Welcome to the Home Lab Show, episode 110, Dev Random, lots of little updates. We have some updates and stuff we wanted to talk about and anyone try and just mush them all into one big title. So we call these episodes Dev Random, where we just talk about some of the new things out there and me and Jay are gonna dive into a little bit of the topic of the new mini little servers that are coming out, because we're both kind of impressed with like, is how fast? Even Jay was like, no, he was, this is, yeah, I was pretty shocked by that. It's faster than my Proxmox server. We'll get into that though. Yeah, so we figured that talking about some of the little server stuff, some of the updates, Home Assistant's been around for 10 years. We're gonna discuss that. I mean, this is a lot to talk about here. And I also have an interesting article about a company who saved some money moving away from the cloud. And I'll bring up how that relates to Home Lab because it's a pretty cool story. It's still in a colo, but there's still some concepts that I wanna walk through because I think the cloud has finally reached its maximum sales capacity of salespeople chilling and telling us it's the best thing ever. And then the bill has come and people go, that's a lot of bill. So we have lots to talk about here. Before we do that, let's thank a sponsor of the show that is Linode. It is a great place to host many things. If you don't wanna host it yourself, you wanna spin up a few things in a cloud that you control, you set up and you manage, they got a great way to do this. You can go over to the Linode store and just grab some of the different templates they have or start from scratch, load your favorite distribution, choose it from there, get the base image going and build what you need to build in the cloud, get it going, whether it's a VPN, whether it's one of the many projects we talk about here. Linode has been a great sponsor of the show. They're definitely fun to work with and it's where we host the Home Lab show because, well, you guys download a lot of these episodes and Linode helps with the bandwidth for that. So we thank them for being a sponsor of the show. Found an offer code down below and let's jump into it, Jay. Let's jump into it. We are gonna be taking questions as well. So feel free to throw your questions in here. We do that as part of the DevRandom here. So we like to make this interactive for those of you that do take the time to listen to us live. We'll look or watching all of the chat go by. Yep. The first thing I'll talk about though is 37 signals and if you haven't heard of them, they're an interesting group there. They're behind a few other projects as well but specifically their blog you can find and I'll actually, I can add this back to the show notes because I forgot to put this one in there. 37 signals had an idea that if they got things out of AWS they had predicted to save about $5 million a year by doing it. They were wrong about their predictions. I think they saved 7 million. So that's all, gosh, that's all. Now granted, this was built on $600,000 with the hardware they built but when you think about spending $600,000 hardware that you have to manage and maintain you're like, okay, this is interesting that that level of hardware. And you know, some people as I talk, had a discussion on a few places on this as a topic and people are saying, well, they gotta have redundancy and I'm like, even if you bought $600,000 twice because you were worried about having it in a single colo and you put it in another one, right? Your savings over time are still pretty substantial on here. And the important thing to note and this is where it relates back to the Home Lab. First, they did not add any people to their IT staff to do this. They've been doing it for a little while. They've been moving more and more things off the cloud for services they do. And they're going, hey, this is a really reasonable and it turns out we were already managing a lot of this. We were already the ones updating the servers. We're the ones that maintain a lot of our code. So we didn't have to add anyone new. Turns out managing the physical hardware which is all they really used AWS for wasn't that hard to do because hardware is generally more reliable now and it's less expensive than it was. Hard drives don't go bad as often. A lot of the stuff has become solid state so it's even more reliable overall. But it's just fascinating to hold everything that went into this and reading through and going, wow, they saved it. Now this also relates to Home Lab because, hey, even though this isn't a colo, the concept's still the same and we're seeing more and more things getting easier and easier to self-host. And I think that's just awesome. It is absolutely good news for all of the Home Lab people that are going, hey, I want to post these things myself. Is it that hard anymore? It's getting easier. Yeah, I feel like AWS is like a supermarket. You can go in there and spend a bunch of money but if you know how to manage coupons you can usually make up pretty well but you have to have like this ridiculous strategy and you have to nickel and dime everything. It ends up being very time consuming to keep the bill down. I've seen some crazy bills in AWS so that doesn't surprise me at all. I'm certified in it so I've spent a lot of time in it and I feel like it's an art in and of itself in AWS separate from other clouds because they have AWS-isms so to speak. It's just really hard to manage. So I would think in some cases managing physical hardware would have less to keep track of than having to go through every single thing. Like for example, if there's a host problem meaning like the server your virtual machine in AWS is running on has a problem they're gonna send you an email, move your VM or we're going to delete it in a week but if you don't get that email then your server disappears. So you have to make sure you get your emails. You have to make sure this, make sure that I'm not saying AWS is a platform people should avoid but it's definitely something that takes a special hand to maintain for sure. Yeah, I've had a friend and that was one of the tasks he worked for a very, very large company and his task for a couple of years was why is our AWS bill so big and can you sort it out because this company is a Fortune 500 company and I think, I forget how many million dollars a year he ended up saving them just by finding all these random things that people had spun up over time. Every department decided they needed to spend an extra server here, up a server there, up and the other problem with a lot of these cloud companies is they're always trying to get you to use their proprietary version of something instead of you know, normal and open source or standards based that way it's hard to move. So if you use the AWS specific things and Azure does the same, it's not just an AWS problem it's all the cloud companies they're trying to figure out a way to make it so you can never leave their cloud and yeah, that's not ideal, a lot of things we talk about here are very standards based and you know, it just makes life a lot easier especially because there was an outage caused because the company didn't read the docs very well they built their original product on an old style database and the new version had a lot of changes and the company didn't really understand that the database was going away in its prior version and the new way that AWS, I forget the database software name, it's one of the proprietary ones. Amazon RDS, they have RDS but then they have their own little database type in there that's probably what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm trying to figure the name of it. I can't remember the name of it either. So those. The DynamoDB or is that something else? It's been a while, but I remember the last company that reached out to me to audit their AWS I found like 20,000 a month in savings within 15 minutes it's just there's certain things you can look for and then you have your reserved instances which I believe were being sunset when I was using it and they have other ways of saving money as well.  There's a lot, just a lot of weird stuff to it you have to learn. And I think, you know, you have a server make sure it works, make sure you have redundancy like we do in the home lab and it's a little simpler and to add insult to injury there's Amazon lights work or light works. Light sale. I'm thinking of light sale. I think now I'm mentioning an Adobe product I don't use. Yeah, but yeah, light sale, which is like their digital ocean slash Akamai solution which is like why can't it all just be made that simple but you know, what do I know? Yeah. And not just because they're a sponsor there's a reason we like the node it's just a simpler interface to do. It's not confusing when you set these things up and there's other cloud companies of a similar style and it's not the big ones. The big ones are always between Azure and them. I mean, they have their place but they come with the warning of some complexity. So something to take into consideration there. And Azure is more of a old school style than AWS is because AWS is all about, you know, paddle not pets and then Azure, obviously the same strategy would work well there too but you generally it's treated like an online version of their virtual PC software which I believe they renamed but it's essentially your classic virtual machine style in a browser was AWS is just completely different. So again, if someone wants to get into AWS you could make a living just by saving people money and finding things. So there's a lot of money to be made there. So. Now, absolutely, HomeLab and this is one of those things that I haven't done a video on yet but I plan to soon. HomeLab is now 10 years old as of September 17th of 2023 and that's awesome. 10 years old and it is now the second most active as of today at least the second most active open source project on GitHub. That's amazing. We're talking about Home Assistant not HomeLab, right? I mean, HomeLab, yes we're talking about. Yeah, you said HomeLab is 10 years old like is that when the term is first born? Home Assistant, our favorite thing in HomeLab among the favorite things of all HomeLabbers, I think. Oh yeah, it's definitely one of those projects that is somewhat of a unicorn because of, you know, I find it very well designed. It's got a unique interface but it doesn't release for me it didn't take that much time to learn it and it's just consistent between config files and everything. It's just a unicorn because I feel like it's very well designed that it makes home automation more approachable for the average person that just doesn't wanna code all of this themselves or rely on, you know, 10 different providers for 10 different things that wraps those all together in one interface which is just brilliant. And so Navakatsu, the company behind it is five years old. So they started this open source project Navakatsu became one of the, you know big contributors to this. There's no investors and development of Home Assistant is stable. Those are things that I think are really important because the no investor is how you stop the cycle we watch companies go through. And open source companies are generally provided they don't get large corporate investors. IBM Red Hat, true. You don't watch them go through a cycle of destroying users. And if you wanna look it up Corey Dockdraff has really been pushing this and I love his term, the enchantification cycle of a company. And there's ways to avoid this. It's a documented process companies go through as they take investors they treat their users nice to get those users they lock those users in then they abuse those users as much as possible to extract every ounce of value while providing less and less services to you until you finally watch the company die and you have to switch the next platform which will just do the same thing to you again. There's one of the big things behind open source is this cycle gets broken because of the code out there. And generally these don't get a lot of like the open source projects don't get big investments and things like that. They usually eat like this homegrown community base they require sometimes a company be behind them that's a steward of it but as long as those companies don't take massive investment they generally stay the course really well. SureNAS is an example of it as well IX systems competes very much in the enterprise storage space that is dominated by venture capital and large companies like Dell and Hewlett Packard and the mega-courts of the world and people who use these products especially because I recently had to interact with a several hundred thousand dollar three-par system that the customer is not happy with at all. But it's like the whole customer experience but it's terrible and that's why they contacted us as to get over to TrueNAS which is less terrible but back over to Home Assistant I just really think it's awesome. One of the things you're really focusing on right now this is right from them in their blog post which I'll throw in the show notes here the open home vision is updated and now is about privacy, choice and sustainability and I think that's really cool because we already know the way many of these other devices we wanna work through other assistance especially when they're proprietary the way they get in there and way they monetize is figuring out how to monetize the fact that you exist and what information can they gleam and sell to some other place? How many light switches in this person's house? How often do they turn their light switches on and off? I bet we could sell that data. And like that's like their business model because they have to repay investors so their pressure from investors is what did we learn about how often Jay turns something on or off? Well they want you to let them tree let's just link something to dev random literally dev random on this out of system to give them some random data and just keep sending them that until they have their fill of random you know gobbledygook that they can do whatever they want with be the ultimate home lab oppositional mindset. Yeah. Kind of funny to see if that was a possibility I'm sure somebody has done something like that before and then even Windows users it's like there's been articles lately that you know Windows users go through a lot too because of the things that come along with Windows that's worse than it's ever been so it's just yeah I kind of agree and should have occasion. Yeah that's just it's a mess but hey that's the whole idea though is that they're doing it a lot better over at the Home Assistant it's like it says a big project I highly recommend definitely a big fan of what they're doing over there Jay's dove deeply into it customization it's a bit overwhelming when you first start the good news is there's a lot not me and Jay specifically but there's a lot of YouTube channels dedicated just to this and it's wild because I don't think there's a more complete ecosystem for everything you could possibly tie to your Home Lab if you want to modify your Wi-Fi you want to modify your firewall rules based on you walking into a room and changes the firewall rule the Home Assistant is the only thing I can think of that would actually allow you to do that you can actually have it change firewall rules and PF sense modify your Wi-Fi and Unify then combine it with camera systems and everything else and then build trigger events and you can say modify my firewall adjust the temperature in this room because you can tie it to a lot of different temperature sensors it's one of those things that's why it can be overwhelming because I don't know what the limit is or if there is a limit for what you can plug into Home Assistant it's always blowing my mind all the different things that are out there so yeah and if you feel overwhelmed I feel like at some point you kind of like unexpectedly get to a point where you kind of notice this pattern in the UI and then you notice like this control acts the same as that one and this one has the same configuration menu even though it's a different thing there's some consistency there and that kind of helps because at first it's overwhelming but then it kind of becomes on overwhelming fairly quickly when you get to that point but if nothing else you can stick to one thing and then complete that one thing before doing anything else don't try to like multitask and have I'm gonna set up the light bulbs and I'm gonna do the smart plugs and this and that next thing you know you have a bunch of things that aren't done you know just focus on one thing get the light bulbs done or the switches done whatever you want to start with and don't move on to anything else so you finish that one thing and then move on to the second thing and then just be a single task kind of mindset and eventually I think that kind of will make you more productive but sometimes it's easy like oh I can't figure this thing out so I'm gonna just take a look at this thing and then next thing you know you have like a bunch of unfinished implementation so I think that's probably key another tip I have is to set up your rooms and everything get that done first so you have like the layout of your house and the room setup because you can add rooms to it and that kind of gives you a target just think about you know you have a den you have a finished basement whatever you have how many bedrooms put those in there and you have that foundation and that's easy you don't have to configure anything you're just telling it what rooms you have and then from there you just populate the rooms with that one thing that you're focusing on until that one thing is done and then you move on to the next thing and then eventually you're just trying to run out of things to do essentially which you won't because you'll find new things to do but that's part of the fun but at the very beginning at least try to get the foundational things done Yeah and it's the way you can set the multiple dashboards is cool because it's friendly for your non-tech people you may cohabitate with because you can build dashboards tie it to their phone and then let them control it and you know my wife's less technical also she does not need access to everything in my studio and turning it on and off I believe she would I believe she would use it and she would be very used by it I think it'd be pretty funny Yeah why don't we turn the lights off and then yeah Lights around lights around it yeah it's kind of fun Next topic is the we brought it up at the last home that shows I think some people asked about it but it's the 45 Drives HL15 you're gonna see a lot more about it from several people from the Creator Summit and I'm getting one as well I believe I don't know we haven't confirmed yet whether or not Jay is but hopefully but the new HL15 you can 45 Drives is really committed to engaging and interacting with the homelab community as well so they've built a name for themselves in the enterprise storage space Linus obviously made them somewhat popular because of the massive amount of storage Linus has bought with them and talked about them a few times I've done the same I've talked about building petabyte servers with them and we commercially used them a lot but what's interesting from them as a company is they put it all on GitHub they are huge on making this more like they've been really working hard to go how do we take one of our premium products that is gonna be a little expensive for the homelab people no doubt I mean hey great if you can find one of them used on eBay or something like that but we're looking for something consistent and higher end yep but the the fact that now you can well pre-order is as close as they have right now I don't know when the ship date is they're building this one called the HL for homelab 15 is a 15 bay premium server and like me and craft computing we're talking about this and it's well those things can you find something that's this high quality there's lots of companies that stamping out cheaper things and whatnot but we were talking about like how do we get something affordable that we can buy consistently not trying to hunt down some used thing on eBay or something like that that's a nice quality product that is very customizable built on open standards this is one of the things that's really cool about the 45 drive system is a this is not a weird proprietary backplane this is a 15 drive direct connect backplane they'll usually throw in an LSI controller card so something common that fits in a PCI slot and pop whatever motherboard you want unless you're crazy enough to be like Jeff Geerling and try to figure out how you can shoot in a raspberry pi into a 60 drive thing watch his videos on that to see how that went it's a that's an interesting experiment but the future maybe not to not that today but there is maybe a future for arm controlled raid systems too long didn't watch Jeff's video one it's a fun deep dive but also it turns out not to be the most practical thing right now to do but I'm excited about this I think a a premium quality case that you're going to be able to customize and upgrade with you is for your home setup is nice I think it's a big market that's that's underserved I mean there's some people that would love to buy a server just for learning and not pay a huge amount of money for it or build it up to what they want and sometimes that could be a barrier of entry someone wants to get into homelab but then the servers that are available on ebay you know the off lease servers that you get for you know usually a cheap amount of money might not might be too power hungry that could be you know too old for what that person wants to do getting something newer and you know sometimes the processors are on newer things will be a little surprise you as we'll probably talk about but I think most companies should have something for homelab a chassis maybe a server that you can buy that different you know because you only get like enterprise servers and they assume that everybody buying a servers for enterprise I don't expect Dell to serve this market or anything but I automatically think of tuxedo and system 76 and a number of others that could easily serve this market because they already have a lot of that audience and the engineering people anyway so may as well give them something and I guess 45 drives is beating them to it though and I think we're especially the 15 drive part comes in drives are generally speaking getting cheaper and let's let's just cut to the chase people are building their home media libraries because Netflix temporarily certainly slowed down the fact that people and change people's minds like oh man it's just it is very basic inexpensive few dollars a month I have access to all this content and then came the lawyers and now you have to subscribe to like a dozen streaming services that are more money and you don't even that it's like it drives you nuts like okay I have access to my content or I don't Oh well the first three seasons were produced by this person who owns the copyright to the first three seasons the next three seasons are copyright here so you got to buy a subscription to watch them here this this just drives us crazy and it's the concept of I want to buy my media and own it I pay for it I'm not actually endorsing piracy here I'm talking about the fact that many people in reading our friends over at have one of my friends what's his name I can't write two guys the two guys tech he did a video and I didn't watch it yet but I've seen how popular it was right away about how to rip your blue rays and it's like you own the media you've purchased it you would like it in a digital format you need somewhere to put all the digital format because you know I got to admit it feels a little archaic putting a disc in a machine my my kids aren't really for that I'm not even for that so this a 15 drive server seems like a great place to put that on there and having enough horsepower to you know play that back at 4k I think that's that's awesome Wendell was even talking about how you know he has people he talked about this in a live stream which actually made me laugh because I haven't thought about this in a long time older relatives of his that would still like to watch Green Acres and I was like oh man I remember that my you know my grandma loved that and he's like yep and if you owned if you bought the DVD collector set of Green Acres you could put it on Plex and make it relative Plex for your whatever you choose there's some controversy recently with Plex yeah whatever your media playback to yeah whatever media playback service you'd like to use it is locally hostable and and can broadcast to your TV now you're able to do that so I think this is going to be a really cool box to put it on so I'm excited that they're really diving into it and by the way they're not just a company it talks about open source when it comes to hardware they their Github is filled with all kinds of install scripts setup scripts all kinds of things that they use that you could use as the home lab so do check out 45 Drives Github on that too yep definitely someone says running 24-7 with skyrocket the electricity bill unless there was a company that would run out the server space that's going to be that's where things get a little bit tricky because it depends where you're at electricity prices very greatly obviously sorry in the European market I know what it's European market is obviously substantially more expensive but if you plan to have your media at home I don't know how to have your media at home without something like this like if you although then going back to technically if you're worried about power you wouldn't rip your blue rays and keep them all running system well another thing to think about too in my opinion there's really no need to keep your home lab running 24-7 unless you have it's backup night and that's the the time that off-site things go but you just get a raspberry pie or some other computer to wake on land around the time that your alarm goes off in the morning when you wake up and then that powers on everything and then you know when you go to sleep just have a schedule tasks shuts it down and then you could save power over the evening but if you have power efficient equipment I mean I don't really know how power efficient that is yet because I have yet to test one but newer technology is often more power efficient as long as that's the case then it might not be as bad as you think especially if it idle is really low but at the same time sometimes I wonder why you know people in home lab keep their servers running 24-7 when they don't it's not like they have 21-7 operations where they're going to watch green acres at four in the morning I mean probably not in there's some you know controversy where someone will say it's unhealthy to power your servers on because it uses more electricity I have never seen that as a problem during my entire career so far unless maybe you just have really bad or bad drives a bad batch or something but you know if you're not if you're not awake just shut it down and have it have wake on land power it on for you actually they just talked about this on one of the last episodes of two and a half habits and there is a stress it's not the power problem it's a stress that the drive motors are under but I don't know I don't think they were 100% clear if there's ever been a true long-term study of do we turn this hard drive on an awful lot or we just leave it running one thing that has been interesting that's come up is the fact that SSDs especially the higher the higher capacity ones are using more electricity than the spinning rust drives so that's something else to think about so the drives themselves add an idle are actually very low power so if you come back to what motherboard you're using and let's dive into that as a topic that's where a lot of your wattage goes especially if you grab an old server these old Dell R720s and things like that I've talked about them in the past and I think we're finally going to see that the huge server markets could be coming a less popular option because of the power and because these little things and I happen to have one of these and I'm testing is called an Ace Magic AM 20 has a Ryzen 7 730 7.735 H processor in there and these things are really low power wattage the new series of Ryzens and some of the low powered CPUs they have blow you away with just how little they idle at and that's where a big change the fact that a lot of this hardware now idles at such a low wattage it becomes not as big of a deal and as and me and jave talked a little bit about this because like Mac it I hate the fact that I like it so much but I got a Mac M1 laptop and because they use the newer modern arm architectures and I know this goes off on the rise and we'll come back to that we have as a community a tech community I should say we have found ways in technology we can incredibly extend the range of batteries by really limited power usage and then you take that same technology and plug it into a server and they go wow we can actually have these things spin up as needed to a high wattage powerful render whatever you want to render but when they're not doing anything we can put a bunch of course to sleep and I think the new engineering around a lot of that and a new efficiencies are really going to start shaping things up in the server world but also greatly devalue these old power hungry beasts that were there because when you're looking at and I'm holding a handheld on there some of these handheld gaming things me and jave both have recently acquired some of them like we can play some of these games on these things for hours and you're like it's amazing how little power some of these new chips can use on there this is what's actually making things like the steam deck and some of the other things very possible it's just this whole circle of we're figuring out how to be more power efficient but still deliver and I think that's where it gets really really imprendous oh yeah definitely the device I'm testing is Ace Magic AM20 though it's one of those generic things if you will it's one of those I don't know what to call I'm not backed by a large company I hate to just say simply made in China because that most of the stuff is all made in China it's just about who actually manufactures or supervises the manufacturer I think she could say so you can say like the Mac is made in China a lot of Apple products are made in China but they're supervised very closely by Apple versus these companies may have some lesser quality because they're less supervised or engineered by a larger company but one of the things that we've talked about in the home lab and Wendell's brought this up a few times I think this is is a cool idea you can buy several of these and cluster them together and it works rather well and now you've solved your redundancy problem in case one of these has some bugs or flaws or just fails in general because I'm actually on my desk here is one of those cool Tom boxes that failed in an unusual way which is going to do a video about the unusual failure mode it has because it's still partially works so it's still partially useful but this is a problem we've seen a few times where the network interface card just dies but it has four of them soldered to the board one out of four has died and we have we don't know why it's died we know it's happened to a few of them we just can't put our finger on the why because you think all the network ports would go bad I mean they're individually ports so they each have their own chip but why do one of them go bad it's not the same one each time that goes bad so it's a puzzle maybe the solder isn't a good job or something and a certain body heat just wiggles it or gets it you know loose enough I don't know yeah it was on a UPS and everything else and but I think it just goes to the the boxes are cheap and putting another one in was also an inexpensive solution but you know it's something we don't see when we have the higher quality boxes it's not a problem we really deal with what's confusing about it is the link light is on but when the tech went out to the place he unplugged it and the link light's still on so he rebooted it and the link light's on matter of fact as soon as you plug it in the link light just turns on on that port no matter what so that's the failure mode we've seen we've seen this more than once because as soon as he said I unplugged it with the link light still on I'm like oh yeah that port's bad just reassigned to another port and problem solved so it works with the other we they had an extra port they weren't using so that solved it in the short term well that's good at least out of abundance of caution we replaced it anyways may as well yeah it's amazing how powerful those things are because because the one you're using the CPU outscores the CPU in my current Proxmox servers the downside is 2.5 gigabit ethernet which is good normally but I have 10 gig and it has less RAM but the CPU though oh man I just think my VMs have actually run faster on it if it can hold all of them because of the lower RAM but yeah I mean that'd be really fun to test out yeah the one thing that's slowly getting here is in this is the problem with the lace magic box it'll complain about is exactly what Jay said the two and a half gig I don't know why it's taking them so long to get 10 gig I don't know if there's just not a surplus of it available for them to build into the boards and I'd be fine if it was SFP because SFP 10 gig has been around forever and and you can buy relatively inexpensive SFP PCI cards but this is the challenge none of these seem to put an SFP cage on any of these boxes that offers 10 gig and I'm like ah and this drives up the some of the cost you may have in a home lab because you're like oh I'll just buy a two and a half gig switch then you price it out and you're like oh that's a lot more than I expected for a two and a half gig because the two and a half gig you're coming down a lot matter of fact it's an unmanaged switch but still I'm going to be reviewing it as part of some low cost home lab parts I have this little switch that has four two and a half gig ports it's made by Euling I posted it on my YouTube channel if you look through the community tab it's interesting because it's got two 10 gig ports two 10 gig up links and then four or five two and a half gig up links on there so it is $69 so you get two 10 gig ports and a few two and a half gig ports for 69 bucks I'm like hey that's out of bad price and I think that kind of brings things back to being affordable to have good connectivity in your home lab absolutely absolutely it's just amazing that I think things are getting faster again it seems like I mean everything's always getting faster but it seems like not as much faster but now it's just these small PCs have a really good processor in those maybe not the best network ports apparently but you know at least they have to compute yeah so that's definitely it is getting there that's one of those things I think it's going to reshape our home lab a lot is all these more powerful devices and the Raspberry Pi was cool because that was like the first arm shift that really pushed it out there there's a lot of compatibility problems when you get outside of the Raspberry Pi but now that we're seeing more of a similar you know like these low powered risings I think it's true I know I'm talking arm versus x86 but I see this kind of lots of low powered things that is very accessible to a lot of people in the home lab that if they want to build something of substance you know build a Kubernetes cluster build something that can really be a learning platform or just your own platform to tinker with and build your next idea you don't have to or reach out to some high-end expensive or even going on eBay which has a big power cost of these use servers you can get more and more you know just affordable things from this we also have that company sending us the Ace Magic Company one of their they're going to be like sub $200 ones because I want to play with it for routers we also have Zima boards I've reviewed those and the new Zima Blades a few other of our friends have some of those that you'll find a lot of YouTube videos popping up pretty soon on yep it's coming yep all kinds of changes all kinds of fun changes is there anything else we have for the dev random today I don't have anything on my end I'm not seeing yeah questions so far one thing I'll bring up and I I just don't have any easy answer for this at all PPOE we just don't see it much here in the United States so people ask me constantly it's a super popular question because I guess there's not a lot of documentation on it but the reason there's not a lot of documentation I just don't run into it in the business world at all even in the home user world we used to use PPOE over DSL like 15 years ago and it kind of died out it may it may exist some places I'm not saying it's it's not in zero use but boy it is one of those challenges where how many people people ask me a lot because they always say well there's a bug in the PPOE with PF Sense or with this router that router and I'm like yeah I don't know but I think this is the same problem some of the developers have if they don't have enough exposure and experience with it they also can't write a better PPOE system because it's a niche problem I don't understand why it still persists because it seems to be Europe and Canada that if if I had to guess because there's someone in the comments here tell me tell me if you're from Europe or Canada right okay then some they say in the EU in the EU so Europe you can't have DHCP huh yeah I I don't know why because DHCP it turns out not just an American thing so it it is a standard as an RFC it can absolutely it can cross borders I thought people were we're setting up PPOE before like PF sense or something it's been so long I'm trying to remember what the go to used to be but feel like I'm going to butcher it because it's been so long it's probably been 10 or 15 years since I last had to do it and just like you said I know it still exists but I wonder if AT&T DSL still has it but and I remember that being the last time I've seen it yeah that's pretty much where I always seen it was AT&T DSL yeah that was a very long time ago but I imagine it does exist so I see someone saying in using it via fiber which is weird because all my fiber clients zero of them have PPOE so that's interesting someone says the ISP at work was to use PPE even under fiber network and that is in Alaska never really had any issues with it on PF sense interesting yeah that is pretty interesting feel like more research is needed after looking to how we use it just still is as well as things because I've had requests like I set it up and tested I'm like could I build a PPOE server yes but if you're trying to troubleshoot something if I followed standards and built it I'm not likely to have the same problems people would encounter because there's people who have encountered problems with the way their ISP implemented something but I mean Jay have you ever heard of an ISP who even does follow standards properly you don't think kind of color a little outside the lines generally when they set these things up they do so many things and sometimes I squirm you know I feel like everybody should be concerned about privacy but they'll be concerned about privacy while ignoring their table modem because I feel like their internet provider is going to be an egregious privacy invader and you know we need to focus on all the things but but you know they always get away with things until somebody figures out or looks in the packets and sees what they're up to it's just a constant it's a meme at this point yeah actually someone says that they're a European they work for a European ISP we don't deploy new PPOE networks anymore everything is now DHCP with DHCP tag we're good they're moving forward yep that I wonder if some of the PPOE that's being used it's just an ISP that use it as an authentication means to prove that you're a subscriber and they just don't have any real you know need to move off of it or something because it's validating the subscriber in some way but like you said there's better ways to do that now yeah yeah it's one of those you know a lot of you have a choice unless you manage the ISP if that's how they have it set up and you have to go along with it and you're pretty much deal with the interconnection you're given you don't get a choice right well thank you for joining us on The Home Lab Show much appreciated and leave us same comments leave us some likes that is always great head over to thehomelab.show you can contact us there we love hearing from you we like to do the listener feedback ones and that is all take care everyone thanks


It is a battle. I'm not going to lie to you. It is very discouraging to get the door slammed in your face. It is very discouraging. I've had battles with legislators, and it kind of got ugly. But for once, I was a voice of reason because I needed to get this done. But don't quit.  There's no expiration date on our feet.


Good name, 840 here, so I don't want to sound sexist or anything, but ever since this country started allowing shillers in bars This place has just gone to hell.  If he was a real gentleman he might bring her out a drink or two that she could enjoy in the privacy of their car. But now women are allowed to drink in bars right next to blokes. I think this will change in the 1960s. Anyway, Australia is much more sexually segregated than America or the UK. I'm pretty much any other nation which I'm aware of, aside from Orthodox Jews. So, blokes hang out with blokes, shillers hang out with shillers, and blokes and shillers don't tend to hang out very much. Not together, so you know, you go to a party, the blokes will be at one end, and then the shillers will be at the other end. So, much more sexual segregation. I went on a walkabout today, and it's very edgy, it's very exciting. We had one shiller with us.  So, Orthodox Judaism in Australia are about the two most sexually segregated societies of which I'm aware. Oh, England couldn't really handle Australia's pace attack. So, the ashes began five test series of cricket, and it began at the Gabba in Brisbane, and the very first war Mitchell Stark took a wicket. So, very good day for Australia's bowling. Bowling England out, and if it doesn't rain, Australia should get a victory in the first test match. It's great to have the cricket bat. Okay, what else did I learn today? So, Sydney and Melbourne's Jewish community is much more divisive than the Jewish community in South Africa, which is incredibly united here. But Sydney and Melbourne are not nearly as divisive as say Los Angeles and New York. So, there's no Jewish job service here in Sydney, but only about four or five kosher restaurants here in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. So, a more challenging place to live and observe a Jewish life here in Sydney. Oh, so I took the bus in the wrong direction when I got off and crossed the street, get the bus in the right direction, like, so, oh, mate, you know, you took the bus in the wrong direction. Must have been all the persecution that your people has endured. It's certainly right around the end. So, having had any offensive remarks or no negative remarks, no nasty remarks without my yarmulke in Sydney. So, I think like a pretty safe place to be Jewish, pretty safe place to be Muslim. I haven't seen any overt acts of racism here, but I'm on the lookout. So, it seems like the Conservatives here. It's a June, no matter what the challenge. Thank you, Joshua. And it seems like the Conservatives here, like the Fox News Conservatives in America, roll up in arms about mass mandates and vaccination mandates. So, that's very much the talking point for the Conservatives in Australia. So, there's always seems to be a helicopter flying over the beaches, particularly on weekends. This place was absolutely full yesterday. Because the first sunny day is about 80 degrees, and the beach was absolutely full. So, right now the water temperature is about the same as the temperature outside. It's about 67 degrees. Oh, man, Watson's Bay. Very, very nice. Very posh areas of Sydney Harbour. So, it was north of Bondi. Just went on a massive walkabout. Go tamer, great white. Oh, mate, I'm having such a good time. I had a very nice salad, and I had a chocolate coconut ice cream for lunch, and a cheese pie. So, my sister's just absolutely spoiling me. Talk to you later, mate.


We grew up on the stories of the skullcut man and in a way it transformed all of us in our small town Like how a family will pass on a certain feature a beakish nose or a brightly colored eye The skullcut man was our collective inheritance. It lingered in our biology like some sort of malignant DNA Defining who we were as a people and who we were to become stories can do that The most haunting tale of the skullcut man and the one closest to me Involved my dad's sisters Aunt Paula and Aunt CeCe the latter who I would never meet They were on their way home from school one chilly winter afternoon It was that time of year when the skies darkened around four and it's a rare But fine day to read in the paper that the temperature would rise above zero degrees Snow was coming down so heavy that if you were to stretch your arms out your hands would disappear in front of you As if they were just swallowed up Aunt CeCe was wearing a new red petticoat a gift. She had received that Christmas It had fur around the collar and shiny black buttons that ran down the center She was up ahead Maybe by just two paces from my aunt Paula who was struggling to lift her boots in the snow Even in the blizzard Paula would say she could see that red coat in front of her as CeCe went around a corner Which would later be named skullcut bend Paula came right up behind her. Maybe by just a few moments delay, but when she turned her sister was gone She screamed till her throat burned from the cold wind Frantically looking for CeCe, but her sister was nowhere to be found a search party would later be dispatched Scouring the road and hillside going down the ravine and even looking as far as the next town over They concluded that CeCe was missing her body never discovered I tell this to my wife Rosie who rolls her eyes turning to our one-year-old daughter in the back seat The apple of my eye Jeannie makes a gurgling sound Expelling a waterfall of regurgitated breast milk Thanks, baby Rosie says cleaning up the mess.  What is it the core of her not even to me? I can only guess how she really feels about the move It was my idea the move the salesman in me I presented it like a gift with a big old bow on top telling Rosie I wanted to go back to my home in Belford, Vermont That's always been a dream of mine for Jeannie to grow up in nature and get to know her grandma Besides mom was getting on in years with my dad gone and managing the estate on her own was starting to take its toll It would be a service to help her a true act of charity What I didn't share with Rosie is that we didn't have a choice I'd gotten fired from my last job at the Mercedes dealership and our extravagant Boston rent was eating away at our pathetic savings I had on the off chance reached out to an old buddy of mine from high school Hank Willicks Who owned a dealership in Belford? He'd offered me a job on the spot I saved us and my dignity just by the skin of my teeth We pulled up to my childhood home a lofty and handsome brick farmhouse that sits proudly on over 180 acres I noticed a hammock a new addition tied between two ancient maples My mom pops her head out from it.  I'll get working on dinner As we enter I begin to notice small signs of neglect The white and red wallpaper has begun to peel the floorboards creak under our weight Spider webs have collected in the corners underneath them a graveyard of fly corpses My room has been in the same condition since I left for college Posters of blink 182 line the walls and Rosie gives them an appreciating glance Travis was always my favorite.  She's all lips and buggy eyes How's Lindsay doing? I said asking about my older sister Oh exciting news Tanner's pregnant Her tone is biting Babies having babies just like their mother Tanner's your niece, right? Isn't she just like what 17? Rosie asked 16 I correct her. I haven't spoken to Tanner or Lindsay in forever. Last I heard they were moving from LA to Seattle Well, that's your sister for you mom said giving a rigid smile A change of topic. I was thinking about it. And since you guys are going to be here What would you think about cleaning out grandpa's old cabin? It will take some elbow grease, but it will give you guys some more room It's not a bad idea. I said Malling it over grandpa had built the cabin about a half mile from the main house towards the woods I'd only been there a few times, but I remembered it having a small kitchenette and two bedrooms Well, it's something to think about Mom says draining her glass We continued eating and I downed several beers while Rosie left to put the baby down When she returned she had with her a large glass of wine She looked worn down deep purple circles adorned under her eyes like slabs of raw meat So Jerry was regaling me with tales of the skull cut man on the drive up Rosie said turning towards my mom There was a visible change in my mom's demeanor as her lips pulled inwards and her jaw clenched You told her about Caleb Moore. Did you? I shook my head Just aunt sissy Oh Who's Caleb Moore? Rosie said her cheeks redding like two blossoming roses Mom let out a weary sigh I used to have a good friend from school Sylvia Moore She actually stayed with your father and I for a bit out in grandpa's cabin when her marriage began to sour This was years ago before Lindsay and Jerry were born Anyway, Sylvia had the sweetest little boy a real cherub named Caleb He couldn't have been any more than four years old when he and his babysitter Mildred Swedes When hiking one day Someone would later say They saw them walking out towards skull cut bend I'll never forget that call I was making dinner for your father and the phone started ringing. It was Sylvia totally hysterical Mildred and Caleb never came home Mildred wasn't experienced hiker. She used to lead excursions with tourists in the summer So she knew her way around the area for a while. They thought maybe she kidnapped Caleb But then they found that poor girl's body down in the ravine My brother used to work as a volunteer firefighter And told me that every bone in her body was broken and contorted She had deep lesions along her forehead Penetrating her skull Thus the name skull cut man was born I said sipping my beer Did they ever find the kid Caleb? Rosie asked hanging onto my mom's every word Mom shook her head They never found him Gone without a trace Poor Sylvia took her life not long afterwards The town wasn't sure what to make of it To this day I won't go out towards skull cut bend Even though it's the easiest route to walk to town They say that sometimes if you go to skull cut bend You can see the skull cut man Lurking by the side of the road I said locking eyes with Rosie He'll just sit there just waiting and looking for just one more Skull to crack I bring up my hands pausing before lunging towards her Rosie lets out a small gasp spilling her wine under the table Cheese and crackers Jerry She said bringing her hand to her heart In bed that night Rosie turned towards me You don't actually believe that stuff about the skull cut man Do you?    Does he work here? Jamie had been in the same grade as Hank and I But was always a loner in our school Keeping to himself His family were considered white trash by definition Living in the Belford trailer park Just on the outskirts of town Hank smirked He's been working as a junior associate for the last seven years Told him he needs to make a monumental sale to get promoted I'm still waiting It was an uneventful first day A few people trickled in and out I went with one couple on a test drive But they needed some more time to think about it Hank was sympathetic You're just getting started Jerry Don't worry When I got home I found Rosie and Jeannie in the hammock peacefully sleeping Not wanting to disturb them I went out towards grandpa's old cabin The construction of the building was sound Made by someone skilled in woodworking With thick trucks interlocking at the sides Walking inside I hesitated for a moment Unsure if it would be worthwhile to salvage this place Thick gossamer like webs shroud over every surface The floors are covered in a black sticky gunk And there's a rancid smell that permeates the space I spend the next few hours cleaning Watching his homeless spider scurry away On a faded couch There is a cardboard box labeled Grandpa Henry's Things Curious I pry open the lid to find piles of papers Yellowed with age, curled at the edges Something catches my eye And I dig deep, retrieving a notebook On the back Is the image that drew my attention It looks like the figure of a man Filled in completely with black marker Except for two slots in the face that look like eyes The arms hang down past the legs Its fingers stretching downwards serrated like jagged knives Looking at it makes me shudder I opened the book and began reading The first entry marked as July 8th, 1931 I am a sly thing Jeremiah, whose parcel lies next to mine Brought up selling his land to Marcy Colbrook Who passed this information promptly on to me I go over to Jeremiah's the next day Knocking twice on the door He answers and what do I say Jeremiah, how glad I am that I found you We were getting our land inspected And found that our property lies on the fault lines I go on and on, putting on quite a performance If I do say so myself, woe is me The land is spoiled, we'll go next to nothing But I'm going to try to sell it quickly And as cheaply as I can Well, what does that grease ball do? He lists his property for two thousand less Than half of what it's worth the next day And what do I do?  Rosie's voice comes from the door Dinner's ready, your mom told me to get you Be right there, I yell out I take one last look at the strange creature on the back And slip Grandpa Henry's diary back into the box As I walk out of Grandpa's cabin I feel a warm breeze rush against my face I take a look around, thinking it might be Rosie But I'm on my own And the hair on my neck stands up As goosebumps run down my arms I'm walking towards the main house When I turn around There on the side of the cabin In the shadows is something moving The black moves outwards, expanding like fingers I rub my eyes, looking again The shadows look normal now I must have just been imagining it I tell myself, quickening my pace In bed that night, with Rosie and Jeannie sleeping beside me I find my brain awake, unrelenting to sleep There's a storm coming in Some type of hurricane that has hit the coast With North Carolina and Florida getting the brunt of it Still, even in Vermont, the ramifications can be felt I can hear the wind hollowing The raindrops splattering against the house I slide out of bed and head to the bathroom As I walk back to bed I stop to look out the window The trees are swaying back and forth And the violent wind And I'm positive that tomorrow morning We'll find at least a few branches on the ground If not a whole tree My eyes go to the hammock between the mighty trees And notice that it remains still and unmoving I hold my breath as I examine the outline There's weight in it Somebody's there Four long and inhuman black fingers appear One after the other, unfurling, one at a time Dangling over the side I feel a scream pushing up against my throat As sweat begins dripping down my temples Then the power goes out And I am left in blackness The backup generator kicked on And as light flooded the house I was left standing Paralyzed looking out the window The hammock was now whipping about in the wind Whatever I had seen inside it Now gone I let out a trembling exhale Before going back to bed The next week passed by without incident Work was becoming increasingly stressful I still had yet to make a sale at the dealership And could tell Hank's patience was starting to wear thin I relished my time with Jeannie and Rosie Who seemed both to tolerate their new lives in Belford One morning, Rosie asked if she could take the car for the day To bring Jeannie to the beach And I reluctantly agreed She could give me a ride into work But I'd have to walk home A trek that would take around 30 minutes That afternoon, when I was coming back I came upon a fork in the road And knew I would have to make the choice To go along Skullcut Bend Or take the longer route Which would add another 20 minutes Opting for the shorter way I hiked uphill, my calves burning As I could see the infamous bend in the distance As I came closer I had to squint my eyes There was something on rocks up ahead It was a red coat Flattened against the rocks My heart dropped into my stomach My mind going back to the story of my Aunt CeCe Wearing the red petticoat when she disappeared The crimson fabric was blowing Rippling in the wind as if beckoning me over It was perched on top of the rock face And I had to climb up three or four stones To get to the top, propelling myself upwards I was eye level with the jacket And holding on with one hand I extended the other, touching the clothing As if to make sure it was real As I did this, something caught my eye Four long black jagged fingers The same ones I'd seen in the hammock Came over the edge And caressed my knuckles In a sense of panic, I let out a scream Falling backwards, my head hitting the ground And then it all went black When I awoke, my eyes fluttered open It took me a moment to orient myself The sky had darkened now Little pinpoints of stars sparkling in the sky I sat up, looking again towards the rock The jacket was gone Struggling to stand, my head pounding I got up and continued walking I set my mind to rationalizing what I was seeing Could it be the skull cut man? No, I shook my head I was imagining this I had to be Emerging from the woods, I could see my house All the lights were turned on And a wave of relief flushed over me I was almost home Making my way to the front porch I kicked off my boots and opened the front door To be greeted by the delicious smells of dinner Fresh from the oven My mouth began to water I entered the kitchen And could see my mom, Rosie, and Jeannie Sitting at the table Their heads turned all smiles as I walked in I was about to say something But then I saw it Standing in the corner The same black mass, like a shadow With two half circles for eyes The fingers stretched out And reaching I bellowed out a scream Grabbing a chair and running towards it Howling in fury and fear Get out My mom and Rosie began to scream as well But I soon realized it wasn't the figure I was seeing But it me Jerry, what's going on? Are you okay?   It's a bad place, I tell ya It worked the next day Hank pulls me aside Hey, Jerry I gotta head out for a few hours It's usually pretty slow this time of day But you're in charge till I get back Sure thing, boss man I said, patting him on the shoulder It's just Jamie call cut and me in the dealership He hasn't said much to me since I started Besides the usual small talk He's been placed firmly at the bottom of the hierarchy Here by Hank Who takes every opportunity he can to further demoralize Jamie gives me a smile And I wave back Four gentlemen enter the building And Jamie looks at me Go for it I say with a smile And he jumps up Appearing to introduce himself I watch from the corner of my eye As Jamie takes the men on a test drive Explaining all the features of the vehicles A big grin plastered on his face as he does so Two hours later He approaches my desk giddy with excitement Jerry, you'll never guess what He continues talking before I have a chance to answer They want to buy four Santa Fees Right now Say they got a job to do and need four vehicles One for each person They're willing to pay full price up front I feel a creeping sensation of envy Fill the pit of my stomach Well, that's great Jamie Really great Good job Hank is going to have to promote me now Jamie says his eyes lighting up I can't approve the sale As I'm just a junior associate Would you be able to put it through for me? I hesitate for a moment Regaining my composure Sure, Jamie Bring them to my office And I'll settle them up Thanks, Jerry Jamie says That same goofy smile on his face He sprints over to the four men Leading them towards me I shake their hands Leading them inside We go over the paperwork together And I move quickly through the closing Handing over the title transfers And four sets of keys As they take the cars directly off the lot I can't wait for Hank to get back He's not going to believe this Jamie says Almost vibrating with joy He heads back to his desk Which is not in prime location Still facing the showroom But tucked in back Towards the end of the day I see Hank's car pull into the lot And turning to Jamie He wiggles his eyebrows in anticipation I look towards my computer Hank saunters inside And moves to his desk Gathering the paperwork I had put there a few hours earlier For the sale of four brand spanking new cars He picks it up Reviewing the documents Before exiting his office I can see Jamie His ass slightly risen from his seat Waiting for Hank to come over For that inevitable handshake Hank turns Coming towards my office And I avoid eye contact with Jamie As Hank stretches out his hand You son of a bitch Four new Santa Fe models Hell yeah Jerry Well done Thank you I say Cupping his hand I appreciate your faith in me One hell of a commission check Coming your way too boy Come on Let's go grab a beer across the street Hank takes my bag as we walk out Beer is for closers He yells towards Jamie I glance at Jamie before we leave He looks like a kicked puppy I put his sale in my name There's no way to dispute it It's ironclad I try to justify it to myself As Hank buys me round after round I have a family to take care of I have a wife and a kid More on the line More to prove I need it more I deserve it more Three beers deep as I drive home I almost believe it myself I wake up the next day to a splitting headache And find a note from Rosie on the counter That she's gone for a walk with Jeannie I don't have to go to work And make my way back to grandpa's cabin I spend the better part of the morning Scrubbing the floors And cleaning out the closets Which are full of moldy clothes I take a break sitting on the couch And once again find myself looking at the box Of grandpa Henry's things It then hits me The image I saw on the diary Could it be the same apparition I've been seeing? I dig out the notebook Rummaging through the entries Most the ramblings from grandpa Henry About this neighbor or that person in town He writes about Jeremiah His old neighbor heckling him For tricking him about the land Then I read something That makes my blood run cold I feel something following me Some shadow That I find in strange places I wake up with it sitting at the foot of my bed Or following me around the farm It moves quickly So much so Then when I try to draw its image It vanishes I have done my best on the back of this book I turn it over again looking at the drawing And gulp I read on Today I was walking towards town And coming towards me in the bend I could see Jeremiah call cut I knew he was still cross about his land But he called me over Jeremiah looks at me and says What I did is wrong That I must do right by him I laugh in his face But he continues looking firmly at me Until you do right by me I curse your blood And for every generation you will feel my wrath I will steal your greatest joy Till there is none of your line left You will feel the curse Of the name Jeremiah call cut The call cut man curses you As I read this I feel nauseous and have to sit down The call cut man The skull cut man That's where it came from I whisper out loud And the door to grandpa's cabin Slam shut Jolting me upright As night settles in And there's no trace of rosy or genie A pit forms in my stomach I can hear my mom calling the police But I know that there is no hope I go outside Pressing forward towards skull cut bend My world in tatters I feel like I can hardly breathe When I get to the rocks I slide down to the base Take me I plead Please take me But not them I feel tears sliding down my face As I say the words And I silently begin to cry I can feel hot air against my neck And my body tenses up Knowing that the skull cut man is near Then I hear it It's just a few words I already stole your father's joy Your generation Then it's gone Genie was never found But rosy's corpse was found a week later in the ravine Just as Mildred's sweets was I had to identify the body at the morgue She was almost unrecognizable My beloved rosy Her hands and body were bent and broken Scars ran alongside her head Into her skull Mom tells me I broke down Hysterical when they showed her to me I don't remember Sometimes I think About what if I hadn't screwed over Jamie Call cut that day Would the curse have been lifted Could I have saved my baby It's too painful to even consider I wonder about what the skull cut man said How he already stole my generation Could he mean Caleb more Is it possible my dad conceived a son With my mother's friend Sylvia And if so Was that how Lindsay and I escaped the skull cut man's vengeance Of none of this I can be sure I've come to believe that the skull cut man Will continue to haunt our family It took grandpa's daughter Cece And my daughter My dear Genie It's part of us now Our fates intertwined Until we do right by the skull cut clan It will forever be our shadow That's why I'm reaching out to you now Tanner I've written everything down that I can remember Everything that was told to me Mom has told me You're with a child A new generation for the skull cut man to steal On the way to dropping off the letter I passed by a schoolyard A place where I might have sent my genie There are kids playing in the background And I could hear them singing Skull cut man Run if you can Skull cut man Splits your head Now you're dead Skull cut man Black as night Full of spite Skull cut man Eats your soul Skull cut man Because you didn't Pay the toll


So there is one here that we found very interesting, which was a politician, if you could just have that on screen, a politician should be a family man or woman. Interesting. I'd like to hear, I don't know whether I should start with the lady, or we'll come back. Okay, okay, when it comes to being a family man or woman, why do people associate leadership with a family? What is the trust issue? Because I hear there's a trust issue, yes. Rather, what is the connection? Again, I'd like to put that into context. Usually that is mostly here in Africa and in Kenya, because this is the kind of societies we come from, very close-knit societies, very social societies. And so someone who has a family is considered to be someone who's responsible, someone who's able to make the right decisions, to make the correct calculations. And so you're generally considered to be a mature person, which is not necessarily the case. You remember there was a lady, and I'm sorry I've forgotten her name, she was being employed as, I think, a head commissioner to Australia, or one of these things, a representative of Kenya. She was around 35, and in the panel, in the vetting panel, one of the questions one of the vetting panelists asked her, is you're not married, right? Do you want this job? And her question was, what does my marital status have to do with my qualifications? Because she was qualified on paper, her career, her experience, she had the qualifications, told that post. But this is a cultural aspect, this is a societal aspect, which is ingrained in us, which is completely difficult to do away with. And so it is a perception, which has been there for a long time. But increasingly, as people become more knowledgeable, as people expand their mind and perspectives get more learned, it is slowly changing, and we're having more younger people, unmarried people, like the former, I think, Senator Lesuda. Yes, she came into, you know, into governance, unmarried, and she was able to be voted for by a very conservative community, still unmarried. So this is a very long time held perception, but it is slowly changing. But there are some truths to it. I don't know, maybe the gentleman can tell us. Yes, it seems like something that has affected women, mostly. Okay. All right, let's hear from Kiberia then, Ms. Fiora. I think there is a common saying which goes by Charity Begins At Home, and this is something which people have interpreted in different dimensions, maybe to fit their own interest. But now, looking at the current situation in Kenya, we just last year, we had an MP by the name Nhenno, unmarried at 45 years. And also, we have the central back governor, who is still unmarried at, I think, 54 years. So we have also in history, we have Henry Charles Johnjo, unmarried at, I think, 62 years. But now, when you look at the context of men, and then you bring women, it's totally a different thing, because there's a lot of perception that we have not seen you exercise, maybe leadership authority in your family, because it's believed that's the basic unit of leadership, and it's where by every common Kenyan can come and witness your leadership. Maybe you have not had your CV in the corporate world, but the way you run your family, maybe your children, or the way they are brought in moral setup, we can be able to gauge your leadership. But as she said, it's something which we need to change the mind, because we have seen the people who have mentioned they have done incredible work in their constituency without being married. So it's not a matter of MP whether being married or not, to define the type of leadership which you are going to give to the people. Okay, Mr. Miwa, let's hear from you now. Thank you. I think I agree with Kaberia, and I agree with Monica, that the society just takes it as a norm that having passed through the stages of life, and you've now gone into marriage, you kind of become a person of your own, in the traditional sense, that now you can express yourself in leadership much better.  And I say everybody because everybody has a relative, or some kind of adopted family, or some very close friend, who is like family. I think everybody is family, and I think if we look at it that way, then you'll be less harsh to somebody who is delayed in marriage. And it could be a family problem. Maybe he is delayed in getting his own wife because he's taking care of his sibling. So he's actually a father and a married father. He is a father to his brother, his sister and other kind of thing. There could be an unmarried woman who is delayed at home because there are so many responsibilities to do at home. So again, it's unfair to judge her that you are not a family person, and this person could be the one who takes care of that family. So I think it's unfair to really just say, marriage certificate, you are okay, no marriage certificate, you are not okay. I think as we have said before, let us know who this candidate is, where you're coming from, what is your history, what have you been up to. Let us ask those questions. Then you'll discover that actually these people are actually family, actually they could be more family than married couple who is running around, not even with this family. Not even with this family, okay. All right, all right. So I think it's about till we conclude. But I'd like to finish with one which is, foresight, prudence, caution and judgment are the ethics of leadership. And foresight, there's something that you're doing for the young people when it comes to mentorship as a member of parliament for Berry South. And the students there have claimed that it's something we should incorporate in our programs and we should have a lesson or some sort every week in which they just get motivated, where they get to speak to motivational speakers, coaches, life coaches. So they don't give up. So I'd like to make sure we want to let us know whether what you are foreseeing for your constituents and for your students. Let me start from the background that in my constituency there is a baseline problem of that there is too much dropout because there's business of Mira in the area and there are people, students are dropping out of school to do business. And we think this is not right because they drop out of school before they are fully prepared. For instance, they drop out in Sunday 6, Sunday 7. These are real people who can take care of themselves. We'd like them to stay in school longer. We'd like to introduce them to another path that this is not just the only path you can have other paths. And therefore, I introduced this mentorship program and more importantly, peer mentorship where we bring in students in universities and colleges to talk to students in high school and we get high school students to go and talk to primary school and we get professionals to talk to the college students. And then you get to the whole school. Yes, yes, I saw you talking to the students. I gave commencement speech to the big schools. And one of them which I was doing last week was my biggest school which is Nyangua Secondary School, 1,300 kids. It was fantastic, a learning moment for me, a learning moment for them and I did this is where it's coming from. And I think we have to do, in this country we have to do that. We have to raise the next generation. And if there is no effort, there is no concerted effort, a deliberate effort to raise the next generation, then we only have ourselves to blame if we see them going south. And in my constituency, we have seen the tread of going south. And that is why we are rescuing. It's very exciting, really very exciting. And I would invite, I think, Beria is into those kind of programs to come over. I just have a weekend going through schools, having a nice time with our girls in school, our boys in schools. It's very, very exciting. One of the schools that we went last year, we were very surprised. We wanted to take 17 kids to university. That was their goal. And we talked to them. They have sent 27 to university this year. And now their goal is 40. And you can see them to see us. And it's very exciting, really very exciting. And I think all of us should be involved in this.  It doesn't have to be long. You go during parade, they only have it for one hour. You get 15 minutes. It's enough to say something. And they'll catch up to it. Okay, okay. Beria, do you have any response towards this particular program? Because there are some questions that have come in for you. Yes. When we talk about matters of mentorship, it's something which has been so much in my heart and my experience for the past five years. I've worked exclusively on youth empowerment programs from Tujia Jirin KCB foundation to ALX program, which I spoke here another day, to even being a trainer for KOP, the program by the World Bank. And I've been going to the youth to talk to them. And I've seen a very worrying trend with young people, especially this generation. The problem is actually there are so many of them, they have dived so deep in matters of betting and all that.  And so we've been doing intervention programs like we've gone to the university, have gone to high schools to talk to the people, telling them that there are alternatives. And when we're talking about leadership, leadership is not about creating followers. It's about creating leaders. I'm so much impressed by what Moshmiwa is doing because it's giving the faster the experience. There's a lot to learn from him, from his experiences. And when people get a chance to talk to Moshmiwa at the ground level, they get a lot of motivation. So I think this is something which we need to adopt, even not at constituency level, even the professionals. They don't need to sit back in office, keep their experiences and all that to themselves. Because we've seen people with very touching stories, some they only post them on social media maybe, but they don't go to the ground. Those primary school kids are not on social media.  This is the type of stories we need and it's maybe something which we can explore further and it will totally change the face of the country. All right, great. I can't take away or subtract anything from that. You see if they do. All right, Monica, do you have anything to say because there are some questions that are coming out? I think it's absolutely incredible and I must say I'm completely impressed by having such kind of leadership. This is a very leadership that we are looking for in this country and this is that kind of mentorship the next generation is absolutely important because it's children who are going to make up this country, make up the composition of this country in the future, which you want it to be of excellence and I think that is absolutely wonderful and it's interesting that all of us here are involved in those activities and also involved in teaching international relations in public schools through our organization so we are trying to connect these children with what is here and what is outside because the world right now as it is, is globalised and so this caring of the future generation that has come out in this panel is absolutely encouraging. All right, thank you very much. I'm glad to hear that. It feels very nice when you're encouraging that young people somewhere in this country. I'm only 25 by the way. Anyway, it's about time I read some of your feedbacks that Mahesh Miwa, there are questions for you. So Ember County has the Seven Forks Dam and produced electricity and Bayer constituents do not benefit from it because most of the homesteads are not connected to electricity. Water is a problem in Bayer yet we have the dams. How is Mahesh Miwa planning to help these people? That is one question. Then the other ones, because I wanted to answer them together that one is how are you planning when it comes to the Muaya National Reserve which is an attraction site for tourism and its constituency. Okay. And it's in his constituency. I think he's saying that this Muaya National Reserve is in your constituency. So what is the plan? That is Chris from Makima Bayer. Wow, thank you so much for watching. So yes, please tell me about it. Thank you. Let me start by saying what the Chris is saying. He's absolutely right. We have serious, serious marginalization problem. The Seven Forks Dam. We have Masinga Dam, Kamburu Dam, Kitaru Dam, Kedaruma Dam, Kambere Dam, five dams in one constituency. And then in between, in the dam area we have the Muaya game reserve which nobody visits. And I always complain that my elephants are born there in the bush. They're waiting to be photographed by visitors. They die before anybody takes their photograph. And I was starting a campaign to go and look for a hyena which is a demig to bury and photograph it because otherwise all bury hyenas borrow bury citizens of bury. And become extinct before anybody So you want to have pictures at least? At least pictures. What's the people of Embu County go to the park and photograph? At least it will be a follow up. We can have the school trips and things like that. So your school trips might be coming? I want the school trips to go. I want parties to go. I want people to discover what is right there under their nose. There are over 175 elephants in a very small park. Actually they are overpopulated and they are pushing each other there. Nobody even goes there and we are reviving that. I'm doing something about that. For the water. The tragedy is actually between dams from Kamburu Dam for instance to Gitaru Dam. It goes underground. So the river is dry between the dams. Then from that dam to the next dam the river is dry. So there is no water. We have been dispossessed. Hilda is a question of being dispossessed disinherited. It's a very sad situation. So what we have done to address it first of all we want to restore the watering points which were there traditionally. So we pump water from the dams so that people can access water in the villages. The way they used to access it when the river had water. That is one. Secondly, a comprehensive plan to have treated clean water in every home in Bere South. Already we had guests there the Deputy President came there and this year we have put 500 million to start that project and so we are moving very very fast into that. We must have water in Bere South. We have the biggest river in Kenya River Tana passes through two tributaries passes through the same constituency and yet we don't have water. That is not acceptable. So we are doing something about that and by next year by next year when the budgets come because we've just started people begin to see what we are doing with the water. So yes, there are problems they are damage, they have been there for a very long time and to me we've been dispossessed. We produce electricity we don't have it. For the electricity we get the normal quarter for rural electrification which is about 30 million a year. But my constituency is half of Bere County it is so large it's larger than the other three constituencies put together. So again it's unfair to give us a quarter same as Ebu Town which is full of electricity. Where do they take transformers? So again we are having that conversation saying no. You have to have some intervention because this community was dispossessed when you created these dams so in a way of paying back CSR then you have to give us more. We've done two services and the reports are underway for that program. So they can expect some change? Yes they can expect some change. Actually they should not expect some change. We are there to change lives we are going to change lives we are going to put more money in their pockets we are going to have better lifestyle we are going to have more roads we are going to have water we are going to be like any other Kenyan living in Nairobi or any other place you just prepare for a transformation no change. Okay I like that. Prepare for a transformation. As you've heard from Hejimewa himself Bere South MP he has been with us in studio and he can answer some of the tough questions you've thrown to him today. Thank you so much for honoring the Y254 family with your presence. Thank you so much for answering the questions of the young people. For my analysts today Monika Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for putting your points across as well without fear. Please make sure you catch up with youth and politics we do this every Monday between 8 to 9 o'clock only on Y in the morning on Y254 TV. My name is Hilda Wadibi please do not go anywhere.


Don't bother me Do you not think that this is being pushed by the ear later? No It's being pushed By activists If push comes to show, you're hungry, you'll eat what's available It's the difference between mercy killer and a killer's mistake What's that got to do with stabbing animals in the throat for a sandwich? You get me washed now If you're going to keep interrupting, I'm going to walk away Yeah, it's hard to talk about isn't it? Alright, so we're out here in Hackney London for the Gen V billboard campaign The sign says every 30 minutes we take as many lives as the Second World War took in six years Which is about 60 million lives We're going to go out and ask the public which part of this makes them angry Let's go What do you think about this? Have you seen it? Have you seen this around London? Have you seen this before? Have you seen this advertisement around? No I think they think I'm selling something, mate They're putting up billboards around Does this make you angry reading this? So every 30 minutes we take as many lives as the Second World War took in six years It's just 60 million It's not good to see it It's not good? Is that bad? Yeah, it's pretty bad It's not good They said it's bad and it's disgusting Okay Maybe they're vegan or not They should be Say if we're talking to them Yeah, yeah, you're vegan Good man Does this make you angry? Why not?  Does this make you angry? Read it. Tell me if it makes you angry Is it sad? Why are they being killed? Do it Should we be eating them if we don't have to? I don't think that much or maybe a sustainable meat Sustainable?  I think it's more ethical It's better If they live in farms Yeah, but is it good? It's not a good solution Is it good though? I think it's difficult to make everyone stop eating meat What are you? I eat meat Yeah, would you stop?  Things like amino acids with pregnant women are particularly important You're not pregnant though? I mean, I've been vegan for 10 years And I can get my amino acid, sir Do you think it's needed? Oh, absolutely Meat is needed? Huh Well, last time I checked it's not I mean, I might have checked wrong Maybe I'm just a ghost I mean, I know, there's vegan pregnant women as well Anyway, we've got the all stages of life cycle It's helpful to be vegan Well-planned diets Did you see this around London? Did you see that? See what it... What do you think about what it says? It says every 30 minutes we take as many lives as the Second World War took in six years Oh, good days Do you think their lives matter as well?   No, I've got a problem with that Do you think they have a problem with it? The animals? Yeah, possibly, yeah But what's going on with the other ones?  We've got days You could eat vegan food You have a plant-based... Yeah, I could, yeah But I've just used the egg meat Yeah So, do you think because we...  You've got a choice That's it It's time to survive If you're hungry you'll eat what's available Yeah, but you're not surviving That's what we're saying Is it justified if we're not trying to survive? If push comes to show you're hungry you'll eat what's available Yeah, but I'm saying now you're not trying to survive, are you? Yeah Are you trying to survive?  We could easily end up in a situation like that But we're not Things are very difficult for lots of people But not for you? Not for me personally That's what I'm asking You're personal I'm asking about you Me personally Is this right? I have a choice Yeah Any argument about eating, mate? Do you think cruelty is okay? If they kill you, man, mate You know pigs are killed in gas chambers in the UK No, they are So chickens as well When I was a child the local slaughterhouse was behind the bus station When the cattle were taken in you could eat them Bellowing Bellowing Because they knew what was happening and smelled them Is that humane? We've got these Can you really call killing humane?  A friend of mine His mother was dying Euthanasia is fine It's mercy killing We're not talking about that We're talking about against their will Not mercy killing I support euthanasia Well, there you go What's the difference between mercy killing and killing for the state? Because one's in their interest and the other one's for a steak It's in your interest It's in the victimiser's interest The steak My interest comes first So is it okay to kill people in gas chambers if we want to eat them? No, no, no You're going to a different subject No, it's the same subject No, it is not It's a different being No, no, no All right Go back to being vegan Do you not think that this is being pushed by the elite?  Because I was brought up there And you don't think there's more conditioning to eat meat than be vegan? No, no Conditioning I ate meat too Conditioning because of who? They're not corporations Look behind you Is that a corporation? You don't think that's elite? Look, I wouldn't eat in there Well, do you don't think meat industry is a massive corporation? Of course it is So what are you talking about elites? So is the veganism No, it's not It's, hang on How? It's being pushed By activists It's being pushed Over the years So is meat You can make that argument against meat Please, and please You've put something in there Let me reply I'm challenging it Because if you want to talk about elite There's way more money in meat and dairy and eggs There's way more money Please, please Let me explain my point Over the years we've been told don't eat salt So? Could buck on sugar So? What's that got to do with stabbing animals in the throat for a sandwich? No, you get me emotional No, no, I'm just Of course you are You've been getting No, no You're trying to justify killing 60 million animals in 30 minutes No, no I'm trying to explain how people are being just like you to use a modern phrase They're being fed propaganda Yeah By the meat industry You think it's humane You told me humane Do you know who else used humane propaganda? Hitler did Hitler used humane propaganda If you're going to keep into it, I'm going to walk away Yeah, it's hard to talk about, isn't it? The propaganda comes from the meat industry Yeah, I know it's hard to talk about You don't like being challenged You don't like being challenged You don't like being You think it's humane You don't like receiving answers that you don't like No, but you I've tried to answer you You keep interrupting You keep putting me emotional arguments I'm saying no more So it's humane You think it's all humane? You're doing it again You're doing it again Yeah, I'm keeping you on track Is the meat industry humane? You're trying to get me upset to say something You said I was getting angry I did not say you're getting angry Who's getting emotional now? You know why I'm getting emotional Why? Because you're in the problem You won't let me speak What do you want to say? The elites are pushing veganism when all you've ever eaten is meat for a reason I'll give you a nice sign off Okay Final word F*** off Don't bother me Okay, leave the animals alone Leave the animals alone So the propaganda is coming from veganism but he thinks that what happens to animals is humane So it looks like the propaganda from the meat industry is actually working pigs being gassed hens being factory farmed cows having their babies taken slaughtered against their will and he said it's all fine it's all humane and then he called veganism propaganda He said that veganism is gaslighting people when really we expose we seek to find out the truth about the industry and help people understand but all he's ever been fed is advertisements green grass and humane propaganda and he's a victim of it himself What I'm saying is probably coming across is unbelievable to him but anyways let's move along


Hi friends and subscribers, welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Daniel Rosal. This channel is all about life on the ground in Jerusalem and Israel. It's a new Jewish year, the year 5784 to be exact, and from today there are 43 days to go until municipal elections take place throughout Israel, including here in Jerusalem. I thought that I'd take a look today at the composition of the outgoing 16th Jerusalem city council. These are the public representatives that are being replaced at the end of October when the new 17th city council will be voted into office. Some of these officials will be re-elected, for instance it's almost certain that Moshe Leon will win a second term as mayor of the city. Others like Flora Hassan Nahum are not running for election, in Flora's case she is stepping into her new role as a government special envoy for innovation. Making the transition from local to national politics is a well trod path after all, and for others I really have no idea. In total there are 31 elected members on Jerusalem city council. These representatives have been serving since 2018 when the last elections were held, including a mayoral run-off. The term of office and local politics in Israel is fixed at a maximum of five years by statutes. One of the peculiarities of the Jerusalem city council is the number of deputy mayors there are, as well as Mishneh Roshair, which is a closely related position, although an English attempt to have the same translation. In the normal course of affairs you'd expect there to be one or possibly two deputies to a mayor, however in Jerusalem there are eight local council members with the title deputy mayor and two with the title Mishneh Roshair, which translates to the same thing in English. This means that in this particular legislative chamber more than a third of the representatives are either the mayor himself or formally styled as his or her deputy. There's one more remarkable fact about the Jerusalem city council that it would be remiss to pass over. Despite the fact that Palestinians constitute about 40% of Jerusalem's population, you won't find a single Arab Palestinian among the council's 31 members. As I've explained in previous videos, Palestinian Muslims traditionally boycott the elections because they see them as legitimizing an unjust occupation, however it does also mean that they have no elected officials representing their interests in city government. If the city were to offer a counter to this piece it would probably say that in reality the city does engage with the Arab population by working with grass roots leaders and village heads known in Arabic as Muhtar. Women are also underrepresented in local Jerusalem politics. Of the outgoing council's 31 members, just 5, 16% of the total are women. Some members of the council like Yusuf Avileo hold disproportionate significance. Avileo for example is often seen as informally leading the non-Haredi membership of the council and others like Khatorut leader Adir Schwartz who is in his late 20s are unusually young. But if I can offer some blunt stereotyping of your average Jerusalem city council member based on perusing the current crop, it would be a male conservative kippah wearing religious Jew in his 40s to 50s. Like the population the city council represents, or at least a part of it, the Jerusalem city council is conservative and religious. Two facts which make it a very different body from other city councils like those of Tel Aviv. Besides sitting in general plenary the city council also operates a number of committees devoted to examining specific themes. An example of one of these is Va Adat Ikhut Hasviva. In English this translates to the committee for the quality of the environment. This committee is chaired by deputy mayor R.E.A. King, firebrands nationalistic politician and associate of Itamar Ben-Gir who once advocated schemes to pay non-Jews to leave Israel. Other members include left leaning Laura Wharton, Yossi Havillio and Jovav Soor. When Jerusalemites go to vote for their local representatives on October 31st they will vote twice. Once for the electoral list they wish to endorse and a second time for which candidate they wish to see elected mayor. The ultimate composition of the city government will be determined by the popularity of each party and the list ranking they have chosen internally. If you're also interested in local politics and Jerusalem and want to continue receiving more videos from me then please consider liking this video and subscribing to this YouTube channel.


This study investigates the effects of a cybererextract on red blood cell, RBC, deformability, which is the ability of cells to modulate their shape to ensure transit through narrow capillaries of the microcirculation. It was found that a cybererextract restored the increase in band 3-tyrosine phosphorylation and SyK kinase levels caused by exposure to 100 mmD galactose, suggesting that it may be able to reduce the oxidative stress induced by galactose. Additionally, a cybererextract partially restored alterations in the distribution of Spectrin, Enkyrin, and Protein 4.1 indicating that it may help restore normal RBC structure. Finally, a cybererextract significantly decreased membrane RBC deformability associated with galactose, suggesting that it could potentially be used as a natural antioxidant for the treatment and or prevention of oxidative stress-related diseases. This article was authored by Sarah Spinelli, Elisabeth Estrafeis, Lucrezia Gambardella, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.