I've been writing most all my crazy dreams. I know Well, you know what was funny about the polar bear thing is like, you know, I kind of woke up and was like, okay That's not real But then you know when you kind of you kind of come out of rem and then you go back in and so the dream sort of continued And so in the dream, I'm telling people like I had a dream that I had a polar bear as a pet Oh, wow, that was a dream because I live alone and I didn't talk to anybody about this, you know Yeah, when I finally woke up later, I was like So the second time you went under the polar bear was no longer there but Talking about the polar bear. I was talking about my dream that I had because I knew it wasn't real and everyone was like Okay, whatever.  Yeah, I was on an 18th century sailing ship flying through like a dreamscape of space But like surrounding the edges of space were like these coral Like formations and outside were coming like these giant lobsters And so I had to kind of commandeer these elephants to help me fight them. What are you eating before bed? Probably well, you know But the thing is like you make a good point if you write down the stuff when you first wake up There's so many details that you just won't remember even within the hour. Oh, no, you totally forget. So I write literally This is literally just a vomit and yeah, you know, and it's a weird And it's weird because the ship is feels like a restaurant, you know because my dad runs our restaurant like a seafood restaurant for like a buffet restaurant and The sailor bore the sailors on board look like pirates, but they also look like office workers So they're pirates with ties kind of you know Anyways, I have to keep off the ship with elephants Well, it's it's the dreams dreams are so you know, sometimes you're like, okay That's an anxiety dream, you know, like whether it was weird or not You kind of get where it was coming from or you know, it's some sort of like or a finance You're worried about finances or whatever you can kind of make sense of it But then there are dreams where you know, for example, my dad died 14 years ago and it's like He's in my dreams a lot, but he wasn't for 10 years Interesting, you know and like in the dream, we don't talk about the like he's just sort of there and things are normal But like there's always something a little off about it But it's like why did it take so long for my brain to start like manifesting this? Do you ever dream about stuff that literally just comes out of nowhere like you wake up? It's like Yeah, like having a polar bear as a pet Oh, yeah, no, I think that's the norm for people is to dream about stuff that comes out of no because I dreamt I had another dream About Danny McBride the actor, but he had supernatural powers and he was just going like psychotic on everyone and I had to escape on an end like a end loader Like I apprehended one from a work site and I was just trying to drive and get away But it was too slow Roger has the best dreams. I want to have Roger's dreams I'm gonna I'm gonna subscribe to Roger's dreams. I want them to be available as a service I I'm gonna take the advice of one of the chat Chatters in the previous episode and write this down into a book of like now. No No, I yeah, I tweet all my dreams up Are you? Yeah, right after they happen. I wake up and I try to treat them out That's actually a pretty good idea for a Twitter account, you know, I like read my read my Twitter account Well, I don't do it all the time But you should know that your son has a tricorder hat on yeah, I know All right, you guys ready? Yep. Here we go Daily Tech news show is powered by its audience not outside organizations to find out more head to Daily Tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Friday June 15th 2018 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane and from Cleveland. I'm Len Peraldo. Len has been fighting with AT&T That's why he sounds a little lower than usual, but you know who's here to cheer him up Patrick Norton I'm in Alameda where we have amazing internet that costs practically nothing until the startup fails And I'll have to go back to count cast with my tail between my legs And now to balance all of that out our producer Roger Chang. I have spectrum It's working today it was and it stopped working for about 30 minutes And I was wondering if I had to drive up to Tom's place I also have spectrum, but Roger spectrum is yeah I have the same region of spectrum that Sarah has and mine's fine Rogers for some reason is not Sitting on the line somewhere. All right. We are gonna talk with Patrick a little bit about parts Used parts and graphics card prices coming down, but let's start with a few tech things you should know Well, then you either will love or hate this story I'm not sure yet AT&T has closed the deal and has merged with Time Warner The deal was signed in October of 2016 but faced opposition from the US Department of Justice and it's been hung up for some time The merged company now owns a major ISP wireless carrier direct TV HBO Turner Networks and Warner Brothers film studio Ride hailing company DD Xu Xing announced it will expand its service to Melbourne starting June 25th after a month-long test in Geelong go cats Expansion to Australia puts DD in direct competition with Uber and Ola Which by the way DD is an investor in both of those Also taxify operates in Australia, which DD is also an investor in anyway DD previously expanded into Taiwan Mexico and Brazil this year So this continues their international expansion. What kind of cats are the mascot cats? They're AFL of No, I meant like what kind of breed of cat. I have no idea. Okay, well go cats Pebble owner Fitbit will end support for Pebble watches on June at 30th The group of developers have created an independent project called rebel dot.io That's where you find out more information to continue support for existing Pebble watches Pebble users are encouraged to create a rebel account Before June 30th in order to keep their settings. However, the new service may not be ready in time for the shutdown Hmm The 3gpp group that oversees international cellular standards has approved the standalone 5g new radio spec That's the last step to complete the 5g standard 3gpp approved the non standalone version back in December That's the one used to build 5g on top of existing LTE networks We told you about that back in December this new standalone spec is for completely new Implementations now working groups are still going to address some known gaps in the standard There are definitely issues that will come up as 5g is implemented that will require some tweaks But the 3gpp considers the 5g system now officially complete So there you go. The standard has been ripped. All right. Let's talk a little bit more about screens Let's do it. Let's talk about new iPhone screens and let's speculate on them Perhaps sources told the Wall Street Journal that Apple is ordering more supply chain parts for an upcoming LCD screen phone Then for two OLED models now Apple currently has one OLED phone and two LCD models But is expected to announce two OLED models and an LCD model later this year this autumn to be specific So Patrick, I'm kind of not surprised by this the idea that it's like Oh, well, they they expect the cheaper phone to sell bigger But I guess that's not usually been the case with that. Well, it's also it's one of the things where you have superior technology Dripping its way down. I assume to the less expensive versions of the phone You know at this point, I'm so curious to see what the fallout is You know, is there going to be something like the iPhone 10 this year? Is there an iPhone 11? What's the iPhone 9 gonna be? The rumors are still too early, I mean I don't know the best the best guesses that I've seen from the people that are usually right are two OLED models that are like the iPhone 10 One big one small and then a a six inch kind of in between those two sizes with an LCD screen And that's the one it seems like the parts suppliers are saying yeah They're ordering more of parts for that one than for the two OLED ones. That would make sense That I mean the OLED is a price premium. We also they've my understanding is that they've had difficulty securing supply of OLED screens So I think they're looking for a vendor on that might be You know, that was one of the issues that was sort of floating up through the rumor mills You know, I I'll be honest with you I'm particularly interested because I partially want to stay on iOS, but I was playing around with the the one six The one plus six that Shannon had in for review and the cameras are so much better than on my phone right now I'm actually thinking about you know giving up on my headphone jack to have a better camera So and the OLED screens look amazing on the phones. What iPhone are you using now? I'm using a fantastic iPhone model 6 which I waited You know as long as I could to buy and then bought a 128 gigabyte version and and now it's to the point where the low light The the this current generation of phones right now the low light photography is so much better than this phone I'm actually starting to have urges Well Much better the camera was you know My first reaction is like really iPhone not good, but the six didn't have the the Telephoto lens right you had to go to that so yeah and the the low light performance They did a big jump on the seven I mean I I approach phones at this point kind of like I approach cars I want to buy the least expensive like I buy Subaru's I want something it's going to last until I can't stand it anymore and we'll take the rest of my life to fall apart Phones fortunately take a lot less time to fall apart and unlike Subaru's they tend not to They said they just don't age well phones don't age well Deep buy and published research in science describing a machine learning system that can take a collection of pictures of a scene And then predict what the scene would look like from a viewpoint not represented in the images The system creates a representation of space based on two images Then a separate generative query network or GQN uses one image to determine the identity To I'm sorry to identify position and color of objects as well as shadows and other things related to perspective Took a couple months to train the GQN and it's unclear if this approach can be adapted beyond the narrow problem of predicting What a scene looks like from a different angle? But it's quite in advance. Yeah, be able to fill in the gaps like that I'm I look at this and I'm torn between being like that line I reread that that last line like six times because I was giggling, you know It can be adapted beyond the narrow problem of predicting what I see But if you think about what this involves, you know, if I am guiding a vehicle, you know What can I determine? What can I assume? What is going to change based on what I can actually physically see or if I'm trying to guide? Say, you know autonomous vehicles that are going to help put on a fire or something There's this it's a really simple problem Except it's incredibly complex and the idea is it can be sort of smeared across in terms of improving how things function is amazing but it you know, it's like Can we adapt this thing? I don't know Can we get beyond one angle like one angle is a step But we're gonna need a lot more of that for this to work and things like self-driving cars Yeah, and I know we're not talking about video But you know just because you know, I think of like home studio stuff like if I had two angles And I can somehow figure out what a third one would be without actually having to buy an extra camera pretty cool All right, moving on. Let's talk about opera, right? Who wants to talk about opera? Oprah Winfrey my friend and yours will create original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world Those are Apple's words the company didn't say if Winfrey would appear on any of the shows But that's sort of probably a given financial details also not disclosed in this deal Apple also said the deal would not affect own which is Winfrey's own TV network launched in 2011 now owned by Discovery She's also the CEO and chairman of own. She also has a contract there through 2025 So not exclusive with Apple Apple also made deals for more than a dozen shows with a lot of celebrities Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durant, two-name a few. You also might recall the bombas have a deal with Netflix You and Jennifer Aniston as well. Yeah, in fact, I think Reese and Jennifer are working on a show together That sounds great. Maybe I just yeah There's way the list goes on and on and on is the point and everybody wonders what they're gonna do with this like Oprah doesn't appear on her YouTube channel Eileen my wife worked with own on their YouTube channel and she never appeared on that She doesn't appear on own beyond her own show that often So it's not a given that she would she would actually have a show here But Oprah also putting her stamp on a show It means it's gonna have much more success than it would otherwise and everybody's wondering Okay, what's Apple gonna do with all of this high quality talent that they've signed on are they gonna make it available? Free on Apple devices Are they gonna do a subscription service which one insider said that's what Apple told them is gonna be a combination where you get it Free on the Apple TV and the iPhone, but if not you can pay for it. It's it's it's all up in the air now It's I it's all part of there. They're finally starting to battle back. I think it gets Netflix. I mean Netflix I want to say spent six point three billion dollars on content I think they're up to projecting eight billion this year. Yeah. Yeah, and I you know Apple is so far behind that I don't know It feels like one of the yet another front where Apple is playing catch up, you know on the on the iTunes unless they're playing a different game That's the thing right like they don't need to create a Netflix with a huge back catalog They they can use it as a way to sell their hardware which Netflix doesn't have that Okay, I'm just I don't know I'm watching all of the the mergers and acquisitions at the super high level For example, we were talking about it in the AT&T merger where we now have some of everything It feels it just feels like the Google Apple Amazon battles are getting more vicious where content is well and content is no longer a business It's it's it's a thing that you add into another business and use to to drive those other so Yeah, that first business. Well, and we still you know, we don't you know You don't report every single deal that these companies are making with celebrities or or you know media professionals But Oprah Winfrey is a big one. They arguably one of the biggest ones that you could possibly get But we're still at that point of like wow kind of big deal, but what will it be? No one knows Making deals, but we don't know what that looks like yet. Yeah But I mean like to put this into context your term of Netflix who obviously desperately needs content to keep people to pay their subscriptions, right? They're they're spending more than anybody else six six point three billion Amazon scaled up to something like four billion dollars and apples Yeah, you know, they're billion two billion dollars this year. I think it was like a billion dollars Yeah, but that's you're comparing apples with Amazons and Netflix's a coin of phrase Get it cuz it oranges I'm with I got it. I got it. It just wasn't very good. I get it No, but I guess my I'm just repeating myself at this point But my point is like yeah, but they don't need to do it exactly the same way So no, but it's still I guess HBO doesn't have as big of a catalog and they're doing well as well Sure, but they also have a huge existing revenue stream. It's going to take a very very long Oh Well, I don't know I guess I'm thinking of this from the cord cutter perspective and not from the giant corporate maneuvering perspective Yeah, for me the cord cutter perspective at this point is like crap Is there another servicing? I'm gonna have to buy to get this one amazing show that'll be interesting Scientists Adelphi University of Technology published details in nature of the first system for reliably triggering a quantum pairing effect called entanglement It's a major step toward creating secure quantum networks. The effect worked across two nodes About two meters apart the next step will be to add a third node for true Networking and the scientists hope to connect four Dutch cities, you know, at least like one set up in each city Through entanglement in 2020 to create the first demonstration of a quantum internet Not much to discuss here other than like wow. Good job Also entanglement is a funny term For something really cool, but okay, that's what it's called. I really see I do I guess I'm just mess of cables Entanglement to me is when two particles that are separated by distance operate in the same way because And I'm thinking about Jim and Jody in that rom-com that came out last week Hey, at least it's not entrapment And a gadget source that Microsoft's next HoloLens will use Qualcomm's XR1 platform meant for VR and AR and gadget sources agree with the Rautocom that the new HoloLens will arrive in January Qualcomm says the XR1 delivers directional audio 3d overlays and 4k video at 60 frames per second Qualcomm also counted Vive, Vuzix and meta as partners when the XR1 was announced back in May So yeah, a lot of people just assumed it'd be the Snapdragon 845 But I guess if you know if we'd really thought about it it would make sense that Qualcomm coming out with an AR platform ought to be used and and It sounds like it will be I I'm curious if this is going to be available for the public and we kind of talked about this when Brad Sam's Had his report that his sources were saying it's coming out in Q1 Are we gonna get a developers kit again, or is this gonna be the thing where we start selling it to the public? What's your best guess I Think they have to start selling it to the public, but I think the public is gonna be more on the business side I'm still Recoiling and horror from the the experience. I expected based on all of the videos they produced and the I'm looking through a brick in a wall HoloLens experience that the actual headset delivered. So I'm very very I mean, I think if they open it up and give you a better perspective I'm also really kind of curious to see where the whole, you know, I Just want to try it right. I tried it. Yeah, and I it was it was cool. I mean now on one hand It was really amazing But all of their videos that they had produced for it had basically but they'd use stereo cameras and you had this full You know this massive field of view and then when you actually put the HoloLens on You know, literally there was like a block this big that you were looking through and it was very You know, it was cool to look through that block But it was it was a huge letdown compared to what see I had the opposite I had the opposite reaction simply because I expected that limited view to be worse than it was So I guess it's all about expectations either way. It is a limited view. You're not getting around that. It's a good That's all right Folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines at daily tech headlines comm We bring you good news GPU prices have become affordable again. Hooray Because people don't care about Bitcoin mining anywhere. Well, they don't care Prices come down which is you know, kind of town about the same thing. I guess like if the price is down, why don't I care? Yeah, yeah, and also that that there are more specialty Cards for if you're serious about it in the in the areas where you can still make money You get these specialty cards. You don't go and get an off the rack card anymore. So so yeah also With graphics cards coming down it may be that other Parts start to spike For for whatever reason, right? You you may go through this again with a different part Especially the u.s. Announcing tariffs on electronics components coming in from china today So let's talk a little bit first of all about the graphics cards patricks But also about where to find cheaper parts particularly used parts I think used parts give a lot of people the willies because they're like yeah, is that reliable should I You know, is my machine going to burn up if I buy this Oh, man, um working backwards Yeah, okay, so buying used gpus I have We did a thing on tech thing about this where I talked to two friends mine one of whom reviews graphics cards for living and the other one Uh, who reviews other things for living but has 19 systems with 76 gpus In a mining uh operation. Yeah Most of those were acquired before the prices Went berserk. So if you haven't been following gpu prices, um, you know Stuff was at msrp say around. I don't know april may 2017 and then they were like 50 bucks 60 bucks, you know a $350 card or a $400 card was selling for like a you know, I want to say a $50 premium And then as as bitcoin prices scaled and people get into ethereum mining And scarcity got particularly brutal because they simply couldn't produce enough cards to fulfill demand By christmas time things had gone completely berserk and you were looking at paying, you know Let's say 800 dollars or 1100 dollars for a $550 msrp gpu The gtx 1070 I thought I got ripped off on because it cost me 450 bucks in june Of 2017 was selling for 850 or 900 dollars around uh, december january at the tail end of 2017 or 2018 It was it was nuts. Um, it is impacted PC sales because uh It was just too expensive for most people, you know, but 1100 pc became a $2,200 pc Mostly because of the gpu price increases which mostly impacts gamers and people who are doing high powered machines for video Rendering and and photoshop and and stuff like that But the other thing that happened Around the same period in time is ram prices have gone kind of berserk. So 2016 ram Because there was an excess of ram production and not a huge demand Prices, you know, you were looking at a 16 gigabyte Memory kit to eight gigabyte sticks. Uh, corsairs particularly good example. I like their corsair vengeance ram It dropped down to 60 bucks for 16 gigabytes of ram. That is the lowest it has ever been You know, people forget that a year before it was up around 170 dollars and but literally you were looking at 60 to 120 bucks for ram for the better part of a year almost two years between 2015 and 2017 and as Cell phone manufacturers android cell phone manufacturers started to think of additional ram as being a premium and a differentiator Especially in china They started hurling ram into phones And between that and a couple other things scaling up memory prices started to go berserk So right now the memory you could buy in, you know, the summer of 2016 for 60 bucks is now selling for 130 bucks Which isn't bad. It's still a lot It's still, uh, you know 40 or 60 bucks down from where memory price is peaked in i want to say 2014 um memory manufacturers think this is great Um, but we're also looking at possibly samson bringing online a couple of big fabs this year that should help Uh a fulfill the demand for ram and b bring the price back down but You know, it's amazing to look at how much sort of the system prices have fluctuated because ram's effectively doubled in price over the last 18 months and GPUs went from sort of msrp or a little bit under msrp to at least two and a half times msrp and now are back Uh, maybe not at msrp, but certainly close enough that it's not emotionally traumatizing Uh to buy a new system So, uh graphics cards getting cheaper ram prices getting more expensive. What do we do? Uh, you know, if uh For me the perform because I I like to run 32 000 things simultaneously on my system I try to put 16 gigabytes to every system I own. Um, and that's just Excuse me. I don't expect that price to change too much. Um, the nice thing is that GPUs have got more affordable. So You know, that's not too bad. And I think it's come down in price. It kind of offsets the cost of memory Uh as ssds have come down in price considerably. So, uh, you know, what would have been a $340 One terabyte ssd is now selling for about 250 bucks. So I think you choose carefully But you know, if you're buying a system right now GPUs are affordable again CPUs especially AMD Ryzen's like there's a special right now on amazon. That's a AMD Ryzen 1700 is selling for 200 bucks Which is a huge drop from what it originally sold for the 1800 x I use in my primary video editing and gaming system I want to say, you know, I think I paid $500 for it. It sells for around $300 now So I think if you shop carefully, um, you can build a system, uh, you can actually afford to build a system now I guess would be this the way of putting it real quickly. Is it is it safe to buy used parts? What should you know? So I mentioned my two friends one of whom were reviews, uh GPUs the other one who has the largest collection of GPUs of anyone I personally know And what was interesting is the guy that's got 76 GPUs. He's had four fail In about a year of 24 7 365 operations And his observation was that the GPUs don't fail. You you can actually wear out a GPU Which is gets into a really geeky conversation. Uh, that'll put everybody to sleep starting with me But it takes a staggering number of operations to do that The problem with most GPUs is the quality of the components around it primarily the capacitors So what he did is he looked to find out which models of GPUs had the longest, uh Warranty and what he found is when he looked at them side by side the Better warned the the GPUs with the longest warranty had considerably better components And he feels that you should be comfortable in buying used cards Maybe not off of ebay, but certainly from friends or relatives or friends of friends And that's where it gets kind of interesting because a lot of people expect at some point There'd be just kind of a a glut of used cars to show up on the market. I haven't seen it Maybe i'm looking at the wrong places.  It's probably not too bad an idea if you're getting off of ebay I would expect it came out of a warehouse somewhere near You know a very cheap source of electricity And it's probably been pretty heavily abused and there's really no way to know how badly that that has been abused in terms of buying used parts like You know tom's old system and i'm going to buy it. That's fine You know super cheap gpu's off ebay. I'd get a little uptight about but I'd be able to write about those normally Well, thank you, badrick. Don't worry Thanks to everybody also who participates in our sub reddit first thing I read every morning You could submit stories and also vote on other stories that are submitted daily tech news show dot reddit.com Also, we're on facebook facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show chat with us. However you like All right, moving on to the thing of the day christ christensen We haven't checked in with him in a while But he always has great travel tips and this is a new way to save on hotels This is chris christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute When you're booking your flight and your hotel online You may or may not know that you can often save money by booking it as a package And when you're booking it as a package you're booking it from the same company and at the same time I have sometimes saved enough money for instance on a hotel When I booked it with the flight that basically the hotel was free There's more profit in hotels and therefore more flexibility than there are in flights And so sometimes booking it together can save you money But the problem is that most people don't want to do that or I say most people Expedia says 46 of us travelers prefer to book their flight and hotels separately So what they've done is after you go on Expedia and you book a flight for a short period of time That will give you hotel options that will give you the kind of savings that you would get if you booked it as a package They say on average customers will save 43 percent, which is significant So good on you Expedia something you might want to try out in the future I'm chris christensen from amateur traveler. Yeah, that is kind of nifty I guess you have to choose to book through Expedia in that case, but it might be worth looking into Why I think it's almost 50 of people don't like the idea of bundling those things together because I because I don't I I want to have the the flexibility to to not have to book at the same time I might I might want to book my hotel later Because you don't you don't get as much There's not as much of gaming the system as there is with flight fairs. Right, right And and I may have some points. I want to cash in whatever right I just I don't like having to be locked in and making that decision all at once I mean, I don't either but I wonder why I guess there's sort of a perception that It's a good deal. Yeah that that restricts you in the end I will also I mean I've also seen for a lot of services I've looked at where the bundle was a you know a car rental that was twice what it would be If I was going through directly through the car vendor or a hotel deals that were You know worse than the you know, I mean I I think I think you I think I automatically at this point assume that the buy I'm looking at them like oh one I'm going to give Expedia chance again because I haven't used them in forever and two I'll look at the bundles but so many times the bundles for example through I want to say southwest We're just awful I was like, no, I'm not going to pay that much for the hotel that I didn't want to buy with my with my flight All right, let's see what's in the mail bag sarah. Let's do it. Albert from maryland aka mar mac cheese Has some thoughts on the whole idea of perhaps walmart and microsoft getting together to do an amazon go type cashier list store Albert says I worked for walmart for almost 17 years. My wife is coming up on her 20th year in november There have been rumors on the walmart subreddit about stores eventually going cashier list in the future Will they offer the cashiers jobs with the online grocery pickup also known as ogp as personal shoppers? Here's why that might make sense My wife's store started the ogp service last november works pretty good biggest problem They have not having enough personal shoppers to pick up all the merch for the customers in a timely manner Which obviously is important if they could move move most of those cashiers to ogp That would solve the biggest issue I wouldn't be surprised to see this happen sooner than later because walmart is scared of amazon's grocery delivery Also over the past few years. They've been making changes much faster than they used to I would say albert, you know Gosh, you know 17 years. He probably knows walmart pretty intimately Yeah, no kidding and and this is the kind of thing that I often am at a loss for an example But I know from just studying history that what happens is there are jobs that you either Don't have enough people for or can't afford to pay people for or haven't even invented yet Because you just didn't think I would ever have the people for that when you loosen up like oh You don't have to do that grunt work anymore that the ai can do Now we can actually have you be a personal shopper and improve our service that happens very often This is a great example of it. Thank you albert Thank you very much. Let's check in with len peralta who has been illustrating the show len What do you have for us? Yes, you know, I think this has something to do with the fact that I am AT&T in time Warner the big story of the week, of course is the merger of time Warner and AT&T And this is a visual representation of how I feel about AT&T eating time Warner if you're not seeing the video essentially what it is It's AT&T is some sort of creature that is swallowing a slug-like thing that looks like time Warner and I mean great great nails great. Yeah. Yeah I thought of AT&T in that way, but it's not the most flat representation of AT&T Right, it looks like a yeah 300 pound golem swallowing the world's ugliest slug weird worm Exactly. And remember folks at spectrum. We know you're not that time Exactly Hey, I also want to remind people that if they're looking for a quick commission, they can go to my online store I just introduced this thing called quick bits, which are very affordable quick Art that comes with a time lapse of video free. 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It's wonderful Our email address is feedback at daily tech news show.com if you have suggestions for burgers or any other ideas or questions comments All that good stuff where you all are so live monday through friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern 2030 utc Find out more at daily tech news show.com slash live back on monday with justin robert young and if you're not a patron There's a dts labs coming about loot boxes this weekend. We'll talk to you monday This show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants.com I Made that sound like if you're a patron, you don't get it patrons already have the dts I just thought you said loot boxes like medieval stringed instrument that i'm like, oh wait loot boxes Oh my god, I have to tell scott johnson that right away so he can make a But you said loot boxes Not what I was anticipating What was the what was that old Really old video game Was it called rosella? Do you guys remember that game?   Yes, and you have to and so when someone said loot, you know old school loot I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that game. I never wanted or anything I just eventually got tired of it and stopped playing that's supposed to you You're supposed to wait for him and you're supposed to give him some that distracts him And he leaves the flute and you're supposed to take it Yeah something like that It's the first game It was definitely the yeah, it was the first game where I can remember being like, oh cool. It's like a little land and you know First computer game that featured a day and night cycle. Oh Good trivia Like you actually had to wait at night for certain things to happen. Yeah, that's right. That's right And I of course had no patience and was like mama.  I have this There's an Oregon trail Great my my six-year-old Tristan loves or the Oregon trail card game Really? Yeah How how much do you find yourself chuckling at that from time to time more than I can adequately express You know that and the whole like he'll say something I'll be like and you are eaten by a gruel and he'll just give me this look and I'm like I can't wait to dump that game on you Zork the board game I wouldn't you know, I wonder if that's not open I know I'm sourcing me. I'm uncooperated. You can't do that. That's I still have a zork mid somewhere in my bag or box That's that that was the golden age of felies and felies were basically When they used to sell computer games to kind of add value to it They would throw in things like objects from the game world to kind of lend an authenticity to it Especially for infocom because all the games are text adventures So depending on what you got like if you had wishmaster Um Not once you got with deadline early cool. They were like newspapers and clues. Yeah on the mask that came out with What are we calling this episode? Um dreams as we can't do graphing graphics card pricing Or phones don't age well or entangled entanglements graphics card pricing is It's it's yeah to the point grap graphing graphics card pricing. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I got I I didn't quite catch that. Yeah, I'm trying to do the batman where you get multiple titles for the next episode Um, so I have a question for anybody here who does any work in premiere? Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. So I I have a premiere project that was given to me plus a bunch of media. However Between the time that I gave this person some some video Files which were avi And when he gave them back to me they are now mp4 So premier is like can't find the files even though they're on my computer What would be the recommended? conversion You can you can point to it You can force it to look it won't won't take it that way premiere is like won't look at avi Not mine. Anyway, not these or mp4. You mean Well mp4 it would my original files are an avi because it got converted after I sent them out No, no, but like I think you should be able to Like when it looks for the assets You can blank it out and force it Really, I wonder if you can relink them because I used to do Guy and Berkeley. Okay. All right. I mean, I'll I'll poke around a little bit more I'm just like way better in final cut and this just premier is you know, premier's kind of wonky if you're used to final cut But yeah, I know that a lot better Yeah, well, that's what everybody says. So I'm like, all right. I'm just gonna get used to it But oh man, I can't seem to figure out this It looks like premiere 2018 just Won't at least as of April it looks like Good lord, it looks like they changed something in the last Update that just stopped it from importing avis So one people have been doing is converting using handbrake to convert the apis to another format and then importing that Okay, because I think if I imported to mp4 I'd be fine Yeah, you know, it's like these aren't high quality to the point where I would really care that much I just need it to be a different. Yeah, I mean I was just a friend of mine I had forgotten about handbrake. Okay. Yeah, and a buddy a buddy of mine who can afford Whose business can afford any of the tools actually uses handbrake for a lot of stuff sort of the quality. Yeah, I mean Okay, yeah, we used handbrake conversion to to make web versions of sorden laser video That were like shot super high quality and work great All right, we'll see You know what you could also give media encoder that I mean, I'm assuming you have creative cloud I do. Yeah media encoders should allow you to convert because that's that's kind of default for everybody I hate media encoder. Do you mean adobe's media encoder? Yeah. Yeah I just last night. I was helping somebody it's just it's It I had worked with it a lot in the battle days and it just tended to be miserable And I started using it again last year and it's just miserable in different ways We it's it it just sorry It's a perfectly reasonable tool to use to create exports from premier. I just still hate it with the You know, the more I use it the less I like it I mean part of it is understanding The whole workflows media encoders there just to encode things into a video format Is there a an advantage to using media encoder over handbrake roger? Um, if you want to do a stack of them Like a bunch of clips it will you just set everything and you let it run You can do that hammer And what I find is I just find it just better integrates with all the the adobe apps So yeah, but even like if I if I export from Uh adobe after effects you have to kick it to media Yeah, you you basically have to as far as I know you have on the way out encoder. Yeah Export from premier. It's just For anything you don't need to you can export directly out of premier But you can't do you can't do what would most people do is send it a media encoder and continue editing on another project While it runs out. Yeah See, I'm like, I'm so used to quick time. I'm like, there's gotta be some conversion thing in here And I'm like, I can't not with avis. I mean handbrake is I almost I had with handbrake is it's it was always Yeah, I mean part of it is like I I've always converted things into uh, uh intra codec Format which is basically much easier for editing like, you know, anything that's anything that's used for For delivery and floors or whatever all I'm just thinking about probably has a convertion option, doesn't it? But this vlc Yes It's a little non-intuitive though. That's my That's okay. I like the head vlc Head vlc is awesome I just like handbrake because it's just easier for me to load a file into handbrake and export it Yeah, it's pretty dead easy. Yeah batch stuff Because yeah, and vlc. I mean I use vlc all the time like people there's video file one open download vlc. Yeah, exactly Same thing the other day where I had, you know, somebody that was you know, just less sort of like I don't understand file whatever Was like everything's ruined. I'm like try to open it in vlc and she was like it worked It's funny. I've had every time Yeah, whenever I've locked myself out of my house. I just point vlc at it When I need a hamburger vlc Can you do that for me open source program? Thank you It's weird like every revision they do to premiere sucks in a way because they move a bunch of tools Where they used to be and you're like, I can't find anyone you get upset like I do um, and I also don't like the There's some issues I have with their kind of user friendly like let's start with a new project. It's like doesn't help um But I've got it open right now and I look at it and I'm like I want to die But these are the sorts of things where after a week of using any of these programs you're just like Oh, yeah, I don't even notice all that stuff that bothered me anymore. You know, once you get your shortcuts coming Yeah, one different colors and all this It's it's cool. I mean the most the the biggest the biggest thing with premiere that why it's so awesome is it works with It literally integrates with uh, uh, photoshop after effects Yeah, so like if I do a title animation and as you know once you kick over to Adobe After Effects, it's the interface is totally different Uh, not totally different, but it's different enough. That's not not a one for one Um, but you can do your animation and you and you can literally have a dynamic link of it into your You know timeline and so if you don't like it later on you can still adjust it. So you're always bouncing between Applications the only thing is you want to be careful because sometimes it's not the most stable thing and what a save often But it does that too. You can actually have it.  I apologize about tolerant plants But uh, they are rebranding time Warner as Warner media So no more and the reason I say that's good is no more of the like time Warner, but not that time right, right, right It's just it's Warner media makes perfect sense But not that Warner media No, there's just one probably Man 84.5 billion dollars Yep, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of cheddar.  I'll never bug you again. Oh, this is interesting cops in kansas Stopped someone and Found meth in their car, but to get consent to search the car They used google translate because the driver only spoke spanish And the judge is like, mm. That's not consent. Wow. Google translate Google translate is not reliable enough to have a clear Expression that's good. That's a really interesting case Because that's interesting. I think google would probably argue That's pretty reliable and the law requires that officers make it clear that you have the right to refuse Consent and that that's where the judge was like. It's not It's not clear That this translation would make that clear. So so the next time this happens to me I'm just like I don't speak english Just don't say that We're good. Can't search the car the officer asked puedo buscar el auto, which means can I find the car? And I was like, yeah, you're looking at it.  Can you May I yeah, you have to say may I mother may I Let's just start the journey to a bad night at the jersey shore No, no kidding. Can I get your car son? I'm sorry officer. Do you mean may you look in the car? I'm sure you're able to look at the car Yeah, you know Because I'm sure the officer would be very cooperative after you said that no no Although my personal favorite one was the cop that was trying to look in the back of the Had a suzu with the big back windows and he was trying to be subtle With a mag light that was like this big and and you know talking to me But I was like, would you like to inspect to the rear of the vehicle for you know, I don't know Yeah I wasn't looking in there like dude, you're sweeping the trunk and looking side-eyed through it. I mean Yeah, you want to look in the trunk? No, I was scarring I was I was I literally reading this thing from uh, why did they call you? Rattrick Patrick Thank you Like uh, it was a defense attorney or something for like, you know For criminal cases, but you had high-profile clients Doesn't matter never say anything to the police always take your right to remain quiet. Don't say anything Yeah, this is big thing. It doesn't matter. Even if you're jovial or you're just don't say anything Because once you start talking when they pull you over they can use it doesn't make for a very good podcast though I could read Emily Dickinson when I've been pulled over Again, I'm sure that makes the officer You could actually do the podcast of patrick's time We're gonna ask Patrick about that for the patrons for the video folks. Thanks for watching We'll see you. Uh, we'll see you guys monday. Have a one


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Okay, welcome. Good morning everybody. I'm Stefan Backman from Redhead and this morning I'll talk about how to write Clang plugins to have more fun and more profit with a code base. So I'm not sure if everybody in the audience even knows what Clang is, let alone the Clang plugin. So if there's anybody who does not know, I'll start it off more slowly. Anybody who already did write a Clang plugin? Half of it. Great. Björn asked me to why not make a talk on this, but Björn is not yet in the audience, but meanwhile he did write at least once, so he probably knows by now how to do that. Great. I'll start off with a little example. I'll write out of our code base from a couple of weeks ago to get a reason to actually do write some plugin. This is some C++ code. Anybody in the audience who does not know C++? Oh, it's a technician. Is the recording going on? I don't know. Okay, we don't know. So yeah, this is some arcane kind of C++ code. It has a bug. It is a destructor as you'll see, or not by the thing, and it tries to have some stream that it wants to receive to the original position when it goes out of scope so that the stream that it's operating on is back at its initial position. So what it does in this destructor is to seek back to the original position. If anything with the seeking goes wrong because your disk has disappeared or the network is down or whatever, it tries to catch whatever error because it doesn't want to throw out of the destructor because throwing out of destructors is very bad. Yeah, shame on the person who wrote that because as you all of course see this code has a bug. It didn't use a normal try-catch block. It used a function try-catch block which is directly written past the function declaration to try. It falls off, there's no real code body. What this kind of construct does for all those who don't know it yet and never seen it before, there's all the stuff the destructor does including destructing the sub-objects and the member variables. And if anything of that throws an exception, it goes into the catch block. So it will catch this one as well or the body stuff as well. But in that catch block it re-throws your exception. So it is different from this one which will do the body, catch the exception, then destruct all the basic classes and member variables and this is what the guy wanted to write and the other thing was what then actually re-threw the exception on a failure to seek back and then cause the program to abort. And when I found that, I thought that's one incident of this, maybe we have more of those. But is there a way to grab for that? You can grab for try, you can grab for catch, you can grab for the tilde and the destructor but you won't find any of this with these simple techniques. So playing to the rescue, with playing it's easy to pattern match or find things in the abstract syntax tree that is derived from this actual syntax that you saw there. So the compiler takes your text, your character by character stuff and transforms it into an abstract syntax tree that still represents the structure of your code but not the nitty details what characters were written at that place but it still contains the essence. So the idea is to write a plug-in that just hits on these cases of using function try blocks with the destructors. This one was one with an empty handler is even more telling that this was a mistake but all kinds of function try blocks on destructors are kind of always bad because what you should actually do is not do this stuff in the destructor in the first place.  So this talk was presented as bring-in-your-own-computer. I didn't know that it would only last 30 minutes so it's probably not realistic to expect that you all pop out your laptops now and start typing. But we do have a hack list tomorrow so if anybody of you by then is still interested in this stuff we can, I'm glad to help anybody set up to actually do write your plug-in of choice. So what you need to get this working is of course a clang compiler. Most of the time when you do develop for LibreOffice on Linux at least it will be the GCC that is from the distro. So you need to set up some things on your machine to get a clang working. Nowadays per distro it's mostly easy to just install clang you have to install some additional include files that you will then link against that export the functionality from the clang nerds to your plug-in. So you often need to install some additional packages. And then when you compile LibreOffice in the AutoGAN input you just need to set two variables that tell it to use clang instead of GCC. And in the non-debug builds we don't build the plugins by default so if you want to play it safe and do a non-debug build, which developers never do anyway, you will explicitly also enable the compiler plugins. If you happen to build your own clang, which is also built because trunk is moving fastest as we in LibreOffice do and brings in new features all the time and sometimes new bugs which you can then report to them. If you do build your own clang you can enable assertions in the clang code that might be advantageous if you write in your plugin some code that is not actually working right. Then there will be lots of asserts in the clang proper code that you have then fired and then you learn earlier that your plugin doesn't work as it should be. So the basics of the plugin is just some CX-X file that you drop into one directory in our code tree in the compiler plugin's clang directory. There's already many of these pieces there so you can take inspiration from looking at any of them. And there's kind of a boilerplate structure that all these plugins have. You'll define one class for your plugin that needs to derive from two other classes from this recursive S-visitor that I'll speak about in a moment. And from our own plugin helper class that Blue Wash Ones wrote that does the plumping stuff to get this plugin into the framework of all the plugins running when you then compile. So it needs a constructor to get some data from our plugin instantiation stuff. And then it needs a run function that starts off all the stuff. And this is some optimization already. It checks if this is actually a C++ compilation going on and not a C or Objective C1. Because these function try blocks are C++ specific so it wouldn't make any sense to run our plugin on C code. So we speed up the compilation a very tidy little bit by not running this seamlessly on C code. So what that does is some magic introverts, Deckel, which is actually starting off this recursive S-visitor stuff. And what the recursive S-visitor does is you have this syntax tree where every kind of structure in your program is represented by node. And you just walk down this tree node by node and for every different kind of node there's a different function that can get called. For example if you have an expression, if you have A plus B in your code then there'll be a node for the plus expression. And it's of a certain expression class subtype. So you have for example a visit binary plus expression thing.  There's a visit throw statement stuff or a visit if statement and also for all the declarations in the code. So if you call the function the function that you actually call is declared somewhere. So there's a function decal function declaration node in your syntax tree. So all these tiny little things get visited one by one. And to learn about what kinds of visitors there actually are, what kinds of nodes there are that will get visited. The best way is to look into the clang include files because they list all of these nodes. A different C++ class represented as different C++ classes in the compiler innards. And you can just look into these header files to get an idea what the names of these classes are and what's available to actually visit. They do differentiate between the properties subset maybe and the stuff that is C++ specific. So some of the expressions for example are only in the CXX include files. So the throw statement for example would live in the statement CXX because the throw statement is specific to C++. Now yeah many things we could visit but what should we with it? Again compiler to the rescue. Clang has a nifty feature to not generate code when you ask it to compile but to output this abstract syntax tree. And it does that in a somewhat arcane manner, lots of detail. But among all this detail is the stuff that we're interested in. So you create a very simple C++ source file so that you don't get lost just one line. What it does is a structure declaration with the definition of the destructor that does have this arcane function try block. And what falls out of asking Clang to add it to dump the as the extra syntax tree is some blah blah. And when it's destructed decal aha that's this part here and directly underneath it. So it's only child in the tree is the CXX try statement. Normally you would expect the function definition to be followed by a compound statement that is the terminology for a block with curly quotes around it. So every function declaration normally is a block following it but in this special case the block is this part that is hidden inside the try statement. So aha we know now we need to visit CXX try statement directly inside of CXX destructed decal. So because there's other try statements that are used for these normal try catch blocks everywhere in the code which we don't want to catch. So we first need to make sure we're inside a destructed decal. So we don't actually add a visitor on the CXX try statement but we first introduce a visitor or write a visitor that will go into or that will fire that will visit the destructor declaration.  First thing is to if this declaration is at a code location that is not interesting for us because it is from a standard header for example. And there's so much dirt in these standard headers for better or worse and we don't want to warn about any of that or even look into any of that. So we have some other functions to find out this declaration is from where we don't want to look and then we just bail out early. The other important thing you always need to return true from these functions because as soon as you return false from any of them the whole traversal of the tree stops immediately. So the rest of the program is not even looked at. So that's an easy mistake to make always return true in these verminches. So next step is these this because the best visitor doesn't use virtual functions as for speed reasons. So it uses this curious pattern where you pass in the class itself. And what it does behind the scenes is a very very fast way of dispatching on all these all your functions that you write. The downside is if you if you make a mistake in the function name then that will not be directly called by the compiler. But what will happen is that your function just never gets called if you if you use a name that that doesn't match anything. So a good idea is when you start to write a visitor to make it fire on every occurrence of that. And if you then run it over the code then chances are that you do catch many of these because there's for example many destructive declarations in our code. And if you get many warnings then then you know how my function is working. If you get none that's typically a sign that you've made a mistake with a declaration of your visitor. So what we do we just add for every destructor that we don't even work due to location. We report some warning, destructive found.  The cell that I didn't build before and I added just this state of the plug in now. So for every occurrence of a destructor it now yells a destructive found and gives you a nice carrot at the start of the destructor function name. And then some wiggly underlight for all the all the rage. There is this nice feature of it was the wrong key. That's the nice feature of giving it one location that is the main location of the source of the declaration you're interested in. And then passing in also the complete range of the declaration so that tells this reporting engine to annotate nicely your source code with this carrot and the wiggly lines. So that's a nice feature. The GCC then copied legally to be par again. So yeah that's now we know our plug and works rudimentary. Now we want to get it to actually do what we wanted to do. What was it? We wanted to find a CXTRI statement directly nested inside a destructive decal. We now need to look into its body. So if this one doesn't have a body because it's only declaration or because it's deleted. Then we can bail out early as well. So we have this one line. But if it has a body we can get its body and all these little things about what can you call on a destructive decal. Like that it has these functions that this declaration of the body and get body and whatnot. You find all that in the Plank header files. So that's the source to always go back to and read through these include files and find out what the features of all these Plank internal classes representing your nodes are. So the body needs to be one statement only. Exactly either this trite statement or the compound statement for the usual case. Another little detail is that LLVM and Plank don't use the standard RITI or dynamic hard stuff from C++ because it's too slow for them. Because they have many dynamic dispatch kind of things going on. So they have their own tech based stuff that is much faster to just dispatch on an enum like thing. And so you have not dynamic cast but their DOOM cast. So you take the body check whether it is a trite statement. So if it is the DOOM cast it gives you a non null pointer otherwise it will give you a null pointer. So if what comes out of there is not a null pointer you know aha I'm in a destructive decal directly underneath there's this trite statement. So yeah this is the occurrence of this function try block. So in this case we yell. So we even improve this report a little bit by no longer reporting on the destructor itself or the location of the destructor but on the location of this nested trite statement. But still in all cases we turn true so that we don't prematurely stop working. And yeah to actually try it out you need to reword that one fix because as it turned out in the end that was the one and only use of this arcane feature in our code base. But there was one and that's always I think that's always the case whatever odd plain plug in your thing about to try and analyze code turn to the LibreOffice code base there's always at least one case that you'll find with that to demonstrate that your plugin is working. So if you reword that fix and then it wasn't in rather perfect that case with that problem so if you then remake rather perfect that one will find. And that's it. No you don't that's another very great and. Sorry the question was for CNC++ all these macros all this pre-processing going on is that lost by the time you reach this abstract syntax tree working and it is in a sense but it is also not in a sense. And so the syntax tree of course is unfolded I'm not sure if there was anything more specific you wanted to ask or else. Yeah that's that's the problem so what happens is that all the macros of course get unfolded for the syntax tree but for every bit that falls out of these macros every character. That then goes into the street the characters that make do make up the resulting syntax tree playing records where that character came from so these locations that are shown that are used to to beautify the reports. These do know whether they come from a macro definition or a macro expansion where you pass something into a macro as an argument and all the way and this one can then also be again taken as a macro argument and stuff like that. So it can get very nested and then very ugly and then but in the end this information is always there for every character that actually does end up as some kind of no if you have these marker only things then yeah it gets it gets ugly if you know where they are. You can match on the light if you always have a marker after say the closing parenthesis of the deck of a definition of a function definition or after the closing parenthesis of the of the declaration then you could match on that. And then I plan to get you the characters that follow that in the source code and you might be able to get that but that's very tricky tricky area. But that's also because of the language and the preprocessor doesn't make it easy to to regain that I'm not sure there's a better approach for these kinds of things purely purely text or in source text oriented might be better approach there than going. Yesterday there was a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter that belonged to this nice building accidentally disappeared so if you guys could check that you don't accidentally have something extra in your bag from yesterday would be nice because we really need to recover it.


Tali wakile na kupitera pinafutwa. Raila wakile na kupitera. Har doha, ca nilwa mainebo kwa mainebo. Mika hii-kwa watia kwa ha Nga yao , kartu na maineb full. T ещеi wa yaiko na maineb wakila? Kwa wala ni, hila. Shebe matu nga. Mike pula. Nga jjibu ni, nga wakili. Nga waka maineb wakili. Miki, kwa mikia na na maineb wakili? If you were a football coach your products were in the upcoming Kujawa women's division. How does it feel? I'm not sure about it. The final squad is not even named now. Not even the provisional for the tournament has been named. Ayub had a leg surgery about a month or two ago. He's been working to recover and I've been following him on Instagram. I've been encouraging him, and I think he's very focused, lada ito komi spiritu jani viewsa jazzi kuwa lada h한 save na kifitiasin martu. And fingers crossed. Lord have mercy. I pray he makes the path and I hope he goes to the carp of nations in Egypt and I wonder how to see the metal of which that boy is made up. He's absolutely fantastic! Absolutely fantastic. Ayubteem, ihen wagh jani, and Chelsea football club supporter. I rebuta bo heta of Mauritio Sari, the social knot coming on. Kwaita wa ilawe bin ma? No, I'm good, I'm good man. I'm healthy too. Yeah, unfortunately I don't have a star player, I've coached but I'm good, I'm good man. But you're looking for having one soon? Yeah, very soon man, we're doing amazing things with the academy in Kisungu so hopefully. Hopefully, still are you? Good to be back on the show? I just need to back the trend man, healthy as well.  Thanks man for coming through. Till I'm starting with you, review of UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches happened in midweek, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Which match did you watch yourself? To be honest, I didn't watch any. Sorry to break your heart but I sort of followed the highlights on YouTube rather carefully. What I was interested in is to analyse and sort of prepare myself for the predictions for what lies in store for this most decisive week we're going into. Because that's when the return legs or the second legs of the particular UEFA Champions League quarterfinal are going to take place. So these particular matches coming up are more important than the ones that were the week that's just been. But or rather again this week but having said so both games are important because of the away goal factor. And obviously Barcelona scored an away goal so they have an upper hand against United. Juventus scored an away goal, they have an upper hand against Ajax of Amsterdam. And those particular two matches are the ones that I really got interested in. I don't know why but I think they have something promising in the second leg. That's why I got really interested in them. How promising is the second leg here? I'm considering that Man United considered at home and going into return leg of course. I've heard their fans saying that they can pull what they pulled on PSG, the French Money Bucks. Is it possible? To be honest with you, I know I'm a huge Barcelona supporter but that was the most lackluster display I've seen. And I feel like if they repeat of that performance I'm seeing Man United going through. Because if Man United were clinical in that game they would have gotten two or three goals. You saw Barcelona were very poor, Messi was nowhere to be seen. So I firmly believe that Manchester United would be going to the camp now are very motivated. It's only one goal, if they score one goal it's already even. So I feel like that the game is very open and anyone can win it. And you saw what happened with Barcelona in Rome last year. So I'm really thinking Manchester United are in a better position than I thought they would be. So they might pull a surprise. Cristiano Ronaldo was on the score sheets for Juventus against Ajax Amsterdam. I know in touring it promises to be a mouthwatering clash but Ajax Amsterdam are also not awoken in the park. They try it and give their best. What do you make of the return leg? Ajax versus Juventus should be a crack of the match. Just like the first leg really was. We've seen over the years really Ajax reached the Europa League final where they lost to Manchester United and really no one was giving them a chance. And see where they are right now. Just like Juventus they have one leg in the same is. Which pretty much justifies the kind of work that the whole coaching department Ajax are doing.  Obviously with Juventus the moment you have Cristiano Ronaldo in your side you already have an advantage and no player comes to the party more than Cristiano Ronaldo especially in the knockout stages where we are right now. But the game is still open. It's one-one. Ajax really they've been good this season. You can't really write them off because Juventus I think they really for them it's like practice. Practice really. I don't know this is going to be the ninth season in a row. But when it comes to the Champions League I think that's where Juventus need to show that they are one of the biggest clubs in the world. And with Cristiano Ronaldo in their ranks I think you'll give them an edge when the return leg takes place in Turing. I think with Ajax Juventus it's going to be pretty much a replay of AC Milan, Ajax of Amsterdam in 2003 when they really took one another out. Ajax played the hats out in Ajax, the Amsterdam arena now known as the what do you call this guy who played for Ajax, the dachmaster. Well, the green name was stadium way back in the 17th season. He played for Ajax. No prizes for guessing but yes, the green name the stadium after him. And then they went to AC Milan, San Siro stadium and every time AC Milan scored a goal Ajax responded with a goal. So I think it's going to be cutting edge football. Ajax lost to AC Milan that night because of the lack of experience. So it was in the dying minutes that AC Milan struck them and there was no time to recover. 3-2 it was a thriller. You score I score, you score I score. Then boom, the killer goal came on the third and last goal. AC Milan won it based on experience and I tip you, Juventus to beat Ajax not because they are better than them but just based on experience. And playing at home as well? No, just experience, that's the key word. Experience in terms of, because really if you look at experience in terms of winning the champions league then Ajax have it. They won it three times. Experience on the current, on current merit, not historical merit. On current merit. But honestly, my feeling is honestly, Ajax is the most exciting young team in Europe right now. So you see the players are playing with courage. They are very young players. So you see, you saw what they did in the midfield. They outpossessed Juve. They had more shots on target than Juve. So you really want them. They are such a young team. People are quick to forget that they once eliminated the defending champion. So I'm not writing Ajax off in any way. And the comments from Maxia Legri about the guy, the young was positive. Yes, very positive. That was a midfield master class being that he's only 21 years of age. So I'm feeling this game will go to the wire but the difference is Ajax don't have Ronaldo. That bit, yeah, it's just that edge. That edge in experience. And Ajax may not have scored a goal if Kialini was fit enough to play away at Ajax home stadium. Because the absence of Kialini meant that Juventus in terms of defensive organization were quite asleep. That gave Ajax so many chances. But if Kialini was there, he would have just used experience to organize the lads. And then very little work after that. So down to those kind of things of experience and organization, Kialini's absence was felt. If he recovers from his calf injury, he may get to play and he may save Juventus. If he doesn't, then Ajax will capitalize on that and it could be quite damaging. I think for Ajax really it's a case of the whole being better than the sum of its parts because for them they play as a unit. Just like we were saying, a very young, exciting squad which is quite unfortunate for them because I'm sure at the moment this season is finished. Two, three, four players will have to relax and somebody else will have to come in. And now that's the problem with Ajax. It's like they have this inflow and outflow kind of thing so that players never really stagnate at some point in time which pretty much works against them because the moment you think they are making progress as far as the club is concerned because it's pretty much one of the biggest clubs in Europe. Historically and even as we speak right now so for them I think so far where they've gone so far given the age of those players I think they've done pretty well and if they can't go past the event then I think they would have deserved it but as far as that game is concerned they just have to go as a collective because as we've said they don't have a Christian order. Let's talk about that. I had the best academy in Europe and they're stuck there. They like to produce talents but the environment has changed. You produce, your product is bought. So they have to invest in keeping this guys if they want to conquer Europe. Otherwise they'll be producing and their products are bought. Leva Polagarems, Porto, your team winning? Yes, yes. That was expected? Yeah, of course man, of course. They are worked in your favor. I don't think that was a penalty. I don't think that was a penalty because if you look at the movement of Trent Alexander Arnold who you know the goalkeeper who kicked the ball on his hands he had his back turned against that ball so it would have been unfair. But as far as that is concerned they don't think that was really an upset.  So 2 nil really we felt like it was really substandard performance and the likes of Salaman they weren't so clinical in the attack. The return leg obviously 2 nil in Europe you can't really say you won it. We saw what happened last season so the tie is still open but obviously you have to say Leva Polagarems favorites to go through. Spas against Manchester sit English Premier League derby spas winning at home at their new stadium. Can they maintain the same focus getting into the return leg so that they can advance to the next stage despite having been written off when the draws conducted? I think I was one to one and I think you're even present when someone was saying city will go through and I don't know why people have never accepted the fact that Pochettino is a tactical genius. The guy came he set up a squad against a very strong city side he's able to win it and Spas might go on because I'm thinking all they need to do is defend the lead and they defended for 90 minutes city didn't get a clear cut opportunity so I'm thinking just like at the Liverpool game last season anything can happen away in the Champions League so I'm honestly I think Spas can be able to eliminate city. Sure and we're going to speak about us the night football as well both Arsenal and Chelsea one Arsenal against Napoli Colour geology despite that fantastic record he has against Arsenal when he was in charge of Bayern Unique couldn't get the same expected Napoli to beat Arsenal to be honest no disrespect to Arsenal they get a lot of flak but I really did expect that however football is not mathematical I think we just learned that from the first session of this show it's about what you put in on that particular night and what you've put in in terms of your training physically and mentally what's that much I don't know now what chance Napoli stand because Tuneo is quite considerable and to overturn that you've got to work extremely hard against a side that's also determined to work extremely hard for perhaps their only realistic silverware for this season and for the longest time possible after having last won the FA Cup I think two old seasons ago Arsenal but you really don't count the FA Cup prestigious as it is and compare it with conquering Europe so in terms of Europe this is quite something for them and now that they are a shooing to the semi-final I think Arsenal are pretty much they are quite there but I've seen games of a tant in the second leg of the wrestling matches in terms of football action and I still tip Arsenal I'm not a betting guy but while I to bet I put a shilling on Arsenal You just have to look at the manager in charge of Arsenal and you saw the kind of work he did as far as their Europa League campaign was concerned was it three titles in three years so I think for him is a must of winning the Europa League you have to see the way Arsenal actually against Reine we saw what happened they were trailing was it 3-1 from the first leg they went away turned the result around and I think there was another game during the group stages also where they needed to win so I think for me you have to look at the kind of results that Arsenal have been able to pull off so far and given the circumstances under which they have and you have to tip Arsenal to be one of the favourites and also given the fact that the Premier League is still the top four which guarantees Champions League football next season still really tight so for Arsenal and Chelsea this is another opportunity for them basically just to win that title you can finish 6th or even 7th in the Premier League and you win the Champions League next season and talking about Chelsea he supports Chelsea but he is ahead of Mauricio Saari did you get your tactics right against Slavia Prague of course Makos alone is scoring during the dine minutes of that particular game I am really confused about Mauricio Saari because first of all that was the worst game we played in weeks we have had a run where we filled in our young players we have been playing exciting football you have seen what Eden Hazar has been able to produce over the last few weeks then suddenly you just go down so there is kind of an instability about him that really baffles me because one time we are playing at this level the next time we are playing at this level and the game against Slavia Prague is a perfect example because that was honestly that was that was just awful it was an awful performance the fact that he rotated the squad might be the reason why but it also shows I think the ownership of Chelsea should now see what kind of players we are buying because we have players who don't deserve to play for us anymore people who should play for mid table teams like who? like Mateo Kovacic Mateo Kovacic was awful in that game Makos Alonso despite scoring the goal he was awful William is past his good days he is now finished so you are trying to ensure that there has to be mass exodus is it really about maybe some of these players probably they have regressed since Saari came in because of the likes of William last season Makos Alonso last season has it everywhere all those crosses I don't think the players really I get it but shouldn't a player be able to adapt to a system because I mean we've played already over 40 games in a season so maybe it's the tactics of the coach that's why I'm not for my ratio Saari but that being said to this new way of football and I think a regardless of the kind of manager we bring in we have to get quality players you look at our midfield these days and compared to our midfield maybe in our 9-10 season and you wonder what went wrong we are playing the best DMF in the world in the wrong position we have one of the best wingers in the world but now the supposing cast we don't have a striker we have very amazing talent in the bench we can't really seem to give them to give them opportunities to start but what I'm happy about is right now Chels we have some amazing talent in the championship in our bench you see Lofters Chief you see Hudson O'Doway we have very amazing players we have Andreas Christensen we have Reese James in the championship I will just put in the championship team of the year with Wigan so I'm thinking when we extend the management we are going to be an amazing team away from European football with regards to the fixtures that happened in midweek too something that also happened last weekend Atletico Madrid against Barcelona that game saw witness scenario where Diego Costa, former Chelsea striker was sent off following his crude remarks against the mother to a referee who was officiating the game how crude is Diego Costa he also handled the referee physically so he gets he gets a four match for the insults alleged and then four match another four match for physically so that's eight matches in total you may think that's a lot but I think when you look at the circumstances he deserves it but the fault is not Costa's the fault is the club that signed Costa when you sign Costa he comes as a package Costa doesn't come alone he comes with his menacing ways and even that's why he left Chelsea the day and age when you encourage that sort of signing is gone that belonged in the 90s when there was no internet and so you relied on your scouts you relied on videos that you were given so this could be edited and they would leave out the filthy parts and you relied on word of mouth pretty much maybe from your friend or something like that but now you have so much information thanks to the internet you know pretty much everything about him, him, myself and yourself and we are not even celebrities as such but just get on the internet pretty much when you sent me we were going to be with a guy called Ian Wagga I looked him up on Facebook and he was there look, I mean there is so much information I didn't know but I checked him up on Facebook I mean this guy is this guy is so much you see so there is no excuse for a club signing such a guy get on the internet you can choose to buy players from Africa Africa is teaming with talent go to the streets of Yaounde don't even go to a stadium just go to the streets of Yaounde where do you think Real Madrid picked up Samuel Letofrom they picked him up from the streets of Yaounde in Cameroon, the capital of Cameroon go anywhere go to Europe, go to Latin America sign talent you don't have to sign a rude boy anymore those days are gone still but but several players who have been spectacular there is some sort of rudeness like he said like he said there are players who when you sign he said a package but the likes of Diego we can't call it a package it's a baggage Baloteli same kind of a player Luis Suarez same kind of a player I think some of these players really some of these clubs they don't have that patience because I mean look at Atletico Madrid look at the kind of strikers who've come out of that club the likes of Diego Fallen Antoine Griezmann right now Fernando Torres even Diego Costa when he left Atletico went to Chelsea he was actually the one who actually helped Chelsea Saja Guero so Atletico always have this knack of identifying these top top top marksmen or strikers for that matter and Diego Costa is one of them I know it brings a lot of baggage a lot of indiscipline but for me if I were to would I rather sign Diego Costa or I go to the streets of Africa and look for somebody who will probably need to be patient for 5 years you know football they didn't know that much patience these days so yeah I'm for development alright but if Diego Costa is available you just need to find somebody who will handle the men you can get banned for 8 matches Diego Costa was banned during the incident with Patrice Ewa but see what he did once he came off from the suspension talking from Chelsea perspective Diego Costa prominently featured for you before can he train can he get a disciplinarian tactician who can change his behavior because we've heard such managers who can stamp authority Sir Alex Fagason used to be of that nature can Diego Simeon replicate emulate on what other coaches have done in terms of you know him to become something no I think to be fair to Simeon I think he has tried because I don't think there is nothing Simeonia has not told this person but now there are moments of madness that sees Diego Costa just to lose it and you saw it during our time in Chelsea when he was happy he was healthy he was scoring lots of goals we didn't have any issues with him he was amazing he won us two he was a very good striker but now he has moments of madness that I think are in his character and I don't think that can be changed especially at his age now I was a younger player we would have said not really but now he is almost I think his way past his 30 he is almost 30 he is probably turning 32 this year he has it already he is a good striker but full stage I think he is 27 so he is remember when he was at Chelsea he was almost 25 so regardless of the age because he is like Balotelli he can change Balotelli and now English Premier League almost coming to an end and there is this talk of PFA professional footballers association players of this season probable nominees and subsequent ultimate winner who has been stand out players for you this particular season overall in English Premier League football I will nominate three one whom I know will not win it but he is worth the nomination Declan Rice of Western United sure that boy has been an absolute revelation he has got the typical traditional working class culture he works hard he gives it his all when you go down the pub to watch him and they don't give their all they have paid so much money he might win the young club he might win the young he is one guy who has been absolutely fantastic he has been called to play for England and glad for him and he is a young lad I like that another nominee Paul Pogba because he is not a striker I am against strikers winning this thing and they keep on winning it until football has been belittled to gold scores and who else the hair the gold keeper for Manchester United what? you know it has been rumored that Manchester United won Declan Rice all three are United still worry on nominees I will go for son I know you won't win it son Huungming of Tottenham I think he is one of those young heroes in English primarily one of those players so underrated? extremely underrated they talk about Ali and all those English players but the player who makes things Tika Tottenham for me is son he is an amazing talent the two that I am sure will make the top two and will probably win it he is an international football player wherever he has touched the ball he has made that ball seen to his tune and you can't think beyond the best defender probably in the one right now Vajil Vandaik of Liverpool the two of them whoever wins the premier league this season I think one of either will be the PFA player of the year you want to win this? okay I will have to back the trend the one who told us we won't win it always arguably the best talent in the premier league Eden Hazawa of course man phenomenal again man he does things that you just dream about things only few players can be able to do so the other two I am with him it's either Vajil Vandaik Vajil Vandaik Sanyo man is not making the list he is a let go this might be the way it is he will be in the top five he will be in the top five definitely he will be in the top five but as far as I think the players made a lot of impact for Liverpool this season obviously goals have been coming from Fimino and Salah has been money has been really they go to guy especially as far as this year is concerned but if you are to money and Vandaik and you say pick for me one guy man when he is naming a goalkeeper and you are not shouting them down also also the reason Stalin is winning it is also his off pitch things that he has done yeah they should victim racial agins discrimination so that's larger than football I think hands down he should win it regardless if they win the league or not and now talking into English Premier League football Kenyan football fans have something to be proud of Victor Onyamas just scored for Tottenham Hotspur against Sardasfield 24th minutes Spas living by one nil and other fixtures of course later for this particular afternoon Brighton play host to Bournemouth Bandy against Cardi Fulham against Everton Southampton against Vampton Wandersthenman United late 60 against West Ham at 7.30pm then tomorrow the pulsating clutch of the weekend is that a determining factor who wins the English Premier League title yeah yeah for Liverpool really only 5 games remain so for them every I mean it's always said every game is a final but that's the fact for them and you remember what happened 5 years ago with Chelsea and Liverpool and it was pretty much around this time of the season so man they are butterflies in my stomach but hopefully there is no demobar so some things wouldn't happen but you know I always disagree with people when they say that Liverpool lost the title at that point in time for me it was that 3-3 draw with Crystal Palace that's where Liverpool lost it but yeah the game with Chelsea tomorrow it's coming at such a definitive time of the season Liverpool definitely have to win that match and just keep on putting the pressure on Manchester City who have a game in hand you know that game in hand will always play in the back of both Jaggen Klopp and Pep Guardiola to do their job because I think earlier Man City will play Crystal Palace so depending on the result Man City could go on top if Liverpool don't beat Chelsea there will be second pressure man but you've seen especially Eden Hazard enjoying playing against Liverpool it's going to be a very hard game I think it's time to be a draw to be honest honestly and that's my opinion why do you think it's because they are chasing silver so they are chasing the title and this guy is chasing Euro I mean neither side can afford to lose and at the same time one of the two sides cannot afford to win at the expense of the other so I'm seeing a draw in as much as they'll be both going for glory they'll also be cautious at the back so yes I'm seeing a draw hopefully Liverpool the main playing at Hanfield at the top end they can suck in some goals in the second half especially because I think for Liverpool it's a bigger match for them because we all know how long they've waited for this title so just a case of now them expressing themselves playing with a lot of emotion enjoying themselves on the pitch because they are at Hanfield where they've not lost for almost 2 years now so they have to turn that perceived draw into a win but like he says even Chelsea need a win in this match so for Liverpool they can only hope that the Chelsea that turned up against Laverpreg is the one that will come at hand our friend is cracking some joke the first African to squad the Tottenham holds for stadium who did up ahead of Avcon and as he seeks even cementing his place in the national team considering there has been much speculation over his captainzy he's not had a good season with Tottenham due to the injuries he sustained this season he's been in and out of the treatment table which really for a player of Wanyama's Caliban age really it's not good to be always on the treatment table we'll just let him enjoy his game for as long as Wanyama is there and that's good history the first African to score and I'm actually even happy the first player to score a competitive match I live alone there, I think they played under 20 and some youngsters who scored the one who scored there was a South Korean son the guy who said he's under 80 was his brother was his step-brother he was the first East African to win the UF Champions League and McDonnell married and he's step-brothers of brothers same mums in that yes brilliant anyway, as we wind up the draw for African Cup of Nations was conducted last night in Cairo, Kenya is in Pulsi what do you make of their chances as talking from perspective of a football coach in terms of talent maybe the previous team of the Titus Wanyama who was sat here more talented but in terms of technical prowess I think this team is better and I think at times it comes down to technical prowess if we support them materially and there's been a lot of talk that they have been supported financially if we support them also mentally in terms of having supporters on the ground there in North Africa and Egypt to be precise supporting them because normally in the past we have sent contingents there to support them you need a 12th man if you don't have that 12th man you're just playing Rohoju you need that support when you see your flag flying there in the stands and guys speaking your language Nelson Mandela said someone who speaks your language speaks to your heart so we need if we can organize and I don't know who can do that I think you can do that we leave that to you take some Kenyans there this team can make the cards to the quarter final I am sure what's your take? I mean it's a football game everyone has a chance but obviously our chances are very slim Senegal first of all are the highest ranked African team in the world so I don't see her speaking a result there against the kind of talent they have but against Algeria I'm very optimistic and my reasoning is especially the games we've seen the way when Gormaia played top Algerian sides and you've seen how the matches have been especially at home so I'm thinking if we employ the same tactics and I was very proud of our team when we went to Ghana last time because we went there with a plan you could see the tactics you could see what the coach was doing so I'm very happy this time some kind of squad he has players he must improve so they've kind of gelled together and the tactics seems to be working somehow because we are there so I'm very optimistic this time around we have not been hiring and sucking coaches I think this is the coach you've had for at least quite a while and it shows where the problem in our football is the change of management has been really affecting us and this coach actually seems to know what he's doing so I won't write us off I'm very happy that we have our top players there Oluungas and my personal favourite Eric Johanna will be there playing so I'm very happy for the team whichever result we get will be supporting the team Steve I know you've covered this boys most times while featuring in Kenyan Premier League National Super League as well good score getting into the continental shop I think this is the first time in a long time that you can ask somebody who knows anything around football and they can actually tell you Kenyan first 11 that it's close to what probably meaning will go to Egypt and I think you have to give credit to I think there are two things that have changed for Kenyan recently it's the leadership and the system the leadership in terms of who are the administrators of the game and also the system in terms of how our players treated and going to Egypt there's more incentive than just them going to enjoy themselves there's money man that's going to be a big factor I've seen 250,000 I'm telling you now the competition in the Kenyan Premier League the next few months is going to be crazy because every player wants to get that money because it can change your life so that money itself the incentive itself I think is going to probably push the stars to a great, great level and this team is exciting, let's be honest I think it's one of the best teams we've had in a couple of years the system is working just look at the defense, the competition is out of this world the midfield as well they are attacking there's just too much for this team as in I'm speechless and considering the economic crunch I think with the incentives that have been promised by the government towards the players I think I'm going to get in touch with a few of my players in the national team Patrick Matasi and Paul Wehr so that they can rescue me from this I'll get in touch with them and run out of cuts even extra cuts it's back and forth I'll get in touch with them every Saturday we build this and gentlemen thanks for coming through Teyba Zwayaki a football coach he says that he has his boys playing overseas and wishing him the best so as a good academy setup so how is it doing by doing we are currently in the teething phase so we are just starting it so yeah it's amazing so far wishing you the best and Teyba you are a reputable football analyst and writer and academy myself what is it's name? thanks for tuning in let's do this again and always a pleasure having you on board hush tag hush tag hush tag hush tag