No reason there we go. Wait, do you have a do you have a light see it now? We are live now Apology and it's time to do the show shoe time to do a shoe That do a show Allison would you like to do a show? I Would very much like to do a show. I mean I wore a hat and everything Sarah would you like to do a show? Oh, I mean we're all here She had to think about it No, of course I'm obligated to do one Fine. All right, here we go in three two Thanks to everyone who supports daily tech news show directly to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support This is the daily tech news for Friday July 13th Friday the 13th. My lucky day 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt And from Sonoma County at my mother's house, I'm Sarah Lane and from the house of destruction. I'm Allison Sheridan Destruction, what's that about? Well, we have destroyed our entire downstairs My house looks like the set of dexter with plastic all over the walls and it's so much dust that our smoke detectors went off Wow, okay, so remodeling hell is what that sounds like. Yeah. Yeah So you might hear I don't know some saws cutting up tile and stuff like that, which would be nice for the audio listeners As long as you have a code for your dark passenger, we won't ask any questions Producer Roger Chang is here as well Roger. How fair ye I fair average We have meaty topics to bring you above average Roger. Oh, let's start with a few tech things you should know Yesterday during the show news broke that the US Department of Justice filed an appeal of the decision to allow the man time warner If it prevails in court The merger which closed a month ago now would have to be undone the DOJ said on June 12th They wouldn't seek an injunction to stop the merger, but was still considering whether or not to appeal So now we know what it decided AT&T and time warner question mark Well the US Department of Commerce Officially lifted the ban on US companies selling goods to China's ZTE the Commerce Department and ZTE reached an agreement last month Evolving changes in leadership payment of a one billion dollar fine and placing of four hundred million dollars in escrow for up to ten Years against future violations On a more positive note epic games announced that due to the success of fortnight It's going to raise the percentage of money it gives developers from its unreal engine marketplace Developers used to get seventy percent of what the game sold for in the marketplace now they get eighty eight percent and The new rate applies retroactively to all products going back to the launch of the marketplace in 2014 That's crazy. Who does that? I Do source to sell the information that within 18 months Amazon web services plans to sell customers white box networks open a source software And have built-in connections to AWS cloud services as well supposedly Amazon could charge 70 to 80 percent less than comparable switches go how about that? Yeah, so given Cisco a run for their money by selling their own switches. All right Let's talk a little bit about the Emmys Allison because it's good news for over-the-top services. It's crazy Netflix received 112 Emmy nominations slightly ahead of HBO's 108 and breaking HBO's 17-year streak is the most nominated network Among the Netflix shows getting nominated were unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt glow the crown and stranger things Jason basement Jason Bateman also got nominated for Ozark and the USS Callister episode of black mirror got a nod Who got 27 nominations 20 of which were for handmaidens tale making it the third most nominated show behind Westworld and Game of Thrones Amazon got 22 nominations only 10 years ago was HBO's domination of non-broadcast Emmys broken by Mad Men Damages and Dexter the Emmys will be awarded September 17th with host Colin Jost and Michael Che also NBC was number three. They were in the list to good for them. They employ my wife I'm happy for them It is pretty crazy to to think how we've gone You know HBO winning an Emmy back in the 90s was huge or even getting nominated Then non-HBO cable network starting to get nominated was huge only 10 years ago And now the court cutting services are dominating the Emmys because they're making quality programs HBO has has been making some of my favorite isn't it? I But for those who do it's like you start to think of it as well. This is why people pay for high quality Program a single thing the HBO Puts up. I'm usually going to but Netflix just has sewing now And this is not surprising 17 year-nominated network, uh, that is uh, that that's a good one, but it was bound to change eventually Yeah, for sure. Uh, and and and we're having a little trouble here in you Sarah So I apologize to the listeners for that. There's a little break up in the the connection there So I'm I'm going to go ahead and read the next one Uh, just to make sure that it that it gets out smoothly Uh, microsoft president brad smith wrote a blog post calling on the us congress to regulate facial recognition smith called it The technology of the moment with broad societal ramifications and potential for abuse Smith called on the us congress to create a bipartisan commission of experts to assess how the technology should be used and advise on laws to regulate it A few things smith thinks should be addressed Use by authorities how they how it should be used Uh prevention of racial profiling accuracy performance minimums and whether to obtain consent from individuals He wrote this should build on recent work by academics and in the public and private sectors to assess these issues And to develop clear ethical principles for this technology He admits in his blog post allison that that it is unusual for a a company to advocate for its own regulation Uh, but it seems if you look at how he wrote it that this is coming from The use of facial recognition or the potential use of facial recognition and immigration enforcement and the heat microsoft took For providing technology to ice which he makes clear again in this blog post Was only maintenance of existing systems for things like email, etc and had nothing to do with any of the Facial recognition that they're working on I also found it interesting. He said he compared them to the regulations that the The car industry used to have used to complain about but now they're really happy with having You know, we think it's perfectly normal to have all of these regulations for automobile manufacturers And he was saying, you know, there's time to just step up and do this on your own and and we really need to have this I was also intrigued by the differences they talked about with facial recognition for people of color and all of the problems they've had with that it's It's interesting of all the scary wild things we talk about with ai. This is this is somewhat different and yet just as big of a topic that maybe does need to be regulated I just man, I wouldn't want to be the The one to try to figure out how to write a law about it Because by the time you get started, it's going to change what it can do, right? Well, and I think that's why he's he's created such a long and carefully written post is to say let's get ahead of this one Uh, we're on our back foot when it comes to algorithms We're on our back foot when it comes to abuse of social networks and bots Let's not be on our back foot In regards to facial recognition and whatever the reason that it's gotten to the top of his his priority list Uh, I think it's a good thing to say Yes, let's create a panel that everyone can agree is built of people who know how this works Let's involve all the stakeholders the public the elected representatives and the companies and say these are Let's acknowledge right from the beginning. These are very thorny issues And we need to do a lot of work to figure out appropriate answers to them I like that. He's not pretending that he has the answers. Yeah, and he also said, okay, some people are going to say Oh, you should do self-regulation. We don't need more regulation. He says, well, that's great Let's say five of the big companies all follow this these agreed upon things we're going to do But then everybody else doesn't Well, then that doesn't do you any good, right? It's it's too deep and too broad and too important to just let it be Voluntary and and like you say too rock with danger. I think yeah, yeah, um for for sure and It's just so I mean There's a lot of good that can be done with facial recognition. He covers those things like here's how it can help you But he doesn't avoid the bad things. Here's how it can be abused If you have the time this is just a really good summary of the state of where facial recognition is and he even admits that Apple exists and mentions the iphone. So it's he's not being like just all pro microsoft Uh, although he doesn't mention google. So maybe there is a little a part of the chip in there. I don't know Yeah, it might be hey, it's not just us Right, right. Yeah. Well, I mean like as any business certainty and stability Especially in the legal environment is paramount because you need to be able to plan a lot of these especially with innovation You need to be able to plan four or five ten years out and you don't necessarily want to have a hodgepodge of uh, different legal rulings and environments when you can just like Allison was alluding to where you can have with the car industry Just a set of federal guidelines that everyone adheres to and they say, okay This is what we have to work with we can plan around this and then we can move forward Well, let's move to a much simpler and less controversial topic US special counsel robert muller obtained an indictment against 12 russian intelligence officers for allegedly using spear fishing And malware infections to access email accounts of computer networks of the democratic national committee Uh in in a few different, uh instances and the hillary clinton campaign The conspirators are alleged to be behind the dc leaks and goose for 2.0 accounts Two of the officers are further accused of conspiring to attack computers of state boards of election secretaries of state and companies that supply election technology Uh and as a result copying information for around 500,000 us voters The indictment does not find that the actions altered vote counts or election results and no us citizens are accused of any crimes or conspiracies 11 of the russian defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit computer crimes Eight counts of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to launder money And then one of those 11 and another defendants are charged with a separate conspiracy to commit computer crimes Uh and and that that involves those other charges there about the attacks on election boards so We're not going to talk about what effect this has on the president or the senate or the congress or the campaigns or anything like that We'll leave that there seem to be plenty of people talking about that I don't think you'll have a hard time finding a take on that but we did want to talk about uh what actually went down and and In that respect. It's a fairly mundane attack It is a state sponsored attack. It's an advanced persistent threat. It is it is from the intelligence agencies according to the Mueller investigation But it's not using sophisticated methods to get this. This is not a stux net This is just a typical spearfishing campaign the kind of which happened all the time to corporate entities And I found that fascinating else. It's the mostly Mostly bag of water. What is that exact quote problem, right ugly bags of mostly water? Is that the Star Trek reference? Yeah So, uh, it is interesting to me that they were able to identify so specifically Who did this so it's not like vaguely. Oh, we think russia did it. It is this guy this guy this guy this guy Here's the first name middle and last names here's who they are what their job was I mean that is a fair amount of intelligence gathering to go beyond just knowing that something got hacked To then finding uh the results of exactly how they did it what tools they used and who was behind it That's that's a lot more than just uh, you know scanning a network for vulnerabilities or for for intrusion detection, right? And we've been ringing the alarm bells of companies need to pay take security seriously Companies need to do more to stop social engineering just building a castle All right, you know a moat around your network is not enough Because the vulnerabilities are not just technical. They're also human And this is after years of saying that we've been saying in one of these days It's going to cause a real a bigger problem. This is an example of that This is a major political party not properly securing its servers not properly training its people to prevent these kinds of attacks I again, I go back to that like I think one of the reasons to tie our two comments together Allison one of the reasons it's it's was it was They were able to figure out exactly who did it is these aren't sophisticated attacks. They also leave tracks Yeah So I am never going to be the person who says that we need to just train people better because I am Incredibly aware of this whole situation I had an employee of mine when I ran an IT organization in a big government contractor. I had an employee who was Uh like a white hat hacker and I sent him off to def con and I and he he did the capture the flag contest He did incredibly well and everything and then I went to a conference And I met the woman who invented yubi-ki And so she gave me one of them and I brought it back to work and I gave it to this guy and I said Hey, let's check this thing out The yubi-ki is a is a keyboard, but you put your finger on it and it types in a code So he took it from me and he stuck it in his computer and all of a sudden we both went I went to a conference Met a foreign national took a phone drive looking device and stuck it into a company computer with the guy that knew all about hacking We both just went yep. Everybody's screwed. There is no such thing as training to stop this from happening Well, and that is a very well taken point It's not just training training people better is not going to fix it because there's always going to be those instances It takes it takes a lot of effort. I think that's that's the upshot of this, right? Like it can't be just like, oh, we've we just trained people better. It'll stop this it it takes a lot of effort Yep, uh before we move on to the next story. I just want to make sure that no Attackers have been able to block sarah lane from speaking again. Well, I certainly hope you guys can hear me better That's last time much better. Oh good. It it's you know, I don't I can hear all of the words now Oh good.  Well scientists phil and anthony butler in new zealand have performed the first ct scan on a person that results in a 3d color image the device uses cern's metapix 3 tech Which supports which incorporates particle tracking developed for the large hadron collider This is so cool Traditional x-rays can only measure density and shape but this new detector has small enough pixels and high enough energy resolution to measure fat water calcium and other disease markers a clinical trial using this machine in Christchurch orthopedic and rheumatology patients will start in the next few months New zealand company marz bio imaging which is linked to the universities of otago and canterbury will commercialize the technology And we want to particularly thank dm max for submitting the story on our subreddit and the insightful comments from ga corley if mac do and m brady Yeah One of the best examples of a good reddit discussion from from those folks Help me have a little better understanding because you see the headline and it says 3d color image from an x-ray Well, first of all, it's a ct scan as one of them pointed out and second of all, they're false colors They're just assigning colors to wavelengths That that make it look like a color picture, but that's still helpful That's still really interesting because it helps you be able to tell Things in more detail that you couldn't tell with just the straight black and white from a regular x-ray Yeah, so the other thing that I I love about this story is a lot of times we do science Because we don't know what we're going to learn. We're going to do with it I mean the large hadron collider costs a whole lot of money and it's like well, who cares about the beginning of the universe Why do we need to know about that? That's not going to help my life tomorrow And here's a case of where it's going to help your life tomorrow Because we built the large hadron collider and I say the we the royal we we as humanity built it So I think that that really Really highlights the the value of some of the science that we do in the world And I like the tie into new zealand because I'm going to talk about new zealand later. Yeah. No, it's it's uh It's it's a great point that that this is when you say like, why are we spending all this money on a super collider? This is just one example We we didn't spend all the money on the super collider so that we could make a 3d x-ray But it is one of the side effects and you don't know what those side effects are going to be That's one of the reasons you do science uh for science's sake is is to push forward the boundaries of human understanding Well, okay So if we we talk about going back to traditional x-rays and that you know the whole black and white quality And I try to think of it as like Yeah, I mean if somebody is colorblind there are all sorts of color details that just aren't going to show up If something is a shade of gray and I like you mentioned tom the color doesn't necessarily mean like this is the color of Right, uh, you know fats or calcium. You know, it's it's it's assigning but to have that distinction Uh, especially from medical professionals is probably not going to help somebody like me except me going Oh, that looks pretty cool. But but it seems like that that is that is so Not only innovative but extremely helpful when you're you know making a distinction between What's going on in an x-ray? I'd love it. It's going to it's going to be extremely helpful Because it just gives you more information. So, yeah All right, moving on george hotz has been giving reporters a demos of his level two autonomous car aftermarket system called open pilot from his company comma dot ai open pilot 0.5 That's the newest software adds facial tracking to make sure that a driver's eyes are on the road And comma dot ai explorer that lets users upload telemetry data and note Disengagement to help improve the system for everybody the latest version did remove ways and spotify to free up resources Probably for the best although ways is pretty helpful. I don't know how a helpful spot if I would have been open pilot Is compatible with all toyota and honda models as well as some gm cars Hardware can be purchased anywhere and the software is free from github Yeah, uh This this is interesting because hotz is out there saying all these other companies like waymo Uh, they're trying to do something that they really can't do You know and and the the companies are looking down at him like You're you're just trying to drum up Excitement for your little startup thing But hotz is providing something that you can do right now today yourself Waymo uber any of these other companies are not able to let you Have one of their self-driving cars And and hotz is like and they won't ever be able to they're going to need humans in those things for a long time No matter what they say He's like you should think of it as assisted driving and that's what he provides you buy off the shelf hardware You stick it in in your diagnostic port. You add a couple of of Bluetooth things Into your car you make some adjustments to download the free software from github And bobs your uncle you've got a level two now a level four But a level two autonomous car and the reporters that that tried it out all said yeah, it worked really well It it felt like it made me a better driver The the big one is the facial recognition where if you are not looking forward for six seconds It just shuts down the system and says you can't use it again until you've turned the car off and turned it on again I love the story because it's actually conflating everything. We just talked about right there was the uh the the drone that you can get inside of And it stops being a drone yesterday regulations about that regulations about a facial recognition This has facial tracking and we talked about cars having to have regulations about how you can build them And what you can do with them We're just going to go get this here open source software and fling it into a box We bought off the internet and have it help us drive our car Yeah, I mean it requires some side loading. It's a little a little harder than that makes it sound But yeah, pretty about cameras. Don't you need cameras? Yeah, you need some forward-facing cameras I wish I had some lighter. Maybe you need uh panda odb sensor draft bridge and an eon dash cam Eon dash cam is androids. You have to do a side loading on it. That's it What could possibly go wrong? This sounds awesome. Well, and I love it What could go wrong is it just doesn't work and and and you have to drive yourself, right? You're not relying on it for too much either Right if your eyes aren't on the road, they're not on the road You know the a tracking system to uh to to determine if that that's helpful That is you know something that that maybe some of us should have more of but it's not going to keep your eyes Trained on the road, you know, if you're looking down you're looking down Maybe we just need to install this so that it yells at us when we aren't looking at the road Maybe it has big alerts and then having it in there is better than us not having it in there Because we all we all know how helpful our smart watches are when they say stand up and you're in the middle of something And then you're like That was two minutes ago. It's my watch actually says stand up right now My watch usually says it while I'm standing up. So I don't If you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com All right, there's one other story that's kind of a big story of the day But it leads into a wider discussion that allison has been having about apps Sources are telling bloomberg that adobe plans to announce a full version of photoshop for the ipad At the adobe max creative conference in october the app would supposedly be released next year So they'll announce it in october for a 2019 release adobe's chief product officer of creative cloud scott belsky confirmed that the company is working On crass platform iterations of photoshop and other adobe applications But it did not he did not confirm timing or announcements So whether this timing holds up or not It does sound like adobe wants to bring a full version of photoshop To the ipod or to the ipad and allison I know you're crazy about affinity photo and affinity designer on the mac and they announced yesterday that they're Available for the ipad. So this seems to be the trend Well, even more than that actually affinity photo has been out on the ipad for quite some time Maybe like a year an affinity photo I know there's all a lot of people who love photoshop are going to say i'm full of it But affinity photo is a really really successful competitor to adobe photoshop And i'm not a photographer. I'm not an artist But i'm a member of some communities where I watch what these people are creating with it and it's just insane and What I wanted to talk about kind of was this this movement from the mac to the ipad That now is starting to happen the big announcement Just yesterday the day before was that affinity designer their vector design program So the competitor to adobe illustrator is available on the ipad now The other thing is affinity designer is 20 bucks affinity photo is 20 bucks No subscription. So they're really starting. I think they're starting to encroach on on what adobe is doing And it's kind of neat to see that pulling adobe towards the ipad even though they're coming very very slowly But this also folds into another discussion a lot of people are saying Oh, this is just deprecating the mac and the mac's not important anymore And I don't think that's a concern of mine anyway because the the ipad Is a fabulous tool to use with a pencil to draw and make art I mean, that's why we used to have to buy a wake-up tablet to hook up to a mac to in order to do art Why add a tablet to a mac? Why don't you just do it on the tablet? so and and they're coming up with some really innovative ways to To let you use your fingers to do things like a shift key or an alt key a control key Those those controls are being made from the ground up in apps like affinity photo and affinity designer with your fingers In addition, there's even there's an app called vector mate vector nadir vector nadir pro from vector nadir dot i o It's a free vector design program for the ipad now That's pretty pretty crazy that it that it's you know, it used to be eight whole dollars and now it's free It's very capable. It is not nearly what affinity designer is or or illustrator But seeing these things come to the ipad is just fantastic because that is the right tool for the job Not this big heavy desktop my opinion Well, now that you say it like that it makes me think yeah when people were starting to design on computers I remember other people saying, huh? You're going to use a mouse and a keyboard to do what I do with a pencil and a flat surface Screw you And now we have the reverse like oh, you're going to do with a flat surface in a pencil What I do with a mouse and keyboard forget you well when when adobe first released there And and now of course I can't remember the name of it But it was the the pared down version of photoshop for the ipad some years ago I was like i'm not much of a photoshop user. I'm certainly not a photoshop whiz There's a lot of features in there that i'm never going to use but it was like oh, that's cool That's great, but for anybody who uses photoshop You know for work or or on a on a larger scale You want the full version of photoshop? And I know that bellsky is not necessarily Confirming what bloomberger is reporting here But just you know, let's just say for conversation that this is all happening adobe would not do this unless it had enough data to know that especially with the ipad pro enough people would Pay for this and want it And and and it's not because they don't want to use their computers anymore But hey, you have other devices if they can sell more subscriptions Then they will they will they will do more on ios Exactly bellsky's just saying it's not he's not saying when it's coming. He's he's he's he obviously like you say He he knows people want it and they need it Oh Designer or affinity I'll get this right yet sarahf the people that make all of the affinity products also announced that in They'll be having a public beta coming out shortly for their page layout program And that will come out on the ipad. I think they said october of this year So they're iterating incredibly quickly bringing these products to the ipad and and I think this is only going to get more interesting As apple's ui kit gets into into full play where people will be able to create things for the ipad that then they can put on the mac More easily they can develop to for two platforms So now things just start to flow back and forth and we'll just be able to use the right tool for the right job Well, and even and just one more point We even somebody who's kind of new to creative cloud because I just bought myself a couple of months of premiere because I needed premiere pro You know photoshop. I'm not going to be using a ton of photoshop But I am going to be using a ton of premiere and if I have fully featured premiere on a variety of devices And I can figure out how to do some more complicated editing on my iphone. That's great You know, I was at the airport this morning and the wi-fi just at sfo wasn't working, but lte was working fine It's like there are times where I could say even if I prefer to use my computer always I'm going to need to use one of my other devices that I might have on hand Yeah, good point. All right. Thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddit In fact, we called out a few of you today and we're going to keep doing it As long as you keep submitting stories and voting on them at daily tech news show at reddit.com We're also on facebook hang out there with us as well facebook.com slash groups daily tech news show But we also get your emails. Let's check the mailbags here Craig wrote in and said I just increased my patreon pledge from a dollar per month to five dollars per month Thanks, craig craig says you're worth it. I come for the tech But I stay for the good day internet discussions Which is good to know craig that you like our food topics not to take away from the bread and butter of what the podcast is All about but I really find gdi. That's good day internet gdi very entertaining off the well discussions Are a blast tom sarah roger allison and everybody else keep doing what you're doing because it's totally working for me You all have good chemistry and it makes me want to laugh and listen Aw, thanks craig. You're the best. I'm glad you enjoy that and uh to charles from sugar land Uh, I apologize uh that it was confusing about good day internet He was he was having a hard time finding good day internet on patreon because the feed was still called dts He's like I can find the dts feed. I'm like, well, that's actually the good day internet feed So I have fixed that I have changed the title so that it reflects that it's both of those Uh, so hopefully that helps more people discover it as well Uh craig also notes at the end of his uh email to us that he is from delaware I had made a joke on a good day internet some months ago that I wasn't sure delaware was a real place Because I didn't know anybody who'd ever been there before and uh craig has set me straight Thank you for being a listener from delaware all the other delaware listeners come forth. We want to know you If you're real if you're real and you might not be hey, you know, it's uh, it's it's hard to say What we do know is real is the wonderful, uh, allison charidan who we love having on the show Uh as many fridays and some other days as we can allison. It's been a while. What have you been up to? It has been well, you know, I was inspired by a question Tom asked on an episode of patrick pageos filius club He asked wendy denford who's a psychologist who uh, how to convince someone to change their mind And of course she explained that you can't change somebody's mind It can't be done and specifically you'll hear tom often say you can't use facts and data to change somebody's mind And I think that probably informed part of why he says that so this last week in chuchat across the pond Which is one of my uh podcasts. I decided to ask professor marianne gary to explain to us Why can't you convince some with with facts and data? She's a researcher in memory false memory and its effects on the law at the university of waikato in new zealand She's also funny really sarcastic and is quite snotty to me during the interview. So it's fantastic stuff Go check that out folks pod feet dot com chitchat across the pond. It's good stuff. I've met marianne. 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I'm on the show Uh, yes, uh, don't want your reboot seems seem to have fixed it Well, you know what? You know what? I didn't want it like we were in the middle of the show So I wasn't going to go into it But um as soon as I restarted It was like my dropbox notifications was like tom merit changed 17 files on dropbox and I was like Oh, wait, I know he's not doing that right now. So as soon as I quit dropbox, I think that that was the issue That must have been it. Yeah That dropbox running in the background doing weird things to me Engine files. Well at first I was like, mom, are you on the internet? Get off the internet You know, and then I was like that wouldn't be the problem No, it makes sense because you were traveling and you as you mentioned you didn't have wi-fi at the airport So all the like daily tech headlines All of the things that I changed in the morning to you know files I moved around that all As soon as dropbox caught up when you got plugged in I know but the thing was is, you know, I was sitting here for I don't know It just you had time. It was fine. You know what it is. It's friday the 13th It's freaky friday Yeah, yeah, there you go mom. You can get on the internet again I mean She's such a wonderful woman. She really is Janks, uh, did you guys have a nice birthday dinner last night? We did Uh, it's Eileen's birthday yesterday. If anyone, uh, doesn't realize we're I'm not having a second birthday As soon as I said that I was like, you know, tom might want to keep his birthday dinner No, uh, we uh, we ordered, uh tacos delivered because I was like, do you want me to make something? Do you want to go somewhere or do you want to have something delivered? And she's like, I want to be spoiled and have something delivered. So We have benny's tacos delivered. Oh, and you love that place Which I have yet to know benny's I'd never been to before. Uh, oh Who's the person who loves it? This is the one I love Paco's is another one I love But you can't get either of them ordered delivery as easily Paco's you can but she's like, no What I really want are a tito style tacos. So we found benny's which has the same kind of tacos as titos got it And this was not on postmates, I assume. No, it was uber eats I got um, I got some uber eats delivered myself last night I got my my my typical ramen and now I do this thing because you know where it's like It's the same, um You know affliction that we all have where we're like, I'm hungry So I'm going to get an extra large pizza and then what you really only want is two pieces of pizza But then you have 16. Yeah, but you can't reason with yourself when you're that hungry You're like, I need the extra large. So it's an emotional response Right. So what I do now when I get the ramen, which is it's a huge thing of ramen With all sorts of stuff in there. I get extra noodles and extra ramen. So I'm really ordering two But it's more cost-effective than just getting two of them Hey, it was requested that I explain my hat Let's take that out So you could see in the photo I dropped into let's see it's in the discord in the irc chat That is a picture in the Galapagos islands of me wearing this shirt and this hat that I took just for you guys Which is a dts shirt and a blue-footed booby hat Yeah, so right now this is the way it was shown in the uh, uh In the photo, but the fun way is with the blue-footed the blue-footed boobies I've seen a blue-footed booby in um Not the galapagos, but because I've never been there, but they um, I took a little tour off of the coast of I guess the closest place would be port of ira Um, they live on some like kind of rocky islands off that coast people don't live there, but They really have blue feet. They are crazy. They're so cute. Yeah, I love them Because you hear blue-footed boobie and you're what that's not a real thing. No, they are and they have blue feet Well, I think we have uh, we have fixed Well, not fixed but finalized the system that works best for streaming the audio into discord. So we can start We've mentioned it a few times, but we can start officially saying We have a stream of good day internet in the discord if you want to listen live The other thing is there's no delay That's true Is what we have found on In the pod fee dot com slash live So if you are a patron Uh Go to patreon.com slash dts. You can get your integration to discord from there The easiest way would just be to look for the post at the beginning of the month That welcome, you know to say thanks those usually have it in there There's another way to find it in your settings or you can just message me through patreon and I'll send you the the instructions Uh, and then once you're in discord, you go to the good day internet channel At 4 30 p.m. Eastern actually no for 15 p.m. Eastern Uh 115 p.m. Pacific and when we start recording good day internet, we'll start streaming into the discord Um an affinity towards photoshop on the ipad That's so long hold them together though A fully padded photoshop for the ipad. How about that? That's the same character count. I mean, that's fine It's probably not it's probably just at the edge of of of length That that's it. That's all we got. All right. Yeah, uh, I we can try we can go for it's kind of It's just when you have something that long it falls off on a lot of people's displays and you can't see iPad gets real photoshop Oh, that's better. That's snappy I don't like it. It doesn't have affinity in it, but that's okay. That's fine Run my point. It's okay. Tell me ipad affinity for photoshop. Does that work?  What's that mean? Hold on We talk on discord What'd you say? I said we could just say we talk in discord That would be technically meet all your Do you really? Okay Sometimes our headlines are straightforward, but they're usually Topical with a twist I would say yeah, you know, I mean unless it's Because a great headline is no good if nobody can read all the words sure. Yeah, it'd been really clever if you'd seen it I swear this is amazing And how do we all feel about uh things like a question mark in the title? I have always been pro Oh, yeah, I'm you know, you can over you do it There's a limit Well, I I've I had a debate with somebody who's who's Jeff Bezos and alien. No, that's not okay But I put used a question mark. I didn't say it was Folks question whether or not Bezos as an alien. Yeah. Yeah But uh, no, I was I was having a debate with a friend of mine who's very she's very um Into kind of like youtube seo and and has has has done a lot of research and she's oh Never have a question mark because it won't surface your stuff the same way that's like, you know That's a golden rule, but it's like well, but if somebody's subscribed to the show, you know, it's like we're not It's it's unlikely that they're you know doing google searches and we're hoping to sort of surface based on topics That's not really what we're doing Yeah, I'm not as worried with about seo with a podcast title. Yeah because of that Right, I'll teach you about seo tom Name your name your website after your feet Then make the title of your show your name spelled backwards. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay. Okay note to self got it got it Uh, what if I make my twitter name an unpronounceable inside joke for only myself in 1996? Also also considered high form. We should put together a tip list We should well. No, we should charge people a lot as consultants Hey, I actually pushed barred off an hour so that uh, I could be on the show So I'm gonna run and uh, listen to some chainsaws and stuff downstairs Well, that sounds nice Gainsaws are you cutting number? Well, I'm lying. It's actually some sort of weird saw that's cutting tile. So that's nice too Oh, it's a circular saw probably no, no, it's like this little wedge thing that goes Like cuts little gouges out of it to fit it around the molding crown molding and thing or not crown Sounds like a molding soft for tiles kind of yeah, but small. Anyway, I better go Always is feet people. It's a tile saw good to see you allison. Thanks for being on the show cut back soon Bye Now we can talk about allison. Yeah Finally no zilla Talk about I know that because she's explained that to me before but I always forget But I'm so I hear no zilla and I'm like, I don't know. It sounds like mozilla. You know, or it's no Silla Yes It's uh, it's the uh, it's god zilla's relative with the big news Well, it's allison backwards, which I didn't know for a long time much longer than I care to admit Me either but I but I do know it But then I I don't think about it because I'm just so used to the like ace detect You know, I'm I'm so used to it that I just It doesn't even register that it's not Like it might as well just say tom married to me Although I do when I spell it out Which I almost never do because slack just auto corrects everything auto completes everything But yeah, I was like is it the is the e and then that okay got it. So good work tom Keeping us sharp It's right year after year That's what it's about It's a misspelling and a failed Failed attempt to sign up for a five megabyte free web plan like I was 26 years old at the time and here it is still today kicking around Well, you're you're you've been loyal. You've been loyal to your 26 year old self You know, it's funny. I was on I was on mark stedman's podcast bit rate Which was really fun And he asked me like if you could tell yourself 10 years ago self something. What would you tell him? And I now that I'm thinking about it. I wish I would have said I would tell him to spell ace detect right The first time But you can check that out bit rate pod.com slash ace detect Is is the short url for my my episode that I did with mark or just look on twitter We were talking about it this morning, but very cool. It's gonna be my answer now. I'm gonna say I'm gonna say I would tell myself to spell ace detect correctly And to think hard whether I really want that to be my username for the rest of my life So Well as the You know as A lot of our like I'm trying to remember what scott johnson used to be because I remember when he changed over to scott johnson On twitter from it was whatever. I think he was extra life. Yeah, that's right And I remember being like, wow, but I liked extra life Like I like the you know the fun handles even though I've always just been serilene because I don't have any fun handles And again, just like to keep it consistent But but I completely understand why it's sometimes problematic where you have to explain well on this But then on twitter i'm this name and then on this other service and this other name. It's good to have It's funny. I actually know know where I was when he changed his twitter handle Where were you? I was sitting in a sushi restaurant in kihai maui Okay That he had changed it It was one of the few times where I I was among the chorus of people annoying scott because I was like You've changed from extra life. I know. Yeah, because well, you get you just get used to It would be like if you became tom merit, which as we figured out with justin That's just a whole different person But I'd be like no, but ace detect is part of your identity Yeah Yeah, I don't know that I could ever change now Uh, I wouldn't you know, I was thinking about this because we talked about it You know the bot count yesterday one of the reasons I don't pay attention to the number Is that my number has always been behind other people because I have such a stupid username But I've always felt like the people who found me really wanted to follow me Because we were willing to find that silly name. And so I feel like I have a more valuable audience there Because of that. Well, there's probably some truth to that.   I I am not mistaken for anyone other than bars bars Yeah, because you're jolly Roger Oh Got it. Got it. Got it. Oh, I had a wonderful weekend wine tasting at jolly roger's like, yeah, sure But you did There's a jolly roger uh motel near where I live and I think of you every time I pass it, which is yeah Whenever I go to see no, I walk past that. I know it's a valuable handle of eventually I don't know if it's a nice motel or not. I'm gonna guess it's not that nice but It looks okay. It looks okay. I always wonder how they can survive not being a chain and not being a residential hotel They must be good enough. It's a hotel not a motel. Oh here. It's a motel. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's the thing is is in venice There's like just weirdly no hotels. There are a couple motels There's the jolly roger and then there's like the kinny which is right next to it there's one on pacific and then it's like There's not really a lot of options. So I think the motels do well because it is a touristy area and people Yeah has uh Their staff speaks Armenian English Hebrew Japanese Persian Spanish and Tagalog Who the staff of who? Oh, really?  So maybe that's the thing they've developed this Yeah, you're right. That's cool. That's cool Well, thanks to the video viewers for joining us. Uh, have a lovely weekend. We'll be back on Monday audio listeners stuck around There's more to come


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NATO has started a massive air exercise over Germany. What is the message? It is sending as the Ukraine war heats up. The top U.S. securities regulator has launched a crackdown against cryptocurrency platforms in a move that can change the future of the crypto market. At least former prime minister and billionaire right-wing politician Silvio Berlusconi died on Monday. What is his legacy? Welcome to daily debrief. I am your host Shreya and we take a look at these stories today. NATO began what it calls its largest-ever air deployment over Europe in Germany. The air defender exercise 2023 is set to involve 10,000 participants and 250 aircrafts from 25 countries, meant to demonstrate the strength and unity of the Western military alliance set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. What lies ahead? We ask Abdul Rahman, who joins us in studio. Welcome to the show, Abdul. So, first off, what is the objective behind this air exercise by NATO? Well, there is an official version, of course, according to which this is just an exercise. Of course, it is the largest ever, the unprecedented scale exercise and all, but it is not against any country. That is what the official NATO version is. But of course, if you see the place where it is happening, if you see the participation of the countries, the number of countries which are participating and in the context in which it is happening, of course, is primarily to prepare the NATO countries, the Western European countries in particular and there are lies outside the that region, which includes Japan, which is not even the member of NATO and Sweden, which is one of the applicants, not yet accepted as full members. If you see all of it, it is primarily targeted at Russians, given the fact that there is a war going on in Ukraine and NATO has been supporting the Ukrainian government, providing armaments, providing other support, including tanks and aircrafts. So, in that context, of course, it is basically getting ready for any eventuality against Russia. That is the primary objective. If you see this exercise is happening along with a naval exercise in the Baltics. Again, NATO countries, there are 25 countries are participating here, 19 countries are participating there and there is a quite overlap in terms of the number of countries participating. And this basically fits into the larger scheme. If you see NATO's statements in recent months, they have identified China and Russia as the primary threats to their quote-unquote collective security and the deployment of forces on the ground, on the borders with Russia has increased and there have been a number of exercises carried by NATO countries have also increased. So, this is part of that larger context. Right, Abdul. I mean, there is surely no need for reading between the lines here because even in the official version, they say that it's designed to be defensive. So, the context of this thing is very important. So, how do you see the war in Ukraine shaping up from here? Well, that is the central issue. If you see NATO members and particularly the US have been responsible for what is happening in Ukraine. That is an obvious fact. They basically created an atmosphere in which Russia, despite raising objections time and again, that expansion of NATO to its toward expansion of NATO is basically against the national security of Russians. And instead of pushing for that, NATO countries should basically stop their expansion and provide Russia some kind of security guarantee and so on and so forth. That was the primary demand apart from what is happening in Donetsk and in other Russian speaking reasons in Ukraine. These were the primary concerns which basically led to Russia basically starting the quote-unquote special military operation in Ukraine last year. But NATO did not address those concerns and instead, ever since the war has started, instead of finding ways to kind of resolve the conflict through dialogue and reconciliation, what we see that there is an attempted move to basically escalate the war. So, from a time when the US and the European countries, Western European countries, claiming that providing aircrafts will create escalation and so on to Ukraine, they have provided that. They have admitted Finland and now Sweden is on the verge of being admitted to NATO. So, expansion is happening. There are greater talks about Ukrainians being inducted into NATO formally. That all of this, if you see that it seems that this is a part of the larger geopolitical move which is happening vis-à-vis the insecurities, growing insecurities of the NATO countries, particularly the leaders of NATO US and vis-à-vis Russia and China in many ways, which basically is pushing such kind of aggressive behavior. And it is also, you can say it's a kind of a defensive move in a sense that they do not want any challenge to their military dominance in the global politics. NATO was considered to be when it was initially formed, at least theoretically it was a defensive alliance, but everyone knows that it is not a defensive alliance. It has been used during the Cold War against Soviet Union for initial five decades against Soviet Union. And now it is increasingly being used to basically reinforce the military hegemony and the dominance of US and its Western European allies. So, whether it is the war in Iraq, whether it is war in Afghanistan, whether it is war in Libya and in Yugoslavia, in different other places, NATO has been an aggressor and it is not a defensive alliance. So, we should see it in that particular context in which this particular exercise and is happening. If you see one last thing I think needs to mention that US also because it is feeling the rise of China economically militarily as well, it basically is trying to, it is difficult. Of course, the overall defense budget is almost $8 trillion, which is one of the highest in the world. If you include all 10 countries' defense budgets, that will be still less than what US spends alone. Despite that, it is not satisfied with this amount of more than 800 bases all across the world, so much expenditure being the leading country in the armed exports and everything. It wants the NATO countries, member countries, 31 member countries to also share the burden of defense. It means everyone, every country is expected to increase their defense expenditure. So, increased defense expenditure, greater deployment of troops on the eastern, on the western border of Russia, greater expansion of NATO towards Russia and other initiatives taken by NATO, all of this basically leads to the conclusion that there is a growing fear of some kind of challenge to their dominance in the global security arena. Right. So, overall it's a push for around the global militarization of sorts. Exactly. When the hegemons become insecure, this always leads to increased armament, increased confrontation, and greater emphasis on security and military expenditure, which means there are 31 members in NATO. Apart from that, Japan is going to join it, or there is a talk about it. There is all the part of the military exercise already. If you include all of it, of course, there is a push, greater push for larger armament in the world, and that means greater conflicts. If there are non-real conflicts, there are conflicts will be invented just like what we have seen in last one year at least. Thank you so much for that update. Abdul, we will be following the war in Ukraine with you and with People's Dispatch. Thanks for joining us. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, also known as SEC, has sued two major crypto exchange platforms, namely Coinbase and Binance, in what looks like a crackdown against the crypto industry. At the heart of these lawsuits is the question of whether crypto can be considered securities and be regulated by the SEC. So far, no crypto platform operates as a full-blown stock exchange. The SEC also this year sued Bixie Digital and Bitrex Incorporated for failing to register as an exchange. We go now to Bapasinha for more questions on this issue. Welcome to the show, Bapada. So, first off, what's happening? How do we understand these back-to-back lawsuits? Right. So, what SEC has done is charge both Binance and Coinbase, the two largest crypto exchanges, with securities violations. So, this is a change in position, right? For the longest time, there are many people who are wondering why cryptocurrencies were not categorized as securities and then come under securities laws. But finally, SEC seems to have woken up and categorized cryptocurrencies as securities and then sued these two companies for illegally trading securities, right? Basically, trading securities without registering with the SEC. So, this is, finally, the government waking up and trying to regulate the wild west of cryptocurrencies after, pretty much after the most of the fraud has already happened. But they have done that. Also, the SEC chairman has made a comment that other, the so-called all coins, right? Well, the statement he made was that we don't need any more cryptocurrencies, and what the market is interpreting that as the all coins, right? The main coins are Bitcoin and Ethereum. So, the coins other than them would likely face even more harsher regulations from the government. So, the coins like Solana and Cardano, and there is another coin which have taken a fairly large hit in the last week following the announcement by SEC. So, and I mean, there's a lot of talk about how this is likely to shape the future of the crypto market because like you mentioned, there's a change in the stance whether these are securities or not. So, what's your take on that? See, I think if this had happened, for example, last year, it would have been a much bigger news, right? Because the crypto market kind of peaked at the end of 2021. And through the last year, we saw some of the major crashes. Frankly, I think like in 2023, at least the mainstream media and people in the mainstream, they seem to have lost interest in crypto after like let's say Bitcoin collapsed from something like 65,000 to around 20,000. So, the general public's interest in crypto seems to have just dissipated, right? And after a series of fraud revelations which happened and many of the crypto coins collapsed and it kind of culminated with the bankruptcy of FTX, the space has kind of been given up, I think, by the general public. There are still some crypto diehards who continue to hold and trade crypto, but so these actions are kind of seem to be more like window-dressing, right? After the like, well, horse has left the barn, that's what seems to have happened. But finally, the government has woken up and it, we can only speculate, but it appears if these court cases are resolved in this favour, then the trading of cryptocurrencies through these exchanges will pretty much be banned, right? Right, Bapada. So, you mentioned how at this point of time, the crypto may not be so much of an interest for the audience, but can you tell us a little more about what happened last year? So, see the thing is the kind of Bitcoin, which is kind of the grandfather of the entire crypto market that got created, I think sometime in 2007, 2008 and basically at that point, with the global financial crisis and the kind of loss of faith in the banking system, there was a feeling in the people that you needed a coin which was outside of the banking system. You needed currency outside of the banking system and there have been many ups and downs in the market. The market really went crazy in around the time when the pandemic hit and when there was a rise across the board of risk assets and crypto just went crazy in that time, right? Like many of these coins went like 50 times, 100 times, 1,000 times from that time frame between, let's say, beginning of 2000 to middle to end of 2021. This was also the time of the ultra-lose monetary policy, interest rates were at zero, the Fed was cutting rates, quantitative easing was happening. Now, when that regime got reversed and the Fed started raising interest rates, quantitative tightening started happening and the risk assets in general started falling. Crypto being the riskiest of all these assets basically took a huge hit, right? And kind of all the predictions that this was the future of currency and the future of digital currency and they were calling it Web 3.0, future of Web 3.0, all that has come crashing down, right? And what we have discovered is it's pretty much a field for scamsters and Ponzi schemes and like most Ponzi schemes, they are also started to collapse. So it may survive in some form as a speculative asset but I think the predictions which were made that this was the future of Web and this was the future of currency, I think that is pretty much gone, right? And I don't think anybody has illusions about those anymore. Right, thank you so much for joining us today, Papada. Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former Prime Minister and billionaire right-wing politician died in Milan on June 12 at the age of 86. In a decades-long career, marred by financial and other scandals and prosecutions, the leader of the Forza Italia Party would assume the role of Prime Minister four times between 1994 and until he was forced to step down in 2011. He was also known for his platforming of the far-right and neoliberal anti-worker policies. We talk about the man and his life in politics with Prasanth. Thanks for joining us Prasanth. So Berlusconi, he has had a very interesting career in the sense when we talk about especially his politics of platforming the right. Can you quickly take us through this whole career of his which has spanned decades? Right, I think there are two or three things which we need to be very clear about Silvio Berlusconi in the sense that I think when a lot of orbits are written nowadays, especially of important politicians, often there is a lot of, oh, but there was also this great legacy, oh, this is interesting, etc. But we need to also often see what impact politicians like Berlusconi had on Italy, which was his ascent from 1994 onwards. And even when he was not in power, it marked a consistent rise of right-wing politics and a very concerted attack on leftist and progressive politics throughout those two or three decades. So that if you ask in one sentence what was Berlusconi's legacy, that's precisely it. Like I said, the platforming, you know, when again, platforming is a word which sort of seems a bit, it's more clear to say that basically he allied with the descendants or the successors of Italian fascism. And today if that party, the descendants of Italian fascism under Georgia, Meloni are in power. A key reason is the fact that Berlusconi, who was more of a mainstream political force, actually provided a cover for them. And it's not only Georgia Meloni and her party, it's also the League party of Matthew Salvini, again a very virulent right-wing party, again also got, you know, was part of those alliances, those combinations which in the last decades, the 20th century, in the first decades, the 21st century really gained legitimacy. And if you look at, for instance, his policies as well I think we have a report in People's Dispatch which chronicles some of that from some of our sources in Italy who talk about how there was a clear targeting of bills of provisions, for instance, which provided security to workers. There was a very concern that it made over time to sort of fracture the working class through various kinds of new laws that came up, for instance. So all this, you know, is part of very much part of what you would call the neoliberal framework, which many countries adopted. But Berlusconi also, you know, accelerated it, gave cover to the left, like I said. And also I think very important to note that there was this crisis in Italy in the early 90s which discredited a lot of the first 12 political parties, both of the center and the left. And Berlusconi was one of those people who came to the scene saying that he was an alternative. But the alternative he projected was very celebratory, celebratory driven, you know, alternative. It was one very much focused on himself and it was one which sort of made politics into a spectacle, right? And automatically went against or basically it said that, okay, some politicians were cut up, therefore, everything they represented, all the values of fighting against fascism of, you know, of welfare state, for instance, all of these are out to be junked as well. That was pretty much his line and the focus was, you know, that was basically became his focus. So I think his career is kind of a microcosm of what, you know, what happened to Italy over the past decades. Right, Prashant. So how do we see the Italy of today, its politics, its economics as a product of his career? That's a very good question because Italy is one of those countries today which is, you know, it's a pretty bad shape to put it very lightly. Workers, for instance, have seen their salaries either remain stagnant or declined for decades right now. And, you know, it's Italy is one of those countries which has been run often by very technocratic governments, say people who were IMF bureaucrats or World Bank bureaucrats, and there's been a lot of focus on that. There's been a whole discrediting of the political class and one reason for that has also been Berlusconi because he's faced so many charges in the number, a huge number of political cases against, in case of corruption, cases, not political cases, financial cases, cases of corruption, cases of fraud, etc., etc. So all these charges have also contributed to a very anti-political climate in the country and which has also been increased by the fact that he has sort of made himself the story throughout. Politicians like Berlusconi, for that matter, Trump or, you know, say even for that Modi who make themselves the center of all politics automatically also often create a very anti-political sentiment. And at that point people are like, okay, we need technocrats and what do these technocrats bring?  These politicians bring, you know, steps which cut, you know, which increase taxes for instance, sorry, cut taxes for companies, which increase taxes on people. These politicians bring policies which prevent any more hiring. You know, all these policies are very much part of the technocrat playbook. So when we look at the poor economic situation Italy is in, when we look at the fact that a descendant of the fascists is in power in Italy today, all of this, like I said, is a result of these decades of Berlusconi's policies. So I think it's, you know, when we read the orbits, when we read of him as a versatile political player, which is how many characterize him.  Let's be clear about that. But I think it's also important to remember that this part of his legacy is very, very central. Thank you for joining us today Prashant. And that's all we have for today. For more stories keep watching People's Dispatch.org. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


YouTube team keep it clean What's going on sing Raven here with another video and in this video? Eric Weddle Eric Weddle he is being the exact opposite of what we are on here because we love sharing the news with y'all we love it We love sharing everything that we know about this Ravens team with you all Well, not everything everything, but a good amount of stuff And we just enjoy all conversations about it Whether we agree whether we disagree on stuff. It's all love here. And it's all respect Now with Eric Weddle, he feels a little bit differently Because and he said this before so this is not like it's a Some brand new thing.  He doesn't like sharing his news about the Ravens. So so he says And before we get into this, I just got to really thank you all for everything Even if you've never made a comment on a video If even if you've never liked the video the fact that just y'all come through even if you just only watch one video If you can't watch all of them, I can completely understand. I can't even watch all of them But I seriously do appreciate y'all. I appreciate you guys supporting. I appreciate every single comment I thank you. I thank you for the positivity. I thank you for the respect Because like I say even if there's a disagreement on something that I say Y'all share your opinion respectfully and like I always say that's the only thing I care about I don't care whether you agree or disagree. I really don't all I care about is respect and that's it So I appreciate y'all big-time team keeping clean. Thank you for everything Questions from subscribers Thank you for that Because y'all just y'all sent some really good questions to y'all send a lot of questions with some really good ones and just know that I am actually caught up with every question from subscriber except my boy Ryan Cato because he sent one at 6 30 this morning But I am caught up with every question from subscriber except for his So just be patient if you send a question just be patient Just know that it's coming and If you just so happen to miss one of your questions and it's in a video That's on you Anyway, it's still all love though. It's still all love. Anyway Eric Guero Eric Guero said that oh, yeah, and I didn't wear I wore my previous favorite jacket I guess this jacket and the other little Dita's looking jacket. Those are my favorite ones But I had to give that little Dita's jacket a little break because I was wearing a lot of videos I wore it in all the questions from subscribers that we did. I did them like at 5 30 this morning I wore them in videos yesterday videos a day before I had to give it a little break So anyway, this I do still love this one though But anyway, Eric Guero He said that he is not going to be giving up any information on the Ravens he said because he's a man that's not the type of guy that he is and I Don't know if I believe him or not But I if I was a player like I would be telling everything I've been telling them all Especially I like like these teams they Because I all this this this being a second time around us hearing this story because we remember when Eric Guero talked about that the Ah remember when he said that the Ram secondary hit those corners with the best corners that he's ever played with Remember when he said that I do and now We get to see that because one of those corners who was on the best secondary that he's ever played with is a Raven They're Raven So Eric Guero, thank you because I'm sure Eric Dacosta remembered that Because Eric Eric Guero said he ain't got no bad blood Eric Dacosta the Ravens So he got none of that said it's all love and he said um because I forgot who who had asked him on Twitter But he did say he didn't mention that That's one thing about the Ravens organization I think it was when everything was going on either with the Jetson Kaleche or similarly or Another player to where they just weren't being up front with him and then they ended up releasing him I forgot who it was, but regardless Eric Guero had mentioned on Twitter that the Ravens the top tier Organization and he never had any problem with that He said Eric Dacosta was straightforward with them when they were releasing them and he appreciated that and I would too I think anybody would if they were in that position if you about to get released or fired from your job Then Because I have been fired from my fair share of jobs been both fired and laid off. Oh And I think when when you laid off. Oh that that's that's that's worse besides last year when we got laid off but um because I was laid off from a job when I used to work at a school back in when the October 7th 2000 Was it 14? I think yeah, October's October 7th 2014 the day that NBA 2k 15 came out whenever that was when the whole face scan thing first came out I got laid off from my from my job that day and The worst part about and I cried too I cried because I love that job loved it I had so much fun at that job. It was great schedule was great The pay was great the people were great the atmosphere was great loved it loved it But then when I got laid off because when you get laid off, there's nothing that you did wrong That's the worst part about getting laid off. There's nothing that you did wrong. It's the company So you can't do anything about that Like when I got laid off last year I didn't I didn't cry at all because I was just I was a completely different person back then in 2014 15 Then I was last year in 2018 I just saw stuff a lot different. It's a lot more positive a lot more Uh, I can't even say a lot more level-headed, but just life was just different. I Did not worry. I like when I got laid off from the school. I was worried. I was very worried Because I'm like wow like man What's next? But it hurt But when you're fired There's a difference. I know we kind of got off topic But y'all know how it goes here, but when you're fired, it's a big difference between being laid off because when you're fired It's you it's on you So when it's on you you appreciate so much more when your boss It's straight up like hey This is why we fired you because of this because of this because of this because of this Because I've had jobs like I said I've been fired before and I've been laid off When I had one job when I was fired for my car dealership and I Was giving a run around so that that just infuriated me that made me angry and Then I had another job that I was fired from Because and this one will this was a while back this was at a call center and I had actually put a customer on Hold to go warm up my Jamaican beef patty. I Put them on hold my manager was on vacation. So I was acting up man I was acting up put the car. I was hungry talking to the customer put them on hold Okay, you hope for one second, please went to the microwave that was right there in the break room He did up my Jamaican beef patty and came back went back to the customer and ate it And little did I know There was another manager watching So I didn't have my my corporate smarts back then so then the next week I got fired my manager came back He came back for vacation and then sent me on a permanent vacation But my point is that I appreciated him being straight up with me about why I got fired Because again when you get fired, it's because of you when you get laid off It's because of the company so you can't do anything about that and you had no control over that But when you get fired It gives you just that much more respect for wherever you're getting fired from even though you still don't like it But it gives you that respect knowing that oh man, that's why I messed up Okay, I got it and they let you know be in and that lets you know what to do moving forward with Eric Weddell Whatever reason Eric D'Costa told him why he was released They let him know and he could work on that moving forward So that could help him become a better person a better player just better all around But it's that respect But apparently with Eric Weddell that respect goes a lot deeper than Eric D'Costa just being straight up with him It goes a lot deeper than Ozzie Newsom having given him a chance It goes a lot deeper than John Harbaugh relating to him It goes a lot deeper than Eric Weddell being super cool with this Ravens team and not having any bad blood It goes way deeper because Eric Weddell said that he is not going to be giving up any of the Ravens place He's not gonna be giving the Rams any tips on what he knows. He's not gonna be giving them anything on the Ravens Now I didn't read that Shawn McVeigh joked and said hey That's fine because maybe I got all that information in the interview before we even signed him He was like he probably told me that stuff without even knowing so You never know, but I just That is it's like It's like being loyal to a fault to where Eric Weddell is so loyal to the Ravens That he's not even willing to give up anything on And I do respect it But I I know I just I Can't understand that Why he would do that. Oh really why he wouldn't do that Because you don't play for them anymore. You don't play for the Ravens you play for the Rams and The Rams are going directly against the Ravens like they're going head-to-head with the Ravens so I Just I don't get it like if it was like somebody from a different team Asking Eric Weddell like if it was somebody from like the Cardinals or something. Hey, well, you got any any tips on how to beat these Ravens Then I couldn't stand him being like no just figured out yourself I ain't gonna give up nothing on it But it's his own team going against the Ravens and he's like no if he is really like that If he's really like that, I don't know what Eric Weddell. He also did say he said hey If I if I ain't playing for the Ravens next year, I'm retiring I'm retiring. He said that right off right after the playoff loss. I Remember that because I was in I was in Laurel and I was getting ready to go to Sarko. I think And I had saw that thing on my phone saying that Eric Weddell said that and I was like, mm-hmm. I don't believe this. I Don't believe this it was just the emotions speaking because that's that was very emotional I'm sure for the Ravens.   Okay, you know the resigning. Okay, cool.  We've logged it too. It's on my old channel though Um, I should put some of the other all the old games that we went to from the old channel I should put them on a new channel. Just a little throwback videos. We'll see about that I'm gonna have to see about that. I'm maybe like a little throwback Thursday or something. I would see anyway um But with Eric Guero, I just I I would do it like I said, and I don't think it's anything wrong with doing it With giving up any information on your previous team any information from your previous team Unless unless it's like personal stuff with with your friends from the previous team like, oh man Hey, when whenever Marlon Humphrey, uh Whenever he eats Taco Bell, then oh man, that's it. He got the runs or maybe I'm sure he got information on Lamar Jackson for what he eats when when he had bubbleguts last year so, um It's it's I don't think it's that's that serious Unless like I said unless it's like super personal information something like that But if it's like plays and stuff. No, this is a business Tell all And somebody did make a good point. They say hey, what what the They ain't gonna get it from where though they can go ask Kenny young because they got they got Kenny young too So if they ain't gonna get it from one they could get some from the other Because Kenny young he was a starter for a little bit and even not being a starter You still got to know the stuff Now um and Kenny young I think the information may even be a little bit better from Kenny young because he was there this year With Eric Guero, uh, it could be straight because he was there last year, but Kenny young is there this year and one thing too, um with The difference between the defenses last year and this year. I think um last year they had more freedom Because last year you had more of a veteran presence on all three levels You had a Tyrell Suggs on the defensive line CJ Mosey and with the linebacker group and Eric Guero in the secondary.  He said man, it's this this defense I love it because it's it finally gives us more freedom the handcuffs are off As opposed to Dean P's defense And they worry said they could call their own plays and you know Eric Guero will go get everybody set up and whatnot but the thing is um With Eric Guero not giving up the place I honestly wouldn't even be too concerned if he did Because It would just force the Ravens to just be a little bit different and even besides the point Rams will still have to execute Like you can you can know that something's coming as much as you want to you can have a clear understanding Of what's coming of what's on the way?  Oh Six will be great And you know that but that's what i'm a i'm a little worried about this game with marcus peters because he might be pressing He might really be pressing Because he really is gonna want to make a play He's really gonna want to make a play So he may be forcing the issue a little bit. We'll see though. We'll see but um You know, he's singing like a bird to the ravens. He's like a this is what they love to do This is his weaknesses. This is what he's good at. This is what he's bad. All that stuff.  So anyway, it is what it is Respect to eric widow. We appreciate him everything he did in baltimore. Um And I mean, we wish we could have had more success while he was here. Um, but The team did get better and better every year. They got closer and closer closer and closer Because the first year they that that Antonio brown stretch play boom. Okay. No playoffs Then the next year the fourth and 12 Then the following year.  Anyway team keeping clean appreciate y'all Love y'all again much respect to the homie eric widow. Um, and Just like his time with baltimore I'm out


Welcome to the Voice of America's Newswords. Malaysia has announced plans to ban all smoking products to anyone born after the year 2005. Prohibition. The country's top health official says the measure is part of a generational end-game plan for smoking. Supporters say the prohibition will mean fewer and fewer new smokers, but critics say people will find ways to get around the ban. A prohibition is a law or an order aimed at stopping something from being used or done. Prohibition with a capital P is a historical period in America when alcohol was banned.


So today is a specific boss farm in the game, right now you can take advantage of which will reward you that pretty armor with that extra mud slot, that also give you enhancement prisms, ascendant shards, weapons, you name it guys, you can get it here. So to do this people all you want to do is go into the moon, go to the duality dungeon, you want to start this on that master difficulty, this is probably best doing it in a team because you can save checkpoints and all characters and just load straight from the checkpoints, go straight to the boss fight but if you're doing this solo you will have to run through the first part which will probably take about five minutes but once you get to the boss guys this is what you need to do, lead the boss to the back of the map, if you're a warlock put that well on and drop that well right in this corner here where you can see me and my hunter and my palanar hunter here doing this, drop the well in this spot then guys the boss will come over to you, if you jump backwards on your warlock up into the air eight times out of ten the boss will walk off the map and there it is the encounter is over, to make this easier on yourself as soon as you start the encounter and shoot that bell turn back kill the two sirens on the back sniping and then just leave the boss off of the map again, if you're doing this in a team or fire team use an alt character to save the checkpoint saves you running straight back to this boss, now if you don't have warlocks in your team and you're on a hunter what I'd probably suggest you do is put on a sword put on that strand grapple hook just in case you do get knocked backwards or you jump back too far and you're trying to leave that boss off and it's not working having that grapple hook is a lifesaver so use that to obviously get yourself back onto the map and you are good people, well it really is as simple as this now some of the videos I have seen some of the mentions of this on social media people are saying it's probably the best farming game right now in regards to armor, armor stat wise I was getting between 58 and 63 or 4 nothing major here I don't know if you know about this and I've kind of nerfed loot I'm not sure about that but it's pretty popular at a minute so I'm pretty certain what you do know about this and whether they're just leaving it in the game for people to exploit and abuse because they feel bad for how bad the raid was I don't know but you tell me people you tell me yes a video I wasn't going to make but because I was farming it I thought you know what I may as well drop a video for those out there that don't know about this but it really is as simple as that guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps add give it a like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one


Today I'm going to be testing out a product I recently bought because I have a problem that I really needed to solve. My problem is the speakers that I use at this computer. For a long time I used this old pair of Insignia brand speakers. Insignia is a brand of speakers that Best Buy sold. I bought those cheap pair of speakers like 10 years ago. They were nothing special when I bought them. They're nothing special now. They're just really crappy computer speakers. And if I want to monitor audio, for example like I'm doing my video editing and I want to monitor the audio, those speakers, the sound from them is not very good. It's hard to tell if the sound quality, the video is actually good or not because the speakers are just bad speakers. So I bought a better brand of speakers recently. I bought some Logitech speakers. They're much nicer for monitoring my videos and the audio in my videos. But the problem with that new pair of speakers I bought the Logitech's, they don't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the speakers themselves. I can't just plug in a headphone to those speakers and actually listen to it on my headphones and then unplug it if I want to listen to the speakers. What I have to do is plug in the speakers obviously to the 3.5 millimeter jack or the port on the computer itself and then I have to plug in my headphones to a different port somewhere on the computer and then I've got headphones and speakers on different audio streams. I don't like fooling with that. And it got to the point where I just used my old speakers anytime I needed to plug in my headphones because it had a port on the front. And then I used the nicer speakers when I wasn't listening to my headphones. So I'm constantly having to go to the back of this computer and it's kind of a pain because I've got so many cables plugged in everywhere and I'm constantly switching from one pair of speakers to the other. So I decided to buy this splitter here. This splitter, if I can get the camera to focus, this is a 4N1, 4N and one out, let me move my finger, or it can be a 1N4 out because you can actually reverse it with this red button. So what I can do here is I can plug four different sets of speakers into this and then the one out here would go to of course the computer. And that allows me to quickly just turn the knob and switch between again up to four different sets of speakers. That is a really cool thing to be able to do. Now these kinds of splitter devices, they're not uncommon because a lot of people have the need to split audio signals, video signals, various different kinds of cables because you're limited sometimes on the ports on computers and things like that. But even though they're not uncommon devices, not too many people need these kinds of devices. They're still kind of niche items, so they can be expensive. When I was looking for this kind of audio splitter for headphones and speaker jacks, these devices were not cheap. So I tried to find the cheapest one I could possibly find and I found this Chinese made audio splitter here on Amazon for $26.99 and I thought, well, that's about the cheapest I can get. It's got four and a half stars. I haven't tried it out yet, so I'm not exactly sure. You guys are going to see me plug it in here in a minute and I'll let you know if this thing actually works or not. I think I'm going to be okay with this as far as, is it cheaply built? Yes. Go ahead and tell you that right now. The thing is very small. It's smaller than a credit card. It's smaller than a Raspberry Pi, but it's very Raspberry Pi-like in the fact that it doesn't actually ship with a proper case. You guys can probably see it's open. You can see all the circuitry and everything in there, right? So it's not an enclosed case, which I guess will be fine, depending on where I put it. You know, I'll have to be careful. You don't want to spill anything on it. But again, for the price, you know, again, I was looking for cheap, so I can't complain too much about the build quality. So let me go ahead and get this thing plugged in and both of my sets of speakers plugged into this. And let me go ahead and also grab my headphones as well. And we're going to see if this thing works. And of course, when I start to plug in the switcher here, I realize I didn't have a male to male 3.5 millimeter audio cable. So I actually had to pause the video for about 20 minutes. I made a quick run to Best Buy to get a cable. And now I've got the splitter plugged into the computer. And then in the four ports in the front, I'm going to plug in three things. I'm going to plug in the two sets of speakers I have, plus just to test it out, I'm going to go ahead and plug in a pair of headphones here, which I can unscrew the big jack and get a 3.5 millimeter connection on the headphones. And now that I've got three different things plugged into the splitter, I should be able to turn the knob from one to two to three and get audio out of each device. So let me switch over to the desktop here. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to play one of my videos from YouTube, because that's safe audio I can play because I own it. I'm not going to get flagged for playing my own stuff. So I'm going to start this video, and I've got the knob turned to one. Now one should be the cheap pair of speakers. So let me take the headphones off to make sure I can hear that. I'm going to play this because the big desktop environments like GNOME, KDE Plasma, and I can verify the cheap pair of speakers were outputting the audio. Now I'm going to turn the knob from one to two, and now it should be the Logitech speakers playing. Take care of this for you. They have built-in programs in those particular cases. And it absolutely does. So that worked. And then I'm going to turn the knob to three, and that should output the audio to my headphones. Two auto-start programs for you. So you go to their auto-start applications program. I love it. Call it in GNOME. Yeah, so a really simple, little device, but it does work. I was kind of worried, again, because I bought like the cheapest thing going and what made me even more worried. I didn't mention this yet, but the little instructions for it is a one page sheet. And it is written in English, but the English is almost unreadable, so it was made in China. And whoever made the instruction manual here, obviously was not fluent in English. Let me read a little bit of the English here. So notice because the new version solved the volume control problem period, end of sentence. So we can cancel the speaker headphone switch period, end of sentence, end before. That's just the two word sentence, end before, period. And then this item with some volume control problem for connect to speaker or headphone period, end of sentence. And then another two word sentence that says please understanding, period, end of sentence. I have no idea what that instruction manual was trying to say, but again, 26.99, I'm pretty happy with the purchase. As long as I get a couple of years of use out of the thing, I think it's money well spent, at least again for the problem I was trying to solve. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode, Devon Gabe James, Maxim Matt, Michael Mitchell, Paul Scott, Wes Allen, Armor Dragon, Chuck Mandarin, Gary Diocai, Dylan George, Lee, Lennox Ninja, Mike Erion, Alexander, Peace, Origin, Vador, Polytech, Rip, Private, Steven, and Willie. These guys, they're my highest tier patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, this episode would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen. All these names you're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because without these guys, I couldn't afford to do what I do right. I couldn't afford to pay for that splitter. I couldn't afford to buy that 3.5 millimeter audio cable from Best Buy. This thing costs like eight bucks, by the way. That's outrageous. Anyway, guys, look for DistroTube over on Patreon. Peace.


For the circuit Python Parsec today, I want to show you how you can use one of your Wi-Fi enabled microcontrollers to check your ping time and to see if a server is up and responding as normal. So sometimes you may just need to figure out what, how's my local connection, what's my ping time looking like, or let's check out a particular website, a particular server and see how my connection is doing there. So what you can see here, I'm going to go ahead and resave this, and what you can see when this starts up, it says, okay, it's jumped on Wi-Fi, my IP address here gives me the local IP address, and then the site it's pinging, it's pinging <IP_ADDRESS>, which is a cloudflare server. And it is telling me I've got a 22 second, a millisecond, 22 millisecond, 14 millisecond, 15 millisecond. So it's telling me what my ping time is looking like. I'm going to go ahead and stop that so it's not endlessly pinging. And so here's how you do this, it's actually a pretty minimal amount of code necessary to do this. So what I'm doing is importing the operating system with OS, time, Wi-Fi and the IP address library. Then I am grabbing my SSID and password information from the secrets.toml file that's also sitting on the board. And then we are using Wi-Fi.radio.connect with that SSID and password to jump on to my local access point. Then we have an IP address that we tell it we want to ping as well as the timeout. And that's how long it would wait before it says we're not getting any response. And then this is setting up the IPv4 variable as IP address dot IP address and then the IP that I gave it. And then in the main loop we simply say ping results is Wi-Fi dot radio dot ping and then it's IPv4 which is all of that info we gave it as well as the timeout. It then prints out the information and then in this case I have it waiting 10 seconds. If we want to ping it pretty quickly we can resave that and that's going to now every second it's going to go and check and see what the ping time is like. And so that is how you can ping a server and check how long it takes inside of Circuit Python on your microcontroller. And that is your Circuit Python Parsec.