Okay, we're gonna go ahead and start because we have 44 slides. No And it what you said three minutes a slide Don't worry. You'll make it by the pantheon party You know, this is a very tough slot. You're writing your work. You're the last session before the parties Not a good place to be people who want to go to the park, so My name is Greg Marshall. I'm a solutions architect at HCL. I've been on Drupal dot orgs since 2006 and Tended my very first triple con in 2010, which is when I decided to get serious about becoming a developer Before that I was just simply a user site builder. I happen to have all of these occupational certifications I'm a grandmaster for Drupal Southern Drupal 8 and I wrote a book a couple years ago called Master of Drupal 8 Use I'm Amanda. I'm a site builder at Colorado Interactive. We do all the Colorado dot gov sites about 250 years I'm also a Drupal Easy Academy graduate and I've actually had a Drupal dot org profile since 2008, but I didn't really get involved in Drupal until 2016 and into my first triple con in Baltimore Okay, so we have a disclaimer basically we both work for public corporations and we're here being us not the companies we we work for so Read the legal stuff later Who here does not have a Drupal dot org account? Oh good. I don't have to do that I was going to tell you do not pass go do not collect $200 and Proceed immediately opening up your phone your computer anything you have and get your account now because you want to start the time So the other day I was talking to my co-worker Alfredo and the topic of our Drupal dot org profiles came up I know you helped me set mine up when I first got active after the Academy But I wasn't really sure how important it is What should I tell them about his profile? Well your profile your Drupal dot org profile and your LinkedIn profile really in many respects represent your online resume And so hiring managers will check them out people evaluating modules will check your profile out There's a lot of reasons why and even though you might not give them the URL to your Drupal dot org Profile if you Google Drupal plus your name in that first page There's about a 95% probability that your Drupal dot org profile will show up So the people are going to be able to look at it anyways and let's let's talk about a couple of examples I already sort of mentioned the the fact that when people are evaluating modules They're going to look at your profile to see what kind of contributor you are within the community But just as importantly I've been involved in hiring quite a bit and over the years I've always asked for people Drupal dot org profile to see whether they're they're participating in the community and If you had two equivalent resumes and you brought up their profiles now These are basically equivalent people. They're both talented back-end developers the one on the left I happened to work with he's down in Costa Rica the one on the right I just happened to know but these are two equivalent things What do you think a typical hiring manner is going to do and at the same time and and it's funny because one of my co-workers from Accenture when I was there when I interviewed at Accenture My interview started off with my technical interviewing saying I'm not going to ask you about Drupal I already know you know it and we went on to talk for an hour and a half about other things But it was it was a very interesting. That's when it really clicked on me that that your Drupal dot org Now I know Alfredo is not looking for a job and I certainly hope he's not looking for a job But if you're part of a team and you're out pitching business and a client decides to check out who are gonna be the developers working on my site Which one would you like to see? Drupal profiles like this and this is actually three out of five Developers who put together a project very much similar what you and your team did in a year, but they did it in 12 weeks So it's a site factory implementation Or would you like to have This team which is I considered the dream team of Drupal It's Dries and two of what I consider to be some of the better-known Community members that are very very short program. So this is the idea that you want to have a profile that you can be proud of All right, you've sold me. I'll talk to Alfredo tomorrow. Can I show a miracle profile? Sure So mine looks like this because it's long enough. I had to make it tiny Really doesn't matter, but it shows you the general structure one thing I want to do is we're going along We're going to talk about a bunch of different fields and forms and they show up in the standard Drupal layout Left sidebar content area right sidebar So we numbered them one two and three as we go through We'll show you where all the various things happen And this is Alfredo's profile before we started it's actually better than many But not as good as it could be so why don't you go ahead and start with the basics and review options? Well, the first part of the profile is pretty obvious just standard Drupal username password email address Next is a checkbox for whether the account is shared For shared accounts, they're usually organizations and they allow several users to edit the information There's a checkbox for contact form with it Which if you check people on can talk contact you via Drupal dot org and then next on the page are the various Communications you can get signed up for I signed up for pretty much everything and I get maybe one email a week So if an in-depth I would just sign up for it and you can always change your mind later Next is the personal information tab first and last name pretty obvious You can also There's also the option to set your pronouns, which is a new option since I created my profile I know it's part of the Diversity inclusion initiatives that I heard about in Drupal Confaltumor. I added she her to my profile Alfredo added he him, but I know years of blank The next set of checks marks are another part of the diversity inclusion program They don't change what's displayed on your profile, but they do let the Drupal Association do a more detailed analysis of the Diversity in the community, so I'd encourage everybody to build that part out The next part is the biofield and it looks very innocuous and very small on the form Fortunately, it's a standard Drupal draggable field so you can go ahead and expand it and when you do that This is what mine looks like You this is really the chance you get to put almost anything you want on your Drupal dot org profile Including your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe So make sure you get a good recipe the first paragraph. I always and mine. I have it's the same Little short bio of myself that I use whenever I'm Registering for a camp or a con or anything. I just copy it off of the Drupal dog or profile So it's a very brief who I am and sort of a fun fact that I like to ski in June And then I go into more detail and then because again I was the I was one of the first people to get all of the aqueous certifications I've listed them all here, but just as importantly notice that there's HTML in this field So you can use HTML and if you click on the more information about Text formats you'll see that there are a lot of HTML tags available to you to do your formatting And I encourage you to take advantage of them and make your profile a little bit easier to read a little bit easier to navigate And technically you can have images on the on your in this field The one limitation is that image has to be on Drupal dot org So one way of getting around this is to file an issue on maybe a module You already maintain upload your image as part of that module or that issue and then immediately close the The image stays on the site and you have access to something you can put on I would encourage you that maybe that's not the best approach But it works Following that are some some fields for general websites you want So the first one I have on my profile is my company Website which has been in the middle of being refactored for the last five or six years probably will be for another five or six You know typical shoemaker's children and then a link directly to my book since I want people to buy the book someday Then you have social links and for me I decided that LinkedIn and Twitter with the two even though I don't tweet very often Those were the two things because I don't generally use Facebook and in a business environment So those are those are things and you can reorder them by dragging and dropping and getting it just exactly the way you want And then the last part of this tab is your photo and I use a standard formal photo I had taken when I started at Accenture I recommend a formal photo personally because I think this is your online resume You want to be as formal as what you can be informal You can have a picture of your dog if you aren't comfortable having a picture of you put an avatar or It really anything an icon if you notice Alfredo used his his aqueous certification badge But whatever you do you do not want the gray shadowy figure that Drupal defaults to that shows that you just didn't care enough To even bother uploading something so at least change that to something anything. We don't I don't really care The next tab is the language and location tab, which is pretty straightforward I picked the time zone we live in Denver the country United States and we felt out the location as Aurora Denver, Colorado If you don't fill out the location the country will display, but if you do fill it out that will display We picked a language for Drupal God or to communicate with Alfredo and His primary language both English and we selected English as this language spoken But since he can also speak Spanish help them and control key and selected Spanish as well The next thing you have is is the table able Drupal not your Drupal involvement So the first part of a series of checkboxes for how you contribute to the project They've been the same checkboxes for as long as I can remember mostly. So we give support on IRC Haven't seen anyone on IRC in a long time. I certain there are still people but so this is self self reporting pick things that you feel comfortable saying you've done and then About a year ago, so it's relatively new to me They added this second text field that you can enter your own Drupal contributions either Expanding on the checkboxes that you've checked or adding things that just simply don't aren't represented So I help organize the Colorado Drupal camp. That was something that I was very proud of I've helped organize Drupal contribution days at camps and cons As a mentor I've also spoken a couple of times at Drupal cons many times at several camps and Helped organize global training days all over the world. So Albany wherever I have a contract I seem to convince the community there to go ahead and do global training days Further down at the people who have mentored you in Drupal You type part of your Drupal username and auto complete work bring up the rest These get displayed on your profiles pictures, but just like any SEO They also link back to you from their profiles So if you pick people who list you if you click people who list your mentor and everybody has gotten help from somebody So this is a great way to acknowledge and thank them Finally, there's a long and growing list of Drupal events. Now. These are typically Drupal cons You'll notice the early events weren't Drupal cons because Drupal cons didn't exist then but these were the equivalent of Drupal Drupal Europe is listed here and it looks like I need to go back and update my profile because I didn't check Since I'm here, I think I can probably Before you add who you work for the next tab is your work. So your work experience This is like listing the jobs you've had on LinkedIn or on your job profile But before you add it check to see if they have an organization account on Drupal.org If they don't check with your leadership Because you don't want to be creating duplicate accounts But if they don't then go ahead and create an account for your organization and upload their logo Because then if you when you come back to this place and put in the exact name that's on the Organization profile that logo will come over onto your profile. Otherwise it would just show up as a company With possibly a link so you want to do that and the reason why I said double check with your leadership is when I joined HCL they have three profiles So they had three different people in different parts of the world that had decided that they should have an organization profile So one of the things we did very early When I started was get them all cleaned up into a single profile After you get that done go ahead and add them you again You can drag and drop them and get them in the order that you want them in The comments tab controls what part of your profile would be displayed when you create a comment And since all issues on Drupal.org or comments, this is probably more important than you think So there's some parts of your Drupal.org profile that are automatically generated so you don't control them You don't enter a form. The first is how old your account is Which is why I'm so eager to have people sign up as early as they can It's there's nothing like having a nice long period of time Nobody's got more in about 18 years six months because that's when Dries Started the account so since he's user one I'm pretty certain no one can be older than him Then you have the number of edits you've made to the documentation anybody who's been confirmed Can edit most of the documentation or some of the newer documentation that's being moderated So that has to go through a review process But otherwise you can edit it just like on a Wikipedia and you should if you see something wrong or you see something Unclear go ahead and click the edit button and do that now. This doesn't go up every time you edit It goes like one five ten fifty a hundred So it doesn't happen all the time, but it will eventually catch up with with it And I think it's actually being done during your crime The next one are the credits on issues fixed in the past year This is relatively new and I think it's part of that expanding credit system that the Drupal Association's been putting in place and so a lot of like camps our camp uses issue credits as a way of acknowledging people who participate in the various meetings and organization and Activities that we do in order to get our camp ready and then I have a couple of core credits that actually I traced back Just for fun and realized that I didn't add any code But I had documented how to reproduce a bug that we had run into when you had multilingual paragraphs with content moderation all stacked together and so That was a that ended up being how we did it and then finally I do have some projects that are going to rapidly roll up when Drupal 7 goes away because none of them are that I've actually made direct code commits to Lastly on the right hand side if you or your organization work for the or a member of the Drupal Association You'll get a series of badges Okay, and everyone really should be a member of Drupal Association The reason is that Drupal.org is maintained by the Association. It's more than just the Drupal.org website It's all of the infrastructure that makes the project possible the git lab the the testing frameworks the localization Servers all those things very important to all of us that use Drupal But that that function and function very well and not supported by the Association and the other thing is that the Drupal Start and more or less a run Maybe not logistically, but they the Drupal cons come from it And if you look really carefully you can find Amanda and I in this picture So the first level of membership is an individual membership it's $15 a year or 15 euros So it's not very expensive And I really believe that anyone working with Drupal should be an individual member That's just that simple If your organization uses Drupal, I think you should be an organization your company should be an organization member I actually recommend when I'm doing projects for clients that they join the association They just saved a half million dollars not buying a they can afford a $200 or 160 euro organizational membership And so if they're doing that they really should do that and if you're Companies a member I still recommend that you go ahead and become an individual member There's just all of us need to do our part to help and then finally there's a supporting partner and This is for companies that are willing to make a slightly bigger contribution It's about twenty five hundred dollars a year and they didn't show what the euro Equivalent is if there is a euro equivalent But if you're a company and you're driving reasonably significant revenue from Drupal I really think you should be a supporting partner because you're driving reasonable revenue from Drupal And you should be doing your part to give back and the reason why I say this is because I really don't want you to be one of these This is a leech So you don't want to be a leech on our community instead What I really want you to be is the superhero that you could be by being a member of the Drupal Association So this is what Alfredo's profile looks like after his makeover. We know there's Some contributions he can be making to generate more visibility and his comments to work on that Good so what we'd like you to do is join us for the contribution opportunities on Thursday That will also if you get involved and contribute those kinds of issue credits will show up on your profile Good way to think you know make your profile better. You'll see a man denied there as the greeters and please participate in In contribution day even if you're not a coder there are things to do this year. We're going to have mentored Contribution for both documentation and marketing which we haven't always done. We've done documentation quite a bit and then finally Like all good Agiles, we run a retrospective So we'd like you to go online and take the survey and tell us how we did with this presentation and tell the Drupal Association and and can any Be how the con went overall so with that because we're one minute past two Yeah, we're not doing questions If you have questions you can talk to us afterwards or at a party


History is here to help here on ThinkTech and to help us understand the relationship between democracy and the media is Julian Gorbach, associate professor at the School of Journalism and UH Minoa. Welcome to the show Julian. Glad to be back. Glad to be back. Glad to see you. So let's talk about it because this is really important going forward and I don't know if people truly understand the relationship of democracy and the media and the First Amendment. Can you talk about that from your advantage? Yeah, I mean, I would say that one of the things about it is that I like to, when I teach students and I try to get them talking and really genuinely understand it, I try to get them to just understand it on a on an everyday basic, kind of a big picture level. Like these words are big words, democracy, the First Amendment, the media, but in our lives they come into play all the time and we have to have a real concrete understanding of them. So like for example, when I teach just the 100 level course at UH on news literacy, the first things I do, well the first thing I do really when when they come into the class at the beginning of the semester is, and I mean this could be a little tricky, I've tried to set it up in different ways and I kind of have a strategy for it now that I think may work but I kind of try and get the students to argue, to debate or like just to argue. And I also ask them when I kind of set up that exercise to have at least one person in each group, when I break them into groups, be the observer of what has happened. And then once I've kind of run this exercise, we have a discussion about what just happened and I asked them not who won and you know they think the exercise while it's going on is about whatever it is they're arguing about. I know that the exercise is about they're arguing and so when it when we kind of run the exercise and we talk about it, I say what did you notice? Were you listening to each other? Were you presenting facts? Were you presenting evidence? I mean early in the semester it's a difficult exercise to set up right because everybody comes in and they want to if you just say okay everybody go talk to each other, let's do an exercise together. They're all meeting how do you do and where's the party tonight? It's beginning of the semester everybody's excited and friendly but what I really want to get them to do is is look at how well do we actually listen to each other and do we use facts and evidence when we talk? And then I ask them you know do you do that with your friends? Do you have a rational debate when you're deciding where you're going to go out at night or whenever any kind of conflict comes up among friends? Do you have a rational debate in your family? Do you have a rational debate when you get online on whatever platform you're using whether it's Snapchat or TikTok or whatever and they all kind of shake their heads. I mean to some degree it often ends up very polite in the classroom although this way I can I can jigger things with the way we do the exercise to change that but the overall point is I say look there's only 30 of you or 60 of you in the classroom right now and you were supposed to come to this decision or this rational conclusion about this thing how well does that go when we actually try and debate and argue and discuss or whatever and I said that's the concept of self-governance that's the concept of the democratic system at its heart right and really actually I'm wondering about that Julian you know you can have an argument on everything you can argue you know whatever turns you on at breakfast but we have to have it we have 330 million people in this country right and they have to have a common understanding about what brings them together as a country otherwise it's chaos and we have seen chaos emerging during the Trump administration where people you know sort of got off that bandwagon they no longer agree on what is important in the country they no longer agree on what the constitution the rule of law mean and so yes I agree we have to argue about specific public policy issues we have to keep um keep current keep updating ourselves on what's important uh you know in our society but the fundamentals that bring us together the mesh that connects us 330 million people and I see that as democracy I I see that as the the agreement to be together but but what is democracy JJ it's it's us getting together and if I if we can't do it with 30 students in a classroom who are all gregarious and happy to meet each other and and wanting to talk about what's going on that night and and friendly if they can't have a rational discussion a rational disagreement how well does that work with 330 million people and that's not even bringing in the the factor of of this communication being mediated through newspapers through cable through whatever so just what I try to get them to understand is that this is the concept we get a group of people together the idea of government of the people is literally just that it's nothing more fancy than that it's that we are responsible for our own governance right and then you add in the distortions and and and all of the things that happen once it gets mediated and that gets a lot of times that's amplifying the problems that we have innately with just having a disagreement with one another you know I I just what I'm asked the students to say is how much do you naturally take the media completely away from the picture for a second how much do you naturally over you know interrupt each other shout each other down not rely on the facts or ignore facts you know when they come in have a disagreement about what the facts really are now try that with 330 million people and try that with snapchat and facebook and you know all the social media platforms all the cable news networks all the algorithms and and and that's in a nutshell you know you'd ask me what's democracy and what's the media you know the idea of the press in in you know jefferson's times ideally was that it it facilitated this conversation of self-government and that's why he made that famous statement you know so many of these things become cliches that we forget what they mean but but that statement where he said you know would I have a government without the the press or the press without government I would I would prefer the press without government and I think what what Jefferson meant by that is if you have the press and the people you essentially have a democracy because you have the heart of government so they will work out the rest but if you just have a government and you don't have a free press you aren't going to have a democratic system so it's not a system that you prefer and you know what's happened is the technology has evolved but you know if if you even look at Jefferson's own life you know he had terrible relationships with the press in the in one of the things that I look at in a in a media history class is the era that we call the partisan press when things got incredibly vicious I mean it's it's really a pretty close analogy to the you know Fox News and MSNBC and CNN and and Republican versus Democrat situation where we have now where they were they were just at each other's throats by you know 1798-1800 and I I I kind of don't you know I don't try and speed spoon feed a lot of times I have an idea of what I want to get across for any given period or whatever some main points but I try not to spoon feed to that to the students I sort of say what you know where's the connection between this viciousness in 1798 and the incredible toxicity in our media today and the answer is in 1798 we weren't really used to the idea yet of having political parties and so the idea that they're of the loyal opposition the idea that there was this other political party and that they may disagree with you on all these fundamental principles of governance but but everybody agrees on you know the the the constitution and the democratic system in the United States that is what sustains civil discourse this idea of the loyal opposition and and we didn't have that yet in because we were such a new country and we have it now it you know then it hadn't really formed yet now it's fallen apart and you know we have we have the republicans and the democrats who are seeing each other as as like the way you would talk about a foreign enemy I mean let me but let me interrupt you sorry you know it's the whole notion of balanced reporting where you give credit as in your class to what the other side feels false equivalency yeah but sometimes you know the other side is lying right the other side is his view is built on lying right Donald Trump lied 30 000 times in the course of his administration and and his right now his whole view of the world is his view to his followers is based on the big lie um Vladimir Putin has state tv and he lies to them all day long about about Ukraine it's built on lies and so my question to you is can you should you do you want to have this kind of I yeah I'll listen to you when you know that one side is trying hard to tell the truth and the other side is trying hard to lie no I mean and and you know I think one of the things we can talk about today is that that this isn't my first rodeo with you jay where we get on and talk and to a large degree we we dug into this in previous conversations about these kind of old notions of objectivity and the press being fair and impartial and unbiased and you know this both sides is on that goes on in the media but you know let's pause for a second just to say that part of the nature of the problem right now is that um and I'm not saying I agree with this but if you're a Trump supporter and you believe Donald Trump and you hang on every word I mean we can debate what these people really think okay but but but there are certainly a lot of people who have listened to him and have bought this idea that the democrats rigged the election that they you know they would stop the steal that they stole that they buy into the big lie and if you actually believe that then you see the democrats as like the enemy and like all bets are off for what you're willing to do so I'm not justifying it I'm just saying that you know when we look to history and and and our democracy in this country there was a time right near the founding when the two sides saw each other as like the way we see foreign enemies and we are back to that now now as far as you know what you're saying about um I mean you know if you're if you're moving students I mean what I'm talking about students okay I'm talking about your students yeah that's the student and I'm sure you have this experience one student in the class is um is on the GOP side and the other is is on the you know democratic side um now and you want them to have to argue the points you want them to reason together come to sort of I hate to use the word consensus but some kind of a greed conclusion about the reality in terms of factor policy but but one of them is lying or operating on the basis of lies how can they come together if that is the case well you know that's an interesting aspect of this right when I said before imagine the Trump supporter who believes Donald Trump you know I I think one of the things that we have to take into account with this when we look at it is you know I was a reporter in the deep south for a while and there were times when I you know in in Louisiana there were times when I confronted people who had a real deep genuine contempt for the press and they saw themselves as patriotic Americans and that was when it dawned on me that not everybody in this country who grows up seeing themselves as a patriot necessarily loves a free press or the idea of everybody having a right to vote or all the things that we associate when we wave a flag or when we pledge allegiance whatever it is we do with being a patriotic American that there has always been a really retrograde really scary uh currents in the united states of people who have really no interest in democracy right now in my classroom you know I'd have to say before we get to the speed bump up of the students who are republican and the students who are democrats they all come in and they say the media is bias and we need an unbiased media we need the media to be just the facts and standard they all say that when I give them online forums or when I just let them talk in the first week and when you do do like now not only am I teaching a news history uh news literacy class when I'm teaching a history class I say to myself I introduce ideas like maybe that's not the most sophisticated way to think about the media and what it should be doing right now but I also hold my fire a little bit because I know that after we get to the partisan press we're pretty soon going to get to the civil war and it's kind of once they start seeing the black newspapers and the northern you know abolitionist anti-slavery newspapers and the pro-slavery you know pro secession newspapers and the fact that you know if you were a Yankee reporter and you tried to go down south you'd probably end up with a rope around your neck but if you wanted to go report down in Mississippi or Alabama in in the months leading up to the war anytime during the war you damn well better go undercover and send your dispatches through code a good friend of mine has a whole chapter in his book on civil war reporting about this um and then they begin to get oh there isn't always both sides to every and then another thing that I say to them is you know we went through this last year with the with the um with the when the pandemic was going on and there was all the vaccine issues going on and they all say just the facts just the facts Kelly and Conway said alternative facts we don't believe in alternative facts we want just the facts and I hate to to break this to everybody I mean I'm a good liberal like a lot of people okay but you know when we talk about alternative facts if let's let's take the vaccine for a second I said to them how many of you and they're all you know good kids at UH Manoa they've all been backs and I say how many of you believe in the vaccines believe the vaccines are safe they all raise their hands this is the kids often I have in a class I say how many of you have friends who are anti-va they all raise their hand and I say okay let's go around the room but I want each of you quickly to tell me what just the facts you're going to tell your friends about why they should take the vaccine we go to six different people seven different people doesn't matter every single person has grabs a different group of facts and organize a different way to say the fact is the vaccine is safe they want to say the vaccine being safe is or an effective is a fact god damn it but then how you interpret all the little facts how you put it together how you construct the argument it can really vary and some arguments are stronger than others and so now on the other hand when I go to the store do I know my way home do I know that I was born do I know that I was going to die like some facts are just facts right but we live in a world also where where you know tons of data tons of pieces of information that we have only have meaning when we drop them into a web of me and so it's you there's no such thing as just the facts generally at a certain point you know what I what I introduce students to early on is it you have to understand this about the media you're always going to have fact and forum right and fact is when it's just just the straight news we want you know there was a robbery blah blah blah forum is all of the space and we do as you know as older people who are so a mesh the media were well aware of this is the vast amount of space in our media system that is devoted to interpreting and debating those facts and you know and and of course you're going to say you know because I can see where you're coming from this is completely falling apart that you know now you have the the liberal media over here saying one thing and and Fox News and OAN and all these others and they just tune each other out and follow their own facts and form that's what we have and you know so you talk about facts about them the vaccines well it's been politicized and you know it's understandable how a lot of people are confused and it's it's too bad because it's a life and death issue and this this you know Trump has gone a long way to engender and enhance that confusion and that's that's the way autocracies work don't you connect that you don't you feel that in an autocracy you create the facts yourself and you create them for your own interest and it doesn't matter what the true facts are so the more autocratic the government is the more likely people are going to be confused or completely misinformed well it seems to me that that a lot of the problem is that we've you know we went through these painful stages of of self-regulation of the media when it came to newspaper right in the 1920s that's when we really uh the professionalization of journalism got to the point where by that by 1920 we had journalism schools you know we had the University of Missouri where I got my PhD was the first which established in 1908 and Pulitzer School at Columbia had been established by 1920 we had a whole bunch of them right and we had the the the guilds of you know the the you know the association of American editors and and and all of these established codes of conduct and there were big debates could you decertify people just like the way doctors or lawyers can be you know stripped of their licenses to practice can you and of course we can't do that because of the First Amendment but we also went through it with radio right we had to there's only so much space on the radio dial we had to figure out how to assign that in a fair equitable way that was good for the public right and and whether we arrived at the right things we had to do with movies right with the Hollywood code which was an enormous fight through the 30s and yet like we're just such a myopic society that we act like we have no history and when we get to the internet which is a new technology we act like we've never regulated the media before and we have these incredible debates that we get mired in that are stupid that we can't seem to get out of like there's a difference between the government's restraint of First Amendment which which Elon Musk doesn't seem to understand or at least he didn't in all of his first statements about about Twitter that the government has to be incredibly self-restrained by the First Amendment of just letting people say all kinds of things right but then companies have always mediated their content and one of the things that I was I mean I'd imagine you saw the January 6th hearings was that two days ago one of the things that I found most interesting it was just kind of a side thing but you had that audio of the guy on Twitter talking about the back and forth that they were seeing and I mean everybody acts like these these social media platforms are so massive and so impossible to control and monitor and you know it just is a machine and and it's an out of control machine and what can we do there's billions of people on Facebook it was really clear to me from that thing that they are watching those messaging you know that messaging back and forth very closely and we've certainly had social media in this political environment and these platforms long enough that these guys have a pretty clear idea maybe it's not like a newspaper or a cable channel or a Hollywood movie studio or a book publisher but they are curating their content they have say in what the character of their if they want to be a Chan and they want to have Nazis parading around it's like each of them has a park or a Starbucks cafe and they can make that as open and closed as they want if you don't want people in in full Nazi regalia walking into your Starbucks and hanging out at that counter you can throw them out because you're Starbucks you're not the American government okay which is restrained in what it does as well it should be and you know what Walter Ruffin said over a hundred years ago was there may come to a point where people and I think maybe he's being a bit optimistic here because if the people may break before we're able to correct the system but he said where people in a fit of temper are going to demand action or he said actually when congress in a fit of temper is going to come down on the media as an axe and the regulation of media is a is a subtle and difficult enterprise and it has to be handled carefully and we do not want it to get to the point where the government has to step in and regulate well here's a really this is a really important point Julian you know we have chaos we have misinformation we have disinformation not only from sources in the country but from sources out of the country trying to influence voters and public opinion in the country from an informational point of view we have chaos and it's getting worse and I you know I just wonder where the first amendment is these days and and where the media is these days given the chaos everybody is into his own thing his own self-interest and his own you know let's get some advertising here it's just remarkable to me that we we see all this news on television and it's all terrible and then we see happy happy commercials or we see this news on television talking about a civil war and then we see a movie that's all about violence and vengeance and it's really hard to draw the line and I think you know the FCC may not look at these issues and the government may not look at these issues but how do you fix the chaos you know doesn't the government have to step in in some way carefully within the least revised version of the first amendment and and bring things into order somehow you know Jay I mean I think that I guess the point I was trying to make a moment ago is that we we can't forget that certain norms are still there like some of these major media platforms Facebook Twitter the idea that you know that we live in this brave new world and they can't control the content that goes on there I think we need to be seeing the end of that that being said that doesn't necessarily mean the opposite of true that the that the the internet in some ways isn't uncontrollable and incredibly dangerous and I don't have answers for some of this like one of the things that I find really disturbing about the July 4th hearing and it's funny because this is an idea that that to a large extent you and I were talking about three or four years ago when we talked about how politics is to a large extent psychological and often feeds into the very dark parts of not just the individual psyche but the but the dark parts of the collective psyche something we saw with noxious where you saw society god Matt and there's really no political explanation for Nazism it's a it's a dark site psychological one but I would say with the with the July 4th thing what we mean the January 6th thing no the July 4th massacre what you saw from that kids social media postings is that psychopaths people who are homicidal get together and network now that the that the internet is not just a networking tool for people like you and me to have a zoom chat but for people for people who are killers or are really bent can now seek each other out in a way that they couldn't before the internet existed and I think a lot of the craziness that we're seeing online at all kinds of gradations when people were just a bit politically extreme the people who are getting on there talking about large capacity magazines and posting snuff films to each other is is what we're reckoning with with the networking the incredible networking power of an internet you know what can the you know the press the media do what can the government do how are we going to bring this back to some sort of arrangement which keeps the country safe an arrangement which keeps the country as a democracy because I think those are threat right now the country is not is not safe the government is broken and thus the democracy is broken what can we do and that includes you and me it includes the media includes the government I don't know Jay I mean you know I I I don't have an answer on some sort of a programmatic theoretical way except to underscore maybe what I was saying is that this is not our first rodeo with self-regulation right um this is you know there are ways that these you know that these these these huge tech platforms have to see themselves as media platforms and we have to I mean a lot of the problem I have and this is why I'm saying it's not theoretical it's not programmatic is we have to stop having stupid debates for hours and you know the the part of the press that is functioning needs to get a little better at looking at the facts and letting some oxygen in the room so it's not the five people that we're seeing on msnbc all day every day like spend some more money and have some smarter people or some different people come in people like you and me that can come in with a different idea because like why are we still stuck in the confusion of the difference between first amendment restraints and the fact that these companies can do more and that's just one example okay there are things about the abortion debate about the gun debate about joe biden's management and the arguments within the democratic party um where there are just enormous blind spots and factual spots in that forum part you know i was saying fact and forum in the commentary part and and there's a lot of repetition of what they say over and over and a lot of like kind of rubbernecking about you know stuff about donald trump i mean i was thinking yesterday with the with the um the the uh january six hearings that we seem to be stuck in this in this really scary stage where if you guys remember the uh 1984 you know the end of 1984 where he says how many fingers that i have up and he's holding up four but he wants the guy to say five or maybe it's the other way around but but we seem to be stuck in a thing where the liberal media the mainstream media if you want to call it that is saying we still have four fingers up right like we're we're going like the january six uh hearings have introduced a tremendous amount of really important fresh information i don't know where the justice department is i really don't and i don't know where their communication is i mean and i think it's dangerous okay but having said that we the rest of us seem to be in this kind of pattern where a lot of the repetition is saying these are four fingers aren't they we don't have five do we and we're and meanwhile we're getting gas lit and and it's almost like you can feel the collective sanity the resistance of saying it's four fingers this is four fingers is getting harder and harder to do i mean if you think about how much of the january sixth hearing of the last one was just devoted to trying to remind the public and reassure those of us who have been following every single hearing that four fingers is in fact four fingers we're spending a lot of time on and one of the reasons is that the actual democratic side the Nancy Pelosi's the Chuck Schumer's the Joe Biden's there's been failure there that we have an address you know when you look at i mean and i don't i know this is facile and it's over the top drama to to talk about the hitler era and the 30s and world war two but you know i recently read the rise and fall of the third right i wrote a book uh in world war two era stuff the depth of the parallels and the reasons for the parallels between the 1930s and 2022 are terrifying and a lot of that had to do with pushback from the pro-democratic forces that wasn't forceful enough to counter the kind of incredible aggression that hitler brought to you know the incredible force that hitler brought to bear you know hitler just said i mean Trump said something interesting after the the early primaries with the republican field he said to either a quarter of a colleague they're weak Marco Rubio you know Ted Cruz Jeff Bush they're weak and i'm going to break them and i think that these people especially Trump you know who kind of group with this sort of mobster type of puff new york scene looks at Joe Biden and looks at that democratic leadership and says they are weak and i am going to break them and and you know we could get into that and look i'm not on the left okay but we need to have a serious conversation if you're whether you're everything from a former republican who's become a never trump or to you know just mainstream i mean i just voted for the mainstream democratic going all the way back when i started being able to vote i never was on the left side of whatever i always was a mainstream democrat and we both but for those of us who are there many of us and you can see it in the polling about Biden are incredibly frustrated by the way they're managing it and yet when i turned on my msnbc you know to a lesser extent i mean i think that the papers the washington post have been the new york times have been a bit better but we are not as a democratic party or as a non-trump part of the party we are not doing what we need to do to figure our stuff out okay we'll have to leave it there truly you make some you make some really powerful points and i would like to continue this conversation with you i'd also like to place it against the backdrop of the most important story of our lifetimes which you told me about last time we talked which is climate change and the irony is that here we are talking about things that really don't hold a candle to climate change in terms of an existential threat so julian it's so nice to talk to you we'll do it again we'll set it up again thank you very much today aloha thank you so much for watching think tech hawaii if you like what we do please like us and click the subscribe button on youtube and the follow button on vimeo you can also follow us on facebook instagram twitter and linked in and donate to us at think tech hawaii dot com mahalo


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Are Insects What Drive Vegan Food Cravings? It's pretty common knowledge that many plant foods, if not most plant foods, unintentionally contain insects. As life always thrives in an environment that gives life, essentially any food source. If there isn't a worm in your apple, there might have been something wrong with the apple. Perhaps it was sprayed with half a dozen chemicals, herbicides, pesticides. If we take a look at the foods vegans eat frequently and seem to crave, it becomes possible that it might actually be the insects contained in the food that are causing the vegans to have these specific food preferences. The first is peanut butter containing up to 136 insect parts and we all know how popular YouTube vegans like Healthy Crazy Cool love their thick, fat, heavy, creamy, nut butters. One can speculate that these vegans are craving fat but we all know vegans are sugar lovers at heart and consuming copious amounts of nut butter by the spoonful isn't something we see at least in front of the camera but it's safe to say that every single one of these vegans incorporates nut butters to some degree into their plant based meal plants. Next up we have chocolate. And if there is a vegan girl who doesn't eat chocolate, I have yet to find her. An average 4.4 ounce chocolate bar may have up to 74 insect fragments, a most commonly cockroach part, makes me wonder, are women craving chocolate or are they craving the nutrients from the insect parts in the chocolate? So much for Freely's chocolate mint smoothie being vegan. Pasta pasta, the FDA allows up to 225 insect fragments per 225 grams of pasta, seems like more insects than pasta. I'm starting to think that I have a reasonable theory here as so many of these vegan day of eating that we have seen in the past finish off the day with a giant bowl of pasta. The most likely answer to these food choices could very well be the presence of insect parts which is giving them some of the nutrients that they are lacking that they are craving in their diet. Fourth we have coffee beans. One cup of coffee has up to 120 insect parts. The FDA approves coffee samples that are less than 10% insect infected so a coffee drinker could unknowingly consume thousands of insects worth of coffee every single year. Starting to make sense why so many people are able to follow a vegan diet for so long they are sucking down insects by the gram every day. Raisins are up next which are known to have up to 10 whole insects per cup. The FDA claiming that insects are perfectly safe to consume for human health and I don't disagree with that but what else could they really say? This applies to all dried fruit in general especially dates which have lots of insects inside as you can see by this picture with all the tiny brown dots. Vegans are known for making smoothies with dozens and dozens of dates and we see them eating them whole by the dozen as well even dipping them in nut butters for their nice dose of insects every single day. For number six we have mushrooms. One 3.4 ounce can of mushrooms can contain up to 19 maggots and 74 mites. The FDA claiming that there is plenty of nutritional value in these insects. I can't make this up.  Frozen broccoli and likely other frozen vegetables contain aphids, very tiny bugs up to 60 of these per 100 grams of frozen broccoli. Imagine how many insects these vegans are eating in their giant veggie and fruit smoothies. Probably hundreds and hundreds of insects per day. These tomatoes also contain flies as well as fly eggs and are a fairly popular addition to many vegan pasta dishes and they usually add tomato sauce to their beans, legumes, whatever they're having. For number nine we have black pepper which we see vegans cracking on their avocado toast like they want to burn their tongue off. There can be up to 475 bug parts per 50 grams of pepper. Are we actually using black pepper or are we just grinding up ants onto our food? Cinnamon is another seasoning that is very high in insect parts and what would vegans do if they can't make everything taste like dessert? Finally we have berries, the FDA allowing up to 4 larvae or 10 whole insects per pound of berries so keep sucking down those maggots, my green boys and girls because it's very clear and apparent that vegans love insects. We can break down just about every single vegan day of eating and realize that all of these popular vegan foods contain the highest amount of insects. 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Hey everyone, welcome to Path to Nowhere. While we're waiting for the maintenance update to be finished, let's go over Kawakawa's skills and see if she is worth pulling for. Okay, so case information, the destruction of white sand's trade channel attack range is one person, defensive, she's a defender by the way, defensive counter attack. Kawakawa attacks with his cane, dealing a percentage of his own attack physical damage each time. So he has a cane. Where's the cane? Anyway, ultimate is Kawakawa creates a protective beacon for a target allied sinner that lasts for the entire battle. Curious, this is something new, an ally with the protective beacon gains HP continually. This is nice. This is I think one of the best defender skills that we've had. Well, of course, it's been a short tenure, but again, this is actually good because you can put this in a damage dealer, a DPS unit that is squishy. Right? So this is actually good. Passive is safe throughout after Kawakawa performs, all protective beacons are activated and recovers the allied sinners with the beacons, a percentage of their max HP. So again, a another protective skill. And another passive is each protective beacon on the battlefield gives Kawakawa a certain percentage of magic resistance. Bonus, the effect can stack a number of times. So again, this game is not really, is not really built around defenders. So because you need to deal a lot of damage, but this guy is I think worth it for the purpose of probably he's going to be your main defender at this point. So I'd like to, I'd like to level him up. I'd like to get him initially each attribute first blocks multiple enemies at the same time and increases magic resistance by a certain percentage. Again, he has magic resistance. If you have a boss that has, you know, as a magic attack, he is going to be useful. And I think he's going to be good. Probably at this point, what I'm thinking he could be your one or two defender, if you know, if you don't have any defenders in your roster, I think he's worth it. Um, it's just that again, we have another banner in a while. So I'm not sure if, if it's going to be two banners, you'd be picking on which key definitely would be your secondary pick at this point. Okay, because again, we have other defenders already. And again, he is good, probably rank one or two in the defender category. But you'll have to, if we have two banners, and if you can choose the other man, the other banner with stargazer, I think stargazer skit is kind of unique. So for him, probably your secondary choice, unless if you could get him in other ways. So that is it. I think he's good. By the way, one or two defender that is my take. So is he worth summoning? Probably yes. More than 50%, probably around 70 to 80%. So again, but again, we have other defenders and you don't really need defenders that much in this game, probably one or two, two is the max. So again, guys, thank you very much. See you in my next review of stargazer.  This is the Warden and I'm out of here.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. You're getting the properly dressed Foot Accountant today. How to do it for you guys. Got to look nice, you know, the YouTube channel. I appreciate you guys' support. Got to look nice for you once in a while. So thanks for chilling. And we need to talk about the stuff that is going on today in FIFA Ultimate Team on this Friday. The second set of Road to the Final Cards are going to be out in FIFA Ultimate Team as I'm recording this. This first set of cards is going to be going out of packs in 14 hours from now, which is 6 p.m. U.K. on Friday. So I want to take a look at these cards right now, maybe look at a few cards that I think we could see tomorrow and talk about these cards out of packs as well and what other content that we should see today on Friday. It could be a big day. The return of that Team of the Week SBC that was pulled today from the game, a nabbery player of the month and, of course, a new Road to the Final Cards. So first thing that I want to look at, though, is these cards out of packs. Now, I think these guys are going to be very similar to this Ultimate Scream Team. Number two, this set of Scream cards. And honestly, the first set as well, the pack weight was so low on them and there were not that many pack SBCs. There have been less pack SBCs for this promo than there were during Ultimate Scream. These cards are more hyped up than Ultimate Scream cards because they're live items based on Champions League games. So I think a lot of these cards have the potential to rise out of packs, even though they've already risen some already. Militão being literally the most in-demand center back in this game has gone from 400K to 500K already. I could easily see them being 550K out of packs tomorrow. I think Alan could go up to 350K easily. Juan Jesus is somebody who I'm personally thinking about picking up because look at it this way. Juan Jesus, if Roma gets that upgrade, if he gets that upgrade for going to the knockout rounds and this is a card that a lot of people are using, he's going to get a similar upgrade to what Militão did. Militão went from an 81 to an 84 and these cards get upgraded in a Team of the Week-esque upgrade. It's not just a plus one, it is a Team of the Week upgrade. So Militão went from an 81 to 84. He got plus two, plus four, plus six, plus four, plus three and plus three for his stats all the way around. And if you give that stat boost to Juan Jesus, he's going to be a beast looking card. He's going to have 82 shot, 85 defense, 86 physical, 71 dribbling and that's going to increase a lot of his stats down here and make him look like a beast card. Now, obviously his upgrade wouldn't be for a while. It's going to be in like December timeframe when all the teams that are moving on are confirmed. But I'm just looking at cards that are going to move up out of packs. I'm honestly surprised a little bit at how little games this card has been used in 2,500 games for Juan Jesus. But of course, this reading is taken from the number of cards that are on the market and how many games played they have on him. This card is going to have a lot more supply than somebody like Militão who has 14,000 games. Obviously, this card is more rare. It's higher rated. So that takes that puts this number into, you know, they're not exactly the same comparison between those two cards. But this card is way overhyped. But that's what I'm kind of looking for, is I'm mentioning thinking about maybe investing in a few of these cards out of packs. Now, some of the guys that I like the most, this Wendell card left back. He is Brazilian. I know that we got Tellez in the team of the week this week, but this guy is Bundesliga. He is Brazilian, Brazilian left back. He's got four star skills as well. He's got high medium work rates, 23,000 coins. I mean, it's a solid card. It's 8,000 games played. He's been used a lot. I'm a fan of that one. I'm a fan of Kingsley Coman. And I'm a fan of Jadon Sancho. I'm really a fan of this card, but I'm not going to be buying this one before Friday because of the possibility of the player of the month, Serge Nabri card coming out. Lewandowski got a team of the week this week. That doesn't really mean that he can't get a player of the month card. But I think Nabri might take the cake for player of the month. And I'm a little bit scared that if Nabri does come out and he is right mid or left mid because he played a lot of four, two, three, one on the left side. So either a left center attack in mid or a left mid position in the month of October for Bayern, I was looking at some stats tonight. So there's a possibility that Nabri, if he does win player of the month, could be a left side player. So I'm going to stay away from Sancho and stay away from Coman. Although if I do see that the Nabri SBC is way overpriced or if Nabri doesn't even win, if Lewandowski wins or somebody else wins, I would be very inclined to invest in some of these cards. But I'm going to hold off on a lot of the investing. I might buy a few Juan Jesus, but I'm going to hold off on a lot of this investing probably until we see what happens today on the game for content, because obviously you guys know we had that SBC today, the guaranteed team week upgrade that they botched up. There was not supposed to be an inform requirement in that SBC. They took it away after 15 minutes, but the damage was done. They had to pull the SBC and they're going to re-release it. They said in a tweet, they're going to re-release it and that they are going to grant back the informs that you put into that SBC. So if you did an SBC in that timeframe, you'll probably be able to keep the player, but you'll get your inform back that you submitted. So it is what it is. I do think that SBC is going to come back out and that SBC will again take a lot of coins off the market is untradable.  People are going to be trading in their cards and from their club and selling cards to go do that SBC, to go do five of them, maybe 10 of them, maybe just to test their luck. Even most people doing one or two, that's a very smart move by EA. You'll take in 20, 30,000 coins off the market just like this. If people do a couple of those SBCs or if you're doing Toko, a combi, I think he's somewhere in that pretty cheapest range as well. Pretty nice car, by the way, four star, weak foot, three star skills, great finishing through a chem style on him. I'll have over 90 finishing. Great looking card right there. Nice little player of the month card design as well for La Liga. But again, back to the player of the month, NABRI stuff, that's why I'm kind of staying away from the Coman. And to be honest, I am a little bit scared of investing in these real-to-the-final cards out of packs again because of that possibility that we could get the NABRI SBC and the fact that the team of the week SBC should be coming back out because that SBC has a lot of demand and we saw today when the SBC came out. We can actually look at a few of these cards today. When that SBC came out, Militao actually dropped a decent amount. Militao was 520K earlier this morning. The SBC came out midday. He dropped down to 496,000 coins. So we dropped down a decent amount after rewards and after the SBC came out. I think some of these other guys dropped as well. John and Sancho today was he was 230. He dropped down to low 220s, which is closer to where he is right now. So again, a lot of these cards did drop and I think if you see the SBC come out again today on Friday, you might have an opportunity for those cards to drop again just because people will sell these cards. Some people on this game will sell these cards to go do one of those SBC. So that's my biggest thing. Again, today we should be getting that upgrade SBC again. The second batch of road to the final cards and that surge in Abri, but I'm still kind of interested in buying these cards out of packs. I would watch and see what happens tomorrow at 6 p.m. UK, maybe before you take a look at some of these road to the final cards. But again, they're just so freaking rare because the most supply that we got for these cards was on that first initial weekend, and that's why you have seen a lot of their prices just only go up from there. Militao was 400,000 coins on Saturday and Sunday last week. Now he's all the way up over 500K because he was just packed so much on the weekend. And we haven't had any supply during the midweek portion of the week. We haven't had any pack SBCs this week for these cards, which is honestly crazy to me. So that's what I think about those. Some upcoming predictions for maybe the second set of these cards. Now, again, the second set of these cards out today is going to be available for three days. So these cards you're going to see today only available for three days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I think until Monday at 6 p.m. UK, maybe it's even Sunday at 6 p.m. UK, the 18th, whenever that is, I think it's Monday. Well, I don't know, we'll figure it out. But those cards will be in packs for only three days. So that is a very short time span. I do imagine that they will be supplied, but you're going to have a lot of people on this market, a lot of traders just using their common sense. And it's going to seem like a very, very good card to invest in because of the lack of supply. But I also feel like that maybe EA was trying to make both sets of these cards lack supply because they didn't supply the first set that was in packs this whole week. They were very low supply cards, kind of like screen cards, how I compare them earlier. And these next three, these next set is going to be in packs for only three days. So maybe they're trying to keep the supply similar for those and for these cards in the weekend. And maybe this weekend they're going to just hammer out the new cards. I mean, Pogba is a very possible Europa League item that we could get that would sell a lot of packs for EA. You know, it all it comes down to does EA want to who is EA going to put in to sell packs? I mean, Gabriel Jesus is another one. I have him on the thumbnail today. I could very well see this card get in because right now we have a Mahrez card, maybe another attacker or maybe, you know, we've already had a defender in Odomendi from Scream. I don't know who else they could put in from city, but I feel like another city player gets in. I feel like a lot of the players that you see from this current squad from the first set, there weren't any duplicates on teams. You're going to see again, I think a lot of these teams, probably another Spurs player, definitely another Liverpool player, unless they just use Joe Gomez as the second Liverpool player. Another Real Madrid player, Bale is a possibility, maybe Benzema or Modric would be a possibility as well. Maybe even like Venetius, maybe they actually give him a card, even though he didn't win the SBC, who knows. But even Chelsea, probably you see another Chelsea card, a Juventus, Pimonte Calcio, Dortmund and stuff like that. You're going to see a lot of these major teams. Barcelona is probably going to get another one. I bet you see a lot of these hype teams used again. Actually, we didn't get anybody from PSG, did we? Yes, Neymar. People are thinking Neymar this week or today. That could be a card that we get as well. So it depends on how hyped the team is today, as well as some of these cards. If we see even some complimentary goods, let's say they put out another right wing. Let's say they do, heaven forbid, they do Salah. Let's say they put Salah in for one of these cards. I mean, it's probably not very likely, but let's say they throw Salah in. Like 300,000 coins. Mahrez, right now, his road to the finals is 300,000 coins. If they put a Salah in, you're probably going to see Mahrez's price drop, because again, there's going to be another right wing in the prem that would be a road to the final card. So there's a possibility for that as well. But I think the second set is going to be pretty hype. I mean, this first set, honestly, when we saw these cards last week, the player selection was unbelievable. These are all overpowered, popular and used meta players on FIFA. And we were just shocked to see some of these cards that we got. So I think they're going to continue the trend with these road to the final cards and make it a good second set of these cards for this weekend. And again, I would expect a lot of content this weekend. I would expect SBCs. Another player, SBC, I think would be something that would be very easy and very possible for us to see Joe Gomez expires tomorrow at 6 p.m. U.K. Corona will still be out. And William will still be out until the end of the promo. But I do think we'll see another player, SBC. I think it's possible with this second set. So that's something to keep in mind as well. But again, we don't have any PSG players. I totally forgot about that. I do think we'll get a PSG player in tomorrow's set of players. And watch for that to be released early. Last week, they released the second set of players early before the 6 p.m. drop with that live stream at the pro event. There's not a pro event this weekend, but there is a possibility they could release players again and tweet out the team at the, I think, what is it, 3 p.m. U.K. They could tweet out the team again and we could see some market movements along with that. But I would definitely say that we're going to see more promo packs this weekend. Probably some 50 Ks. I mean, right now they have 35 Ks in here. Less than 1 percent chance of packing those players, as always. And I would watch what packs we do get tomorrow. But again, the first set is going out of packs unless EA changes something. We're probably going to have a team in the week upgrade, SBC, Bundesliga player of the month. And of course, the set two of the road to the final card. So that's what I want to talk to you guys about today. Again, if you're investing in these road, the final cards, like I'm really looking at Wendell and Juan Jesus, I'm probably going to wait to pull the trigger. If I have to buy one or two thousand coins higher tomorrow at 6 p.m. U.K., instead of maybe overnight tonight right now, I would rather pay the extra 1000 coins than have to know that there's still a risk of these cards being of dropping in price because of whatever reason. If EA puts them back in packs for the weekend or if a player of the month, Nabri, comes out that makes Santos price drop because the Nabri SBC is very valued and very good. If we see a Nabri SBC tomorrow that is very good value and it's cheap and it's a good card that's upgrading, you're probably going to see Sancho drop in price. If it's right mid and if it's left mid, you're probably going to see Coman drop in price either way. It's going to be a phenomenal time to pick up on those cards because these road to the final cards, again, are live items that will be good and used for the rest of the year, at least for the foreseeable like five months. So definitely keep an eye on some of those things as well. And again, some people have been pointing out what's the best way to find if these cards are used. I mentioned it a little bit earlier on in the video. But if you look at games played, click on the card itself and look at this number of games. These cards have been only in packs for a week. 9000 games for one of these cards in a week is honestly pretty good. If we look at, let's go look at this last team of the week that just went out of packs a couple of days ago. What about one of the most high players in this team of the week? Team Overnor, 27000 games played. How about Kyle Walker, 17000 games played? So team Overnor is very hyped, obviously, with that. But 17000 is on the higher end. And some of these guys, even John and Sancho, 12. OK, that's pretty high up for a card like that. For one week, the card being so rare and stuff like that. So a lot of these cards are getting used. People know that they're live items that they're going to upgrade. So they're going to have hype and they're going to rise out of packs. But again, invest in those at your own risk. I'm telling you right now, I'm probably going to buy a couple Juan Jesus and probably a couple Wendell as well, just because I think people are trying those cards out, they're having fun with them and they're getting used in this game and their upgrades could be pretty good. So those are my thoughts on those cards. Have a great Friday.  Another player, player, SBCs packs in the squad battle section. Team week upgrade as well. That'd be cool just to create some market panic, fluctuation and make some coins off of that. We love to make some coins, right? All right, boys, well, if you enjoyed the video today, smash your thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you are new. It's been Nate, Foot of Counting. Catch you guys later. Peace out.


Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, or RADIUS, is a networking protocol that operates on port 1812 and has been around since 1991. It provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting management to users who connect and use network services. So RADIUS has been around obviously for a little while and free RADIUS is a plugin that can be used within PF Sense and why would you use it? Well, if you want a little more features than just username, password, authentication. And in this video, we're gonna do it in two parts. The first part is how do I set up free RADIUS? Pretty straightforward. And then the next part is how do you integrate it into something such as OpenVPN? Because you may want to assign specific parameters to a user like a specific IP address each time they log in. And there are ways to do this with OpenVPN and using some config and text files you edit. But with free RADIUS and as a plugin inside of PF Sense, you can add them and add those specific features and settings and have them pushed right to the user when they log in all through the UI and PF Sense. One thing to note, if you get a very large number of users, this is going beyond the scope, but it's something to note in case you are doing this at larger scale and you wanna use it all inside of PF Sense with the free RADIUS package, you can use them high SQL. Now, the reason for this is the free RADIUS implementation in PF Sense is not using an entire like SQL backend for this. Therefore, you want something faster because if you have let's say 800 users you wanna put in here, it's gonna be a little bit slower to pull from the database inside of PF Sense, which uses like an XML file, I believe for this. And it saves these users into a flat file, essentially. So it's not as fast as a database query. So if you have 100 users, no problem. If you have 800 users, you may wanna consider going further and using this inside of SQL. All right, so let's get started. You go to the package manager, available packages, and type in free R. And currently, as of May 2019 here, it's free RADIUS three that we're gonna install. And confirm. That part's pretty pain-free. But as you're gonna see, when it installs this, it installs free RADIUS basically un-configured. It's very, very basic. It's just like package loaded, but no configuration. So that's what I'm gonna walk you through is each step of the configuration. All right, with the package installed, we'll close all these extra tabs we don't need and go to services, free RADIUS. First thing to set up is gonna be the interface. So we have to set up the interface and the listening ports. And we're just gonna use the default ports here. So for purposes of this demonstration, we're just gonna bind it to all the IP addresses on here, but of course, by default, the firewall rules for external, like the WAN, even though it does bind to all the ports, it is not going to be available externally to the WAN. You'd still have to open up the ports, just an FYI in case you're wondering, but you can just leave this at asterisk right here, port 1812, which is the default port for authentication, IPB4, and we can just type auth port here. And have it set up. You can see if you wanted to go not default ports, that's certainly an option. We're just gonna go everything at the default ports because when you start connecting devices to this, and you have things at non-default ports, well, that can be kind of a headache. Next port we're gonna do is 1813 and this is gonna be for accounting. That is a default accounting port. We'll just put ACCT here. And for the purposes of setting this up with a VPN, an open VPN, these are the only things that you need and requirement, but I will show in case you're doing something more. Yes, it does have status, COA, proxy detail, like some other detail connection informations that you could do. For example, some switches wanna monitor a status or some logging tools if you have people authenticating with this and it can then query for status of if that person's in there. I think you can do that in captive portal as well if we do that. But like I said, for this particular video, we're just gonna be doing open VPNs with only two needed ports. And I'm always on the side of caution. I never set up more than needs to be set up unless I'm using those features. The next thing to do is determine what clients are gonna connect to this. Now we have to set up the NAS-client. Now this is specifically about setting up the client as in what's gonna be connecting to it as in open VPN, which is running on this PF sense. So we're gonna add it and we're just gonna use <IP_ADDRESS> local host, client short name, rad server. So that's set up as rad server here, client shared secret. And the client short name actually can be whatever you want. So enter a short name for the client if you didn't know, but you do have to remember the shared secret here. So we'll set something there. All the other defaults are perfectly fine. We don't have to worry about any of these. Now, please note, if you were setting this up for others external authentication under devices, this is, you can set up more than one client. So if you have a switch or a Wi-Fi authenticating this, not related to this video, but this is where you would set those up as well and put the IP addresses for different things that are gonna be connecting. So now that that's added, we're gonna go over here to system, user manager, authentication server, and add the authentication server. Rad server, radius, default status, chat, <IP_ADDRESS>. Attribute it to things connecting to LAN in case you're wondering. And these are the default ports 1812, 1813. So like I said, we used defaults. It just kind of falls in there. Other shared secret that we did and save. And that's pretty much it for getting it set up for authentication. Now we can go in, add a user. So we're gonna go over here to free radius, add a user, user one, put a password in here. And I'm just gonna save it since all, there's a lot of other options here, obviously, but for sake of testing here, we're gonna go over to user and we give that user a password. And from there, we can go to diagnostic, authentication, authenticate against our rad server, user one, and test, successfully authenticated. That's the only thing you have to do to get the server set up and then verify it's working. So this is, you know, load it, run through, make sure you test on the authentication server. And you can also do this, like test against local database. Well, that user doesn't work.  So I'm gonna go ahead and I've walked through how to do open VPN. It's really the same thing. So I'm not gonna go through in depth on this, but when you run the wizard, you just choose the radius and the rad server, or you can add a new radius server and it'll walk you through what I just did again. And we're gonna next, yes, our way into a working VPN. So everything here is fine. Port here, nothing special, we have to change. It's 70.24. All these are just gonna leave everything at default. Next, go ahead and add a firewall rule, add it open VPN rule. All right, so we now have a VPN set up and ready to work. We're gonna export it and we're gonna get my computer connected to this VPN. I'll just download most clients because I'm running Linux and Linux works fine with this export. And if you didn't know, just to make sure people are clear on this, package manager, available packages, and solid packages, I mean, I could probably update to the latest one here, but it's open VPN client export. We'll update it while I'm sitting here real quick. Make sure everyone had an updated package and it goes really fast. That's done. So we have the open VPN export tool. This is what allows me just to download this config file. As a matter of fact, we'll go ahead and download this file again. So VPN, open VPN, client export. There's our VPN, download most clients. All right, now we're gonna go ahead and connect to the VPN on this machine. Now, first a couple little details that I wanna cover. So we know the network layout. I do have a couple computers connected here. So these two computers, one at 104 and one at 107. So yes, you've seen dot 40. There's actually just for clarification. If we look at LAN two, this IP address is in the 10 network and we did bind it to for authentication purposes here. But it doesn't matter because what does matter is that this network is configured and set up. We will go to open VPN and we gotta make sure that network's been pushed over here, zero slash 24. And away we go, we know this network's pushed. So when we connect to this VPN using the user, should work perfectly fine and we'll connect. All right, so from the command line, in this is obviously if you're doing it in Windows, you'd go through the whole Windows installer with the open VPN from the command line. We'll sudo open VPN and I renamed it freerad.ovpn. User one, password. All right, and I have been assigned <IP_ADDRESS>. And let's go ahead and ping one of those IP addresses. 10.104 I think was available. VPN is up and running. And if you look at my computer here, you can see this is the tunnel network that's on there. And here's the 192.168 network. You see I'm not on that network so it's obviously routing through the VPN. You have to take my word for it if you believe I'm doing some other trickery. But anyways, that works. So now we know I can connect to the VPN. So we're gonna go up here to the top window and we'll exit out of the VPN. And let's go a step further. So one of the things I talked about was how do you create the rules so that each computer can only talk to a certain thing or get assigned a very specific IP address using freerad. So go over here. Go to freeradius. We're gonna go over to this user. And before I was given the <IP_ADDRESS> just if the next user can actually would have got 70.3 so on and so forth. That's the default way open VPN assigns addresses. 192.168.70. Let's start at 100. So 101. So 100, <IP_ADDRESS>. Subnet mask of <IP_ADDRESS>. Now you do have to put both or you'll get an error. You can't leave a blank. You don't really have to put the gateway because it's only, the goal of this is only to be designed to access things on that local network. So you don't have to specify any of that part here. So what we are assigning now is that this user that we just called user one is going to get this IP address to this connection. So we're gonna hit save. And we're gonna add another user at the same time. We'll call this one user two. User two gets <IP_ADDRESS>.102 save. And now we can see that this user gets that. Now before we even bother connecting, I'm gonna go over here to the firewall and we'll go over to the rules. Cause I already know it's gonna assign those addresses but those addresses mean nothing if the rules let them go wherever they want. So we're gonna go ahead and delete, delete. And let's add a very specific rule. Start with any and then we'll say single host is <IP_ADDRESS>. And we'll let 101 go wherever they want. So destination can be wherever they want. So 101 has free reign, go wherever. Then we're gonna add another user. Actually we'll just copy the rule. And 102, the only destination address I want 102 to have is 101.10.104. So any protocol, but you could restrict this down if you only wanted to have a single port for example or any specific thing. But we're gonna go ahead and allow any protocol but the only thing when they get connected they're allowed to talk to is this resource on the network. And this can be across any network. I have something on the 10 network. It could be on the 192.168.40 network. But this is user two gets to the 104 machine. Save. So we can follow this that if you're assigned this IP address you get here, we're gonna apply the changes. So now let's try connecting as, we'll try user two first. User two and I've been assigned 102. That means I can ping 104. But what if I wanted to ping the gateway? Can't do it, so I can't route out. What if I wanted to ping 107? That's on our computer on there. That didn't work either. All right, so let's go back up to the top and we'll hit control C, just cancel it, log in again. We'll go user one. Took a second to connect because it thought I was the same connection coming in because I couldn't see my IP address so it took a second but it connects and now with user one I'm able to ping 107 and 104. And the gateway because the user restrictions on this are go wherever. So this is a way you can create open VPN connections using PF sense and free radius and then have each user go to a very specific place. So we'll go here back to the rules to show you and you can see that this is where you write each rule and you can just copy and carry on so each user has each rule and you can put in description which user has which. Now a couple notes about this and we're gonna go ahead and kind of sort of break something because this is a problem that I didn't notice at first but it makes complete sense when I explain why. So we're logged in as user with IP address of 101 right here and so we're gonna go ahead and edit user one with IP address 101 and we're gonna make it 105. So I saved it, it took to save, it's 105. So as soon as I log back in it should just go back to 105. So we're gonna go ahead and go up here and disconnect user one but I got 101 again. You're probably going, how did that happen? I did it right. So then you get confused and you do it again. You're like user one and I got the same IP address again. So what happens is and we're gonna go ahead and fix this by going here. If even though I hit control C it still thinks 101's connected and by default it wants to reestablish a connection if there's a disruption to that connection. So if you change it and the user happened to be logged in when you changed it and still had a connection which when you disconnect there's a delay between the disconnect from the user before it times the connection out here.   So if you make a few user changes you can do that. This is what will force that connection to drop and by killing it here or restarting the open VPN service and drop the connections. Now when we reconnect it'll take a second because I just restarted the service and it's gonna pause for a second while it reestablishes but now the user will get the right address. And hey look I got the 105 address which by the way because I got a different address if I try to ping anything because I have the wrong address I can't get anywhere. Couple side notes about this. They're not to any of my knowledge and I played around with this trying to break it to see if one of these users were able to force or change their IP address once assigned. I wasn't able to get that to work. It seems like once it's assigned from the open VPN service side you can't just rename your IP address in case you're wondering from a security standpoint. Now I may be wrong but I played around with this and tried to force changing my IP address and it wouldn't connect on the other end if I tried to force any IP information. I couldn't really figure out a way to do that so I will mention maybe I'm wrong please leave a comment if you know a way of a user connecting but this is one extra layer of security that you can add to open VPN. IBC open VPN is quite secure, well documented and the methodology that I did here and we'll actually go to the top just to talk about this part a little bit. Because of the file we downloaded so we'll just look at what's in here. The user would have to have, here's the certificates that are required so we have the certificate, the TLS key, then have the username and password for this attack for them to get into your open VPN server so you have those extra pieces and this is the remote IP that I know if there's no way to push a local IP from here and push it into the server like I was saying. But hopefully this was helpful and I may do some future videos on how to use free radius for a few other things including captive portals is another way you can do it so if you are setting up a captive portal screen you can use free radius for that and it does work, I've tested it like so I'm gonna do a separate video on captive portals but I didn't wanna do the free radius video first because one thing to note when you're doing a captive portal or free radius this works for the accounting where you can set expiration dates, length of time, download, upload, time periods, bandwidth and speed settings that's another feature you can do so if you're using this to authenticate with it that'll work. So let's wanna get this out there it's a pretty cool tool to be able to have it all integrated right into firewall and for a user that we just helped the other day or a client we helped the other day they needed to set up because they actually have it set up so they only get to a specific machine and a specific port on a machine for each customer they define inside a PF sense via here so they have a lot of customers logging in when the customer logs in they only have access to only and specifically the thing that they were granted access to right down to the port level they created so it's definitely a nice secure way to have the encrypted security layer and then the rule sets that keep people from wandering around the network once they get in and hopefully this clears up if you have any questions about that. All right, thanks. Thanks for watching. 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