Coming up on DTNS, the UK postal system admits its software was buggy after 20 years and hundreds of wrongful convictions. Apple's airdrop could leak your phone number and the Evercade game console is back with a new cartridge based game console for you. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, April 23rd, 2021 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. Illustrating from Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. What's up, Lauren St. Louis, I'm Patrick Norton. I'm Roger Chang, the show's pretty smooth. We were just talking about Jeff Foxworthy and interfacing with IT people on Good Day Internet. If you would like to find out what that means, become a member and get our expanded conversation Good Day Internet at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Motherboard reports that security researcher who calls themselves sick codes discovered a pair of flaws in John Deere's apps and website that would let attackers access personal data of people who owned John Deere vehicles and equipment. That includes name, address, equipment ID, and VIN number. The first bug didn't rate limit username availability requests that enabled the second exploit to use an API cookie to expose personal information associated with the user names. Sick codes reported the vulnerabilities to John Deere on April 12th and 13th. The company fixed one bug within three days and the second bug on April 21st. Chris Poole has left Google. Poole, aka Moot, founded 4chan in 2003 and it was kind of a big deal when he left it and then joined Google in 2016. Back then he joined as part of the Photos and Streams unit, which included social networking, which was Google Plus back then. He later moved on to working Google startup incubator and on Google Maps. No word on where he's going next. In Q1, Intel reported its revenue and earnings per share were both virtually flat on the year at $18.57 billion and $1.39 billion respectively, but both beat analysts' expectations. Intel's client group, which includes PC chips, saw revenue of 8.5% to $10.61 billion, with Intel reporting total PC volumes up 38%, while data center revenue fell 20% to 5.56 billion. Consumer Reports conducted a test of Tesla's autopilot where it tied a weight to the steering wheel and then fastened the seat belt with no driver in the driver's seat. The autopilot worked at 30 miles per hour on a test track with painted lines. Tesla's autopilot requires a seat belt to be fastened and your hands to be detected on the steering wheel. It checks for torque, hence the weight, and it won't operate if it doesn't meet those conditions. So the Consumer Reports test does demonstrate that actively subverting the safety system can accomplish autopilot with no driver in the driver's seat. As part of its Q1 earnings, SNAP reported 280 million daily active users. That's up 6% on the quarter and 22% on the year with Snapchat's user base on Android now surpassing iOS. The company also reported its first positive free cash flow as a public company with 126 million, with overall revenue up to 66% on the year to 770 million, also beating analyst expectations. All right, let's talk about the Horizon software story. Settle in if you're not familiar with this one. It's a doozy. In 1999, the UK Postal System installed Fujitsu's Horizon software for use in things like accounting and stock taking and transaction software. Postmasters, which is what kind of the local branch people are called, complained early on that the system was buggy, consistently reporting shortfalls that the sub-postmasters insisted did not exist, but some people just decided to use their own money to make up the imaginary shortfalls. Others, however, could not, and post office management insisted that the Horizon system was robust and reliable, and the shortfalls must be a result of theft, such that between 2000 and 2014, the post office successfully prosecuted 736 people based on evidence from the Horizon system on charges of theft, fraud, and false accounting. That was that until 2009, when Computer Weekly published an in-depth report on the bugs after talking with a lot of the sub-postmasters, and in 2012, the post office decided to order a review by auditing firms' second site. However, they didn't seem to like what was in the review because one day before its publication, the post office ordered second site to end the investigation and handover or destroy all paperwork. In July 2013, the post office admitted that the software did have some defects, but insisted that it was effective. However, the confidential report from second site was leaked to the BBC in September 2014 and revealed that the second site evaluators found the software not fit for purpose. Estimating that 12,000 communication failures per year occurred and that Horizon did not properly track money from lottery terminals, tax disc sales, or cash machines, which made up a lot of the inaccurate shortfalls. Inadequate training and outdated hardware also contributed to the mismatch. In December 2019, the post office agreed to settle with 555 claimants. A high court judgment said the Horizon system was not remotely robust for the first 10 years of its use and it continued to have problems even after that time period. In December of 2020, six convictions were overturned. Thursday this week, judges overturned the convictions of 39 former postmasters. Pre-appeals were not overturned as their convictions were determined not to have relied on Horizon evidence and a government inquiry into how the post office handled this issue is set to report in the summer. The prosecutions have been deemed, quote, an affront to the public conscience, which means that the victims of this can further claim compensation against the post office in court. And as well they should. Can you imagine? This is, first of all, this is a long time ago, right? But got a new system. All right, you know, it's we're going to be more efficient. You know, mail is going to go where it's supposed to go and to to to have not just one or two, but a bunch of people saying something's wrong here. Something's not adding up. There there's there's an issue. There's a software issue happens all the time, right? To say, no, you're probably a thief. And yeah, we're going to go ahead and yeah, we're going to go ahead and prosecute many hundreds of you. Yeah, I I if it were me, this would not be OK. And for so much time to have gone by and perhaps I've gone on with my life, I would certainly open up the case again. Yeah, give me some money. Yeah, some people spent time in prison. People were bankrupted. This was a horrible situation. And it strains my credulity to understand how you get to hundreds of subpostmasters being thieves as a more believable problem than your Fujitsu software might have a bug that's this is this is an incredible example of not wanting to take responsibility for the cost of what was the problem, which is that this thing is buggy to the point that they're still using it. They're just now deciding to announce that they're going on April 8th to replace it with a new system. I'm trying not to do things like, hey, remember when there was the big fallout after the mortgage crisis and people realize that two primary rating systems actually lied so they actually came up with a new system and all those people were held accountable. I mean, what's heartbreaking about this is right hundreds of lives, you know, disrupted, crashed, you know, they've got records of conviction, but literally nobody in management, nobody in the decision making process, nobody at Fujitsu. Has been held accountable anyway. And that to me is, you know, it's just it's it's, you know, this is like the worst case ever of I told my manager the widget didn't widget. My manager said it's OK or ignore it or go ahead and reboot the machine every 35 minutes or I'm sorry, we've not only closed your bug report without resolving it, but we're taking it to court and accusing you of theft, adding insult to injury. Awful. I don't do this. Well, this could be awful, but I'll I'll I'll set it up and we'll all decide how we feel about it. Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany will present a paper in August at the Usenix Security Symposium describing a method for discovering the phone number and email address of anybody in Wi-Fi range of view who opens a share pane in Apple's AirDrop. So AirDrop users with discovery enabled can see nearby devices that match entries in their contact list. Maybe maybe there are no matches, but there might be AirDrop does this by creating a cryptographic hash of your contacts, which then compares to the cryptographic hash of the contact info that's being broadcast by a nearby device. If the hash is matched, the device is displayed. If there's no match, the hash is supposed to protect the email and phone info from being accessed by unauthorized devices. Now, the TU researchers were able to crash Apple's hashtag method with a brute force attack. The researchers propose that Apple replaced the hash exchange with an optimized cryptographic private set protocol. They designed one they say could be used as an alternative. They did some work here until then. If you're using AirDrop when other people are nearby, be aware that malicious attackers with some effort, it's not effortless. They really have to want to do this. Could try to get your email address and phone number. If you open the AirDrop sharing pane, this would likely be a targeted attack given the effort required, though it could be used to harvest information at gatherings like conferences. You can disable discovery in the system settings, but you need to turn it back on if you want to use AirDrop again. The researchers disclosed the vulnerability to Apple in May of 2019, but Apple has not yet acknowledged the issue. I mean, I don't know how you feel, Patrick. This one doesn't strike me as a high priority fault. It's just email and phone number. It takes a little work and it's a limited set of circumstances. That said, while I don't think this is like a P1 critical bug, it should be acknowledged and Apple should at least say, well, we're not going to fix it because if they're not going to fix it or they should just fix it. Given the resources Apple has, they should just fix it. Even if they aren't going to fix it, they should acknowledge that they're not fixing it or that I agree. Ignoring it is just always a bad choice. Part of me is also, my first reaction to this was, wow, that's right. People use AirDrop. I always forget that. I don't think I've, I think I used AirDrop once just to see what it was like. And then I was like, huh, and then I continued emailing photos to my mom or rather than using AirDrop or something. I've used AirDrop in work settings often. I mean, it just, you know, someone somewhat close to me and we're both on Macs. I use it to share files at home with myself all the time. But yeah, I mean, not that it's not designed to be used out in the wild. It totally should be able to be used out in the wild. But yeah, I'm with you, Tom. It's not the sort of thing where I go, oh, gosh, you know, let's stop using AirDrop. This is horrible. And I think Apple probably feels the same way. There are better ways to get ahold of a bunch of email addresses and phone numbers. Just just publicly scrape information from Facebook. So, you know, this isn't by it's all a matter of priorities. And if Apple said we don't think this risk is is worth all of the effort, I would like to hear them say that, you know, it may be maybe that it's it's not worth fixing. I don't know. I generally use AirDrop to share files with my wife or to see who has AirDrop turned on for everyone when I'm on an airplane, because that's always fun. It's really not. No, Tom, don't be that guy.  You see, that's the first. At first, you look, then you're running an air crack on your laptop and suddenly you're in prison and not because of the postal service. All right, let's talk podcasting. We're going to try not to gaze at our navels here, folks. But the Wall Street Journal sources say that Spotify will be announcing a program soon that will allow podcasters to offer paid subscriptions, just like Apple just announced. But Spotify will not take a cut if you choose to sell your subscription on Spotify. Apple's new podcast subscription feature costs podcasters $20 a year just to do it. And Apple takes a 30 percent cut of subscriptions the first year, 15 percent every year after that. Neither subscription system supports RSS. So I mean, they support RSS. Well, Spotify doesn't even support RSS. But but Apple will let you paste in an RSS feed for free subscription subscriptions, not for paid subscriptions. Paid subscriptions have to be managed entirely within the platform. So if you wanted to offer subscriptions on both of these platforms, you'd have to set up one in Spotify and set up one in Apple and then go set up one in Pocketcast and Overcast and Downcast, which is why Patreon and Acast and and others have created cross-platform situations. But they're not as easy for the end user to implement as somebody who's like, oh, I just use the Apple podcast app. So it's easy for me to just tap a button there. Boy, I mean, OK, so I've set up many a podcast, you know, on on on many a podcast platform.  And yeah, there are a lot of hosting companies that will make that process slightly more seamless for the creator. I don't know. I I don't hate the idea of someone saying, if you like my content and you feel that it's worth money, you know, this is a way that you can help me make money from creating content. I think that's great. There are so many different ways to do it. Apple wants to do it. Well, a lot of people use Apple podcast app. They they say, oh, podcasts, I go, you know, into my well, it used to be iTunes, right? But until recently, but I go and the podcast is always there. No one's. Well, unless it's an exclusive somewhere, very few podcasts are not in that particular library. And that's fine. So Apple just benefits from that, you know, the way that it benefits from certain apps being in its app store and not others. Spotify is is is getting there. Spotify has taken so much time putting, you know, money and resources into beefing up its podcast arm. And I can see why if if if I was like, OK, I got a new podcast, I'd like to monetize it. I have two options and and Spotify isn't isn't keeping me from also offering some other version on, you know, in Apple podcast app. It's kind of just like what what platform do you like better at that point? I mean, it's also good and what platform your audience is on, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, the discovery, where are people going to go first, you know, or or most likely go? I mean, it's really messy because you look at this and it's like, OK, I will be able to generate revenue on this platform. One at a, you know, a fairly healthy discount for the first year because of the money, because I think after the first year, Apple drops down like 15 percent.  They like Gimlet Media and Anchor, you know, they're really embracing the advertising, they're really pushing the whole like access our influencers. And on one hand, it's all great because something I don't think a lot of people understand is how brutally the advertising market has crashed for content creation companies and how it's it's really, you know, my favorite observation was like all these people that are creating sub stacks, you know, with their analysis and hot steaks aren't entirely aware that all of the actual reporting they base all of their, you know, all of their commentary on is going away or at least being profoundly underfunded or, you know, the advertising company is dropping through the floor and it's really kind of intense to figure out how to make a living off of media these days. So any additional opportunity is fantastic. On one hand, on the other hand, you now have this layer of abstraction between you and the fans that are paying your salary, which means you can never leave if you want to rely on that money. And that's every every wall begins with a single line of bricks. If it's a brick wall, I don't know if it's a concrete wall. I'm with you. We know where you're going, Tom. Folks, if you have thoughts on this, I see P squared does and Eric, the red does join the conversation in our discord. That's where they're talking right now. You can join them by linking a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS. Apple is facing two class action suits over its sale and rental of TV shows and movies. In one suit, David and Dino argues on behalf of the class that the term buy in the app store is deceptive because Apple can terminate a person's Apple ID, which terminates access to purchased content. U.S. district court judge John Mendez denied a motion to dismiss the suit in another class action suit. Matthew Price claims on behalf of the class that Apple causes financial damage when it terminates an account. He says he lost $24,590 and five cents worth of iTunes app store and in-app purchases when his account was terminated. Apple's videos and apps are all available to be downloaded and stored, though Apple does encourage using cloud storage, including offering settings that will automatically remove files that are not frequently accessed. Apple also doesn't let you download 4K copies of content. Those can only be streamed, though it doesn't charge extra for offering the 4K versions. I get why Judge Mendez did not allow this to be dismissed. There is a reasonable claim to be evaluated here. In the end, if I were a judge and I'm not, and I don't know the law as well as Judge Mendez, but if I were, I would probably think that I would rule in Apple's favor that as long as you can download the files and keep them somewhere and watch them, even if you lose your Apple ID and the DRM isn't trying to call home and say, well, you can't watch it now, then you could still call that buying. The 4K thing is a weak point for Apple, but I think Apple could have a defense of saying, like, yeah, but that's just a perk. That's not what you're buying. Where you're buying is the 1080p version. That doesn't mean that I think that it's wonderful that if you lose your Apple ID, you lose access to all this stuff and you may not have had space on your phone to download it all. I mean, I think there's some real complaints here, but whether they're legal complaints or not, I'm skeptical. Well, if you're going to go after a company, may as well go after a company with staggering amounts of money. Sure. One, two. I, you know, this is this is really messy because one of the things is could could this could establish. And one, I think probably both of these are going to get tossed out because, you know, there's 2,000 pages. This is an exaggeration. This is hyperbole.   So I don't know why they were cut off. But more importantly, you know, losing $25,000 worth of content and apps, that's a significant change in a chunk of change. You know what I mean? That's that's that's not like, you know, I just I just don't know at what point the thing I'm struggling mightily and failing terribly at saying is there are so many things now where you purchase it, but you cannot access it unless you have, for example, an internet connection or you are online or you have access to something. And I think it becomes really problematic. One, from a, you know, a financial standpoint and a legal standpoint, but also, you know, moving out 10 or 20 years. It's going to be amazing how much of our gaming history, for example, is going to rely entirely on people's ability to reverse engineer either servers or hack code to make this stuff accessible because these servers aren't going to run forever. You know, it's it's also it's kind of I'm still also stuck at like $25,000 worth of iTunes app store and in-app purchases. I thought I owned a lot of stuff and I'm just like, well, apparently I own nothing. We are that's a lot of commitment for getting your account terminated. We are purposely not talking about why these accounts were terminated because it doesn't matter for this legal case. Like because if you agree that their account should be terminated, you may be like, well, I'm more likely to agree that they they should lose their case. And that's not what this is about. This is about doesn't matter why your account got terminated. If it did, should you still have access? Should they be able to call it by, et cetera, et cetera? It's interesting to bring up the idea of preservation of video games because this next story is about something that helps with that. Last year, Blaze Entertainment released the Evercade, a handheld retro cartridge based game console has a 4.3 inch screen can output to HDMI so you can put that on your TV. But the form factor is meant for handheld gameplay. So Blaze just announced the Evercade VS, which is meant to sit by your TV and output at 1080p with support for up to four USB controllers. Evercade offers its own controllers, or you can use the Xbox adaptive controller, 8 bit does wireless controller or even the Evercade handheld if you have one as a controller, it will also have two cartridge slots. So you'll be able to have two games in there and be able to play all but two of the same cartridges as the handheld Evercade. The two cartridges that feature the Namco Museum, which includes like Pac-Man, Gallagher, Dig Dug, they are only licensed for the handheld. So those two cartridges and a lot of really good games will not work on the VS, but all the other cartridges are supposed to work and will keep your save and load states so you can swap them between different machines without losing progress. Evercade VS will cost you $99.99 with pre-orders starting May 28th, not shipping until November 3rd. It's preservation. It's what you wanted. It's even got cartridges. Yeah. I'll stick to the cloud. No, I'm just kidding. I don't know. Is this something that you're into, Pat? I'm actually trying to find a game I ever actually played on it. The interesting thing about Evercade is they're trying to do it right. There's been there are no end of projects out there that take ROMs that you may or may not legally have acquired and help you figure out how to play them and you may like those better. But Evercade is trying to play by the rules and go to licensed, which is why the Namco cartridge doesn't work in the VS. But they are trying to say, like, look, when you buy a cartridge from us, we have licensed it. We have got the rights to make a product out of this. And I support that because if they can prove that as a business, it might encourage more video companies to loosen up on licensing their older content. I agree with all of these things. And I'm looking at the Namco Museum collection. And there are at least those games that I've played here. I was just laughing because the first time I looked at it, I think I just ended up looking at the wrong, the worst possible page. And I was like, I've never even heard of the platform much less actual games on here. So yes, I agree. And making this stuff available would be so fantastic. It would be truly awesome to be able to buy rights for older, especially arcade games, to have that made more easily. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we've got good news, everybody. He's been gone for some time, but today he's back. It's Chris Christensen bringing a travel tip with him. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another tech in travel minute. Well, it's been a while and we haven't really been doing a lot of traveling this year with a pandemic going on.  One is a news from Uber that has a new option called Uber green. If you're taking an Uber, you can in a number of different markets these days pay an extra dollar more to get an Uber green, which is going to be a hybrid or fully electric vehicle. Half of that dollar will go to the driver to encourage them to drive efficient vehicles. And the other half will go to a new program from Uber called Green Future that will help hundreds of thousands of other drivers transition to battery electric vehicles. If you want to support that, just look for Uber green the next time you get an Uber. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Yay. I know the world isn't fixed yet, but this is one more sign that we're on the road, right? Chris is back. It's great to hear your voice, Chris. It feels like it's as always. I was going to say, it feels like it's been more than a year. I think it's only been about a year since we last got a tech in travel minute from Chris, but it feels like forever. We missed you, Chris. Thanks for coming. Absolutely. I am preparing my class action lawsuit against Uber when my Uber green shows up and it's blue. And I can say I was confused. You said it was Uber green. I was in a hurry. Yeah. And then I was late at blue car. All right, enough of that. Let's check out the bail bag. Let's do it. Martin wrote in and said, I'm not a Mac user, but similar to Sarah, I have my windows bar on the right side of my screen. Now, he's referencing my latest live with it. Right. I have taken the new MacBook Air with M one chip for a spin over the last few months. And I said, one of the things that was not M one specific, but just something that I decided to do with a new computer is have my dock running along horizontally along the bottom of the screen, which is default rather than vertically on the left, which is how I've done it for years. That's how I do it. Martin says, I do this with windows for two reasons. First, when editing text documents or browsing websites, they're generally more vertical than horizontal. So having the bar at the side of the screen allows more of the text to be shown. Martin, I agree with you. Some might argue that the gain space is minimal, but it feels better to me. The second reason is about 12 years ago, Ubuntu, which I also use, change to have the bar at the side, changing the windows bar to the side as well, gave me a more consistent experience across the two operating systems. Well, there you go, folks. I was you'll hear the shock in my voice on the latest live with it. When he was like, why? 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All right. Hi everyone. Welcome back to the tiny herd Today, I'm just gonna be showing you guys a little bit of our evening routine I'm gonna do another kind of talk-through spot clean video and talk about our evening routine while I do that because a lot of people have Asked me specifically what I do. So in the morning Whenever I get up for work The only things I do in the morning are give everyone pellets and make sure they have water and hay for the day That's pretty much all I do. So I can get out the door So the majority of the stuff I do at the pets is in the evening So when my boyfriend gets home around five he gives them their dinner because They scream for food the second that he gets home. So right at five they get dinner, which is their veggies That is their dinner meal So they get their pellets in the morning. They get their veggies for dinner in the evening and Then they don't really have anything else that happens until later after I get home. So I get home and Kind of just check on everyone usually My boyfriend's already checked on them, but I just like to say hi to everyone make sure everybody's good See what everyone is up to and I kind of just let them be we do whatever we're doing for the evening and then later on I Come in and I do our spot cleaning. So it is 745 right now and I'm working on doing our spot cleaning for the evening and These cages actually got cleaned yesterday. So they're in pretty good shape today, but This shows you guys Exactly how cages get in one day. So these were cleaned yesterday evening Right around the same time actually. So this is a whole day of Poop and hay mess So gives you a more realistic look at how things Actually are I'll leave that open So this is the main thing I do for our evening routine. I usually come in spot clean everyone Change any pads that I need to I come in I spot clean change any pads that I need to and Then I do anything else that needs done. So I refill hay for example. They need more hay. I Refill water clean the bunnies litter box, which I actually did that before I started Filming this today just because it's kind of pain in the butt to do. Hi. Can I get in here, please? Hello, hello cuties. I'm working on testing hay for our hay comparison video and If you are familiar with my channel, you probably heard me say that I am Very allergic to Timothy hay and it's all Timothy hay. So if I'm a little sniffly in this video, I Apologize But I'm super allergic to Timothy hay Hopefully you guys can see what I'm doing Literally just spot cleaning. So I guess you kind of know what that is This one's definitely my hardest cage to clean I'm kind of thinking about taking the loft off because like I don't even Sweep the loft because they don't go up there So it seems kind of silly to have it When it makes my life harder when they don't even use it So Put their little rug back and close their door All right. Anyways back on track to what I do in the evenings for our routine so like I said, I spot clean which is what I'm doing now and then That's all that we really do spot clean and I refill water and hay like I said anything that needs done and then Right before bedtime. So it like nine nine thirty ten ish. I just check on everyone Make sure everybody's doing good. Make sure everybody's good for the evening and Turn their light out And that is really a whole day with piggies doesn't sound like a lot of work, but Ends up being more worse than you think especially when you have three cages worth like I do Which it actually works out really perfect. I really prefer having Like three cages with a pair and each I really like having the pairs I don't know why but I just feel like we go through less laundry this way and Cages aren't that bad Like this video is probably not even gonna be that long because spot cleaning doesn't really take me that long anymore Kind of have a system down Plus I kind of have their cages set up You'll kind of learn that if you have piggies that there's like optimal ways to set their cages up to help spot cleaning and to keep them the cleanest so like For a lot of them, I'll put a microfiber rug Underneath their Ikea bed Because that's where they like to lay the most when I do that and that makes it super easy to just grab their rug And that's where the majority of them this is Which you guys will see in a second when I do that Or like I put Small pads underneath their hay rack so that I can just pick it up Shake it off in the trash can a lot of people also ask me how I Don't have so much hay on my fleece like like hey gets stuck in their fleece and that Partly I would say is what kind of hey you have because when I use Timothy hey It was always a bigger issue for me But you can see like this hay is really like leafy So it doesn't really get stuck that much, but also Using this litter scoop instead of a brush helps a lot because it kind of scrapes it off and it doesn't harm my fleece at all like I make all my own fleece and I don't have any issues with it like getting ruined by using the litter scoop So that is a tip if you need one Whoo It's really hot in this room Not like it's not too hot for the pets, but like for me moving around and stuff. I think it's like 70 degrees Cali Eat the dust pin It's like 70 degrees in here So the fan is on So it's not too bad for them, but All right, so there's another one done And then we just had the messy little babes I don't know why but they're for some reason just like generally pretty messy Kind of just messy pigs. It might be honestly their long hair. I feel like their long hair gets stuck in everything I'm like constantly giving them haircuts and baths because it's just like a never-ending battle to keep them clean Like I swear June always looks brown like her butt just always looks brown no matter what I do I'm pretty much just like shave it every couple of weeks Because otherwise it just gets wet and gross and I don't really know what else to do besides shave it because I don't want to be giving her bath that often and we use a Pet clippers for the bunnies and they don't really mind it so you can see I clipped her butt Not that long ago. I wouldn't really recommend you just do that just to do it and I don't shave it like bald I just like trim it down. It's just much faster to do it that way But I wouldn't get clippers for your guinea pigs if you don't need them for something else because it's you have to be kind Of careful with them, but it does work It does it does June thinks I'm gonna pick her up because she was getting medicine for so long that she just thinks I'm gonna pick her up all the time now Excuse me. I'm not going to pick you up Everybody got their nails clipped yesterday. So they're a little bit on edge for getting picked up again tonight But nobody's getting picked up tonight Let me know if there's any video topics you guys want to see the Cage review will be up soon. It'll be up in the next week or so and then I have a video coming on Like creating an emergency plan for your pets. That was supposed to already be up But we had some stuff going on so I was only able to do one video that week so that'll be coming and then The hey comparison video will definitely be coming It's just taking me a while to do that one because I have to have everybody taste test And I don't like to just change their hay like Overnight because I don't want to risk anybody like not eating enough hay so I'm giving it to them in little bits so like Everyone all the pigs have had Oxbow so far and then like right now the bunnies have the oxbow so I'm kind of just like switching things out and figuring out Whether people like it honestly, I don't know if I'm the best like judge of that because my pigs aren't used to eating Timothy Hey, so They can be kind of picky, but we'll see how it goes and then I'm also doing a video or I'll be doing a series in July August or July I don't know for sure yet because I have quite a bit to to get ready for it, but I will be doing a video series like an entire month-long series on fleece so it will be how to make fleece liners from Like what sewing machine to get what supplies to go by how to buy fabric at the at the fabric store Just like from start to finish every single step every single bit every single tool supply product prices on everything and There will also be an e-book that I'm putting together for that So it's going to be like a five video series with an e-book and I think the e-book so I'm gonna be like I Don't know probably like ten dollars because it's gonna be like pretty in-depth, but it'll have measurements and Just like ever anything you couldn't even want to know So that will be coming Because a lot of people ask me about fleece and where I get my fleece when I say I make it They want to know how so I'm gonna be doing that so I'm kind of excited about that I have the fleece for that, but I have some clips I need to film and I think I'm gonna do that in July because I have to have you know time to make the stuff and Film making it and all of that so That will be coming, but let me know if there's anything else you guys want to see right now We are treating June for a respiratory infection and mites her antibiotics for the respiratory infection are done So she's she's like good to go. I caught it really early I don't know why she is more prone to respiratory infections because nobody else has ever had one and I mean you guys see how my cages are they all get the exact same care But she got a respiratory infection the exact same time last year So I don't know if it's just the weather change or what that's about But we are treating her for that and she's like halfway through her mite treatment So her hair is starting to grow back.  So Had to be mites had to be caused by something else So we just treated her for it and she's good to go and I actually am treating these two girls for mites as well Just preventatively nobody else is showing signs of them. But since they share a wall, it was just easier to treat everyone But that is what I do in the evenings. I'm gonna make sure everybody has water They have enough hay for now, but I'll give them more hay before I go to bed today Everybody will get more hay before I go to bed today and make sure they have water Bunnies need water because Mikey's drinking it all right now But this is what I do every evening And I love having my nice big window and everybody's just happy and Doing their little piggy business. So Thank you guys for watching Let me know if you have any video requests or questions or anything like that down below in the comments And I will see you guys in my next video. Bye


Hey, this is Brett and this 2019 Subaru Forester Sport is stock number 12847Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used SUV headquarters. This 2019 Subaru Forester Sport has the 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine, puts out 182 horsepower. It's going to get you 33 miles per gallon on the Highway 26 city. This Forester has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this vehicle is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around inside, start it up, take a look under the hood. This thing is in really nice shape, crystal white pearl coat is the color. I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button on my YouTube channel in the lower right-hand part of the screen. Then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Autos. So the Sport package gives you the dark, very dark gray, almost black painted alloy rims. These are 18-inch rims, and it comes with Bridgestone Blizzak tires. These are 225 55R 18s for ultimate winter grip. And these tires are like new. You can still see some of the wear knobs on there, so very new tires on here. Front fenders in fantastic condition. You get the projector lamp style headlamps. Looks like LED fog lamps down there. Front bumpers in very nice shape. I didn't see any major dents, dings or cracks on there. You do get that orange accent pretty much throughout the entire vehicle on the outside and the inside. The hood is in fantastic condition as well. Didn't see any dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front fender is in really nice shape too. Passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And the crystal white has just a little bit of metal flake to it, so it's got a little bit of shimmer in the bright light. Really a good looking color. And as you go down this side of this 2019 Subaru Forester, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. Four-wheel disc brakes on here, back room is in excellent shape, and the back tires are just as new as the front tires. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, the rear bumper is in great shape. Once again, outlined in that orange color, the rear gate is in nice shape and you do get the orange on the sport there as well. This is a manual raised gate. You can see the shocks are doing a nice job holding that up. Back storage area, you get this nice all-weather floor mat back here.  Gate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side. Didn't see any major dents or dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back room is in fantastic condition as well. Down the rest of this side of the vehicle, the doors look really good. You do get power mirrors, built-in directional signals. I'm not sure if that's for blind spot or not, but they do have those little lights there. Heated mirrors on there as well. Inside the sport package gives you the gray cloth and leather interior. You get that nice orange stitching on there as well. And you do get the power driver seat with lumbar, factory, all-weather floor mats. There's your stability control, your start-stop capabilities. You can turn those off and on. You get the orange trim around the vents, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. That all looks really good. Hop inside. We'll check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this vehicle has to offer on the interior. So I was reading up on this vehicle and the instrument cluster is upgraded for the sport package as well. I don't think I can dam it, or if I can, I don't know how to do it. Anyways, this one has 57,424 miles. You do get a digital speedometer on there and instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You do get the leather-wrapped steering wheel. So this one has adaptive cruise controls, lane departure, so it's definitely got a lot of the tech stuff in it. Bluetooth, volume, and tune controls on there as well. You get paddle shifters as well, auto headlamps. You get the nice radio on here, AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This is also where your backup camera shows up, and you can see that that's like an HD camera. So it's nice and clear and crisp. You have all your different apps you can do on here, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. You do get an information center up there with your outside temp and time, and down here your climate controls. Those outside mirrors are heated. This has X mode with your different terrain settings that you can do. You have your heated seats here, electric parking brake, and you do get an automatic transmission shifter here. This one does have the continuously variable transmission. You get that nice orange trim around there, and the key fob is in really nice condition as well. Passengers side, floor mat, and seat are in fantastic condition. What I've always liked about the Foresters is that they have this extended sunroof. It's bigger than normal sunroofs, I would say probably by five to six inches bigger than a normal one. So I was like that on these Foresters. Up here of your SOS system, forward collision warning lane departure. I think you can turn those off up there. Your power sliding sunroof controls, home link buttons on the mirror, auto dimming mirror, and then you get a compass display up there as well. We'll take a quick look at the back seats, and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Just looking at the front here, I can tell those headlights are HIGs. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. All-weather floor mats back here, you do get two USBs, 2.1A chargers right there. Side curtain airbags, and everything's very nice and clean back here. These seats do fold down for extra storage, and they have that all-weather backing on them. And back here, you get the child safety locks, and the bottoms of the doors all look very good on this Forester. Alright, let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Alright, so other than it telling me that my hood is open on there, there's no check engine lights or anything like that. It's just going to tell me that my hood's open. Anyways, and yes, we will be putting some gas in this after this video tomorrow. Let's take a look under the hood. See if I can get those fog lights on as well. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video, you'll have been able to verify the quality and condition of this Subaru Forester all the way around, and just how nice and clean it is. LED fog lamps, HID headlamps, very nice and bright. 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The respected viewers, thank you once more for joining us back on your show, live from the holy city of Karbala, this is back to the basics and I am your host, Yahya Seymour. Of course, for those of you who are tuning in once more, just in case it happens to be your first time, although really I should assume that you can all go back and catch what I am talking about just from the gist of the episode content, but in general this is your show, live from the holy city of Karbala, in which we are trying to come up with a productive means for us to dialogue with others and start off in the appropriate order with a framework and methodology which is in line with that given to us by the Ahlul Bayt. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them. It's very important for me to clarify the start of this episode. This entire methodology is meant to exist in order to, number one, save time for the dear viewer who happens to be Shia and wants to discuss with others. Number two, in order to afford a level of respect and a level of dignity towards the discussions that you may have with others. One thing I would definitely state is naturally in any conversation, in any disagreement, things will always get heated to a certain degree. Things will always take a, dare I say, things will have a tendency to get slightly hostile, particularly when we are talking about things as chorus beliefs, and you've seen how people get upset just through discussing things as minute as football disagreements, in addition to disagreements in politics, or even things as minute as what one's favorite movie is, or whether or not a movie was good, or along those lines. And therefore, if naturally people's aggressions will get aroused in a discussion pertaining to sport or entertainment, it makes much more sense that people will get naturally quite angry when it comes to discussing religion. However, one thing we ought to realize is if indeed we are a missionary religion, that is to say, if indeed we pray for the Hedaya of people, we pray for our guidance, or we pray in order to be able to be guided ourselves, depending on what kind of conversation you're having, you may have a conversation with someone who wants to attack your beliefs. And so what you're doing is you're preserving the guidance that you're upon, or you may be having a conversation where you've initiated the conversation, in which case you're trying to guide someone else. In either case, we need to make sure that our achlaq, that it's to say our etiquette, that it's to say our demeanor, our behavior, is befitting of someone who is a religious person. Now, of course I understand that in today's world, we live in a world of Islamophobia, we live in a world where people really can be quite derogatory, and that's generally because those who have nothing to say will always be reduced to mocking, or those who choose to act immature, and once maybe vent of some steam that they have in their lives, they'll always be quite derogatory, they'll always use words which are not really appropriate, words which often we would think to ourselves, would he appreciate if his parents heard him say that, would he appreciate if his children heard him say that, would he appreciate if his brother or sister heard him say that, or even sometimes it's someone from the opposite gender, so would they appreciate it if their children heard that, or would she appreciate it if her parents heard that? It's quite necessary for us to adopt a methodology and a way of behaving and carrying ourselves, which is in line with, number one, the general agreed upon spirit of religion, and number two, which is just conducive to anybody listening, and is one which is going to prevent personal animosity. Now of course, in any discussion, we're aiming to bring people light, and light obviously has a small component of heat, but that is not to say that we cannot hold ourselves in a manner which is befitting of people who claim to follow the Holy Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi, who we claim was the peak of Akhlaq. Now that's just the first thing I wanted to state before moving on back to the topic we were on, and our topic of course was we were rounding off with the worldview of atheism, and the worldview of atheism, the worldview of atheism's attitude when it comes to the issue of morality and ethics. Of course, we had stated that one of the major outcomes of denying a supernatural element of a world, or an element of a world which is now non-physical, and an aspect of denying even just metaphysics. Now metaphysics, for those of you who have not seen my previous episodes, you would know that meta comes from the word to be above, to be beyond something, and physics is just a description of literally what the science of physics is, a study of a physical world. So, when we say metaphysics, we mean that which goes beyond the physical world, that which is above physics, so to speak. When we deny the concept of God, and we adopt this naturalistic worldview in which the only things which exist are material, they are physical, there will be several consequences. We have seen this over the past few episodes, and for anyone that wishes to review what has been said, you may go to one of the previous episodes where we have almost beaten to death, some of these quotes from very prominent atheist thinkers, philosophers, and scientists who have acknowledged these things quite freely. So, what was the major consequence that we were looking at over the past few episodes? Of course, that major consequence we've been looking at was the abstract inability to ground the concept of objective morality in any particular place. And what we mean by that is, if you believe that the only thing which exists in this world are things that we can physically observe, and you believe that this world is free of a divine creator, and you believe that this world has essentially come out of a big bang, and the only thing which has caused life is a random accident, so to speak. It's undirected, uncaused, but rather to speak of direction and cause is to speak of something meaningless as many atheists would state. Then really, one big problem we will have is the ability to ground objective morality. For those of you who have been watching, you would know that objective morality, by that we mean a morality which we can stipulate in any case would absolutely be wrong, and in every case would absolutely be the right thing to do. Now, there are, of course, many who will state, what do you mean? What do you mean I can't believe in objective morality? I'm a good person, I don't believe in God. Of course, I've already stated that, of course you're a good person. Many atheists are better people than believers are many days of a week. But the problem here is, the question is not whether or not you can be a good person. The question is, where does this concept of morality find its grounding? And what I mean by that is this. I believe that this world has been created by a Creator God.  And I have a bunch of experiences which I now explain away using the worldview and the scope and lenses of my worldview. I say that human beings have a knowledge of morality because Allah Azawajal has endowed us with an intellect and with that intellect and with revelation, we can know what Allah Azawajal wishes from us as human beings. But then there is another portion of humanity who state that they do not believe in the concept of a God. They do not believe that the God or God or Allah Azawajal has brought the universe into existence. They do not believe that he has brought humanity into existence. Rather, we are fundamentally nothing more than an accident which has evolved from the same soup which brought us every other living species today. Now, because we see in the animal kingdom that sharks do not have a concept known as Ajalla Kamaladir viewers rape. We see that certain species do not have a concept known as murder. We see that this level of agency has been stripped from these animals. And what is it that gives humans the agency therefore to perceive this concept known as morality? Why is it that when it comes to the way we live our daily lives on a day-to-day basis, we perceive morality? If someone were to attack a parent of ours, we would feel sad. We would condemn such a person as a horrible human being. If someone were to murder a baby on the streets, we would condemn such a person as a horrible human being. Why? Because we have this natural observable morality which we as humans all share in common. Now, the problem is not whether or not someone can be good. I've stated this world is the world of Allah, in my worldview. And therefore it's not strange for me that someone could be an atheist and yet be moral. My question is, how can someone be an atheist and find a grounding for that morality? How can someone be an atheist and find a justification for that morality, explanatory power for the phenomenon of reality? Now, we've seen that we have several prominent atheists who have admitted that if we were to take their world view to its logical consistency, then morality doesn't exist. The first one we cited was, of course, several days ago that was Dr. or Professor Alex Rosenberg, the writer of the book The Atheist's Guide to Reality. The second, of course, was Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous existentialist philosopher who is again an atheist, states again, once we remove God from the picture one of the consequences, one of the consequences is the concept of morality has to go as well. And to quote his phrase, there is no longer a heaven to ground that morality in. And all we find in the universe is a plane of men. Now, if there's just a plane of men, how do you ground a morality that exists outside the minds of men? Another person that concedes this is, of course, the British philosopher Julian Bagini, and we cited him too, and also Richard Dawkins. Now, the question is, how do we ground this concept of morality? In what can the atheist possibly find a grounding if he turns to the conscious objections and consensus of humanity? Then an atheist could turn around and say, I'm sorry, I don't owe humanity anything. What you lot designed as a group doesn't really affect me whatsoever. I don't owe anything to evolution.  Let me take them out now while I still have a chance. Now, you see, of course, with evolution and without God in the picture, no one can tell you what you're doing is objectively wrong. All they could tell you is, according to what society has decided, what you're doing is bad. They can never invoke the fact that you're evil, truly wicked, or wretched, or bad. All they could do is say, what you have done is distasteful to the vast majority of people. It's essentially like saying that instead of supporting, say for example, Glasgow Celtic, you supported Rangers. And that is a bad thing to do and punishing you for that, despite the fact that they're two relatively simple and subjective claims. Now, I cite those two because the team in my city of Scotland is absolutely terrible, so there's no point of citing them. But when we come to this issue of morality, we need to understand objectively that without giving us a real means to ground the concept of morality, then all it is is subjective. It's your whims and desires. Now, we have seen several times that every time humanity tries to come up with a golden rule to dictate morality, which they believe is objective, it backfires in the foot. Dear viewers, in Charlotte Island, we're going to go for a very short break. Join me after it, in which we'll continue. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Salamu alaikum warahmatullahi, dear viewers. Thank you so much for joining us on that very short break. Now, just to warm the dear viewers, of course, since this show is being filmed live in the Holy City of Kerbala, and we are right directly parallel to the shrine of our master Abul Fadlil Abbas, then one thing you would note is that there are several loud noises in the background. Of course, this is one of the beautiful scenes that we would see every day here in Kerbala because of the caravans and the groups of pilgrims which come from all over the world in order to visit the blessed shrines here in the city. And so, what we're hearing at the moment is aza or lamentations of mourning. I believe it's in the Farsi language, but inshallah to Allah it's not disturbing myself and I pray it's not disturbing you or preventing you from hearing what I have to say. So, we've seen that these man-made rules by which they claim would objectively govern morality have a tendency to backfire upon them. So, for example, when you would ask them, why can't two parents eat a newborn baby if they choose to? Now, of course, don't get me wrong, but I'm even putting forward this question. I'm not suggesting that the average human being would want to do this. Of course, I believe that it's written upon our souls to know that this is grotesque, but the question is on which grounds could an atheist objectively say this is truly wrong if they don't believe in the law giver, the one who gives us the concept of the moral law? Now, the problem with this is many of them would respond, oh okay, you see, you're ever fickle. Don't you understand that if you were to allow everyone to do that, there would no longer be anyone to populate the earth? Well, if that's the rule we're going to go by, I've heard believers counter-argue in legitimate scholarly debates, might I add, that if you want to opt of that rule, then you as atheist liberals should not support the institution of homosexual marriage because the consequences would be the same. On one hand, if everyone was allowed to eat their children, there would be no one to populate the earth because everyone would be eating their children. On the other hand, if everyone was allowed to do homosexual marriage, there would be no one to populate the earth because, again, there would be no one to produce babies naturally. So if they want to come up with such laws and arguments, half the time these laws and arguments backfire upon their very selves and are unable to come up with what we call universal laws by which to govern morality. We cited in the episode on Thursday night a very prominent atheist professor of ethics. Ethics, of course, being the study of morality and decent values as opposed to good and as opposed to bad behavior, rather. His name is Professor Joel Marx and for many years he used to write a column called A Moral Manifesto in which he completely defended the concept of being moral but at the same time not believing in God. And for those of you who saw it the other day, you'll remember what I cited him as saying. He states the following. I think the time has come to therefore to reveal it to the world and in particular to you, dear reader, who have patiently considered my defenses of a particular sort of moral theory for the last 10 years. In a word, this philosopher has long been laboring under an unexamined assumption namely that there is such a thing as right and wrong. I now believe there isn't. How I arrived at this conclusion is the subject of a book I have written during this recent period tentatively entitled Bad Faith, a Personal Memoir on Atheism, Amorality and Animals. The long and the short of it is that I became convinced that atheism implies amorality and since I am an atheist I must therefore embrace amorality. I call the premise of this argument hard atheism. And what he goes on to state is the following. So I was until I experienced my shocking epiphany that the religious fundamentalists are correct. Without God there is no morality but they are incorrect I still believe about there being a God. Hence I believe there is no morality. Now why do I accept hard atheism? I was struck by the salient parallels between religion and morality especially that both avail themselves of imperatives and commands which are intended to apply universally. In the case of religion and most obviously theism these commands emanate from a commander and all these people and this all people call God as Aquinas might have put it. The problem with theism is of course the shaky grounds for believing in God but the problem of morality I now maintain is that it is an even worse shape than religion in this regard. For if there was no God, if there was a God rather his issuing commands would make some kind of sense but if there is no God as of course atheists assert then what kind of sense could be made of there being commands of this sort. In some whilst theists take the obvious existence of moral commands to be a kind of proof for the existence of a commander i.e. God I now take the non-existence of a commander as a kind of proof that there are no commands i.e. morality. So what we see is what we see that whilst everyone else in the world everyone that believes in God we would see the information in front of us we would of course approach it we would say it makes sense if there's no God there would be no morality but clearly I experience morality on a daily basis therefore there must be a God. Instead no these atheists in their desire to affirm the absence of a God despite the fact that they work as professors arguing for the defense of morality for 10 years they now come forward and say well you know what if there is no God there is no morality but despite the fact I've been arguing for morality for 10 years and I clearly believe in it because I've been writing an article called a moral manifesto instead of admitting that I'll just say there's no God. And that seems to be really the reasoning that goes on here now of course I agree with the reasoning entirely if there is no God there can be of no objective grounding for morality but the scary thing is I believe that every human being knows and it's written upon his soul that there is such a thing as morality when certain calamities fall upon humanity we know that what was done was objectively wrong. And could society function without such a thing as morality? Of course these are very very important questions and I believe dear viewers this shall expose to you a large degree of the problems that are understood in the issue of religious debates. Speaking of debates I have been asked to comment upon something which is being going on in my previous adopted city of London that is to say religious debates which are going on between people who are of course Shi'a and those who affiliate themselves with the Ahl-e-Sunnah or Salafis more particularly I believe I've been asked to throw in my two cents my two cents is that anyone who is involved in this series of discussions should of course be someone who is familiar with the doctrines and teachings of a religion they should not be people who look up arguments in order to debate because that can allow no success rather they need to be students of knowledge from both the Sunni and the Shi'a site and those are my two cents may Allah forgive me if I've said anything wrong may Allah forgive me if I've contributed to this negative atmosphere of these debates from my past actions as well As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh