My name is Julien Jenin. I'm a geophysical data scientist here at BlueWare, and today we'd like to showcase some accelerated interpretation methods using interactive deep learning on the OSDU. So we see that there's a variety of different business challenges that have surfaced within the recent years, especially within our industry. We've noted that we have a significantly vast amount of libraries of data, and they're growing at an exponential rate. BlueWare has developed some various solutions around that, namely VDS and cloud systems, which can compress data while eliminating duplicates, enabling us to do more. We also see that teams are expected to manage more assets with fewer resources, and so many evolving technologies today are enabling us to leverage deep learning to help reduce these cycle times and really maximize prospect identification. However, we also see that companies must now focus on both the digital transformation as well as the energy transition. And so utilizing the combination of VDS and deep learning, this can provide a more agile way in the methods that we work. The cloud will help drive business agility while really fueling innovation to support this energy as well as this digital transformation. As we talk about the presentation today, here is what interactive AI can help you improve your interpretation workflows. It's a tool that can allow you to not only enhance but accelerate your current interpretation methods. The next thing is that the geoscientist needs to be in control of the results. It's them that are responsible for the interpretation, and sometimes these deep learning and data science workflows developed in the R&D labs can be a little bit black boxy. And so the geoscientist does not see or interact with the actual model as it is being produced. However, the unique aspect with interactive AI is that now the geoscientist is in full control. They are sort of put in the driver's seat and can condition the network in real time to identify their features of interest. And finally, this is a tool around providing a huge amount of efficiency. It will streamline the data preparation process and really reduce the tedious interpretation, and it will give you back time to reduce risk and create a higher detailed interpretation in a shorter amount of time. This has direct value back to the different assets as well as the business units. Ultimately, this is a tool that will help you. Interactive AI is really positioned as a new interpretation tool, and it's really meant to integrate into the existing workflows, right? As geoscientists work in tandem with it, we want to be able to directly consume those outputs into our interpretations. Finally, it's meant to accelerate the interpretation process. Usually, 80% of our time as geoscientists is spent interpreting data, combing through it, etc., and the 20% is on critical evaluation. Now, utilizing the cloud as well as deep learning solutions, we can flip that. So now it's 20% interpretation, and now the remaining 80% can be shifted towards critical evaluation and understanding the data. And finally, you can quickly analyze fast amounts of data at all sorts of scales for your prospecting workflows. This can be something like a development block, say one kilometer by one kilometer, or several thousands of kilometers. It's really a tool that enables you to work with all sorts of data sizes. And many of the operators today are a part of the OSDU, and they're using interactive AI commercially, and we'll share some of those quotes later. But first, let's dive into some of the different things that we were able to achieve using this new deep learning solution. In machine learning, a label is what you teach the machine. The inference is what the machine comes back with, and so this is kind of where the teaching starts. What we have here is a prediction on a non-labeled slide. So I've not labeled this. This is merely after a few iterations of training. This is the prediction made by the neural network. And what is so unique about interactive AI is that it doesn't use any pre-trained networks. And so because of this, it offers a new level of flexibility where now geosciences can interpret many different geological features and does not have to be restricted to the pre-trained models. This way it's kind of an out-of-the-box, run-and-ready solution so that you can continue to interpret those, especially since the subsurface is very ambiguous. So in this case, we've gone and interpreted the different faults. So we see the predictions for those in yellow. We also see the source-rock interval, which is highlighted in green. We see the red here, which is the reservoir. And then finally in blue is the regional top seal for the Scarborough gas field offshore, Australia. And so what we're able to do is quickly characterize the petroleum system for this area and better understand what are the different relationships between the stratigraphy as well as the structure and how that plays into our area and what new opportunities we can identify. Furthermore, moving from the realm of probabilities where it provides a nice kind of de-risking idea of various features, you can immediately take those probability cubes and you can generate industry-ready formats such as in charisma faults or in tessellated geobodies and readily, again, incorporate those into the existing workflows, not meant as a roadblock, but rather as an additional toolkit for the geoscientists. Here, from the probability, I was able to extract the source-rock interval, which is shown in green, and immediately we can see that there are different expressions of structure, which is present in the area, and we can also begin to see some finer-scale details on the surface of the interval, potentially revealing other faulting directions, which may have not been previously considered, or perhaps these could be indicative of channels, as we know within the geology in that area. Furthermore, again, you can take these probability cubes, and this is sort of where Bluer has completely rewritten the game for exporting faults. We have had great feedback from our clients on grouping and the quality of the faults, and we've developed in tandem with our different clients this fault-export algorithm to really better unlock that higher level of detail within the subsurface, and this applies to other geometries as well. As we move into the reservoir, we can begin to see how the basement faults are beginning to interact with the reservoir, suggesting potential areas for compartmentalization. Furthermore, we can pull in the polygonal faults, and really, if you look at the density of these faults, it's very rare that we do this. However, using the interactive method that geoscientists working in tandem with the network, they're able to better characterize really at a higher level of detail all of these different faults present throughout the survey. We can then bring in the geobody for the regional top seal, and we can see that those same basement faults, which extend through the reservoir, are also extending through the seal, and so now we understand that there's some potential for a leak off, and there's a risk of containment. Further, if we look into the seismic section, we notice that at the shallow surface, as well as the sea floor, we see expression of shallow gas anomalies, which are also characterized by pock marks, and so we can already export those different geobodies and superimpose them with well data, and so we can really calibrate this interpretation and validate it in real time. Is this the geology that we're seeing? And again, that higher level detail that we're talking about. No geoscientists would be able to pick this density of faults, perhaps if they had several weeks, absolutely, but it doesn't sort of make sense, but when we utilize the cloud, as well as deep learning, this is kind of the agility that we're talking about, allowing the geoscientists to unlock that higher level of detail, and so in just a matter of 11 and a half hours from importing the data to training to exporting these and visualizing in different interpretation packages, we're able to see the reservoir distribution, the structural controls on stratigraphy, as well as the seal integrity, and now sort of this flexibility, right? We identified various different petroleum system elements. It's not just restricted to faults, but now we can characterize reservoirs, seals, and et cetera, and really unlock that higher level of value within the different business units. But I want to reinforce that we have these blank networks, right? And so because of that, it has this higher level of flexibility. It's not pre-trained, rather you can train it on that specific feature that you're looking for. And so you can really pick anything, and we can use these same kind of workflows and new and emerging energy sort of projects such as geothermal as well as CCS. And so taking that same sort of workflow, right? Now the method that we use for characterizing reservoirs within the petroleum realm, that can be used as the same kind of methodology for reservoir assessment, whether it be for geothermal or sequestration opportunities, right? Because you want to be aware of sort of those compartmentalizations and how it will flow in the subsurface. Furthermore, going back to the seal, right, we talked about containment risk. This is crucial within your petroleum system element modeling. However, you can also use it within the sequestration world. Is there any risk for whatever I'm injecting to percolate back up to the surface? So you can use this workflow to evaluate that. And then finally, shallow hazards, whether it be in petroleum exploration or in new energies, this allows you to really characterize the shallow hazards presence and better optimize your development plans. And so one of the features that we have been working on internally at BlueWare and I'm very excited to show you today is using interactive AI for 2D workflows. We've seen it used for 3D, but really VDS allows you to use multiple different dimensions. And it's available today as through the open group on the OSDU. And so here we'll be looking at the Pegasus basin offshore New Zealand, characterizing some 2D hydrates going back to sort of shallow hazard analysis. What I've shown you here is a regional 2D line. And we can begin to see these sort of cross crudding reflectors which are present in the seismic line. Here we can see that they're reversed polarity and they seem to follow the sea floor. And this is what we call BSRs, bottom simulating reflectors in the very characteristic of hydrate presence. However, in some areas, it may not be as immediately obvious where they connect. Here they're very well pronounced, but it begins a little more difficult to follow them through, especially in more blank seismically blank zones. So what you can use is the interactive deep learning process and it really helps you characterize the distribution of those hydrates. Where they could be present, where do they extend? And this was all done in a matter of 20 minutes, but it's not just on one line. This extends throughout the entire seismic survey. So you can readily incorporate those into the interpretation applications, understand the distribution of hydrates, right, and especially where they intersect. So it really gives you that better confidence in your interpretation, that higher level of detail. And it also extends throughout many of the different lines. What's really key about this is that now you can use this tool in just a matter of 20 minutes, right, comb through massive amounts of 2D seismic lines or 3D lines. Let's say that you're going into a data room or a bid round. You have a limited amount of time to comb through massive libraries of data. Leveraging a tool like interactive AI allows you to really hone in on those features of interest and better understand what it is that you're looking at. Quickly you can begin to evaluate potential opportunities and further characterize those, rather than spending the 80% of your time manually interpreting. Now let's leverage deep learning to accelerate that process and help deliver value faster in a more agile environment. But enough about all this interpretation stuff, right? Let's actually talk about the OSDU. So here we see that I'm launching interactive AI from the OSDU interface. We already have a data set loaded. This is going to be offshore Taranaki Basin in New Zealand. We'll be looking at deepwater channels. I mentioned earlier that IAI is a cloud-native application. And what's interesting is that it can be scaled up through Kubernetes. All data inside of OSDU can be accessed as well, right? So these different seismic surveys that we have, the label sets, etc., they're readily available. What an interpreter might be doing in AIIs is sort of what's playing in the background. There are various tools that we can use to label. But here the really powerful tool about AI is that you can use the inference from the network very quickly to continue to improve on your labels and further improve on that interpretation. It's sort of this live feedback. So every 45 seconds or so you're getting a new prediction from the network. Based off of your labels. And so because of this, as you work in real time, it's learning from your labels, understanding what a channel is, how it's expressed seismically, and then where else it could also be present in that survey. What's really interesting is that many of our clients today are actually importing their old labels from previous fields, importing them into IAI, continuing to build upon the initial label set. And once they have that new improved interpretation, they're bringing them back in and they're able to unlock other opportunities such as attic oil, missed opportunities, and really characterizing those fields at a higher level of detail. If you want to make these predictions a little more permanent and part of your interpretation, you're able to export not only the probability cubes, but also different surfaces, whether they be in fault sticks or Geobody.ts format. And so you can consume them in multiple different 3D visualization packages. Really, again, being a part of your workflow, another toolkit for the GeoScientist. And so far we've had great feedback from our customers. The tool has sort of been a revelation for them, enabling them to really improve on their different interpretations, unlocking that extra level of detail, which really, at the end of the day, actually provides more context to different things, right? These sort of subtleties are key, especially in these very risky projects. If you can get that higher level of detail, it really goes a long way to helping the risking process and the understanding of the basin. So today, we've shown how to enhance our interpretations. We've also shown how the GeoScientist is really in control, right? This back and forth, which we showed through interactive AI on the OSDU, and how it really enhances the end user workflow, and they can do so much more in this kind of environment. And really the most important thing today is that we can all do this in the cloud on OSDU today. Interactive AI is not an R&D tool. It's commercially being used today, and many of our clients have seen tremendous value in using it for characterizing their different GeoScience questions. So thank you again for your time. It's been a pleasure speaking with all of you, and I look forward to the questions. Thank you again.


The Hereditary Disease Foundation has been instrumental in enabling me as a young investigator and grantee of the institution to move forward my particular research project. It's also a fantastic group to be a part of because as an investigator I'm able to meet the people who've done the seminal work in the field in identifying the Huntington gene as well as to meet with and collaborate with new young scientists and doing some up-and-coming research on HD. And I've been interested in the field of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases for a decade and I'm really enjoying my time working on HD because this foundation in particular frames everything with a historical perspective and an emphasis on patient care and moving things into the clinic that I find very exciting and I'm looking forward to working with them more in the future.


This paper examines the use of active learning models for reducing the workload in systematic reviews. It compares six different models using two feature extraction methods and six datasets from different research areas. The models are evaluated based on their ability to reduce the number of publications needed to screen, while still finding 95% of all relevant records. The results show that the naive base plus TFIDF model yields the best results overall. Additionally, it introduces a new metric called Average Time to Discovery, ATD, which measures the performance of active learning models throughout the entire screening process without the need for an arbitrary cut-off point. This makes the ATD a promising metric for comparing the performance of different models across different datasets. This article was authored by Gerberik Ferdinandz, Raoul Schramm, Jonathan De Bruyne and others.


Good day mate 40 here. So I'm looking at Some of the comments to my recent videos including my my two videos yesterday on will Nick Fuentes be found guilty of sedition I have no legal knowledge about what constitutes sedition Does sound like there's a serious case that can be made against him. So That's my my middle of the road take As a comment here, you are not a color you can see it, but you can't be it Well in some circumstances people do primarily see your color or I wear a yarmulke in some circumstances people primarily see the yarmulke And they filter everything else about me through through that perspective So sometimes people's reactions will be primarily to your racial color other times will be primarily to your accent or It will be primarily due to your religious affiliation or your politics, right people have many identities and In some circumstances one part of their identity what will come to the fore? So you may not believe that people can be divided by skin color, but in some circumstances, that's how the world works then interlocutor Responds to my interview of former American Nazi leader Jeff scoop. I asked him about the attention between you know fighting for the white race and being attracted to non-white women and he He laughed and he understood exactly what I was saying and Interlocutor says what an odd question for it asked concerning dating and relationships as if it would be natural for someone with Political and ideological convictions talking about Nazi Jeff scoop to be attracted to non-white females.   So so we have different different parts of us that are often in conflict Then Chad Walker says that my shows are Nick Fuentes were frustrating to listen to Luke says he wants the January 6th Capitol Hill protesters arrested. No anyone those January 6th Capitol Hill protesters who are breaking the law and Causing damage. All right. So whether they were on the left or on the right I want people who break the law and Damage civil society. I want them arrested and prosecuted. I don't want them More prosecuted if they're on the left. I don't want them more prosecuted on the right But if people break the law like many of the January 6th Capitol Hill riders did All right, then then I would want them prosecuted just as I'd want NT for a black lives matter or left-wing protesters Who acted similarly? I would also want them arrested Chad says Luke says he wants January 6th protesters arrested just like he wants leftist protesters Yeah, I want people to break the law and damage civil society. I want them arrested. That's nice Problem is in the real world. Leftist protesters get off scot-free while right-wingers are destroyed. No in some circumstances Some left-wing protesters get off scot-free in other circumstances Right-wing scoff laws get off scot-free. So it's not like the whole world is just Completely biased against people on the right. So circumstances change depending on time and location, right? So Chad seems to be very strong into the right-wing victim hood narrative and victim hood is a source of identity And it's a source of power and energy It also warps. All right, so the sense of group victim hood it binds and blinds to use Jonathan Jonathan height the The psychology social psychologists all right ties bind and blind All right, so if you got a strong in-group identity Then you probably have taken on your in-groups victim hood narrative So I think pretty much every in-group has it has a victim hood narrative And so you can't help but have this in-group victim hood narrative But it also helps if you're able to step outside of it try to see things from an objective perspective so it's easy to think about how your group has been victimized and I think a moderate amount of that is useful because it builds up your in-group identity and It clarifies clarifies your purpose in life. So a small amount I think is useful But when that in-group sense of victim hood Becomes too strong Then people lose touch with reality and they start making choices that are not in either their groups best interests or their best interests Luke ignores this double standard double standards Operate, you know throughout the world.  So so you're going to go through life and sometimes double standards will be in your favor other times double standards will be Not in your favor right, so There's no substitute for accepting reality and it's easy to accept reality because when you refuse to accept reality You'll always get humiliated. So if you're going through life without Constant humiliation then you're probably fairly in touch with reality So I'm not ignoring double standards. I accept that double standards are frequently applying Luke attacks his own side well if Recommending that people don't get to jail and imprisoned for stupid behavior Yeah, I guess I'm attacking criminal behavior on on any side It's not in your best interest and it's not in your political groups best interests Luke demands that people on the right hold themselves to principles their opponents refuse to play by well That's a tougher situation. So let's say you're in a fight for your life in a back alley Right in that circumstance I would hold that your survival is the highest principle and that that should supersede any other principle on the other hand if you're operating if you're walking down the street and there are like Live cams, you know capturing capturing your movements and someone brushes into you You know, I'd recommend you don't like punch them, right? You have to take into consideration the context, right? So sometimes You know certain principles such as principles of fairness and full disclosure will override other principles So there are all sorts of moral principles in play now They have to be balanced against each other and in different contexts, you know The moral principle of full disclosure will be the most important and operative moral principle in other contexts minimizing full disclosure and Putting a priority on your self-interest is appropriate. So sometimes You have to make make good judgments, but generally speaking Living by moral principles and taking the high road is generally a pretty good way to go through life You're not going to win every single conflict, but you will have inner peace Other people will like you you will minimize unnecessary gratuitous conflict with other people and You'll tend to be happier. You will feel better about yourself. Therefore, you'll have more confidence and you'll be more effective My basic problem with Luke is that he is pushing this honest narrative that we shouldn't stand up to leftist because it will hurt our own lives But there's a time to stand up and there's a time to lie down There's a time to walk by the road and there's a time to pick up a book there's a time to fight back and There's a time to mourn all right for everything. There is a season and a purpose under heaven now I Think Chad Walker wants to fight even if it doesn't do any good So to me it's more important to do good than to feel good So I get the sense that Chad thinks just like lashing out and taking action against the left You know, we'll feel really good and that's what's most important But for every action there are reactions. So the people who participate in January 6 They initiate an enormous reaction against that part of the right wing and did enormous damage to their cause So you don't have to just think about okay. What's the action? I want to take you also then have to think about What will be the reactions to what I do generally speaking if you live by moral principles and strive to take the high road You'll be more effective in life Right, there's a huge difference between doing good and feeling good All right, it can feel great to vent, but it doesn't necessarily do you or your cause any Any good if we stand up what we believe in we will face professional and personal consequences Well, there's a time to stand up generally speaking when you're at work It's not a time to stand up about your political cultural or religious beliefs, right? If you're at a social event Depending on the context, you know, will it be appropriate for you to you know loudly proclaim your your beliefs But in other contexts, you know standing up and announcing your beliefs is the right thing to do. It's all contextual Right, so if we stand up what we believe in we will face professional and personal consequences You can phrase what you believe in Differently you can phrase it in a provocative way that will turn 95% of people against you or you can phrase things in a way That will diminish any antagonism against you Right, people only have so much energy if you get in their face and provoke them drive them crazy Right, then they will devote themselves to hurting you But if you present things in an even-handed Manor that a large number of people we have to hear and understand Then you will have provided fewer incentives for other people to retaliate against you So there's a time to stand up and there's a time to lie down Things are only as bad as they are now because past generations of right wingers didn't fight back and just let the left take Everything so if you think things are really bad now You have no sense of context like where are things better than they are in the United States, right? I'm sure in some ways Japan has things better off than the US and Australia has some things better off than the US But overall life is pretty good in in the West in the United States certainly has problems and the left has won every cultural war So does that mean you just you know go out and start busting on the left? Yeah, you have to think about what will be effective So Republican got elected in the state of Virginia as as a governor, right? And he ran on a cultural war platform and it was effective. So what's most important is what's effective what works? Not what feels good Maybe you'll wish you said something when the school informs you that your son is getting his state mandated sex change this month Because his first grader saw him pick up a Barbie So just because you say something doesn't mean you do any good, right? So sometimes when you say something you do good and sometimes when you say something you do harm And sometimes when you say something it makes no difference So it depends on who you say it to what the context is and how you say it So I would send my my kids to an orthodox Jewish day school where this is not going to happen Can you imagine Luke telling a Jew in the 19th century that he is an idiot for leaving behind his comfortable life in France to Move to Palestine and build a homeland for his people.  So I noticed people in Distant politics whether of the right or the left they are looking for opportunities for self-immolation Because standing on their own two feet and building a prosperous life is too boring and just yeah Just not exciting enough and a lot of people in distant politics are just looking to martyr themselves Rather than asking what will effectively push forward, you know what I would like to see in the world If you get fired for standing up against Discrimination at work Luke will say you're an anti-social idiot loser should have kept your mouth shut to keep your salary Sometimes it's appropriate to stand up and put your job at risk Generally speaking no because if you stand up get fired and you don't do any good then You probably made a mistake It's amazing how different Luke is now when he was talking to Mike Enoch a few years ago or different context All right since since four years ago We've had all these alt-right people going out and massacring people whether it's in Christchurch or Alparso, Texas or a synagogue in Pittsburgh So when members say of the alt-right go out and start massacring people that changes how I can talk about the alt-right Because I have to take into consideration. Well, how will my words be heard by a white audience from whether it's from people I go to synagogue with or people I See you walking down the street or you know people I met might meet at a poetry reading People I might meet at the beach right the context has changed and so the way I speak About what's going on in the world will change if horrible people are using arguments Or a particular rhetoric All right, I'm going to stay away from generally speaking those arguments in that rhetoric because I don't want to be associated what? Horrible anti-social you know criminally inclined people are doing If I had to guess Luke's rabbi must have told him if he didn't shape up and start attacking the alt-right He'd be kicked out of the community So that didn't happen But I do measure my words by what will be the effect on You know my friends my religious community my social community, you know my peers I do Think about the consequences of my words And so I do take into consideration, you know my social well-being my personal well-being my psychological well-being my financial well-being Which would mean Luke who was in his 50s and doesn't have a lot of money would be forced to spend his 60s and 70s homeless Or living in squalor and eating cat food. Yeah, so I make Decisions so that I don't don't end up homeless or living in squalor and eating cat food So I don't really hate Luke for changing his tune. I change my tune when circumstances change a Certain joke is funny one minute, but then the context changes if the joke is connected then to something horrible happening in the world I changed my tune. I don't make that joke Right, so my tune changes as the context changes Okay, that's it. Bye. Bye


We really need the United Nations to navigate and also we need the multilateral cooperation and more cooperation and not less cooperation. We are very much looking forward to hear your intervention speech. The Secretary General didn't want to do it from an election. He shows that he will speak to us off the cuff sitting and then I'll try to come up with some questions. Secretary General, floor seers and welcome to Davos. Thank you very much. Well thank you very much my dear friend and thank you very much to all of you for being here. If I had to select one sentence to describe the state of the world I would say we are in a world in which global challenges are more and more integrated and the responses are more and more fragmented. And if this is not reversed it's a recipe for disaster. Now if one looks at global politics and geopolitical tensions, the global economy and the mega trends, climate change, movement of people, digitalization, the truth is that they are more and more interlinked, interfering more and more with each other and indeed the problems are global but the responses are fragmented. Looking at the global economy we are now growing still with a relatively acceptable GDP growth 3.1 last year but slowing down and everybody agrees that there are dark clouds in the horizon and that there are risks. And if one looks at the risks there is really an interrelation of those risks with all the other aspects of the global international relations. The first risk is probably trade tensions and trade tensions are today essentially a political problem. A second risk of course related to the debt that is much higher than in the last financial crisis and which is limiting the capacity to respond to any potential emerging crisis and also limiting the capacity of states to implement the projects that would be necessary to achieve the sustainable development goals but in any case it remains essentially an economic dimension of the problem. Then we have the instability in financial markets and there clearly it's a better of confidence so political events have an influence on that. And if one looks at the shutdowns and the Brexit saga there is a certain sentence that political systems do not know exactly what to do when dealing with problems that have strong economic impacts and so that is a factor of lack of confidence and a factor of lack of confidence creates or increases instability in the markets. And then the climate risk and I think the climate risk is the most important systemic risk for the near future. I believe we are losing the race climate change is running faster than what we are and we have these paradox. The reality is proving to be worse than what science is as foreseen and all the last indicators show that. We are moving dramatically into a runaway climate change if we are not able to stop it and at the same time I see the political will slowing down. These when technology is on our side and when we see more and more the business community ready to respond in a positive way and the civil society more and more engage but the political will is still very slow and we see lots of subsidies to fossil fuels we see carbon pricing in a very limited way and we see many still putting into doubt whether climate change is a threat but in my opinion it's the most important global systemic threat in relation to the global economy. And then we have aspects that are more complex but it's true that globalization with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it has increased inequality at country level especially inside countries and there's people that was left behind the people sectors regions that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of these worlds and this has been a factor of reducing confidence confidence trust in governments in social in political establishments and in international organizations like ours and this also makes it more difficult to have effective strategies in dealing with economic problems and then the fact that growth has been uneven and that we have a number of least developed countries in which per capita growth is stagnant this is creating development gaps that are a factor of instability and of conflict linked to other violations of human rights and other aspects and so there is this unevenness in the in in growth is a factor of potential increase in conflict and countries that are able to solve conflicts always at risk are going back into those conflicts and then if you look at the political mega trends it is clear for me that we are witnessing a multiplication of conflicts more and more and related and more and more related to a threat of global terrorism but at the same time the response is more and more fragmented we no longer live in a bipolar or unipolar world but we are not yet in a multipolar world you know a kind of a chaotic situation of transition power relations became unclear the relationship between the three most important powers Russia the United States and China has never been as dysfunctional as this today and this is true for the economy but it's also true in the paralysis of security council in many very important aspects we see the emergence of medium-sized powers that start to be very influence in different scenarios it's impossible to look at what happened in Syria without recognizing the role of Turkey Iran Saudi Arabia and we can do the same in other conflicts around the world so power relations becoming unclear fragmentation of actions in punitive and unpredictability prevailing and when you say and you said and it's right that we are probably moving into a multipolar world that's have no doubts multipolarity it might be a factor of equilibrium but it's not necessarily a factor of peace and security we have Europe before the first world war a multipolar Europe but in the absence of multilateral mechanisms of cooperation governance we had the first world war so it is very important to recognize the importance of multilateral mechanisms and if I would go on with the mega trends that I mentioned the climate change the movement of people that today became a central political problem or the questions related to digitalization we would see in all of them more and more linkage between politics economy technology movement of all these situations more and more interlinked and then enormous difficulty of the international community at country level and at global level to respond in a global way and this brings us to the center of the debate today I am a multilateralist I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges but with global responses and organized in a multilateral way but I think that it's not enough to say this and it's also not enough to vilify those that disagree with these and just consider them as nationalists or populists or whatever I think we need to understand the grievances and to understand the reasons why the root causes of why large sectors of the population in different parts of the world today disagree with us and we need to address those root causes and we need to show these people that we care for them and the problem is that to large extent political establishments and international organizations during large periods let these people be left behind in those as I mentioned rust belts of these worlds and did not show that they cared and people would think all politicians and just take care of their own interests and the elections and whatever and we are here we are abandoned we don't see a future our jobs are lost we can't rebuild our lives we feel insecure with everything that is happen we need to be able to address the concerns of these people to talk to them and to act in relation to them and for that I think we need a multilateralism that is simultaneously networked to make sure that we are able to address complex challenges very important for the when to be in close cooperation as it is today with World Bank and the IMF but also with all these organizations the world trade organization we need to work together there is no way we can do isolated responses to the problems we face they are all interlinked and it needs to be a inclusive multilateralism it needs to be a multilateralism in which not only states are part of the system but in which more and more the business community the civil society the academia they are all part of the way to analyze problems to define strategies to define policies and then to implement them there is no way governments or intergovernment organizations alone can deal with climate change can deal with the impact of the force industrial revolution or can deal with migration we need more and more multilateralism that also is able to incorporate the contribution of all these other sectors and I think World Economic Forum has an absolutely vital role to play on these and if you ask me what are the priorities for me in the UN for these at the present moment I would raise three first to demonstrate to all those that today are not in favor of multilateralism that we care for them to demonstrate to all those that are feeling that they were left behind that our ideas our policies our programs aim at solving their problems or helping them to solve them and that is the reason why we try to look at the agenda 2030 and the sustainable development goals as an inclusive process to leave no one behind and there a huge cooperation is necessary obviously with the business community and with member states in general and with the civil society but clearly to make people understand it is not an abstract debate on global development this is something linked to the concerns that people have about the future of their jobs about the future of their communities and this is even more important when we know the impact of the first industrial revolution second concern to tell people clearly look we understand that for you we in the UN we have problems of bureaucracy we have problems of being too heavy we need to reform and we are reforming we have launched a very substantial robust program of reform aiming at simplification of procedures decentralization I just sent 200 letters to 200 managers giving them powers they never had in relation to staff management budget procurement and other aspects to make them take decisions closer to the point of delivery closer to the people we deal with and then transparency and accountability that is essential to prove taxpayers that they have value for money in what we do and then the third aspect that for me is a priority is to show the added value of the United Nations and there I must say I think we are doing things I mean look at December last year we were able to bring together the international community in Katowice everybody thought Katowice would be a failure it was not we managed to approve the work program of the of the Paris Agreement it doesn't solve the problem of we need more ambition more ambition in mitigation in and that was not solved there but it was possible to bring together countries that were in a totally different position to at least agree on the basis to move forward nobody believed that it was possible to have an agreement a first agreement in Yemen it was possible it will be very difficult to move but we are pushing for a surge in diplomacy for peace and many other situations have been improving in recent times South Sudan is looking better Ethiopia that is not our merit it's the merit of the Prime Minister has done a fantastic step forward in relation to Eritrea so a surge in diplomacy for peace I think is something that we are proving that we are there that we are doing things that are necessary and that nobody can replace the UN in this work a second aspect that I would like to underline on this is the fact that in the human in the humanitarian world the UN still represents more than half of the humanitarian aid distributed around the world we have we supported last year 100 million people in 40 countries mobilizing 15 billion US dollars and I think that the work the UN does is absolutely repressible and looking at world food program UNICEF UNHCR what is happening in the world would be the tragedy would be much bigger without this work so I think we have an added value that is proven but it's clear we need to accelerate accelerate in 2019 accelerate in the surge in the diplomacy for peace accelerate in relation to climate change and we'll have a summit in which we want more ambition in mitigation in adaptation in finance and in innovation and to make governments understand that they are not doing enough and to mobilize as much as possible the business community and the civil society and then accelerate in relation to the perspectives of the agenda 2030 there's a set of involvement goals and create the conditions to mobilize the business community to mobilize the the the civil society because obviously governments cannot do it alone and this is a central question of these inclusive multilateralism is the recognition whether people like it or not that the power of governments to shape societies and the power of governments to solve problems is today much more limited and if we want to have a true multilateral system we need of course to have an intergovernmental perspective but we need to make sure that we bring together into this multilateral system the voice and the influence of the business community the civil society the scientific community and all those others that are essential to address together the very dramatic problems we are facing thank you very much what an impressive summing up in 15 minutes on tour of the horizon of the world I think we're very privileged to have a secretary general that are so proactive on all these important issues you mentioned this with a multi-polar world we're not yet there we we maybe have like a g2 composition we also have the three powers of Russia China as us you mentioned but in addition to a multi-polar world that we're seeing more and more because we're seeing also other countries more assertive than before and if there is a vacuum it will be tried to be filled we have have this notion of multi-conceptual world and that adds to the complications because this is also seen as asking questions around human rights and also agreements that we have had in the UN the rules-based world order when you look at human rights look at gender and the rights of girls for education in the world that are crucial issues some are saying oh these are Western values but these are really universal values can we do more to protect this and are you concerned that these values are under pressure I think it varies but it is clear that in general we can say that we have witnessed probably because governments feel weaker in relation to the solution of the problems that they face we have witnessed in several parts of the world the national sovereignty agenda gaining ground in relation to the human rights agenda and so it is clear that in several parts of the world we see the civil society space shrinking we see media freedom being negatively impacted and we see the expression of forms of authoritarianism or this new fantastic expression that was invented in liberal democracy so this is clear the human rights agenda is in trouble and we need to make sure that we mobilize the international community and again the civil society has a key role to play on these for human rights to be protected now gender is different in the sense that in gender I think that we are witnessing a gigantic movement for gender equality coming from the rank and file from the society we have many governments clearly in this direction we are in the UN totally committed we have reached gender parity at the level of this the senior management group and the team leaders around the world it's true those are the ones I appoint directly so it's easier to have gender parity but even in the system we have now a roadmap to reach full gender parity in 2028 with the agreement of member states and I see in many other countries a lot of efforts being done in relation to bringing children bringing girls to school fighting genital mutilation fighting early marriage so there's a number of things that is happening but it's not enough but in general I would say the human rights situation in general is worse than what we are seeing in gender where I still well I see now some progress in some areas where we have we are having a regression in other areas we have some progress and I hope that in gender we are making some progress of course there is a long way to go this is a male dominated world with a male dominated culture and this is essentially a question of power and we know that all it's always difficult for power to be given normally power has to be taken secretary general you also mention the importance of collaboration between governments business and civil society and our partnership between the UN and the World Economic Forum here I think is very important and as you said governments cannot do things alone anymore you have to mobilize also the private sector that is 75% of the global GDP so moving forward I think collaboration with business and you have some of the key CEOs in the world here is crucial when it comes to fighting climate change but also to meet the sustainable development goals eradicate all extreme poverty by 2030 and we're not on track on this so what would your challenge be to the business community or your invitation to the business community in the coming years I think we need to have action on several fronts together I've been talking to many financial institutions for instance about the need to support investments in many developing countries and usually the answer is related to problems of governments and the questions of corruption and others so that is why one of the goals is exactly related to governance is exactly related to improved governance improved capacity of member states especially the least developed member states to be able to attract private investment and to be able to have normal relations with private investment in the in the working of their economies so we need to act with member states to create the conditions for adequate governments for rules based relationship with the private sector we need to mobilize the private sector in order to invest in those countries and we need working with governments with the aid entities and with the financial system to find some new instruments or to increase some the impact of instruments to reduce the risks of investment in many of these countries and a lot has been done as you know in the insurance a lot has been done in relation to different forms of financing now we have the green bonds we have social bonds so a lot needs to be done to make sure that we are able to create the the combination of these things a welcoming event a welcoming environment in the least developed countries a commitment of the private sector to invest and the creation of a number of instruments to reduce the risks of that investment in order to make sure to address the huge gaps that we have in the civil development goals in the a large chunk of the least developed countries secretary general you also mentioned the fourth industrial revolution we have no developments in areas like artificial intelligence internet of things precision medicine and drones that are happening at an unparalleled pace and you know also the world economic forum works on the fourth industrial revolution and this morning I was with African leaders saying that we lost out on the first second and the third industrial revolution but we're not planning to lose out on the fourth we will have to leapfrog and we also see that there it is a big technological competition between the big nations and we know in the platform economy the winner easily takes it all how do you see the UN playing a constructive role here that this fourth industrial revolution can also be an inclusive revolution and a revolution that gains all the population of this world I see three platforms of action first the impact of a force industrial revolution which artificial intelligence as probably the leading role the impact in the economies and societies will be huge there will be a massive destruction of jobs and the massive creation of jobs the problem is that they are not the same jobs and not requiring the same skills and I think that the world economic forum has been doing a lot to raise awareness and to find solutions over but let's be clear we need to mobilize much more governments and the business community and the civil society to understand what kind of impact are we going to have in the next decades and what kind of measures do we need to start taking now in order to respond to it educational systems it it doesn't really matter now how much you learn how many things you learn what matters is how you learn to learn because you will be doing completely different things in your life skill question of safety nets a new generation of safety nets able to address the kind of so there is a lot that I believe the UN can be a platform for discussion the business community of governments within the societal development goals the discussion in order to try to address the massive impact that the force industrial revolution will have on societies and economies and to try to prevent instead of react and then of course the concept of work will change the relations between work leisure work time leisure other occupations will change these are things we need to discuss much more in international community and prepare for what's coming then there is a second level in which we are now very much engaged with the high level panel on digital cooperation when I look at the web no it's clear that the web is a fantastic instrument for all of us it's clear that we have the dark web and the deep web and all the problems of cybersecurity etc and the question of regulation is a very complex question relation to this my feeling is that there is no way to use the traditional mechanism of intergovernmental regulations through conventions that are approved and then agencies that now I think that this is the kind of situation in which we need soft mechanisms we need to bring together all stakeholders governments the business community the scientists community the civil society and create mechanisms that allow for a permanent following of what's happening for the consensus in creating some norms and protocols but not with rigid forms of bureaucratization I would say of regulation and creating with these the possibility of more and more to web to be an instrument for good and at the same time taking into account that the web is also a question that some governments are using from the point of view of violation of human rights etc so it is clear for me this cannot be only an intergovernmental process and then I think we have a third area of great interest for us which is linked to with dimensions of peace and security of artificial intelligence the weaponization of artificial intelligence we have an agreement for instance today the general agreement that international law applies to the cyberspace but there is no agreement on all international material law applies to the cyber dimension of conflict there is no agreement what self-defense means in the case of cyber attacks and on the other hand we are witnessing the emergence of systems of weapons that will be autonomous and in which it will be possible for those weapons to decide on targets and to decide on taking out the life of people without any human intervention in situations in which there is a reach of escalation and there is no accountability now how to handle these situations is this discussion is a discussion in which we are in the beginning in which there are big differences of opinion but this isn't it these are the areas where we still need international law and in which the role of the United Nations and namely of the second Commission of the General Assembly is vital we need to find a minimum of consensus in the world on how to integrate these new technologies in the laws of war that we defined decades ago in a completely different context thank you last question secretary general we live in a complicated and complex world that's for sure we don't necessarily act like we're in the same boat but the reality is that we are in the same boat so what happens in one country affects the other and etc but when you looked at the last year no there has been some positive developments to you mentioned Ethiopian Eritrea in Davos last year would say that it would be peace no one would have believed that we also under your leadership and the UN special envoy making some progress in Yemen that is a big humanitarian catastrophe but if you look at the at the coming year what are your aspirations where where do you see the silver linings moving forward because we I think we should end on an optimistic note because there is a lot of positive things happening there is a wind of hope that is blowing and I think Ethiopia was crucial for this wind of hope that is blowing in relation to the dramatic conflict situation we have in many parts of the world and my intention is to intensify our surge in diplomacy for peace and to enhance our partnerships with regional organizations it is the case of the African Union it is the case of the regional African it's a case of other parts of the world and to do everything possible to bring a number of situations in which until now it was not possible to launch a serious political process to bring those situations into a serious political process countries like Central African Republic South Sudan countries like Yemen Libya Syria with all its complex our countries where we would like to make huge progress next year and then we have situations in which what I was saying about how everything is interlinked are clear that they require innovative forms of handling them the sale in the sale you have conflicts you have terrorism you have climate change impacting dramatically you have huge problems of and the lack of development and you have problems of governance that are very serious so it's it's a whole area in which all these mega problems are combined and in which we need to that is why we need this kind of multilateralism that is networking to address everything at the same time in community and inclusive because this is the kind of area that proves that the systems that we have that still are fragmented are not able to respond to the kind of problems that's more and more we are having in the future in which everything is interconnected and all answers need to be comprehensive thank you so much thank you so much Mr. Secretary


I'm XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck. We know you've been waiting to see the names and logos of our eight XFL teams, and today you'll get to see them all. We'll be joined in a moment by our friends Colin Cowherd from Fox Sports and ESPN's Laura Rutledge. But before we get going, I want to say one thing. The team names and logos were chosen exclusively to represent the spirit of football fans in their respective cities and signify fun and football. Nothing more. So with that, let's kick off our first reveal. St. Louis, meet your new XFL team. Win at all costs. The St. Louis Battlehawks cleared to engage February 2020. The Battlehawks will be the first modern professional football team born and raised in St. Louis, and we couldn't be more excited. Now let's go to ESPN's Laura Rutledge in New York. Thanks Oliver. The two teams I want to see most are my former hometown of Tampa Bay and my second home here in New York. Tampa Bay, New York. Here we go. In the shadows they wait. Demons born in darkness. Hunters by instinct. Cold blooded by nature. Their bite unavoidable. Their grip inescapable. They slither and stock their competition. Wearing all who challenge them into the jaws of defeat. The Tampa Bay Vipers ready to strike February 2020. Centuries carved of stone. Watch dogs over the metropolis. A prehistoric predator. A beast evolves turned loose in a new kind of jungle. All teeth and talons. Eyes unblinking. They know fear because they feed off it. They're your first line of defense and there is no need for a second. The New York Guardians on duty February 2020. I know fans in New York are ready for the Guardians to hit the field in February and good luck to Laura's hometown vipers. Now let's go to Colin from the FS1 studios in Los Angeles. All right I'm going to introduce two teams. One from my hometown and one from my new home. Seattle and Los Angeles. Rising from the turbulent sea. Beneath the darkening skies of their weather-hardened home. Relentless ruthless ravenous. Not a mythology but a muscle might. Not a folklore but a football. This is your darkest fantasy in cleats. The Seattle Dragons breathing fire February 2020. In the land of bright lights far from the flash and fame. They've already begun to prowl. Enter their den and be dominated. Run away and be ripped apart. This is prime time meets primal instinct. This is showtime with a snarl. This is our time to roar. The LA Wildcats unleashed February 2020. The dragons and the wildcats will be representing the west coast this spring. Okay now to our nation's capital Washington D.C. On the shoulders of giants they stand tall. Unconquerable. Unyielding. Marching ever forward. A force united. One quest. One purpose. One resolve. Seeking glory through grit. Victory through valor. The D.C. defenders taking their stand. February 2020. America's favorite sport in America's capital. Only two teams left both in the great state of Texas. Laura what do you got? The newest addition to Texas football. Here's Houston and Dallas. Resolute. Rippling with heat. Railing against fatigue. Unceasing and often unseen. They labor deep in the trenches. Mercenaries in the muck. Brawlers in blackened dirt. Not just for three hours. Not just when the lights are bright. These are the scratching, grinding, never bending few. The Houston Roughnecks going to work for you. February 2020. Deep in the heart of Texas beats a different kind of pulse. A spirit untamed. A swagger that can't be denied. Where big meets bold meets badass. This is outlaw country inside the lines. This is hell on wheels between hash marks. This is their home on the range. The Dallas Renegades raising hell February 2020. There you have it the Roughnecks and the Renegades. The final two teams set to compete for the 2020 XFL championship. Colin and Laura thanks for helping me out today and thanks everyone for watching. February 2020 can't come soon enough.


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Tuesday the 27th of October and the weekly market update and it's been quite an interesting last few days. We've seen a much more dovish than expected ECB in Malta last week with Mr Draghi completely U-turning on his lower bound interest rate expectations but also we saw a surprise in terms of timing cut by the People's Bank of China in their headline policy rate on Friday as well. So those two factors have served to propel equity markets not only here in Europe but also in the US to their highest levels in quite some weeks and it looks like we're going to post a very positive month for October for equity markets in general. I think the big question going forward is whether or not these rebounds that we've seen over the past few days are sustainable. Now we're not going to be looking at equity markets despite the fact that tomorrow we've got the FOMC the October meeting there where we're not really expecting any change in policy from the Federal Reserve but we will be looking at the statement in greater detail to see whether or not the Fed is starting to deviate from its insistence that we can expect to see a rate rise this year. We're certainly seeing an awful lot of divisions on the FOMC committee. Join me and Colin Sosinski tomorrow at 3 p.m. UK time where he and I will go through what to expect from tomorrow's decision and we'll also look ahead to the potential December decision and the prospects or otherwise of whether or not we'll get a rate hike this year or not. My own preference has always been that we're not likely to get one this year but we'll certainly kick around the various scenarios. That being said what we have seen over the past few days is a sharp decline in euro-dollar. We've seen a push lower in the pound against the dollar as interest rate expectations start to shift more into negative territory certainly in the context of the ECB where Mr. Draghi has done a complete U-turn on his lower bound for European interest rates currently the deposit rate is minus 0.2. A year ago he said that interest rates were at the lower bound. He's now potentially raised the prospects that rates could go lower. So we're going to look at what that potentially could mean for euro-dollar. We're also going to have a look at the pound against the dollar and we're also going to look at Brent Crude and WTI in the context of some very key support levels and the prospect that a stronger dollar as well as obviously supply and demand concerns could actually push US crude prices and Brent crude prices back to their lowest levels this year. So we're going to have a look at this daily euro-dollar candle chart and what I've done is I've drawn a trend line from the lows that we saw earlier this year in March and currently we still remain in that very gradual sideways uptrend that we've been in since those lows that we saw in March and the peaks that we saw in August. Now as you can see from that daily chart over the past week or so we've come down quite aggressively. We've pushed below the 200, the 50 and the 100 day moving average but we have thus far fallen short of the may lows and the July lows around about 108 to 20 but also we're currently above the trend line support from the lows in March. So we've got a number of key support levels coming up that could precipitate a bounce in euro-dollar. It's all very well the ECB talking about potentially easing policy at their December meeting they haven't done it yet they're just talking about it and that could precipitate a little bit of a short squeeze. So keep an eye just below just above the 110 area that's going to be a potentially key support level as is the 108-20 lows that have held every single rebound thus far since May. Let's have a quick look at the pound against the dollar in the context of will they raise interest rates? Who's going to be first? Will it be the Bank of England? Will it be the Fed? Certainly the decline that we've seen in the pound against the dollar has been much less marked and that can be borne out by this four hour chart that we're looking at here which shows that we have a trend line from the lows at the end of September which currently comes in just around about the 153 area and that 153 area is going to be very very key in the context of whether or not we get further sterling losses over the course of the next few trading sessions. At the moment we're pretty much broadly trading 152-155. We need to get back through those highs last week of around about 155 to kick on towards 156 otherwise the likelihood is we're probably going to continue to range trade the way we have been over the past few months. Okay so let's move to oil prices. Now oil prices are I think are at a key inflection point here at the moment certainly in terms of West Texas. We've broken below the September lows today around about 42.95 $42.95. We've broken below that. There's potential if we close below $43 a barrel that we could potentially head back to the lows that we saw in the middle of August around about $37.37.5 so that really is a key level going forward. How the market responds around that could well dictate where we go to next. I think in the context of a move on through these key lows we need to take our direction from Brent because Brent has slightly lagged WTI and we can see that in this chart here. Again it's a daily chart. The support level is around about $46 a barrel. If we break below that particular level we could well then potentially move lower on Brent prices as well. At the moment it does appear to be acting in some form of support if we close below $46 a barrel then the cumulative effect of WTI being below the September lows and Brent being being below the September lows could drag it lower. So that's pretty much it for this week. Just a quick reminder you can log into tomorrow's webinar starts at 3pm right here. Otherwise thanks very much for listening. This is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.


So I figured it would be a good idea to talk a little bit about why I switched the server I have from, it was running Arch Linux, so a Linux distribution tailored around being very true to GNU Linux, very minimal changes to Windows Server. That's a side of things you don't normally hear about. It's overwhelmingly Windows users who've switched to Linux talking about why you should switch to Linux and not Linux users switching to Windows about why you should switch to Windows. Both happen. Both systems have their merits, just as other systems do, and I will bring those up in this as well. One of the most startling reasons, and I'm not sure what the cause of this was in trying to diagnose it, I even utilized a few other Linux systems and a few other Unix systems with mixed results. You can see here I very clearly have 32 gigabytes of RAM installed in this machine, and under Linux, whether it was Arch or something else, I've tried this with Ubuntu, with Soos, with Fedora, plenty of others, a lot of being nine total systems, I tried this on with varying kernel versions and everything else, would randomly at boot either recognize 16 or 32. It seemed about four out of five times it would recognize 16 gigabytes and not the full 32 that are installed. At first, I thought this was an issue with the memory, ran it through numerous mem tests, and constantly reported back fine. Now, I can definitely say it's fine because, oh geez, must have been about 20 reboots on this system for various reasons and 32 gigabytes every single time. But after trying quite a few of the Linux systems, what I did before deciding on Windows Server was try out FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenIndiana. FreeBSD and NetBSD are very obviously BSDs, hence the name. Dragonfly is really the only oddball there, both of which are pretty true Unixes, Unix certified systems, but very true to the origins of Unix, excellently designed systems. I don't agree with all of the design decisions, but you can, any system, I don't agree with all of the design decisions. That ultimately wasn't a viable option for me because of some hardware and compatibility issues, and yes, even if that was a server, just hardware compatibility issues. So, I mean, we're talking like one of the SATA controllers wasn't recognized, which is a pretty rough problem. I need both of them being recognized. But also, just other things, just other hardware and compatibility issues. Getting an IDA compiler set up on the BSD is a little bit trickier, but it's not that bad. You have to bootstrap the compiler, but honestly, the ports or package source collections are both excellent and do a fine job at bootstrapping. It's just a little bit of a long process, but it's not bad by any means. It's a lot better than trying to bootstrap it manually. If you've ever installed NAT on a Gen2 system, you've seen what that's like. It's very straightforward. It just takes a while. Then OpenIndiana, that is essentially derived from OpenSolaris. You're seeing Solaris and OpenIndiana diverge slightly. I decided OpenIndiana would be better just because NAT is based on GCC and OpenIndiana has been modified to work more around GCC rather than the old Sun compilers. Very minor thing at this point. In most situations, the two can be used pretty interchangeably. Hardware issues again. I knew this going in. I just did it for like, hey, let's see. No add a compiler. You can do it if you build it manually, but that kind of stuff is a nightmare to do. If I remember right, the Idox project had build scripts available for that kind of stuff. We're talking a long time ago though, because I had contributed to that project years ago and before I realized it was doomed to failure, but I swear I remember having build scripts. I just don't remember where they were. Then I got to thinking, do I really want to be running this test code in the libraries that I'm developing and everything on the server proper? Even if it's my own code and I generally know what I'm doing, that's still a vulnerability. It's always possible you write code that goes haywire and obliterates your hard drive or something. It's rare. Extremely rare, but it's just still good practice to not do that. Hypervisor. It's not like Linux or Solaris or the BSDs don't have hypervisors. In fact, Solaris especially has remarkably excellent hypervisor stuff available for it. Not to mention a lot of the time you don't need it because the BSD and Solaris have very wonderful concept of zones and jails. Not at all like the Linux containers which are kind of hack job attempt at zones and jails. Neat way they implemented it though. Containers have some neat properties, but they don't hold up to the well designed zones and jails. But the management tools for Hyper-V, I've got to say, are definitely one of the best. And I've known that for years now because this is Windows 2012, our two license. So we're talking 2014. I bought this. This goes back a while. I can't show it on this, on like my actual workstation I'm recording this on because I don't have a domain joined up and I don't want to dink around with all the other things to get this to work. But having an actual interface for managing the hypervisors is actually quite lovely because I can just simply start that up. It's very easy to work with these kinds of things in this way. Good command line tools make it still highly possible, but it's very efficient to do this. But more importantly, if I were in like a domain joined situation, I can load up Hyper-V manager on this workstation and have it connect because this is fundamentally a MMC, Microsoft Management Console. It can bring up the other servers that are running Hyper-V all down this list view. And I can just manage them all from one central console. Similarly, you can say like if I had that actually set up, I could bring up Hyper-V on this workstation, have it list all the stuff on the server, and then connect to one of the ones on the server. And even if the operating system underneath it doesn't support RDP or VNC or any of that remote display stuff, I can still have it show up on this computer. Eventually, I will get to that point. I'm still sort of slowly configuring things because I've got other stuff also going on. So having the ability to do that is considerably, considerably easier for managing stuff than any solution I've seen with say Zen for Linux or the various hypervisors that exist for other systems. That being said, they're starting to play catch up with the centralized management console. As I understand it, GNOME boxes is implementing a lot of this stuff. So that's good to see. But it's not just limited to Hyper-V by any means. Now I use this for my test lab. I've only got two VMs set back up, but eventually this will be a pretty long list that I'll actually need to scroll through regularly because this is basically a test lab for the code I developed to make sure that it runs on a variety of platforms and interacts with the base systems nicely. But this is not all that I use. One other incredibly important thing, and I've dinked around with this with the NF Tables and what's the... NF Tables is the new one for Linux, but there's... if you look up firewall guides, like what shorewall works with, but also just look up anything about the Linux firewall, it's about a slightly older firewall slash routing subsystem that exists within Linux. I'm not a Linux expert by any means. I'm quite comfortable administrating one, but I'm not too familiar with the internals and everything. But... Oh, I'll show this first. It's very closely related. Actually, no, go back. This machine is set up as a gateway. Quite obviously. Basically a router, too. There's one Ethernet port that's connected directly into the modem, so the WAN. And there's eight Ethernet ports because I have two network cards each with four ports. I see six of these are being used. The other two are not currently. At least one of them is going to be used for another ARM development board probably just by a Raspberry Pi. Use that. Because basically just extending the test lab just to also work with ARM hardware. And then another one, probably the MIPS. We'll see. Trying to secure something for like a power PC or something, but that one's looking difficult. So it'll probably be a MIPS. But then all of these are bridged together as the single LAN. So that they all share the same IP address and work just like a router would. But a router's done with a switch, not eight individual ports. So obviously in that kind of situation, being able to manage the firewall is incredibly important. And I just, I had such a hard time managing the firewall under Linux. Even if it was using so-called high-level tools like shorewall, which are supposed to make it really easy, just the firewall manager in Windows is so much more pleasant to do in my opinion. Maybe it's just how we work with things, but I find it a lot easier to do. So for example, one thing you really don't want to do is have remote desktop stuff, which I obviously have enabled, access to the greater public. So I can do very easily things like selecting the different remote desktop stuff. And as you can tell that that one's not even out to the public. And in fact, it probably none of these are. Right. Okay. So none of them are, which is a very sane default. WINS is a good example. Something like that does not need to be exposed to the public because it's literally useless to the public. Plus, I don't want to be issuing names for things in the public space if they happen to... Oh my God, just thinking about that is sort of horrifying. But if something were to actually be broadcasting that stuff on the greater internet, that would introduce so much congestion. Oh, I already adjusted that one. And so just like that, I have the entire WINS stuff blocked on the public, at least for inbound rules. I don't for outbound rules, but one... This is another one that should definitely be... What was I just saying? No, I forget. Well, anyways, something that I really like about the approach they take here is that it's possible to define stuff, say at the protocol level, like I've done this for the stuff that bit-shoot mining uses. Where is it? As you can see, I have specific ports defined. But for plenty of other things, say... When does media player is a good example? Where is that one? No, I have these completely off. But you can see that if we go here, there isn't actually anything labeled for the ports. Rather, it's the specific program. This makes it very easy to do fine-grained firewalls, in my opinion. Because you can get to levels of saying like, hey, let's open port 80, but also only for this specific program. That's really nice. Now, by default, if I were to go through all of these that are open, or active, rather, you can see that way too many of them are open on the public interface. And really should not be. I guess it's a reasonable default for usability purposes, but definitely not a reasonable default for security purposes. And unfortunately, you got to weigh the two. But I do really like the option of more program focused than packet focused firewall control. And I just find this so much easier to work with. So much so. Another really nice thing, of course, and I don't really mind showing this off because it's a public network anyways. Or a home network anyways. Basically, just got a home business that I deal with. Looking at the DHCP leases is basically just as easy as it would be to look on a home router. I quite I quite like this. Getting the DHCP leases out of something like DNS mask was not terrible, but not so easy either. And to be fair, to be fair, Samba has file storage stuff set up really well. It's very easy to create an SMB share on say Linux or anything else that Samba works on. I don't find that any easier to do on Windows Server, which is sort of weird to think about because you think that would be really, really easy to do on Windows Server. But yeah. And yeah, so I guess that's basically everything without getting into anything that would expose very serious specific details that could be used for hacking purposes or anything like that. It's basically everything I wanted to cover. I'm definitely not saying one system is better than the other that these are just the reasons why I switched, I personally switched to Windows Server. I can honestly say that if somebody were to just be like, Hey, I just need a simple file server. I don't need it to do much else. Okay, I could set that up really easy on Linux.  Samba works really well anyways. And it's pretty damn easy to actually, I don't even think it supports the very, very flawed version of one anyways.  It's also really easy to get Samba set up to do NMB and WINS stuff as well. It's not that hard to get Windows Server up, but you know, it's really easy to do and you're not paying the fat license fee. I can also definitely say that if somebody were to need a just like a web server, it's very easy. And I would recommend something like Lightyear Engine X under for that one probably NetBSD just because it handles some load stuff better than Linux does. But in either case, you've got an excellent system that's very easy to set up and you're not paying the fat licensing fee that Windows Server involves. But for my needs, Windows Server wound up being the better option. I'm actually quite happy with this. I need to do almost no maintenance in when I changed this over about a month ago. And I, yeah, I'm a lot happier with this. There's one thing I thought of just as I stopped the recording. If you were in a situation like this, and I've already removed the Hyper-V switch before I even did this, I just I was going to mention it and I totally forgot over the course of that. If you are in a situation like this where you are running Hyper-V on the same machine that is a gateway. So like if we go back to this, you can see that normally for you to get the virtual machines internet access, you would set up the virtual switch on the public interface. The one that can actually reach the internet. Don't ever do that in this situation because you will lose all internet connectivity. Yeah. What you actually do is totally counter-intuitive, but you create an internal switch and bridge it with the with the stuff that shouldn't actually be reaching the internet because it's your intranet instead. So walk you through this because it confused the hell out of me and I could find literally no resources available for explaining how to do this. So this is going to help somebody. Like I said, I removed the switch. So we need to create a new one and it's an internal switch. One that would normally not have any internet connectivity and you leave it internal. You do not connect it to any external network. What you would normally do, you don't do that. This should not wind up actually that's not how you check. Why did I do that? You should see. Yeah. So the FE80 and 169.254.101. Actually I can't remember what that part is, but these are both local only, like auto configuration addresses. These are not routable. So what you then do is, that was weird, but oh no that's not. I have that already set up in routing. That's yeah. It defaults to it being public until it can try to identify it. Until it's done trying to identify it. That's just how I have it set up. What you do is actually add it to the bridge and then as odd as that whole thing is, let's just turn that off. Yeah just forcibly turn it off. I'll be able to show you in here. Oh no I won't because I need to add it.  So remove that. Okay that one didn't work which is actually surprising which means were you not told by the DHCP server what the DNS server was? Because everything else is. But I can pay out to the greater internet too. Totally weird, but yeah that's what you actually need to do. There is one thing I think you've got to make sure is done. I did this by default anyway. Oh okay I guess I guess you don't actually need to do that. I was thinking that you need to tell it that itself is the gateway but clearly that wasn't there. I must have forgot to type. Oh no because I tried to use the loopback address before and it just removed it but yeah. So I guess you don't even need that. I guess just adding it to that bridge alone is enough for it to still connect to the internet. So yeah if you've got Hyper-V on the same machine that's the gateway that's how you actually get it to connect because like I said if you connect it to the WAN the whole thing just you lose all internet.


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