Good afternoon Vienna. Thank you very much for having me and thank you Sarah for the introduction again. I'm catam I'm really really honored to be here particularly to follow someone like Nathan on this stage And I'm here to talk today about interfaces, and I didn't pluck the sense. Let me do that now Yes, we'll just do this way But before diving into code, let's start by asking a question. Why do we use WordPress? Because it was there because when we started doing what we do it was the choice that was available to us or Because it did something better than the other options. We were presented Was it the devil we knew when we came back to it for more? Was it just the only thing we felt comfortable using or was it that it solves that problem that we had again perhaps? Or was it perhaps that it was flexible that WordPress is a tool which we can use to build Whatever we want that we can adapt to various purposes I think that this is it that if we sat down and talk about why we stick with a 13-year-old piece of software It is the power of flexibility and the power of ownership and Customizability on top of a stable foundation With permissive licensing a practically limitless array of themes and plugins and this goes without saying in a room like this an amazing international always growing community WordPress is something that we can use as a platform for whatever we can imagine and That breadth is not accidental WordPress is a core product as we've been hearing this week is designed with focus yesterday and Mike Schroeder shared the development Philosophy that stated on wordpress.org WordPress should work out of the box It's designed for the majority and the core product strives for lean simplicity and my personal favorite precept is to favor decisions over options Every time you give a user an option the statement goes you're asking them to make a decision and decisions take cognitive energy away From what they came to WordPress to accomplish Nobody installs a piece of software to customize it They install it to get through the customization that has been forced upon them into be able to achieve the goal that they set out to do Those decisions that focus the ways that we can make those flows easier for The authors and the content creators that depend on WordPress for their voice is what makes WordPress so focused and so stable Plugins and themes can stand on top of this platform and can take it in every direction that we have heard today And that we know from our own development practice and from the greater community as a whole It's decisions of the platform level that enable the kind of choice a user needs Which is to be able to say I want to use this thing for my bands my blog my cat photos To publish their content in any format they want and We're gonna talk today about the different layers of interface that stands between a user and us and as us as developers and WordPress focusing on the API The three layers are the API itself the user interface what the user is going to be interacting with whether that user is a Writer or a reader and then the glue the user and the client libraries that hold them together as You heard who was in Joe Hoyle's talk this morning by the way Awesome, probably the majority if not I strongly encourage you to sit down and take the time to sit through it He gives a tremendously good overview of how the API is structured and the history of the project It is a reductive project it strips WordPress down to its barest essentials Which is data WordPress is a tool for personal publishing which means that it is a tool for storing and retrieving content That content is what unifies the two interfaces of WordPress the public facing Website the reading interface and the authoring interface the WP admin The API exposes that data really without a lot of preconception about how it's used beyond these Concepts that there are these different modes of authoring and consuming The API was designed to become a core component of the WordPress platform But I think it's actually going one farther and what I'm going to be talking about today Is how the API makes WordPress a component itself something that can be integrated into other systems WordPress is a platform, but that platform doesn't have to sustain your applications full weight You can leverage other technologies and other tools now that you can flow data more regularly between the two I Work for Boku. We are a semi-distributed technology and design consultancy with offices in Boston in New York City over in the States And as Sarah said we focus our mission is to advance the open web as a platform for technology and collaboration We build open-source projects like grunt and the node robotics library Johnny five My colleagues are on committees like the responsive issues community group and TC 39 the group that's responsible for the future of the ECMAScript JavaScript language specification We take this open-source experience and then we use it to help our clients solve problems And those range from we have data and we need to understand how to visualize it and how to make decisions based upon it all the way to What we do have a greenfield project. We're not dealing with legacy software anymore What technology should we use and that's an interesting one because and I stole this slide from Helen because it's by my co-worker Sue and it was way better than what I had when I put my slides together this morning For all of the different ways that we can successfully build a web application Wordpress is not something we find ourselves recommending a lot and that's not because we don't love it We think it's fantastic. We use it for our own site I have contributed to it in the past a number of my colleagues have as well But it's because frequently our clients are coming to us with an existing platform Wordpress has become a platform, but two platforms tends to be a recipe for interoperability issues silos and fiefdoms and I see the API is changing this because when I first started using it in the winter early winter of 2014 I was able to confidently recommend to one of our beggar clients that they considered using WordPress for a Big project that they had and I was able to suggest that they do it not because it would be the platform But because it would be something else We were building a not complex node.js application that pulled together a number of different services and data sources and Several months into the project we uncovered this requirement for a blog and for some fairly complex editorial workflow This was spring in 2014 and the editorial capabilities our client needed exceeded those of the node options that were available the node content management systems however as a Interested member of the WordPress community and as a front-end developer anything that gave me Jason access to WordPress was exciting So I've been following Ryan McHugh's Google summer of code project the summer before and we pitched our client this idea that maybe The best node CMS for their application was in fact an 11 year old piece of PHP blogging software For a project like this using WordPress as the base platform would have been a very hard sell There would have been a lot of opposition to it at the organizational level on their side because of preconceptions about what it's capable of I have no doubt that we could have built the system that way, but it also would frankly have been very hard There's a lot of legacy code in WordPress There's a lot of things that make it difficult to integrate with certain types of external system We had picked node because it was good at aggregating content from a number of different sources WordPress became just one more of those it became a drop-in and as a drop-in as a free battle-tested usable accessible content authoring interface Just dropped right in perfect place in our application. I was told they had to include a mention of this Most of the work I've done with the API has been in this mode taking content from WordPress that was authored in the admin and flowing it into other systems this link on the screen is Demo that I put together for the day of rest back in London in January Which uses that same architecture that we used on this project to actually let you author content in WordPress and display it in a ghost theme The node CMS so if that's interesting check it out and this is a long way of saying that I really love this thing WP admin is accessible. It is battle-tested as I said for some applications. It's definitely the best thing going it works If you turn JavaScript off That is really really awesome That's something that we need to keep in mind as we're building robust JavaScript interfaces is that these things will fail What's our fallback? But because we are familiar with WP admin and because we were familiar with our frustrations with it I do think that it biases are thinking about what might come next This has been a good conference to think through both within and without the admin since the API gives us this idea that WordPress is The content without these constraints of these existing systems So let's think past our preconceptions and think about Maybe briefly what types of authoring interface might be enabled if we start thinking about WordPress as the data and not as a Legacy interface that we are customizing. That's not to say that any of the things I'm going to be showing are not possible I was really impressed yesterday with the readability score real-time updating thing that Yoast showed from the Yoast SEO's plugin You can do a lot within WordPress admin and I know that a lot of the people in the room here do But I think that we can all agree that there is a certain friction in using that old system And so other things like taking that same idea about how could we build a journalistic interface that Let's us do content sentiment analysis. Maybe scan for biased language These things can be built in WP admin, but they can be prototyped as external interfaces Maybe you could use some of the awesome front-end editor technology that Eric Lewis was showing yesterday This is a project from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology by Chris Kim and Christopher Collins Which has been a research project to categorize in English language the color connotations of words So that finally when a client comes to us and says I just wanted to feel more blue that we finally have an answer for them Because we can just use blue words WordPress is a tool for putting words on a web page, but not all types of words benefit from a Unified interface what would a WordPress interface for poets look like what types of poetry would be enabled by an interface that aren't possible On a sheet of paper. I've been really inspired by the work of a poet in New York an experimental computer product named Allison Parrish She's done a lot of really fantastic stuff both in the work of interfaces This is from a project she did called the new interfaces for poetic expression both also in Twitter bots and things like that This is the entropic text editor It has a foot pedal that as you press down the keyboard gets less and less reliable And what you're typing gets less and less like what ends up on the screen. So it's a playable poetic interface Or maybe we can do away with the creative part of creative writing at all and we can just let it Regurgitate our past writings to us I've been really excited and some of the energy recently around machine learning and artificial intelligence wired magazine did a great Article about it's a little sensationalist, but a great article about machine learning and AI recently I spoke alongside Wired's director of engineering Kathleen Vigno at the day of rest and I knew that they use the WordPress REST API So thinking about what can we do if we look at the content in our system as data? I pulled all of that out and I fed it to a recurrent neural network If you're new to machine learning a neural network is just a fancy pattern recognition tool But it can be reversed Rather than saying detect text like this you can actually say generate text like this So this is how Google's deep dream works in a nutshell I wrote a quick script to generate headlines from the sample input text which was a corpus of a couple years of wired headlines and Gave it an interface where I could type a couple words and it would fill them in for me And it talks about the sorts of things you'd expect wired to talk about surveillance Android luxury email I love this last one Here's some more headlines. I don't know what they all mean, but they're in the mode of wired and This is a little bit silly, but I think particularly the Giant what's what's it go the Turning great will drive action video as an American in 2016 that one's particularly frightening Content theft is a definite fear people have about having an API in core And I will Disclaim that I think this falls under fair use and I ask Kathleen's permission to present this use good judgment Obey authors licensing terms and throttle your mass downloads so that you don't DDOS yourself and others if you are taking content from WordPress sites This is basically the same as when we had RSS. There was a lot of uncertainty and doubt around that technology, too It proved to be beneficial in the long term, but there is responsible use and it's on us to be good web citizens and good collaborators So generative or destructive textual interfaces are probably not going to get someone to switch back to WordPress from medium But I think that this is the right time for this type of experimentation saying like what if my text editor actually destroys what I put into it I don't know. Maybe it could be interesting Experimentation is important it gets us thinking beyond our preconceptions around the sorts of users and use cases that we've been accommodating and I hope you all saw Matias's talk on Calypso yesterday and you see David's presentation this afternoon on their team's working methods Because Calypso is designed to be a framework for this type of prototyping and what I'd like to ask you to do is to go and build Not just one Calypso, but two or three or seventy specific Calypso's niche Calypso's Calypso's for your partner And then take the lessons you learn from those experience and keep iterating on what an admin might look like We have the simplicity of data access that enables us to do this very quickly As has been mentioned a few times this week WordPress is a teenager now And we need to give it some room to grow to experiment and to make mistakes Things are going to be very awkward and very messy for a little while But I think we will all come out of it stronger and more mature and more capable of dealing with the world that is ahead of us I don't like that metaphor anymore So digress quickly the difference in API based UI development is that it lets you pick your battles There's this thing learn JS deeply But you can bring your own tools to this fight and you can build a competent AI powered Sorry API powered interface with whatever technology you're comfortable with you can do it in pure PHP You can do it in any JavaScript library. There is no one perfect solution to this problem and As Sarah said, I didn't study computer science. I learned to develop through this community I think that a value of this community is in helping people get into this stuff more easily So I'm gonna blaze through some work that we've been doing around Making intuitive interfaces for the rest API as a way to make it easier to get involved as a new developer On that project I described we wrote a lot of code to make this transition between node and the API work Boku we value open source. We value contributing back So I released this as a module on npm of the WordPress rest API and excuse me This is a code interface the next layer between the UI and the API something that will let me Focus on the problems that I care about when I'm building that user interface that is going to be leveraging this data And it does this by being a query builder If we think about WordPress as a remote database that we're communicating to you through the internet This type of interface this chaining interface fluent interface is something that's frequently used to describe a resource You want to get from a database. We're doing the same thing We build up a URL using query parameters so that we don't have to deal with the nuances of particular query parameters and array bracket notation, etc And then we can request that or create new material or update content in the system and do it all asynchronously through JavaScript over the web But where do these base resource methods come from the posts and comments and such Originally, they were hard-coded each as their own separate constructor But as Joe showed earlier today the API is built to enable discovery it describes its own capabilities Over the winter I met with the API team at the day of rest events in London and Adam Silverstein And I met with a group of people who are talking about challenges for API clients not the API itself But the libraries that consume it and the things we determined were two most major needs were tackling authentication Which is a pain and you will note I'm cleverly avoiding any further mention of in this talk and discovery How can you create a client library for the API which permits users to specify their own arbitrary endpoints and use them fluidly? And to do this we can take this treat this list of routes that the API exposes and we can decompose it into a tree structure And then we can walk through that tree structure and infer Setter methods from it and this is what we've done the entire API that this library exposes to talk with the rest API say API too much I think is Inferred dynamically from the description of itself that the rest API gives us which means that any new Resources that you add to it Can be added in in the same mode the same way that you would register a rest route you can register a route handler in this Paradigm by specifying the path at which it would be found and then you can query against it But we can do one better because we can actually go out and we can dynamically download the capabilities of our sites and Generate in real time the interfaces for them based on what they expose so in this case I've added a wp.discover method, which will go in it'll download the endpoint URL of the site It'll pull down all of the routes for it And then it will generate these Interfaces so that I can get both the default and also any custom routes that are registered if I don't want to make that round trip HTTP request I can save that JSON locally and use it to bootstrap right there on my page and This was released today the final auto discovery code was written during this conference and Try it out see if there's anything we missed or any like late-night conference coding that let bugs into it but I would like to give this to this community so that we have a way to Hopefully make it easier to say like I just want to get something from the API to see where this is going and in that regard We're also looking for Assistance because there's a lot left to do I'm hoping to move this over to the WordPress API Organization on GitHub soon possibly as soon as I can find Ryan after this talk But we're also interested in people to use this to try it out to see whether it works I would not claim that this is the perfect interface for WordPress But it is my effort at putting something out there that will make it easier for us to interface with the API so that we can build better interfaces for our clients An interface is a choice. It's a decision about what to expose and what to hide and I Would never imply as I said that this is the perfect interface, but it isn't really about User interface or even the API interface It's about how easy it is for us to get started and use it and build it to make things that are real that actually benefit our users the uncertainty about when these end points are going to merge into core is Miscommunication which is common in open source projects, but they're very close We've got v2 coming up soon for the plug-in I think the end points themselves are very solid authentication is almost there and What I'm hearing is that the barrier emerges the lack of usage and that's the one thing where I will say I think that it's hard Enough to get someone to install one plug-in getting them to install two saying you have to install this other thing for this to work I do think that's a bigger barrier to entry than we make it out to be and so I'd like to see this merge sooner Rather than later, but I think we're on our way there and I'm really excited about it because once this data Once these end points are in core that is when our platform is not just a unified platform that we can install with literally one button on Many hosts, but it is a way for all of our data to flow out into the other seventy four percent of the web and Make WordPress a core component of the entire web platform The line of what is WordPress and it's not blurs the number of interfaces and experiences built around it proliferate Some of them are gonna work some of them will not But what does work is going to be what defines what WordPress looks like in ten years Leaving the API end points as separate I do think we should merge them as soon as possible because at the moment it's another thing to force users to install It's another checkbox another option. I think merging them will be a decision. I think it is the right decision I think we're at a time where it makes sense to move forward but This is a robust and solid approach for development for WordPress and the one thing I've not heard anyone say at this event is that the API centric model of WordPress is fundamentally wrong It's just a matter of detail. I am really excited about that I think we can build awesome tools for it and I can't wait to see what we all do with it Thank you


Welcome, trainers, to the Ticknell Charter with me, Patrick Munley. We want to draw your attention today to a developing opportunity in the DAX, on the daily timeframe, German DAX, looking for an equal leg, an equality objective versus this swing structure here, down into the 14,916 level, which coincides with the internal sending trendline support. Third test should see some responsive buying at this level, watching for bullish reversal patterns here to set long positions, targeting a move up to 15,798. If we don't find buyers here and we break the 14,600 level of the prices to test down into the 14,092 area. As always, trainers, plan the trade, trade the plan, most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you there. Ahoy-hoy. Welcome to r slash dank memes from site 19, where I review all of the best memes this last two weeks from dank memes from site 19. Let's get started. Also, you may notice there's a little bit of a scratch right here on my face. I accidentally insulted the honor of a samurai retainer and got into a honor duel. It worked out okay. Neither of us died. I got to keep the jar of fruit and the jug of water, so I call that a win. MTF 8 of 10, evil. I don't know where this new little... So there's this weird thing going on in the dank memes subreddit where they're just like, I guess making memes out of MTFs and MTF 8 of 10 being C No Evil, which is the name of the... I don't know. It's funny, I guess. But I don't know how many times they can do an unexpected evil. I'm aware of the effect they have on people. That's the Idris Elba meme, right? Yeah, where he comes in and he's like, I'm aware of the effect they have on women. Yeah. I don't think this SCP is aware of the effect it has on people. It tries to be scary and it fails horribly. Why? Other series, six articles. Megalomania. I mean, what do you think? I don't think Megalomania is that silly. Again, we got powerful wizard Ruth Gator... Ruth Gator-Bensburg still doing it. I still say it every once in a while. I think I did a tweet about that. I was like, what if... If Ruth Gator-Bensburg transformed herself into an alligator, could we call her Ruth Gator-Bensburg? Anyway, the UN in real life. The UN. I think this actually came out before I did my GOC thing. But I think it made that point at least tangentially. The UN is so ineffectual in general and somehow in the SCP universe though. It is the most powerful destructive thing in the universe. Man, 2020 can't get any worse. April 2020. The Foundation tries to kill everyone because of course they do.  Say the line, doctor.  Again, more CP096 short film memes. Dr. Bright, Dr. Clap. Let's do something really scary. Dr. Glass, we could go to bed early and be alone with our thoughts. No. That is not something I want to do either. No, no. Stay up, it'll be fine. I don't know who ever made this meme, but man, he sounds like a handsome devil. I'll tell you what. Man, this is I think the first meme I actually bothered to post to the subreddit itself. I've done a couple for these videos as introductions, but this is the first one I actually posted. Okay. I mean this works even without the context of the 096 film. But remember when I was watching the 096 film and I said it, it reminded me of the screaming Jimmy Barnes? I think it's Jimmy Barnes. It reminded me of screaming Jimmy Barnes, so I just threw this together because, well, you know, whatever. Hey babe, want to come over? Can't in containment. I saw your face. Oh man. I wonder if there's a way to like, I mean, because he can only run. There's got to be ways to, oh man. There's got to be ways to force it. Like he can't run forever. You can't run forever. There's got to be ways to like set up, not a treadmill on his floor, but like something that doesn't allow him to actually get an emotion going. It's got to be, right? Anyway. Maybe some sort of anomalous thing that creates a zero friction. Although, zero friction would probably be so insanely useful for other reasons. Eh, whatever. Me, watching some YouTuber explain an SCP actually reading it. Hey man, this is how we make our livens. That's all I'm saying. There's nothing. You forgot to start the presentation. More 096 short films. This one I actually particularly like when I saw it, just a blank screen. If 094 wore face masks, would he wear it like this or this? He's already wearing a face mask.  So it's a lot less effective, but it still is what it is. That is, that's the purpose of it.  My character dies in so many articles. It's great. It's great. I think I even opened one of my tails with Dr. Sumerian getting his head blown off. It's good times. Good times. Random person. I think that Dr. Sumerian, no. Technicals are up from the stomach of your dead brother Ross during his funeral and starts stabbing people. Panic. The guy giving the eulogy starts chanting, laugh is fun. Calm. The guy. Look, there's a lot of stuff. People think that, this is the problem. People think that there's some sort of how like the wiki mods somehow moderate content on the SCP wiki.  No, they deleted your article because it got below negative 10.  The only thing that matters for the deletion thing is the rating which generally reflects the quality of an article but is not itself a sole determination of quality.  And I guarantee you every once in a while, not yours. I mean, I'm looking at you. The guy who thinks that he wrote a great article that it just got deleted off the site because the site wasn't ready for it or he was too brave and he tried too many things that were fancy and new. Not you, but I guarantee that there are articles that have been deleted off the site that were good enough. They just somehow didn't make it. Someone. Series one is the best one, their opinion. That doesn't count. I think what was it was? What does he have that in his? It was the question was, why does he have that in one of his drawers? So, I mean, why not? First of all, it's a hunting knife. Second of all, I got a lot of stuff in these drawers here. Hold on. What's the coolest thing I have? Oh, that will do. So, it's not the full set. So you got dice. Doing a dice display video all of a sudden. I got a bunch of other dice as well. They're the same color but frosted. What else is in here? Oh, spread all over the place, but parts from a Magic Gathering deck. I was building a red, what's it called? A budget fire deck for my nephew. There's the other dice right here in this thing. But most importantly, I've got this. Which you can purchase on my store. I've got the poster right here. You can't see it but I'm wearing the hoodie. You're wrong about this hoodie and I've got the coffee mug. I'm actually thinking about putting together some new designs maybe in the next month or two. So, keep an eye out for that. Dr. Samaritan waiting for the 096 short film so we can list everything wrong with it. Pure. I mean, not really though. I actually really, really like the film. The funny thing is, no matter what you do, if you say something negative about something, you hate it. You either hate it or you love it. And there's no in-between. I can't be like, I don't love it. I liked it a lot. I thought it was really good. I thought there was a lot of flaws. Which is fine. Anyway, your mother. I knew this was going to continue. I like, well, the whole point of me creating this was to give people the opportunity to turn it into additional memory. So, here we are. The influx of users because of SCP-096, the butterfly squad, already up to their nose and ideas and drafts. The critique system on the SCP Wiki is getting slowly and slowly strangled to death. There's got to be monumental changes and they keep trying incremental changes. I'm sure they're helping in the short term, but it's just going to get worse. You make little incremental changes and you're like, okay, we can handle it just barely. And then another thing happens. Okay, well now we'll do something different. Now we can handle it just barely and it just continues on and on and on. If your girlfriend is an esoteric apollyon object class, kills everyone, indestructible, containment procedures is appeasement, badly formatted or humanoid, that's not your girlfriend. That's a writer who never read the guides. Can I add in, has a name? Can I add in, has a very prominently placed name or nickname as a possible here? Oh my God, everyone wants to put themselves or people they know into their SAP articles. It is so silly and so obvious every time and the problem isn't necessarily doing it. Honest to God. Create your author avatars. I'd be a hypocrite, well I am a hypocrite I'm sure, but I'd be more of a hypocrite if I were to tell you not to do that because obviously Dr. Sumerian's the thing, but here's what I would tell you. Ease into it, motherfuckers. Your first article does not have to be you. It doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to have you as the only person the SAP can talk to.  Anyway, that's it. Thank you very much for watching. If you'd like to get this, hold on let's see if you can see my finger, you'd like to get this or this you can go on over to the store and if you go scroll down a little bit there's a carousel with all my products in it. You can click on any of them it'll take you to the store and you can find the other stuff as well. If you want to click something specific because that's what you want you can get those. You can scroll the whole store though. Also, if you would like to see this kind of content as soon as it comes out every two weeks I do the date memes videos just while you're down there hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos and then after you're done doing that head on over to patreon.com forward slash de-semerion like everybody here on the screen already has including my $40 patrons like Manuel Nortorp and probably a wizard and definitely not a scientist. Thank you very much for watching thank you very much for pledging and thank you very much for letting me know that I'm not alone out here and just for the record neither are you. I'll see you all again on Thursday.


Oh my gosh. Wine is zero is one. X is equal to a num bet. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. One, two, three. Do you print out this? Oh my gosh. Why is it so difficult? The previous one was zero. The previous one is zero. Okay, the previous one was zero, then we subtract one.   No, you would subtract one. Wait. Two. That doesn't make any sense. Oh my gosh. If the first occurrences was at a one, shouldn't be this difficult. We need to count the number of gaps. Wait, was one gap? There's two gaps. There's three gaps. But there's three gaps. Wait, are there two gaps? Okay, let's just check this out. One, and then do this.  That is three. Two gaps for number one. I need to find the smallest value.  Okay, what are we going to do? Is x first equal to zero? A at first equal to zero?  I want to check if A at zero is equal to first. If it's not equal to first. It's not equal to first? We need to add one between numbet. numbet.second plus plus. Yeah. Okay, this should work. Why is it all? Why is it all one now? Why is it still two, four, and three? What's the problem? Two, three. One, two, three, four, five. I approve. Two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two. Two, two, two, two, one, five, two, two in the middle. Yeah, no, it's still one. One, two, three. I have no idea. I don't know. I give up. I give up. I'm too tired also.


It's a witch hunt because it makes no sense that in four months, four months, five months, I'm indicted. You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine family members receiving money from foreign destinations into their bank accounts. It's been years of exposing. A lot of you here have reported on them, and yet no investigation is launched into them. I'm going to fight, well, and I'm just going, I'm getting back to that. I'm going to fight my battle. I'm going to deliver. I'm going to fight the witch hunt. I'm going to take care of clearing my name, and I look forward to doing that. That was just the small portion of Congressman George Santos' comments to the press after he was released from jail because, as you've probably heard by now, yes, George Santos was arrested today after he surrendered himself. Now, as you just saw, he is remaining defiant and calling this a witch hunt in true Trumpian form, which I think is pretty appropriate, honestly, considering that he's perhaps the only other politician to lie as much, if not more, than Donald Trump. So it makes sense that he would pursue the Trump strategy of just calling this a witch hunt. But before I show you even more of the ridiculous claims that he made to the press after he was released, I want to get to the specific details about the 13 count federal indictment that was just unsealed. As AP explains, among the allegations, prosecutors say Santos induced supporters to donate to a company under the false pretense that the money would be used to support his campaign. Instead, they say he used the money for personal expenses, including designer clothes and his credit card and car payments. Santos also was accused of lying about his finances on congressional disclosure forms and applying for and receiving unemployment benefits while he was employed as regional director of an investment firm that the government shut down in 2021 over allegations that it was a Ponzi scheme. So there are multiple layers of criminality here, but I want to focus specifically on unemployment insurance fraud for a moment because in a statement released by the Eastern District of New York Attorney General's Office, they alleged that Santos collected $24,000 worth of unemployment insurance while he wasn't even eligible since he was employed at the time, making a salary of $120,000 per year. However, to make matters even more ridiculous, his place of employment was shut down for being a Ponzi scheme. So he was employed, but applied for unemployment insurance while falsely claiming that he was eligible, but the investment firm that did employ him was shut down for allegedly being a Ponzi scheme. It's like you only hear about these types of things in movies. Like it feels like this man believed life was a video game and he was doing like some sort of a crime speed run, trying to rack up the highest score imaginable by breaking as many laws as he could simultaneously. It's it's cartoonishly corrupt here. And we're just talking about one of the alleged crimes here. But the irony here and why I wanted to focus on this specifically is because Republicans often complain about fraud with regard to our social safety net programs, such as food stamps, unemployment insurance. And they use the fraud as a justification to cut these programs, even if it's the case that like fraud is is minimal. Right. Meanwhile, it's Republicans like George Santos abusing the system.  The call is coming from inside the house, but yet they're still going to point the finger at poor people. Now, furthermore, George Santos tweeted this about New York in 2021 from Miami Beach, mind you, quote, crime is at an all time high in New York. We need the state's elected officials to do their job and keep us safe. Nine of the recently released criminals from Rikers Island are behind bars three weeks after their politically charged release. We are in desperate need of law and order in New York. People are desperate for law and order, he claims, while being an alleged criminal that was just released because he's wealthy and he can afford to pay the bond. And also, he's comically calling this a witch hunt. It's not a witch hunt to go after poor people. But it is a witch hunt to go after powerful politicians. It's just it's so comically absurd. It's laughable.   Now, he pled not guilty and he was released on five hundred thousand dollars bond after he was arraigned, but he made some other comments to the press that I have to talk about here because he's totally convinced that everything is going to be just fine and he's not resigning. In fact, he's still running for reelection. Are you planning on running for reelection? Yes, I am. And why should anybody believe you now? Well, like I said, I will prove myself innocent and then we'll move from there. And reelection is a very far time away from that. Yeah. So in case you were wondering if he'd he'd calls for his resignation, there's your answer there.  And his tone here is weird. It seems like he's being sarcastic, but also telling the truth at the same time. Like he actually believes this, but let's listen. Well, look, I go, wait, I look at it. I'll be a chairman of a committee in a couple of years. If you just look at the standards of Congress, look at the Senate. So that video is wild to me because he's maintaining his innocence while simultaneously suggesting that he can still go on to have a successful career in Congress, even if he's convicted since so many corrupt criminals already hold positions of power in Congress, which is kind of a tacit admission that he knows he's guilty. But nonetheless, I hate to say this, but he's not necessarily wrong, right? We have a criminal justice system that overwhelmingly favors the rich and powerful hell. We've effectively legalized bribes for members of Congress. So he's correct that there's a lot of corrupt criminals in Washington, D.C.  I mean, if he wanted to buy designer clothes, all that he had to do was not directly break the law by using campaign finance funds to make these purchases. All he had to do was wait a couple of years, do some insider trading after he gets inside information that none of the public is privy to. And like the rest of the crooks in Congress, he would have gotten enough cash within years to buy a mansion, a yacht and everything would have been peachy keen, but he just couldn't help himself. He's a pathological liar, and it's clear that you can see the effect that Trump is having on American political discourse. I mean, decades ago, could you imagine a politician not resigning after facing multiple scandals like this? But now in the Trump era, you can absorb almost any blow, assuming you're able to just wait it out and ignore the criticism. I mean, if Watergate happened today, I think that it wouldn't be that big of a scandal, comparatively speaking, given everything that we've seen like an insurrection. Trump being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. Like Watergate feels small in comparison to 2023 American politics, right? So it's just it's truly insane that we have so much corruption and criminality in our system. And those politicians, oftentimes they're rewarded for it.  So the difference, though, between Trump and Santos, however, despite the similarities is that Trump actually has the GOP's base on lock. They like him. George Santos, however, is not liked even by his own constituents. Seventy eight percent of them want him to resign. But either way, I mean, he's convinced that he can weather the storm. So what else can we all do if national Republicans refuse to hold him accountable by expelling him or even removing him from committee assignments? So, yeah, keep it up, George Santos.  At a minimum, at least he's providing us with a lot of entertainment. And I do look forward to the biopic of George Santos that will inevitably be released in the future, because that is going to be very, very entertaining to watch.


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Welcome home back to the channel everybody and to the awesome great outdoors We are here at the deer lease and it's time to do some turkey hunting Hopefully on this trip. We're gonna be able to get my first turkey ever. I don't know what it is y'all. I've been out Plenty of times especially the last three years. I've gone out. I have been unsuccessful I think part of the problem is I go for a day or two and then the turkeys off and then I get to thinking about all These bass are up in the shallows. I get all excited and I'm like I'm going back to fishing I can't I can't stand it any longer another challenge I've been presented this year is actually finding a shotgun shell For turkeys to be able to go to go hunting. I've got plenty of double loads at home I've been to a bunch of different places trying to find some turkey loads. I'm very Limited luckily I got my buddy mullet man. He's coming up here. I think he's gonna have have some shells Hopefully if not, I'm gonna have to use my bow just pulling up here within 30 minutes I've already heard goblers off over the ravine over here That is more action than I have seen in three years of turkey hunting here at the lease. I've deer hunted I've pig hunted out here. We've seen turkeys on cameras. We've heard them while we've been Deer hunting and things like that. So we know that there's turkeys out here one of the first things I'll ask you on this video if you guys watch my previous videos with Jimmy Houston going up to his ranch Man great great guy great family Really if you guys don't know his wife Chris Both of them are in the bass fishing Hall of Fame and she actually had a stroke recently So I would just ask that you put Chris into your prayers if you're of the praying type Second thing I'll ask is check out all the new dangler merch at googinsquad.com We got a bunch of new dangler gear up there And if you guys want to get anything on googinsquad.com it is 10% off use code Lfg now it is time to at least go get a little preview What's happening out here in the woods these things right here snake gators? I just bought some I hope they dad gum work because there are some rattlesnakes out here, and I hope we don't run into any One of my biggest worries is Finding a turkey goblers coming in you're sitting on the ground base of an oak tree And then all of a sudden you look over and there's rattlesnake crawling right next to your butt It happens in Texas y'all, so let's get out there in the woods. Let's look for some antlers. Let's listen for some goblers Keeping mine also socket calling So they maybe won't respond to this Wouldn't be Texas without some armadillos around. I was thinking these oak trees might be a good nesting spot roosting spot for Haven't seen any feathers yet. See lots of old rubs. It's like a good spot to find some antlers That is a deer right there. Is that a deer? Is that a cougar? You know, that's a cactus. Okay false alarm Where I heard the goblers was not far from here, so I'm gonna give it another shot nothing to do with what noise Is I'm making. Here's the box blime where I got my big deer this year And the infamous pond deer was hanging around here for a while But there's these nice open areas I think this is where I heard those turkeys earlier The pond is just back in there Third armadillo spotted little buddy just getting some grubs some yellow gummies Have you seen any turkeys man? Can you point me in the right direction?  It appears that there's a water source here that I did not know about This is a spring coming out of the ground right here Runs down eventually goes to the lake down there Hidden spring Well turkeys will be turkeys. Am I right? I'm apparently doing something wrong So I didn't hear any gobbles Maybe it was my position up here on this ridge. I could just hear so good, but I felt pretty confident I was in the same area.  I'm just gonna kind of chill here. I'm gonna build a fire and I'm gonna wait till I hear them again this evening Hopefully hopefully I hear them this evening and then I can really pinpoint and then we're gonna get up and Do this thing in the morning. So we'll We'll keep the shotgun ready just in case something crazy happens They come out here. I know we've seen them on feeder cameras as well, but I Think they're really gonna utilize these open areas out here That seems like where they were around and maybe I just need to get out the binos You know do a little glass and do a little listening this evening, but no sheds either Just no luck this moment All right, I got a little oak from home part of what I do when I'm messing around with knives. I just You know I split wood. I make feather sticks stuff like that Tenders I keep them in here. I mean they stay super dry. So anytime I need them They're gonna be ready to go. We've had a really dry a couple of weeks So I went ahead and split some ash The other night when I was playing around with a new knife It's really funny. Amy comes out there and she plays with these sticks too. Like she has the same obsession, but I usually get a knife every month by the way, it's a s45 v in steel which I Didn't own so now I own one and one of the things I wanted to see with it is how how good it would Strike fire steel some cedar from home. I'm just gonna crunch this up Some people might think this is a like pain in the butt part of camp, but I I love it. I like not carrying any gasoline or any you know like Normal fuel sources to light big fires. I just like I like to lighten them like this The old fashion way it's a good way to do it. It's good. It's good to learn Come on. There it is. I'll take it.  There's a whole lot more About ten yards away. So apparently someone has Gotten a turkey out here. So I'm gonna just sit here look at this turkey feather and Hope that that is gonna be me tomorrow morning and just enjoy my my banquet beer and dad gum it As a 35 year old man, I'm ready to get ready to get my first turkey in life So please give me a little like button. Give me a little positivity comment right now Give me something and I'll see you guys in the morning. Oh, it is time ladies and gentlemen So we're gonna hop in the ATV.  He's got a buddy been here as well both looking to get some some turkeys and So so we're gonna have a little teamwork because okay gosh dang we got to go. All right. I'm gonna grab my shotgun Let's do it. I forgot my camera Let's go back get it all the way back It's blurry. I'm sorry guys. We heard turkeys Where I thought I was hearing him yesterday And it sounds like they're just coming off the roost. So we're in a hurry We're gonna try to get on them and shoot one of the face. Are you sure bro? I think he's like up in those of trees. I think we should get to that deer blind the box blind Honestly anywhere out in here or over there If we went up over there and got on that right side Got been here next to me mullet man Gobbler on the ridge. Let's give her a dangle. Yes, sir Oh my gosh, dude. I couldn't that was so awesome That thing came in I was like He's gonna spot us. He's gonna spot us. I was about to tell you to turn and shoot I know I was like should I turn around huge I turn around shoot He comes in he looks at all three of us and he's like, no, I want that other thing Hey talk about sweet footage, dude Did you get him? Oh, yeah, oh my gosh, dude. Go check out your first Texas Tom, dude Dude, this is awesome. And he was attacking the decoy. I was like, I Want to film this is so cool. I don't want to shoot him right away That other bird's close let's grab him and see if we can keep calling Baby four years Turkey on my first turkey. He smoked him. It's not a giant, but I'll take him. Oh, that's a good We're in the decoy Holy cow Two-year-old bird Well, buddy You were fun to watch You're fun to watch All right, so we're gonna take this we're gonna drag it back and see if we can get another one to come in because there's definitely another God, he's a two-year-old bird. He's not a Jake. That's so cool Double Texas double a gun jammed got a new gun while they were sitting there That was a long shot. Good job Oh Okay, so I have gone from literally like four years of just total suckage The best ten minutes of turkey on to my life They must have been roosted earlier like they're just all sitting in the tree at the same spot Yeah, double down finally got down. I mean, it's not bad for like an hour Okay, I want to start to a morning y'all my first turkey ever, you know, not not a Mondo, but Probably going to be one of my most memorable turkey turkeys of my life just because of the the way it came in I Thought we were gonna get busted and we just sat there and walked right by us then having those those other three come in and Gun jam we had to switch guns It really worked out coming up here Yesterday and then hearing where those turkeys were coming from the exact area I don't know how I didn't run into him yesterday because I walked all through there for this to happen I've under the last two years with Mike and You know, he goes out and kills kills one the first opening day and he's like And then I get down there and it's just silence this year out opening week got one Chicken, it's called a cone big feet. Just little tear-dactyls. They are really How pretty that is beautiful coral and Eggshell blue All right, so mullet man says he's got me a gift We're back here. I'm gonna make you on mr. Knife guy dude. Did you do it? Oh? My god, that is so badass brother. Holy cow. How do your collection?  Yeah, I was like man I've been telling him I'm gonna make him a flint knife for a year dude Hey Thank you, man. That is awesome. Is this a is this a shed you found? Holy cow fallow And that's probably a good four inch this is a special one for my collection y'all look at that LFG in there as well that is Super badass man. Thank you, Mike Pretty sweet Well, man, just got done cleaning the turkey. This is my first one. I've ever done. Oh, yeah You have to clean your first turkey right right got to do it The one we just cleaned had had some injuries, which is crazy.  All right, so You got to think I see things are in the wild just It's easier savages. It's easier if you get that tail out of the way I'll go ahead and get just so you're not crunching it up. All right. So so step one How far do we go back in here? Oh, I always grab it like this and start cut from the back from from the bottom. Yeah, so rear end. Yep Feel that we're just gonna find hump. Yep Just cut on that hump and then you'll your knife will find where it needs to go. I hope My lovely turkey humps Check it out Now come from the side and just cut across Yeah The knife will find its place perfect. Let's see it This is the fan beautiful And I'm a fan that will like so whenever I Do the turkey fans?  Yeah, the ways Okay, so we got our beard which you know, this isn't a real old turkey, but He's still got a little beard action. So I'm gonna cut it just right about there and You know, maybe save that for a little Little paintbrush or hairbrush for something right make a little make a little leather tassel and hang it off the end of your Knife, dude a dangler for it. Yeah, good idea like we're heads up All right, and now We'll get into the tasties So I'm just gonna make a little cut here Run it up. Hopefully that's gonna come apart. We're not gonna get to Feathery There we go. It's like we got a decently healthy bird. Oh Yeah, nice healthy leg Kind of won't take the whole thing, but I Don't know the skin's coming off a little easier than I anticipated Young bird you might be able to I'm just gonna have to get around the wing Yeah, you cut the wings off cut that wing and then we've got all the other Inwards everything now for those new to turkey hunting Well, we're aiming at a turkey.  Looks like we got a couple of pellets up here but I mean they got a thick old tough neck and head and They're they're a tough bird. So Anyway, just if you're new to it. That's where you that's where you aim There we go Take it to the taxidermist, baby. It's ready That is the turkey cape essentially. Yeah and There's what we're left with others here a little tail feather off here, buddy. Just got to get some of the Some of the innards out and then we'll be able to take that home to the fam throw it on the pellet grill and Have some deliciousness. I've got the whole Dagum caboodle right there. So I took the the innards out It's all nice and clean. It's ready to be cooked I'll probably end up taking these legs off a little later when I throw it on the smoker and maybe do something separate with those because I know they're just really tough meat, but This is the flayed version. That's Mike's right there Those are from later. So literally after years of turkey failure finally come out here and Get it done and it worked out so perfect where we heard those birds last night They ended up being there. They weren't monsters, but they came in In the coolest way possible and it was just an awesome exciting morning So, uh, I hope you guys learned a little something about turkeys and you got to smash that like button for turkeys coming in. Finally success Success. I've been wanting to do this Just for myself, but also on this channel for for many years now. So finally got it done guys Thanks for tuning in and we're gonna be doing some more turkey hunts So if you want to stay tuned for it, you know what to do subscribe right here and we'll see you on the next one


Live from New Orleans, it's theCUBE. Covering VeeamON 2017, brought to you by Veeam. Welcome back to the Bayou everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. My name is Dave Vellante and I'm here with Stu Miniman. This is VeeamON 2017, two days of wall-to-wall coverage from theCUBE. Harley Carter is here as a solution architect at Scania. We're going to have a case study on transportation. Talk to the customers we love when we get the practitioners on. We can pick your brain about what's really happening. Harley, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. How's the conference going? What do you think of VeeamON? Yeah, it's good. I mean, Dave, for us, Veeam's becoming more of a sort of strategic part of our business now. You know, we rely on it more and more. So excited to be here and learn some of the new features, what's coming. Great, we'll come back to that. And I want to ask you to set up your business a little bit. Tell us about your business. You know, Scania Transportation Company, a huge company actually, many, many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of employees. What's your business all about? What are the drivers in your business that are driving technology? Yeah, so our business set up. And so I work for Scania in the UK and we act as the main sort of wholesaler for the UK and we also own half of the retail network in the UK. So we have sort of two pronged attack really. So we're responsible for bringing the vehicles into the country and shipping them out to our distributors and then we also sell direct to the customer as well. So, you know, those two main bits of focus for us. And I think like most other companies at the moment, we're finding that more and more of our services are changing to be in digital services. We sort of position ourselves in the market as the premium product. We're considerably more expensive than some of the competitors. And then obviously to back that up, we have to give them the full service and we have to give great service to the customers and great backup services. So we're moving to more and more supporting services around the trucks. So for example, we sell telematics packages, driver training packages and a lot of those are more digital than we used to be. We're not really an engineering company anymore. Okay, so the priority really is to drive new sources of value through digital. As opposed to, I mean, a lot of times when we ask that question here, do more with less, cut costs, that sort of table stakes is what I'm referring. I think we've passed that stage now and we've happened to add more and more and more value to the customer to keep our proposition as the premium brand. So telematics as an example, you're saying you're embedding telematics into your products and providing telematics services. Every truck we sell comes with a full telematics package and then, depending on the customer needs, if they're a large fleet customer or we have some sort of small people who own their own truck like owner drivers, they can subscribe to different levels of the package and it gives them a lot more information about their driving habits. Say for fleet customers, they can track vehicles and one of the biggest costs for our large fleet customers is fuel for the vehicles and we sell telematics and training packages which helps them reduce their fuel consumption and so it adds a lot of monetary value for them as well as just increased uptime for the vehicle. So that's cloud-based service, obviously. Okay, and so you've got to protect the data. It's all about data. Digital is all about data. That's one thing that's clear, but digital transformation, it gets really fuzzy but it's data. So you got to protect the data. So you have to architect a solution around that. So paint a picture of your environment.  Can you describe sort of the, we got the telematics piece, but what are the sort of apps are you supporting? What's the infrastructure look like? And very importantly, how are you protecting the data? Yeah, so our infrastructure, we're pretty much, I'd say 95% virtualized these days where all VMWare. We do have a small Hyper-V environment for Citrix, VDI, but actual server and applications is all in VMWare. We have a main data center at our head office in Milton Keynes, which is a bit north of London. So pretty much everything is hosted internally within that data center. And then we have a co-location facility, which is about 30 miles away. We rent Rackspace in another data center. So historically, we were purely on site and then more recently we started to try and move to keeping things available across the two data centers. And VM helps us with that in the actual backups and recoveries and replication between the data centers. What are the key apps that you're sort of managing? We have pretty much everything, I guess. So we have SQL databases, we use Microsoft Dynamics, CRM. We have lots and lots of internal web apps and Windows applications that have been developed internally. We have small SharePoint installation. So we have, we're mostly Microsoft based, but within the Microsoft stack, we've probably got most of the products in one place or another. You mentioned the word availability. What does that mean to your business? How critical is it for you to be always on? From the retail side, the customer facing side, most of our depots do operate 24 seven. So they will have customers coming in and out all day, every day, all night 365 days of the year. So the actual retail systems have to be online all the time. And as we mentioned, some of the more sort of online systems now for customers, obviously they're designed like online systems are that the customers can access them wherever they are, whenever they need. Those have to be online all the time. And then as we support the retail network with a lot of back end systems, we provide IT services for some of our independent dealers as well. So if they sign up to be a escorted dealer, they use some of our central systems. So we have to support those employees, just scan your employees. A lot of those aren't 24 seven, but still from early to late in the evening, there are people working all the time. And what do you see from an IT standpoint? You've got your customers, some of those have other customers there. Speak a little bit to kind of the role of IT that it plays in driving the business forward. Yeah, I think it's becoming more and more realized that IT is a business driver rather than the cost that we were probably seen as historically.  It is, there's no getting around that, but someone's got to pay for it. But at least people, seeing the benefits. But we are, as we said, trying to create new services and things for the customers. So we happen to ensure that we have the infrastructure in place, that we can roll out new products and services, go to market quicker, the agility that is being mentioned all the time now for fully digital transformations. So it's, I think making sure that we're in a good position to be able to react to business demands and to supply the business with whatever they need when they need it. You said that Veeam's becoming more strategic to your operations. Do you have any key metrics you could share with your peers in the industry? What did you get by deploying it? Sleep easier, you know? Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a big one. Be able to do other things, what would be some of the key results? I guess some of the main benefits for us is that it is simple to use. More and more has been added to the product all the time, but it's simple to set up and it does just work. So with the solutions we had before, we were never 100% confident that, should a disaster happen, that we would really be able to rely on everything. We do tests, but yeah. Maybe you tested it, but didn't test it as much now.  Yeah, we do run regular tests and some of the built-in tools within Veeam give us those options, the sort of automated options, the shore backup and shore replica. So we get automatic verification that the backup jobs have actually worked and that we can restore machines and data from them. So definitely takes a lot of the guesswork out of it, which, should you say, helps us sleep easier. How would you describe your data protection strategy? Do you offer, so I'm presuming data protection as a service and you've got different service levels for different workloads, different applications, right? So how do you approach architecting that generally and specifically where does Veeam fit? So Veeam for us does cover pretty much the whole range of it, so we use it for backups. That's your primary data protection platform. That is basically it. So we do have actual storage-based replication between the data centers. So I guess we have that level, but as far as actual recovery in a disaster, then we do rely on Veeam a lot. So we use it in disk backups, take backups. We use pretty much all the features that we can to, let's see, try and leverage that investment as much as possible. Is it essentially a perpetual incremental, once you seed the base? Yes, we do use it in that mode. So we have perpetual incrementals, which back up to our main site. Those copies for those backups then get copied over to the disaster recovery site, the co-location center. Okay. And then the copies at that site then get taken off the tape as well. And then also at the DR center, it uses the grandfather, the father, son backup scheme. So we have shorter term retention that's duplicated across both sites, long-term retention at the co-loc sites and then also tape back up. And when you sit down, well, do you sit down with a line of business to determine sort of the value of the data that you're protecting? Do you sort of provide that estimate? Do you speak in terms of RPO and RTO to the business? Or do you talk in different terms? Like on a scale of one to 10, how important is this data? Or how much money do you have to spend? Or do you not do charge backs? Help us understand how you decide. We don't do charge backs. Okay, so we probably don't go into as much detail as if we did, but there's been more of a company-wide business continuity project going on recently. So we have had to have those conversations with pretty much all the business areas, all the applications. Yeah, so how important is it? How long can you live without it? What are your backup plans? Should the system be unavailable? Of course, if you ask people how often they want it back how much can they afford to lose? Everyone says nothing. No, and then you figure out- Then they think about it a bit more. How many millions do you have to spend? Yeah, exactly. They come to a more realistic estimate. Okay, but so you guys are responsible for providing that level of service based on the results of that survey, if I can call it that. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And it's your job to make sure that you're constantly refreshing that service level. And then living up to it. And so you're able to offer, if I understand it correctly, a very high degree of granularity? Yeah, we have a few different options. I mean, when we roll in new products or new services, we have a default, if you know what I mean. So by default, it will backed up this often. We'll keep this many copies, we'll replicate this often. But then, as you say, we discuss with the business, is that acceptable? Does it need to be that often? Does it need to be more? And so we can tailor quite simply. And then there are a lot of different options in Veeam and lots of different ways of doing basically the same thing, but it makes it simple for us. We don't have to invest a huge amount of time tailoring solutions to different applications. You know, a couple of tick boxes and change a few numbers and we're basically there. Does security considerations come into the discussion of backup at all? It does. I mean, I guess with some of the more recent attacks and things, we've had to start thinking about it a bit more, you know, like separate networks and trying to go into the technicalities of air-gapping some of the actual backups more than we did in the past. So I don't know, I don't think we're 100% there yet with that side of things, but it's definitely higher on the agenda than it used to be. And how about cloud? We've heard some announcements today. We've heard sort of a strategy that is sort of on-prem, on-prem to cloud, cloud to on-prem, cloud to cloud. Where are you with cloud and how are you? At the moment, we are entirely on-prem. There are a couple of SaaS apps that we use, that we don't actually have any VMs or anything in the cloud at all. Okay, let's get... It's been more historical than anything. Our parent company have a very heavy R&D focus, so all the actual search on the trucks happens in Sweden. And they've been quite anti-cloud, I guess in the IP concerns. So your telematics offering is your cloud? It is, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, so your cloud service provider as well. All the data goes... Everybody's becoming a cloud service provider or a software company. It's all part of the digital transformation, I guess. It all changed. So last question is, again, we come back to the show. Things you've learned, what brought you here? Take some of the takeaways. Yeah, so as I said, it is becoming quite a strategic part of our infrastructure solution. So one of the things for me here is to learn what's next. So we like to stay up to speed and try and plan as far ahead as we can. What are the new features? Can we use? What options does it give us? So if we're interested to hear some of the options this morning, like the CDP, I think it sounded quite interesting. Again, it gives us another different option that we don't have today. So for some of the more critical services, we could look at that as well as the sort of a Ray-based replication that we have at the moment. And again, it's good to talk to different customers. A lot of people have the same experiences and are going through the same issue. So it's always good to talk to different people and just to try and soak up as much information as I can while I'm here. Great. Harley, thanks very much for coming on the queue. Yeah, thank you. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there, everybody. Stu and I will be back with our next guest. Right after this short break.


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