Nigeria is preparing for elections in an atmosphere of worsening insecurity, which stirs the political actors and ordinary citizens in the face. The Independence National Electoral Commission, INEC, is ready. The parties are ready, or getting set, but the environment is not at peace. The climate is cloudy, particularly in the North West, the North East, and the South East, which areas are battling with a cure-sit at home and eternal strife. Based on INEC's calendar, party primaries are to be concluded by June 3. Efforts to get INEC to change their stance has proven abortive. Hence, we can conclude that this month of May would be a decider for many presidential hopefuls and aspirants for other elected officers. Based on my last count, close to 30 aspirants have purchased the presidential tickets for the ruling APC party, having paid the outrageous ticket fee of 100 million Naira. The main opposition party, PDP on the other hand, has screened 17 presidential hopefuls. There is a resolve on every part of many people to get tickets for this presidential contest. It is important that we remember that our current economic and societal issues are results of our decisions at successive polls. The candidates presented at the general elections are results of the primaries. Hence, we need to understand how the primaries work in Nigeria. The Electoral Act provides that candidates for whatever public office can be elected by indirect primary, direct primary or through consensus method. In these forthcoming elections, the two main political parties are going to pick their presidential candidates using the indirect primary method. And delegates are the ultimate deciders. There are two types of delegates, the ad hoc and the statutory. The ad hoc delegates are picked by holding congresses in the words across the country. Statutory delegates, a recent provision of the Media Electoral Act, are party members who have held public offices before. So you mean people like governors, ex-governors and presidents and likes. This amendment might be out of selfish interests of politicians or otherwise, only time will tell. However, what we can say is that there would be more people to decide the buffet that will be served to Nigerians in 2023. After the delegates are selected, a convention will be held to enable them to decide on who will fly the party's gubernatorial or presidential flags. Although there's a limit to what we the public can do at this point with regards to the primaries, I would encourage everyone who has access to either the ad hoc or statutory delegates to advise, encourage, present them, whatever method you can do to encourage them to choose candidates at the primaries in which would be in the interest of a good nation. The offers from candidates might be tempting, but let's remember that the destiny of Nigeria and its people is dependent on their choices. We can become a better nation based on their decisions. We can also even become a worse nation that we currently are based on their decisions. So therefore, the destiny of 120 million Nigerians are in their hands. So guys, what do you think? How can we, or rather 200 million rather, how can we encourage delegates or to bring forward the right candidates? So who are these delegates? So statutory delegates are ex-presidents or ex-public office holders or even current public office holders, but you then have ad hoc delegates that are usually selected to reconvention, so yes. And oftentimes these delegates are even being bright. Of course. Recently I saw a post where he said, is it actually what people are meant to be secured over 370 delegates? So I ask, secure the word sense. Is it that I don't want to go into the details of that, but I hope the processes are fair. I hope they are fair. They should think about the future of the country. So any political party now that wants to come, because this weekend, I think the election should be this weekend, right? So by Monday we know the primary election. Yes. So I just pray these parties, they will do the right thing. I hope so. I just pray and hope so. Why do I think that it's almost like, let me even use the, I don't like to say the word ruling, just looks too tyrannic, you know, the leading party. I think leadership is more better than rulership. So let's just say the leading party, APC, right? You know, why are there so many people that almost looks like those that can potentially become president? Does it, I mean, somewhere I'm thinking, do they already know the result of the primaries? So this is the corruption we keep talking about. So what is it? So why are the sham, why are the whole person coming out and running? You don't even know the joker that will come out tomorrow and say, I've bought the phone, you know. So they somehow know the result of the primaries who is going to come out.  So I'm just looking at this whole thing. So what's the essence? Is it even credible? If the primaries is not even credible. So what is the credibility of the many elections? So that's what's been on my heart to really contain this whole thing. Do you think about the primaries? Why personally think that there's an element of corruption in the primaries? Because we see even at the local government levels, even at the very low level, you see that in your small community, in your local government, your small community, you just ask one or two people, they're already like, oh, that lady is the one that will emerge. They've not had the primaries yet. That lady is the one that will emerge. She's the sister to the former, one of the, you know, she has that connection. So, you know, you can just appear from the blues, you know. So I think that the process should actually be free, should be fair. I was encouraged when I saw a lady, I think Quora State, she's a very young lady. She picked up a form yesterday or two days ago. And a lot of people on Twitter started to speak to her, oh, where did you get money for the form? Where did you get money for the form? Oh, who are you? Who is your father? That was the question on Twitter. And she's a young girl, I think she's in her 20s. Yeah, she's in her 20s and people said, this form is two million dollars. Where did you get the money? Who is your father? That was the question on Twitter. Who is your father? So now we need to ask ourselves, what is she have been saving this morning, saving money, seeking support from uncles and aunts, that she wants to do this? This is her dream. She wants to be a change agent, you know. But you know, that's precedence. We need to work on ourselves as Nigerians and begin to do things the right way. Every Nigerian and any Nigerian has the right to contest if he or she fits in. And let me even use the opportunity to address this issue now. By extension, look at what is happening in the state now. The governor, the incumbent governor is contesting and there is another woman in the party that's contesting. Recently there have been some kind of friction between both sides. They are both members of this empathy. So the fact that somebody is coming outside to contest is not your enemy. So you should not send talks after a political aspirant should not send talk after another one. He's so barbaric. What are you scared of? What are you scared of? Why don't you allow the masses decide? So I'm using this as an extension.  So what do you think? How can we take our primary seriously? I mean, the description that I just gave is quite instructive. You know, the fact that there is a lot of delegates, you know, I've never heard that before.  And I want to quite honestly say, because, you know, there's this case of empathy where you're not just really interested in the process, because you know that process already rigged against you. So think about the whole concept of having to get one former governor, former political holders, political office holders, people that are first-station, they can be allowed to move near anything, near politics. You know, they are the sort of the constitutionally the mandate that must be there. And then I know I'm not choosing from the convention. How is the convention designed? You know, how did they decide if you got a convention and what should it be? At the end of the day, it just starts to become clearer and clearer that this whole game just, you know, has been that who has the most money to spend.  You know, so the system is really, it's written against you already. It's designed to fail.  There's no need to try. What you must do is go out to the drawing board, I will design a system, shut down the system, I will design it. There's no point trying to, you know, can't keep doing the same next time different results are possible. That's the sanity, you know, that's clearly, you know, the case. It's just this, you know, joke of the times that happened 24 years. Okay, so there might be a limit to what we can do, but we hope that our delegates would select the right people for us so that we can vote them in during the general elections. So Shola is up next after this break.


Drum roll! Blopadoop過 merger Welcome back to a long overdue episode of Jurassic Wolves Reg- w-wasn't that long, eh? It wasn't-it wasn't a month, at least. Heh heh! I'm getting better! So we have just won the Paris sunrise comparison of the Williams event, gen 2 pack. Tournament… thing! Omg! well we finally done it so that's good so let's open would we get one thousand five hundred bucks wow that was lucky was it oh it no we got lucky there oh yes wow how much is that worth in real currency I'm kind of curious jeez and as well as two thousand six hundred vi piddly points oh look at you them oh look oh that's sweet okay so we need a heart that but yeah look at this is another hybrid a new super hybrid is on its way out of Jurassic World's lab so that looks like it's Dimetrodon so are we gonna get new super hybrid DNA or has Ludia finally decided to take a leaf out of the many notes I've gave them I've written an entire book for them how to make this game better but have they actually given us warning now when a new hybrid is coming so we know at least to save it up but saying that that's probably gonna come out this week so that's not enough time to save up to get it you really we really need like a month's notice if there's a new hybrid gonna come out like drop like indominus gen 2 sorry indo raptor gen 2 even then well it was literally a couple of days beforehand so when I lost out so who knows say hello Mike no he's shy bless him you're always on the screen but now he's got eyes now he can see you he's nervous but okay you'll get there you'll get there so thank you everyone who joined the livestream we did watch the entire series of camp Cretaceous and if you want to check it out it's up there and basically I've synced it so there's a timer and everything so even if you watch it you know you didn't watch it live you can watch it you know as it's a video now and I put on like not demand I just put out as a regular video you don't need to be a member don't worry remember she still keep your perks actually if you remember you can comment in this video and put your emojis and stuff huh I don't know why that wasn't a thing anyway here we go let's collect all our foods and we have so many dances we got lots of scappers so many scott where the your capture was sent to the asset rest repository risk risk positive or even repository whatever it is and so we got 1500 books from our parcel or Jen to however in order to hatch it right away it's probably gonna be like 1800 bucks so really all that's happened is we've got you know some extra books to help speed up so I'm gonna put it in my jungle source just in case and then it's probably gonna cost us 10 books so it's only 10 books though right so let's go herbivores and screw all the weight there there it is parasaur gen 2 2873 health and 898 attack max and it is 1680 so in other words to get it set like a week they really need to adjust this a week a week we look it took me oh my god the other day because I was I was determined I wasn't gonna make the same mistake with the tornado because you missed out turned on gen 2 so I was like you know what I'm gonna do we're gonna do this we're going to watch a McCall we're gonna we're gonna win this new parasaur we're gonna win this tournament creature hours hours talk I don't know I feel like we're dressing world the game it's too long like the week a week a week to wait for one tournament creature and to do the tournament it's it's like I think it's five hours straight if you want to do it from beginning to end to make sure you've got enough cups because I think it's 1500 cups which pretty much guarantees you'll stay in Dominator League so five hours to solid straight of gameplay that's crazy that's so much fluff and padding it doesn't need to it doesn't need to be five hours I don't know I don't know the fact that they're not banning cheaters that it takes a week to get a creature you know tournament creature it shouldn't take a week it should not take a week maybe maybe a day or two days but not a week that's way too much and so you got cheaters you got the hatchery that needs fixing and the tournament which is just way too long it's like it's battle after battle after battle for hours hours Ludi that's how you turn people off your game to make them do the same thing over and over I don't know I like this game but the same time there's a part of me that just either I want to hack it because I cannot be bothered I want to show you now the newest creatures but I feel like if I hack it then I'm gonna let's speed it up anyway so we're down 190 bucks right which is a lot but it's not 1000 an odd but we got all those books we earned there lost boom oh it's on site B oh so let's have a look at the glowy that's cool that's cool I bet I didn't take much to do because I've seen you know dino hunter deadly shores when they had the bioluminescent dinosaurs I'm pretty sure they did stuff like this looks cool though so let's feed it all the way to level 10 level 10 wow there's so much attack on this and comparison to the health for her before that's loads so 467 health which is not much but it's probably on par with them the the regular para but the 340 attack deafening is more so this gen 2 identical sorry this gen 2 is identical to the original creature with exceptions to the luminous color a colorization or coloration on its back interesting so what are the other ones gonna say parager lives longer I'm sorry ah James can't read today the parasaurolophus and parasaurolophus gen 2 live together in home harmonious hoods this relationship is uncommon among other species well they said that basically the same parasaurolophus gen 2's favorite meal is freshwater crab what what and they are most commonly located near freshwater springs on easel nublar and easel sauna freshwater crab what you're telling me the parasaurolophus gen 2 is a cut I got an omnivore the violet glow on the back of the of this special gen 2 is the product of unusual marine DNA added it at what during its creation oh yeah so it looks pretty much the same that's the same model as I think the regular para yeah yeah it's definitely the same model I like how the bi let you see the bioluminescent it looks really good now if you did watch that whole you know camp cretaceous or you've seen camp cretaceous one scene oh this is only one moment with these these paras right but bumpy bumpy the Ankylosol is in it the entire time basically except like maybe the first episode or something so I really don't know why they haven't just decided to go like oh well add bumpy into the game everybody a tournament for hours right five hours for a tournament I wouldn't mind doing that for bumpy wouldn't mind doing that for bumpy the parasol gen 2 but the bioluminescence cool and all but it's not bumpy if it was bumpy I'd do it when we finished in the dawn the dominator league yes look at that we're slowly we're slowly climbing there for indogen to how much do we need for indogen to does it say hold on hold on let's have a look let's have a look shall we also hold on is this new hybrid if we go on news it's oh thanks for writing us 50 bucks still down is is this new hybrid magnetator but it doesn't look like if it was magnet it they would use the same what you call it they would use the same model right because the reason why I'm saying why haven't they added bumpy into the game and why isn't you know a bioluminescent para is because in Jurassic World alive they've also added the bioluminescent para is a boss battle like the Omega so is it Omega is it called Omega Omega Rex well yeah the Godzilla Rex that one I really don't know why they haven't decided just add bumpy maybe that was a boss battle but that integrate it now it came to my attention I didn't realize this but by a little bit bioluminescent dinosaurs have been sort of canon in Jurassic World before the Minecraft DLC that's the first time I heard about bioluminescence and I thought it was because of camp Cretaceous that's why we're getting in sort of all time but bioluminescence has been in Jurassic World a canon I guess you could say since the tour if you guys were lucky enough to go see it Jurassic World to it there was like live show and there was bioluminescent dinosaurs in that I had no idea and unfortunately as you've probably guessed and it's not touring anymore because of the current state of the world oh my hey it's too long it's I need to put more waxing look at it's doing a floppy thing attack it kill oh so we've only got 50 minutes to get these and then I'm wondering what the next batches look at this is so professional here I'm knackin as well we woke up early well we should have got it done actually before I had to drop the car off at the garage completely forgot about it so woke up like oh gotta get going do those two to 86 is enough good good good we got this we got this also this headphones like broken you see it just hanging up like that this one's fine it's like solid this one however it's completely broken yeah is it is it like it's not snopping in place oh dear it's because I've dropped on the floor and it's not my fault okay I've got a chair here and it's got these handles that are like bars like that and then that the handles like that so the the cable wraps under this bit and when I turn or move away from the table the headphones just get pulled off it so it's not my fault I am still getting audio through there so that's good when that happens now we got a problem okay we got 49 minutes let's go do those three yeah I'm pretty much if I can do this and this is a good there's so much things to talk about ah okay so this battle that the food battle that you do or at least the one that I seem to do I'm okay with it you know it's not the best creatures to use so I'm not having to wait for any crazy cooldowns and you know you don't you win food from it which it's not really why I do it the reason why I do it is because you win VIP points that I'm okay with and it counts towards unlocking the what you call it the the the tournament creature that's not a tournament you know what I mean that with the clash of the tines that's the one I'm talking about so the there is a purpose for this it's useful it's kind of quick you don't have to concentrate too much and you get if you are VIP you get 260 VIP points and you also go look another one towards the Moses or which or the clash of the tines that's not bad oh hold on we've got here we've also got a battle stage 92 because I leveled up I'm a good boy yes I really find there's no need to level up like what am I getting a battle stage 93 so do I get for this food DNA actually the DNA is pretty decent and then to potential whoa whoa okay that's a good pack okay that might be the best pack in the game it does give you a lot of DNA it doesn't give you books but you have 25 you're getting a legendary and you're getting a tournament creature that's like the best part oh my god maybe I do need to get that maybe maybe maybe okay so let's check the trade harbour yeah definitely not doing that one had definitely not doing that one however we'll do that we're slowly clawing back we were a 4500 bucks we had to get that power oh I need the max power though I need that max power you know I'll do that fair enough I don't I don't seem to do any battles that really require me to use any of the the boosts or mods I think they're called they called mods in this I think they're called mods yeah I don't really see them oh they of course and not only do you get VIP points and you know you're not towards the clash of times you get super DNA so that's probably the best kind of battle arena that you can do in the game the only sad part is that it is the visitor center every battle event you know the things you need to do you need to do these battles to unlock the clash of the times to get good things but they're always the same visitor center the gyrosphere is the beach that's nice to see the verses is the helipad it's a well you know helipad the best because it's got nice lighting and it's out and the open it looks nice whereas the visitor center is dark it's dingy it's enclosed the gyrosphere is okay it's better than the visitor center it is bleak everything's bleached orange that's the only problem and the VIP battles I think are also the visitor center they're also super tough but and this one is the classic you know it's the first battle you take part in most of the time as you are progressing through the game you see these battle arenas this is good I like these ones so let's do this so we'll go for a herbivore and can braggers stegosaurus do it and if not well there you go they'll be able to do it look at this look at it oh it looks so good I love this battle arena it's like the endowner's wrecks enclosure do you remember do you remember I remember when you first opened Jurassic World the game and you agreed it with this battle arena you're like this looks so cool I remember oh it was good oh it's good the tricep vs. Majungasaurus the little intro of the helicopter going in and dropping the Majungasaurus in what a way to start this game it was like whoa look at those graphics especially when you consider we came from Jurassic Park builder which I mean doesn't exist anymore oh braggers so it's going with the tail I've never seen that animation before that looked sweet okay we're definitely dead though poor braggers stegosaurus I want to see his death animation slow though let's see it what oh but no braggersaurus I love that they just kept the animation it's from Jurassic World alive and we may as well do that I'm so itchy I need a shave any shave or trim sorry I need a trim I've got like hairs everywhere I did it oh oh it's the only battle event that actually has the whole winning animation as well so we got 190 and a plus 7,000 whoo that's a lot okay so that's that done and then nexus 93 which is a really good one enough to that it's just boring 7,000 7,000 7,000 like could you not have thought of something else that's so lazy like did nobody settle down okay right we you know the people who are gonna be winning this have been playing for the longest time how should we reward reward them maybe a cosmetic maybe you know a limited statue or a limited pack or you know really good prize you know prizes nah just what do you want imagine that 76 what's a what's the reward gonna be for 76 ball stage 76 oh sorry 96 sorry 7,000 DNA okay good what about 97 7,000 okay what about 98 7,000 what goes through your guys brains man come on like this is good like 93 like a car pack then 7,000 then a live a creature a tournament and then 7,000 why'd you make it then two more 7,000 after that good Lord okay so what we're gonna be getting in 40 minutes fight for funds look at this pitiful pitiful 120 bucks God awful we got gentoo fury monsters of the deep nothing too crazy beast of the biodome is kind of probably worth it this one definitely we get a micropasaur so a guaranteed legendary and guaranteed 100 bucks that's basically better than the dino dino books earth shattering not only do unlock it if you haven't got it already it goes towards the cash of the tines and you get 100 bucks fight for funds is incredibly hard it is it is like indogen to like 40 levels we're talking impossible it's only three battles never bear am I it's only three bells but it's impossible this however is four bells you get 20 less books but it's doable one carnival done basically one basically one I say that oh no he hits us but we kill them too so there you go yeah this one's way better there's a they change things they do I just there's a lot of stuff that again YouTube is out there who are hacking the game still have yet to face any consequences and at this point all I've got to say is that I know that Lydia watch my videos I know they do because I mentioned in one of my drastic world the game videos that my dragon rise of Burke account disappeared don't know what happened to it and they got to me said oh could you give me the account of it and we can restore it which I did and I thought I was really how you know I was grateful for that however it didn't work it just restart again so I do need to get in touch with them and say it didn't work but at this point it's like I'm not really fussed about it and it was fun while I played it but I'm okay so they they heard that somebody heard that and report it to somebody who could help so thank you which also means that you guys heard me saying you guys said you were gonna fix the hacker situation and you haven't and yet we still have people out there creating content who have hacked the game who are facing no consequences I think what what is happening is Lydia are trying to say to me it's okay beaver you can hack the game I think that's what that they're trying to say to me and at this point after making fight like basically 500 videos because in this series isn't counted the lagoon and the glacier series which we started back in the day oh no I don't know I just feel like if I was to hack the game now all of my progress all of my hard work like you know glitching the other you know finding ways to try and cheat the system all the money that I've spent on this game is now completely nullified if I hack it oh I don't know I don't know I don't know I feel like I should put a pole I should put a pole up because I swear down if I hack the game and then Lydia bans my account I'll be so annoyed oh that's one of the reasons why I don't do it because they've said you know if they know or they see people who have hacked the game they will you know ban them so how can I then in good consciousness hack the game knowing that everything all the money I've spent on this and all the time that I've done I could be banned exactly one two three well he's dead in one more anyway you're going to die look at this easy this is nice I like this nice I can relax and I don't have to concentrate too much whereas with the blum and dino books I don't know why that those battles are so crazy hard what's the next one is that I can't those stager is that the next one oh no it's Proto Grinus Proto Grinus is is that the one that's like an in-between between fish and dinosaurs or is that I can't those stager I think it's I can't those stager I could be wrong I could be wrong oh iPad has not been backed up for a hundred and sixty-one weeks no go away man if I click you you're gonna exit me out oh yeah of course the moment I go to like scroll it up it goes bye bye he's gonna kill us poster suit us well Rex he's gonna kill you Rex is gonna get you oh yeah camp cretaceous they also just spoilers I guess but T-Rex doesn't really show up which is interesting and I said that I did say like if this is canon then the T-Rex shouldn't show up because he's gonna be in a paddock the whole time although I guess they could have seen it they could have went to the paddock or something like that oh Ikea it's all these stagers I can't do stager Ikea stager and these you cannot pass up on these because super DNA is so hard to come by you need to do this I guess what I could have done it like if I had all the time in the world what I could do is the the verses right because there's a good chance that I'll get wrapped a DNA in the verses so but it's just like you get 15 and it's not guaranteed and I need 2,000 so 10 battles let's say I was looking I get every time that's a hundred and fifty so I need to do over a hundred battles 100 100 battles God no 100 battles I don't have that kind of time okay here we go 36 minutes the final one still needs to be carnival sure make it easy should put just one in the indo raptor and yeah there we go one in right this was slap slap slap rubbish a level 10 interrupt you don't stand a chance I'm thinking that that second the last hybrid might have enough health it might however if cool a source doesn't have enough help I don't know if this one will let's have a look let's have a look I don't think I'm 1,300 it had more but not enough attack it's gonna do like a thousand maybe 1,200 damage if it does attack for three which it doesn't and it dies in one oh you could have blocked for three and then had for attack and then I would have been at half health oh no there you go so it fun in that right Mike yes it is gonna take you there you go so my group of source we've got the guaranteed a hundred books so I think we might be up and we have got the tournament creature so I mean if it's not guaranteed they should give you books for the tournament creature so you can speed it up that or just negate it don't have it a week a week that's ridiculous but I tell you what tell you what we will do we will buy it now how how cheap is it the brackets or seven thousand it oh it's cheaper this the para is cheaper it doesn't have as much health just by a little bit and it doesn't have as much attack so you are saving 230 DNA hmm wow wow huh so 7500 what I should do is actually just do the shortcut go over to site B and click add one and then in we go and then click out of it and then go back over instead of destroying and then add one and then buy it and then do that and then go back over you sing a pattern here guys guess what I'm gonna do and buy one and activate and go back over now we're done so there we go and there you go did another one so it's another 20 oh it's slowly the slow grind so we do have the VIP now let's have a look what gives us the most super DNA so the VIP exclusive event gives us 15 of each and what is the other one beast of the biodome gives us 14 so may as well do this because it gives us a little bit more and we do raptor I think that'll do and then be a bit overkill I don't know we need much else like that pretty much guarantees that that guarantees us right oh saying that though the Utah Raptor survives oh I love that we fixed I love that we fix the law we fix the law and this with the Utah Raptor when it said discovered by whatever you was called I can't remember his name it took me flying all the way to the Utah interviewing Jim Kirkland making a video on it for you Ludia to go away we made a mistake I shouldn't have to go to these lengths Ludia God can you in like can you at least just give me like 20,000 bucks and that way I don't have to hack the game actually you know what I guess I could do that is just give myself books like don't change anything else don't give myself everything just give myself like 100,000 bucks that way I can unlock anything I want and well not unlock but like I have to still play the game I have to still you know earn VIP points I have to still earn DNA but if I just give myself a big chunk of books I think I think I'll be happy with that because otherwise to get what like 10,000 bucks it's gonna cost me like a hundred pound who are you kidding me what do you want to have food for a week or you know have something that and this is the thing right Jurassic Park Builder is the catalyst for all app games they discontinued that game and nothing happened they didn't refund anybody who spent money on the game or anything if you if you just play Jurassic Park Builder just play Jurassic Park Builder you would get a little bonus for starting another game like this one for instance nah man nah that's not good not good enough because I thought you know I played Jurassic I've played Jurassic Park Builder for years I promote it I made videos on it I've also played Jurassic World the game for years and now that they discontinued it I thought that Luddy would be like you know what you spent money on the game you gave us free advertising have a reward no no I got in contact with him said oh yeah here's my here's my game code what can you do about it like oh can I have the reward you know the reward that was up for grabs if you're changing and they got back to me said no you can't you're not eligible because it has to be on a new game what not good man not good and I was I was hoping I hope this happened I hope they didn't realize it was me I hope they thought I was just some random earth because if they thought it was me they might have been like oh yeah just give them the buck so he'll say like oh we gave him bugs but maybe they didn't because it would have just been like a regular you know Lydia support staff because I think that's what it was you just like support at Lydia so they were like yeah no we can't do that it's just interesting how they go about things mobile games man they're weird they're weird like if if this happened to a console game right and you bought DLC you bought add-ons and then they just stopped you know you couldn't play the game anymore they would be uproars they would be uproars oh can you imagine it I can people would be flayed in this street so we'll do an interrupted gen sorry interrupted level 10 osteoporosis will come in we'll go for metrophodon and then I just an interrupted gen 2 sorry interrupted level 20 that is probably good enough I might have I should have went for a block here because he might be able to kill me in two hits although he can't give me one hit with osteoporosis though okay so I'm just gonna go for loads of reserves because we need we need to give metrophodon metrophodon as many attacks as possible here doesn't matter if interrupted dice here he's cannon fodder at this point we'll do we'll do that we'll do that and I know I don't mean for these episodes to be bragging on Lydia but it's just this is the state it's got to I just feel and I think everyone else feels the same one two three four I mean you can add you know VIP exclusive buildings you can add you know a way to farm stuff but that doesn't change a lot of the stuff giga giga with the classic Jurassic Park colors kills me no right we've won this we've won this so we got an extra 15 a an extra 15 super DNA let's go for three reserves it's always a part of me it's like do I stop do I stop playing it like I still play Jurassic World alive even though I don't record as often I still play that because it's fun but this one I'm like how much of it is fun and how much is a grind and if the grind out where he's the fun even though I've played this for years and it you know we pretty much stopped playing Jurassic Park builder and then it was cancelled there was the plug was pulled but by the time the plug was pulled we'd stop playing it and this game is still support they're still adding new things but I don't know I don't know I feel like I'm reaching the end and I get the feeling like you know between grind and fun grinds really tipping the scales and I feel like I'm I'm getting you know it this games not showing any signs of stopping and Dominion's gonna come out and they're probably gonna put the new hybrid or new dinosaur in this game as well but I do feel for me personally I don't know I'm coming to an end I feel like you know the end of Jurassic World the game is is coming ever and ever closer with all the changes they've added to it you know taken out books on packs I know whether they've put them back in I know a lot of packs do have them it does seem that way like there's guaranteed books now in certain packs yeah they took them out I'm just wondering there was one certain pack they took out books from yeah the legendary rumble doesn't have it and I think regular like unlocking ones they always have it let's have a look in here here we go Jairus fear victory you don't win books from that so the book the book entry you've got you don't get back you're not gonna get any books back yeah I don't know I don't know I have enjoyed this game oh yes more I call I we need to get into out to Gen 2 we need at least to get into out to Gen 2 before we quit this series and we need to just a six days six days I don't know I don't know and it took me you know for Jurassic Park to build it to be cancelled to make a like a tribute to it and I think I will do eventually the same thing for this because Jurassic Park builders started my channel Jurassic World the game elevated to you know the wider audience I feel I owe a lot to this game you know and it was it was fun where the start we were going through a locking new dinosaurs there was new new glitches on new ways to exploit to get more books and then it was going up and up and then the plateau and we I feel like in this this progress this game we I've been plateauing for just such a long time and the last in the fun stuff was adding this in you know but like for instance here we go this is what happens when you first start you get the DNA you get the VIP you get all of this now if I was to cancel my VIP membership do I lose it all I don't know I don't think you do I hope you don't that would be a question if you do lose it all yeah I'm definitely stopping playing this game but for instance I look you got all these new buildings extra slots and then look what happened look what they added just extra things just extra things nothing in particular no new buildings no exclusive dinosaurs just extra slots on already existing things and it's it's just little things like that like that and like this the 7,000 7,000 7,000 just tells me that you know the whole not their whole focus is in this and they're not 100% giving it they're not giving it they're all like they used to be and I don't know it's just it I want to really like this game again it's just they're not doing it for me at the moment what can I say you know yeah when we started it was it was a romance we we you know it was the honeymoon period and then you know we had our spots we fell out you know but we thought we'd stick through it for the kids do you guys and then and then you just you stop caring you stop putting in the effort and at some point one of us has got a look at each other you probably you lied you said you will get you lied to me you said you're gonna take out the hackers you didn't even put out a statement saying you were you didn't think at one point one of us is gonna have to say I think it's gonna have to be me and say that we've got to call us off it's been a good one we had a great time but I've changed and you've changed I'm so sorry but it all honestly I am feeling that way there's plenty of other games to play and even though this made my channel and I thank you so much if you have watched this up to this point and you know I see I see people all the time saying oh I I start watching you years ago we drastically the game but channels evolve people change and I think as we've seen YouTube you know grow it that's the way it's got to go you don't see people who still watch PewDiePie for outlast he doesn't play that anymore he knows the scary games he changed he changes material and you know when this first came out I was you know I liked this and it was new and it was fun and it just isn't anymore so maybe we will do like one final blowout like selling everything and just seeing how much DNA we can get or you know make it diffusing everything together making all of the hybrids something like that they know having like a crazy session like hacking the game making you know 50 level 20 in dominance gen twos or so in dominance sorry into raptor gen twos or something ridiculous just just going all out and like I have a live stream as a finale like the last episode or something like that because I feel like we I I kind of have to keep playing because I want to see what they do with it I I genuinely do I know that they care and I know that there's more stuff coming to this game just at the moment it might be best just to put it on the side and be like I'll come back to you and I think a lot of people who you guys who watch my channel know that that's what I do you know and by the integrals doesn't happen all the time but when does it's because I want to play it and you'll wait for that like the aisle you know if I was to rush the owl have an owl video every week I'd be bored it'll be boring and I wouldn't enjoy anymore so and that's the way I think we you've got to have everything in moderation anyway I've been rattling for far too long I do apologize let's have a look at the parasol again before we go he's a pretty I would love to make you level 40 but Lydia doesn't want me to Lydia wants me to spend how much like what what's the most expensive popular and value 20,000 bucks is a hundred pound that is 15 speed-ups for the parasol gen 2 ish if that it might even be less 15 speed-ups you need eight in order to make a level 40 over half basically if you want to get parasol office you don't have the books for instance you want to get para from this to level 40 you're gonna have to spend 50 quid you've got DLCs that aren't you got DLCs for triple-a games and on 50 quid oh my god what is this you have to laugh because otherwise you're like it's disbelief really anyway guys I love you stay cutie and until next time I'll see you later maybe in another series bye bye


Three packs left to get Zeus. Should we? Okay, in theory, if we don't get it, which we're gonna get it right now, but if we don't get it, should we try and find more boxes of this to try and get the Zeus? Mightent, Banquet, Dogmaticusism, Mightentcry,


The next talk everyone is going to be on what is cloud native integration by Michael Costello. Michael, are you here? I'll just give him a couple of minutes if he's there. Okay. Hello. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you fine. Are you ready? All right. And then I suppose, can you see this? Yes, we can. Groovy. All right. Great. All the best. We'll start in two minutes. Yeah, sure. That's completely up to you. You can wait for two minutes. Just let me know when you're ready. Okay. I think this is a very popular topic and everyone would want to hear about this. I personally spoke into two or three of them that are very interested in your talk. Cool. Cool. We'll give it one more minute and then I'm probably going to start kind of on the dot. There's a lot to get through and I'm going to try to demo live. Okay. It's going to be exciting on the pitch for that. Cool. All right, everybody. Thanks for attending this talk. Today we're going to talk about what is cloud native integration. And more specifically, we're going to get into some cloud native architecture and we're going to talk about some cooling, some tooling with Apache Kimmel K. My name is Michael Costello. I'll give you guys a quick introduction to who I am and then we'll talk about the agenda of the things we're going to talk about. I'm a programmer. I've been doing it about 20 years in the distributed software space.  I'm a senior architect at Red Hat in the enterprise integration practice in our emerging technologies practice. And if you want to check me out further, please do have some articles. We'd love to get responses so on and so forth. So there's some linkage there that you can go check me out. So today what we're going to talk about is, of course, cloud native integration. It's a term that we've been using lately to describe our emergence into the cloud and some of our traditional integration techniques. So just so we don't get too far ahead of ourselves, we're going to talk about how we came to enterprise integration practices and something called Apache Kimmel. We'll give a prequel to the cloud, SOA and the enterprise service bus pattern. Then we'll talk about moving some of these enterprise integration patterns, some of these new approaches that we've taken as we emerged out of our traditional legacy mainframe environments. And we'll talk about how we move these things to the cloud. We'll talk about what cloud native architecture is and why you would use something like Apache Kimmel and how to apply it to Apache Kimmel. We'll do a live demo. We're going to have to be super quick. We only have really 20 minutes. We want to leave a few minutes open for questions. And of course, as a result, the demo is going to have to be a very, very, very small subsection of a much larger demo where we really, really get into some multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-tenant concerns and speak about some of the architectural thing, the choices we've made to be quote-unquote cloud native. I've got a GitHub URL there. It will be again in the slide deck. And of course, I'll make sure I put that into the chat as we get to the questions. So real quick, how do we come to enterprise integration patterns and then this thing called a Apache Kimmel? So what's one of time, as you guys will all remember, we found ourselves on mainframes and we had bus architectures where different programs on our mainframe could kind of pick up from each other and do their work or just simply do their work themselves. We moved away from this into client server topologies and all of a sudden we had a need for remote invocation. As we moved into this kind of new world where we distributed out our compute and our compute processes, one of the things that we started making some tooling leaps as a result, we started to look at things like asynchronous messaging. IBM's MQ series is one of the classic things to come to mind that became quite dominant in the 90s and aught years and still has quite a presence today. And these kind of things modeled our traditional patterns that we had on mainframe systems, but still allowed us to have remote invocation. Now we could have a series of runtimes and a series of servers out in the wild and they could all kind of communicate to each other, but using fairly similar techniques. What happened during this period of time is we had a lot of different tools, right? And a lot of people were knocking on the same doors and Gregor Hop, one of the guys who contributed largely to the enterprise integration patterns, made a really good point. Ultimately, at the end of the day, we have many similar concepts here, but we have many, many, many, many different tools. If we look at ESBs, for instance, TIBCO had their own tool, Lombardi inevitably IBM-Wesby Oracle with their liquid fusion product, so on and so forth. And however, we were kind of with enterprise Java, other remote invocation tools, we were kind of running into the same things. And inevitably, we distilled these into a set of what we call enterprise integration patterns, where we took these kind of common patterns and said, hey, we find these things applying themselves very generally in enterprise contacts. Some of these things could be the splitter patterns, service mediation, so on and so forth. And so standards began emerging, and what we started noticing in a lot of the tooling vendors, so specifically Apache Camel is one of those tools, is we started to say, hey, we need some semantically meaningful idiomatic way to describe these things, right? We need domain-specific languages, and we need to have patterns kind of idiomatically baked into our language. And if we look over here to the right, we'll see a really small snippet of Camel, where we start to see these kinds of things that are semantically meaningful. We know from, we're going from a JMS queue, and then we want to do some parallel processing, and inevitably we have some other idioms that really reflect what is happening underneath the covers from a technology standpoint. These things would often come with hundreds of adapters. So as we kind of made our way into this new world, we could say, hey, we have an idiomatic way to describe our enterprise behaviors based on these things called enterprise integration patterns. And oh, yeah, by the way, and pretty much every tooling vendor had these things, we also have these hundreds of adapters to other systems like SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, so on and so forth. So we kind of, we got to this place where you have this kind of tooling in the SOA space, and most of it kind of lent itself towards the enterprise service bus pattern, which was typical based on where we were coming from. And so this led us to a bunch of great places. We were able to expose reusable service endpoints over common communication standards. Now no longer did we have kind of fun trying to figure out how to serialize over the wire differently for this other tool, right? We had a common means of communication over the bus. We were able to loosely couple. This gave us our service oriented architecture construct of everything being on an island. This is analogous to what we find right now in microservices. And what this allowed us to do is say, hey, because my two bits of processing or my two things that are doing the work are loosely coupled, they can attend to different things and they can change at different rates. This was great because everybody kind of had their own notion of responsibility as they were delivering bits into our enterprise. And this also led us to adapt legacy services via the set of adapters and things that we baked into these appliances that allowed those things to conform to normal communication standards. Now, if I had some big mainframe process in the background, no bother. I just simply use my something like Apache camel. Now it can talk to a host of other services, so on and so forth over this message bus pattern. And this also offered us a really great tool set to do these things with. Oftentimes I would have not just a common protocol for communication, but I would also have a canonical message standard, right? Every message that happened over the bus and that you subscribe to would have the same things, right? And this made things very predictable, easy to implement. And many of these tools, like Apache camel, your tipcoes, like the fusions of the world, all had great IDE, so you could really just kind of drag and drop, get your work done, and let kind of our enterprise service bus appliance or some of the other SOA appliances that we ended up with take care of the work. Unfortunately, this did kind of present some new challenges to us. We still had complex interactions that required state management, as we're no longer sitting there in the same runtime, we started to have some trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partitioning of our data, right? CAP Theorem still definitely applied, and quite frankly, CAP Theorem becomes more difficult in a distributed context. Integration implementations were often coupled to platform-specific interfaces, so as we saw with the JBI standard from Enterprise Java that was retired quite quickly, or even a precursor to camel service mixes normalized message router, these things were very, very, very specific, the implementations were very specific to the appliance that you were using. What this inevitably meant that I was bound inextricably to the APIs that my tooling were presenting, and it wasn't really, it ended up being quite like a bad place to be, because maybe those things didn't really accommodate my needs. Additionally, we popularized the central governance model, we would have schema registries and discoverable services, so on and so forth, over our ESB or other SOA appliance. And unfortunately, what this ultimately meant, and I think many of us have sat through them, is if we needed any change to the business, this had to be expressed through our central governance model. In fact, we likely had a canonical message that everybody in the business had to adapt to. What this meant is all our run times would spend all their time picking out what was meaningful to them, throwing away the rest, and then trying to figure out how to cobble that all back together once they've done their work in a way that the next thing could handle. And so this made change come to an absolute snail's pace. I personally have sat in many, many, many steering committees where literally we spent months trying to figure out how to accommodate everybody. What ends up happening is we all put our Martin Fowler hat on and microservices emerged. So on the integration highway, we had some point-to-point stuff that we initially discussed, right? Got remote indication between two points. We then adopted SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture, and we ended up with ESBs where everybody kind of could link up to a common hub-and-spoke type of infrastructure. And then inevitably we came up with microservices, and these are kind of taking on some of the same capabilities that our Service-Oriented Architecture did, but a little bit different. What we want these things to do is to have independent deployant pipelines act completely independently. We would not want them coupled to any of our other services. We're certainly a service implementation type. And this allowed us to be more flexible in our deployment types, more agile in how we go about our SELCs as we now have independent deployment pipelines. And if we really put our Martin Fowler hats on, we went so far as to silo our data stores and databases such that a microservice would have its own database. Well, that was cool, right? And it got us a lot of stuff. However, we began to move to the cloud and there were some expectations of moving to the cloud that changed the viability of microservices and started to instill some new pain points. So one of the first concerns we needed to attend to was, well, now our infrastructure is ephemeral. We need to be able to tolerate failure. We also wanted our old stuff, our stuff to sat in our data center to be able to talk to new stuff in the cloud. And we wanted to go promise to our boss who is funding all this. Hey, don't worry about the fact that we've gone over to AWS, no bother. We're cloud native, so we can go take this to any cloud, right? And now that means that we have to take on capabilities in our microservices that allow for these sorts of things, right? We have compute density and efficiency front and center. We've said, hey, we're going to go to the cloud. That's going to be cheaper. We don't have to go buy a new data center every time we want a new enterprise feature. However, small problem that also makes us responsible to maintain a notion of compute density and efficiency that's quite lean. That also, again, began influencing our architectures, so on and so forth. And inevitably, we distribute architecture across cloud infrastructure and availability zones. One of the ways that people started attempting to handle this is an abstraction called the container platform, something that many people are very familiar with now. And that's become a central tenet of our architecture so we can attempt to deal with things like failure of our architecture and not have to have a completely different set of appliances to handle that, so on and so forth. Compute density, how we schedule these things, so on and so forth. And this allowed us to kind of follow our microservices, architectural viewpoints and decompose into smaller runtimes and it lends itself neatly to having these kinds of independent deployment pipelines, so on and so forth. However, of course, this also leads to a new set of game points. We all of a sudden had one big, huge microlith or monolith and now we've distributed that out into 30 runtimes. That requires a whole new and phenomenally more robust set of tooling that collects metrics and health information about our runtimes. We had Kubernetes or a container platform to abstract away cloud specific infrastructure APIs. Now I don't have a wildly different experience when I go to Azure versus when I go to AWS, but we've also taken on all these other concerns we saw on the left-hand side and now developers need to go build in high availability, redundancy and cloud characteristics into their applications. It doesn't come for free and as we've all seen over the last several years, developers are spending much of their time attending to these platform needs as opposed to actually doing the work that they need to do for the business. As we mentioned, our monolith decomposition led to an deployment of deployments and it's difficult to go straight to our superior say, we've moved to the cloud and it's far more expensive. And then of course, there's still a need to maintain state reliably in a cloud context, much like we would have done in our traditional world. However, we need to be able to handle the loss of an individual runtime, availability zone, storage, potentially even a region. So we still have this need for our state stores and our sources of truth to be meaningful and real and persist. However, our tooling doesn't really accommodate that. Cool. So here we see, my team and I have actually made an honest effort at defining what cloud native means. And we won't spend too much time on the slide, but some of the cloud native characteristics that we take on need to be that we're elastic, we're scalable on demand, we're resilient, and I mean really resilient, not just like, hey, my runtime comes back up, but hey, I'm able to survive loss of a data center. We need to be observable, manageable. We need to be location agnostic. Remember, our runtimes are going to come and go. Our storage may come and go. All these things may come and go. We need some means of deployment and service discovery that doesn't depend on static things. We need to be API centric, and we need to be event-driven. That's all spelled out. The last two things are all spelled out in the article that you see there. Please take a peek. And of course, finally, GitHub issue if you disagree. But one thing that we notice is to be cloud native, it's more than just a move to the cloud. If we rely solely on a single cloud API, we're only native to that cloud, right? Now when I go from AWS to Azure, I get to be the person who delivers the message to my boss, hey, that'll be another nine months. We need, we've abstracted these proprietary cloud APIs via Kubernetes. So Kubernetes or a container platform becomes great, but that's really not enough in and of itself. To be truly cloud native and capture these characteristics on the left-hand side of the screen, we need something that actually does caring and feeding for deployments that attend to some of these things such as observability, manageability, so on and so resilience, scalability. And so we need something like the operator SDK. I won't get into the operator SDK and what it is, but again, please go check out this article. We just explain it in nauseating detail. All right. So where does that leave us, right? We have these new things as we move to the cloud that we need to attend to. We have point-to-point, we had enterprise, the enterprise service bus, which was great. We have microservices, which started to take some of the pain points away, but also added some new pain points. And our next logical place to go because it does attend to these concerns is serverless. Now, what does that mean in regards to our traditional ESPs, our traditional enterprise integration appliances, so on and so forth? Well, in the Apache Camel world, we have something called CamelK.  Java, XML, YAML, we're able to care and feed for these things very simply via the Kubernetes operator. We have a CLI. We'll show that off in a second. We have a sub-second employment and startup time using Quarkus. If you don't know what Quarkus is, and you're a Java developer, check it out. It's super cool. And we want to be able to run integrations in serverless mode, meaning we want to be able to scale to zero and then we want to be able to scale to n replicas based on some sort of metric, be it CPU, the number of messages we have coming in, so on and so forth. And we want that to happen algorithmically. So meaning I don't want to just scale from zero to one. I potentially want to scale from zero to eight, back down to four, back up again to 10, so on and so forth. We also have a need to be API centric and adventure event. And Knative is something which we'll describe here in this next slide that allows us to do that. So Knative eventing provides a PubSub abstraction for this type of stuff. And if we'll see on the right-hand side what we inevitably have is a broker, which could be anything. It could be in memory. It could be Kafka, which we'll show in a second, Nats, GCP PubSub and more. We create channels much like you would in any kind of PubSub environment. Then we have Knative services that can be serverless and scale to zero and also carry along algorithmic ways of scaling that are actually making subscriptions here. This all happens over HTTP one. So all we need for these services, so on and so forth, to be able to speak is HTTP one. There's nothing specific about it. And this allows us to say, hey, even though I have a store, a state store like Kafka underneath as a broker implementation of my PubSub architecture, no bother. That could be anything. In fact, my services, service A and service B here, don't need to know anything about Kafka. All they need to know is how to consume and produce from one of these channels. This allows us to take on the decomposition that we have for microservices, but do it in a way where we have compute efficiency. Now in service A and service B, may not necessarily need to be running because there's no real payloads they need to attend to. Well, no bother. CamelK provides seamless integration. Real quick, this is what we've got here. Don't worry about the left-hand side unless you're doing the demo, the full-on demo. But inevitably, we'll have some Kafka channels, we'll have some subscriptions, and then we'll have some things to pick up from there. So real quick, let's go ahead and do a demo. All right. And you should see my entire screen. Cool. So here we have some... All right. So I'm in a container platform, and here I have two integrations running. They have subscriptions. They subscribe to some channels. And if we describe one of these channels, you'll notice this is what we call a Kafka channel. In fact, we'll notice that the channel template actually has five partitions into replicas. So that's pretty cool. We know that we have those things. We need some way to... And let's go ahead and check out our broker. We have a default broker. And the way that this broker shows up is I actually just have a label here that says eventing.knative.dev.injection. And, voila, the way that I've wired up Knative eventing, this actually happens. So let's take it quick again. So let's go ahead and give ourselves something that's going to kick off those two integrations that we just saw. Sorry for moving around. I have to go back to my cheat sheet. And we're actually going to use the camel CLI that we talked about to create an integration that will participate in this PubSub behavior. So here we go. Let's see. Let's interrogate that. And we'll notice that our event sync integration is building a kit. So we've got that going on right now. And if we... Let's go over and look at what we're actually doing here. So in our event sync integration... Oops, wrong guy. In our event sync integration, what we're going to do, that's what we just created is we're going to say, hey, I want you to create 50 messages. I'm going to do some of the idiomatic stuff that I talked about previously. We're going to do a quick transform. We'll set the body.  And as you'll notice, this has no understanding of what testing DB events, what the channel is. It has no idea that it's Kafka. We then have something called event bus transformation integration. And real quick, what we'll do here is we're just going to pick up off of a channel. We're going to do, again, a simple transformation of our body of the message payload. And then we'll just lay off again to another Knative channel. Again, we have... Hey, Michael, sorry, you have five minutes just reminding you. Great. And then we have one more guy and we're going to do the same thing. We're going to pick up from something and we're going to leave off. We're going to do our work, we're going to do a conversion, a transform, right? And we're going to lay off to the next channel. So let's see how it's going over here. Cool. And now what we'll notice is what we wanted to happen there just happened. We'll notice that the events integration that was quickly built by my CamelTLI, great dev apps for any of our developers, take a peek at what it did. So it's sending off those messages to those Knative channels. We'll take a peek at our event bus transformation. One more thing here. You see, we're picking up messages and we're doing the stuff that we said we were going to do, our business-y stuff. And what we'll see here is we have the same thing happening in the DevCon transformer integration. Now real quick, probably shouldn't do this, probably don't have enough time. But let's go over to, I'm running StreamD to get myself some Kafka stuff. We'll notice some Kafka brokers here. Let's take Zeck into one of these guys real quick. And let's make sure that there's nothing up my sleeve that we actually do have these things, these channels, subscriptions, so on and so forth in Kafka. So we'll cd into the bin directory. We'll do a Kafka topics. And in just a second, we should see a list of topics bang. And if we notice, those are the same channels that we had just created. We'll notice that it came in our, that were names, we have in our topic namespace, the namespace that we were just in, so on and so forth. So if we were to do a consumer, a console consumer, we would see the messages that we just saw being logged out. And that is the end of our demo. There's a much bigger demo available here at this particular GitHub URL. I apologize, I left everybody with very little time for Q&A, but we'll go ahead and set up for Q&A now. Thanks, Michael. That was a very thorough presentation. Thank you for that. I'm just looking at the Q&A section. I don't see any questions as of yet. Okay, one question is, can you link the GitHub repo here? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Let me stop sharing so I don't show you guys. Oops. Everyone wants to replicate your demo. Absolutely. All right. Just put it in there. There should be, I linked the slides so on and so forth. We have, there's a couple of different GitHub repos to shake a peek at where we attempted to find what it means to be cloud-native. And then a very thorough demo and we'll see how to take what we just did, make it cloud-native or make it, not just make it cloud-native, but make it multi-cloud and hybrid cloud as well. Okay, that's great. If anyone else has any more questions, I will just link the breakout rooms. You're free to talk to Michael over there. And yeah, thank you so much, Michael. Thanks, everybody.


Well, let's see. Okay, I'm gonna go up here. Okay, just gonna go outside, lay down, and talk to you guys about stuff. So, a little while back I was reading an article that supposedly most credit card companies are no longer going to be requiring signatures on transactions, which I think is awesome. I always hate like a lot of places like as long as it's under 50, you don't have to sign. When I hit that like $50 and one cent mark, I'm always like ah, because I got a sign now. I don't know why it's just so so nice when you don't have to sign for something like that. And I really never got the whole I get back in the day, you're signing and agreeing that you were going to, you know, pay that as far as security, it's like, do people really even you could scribble anything on that pad? It doesn't matter. I once was having a conversation with my father in law, and he's like, well, they should check your signature on the back of your car. And actually that conversation started because back in the 90s, I worked at circuit city customer service.  So your signature would be put into the machine. And I had one guy once who refused to sign on the machine. He said, because then we have a copy of his signature in the computer. But at the same time, he's signing a receipt that we're going to keep that could be scanned into the computer. So as this one of those things, it's like people, you know, yeah, you're concerned someone's going to have your signature. But anybody who signs something, their signature can be scanned in. It doesn't matter whether you're signing an electronic little scanner or not.  Back then you didn't do that. You signed on a piece of paper in circuit city was one of the few places where you're signing. It was if you didn't see it, you probably don't know what I'm talking about. But you would sign a piece of paper, but it be slid into a machine so that while you're signing it physically, it's digitally copying it as well. But yeah, the whole, I'm not going to sign in the machine, I'll sign the paper, but not the machine. We're keeping that copy you're signing. We doesn't it doesn't make sense.  But one of the things that I saw very commonly back in the day is, you know, some people would sign their credit cards, which it says, you must sign this credit card for it to be valid. And they were kind of strict about that at circuit city, I was supposed to check everybody's signature. And if they didn't sign the back of the card, I had to make them sign it right then, which some people hated. Some people who write CID, which was good enough, they wrote something there and I would ask for their ID. And usually people who wrote that were very happy when you actually asked for their ID, because they wrote it on there because they want to check. But then there were the people who refused to sign the back of their card. And again, it didn't make sense to me, because these people's logic was that, well, if I sign the back of my card, if they steal my card, they have my signature and therefore can sign stuff by copying my signature, which again, just doesn't make sense, because if you don't sign the card, then they just need to sign the card with their own signature, you know, write your name however they want, and then it's going to match. So it doesn't, it didn't make sense to people who did not sign their cards. The CID thing, I think was the best idea, although technically, you know, it's not signature and it's not valid signature, but you know, it makes sense because now you're asking for identification. But yeah, it was just all these things people do. But overall, now you swipe your card or stick the chip in. And if it's over a certain amount, you sign. But nobody ever looks at that. My father-in-law was like, Yeah, well, they should be checking. I'm like, When was the last time you actually handed somebody your credit card? You never do that anymore. You stick it in a machine, you swipe it in the machine, chip read it in the machine. It approves it, you sign the screen or you don't, and you move on. A signature, I don't see how that's security. In fact, for years, I would just draw a line, a little scan, just because I didn't feel like signing. You know, it's like, how is that security? Anybody can draw whatever they want. You can draw a happy face. And the machine's going to accept it. So yeah, I agree. The whole signature thing just never made sense to me. The only thing is like, if you always signed the same, and someone signed, you know, stole your credit card and signed, and it didn't match signature, that could be your argument, you know, against the credit card. But I'm pretty sure that when it comes to credit card theft, you are only liable, I believe, for the first $50 legally. And then the credit card company and the store have to work out the other half of that, or whatever the remainder is. And of course, that's also one of the reasons, one of the main reasons why credit cards are better than debit cards, because there's security in that someone gets your debit card and empties out your account, you're pretty much out of luck. But a credit card you're, you're only responsible for so much when your card's stolen. And also a lot of people don't realize this, but a lot of cards give insurance and stuff if you bought something, you know, and you have the manufacturers warranty, a lot of credit cards will extend your warranty, like for a year or something like that. And that's something that a lot of people forget about. And and it's something, and also it gives you security that if a company, you know, I've had once twice where someone sells me a product online, and they send it to me, and it's not at all what was advertised. And then you contact them like, yeah, this isn't what you sold. You said you were going to sell me.  And like, okay, yeah, just mail it back to us. And I'm like, yeah, I'm not paying the shipping and handling and send it back to you.  But if you send me something defective, or it's not what you describe, that's not my fault. The seller should be paying for me to ship it back. And most of the time you say that and they're like, Yeah, okay. But occasionally, you know, once or twice, a few times I've had, or they're like, Nope, you've got to pay to send it back. And at that point, I usually say, Well, in that case, if you're not going to pay for me to ship back, I'll just call my credit card company and cancel the payment and keep the product too. You know, and just saying that 99% of the time they go, Okay, okay, okay. Because at least if you send it back to them, if they're the middleman, they could always send it back to the manufacturer or resell it. Where if you just cancel the payment and you keep it, you know, unless they have, you know, and credit card companies pretty good at, you know, if you say this is not what they said it was going to be, they're going to back you. But most time you you are I'll give you an example. I ordered a tablet. One of my very first tablets was from H H Greg, which is a electronic store, which the one here in town went out of business. I don't know if they all went out of business. But recently, the one in town went out of business. But right when they first opened, I was looking at a tablet, it was like $200 for a very cheap Arcos tablet, Arcos Arcos. And I wanted it because you could install Linux on it like a full like Debian on it.  And this is six years ago almost. Yeah, no, just over six years ago. I ordered it online. Well, I went to their store, I looked at it, I spec'd it out, it seemed to be good. I went home, you know, researched a little bit. And then I ordered online and something like that, I wanted to order from a company like that that's in town. So if I had any problems with it, I can go to the store and return it. Again, this is probably really before I started using Amazon for bigger purchases like that. Because they're pretty good about returns if there's any problems. So I order it from there. So I already checked out in the store, I go home, I ordered online. I think they were at a stock in the store and that's why I went home and ordered online. But I had it delivered and I got it. And it was not the model that I thought it was going to be. They did a little, I think it was one of those like, okay, this is the normal model, but then like that come that, you know, H.H. Gregg had their own slightly different model that was the same name, like it may have had an A or B at the end of the model number. And as soon as I got it, I opened up like this is not the one that I was looking at. So I took it back to the store and they tried to charge me, you know, 15 bucks for the delivery or something. They weren't going to refund me that $15. And I just, you know, I asked for the manager, the manager said no, no can do. And I just look at him and I said, hey, listen to me, we have two options here.  It's not used. It's unpackaged. But I turned it on once, you know, I said, you can refund me the full amount or I will go home. I will keep this and I'll cancel the payment. He looked at me all mad and goes, okay, just one time. And that's one of the things I like about credit card companies because if you have any problems, one time I had to call a Discover card because there was a payment, a charge like 20 bucks on my credit card one month that I didn't recognize. And that doesn't mean that it wasn't something legit. I just called them. I said, hey, I don't recognize this company name. Do you guys happen to know if maybe, you know, sometimes companies have, you know, a home company name, like you bought something from this store, but they've got a there under another company and might show up as that company. So I said, hey, do you guys have this company listed something else because I do not recognize it. I'm not saying that it's it's not legit. I'm just saying I don't recognize it. And it was something like gift card jungle or something like that. And and they said, oh, you know, we'll refund that money right away and we'll investigate it. And I was like, oh, well, I wasn't asking to refund it, but okay, you know, and like a month later they contact me again and they're like, yeah, we weren't able to figure out anything other than this is that company. And if you don't remember ordering anything from that company, you know, well, they they actually also ship me out brand new cards just for a $20 purchase, which, you know, isn't their benefit because if my card was stolen, they're going to be liable for it, right? So they want to get new cards, which is great. They refunded me my $20 and sent me my card right away. The next day, you know, they overnight both me and my wife was a little annoying because, you know, I have a lot of auto pay stuff. So I had to go through and change the numbers for each of those auto pay things every month, which is knowing every time, like with the Home Depot hacks and Target hacks, there was already two in a row. So it's like, I think in a year and a half, there were three times where I got issued new cards by Discover card and had to go and update all those auto pay things. But it's great that they're they're on the ball like that. And and they're there to protect you and themselves, you know, it's and these big companies like Target and stuff, you know, if there's a charge on your card and you didn't do it or there's some sort of problem, the credit card companies are going to back you because why not, you know, and they're going to go to Target and be like, Hey, yeah, we're we're not paying this, you're going to have to eat it. And if you have a problem with it, what are you going to do? Not take Discover card anymore, which a lot of places don't take Discover card. But anyway, going back to the whole signature thing, I think it's great that we don't do signatures. You know, I think pin is definitely more secure. As long as people aren't looking over your shoulder as you're typing it. But in reality, when it comes to to credit card security, the security isn't really for you. Again, you're only responsible legally for the first 50 bucks. I think in a lot of cases you don't even have to pay that, you know, if you can prove that it was fraudulent. So it's like the credit card companies are going to jump on stuff so that they don't end up having to pay stuff and it's going to be less of a headache for them. So security, credit card security is more for credit card companies than it is for you. You're very secure by using a credit card. If you ask me, I'm not getting into, you know, if someone might comment on like privacy and stuff, you know, you should pay cash with everything. You know, yeah, but once you pay, cash is more private. If you do it properly, you know, because credit card transactions, you're being tracked on everything. But when are you not being tracked? But you also lose security, you pay something cash, and it doesn't work out.  So definitely I use my credit cards for everything.   And that adds up when it comes to things, you know, not everything you get the points back on the cash back on is worth it.  So, you know, that was something I was reading, you know, recently, and I think it's going to be great not have to sign for stuff, because again, I don't see security in signing for something. And it's not really my security anyway, it's their company. And I still don't get, you know, something about the whole chip and pin thing, which I first of all, I don't get the chip and pin because when you use it as a credit card, you still don't type in a pin. So I don't, I don't, I don't get that. I don't know enough about how it works. And I'm wondering how the encryption on that works, because I understand supposedly the United States was behind Europe, Europe had been doing this for years, and had supposedly worked out all the kings. That's why when I go to store, I stick in the chip and pin.  At first, it was so annoying to have to stick the credit card in and you had to leave it in until the transaction was complete. And that was so annoying. And I still is annoying. And it's like, why does it have to be in there? I'm just assuming that's using some sort of checksum with the total at the end of the, the, it's just annoying that has to believe you would think you'd be able to stick it in and read the chip, you take it out and put it back in your pocket. But you have to leave it in until they complete the, the, the transaction. And that's just annoying. And I don't get why. And like I said, my best guess, and, you know, I, again, I don't know much on the subject of the chip and pin. And I really don't care much about it. Because again, that's, that's, yeah. And also the whole, it's not really secure as a Sammy, what's his name? You know, the guy who took down my space by accident. And he made the little electronic card swiper thing. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look it up.  And that's all is, if you don't know this, if you look at your magnetic strip on your credit card, and it is, it's the same exact thing as a cassette tape. It's the same trip. In fact, the heads in the readers for the card swipers are the same as a cassette tape. You can take the head out of an old cassette, cassette deck player, wire it into your audio card. And as long as you have the software to decode it, you can swipe it and it just does tones, kind of like, it's a different, different protocol, but kind of like an old dial-up modem. You know, and that's how it reads it. And it's done by magnetic pulses. So he made a little chip that he can program and he, you just hold it next to, you know, a card reader and it pulses and it doesn't know that you're not swiping something, it just reads it, which pre-need probably costs, when I looked, I looked into making one, but it was going to cost about 20 bucks, which to me for something like that is pretty expensive. It was good for the 20 bucks because I think 15 of it is just getting the copper wire you coil around there, which if you have some lying around, you know, you're all set, you know, the rest of the parts are probably under $5. But anyway, the point of bringing that up was he realized, you know, a lot of these machines around town, they're now chip and pin. If you try to swipe a chip and pin card, or a card with a chip in it, it tells you to insert the card. He found that in the information that's sent when you swipe somewhere in there, there's a placeholder with a one or a zero. And if it's, let's say zero, you have a chip. If it's one, you don't or the other way around. And all you have to do in when you're swiping has changed that number to that. So that's all he did. So in reality, the whole chip and pin as a security thing isn't really secure because you can just override it.  I've never seen a gas station does the chip and pin. They all still swipe. So it's going to be a long time. So even if the chip and pin encryption and all that is more secure than just swiping your card, which still you can do online purchases. And all you need is the CCV code on the back, you know, a little three or four digit depending on I think American Express is a four digit code.  Again, it might be a little bit harder to program the chip, but if all readers are still accepting the swipe, again, all you need is a picture of the front and back of someone's card, which means I mean another topic. I once went over, you know, using a hid device that is a card reader. Basically, you swipe a card and it types the information from that. When I had some viewers get angry at me, like I was teaching this evil hacker thing and really there was nothing to it. It's like literally you can buy this device for $15 online, plug it into any computer or even a phone. If you get an OTG cable, you plug it in there and swipe it and it would type about the information. I wasn't teaching you anything. You can order this on Amazon. I was teaching how to basically use the cut command to cut out different information of that. But even if you didn't, all you had to do was open up Notepad or any text center and swipe it and you got the information from the card. So I had viewers being mad at me for showing this, which is just basic. Now there's Wikipedia pages. It's there's there's patents and information on this from the 70s. It's not new technology. Anybody could do it. It's not that hard. That being said, I also had viewers at least one viewer who kept asking me how do I get the CCV number? Because I want to swipe this and I need this and I kept telling him that's not on the magnetic strip. You can't get it from that. The whole point of that CCV number on the back of the card is that it's not on the magnetic strip that you physically have to look at the card. That's why that number is there. You can't pull it from and he just wasn't getting it. It's not on the magnetic strip, buddy. That's what I'm trying to tell you. So yeah, credit cards are interesting thing. Definitely again, more secure than a debit card. And as far as cash, you have some more privacy, but you don't have the security of using that's one of those tradeoff and balances. Balances and tradeoffs, whatever. So yeah, credit cards are interesting things. Talking about credit cards. So, you know, back and it wasn't that long ago where you still had to well, no, I wouldn't say oh, it was so late 90s. I was working at GNC. That's GNC, not GMC, General Motors, whatever. I worked for GNC, General Nutrition Center.  So yeah, let's talk about that for a minute. So, you know, a lot of these credit card companies want you to install their app just like everybody else, which is completely pointless. They, you know, they're just trying to get access to your phone. All these apps and your phone can already do 99% of the things you need to do. There are very few things that you need to actually install apps for. Very, very few. And, the things that those apps can do that your phone can already do, you need to be careful because if you don't trust these completely, they can access things on your phone that you may not want them to and that's why you need the apps. But your phone can already do 99% of the things you already need to do. And you need to look at some of these apps and they say, oh, install our apps so you can do this. It's like, why? Oh, on install our apps so you can do banking. Well, I can log into your website and do all my banking and transactions without the app. Why do I need to install the app? And the thing is they want to get into your phone. That's the only reason they want to have access to stuff on your phone because that's the only logical reason anyway. If that's not the reasoning, then they just are very poor programmers or understanding anyway. What was I Oh, so credit cards and like their apps and stuff. I don't have that, but they have things like, oh, you can get notifications. You can pause transactions. You know, if you just realized you lost your card deposit. Now granted, I could go on to like again, discover card and I can pause my account. Yeah, I have to log in. It might take me if I've never done it before. I don't know where that button is. It might take me five minutes to find it on their website or even, you know, where an app, it's open it, click the button. It's frozen. So it might take me a couple of minutes if I've never done it before. But I much rather have that then then have an app on my phone all the time. But another thing that these credit card apps do is they can notify you whenever your credit cards used, which in reality, I already have set up without that through text messages. For example, my discover card allowed me allows me to set up I get a text notification anytime. They wouldn't, I haven't checked in a while since I set it up, but they wouldn't anything, any charges over $10 dollars. I only get texts and literally I get the text. I hear my phone ding before the receipts handed to me. I get it like that, which is amazing. So I know right away if I'm sitting at home and I get a text that says my credit card was used and I know my wife's not at the store. I look at it, you know, and in some cases it's like I have the same thing set up with my Amazon Prime card. But sometimes you do Amazon Prime, you do an Amazon purchase and it takes like 15, half an hour before you get it. But I know right away, you know, if someone's using my card as long as like I said with the discover cards over $10 than other cards like my Sam's Club card. They didn't have they would only let you get notifications if it was a large purchase like over $100 or over $300. I think it was.  I'm like, well, I know every time this card is used. So why I ended up doing is they also had a feature on their website where you can get a text if it drops below a certain amount. So let's say my credit card $2,000. My credit card limit. Let's say it's 2,000. I don't know what my limit is on that card. $2,000. I just set any time it drops below $2,000. Send me a text, which means every single time that card is used, I get a text. Now it's not as convening as the discover card one or my my Amazon Prime card because those ones say the card was used. This is how much was charged and was used at this store. I'm pretty sure the Sam's Club one which I primarily just use for gas because I get 5% back on gas and other than that I don't really get much back on it. But every time it's used I get a text saying the card you know had dropped so I know what the way it's used but it doesn't I don't think it tells me where it was used or how much it was used for of course I can always hop online and look if I need to. So yeah again no need for apps. Now going back to a usage of credit cards back in the 90s you if you worked at a store you would you would swipe the credit card it would literally you know through a phone line so I'm working at GNC swipe it dials up and at that point all the credit card did at that point was check is this a valid credit card and do they have you know money in their account you know and they would hang up and then at the end of the day you know if you worked in the 90s you probably knew us you would close out the computer and at that point sometime during the night it would do all the credit card transactions which is interesting so again you go to the store you swipe your credit card at most stores at least smaller stores like GNC or other retailers you know that weren't huge maybe the bigger ones probably started doing real-time transactions sooner but I would swipe it through the machine it would dial up do do do do you know modem noises and it would get approved but it didn't actually do the credit card transactions later in the day it just that's how it worked I'm not even a hundred percent sure why because if it's dialing up you think you'd be still do the transaction right then but I'm thinking it probably had to do with how stores are charged because stores might be charged different if they for a number of transaction transactions and if they do a number all these transactions at once maybe they get charged less something like that anyway so that's interesting but then if your phone lines are down or for some reason the reader wouldn't work you had to pull out the old machine where you put it down and you get a piece of paper with carbon copy and you you know some of you might be so young you don't know what I'm talking about but that's why your credit cards the numbers and your name and something are all bulged up it's because you and before I mean I'm talking about when we were able to use phone lines originally credit cards you just have these pieces of paper and you would just hope you know I guess I don't know I guess way back in the day unless it was an in-store credit card like if you had a credit card at Macy's and Macy's you know they would just do it but I think I think a lot stores you'd had to actually call up and confirm but anyway you would use the little carbon copies and I had to use that a couple of times at GNC when the phone lines were down or the little reader wasn't working and then later on they had to be you got a copy I got a copy one way on the register one went here it was it was crazy so I was watching or reading something some of you may know Sean Powers he's the assistant or associate editor of the Linux journal I'm friends with them on Facebook one a couple of years ago or so you're talking about how you got a new credit card and how the aren't bulged up they aren't beveled anymore and he's like no one uses the old carbon copy reader and it's really nice that it isn't bulged up he's like why aren't more credit cards like this and I can say that my Sam's Club card and my Amazon Prime card are like that they don't have any bevels on the letters and especially the Amazon Prime card is a nice looking card but it bothers me because I have this wallet here so I have this wallet here and I have cards shoved in there and to get the card out I can slide my thumb up and if the the letters numbers are bulged up it's really easy for me to pull card out the smooth cards it's really hard for me to pull them out because there's so many jammed in there so I actually like the old bevel and I think it looks nice well Sam's Club card looks kind of cheap Sam's Club card looks like they just printed my number on there where the Amazon Prime card it's like etched in there but it's still flat you know but just because of the design on my wallet and how many cards I have pressed in there it's really nice to have the the bumped cards because it's easier to pull those cards out once you get I get one or two out it's easier to pull the other ones out but if my Amazon Prime card gets put in the front of that it's really hard for me to get my cards out just because the card is completely smooth anyway so I'm just bringing up you know it just funny personal preference just because of the design but yeah there's really no reason that I know of I don't I don't think anywhere in the world still uses the carbon copy things to swipe cards nowadays it's like I guess I know I don't know if any I guess even small stores small retailers like G&C probably have a commit committed internet connection if their internet connection goes down I guess they just can't do transactions I remember happening at like a target and stuff and other grocery stores 15 years ago you know up internet's down we can't do any transactions and we're trying to get it back up I can't remember last time I went to a store and their internet connections down other than here in Florida after Hurricane Irma came through was that you know nine months ago six months ago whenever that was yet you know a lot of stores couldn't open back up because they couldn't do transactions and there were a few restaurants that opened up but they were doing cash only so if you want to go to the restaurant and sometimes you did if they had air conditioning but some of them some of them still didn't have power and they I guess they were just cooking because they had gas stoves and maybe generators to keep their food cold I don't know but there were a few places in town they were open and but they were doing cash only because there was no internet anywhere so yeah I guess I guess we just have reliable internet now so there's really no concern about if our internet's down we can't do transactions anymore or maybe maybe if like you're at some place like Target at least bigger stores Target Walmart whatever I guess if their internet's down I guess they maybe they can still do transactions and it just does on the local network and then submits them all once they get internet back but how do they verify those accounts are they just taking a chance I don't know I guess if you work if you work for you know or if you work for if you're something like Walmart I guess maybe you just have a really good dedicated line to your store you would think yeah so anyway we've talked about credit cards you know what I want to show you I'm I'm going to I'm going to take a little break myself but I'm going to show you my new laser engraver and I'm going to set the camera so that you can watch something be engraved so it's this this cheap sub it was like $96 for this laser engraver that literally will only engrave things like one and a half inch by one and a half inch so I got these little wooden coins that I've been engraving images on I have it set up so I'm going to actually go out to take you guys to my garage and I'm going to it's very very slow so just I'm going to engrave a image of tux the penguin onto a little wood coin and it's pretty neat it will give me a little break and you guys can watch tux be engraved and depending on how dark I have it engraved like there's a different values and the longer you burn for the darker it is and usually the nicer it looks I have it the value set to 40 as the burn time and so I think it will probably take 20 minutes or so to burn you know an inch by inch basically image of tux on this wood laser engraver so let's go out here to the garage do do do let's dark out here