So YouTube team keeping clean what's going on is they engraving here with another video And in this video we had to talk about the game that we just finished watching between the Packers and the Saints And I um, I only got to see the second half of the game I got to see the end of the second quarter, but I got to see the second half of the game Because my wife she wanted to go grocery shopping Sunday night she want to go grocery shopping for the week And she wanted to go at the beginning of the game. So I did miss the first half But anyway, it's all good because this was actually this ended up being the first Sunday night football game of this season That I stayed awake for the entire game. I couldn't believe it when we were driving home from the grocery store I told I said, I don't know if I'm gonna make it through this one because I'm tired. I was tired But we made it anyway um, the Packers end up Keeping their undefeated streak squeaky clean and the Saints Wow, they go to one and two. Who would have thought? Who would have thought They of course beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in week one Then lost to the Raiders and now lost to the Packers Now while I did have the Saints losing this game to the Packers Because I felt like Aaron Rodgers was going to be able to overcome not having Devonte Adams more than Drew Brees Was going to be able to overcome not having Michael Thomas But here the biggest difference would be Uh, how how the quarterbacks deal with the pass rush How they deal with it how they deal with the pressure Because the Packers pressure I feel like it's better than the Saints pressure And Zadaria Smith, he made the game changing play He made the play that really separated this gamer and really stretched that lead When they uh, when it was Taysum Hill Taysum Hill faked it, uh to the running back. I think he faked it to Kamar I forgot who he faked it to but he faked it to him. Zadaria Smith didn't bite at all He did not bite at all. He came in knocked it out and recovered it to And then I believe that was the same drive where Aaron Rodgers he he caught the entire Saints team slip Well, not the entire team, but he caught multiple players slipping in one play On the free play where he got demario davis to jump off sides and then see this is where the Saints Last weekend this week. It's been the same issue the penalties The penalties the penalties the penalties With the penalty if if you keep committing penalties. It's not impossible to win But it makes it a lot easier to lose And on that play where he got demario davis to jump off sides he threw it up And Jenares Jenkins He just hooked the receiver's arm. He hooked it And I was initially when they first threw the flag I was thinking, oh, this is probably a bad flag It's probably a bad call but it wasn't Because he literally hooked the receiver's arm and stopped him. He didn't allow him to go for the ball And I was just like, wow, that's just it was just a such a bad play in the worst timing Because the Saints were down and they were trying to come back. But then Passing interference. That's a spot foul. So since he committed in an in the end zone, the ball got placed at the one Then Aaron Jones, he scored on that play where he stretched out He scored because he wasn't down yet But the I think the saint know the packers they challenge it and they lost the challenge I don't know how because that should have been a touchdown But then they ended up getting it on the fourth down, I believe There's a lot of fourth down attempts in this game um Something I noticed with Drew Brees The the biggest difference to me between the two quarterbacks in this one. I know they both went for three touchdowns They didn't have any uh interceptions. So that's good But with Aaron Rodgers, he takes the shots He takes the shots downfield. Now unless I I really missed something in the first half I didn't see Drew Brees really taking shots downfield like that Now I know he's a quarterback that does do a lot of the short passes That's his thing and they set up the big passes too But I just I really didn't see any of the deep shots this game Again, maybe I may have missed something in the first half, but from what I saw I didn't see that and that's a big difference because If you and maybe that's him just missing Michael Thomas Maybe with Michael Thomas working underneath doing all his slants and all that maybe that helps Get some other people open for the deep passes. I don't know But I'm just that part of Drew Brees game. I feel like I feel like that's missing I feel like it's missing because when you take those deep shots Defenses they'll respect you they'll back up a little bit more. They're like, whoa, wait a minute He's gonna take some shots. So let's back up But with Drew Brees, it was just like short pass short pass short pass short pass short pass short pass short pass short pass And again, that's kudos to the Packers defense as well because they took away all that stuff But then like you you think about somebody like Aaron Rodgers on the other side of the ball There was the drive to um, I believe it was Alan Lizard He threw like He threw two passes through two deep passes to Alan Lizard like on the same drive One of them was incomplete, but then the other one went for I think 72 yards And the uh sains corner just got him at the last the last second like right by the goal line and then That's that's why you never give up on the play though So kudos to the sains corner back for tackling them because I'm pretty sure the uh Packers they ended up getting a field goal in that drive. They didn't get a touchdown So that was big, but I think that's definitely a A part of Drew Brees game that was missing from tonight Now um And and I feel like with his numbers They like let's look at Drew Brees numbers Drew Brees tonight was 29 for 36 So that that's pretty good. That's pretty good accurate. He only missed or set seven passes. Yeah 288 yards. Okay, cool Three touchdowns no picks, but then you see the average is eight eight yards per completion That's pretty short Uh, and then like you look at some of his receivers numbers of manual sanders had four catches for 56 yards And it seemed like they they they they are still figuring each other out And I think uh, you have to credit that to this this lack of an offseason Um, but they're still figuring each other out They just haven't really been able to get on the same page consistently yet And we were thinking that with the manual sanders and michael thomas They were going to be able to feed off of each other's like two number one receivers or which one are you going to cover? Who are you going to double? Somebody's going to benefit but now michael thomas is out Uh, so with a manual sanders that makes his job that much harder because teams can hone in on him and try to take him out the game Um, but anyway He had he passed for 288 yards But then alvin kamara, he caught 139 of those yards So that's a big chunk So if you take and not that you can take away alvin kamara's yacht because he got him And I mean they they paid him they gave him that extension for a reason because he's used a lot in this same's offense Like clearly a lot you see it And on that play where he that play where he Got that long touchdown that offensive lineman was good. He was running like he was receiving something But that play with alvin kamara just shows how good he is and how good he can be It didn't even look like he was trying and it didn't even look like he thought he was going to get a touchdown Because he broke he broke that initial tackle because it should have been like a only a gain like one or two But the packers cornerback he missed the tackle So alvin kamara broke that start running broke another one kept running broke another one And then he cut in And that packers defender it looked like I was thinking Oh, was that like a dirty tackle because that packers defender got him after he already got to the end zone But it was like he was right there was borderline, but it wasn't it wasn't 30 but anyway Alvin kamara it looked like he wasn't even trying it looked like he didn't even give any effort to that It just looks so easy for but It obviously wasn't enough But yeah, back to what I was saying about drew breeze. I just feel like uh, the deep shots they were they weren't there They just they weren't there Uh, we're and rogers you got to give him credit Because he continues to do what he does. This is just that's this is and rogers It's the and rogers that we know Actually for both quarterbacks because both quarterbacks again, they do three touchdowns no interceptions And nobody's like, oh man, this quarterback has such an amazing game Because these guys have reached that point in their career Where this is normal for them This is this is regular. This is the norm So it's it's like we don't even bat an eye to it But again and rogers, um They they were saying something Where they were talking about how he's been playing at these loud stadiums the past couple of weeks And i'm thinking wait a minute. They're they're no fans. I know tonight. They had friends and family But still like that. It's not regular stadium crowd noise So for them to say that he's been playing at these loud stadiums the past couple weeks. I'm like What are y'all talking about man? What like we got a freshen up the commentary, man but Anyway, man, he uh, very special man. Shout out to zadaria smith Uh, y'all know me. I'm a ravens fan and zadaria smith was one person that I remember when he left in free agency I did not want him to leave I knew he was going to Uh, because I knew they weren't gonna resign him because they had other people that they prioritized over him Uh, but I just I did not want him to leave the ravens at all Because I just I knew this was gonna happen, man Knew this was gonna happen where he just goes somewhere.  He's been doing so good with green bay Fits right in. Um, just He's been just destroying it with the packer. So shout out to Uh, zadaria smith and shout out to um, air rogers. I saw that crazy stat That said, um, it showed how many touchdown passes These different quarterbacks through to first round pick receivers To first round receivers, excuse me. They showed paid man angles like 193 or something like that I think from drew breeze. It was like 19 something like that. I forgot what the number was but for air rogers, it was two And I was like what? And it was two they said he the the for the touchdown passes that he's thrown Only two of them came to receivers drafted in the first round That doesn't mean he doesn't he hasn't had talent at wide receiver because he certainly has I mean, you got donald driver. You got jordy nelson. Of course. Now you got davante adams And there have been more but I just thought that was a very interesting and kind of crazy statistic man And you know for these games they pulled out all these crazy statistics that you never even knew you cared about But that was very interesting. But anyway Shout out to uh, the packers for still keeping it rolling Saints, whoo gonna have to tighten up real fast Real fast because obviously it's not over. They're they wanting to So that they could go 14 and two Because they have all those games left. You got 13 games left Um, or I mean things could get rough the schedule is only gonna get harder But your team's gonna get better. I ain't no Malcolm James was balling like that. I was like, okay Malcolm I see you big dog I know he was a baller in the past. I know he was still balling though. I was like, oh wow, okay um But anyway So team keep it clean. I appreciate y'all I love y'all. I will see you tomorrow And of course for that money night football game that should be a lot of fun We out


It's great to see everyone here. So many good faces, thank you for coming. It's been a while since I've seen most of you. Some of you, it's been only a few hours since we last tweeted, so I just wanna start out by saying I'm back. My name's Zach. I work at a company called Shutterfly. I'm supposed to tell you this. In San Francisco, where we are number one in first world problems. But this talk isn't gonna be about me. We're here for this guy.  I don't have any time for that. If he was gonna present this talk, maybe he'd start with this slide. I'm supposed to have his kanji, but I forgot it. Some of you here probably know Nobu. And you've probably seen him around at various conferences, different places, or maybe you've just seen that guy. Who is this guy? Is my mic on? I can't tell. If we start out looking at his GitHub profile, he's contributed quite a lot to a lot of projects. He's the number one committer all time to Ruby. And his number of commits far surpass everyone else. My lot. And if we look at commits per day, we can see that he doubles everyone else in number of commits each day since January, which is amazing. But I couldn't help. When I saw this graph, Shohei was gracious enough to give me these graphs for my talk. And I couldn't help, I noticed a name on here and I decided that I'd throw this section in here. It's called Random Committer Spotlight Time. I was looking at this graph and I noticed the name Martin Durst, who is a, if you don't know Martin, Martin's a committer and he lives in Japan. He has a master's from Zurich in computer science and a PhD from Todai. And I couldn't help though when I saw his name on this list. I couldn't help but think that growing up with that last name must have been the worst. But Nobu is very special to me. He's someone that I try to imitate in my work. And he's the one that coined the phrase ZZAC Shaving. He's someone that I see in myself. And we go way back. But I don't know if I completely trust Nobu. I saw this tweet, this was last year and I looked at the picture and I couldn't help but notice that that's my phone. Who is this guy? I tried to find out. So, you know, I wanted to get to know Nobu. I needed to be ready for this talk. So, I started out, I asked his coworkers. And at first I started out, I asked Keiko and she just like, oh, Chame. I have no idea who that is. I asked Koichi, but it was in Japanese and I can't really read that. So, I decided to ask Terrence and he just tried to get me to help him fix Make Snapshot. So, then I asked a complete stranger and he's just like, that guy's drunk. So, I did what any reasonable person would do and I asked the internet. And I found this video from Fabio Kida about three years ago. And it says, an interview with Nobiyoshi Nakada and better known as The Patch Monster. So, I'm gonna show you the first few minutes of this video so that you can get to know Nobu a little better. Okay, this is Fabio Kida again for Ruby Kaigi and I'm gonna interview Mr. Nobiyoshi Nakada who is a Ruby Committer, a very long time Ruby Committer. And together with me is Akira Matsuda, a Rails evangelist who's gonna help me translate from Japanese to English back and forth. So, Nakada-san, as a first question which is always the first question, how did you get involved in the Ruby development? How did you first met Ruby and decided that you want to contribute? The table for character conversion, Japanese books to UTF-16. That's what I did. I used a Perl 4. I used a Perl 4, but I didn't use a Perl 5. So, I thought I'd use a Perl 5. That video is great, but I have no idea what you're saying. The whole thing's in Japanese. And Akira's there to translate, he doesn't say a word the whole damn time. I really like his Led Zeppelin shirt. The hard-to-reach household. I kept searching and I found this. It's a PDF file. It's pretty cool. Actually, I'll be honest, I made this. I'm also a little bit drunk still on the lot board. Turns out that I don't know you that well so let's just keep this simple. Nobody knows Nobu. It starts out about a hundred kilometers southwest of Tokyo in the heart of the Honshu Island, where Nobu was forged. Deep in the fires below Mount Fuji. After his creation, baby Nobu crawled his way down this mountain. He made his first friend. A large cat made his first friend. Wasn't sure at first who this guy was. And until Nobu let out a loud roar, the cat was convinced this guy was probably pretty cool. And they took off down the mountain together. It wasn't long though, baby Nobu got hungry and he started crying, he was hungry, he needed something to eat. And you could hear actually his wails off in the distance, not far, where a young couple was studying together in the forest around Mount Fuji. A young woman who was out there studying bugs for her graduate studies in entomology actually, accompanied by none other than Oki-doshi or Professor Oak. They quickly ran to go help young baby Nobu and the cat just like took off. He's like, I'm done with this guy. They tried to make him feel better and all they had was beer. So he just like went through that pretty fast. But you could tell this baby was special so they decided to keep him. And they went back home to their home in Tochigi in northern Japan where they continued to teach Nobu everything they know about math and science. It wasn't until he joined the physics club in high school where he really started to excel. His love for math and knowledge just kept growing until one summer afternoon just before going to university, this says right here. They're out of picnic. And his friends seemed pretty preoccupied with the foods and stuff. But Nobu was just astounded by these floating balls in the air. Didn't know what they were so he just wanted to find out. And this is really where his initial love for hot air balloon flying started. Little do you know. During his university years, he joined the hot air balloon club and got his first taste of computer science where he taught himself to architect hot air balloons using the computer hide and seek programs. He spent so many nights doing this, perfecting his programming skills in order to build the best hot air balloon he possibly could so that one day he could fly off into the distance and leave all of his troubles behind and go back to Mount Fuji where he belongs. But not all as well. Poor Nobu spent so much time hot air ballooning that his grades fell and he actually flunked out of university. So he had to get a job, right? And this is where his skills from hot air ballooning come in. He lives at home with his family, three daughters, and he gets to work on Ruby full-time for Heroku. And that's the true start, Nobu. I wasn't kidding when I was gonna tell you who this guy is. We can actually learn a lot from him, too. Specifically how Nobu works. I'm surprised he's not up here hacking right now, to be honest. But he works on a MacBook Pro 13 inch from, or 15 inch, sorry, 2013. And he uses a 70, and he uses Emacs from MacPorts. Apparently, Homebrew doesn't work on his computer. I have no idea. For multiplexing, he uses tabs. And Ebisu is his favorite beer. He's also got a pretty sweet prompt. This is his prompt. I don't understand what it says, but looks cool. He also occupies the patch booth from time to time and he practices BDD. Nobu knows a lot of crazy tricks. I saw this tweet from Aaron. He was asking how to run Ruby's tests without going through make test. And Nobu replies, use test runner, we actually have a runner in there. And I tried it out on DRuby. It worked out pretty well. But I imagine that Nobu must have known, like if you look at the tweet, he's like, test runner fiddle. He must have known that Aaron was working on this ticket to remove DL. Somehow he just has magical powers. And he uses Git SVN because we're still on subversion. Apparently that's the best way to do it. He uses GitHub sometimes and I thought this was interesting. I went on there and I looked up how many times he's submitted pull requests and there's like almost 30 just right now. And mostly I think just using them to run like Travis tests and just have a patch ready for whatever reason. You can see some of those are features that he was implementing and some bugs. He likes to work on all kinds of parts of Ruby basically. I went through and I started looking at like the commit log to find out, what does this guy actually like to commit to so that I could have something to talk about while I was up here. And I found this commit seemed pretty important, right? Zero change files, zero additions, zero deletions. Such patch. I did a search for all of these types of commits and I found a lot of them. It just keeps going. There's exactly 213 right now. That's almost more patches than me. He also has this removed trailing spaces. So this says SVN, but that's just because we switched the key. But he has 107 of those. And basically how this works is he has a script that runs. And it just has this key so he can push or whatever. But it goes through and it starts out with the make file and the read mean. It starts there and then it grabs all these other source files. And then starting out with the change log, it goes through and just fixes the encoding issues, any encoding issues and then strips the white space from the rest of the files and then commits it. He's done this over 300 times. That's amazing. I also found this commit pretty interesting. If you read it, it says should not require other files when dump option is given. So I wasn't really sure, but Ruby C file is like the executable to run Ruby programs. And basically when you give it this flag, you shouldn't see the run part looking at the tests that he committed. I can estimate that. But I couldn't help though, honestly, when I saw this commit, this is all I thought of. But I had to keep looking. I kept searching for more patches and I found at a period of like one day there was all these similar commits. Like fixing leaks. Apparently Nobu patches a lot of leaks. One such example in this builder file here is moving the temp file on link into the insure block just to make sure it gets collected and then I reverted this commit to run the test to see what he is working with and then you can see right in the test suite when we run the test it shows him that there's a leak thread there or a leak temp file. And this is built into Ruby's test runner. Basically goes through all the assertions and uses this leak checker and passes the test name and class into the leak checker. This leak checker is kind of cool. It does all kinds of stuff with file descriptors and temp files and threads. And first when it's initialized, it checks what's already on the stack basically. And then for temp files it uses this check temp file method. If we look at that we can see that, yeah it takes the initial temp files and then calls find temp files given that count and subtracts them to find the difference. Looking at find temp files, you can see the initial counter class there. You can look into that for more just basically does this. It looks at object space and finds any instances of temp file and then just returns them as an array. And so if there's any temp files left, it prints this message that we see. That's kind of neat, that's a really helpful one. I think Nobu has had like a bunch of patches fixing those so that our tests can run better. Another bug that I found interesting was this flip-flop thing. There's a test failure on Windows and if you don't know what flip-flop is, basically just Google it. I'm kidding, I'll tell you what it is. So as an example, we're just taking this data on the bottom and we're going through each line and then once we hit start, the bit flips and then once we hit end, bit flops. So until we hit end, it's flipped. And you can see here when we parse that text. There's also some pretty good docs on it in the Ruby tree. If you use this command you can see more other control expressions. But looking at this ticket, there was a test failure that was reported and it says flip-flop, the bit should be separated per thread and it came with this test. Turns out that it actually has nothing to do with flip-flop but it's a threading bug in Win32.0.le. And Nobu makes an email here. He mentions that it's probably not a bug like using this example you can see that on Windows this works. But literally five minutes later, not kidding, five minutes later he commits this patch. It's like oh, sorry it wasn't a bug but guess what, I fixed it. I rewrote it using tracepoint instead of thread and I just flipped a table. But don't, he's sleeping. Don't flip the table while he's sleeping. But it doesn't work just on patches. Nobu works on a bunch of other features like I showed on GitHub such as object itself, super method and deprecate constant which is, I don't think that's merged yet but he has a patch for it. And you can often find like, for example in Olivier's talk, I think it was yesterday, mentioned that he came up with this idea for hash contains and Nobu came up with a patch like instantly basically. And so he basically, I guess he just works on whatever the frig he wants and that's kind of cool. But we can learn a lot from Nobu and basically to sum up how I feel about Nobu I think he works really hard. He's a very humble person. Humble enough to be sleeping on stage while there's a talk given about him. And he's always patching and enjoying his life and I think that's very, very noble. And thank you.


welcome to the DEF CON 30 homecoming 101 track. So it's been like a very emotional year. How many people at the beginning of the year weren't sure if we were even going to be here? Show of hands. It's really questionable. And month after month, the stress and so being here and seeing my people is really awesome. So you're awesome. Just thought I'd say that. So for those of you who have not really been to a DEF CON or maybe only a DEF CON virtual and now this is your first first timers raise your hand. No shame.  Oh, well, I mean, it makes sense. You'd all be in this room at this time. So that works. Okay. So you won't get too many of the older references, but that's fine. I'll just kind of talk about 10 or 15 minutes and then we're going to pass it off to Melanie who runs our communications and press and is sort of the consciousness of the con. I lean on Mel for a lot of advice. And then we're going to have this great panel with some new and long time DEF CON goons and attendees and then we're going to go to the audience and answer your questions. So before we do that, there's a couple of cliche phrases around DEF CON I just want to address. One is DEF CON is what you make of it. And this came about when a lot of people were complaining, hey, I didn't get this one specific experience that I wanted or I didn't meet this one person that I knew I was supposed to meet if I came or I didn't get to hack the car or whatever. And other people would say, no, well, I got to do that. Why didn't you get to do that? And it quickly turned into there's a million ways to experience this conference. And unlike some other more corporate conferences, we don't have these pathways totally defined for you. It's not like you get on the track one, shake the hand with the executive and get the sales briefing. It's really up to you. And it can be very chaotic at some times, which causes some stress. But it's also super rewarding because it's like a choose your own adventure. We're in like this unlimited massive multiplayer universe here. And everybody has had to go through what you're going to go through this year trying to figure it out. And some people focus on the talks. Some people sit down with their laptop. Some people sit in lock picking village for half a day and walk away with a new skill. And so don't feel that you missed out because it's impossible. Around DEF CON, I think three, I started hearing stories of stuff that were happening at DEF CON that I was throwing that I didn't know was happening. And then I realized this is bigger than me. And I have to be okay with not knowing everything that's going on. And that's kind of like if you have children, that's kind of like letting go. Like please tell me the stories. Please send me the pictures of her first steps or whatever because I'm not there. I missed it. But I'm still there. And that's what you're going to hear at DEF CON a lot. Oh my God, did you see the cabanas flying through the air last night when the storm hit? Did you see the water raining in on the roof last night? I guess what I'm getting at is I want you to go make your own path and I want you to not feel bad if you didn't see everything. So that's sort of the, it is what you make of it. If you're very introverted, maybe take an attempt to maybe extrovert, but if you can't, that's okay because probably a third of DEF CON is super introverted. And when we built the CON unintentionally, I'll take credit for it. But really it's an unintentional action is we grew by word of mouth. We don't have a marketing budget. And so every year based on people's experiences they tell their friends. And it grew very organically. And so there's no attempt to like target a market audience and get that market audience to attend. It is what it is through just organic word of mouth. And I think that's one of our greatest strengths because the people are here generally want to be here. We didn't mind trick them with some Facebook targeted ads or something. And because people are pretty passionate about what they're into or what they want to try to get out of it. So that's just kind of how we got there, how we got here. We in the early days and even today we never, I come from the bulletin board days and use net days after that. And you never knew the gender of the person you were talking to. You didn't know their age. You didn't know where they were from. You didn't know anything about them except what you saw in their messages at 300 bod, at 1200 bod, 2400 bod, right?  And that just carried forward.  We are interested in what's in your brain, right? You should be judged here on your ideas and your compassion and how you interact with other people and not what kind of shoes you're wearing, right? And so that might be important elsewhere, but here you'll see these people in suits talking with these teenagers with green hair and they're having a great time and it's really kind of a surreal experience and it's awesome. So please try to just suspend your eyes and focus on your experience when you talk to people. We have had, you'll hear some things about spot the fed contest. We have had a rocky history a little bit with the feds, but it's always been tongue in cheek. And I'll tell you a brief story about how that got started. We were organizing, DEF CON was the first not invite only hacking conference 30 years ago. And before you had to know someone to get in, to get the invite, to get on the list to show up the hacking thing. And I didn't like that because I didn't get invites to some of them.  I'm making my own show. But when we made our own show, I was like, well, I don't want that experience to happen to other people. So we invited everybody and it wasn't just hackers or phone freakers. We invited artists and musicians and lawyers. And basically in those days, there was this whole renaissance sort of like prewired. The internet could be anything. It could be art. It could be this utopia. And so everybody was invited and everybody was trying to figure it out. And so I had this really eclectic early mix. And actually a friend I made at the very first DEF CON was a lawyer for capital records. And that summer, I was working as an intern at capital records in Hollywood because of this connection I made. And so it was a really nice blending. Well, I knew the feds were going to be there. Law enforcement and movies were kind of promoting this image of the hackers, this mythical person that could fly and walk through walls and hack computers. And I sent a fax to the FBI field office here. And I said, hey, I'm Jeff Moss. We're doing this hacking conference. You're invited. And it just kind of goes into this black hole. And I sent them to the Secret Service. And I was trying to blanket everything. So nobody's surprised at the last minute if they hear that there's a hacking conference in Vegas. Well, the show's getting closer and closer and I'm starting to get nervous. And so I call the field office in Vegas and I say, hey, Jeff Moss, I'm doing this hacking conference. They say, okay, let me transfer you to the special agent in charge. And he answers the phone, special in charge, blah, blah, blah. And I go into my spiel, hey, we're doing this hacking conference. I'd love to have you there. We're going to have all these hackers. We're going to do this. But great. And there's a big, long, pregnant pause on the phone. Like, I can feel his like eyes like lasering me through the phone. And he says, we are aware of your activities. And I'm like, oh, great. So you're coming. So that's good, right? And he laughs because he knew he was messing with me. And he's like, no, no, we're enforcement. And what you want is like policy that's Washington, D.C. That's not a field office. You know, you should talk to them. Like, okay, no problem. First DEF CON comes and goes, shenanigans happen. It's over. It's Sunday. We're cleaning up. And the guy comes over to me and he like, whoop, shows me his badge. And he's like, hey, yeah, good show. Like, you said you were not coming. And he's like, well, you know. And it's like, okay, we can do this. We're looking for you next year. And it turned into this sort of cat and mouse game. And in the early days, if they wore leather loafers, you knew they were feds. And they got sneakers on. They got smarter. The fanny packs with the firearms disappeared. And they got better and better. The long story short, though, is that created this kind of more accepting interactive experience. And that spot the fed game unintentionally really paved the way, I think, for no animosity between us, right? Our community is kind of game recognizes game a little bit. And so all these unplanned experience have led us to this point, this crazy blending of different communities. And so when people think that there is a master plan, no, no, man, there's no master plan. The master plan is community and getting people together and giving them as many pathways to make connections as possible. When you have this many people, and you'll notice this and this is intentional, when you get this many people at a conference, it is impossible to not feel lost. So what do we do? We fork you off interested in aviation.  And now you don't have to deal with a thousand people, you just made 10 friends, right? You're in the lockpicking, you're in the high security lockpicking, you're in the thing, now you've got 10 people around you. And so we're constantly thinking how do we split everybody off into smaller areas of interest and then let you decide where you want to go. So it does feel big, but it's also conferences inside the conference inside the conference. And we're constantly trying to figure out how to do that. And one of our famous strategies is I give you a lot of rope.  And if you don't, you get more space.  And if you see a small village, a lot of times their first timer or they're just starting, they're trying to figure it out. So your feedback to them could be really valuable because they're just trying to figure out how do they find their way in this community. And you'll see villages come and go, it didn't work out, or the time was wrong, or there's a lot of interest in blockchain and then the interest drops and we repurpose the space to try the next idea. And so again, not a master plan really, we're just trying to get you all to talk and connect and carry on sort of that DEF CON spirit throughout the year. Because you'll find out that the friendships and the relationships you make here, you'll carry throughout the rest of the year. And we do some virtual events, we have a discord, we have forums, but really man, nothing beats this in-person feeling. So try to get the most out of that. One final thing is we, the one thing we don't do is we don't take sponsorships. And that's a conscious decision. There's probably a lot of money we've been leaving on the table over the years, but when we started the conference, there were no sponsorships, like nobody was doing this. And so by the time money arrived in the hacking scene and sponsors arrived, we had already built ourselves to be self-sufficient, so we really didn't need it. And we didn't want to be influenced by it.  It's like, we could if we started taking sponsorships and generating a lot more revenue, but we don't want to. That's a pretty intentional decision because we like our freedom and we like the ability to tell vendors or people who might try to intimidate us to not have a talk on an access control system or a voting system. We like not being able to be pressured through different vendors. So that's also a little bit of the con history that you might not. Might be in the back of your head, but that is a conscious decision. Okay. So that's sort of my opening orientation remarks. All I do the whole con is I walk and I just orbit and orbit. That's all I do the whole time. And so if you see me, say hi. I'm happy to talk to you, but if it looks like my hair is on fire and I'm racing somewhere, just get out of my way. Please. Okay.  Where did Mel go? Oh, there you are. Okay. So I'm going to introduce you to Melanie who's going to introduce you to our panelists and we're going to carry on the conversation and it's going to open up to the audience. So great. Thank you, everyone. Thanks, Jeff. A bit of course correction. I go by Wednesday. Wednesday. For strangers. You're all strangers. And you're all strangers. All right. So thank you so much everybody for joining us today. I'm really excited about the folks that we've pulled together today. They all have very different and unique experiences with DEF CON. So I've asked them to share a little bit of their story and how they got involved in the community to help all of you as you acclimate and find your people and find your little groups within this very large group. I am the type that I am very introverted and I just pretend to be an extrovert for a living. So if you also feel that way, there are plenty of corners, plenty of wonderful people and we want to help you find the folks that you really gel with.  So that being said, a little bit of background about myself is Jeff mentioned. I run the press department, the communication strategy here at DEF CON. I have been a goon for nine years. So I have seen a lot of the changes that he talked about. And I actually started by volunteering with what at the time was called DEF CON kids. So we used to have a village dedicated to our youngest hackers. It eventually evolved into something called Roots Asylum. They have since retired as of this year but hopefully will have something taking its place for next year. So if that's something that's interesting to you, let me know because we are trying to pull something new together. But that's how I got started, which is volunteering with one of these villages. And over time, there was more needs and more things that the team needed help with and eventually I hope nobody actually holds me responsible for the consciousness of DEF CON. But it is part of my professional training to help organizations be a little bit more empathetic and more inclusive. So with that being said, I want to introduce our amazing panelists that we've brought together today. I'm going to ask each of you to introduce yourselves. Let us know what you want to be called. I know all of you by different names and I want to be respectful of what you want to be called by this group. So let us know what you want to be called. Let us know how you got introduced into DEF CON and give us one tip of a do or don't that you would share with a newcomer who's here for the first time. So let's start with you. My name is Tanisha O'Donohue. I preferred to be called T. I got introduced into DEF CON through Black Girls Hack. This is our first year here. We have a village called Girls Hack Village. So yeah. And do you have a tip for the newcomers on something that you would recommend they do or they don't do? Plan for the things that you can't plan. Just keep thinking about all the what ifs and keep planning. Hello. My name is Shannon Morse. I go by snubs on the Internet. My pronouns are she and her. And I got introduced to DEF CON back in, I want to say like 2009 through a YouTube podcast I do called Hack 5, HAK5. You can Google it. It's really good. Definitely subscribe. Like and subscribe. Thanks. And I guess my main thing would be please, dear God, wear a deodorant. Applause out the gate. Hello. My name is Steven. I go by a CFO says on social stuff there.  So I came and I was like, oh, this is cool. And one piece of advice that I would say or I guess to do is whatever remotely interests you, go check it out. Especially if it's your first time, there might be something that you weren't expecting that is like, hey, this is actually pretty cool. For me it was like the social engineering community where they were calling and I was like, that's pretty cool. So my name is Michael. Also known as Sparky. It's he him. I started DEF CON 8. DEF CON 10. I was brought into the knock. And 20 years later, I'm sitting on stage. I guess the one tip I have is look to your left, look to your right. These are your people. And take a chance and talk to them. You might not kick off a conversation with them, but the reality is you might. And from there you might end up in a half dozen other conversations. And it is the three days out of the year where you're going to have an opportunity to do that. And don't miss out on that chance. Awesome. Thank you. I want to add my own tip, which I'm also sharing on behalf of DEF CON.  I'm being serious. It is very difficult to find a venue that will put up with our shenanigans. Please don't make it harder for us to host DEF CON in future years.  So that's my tip. So one of the things, and Jeff touched on this a bit as well, but one of the things that I think is so important and is different about DEF CON compared to what we might consider to be a professional infosec conference. There's an example down the road. Is that DEF CON isn't just a transaction of, hey, we went to this conference and did this thing, but DEF CON really is a community above and beyond what is going to happen over the next three days this week. And so I want to ask our panelists here to talk a little bit about what did you do to engage in the community outside of the three days that we have together every year? What is some advice that you would share with everybody in terms of how to make DEF CON more than just a transactional event? I don't think her mic is on. It's her mic on. Yeah, her mic. All right, can we have somebody else while we turn it? Is it on now? That's a really good question. Thanks for making me first. Connecting with people. Join organization. For me personally, I'll speak from my experience. I joined Black Girls Hack. I'm the director of policy over there. It was easy for me to connect and grow even though we all live across the country with the people in the cyberspace. And that develops relationships where some of these people are not my friends. I can call them. I have mentors. I have different people. If something happens at work, I can lean on. For me, it's continually connecting and share with other people. The first year I came here to DEF CON was back in 2009. It was overwhelming. I'll be very transparent with you. I have crazy imposter syndrome. Being around so many smart people made me feel like I didn't know enough to be here. When I came home from DEF CON and I started doing shows on YouTube, I decided to really delve into things and start educating myself. And the way that I tried to become a part of the community was by introducing tutorials on things that I was truly, really interested in, like Wireshark series and stuff like that. And by learning those things myself and by delving into it like a noob and completely just telling people, hey, I'm a noob too. It's okay. It's okay to learn all these things and educate yourself. That's totally fine. I learned coming back the next year that everybody else is more than happy to share their knowledge. And that was the biggest thing that I brought home from DEF CON after going a couple of years was that people are more than willing and more than happy to teach you new concepts, teach you new techniques about information security and privacy, hacking in general. And there's so much more that you can learn when you're willing to get yourself out there and kind of combat your own imposter syndrome and just tell people, hey, I don't know how this works. Can you tell me like I'm five years old? And by doing that, I really, really felt like a part of this community. And through the years, it's become stronger and stronger to the point where I came back this year after being gone for two years and I got ambushed by a few friends in the hallway and I started bawling my eyes out because I was so happy to see them. It truly, it does turn into a family once you find your people here. And I think it really just takes getting out of your shell and just being willing to talk to people. For me, this is my second DEF CON. The first one I went to was like right before the pandemic. When the first one, I probably just knew people on my team or that I'd worked with directly before. Since then, the way that I probably had the most interaction with people in this community is like at my local conferences or just other conferences that I travel to because I imagine you guys probably go to other conferences there. And then, oh, also people that have funny memes on Twitter. That's my tribe. And yeah. And so now when I come back around here, like I might bump into people or like maybe just do Twitter, say, hey, are you going to be around and then just catching up with people that way. And that's helped me a lot. And I feel like I know a lot more people now. Yeah. So for me, when I started coming to DEF CON, I was actually the station manager for the world's largest online punk rock station. And I had bought a computer a year before that. And I was like, ah, computers. Got that. And so I showed up at DEF CON and I totally rocked the imposter syndrome.  I'm way out of my element. After that, you know, I attempted to try to get a press pass and was roadblocked year after year. So I eventually found another methodology. No, no, not by my. But yeah, I found a different way of doing it. I made friends and started talking with those people and handed out cheesy business cards. And an unfortunate event happened. And they needed somebody to step in and help out with DCTV. And I was sitting at the Alexis Park. And my two co-workers walked past me and I'm like, what are you guys doing here? And they're like, oh, somebody reached out to us and asked us to set up DCTV. And I was like, seriously, I handle the business cards and they get the goon badge. So I made a stink and invited myself into their team. And next thing you know, I was hanging APs and the rest is kind of a history. For me at home, I no longer live in a large city. I live in a small town. I live in a small town that has been transitioning from being a mill town or an industrial town into being a new or trying to reinvent itself. This small town, they don't embrace technology. It is very hands off for them. But I'm opening a makerspace. And I'm getting the community to try to learn about the maker community. And from there, start to bridge that gap and start to introduce technology and start to introduce, you know, a new mindset to them. So that's the part I try to give back to the community. Awesome. I loved all those ideas and I love all your stories. The other thing that I will add is that if you aren't really sure where to start and you haven't quite found your group of folks yet, there is an organization called the Lonely Hacker Club. So if you want to look them up and connect with them, they do a really good job of helping people, like matching them with folks who share interests and helping you locate certain corners within DEF CON and within the community where you can meet new folks. So that's a good resource if you're looking for some additional support. So that being said, I want to give folks time to ask questions. So you can pick the brains of these really smart people up here. We do have roaming mics. So if you have a question that you'd like to ask, just raise your hand and the goons will be bringing the mic to you. Yes. I'm just going to say this to start off with. My expertise is in administrative and operational. So if you're going to ask me a question about the knock and where the pixies go, I'll do my best, but most likely I'll just give you my Twitter handle and I will get you an answer later. Raise your hand really high so we can see if you have a question. We can get a mic to you. Where are the mics? Oh, make them run. Make them run. I see a mic person running. There you go. Run, sir, run. Thank you. Yes. Hi. Oh, wow.  How about each other? The reputation is that you enter a DEF CON Wi-Fi and it's toxic. And why is that okay if that's true? And if it's not true, please dispel. I just want to make sure I understood the question. So tell me if I'm getting this wrong.  Did I get it? Okay. It's a very good question. And I don't have a 100% definitive answer for you, but I'm going to tell you the way that we're thinking about it is this is a hacker conference. We expect people to hack on things. We're also very mindful of the fact that members of our community fall along a very long moral spectrum in terms of what is considered ethical hacking and what is kind of everybody's comfort and boundary with that. And we have to be realistic about that because we have anonymous attendance. I don't actually know who is in this room. That's on purpose. We don't want governments and other agencies to be able to come and get an attendee list from us. So there is a little bit, I think, of self-awareness of what kind of environment we're in from a security perspective while we're here. And so we do try to provide advice on how to protect yourself, how to protect your networks. We advise you don't bring your corporate devices here. But at the same time, I want to also acknowledge the fact that in 2022, if you don't feel safe using technology within the DEF CON space, I think we also need to be talking about how safe our normal everyday networks are. So there's a lot of advice about don't bring smartphones, don't use Wi-Fi, don't use all of this. When you come to DEF CON and people are putting all their devices in fair days, if you are a high-risk, high-target individual where you know nation states are targeting you, I think that's all applicable advice. But for most of us, the types of things that I do to protect myself when I'm at DEF CON are the things I do every single day because those threats exist even when the hackers go home, right? So I don't know if that's a satisfactory answer for you, but that's at least the way that we've been thinking about it in terms of DEF CON. We hope that everybody is respectful of each other, but this is also a hacker conference and we want people to be able to learn and develop new skills and to be able to find vulnerabilities so that they can ultimately be fixed. But we can't enforce that that's what people do with the knowledge that they gain. I don't know if I could add a little bit extra. Sure. Mel is 100% correct. But we do offer, so we have DEF CON open. It is the Wild West and a great experience if you have not tried it yet. And then we have DEF CON, which you was formerly known as DEF CON secure, right? And there's tons of information available at wi-fi-redge.defcon.org and I definitely recommend you visit there. And then the question about the casino floor.  They don't mess around, right? That's crime. It is a crime to attack a company, a person, anything, right? And they don't look at it as you being experimenting or there is no like three-day free pass in Las Vegas.  So, yeah, like just, you got a sandbox. Go build castles, tear down castles, do it in this environment. Everybody's going to leave happy. You are the best bad cop to my good cop. Thank you for adding that. Any other questions from the audience? Yep. Hey, yeah.  Come here. Everyone tells me I'm at the wrong place. So I'm just wondering, is there a place to get free swag anywhere here? Yes. Yeah. Snub should take that one. Oh my gosh. Go to the sticker swap. You can get so many stickers. I have a friend who literally throws little rubber ducks at people over and over again. I had a friend last night that gave me a little action figure for his company. Like, you can find stuff all over the place. People are handing out swag. Would you introduce me to your friend? Because I like action figures. I mean, like, you can go find them. Full disclosure, I am volunteering at the hack fight booth. But straight up, like, with a purchase, we're giving out free battery packs. Like, you can find stuff all over the place. So, yeah, definitely. Go to the sticker swap. I'm going to be there. I'll give you some stickers. We're having a networking event tonight. If you come to our networking event, you will have swag bags for me. Oh, damn. I know where I'm going. Is that at the girls' hack village? Girls' hack village in Flamingo, Virginia City 3. Sorry. It's very long. So, you guys come there. We're also having a 90s party tomorrow here in the Caesars Forum. So, everyone is welcome. So, we'll have swag. So, just come visit us.  But the reason you won't get a Defcon swag bag when you register is, as Jeff mentioned, we don't have corporate sponsors. And so, that swag is either going to come from the vendors who are sponsoring individual villages or from attendees who are being very generous and sharing things with the community. I think one thing to note that I think a lot of first-time attendees may not know is that Defcon operates a little bit like a platform where we provide the space for people to create villages, but the villages run their own content and programming, which means that they may have sponsors, but that sponsor only sponsors that room and their relationship is with the village, not with Defcon. So, you may find swag at different parts of conference, parts of Defcon, but we don't have just one single Defcon swag bag because Defcon does not accept corporate sponsors. Yeah, don't clap that. That is good. That's a good thing. I think we had a question over here. Sorry if I stutter, but how would someone go about getting into hacking? This is coming from like knowledge on basic networking and stuff, but how would some teenager or hell, even adult, go into like hacking at all? You got a maker space in your community? Sorry, I'm like shameless plug for maker spaces, but yeah, you got a maker space in your community, you got a hacker space, you got, you know, that's a great place to start because you're going to get direct feedback from people and people will engage with you. There are also local Defcon groups and a lot of cities all over the world, so that would be my first place where I would start was, I would look up online whether or not there was a Defcon group in my city. If not, then I would look at a hacker space. There are a lot of even just hacker collectives that exist in a lot of cities. So at least from my experience, having somebody in my town that I can meet with, you know, in meat space is where I would start and what I would recommend. But even for kids, there's a lot of free resources online. Just be really, again, as Sparky was saying earlier, be really careful about the environments that we're teaching people in because we don't want to see kids accidentally end up in legal trouble because they unknowingly crossed a line. So look for those resources online that are, you know, giving you a safe environment rather than having the kids just hack all over the internet because we need those skills. We need that talent. We don't want to lose them, you know, to the legal process. I think the goon has a question. After this one, we have time for one more. So the one in the back will be the last one. Yes. So mainly I'm a backend software engineer. I mainly write APIs and go. So I'm not exactly a hacker, but would be a suggestion that you give to me to gain some expertise from the great people here so that what it is I write is not riddled with vulnerabilities. Any particular places I should go? I just want to note that we found the unicorn, a developer who doesn't want to write insecure code. There we go. Any advice from our panelists? There's definitely probably some interesting stuff for you in Blue Team Village. I don't know what space you work in. There's also the Cloud Village as well, which could have some interesting stuff for you. I'll be speaking at the Blue Team Village this afternoon, so come. And we have different things going on in our village as well, too. So you can come there as well. We're welcome. The other place I'll recommend is the AppSec Village. So they do a lot of stuff around pen testing, software quality testing and all of that. So that's another good place to meet other software developers who care about security. I'll probably definitely plus one the AppSec Village. You're already two thirds of the way there. The fact that you will stand up publicly and say that you do not want to write insecure code is the right step forward. I can't tell you how many dev meetings I'm in where they're like, we'll take care of it afterwards. All right. Last one in the back. Yes. I'm here attending the conference with my wife. My wife is not here for DEF CON, though. I only have the pass for me. Are there any events or meetups or anything of that nature where we can attend together? That is a good question that I truthfully don't know the answer to. But if you will come find me after this and we can exchange contact info so I can find out and I'll let you know. And I'll also have the DEF CON Twitter handle tweet out whatever I find out. So if other folks are interested in that information, watch the DEF CON Twitter handle and we'll get that out. But that is a great question. Thank you for asking that. That actually brings up a great message that I would love to share. One year I brought my husband, I got him a badge and he loved it. And he's in HR. He's not a hacker, but he loved it. He went in the lock picking village and he sat down for like an hour and he came out and he was just like, I know how to pick locks. And I was so proud of him. I was so proud. And then I was like, don't tell your boss because you're HR. You probably shouldn't know how to do that. But bring people who are not hackers to the convention and share the wealth of knowledge because oftentimes you can find a village that they will absolutely love. Oh yeah. Yeah, for sure. I brought my wife once to DEF CON and nine months later my son was born. So there are other events. Congratulations. We aptly named him Flynn too. What village was that? It's invite only. Yeah, there's tons of stuff to do with your significant other. And that's the beauty of it. We are a community, as Jeff said earlier, of artists and lock pickers and phone freaks. And there's just so many different things. There's always something to find. And if you're really, really having a hard time, just go see a fantastic singer. Right. There you go. Right. Go see a fantastic performer. Yeah. Yeah. So are you saying DEF CON changes lives? Oh, damn. I didn't laugh. Okay, it changed your life. I haven't brought him. I am hoping for roots or sorry, the new version of it. And I personally believe that DEF CON may have to sponsor my child to attend. So, you know, concerns there, so. Awesome. Well, that's all the time that we have for today. How about a round of applause for our panelists? So thank you so much, everybody, for starting your DEF CON 30 with us here today. And welcome to DEF CON. Welcome to DEF CON. Have to play in it.


All right. Hey guys, Thunder E here and welcome to my 2021 gaming setup. I haven't done a gaming setup video in a while.  And don't forget guys, hit the subscribe button and notification icon to check out more videos from the channel. So in the gaming setup, of course, this is a PC gaming setup, things you need. Now the very first thing is what I am sitting on. This is the human scale freedom headrest chair. This is a really nice chair. It's not a gaming chair, but it's really comfortable because it's one of the chairs that gives you really good posture. It's got a nice headrest, I can let it on. And while I'm gaming, it allows me to stay in good posture and game for a long period of time. I also love it because if I switch back to doing regular workload, it's a great chair to use as well. Now the next thing, of course, you need for a PC gaming setup is a desk. This is also for human scale. This is the human scale floats. And this is a standing desk. I like standing desk because it allows me to get up, do my work differently, and it's quite easy to use. So like we go ahead, boom, there we go. We can pull it up, we can stand and we can start working, we can pull up documents. You can also game standing if you want to. That's just, you know, your choice. Now they do have a couple of different versions of it. They have the floats, the E floats, they've got the flex. This is just a regular float.  It's got a little bar right here that you can see that allows me to basically press this, pull it up or push it down. So I can go ahead and push this down. Boom, and that's it. Now I preferred the mechanical version just because it allowed me to do some extra work, you know, that's it. Either way, how does it work? It works with the amount of weight that's on top to give you that pressure so you can go up and down with the table. And speaking of the stuff I have on here, I've got some really cool gear. Start off with the keyboard, right? This is the ROG String Scope TKL. This is of course the Electropunk Edition. I like it, of course, for some of the colors are just really cool. I've been playing a lot of cyberpunk, so for me, this actually blends in quite well. Also matches with the table, 10 keyless, red cherry keys, really nice keyboard, just simple and easy to use. Now next up here, we've got the Baltus Chi Gaming Mousepad. You're thinking, okay, Chi wireless charging. Yes, it's got Chi wireless charging built-in because you can wirelessly charge your mouse right here overnight, which is pretty cool. Or you can of course charge your smartphone at the corner. I like doing that while I'm gaming because I can have my phone directly, I can charge it and also do some stuff. But speaking of the mouse here, this is the Chakram Gaming Mouse. It's a really nice, solid mouse. It's got some really great features. We've got over 10,000 BPI, some fast responses, great, especially when you're playing games like Modern Warfare, especially the new maps, which I just had to get it into. But it's a great experience using this overall. And I like the combination here. So the Baltus has two USB ports. Again, you need that for connectivity, for the RGB lights you can see all across. It also has an extra port here, which works specifically just for the Chi wireless charging because of course, you need extra power for that. You can of course put in the USB port here, dongle, so in case you wanna connect something else. But I do have my Baltus connected to my ROG throne here.  It's really cool, it's nice. But it does much more than just have RGB lighting for your headphones. It has a built-in ESSC Redac, 7.1 surround sound. You've got a headphone jack as well. You really can't see because it's black. But this thing gives you all the connectivity for the sound you want. So if you want to use a wired headphones, or you want to use 7.1 surround sound, you can use it with it. Plus it's also got wireless charging as well so you can actually charge your devices again. That's pretty cool. Now the headset here, this is a really nice headset. This is the Delta S headset. It is super comfortable to wear, especially for long gaming sessions. And you've got some very simple layouts of buttons. You've got your volume toggle right here. Then you've got your lighting. You can have, of course, just a strobe lighting of different colors. Of course, you can cycle between colors and then you can just switch it off. And you can do that with the ROG Strig software anyway. But I do like to have it on like this. Very, very comfortable headset.  The mic is pretty good and clean. And again, it just kind of works well with this setup. Now of course you're thinking, you've seen this big monitor here. You're going fun to eat. That is massive. This is a 43 inch monitor from ASUS. This bad boy here is resolution 3840 by 1200. I like this monitor, especially gaming. It's got a lot of gaming features. You can see in the top right hand corner, right now you're looking, it's showing you FPS counter is also refresh rate at the corner of the screen. That's pretty cool because it's built into the monitor.  It's SRGP rating of 90%, which is nice if you still want to do some editing on here, which I do from time to time. But the screen real estate when you're gaming on this bad boy is impressive. I mean, it's just so nice. Again, if you're playing card, you can see the map around you. You can actually get into your gameplay session. If you're playing Cyberpunk 2077, it gives you just a wider view of the world as well. So you've got all that there. It's got connectors for HDMI at the back. You've got, of course, display port as well. So you've got all the connections you need to run everything. And speaking of connections and what you're running, that's my rig right there. That is a rig I built earlier this year. This bad boy is a mixture of different components. The case is from NZXT. And we've got a ton of parts in there. So the motherboard is an ASUS motherboard. We've also got the ROG Strig 2080 Ti. Great card to game. This is running a thread ripper. I believe this is third gen thread ripper. I can't remember the specs off head because I'm thinking of building a new rig. But performance wise, this bad boy is a beast. Plus I've got that really cool CPU cooler from NZXT. You can see Superman just huffing and puffing and blowing out there. I also like the fact that the motherboard has just my temperature gauge. So I can just look and see directly. It's a great gaming setup. And you've got a lot of cables coming through. It's one more thing from human skill I really like is the cable management. I am terrible with that stuff. Absolutely bad. But I like the fact that when you kind of look at what they have here with the cable management system, I'll leave the link links for all of them down below. It does a really good job of hiding all the cables I have, which have a ton of cables because I've got some LED lighting around with Philips Hue. I've got cables underneath for my monitor, my keyboard, stuff from the PC. All is neatly tucked in right underneath on there. So it's pretty cool. And of course, the last thing is my recording mic. I tend to use the HyperX Quadcast mic. This is a Quadcast S RGB lighting. Tap to, of course, mute, which is pretty cool. And this arm is from Blue Microphone. So that is my gaming setup, guys. Hopefully you enjoyed it and you definitely like it. This is what I'm doing, starting off for 2021. I'll be refreshing it from time to time so you guys can see different things and what I'll be using on here. But at this point in time, I'm gonna go back and play some Cyberpunk 2077. So thank you very much. And if there's anything you wanna pick up, use the links down below for either the stuff from ASUS, also from Human Scale, PC Parts as well, link to the PC video for you guys. If you have any questions or any comments, let me know. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe. And let's start gaming.


Welcome back to our meds smarter lecture series where we're taking a smarter approach to preparing future physician Before we get started if you'll take just a quick minute and click that like button and also Subscribe and turn the bell on so that you'll be notified when we post new videos Let's continue on in our discussion Staphylococcus safrophidicus. This is a gram positive Catalyse positive Quagulase negative and urease positive cocci that forms in clusters So if you compare this to the previous picture of staff epiderminus, it's gonna look fairly similar because they're all clustering up Just like that previous one, but our big main difference here is going to be that this is actually novo bioson resistant So if we test this against novo bioson Staff epiderminus is sensitive to it where staff safrophidicus is resistant This once again similar to epiderminus is an is normally found on the human body in particular and the female genital tract in the perineum So this can be found on swabs in the genital tract area And it doesn't typically cause any problems unless it is able to seat inside of some sort of a Lesion that allows it into the body or into the skin This is the second most common cause of uncomplicated UTIs in young women first being E. Coli Let's continue on and talk about streptococcus pyogenes. We also know this as group a strep This is a gram positive cocci that are in chains. So previously we've discussed some gram positive Cocci that are in clusters. These are in chains. So they're actually attached end-to-end and Form a line or a rope type structure What is strep pyogenes do well, it's Pyogenic meaning that it can cause pharyngitis cellulitis impotigo and erycephalus And it's toxigenic state it can cause scarlet fever toxic shock-like syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis And and it's an immunologic type state it can cause rheumatic fever and glomerular nephritis Strep pyogenes is sensitive to basatracin It is a beta hemolytic bacteria and we can also check it as it is aero-lamidase positive Typically the pyrrolidonol are Lamedase also known as Pyr Typically that's used to distinguish between our enterococcus and our group D strep But our group A strep does also show these characteristics. So the big key if you see something that is pyr Positive is to check for its beta hemolysis So if it is beta hemolytic it has to be strep pyogenes or group A strep Something that makes this particular microorganism more virulent is its ability to inhibit phagocytosis How does it do that? Well, it has a hyaluronic capsule and an M protein that are on the Surface of the cell that help inhibit phagocytosis our body can actually produce some antibodies against that M protein Which is what's inhibiting phagocytosis it can it can produce antibodies against that M protein But those antibodies actually give us the possibility of rheumatic fever developing If you're wondering if you've had a recent infection with staff pyogenes We can do an ASO titer or an anti-DNA B antibody that will tell us if we have had that recent infection In a way, you can remember some of the clinical symptoms and signs associated with Pyogenes is using the phrase Pyogenes pharyngitis can result in rheumatic fever and glomerular nephritis So the keys here are using the pH for pharyngitis fever nephritis and that will help you remember that it's phyogenes or pyogenes if we do have strains that can Cause impotigo and if you remember impotigo is what gives us those honey crusted lesions Well impotigo strains can induce glomerular nephritis. That's something to remember there now we also have The potential for scarlet fever What is scarlet fever seen as well scarlet fever is blanching sandpaper like body rashes and Specifically this strawberry tongue you can see a picture of that here. It actually looks like the tongue Around the taste bud areas is kind of patchy like the seeds of a strawberry. So that is what strawberry tongue is Really what it does is initially will have a white coating on it which you can kind of see back in the back here and Then the papillae which are those dots those become swollen and reddened And so we've got that then protruding up through the white coat that gives us that strawberry type appearance Let's discuss strep agalactae or streptococcus agalactae group B strep Group B strep is a gram positive cocci. It is resistant to basatracin. It is beta hemolytic We've already talked about that a little bit if you need some refresher on what beta hemolytic means go back and find that video and This does colonize the vagina quite often What are some things that strep to coccus agalactae can cause well it can cause pneumonia it can cause meningitis and it can cause sepsis Specifically what's happening here this virulence factor with strep to coccus agalactae is due to the camp factor now Don't confuse this with cyclic amp with the small C Cyclic amp and camp are two different things Camp here is actually referring to the author who created the test has nothing to do with cyclic amp. So don't confuse those two So strep to coccus agalactae produces camp factor. What does that do? Well, it's going to enlarge the area of hemolysis that's formed by Staph aureus You can test this by using the hip urate test and it's actually going to be positive on the hip urate test and As we've discussed previously when we talked about strep pyogenes that Strap pyogenes is Pyr positive this Group B strep is Pyr negative We always check pregnant ladies around their 35th to 37th week of gestation So that we can see if they do have a strep to coccus or a group B strep infection Using rectal and vaginal swabs if they do have that then what we're going to do is give them some Intrapartum penicillin and ampicillin as a prophylaxis So that they don't pass that infection on to their child as it passes through the birth canal So remember the big thing here group B strep is for babies So we always want to check the mother Before she gives birth for a potential group B infection if she has group B Then we will give Intrapartum ampicillin Penicillin as a prophylaxis to help reduce the risk of the child Contracting an infection as it passes through the birth canal If you found this material helpful for your studying Please like and consider subscribing to the channel also share this video so that more people can benefit from it like you have


They look at you like you are nuts. For anyone who's had cancer or had a family member go through it, you know all too well just how real that fear, stress, and pain really is. If you consider yourself a true martial artist and stick with us for a few minutes on this one because while unconventional, karate can actually be an effective tool for patients. That's why we're very happy to support the Hero Circle Kids Kicking Cancer.  It was founded in 1999 by Rabbi Elemelik Goldberg after losing his two-year-old daughter to leukemia. A martial artist and Black Belt himself, Rabbi Goldberg began offering support to other children battling the deadly disease. The training is led by Richard Plowden who has had a substantial career as a top tournament fighter, was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame and named instructor of the year by Black Belt Magazine and he serves as the chief martial arts therapist. Mr. Plowden is with us today to give us a personal inside look at this very special program. What exactly is Hero Circle presented by Kids Kicking Cancer and how did it get started? 22 years ago, a rabbi, we call him Rabbi G, his name is Elemelik Goldberg. He started Kids Kicking Cancer at a children's hospital in Michigan. The first couple of years, it was just oncology patients that the organization worked with, but oncology patients and hematology patients, patients that may have sickle cell or other blood disorders, oftentimes they're treated in the same clinic. So there were kids who were hematology patients and other illnesses who said, well, while the cancer kids can have this program, how come we can? So then we started working with kids with other illnesses. And with that came the organization being named Kids Kicking Cancer, but Kids Without Cancer, where we were servicing. So many of them misunderstood. They thought they had cancer and their parents may not tell them and that type of thing. So Rabbi G came up with the term Hero Circle to include all of the different illnesses and the fact that they inspire each other. So the kids with sickle cell, they inspire our hematology kids who inspire our sickle cell kids who inspire our organ transplant kids.  It's the Kids Kicking Cancer Hero Circle. What is the primary goal of the program and how are the kids expected to use material that they learn? It's an empowerment program using the carrot of martial arts, let's say. We like to say that the martial arts is the metaphor. So there's no sparring that takes place, there's no board breaking, there's no self-defense. We do teach blocks, we teach some kicks, we'll teach some strikes. And there are some kids who even do forms of cotton depending on how long they've been with us. But our goal is to infuse on them that they are powerful martial artists and they can fight whatever comes their way. We like to say that in the movies, the martial artists are the only people who beat up the bad guys. So right away, when we walk into a clinic or a hospital room with our uniform on and we're being positive and really trying to inspire the kids, they latch on to us and they buy in to what it is that we do. So we have kids who use our breathing techniques and meditation, which is really the crux of our program. Happens to be our therapeutic interventions. So we have kids who use that while they're going through a procedure, having the port accessed, might be something as simple as getting a shot, a lot of adults are fearful of shots, let alone a five or six year old kid. So they're getting in the shot and they begin to do what we call their power breathing or go into a meditative state. The doctors are amazed. So it's been very effective for pain management, you would say. Oh, no doubt about it. That's really a huge part of what it is that we do is pain management. There are numerous studies confirming that cancer patients with strong emotional support show higher recovery rates. I've also included a link in the description to the National Library of Medicine that publish a study on the effectiveness of this exact program. And they concluded that children with this therapy experience a significant reduction in pain and emotional distress. Hero Circle is supported by fundraisers and donations and you can give through their website or via the donate button that's next to this video and they will receive 100% of the contributions. If you can't financially commit, then please share this with everyone you can. The therapy is free and by making families aware of it, you now have the power to give their child an extra tool to fight with. Tell us about power, peace, and purpose. Well, power, peace, purpose happens to be one of our mantras. And we say that when we bow. You know, because all martial arts systems will most have some type of bow that they do. Rabbi G. in creating, the kids hitting cancer hero circle came up with a bow where with the right hand we say power, we cover power with peace and then we bow and say purpose. We do that because we tell the kids, boom, you're now a powerful martial artist. You can fight whatever is coming your way. We tell them that we say peace because we also give them the ability to take control and calm themselves down. And then all of our children will tell you when we ask them what's your purpose, they'll say to teach the world because one thing that takes place, Daniel, all of us, we wanna know what is our purpose? So we tell these young warriors who are going through the fights of their lives many times that their purpose is to be a teacher, to be a role model, to have adults who might complain about stubbing their toe. Look at this kid who's going through chemo treatment and go, wow, they can do it. I can do it. So the kids really take ownership of that. We do demonstrations with corporations and other public groups and they help to inspire adults with our mantra, power, peace, purpose. That is fantastic. And then watching some of the videos you have online, I noticed that a lot of the kids are repeating the phrase that they say, breathe in the light and breathe out the dark or push out the dark. Can you tell us about that? Yeah, for sure. We make an attempt to make things tangible, right? So when we ask them to breathe in the light, of course, initially, some will point to a light bulb or the sun or that's what they initially think we're talking about.  Strength, courage, love.  So we'll go through sessions where we'll have kids who are identified what their light is and what their darkness is. And that's what we want them to focus on. So you're making it relative to their own viewpoints? Oh, no doubt about it. Because each kid's journey is their own. And, you know, I'm someone myself at my advanced age, thank God, I've never had to go through cancer treatment. So I can't talk to them from that standpoint, although one of our lead instructors, Michael Hunt, was part of the very first kids kicking cancer class 22 years ago at Children's Hospital in Michigan. He's now one of our lead instructors and he can speak to the kids and parents from that personal experience, which has really helped enhance our program as well, because a lot of times, you know, people will tell you, you don't know what I'm going through.  And Michael will smile and then begin to tell his story. What a powerful figurehead just to have in place. So the kids could actually see someone who went through it and used it and actually got through and fought the battle themselves.  And because of the cancer, they replaced the ribs with a piece of plastic.  His body's gonna grow, but the plastic won't grow.  And here we are, now he's in his 30s and he's thriving. Thank God. Is there an age eligibility, like a cut off restriction for any of the students? Well, initially when it was started, I think Rabbi Gee thought that the program kids would age out about 18 or that type of thing. But what happened is we become a support group.  So it really is a lifelong commitment. Yeah, oh, it is. It is, and you know, life is about relationships anyway. You know, so when you find someplace where you feel comfortable, and that's one thing that, and talking to a number of our young people and parents without organization, there's a sense of normals, right? We don't treat them any different. You know, we have kids, Daniel, that have gone through cancer treatment and been told by parents of kids in school that the cancer is contagious. So you can't hang out with that person because you might catch it. So you know, imagine what that does to a young person in elementary school to hear some nonsense like that. And they know better, but they're being excluded. But that's where that training can get back in. So you're teaching them how to manage and cope with not just the pain, but now when they're dealing with scrutiny or anything else, social-wise they can apply that training through that as well. That is, that's exactly it. You get it. And how are classes held? Well, we have a few different ways that we interact with the individuals and COVID has changed a lot, I must say too. One, we do clinic visits. Any interactions that we have are approved by physician or hospital. So, you know, it's not like we're just willy-nilly going in here and doing things. We have an eight-hour training program that we have individuals go through too as we onboard them with us. And then they have to go through training with the individuals' hospitals that we're involved in. So we're going for clinic visits and then we're also allowed to go bedside, you know, and see patients while they're in their room with the hospitals that have approved us. Another way that we interact is now on Zoom, we do our classes. So Zoom has increased our reach to whereas in the past we had to have instructors with boots on the ground to physically be there for the kids, now we have hospitals where they'll go with an iPad room to room, that's a child life specialist and with a nurse and have a kid on camera while I'm here in Detroit working with them as far as breathing goes, might show them a block, a couple of punches and then get inside their head with inspirational messages. So even the kids who can't physically get up and perform to moves, they're still included because you're talking about doing bedside, so everyone's included. Everyone's included, and I'll tell you, Daniel, I have one class that takes place out of New Jersey, 100% of the kids are in the wheelchair, 100%. We have to be able to make adjustments. So if we have one physical class where a kid is in the wheelchair, one in-person class, kids in the wheelchair, we're not kicking that day. We sit back and we customize the class to the group that we have so that everybody feels included. So is there a cost to the families for this, or how do people actually sign up for this program? They're recommended by their physicians, the child life specialists, the nurses and or online, a number of parents have found us. So the parent then gets the physician to sign off on joining our program and it takes off from there. And there's no cost to the patients to be part of it. Oh no, no, no, no, no. Everything is free. Here in Detroit, which is our hub, which is where we started. So here we have three vans that we run for classes where we go and pick up kids from home and bring them physically to classes. So, but everything, everything is free. We operate on grants, donations, that type of thing. Fundraisers, we've had a number of martial arts schools do kick-a-pounds for us and that type of thing. So donations would go to the transportation cost, the equipment, the gear, the uniforms. The uniform, that is correct. We order through Century. We have a partnership with Century and they give us a pretty good deal on that. You know, imagine the type of insurance we have to carry too. You know, and every eye is dotted, every tear is crossed with us. What is the most impactful way any viewers can actually contact you guys and contribute to the cause? For sure contributing, and we are 501c3, we are a non-profit organization. So it's always a struggle, so to speak. So if the martial arts community, and that's what we've been working with Century on, can embrace us with fundraising and also potential instructors. The challenge with the instructors become is so many of us are in a box and we teach the way that we were taught. So getting away from that hardcore, sparring, super rough impact type thing and understanding that these are young people who have challenges and we have to soften things. We have to come down to their level so that they can embrace the beauty of martial arts which is really a holistic activity. That brings up the question is, can any martial artists from different styles of arts contribute or what's the actual material that you guys teach? Daniel, you are so sharp. Well, because everything that we do revolves around basics, we're very adaptable. One of my best instructors out of the Chicago area happens to be a judo practitioner. Now stop and think about that. But we've been able to work with him as far as blots, punches, just the basics so that he can teach it to the kids and then still get inside of it. And that's the key. We're not trying to make somebody kick like Bill Superfoot Wallace. We're not trying to make them as tough as Benny or Kitties. You know, we're setting back and trying to make them be the best human being that they can be while they're fighting such a rough day. So there is a basic set curriculum that's basically universal if you wanna call it that. Yes, sir, that's correct. I'm heavily involved in tournament competitions. I was part of the very first sponsored karate team in the United States, the Budweiser team, and Grandmaster Parker was our advisor. So I was blessed enough to interact with him. Now, I don't compete myself anymore, but over the years I had a very, very, very, very, very good tournament career. To the point now where my son and daughter, Morgan Plowden and Richard Avery Plowden, are two of the top competitors in the world right now from a tournament standpoint. So I tell people, if I can make that kind of switch and turn it off, you know, I had my spiron class in a couple of hours here, but if I can make that kind of switch, anybody can.  What kind of feedback have you received from families and patients that are in the program? Oh my gosh, well, understand, Dan, this will be 18 years, I think, of me doing this. So, you know, the feedback has been one, quite emotional, to be honest with you, and also quite uplifting, because you know you made a difference.  And I walked, he wasn't doing well, but I walked him to his hospital room one day and he perped up and just started smiling. I say, Tony, well, why are you smiling?  Kids can sense your sincerity. And what are the goals for the future of the program? Well, we're working right now on seeing how we expand. You know, as I said, we started here in Detroit, and when I was hired 18 years ago, we also had New York, it was Detroit, New York. And now over the years, you know, I was blessed enough a couple of years ago to go to South Africa to help set up our program there. You know, so wherever there are ill kids, we want to be able to service them as long as of course we can stay ahead of the game financially. But again, what Zoom has done is cut down on a lot of those costs because to do a class in Dallas, Texas, I don't have to have the instructor there. So, you know, it's, man, again, for me, it's been life altering. I thought that I was gonna own a few schools that franchise it out. I had my tournament organization and all of that got put second. You found the real martial arts. Oh, I did. I definitely called them. So viewers, for the walk away, which is one idea about your program, what would you like that idea to be? That the martial arts is a wonderful activity that can literally change lives without breaking bones. Sorry, well, thank you so much. I really appreciate your time. No, no, no, thank you. Thank you for reaching out to share with the world what we do for our kids because we, it's needed. Thank you. So most of us will spend the majority of our lives training to protect ourselves just in case we have to. For these kids that struggle exists every single day, and if you really wanna make a difference to the martial arts, then here is an opportunity to do so. Every single one of us watching this has a way to help, even if it's simply to spread the awareness. You can make a donation to their website or via the donate button next to this video. If you have a school and would like to organize a fundraiser, you can reach out to them at the link in the description below. But if you know of anyone who is struggling with cancer or another disease, please reach out to them and tell them about this program. You never know what could push the odds in their favor. And that's the real power of the martial arts, making us as strong as we possibly can be. And if you believe that, you'll wanna meet Ian McLeod, who was our guest on the show and he showed us how he used karate to recover from a series of traumatic brain injuries and how that training has given him a functional life. The mental fortitude and power that can be attained through the martial arts is real if we can learn to embrace it.