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job for you a job that must be done by men of courage you can get full details of how you may best serve your future and your country's future by a visit to your nearest United States Army recruiting station do it today and now your United States Army presents the proudly we hail production the olefsky ambush isn't this army so there are times when I think I know everything on the other hand there are times when I'm convinced I don't know anything I enlisted before World War two when I served a lot of outfits and I soldiered with a lot of people I'm telling you all this because you'd think that a guy like me should certainly know the score by now well I do know the score but there are times when I kind of don't know what game is being played like for instance this thing with holiday now I'm my I'm first sergeant in a rifle company stationed near Frankfurt in Germany you would ask me which guy in the outfit was least likely to go a wall I would have to say holiday the holidays a college boy he's serious he reads books he wears glasses and what do you think interest holiday holiday is a chess fiend the first that I knew that holiday was a wall was when I took revelry one morning and fourth platoon reported one man absent I like to have had a fit when I found out what was so I took the morning report into the old man for signature and it was all that he could do to believe it holiday yes sir I don't believe he's a wall captain what's the story so I don't be a holiday put in for a three day pass that's right I remember he wanted to go to Munich to compete in a chess tournament well the pass was up at midnight he wasn't that formation this morning so technically he's a wall technically legally actually no question about it what do you think Sergeant I think holiday must have missed a connection somewhere and he's high-tailing back here as fast he can I wish he'd call in so we could have given him an extension all men holiday I'll tell you what Sergeant let's hold off for a little while anyhow I'll give him a couple of more hours to show up then again he could be deep in some chess game I understand some of those fellas lose all track of time imagine a guy going a wall to play chess sir you don't want to do anything about holiday right now well not right this minute anyhow I'm convinced he'll show up let's let's keep it in the company as long as we can you know idea the type of guy captain karate is but don't peg him as a soft either I've seen the good captain when he was throwing a book but he was sure you see that holiday was on the level with the legitimate excuse and he was prepared to stick his neck out and go all the way down the line for him well we waited all morning for holiday at least for word from him but there was nothing the whole day passed and there wasn't a sign of it couldn't understand it you see you see this business of a wall now you get you get some of it in the army but it's usually unstable guys or guys who hate what they're doing or just don't care but I mean how do you figure holiday serious sensible he liked the outfit he liked all the guys a man like holiday just doesn't walk away but he did so there are all my experience and figuring how to go out the window then late one afternoon four days later this German civilian shows up in the orderly room what can I do for you is it possible sergeant to pay a social call on one of your soldiers as possible who do you want to see a soldier by the name of Halliday William Halliday what's your name a Schneider you can tell him Mr. Hunt Schneider is calling if you please yeah sit down Mr. Schneider I'd like to tell Halliday you're here but I can't you see I can't because Halliday is a wall excuse me absent without leave oh we haven't seen him since he went to Munich on pass let's suppose you tell me who you are and what's your business with Halliday well well I sell life insurance and I play chess and I went to Munich for the the tournament there I met your soldier he's a very very good player he won you know no I didn't know you saw Halliday at the tournament yes he was there at all times he was undefeated so he played morning session and afternoon and night you say he's not here he did not return when was the last time that you saw Halliday one Monday it was the last night I was pleased when I learned he was stationed here in Frankfurt so I said we must play together chess sometime he said yes he's a master he uses the van all opening is almost impossible to defeat that's not what you asked me I said to him I'm driving to Frankfurt in the morning can you hide with me he said no I must take the train or else I shall be late for what was the word formation yeah did he take the train well of course that is the tournament was finished many people were leaving for railroad station he went with them you say he has not a hive mr. shot let me have your address yes I live at number 71 crown prince tracer 71 I got it why do you suppose he's not here I don't know but I'll tell you one thing I'm sure that he's not a wall sir this proves Halliday went to Munich to play chess according to this guy Schneider that's all Halliday did once he got there he played practically till it was time to take the train back as far as Schneider knows Halliday left for the station I won't fight against anything you said sergeant but where is Halliday what do you do run into another chess game on his way to the train is that what's been holding him all week I'll I didn't ever get on the train sir how do you know if he did he'd have been back here and I'll bet Halliday is an AWOL either something happened to him sir when he left the hotel where they were holding the tournament and I'll tell you something else I found out here in the outfit what's that Halliday left the week before payday was almost broke sergeant Downs tells me that Halliday borrowed 20 bucks from him to make the trip just that I can't imagine what could have happened to him look Maltby the MPs and the civilian police in Munich have Halliday's full description but I think they ought to know what this fellow Schneider told you right it up and we'll send it out well sir what is it I think I'm due for a three day pass myself does the captain think I can have it now where do you want to go that's a real good question if I could get a pass I'd be headed from Munich myself captain signed my pass and I was in Munich the next morning I went to the military police headquarters and there was a tech sergeant there named Peterson who I knew back in the States he was now with the Provo Marshall's office we chewed the rag a little about old times and I told him the new stuff I had on holiday well we've been looking for your boy Halliday and the civilian cops are cooperating but none of us are getting anywhere tell me as far as you know does he speak German or just a little not too much no it isn't easy for an American soldier to hide out here he'd have been spotted around town I don't think he's in Munich listen he didn't want to go away war I'll buy that for now so so what could have happened to him on the way to the station nothing it's less than a quarter of a mile from where they played chess to the station a crowded street well it he had no dough on him you say so that rules out a holder did he get into some kind of fight I can't imagine why or what was he hurt bad well we checked the doctors in the hospitals go all the way was he killed what happened to his body I'm not thinking about anything like that there are only two possible answers Peterson first he could have been kidnapped why after all who is he what is he who needs him who wants him what for I don't know what for well what's the second possibility he saw something or he learned something something so important that he had to follow it up even if it meant being a war yeah what well now look just because I can't answer that it doesn't mean it isn't possible all you got to do is start with what I'm starting with and that is that holiday intended to come back to the outfit on time at the last minute something came up you know what the French say look for the day not holiday this is his first trip to Munich I who did he know here you mean he's gonna walk down the street take one look at some damn and say honey you're it I'm throwing everything away for you let's go Malby I gotta admit one thing it beats me what could have happened to holiday and why you're talking where's this hotel where they played chess Peterson and I drove over to the hotel which housed the Munich chess association couple of elderly guys were sitting around playing game oh yeah they remembered holiday all right the most brilliant player they ever saw but what could they tell us he was there for three days he played chess he won the tournament and he left for Frankfurt we went downstairs to the coffee shop for lunch we could have eaten at any one of a number of places but Peterson knew all the restaurants in town and since this was a Tuesday he knew that the house special was a terrific wiener schnitzel so anyhow the waitress finally showed up to take our order and the waitress turned out to be lady luck a proline yeah I'm on here a copy beat that yeah I don't know what I can tell you Malby I can tell you one thing Pete holiday is not the AWOL type holiday is not the kind of kid who gets into trouble now let me tell you something Malby you and I have been around a long time we should have learned something why well we should have learned that you can really never get to know a guy now there's another side to this holiday that's the side that's just produced in a while let's say he's missing not a wall say anything you want the fact is you call the role of formation back at the outfit and how the day doesn't answer present I think the black coffee thank you that would be all yeah dr. listen Pete I admit this holiday thing has got me dizzy but while you were sounding off about him just now the waitress the waitress when you mentioned Halliday's name she kind of looked at you stood still till you finished talking and then she gave us the coffee think now it wasn't my imagination you're gonna make me as nutty over this holiday deal as you are now you're beginning to see things but just to show you the kind of guy I am I'm gonna follow up on everything the nuttier the better storyline my friend the sergeant here seems to have noticed that you seem to be kind of interested in what we were talking about just before oh I am sorry were you trying to listen to us talking well yes what will we say that you found so interesting you spoke a name that was familiar to me holiday what is the name holiday mean to you well if he is a soldier and yeah he must be one I will you know you meet someone and then you hear his name spoken you will you stop to listen it is natural move you know a soldier named William Halliday well I made him when or it was last week at the tournament you see when they had the chess club meeting I go upstairs to serve coffee while I play and he was the only American soldier not at all bad looking so I watched him my father liked chess and I know something about the game and I like to watch a good player when was the last time you saw him the night the tournament was finished he left you haven't seen him since no sir is something wrong with him he looked like such a nice young man did he seem to be all right that night I mean did he seem nervous would you say that there was anything unusual about the way I was very busy serving coffee I know but try to think during the tournament didn't something some little thing I don't care what it was did you notice anything that might be a little strange no sir well at least you know him by side now if you should happen to see him around town anywhere would you tell the nearest policeman or get in touch with me my name is Sergeant Peterson at the Provo Marshall's office at the American military headquarters but I let us know if you see him yes it was the most dog on thing ever saw how did it disappeared we couldn't pick up a single lead well we did get a lucky break as I said but we didn't know it at the time because we didn't know this waitress knew more than she told us but it wasn't her for it happened that she knew more than she thought she did we would have felt better sooner if we knew what was going through her mind when she went home that night what is the matter with you is with me nothing all even you have just sat quietly you have not heard anything I upset I am sorry uncle card no you are troubled about something I can always tell you work too hard in that hotel no and it is my fault if only I could play the piano again more casualties to war than you read in the journals but I saw her pressman at lunch he said perhaps there will be some avenging work for me and would be nice now in sir is a what were you saying uncle now you must tell me what is troubling you you remember the chess player I told you about the handsome young American soldier no doubt he has disappeared disappear the army has probably sent him to another no no he has disappeared from the army serious you must tell me was there anything between you oh uncle I do not think he would even know me if he saw me I just happened to notice him at the tournament in the coffee shop today two American sergeants were talking about it I think it is quite serious but uncle how can I go to the Americans and tell them something that seems so so and besides it was my imagination I'm sure of it I do not think you should go to the authorities at all I think you should stay away keep out of those things besides what do you know the very last match he played it was against I remember the name because it was written on a table card a dr. Grinner I can follow chess but this was very much over my head what they were doing dr. Grinner moved the queen and I noticed the American looked at him with amazement then the American moved his castle and and they both looked at each other men look at each other when they play chess but not like that when dr. Grinner moved his queen it was as though he did something he should not have and when the American looked at him it was with amazement and then there was a strange sort of smile on his face I am positive the authorities would not be interested in this then the match was over and as everyone was leaving I heard dr. Grinner say to the American may I walk to the station with you but you see uncle caramel the American never reached the station he left the hotel and he has not been seen since I say would they laugh at me if I told him a story like this should I go to them you must decide that for yourself what would you do uncle I would look at my right hand and remember the day the Americans attacked the Nazi who am I to talk did I not fire a rifle too do I know where all my bullets landed I want to do the right thing uncle yes one should always do the right thing especially if the man is young and handsome you're listening to the proudly we hail production the ambush and we will return in just one moment for the second act today you young men of America have an excellent opportunity to learn a trade which will assure your future the many fine technical schools of the United States Army are training men in such interesting fields as radio radar meteorology mechanics electronics oh so many many fields you can become a qualified technician trained to do an important job and what's more important to do it right so for full details about an exciting career you visit your nearest United States Army recruiting station there's no obligation so plan ahead face your tomorrow today you're listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of the Olaf ski ambush private William Halliday station with the United States infantry in Frankfurt Germany was an unusual type of soldier in that his hobby was chess and he played it like a master he had asked for a three-day pass to go to Munich to compete in a chess tournament Halliday a fine a fishing soldier had no trouble getting the pass but unaccountably Halliday never returned from the tournament first Sergeant Maltby is willing to bet his life that Halliday did not go AWOL Sergeant Maltby had gone to Munich where he met Sergeant Peterson of the Provo Marshall office there is a waitress in the hotel where the tournament was held who thinks she knows something about Halliday's completely baffling disappearance you think then Ilsa that something must have clicked between Halliday and this doctor Grunner clicked while something passed between it seemed that it was a strange moment excuse me Sergeant Peterson yeah I did I'll appreciate it on anything more on him inspector OK let me have his address thank you very much all that was the info I asked the civilian police about on Dr. Grunner not too much he's not a medical doctor he's a scientist physics is his field he works for the Lothar Motor Company in town has no record I got his address what's the connection between these two guys Halliday and American Grunner German they never met never saw each other before so what was this this click that I was a spotted are you heard Dr. Grunner say may I walk to the station with you so what happened then did Halliday go with him he I saw him leave with Dr. Grunner you got it this Dr. Grunner either convinced Halliday not to go back to Frankfurt or else he prevented him or else he doesn't know anything about it I'm afraid of this Dr. Grunner I do not like the way he looked at Halliday I tell you something I happen to learn in all these years I learned to go by a woman's intuition what do you think Pete Grunner's house has said what do you know about a man named Halliday but my boy Sergeant Peterson happens to be a professional he knows how these things should work so we went to the Lothar Motor Company and we didn't ask to see Grunner Peterson remembered that working in the personnel department was a woman named Frau Elena Reinemuth this Frau Reinemuth had a daughter who once needed a certain drug to save her life and the army heard about it and got the drug for while this made Frau Reinemuth the type of woman to whom Peterson could talk freely to a certain extent Dr. Grunner has been with our research department since 1950 he is a very valuable man where is he from he has an East Prussian originally from Kiernigstern that's in the Red Occupation Zone now isn't it yes how long has he been in Munich four years where was he before that according to the record here he was in Kiernigstern until 1949 when he escaped across the border to the American Zone Kiernigstern is kind of far from the border how did he get there he was engaged in research and his work took him to East Berlin and from there he escaped and all we really know about him is from 1949 on yes sergeant may I ask if you have any reason to suspect anything about Dr. Grunner he seems to be a fine gentleman there's no way we can trace his background before 1949 he has his documents his diploma from the University of Weimar various technical articles he has written he has a very good record it seems tell me is there anything that tells about his having played chess no there is nothing about his being a chess player well Rhino Muth I'd appreciate it very much if you didn't mention to him that we were here at all Pete when do we get to talk with Grunner I don't think we're gonna get to Dr. Grunner at all I don't think this guy's real name is Grunner I'm going back to the office to draw my 45 what this isn't even a job for Provo Marshall well the beginning of it is when I tell the captain what I've been doing he'll tell me to take a squad and some German cops and bring Grunner in from then on intelligence takes on yeah but what about holiday we'll bring holiday back if if what if he's alive well they weren't gonna keep me out of it I borrowed a pistol and one long there were five of us and two German cops with a search warrant we stopped a little way from Dr. Grunner's house Peterson decided to walk in first big and innocent and there wasn't anything Pete could do to keep me from walking in with him either now for crying out loud malty keep your mouth shut and let me talk huh yes are you Dr. Grunner yes I'm Sergeant Peterson Provo Marshall's office wonder if I could talk to you with me yeah could we come in by yes will you sit down oh thank you an American soldier named Halliday played chess with you last week now we understand that you and he left for the railroad station together now that's the last anyone seen of Halliday could you tell us what you know about it oh I remember him yes well I walked a few blocks with him and then we parted I came home what has happened to Halliday we thought maybe you could tell us I saw him last on the night you mentioned I have not seen him since you say your name is Dr. Otto Grunner it is Dr. Grunner do you have any objection if we search your house of course I have objection that you you have no right your house is surrounded right now by military and civilian police what have you done with Halliday Sergeant I are you serious cover them all please don't worry this is an atrocity it sure is Grunner and you're trying to commit it your friends I'm trying to big buddy your gas get him he's gonna wait try to get to the window I can't leave evidence we've been gas covered that joint that helps we gotta get out of this room we're dead not in here can you see anything please just try to head for the air don't worry they won't get away somehow we managed to make the street all of our guys had taken cover and were keeping the building under fire finally a half track pulled up with MPs who had gas masks and they worked their way into the building it flushed out Grunner and a couple of his buddies and who do you think brought up the real looking sleepy and hungry and with a week's growth of beard but my boy Halliday Sergeant I I was playing chess and tell you the truth I didn't even look at the man's face opposite me he was just an opponent that's all I thought I had him checkmate it was suddenly made he made two moves we have to understand about chess but what he did was known as the Olavsky ambush only one guy in the whole world ever played that way a Russian chess player named Olavsky how do you know Sergeant I read books well anyhow I looked at this fellow and I said to him is your name Olavsky well he just seemed to get a little confused he said may I take that move back well then we left for the station the next thing I know some fellow jabbed a gun in my ribs he got me into a car they brought me to the house so hasn't they kept me locked up in the get for the life of me I can't figure out why a week went by and then then I heard shooting downstairs and well here we are well the intelligence section cracked your boy Grunner all right his name is Olavsky he's a red agent and back home he was a scientist and a chess player they rigged him up with the papers of a dead scientist named Grunner he's doing good work with him too but he had a weakness he was only human he liked to play chess well he came up against a hot shot like you holiday and he was forced for the first time to go into his bag of tricks and he did something he shouldn't have he made a play that would have made sense only to a guy like you but he didn't know it well you mean I actually played chess with with the great Olavsky that shows you here was a guy Olavsky who was one of the most dangerous red agents in Munich and who trapped them my boy holiday and holiday didn't even know what he was doing holiday was just playing chess today your United States Army needs intelligent young men with ability and ambition men intelligent enough to recognize the vital need for a strong armed force men with ability enough to be trained in a necessary job men with ambition enough to secure the future for themselves and their loved ones does this description fit you hmm can you qualify well for full information on how you can fit in with the finest check with your nearest United States Army recruiting station remember the United States Army needs you this has been another program on proudly we hail presented transcribed in cooperation with this radio station proudly we hail is produced by the recruiting publicity center in New York for the 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Pop OS is one of those distributions that has aimed to take a boon to and make it better And I think over the last few years the people behind Pop OS system 76 has really they have really done a really good job of Taking a boon to and making it better now There's a lot of things going on with system 76 and pop OS outside of the extra distribution We know that they're moving away from a GNOME based desktop environment and moving into something of their own creation But until that time comes we do have a brand new pop OS release and that is pop OS 21 dot 10 now Frankly, I think that their naming scheme is kind of bad because it wasn't released in October And I know what they're doing. They're basing it on the Ubuntu number But I think if they're gonna try to do their own thing they should come up with their own naming scheme But that's beside the point today what we're gonna do is take a look at five of the best features on pop OS 21 dot 10 and I will say this there aren't a ton of new features here This is definitely a more of a polish update than a new features update and that's okay The last release that we saw was the first released. I believe of the cosmic desktop So it's good that they've gone through and spent a few months Kind of polishing the rough edges and that's what we're gonna see today. So let's go ahead and jump in So I have a brand new install of pop OS 21 dot 10 here Now the only thing I've done is ran through the Initial setup where they allow you to choose what kind of doc you want whether or not you want later dark theme that kind of thing That's not new that was here before but it's really still really good The first thing and probably the biggest thing of this release that you'll notice is the new app drawer Now they're calling it the application library. That's a little pretentious for me. It's an app drawer So if we click on this icon here, this is what the app drawer now looks like now If you've used pop OS in the past, you'll know that this looks significantly different than it used to because it used to be Just the GNOME applications panel anytime you hit the applications icon. You'd get this full screen list of applications There's no organization whatsoever out of the box. You can create folders and stuff like that but that's usually on you to do and Other than that, it's just a gigantic list of applications This comes pre-sorted by defaults We have folders down here at the bottom and you can create new a new folder if you'd like to and it also allows you to edit the Folders that are already there so you don't you're not stuck with this categorization if you don't want to use that That's cool. You can just hit the button up here. You can rename it You can get rid of the folders You can drag things around just like you could with the previous app drawer And of course there's search here if you need to search for something You don't feel like going through and searching through manually So that is probably the biggest feature of pop o s 21.10 and I have to say I really like it It's not necessarily completely different different than what GNOME does and I think that that is a good thing because a lot of people are Used to that gigantic list of app, you know grid of applications This is similar so people aren't going to get lost or be upset about it But it's different enough that it kind of stands out So I really actually quite enjoy this and I could see myself being happy with this as well So that is probably the biggest feature the next one on the list is one that I really can't show you because it is something for a different device so pop o s 21.10 now supports the raspberry pi and I think this is important because more and more Linux distributions are supporting the raspberry pi and that's Really great because that means more and more work is being put into arm support on Linux And the more arm support we have the better We're going to be prepared for when the inevitable future comes and everything is based on arm So I think that this is a really good step now with the support of raspberry pi now We'll be able to see more development for hardware support on arm based devices And I think that's that is really important So if you have a raspberry pi now you can try out pop o s 21.10 on that device It does note that it is in development phase. So you're probably going to expect some Bugs if you try this out So don't use this as a as a production machine at least right out of the bat But I would expect development process for that to go really quick because they are a Distro based on Ubuntu and Ubuntu has an Raspberry pi image so they should be able to take a lot of stuff from Ubuntu in order to make their version of Pop o s for raspberry pi much better. So that is number two So the next one is something that I'm not all that familiar with but from what I've read is that pop O s has had a feature now called pop o s refresh for a little while and basically what this will do It will allow you to go through and reinstall your operating system or your Linux distro in this case Without deleting any of your personal files. It also apparently handles all of your o s upgrade So if we go to the settings application here and Scroll all the way down to the bottom and do o s upgrade and recovery in this panel here Is where we'd find pop o s refresh now or at least from what I can tell that their Release notes weren't all that in-depth on how you actually get to this I'm also assuming that if you and have pop o s installed And then you went from like an alive iso if you booted into a live iso And they came up it would tell you that you have pop o s ref Pop o s installed and then give you an option to refresh it instead of just completely nuking a page So I miss I'm thinking that that's the way it works I can't test that and there's not a good description of how this works But I it has said that pop o s refresh has gotten some new features But it didn't actually say what those new features are so if we actually go to Get out of this VM here and go to a browser here So your system will now be able to recognize pop o s installed from the recovery partition and offer the refresh OS So I was wrong. It's not a live iso. It's from a recovery partition so this is very much similar to what some OEM manufacturers do and When you get a brand new computer it has an operating system on a lot of times There will be a separate partition that will allow you to recover your device should something go wrong with the main partition and This is not surprising given that system 76 is a hardware vendor so that they could do this But I'm wondering how this would work if you install this on like a non system 76 device I would wonder if they would go through and do that partition as well on that device or if it's just system 76 Stuff there'll be something to test out in the future So number four on the list is better hardware support and this is something again that I can't really show you But according to the release notes system 76 has put in a lot of effort to make sure that Papa West will Play nicely with the most recent hardware now this includes obviously the most recent kernel So if we go through and do you name? dash a here we'll see that this using Linux kernel 5.15.5 and They've also gone through and started to change the way they use kernels So I can't really explain. I don't have all the details. I haven't read up on it But I know that they're going through and changing the source of the currency They used to take the Ubuntu kernel now they're taking I believe they're taking the mainline kernel I could be wrong about that But I know that they're making that change and what that should mean is that the most recent hardware support That is baked into the Linux kernel will come to Papa West quicker than if they had to wait for that to be filtered from Ubuntu So that is kind of good So because a lot of people when they switch to Linux or switching to Linux on really new hardware So we've seen things like Linus tech tips things where he tried Papa West and he just unfortunately happened upon a System-ending bug and didn't read the output But the point is a lot of people who want to use Linux want to try Papa West because they've heard good things about it And it's good that that Papa West is working very hard to make sure that the most recent hardware supported And again, it makes sense because they are a hardware vendor by trade So a better hardware support is definitely one of those Features that we should all be happy about and the last one is some more recent versions of GNOME applications now I don't know how important this is given that they're going to be switching away from you know But they're gonna still be using some GNOME applications. So similar to what Ubuntu has been doing they've gone through and kind of put together a poppery of GNOME applications from different versions so for the terminal here we have 3.38 which is Pretty old why they haven't gone through and done a new one yet. I don't know. It's just the terminal for files here We have version 40.2 And if we go to the applications here for say the calendar, we have Version 41 so as you can see It's kind of a mixed mash of GNOME versions and I think that that's something that we're gonna see a lot more of We're gonna see distro developers kind of picking and choosing what applications get updated And it's gonna make things really confusing for Linux YouTubers because we're gonna have to go through and actually kind of Parse what versions of which are on here and it's not gonna be the same across distros anymore It's it's gonna be a royal pain, but that's kind of what they've been doing So a lot of stuff here has been updated to newer GNOME versions not necessarily the newest But they but some of the stuff will be newer than it was in the previous version of you know Or of pop OS so what you should be able to do is expect this stuff to be very stable because they're not using bleeding edge GNOME Software which sometimes has a tendency to be a little bit buggy or they've gone through and remove features from that More recent GNOME stuff, so you should be able to stay on the older versions and still have those features so that is pop OS 21.10 and It's a really good release. There's not a ton of new features, but I really like the application drawer I'm gonna call it the application drawer because application library doesn't Sound great to me, but the I really do like it I think that they've done a good job of polishing this to make it even better than it was before and It'll be interesting to see I mean it because it makes a lot of sense that they won't put a lot of effort into putting new features Into this for this desktop environment knowing that they're going to be changing in the future Now we don't know when they're going to be changing to do whatever they're calling it I think they're gonna be calling a cosmic desktop so But we don't know when that's going to happen. It could be the next release It could be two or three releases from now. It depends on how long it takes them to make that development work So we could see several releases like this that are just kind of minor updates, but we'll see how that goes So that is it for this video if you have thoughts on Papa West 21.10 You can leave those in the comment section below. You can follow me on Twitter at the Linux cast You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go. I would like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Today Devon Chris East goes web gen 2 is fun to Patrick all primus Marcus makelyn Jackson tool Steve a Mitchell art center and Matthias carbon dated merit camp drash really J dog the BSTs rock Peter a crucible. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time


every individual realizes he or her full potential can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. Now, according to World Health Organization, depression and common mental health disorders affect millions and approximately one in five Nigerians experiencing mental health problems each year. Mental health is a knack in Nigeria, rather is a significant public health issue. However, only a small fraction of these people receive treatment. Inadequate fundings, stigma and brain drain remain the biggest obstacles to delivering mental health services to Nigerians and the government at all levels need to increase their efforts and reduce neglect in the sector. As we mark World Health or World Mental Health Day, 2023, today we're asking, can mental health become a universal human right? Now, please, let's hear what you have to say. Remember, if you join the conversation, send us an SNS or WhatsApp to 08-1803-4663. Okay, so for the longest time in Nigeria, a lot of people associated mental health issues with what do they call them? They say Yabba left, they give you all sorts of names and all of that. But I think over time, again, with globalization, with a lot of awareness globally that has happened over the years, there's a lot more receptive, what's it called? receptiveness when it comes to understanding that people truly go through certain phases in their life. I remember there was a time in my life, a very low point in my life where, I think even though it wasn't diagnosed, I believe, because my friend, she's a mental health expert, right? I believe based on the symptoms I hear her talk about, I think I was going through depression, but even I did not know.  So I believe that the Nigerian state as it is, is a stressor.  Like literally everything stresses us. So if you want to even look at these numbers, I mean from World Health Organization, they say one in five. I even believe it is one in three or one in two, because as three of us, they for this place here. One person is God, definitely.  And I that point is that you would go through certain levels of mental, what's it called, stresses and all of that and it to just take a toll on you. Some people now, they've not been able to manage it well, it has gone all the way to the extreme. What is a big issue? And for me, I feel like I agree with the topic that says it should be a human right. It should be part of your fundamental human right for your sanity. That way, you can then tie it to many things. You can then demand for certain things, better living standards. Literally going on the road is depressing. Today, a minute I entered the road, I saw you have a 31 minutes delay. As I had 31 minutes delay, so I have to go through a very bumpy road just to avoid that 31 minutes delay. That's stressing my mental health.  The way it's going like this, my brain will be shaking. So it's almost like, I have a headache, maybe. I have to say it. So that's why we have a leg foundation, but seriously. Lakers is a dead home. Like it's a catalyst for abnormalities in your mental health, honestly. But let me hear your thoughts. What do you think, right?  And now I thought I was going to be on your podium. I thought I was going to be on your podium side, but I just can't help it. Yes, I think it should be part of the human rights. And I think it's something that we should address from an early stage. So you have teenagers now who go through depression and there's that stigma from the Nigerian-African parents. Is that age that it starts? When you're just sort of new into the world and you're kind of lost, trying to find yourself where you fit. And sometimes you're able to manage it well and sometimes you're not.  What kind of thoughts are you having with yourself? Because how you think is going to reflect on your body as well, how your body responds to distress. Even with the medications? Yes, you understand. So it's very important if we can start at an early stage. So from a teenager, just even self-development, proper guidance would be nice. So we don't wait until the point where a person is about to jump off a 10-melan bridge and they say, no, no, no, don't do it, now we're here for you. And even to the common man who has no sort of support system, the same way there's hospital for if you have an injury to go on. Not everybody even now can afford to go to a hospital but it would be nice to say, okay, I need to talk to somebody, they're taught to have it in my head. But being even able to come out and say it is something I think in this part of the world we need to embrace. How about you? Well, I actually also agree that mental health should be everybody's human right, right? Because the truth is that according to what she said, just where we have hospitals for when people are sick, we should have maybe clinics for mental health, people to talk. But the thing is that we have therapies, don't we? They're not just exactly affordable. So I think that in making, okay, well maybe because these things are actually privatized, that will also be why. So I think if the government really wants to see to making mental health a basic human right for every individual, I think they need to start off by creating a government-owned, I don't know if I should call it an hospital now. I don't know where that's going to go. I mean, creating a government-owned hospital, where, you know, even if we're going to, it's just like, I mean, if we're going to pay, it's not going to be so much because imagine I am depressed now and then I'm thinking, okay, I need to talk to a therapist. And then I go to the therapist and the person says, 100K per session. The depression would be, I mean, the depression will really even disappear in all. The depression is just hibernating because what you just met is even more depressing. So I mean, these things are not entirely rocket science, if I'm being honest. These things are very doable. I mean, I understand that funding is a major part of why this mental health issue has not particularly been taken up. And I also understand that the stigma, I think sensitization of the general public will actually go a long way. So just like people talk about abortions, right? I mean, people in marriage literally have abortions because probably they're not ready for the child at the time. And I don't see, maybe you can say I'm pro-abortionist, but I'm just like, you're not ready. Sometimes it comes as a mistake, for couples like that in an actual marriage. Maybe not in this picture because they were actually engaging in the act. But the point is, they were not just ready at the time. So what people stigmatize, they're like, ah, you don't have abortions. I don't think that that's it. It's just someone who is liberated, you know, making an actual decision for themselves. So I think that we should, the government or even everybody, all of us actually, general sensitization of the general public will actually go a long way. To make people understand that, look, someone with a mental health problem is not a mad person. Because usually when you say you are probably depressed or you have anxiety or you have wanting, wanting, wanting. You know exactly, there's also the parts of saying, oh, you're just especially African parents. I mean, no offense to African parents, right? But imagine you're in an African home. You're in an African home and genuinely, because the truth is that when teenagers are growing from being teenagers, they're teenagers so that to be, you see, adults now. Yeah. Yeah. There's just a lot. Yeah. There's always a lot. First, you're trying to find your purpose.  You're evolving and the problems are evolving too. You're becoming a different person. So, you know, that transitioning period can make you fall into some, it can make you fall into a dark place. Let me not entirely call it depression, but into a dark place. So imagine you've been in an African home now and you are genuinely in a dark place and your woman is saying, go and tell them to say more.  She doesn't understand why she's giving you any time. So, but if this person is educated enough to know that, look, when someone is actually acting down, it's not because they're trying to be lazy or something. I don't think anybody just willingly wants to be down. Unless you put that aside, it's sharp. Some people are sharp. Yeah. That's why it's always put that aside. But if the lazy parts, yeah. It's fine that some people are lazy. Yeah. So there's a thin line. Yeah. Yeah, there is a thin line because some people are generally actually are genuinely lazy. I understand the part that you're saying it's a very valid point where people need to pay attention to other people.  Because I know, yeah. We're going to come for the GenZ. No, no, no, no. Funny enough, I was not planning to come for the GenZ. So the way it works, you must study people's body language. Yeah, right. It's really when you know that you have people that are emotionally sensitive around you. When they are a bit, if they are hyper, hyper, hyper and all of a sudden they go quiet, that would be a good time to ask for you, okay, if there's anything wrong and all of that. But we don't pay attention to those things because also, we're not sensitized enough to know. A suicide does not just happen. No. There's a build-up. So somebody must have done something. There are different things. You'll be seeing so many things. Other issues of not being interested in life anymore, things anymore. Maybe they were very active. They're no longer active. They're not even interested and all of that. All those things are signs that eventually builds up to that point where the person just believes that I don't have anything here left for me. And they then take the decisions to take their lives.  That sensitization is very key. But you see, where I do not have faith is a government that's not been able to provide basic health care. GenZ, how can that government provide mental health care? Because basic health care, it's even an attack on your physical body. So you have a malaria, you have all of this, you know, you're dealing with like physical pain, you know, and all of that. You have a government that is not able to cater to that problem. Then you're not asking for the ones that they cannot even understand. Mental health, it's not possible. Why I feel like if we truly want to change the healthcare landscape in Nigeria, there has to be a lot more private investors in the industry. I mean, so I was, I just finished, you see, I've come again. I've just finished my course, you know, online. And the truth is, the majority of that conversation from the beginning of the course to the end of the course was on healthcare. Because that's the case study that they're using. And if you see the way the model, the health city, the health city models in India, the way they built it, they built it now, can afford or access, rather, can access what's it called, high level quality healthcare. So think of any of the big hospitals in Lagos or Abuja or whatever. Those are kind of healthcare services that a con roaster by the road is able to afford in India. Why? Because private investors came and says, you know what, I need to make healthcare affordable. So when it comes to healthcare, we cannot rely on private investors coming into the space. So to your point about whether we have got, we have got, because I know that my friend used to, she used to go and do some time in, I think it's in Yaba, there's a, there's a psychiatric or whatever clinic or whatever that is owned by the government. She, she worked there for a bit, you know, then before she started doing her own private practice. Yeah. So there are people that are actually there. But the truth is and those people with psychological evaluation and all of these things that has to do with mental health, they has to be retooling and retooling and retooling. It means that for every time there are issues or whatever, there has to be continuous learning. You're supposed to be taking them to go and learn about best practices around the world, you know, and all of those things. Where is the fun for that? So if you ask me, I'll say, let's avoid government in this. If we can get private investors to come in, we should be managing it. Because I have seen people that, I mean, somebody called me and said that they needed counseling for a couple, that they've been this, they've been this, and I called my counselor and she actually gave them the best, you know, the lowest, lowest deal. They still ran away because, you know, because the fee is not particularly easy. Yeah, exactly because it is mostly privatized. You know, anything that is privatized is always more expensive. Or even in a venture, like impact businesses. Because if we look at government, what government can do in that instance is, provide the facility. Provide some things like, basic things like power, facility, access. That's what government can do and give policies in a way that those people are giving maybe tax holidays or whatever. Then they can run the practice at a very very price, you know. I was at a meeting today and they were talking about been powered by solar solutions, right? Imagine if we start to have hospitals, for instance, that the government has built, fully powered. They're not thinking of generators. They're not thinking of all of this. So that cost that you're talking about, it comes down. So if you are asking, where will the government come in?  You're talking about the structure, infrastructure. And yes, that's where the government stops. So in the running of those hospitals, let the government then bring in private investors, let them come and run it fully, independent of the government. Then they cannot discuss maybe the modalities and all of that. In that way, we'll find a solution, not just to mental health, but general health in Nigeria.  I don't know if you guys have seen that video that been going around social media about maternal mortality. RMB posted it. A lot of celebrities have posted it. They all acted in it where they put a plane filled with pregnant women and there was a plane crash and they all died. So yes, and this one was part of it. They said that that is like they were trying to depict the vivid picture of what maternal mortality is like in Nigeria, that that's the number of women that die on a daily basis when it comes to maternal mortality. So just imagine that picture in here to paint that picture. So they are pressing issues that is stressing the healthcare sector. So if you say that you want to now bring in government into mental health, they will never take it seriously because particularly mental health is not that disease that it shows on you, you know. So it's something that is internal. So people don't even understand the pain. Even they themselves didn't go through.  They haven't. What is the new meaning of something else on your mind? But it's okay. I didn't know that. I was right here. All right, thanks for staying with us. If you just see our ladies night out and we're discussing can mental health become a universal human right? Please let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or what happens with 1803-4663. You can also tweet. I'm sorry. Let's leave the X matter for now. Our phone line is now open. The number is calling 070-2500-7749. Remember the rules, turn off the volume of whatever device it is you're calling or you're watching us from. So when you call, we don't get a feedback. All right.  Even our comments, our uncle's and auntie's, I feel like some of them might have some mental issues that they are not addressing or that they are not even, they can't even bring themselves to the reality. You know this thing that do me. I want to do to you what I suffered. It's kind of what we, it's a fact thing that is happening in Nigeria. What I went through, you have to go through it. I also think that another point of influence that can help out is religion. So in terms of like churches and let me tell you why religion is very tricky because if you go to a maybe a sister in church, like someone that's older than you or spiritually and whatnot, and then you explain to them that okay, I'm experiencing XYZ, XYZ thing. The next thing I'm going to say is let's pray because this has happened to me before several times. But we can't deny the fact that prayer also does help now.  What I'm trying to say, them even promoting the awareness of mental health, you know how they do, I don't know what's the word, when maybe like they gather people to say health, professional services to talk to you. You know so it's the same way, you know. Yes, I agree with you.  You can't just tell, you can't tell anybody. Yes, they have a counseling department and it's not just nobody who don't need to cancel it. Yes, because religion is a serious point of influence in this country.  So if most parents say once they once you say they charge, the pastor says it's okay, it's all right. Well let me tell you something, I have a friend that is a counselor.  But she will tell you, she always says her story you know that it was because of church that she got her first experience of rape and it was the pastor that raped her. Right, so you see this that's why a lot of people are now a lot more conscious like in those not like in those days where parents just trust because these people are men before they are men of God too. I mean she at some point was almost like everywhere she went to they wrote to rape me on her forehead because every single time there was something, there was a tantrum or something they took her to church and the pastors would have their way with her you know so when it comes to issues around churches we need to be very careful, extremely careful. You might as well be praying depression out of you or delivering depression out of you. It doesn't work that way. You don't know it doesn't. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. So it's a chemical imbalance in your mind that has happened so we need to be able to trace it back to your mind and restructure your brain again. Sometimes you know it's sometimes people do it with a lot of therapy and you know all the tools in psychology but some other people need to even go to the extent of taking medications for it. So it's not something you just say okay let's pray our way out of it and which is what I think a lot more conscious pastors now are realizing and that's why they are moving away from all that counseling department. So even when you see the new generation pastors counseling department they are they are listed with professional and professional sessions. So they they can they can take on so you I mean you cannot take the way take away the place of prayer. Prayer is very important because you need to pray and you know then of course you would then have there has to be some it's like the onion peel you have to take it layer by layer and on bondo the mind. It's not a day journey. It's not a day journey because it's just like when you pray now by tomorrow you should be fine because I mean you pray together. These things don't work like that because the truth is that some people suffer depression for instance some people suffer depression for just three months some people suffer it for a year some people suffer it for even more.  So there's there's just so many I think that I mean also the fact that mental health sorry Mary I think that the fact that mental health has also the word mental health has been bastardized. I think it's also a problem because now it's even very difficult to know someone who really has a mental health issue from someone who is just claiming to have a mental health issue. For instance ADHD does attention deficit and hyper some something.  I mean I understand that there are some that are not you don't even have to go to like a professional to get diagnosed. I mean when you like C7C terms you get you just know that okay this is what some you literally need to be diagnosed so some people plus on diagnosed plus one that you don't even know about GD or I have OCD so I think OCD and HDD are the most that have been bastardized. Are you there? Good evening. Oh we lost oh sorry well apologies. So I get that HDD, ADHD, attention deficit.  Yes so with children you need to be very careful. You must observe children. Children natural sense is they don't want to do something right. Well let's take a caller. Thank you for calling. Hello. Hi I mean. Yes you can hear you. Hi I mean. Yes we can. Oh the network is not friendly. Oh wow sorry. Let me see if I can get back. Okay. Okay I mean so you know how some children just don't want to do their work you know so you need to be able to really really go the extra mile to be sure that they're not suffering from dyslexia, they're not suffering from you know whatever it is that they autism and all of that but because some children you so you really must go to a professional and they take them. I think we have another caller. You're live. Hello. Hello. Hi thank you for calling. Apologies sorry. Hello. Yes we can hear you go ahead. We can hear you. Okay so I think when you call just talk because we can hear you obviously they cannot hear us you know so I mean yeah maybe we're going to say something. I think we also focus a lot on depression and anxiety is you know left out of it. Anxiety is very. It's as bad. It's terrible. Like see the amount of people that are so that get so anxious is over the tiniest of it. They move to insomnia. Look it's absolutely ridiculous like I so because me I talk to myself all the time and I always have to bring myself. We have a caller. Okay let's take a call. Can you hear us? You're live. Good evening. Good evening. Go ahead. Okay let me say the last thing. Hi thank you for calling. Okay please I love the topic you've got written tonight. So this topic meant that it has to do with many things. You know like here in Lagos the traffic and everything won't be in a bus or in a car for a long time. We cannot play the mental health.  Even if we're going to be stressed. Stress has to work. I wish people are watching this talk which I'm watching you because tonight you know at least so I can know that many things can affect the mental health. Many things. Thank you so much. Yes if we get tested in this country in Nigeria so I'm going to Nigeria and we don't we don't feel it. That's why it is of people they behave abnormal. Thank you. Yeah I get you. I mean anxiety. Like I can stay up all night when I'm anxious right?  And it's a deeper issue right? It's even a lot because it can lead to so many more. You just realize that you're always rushing even in terms of like time management. So you're always rushing you know you're when when someone as well that is rushing that is you know anxious where they're going both of you meet is it clash. So say why are you rushing to and then you realize oh you two you are actually rushing. We're going to let's take a call out. Let's build your life. Go ahead. Yes so I think that's what is better now. I don't think that I talk. Go ahead young guys old man. Even the telecommunication water my specific very good in bringing us up to speed is something that I'll forget it. Me this is I'm forgetting about anything mental I also yeah I'm busy reading some books on how to survive the how to survive Balablu and Budabai. The general book I'm reading is against the next election how to grab it and take it and it's not giving a lot of tax. So I'm getting on it to focus on our mental so I think I have to bring back that into perspective. However on a serious note you see the issue is that most of these things are fundamental and it needs a lot of monitoring and electing men. Our people are not away. Yeah just believe me when I say that our people are not away. A lot of things that happens in life will take you to the wrong channel. People are going to a lot of deliverance not knowing that all they need is just to get the psychologist to clean them down and run through their profile and advise them on what to do. But then they are like I want 1.3 meters to have the person face up and then the car and go on the beach is throughout the night and that person is just there worse than the issue. So for me I just believe that if we can get a divisional place like even in churches where you get a lot of bad risk where they can give like 15 or 10 minutes out of their what they call it their prostitution preaching to educate the church people on how to handle because sometimes some some of us come with it from the one to life.  All these talks but if you can get people because most people I don't understand there was one um training I went through so they now asked us about I kept your target to this and the best place to get that because somebody mentioned church and you know that company has to pay to a church to allow them talk for 5 minutes and it worked perfectly because that was the only place you can get people on that place they think about words their power and other things. So for me I think that if we can take those things to religious organizations so that they can educate people you understand just give them that enlightening. Absolutely. They don't forget. When somebody is having anger issues sometimes it's not only anger issues maybe it's health it's having it's not to okay or to stress but you think it's just I mean the best in the best that is not the language we use. True very true thank you so much young guys old man I mean it's just to reiterate what Mary was saying go ahead quickly. Well I was going to say something to portray his last point I think that as individuals we should also look I don't think that we look out for ourselves enough because it's one thing for us to say okay the government should do this we should privatize this yadda yadda yadda like that but then if we don't also look out for our own selves I don't see anything possibly working because for someone who suffers I don't even know whatever may be your issue anybody suffering you should come to an awareness where you know your trigger points you know and I also understand that triggers can change over time because the truth is that you think you know all the triggers once you something else happens that has probably never happened before and then it just triggers you and then you just act out and act out of place and stuff like that but then again if you if I believe that if we master the act of knowing ourselves starting you know knowing at least most of our trigger points knowing also how to calm ourselves down when we feel like we're being triggered because the truth is that you can never really control what can trigger you because you cannot remind you your own business somebody will just come from back end of the room and come and annoy you and that's the truth and then you don't get triggered so what do you do in times like that do you have to wait for someone to come and pacify you and it's not only even that but in some money annoying you cases of issues that people have gone through rape people have gone through abuse both mentally emotionally so there are so many things that abuse of even the abuse is coming from somewhere yeah so you see if you really want to solve mental health problem in Nigeria everybody first of all need to go through psychological evaluation true because we all at some point have been through some level of mental unhealthiness you understand just by being in Nigeria you have mental no it's true it goes precisely no I mean by being in Nigeria you already have you have you're predisposed to mental health conditions by being in Nigeria so then you now come and bring it down to Lagos you know it gets it gets even a lot more interesting when you come to Lagos because with Lagos there's just so many things right you have to wake up at 4 a.m for a meeting that you have at 9 a.m you have to do so many things like literally because of you know if this person is not stressing you somebody else is stressing you your workplace you know there's so much pressure so it's just a lot that can happen you know so if we if we really want to solve the problem I like the idea of looking out for each other pay attention then you also pay attention to your body I always listen to my body if my body tells me what you need to shut down I need to shut down yeah I would say one last thing I also think that even in our very because the truth is that there are different sectors there are different places there are different places of influence for different kinds of people now we've talked about church now our places of work too has a very great way of influencing us because we literally spend what about eight hours of our day there now I think that I mean I think that for the HR department of most companies they should adopt the idea of team bonding because the truth is that many people yeah because this whole brain drain is something that actually is something that I mean I get you quite all right but then again it's something that actually works because no it doesn't I don't think it does I'm sorry dummy I think it's peculiar to you not for mental health I don't think team bonding does anything to do with mental health no let me explain what I mean by that now the truth is that if you work better together as a team it can also help you yeah the truth is that anything can be a stressor the way you work can actually be stressing you probably you have so much to do you know there's so much on your plate and maybe your direct supervisor is not even understanding that you can't meet up with this unrealistic deadline that thing can stress you and it can put you in a very bad place hmm do you understand what it can put you in a very bad place but when we I mean even the HR department they are really I mean looking out for looking out for looking out for the members of staff or staff rather of the company team bonding there are different activities that can happen in team bonding don't have to be maybe sports or something calling bringing in a a therapist can actually work do we go back together as a team yeah see good evening my dear beautiful sisters of what are you saying hashtag way can mental health become an universal human right mental health is a normal thing that happens to treat mental health we need to recognize that situate that situation and tackle it maybe through prayers or counseling depression and frustration is part of the contribution of mental health Nigeria as a whole concerning what is happening is enough to be involved in mental health long time no see my dear beautiful to set down a good to see you again on the show thank you a lot thank you Daniel hello thank you so much ladies I think we had fun with this conversation I want to come actually right yeah more more more mental health awareness yes I think we should do baby steps that you know we as individuals can take because the truth is there will always be conditions that will you know trigger so you have to find the way around so we will keep the conversation going because it's very important after we do all the shouting shouting shouting we need to take care of ourselves you know and it was a good it's also a good way to also let out some steam you know just talk about it so thank you so much funny crew yes sure across all our social media hand I do that always show Africa you can interact with the squad and drop your comment and more importantly follow all our engagements and social media like chat invite 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Oh boy, the AI controversies have just been getting spicier and spicier by the week, but I think we're finally at that five alarm like 10 million Scoville level because it doesn't get any worse than high school boys creating AI generated CSAM of their classmates and then sharing the images with each other in the secret group text. We definitely got to get the cyber police, the FBI, and maybe even Batman on this case, anything to protect the kids. So this happened in a New Jersey high school where these boys were spreading these images around and, you know, if you're a bit older, you might still remember back to when you were in high school how fast a rumor or something like that would spread. But obviously with phones and group text and social media and stuff like that, messages and images can spread around to every kid in a school within a few minutes. I really don't know where the principal of this school got the idea that these images had all been deleted from. I mean, maybe the boys who generated them or his first couple of friends he sent them to, they might have been deleted from their phones. But I guarantee you that there's going to be some other kids at this school that still have those images on their phone and they've probably even uploaded them to the internet by now because apparently these images were circulating within the school for several days before administrators got involved. And now there actually is an investigation that's being done into this incident by local law enforcement in Jersey because even though the images were AI, they might still be illegal because the images supposedly depict someone who's underage and it could be argued that the images were created with the express intent to harass the girls that they supposedly look like. In fact, John Bramek, a New Jersey senator said that he's going to look into whether New Jersey already has laws that criminalize this kind of AI content. And if there aren't laws like that that already exist, he's going to draft a bill to start creating them. Now, obviously, senators are going to say whatever they can to get your vote. They're going to say that they're going to protect your kids while they're on the way to Epstein Island because that's the best method to get votes. But this time it doesn't really look like it's just political posturing because several other states, Virginia, California, Minnesota and New York, they all have laws already banning the distribution of fake pornography. And it doesn't even matter whether the content is meant to depict a minor or not. It's just as long as it looks like someone, like a real person, and it was generated without their consent. And there have been people that have gotten in trouble for this kind of stuff. A man in New York by the name of Patrick Carey has been arrested back in April of 2023 and sentenced to six months in prison and 10 years probation for creating and posting deep fake images of real women to the internet, along with their names, phone numbers, and even addresses in some cases to encourage people to harass the women in real life. Now, obviously, this is a little bit further than what the boys in the high school did, but he was still charged with creating those images using AI, like that was part of what he was ultimately sentenced to jail for. And there's also Biden's executive order, which bans training AI models to produce CSAM or nudes or anything like that about anyone without their consent. And finally, if these new laws aren't enough, there's a federal law that has been made several years ago, I'm pretty sure, banning all visual depictions of CSAM, which even include cartoon stuff, although in reality, I think that's treated more like jaywalking in the sense that it's illegal, but it's generally not really enforced by law enforcement. And I guess the reason for that is even though it's kind of creepy for someone to like lowly, it's not possible to actually abuse a cartoon character, no actual children are being hurt here. But when it comes to creating fake nudes of anyone of any age, I really don't think it's something that can be stopped in a meaningful way without creating an Orwellian cyberpunk dystopia where the government just has total control over everyone's computer and everyone's data, because the fake nudes thing has been around for a long time. It's probably been around at least as long as photo editing software has been. Okay, I remember being an edgy teen that used to lurk on anonymous basket weaving image boards, because like most zoomers and millennials, my parents really did not know how to put any parental controls on the internet access or the router or anything like that. And I remember a common thread that I would see where these things called x-ray threads where somebody would post an image of I guess some random lady from Facebook or sometimes it'd be celebrities and stuff like that. And then some other person who's skilled at Photoshop would download the image imported into Photoshop or some other program along with other images of real nude people like a porn star or just someone else nude that looks similar.  Or you could even do something as simple as just cropped out the clothed girl's head and then stick it on the body of like some broad that's getting dp'd and as long as you have the right lighting and stuff like that in the two photos and you do a little bit of blending, even an amateur could make fairly realistic images like that. And so even though I see fake nudes as an immoral thing now I don't really think it makes a lot of sense to apply the same failed legislation that we've had for years to generative AI. Plus AI actually adds a whole new level of controversy here because you could generate nudes that look like a real person just from text descriptions without the person that's writing the text ever actually knowing what that real person looks like never actually looking at a picture or anything like that. Like if you're somebody who's really good at what they call prompt engineering, which is this process of writing text in a way so that the AI is able to interpret it and you know create what you want, you might be able to generate nudes of your dream girl.  So as usual, when reactionary people start passing these laws all of a sudden around things that they do not understand, they end up creating more problems and not actually addressing the first issue. But like most problems, the real solution actually lies with you and not with the government. It lies with the people and not the state. And I think the best way to ensure that AI-generated nudes are not created of you or your children is to really just keep images of you and them off social media. If your son or daughter is posting selfies of themselves on Instagram every day, it's going to be a whole lot easier for someone to train a generative AI on those images, you know, just scrape all those images if they're public and then use them to create realistic, fake CSAM. And those images have already been used to train a lot of existing models, you know, Microsoft and OpenAI. They've scraped thousands of images of your son or daughter if they're out there on Instagram because they've scraped millions and millions of people's pages, you know, literally everyone's pages that has any public social media. And so there's a good chance that any prompts that happen to match a description of one of your kids could create something that looks like them just by coincidence. And while these companies that create these online models might try to put some restrictions in place and now they're actually compelled by the government to do that, it's really, really hard to prevent, like completely prevent the creation of nudes. There's all these new methods people are finding to jailbreak the AI and basically make them break the rules, make them create all these things that are supposed to be illegal now that this executive order is passed. So it might be possible to stop this from happening if I guess you raise your family the Amish way away from social media and stuff like that to ultimately mitigate these pictures. But for everyone else that's living their life on social media, the AI-generated CSAM is already literally out of control.


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