaster. We do some of that as well but the main function of FAO is to do the research, to inform the policy and to generate the knowledge that's needed to make a change. And in fact, the first function in our basic texts is says that the organization shall collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture. So right from the very beginning, that's what FAO is about. So the question that we and I in my work in particular grapple with every day is how can we do that? How can we get that information and that knowledge out there where it's really needed? And that's where Wikipedia came in because Wikipedia is such an amazing resource both in the way it's put together and the way people use it that it just seemed like such an excellent way of being able to share the knowledge that we have which we consider to be a global public good. So when you have a global public good how do you get it out there? And because it's available for free in some ways that's almost a disadvantage because you're not sort of out there in the same way that big publishers are out there. So it's always a challenge to find the best way to get that free knowledge to people who need it and will use it. And Wikipedia has that amazing breadth in a sense that it's used by people who come for sort of very general knowledge and a first sort of glance but it can also be very, very niche. And we need both of those aspects. So that's really great. And something that has facilitated our work with Wikipedia is the fact that we have an open access policy. And although we've been sharing our knowledge via our document repository now for decades and we were actually pioneers in that area at the time we then sort of fell behind. And it was only in 2018 that we formally committed to an open access policy with a CC license. And so we do need to tweak that a little bit because we have the non-commercial restriction on that license. So we tweaked the license on the content that we put into Wikipedia but it's that has really facilitated the dissemination of our knowledge. And as I said, as a global public good. For us it's been a really interesting journey with Wikipedia because it started off with seeing what John Cummings, what you were doing with UNESCO. And I'd had a dream actually before coming to FAO I was working with UNESCO and it was my dream to do something with Wikipedia. So when I saw that that was happening I wanted to jump on the train and get FAO involved as well. And so we started off sort of very hesitantly and learning the ropes and the rules of the community and just working with a few people within the publications team closely collaborating with you and others such as Richard Neville in the UK. And now we're getting more and more interest across the organization. So people who are interested in joining workshops and doing the editing themselves. And really the next step that we'd like to take the leap is to get people who aren't at FAO involved in just taking our content and running with it reusing it and sharing it in every way possible. And again, that's why I would really encourage people to come along as well to our information sessions. Thank you very much. Say hi, Suzanne. Would you? So next we have a conversation with our partner at UN Human Rights and their environmental human rights section that is focused on the that we partnered with to create the topic list and theme and focus for Wiki for human rights. So, hi Monica. It's so great that you're talking with us. Can you explain a bit for the Wikimedia audience what you do and about your team? Sure. So my name is Monica Iyer. I'm a human rights officer with the United Nations Human Rights Office. And I'm on the environmental climate change team. So what we do is we look at and try to make clear for other people the connections between environment, climate change and human rights, which there are many of. Yeah, it's a space like you've taught me a lot as we started working together. And we got to work together on Wiki for human rights. So I'm wondering what was kind of appealing to you about working on that? It's such a, like it was neat to learn so much but I'm always curious like why our partners want to be part of that collaboration. Yeah, I mean, I think for us it was really exciting to get to work with people who we don't normally get to work with, including you. But also the Wiki community broadly and really to reach a more general audience and to reach an audience that often we don't get to exchange what they're here from. And then also we got the chance to not just work with the Wiki community ourselves but also set up exchanges and collaboration between some of the people that we collaborate with normally including international human rights experts with the Wiki community. And it was really fun to get to see those conversations happening and see those connections being made. Yeah, it's kind of unexpected how many opportunities there are for collaboration when you start working with the work media. And I'm wondering like in particular, you're an expert on like human rights and the environment. Why for that topic area that group of experts is Wikipedia important? Like what does it help you do in that space? So access to information, including access to information about the environment and access to education are human rights. And the environmental education, environmental information are really, really key to helping people access their human rights in relation to the environment. And so making information more broadly available and making information available to people about their rights in relation to the environment really helps us to expand our work and really gives rights holders more tools for their work and to advocate for their own human rights. And so that's really valuable to us. And then also, I think like you said, once you learn about these things to us, the connections between human rights and the environment are really clear because when the environment is damaged, people have trouble accessing their right to a livelihood, their right to clean water and sanitation, their right to food, their right to life even into health. And but making those connections clear and finding ways to include human rights information in sort of Wikipedia entries that maybe aren't directly about human rights is also I think a really important way of advancing people's understanding of the work that we do. Yeah, and I like for me, when we first started talking, I knew I was an environmentalist. I knew we were working with you and human rights, but I didn't always like draw those connections. Can you give a couple like examples of areas like emerging areas where that connections are really, really important? Sure, I mean, so one of the most important things is that there's a global movement right now for global recognition of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, which is a human right that's recognized in various wording in the laws or the regional commitments of more than 150 states, we don't have that right recognized at the global level yet. And one of the major things that happened in this campaign was that we had people write or people chose to write articles in a lot of different languages specifically about the right to a healthy environment. I think that really contributed to helping to advance global knowledge of that and hopefully to putting the pressure on the global community to recognize that there's a right at the international level. Yeah, and that kind of connects to this next question, like what is it largely from your perspective as a UN human rights like program officer? Oh, why is Wikipedia helpful in kind of advancing those kinds of international things? Those are international awareness initiatives. What does it do? Yeah. Yeah, so there, I mean, there are a couple of ways that I think the Wikipedia or Wikipedia community really fits in with sort of the broader goals of the UN. I mean, one is that we're really, our role as UN human rights is to advocate for and support the human rights of all of the peoples of the UN. And one of the struggles that we have or one of the challenges that we have is that people communicate in a lot of different languages. We work with six UN official languages. We publish documents usually in English and in French or in Spanish and Arabic and Chinese and Russian. But we often struggle to go beyond that. And one of the things that Wikipedia, the Wikipedia community really helped with and this was making these concepts available in a lot of different languages. And thus helping us to hopefully better serve or build better connections with people who are outside of those six language groups. And then another thing is that we are, the United Nations is really committed to protecting and expanding civic space and participation in all areas because it's crucial and it is a human right that we particularly in the environmental context and we have these huge environmental challenges to deal with and we really need the possibility of participation by everyone in the world. And the Wikipedia is a civic space that where people can exchange ideas and where people can contribute to global knowledge on these issues, which really helps them then push for their rights to participate and to contribute to environmental action. That's so great. And I'm wondering, do you have any last words before we go off to the rest of the panel? No, just thanks very much for the opportunity. We really enjoyed this cooperation and I think we learned a lot too throughout the course of it and I'm really excited to learn more coming forward. Cool. Well, looking forward to it. Thanks. So we have one last video from Euphemia Uwandu who's a local organizer for Wiki for Human Rights. I acknowledge we're really short on time and she's gonna be cut off a little bit. We will make sure that the slides get shared afterwards and you can watch the videos yourself. My name is Euphemia Uwandu. I was one of the local organizers for Wiki for Human Rights 2021 in Nigeria. One of the things I have discovered about working with international organizations to run content campaigns is that it gives additional color in some context. As a local organizer, I'm particular about not just mobilizing and engaging participants in campaigns, but mobilizing and engaging tools who will contribute with their hands and their hearts. And to ensure we have these kind of people, we have to position what drives them in the background. For some of these people, it is carrier goods. For others, it is relevance, visibility, and networking. For example, in Nigeria, the UN is seen in the light of growth, relevance, visibility, and networking, and people who want to be part of any event they are associated with. The Wiki for Human Rights 2021 is not defined. It was an event that was sponsored by the UN to improve content related to the theme of the campaign which is rights to a healthy environment. In Nigeria, this campaign brought in environmental activists, resident in Lagos, who came in to work together to improve articles in the Nigerian context.


So why does it always rain on me? It should probably be the title to this episode. There is a gray cloud coming towards us. Yeah. So for anyone who doesn't care that, that's a nice Travis reference. Smooth. So this episode is going to be on Travis CI, which is a super awesome continuous integration tool that ties in very nicely with GitHub. So you literally like enable, I think it's like a you I think you're adding a web hook or something in Travis. It's a service you can sorry in GitHub that you add in to your repo and settings. And basically whenever you do like a commit to a repo or you do a pull request or anything happens, you can sell Travis to perform basically set up a VM and do whatever you tell it to do. All you need to do is like set up a Travis YAML configuration file in the root of your project and that can be as simple or as crazy as you want to make it. Yeah. I think I was digging out the the web starter kit. Travis.yamlin is literally just like we need it to run in node four, node five as all it does. And then Travis, because it's set up for an environment and node, it'll go, well, I should probably do NPM install and hope that works. And then it checks for NPM run tests. So the NPM script just called test and it'll do whatever it does. And then given that mocker, it returns an exit code of something other than zero. And then Travis goes, well, the build failed because it didn't do what you'd expect.  Yeah.  Yeah, no, it's just it's super useful for keeping everyone honest about stuff that they're trying to PR in. It's just great. Yeah. I have some some Travis pro tips. Oh, are they your own or? They came to me vividly in a dream or a medium blog post. But so one of the things we do on a few of our projects is we cash our package management directory. So like our node modules directories. Some people might cash their barrel components as well. It generally works with you can cash like any directory, can't you? Yeah, pretty much. If there's something you want to generate, but then afterwards just keep it around. Yeah, just speeds up installation, having it cashed.  Another optimization is setting your git checkout depth so that it's only running against the latest commits, for example. Nice. I think web fundamentals is such a horrific history on git now by this point that we should probably be using that. I remember using this tool to check out the largest directories on my system with the other day. Web fundamentals checkout was the biggest one. Moving on. Google engineers know what they're doing. And my final pro tip I think was just making sure that you know you can whitelist or blacklist branches so that Travis isn't running against everything. If you, for example, have 22 different branches for Web Starter Kit 2, Matthew. Yeah, I should do some cleanup there. But the other advantage of that that I was going to add on was you can also like Travis adds a ton of environment variables.  One of them is just like, am I in Travis? If I am, do this rather than do it if I run it from a command line or something. So that's the other thing as well while checking out because it's just a blog post or just all those things. So Travis runs really great when you're trying to get testing done against Linux or OSX, Windows. I don't think it supports Windows but there is another service called AppVaya and it has its own equivalent to the Travis YAML. It's slightly different but largely it's very, very similar. The only got show with AppVaya that I found a bit confusing is it needs a build number for every time it does like a run and there's a way you can set it up to auto increment but it's kind of a bit weird the first time you do it. But once you set up you're all good to go and it's super handy because it is pretty different from a Linux environment. So out there I found it to be a little bit finicky to get set up pretty consistently but once that's done it's just as easy to use as Travis. Yeah and it's one of those things you only really have to do at the start of a project and then you forget what you've done for the next one. But it's all good. So then the last thing about that is obviously when you set these things up is you get a lovely badge to put on your readme. The one last thing I'd mention because I feel like the tool needs a good shout out is David which is literally a badge and it just tells you whether your dependencies on npm are up to date or not and it's all it does. But I found it surprisingly helpful just for the projects I have just sitting there just going well are they up to date are they out of date what's going on. Yeah love it. Yeah so people should check that out at david-dm.org. There's also so on in the same vein so whenever I'm working on node modules there's a CLI called David very similar thing that you can use and what that basically does is again it will let you know you're outdated like dev dependencies or outdated dependencies list them down in the CLI nicely colored let you know what your version is the latest version is and it'll also give you like this one liner you can run to just like instantly bump everything up which is kind of nice. Nice that is pretty cool which is pretty sweet. There's also this thing recently called Green Keeper. Do you remember Green Keeper? Yes that's the one where it will update everything automatically, run your test suite and if it passes it will then ping your pull request going here you go just update them. Yeah so people should probably check all of those out. If you have good tests yes.


Okay, for this first problem, we're just doing volume to volume conversion. So in order to do one of these types of problems, you're going to need these three conversion factors up here. One liter is 1.057 quarts. One liter is 1,000 mils. This is a metric to metric conversion. You should be learning those, putting them to memory. This one's a good one to know too, 1 mil equals 1 cubic centimeter. It allows you to convert between mils and cubic centimeters quite readily. So the problem gives you this number in units for the volume in quarts is 5.0 quarts and you're to convert that to centimeters cubed. So what you're going to want to do is take what's given to you in the problem first and then use each successive conversion factor to cancel out the units that you don't want. Okay, so first we're going to have this 5.0 quarts, but we don't want quarts, so we want to cancel it out. So since it's in the numerator, we want to put quarts in the denominator here. And that goes alongside its little number there, 1.07. So 1.057 quarts in the denominator, one liter in the numerator, but we don't want liters either, and that's what we would have now, we want to cancel those out. So how do we do that? We got to put liters in the denominator, one liter, and 1,000 mils in the numerator. That's the next conversion factor that we're using. So but we don't want mills either, but we know how to cancel that out. So we use the last conversion factor, put milliliters in the bottom, cancel those out and we get cubic centimeters. So the answer comes out to 5.0 times 10 to the third cubic centimeters. Your calculator gives you 4,000, something or other, what is it, yeah, 4,730. You need to take that to two significant figures. Why? The problem, the number that is given in the problem is two significant figures. So you always got to remember, go back to what the number in the problem has and put that same number of significant figures here. So 5.0 times 10 cubed centimeters cubed. Okay, hopefully that makes sense. Let me know if there are any issues.