The support people, while we are not directly affecting patient care by getting the supplies, if you don't have those supplies, you can't treat these patients. If you don't have those supplies, you can't protect yourself from what could potentially harm you. Without every component of the machine running at full tilt all the time, we never would have gotten through this. We had supplies come in from purchasing, and I was in charge of distributing it throughout the network. And we were working 16-hour days, 7 days a week for 40 days straight. I did not see my kids. There were four and two at the time. And I was also six months pregnant. It was emotionally challenging, mentally, physically. But we knew that we had to get it done to support the front line. You know, the first part of when the pandemic started, you know, we had to pretty much tell family members they couldn't come and visit. Which was very hard, because you know, I know if my loved one was in the hospital, I'd want to be with them. I got to a point to this family member. I saw them for like a week straight. Every time I called this, we called this patient family, the wife's there, the two kids are there. At that time, my son was about two and a half. So all that emotions just go through my head, like, what if that was me? It's like every time you connect them. Oh my God. I was kind of put in charge almost by proxy of managing the ventilator fleet throughout the network. Which included moving ventilators from one place to the other. The decisions that I was making or the recommendations I was making for that matter were truly impacting patient care directly for the first time in my career. We were getting gowns. We were getting masks and stuff. We were sending them out to all the sites. Sometimes there were shipments coming in from trucks at like 10 o'clock at night. We would unload them. And there was only two of us at the time. It was a lot. You know, we would put things in many vans and we would deliver them ourselves when we had to. You know, there was times I was working 100 hours a week. I guess the bright parts of a lot of it is sometimes you got to see people go home. There's some network or some hospitals, health care company that was not done what we do with the whole virtual. My father caught COVID. I was not able to even get a FaceTime just to see him say goodbye. It pushed me more to try my best to try to see they loved ones somehow. This was a 14, 15, 16 hour day. My phone was going off at 2, 3 o'clock in the morning. The stress level that was on top of that and I wasn't even anywhere near the front lines of this. But it was just hearing the stories and seeing the incredible loss as well as the incredible, you know, response by this team was just amazing. I have always wanted to make a difference in life. I just didn't know how. I knew I was supporting the front line. So I knew I was doing my part in helping and I knew that one day my kids would understand. Mommy wasn't physically there helping because she made sure that everybody had the supplies that they needed. There's a lot that goes behind the scenes that's unnoticed and, you know, I just try to bring that to the forefront. You know, because we're all on the same team and we're all doing our part to make sure we can give the best, you know, care to everyone that comes into the hospital. This is the finest group of people I've ever worked with and not just because of COVID. I thought that beforehand. Seeing how everyone in this network responded from the very top of the organization to the newest person who joined, everybody had a piece of this. If we survive what we went through, there's not enough that we can't do.


Everybody forced here rip in 2022. I'm act wwe hobby five bucks case number seven random hit style So we've got 25 spots of the break through our 30 cards We will combine the base parallels most likely with some of the urella cards to make sure everybody gets a hit obviously in this one So 25 spots 25 spots Like the hits I guess is what I'll say and I'll random at the end to see who gets what good luck everybody What would be your wrestling name? Oh Don Cena Don Cena. That's pretty good. Yeah, we're me bison Taylor and Serena already Yeah, Serena does love wrestling The one thing she bought at the national was a John Cena shirt And I was like, I mean that's pretty you could find some pretty cool gear at the national You just like oh, they're selling shirts Fair enough everybody here selling cards. Sometimes you got a zig when everybody else is zagging Don laces be crumb He walks out of the He's dressed like him, you know, I guess So I don't even wear something Don Cena don laces be crumb starts laughing When he when he comes into the ring Everybody gets all terrified. That's my that's like my warm-up for my signature What is the don laces be crumb The kids will be scared the question Cushion or the question Okay, all right. All right, here we go. Good luck everybody Got a Brett Hittman Hart 7 of 65 Brett Hittman Hart 7 of 65 on the base I Think so Which a shot C relic four of 25 shot C relic four of 25 Superstar warn I had to make these You're at line six by the way You are correct sir Not that that really matters a whole lot, but it's easier to count shots relic there Wow look at this one a do drop shirt relic 30 out of 50 a lot of like plaid or something It is that's pretty cool like flannel Superstar warned do drop shirt relic 30 out of 50 Devon said having something two days need sleep tonight Think we do We have one and you see you see of course Guy memorabilia auto drew McIntyre number 94 of 99 relic auto drew McIntyre 94 of 99 Oh and that's pretty cool. Whoa. I was allowed If you if you if you do some breaks.  That's pretty cool Ted D Biasi 70 of 99 you don't have to put the whole million Nice card there and Ray Mysterio relic auto 77 of 99 the goat there we go there he is Superstar warned relic auto Ray Mysterio That's awesome Everybody's got a price. Yep What's yours? That's what yeah, everyone's got a price Also Donnie we got to get that hair on one of us My hair is too thin dude be bald in a couple of years Okay, what do you call them diabetes? A sonic blast that they're lots of like McFlurry's or like milkshake that's right. Yeah, I'm a mystery. Oh, let's do that Dude a mass relic would be on Real that would be that'd be one of the cooler rocks you could ever pull And a wrestling break All right, next up is a J. Uso number 10 of 65 J. Uso base 10 of 65 You're pretty far behind Kyle. That's okay. You're it wasn't that far. I was like what 10 minutes like it's like five ten minutes ago J. Uso We've got No, dude Matt Riddle relic 15 to 25 Row Superstar Warren relic Matt Riddle 15 of 25 and a Brock Lesnar canvas relic 20 of 99 That was used at WrestleMania 39 night, too. That's awesome, man I like when they have what what I work when it's from the canvas Does anyone know the connection between Matt Riddle and Randy Orton? I've watched a whole ton, you know That's cool Brock Lesnar 20 of 99 in the canvas relic next up is marks of greatness auto Giovanni Vinci 3 of 10 Well, it really says Giovanni. Thanks, man She's convicted.  I'm trying to ask us to hear his question Someone said there is none Okay, okay, bro tag team Devin says there is one Alright Next up is relic auto EO sky 61 of 99 EO sky relic auto 61 of 99 Superstar Warren and Jumbo relic auto Sammy zane 23 of 25. That's pretty nice Sammy Zane just Superstar Warren check it's like a shirt. Are you doing over there Don Laceous? I'll be caught up by time you get next box open That's true takes a minute on these I can't wait to break not in a hockey jersey tomorrow. I love my hockey jerseys, but like They're not like regular sleeves. Obviously, they're baggy as half Right, but it's the cup release. What am I gonna do? I don't have a shirt actually well you get one Yeah, but all the I don't want to trash about I will trash about a manufacturer that makes some things Yoko Zuna 5 out of 65 Donnie's got it. No, you know, that's about Yoko Why okay? Oh, and then Zuna Zuna all one word Yoko Zuna 5 out of 65 It's honestly how it sounds. There's no tricks here But I don't know that drew Gulak relic number two one of 99 Like Gulak how how drew Gulak relic one of 99 Yeah, we got an idea I don't know why I put it in the sleeve. Oh, yeah, it's it's it's an egg drew Gulak there a Canvas relic of Finn Balor 50 of 99 Finn Balor Summer Slam 2022 nice Camdus relic 50 of 99. Oh dang his values jumped up quite a bit then Devin Heralded signatures Tyson kid 21 of 99 That uh Jason's brother nicknames auto Shayna Baszler 23 of 25 the Queen of Spades nice hit and redemption on the back. This is a pretty big one actually Big redemption Marks of greatness Redemption good luck on this one everybody at the end Ronda Rousey Wow, that'll be huge when you get that in the hands marks of greatness redemption Ronda Rousey That's going to mag too. Good luck on that one everybody rowdy Ronda Rousey Next is a Johnny Gargano number six of 40 next is a Brutus Creed rookie relic 15 of 99 Superstar Warren slashes. I think they all say that Brutus Creed 15 of 99 Next is a Becky Lynch canvas one of 99 From WrestleMania 38 night one. That's pretty cool Becky Lynch canvas one of 99 That's just uh, this is the mat. Yes the canvas That's why it all looks the same Heralded signatures Rikishi 92 of 99. That's pretty cool Rikishi auto 92 of 99 you do Rik I shi Rikishi Rik I shi Modern marks nice Carmella eight of ten on the Carmella modern marks Eight of ten, you know the big hit come up. We're having some pretty good boxes your low numbers We're just like the laziest auto. I've seen it so far and Redemption dude big redemption in this case marks of greatness Goldberg Good luck on that one everybody Goldberg marks of greatness Some of the best looking cards in this sets. Hey, good luck, mister. Good luck. Good luck. Thank you for joining for tomorrow Good stuff and good case here. I think we've married the card every box Yeah Yeah, we have That's awesome Maybe we'll finish something gigantic here. I'll see a Sina auto or something Excitement That's not my favorite actor a Jimmy Uso 40 of 40 I was wondering if Donny was gonna wait on that way it was it was in the back of my mind So ridiculous You got another canvas here is Cameron Grimes 7 of 99 Cameron Grimes canvas 7 of 99 From NXT stand and deliver rookie canvas gable steveson 36 out of 99 Solid one there. I'm just a superstar you slash worn though Gables steveson canvas 36 of 99 dude. Why is Gronk that in this product? Right you want to wrestle mania did a Gronk wrestling auto would would I mean it's a Gronk I would do good to do well regardless, but that'd be pretty cool an immaculate ink of Ivar 71 of 99 Donnie you take this guy It's a it's at least twice your size. It's a no holds bar match, right? I have our auto 71 of 99 As long as I use steel chair. Oh, that's really cool actually Check this one out jumbo relic auto shinsuke Nakamura 25 out of 25 That's pretty cool shinsuke Nakamura relic auto 25 out of 25 And on the back is a marks of greatness live Morgan auto 31 of 49 Live Morgan 31 out of 49 Yeah, that was a good case Morgan all right done is gonna finish typing those in and then we're gonna combine some cards here some hits base all over So again, they're just gonna combo none of the base were like Super low number or like massive we're gonna come combine the base cards with some relics Some decent base though, so let's see The riddle in the Lesnar assault we'll do Bret Hart base and the dew drop relic together Hmm. Let's see. Let's see Yokozuna base of the Drew Gulak relic Go Brutus Creed relic and Johnny Gargano base Jimmy Uso base and the Grimes relic together And the J. Uso Or are you going J. Uso J. Uso J. Uso base with The shots he's a 25 though Not the riddle not the Lesnar not the baller. I guess the gable steves and then that makes the most sense Yeah, we'll go J. Uso base and gable steves and relic So yeah, just paired up some base with some higher numbered relics guys. That's what I did All right. Good luck everybody Some nice hits to be had here We will randomize six times three and three once on the names and then once on the hits put them side by side So you guess what? names first six times one two three four five and six Jason L down to Shane W and then six times on the hits now one two three four five and six Ted DiBiase auto down to the Shayna Baszler auto Jason L with the DiBiase auto April L with the McIntyre relic auto Shane W with the Cameron Grimes relic in the J. Uso base Ty and the Rhonda Rousey redemption April L Matt Riddle relic Mahir with the do drop relic in the Bret Hart base Simon H that drew Gulak relic in the Yokozuna base Jason L Rikishi auto Don P. Brutus Creed relic and Johnny Gargano base April L with a Sami Zane relic auto Camille M the Shinsuke Nakamura relic auto Melissa R the Giovanni Vinci auto to ten Don P with the Lesnar relic to 99 Rossi the Goldberg redemption Rob H the Ivar auto Ty and the Carmella auto to ten Camille M The Rey Mysterio relic auto nice one Camille Tom T with a Shotzi relic Simon H live Morgan auto Jolby the Finn Balor relic and Tyson Kidd auto Ty and with the E. O. Sky relic auto Jacob M. Gable-Steveson relic in J. Uso base Ty and with the Becky Lynch relic and Shane W with the Shana Baszler auto to 25 Good stuff. We'll get those posted moved on the personals


Hi, my name is Joe from Austria and you're watching DjV. Enjoy the show. Husky, I guess it's Esso now. Used to be Husky. Has been to cup coffee now. Everywhere is getting those machines and I love it. Coffee is so much better and fresher. This bad boy sitting right here. Nice. I feel like we're gonna take that one. Deliver this freight. Schedule in the morning in the truck here is so much shorter. Instead of spending, you know, 15 minutes vacuuming, cleaning, getting everything ready for the day.  It's still clean from yesterday. Usually I have my dog with me for you new people on the road for almost like 10 years. His name's Diesel. Like the fuel. You get it. But he's at home with his family. With my wife and our other dogs. Spending some time with him. He'll be with me a part time 50-50 or maybe 60-40, who knows. But this trip is just me. And there's periods where it's a little bit lonely and there's periods where, like in the morning, I'm like, wow. It doesn't take that long to get ready. I pretty much get out of the sleeper, put my clothes on, go get my coffee, do my pre-trip and boom. I don't have to walk the dog. I do that stuff. That's when I start getting lonely too. Dogs are nice companions to have on the road.  That's not fair to the dog.  Get a vacuum. You're going to have to vacuum every day. Maybe twice a day. Maybe three times a day. You're going to have to do a lot of work. You're going to have to stop more often to walk them. Make sure they get their exercise. It takes a lot of your time. Beware of that before.  And then just give them away. Not going to like you if you do that. All right, everybody.  Is your seat secured properly to your spot where you're sitting? Is your phone securely in your hand? Let's get out of here. It's about two hours to where I got to unload. Lights on for safety all the time. Day or night. Get out of Lloyd Minster. Let's go up to Bonneville. Bonneville, Alberta. The press. Is that the bus for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders? Summertime. Here are their stuff and their properties. It's nice to see. Southern Manitoba is the same way. It's just we don't have the rolling hills like they have here. Getting unloaded. There's just a really big piece on the other side. They're trying to figure out how to get it off without dropping it. They got it, though. They got it. Just staying out of the way for now. I've got all my equipment wrapped up already. I just got to organize it and put it all back in the storage in the truck. Signed the bills. And I'll go sleep in Edmonton tonight. I've got to pick up in a town called Niskew. Niskew, just south of Edmonton. Tomorrow at noon. So it's not even a big rush. I'm not too sure how far Edmonton would be from here. Maybe like three hours. I'm up in Bonneville, Alberta. Which is right on the east side of Alberta. Sort of straight east of Edmonton. Almost straight north of Lloyd Minster. Sort of northwest a little bit. We'll see. Looks like they got it off good. Awesome. It's a big piece. So this material goes to build grain bins. Like the ones I showed you around here. They're building a new grain bin. Beautiful Canola field off to our right there. I think I'm going to stay at the Flying J and Shrewd Park on the east side of Edmonton. Kind of a nice shower there. Maybe go and get something to eat. Pretty nice big Flying J. There is a Flying J and Niskew where I'm picking up. But there's only about like eight spots there. I'm guessing they're probably going to be full by now. No parking and what do I do? I know the Flying J and Shrewd Park sure fills up pretty quick as well. We're passing Niskew who might have some parking but someone told me once that that's paint parking. I don't feel like paying to park today. None of it I'll have to. Right side in 20 meters. It's your destination on the right side. Flying J Travel Plaza. It's actually on the left but whatever. Got ourselves a spot right in the front. Nice and safe for old blow. And I'm calling it a day here. So we'll see you right here in the morning. We're going to go over to Niskew just a little ways away from here. Pick up that load, tarp it and hold on back to Manitoba. Then I will be home after I deliver that load. I'm going home and I should be home until after the IVF transfer. For Brit. I think that's happening now. It keeps getting moved back a little bit but I'm pretty sure Wednesday. We'll see what happens. Cross your fingers for us everybody. It's getting close. Hopefully it takes. We'll see you tomorrow.


Hi. My name is Hanno Richter. I'm working as a research associate in the Engine and Lab at Cornell University. In our current publication in biotechnology and bioengineering, we describe our results of a one-and-a-half-year investigation on how to turn beauty rates into butanol. Our lab's interests lie in the broad field of bioenergy. We have developed anaerobic digesters that harbor mixed microbial communities that convert lichen cellulosic biomass or other organic waste materials into short-chain fatty acids. These carboxylates, for example beauty rates, are a valuable precursor for the production of bioalcohols, for example butanol. In this video, we show our fermentation setup for conversion of end-butyric acid into the biofuel end-butanol. We use pure cultures of clostridium saccharoperbutyl as a tonicum to do the job. The conversion of end-butyrate to butanol and growing the necessary microorganisms requires a source of metabolic energy and electrons, since it is an endothermic biological reduction. Our source is the sugar, glucose, a lot of glucose. From a reservoir containing growth medium with glucose, we are feeding the third fermentation stage, or growth stage, to grow our bacteria. Then the biocatalyst is pumped together with the remaining glucose into a second stage, the production stage, which is 10 times larger in volume. This is where end-butyrate is converted into an end-butanol. The beauty rate is set from a separate reservoir on demand. Whenever the pH value in stage 2 increases above a certain threshold value, this is the signal that most of the beauty rate present has been converted into the corresponding alcohol and addition of more beauty rate is triggered. This way we control the beauty rate concentration at a pretty constant level. The butanol and other solvents that are co-produced are toxic for the bacteria. For that reason we strip them continuously from the reactor. In this process we pump the headspace gas, which is saturated with the produced solvent from our fermentor through a condenser and collect the stripped solvents. The then dry gas is bubbled back into the cementor to take up more solvents and continue their removal. Gas stripping has another advantage. The solvents become concentrated without distillation. During phases of high productivity it can even happen that the butanol concentration in the stripped solvents becomes so high that it separates out by itself and swims on top of the aqueous phase. You can collect it and burn it directly. If you want to know more details about our process, I recommend that you read our paper. Thanks for watching and see you back with your in depth.


Prosecutors in France have asked magistrates to drop legal proceedings against five French military officers linked to a massacre of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Investigators said they found no evidence of complicity by the French peacekeeping troops. They had been accused by survivors of abandoning Tutsis in Piscera region, leading to a massacre by ethnic Hutu extremists. In March, a major French report concluded that France, both serious and overwhelming responsibilities, are linked to the Rwandan genocide, but clear date of complicity.


Helo. I don't know if this is in the right place. Can people hear me? If I start to mumble, then just wave. My name's Tim. I'm a 3D artist and product designer. I'm going to spend my half an hour talking about a couple of projects that I've done, working with some data that I managed to wrangle from NASA and doing some kind of arty physical, digital synthesis of it. Before I show you what I made, I wanted to take you on a bit of a journey to show you some of the inspirations behind the process because for me that's always the fun bit. And if all goes to plan, you'll leave here in half an hour's time feeling a combination of sublime relaxation with perhaps a little bit of creeping existential dread. Let's see how it goes. But I do have to do one thing which is a bit of shameless self-cross promotion. This is a project I've been working on for the last two years. It's a game that's coming to market at the end of the year called Beaster Balance. It is a kind of mix of digital and physical and there's sound and it's kind of a co-op board game type thing but you play it with an iPad attached. It's going to be probably in the bar this evening or perhaps I think there's one of the workshops that has games going on. So if you're intrigued about games, come along and play it because we are knee deep in development and we would love to get some hands-on feedback. So that's Beaster Balance. Right. So the project I'm going to tell you about came around because of a problem that I was experiencing that I think is probably going to be quite common in the audience. And that's when you are sitting down to try and concentrate on something and every so often you get distracted by something that breaks your concentration. That was loud. You have lost your focus. So that's where this problem came. I have terrible willpower. So I wanted to see if there was something I could find that would help me to find focus and by focus I am talking about flow states. Flow states if you're not aware of the term, you will definitely have experienced them. Magical moments when you get so involved in a task, so absolutely consumed by it that everything else disappears away from you. You become a Zen master at it. You can see the matrix. I rely on them to do my best work, but I found them becoming harder and harder to reach because of all the distractions and as I said a chronic lack of willpower and it's easy to become overwhelmed. So I started to look at traditional methods of achieving these kind of states. Now perhaps in the past you might turn to something like meditation or prayer or chanting to help gain that kind of clarity and the way these work is they occupy the mind with very simple repeating tasks in order to give our conscious brain a little time to recover, a little respite. Adult colouring books which have become a really big thing over the past few years, they work in the same way, very simple repetitive motions, but they weren't really going to work for me because one, I'm a horrifically dirty atheist and two, I wanted something that would facilitate my creative process. I didn't want to have to create new things through colouring or something like that. So my eyes and my hands are occupied when I work, but my ears, they were kind of up for grabs. So I started looking into music. I'm going to try and talk over this. So, as I said before, I'm not a religious person and the problem with a lot of traditional kind of chanting is that it has spiritual and religious connotations that I wasn't really interested in getting caught up with. Now I don't believe that chanting has the power to heal, for instance, but I do think it can help these long drawn out tones with very little in the way of progression. Very little flourish in the way these passages of music are put together. And I think, again, it's the same thing as things like colouring books and the monkey you saw was making mantras. It's about giving the brain space to explore. So the nice thing about these kind of sounds is the brain can detune a little bit. You're not expecting the next verse, you're not expecting the next lyric. And so you can start to kind of pick apart what you're listening to and hear the microtones, the undulations, the little pitch shifts. And those things are really powerful. So I bought this little guy along. Some of you probably have seen these before. This is called a Buddha machine. It's made by a Chinese French electronic duo called FM3. And I love this. This is one of my favourite things. The reason being, from outward's appearance, it's a tiny little plastic injection moulded box. It takes a couple of batteries, it has two switches. Inside it is a very, very low quality speaker and an equally low quality kind of loop playing circuit board. Now FM3 got the inspiration from these from visiting temples, specifically small temples that didn't have the need or the resources to have a resident monk who would sit in a corner and chant. So what these small temples did is they went and got a tape player, they recorded it and they had it on a loop. And FM3 took that concept and they made some loops for it using their own kind of electronic music. And I'm going to attempt to play it very quickly here. It's probably going to sound quite horrible. Let's see if it works. So similar, let's try this one. Similar kind of structures, very, very microtonal, there's not a great deal of flourish. And if you have that, or at least if I have that sitting in the background when I'm working, it does exactly what I need it to do. And the nice thing about it is it doesn't have any of the religious baggage that comes with that type of music. I wanted to share one more strong inspiration with me for me. This is one of my absolute favourite contemporary artists, a guy called Doug Foster. If you are London based, he currently has something showing at Somerset House, highly recommend you go and see it. He works with projection and very, very low dronal music. So to try and give you an idea of the type of frame of mind I'm talking about, if you will indulge me, what I'd like to do is just crank the volume up a little bit and play maybe a minute of this. And what I do, I'll encourage you to sit back, try to become absorbed into it, sink into your seats until you try, until you start to find those little, little changes, little changes in the sound. Let your lizard brain take over for a minute. And at the very least, if you're not getting on with that, just have a nap, it's fine. Everyone back in the room. So that's the kind of thing I was trying to approach with what I'm about to show you now. So, another sound clip. This is where the project starts for me, so I'm just going to play it and then explain it later. Two little whistles. But before we get to those, I need to give you a little brief astronomy lesson. Okay, so in 1977, NASA launched the Voyager programme. It was Twinkrafts, Voyagers 1 and 2, and they were packed to the gills with camera sensors and antennas. First they went to Jupiter. The slingshotted round Jupiter went off to Saturn. And as they did so, they opened up their antenna arrays and started to transmit a wealth of information back to Earth. Whilst they went round Jupiter, they discovered that there were active volcanoes on the moon of Io. They started to chart the cloud formations on Jupiter. And they sent back the first ever colour images of Saturn's rings. And the Voyager 1 was directed straight off into space, and Voyager 2 went on to Neptune and Uranus and remained still the only craft ever to do so. And then on August 25th, 2012, Voyager 1 left the heliosphere. The heliosphere is the vast magnetic sphere created by the solar winds that contains our solar system. And the boundary of the sphere acts as a kind of shield. It protects us from all the cosmic rays that are bombarded from outer space, interstellar space. They're pretty dangerous, those things. So Voyager 1 became the first man-made object ever to leave the solar system. To give that context, we're talking 18 billion kilometres from the sun. Earth is 150 million kilometres, so it's a pretty far way away. And the really amazing thing is it's still going. They're both still going. This was captured from NASA's website yesterday, so they're a little further away now than they were then. And the really sad thing is that in about ten years' time, both of their plutanium power sources are going to run out and then they'll die, and that's sad. But then their journeys are still going to continue because they're travelling at 100,000 kilometres a minute, I think, or maybe a second, I can't remember. So eventually, in 40,000 years' time, Voyager 1 is going to reach the nearest star to it. That makes me feel very small. When NASA had no real idea of when Voyager was going to leave the heliosphere, but they suspected they'd see a change in the type of data that was being sent back, and that's what you're listening to. This is vibrations in plasma caused by a huge jump in the number of protons suddenly present when Voyager left the heliosphere. This is the sound of interstellar space, and it kind of hooked me quite bad. So I wanted to see what other information was out there, and if you'll excuse the disgusting segue, I went from listening to sounds that came from the void to shouting out to the void. Twitter, obviously. And that kind of started the journey. So from that tweet, I got talking to Dr Anthony Allen at the Imperial College London Space and Atmospheric Physics Department, from there to Lisa Ballard of SETI, and bizarrely from there to Beth Bec, who is the programme manager of open innovation at NASA, from one tweet. And then I ended up talking to this gentleman, and this is Professor Bill Curth of the Radio and Plasma Wave Group Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa. And that particular group has provided radio and plasma wave receivers for more than 20 NASA missions, including Cassini and Galileo, and Voyagers 1 and 2. This was the guy who built the antenna that captured the information that I was interested in. And I sent him just a ridiculous email saying I wanted to do some art. And he was really nice. And so he directed me to a marvellous repository of plasma and electromagnetic vibration recordings that have been captured with radio waves and then synthesised into sound. So this one here is from Jupiter. Jolvian Chorus. What you're listening to there is that was generated in Jupiter's radiation belts. And you're hearing the sound of electrons spiling along around these radiation belts. And sometimes they fall out of orbit and they hit the ionosphere like shooting stars. And that creates that whistle. So you're hearing electrons going out of, going into Jupiter's atmosphere. And as I said, they're captured as radio waves, so then you can just play them through a speaker and it comes out with sound. So all Professor Kerth did was clean up, so get rid of some of the low frequency noise and slow them down by a factor of four to make them slightly easier to listen to. So if this was in real time, it would be kind of like birds chirping, I guess. But otherwise they're untouched. So I kind of knew I wanted to do something with this, to tear them apart and see if they contained any of the kind of tones and effects that I was listening to. I wanted to capture. So I bought on my friend Dougie. He's a sound designer for games. And he took the raw MP3s. I think there's sound on this one. Cool. So he took the raw MP3s and he started to play with them. He cleaned them up. He slowed them down. He added a touch of reverb every now and again to see if he could find those long monotonal tones. And whilst it's true that anything that you slow down sufficiently is going to sound epic, take the infamous 800% slower Justin Bieber song You Smile, which is what you're listening to now, by the way. The difference that we had, we thought anyway, is we were going to have things that sounded epic and they actually came from actual space. So it was a compromise. So whilst Dougie was playing with the sound, I started to look at the physical forms. I asked him to pull off some of the waveforms that he was working with to see if I could do anything that would loop it back to where the inspiration came from. He started to give me waveforms and I started to extrapolate 3D forms from them. So what you're looking at here is 10 seconds of audio in each wave, and then there's 10 seconds of time passing between each wave. So that there is 80 seconds of the sound of a particular event on Jupiter. I think this one was... In fact, I can't remember, so I'm not going to make it up. And then they're lofted to create these wonderful undulating topographic kind of alien landscapes. And the nice thing is that each one is different. And then I built the shape around a really cheap MP3 player. The absolute bare minimum that would be needed to hear the sounds through headphones. Gave it some power buttons and a power switch, and then started to 3D print till there was no tomorrow. And came out of it with these four tiny little personal music players. Each one had a 20-minute composition on it with a unique shape to match. And we showed them in a few galleries that purposely were set out to allow people to sit down and get lost in them. And I think for maybe 30 seconds I'll play... This one is from Saturn before I finish off by telling you about the next thing I've done. So just crank it up again. Thank you. Yeah, the sound system isn't quite right for that. But I promise you there's more going on there than just bass. I think the next one is going to make more sense. So one final thing, seven minutes left. This is the Curiosity landing site on Mars. Specifically it's called the Gale Crater. It's 200 kilometres across, and that central point is three miles high. This is a 3D model that was captured by NASA and is put online. They have a fantastic open resource of data, and specifically 3D models that they've put out of all their satellites, as well as some topological information like this. You can download it, do whatever you want with it. So looking at this I was definitely getting a kind of Han Solo 2001 vibe, so I thought let's make a massive monolith. Two days of cutting time. Two days of cutting time gave us a two-metre tall panel, which kind of looked more like a Warhammer table than anything else. The good thing about it is painted black and it becomes art. So that was it standing in our workshop. Looking quite dramatic. And then we worked in reverse with the sound this time. So I took that 3D form and cut it into 200 sections, 200 waveforms, which I did manually because I'm not a coder, so there's any software people, I'm sorry for the inefficiency there. And then unbelievably we were asked by the, I was asked by the Tate Britain to put it in there, so they gave us a little room. This is the only picture I could get of it. And it sat in the corner with a little bit of dramatic lighting. And that horizontal line, that moved in time with the music. So when you looked at it obliquely you could see the waveform as it moved. So I've got a little bit of the audio from this one. Let's see if it's a little more successful and then that'll be me done.


I was the one who was about to get stabbed!  No, but Dancel, you're not listening to what I just said. I'm asking Cornward, would you re- Okay. Um... Hey, Denzel. Morning, everyone. My name is Denzel Shicey. I'm happy to be here. Oh, I know this guy! I know this guy! I know him! Um, so today, I was brutally attacked by a, uh, Frederick Rollins. Oh... Um... I did have my weapon out. I begged him to de-escalate and I said, please don't, don't do this. And he struck me with a wrench once in my calf. I warned him again to de-escalate and he just kept on swinging until I blacked out. Um... Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that, you know, it's, you know, on record that I did try to de-escalate. He did not listen to me. He just repeatedly beat me. That guy's psycho! Uh, with a wrench. Over and over again. He got started with two? He's psycho! I was, I didn't want to shoot him. Should have shot him after the first wrench.  We're usually getting wrenched once. I mean, you're usually down. Yeah, I know. You're lucky to survive that first one. Yeah, I'm built different. Next time I will warn him, hopefully, six times is enough of a warning. And, um, you know, and, uh, thank you so much. Dan, are you telling me the guy who has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. We get the picture. Uh, incidents against both civilians and police officers where he's committed violent felonies against them, attacked you? Yeah, he did. Um, he also attempted to attack me at Moseley's. Uh, you guys want to look at report number? Give me one second.  I never would have guessed, Dan. That's crazy. Okay, guys. Uh, there was a situation at Moseley's where the same, same guy, uh, before he attacked me, I got to shoot him in the face. So. Hang on, hang on, hang on.  And with what actually happened, Denzel, and the reason why we're looking into it is because he was shot execution style. So there you go. Okay. You open the floor.  You want to make a point that this guy is dangerous, Cornward. I can see what you're doing too.  If you are going to, yeah, if you are going to shoot somebody, okay, to neutralize them. The reason why we're having firearms training is to teach this, by the way, but you aim for the Santa mass. Okay. It staggers them. You can get a little bit further away if you need to.  Not as an officer. Well, I mean, to be fair, if he shoots it, if he shoots it in the chin. Can I rebuttal? Okay, go ahead. Real quick. It says, it says Lito, correct? In SOPs, Lito? Not Lito, chess, Lito, not Lito. Okay. Okay. So why couldn't this have been brought up yesterday, Denzel, when we were talking about it in private?  No, no, no.  That's it.   Yeah, so you should never shoot if you don't want to kill the guy, right?   Shoot to disable. Yeah, you're shooting to neutralize is the term, okay? Yes. I mean... Now, I understand standing there and saying this guy is a known maniac. We know that. We don't have an issue with the fact that you guys use lethal force. It's the manner in which it happened. And that's the conversation that we were trying to have.  Thank you for doing so. We are all very well aware, all right? But I'm not, I'm not going to stand there and have that, okay? I mean, to be fair, execution style... He wasn't on his knees. That's execution style. Yeah, I feel like, I feel like... I feel like it's the same guy. Yeah, I feel like execution style is like... Yeah, I think you need a little bit of... I'm just doing... No, we're just... It's just a conversation. It's not... I had a speech.  I just want to, you know, because... That's execution style. Now, right there was execution style. God! God, what do you think this city... Execution style can also be considered holding a gun a few feet from someone's face and shooting them in it. Like you just said you did. Yeah, but also like... We had a knife out. Yeah, and I felt like this far away. Hey! Hey, look.  Because if he shoots me in the chest, I can still stab him. Because I'm in luncheon distance. And how many officers were there with their guns out? Three. So you're just going to leave the one officer to shoot? Well, no. But I mean, we all had guns out aimed at him.  I mean, it don't matter. Yeah, he's going to stab... Hang on. Hang on. He's going to stagger back, right? He's going to stagger back.  They're not immediately going to be able to stab. No, not always. Okay. Once again, we could go, what ifs? What ifs? We were in a public setting. They're civilians. I went for the kill shot. That is it. Yeah, I mean... Can we continue on with the meeting please and have this conversation at a different time? I mean, I do think it's important. The reason... Okay. So the reason why this is happening in public right now is that Dan Zell brought it up. But also, I fear that there are a lot of people that don't understand the difference, which is probably proving the reason why we severely need this fire-on training. Well, the thing is, if we have three officers there and we're all, like, mag-dumping them in the middle of a Mosley's with other civilians around, like, the potential harm that we call us to a lot more people is way, way higher. Like, if we're all, like, just firing away at his chest as opposed to... Okay, but at the same time, at the same time, you're just going to stand there and let one officer be potentially stabbed and one officer shoot at this guy, or are you going to try and help your fellow officer? I was the one that was about to get stabbed!  No, but Dan Zell, you're not listening to what I just said. I'm asking Cornward, would you really just stand there and watch one officer try and defend himself? No, no, I was there. I'm asking if... Like, I was ready to go. I had my gun out on him and I was ready to go. But you just said you wouldn't have shot, though, because it would have been more dangerous. No, no. What I'm saying is the decision to use one bullet, one shot to just end the situation at that point, was more safe than if all of us were trying to shoot at his chest all at once.  Yeah, but, I mean, it's going to take multiple shots. Like, it's...  Each time that you swing increases the likelihood that there's room for error. Yeah, it looks bad. Okay, guys, right? I think what Viv is also implying, yes, we can shoot him in the head. I've seen another officer. I'm not going to name the name. I just don't... I just want to... But wait, to the community, you're in Mosley's. There's other people there.  Boom, dead. I just don't want to be called execution style when the guy was clearly standing up with a knife. That's not an execution. Okay, dance out, dance out. Okay, we can all argue that it's not execution style, but the fact is somebody filmed that, and in the footage, it genuinely looks like you're just shooting someone in the head. You can hear the guy say, put your gun away.  She's not... She's just telling you what it looks like to people at first glance. She's not saying like... With audio? What do you mean, first glance? Listen. Oh. Hang on. You need to stop getting so head up about it, all right? We're trying to have a conversation, okay? We've got a public relations officer standing just here, right? So if, say, that footage got out to the general public and it, you know, you had people going around saying, we've got an officer just, you know, executing someone in Mosley's or shooting him in the head like that, do you agree or not cornwords that you would have to do some PR maybe to try and explain the situation? I'm going to be entirely honest with you from what I've heard from people in the city and how I've seen people react. I think most people would have seen that situation and would have said thank God because the amount of crime and stabbings and people getting their cars and shit robbed at Mosley's and stuff that's happened is just way the hell too high and we never stop it. So I think the only people that... Okay, well then we're going to have to agree to disagree because I think...  Okay. So Mr. Kay and Rami say that? Well, Mr. Kay and Rami are both major suspects in multiple turbo robberies.  It's kind of clear to me that... I'm super confused as to why we're going on turbo robberies right now. Because we were at Mosley's with police vehicles there with, you know, getting repairs and we were in a prime position to have turbos robbed if he had stabbed us and if it turned into a huge... Okay, okay, okay, okay. We can continue this afterwards but the reason why I've stood up here and said what I said today because I can't have everybody stood in front of the meeting basically saying, you know, it's justified to do something like that. It's justified that the use of force was justified. I'm not worried about that. It's the style in which it happened and what happened after, okay? So I'm making that clear to everybody here that that shouldn't be happening. It's not just me who agrees with this. The high command have also mentioned it. So they're very aware of it, all right? They're understanding that the use of force was justified. Lethal was justified the manner in which was not. And I can't have people thinking that that is okay because it's not. Simple as. Am I the only one that's confused about what that means? After the meeting. After the meeting. What? Yeah, to the community it does look bad. Like, oh my God, he just... Not execution style, but it is execution, right? It's BS. That's all it is.  Yeah, you're not gonna... Yeah, you could come in.  We had the opposite occur. We're like... I mean, you have like Moses workers that are like, thank God. You guys are not wrong. It's clean. Listen, but neither is Viv. Viv's not wrong. She's saying it's just how it was handled. The department probably prefer it not to be handled that way, right? But she said it was justified because you're shooting him. She just thinks shooting him point blank in the head didn't look good.  I know you don't. One criminal is on the ground. That is it. The fact of the matter is this. I don't think it's a coincidence that people that have been reported multiple times as potential suspects of stealing turbos are the ones who put in a complaint about Denzel whenever we defended ourselves in Mosley's. You know what I mean? They made a complaint. I didn't even... I didn't know that. No, to be honest with you, I'm kind of happy... Yeah, that's where the footage came from. It was from Mr. K. Yeah, Mr. K gave what the video. I'm glad he did that because God forbid he didn't give him the video. They would never have... Have you seen it? No. The video ain't even that long. Like, I don't know whether... You can clearly hear the guy say...  What else do you need?  What do you want me to do? I would just let it go, to be honest. I'm letting it go. I think you're good, you know? Well, we'll see. We'll see what happens after the investigation. Yeah, I think it'll be fine. She has a point.   It makes people more... Even if you're rat, it makes people more aggressive.


Okay, so hello everybody. I'm going to start a few minutes earlier because then I can Have a few minutes extra to talk Yeah, so it recorded me now Zipping up my fly and every or buttoning my fly also and everything in any case my slides are It's a website and it doesn't seem to be rendering very nicely on 460 So I'm sorry if if it doesn't The slides don't really appear nicely if everything if it flows over they're not that important the slides. So In any case, let's start. So thank you everybody for coming My name is JC and I'm gonna talk about converse or converse JS, which is a XMPP chat client written in JavaScript and two years ago Was the first time I talked about this project at Fosdem where I went a little bit into technical details about XMPP how it works and Converse as well talking about what plans we have for the future what we're gonna do and now two years later quite a lot has happened and I would like to share with you what we've done what we've achieved in the community and in the project and Excuse me. I would also like to Share a vision with you To also kind of explain why we're working on this project and I think this this vision is not My vision. It's a vision that many people in this room share that many people who have been Giving talks here share and that people have had before us as well. And I think this vision is all the more pertinent today because of the state of instant messaging that we have today and We have dozens of chat applications that don't interoperate We have proprietary silos and walled gardens with locked-in users who have their communications and metadata recorded monetized and Locked in as well So How useful would email have been if you could only send an email from a gmail account to another gmail account or From a proton mail account to a proton mail account in a situation like that usually what happens is Some player in the market becomes entrenched The network effect takes hold and they dominate and they push out everybody else and they make it impossible Or almost impossible for people to compete or to provide alternative solutions And so proton mail for example came up recently as far as I know and they have you can use them and they are very They're usable because you can send an email to anybody in the network or you can host your own email address Sorry email yeah email address an email server and still communicate to other people so this interoperability between providers via the protocol is called federation and There's no technical reason why we cannot have federation of chat apps or with instant messaging apps XNPP, which is this year 20 years old was built with federation in mind from the start and It supports federation and it's an ITF standard so the Many of the instant messaging apps that are built today don't use XNPP and they don't federate But generally this is not because of technical reasons is Mostly because you won't get a billion dollar evaluation for your chat app company if you Build it on standards federate with other people and allow other people the freedom to build their own front ends and to Interoperate with you on a standard spaces so Us we as free software hackers Are we gonna have to build these things ourselves and Email as well as me is a very good example because the companies that nowadays provide email and federate They don't do this because they love federation. They would love to be able to lock everything down and keep it within their Silo and this is many companies also doing this They're trying their best to kind of break email break the federation and with With instant messaging my vision therefore and the vision that many others share is of Federated secure end-to-end encrypted communication that supports the four freedoms of free software and that Enables you as user the freedom to Use it as you see fit share it use the code see the code share the code modify the code so Converse chase is the project that I'm working on and this is my way of Participating in the vision, but it's not the only way and there are also other people are doing things many of the people Here or who are talking here are sharing in this vision and participating in their way It's a web chat. So it's available at converse chairs org Where you can try it out? There's a demo is there and it's basically usable on its own But it can also be integrated into a website. That's how it was originally Came about was built for our web developer and this was built for a client of ours and eventually it was Extracted out and made its own project. It has a plug-in architecture. So you can Extend its functionality by writing plugins, but you can also reduce its functionality by removing plugins because the entire Codebase is is bolt out of plugins modularized modularized except for the single common core it has a hundred and thirty one contributors to date including translators and most of these people Join the community and made their first contributions in the last year or maybe last two years It has different view modes and this Is best described with a with an image so this is a screenshot of the let's say first view mode because this is the original view mode and It's called overlay The overlaid view mode because you have chats Overlaid on top of an existing website. So This is a relatively common UX paradigm that you see with G-Talk at least in the old days LinkedIn still has a lots of support chats nowadays and still have this kind of thing where you have little chats you can minimize them as they're in the bottom close them and The idea being that behind it you can still have a website with a document or some other stuff there Then there's the Fullscreen view mode where it's basically more used as a standalone chat application in its own right necessarily integrating it into a website and This many people are familiar with this at least this kind of UX paradigm of like a full screen chat app which was made especially popular by Slack and very similar chat apps nowadays like that and This was promised two years ago at first them when I talked about and saying we're working on this and now it's available and Can be used especially for Team chat kind of applications and group collaboration and then another view mode is embedded where you can Take a specific conversation chat and embedded into an existing web page You just basically provided the DOM element some kind of Like an ID for example, and it will inject the chat app inside there And these view modes are just configuration. So it's all the same code It's not different code that you're deploying to have a different view mode It's just a configuration setting that you change and at the moment if you change the configuration setting you have to reload the page to have the new view mode, but Probably in the future we'll be able to kind of change on the fly between the different view modes obviously Changing from full screen. We have multiple chats open to this. We have only one chat open Gets a bit tricky, but could be doable. I mean it might confuse people if you do that So you have to kind of figure out whether it makes sense in your case to do Contact switching on the fly but switching between the overlay and the full screen could make sense so Why this project when there are so many other chat apps and there are also other ones that federate and there are also Yeah desktop apps and mobile apps Well, it's free mostly about the combination of all these things. It's free software So it provides you with the free the the four freedoms To use study share and improve the code It's standard space because it's based on XMPP, which is an IETF standard It supports federation due to it being an XMPP client It's customizable due to it being JavaScript CSS and HTML, but also because having a plug-in architecture and Lots of configuration settings and It's integratable because you can integrate it into existing web applications and it's built with that in mind and I'm not aware of any other Web chat clients that actually Have all of these things bring bring all of this together. So That same year when I gave the first time talk in 2017 the end of the year. I wrote a tweet where I was Saying that I'm gonna spend Three months working only on this project. I wanted to I was frustrated because I felt like there's a lot of potential there but I was being Held back in the sense by not having enough time to spend on it. And so I kind of made a decision that I want to really prioritize spending time on this and I first initially said three months and they see what happens from that but actually then it turned out into a whole year and the whole year of 2018 I was working on this project and I I Did do I added need to Also do paid work, but I generally then declined paid work that wasn't related to converse chairs And all the almost all the paid work that I did was either helping people integrate it customize it extended ad features I also asked for Donations which was a weird experience and I had mixed emotions about it, but In the in hindsight it was a good thing I think and it donations have steadily grown over time and they do definitely help keeping the project like supporting the project and I was able to Live the whole year feed a family of three with one income just working on this project and I think it was a success and there was Also other results due to that We were able to make very regular releases that were not always possible when I was working full-time on other stuff we Added lots of features not just me, but other people in the community contributed as well many new deployments Daily is gonna talk about after me about using converse in a project that he's working on and It's been deployed at mailbox.org which is in German email client and being integrated in all kinds of environments Got new sponsors and we had really good growth in the community with contributions people hanging out in the chat rooms and just people using it setting up little instances for their friends and family and I also see this Project I see very much as part of an ecosystem. I'm not trying to Dominate or anything like this is just a web chat and there's other people working on Android and iOS and desktop and all kinds of stuff to command line interfaces and so on and this is just like a piece of the puzzle So some of the features that were added We added in this is all in the last year And not all of it me The full screen view mode was finished. So specifically used for team chat kind of applications Updated the UI this that work was actually quite a lot and it was sponsored by the wiki suite project omimo encryption Single and private chats. So we have now into an encryption for group chats and for private chats file sharing message receipts message corrections theming support Spoiler messages on Macedon. They called content warnings and We have a headless build and the headless build kind of comes back to the topic of Customizability and integratability The headless build is basically we split the project out to all the non UI code and it like we split the UI code off So that you can create a bold of the chat app that has all the all the functionality Without the UI and it exposes an API and On top of that you can basically build your own UI in your own library your own JavaScript framework or whatever maybe react native or something even and You don't have to use the UI as it is So if you don't like the UI bold your own if you don't like the colors make your own not everybody likes the orange But I like it. It's a happy friendly color We also had not particularly related to converse, but I kind of feel like I want to mention it and Max is also going to talk about that at four o'clock. I think London and culture I put on the list Because they were kind of sprints, but we weren't really officially yet. They weren't the official but put it that way but Some of us got together in London specifically wiki sweet people But also XMP people and we work together and we were like way. This is really cool. We enjoy it We should do this again sometime and then some other people of us came together at Karlsruhe at a CCC event And we again were like hacking on XMP P and every time I'm there I'm working on a converse and we're like Yeah, we really like this we should really kind of do this more often and then max basically at Cambridge he really organized the first Proper official XMP sprint well official. It's nothing official about it except that it was really well organized and From there on it kind of took off last one of some Brussels just last week and this was also a really interesting one because we Got all kinds of client developers together and Wanted to server developers to talk about creating a unified experience across different projects because this is one of the things that people complain about with XMP P that different terminology and Concepts of the protocol are exposed in different ways in different clients. So we want to create something where There's a bit more conformity with how the chat applications behave so that people are not Unpleasantly surprised when they switch from one Device to another device or one app to another app. Where are we now? so It's a funny thing with open-source projects where or free product free software projects where people look at it And then they're like, okay, it's rough around the edges or this thing is missing or that thing is missing and then they kind of just They don't they they dismiss it and then two years later They might still be saying like oh, yeah, you know, it doesn't have that doesn't have that and actually in those two years a lot has happened and these Software projects there or communities. They are like a living Entity that's all the time growing and evolving as long as at least people put energy into it And it's the same with XMP P and it's the same of converse like XMP P is extensible So constantly people are adding to the protocol extending it to do things that people are nowadays more and more Demanding or desiring from chat applications and it's the same with converse It's used commercially Very often integrated into people's websites and for various different use cases Lots of people also just hosted themselves for their friends and families or for their communities There's commercial demand. I mean last year. I was working only in this project and I still regularly get emails for people asking for help and at the moment There's more commercial demand for development on this project then There are developers available to actually meet the demand. So that's actually a good thing shows also that there's growth and Therefore I would like to extend a call to action. I've Explained the vision that many of us have I'm sure many of you agree if you're interested You don't have to participate in this project. There's a many others, but since I'm talking about this one I might as well ask If you like this kind of stuff Join a sprint the next sprint is in Berlin somewhere in April. Sorry, I don't know exactly when 29th of March. Thank you And there's gonna be one probably in in Paris maybe some time And I will probably organize one in Düsseldorf again at the end of the year maybe in I don't know October or so But we will have quite a few more sprints There will be opportunities to come and join and this is nice because you can meet people Knowledge transfer. We're all friendly people and we like to work together and we can yeah Where the other things you can do at a sprint you can fix bugs you can write documentation develop features translate it and Other people are willing to sit with you and work together on something and this is very useful for learning how to get involved if you If you want to get involved this project as many other free software projects has a need and a lack of People who are really good with you are in UX and If anybody has an interest in that kind of stuff and yeah, that would also be greatly appreciated and we have a chat room XP chat room discussed at conference that converse chairs at org If you go to converse chairs at org the website and you click on full screen And you have an account or you can register account very quickly in two minutes, maybe 30 seconds It will I think if you register on converse chairs at org it will Tell you to go there and then you can very easily through the you are just joined that that chat room or open it up in your favorite client and Yeah, ask us questions. We're friendly and I'm gonna be in this room for daily's talk afterwards I'm Have to leave it about four o'clock. I think today, but actually earlier for 330 I might be afterwards in the in the hallway So if someone wants to talk otherwise reach out with to the chat room or here are my other contact details email and XPP I really like the Fiddiverse I'm a master done Twitter. I'm almost kind of thinking about teaching Twitter, but I'm still there So thanks for listening Hey there Thank you for the talk you mentioned about Contributions about design UX and UI what kind of contributions do you need? Yeah, so the question is oh he did actually talk into the mic, but yeah the question is what kind of UX UI contributions are needed and It's almost like We don't know what we need because we don't have the expertise to be able to say what we need, right? It's what is this thing this paradox? so I Know a lot of people tell me it doesn't look that great like compared to other applications, especially the commercial ones like it just Yeah, it doesn't look that polished and We try our best, but we're just the people are involved at the moment on no one's really like a full-time designer or UX expert or so And so could be just advice. It could be mock-ups. It could be helping with the CSS. It's Yeah, it's difficult to say what exactly Yeah, one question from my end. How many external dependencies? How many external dependencies there are in conversory JS if any and is it possible or easy to for instance? Hosts all of them in one place so that you don't access external JavaScript From your page where you use Yes We bold so the question is how many external dependencies are there and is it possible to host all of it yourself? It's 100% possible to host all of it yourself It's in the end one JavaScript file and one CSS file and some font files for fonts and the It does have external dependencies, but they all get both into one file That file is about 1.2 megabytes You could probably split it up chunk it or so on but at the moment. We don't do that The CSS is about 200 kilobytes or so But that's the whole application with all the CSS with all the HTML that kind of gets rendered also included in there the dependencies are it's both on strove, which is a That's the library that sets up the XBP connection and does the stands up parsing and not parsing but the stands are forwarding and sending and receiving and The framework is backbone That's a little bit because of the the this project is already Started in 2013 1213 which when backbone was kind of in its heyday nowadays people using other stuff, but I Preferred to evolve something rather than rewrite and I think it's paid off so I'm quite happy with backbone. It's quite a minimal small library with low overhead Coming with that is low-dash, which is a utility library There's a few other things it has a fair amount of dependencies, but we're also trying to keep it as small as possible Probably with we're back. We can do some more Tree-shaking and to kind of make the build smaller and so on but I don't think you can get away with not having dependencies and It is definitely meant to be self-hosted especially the into into encrypted stuff a Lot of the security properties break down when you rely on someone else to host stuff for you when you have into Intercription because they can in any time just Serve new JavaScript for you that that is malicious One last question here That It's a little bit related to that issue I Would have a little bit Problems to just put my GID and password in some web page I know that Converse uses this only locally in my browser, but as an end user I cannot see the difference So that my password is not passed on to the server So is there any way of knowing? Oh, this converse is really The real one and would not pass my password to somebody Yeah, so signing or whatever. Yeah, so One thing you can do is to self-host it and therefore you have full control over it another thing you can do we like there's been a lot of talk in the community about creating some kind of a Lot of people don't like it But the idea of something like an electron app or a few years ago I integrated into something called chromium embedded framework, which is similar kind of thing where you can create a desktop app with based on the browser Electron has signed Releases so you can you have a bit more control there over what gets deployed and Other than that it Generally, yeah, there is an issue of trust Unless you do these make these steps to host it yourself or to use some kind of desktop application Which at the moment we're not there yet to have an electron app To putting it Yeah, this that's mostly what I can say about it. It is not possible to to Verify downloads or to have signed down as within a browser without some kind of extension or without something like electron and That is something that people should keep in mind like depending on how they want to use it


Okay good morning all thanks very much for joining me I hope you're all doing well all things hardly pull this morning I want to start with this and I'll finish with it as well this is for this weekend and I'll be there with a megaphone I'll be at as many of these as I can in the coming weeks getting absolutely crucial that we stand up against this you can hear the government making sounds about trying to avoid another lockdown and frankly when I hear the government saying they're trying to avoid another lockdown it makes me think we're heading towards another lockdown something we cannot take we cannot take it the country was immensely damaged immensely damaged okay so if you're around it around county Durham or in the northeast please try and make it on saturday afternoon at one o'clock I know these protests have been going really well there was one in Newcastle last weekend of course Darlington the weekend before which I spoke at and thanks to everyone I met there it was a great weekend okay hardly pull I have been looking at the news this morning and it's genuinely sometimes in my politics is difficult business and one of the things that's difficult about it is how frustrating it is and how much you know when I spoke about this at my last Harley Pearl stream how much you know the power that people have to make change and you do have that people do have that power and it's really frustrating to watch politicians and unelected officials getting away with what they get away with here's an example from the Harley Pearl mail this morning headline Harley Pearl risks bankruptcy unless tough council tax is approved now I this town is already one of the most highly taxed in the whole of the UK in terms of council tax highest in the UK one of the highest in the UK the people here can scarcely afford the council tax are paying now much less tax rises but now this bullying this blackmail this we have to tax you more or else we risk becoming bankrupt all the people's fault of course is the people who'll have to pay people who can't afford to pay will have to pay more and this is going to be repeated all over the country believe me because the people who run the things who run the council it's the people who run the country the people who are in charge of this thing will not pay any price whatsoever the people who manage the money we already pay them will not suffer it is the payers those of us who pay taxes who will have to suffer and the people who mismanage our money will carry on as usual it tells us the article tells us a Harley Pearl borough council full meeting on Thursday will see councillors debate implement in a record a recommended 1.9 core council tax and a smaller three percent adult social care so 4.9 percent now officers reported last month the authority faces a cumulative deficit of 11.435 million although this the increases the tax increases would reduce this to 7.523 million let's be clear about something here the people who manage this council and councils all over the country have managed it to such an extent but it's a great job that it's 11.435 million in deficit so they're going to tax us more to reduce that deficit so you will not get an extra morsel of service from this extra council tax in fact expect services to be cut and continue to be cut to reduce the deficit run up by the people who run Harley Pearl council and again this is not exclusive to Harley Pearl this is happening all over the country and this is going to happen at a nationwide level as well the central government will do the same they're doing it with the NHS we're getting taxes it increases to pay for the NHS the same NHS that has been pouring money down the drain for decades your money and the government has done nothing about it no government labor or Tory none of them have done anything about the mismanagement in the NHS so we're going to see tax increases at a national level and council tax increases as well and in this case and I'm sure in many others merely to reduce deficits run up by the people who manage this money in the first place council are showing more independent union council leader stressed that the authority is continuing to lobby the government for more funding fair enough more funding I'm nothing no problem with that but what are you going to do with that more funding what is the government what does the government do with our money full stop it's not spending it on us we're seeing our services collapse we know what it's spending it on not spending it on us for an aid and an equivalence but he added it must still set a balanced budget quote we are focused on doing all we can to lobby the government to increase our revenue budget grant back to previous levels and also make necessary savings where feasible and that's an interesting comment also make necessary savings again no problem with lobbying the government for more money one thing I can assure them is that they won't be getting any assistance from their MP in this regard because their MP is a Tory and it's a Tory government and she's not going to speak out against a Tory government because she's a Tory but they're all this last time around but make necessary savings where feasible I go to refer you back to an article from November 2020 Hartlepool councillor blasts one million pound wage bill of top council officers at no point in these savings will aid reduction in the six figure salaries six figures that top executives are in no point will that be touched the struggling family they will be touched the six figure executives unelected who manage this stuff in the first place who got you into this mess in the first place they won't be touched in fact I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get pay increases and I'm not even joking when I say that only one councillor in this whole thing it is the job of the councillors to speak for the people in the last that I certainly that I know of only one councillor councillor Tony Richardson spoke out about what he called the mega books received by unelected Hartlepool borough council managers over a million pound six figures many of them including the chief executive only one councillor and he I remember this I remember going to a Hartlepool council meeting so pre-covid when you used to be able to go and seeing Tony Richardson sitting by himself in the corner they may as well have put Don's hat on him sitting in the corner like a bad boy rejected by the rest of the councillors because he'd shared a tasteless joke on Facebook he's the only one however to my knowledge who has stood up and objected to the massive salaries being taken home by council executives you say this stuff you know this it's it's it blew in the face with this stuff blue in the face we are being mismanaged mismanaged and when things go wrong when people get us into a state of deficit the people who've got us into that state of deficit continue to pay themselves massive salaries and put the expense on to the people to reduce the deficit they caused does this seem fair to you in any way shape or form but that's what's happening it's happening in this council it's happening in councils all over the country and it's happening with the central government we have to end it we absolutely have to end it I think you know we talk about a great reset with with covert has come this great reset and the global politics the globalist politicians talking about a great reset and what they mean by great reset is taking away even more of our freedom even more of our power quashing democracy destroying our abilities and wait for this you know as the climate change thing continues more and more of our freedoms will be taken away we lose private ownership where you head of the world economic forum has talked about you alone nothing and you'll be happy more of this more and more of this that's what they mean by the great reset taking away the little bit of a voice you have I do believe a great reset is coming but it's not the one that the globalist politicians think the great reset will be when the people do and have had enough and when there's furlough scheme ends and unemployment skyrockets and then people are poor then we have a chance of a real great reset for more poor poorer I should say then we have a chance of a great reset but the politicians might not like the great reset that's actually coming their way and that is that the people will rise up and take back the power take back their power the end of labour and Tory dominance is coming that's the great reset that's the real great reset that's coming and the sooner the better another story I noticed this morning that I wanted to mention was a an MP Easington MP Greg Morris says that trains in the area in the northeast are more the worst in the country and if you've tried to use them you'll know that he's not really wrong here's more mismanagement the reason I'm mentioning this is to show you yet more mismanagement from government central and local we are spending billions on HS2 billions and this is will connect London with Birmingham and and a couple of cities in the north and make a little bit quicker yeah meanwhile train services within regions nothing nothing is done for them if you had if you're competent management of this country you would spend those billions improving the rail service that exists all over the country you could do it with that money but instead they're spending that money putting in a new train to make it a bit quicker to get from one from one or two cities around what is where where does this where is that where is the where is this where is it do you know why they're so blasé about throwing money around your money around because they're convinced that you're going to go out and vote for them again another story this morning is tourism tourism in Hartlepool has suffered greatly thanks to COVID and obviously this is having an enormous impact on the local economy if you go to the marina which is a beautiful part of the town it's this is you know we've just come out of the summer and yet often in the evenings by sunny evenings you go to the marina and it is empty there's no promotion of it not that I live in this town I keep my eyes open there's no promotion of it but more so they can't afford it people can't afford it people can't afford the parking and businesses are struggling because of rates I've been through this you know there's so much but it just this is what I talk about when I say that politics is difficult and part of it is the frustration you can see how simple things are to fix you can see it but it's not done it seems to be never ever done these simple simple things that could help this is this town has so much potential it's beautiful it's surrounded by beautiful beaches it's got a stunning marina one of the most beautiful marinas I've seen but the simple ideas and the real ideas and the things that will make this town fulfill its potential are simply not implemented it is incredibly and you know I'm convinced we're lacking we're lacking politicians who actually care and who want to make these simple changes because the system is so stale and they've been doing the same things over and over again for so long and making the same mistakes over and over again for so long and talking talk talk talk that's all that ever it seems to happen and when things go wrong the people who bear the burden of it are never the people who caused things to go wrong in the first place and say life isn't fair and it isn't but you don't just accept this we can't just accept this we can't I won't accept it and I'll be out next May knocking on doors saying again that I don't accept it and urging the voters of this town not to accept it an interesting other article that I saw this morning Hartlepool by-election candidate was unsuitable here's Labour Party conference a city of Durham CLP constituency Labour Party delegate Brenda Stevenson branded Dr Paul Williams who was defeated by conservative opponent Jill Mortimer in May unsuitable given his views on remaining in the European Union. Miss Stevenson said Mr Williams was imposed on the town and that the seat could have been saved if the Hartlepool CLP had been allowed to select a candidate she told the Brighton conference we need to re-establish the rights of CLP members to be fully involved in the process there is no evidence that involving CLP members in the choice of their own MP is a disaster whereas there is evidence that excluding them can be it was heartbreaking to watch for for us from the northeast to see what happened in Hartlepool I never want to see that happen again the CLP were excluded from the contest and the candidate was imposed who was plainly unsuitable for the area this is a really interesting article for a couple of reasons it demonstrates in so many ways the breakdown of the Labour Party and I welcome the breakdown of the Labour Party it is so deserved nothing could be more deserved than the demise of the Labour Party I think it is on its last legs I don't think it can recover from this and looking at its conference sort of confirms to me what I think about the modern Labour Party what this what this person is saying is that the candidate Paul Williams was placed into the Hartlepool by-election by the Central Labour Party and that Kirstamma etc and that the local Labour activists had no say in who the candidate should be now this is very indicative of a elite is emerging in the Labour Party or that has emerged in the Labour Party which thinks it knows best and the problem what you what the problem we have you have with this sort of central control is that it ignores and denies and in in doing that ridicules and insults its own activists because they know best and it mirrors the Labour Party's attitude towards the voter they know best if the voter doesn't like it if the voter doesn't agree then it goes without saying that the voter is wrong the voter is a racist and a bigot and you know the drill and with the European Union Labour could not have been clearer about that if you opposed the anti not just on democratic but anti-democratic nature of the European Union you're a racist and a bigot and you're wrong and Labour MPs across the Brexit voting heartlands had no shyness in telling their core vote that they were wrong that they were racist and we know what that we the word racist is thrown at you no matter what it's about it could be about it could be about it tea anything anything any topic ridiculous ridiculous you're a racist nobody wants to be called racist so that's why they call everyone a racist so they believed the central Labour Party believed and I wonder I wonder I'd like to see the speech from this lady here I wonder what kind of response she got from the audience with the central Labour Party in placing Paul Williams as the candidate in a strongly leave voting constituency like Hartlepool in imposing him they were once again telling the people of Hartlepool you were wrong what do you know anyway they're telling their own activists this by imposing pro-remain people into a leave seat that's the arrogance of them and that's why it's over for them it is over but it's a slow death because people have traditions people have a sort of hand-me-down tradition I was in hall last night similar thing there people have been voting for Labour for generations however that vote is dropping and that generational vote that Labour so relies upon will eventually fade away of that I have absolutely no doubt they show utter contempt for the people even for their own voters even for their own activists and I think that it's rather time that the same contempt was shown back to them and the Labour conference that is going on at the moment is farcical absolutely farcical you've got Kirstarmer whose opinions if he has one at all which actually I don't not sure he does it's if he does it's rare if he has an opinion at all it changes depending on who he's talking to and his their their farcical answers to things and and Starmer is now in trouble for before the conference even got started Starmer was in trouble for saying that it's wrong to suggest only women have a cervix so once again much like the leadership contest was dominated by the trans issue now you they their conference is also their first get-together conference post-covid is also been dominated by the trans issue and I remember speaking to a very lovely lady actually when I was campaigning last year on the doorstep that Labour is losing touch with the working classes because they are focusing on issues like this and she said but you know trans rights are human rights and human rights are important and a I agree human rights are the human rights act however is it is a joke that puts British people in danger and human rights do not mean that everybody gets to come and live in the UK let's be clear about that but that trans rights are human I agree with both of those statements I have caveats on them but I agree with both of those statements and there isn't anyone you know there's a Rosie Doffield at Labour MP who couldn't attend the conference for her own safety has not called for trans people to be harassed or discriminated against or in any way treated unjustly or unfairly or it's certainly not to be subjected to harassment or violence or any of these awful things what she is saying is that sex exists and sex is important and women particularly have won a lot of rights and fought for years for a lot of rights based upon their sex so once again Labour is preoccupied with issues that simply don't resonate with its voting core and if it does and if it does if they you know if this is considered important to its voting core many disagree entirely with the arrogant position that its leadership is taken in summary Labour has once again shown its true colors it doesn't give a damn about the working classes of this country and it doesn't give a damn about what they think and it will arrogantly impose its elitist out-of-touch view from the top everywhere including in previously strong Labour areas like Hartlepool. Final example uh or final article this morning new plans to tackle Hartlepool's homelessness problem despite post-pandemic fall uh council chiefs are drawing up new plans to tackle homelessness and support those sleeping rough in Hartlepool it's uh written a draft homelessness reduction and rough sleeping strategy 2021 to 24 it has gone before the authorities finance and policy committee for debate on what work is needed officers said key objectives will be to protect the most vulnerable through the prevention and relief of homelessness uh the work will also aim to ensure the most complex adults are supported and housing options in the borough increased. Councillor Amy Prince said this is such a complex area you're looking at domestic violence domestic abuse drugs alcohol etc and other things uh councilor Shane Moore said we've been really keen on aggressively delivering more council owned properties where the private sector fails we can offer a much better product and it is the landlord's pocket that's hit so it's almost it almost forces them to up their game you know it's basically saying the council and compete with private landlords um causing them to either reduce rents or increase conditions etc um well let's hope so let's hope something works uh these are complex issues and and there are a crime there is crime involved domestic violence domestic abuse drugs um certainly involve crime um though i'm not sure how effective policing is of those crimes you've got a starting point there a point i think that i'm making here is that we're going to there's going to be talk about this and this is what councillors and politicians are very good i may go talking not so much at achieving and what we need here is policing real policing and for money to be spent on the most those who need it most in our society i will have to mention that homelessness is likely we know we know we know it's going to happen we know we're going to get another massive influx of people and we also know that they will be at the top of the list for housing we know this so while i wish them well in helping homeless people i also know without hesitation that others will jump the queue for help i know this i know this because it's happening all over the country okay thanks as always i shall leave you with the details of the protest this saturday i will be there if you're in the area if you can make it please please do 1 p.m this saturday i shall see you there thanks everyone for watching please share i'll see you back at my live stream at eight o'clock on monday evening take care