Similarly, there is a fire wash. This fire wash, we call it Klesha Nashana Kriya. That means an act which will take away the impurities that gather around you. We are inclusive, not by choice. We are inclusive by the nature of our existence. We have been always trying to produce good human beings, which is a terrible mistake. We need more joyful and sensible human beings. From Siachen to now the Andaman's, which next corner of the world are you going to take yoga to? Siachen to Andaman is because it's the same forces. And as you know, this is the only place where the Triforce Command is there. I feel these men and women who are away from their families literally eight to ten months in a year in service of the nation is not just being away from the families, a certain level of hardship, risk, constantly a job where you may not come home. It's not a simple thing. For them, I feel the many dimensions of yoga are most vital. This is why I'm trying to bring focus on the forces because if we do not offer the best tools we have to them, then how are we a nation? So that's why Siachen to Andaman. The journalist yesterday who was interviewing me, I said, Guru, you are not with your yoga family, you're... Every year, year after year you're being with the defense forces, why?  Just prepare for the day it will happen and it happened. And it's for all of us to see even the clouds give way for the yoga. It was excellent. He was talking about the shape of a ship and if I may use the word, he chose to challenge the people who know the ship and we realized that he knows a lot about it. So that was something really wonderful. Overall, it was a very enriching experience, Upayoga that we did today morning. I think I'll make it, I'll definitely make it a part of my life. Generally, this disti is a very big thing, disti... tells, doesn't it? Daily snarl, Chastra? No, why I'm asking is in Chennai they're having bath once in three days. You need to understand this body is made of fundamentally five elements of earth, water, fire, air and space. This season in our yoga center, because we have a wind tunnel. So at this time, all our people are doing sadhana just standing in the wind like this because this is a wind wash. Water wash you're doing every day, wind wash you can do. People, yogis were always smearing themselves with earth but today that's become mud bath in the spa. Okay? So mud bath is there. Similarly, there is a fire wash. This fire wash, we call it Klesha Nashana Kriya. That means an act which will take away the impurities that gather around you. Because your body is not just here, your body doesn't stop here. It extends itself.  So you gather material on your body, you wash it. Similarly, you're gathering other kinds of material upon your energetic system. You can wash this water with water, certain impurities will go with that. If you wash it with air, certain other things will go.  If you come to the yoga center, we're doing this Klesha Nashana Kriya in a scientific manner, how it should happen. We have relieved people of various chronic ailments just by this fire wash. Death of a patient. We are very moved but gradually as we come across, if and when we do come across more deaths, we become very non-challenged and unperturbed. Do you think that… do you think this desensitization towards death in the medical profession is compromising our humanity? If you're non-challenged, definitely.  Because when you're emotionally pitched up, you cannot do things sensibly. Everybody knows this, isn't it? It's very important. Well, if somebody is dying of old age, it's a different matter. But a whole lot of people might have come to you because of injury, because of some other ailment, something fit enough to live, but you have to do the right things for them to live. So if you are… your heart is pumping hard when you see your patient breathing hard, then you will definitely do something to kill him. It's very important that you learn to treat it as professionally as possible. This doesn't mean you're non-challenged. Non-challenged is not the word. Unperturbed, but concerned that you must live. You… the way you're addressing the question, I'm not picking on you. The way you're addressing the question is a doctor is supposed to see lots of deaths. Doctor should see minimum number of deaths on their table. Hello? That's a good thing. Thank you. The French room in the League of Nations building or what is today United Nations here is an old symbol of League of Nations, LSN, League and Society and Nation in French. My French is terrible as you know. So here we are, this is a historic building in many ways. This is the first effort in the world to somehow bring some kind of confluence of all nations on the planet. Well, it was not a full-fledged success because the World War II came and that's how the United Nations came into place. All these we must understand are efforts to kind of imitate human consciousness without really becoming conscious but their value is they have avoided and created various situations, avoided various situations of conflict and restrained various situations of conflict and also brought conflict resolution to many places. Well, they've not been able to stop every war that has happened but definitely it has been a positive force after at least all human beings attempting to create a platform that could be a solution for the world. That's the effort you see here. This is coming from human intent, good intent but it is an imitation of human consciousness really. If inclusiveness is the very basis of spirituality, how can we enable communities, especially our young people to grow up with the belief of inclusiveness? We are inclusive not by choice. We are inclusive by the nature of our existence. It's only by constant transaction with just about anything and everything that we are existing here. The complexity of what makes this creation, we are a consequence of that but the magnanimity of creation has given us an individual experience. It's a tremendous thing but we have taken this individual experience rather too seriously.  What can schools do to inculcate ethical living in a joyful way? The moment you have lot of ethics your face becomes long. We must look at it more fundamentally, isn't it? Rather than stopping it with a value that I said from I know I'm not going to do this, I'm not going to do that. So please understand this. Just try this right now. Shall we try an experiment with your mind?  Try. Please close your eyes and try. Oh, only monkeys, isn't it? This is the nature of your mind. In your mind if you say I will not, only that will go on. Why are you making life so difficult? Why do you think you are born wrong and you have to be fixed? No. You call this religion, you call this education, you call these morals, you call these values for religions and ideologies and philosophies. We have killed more people than for crime, isn't it so? Hello? So all these morals, ethics, values, philosophies, ideologies are only an effort to prevent crime. We have been always trying to produce good human beings, which is a terrible mistake. We need more joyful and sensible human beings. This is what yoga is about.  Hello?   So what is your advice for them? See, this is because they're trying to upgrade their activity without upgrading the machine. Without upgrading the capability of this machine, if you upgrade the activity, you will burn out.  So they want to speed without upgrading the machine. This is all they need to focus on, how to upgrade this life. If you keep on upgrading this life, activity will naturally follow.


OK. So what I want you guys to do first is help me figure out what is the molecular formula of this compound. So remember what we said. Carbons are going to be bonded to or have four different bonds on them. And nitrogen's three and hydrogen's one. And also recall, of course, that at the intersection of every line, there's a carbon. And at the end of every line, there's a carbon. So let's count carbons first. So carbons, you guys can help me out if you want. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, right? OK, so there's 13 carbons. Does that make sense to everybody? OK, hydrogen's now. So remember, every one of those carbons had to have how many bonds? Four, right? So every bond that's not shown has to be a bond to a hydrogen. So how many bonds are shown from this carbon? Just one. So how many hydrogens have to be on that carbon? Three. Is everybody OK with that? So I'm going to go a little faster now for the other ones. So you guys can help me out if you can get them as fast as I can. So here, 3, right? Then 3, so that's 6, right? 1, so 7, right? 1, 8, 1, 9, 2, that's 11, right? So 0, so still 11, 1, so 12, 13, 14, 0. So still 14, 1, so 15, 16, so 19, right? Explain how. We'll draw this thing out, OK? We'll draw it out in a second, OK? So since we're recording, let's just finish up this problem. And of course, we have oxygen and nitrogen, OK? So oftentimes, you'll see the molecular formulas for the rest of the atoms in alphabetical order, OK? So nitrogen and atoms. So would that be the molecular formula? For those of you who help me with it, I think so too, OK? So for that question, let's just tackle that question and we'll do our other one. We'll record a different video for the other thing that we want to do. But let's just draw this thing out showing all the carbons and hydrogens, like the big Lewis structure, OK? So it's going to be huge over here. So I'm just going to first draw the carbon skeleton here, OK? And then we'll add our hydrogens to that, OK? So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Does that make sense with the carbons? OK, so just to finish up the problem, right? So each carbon has to have how many bonds now? Four. Four, so they have to be bonded to what? Atoms, hydrogens, so let's just put them on there. So let's just go about counting the hydrogens just to make sure. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, OK? And then, of course, the N and the O. Are there any questions about this type of thing? They're all sitting at 109. So are they? That's a good question. Let's talk about that. So what's the bond angle here? 109.5 here. 109, 109, 109, 104.5, very good. 109, how many electron groups? How many electron groups? Oh, wait, it's 120. How many electron groups are there? Three. And how many of them are lone pairs? Zero, right? So it's trigonal planar, right? So it's 120. What's this one? 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120. 120, 109 and a half. This one here, yeah, it's a little less than 120, OK? That'd be the way to say it. If you want to think about it, all of these atoms, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one, are all in the same plane as each other. Because they're all 120 degrees, they're all trigonal planar, right? So they all have, it's a flat, it's kind of like graphite, the flatness of it. Any more questions before we kill this one?


Carpenter cuts down tree and gets the shock of his life when seeing what's inside. Carpenter Ryan Saunders was working in his yard after deciding to undertake a project. He wanted pieces of wood for his next carpentry job and decided to chop one of the trees in his backyard. He went to his workshop, grabbed his tools, and went to work on the tree. However, he would have no idea that this little project was about to take a mighty interesting twist when he chops through the tree and finds a very interesting surprise in the middle of the bark. There are some surprises that no one wants to welcome as they work in nature, and this one is sure to be one of them. As Ryan was working on the tree, he saw it in half to reveal something he could not understand. He decided to take his camera out and try to document what he was seeing even though he was so confused about it. Anyone working in nature knows that you will come across a variety of animals, but this one was something unlike anything most people have seen as it is so rare that it would take a lot of guessing and a lot of people to finally unveil what the unknown surprise in the middle of the tree was. It was far more dangerous than Ryan suspected, especially as it was doing something that made no biological sense. This tale is a doozy, that is for sure. We hope you have a strong stomach. Our lives are rarely normal, there are strange occurrences all the time. Mother nature is no different when it comes to our tendencies and the sights we see as a result of natural growth. Trees, more than most nature, have a tendency to get make their way into the strangest of places, just like the ones you see here.  However, we were not ready for what Saunders found. There are times when animals get too close to trees and manage to get into some trouble. The classic tale we all know of is when a cat gets caught in a tree and cannot find its way out. Here we see a dog who got into his own version of trouble and needed some rescuing. The encounter that Saunders had in his tree is far stranger than a cat or dog, showing that there are others that can get trapped. If you searched the internet for funny photos of animals and their interactions with trees, you will find a long list of photos where the two did not mix well. The tree always wins this battle and the poor animal is left there defenseless as a photo is taken for these purposes. However, nothing could have prepared Saunders for what came from him cutting his tree. So much so that 26 million people viewed his video once he cut down the tree. There are interesting moments when trees do the darndest things. Here we see a tree that enveloped a bike that was left for far too long next to it. We also see a tree growing over a metal handrail where someone decided to be funny and put a pair of eyes on it. Nature has a way of getting its way around human constructs and these are just two examples. We warn you now, there are images ahead that are not for the sensitive ones. If you do not think you can handle graphic images then we recommend turning back now as these photos will not only be funnier than the ones we just showed you. However, you will never believe what was in the middle of the tree, what it looks like, and how rare it really is to see. Saunders got his tools and was about to start cutting through the tree in his yard. He had no idea that there was a creature living in the middle of the tree, which he would soon learn that there was. The video shows Saunders jumping backwards and screaming when he cut through and saw the animal, there was nothing that could prepare him for what he saw. Saunders video starts when he split the tree trunk in two. He looks at the middle of the tree trunk and jumps back not understanding what he is looking at. Whatever it is, it starts moving. Saunders is not sure what to do in the moment and films it as it starts to wiggle around. What on earth could live in the middle of a tree trunk? As the video continues, you see the odd creature move in all directions. Saunders is freaking out and yelling as the creature start to squirm around after it had clearly been cut. After a few moments, Saunders started calming down. He then started talking to the camera explaining what he was looking at. He was not sure what animal this could be in the first place. Saunders said, I accidentally saw it in half some sort of large snake inside of this log. He was completely shocked by what he was looking at and again he began yelling as the body of the creature started moving down the middle of the trunk and onto the ground below. It was inching closer and closer to him what could this thing be? You can hear Saunders yelling, it is backing itself out, from behind the lens of the camera. He waited until the head of the creature was coming out to see what it was, but it kept coming out and there was no head to be seen. He then runs to the other side of the tree, trying to put some distance between himself and the creature. Saunders kept saying that the creature was still moving. He saw the tail on one end so he knew that the creature was missing its head yet was still alive and moving quite a bit. The video understandably gained a lot of traction, but there was so much more to this story and the rest was even more incredible considering this creature lived in this tree for who knows how long. The two pieces of the creature were crawling despite being cut into two pieces, something that would normally kill an animal. This is not something you see every day or even every year. It was thanks to a man who saw the video that we figured out what the animals was a snake or a giant worm. Many were throwing out their thoughts. So which one was it? A man named John Delay left a comment on the video saying that it was a worm, it's a wood worm, they start small.  However, John Delay was very wrong in his creature choice. Another commenter shared what he thought and turned out to be the truth, it's a rare pine snake. They used the decayed root system underground. This is a photo go what a snake like that looks like when in full form. This was a very rare species, what were the odds of it being discovered by saunders cutting open his backyard tree. Much like the dog that got caught in a tree, this snake was also out of luck being caught in saunders tree. There was a situation that was very similar to the snake, but with a dog. He got caught in the tree and left undiscovered for years until he was found by accident. The following photos are heartbreaking. In 1980, workers for the Craft Corporation discovered a sort of creature in the middle of a large oak tree. The creature seemed to have been mummified by its surroundings. The moment the remains were found, the tree was taken to the Forest World Tree Museum. This kind of discovery does not happen every day, so it needed to be investigated and cared for. The employees called the mummified remains stucky for obvious reasons. The name came from how the animal got into the tree he was chasing an animal, and got stuck in the tree never to be found. He was in that tree for 20 years before the loggers got to that particular tree and discovered him. That means that the dog got into this tree in 1960. The dog's remains were mummified because of the hollow log that helped to preserve him by removing his send-out thanks to the tree's ventilation. Brady Stevenson, the manager of Forest World, said how stuck he got to the position he was in, and when they tell them the truth that he just got stuck there and lost, it breaks people's heart. Dogs and other animals are not the only ones to get stuck in hollow trees, people do too. See the legs of a man who was curious about this hollow tree, he was stuck there for a while before others came to help him after hearing him yell for assistance. How he managed to get as far up as he did is beyond us.


Hey, I'm Jonathan. I'm a workshop facilitator and I help some of the biggest companies in the world solve big problems and make big decisions using workshops. I read a lot of books on facilitation, a lot of books on workshopping, a lot. What I wanted to do today is bring it down to my seven favorite books in the facilitation space. Now, there are some books that I've probably missed out on here, but these are the ones when I think about giving to a facilitator just to make them better and to give them more recipes and to give them more ideas. These are the ones I go to. And I think even if you're a real season facilitator, there's going to be one or two books here that you have not yet heard of. Let's go straight to it, but let me just say this is not in any order. I'm not saying number seven is the worst and number one is the best. It's just whatever one I'm picking up from the floor. All right, just give me a sec. The first book is called Visual Thinking by Willamine brand. Willamine brand. I don't know if I'm saying that name correctly, but I'm sorry. Visual Thinking is a really, really great book that brings you through the step by step process of how to visualize conversations and really being a workshop facilitator is all about visualizing conversations. It really shows you everything. It's also very cute, really well illustrated. And if you're trying to figure out really from scratch, the best way to visualize conversations and to make the mess of a meeting something that's easy to digest for people using sketches, using drawings, using different exercises, I think Visual Thinking is really one of the best books out there for workshop facilitators. I always open it up before I'm going to run a workshop. Check this one out. By the way, we're getting no money for talking about these books. There's no affiliate links. Nothing here is an endorsement. It's just the books I actually like. All right, let me take the next one. My next favorite book is called Creative Competence by Tom and David Kelly. This is, I think one of the first books around the facilitation of workshopping space I ever read, and it's a deep dive into sort of the beginnings of how design thinking came about. And really, it's the design thinking bible. This book got me super excited about running workshops. It teaches you the concepts about why workshops work, why design thinking works. And honestly, it's my original version of this book. You can't even read it anymore. It has so many notes in it. It's full of really great exercises. It's a fantastic book. If you want to learn techniques to help a team that wouldn't naturally be creative to become creatively confident. So Creative Confidence, one of my favorite workshopping and facilitation books, you have to read this one. This is, I love this book so much. Let's go to the next one. The next book, this is a bit cheeky, but it's free. So it's actually okay to talk about it. It's the workshopper playbook. So I wrote this book. And what it does is it gives you a really quick, like less than one hour intro into everything you need to know to run your first workshop.  I think the team will put a link down below to the PDF. It's free. There's nothing like you lose nothing by taking this. And I think it's a fantastic introduction to the whole workshopping space. So check out the workshopper playbook. It's a fantastic one. Next one, a bit more famous than the others. I think a lot of you know game storming, but if you don't know game storming, you have to pause this video and get this book right now using our affiliate link. Just joking. There's no affiliates. This book is written by these three people.  It's a book full of exercises based on the topic that you need to actually do. And I think it's a really, really great reference guide when you just need a couple of exercises. Honestly, this book is the Bible of workshop exercises. You definitely need it.  It's similar in a way to visual thinking, but it's not like teaching you visual thinking from scratch. It's really showing you a lot, a lot of exercises. This is really, it's called a playbook for innovators, rule breakers and change makers. I think it's fantastic. I think every workshopper has to have a copy of game storming. My next one and really one of my favorites is sprint. It's an entire book based on one workshop recipe. And this recipe is the design sprint, but it's not just for designers. It's for anyone who wants to run a workshop to help solve big problems and test new big ideas in just five days. My company runs a ton of design sprints. In fact, design sprints is what almost completely got me obsessed with facilitation, obsessed with the workshopping. And I think it's one of the most robust workshopping exercises out there. It's really a five day process. There's so many exercises in here, game storming. And the other books are kind of like, here's loads of exercises, pull it together yourself. Whereas the sprint is here's one recipe. We've already tested it a hundred times or more. It works. Just use this recipe. And I think every facilitator doesn't matter if their designer or not should know how to run a sprint. Really amazing book. My friend Jake wrote it. He's a beautiful man. He's very tall. Let's go. So I got excited and I knocked out the mic. The next one you might not know about. And I'm excited about it. It's called the surprising power of liberating structures. So the idea here is that adding structure to a meeting or to a group setting can actually liberate people to actually get the work done that they really want to do. And this is a thick, fat, chubby book, full to the brim of different exercises on how to actually get things done. It's really not the most enjoyable read, but it is a really fantastic reference guide when you just want to run specific types of exercises, simple rules to unleash a culture of innovation. And it's really like a, it presents a framework for helping teams innovate and come up with ideas and really get things done. I think it's fantastic. Again, it's a bit long. It's a bit of a dry read, but I do think it's a fantastic, fantastic book to give you just a ton of different exercises, a ton of different techniques as a facilitator who wants to run workshops. And a lot of people don't know about it because it's just not like very sexy. So if you're looking for exercises, techniques and methods that people maybe don't know about yet, liberating structures is a great one. I love this book. It's really, yeah, it really got me excited reading through it. Yeah, get it. Last but not least, this one is called The Secrets of Facilitation. And I really like this book. It reminded me of a school book, the way it's laid out. You know, it's really like a school textbook. And there's lots of little exercises for you to fill out in here. What I love about it is that it shows you how to deal with situations that will come up as a facilitator in like a script format. So you can see here it says Pat, here it says facilitator. So you actually get to see the conversations, not just here's the technique, but also here's that technique played out as a conversation in a workshop. Again, I do think this is a book that not a lot of people buy because it's quite expensive. It's also very dry and very textbook-like. But it's honestly, I think, I think it's actually the best book I've read on pure facilitation in terms of really in-depth techniques, in-depth scripts and case studies. I think it's a fantastic, fantastic book. If you want to get like a little boost above other facilitators, I would recommend checking this out. It also has a lot of sections on how to deal with troublemakers, which is something I love. So like what happens if you're facilitating and something goes wrong or someone tries to push back and ruin your workshop, this book is full to the brim of those types of ideas and how to actually deal with those types of people. So those are my seven favorite books. Okay, look, it's six favorite books on facilitation and workshopping. And then it's like my book squeezed in there in between, but you know, whatever. I think these books are fantastic. I don't think everyone knows about them. I think if you're interested in getting into the facilitation space, I would recommend reading them. Obviously, I, you know, I'm reading these types of books all the time and all this channel is basically kind of an amalgamation of all the things I'm learning by reading these types of books, but also running workshops. Also, if you're interested in compressing a little bit of that knowledge, I've just recorded a one hour free training on how to become a top 1% facilitator. It obviously takes a huge amount of knowledge from these books and from other books and from other classes I've taken and from the work I've been doing over the last 10 years as a facilitator. If you're interested in that kind of thing, if you're a facilitator who wants that kind of knowledge and who wants to level up, there'll be a link down below that says like free training. Check that out. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you like these types of book videos or resource videos, let me know in the comments, but I do have a question for you.  Let me know in the comments and I can't wait to check it out. Have a good one, everyone. Bye. Okay. Actually, the team wants me to change that question to what's the best facilitation at workshopping book you've ever read, but also put the bad smell thing in there with the comment, maybe two comments. It actually helps us if you have more comments.  Actually, the worst thing I've ever smelled in my entire life, I just remembered while asking that question.  Don't worry guys. It was a bucket of rotting paint in my art class in secondary school or high school. Americans call it and a friend of mine found it and he smelled it and he immediately puked into the bucket of rotting paint and then he made me smell it and yeah, I got a pretty bad headache and I couldn't forget the smell for like three weeks and that's what this YouTube channel is about. Peace out everyone. Bye.


coolest thing ever. And I think they're going to change. If what I'm going to present today doesn't change the way you work, then virtual machines will change the way you work in the next five years. So I'm Mitchell Oshimoto. That's the avatar page everywhere. I live in Seattle, Washington right now. That's the background of this year. But I fly down here all the time. I want to give a quick shout out to LA review grade. If you want cool ideas, you just want to hack with really smart review people like Evan Phoenix.  And at the same time, I want to give a shout out to Seattle.RV because I go to this every week as well. Well not as well, depending if I'm in Seattle or LA. And the same deal. And at the same time, all my work and my presence here are sponsored by Engineering. And so they get a slam. So let's take a look at how do we work now. I'm going to focus on web development. But you should know there's a lot of people using virtual machines for a lot of other problems as well. But the original problem I built data for was the solve web development issues I had. So that's an example we need. This should look familiar to most of you. It's a three step process that you should all be familiar with. The first step is checking out your source code from somewhere. The second process is kind of a mystery. And the third is usually the server is up and running. And by this third step, I mean, you could go online and interact completely with the website. Every part of the website should work. But I want to focus specifically on the second point here. This is always kind of like black magic. There's a few different ways this could work. The best case scenario is you ever read me that looks like this. And this is like, if I worked on a project and saw this, I'd be really happy. Because this almost never happens. But usually check out your source code and you follow the steps and you try to install this on your local machine. More likely you check out the source code. You try to run it. You see what stack traces are thrown and slowly cobble it together. But that's what we're looking at. And thank you, Brian. G-willigers. G-willigers. Most of you probably aren't thinking this right now. This is how you work and you're okay with that. You think that's how it's supposed to be. But there's actually a lot of problems with this. And I'm going to go through them real quick. The first problem is it's not repeatable. So on a very basic level, that just means if you have a laptop and a workstation, you've got to do this manual stuff on both. Which is a time issue, but really just kind of annoying. But the more important issue is you can't really go back in time. You set this all up. Imagine you work on a website and you work on some major new feature, which has a lot of code change, maybe infrastructure change. And all you're working on at your boss is, well, you've got to fix some bugs on your main website because that's launched and what you're working on isn't. And so your only option right now is to try to bandaid your infrastructure to work with your old website and hope that you could continue fixing things. Or perhaps just throw everything you have away, work on another machine or who knows. So that's an issue, not possible right now. The other issue is it's not verifiable. So this, I mean, you could get your infrastructure running, you could run your unit integration test and they could all pass and so everything seems okay. But since you're running a readme and it's a manual process, you can't actually verify everything set up correctly. So if you have slight configuration differences or version differences, or maybe your system had changed something, you won't actually know until down the road. And this problem will happen at some point and it's going to be one of those problems that you're going to find on a Friday night and it's going to take until Saturday afternoon to fix and you're going to realize it's not good. And then the third problem is it's not isolated. Test, test. The third problem is it's not isolated.  And modern operating systems are good, like this probably won't get in your way and it'll never be a problem. But a bigger issue or more real thing is if you're working on a mature website, it's probably more like a service oriented architecture. There's going to be multiple pieces that talk to each other one way or another. And you're going to try to run this all on your own machine. And the example I give is, I talked to someone that works at white pages and they have a separate server that does this, I guess it's a standard thing in the white pages and yellow pages industry where it takes a human entered address and they just send it to the service and it returns this queryable binary format that they can use internally.  And it's meant to run a completely different infrastructure. So trying to run it alongside your web server and all that doesn't work too well. So you're not isolated. So now virtual machines are the answer to all these problems and more. They're isolated, I don't think I need to explain this, they're just inherently isolated, you all know that. But more importantly, with the isolated nature, you can run multiple virtual machines and simulate that service oriented architecture I was talking about. You get repeatability at through beta DevOps here because your company probably has a system and the system is like sole purpose. It's getting paid to efficiently and safely set up your servers. So he probably has scripts to set up your servers. So why aren't we using these scripts to set up our development? Because they're already done and they will match production exactly. So any bugs you have on development will exist on production. And you can also model complex relationships. And so this is kind of going back to the service oriented architecture. You can do a lot of things that you can't do on your local machine. You can simulate latency between virtual machines. You could throw up a cluster of virtual machines and work them together and then just demolish one of them and see how your system reacts. And it's really hard to do this on just in a single address. And for the business people or the managers or directors of engineering out there, these are a couple points that you could also use to convince your boss to leave an idea. You get faster resource onboarding.   And designers could do it too. Designers like this a lot because usually the way it works is you sacrifice an engineer's time and an engineer's time is really expensive and we all know that. And you sacrifice half their day or even the full day where they sit with a designer and they set up the whole thing on the designer's machine so the designer could sit there and just basically either read on their website to test their designs. But with a virtual machine, they could just run it all the time and they could run any version of the website. And for more visual people, this is a slide I showed at the Meetup Room but that almost took out, but people liked it. This is what your development looks like right now and the goal is to make it look like this and possibly a multiple of these virtual iOS OSs up there that all of us can make. This is exciting. If you're not really excited right now then you should get that checked out. It's not human. So by now I hope I convinced you that using virtual machines is a pretty good idea and what you're doing right now is kind of crazy but we all are doing right now is kind of crazy and I'm going to introduce Baker as a way to solve this problem and Baker is a tool that myself and John Bender, I don't know where he is but he's out there. We wrote about it over a year ago now and we basically took the manual steps out of setting up a virtual machine and since then it's evolved into quite a beast. And so what is it?  You can think of Baker kind of as the local EC2 hosts. You can just think of them as instances on your computer and a really important point is this it was built with the original goal and it still to this day stays out of your way because as web developers over the years we've developed processes that make us really efficient at what we do. We have our special text editor, Emacs or Vim or something crappier. We have our web browser, Firebug, Web Inspector, whatever you have. When we see a stack tray, so we see something that's not working right we know exactly what to do to start debugging that thing and we usually fix it really fast and so any tool that comes and threatens that shouldn't be used without a significant amount of evidence so instead of doing that just doesn't change anything, you continue working the exact same way and I'll show that and how does it work there's two parts to how it works the first part is the vagrant file which is the same thing in spirit as a make file or gem file or rake file or a fad file or x file and it just describes the virtual machine in a very concise way so that vagrant knows how to set up what you're doing and then the second part and this is metagone version control so that you could go back at any point as well and the second thing is a command line tool that's why it's in monospace font there and that gives you access to spin up machines provision them SSH into them so first let's look at the vagrant file and like I said its purpose is to describe the VM and it's really short it's currently Ruby, it's all written in Ruby and for the foreseeable future it will be Ruby but it's something but you just describe the VM really short and here's an example of a vagrant file and this is kind of the bare minimum you need to get a VM up and running think of this box thing as an AMI if you speak EC2 it's basically just a base image so that every time you spin up a VM it's all an operating system because that would defeat the purpose of spinning up an instance to like 30 minutes so this could get, this just clones a hard drive and builds a, and here's a slightly more complicated example that your VM is provisioned with Chef so if your system in has who knows what Chef is here everybody, cool, or pump it same spirit if your system in has Chef scripts you could actually use them to provision your VM and in this case we're just using Chef solo and telling it to use the Apache 2 recipe and you see the same box thing and if you're a puppet user it's fast and bold I'm not trying to say that Puppet's simpler than Chef here but Puppet has its own set of options but you don't need them whereas with Chef you do and you could also use a Shell script if you don't know Puppet or Chef and you still want to use this stuff and maybe you do have it read me and you can do it this way too and then all these can be composed as well so maybe you want to do a Shell script to bootstrap your machine to prepare for something else then you want to run Chef, you can do that just put them in the right order, it's imperative here's another cool thing to do you could network the VM to a static IP so this literally means when this VM comes up and I type <IP_ADDRESS> in my browser I want it to actually go to the VM and onto whatever actually that's actually the Department of Defense and you probably won't ever have to go there it's a safe IP to use well a lot of people try to network it to 192.168.something or 10.0.something because they're like oh well my router uses that for my own local network so I'll use it too but if you stop on one of your previous computers IPs it really tricks out your computer and it has no idea, I don't know enough about the networking stack and BSD or Linux to know what's going on but I just know that it doesn't go to the VM and it doesn't go to that other computer it just goes to a black hole and nobody knows what's going on and I get bug reports like weekly about this for more advanced websites you can actually do multiple VMs in a single layer file so if you're running a service-oriented architecture you could do this sort of thing and you could just think of them as functions where there's scope so that VM object is just the config object that's specific to the VM that's defining and you could spin up all the VMs in the cluster a few of the VMs whatever you want I mean if your architecture is like 10 VMs that doesn't really make sense to run on a machine so you could spin up a few at a time and if you use the networking that I showed as long as they're in the same slash 8 block like at the end that last number there's only one thing that changes between them all those VMs can communicate to each other using those IPs so if you have a service-oriented architecture that's how you test it and then I'm not going to go through each of these that's really boring but this is the vagrant command line thing and these are just some there's a few more of the things that you could do with it kind of as a git style you give it the vagrant binary to see all of them there's like two more than this but I don't want to keep going but first this all my examples I just open sourced this over lunch but the examples will be here don't try to run them on the internet if you're blessed enough to get internet here because running any of them will attempt to pull down megabytes stuff like Apache and image magic and stuff like that and you just won't get it to work and you're going to think it's vagrant's fault and it's not my fault so do it at home it's really cool and I'm going to show you what it looks like it's just like the apple background yeah it took for my apple it just works what else I hear some smart ass comments I know phoenix all these VMs last night where the internet is not terrible so they're all up and running but I could show you some of the help but I guess I'll be over a second commitment issues so this isn't the refinery CMS who knows what refinery CMS is this year okay if you don't know I didn't know until yesterday I was looking for a good example I found it it's a pre-built urban rails it's supposed to be installed and run but it actually has a bunch of dependencies so getting it installed and running on your own computer is actually a huge pain so I set up a vagrant file and puppet recipes to get it up and running so if you check out that gary bow that I showed you and go into the refinery CMS and run b, I shoulda used it b is my alias for vagrant but if you run vagrant up then that's it and you wait about 15 minutes but you'll actually have refinery CMS up but running on your computer without you doing a single thing other than this and it's kind of what the output looks like the VM was already created so it didn't import the initial VM but it runs through all this stuff boots the VM and then it provisioned it down here and you can see it's succeeded so if I go to the web address now that's what you've seen already with more examples all in one see there's more options for puppet and then assigns it to 33333310 and then if I go to that in my browser you can see that it's doing the setup process for refinery CMS and this is all running in a VM this is, I don't even have a web server installed on my computer and it works so I can click so the next example and I know you all know track is it's the python based issue tracker thing and who here has ever tried to set up track was that a huge pain? yeah it's so much of a pain in fact that years ago I actually had to set up track and I tried so hard to do it I couldn't do it that we resorted to using text files for issues because track is impossible to set up and so if you clone out this repo I've got a track and just run bacon hub track will be completely installed from scratch I'm not distributing images with track pre-installed it's actually using bare bones and installing everything from scratch and so track will be up and running and if you look at so I'm using all these big open source projects as examples but you can imagine that it's your actual website which at some critical point, critical mass becomes a huge pain in the butt to install too and so same exact thing except that I amounted to .12 so that it doesn't stop on the other one all these games are running together so I go to .12 I have track, I've been running really exciting I didn't get the login working because apparently it just doesn't work out of the box and I started looking at the documentations and it has all these cryptic like command line arguments you're going to pass and it wouldn't be that hard I would just have to modify a couple files to do it but it just doesn't make any sense and the last example is really simple it's just actually a PHP it's nothing more than a PHP hosting thing a virtual host setup the exact same thing you've seen with .14 and each of these VMs is taking up 5 under 12 megs of RAM not they don't usually take up the whole thing at once but the myth that virtual machines are heavy is not true this machine now has 8 gigs of RAM because I routinely have around like 6 VMs running at once but that's only a recent thing I've had up to 4 VMs running completely fine not noticing at all the 4 gigs around PHP info the reason now that I did this really simple thing is I want to show you how your workflow would work with vagrant and I don't want to dare edit track files because God knows what that will do and I don't want to edit rails specifically either because I don't know the internal or refinery CMS so yeah we're going to edit some PHP now it's a Ruby conference please I guess the important point is all this is running on my own computer the ZMAX is obviously this is an SSHDN anywhere this is on my own computer and the contents of this PHP directory is just the vagrant file and index.php the puppet folders that are needed for provisioning and so I'm going to edit that index on PHP on my computer and you're going to see the changes go live instantly I can't move as fast as instantly but trust me that it's instantly this could have been a mistake I haven't used PHP in 4 years and I'm just now realizing this but we'll do something just so feel free to substitute either of those 2 D80s with your own but this is edited now let's go check it out this is my browser on my computer just on the original to change refresh uh oh let's save it you can see how that works you can imagine it works the same way with your own sometimes you just need to dig into the server and see what's going on maybe you need to read log files which aren't available in this shared folder or maybe you just have to install some software and check things out no problem you can just run throw you straight into a real SSH prompt and this is on the VM so you don't see anything but if I go to the by default it's the slash vegan directory but you can change you can use the shared folder so if I ls here I'll do the big one you can see these are the exact same files these are the exact same files but if you use this in any real project you'll actually use NFS which vagrant does on its own it's completely automated you just add a flag and it just does it because virtual box shared folders don't work past like 1000 files and I've opened a bug and it's been closed as not a bug and there's actually a bug open for about 6 years or something now and they're just not going to fix it it's a feature the bug is a feature if you pass 1000 files what are you doing with virtual machines anyway that's what they think I guess so yeah so that works and then let me show you all the commands so you can see all the commands here I have I want to mention that if you want to get started with vagrant the initial download for like the base image is like 500 megabytes I have a flash drive with me here that you can just copy on your computer and use later so if you're interested in just playing around with this playing around with this may when you get home just let me know and we can just copy it on your computer and the other cool thing is this is about 6 down there's this vagrant package if provisioning is starting to take like hours you can take hours on a really large website then you can provision your thing package it into a new base image and you can use that for then on and then it won't have to provision anything and I'm actually working for the next version of vagrant we're going to have completely changed kind of the way this is working yeah so it's an open source project it's at vagrant.com I've been told it has very good documentation but there's a lot that isn't documented at the same time but it's enough such that you'll be totally fine you're getting started with that though sounds like a good idea screencasts Shane but yeah it's open source you can take a look at how it works it's written in Ruby that's why I'm speaking about the Ruby conference but it's pertinent to everybody so tell your friends and I think that's it do you have any questions? Brian I know what do you mean by alias? oh okay it's not possible yet but the only reason it's not there's ways to make it work and there's a bunch of people actually working on it right now but no one's got a good solution yet but for now I would say it's been a multiple or two machines that you can and that could be your temporary solution more questions? okay so the second thing I've seen your screencasts wait a minute my what this oh okay so yeah I have a vagrant screencast I made it in March of 2010 when I released the vagrant 0.1 and a lot of the stuff still works because I've been lucky enough to be pretty good about backwards compatibility but a lot of it also doesn't work it doesn't highlight some of the strengths that I found over the year of development so I need to redo that someday can you do configurations for load balancing on multiple DNS? yeah using Chef for something you could easily do load balancing if you're familiar with Chef, they use the JSON DNA they use the Chef Solo and you can easily just hard to code the IP addresses or if he's a Chef server Chef server support is built in so the upcoming environments support coming out you can easily hook it into our search of the server for all the web nodes grabs the IPs and magically configures load balancers yep yes completely so even to the point where I showed you where they mount to slash vagrant I changed the mount point that the shareholders used to what they actually are in production which is usually at slash serve srv slash and so I changed it to that and they use the exact same recipes completely as production I'm trying to think of any differences the only difference the only difference I guess is with Chef I know you mentioned you mentioned Puppet and I used Puppet's examples but I used Chef in production and Chef server I have two Chef servers one for development and one for production so Chef the development one is where I put all the staged recipes that aren't ready for production and then they eventually end up in production so I'm sharing my recipes yep I noticed that you were using Lucid are you using Lucid 32 are there any other boxes available or I only officially myself make Lucid 32 and Lucid 64 but the community has made karmic boxes devian lenny boxes cento s maverick a bunch if you're interested in this jump on the mailing list and expect a long road map email about what I'm working on and then you'll see how this is all going to be a lot better in a few months a lot more you can look everything up any other questions? I saw one back there I worked with RE so do you have any plans to scale out the number of visual machines or scale them down okay I saw the question I should have been repeating the questions but do I have any plans of vagrant to scale up and scale down the motion machines and I'm just going to answer no because I don't think that's the problem that vagrant is trying to solve but you could easily vagrant is scriptable, there's documentation on the website to using vagrant as a library and I would say that you could easily write like a pull poverty provider or whatever RE's to control vagrant VMs as well and I guess on that note I am also working one of the things I'm working on is supporting multiple more hypervisors this is on virtual box that's an important point I didn't mention it this is all virtual box and virtual box is awesome but I'm also working on supporting like KVM and other stuff but that don't hold a breath it's really complicated and I've decided to pull up until after I would say six months to a year any other questions environment and then somehow swap out for production to use like Amazon to structure and then run the recipes on top of that kind of hybrid virtualization environments do you want them to communicate or are you just saying just for development and production distinctly the question is can you set up virtual box for local development but then use EC2 for production and completely, I mean Baker doesn't do anything specifically to help you with that except maybe push upon you good DevOps practices but by creating portable Chef recipes and by sharing them between development and production you really just have to have like a boot share script to launch an EC2 instance and run the same recipes and it should set up exactly as it's developed any other questions what is the main chain is Vagrant battle tested Vagrant is used by a lot of companies I don't know an exact number but on each release there's usually around a thousand downloads nowadays but I know that a lot of companies John, Benders, Originate Labs uses it full time, CitrusBite the company I work for uses it full time but we're small consultancies there's also pretty big big shops like there's one that and Vagrant works on Windows and they develop Rails this formula doesn't work but they they use Vagrant for all the developers in order to develop in a Linux environment on front windows God help them but it's pretty well tested to the point where I have to release betas now to make sure that corporate customers don't get just off and made for breaking so it's safe to use


What if we trusted you? We're in the middle of a trust crisis. The Edelman Trust Barometer for 2017, their headline was Global Trust Implosion. The 2016 word of the year from Oxford was post-truth. Why? Well, one reason was that the Apex Predator of Capitalism is now running the world's superpower. Behind this are some age-old questions. Why are workers disengaged? Why don't voters vote? Why are students apathetic and alienated? Well, we've been treating them as mere consumers for about 100 years, instead of as trustworthy human beings. Somewhere along the way, we lost trust in humans. We handed the world over to people, to managers and designers, and we said, here, design it for efficiency, scale, and profit. And don't worry about things like meaning and trust and community and society. Those things are soft and squishy and nobody cares about them anyway. But in fact, it turns out that all of these are social systems and these things were the essence of social systems. In fact, let me escalate the argument just a little bit more. I think we're in a titanic battle between trust and mistrust. And despite all of this, I'm an optimist. I think trust is actually the way out. I think it's the way forward. This Patreon page is my invitation to you to join me in this quest, to figure out what to name this thing, how to explain it, how to nurture the organizations that are already doing it, how to connect them up, in fact, possibly even how to build or spark some of the initiatives that still need to exist. Now, this may sound like a huge, huge mission to be on. After all, this is about changing institutions and belief systems behind them. But you know what? Movements around the world have already cracked this code. Open source software is based on trust. The structure of the internet is based on trust. The sharing economy, what you're gonna climb into some stranger's car or give them your bedroom. Microfinance, you give people loans who don't have any collateral. Traffic calming, animal jumbling, unschooling. There's movements all over the place that use these principles of design from trust. We just don't know yet how to connect them to one another, how to accelerate them, how to turn this into more of a movement. This point of view showed up for me 20 years ago when I realized as a tech industry analyst that I didn't like the word consumer, that the word made me kind of itch and crawl. And so I paid attention to it. And it gifted me this delicious thesis that we're entering a relationship economy and that trust is actually central, that we've thrown away the most important ingredient in how to build social systems that work.  I'll have invited guests, I'll explore issues, I'll talk to you this way, you'll talk back. I'll probably write a book somewhere in the process, but then along the way it's going to get a lot more interesting. I'll make pilgrimages to the people in places that are already doing this. We'll create some experiments with media to figure out how do we create shared meaning? How do we trigger collective intelligence and share it with other people? We may become a nursery for some of these ideas either that other people have started or that we may start. As a bonus, I have been curating all of these ideas into a piece of software called The Brain. You're seeing it there above my head right now. I happened to be on their first press tour 20 years ago. The moment I saw it, I was like, oh my God, this is how my brain works. And I started using it. In fact, the file you're looking at is the file that I created that I opened 20 years ago. So there's 340,000 things in there called thoughts all connected up in context. And as we do this work together, I'm going to be feeding that brain memorializing the stuff we work on as our beginning of a shared memory. So please join me on this quest. Joining is really easy. There is a large button right here that says become a patron, choose a level, jump in. We've got a lot of work to do and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. After all, what if we trusted you?


What is the theme song that plays my head on the way to work? Well right now I have a pretty short commute to work. I sort of wake up and then I'm at work. So I would say the theme song that plays is my alarm clock. The theme song that plays in my head as I go to work every day is Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. So like driving back up on the 405 for example we probably play some cold play or like I do enjoy like being in the moment just listening to the ambient noise listening to like the bird's chirp listening to like the harry traffic. I think it sets like a very calming tone. Lakshya to har hall mein paana hai. It's a movie Lakshya. That's a Bollywood movie. One of the theme songs that would play in my head when going to work would be Space Oddity from David Bowie.


Russia strikes Ukrainian ports with Onyx anti-ship missiles. How can Ukraine counter them? After the so-called grain agreement was broken on July 17th, Odessa became the target of massive missile strikes of Russia. Almost every night, since July 18th, Russia has been launching missiles at the city's port infrastructure and Odessa's downtown, according to the Kiev Post. It is noted that this time, the Russians attacked the city with Kh-22, Kh-59 caliber and Onyx missiles. The port infrastructure of Odessa and Chornomosk, which were involved in grain exports, was badly damaged. Nearly 60,000 tons of grain ready for shipment were destroyed along with a warehouse with peas. Missile attacks on civilian infrastructure, ports and grain terminals are another Russian war crime in Ukraine. The Onyx anti-ship missile was designed to be a universal missile. It has shared compatibility with aviation, navy and ground forces, and it has the ability to strike not only ships at sea but also targets. On land. The Kiev Post writes that one should also remember that Onyx is almost three times faster than Kaliba. Ukrainian S-300 air defense systems can spot a target of this size at an altitude of up to 15 meters only from a distance of 21 kilometers. The Onyx will take about half a minute to cover this distance. For more accurate calculations, it is necessary to add the time needed to detect a fairly small object, capture it the time to take and process a decision as well as the time to launch the anti-aircraft missile itself and the time it will take to reach the target. It is also important to account for the channelization of air defense systems, that is, for the number of objects that the complex can simultaneously attack, as well as the total number of weapons, reports Defense Express. Yuri Ignat, the spokesperson of the Air Force Command, said it is hardly possible to shoot down a missile flying at such a speed and at such a low altitude with the means at our hands. He also said that this missile can be influenced using electronic warfare and added that not all missiles reach their target. It is highly probable that the MIM-104 Patriot air defense system and the French SAMP-T anti-missile defense system would be effective against Onyx missiles.


Today is 29th February and being obstetricians we have lots of queries from all our patients regarding this date for the delivery of the child. We should not attach any myths to this day because this day is also equally auspicious as per any other day. People many of my patients wanted the deliveries to be postponed or preponed to 28th of February or 1st of March but few of my patients wants to get themselves delivered on 29th so that they will have a unique day for their baby and we wish a lot of success to such children who are bored on 29th.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Dr. X17, Tim Deputy, Brandon Brooks, and new patron Eddie. A perfect day for a new patron. Good job, Eddie. On this episode of DTNS, Mozilla will sell you privacy protection. Why AI isn't good enough for student cheaters, oh no. And Sarah is one of the people who experienced the Apple Vision Pro launch glitch. So congratulations. Thank you. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, February 6th, 2024, in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And it's to do Animal House. I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Thank you to everybody who sent well wishes to us Californians, seeing that we made the news worldwide. It was on the BBC. Somebody in Denmark was saying they saw us on the news for all of our reign. Not gonna lie, pretty intense. Evacuations, even a few fatalities. So it was serious business, but just so you know, all three of us are doing okay. So we feel very lucky. Thank you. Indeed. Indeed.  And then fuss a lot. And then go crazy. All right, let's start with the quick hits. Meta announced it will expand its labeling of synthetic imagery in the coming months to include images made with tools other than Meta's own models. Now it began labeling those when it detected them since it launched Imagine with Meta back in December. The company president, Nick Clegg, says that the company has worked with other companies through the partnership on AI form to create technical standards to help increase detection. That includes watermarks as well as automatic detection, even if watermarks have been removed. Clegg mentioned detecting images from tools made by Adobe, Google, Mid Journey, Microsoft, OpenAI and Shutterstock. So watch out. Sources told the Financial Times that China's SMIC has new production lines in Shanghai that are expected to produce five nanometer chips for Huawei as early as next year. The US has been putting ever stricter rules in place against shipping any kind of chip technology to Chinese companies, including chip making machines if they use US intellectual property. We've been covering that on DTNS, so I'm sure you're well aware. SMIC though is apparently using existing stock of US and Dutch made equipment that it got before the restrictions went in place. Current cutting edge processes are three nanometers. You'll find three nanometer processes from companies like Taiwan's TSMC, but Huawei's designs and SMIC's processes have been narrowing the gap, and now they're real close. However, it does appear that SMIC is gonna have to charge 40 to 50% more for its five and seven nanometer chips than TSMC does for equivalent processes and SMIC's yield is less than a third of TSMC's. So their process isn't equivalent in quality or cost. Speaking of TSMC, it announced it will build a second chip factory in Japan to go with the first one that's opening this February, this month. The second plant should go into a production mode by 2027. This goes along with plants from TSMC being built in Arizona, in the United States, and Germany, in the European Union. On Monday's show, we mentioned that were indications that Microsoft was planning to bring more of its Xbox and PC titles to the Sony Polystation 5 and other platforms. Microsoft CEO of Gaming Phil Spencer posted on X that the company will announce details for the future of Xbox next week. The verges sources say this announcement has been moved up from the end of the month thanks to the leaks of potential cross-platform game announcements. Yeah, we're gonna hear more about this from Scott Johnson if you want a little deeper dive on it, that'll be on tomorrow's show. YouTube TV has more than 8 million subscribers now. The cable replacement service, don't confuse it with plain old YouTube, this is the one where you can watch ABC, CBS, TNT, et cetera. It is now the largest service of its kind, right ahead of Hulu Plus Live TVs, 4.6 million, and Sling TVs, 2.1 million, but still smaller than traditional cable TV services like Comcast Xfinity, that one has 14.1 million. This is probably because YouTube TV got the rights to NFL Sunday ticket this season. That has boosted a lot of interest in YouTube TV. It also boosted Google's overall strategy for increasing subscription revenue to supplement ad revenue. As for that plain old YouTube, it now has 3 million channels and reports 1 billion hours viewed daily, and also added a new odd option in the Android and iOS mobile apps. I don't know if anybody's seen this yet, but apparently it'll crop up and give you the option to create a feed of videos like a row themed off color. So you can be like, give me a row of red videos or green videos. I don't know. Maybe if you have like a themed party or something. Yeah, or chill beats, you just want them to all be blue. I don't know. Now you've got the option. Nintendo updated a previous forecast of Switch console sales, and now says it expects to sell 15.5 million in its current fiscal year, which ends in March. That's up from 15 million. Nintendo said the Super Mario Brothers wonder game had a good start following its release in October with 11.96 million units. The company also said the Mario movie is helping sales of older titles like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and is also planning launches of new games based around characters from the Mario world, including Donkey Kong, Princess Peach, this quarter. Analysts who spoke to CNBC also said they expect a new Nintendo Switch to come out this year. Yeah, so they can thank Chris Pratt. Mozilla introduced a privacy monitoring service called Mozilla Monitor Plus. They'll be charging $8.99 a month. Service monitors more than 190 sites that sell information gathered from publicly available sources like social media apps, browser tracking, et cetera. This is not dark web stuff. This is, we found your information online and we collated it together and sold it to advertisers. Monitor Plus will notify you if it finds any of your information for sale and will take attempts to remove that information automatically. Mozilla is partnering with a company called OneRep on the scanning and takedown request part of the service. If information cannot be removed, Mozilla will still try to give you some further instructions to help you try to remove the information yourself. So they really wanna go as far as they can in helping you scrub your personal info, your address, stuff like that, your phone number, if you can. This is in addition to Mozilla Monitor, which is still free. That's the one that does look at the dark web and illegitimate sites. This is for legit sites. This is for info brokers. Sarah, had you thought about a service like this before? Is this something you ever wanted? This is not the same as something like Reputation Defender, right, where you're actually trying to kind of go away online. No, it overlaps with it in that it's going after personal info, but it's not, I don't think Mozilla Monitor Plus, and I'm sort of guessing now, but I don't think it's gonna try to like remove negative stories about you from news sites. This is more like, I don't want my phone number and address out there or any other personal information. Yeah, I mean, I pay for Mozilla VPN. I pay monthly. I feel like Monitor Plus being nine bucks a month feels kind of high, but we looked up some competitors before the show started and it doesn't actually seem like it's that expensive based on what other people are charging. This is a service that if you care about it, you can part with the money and especially if you trust Mozilla, which a lot of people do. I think it's a great idea. I think, yeah, I mean, I haven't looked for my phone number online lately, but I've had the same phone number for quite some time. Probably not that hard to find, somebody really wants to. And the fewer robocalls I get as a result, the better. Yeah, this is a good question. CR poll in our YouTube channel is asking if this is like incognito mode. No, it's not. This is not a browser thing. Even though it's made by Mozilla, this is an information service. So you don't have to even use Firefox if you don't want to for this. This is Mozilla having a team of people who go to these broker sites that exist and looking and saying, okay, is Sarah's phone number here? Great, let's issue takedown notices to these brokers to say, please don't sell that information. You don't have permission for it. It's stuff like that. So it's a privacy protection service. It's fairly reasonably priced. Delete me, what did we find? I think it was 12 bucks a month. Yeah, it's something like, you know, north of $10 a month. So it's more than Mozilla.  There are also a lot of scammy ones out there that say they will do this sort of thing and then just take your money. So it's nice to have one from Mozilla, which I know a lot of people believe in and trust and would be willing to say, yes, I will trust that you will actually try to do this for me. Yeah, I'm certainly one of those people. I've used Mozilla products for a number of years and I'm not sure that this is something that I care about enough. Maybe that's because I'm just, I'm very online. So I feel like I've lost the war already, but yeah, for anybody who's like, the fewer broker services that end up sharing my information, you know, even if it's not nefarious, it's just annoying. To have an option to be able to minimize, if not completely eradicate that kind of stuff, not a bad idea. Yeah, and CR poll clarified, he did not mean to type incognito, he meant incogni, which is another service like delete me. And yes, this is like incogni, except it's run by Mozilla. Well, Tom, we've got a new educational hustle. Ooh, tell me about it. You wanna hear about it? Yes, please. This one is adding human vibes to entrance essays that were originally written by AI. You might be a student, you wanna get into that, you know, the good high school. You might say, let's see what chat GPT can do for me. Forbes reports that kids applying to high school, they were talking about, so you're talking, you know, eighth grader age, applying to high school are using chat GPT and others to write personal essays for entrance, but then paying other people to then edit and DAI them to make them less obviously written by a bot. Editors from freelance marketplace Fiverr, that's Fiverr with two Rs at the end, told Forbes that the goal is to replace repetitive tells, indicating that AI tools were involved in the first place. For example, using the phrase, aligns seamlessly with my aspirations and stems from a deep seated passion, perfectly fine, you know, sounds pretty grown up unless everybody's using them. And then all of a sudden, wait a second, this doesn't seem like it was a personal essay at all. Yeah, these chat bots don't have your voice. Voice is what you sound like. And if you read an author often enough, you'll start to understand their voice, right? Frank Herbert writes differently than Marion Zimmer Bradley. They both have a distinctive voice. And so you're going to get the same voice out of chat GPT for everyone unless you tell it to write in a particular style, right? If you say, write my term paper like Lionel Richie, then it'll be different than other people, but it'll also sound different than you. And that's the key here, right? Is the professor knows how you talk from being in class? Maybe, maybe not, but probably has at least some kind of idea. And so can easily tell, okay, this is not how you would talk. This is not how you would write it. To get a chat bot to do this in your voice, you would need to train it on your own work, which would mean you'd have to write your own work at the first place. So it kind of, you know, obviates the point here if you're trying to avoid doing the work. So I think it's interesting that we've run up against one of the limits of these large language models and even cheaters are like, yeah, if you really want to get away with it, you got to pay somebody to modify it. So it sounds like a human wrote it. Yeah, in fact, an alum and former editor-in-chief of the Cornell Business Journal who now edits grad school applications through capital editors and wanted to remain anonymous, did tell Forbes that there are certain keywords, for example, tapestry in particular, appearing in drafts from at least 20 of its clients in recent months, his or her, I don't actually even know what his gender is, but added, there will be a reckoning. There are gonna be a ton of students who unwittingly use the word tapestry on their own or other words in their essay that may not be admitted in this cycle because now it's a red flag. There were other examples too. Other words, for example, beacon or phrases like comprehensive curriculum, esteemed faculty, vibrant academic community. Again, that all sounds like, yeah, I wanna go to your school, you've got a vibrant academic community. I want to be a part of that, but you see enough of that stuff happening too often and that's why you've got not, let's say I wanted to get into a school back in the day and I say, Tom, you're just better at this than me. Can you just write my entrance essay? That would be something where it's like, all right, well, I'm pulling the wool over someone's eyes here because it wasn't really my voice. Now it's like, well, let's get chat GPT or something similar to do that, but now I don't wanna be flagged for that so I'm gonna hire an editor to then polish it up to make it human. It's a funny circular thing. It is interesting because my point about knowing your voice doesn't apply in an entrance exam, does it? So it really wouldn't matter that they can't tell it's your voice, it just needs to not sound like chat GPT's voice. So I wonder if a more clever prompt would be able to do this, like avoid the regular tropes and words that people use in entrance essays and then write me an essay. I'm sure somebody must have tried that out there, but I guess it's cheaper than paying someone to write an entire essay like you're saying to just have them punch it up and look for those words. And it struck me when you were talking about all these words like tapestry and esteemed faculty, these are the kinds of things that the people judging these essays roll their eyes at already before there were ever even large language models in the picture because they're like, everybody uses these. It's why the large language models spit them out because they're trained on everybody else's essays that everyone uses all those overused words. So it overuses them because it doesn't know any better. It's a really interesting quirk of how this stuff works. Yeah, I know the whole idea of like, I want this to sound very professional but also very human. And so instead of just doing it myself for whatever reason, I'm kind of like, all right, let's do a first pass use chat GPT then second pass human helps. And then, I don't know, hopefully I go to the school that I wanna go to. I mean, these are little tips and tricks. I mean, it's not really, I don't know. I mean, there's nothing wrong with using the tools unless a school explicitly says if you use one of these models for an entrance essay, you will automatically be barred from the school. I mean, that would be one thing. But otherwise, I feel like this is just, this is what anybody, I was about to say kids, but anyone of any age is gonna do. Like, you kind of game the system. You see where you can get. And I think it's actually pretty smart to be like, thank you chat GPT. All right, a person who used to work at Cornell for many years, can you just like punch this up and make me sound really great? It's an interesting thought. Like using chat GPT as a tool to get you started doesn't bother me. But using chat GPT as a tool to get started for someone else to finish, now it suddenly really bothers me. But maybe it just shows your organizational skills and your ability to delegate. Yeah. I mean, it kind of does bother me as well. But at the same time, I think that there are, especially when you're in the educational system, there are certain things people aren't very good at. Some people are extremely smart, but are really bad at taking tests. This is maybe another one of those things where it's like, gosh, I really wanna put my best foot forward. I'm just, I don't think I'm gonna sound good. That's just saying it's a bad way of determining who should get in. Well, that too, yeah. But I mean, I think it always was that way. If we're looking at those. And I think it also shows the limits of what these large language models can do. They cannot capture the human voice as well as an actual human. So there you go. 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Unlike, say, an Apple Watch, there's no way for you to reset the Apple Vision Pro and start over unless you have a $299 cable that lets you plug it into a Mac or an iPad, but they only sell those to developers. So you either have to pretend to your developer or actually be a developer in order to give them the $299 to get the little dongle that would help you reset the Apple Vision Pro. Otherwise, you have to hike it into an Apple Store or if you're not near an Apple Store, which a lot of you aren't, you got to mail it into Apple, get them to erase and reset it and mail it back. Now, Sarah, as we mentioned yesterday, had a similar problem. You didn't forget your passcode though. You did get it locked up and had to take it into the Apple Store for the same reason to get it reset. If you want her full story on that adventure, get Apple Vision Show. The first episode is out, AppleVisionShow.com. She tells the whole story to Eileen Rivera, but does it make you feel any better knowing you're not alone now that you've seen all these other reports? Kind of. So yeah, so again, I will not go on and on about the story because I did detail it in a lot of detail on Apple Vision Show, but long story short, I am, and there might be somebody out there being like, she forgot her passcode. I didn't forget my passcode. It's the same passcode that I use for my iPhone.  You didn't forget it, that's the point. There are lots of things I do wrong, but in this case, I knew my passcode. I had restarted the Pro several times and entered the passcode and was able- Successfully, right? Yeah, exactly. So that wasn't the issue. What I suspect happened, and I don't really know why, is that because Eileen, co-host on Apple Vision Show, had been playing around with the Pro over the weekend, wiped it, gave it to me. So I was starting from scratch. I mean, she did everything right. Something in there glitched and it just got confused. It got confused. I was at the store. I'm not far away from an Apple store. So it wasn't the end of the world for me to go in, but I had to go in. Cause I was on the phone with them earlier and I was like, there's no remote wipe option. And they were like, no, no. And honestly, we don't even- There's no even literature for how to deal with you. You should just go to the store. When I got to the store, it was sort of the same thing where they were sort of like, huh, head scratching. Like, this is weird, but I heard whispers. Among the several employees that gathered around me to be like, what do we do? I was not alone. Now, that was Monday, February 5th. By Tuesday, February 6th, all sorts of articles had been published about people who had forgotten their pass codes that had to do what I did. Now, again, whatever happened in my case, the problem seems to be resolved. They did wipe my unit while I was there at the store, went home, played around with it, all good. But it is a, you know, it highlights a, I mean, to say like incredibly frustrating situation is minimizing it for some people because when I was on the phone, before I even went into a store where I was like, ah, we can't like just fix this remotely. You know, maybe it's a theft thing. You know, they're worried about me, whatever. You know, I'm thinking, what if I were, I don't know. I mean, up in the mountains on vacation, somewhere really far away from an Apple store. A lot of people just don't live near an Apple store anyway.  I mean, maybe you're looking at a week if you're lucky type thing. That is super disappointing for anybody who plunked down that much money for a unit, especially for anybody in the Apple ecosystem who's like, well, hold on a second, I don't have to do this with an iPad or an Apple watch, as you mentioned. I would be surprised if Apple didn't change its tune sooner than later. Weird Dami asked, did they tell you how to wipe the unit so you can do it at home? No, because you can't. You can't. The way you can wipe the unit is plug it into a Mac or an iPad. And the only way to plug it into a Mac or an iPad is to have the proper dongle. And the only way to get the proper dongle is to spend $299 and be a developer. So the work around here, the reality is you can sign up for a developer account, pay the $99 a year, tell them you're a developer, order the $299 dongle. Now it's a $399 dongle, I guess, $398. And then have the ability to do yourself, but that's not worth it, especially if you are near an Apple store. It's much cheaper to just go down there and be like, fine, this is inconvenient, but do it for me. I don't think they expected to have to do this a lot. I also don't think they are doing it a lot. It doesn't sound like this is a widespread issue. It's a unique issue that some people are forgetting their passcodes maybe because they didn't want to turn on Optic ID, maybe because they handed it to a friend to use and the friend typed the passcode in wrong. And Sarah, it can be tricky to type the passcode in, right? Sort of. I mean, the whole typing on the Vision Pro in general, I find, I don't want to say lackluster, but it takes some practice. And one of the first things that you do is set a passcode. So you're kind of doing this whole thing. And I can see, again, I swear to y'all, I did not forget my passcode, but I could see where- Because you got past the passcode screen. I think that's the key information here. If you didn't get stuck on the passcode screen and get locked out, you got past it and then it locked out. Several times, yeah. Like I'm not like embarrassed or whatever. You know, like if I forgot the passcode, I would just tell everybody, but people did. And I think- And a lot of people are saying that they didn't forget the passcode either and it also still locked up. So there's a few other people like you out there. There, I suspect it's what, because we were doing the weird thing where Eileen set it up for herself, she followed all the rules that Apple says about gifting or selling an Apple Vision Pro. She wiped it. She removed it from her iCloud account. She did all the things right and gave it to Sarah, but there's a glitch. There's a glitch in there that stopped it from being able to be handed over. And frankly, if Apple had profiles on this thing, this would not have even been an issue. We would have just had a profile for Eileen and a profile for Sarah. Yeah, and this actually got me down a rabbit hole of like, well, hold on a second. I mean, what if I had bought the Vision Pro, nobody else had used it. I set it up and I just wanted a friend who came over, my mom, whoever, just like, I'll put it on and play around a little bit. There are guest profile options for the Vision Pro, but they're very limited. I used it. If you're not careful, it won't let you do anything. So you have to explicitly, it's set it up to say, yes, let the guest do everything I have. So it's all or nothing. And it's not personalized to the guest. It's not like a Tom guest profile. It's just a guest profile. And every time you log in, you have to train it to your eyes every time. It will not remember that. So it's super annoying. Must be between four and 25 letters was asking, it sounds like an anti-theft measure, but it wasn't that either, was it? Because we tried the things that would have tricked it into not being anti-theft. I mean, I think, because what ended up happening, and this was part of why I was like, something's up here, was that, put in my passcode, put in my passcode, not right, not right, not right. And then I get like a, okay, you're permanently locked out. I was like, forever? Like that, just like that? Yeah, and then it was like, I would sort of just like get frustrated, put it down, put it back on later. And it was like, you're locked out for seven hours and three minutes. Yeah, which is what it does when you put in the wrong passcode multiple times. Yeah, but I mean, that would have been, it's like, am I permanently locked out, or is it seven hours, or is it 13? I got that at one point and I just went to bed. And yeah, in the morning it was like, yeah, what's your passcode? Something, something's up, something's up. So hopefully nobody has that. Protection, the seven hour timeout is to stop people from just trying to hack into it, but you were entering the right passcode. So it was not that. I don't know, I feel like this thing is not meant to be shared very clearly. They did not test it with sharing. And this happens with every new device when it launches. There's always some glitch. Enough people have it that it seems widespread. It's always a small slice of people. And it's something they didn't encounter until they got it into mass numbers of people, right? Because they just didn't test for these sort of scenarios. Like why would you share it? Why would you buy? Why would one person buy it and then give it to someone else immediately? Why would you do that? Well, we did. Well, yeah. Take that, Apple. I mean, we can't all have these, you know, expensive devices. Sometimes we have to share these things. Yeah. All right, real quickly before we get out of here, let's check out the, oh, that's the wrong one. Nail bag, there we go. Alison Sheridan wanted to make a clarification to yesterday's show regarding she charging. Alison says, I just re-listened to the show. And at one point, you said that she too will work with any phone. We should have said any CHE2 compatible phone. The iPhones are already CHE2 compatible, of course, but that may not be true with other manufacturers. I don't know this for certain, but it would make sense that the coils and the phones would have to be redesigned to match up to the chargers. I tried to download the CHE version 2.0 spec, but they don't have it available yet. They explicitly say that you can't read it. So a CHE phone that is not CHE2 will charge with a CHE2 charger at the slower rate. It will not charge at the faster CHE2 rate. Everything's backwards compatible. So that's what I was meaning when I said any phone should work. Also, I guess it should be obvious that if a phone doesn't have CHE charging capability at all, if it's not meant to wirelessly charge, it also wouldn't work with any CHE charger. But yes, thank you, Allison, for the clarification. 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So we've just finished the 16th annual two day climate and development day side event that IID has been doing for the last 16 years here. I started it a long time ago, 16 years ago, initially as a one day adaptation day event where we would bring together people working on adaptation. In those days a very small number in a sea of thousands of people working on mitigation. So it was a means of just us getting to know each other. Over the years it's expanded. We had it every year. I think in Montreal we made it into a two day event and changed the name to Development and Climate Day so that we could bring in a broader spectrum of development actors in. And the whole purpose was to bring together people working in development who come to the COP, again not very large numbers of them, but give them an opportunity to meet together and network. And in terms of the ambience of the event, make it a much more informal, relaxed atmosphere which is in contrast to the very formal negotiations taking place down the road in the same city. So it's in the middle weekend of a two day COP, a two week COP and it's deliberately made as a break from the COP. It's for people to come, relax, meet others, like-minded people, learn from each other and most of all have some fun together. And I think over the years we've developed a reputation. I know several people who come to COP just for the Development and Climate Day event now because that's where it's more interesting for them rather than just going to the COP and following the formal negotiations which can be very boring and tedious unless you're a negotiator or a lawyer or very much steeped in the language of negotiations. And so we've just finished two days. I think we've had well over 300 people attending over the two days. Not many people stay from beginning to end. People drop in to different sessions over the two days and it's designed like that for them to come, drop in, meet people, spend time in the breaks. We give a lot of space for people to just sit and talk to each other and have their own conversations in parallel using this as a networking place. I set up my office. I tell anybody who wants to meet me to just come to the Development and Climate Days over Saturday Sunday and come and see me because I'm going to be here. And I've done at least a dozen interviews with people and talks over the last couple of days. So I'm very pleased to report back that the 16th Development and Climate Days went very well. We are now hoping to link the annual Development and Climate Days at the COP more effectively with the annual community-based adaptation conferences that we also run. This year it was in Malawi next year at this. And over the next few years we're going to make these into a much better linked series of events than we've been able to do in the past. So I look forward to your seeing the many, many products that will come out of this including a very interesting cartoon that was done for the full two days and videos and other products that people will be able to see and look forward to anybody coming to COP25 to come and attend Development and Climate Days 17th Development and Climate Days in COP 25 next year. We're not quite sure where it will be. Possibly Costa Rica or Chile. We'll find out soon.