Tech Over Tea - #61 Watch This At 0.5x Speed | Denshi

Episode Date: April 28, 2021

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Welcome to episode 61 of Tech of a T. I'm, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson, and today we have an interesting guest. I don't think it would be fair to call you just, like, a Linux YouTuber, because that doesn't really accurately describe your channel. While you do some Linux content from time to time, and you'll do some, like, movie review stuff as well, you'll also do things like, uh, you released today the oh that's showing the wrong screen uh i'll fix that interesting video the march simpson installs arch linux now oh yeah would you like to explain that while i fix up i can explain so sometimes well before i even even began with linux stuff um which i i I've used Linux since I was much younger. But before I began making videos about it and actually talking about it, I would make just completely unrelated videos to technology, things that were unrelated.

And I found that one of the types of videos that I love the most, just as a, I guess you could call it a stress reliever, something that just took, it just took so little editing because they were short videos. I'm talking one to two to three minutes long, just animate some kind of meme or I don't really know what you would call it, something like that. So I have an entire playlist full of those. Either my friend would send me a voice clip and I thought that was really funny. So I made it into a video or something like that. So I was one day I was walking just as recently, I was walking down the street and something. And then the idea came to me because I knew one of my friends knew how to do a really, really good Marge Simpson impression. So I thought, hey, why don't we just turn that into a video? And that's how the idea came. I just sat down, I wrote the entire script for this thing, and they read it off. And then I got the

audio. He took like a million different takes, and then I had to cut each individual take to correct one, because that's the professional method of way doing I just found that completely alienating because most of the time I just I just keep recording over and over again and cut everything while editing the audio originally but anyway so I took that and then I made the video and the idea is to sort of float from there you know like why would why don't we have like some really I just found images on the internet like there's one where you can find two different frames two different but one shot with two different uh frames of Marge Simpson looking at the computer and looking away at the computer. And everything just sort of flowed naturally making the video.

Like with most of these videos, you do it in one day, you get it done, and then it's just a fun video to put out. And that's the sort of stuff that I like doing from time to time. Because if you spend your entire YouTube career, I don't really know what you would call it, but your entire YouTube life just making videos that are highly edited, high quality, that kind of stuff, you'll get drained out. It's just months and months to work on a video that will come out and will be good, but you can't have that short little burst video, and that's what

these sort of are. So I got that one, the Marge Simpson one, and I got a million others just like it that are similar. So that kind of stuff comes out, whether it be Linux-related or not. I'm going to give people a bit of a look at how that actually sounds. Here we go. Great system of choice.

The Marge Linux thing sounds like a virus. Are you sure it's safe to put out on our computer? Yes, Homer. It's perfectly safe. I know this because I scanned it with my... You know, I'll give you that. The Marge voice is actually pretty good. It's okay, yeah.

The Homer impression wasn't maximal, but he's good at the Marge impression. His link is in the description of the video if you want to check him, and the Homer guy. They're separate people. I'll put that in the description of this one as well. Maybe I'll just link directly to this video, actually. That was a good start you are a very high energy person that i can say that yeah i just don't know what to say you just i'm completely i don't know i'm lost uh i am high energy people tell me that then all right. I'm high energy. Well,

what am I going to do now? I don't know. Yeah, that's fair. Well, okay. What made you actually want to start making videos then? That's a good question. So let's see. When was that? So 2009, I was four years old, right? What happened was you know the big recession 2008 that kind of stuff everything went crashing down bad economy bad and uh my parents lost both their jobs well my dad lost his job my mom quit her job because without my dad's job we can't support a family of now five kids which is a lot to support so what happened was uh well we had to find you know someplace to live because we couldn't really live in Italy because job opportunities in Italy, which is the country where I come from, were basically non-existent. And Italy is technically still in recession.

So we never really recovered from 2008. That's just a sign of how completely garbage our economy currently is. And so what my dad did was he went on a job hunt and he was searching for jobs. He was an airline pilot. He went on a job hunt and he was searching for jobs. He's an airline pilot. He was a former Air Force pilot. He's a veteran of the Gulf War, Bosnia, Herzegovina,

things revolving around Albania, that kind of stuff. And he found a few airline proposals, one in Ethiopia. He tried going to Cathay Pacific. And eventually he finds one here in the United Arab Emirates. And we settled down here through the Cathay work system. So essentially one person, like my dad, can get a job here here in the United Arab Emirates and we settled down here through the kafada work system so essentially one person like my dad can get a job here and get a sponsorship which means he's allowed to live in the country be a citizen and the rest of his family also gets to live in the country so we get to live in the country and I've been living here since so what that basically sparked is when

we got here my dad basically had all his computers and stuff all around because he was always using his computers to study for the next exam on planes, that kind of stuff. So I would get on his laptop or something while he was at work doing simulators or flying or whatever. And I would go onto YouTube and I discovered a lot of stuff. At the time, it was very different than how it is now.

Like one really big thing that was about to crash in a few years was animation, that kind of stuff. You'd see people drawing stickman, you know, stickman fights, that kind of stuff. I love that. And I love other things. Many things I shouldn't have seen, like the AVGM, definitely shouldn't have seen that when I was six years old.

Yeah, probably not, no. I was a bit older when I was watching AVGM. But yeah, definitely still a bit too young for that. Definitely not. Yeah. But anyway, it happened. So I saw this. and so that sort of laid a seed in my head hey no this is a thing people do at the moment people didn't really consider a career we're talking 2009 2010 yeah yeah but as time went on like you know there were people who were beginning to turn it into a

career so i saw this transformation this first generation of youtubers were sort of making it into a proper thing they could do so then jump forward to like 2015 october 2015 around that kind of time me and my friends decide we're gonna film something funny we're gonna film like um we had a can of mirinda which is basically arab uh like fanta right and um we were like sliding it across the table like uh this sort of thing you know like whoopty wait can't even the table like this sort of thing, you know, like whoop-dee. Wait, can't even see it. Yeah, this kind of thing, you know, that thing kids do where they slide it to each other.

We called it bartender, like a game. But anyway, I was in charge of filming it, so I filmed it. And then we were like, hey, why don't we put that on YouTube? So I made a YouTube channel. It was called J, based off our initials, J-A for my first name, and then Y, which is the initial of my other friend. And we basically, I just kept putting videos on there. I would make videos on Minecraft, as every child in 2015 would, videos on other things. I remember I first made Denshi videos under the name Denshi, under the idea that it was just basically a PowerPoint presentation. And it would talk about something that was just like anything like it would talk

about video games or video game theories or whatever, like random stuff. Oh, that's lost. I can't find any of it left, although the channel is still up under a different name, Denshi space or whatever. But anyway, so that's how it all began. Then I moved over, I realized slowly while making videos on Jada, my most successful videos were tutorials. So I'd make videos like a tutorial on how to make videos, how to use editing software, how to do this. I was like 11 years old, 12 years old, that kind of age. And I was like, hey, why don't I open a channel dedicated to tutorials? So I tried that and that failed. So I deleted that. Then I tried a new channel dedicated entirely to making more high

quality edited videos, the little, you know, character animation, that kind of thing. That failed too. And then eventually I was 2019, April 2019, which was, I think, I had just, I was just finishing my first year at GCSE, which is like UK system, high school, whatever. And that was when I decided, why don't I make a channel and I make it entirely about this Denchi thing. Like I make it entirely about drawing stuff, drawing, and then making drawings into videos. So I made my first video, which was a meta video

called YouTube. There's no meta video. You know, it's the first video for me on YouTube. It's called YouTube, whatever. I actually did go watch that one earlier today, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm it was, I wrote like the first half of that video. Then I got lazy and I just improvised the rest of the video. So that's how 90% of my videos are made these days. Just I sit down in front of the microphone. I read half of the script and I'm like, oh yeah, the rest of this is crap. I'm just going to make up the rest and I make it up.

So that began the flow of that. Just basically, I don't really draw anymore in videos. I don't do the drawings anymore. But all the editing skills I learned from mounting everything together and doing the keyframes and whatever, that helped me massively with doing what I do now, which is make more highly edited videos with proper transitions and proper stuff. So that slowly built itself into something that I could tangibly feel was a proper skill. So that's how we are at now. I just kept making videos. At some point in 2019, late 2019, I changed the name of the channel from Denshi Draws to Denshi Video because I just wanted it to be just videos not limited to drawing. And

then I just kept going. And that's how it is now. I just kept making videos about Linux. So for anyone who um may have been out of the loop at the time explain what actually happened with uh animation because i do remember this actually going down but there might be people who are completely lost oh yeah there's a lot to say about that so if anybody remembers this i don't know your audience demographic how old they are i think they're they're a bit older than me in like 20 Mid 20s. They definitely remember this. Yeah. Yeah, either they remember this or they were too old to remember this but What happens normally is this? Well, what happened really is that in 2009 that kind of time what big boom of animation that happened in the few years prior since

2004 it's sort of been building was this was this program called, you know, I don't macro media adobe flash it was a software made by adobe well it was originally made by macromedia then adobe bought it an animation software you could even script stuff and you could do a lot of cool things with it and you could you know make scripts and then make video games in as well and many websites like youtube used flash player to play videos so it mean it meant that if you made videos and flash it was generally more advantageous on YouTube. And websites like Newgrounds, which was also a video hosting site, you pretty much exclusively could upload Flash projects and stuff, and they would show up. And that had various advantages. So we all know Flash.

It's a proprietary system. It's pretty much useless these days. It's not really used by anyone. these days. It's not really used by anyone. It's only really useful as an animation tool for some people because the basic framework of the software makes it so it's good to animate in it, not actually good to export that and play it in the Flash player. So people would use the Flash software to make videos and upload them to YouTube. And because it was so popular with kids, and I guess I don't really know where they were getting it from, probably piracy, let's be honest, but I don't know where the kids were getting it from, but were getting adobe macromedia flash or whatever and

they were animating stuff there was this massive boom of kids animating stuff and adults animating stuff stick fights that kind of thing there were loads of people making these and it just exploded then what happened around 2011 2012 it just slumped people weren't really interested in animation videos so if you were making animation videos during that period you probably didn't see much success on YouTube and then we all know what happened 2014 2015 there was the boom of a new genre of animation on YouTube which was the storytime animation where people were making videos talking about personal experiences you know we all know the guys odd ones out Jayden animations these kind of people they

boom they're super popular because they're popular with kids just like the original animations of the stick fights that kind of stuff was also popular with kids so that saw a massive boom now that's also waning animation on youtube is getting bigger thanks to youtube itself becoming bigger there's entire shows that are animated on youtube for free and that kind of stuff. And there's some that have been greenlit for TV series. So the success is still there, but it did fail 2012, 2011, that kind of time.

And then it came back with a story time. So that, that's how that went. There's actually a, um, a couple of projects that are attempting to basically keep flash alive. I know light spark. that's one of those that's an open source implementation of Flash Player.

And I know there's a couple of others as well, but I don't think there's anything that's actually a full open source decent player at this point. At least I don't know of one. I don't know of any either. I'm pretty sure most of them are open source. They implement some kind of proprietary code somewhere in it.

But I do admire those because one of the most important things when it comes to the internet is preservation of media. Because if I have a server posting something, then I unplug it. Boom, that's gone from the internet unless people have downloaded it. The general consensus, what I don't like about people talking about the internet, they often say that when you put something up on the internet, it never goes away. people talking about the internet, they often say that when you put something up on the internet, it never goes away. What they mean by that is when you put something up on social media, it never goes away. Because if you put something up self-hosted, it will most likely go away. It's going to go

unless people federate it or spread it across, which is I think a generally better system. So, yeah, I do admire anybody who works on these projects and tries to back up all these old Flash projects, even if it's just like some 11-year-old's random Flash animation from 2008 or something.

Like, it's still worth a backup. You've got to make sure that all of those awful Flash games from Arma games are preserved for the rest of history. I want to play Boxhead in 10 years from now. I want to play all of the soft and cool maths games. Most certainly, yeah. Excellent. I know that Newgrounds has a flash player they built this specifically so you can use it on their website just as a browser plug-in not 100 sure of how

they fix all the vulnerabilities in flash with that i'm assuming they fix them somehow then they they just use that as a plug-in or something but it could just still be in there, just whatever. Yeah, they just don't say it. Let's see. I thought I had something that I was going to say, and then I just completely lost it. Oh, you know what? Screw that. We're just going to go somewhere else. Did you hear about the thing that happened

with the University of Minnesota with the commits they're making to the Linux kernel? Yes, I did. I did hear about that, yeah. So for anyone who's completely out of the loop, the University of Minnesota with the commits they're making to the Linux kernel. Yes, I did hear about that. So for anyone who's completely out of the loop, the University of Minnesota, they had a group of, there was a professor and a couple of students doing, I guess it's a PhD project, I'm not exactly sure what the project actually was, but they were trying to write a research paper, and they were making intentionally faulty commits to the Linux kernel.

making intentionally faulty commits to the Linux kernel, then after that submitting patches to those faulty commits, basically to try and see what the feasibility of getting malicious code into the Linux kernel actually was. And as you can probably tell from that, some of the Linux maintainers were not exactly happy about that. Yeah. Now, I don't really know how etiquette works with universities and this type of penetration testing, as you would call it, I don't know, like getting into the source code. But I would assume that the general etiquette is

you're meant to ask the Linux kernel project before you go and try and do something like that, or at least you can't just go in there and start submitting malicious code. And obviously they're going to get approved. They're a university. If I say a university is committing code to the Linux project, I'm the maintainer. I'm a guy who could approve commits. I'm going to look at that and say, yeah, this university is trustworthy. They're going to get the code. So what were these guys thinking when they were doing it? I'm pretty sure, like, you're a trusted institution, and you're going to do this sort of thing.

Unless they were specifically testing that if a trusted institution could get it in. Unless they were specifically testing that. Because clearly, look, what they're trying to figure out is if any rando can go up there and post malicious code and somehow get it approved and somehow get it in the kernel release and then, you know know get this malicious code

in people's computers that was i'm assuming that's their general scope that's generally the idea um yeah and the way they went about it they were so because um they were submitting patches then in tech like right after submitting the patch to their in their broken patch they were trying to make sure it doesn't actually make its way into the actual stable branch. Some of the commits actually did, though, and that's the problem. So, yeah, that's the biggest issue that sort of happened there. It would be one thing if they just stayed in the email exchanges. It would be annoying and you shouldn't be doing it. But the fact that some of this code actually did make it into the actual releases is a much bigger problem.

Yeah, what if somebody downloaded that and compiled it? It'd be ridiculous. So, when it comes to this sort of thing, I think the most important... I think when we look at all this and get rid of all the fog and look at the clear issue here, it's that an institution

like the University of Minnesota is sort of just blindly trusted to commit code to the kernel and not have it be malicious. So that's really the issue here. I mean, you could talk all you want about how they ran their study and how they should have definitely warned them before doing this, but you're talking about the University

of Minnesota. It's inherently flawed to test for something like this when you're literally an institution and you have your email address listed on a university email, whatever it is, university, I think it's um.edu or something like that. UNM or something? Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah, something like that. umn.edu.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Edu, that kind of thing. Yeah, because if you're.edu, you sort of assume that there's going to be... Yeah. It'd be like seeing, I don't know, I don't have a good example. Let's say you have, like, someone committing code with a Google email, for example.

You would assume that person is working at Google, is trying to do something to actually submit code to an actual project. Yeah. So that's the primary issue here, I think, is that obviously it makes perfect sense to trust a university institution, but you shouldn't, at least when you're doing

some kind of penetration like testing, at least go through the effort of setting up a different email server that seems believable if you want to truly make it a believable experience. But I don't know. I don't know what their process was. I don't know what their thinking was. They might have just made a completely honest mistake.

I don't really know. But now they've banned the whole university off the Linux kernel anyway, so what are they going to do now? The big problem they also had was some of these people who were involved had also committed to the Linux kernel in the past as well. So they're not really sure when the the uh the tests actually started either so that's the biggest issue so there was about i think 260 commits they had to go through and check if like when the like what was actually intended to be malicious and what was actually just regular commits to the kernel so there is probably weeks and weeks of time that's going to be wasted by the maintainers

just checking over this code. If only they would have warned them that they were going to do this, then told them exactly what they were doing, this wouldn't really be a problem, I guess. So that would have been a proper penetration testing because you would have actually seen if people, because there will be someone who would be aware

and would be able to take it out before it actually got put into the stable branch. But this hasn't clearly happened here. So i guess that's incompetence of their part or maybe their process was just flawed inherently or something like that yeah so i know that um linus wasn't involved in the uh the email list going back and forth about this but he did actually release a uh statement afterwards let's see if we can find it oh really let's see that um university of minnesota linux Linus Torvalds. I should have saved the link from earlier today.

Here we go. From Tom's Hardware, Linus Torvalds responds to the thing. How do I send a link in Jitsi? There we go. There's the chat. Let's take a look at this. All right. Let's see.

Tom's Hardware says. So, yeah, addressing the University of Minnesota, and Torvalds apparently did an interview with iWire and said that, I don't really know what to say, he said. I think the thread is likely the most relevant information. I don't think it has been a huge deal technically, but people are pissed off,

and it's obviously a breach of trust. Yeah, that sort of sums it up really well. Yeah, and that's a fairly calm take from Torvald, to be honest. Yeah, I would expect far worse, but then again, he's interviewing with a company, he's not going to start this isn't an email listing, this is a company, this is a news agency

or whatever, iTech maybe. Yeah, I think the person who got the most in over this was Greg Hartman. He was the main guy who basically called these people out because this person, he'd noticed this person had been frequently submitting these patches that were just broken and he was basically just absolutely done with it.

I guess he'd already heard about this paper being made and just sort of putting two and two together oh yeah so uh wait i'm assuming these broken patches were during the period in which they were doing the testing and not in the past because you said some of the people working on this project had been like developing like the link channel in the past so are these broken patches from the past or from now from the there's been 160 patches in the actual um the paper so okay it's it's a while at least i think they've been doing it for about a year now if i recall correctly um but there are patches that go all the way back to 2018 and they're not really sure what pat like when it

exactly started the other big problem they had with the paper is for some reason, even though the source code they're working on is completely open source, in the paper where they showed figures, they obfuscated the code. Oh, beautiful. Don't understand what. They don't even know which ones are which.

Yeah, no. Oh, boy. They're going to have to manually go through and figure out. Mm-hmm. Oh, I don't envy that job. No. It's just a mess of a situation.

Honestly, I would half expect the university, like they've already released a statement about this, but I wouldn't be surprised if they, you know, make a large donation to the Linux kernel. Possibly to try to get them back to unbanning them from developing with the Linux kernel? Possibly, to try to get them back to unbanning them from developing with the Linux kernel. Yeah, well, I mean, to me, things like the development of Linux, we all know it's been heavily sponsored by foundations

like the Linux Foundation and all these sort of people. And whether that's good or bad, it's up to personal opinion. But the truth is, yeah, these companies develop a lot, but it is individuals who truly get it fully functioning. Without individuals working on it and committing changes to their code, it wouldn't be where it is now. And sure, foundations like the Linux Foundation have done massive contributions, but they use Macs. They're a company that clearly, yes, has done a lot of good for the Linux kernel. They've done loads of standardizing. A lot of these companies have standardized a lot of things,

but we must begin to question whether it's truly correct to trust institutions just as much as we trust individual people. Because an institution is a wide, wide array of people. It's a lot of people. So if anybody, any person from the University of Minnesota could commit code and have it at a higher priority than an individual, then that's something I think the kernel developers need to really start thinking about. Yeah, one of the people who is actually maintaining these patches, I guess, mentioned that the likely thing that just allowed these patches to slip through was the fact that it was a university email. Exactly.

There have been. So, in fact, what they were doing to actually make these patches was making a static code analyzer. And this is a fairly normal thing for a university to do. So this person just thought, oh, it's just another university

reinventing the wheel of a static code analyzer. Let's just accept the code through. It should have been something that didn't get allowed through they should have actually been more um more scrutiny for it correctly yeah but it was a university that's exactly what i'm talking about but they put more trust into an institution than they would do in a random individual giving them the exact same code but up until this point the way they've sort of approached patches which i don't know why they're approaching it like this is that anyone submitting code to the kernel

should be looked at as doing it I guess in good faith whereas the way they're going to start having to go forward now is assume that everyone submitting code is a bad actor and then judge all the code as if they are trying to be malicious, which is

going to waste more time, but I think that might be more secure in the future. Ultimately, that's the one good thing that did come out of this. Yeah. Well, it all depends on who's calling the commits who's saying, yeah, that gets through, that doesn't get through.

If it's someone who's actually like a... I don't think they're going to be as strict on, you know, people who've been committing for 10 years, for example. Exactly, yeah. Well, that makes sense, yeah. If it's someone who's a known kernel developer then obviously that's different but for say random people who like i'm gonna make my first commit to the kernel that has to be really scrutinized to make sure they're not doing something like this yeah but i think like when it comes to there's also the

question of code quality. There's a question of whether something could be done more efficiently or in a better way or a more compatible way. And obviously that will also be heavily scrutinized. With a Linux kernel, it's more than scrutinized. It's accepted and improved a lot over time as we've seen performance improve a lot, especially with newer hardware and newer hardware releases. performance improve a lot especially with newer hardware and newer hardware releases because as soon as something new comes out the Linux kernel is normally not far behind into getting it supported but a question is now basically with this you've given far more power because of this attitude of

taking a look at every single commit with sort of malicious malicious intent you're you're given maximal power to those who say whether it gets merged or not who say whether this gets through or not so whoever's calling those shots those are the people who are far more in power now and i guess that's something to think about i don't know if there's any way yeah there's nothing really to be done about that but yeah it is something to think about for sure. Yeah. You know, you did bring up Macs before.

Did you see... Did you see how Apple has now decided that they have been the creator of these Bluetooth tag things you can attach to things? Now everyone's suddenly excited about them. They've made these things called AirTags. They're basically just, like, little Bluetooth things you can attach to your, like, phone or something. Now everyone's suddenly excited about them. They've made these things called AirTags. They're basically just, like, little Bluetooth things you can attach to your, like, phone or something, and then you can ping it to work out where your phone's located. Oh, so it's basically just a pager, but it works via Bluetooth? Like, it's...

Why can't you just use the phone's Bluetooth connection? No, I mean, like, it's a little, like... So, basically, it's a little, like... Basically, it's a little... It's basically a GPS track you can attach to, like, your keys or anything like that, and then if you lose them, you can basically ping them and, like, work out where that thing's actually located.

They're called AirTags. That's a clever idea. It didn't create it. It didn't create that. That's pretty obvious. A question about that is... So that connects via Bluetooth, I'm assuming. So if you're...

I think it's, like, actually Wi-Fi or something. Wi-Fi. Oh, okay. Some fancy Wi-Fi technology. I'm not sure exactly how it works. Oh. But... Yeah.

I saw the people, like, freaking out about this. That, like, this is such a cool thing like I can't believe that Apple's made this like you've been out buying these things like six or seven years Apple is very good at making things popular if nothing else

they're excellent at marketing they're a marketing mogul it's sort of like there's comparisons that can be drawn to every industry every industry has that one company which knows exactly how to get to people and how to show them something fancy because there are a few things that are objectively good about apple then it's just up to marketing the rest like i'd say 80 of it is marketing and then 20 of it is actually good products like if you look at apple's industrial design with every single product they release it's excellent it's not very cost efficient it's not very good and it's not even good for thermals as we've seen with the

terrible MacBook thermals in the last few years, but they do know how to make something look good. Like the new IMAX, for example, all the colorful ones, those ones, they look excellent. They're awful for performance. They're awful from literally other perspective, but they look very nice. And people like things that look nice and that's part of the marketing. So the industrial design is objectively good. It takes a lot of skill to get things looking that good and get that form factor working and all the hardware in there. That's difficult.

But it's not good. It's like working very, very hard on something that people enjoy, but it's completely useless. It's like making a very, very, very, very beautiful-looking Toshiba PowerBook. Or not Toshiba PowerBook, Apple PowerBook. I don't know. I lost my train of thought there. But a very good-looking computer from five years ago. That's basically what they're doing.

So that's what Apple is. So with this new key thing, with this car key tracker that you can just stick on the stuff. I'm assuming it has, like, an adhesive, some kind of thing that you can, like, slap it on. You can buy a pouch for it. The cheapest pouch is $12. The most expensive one, $450. What is it made out of? Pure diamond, I'm assuming.

Leather. I know, it's crazy, crazy material here. You never heard of it. Yeah, I've never seen leather in my whole life. That's amazing. $400 for little... So I'm assuming these pouches just like stick on? Like how would you get it on an actual car key?

You like slide the thing into it and then like there's a keychain thing you just clip onto it. Oh, I see. But how do you actually get it to the car key? Do you stick it on? Is there like a little taper? Oh, you could like... Basically you'd like clip it onto like your keyring sort of thing. Oh, okay. So it's got a little clip.

Yeah. So that's interesting. little clip, I see. Yeah. So that's interesting. And that's why you need the pouch, because the actual, like, puck thingy, the tag, doesn't actually have a clip on it. So you have to buy some sort of pouch. It's just an object. It's a little metal... I can locate this object. It's basically a little metal puck that you can get, like, an emoji engraved.

That's the one thing they do. When you buy it, you can like an emoji engraved that's the one thing they do uh you when you buy it you can get an emoji engraved on it that's hilarious i can't wait to see those all around the city i don't live in the city i live in the desert if you walk in that direction you'll find the actual desert but i can't wait to see those around different places that's gonna be ridiculous people little apple pucks somebody's definitely gonna use those for hockey i'm calling it now somebody's gonna play hockey with that some guy on youtube or whatever is gonna try to do yeah that i could see that right now they're up for pre-order so we've got to wait a bit for that but some soon you can buy in packs of four as well they are oh boy i think it's a hundred dollars for a pack of four oh that's actually relatively good but it's just a pager so you know so they apple made pagers that

work on wi-fi that have already existed for tons of time like those little child trackers they put on the children sometimes that's got a little phone or whatever um so that sort of thing put a little collar on your child with the apple puck there you go problem solved child never lost again success apple puck solution but yeah apple's great at marketing so they're gonna sell millions of these pucks they're gonna they're gonna sell like hotcakes which they sort of look like so yeah actually uh i didn't honestly when i heard about the like colorful imax i didn't actually believe it it just didn't seem like an Apple thing to do but no uh yeah I wouldn't expect them to be colorful I was expecting everybody knew they were gonna make them thin like crazy thin because they can do that thanks to M1 basically just a

giant iPad on a stick yeah because that's what they are they have a chip from the iPad that's been modified partly to run macOS yeah they stuck an M1 in it, didn't they? Yeah, they stuck an M1 in it, which is good for thermals so they can not really worry about having tons of fans if we were to take a book. So everybody knew. There was a great Linus Tactics video where they talked exactly about,

they talked about the newest iMac, which wasn't the current one, but when it came out, there was a new iMac that was announced. And Linus specifically, with the script in this, he predicted that, oh, the new Mac's going to just basically just be an iPad on a stand, that it's going to be flat. And they even showed their own little render thing

they tried to make themselves, a mock-up of it. And that looks exactly like the new Macs. But nobody could have predicted the colors. But I guess that's Apple's way of showing they're changing or regrading back to their old self back when they had the colorful logo at least it still has a headphone jack on it it's in a weird spot at least that's a positive and the ethernet that passes through the cable i'm looking okay wait it's on have you okay have you looked at the new imac because do you know

where the headphone jack is i haven't't seen it, no. Hold up. I've seen the ports on it. There's different configurations. You can get a USB, Thunderbolt, of course, 3.1, so it's got the little round port, USB-C port. Hold up, I'm going to search this up. Unless I'm seeing this wrong, the headphone jack

is on the left side. So if you wanted to use headphones, they're like, come all the way off your desk. It is. What? It genuinely is, yeah. Why not put it under it? I don't know.

What does it put under it? That's like, that's a clever solution for a laptop because like, nobody wants to then put their headphones in the back, but laptops do have ports on the back. Some do. So I don't know.

Like, I don't think it's going to make big, big enough. It's not really going to make a big impact because anybody who really cares about audio will buy you know their own little oh yeah special thingy for it they're not building their built they're not definitely not using a built-in headphone jack but i don't know i guess it'll make it easier to break your headphone or rip the back big i don't know how much this thing weighs no you won't have our cables because you're going to be using your AirPods. Oh, yeah, of course.

But no, I guess it'll make it easier for you to pull your headphones and then, whoop, my Mac, like that. I don't know if that's going to happen. Depends on how much it weighs and how much it stays still. That's something I always got worried about when I saw a Mac, like iMacs.

Because what if that little stand, you know, what if it falls over? It doesn't look very stable. When you actually, you know, see one, yeah, it stands up. I can't speak about the new ones. The older ones are pretty hefty. The older ones are absolute chonk. They're big.

They tried making them thin, but they still had that big round thing. I like that. I haven't, I've not really used a new one. My dad has an old one. He's 2012 model. Yeah, okay, yeah it's yeah but the newer ones like regardless of which one you're getting they always have that round back and that round back it just reminisces in a crts and i like that so well yeah that that round back is how you

have fans in it exactly they got little fans at the top which sound horrible but they are fans i do want to know because it is basically a giant iMac i'm sorry a giant iPad um yeah why didn't it put a touchscreen on it that's a good point uh probably because it would make the screen it would have you would have like uh fingerprints all over your screen that would yeah be bad for the aesthetics microsoft did it yeah but that's not apple's thing um yeah no but because this is basically a giant iPad, if somehow they manage to make this thing thermal throttle, I will be surprised because it's just the exact same chip with bigger heat dissipation.

Well, remember, the new Mac Mini had fans, and it used the M1 chip. And if this one... So I don't know about the MacBook Air air if it ever thermal thought of them one but i know for a fact that the that a macbook the imac the sorry i'm like the mac pro not mac pro what am i saying the mini one the small one yeah the little one with the m1 chip the one that they gave out as dev kids those ones had no issues with thermals at least for the most part um so they should have put fans in this one, I think. But,

if they're able to dissipate it well, they're able to dissipate it well. But anyway, we're literally talking about Apple and what's meant to be a Linux show. That's fine. It's fine. Linus wanted an iMac, so it's fine. It's fine. The Linux Foundation uses a Mac, so it's also fine.

Honestly, if you just want to be real lazy with the content just every year they release a report just be like the linux foundation uses max and you just get like thousands of clicks because i guess i don't know people just want to keep hearing about the exact same thing every time yeah it's true um i mean it's sort of hard to get over that hypocrisy yeah you make a it's like the BSD developers. Where does BSD code primarily go to? Or is it mainly used by people?

Mac OS. And by extension, iOS. Because what do you think iOS is based on? Mac OS. Which makes this whole M1 transition far less difficult looking now that you realize that it's literally just porting what you've already ported over to a chip that you already have. And then the illusion is sort of gone. But ARM is something that I am super concerned about when it comes to computing.

Computing, not commuting. I don't know what I said there. Commuting. I'm sure there's ARM chips like modern buses to track mileage or something well okay most modern cars have some sort of like i don't know either android auto or whatever apple's thing is apple oh you completely cut out did i yeah no you're back now but it cut out for a second okay on jitsi yeah modern modern cars have, like, some sort of Android Auto or Apple's car thing or whatever.

Yeah, that's definitely not an armchair. Honestly, I don't know how that manages to get through, like, regulations, allowing you to have basically a giant tablet in the front seat of your car. Yeah, I was always worried about that when it comes to security. I mean, you're not allowed to put videos on it or that kind of stuff because that has obvious safety issues. I can't even have video call. But I saw that some video call programs that are exclusively for video calling are available on Android Auto and stuff. I haven't tested it out. But if that happens, that's a major danger. But I don't know.

I don't... These things, these Android Auto, these smart know i don't these things these android auto these smart watches all these things are just trying to get a screen crammed into everything possible i hate them i hate them i really i really don't like them i try to avoid them like the plague it's better if a car has a traditional radio traditional everything because it's far easier to maintain far easier to sell the car later. It's just better. Well, yeah, the problem with Android Auto is the same problem that selling a phone has, is that it's going to stop getting updates very quickly. Yeah, well, the thing with Android Auto, the idea behind it is,

oh, you have your smartphone, and with a smartphone, you can just connect it up, and the smartphone manages the updates of the software and the firmware. But who knows if they change the spec, and then suddenly a ton of cars become incompatible which i'm sure has happened before so the problem well the big problem with things like that is the uh the the automotive industry moves notoriously slow like you'll have a car come out it'll have a brake issue and then it'll take like six months to do a recall exactly yeah it is it's it's very very slow so that kind of these kind of fixes if they may if they mess up once with android auto some vulnerability in it or whatever they can't fix that and then as cars sort of get more uh more computer controlled with you know

the direction that like tesla and stuff's going exactly it's going to become even more the difference with tesla is at least they're able to do over-the-air updates. They're a tech company first. Yeah. So that has massive implications, being able to over-the-air update cars and not to mention paying for the over-the-air updates sometimes. But having over-the-air updates, if you find a vulnerability, if I find a way to get into a Tesla and just do whatever, complete control, because it can self-drive. If I'm able to find a vulnerability in the self-driving Teslas, that's homicide.

That's literally a way to kill people because a car can kill the people inside it. It can kill anyone outside. So I don't doubt the technology. I don't doubt the ability to cars to drive themselves. I don't doubt the ability of cars to be themselves i don't doubt the ability of cars to be electric i doubt strapping a computer on a car connecting it to the internet and passing updates through it you better have the best security engineer best computer engineers in the world you better have the best guys best best security in the world or you're completely screwed yeah i think the only the only way that i would like trust no I don't I still don't like it the only way I would potentially trust a fully computer-controlled car is if it doesn't do over-the-air updates the only way to update it is to plug an

internet cable into it. Exactly or plug in a USB with the flash the little flash file and flash it to it or something like that. Even so. Like you would do with a router. Yeah, yeah. Even so, you still have the issue where I don't exactly want my brakes to be controlled by a computer. Yeah. Can I just like. You want it to be a thing you can press, yeah. I like

my manual brakes. They're nice. They work. Yeah. The solution is that when it comes to a lot of these cars a lot of people are moving within the automotive industry, as you said, moves very slowly. But they are generally shifting over to this idea of what's the word again? Well, it's not drive by wire, but it's actually called originally fly by wire because all this began with Air Force aircraft. And the idea is, well, the problem with many Air Force aircraft is if you've ever looked at how one is built, if you have any idea of aerodynamics and the basic concepts of how you're meant to build a plane, wrong. These are built wrong. They're inherently aerodynamically unstable,

at least the more modern ones. So if you look at aircraft from the 1940s, before they had these computers, completely different shape, completely different everything. The reason they're designed differently these days is because it has various different advantages when it comes to mobility. And to fix the problems of, hey, if I pull up on this manually, it's literally going to overcompensate and then flip me over and I'm going to die. To fix that, every single control in modern fighter jets and modern jets, just for your information, the recent last 10 years, this has been shifting to all modern aircraft is fly by wire. So you pull up, you're not pulling up. The computer thinks you're pulling up and the computer knows how to make you pull up and the computer understands

the nuances and aerodynamic effects. So it can compensate properly as if you were just controlling it manually and the plane wasn't inherently flawed. So that same thing is happening with cars where soon you're going to be turning a steering wheel. You're not turning a steering wheel. You're turning a resistor or something that actually turns then the wheel, the computer turns the wheels and it's able to compensate and then fix the issue.

So currently most cars don't fully have this. Most cars have it where you drive and it's all physically manual, you have a physical handbrake, physical everything. Then the computer computer can intervene but it's not forced and you can kill switch it and we've seen this aircraft issue arise when aircraft well obviously you'll always have a manual control on an aircraft it's always built in but we've seen this problem rise when the computer has any power any power at all this has killed people. Like if you look at the 737 MAX, the MAX-8 model, MAX-9, all these models have the problem that, oh, well, once again, like with fighter jets, they have inherent instability or an inherent issue.

Because if you've ever looked at a 737 jet, you've noticed that the plane's engines almost touch the ground. If you look at relatively recent ones, they actually have to smush them at the end. It's got like a circle shape, and then it's sort of like that on purpose, so it doesn't scrape on the floor. With the MAX, these new aircraft engines they have are much bigger, these new general electric ones, and they cannot put them without completely changing the landing gear and making

the plane higher so what they did was they moved them forwards and up so that causes an issue because now your center of mass is forwards that causes aerodynamic instability and the jets themselves are forwards your center of thrust is forwards now their plane's going to go like this like that it's going to start going up that's no good good. So what did they build in? Well, this was up to the computer engineers to fix. And they made this system called MCAS, which was, once again, an integrated system into the actual, you know, max. I don't really know. Because they've been able to flash updates to this. So I doubt it being fully integrated.

Like they got some system to flash updates to this. It's more like a router, really. But what they did was this was flawed. It had some issues in the programming. I don't really know. They haven't self-published the full report on it, so nobody really knows. But the point was it was going off when it wasn't meant to. So what would happen is there were two instances, one in Ethiopia and one in Indonesia,

where the aircraft was taking off, and then the MCAS system overcompensated and didn't really fully understand the angle of attack that the aircraft was going at and then went up and killed. It was tragedy. It killed over 400 people, around 400 people, that kind of amount of people. And that's the problem with these cars, with these planes, with everything, is that you're trusting a computer to do things that used to be entirely human. And humans are flawed, don't get me wrong. Humans make lots of mistakes, and human mistake is inevitable. But a computer can be designed to have issues. It can be designed and it's left that way forever. If a human

messes up, normally they can go through and they can say all right there's going to be this new training added and we're going to train everybody correctly with a computer it's hard to track down every car and every plane as you said the automotive industry is slow if there was an update with the teslas or if there was some kind of system unfixable patch with the teslas that let me have complete or any anyone have complete access to the Teslas and their control, just drive them anywhere, then you would have to recall all of them. And that would take years to fix.

They would have to flash every single one individually. If it's an unfixable patch, it's hardware level, or just got to do with the actual firmware, whatever. I'm assuming they're running some kind of Linux or BSD on the Teslas or something like that. So yeah, that's my opinions on these sort of things. That's what I think.

I think I could never, I feel like as we advance forward, we have to figure out a way to either recall things faster or just try to make the best code possible. Because it's these sort of flaws and the lack of testing that leads to genuine death and hundreds of deaths because of a flawed computer system. So yeah. It's a modified Ubuntu distribution on the Tesla.

Oh, okay, I see. On that note, how did you actually get into Linux? That's a really good question. So let's see, I was 11. It was morning. There was my grandfather's old computer. So I was given the task. I don't remember if anybody told me this, but I wanted to do this.

I wanted to take that computer and fix it up and use it for something. So I went online and I – well, first of all, I was just going to reinstall Windows XP on it because that's what it already ran. So I wanted to reinstall Windows XP. So I reinstalled Windows XP. I flashed it onto a little CD and then boom start up Windows XP Oh Ethernet drivers don't work so I scour the whole house for CD with the Ethernet drivers no luck so what do I do next well there's this thing there's this operating system alternative called Linux what's this so I go to a different

house or you know just you know a different computer I download the Ubuntu 16.0 iso and that i flash that onto a little flash you know burn it onto a dvd i bring that over i put it in the computer i i boot it up and there it was ubuntu for the first time so what captivated me about linux the terminal i know a lot of people begin with linux they're they're captivated by different things like oh how themeable it is or I can customize everything, or whatever. For me, the main thing was, I can type a command here, and then it installs something,

I can type it, and then I download. This thing shocked me to the core. I understood the concept of a terminal interface, whether it be from playing too much Minecraft or running Minecraft servers on Windows, but I did not fully comprehend the concept that, hey, from the terminal, I can do everything. I've complete power of the system

So that's where my fascination began. I just downloaded every distro on you are elementary OS everything Tried Lou bun to it tried LX de distributions a lot of stuff like that. I remember I'd been tried. What's it called Buddha Linux? Baldy Linux body Linux that that. So I tried loads of distributions. I eventually settled on Ubuntu as the final distribution. But what I primarily run on my machine is Arch Linux.

Although I used to run Manjaro and Artix is okay as well. So that's how I got into Linux. It was just because I wanted to bring up a computer back and then the terminal and all that kind of stuff captivated me. So that's how it was.

Okay, that's a fairly common story, be honest i've i've had people give me like some really ancient stories like oh i discovered this cd that had a bud into order or whatever no it's just like i wanted to bring a computer back to life that's so fascinatingly though i did i did do something like that the ubuntu cd i i made it more dvd i i made it myself but i did find it just a year ago around a year ago i i came back to that same place with that computer that i had first installed ubuntu on and um i had i found among the listed cds and stuff i found one for mandrake oh look at that and my grandfather had been testing out mandrake uh when he was in the 1990s

or early 2000s so that's a nice little coincidence i'm not the first person to tinker with linux and the whole family so that's a great thing to know so that that's my only little note on that oh that's cool i've only been using linux for like two or so years everyone i speak to has been using it way longer than i have ah i've not been using it since i was 11 i used it on that computer i had the basic ideas and concepts of linux in my head uh but i went back to my own because you wanted to play video eventually good i didn't really play lots of video games on windows i've never been a huge gaming guy i've always just been the guy who loves making videos and video editing software on linux is just no good and the hardware i had

couldn't run resolve on linux now i can so i edit all my videos and resolve editing software on Linux was just no good. And the hardware I had couldn't run Resolve on Linux. Now I can. So I edit all my videos in Resolve. Oh, okay. So, yeah, I would just use Windows. But eventually, the reason I got really big into Linux was my channel, really. So I began making videos called Just Use. So I make Just Use Krita, Just Use GIMP.

I made videos on the software that I had been using for so long. GIMP, Krita, Audacity, that kind of stuff. And I loved it, so I wanted to make videos about them just as a pointer for people to say, hey, you're not meant to pay for Adobe software. Use this instead. So as I did more of those, I slowly discovered, hey, like all this software I've been using is open source. What does that mean? All this software, you know, all these things, they're all compatible with Linux as wellux as well like and then slowly slowly slowly i sort of put the pieces together in my head it's like oh i don't even need windows anymore so i switched over to pop os uh then i tried ubuntu

then i tried manjaro and i love manjaro it's not that good really not looking back at it a lot of people have issues then i slowly learned more and more more more more it took me a while but then i finally was able to install and begin using arch linux and i've never really looked back i mean i have fired up windows a few times to do a couple of things but once again i'm not someone who loves gaming and the few gaming the little gaming that i do it's normally emulation or stuff that runs perfectly well on linux so yeah minecraft's gonna run perfectly fine on lin. You're good there. Yeah. And also another big inspiration was servers.

I love servers. I love self-hosting. So Linux, just learning Linux at home on the desktop taught me more about servers than I could have ever learned doing anything else. I feel like if I would have just began using Linux as a server operating system, I would have been so bored to death because I had just no motivation. But seeing everything on my desktop, being able to directly control it and then learning that same system for a server, that taught me a lot. So yeah, that's how it is.

Yeah, I sort of feel the exact same way. Like I know people who sort of got interested in Linux from like system administration. I'm like, you're a weird unit. I don't know how you managed to do that, that sounds incredibly boring sounds painful to begin as a sysadmin it's not like doing professional sysadmin stuff, it's like, I wanted to set up

a Minecraft server and just like, start from there I couldn't do it I like doing stuff on the Linux desktop yes I do a lot of stuff in the terminal I've run a lot of terminal applications but having the option to do something graphically

when I want to do that is much nicer that is true yeah so the thing is for me it's really about I've always loved self-hosting I've told you before before I even tried Linux

I'd been into stuff like set up a Minecraft server, but it was always on Windows. And they had to do stuff like oh, make this script to launch it with the proper options of Java. And then on the Minecraft download page, they have all the instructions and all that kind of stuff. And my brain was slowly piecing together, oh, on Windows

there's scripting functionalities. I wonder how it is on Linux. And on Linux, it's like a million times better. It's been developed to the edge and you can do practically anything thanks to the Unix utilities and whatever. So it just sort of unleashes potential that has already been there for me to do crazy

stuff with servers. And now there are entire things that you can run only with scripts. There's a great script by Luke Smith called LB, Luke's blog, or Les Bloat, or whatever you want to call it. It's an excellent great script by Luke Smith called LB, Luke's blog, or less bloat, or whatever you want to call it. And it's an excellent bash script that sets up your own static HTML blog. And I set that up on my website, works perfectly fine. That's entirely been in scripts. And that's only possible on Linux. You can't do that on Windows. Or if you can,

you have to download some software that imitates Unix utilities. So that's really what inspired me to get into sysadmining because it was all, I'd already done it before, I've been on Windows, and then learning all this stuff on Linux, using it graphically on my desktop, and being able to see what I'm doing. And then that sort of translated its way to, oh, just using a terminal again

on a server, like a Debian server or something like that. So what are you running on your Arch system? Are you running a desktop environment, window manager? What are you doing? I'm running Openbox. I have used DWM and a few...

I used to use KDE a lot. I love KDE. It's very good. But I just can't see myself using it a lot, mostly because I can't stand the bloat. I'm sorry. I need as few megabytes as possible of RAM use at the moment. I need to have it. And I also want to understand whatat. I'm sorry. I need as few megabytes as possible of RAM use at the moment.

I need to have it. And I also want to understand what's running on my system. I want to feasibly look at my H.menu and say, that's this, that's that, that's that. I want to understand this. And the great thing about Window Manager is it forces you to sit down and decide, I need this. I need that. I need this. I don't need this.

I need this. I need that. And that lets you construct your own environment so you know exactly what's running and you have more control. So that's what I love about window managers. And what I love about Openbox is that it's just from LXDE.

And I don't know about other people, but I enjoy floating windows. I enjoy tiling windows, but I just can't go away from floating windows. It's just something that I find more aesthetically pleasing. It's just a weird thing about me. But yeah, what i'm running on arch linux okay i haven't used openbox myself um yeah maybe i'll try it out at some point but i'm not a i don't really care too much for floating like i use some floating windows usually i will use floating windows where it just sort of makes more sense like right now i've got say

my notes for example floating above all my other stuff, just because I want it to be in a spot where I can easily see it. But most of my other stuff, I don't really care where it's placed and it just makes more sense for me to just have that be tiling. Yeah.

Tiling makes sense most of the time. It makes a lot of sense if you're lazy and don't care where stuff's placed. Exactly. But you need floating sometimes. At least I just need floating sometimes. I need to be able to minimize a window and look at my desktop, which is normally blank. I never set wallpaper, or at least if I do, it's very rarely. So yeah. Yeah. I could never use a window

manager that's purely tiling. It just wouldn't. Some applications just don't play nicely with tiling either. Yeah, that is true. It also just feels odd, but odd feelings go away after you get used to things. I guess so, yeah. But the first time I fired up DWM and loaded up like Krita or something, it just gave me this really weird feeling. And I don't know,

I can't stick to window managers that are entirely just like tiling. Luckily, DWM has functions. Youiling luckily zwm has functions you can build into it functions where you can yeah do it float in windows so that's good when it's a program like that i just full screen it and then just it's fine yeah but gimp for example you can make the um the tool elements floating and if you don't have them floating in a tiling window manager they'll just tile somewhere it looks very odd yeah i like having it all in one window though yeah yeah same um i think when i was using on windows though the

windows version does default to having stuff like float around like that rather than being all in one window that's weird it never defaulted to that for me but okay okay maybe it was just the version i was using or maybe i just i don know. There's something weird going on. I think they removed that default after a certain version. 2.9, I think. I'm not 100% sure. Yeah, it's been a while since I've run GIMP on Windows. Yeah.

It was never good on Windows, because it is... It's so slow at hooning up. It's just so slow. It's ridiculous. It's actually still a GTK2 app as well which is also a lot of fun let's see, what do we have on here

oh, I've got a ton oh, there's actually some work being done with WSL to get Windows apps running sorry, Linux apps running under Windows. Linux GUI apps. Under...

Like, with WSL. I said that really terribly. Getting Linux GUI apps running on WSL. There we go. Got there eventually. Weren't they supposed to support that, like, a while ago? Didn't they say they were going to support that a while ago? I'm pretty sure they announced WSL 2 and then they said, oh yeah, GUI apps are coming. That sort of thing. Didn't they supposed to support that like a while ago? Didn't they say they were going to support that a while ago? I'm pretty sure they announced WSL 2

and then they said, oh yeah, GUI apps are coming. That sort of thing. Didn't they say that? Yeah, they did. But I guess they're coming now. Oh, okay. They've been in work progress for a while. I mean, what's the point? Most of the stuff that is on Linux is open source. There's probably a Windows port. So I'm

assuming that's because if you're dealing with WSL, maybe you want a way to interact directly graphically with your Linux system. That sounds so odd. I don't really see any reasons for that because the idea I'm assuming here is that I develop a program, either it's for development purposes so I can see directly how it would look like on Linux, which makes sense. Only problem is why don't you just run a Linux virtual machine for that? Second of all, I'm assuming it's meant to be so you can run either software that is exclusive for Linux

or software that you want to use to interact with your WSL system. Graphically? You're meant to be able to do everything from the terminal. I don't really know what sort of application this has, but I guess if people like it. I can't think of a single Linux app that I would want to run on WSL that doesn't already have a Windows version.

Exactly, yeah. It's difficult to think about. The only thing I thought of is just using it so you can use it exclusively in WSL so you can do stuff with your WSL. So if you interact directly, like, that's the only thing I think of, but would you do that? I don't know.

It's confusing. Anything super complicated to get it to work, basically, it's just going to start up a, it's going to start up Wayland, start up an X server, and also start up, like, Post Audio, and just, it's going to work. Oh, okay. So it's just going to pass through those gotta pass through those basically yeah it's just

gonna pass you never thought i'd see wayland running on windows it seems like it's gonna get actually that's actually kind of interesting because i wonder if that means it's gonna work with the nvidia drivers in which case um nvidia nvidia what are you doing no i think they did announce that they aren't going to add Whelan support at some point I saw it on Pharonix let's see if I can find it they did say in the next version of the

NVIDIA drivers there will be better support they didn't decide what better means but better yeah hold on let me look if I can find this page specifically. I think somebody said it about it. Because I know for a fact you can get

what was it called? SDL programs running under Wayland. Because those just, you know, that's completely different. Here it is. NVIDIA 470 Linux driver to be even more Wayland friendly, but not Wayland. I don't know. It's hilarious. It's like saying I'm going to be even more alcohol free. Like, what does that mean? I don't drink just for clarification. It's just an example. But what is this meant to be? I don't know. But Michael Larabelle in NVIDIA posted this,

and he said, the next major NVIDIA driver series, the 470, is slated to be even more Wayland-friendly. This was posted on 5th of March 2021, so a while ago. All right. Well, hopefully, I mean, they'll probably have Wayland support at some point, but it'd just be better if they made the drivers open-source.

Then again, one thing I didn't notice about the Mesa drivers for AMD cards and just integrated things, that they are open source and they're excellent, but you do need to download separate components from Vulkan sometimes and open that kind of stuff, which is perfectly fine, but maybe

newer people might be a little confused by that if they're coming from the NVIDIA drivers. If they do open source stuff, that might cause a little bit of confusion for some people because they're like, I need to install NVIDIA-Vulkan, NVIDIA-this, NVIDIA drivers. If they do open source stuff, that might cause a little bit of confusion for some people because they're like, oh, I need to install NVIDIA-boken, NVIDIA-this, NVIDIA-that kind of stuff. Well, they can still keep them bulked, like all grouped together. Like they don't have to separate it out. But the nature of open source is, yeah, fragmented.

So it's easier to develop on one part and the other and the other and the other. And chances are NVIDIA does it that way. And then they just put it all together and then release it like that's probably what they do internally hopefully i would hope so i hope that it is yeah just make it a little bit shine mess here github project nvidia driver and then it's just illegible nobody can understand don't even separate out the g-force and the quadro drivers. Just put them all in one repo. Exactly, it's just the same one. I mean, then again, they probably are the same drivers. Just like a setting has changed

so professional programs run better with an artificial cap on the GeForce drivers. Ah, NVIDIA. NVIDIA, NVIDIA. Yeah, I intentionally didn't... Like, I bought this system just before the big hardware hardware crisis we have right now and i'm very happy i did not buy nvidia oh yeah yeah the prices for those are completely crazy

every graphics card prices not too long ago in australia and i think actually you know we're gonna find out how much it's gonna cost me to buy a 3090. Let's see how much a more reasonable 2070 costs on ebay.com. If you can find it on eBay, good luck. I'm pretty sure they don't have it on Amazon either. So let me check on Amazon. So 2070 on eBay goes for only $260. And then there's one going for $420. Very, very funny, man. Let's see. NVIDIA GTX 27. Let's see what Amazon has to say about this. There is one for sale.

This is in UAE currency, not in dollars. So I don't know exactly how to tell you. Oh, fascinatingly, when you search up 2070, rather than selling you a graphics card, they're trying to sell you laptops that have 2070s in them. Okay. That's something, I guess. rather than selling you a graphics card, they're trying to sell you laptops that have 2070s in them. Okay. That's something, I guess. Yeah, I mean, let's be honest.

Because laptops are generally a better way, not better, but in theory, more efficient way of constructing hardware, those are probably going to be the most resistant to things like hardware shortages because normally they just built 100 of them and then they're ready. and it's a whole system that already functions and it's all there I'm pretty sure you can probably find single

graphics cards for sale that cost more than a laptop with a similar graphics card if not the same graphics card because the prices have hiked up just so high Would you like a 24 gig RTX 3090 because it's gonna cost you

4 600 trillion dollars which is about 3 500 uh us boy yeah that's like what is that like uh that's uh that's a good that what I spent on my car? yeah around it's like you're just gonna buy a new car isn't that even more than how much the previous quadro cost? I don't even know can you even buy quadros right now?

I don't know obviously quadros wouldn't be a good mining card surely not maybe? I don't know The RDX 4000 costs Yes, it costs less It costs literally less To buy an RDX 4000

Excellent It costs like $2000 Jeez But it has only 8 gigs of VRAM. Yeah, well. Well, it's still a quadro RTX. It's like, when a thing is this shortage, some people think it's up to mining.

Some people think it's like a higher demand for electronics. Some people think it's like a silicon shortage. It's sort of these things really that's causing this. Like crypto is a big thing, obviously. People are spending money and there's just people wanting more GPUs. There's lots more people gaming these days. There's lots more people who want to buy this sort of stuff. Then there's a genuine silicon shortage that's been showing up in the recent days because of this.

So that's how it is. I don't really know when this will be over. But hey, if there's something important that it will teach hardware manufacturers is that either ramp up your supply, which is very difficult to do because you don't expect there to be a pandemic. You don't expect there to be crypto boom. You don't expect these things. that is as efficient as possible. A piece of hardware that uses the least silicate and materials as possible, trying to make it as minimalist as possible,

just so you can sell it for a lower price, at least sell it at a lower loss for some of these people. So yeah, I guess that sort of teaches them that, but I don't know. I think the only bit of commuter hardware you can buy very easily right now is hard drives. Hard drives are dirt cheap right now. Yeah, they are very cheap. I recently bought an ssd recently for very cheap but um recently people have been talking about how i've seen a few posts on many places about they keep talking about this new cryptocurrency called chia which is an entire cryptocurrency based off mining with um instead of mining

just directly like for your information i'm assuming you understand the basic concept of crypto mining the idea that you just are so instead of mining like that uh yeah okay i see it yep you basically what you do is you randomize hashes you randomize you randomize different plots they're called so you're at a little differentize... I think there's a great video Mental Outlaw made where he explained it, where you basically just, like, imagine making a bunch of lottery tickets and then selecting random numbers on each one

and then just waiting for somebody to call them in, like, a bingo. That's what this is. And I have set up a plot for Chia just to see how it works. It takes, like, five hours to plot something. It's ridiculous. But you basically

get all these little files that are these lottery tickets or containers of different hashes and random stuff and if at some point the blockchain finds a block and that block corresponds to your thing you get free money now at the moment nobody even knows if this is worth it because hey what if she uh it's not listed on any exchanges? Nobody knows how much it's worth. So you could have like 100 chia or whatever. It's worth like two cents or something like that. So that is a distinct possibility.

But, yeah, that's just how it is. It's at the moment. Who knows what will happen in the future. So if that goes up, if that goes crazy, if one Chia is worth like 20 cents or something and people begin, there's already like 170. I saw this because the Chia Damon shows you this 170 more than a hundred. I can actually, I'll check it right now. I can find it. Um, it's like a hundred and something petabytes of people mining this. So 170 petabytes of plots. So data on hard disks and SSDs that has been dedicated to this. If that becomes profitable, think of the hard drive prices and SSD prices. That little bastion of success, these cheap SSDs,

cheap hard drive, gone, no more. You don't get those anymore. Those are gone No mining time. Yeah, that's that could happen. Yes. Someone did ask me if I'd seen mental outlaws video on this and I hadn't but Okay, I take that. Yeah a long while ago before mental outlaws video. I'd seen about it like Weeks before that was uploaded and i began looking into it but after his video i was like oh yeah this is all sort of coming together i don't know i don't know if it's going to be successful i i doubt that it's really super cool because yes it is an alternative way of mining and that's a clever idea it's

supposedly environmentally friendly which i doubt a. The idea behind mining is you're randomly generating hashes. The idea behind this is you basically have a long session of just randomly generating stuff, like with mining, but this time it's just one session, then it stops and you're just using hard drive space. There is a tool on the Chia Blockchain

Explorer that what it does is it calculates based on how much Chia space is being used, so 170 petabytes or something. It on how much chia space is being used so 170 petabytes or something it estimates how much power is currently and at the moment it's sitting at somewhere like 800 000 watts at 800 000 watts it's like 100 computers and there's far more than 100 computers mining chia so i guess that's a good sign sort of but obviously it depends on hardware manufacturer depends on what sort of power suppliers depends on so many things so there's really no distinct way to tell but that's how it is um and i hope that what what is it i was gonna say but the

problem with this coin is that it's not on a single exchange so exactly who knows like that's the problem but the problem is if it gets exchanges, if it goes up in value, hard drive prices are done for. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess in the beginning of MentalHala's video, he says that. He says, oh, buy hard drives now. Buy them now before it's too late. And he has a point. I'm lucky that I bought that SSD before any of this

Chia stuff begins to blow up. But who knows? It all just might completely crash, which it might happen so nobody knows yeah i'm waiting for the crash i want i want my crypto millions uh please please down down yeah yeah their time yeah everything is bitcoin has crashed it went from like it used to be 60 000 at some point now it's gone 55 000 it's 50 000 it does keep cracking yeah i i wish i'd bought at the like start of corona i did make money off of the the rise we've had but if i bought back at the start that would have been

i'd be retired a lot yeah no but then with cryptocurrency just like just like the start market just like all these things it is gambling the only certainty you can have is coins like bitcoin coins like maybe ethereum maybe monero are going to go up generally in value over time because more people are going to be interested in the technology interested investing in technology interested in using it so that's the assumption you're going to make but if you're investing in like some random one-off coin like the one that i saw recently it's called pirate chain yeah i did there's a lot of people getting really into pirate chain went up i remember seeing it back when it was six cents like oh that'd be interesting i bought a bit of it then i was like this is bullcrap so i went out now it's 15 times the value

yeah so i did a bad decision there it is the most anonymous cryptocurrency according to them that's a lie but i don't believe them. I don't believe them one bit. It seems like a scam, pump and dump scheme or something like that. I genuinely, I don't, I trust Monero. I don't trust Parachute. That's fair. Yeah, I'm just looking at the graph and it's just like up.

Oh, you got to check this out. The best white paper I've ever seen is the WowNero white paper. So if you go to the WowNero website, you can get their white paper. So WowNero, it's the meme coin based off Monero. We actually have a mining pool for that. I've set it up on my server. In fact, that's why I bought the SSD to start mining pool. But they have a really good white paper.

I think it highlights every single aspect of what really makes a really good meme coin And it's it's a great white paper. I definitely recommend you reread it if you have the time So if you search it up by now, you'll find it. It's it's just like I It's good. Basically. I clicked on their white paper and it took me to a blank PDF Yeah, what's the PDF? Yeah, that's the white paper. Okay What's the PDF? Yeah, that's the white paper. Okay. Okay, sure.

It's a white paper. It's a white paper. That's fair. I keep hearing about... Okay, there's all these meme tokens that are showing up, and I love it. You'll never believe it, but WoW Nero has boomed past Doge. I love it. You'll never believe it, but WoW Nero has boomed past Doge. Yeah, it literally exploded overnight. It's ridiculous.

Now, not many exchanges list it, but they do list it. Some exchanges say it's value. It's not estimated. It's on CoinMarketCap. It's official. It's valued at like $1 and something. It has surpassed Dogecoin, which is insane. It's official. It's valued at like $1 and something. It has surpassed Dogecoin, which is insane.

Which reiterates the point that Dogecoin, you know, it's not a superior product to anything like Bitcoin or whatever. And something like WowNero, WowNero genuinely is superior to most other cryptocurrencies. Maybe you can make the case that Ethereum is better because of the smart contract, because Ether is used as a currency um but well narrow and monero by extension are superior well narrow has the advantage of having a limited supply so not only is it better than most other cryptos but it has an advantage over monero if you have the opinion that maybe monero's infinite supply is not a good idea so if you want to use a coin that has a limited supply for supposedly more stable value i guess i don't really know what they mean by that uh then you can use wow narrow so that's why some people genuinely accept both wow narrow and monero as donations so yeah since we're on the topic of crypto um the other day in australia i saw a hashtag on twitter uh it was hashtag cum rocket now i did not

know what cum rocket was but it is another cryptocurrency um hold up yes let's take a look at this i've already asked oh boy this is fascinating yeah let's take a look at this oh it has been booming it's it at $0.02. What do you freaking do? I have no idea how long this is going to last, but this is pretty interesting. According to Benzinger.com, it surged 634% in a single day.

It appears to have done that, yes. It shows up here on CoinMarketCap. Its current value, as I said, is on 2 cents. It's up 16% today. It's falling a bit. And supposedly, it has a market cap of $209 million. So that's worth more than loads of money. On the one exchange it's on.

I don't really know. Let me check on my exchange to see him buy some see if i can buy some glorious cum rocket it's only on our pancake swap right now but um i expect it will be listed soon so this coin is like an absolute meme coin um the the short so the the project is called Come Rocket Crypto, but the shorthand name for the actual coin is Cummies. Oh boy. Let's see what their white paper says. Oh, it has a proper white paper. What does it say?

It's a deflationary token that operates on the Binance Smart Chain. Oh, that's garbage. Oh, not Binance. Come Rocket's main goal is to tap into the oh i can't say that word okay so let me just say it's it's you know how they use ethereum to sell nfts yes this is to sell nfts this is to sell nfts of yeah um so yes yeah this is oh no but this has been going up in values. If you bought some of this, you're doing good for yourself now.

People, I don't know, like let's be honest. That industry, it's a horrible industry. It's a terrifying industry. But it dictates economies. It dictates technologies. VHS, why did that succeed? Because of that industry. So, who knows but anyway yeah i guess that's a fascinating thing to learn about today i knew somebody would have named a

cryptocurrency like that three letters boom instantly perfect perfect plan um why was it australia was the only place it was trending. That's the weird thing. Well, it's on the Binance Smart Chain, so a lot of people might not trust it fully, or at least don't like it because it's not technically, like, decentralized. Hmm. Crypto.

Crypto's a weird space. Yeah, it is. It is definitely weird, but it's working for some people. There's some places where you buy things entirely in crypto tangible goods. So I think that's a good idea. Only problem is they're basically limited by value in fiat. If I buy something now in Dogecoin, a few minutes from now, the price may have completely changed and I could have gotten ripped off or gotten a deal. So that's the problem with it is people don't treat it as a currency as much as they treat it as some kind of magical stock or security that they can use. And this has been sort of what the SEC has been talking about with LBRY and Odyssey, where they've been trying to convince them that it is a security. That's an entirely different argument.

I do need to take a look at the SEC's proper case on this, because I think they might have a point or something like that. Let's see. But have you seen... There are some pretty amazing things in... This investigation has been going on for three years, and there's some pretty amazing things, uh, in, so three, this investigation's going for three years, and,

um, there's some pretty amazing questions that the, uh, the SEC was asking library. What are they? Okay, I'll, I'll, I'll read some out for you, so, uh, let's see, uh, no, that one's not that funny, let's go to the next one, Next one? Uh, no. Show me the next picture, thank you. Uh, where is it? Ah, here we go. Why did Library maintain its website in 2016? That was the first question, and Jeremy asks, uh, Jeremy answers, are you asking why a company has a website? Yeah, for the record. And Jeremy says, companies have websites. No, no, no. I'm asking why library has a website.

The library had a website so there was a place who could go to learn that library existed, learn about and download and read about it. So I didn't use it. Ah, here we go. Why did library intend... Wait.

Sorry. Did library intend that its posts would be accurate? Yes. And why did Library intend that its posts would be accurate? You're asking why we intend to be accurate. Yeah. My general intent in life is to be exclusively accurate. Not everybody shares that view.

I understand that. So I'm trying to figure out what Library's intent was. I would not feel comfortable running a company that did not strive to be accurate. I understand that. So I'm trying to figure out what Library's intent was. I would not feel comfortable running a company that did not strive to be accurate. Well, the SEC is an interesting beast. They operate differently from a lot of parts of the US federal government, although I'm not an expert by any means.

But they, unlike something like, if this was a serious issue, they would have definitely brought in the FBI. This was actually something they considered a massive fraud. So clearly if the SEC is coming in, it's probably just a case they don't consider super high profile. But the main question here is, is LBC a security? And that's a good question because you got to ask yourself. On one hand, is somebody manipulating the prices on the lbry network on odyssey.com are

people changing their prices for videos are people changing it based off the value of lbc some people might be but most people and the view reward is normally set at a certain amount it's capped or something so it's not like they're going to start paying you less or more based off like your view reward is set based on your success it's not based on the value of lbc one day you could be getting a million dollars per view one day you could be getting a cent that kind of thing at the moment it's not like zero for me it's like 0.3 something lbc for you might be different for people that's different so by every view view from a verified Odyssey account or whatever. So the question here is, am I earning more or less money from this? Well, it depends because if you intend to exchange LBC for money that you can use to buy other things,

then yes, obviously it is a security. It changes value. It's been crashing recently too. It's at 14 cents. It's completely plummeting straight into the drink um but it's going to go out probably i think there's lots of interested in lots of interest in odyssey and lbry but anyway that's besides the point so from that perspective it is a security from the perspective of a website using a token for people to trade with each other that coincidentally can also be traded for other tokens that may or may not be able to be traded for real money

Then it's not really a security because I send you five library credits. You send me five library credits I watch this video. I paid five library credits to watch this video. I Support this creator. I send them to library credits as a donation on the video My decisions aren't dictated by how much LBC is worth. I'm not deciding, I'm not given a prompt or any kind of screen where I can see what the monetary value of that is. They only have that on the Android app. That's the only criticism I think I have. They shouldn't have that on the Android. They need to de-emphasize the concept of currency in it, I think, to some extent. And also there's the question, doesn't this invalidate all cryptos? Because all

cryptocurrencies are securities. I think they're specifically targeting LBRY because they don't explicitly market themselves as a currency. If you go to LBRY... The other problem is that they are an unregistered security. If a project decided to register themselves as a security, the SEC would have no problem with them.

That brings us back to the question of, is it a security yeah so that's just a debate for them to settle in court not for us to settle here i'm not one to give financial advice or financial anything i don't know enough about the u.s legal system to say whether or not it is a security like people have asked me to do a video on this like i all. Get the lawyers to do it. I don't know what to say. Yeah, get somebody else to do it. But, I mean, I think if... It doesn't really matter because LBY is decentralized.

The blockchain is hosted on many computers. You could always watch the videos. You can always do everything. So it's not of concern whether they get shut down. I would really not want them to get shut down. But if they get shut down or not get shut down, it's not going to be a massive impact. Somebody's got to come along and host an instance of odyssey or

all stuff like that so they can have it all speaking of odyssey they they're making a mobile app for it they're making lots notes of progress adding loads of new things yeah i think it's going to be excellent um i've enjoyed all my time with lpy since i first began using it early last year yeah okay um i synced over my late last year, all that kind of stuff. It's been excellent. I love every second of it. I find it to be so much more refreshing than YouTube. It pays more than YouTube. Even through entirely donations, I've genuinely made more money

off LBRY than I've ever made off YouTube. It's excellent. So that's how it is. I've got one more amazing SEC question. And holders of credits, if the value goes up, would have greater value, correct? It is true that if someone owns something

and it increases in price, that person has more money. If something goes up in value, it goes up in value. What a brilliant question the SEC has. That's more of a statement than a question. I think they're just making... if it wasn't the SEC or if this wasn't you know also publicized and all it might just be some kind of move to just shut them down because they don't like LBY in some other capacity, like some excuse. This isn't the only project they've gone off like the other big project they're after right now is uh Ripple.

project they've uh gone off like the other big project they're going after right now is a ripple oh yeah ripple uh but that one had a massive crash when the uh the thing first came out and then it just shot up in value and it's likely the same thing will happen with library as well because one thing that has been happening during all of this uh i can't confirm this but what i have been told from people who are involved with library is that the users have just continued to go up as they've always been going up oh that i expect that to happen because people are really fed up with youtube they're tired of at least if you make videos on youtube and the great thing about odyssey is they offer the tools for you to sync over youtube you don't even need to think about it. I left it over for five months.

I turned on the sync late November last year. I came back five months later. Oh, I have like 2,000 LBRY credits just left there in the – oh, whoop-de-doo. So that wasn't 2,000. It was 1,000 or something. But, yeah, like I just left it there. I never was $1,000 or something. Yeah, okay. But, yeah. Like, I just left it there. I never touched it.

I never went there. I never checked anything. Never staked anything in any videos. I just left it. And boom, money. And success. And people were watching my videos. The most viewed video, ironically, was a video that had been taken off YouTube by YouTube.

The YouTube DL one? Yeah. I had the exact same thing happen. That's my most viewed video on all. Yeah, exactly. Frigging YouTube DL videos, and they were taken down. That's my most popular video because people watched the YouTube video then went over to Odyssey to watch it.

I think more and more people can watch on Odyssey because you can sync over the YouTube channel. You don't even need to think about it. That's what's genius about it. You don't even need to switch over. Just use YouTube and then leave it over. Then boom, success. You're helping the platform without actually doing anything. Just making your

regular... That's genius. I think that's a very, very good tactic. The only problem is now they're going to have to work out a way to manage all those YouTube downloads and manage it with the YouTube API and download the description and stuff and all that kind of stuff. I know you can do it all with YouTube DL, but there's probably more they got to do with the YouTube API to actually make sure they know when new videos come up

and the ratings and the tags, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So how do you initially find Odyssey? Because I found it because some of the guys who are like really big fans of it started like pestering me in my comments. I found it out because of the Linux Gamer.

I would watch the Linux Gamer and he's like, oh, check me out on LBRY. Oh, what's LBRY? And I went to LBRY and I'm like, oh, check me out on LBRY. Oh, what's LBRY? And I went to LBRY, and I'm like, oh, this is what it is. It's just like YouTube, but better. This was like, yeah, once again, like early last year. And I thought it was really cool, so I signed up an account. I started uploading some of my videos, but then I just stopped,

and then I was like, all right, let's just refresh all of this. I deleted it all, created a new account. Well, no, I didn't create a new account. I used the same account, but reclaimed the same name and then synced over my YouTube channel. And then boom, Odyssey. It was on LBRY. It was Library TV at that point, yeah.

Yeah, LBRY.TV. They didn't have the sync feature at first, but when Odyssey was introduced, when people began telling me about Odyssey, I was like, oh, well, this is, you know, you shouldn't use this. You should use lby.tv, because they didn't know it was the same thing. Then I went there, I'm like, this interface reminds me of something. And then I look at, oh, this is lby. Yeah, that's genius. Only problem is it's confusing for consumers.

The problem, yeah, that is one of the big issues. Same sort of problem like Mastodon and stuff has, where, and Matrix, I guess, as well, where you have all these different ways to access it. Element, Matrix, Mastodon, this, that, Gab, whatever. It's confusing. Mm. Well, having, people sort of used to having, like, if you want to go to Twitter, you go to twitter.com.

Twitter. If you want to go to Facebook, go to Facebook. One big thing, yeah. But then, you know, trying out Matrix, you're like, do you want to join this home server, this home server, this home server, this one? Yeah. I mean, when I first signed up to Matrix or on Element,

I just signed up to the default home server. Yeah. I set up everything up. I set everything up, and I had no issue understanding the concept that, you know, this is Matrix. Mostly because I understood the concept of self-hosting yeah yeah i i i didn't fully understand the idea that you could self-host your entire matrix instance and not just a community or something but that was besides the point what i did find confusing was their current way with elements of dealing with communities

because i then found an interesting client. I forgot who develops this, but it's called Carbon or something and it's basically an element or a matrix client dedicated entirely to being as similar to Discord and it has this genius idea what if we just have the communities on the side

you click on the community and then another little bar opens with all the chats in those community instead of putting it all in one single row one single column sorry one single column and that's i thought that was a clever idea like uh so now elements basically doing the same with their new spaces initiative well matrix is going to add these two so you're basically going to be able to make discord servers on Matrix, which I think is a great idea. I think that's

finally, yeah, exactly. Communities will finally be good. I think that's going to entice a lot of people to move over. I hope... We'll talk about Discord being sold to Microsoft. They were in talks. Now they're saying that maybe they might go public and if that happens and Discord crashes,

who knows? I don't know. Kids will still keep using Discord. 13 year olds, 14 year olds they just love it. They just eat it all up. They love it. So I don't expect a lot of those to switch over to Elementor Matrix. Well if they go anywhere they'll go to Gilded probably. Yeah.

Gilded is interesting. I tried it out. It's like, I don't really see any advantages over Discord besides it having more features and it's got more things. If I'm able to set up a bridge with Matrix to Gilded,

which currently isn't possible because Gilded is yet to release their bots and stuff. And also there have been a few people that have been pressing Gilded about, hey, why don't you make Gilded open source? They haven't done it. They shunned the question. So it's clear that there's something weird going on.

It's probably just like Discord is. It's massive spyware. It's that great spyware. What are they? Spyware Watchdogs page? I forget what it's called. But you can see a great page where they have a page on Discord

and they talk about all the problems with it, all the spying it does. And especially the Discord client program has genuine access and can see the programs you're running on your Windows computer. So that's a massive privacy risk. So you definitely shouldn't use Discord for privacy. So that's, I think, the biggest thing people care about. They want a good private system. And obviously, Matrix is the ideal

solution because it's self-hosted as well, so nobody can shut it down or decide that you're not allowed to say this, you're not allowed to do that, which is good, but it's not super user-friendly. If somebody made an interface like Gilded that could interact with Matrix, that'd be great, but we're talking about an open-source

project here, but they're not funded by some massive corporation and if they were it probably ruined the project so yeah i'll have to check out this uh this carbon client a carbon client you're mentioning because i it's no good it's it's good for private messaging it does not support encrypted messaging i believe it it's not it's pretty much not featureful you can't do anything in it but it is it's it's just a proof of concept you can make things you can make things look good and yeah it works that makes sense but yeah i i've got um i've got a bunch of my discord chats uh i guess the chats in the discord server uh bridged over and matrix has i get why they've done it because because a lot of people like IRC.

A lot of people in the open-source community like IRC, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work if you're trying to do stuff with bridging the Discord, where you have, like, 20 rooms just in a massive list with no sort of grouping. It's not going to work exactly. So now that they're adding these places hopefully it'll be more organized because everything in matrix is a room regardless of whether it's in a community regardless of whether it's just a random room somewhere it's a room so if i'm able to make a

place this new places feature with matrix with elements or whatever and it looks nice it looks like a discord server and each chat individually is a matrix chat. I can use the bot, bridge them over to Discord, and it's like the same experience on both sides. It takes a little bit more work on my end, but it works. So once they get this places things out, it's mostly UI changes. Like, honestly, nothing about the communities technically

from the protocol's perspective at the back end is wrong. It's all just how Element organizes it you have to right click on the community and click view community to see the community somebody coming from discord is going to be so confused and i was so confused when i first used element so as soon as they fix these ui issues these ui weird decisions then they're going to be golden i think it's going to be excellent it's going to be really easy to switch people over i think um the other thing that needs to be addressed is the fact that there's no, like, so, oh, I guess

community-wide or space-wide moderation at this point. So if someone's being an absolute arsehole and you want to ban them, you have to ban them individually from each of the rooms they're in. That is another thing. I believe you... I think there's some, like, third-party bot tools you can use, but, like, there's nothing built in. That is another thing. I believe you... I think there's some third-party bot

tools you can use, but there's nothing built in. I... Yeah, if you could ban someone entirely from an entire place, that could be a good feature. So I guess that's not really my biggest concern, because I got like four chats in my

entire thing, so that's easy to get over. But if you have like ten chats or something. Yeah. And also, managing permissions for each individual chat, managing world readability and stuff. Oh yeah, that's another thing. If you just want to have mods, you have to go and mod the person in each individual world as well.

Oh yeah, this is an administrator. And not to mention that it's completely unintuitive. And they should add a feature, like on Discord, to at least either give the moderators a different color name, so you can tell. Like these UI touches that may not make sense to a developer, but make sense to an end user. Yeah, yeah.

Because an end user wants colorful, basic looking stuff. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, I mean, I'm not saying it has to be dumbed down, but certainly some UI changes need to be done to make it look better. And if you don't like it, just use an older version of element or use what i use which is excellent it supports cryptic chats as well i use um gomux an excellent terminal client for matrix yeah probably gonna make a video on it because it's just so much fun to use i love this gomux i think someone's mentioned that one to me before i don't i haven't used't used it, though. I've just been lazy and just used Element

because Element just sort of works. Hmm. Yeah, GoMux is... I mean, obviously, you can't really do a lot from GoMux. It's Elements, what you should use. Yeah. To moderate and do everything, but on GoMux, it's excellent

because you can just read your chat, just do whatever, and it's all in the terminal. And it's great to use it if you're using it on a system that may not have a graphical interface or may not be able to run a web browser super well. Or if you just don't want to run a web browser, if you want it to be less resource intensive, then GoMux is excellent. So, yeah. Let's shift to a funny topic I mentioned during just getting ready well, just getting ready for this. The, uh, yeah, the, the big bird bandit.

Um, I'll send you a link to it. It's, it's, it's honestly hilarious. Let's take a look at this. Um, so this was big news in South Australia the other week.

So basically what happened, um, basically what happened is, uh, anyone who's just listening to the audio version I'm sure you've seen Sesame Street before There's a character in Sesame Street called Big Bird And there was a circus in Australia In Adelaide specifically Where they had Sesame Street characters

And Two dudes just decided they want to steal the costume I don't know why, uh, but they also, when they returned it, they had a, a, a letter that they wanted to, wanted to offer, um, we are so, we are so sorry, we had no idea what we were doing, or what our actions would cause, We had no idea what we were doing or what our actions would cause. Okay, sure. We were just having a rough time and we're trying to cheer ourselves up.

We had a great time with Mr. Bird. He's a great guy and no harm came to our friend. Sorry to be such a big burden. And burden was spelled like bird. Sincerely, the Big Bird Band big bird bandits yeah that's uh interesting interesting thing to happen adelaide that's a look it might sound crazy but this is just adelaide this pretty normal to be honest okay just all right then i guess it happened again this week somebody stole the big bird just uh mess around and left an apology note with a bunch of unfunny puns. Look, if you ever come to Australia,

one thing you would find out is that nothing happens in Adelaide. It is the most boring city in the entire country. Yeah, I mean, fair enough. If you're going to do something fun, stealing a Big Bird costume, at least they didn't steal it for real. They just took it and gave it back. Yes, they still stole it, but they gave it back. Who knows who it could have been?

The funny part about this, though, is how much the costume costs. Oh, how much does it cost? $160,000. Oh, my. Oh. I don't know how. It's just like, maybe because they have to get it so accurately done.

Like, perhaps they just need to sculpt his face in such a specific way so he doesn't lose his charm. Or maybe it's got something to do with the materials they use or the feathers or it's something. It is gigantic. If you've seen big bird 213 centimeters is how big this is exactly that's taller than most people that's oh look at

that it's it almost reaches the roof of this place this depressing dark room effect i should definitely open the window hold up but yeah um so it is a big it's very very large so i expect it to be a little you know difficult little difficult to steal that. How are you going to carry just, without anybody noticing, carry a two-meter-tall Big Bird costume out? How do they get it? It doesn't explain how they actually got it. They just grabbed it and left, I guess.

It was flown in from New York as well. So, yeah, it came straight from Sesame Street. Exactly, straight from Sesame Street itself, Big Bird. And Big Bird at least entertains Adelaide for a week, so there's something there. Since we're on the topic of people doing dumb stuff, I guess we'll also talk about the earthquake that happened in America. Yeah, I don't know anything about that.

I know what happened. Where is it? In my list of topics, where is it? So, a gender reveal party. We all know what gender reveal parties are. It's where parents decide they want to tell people

what gender their child is because i don't know they think people care um sometimes the gender real parties go a little bit bad like you know causing california wildfires killing two people in an airplane crash things like this or um setting off 80 pounds of tannerite in a quarry and causing an earthquake two states over. That's an accomplishment. They should have competitions for this, I swear. They should genuinely go and have a competition of who can cause most property damage and just destroy them by revealing their child's gender.

Currently, it goes to the California Wildfires. That's the most damage that's been done so far. Think of what you could do. You could release mustard gas in the color Wildfires. That one, that's the most damage that's been done so far. But, like, think of what you could do. You could release mustard gas in the color of a child's gender, just pink mustard gas or something like that. Or you could do something else ridiculous. You could, like... If they cause an earthquake, sky's the limit.

You could, like, launch a nuke, and the color of the mushroom cloud is the gender of the child. You could launch some kind of rocket like that, and the color of the plume would be the color of the child yeah you could launch some kind of rocket like that and the color of the plume would be the color of the child or maybe you could launch just to make it like an extra surprise you could launch like a weather balloon with explosives and they explode in the color of the child or or something like that or they or fireworks that go horribly wrong which is probably what causes most of these so what what caused this? Did they do like an explosion? What did they do? What they did is

they bought 80 pounds of Tannerite which is 36 kilos. Oh boy. They put it in a quarry because they thought a quarry would be the safest place to do it because you know, if you blow up 80 pounds of Tannerite in like open space

you're probably going to get hit with some debris. So they put it underground. Just put it in a hole. Yeah, basically. That's a clever idea. The fact that no one died from this is impressive. Yeah. Yeah, they put it in a hole.

And I guess they didn't realize that that's obviously going to do more damage underground and that 80 pounds is a lot of explosive. Especially if you set off all at once. Yeah. My question is, how did this exactly cause an earthquake because it is a big explosion like i don't really have a sense of scale when it comes to explosive i don't know what like you said what explosive are they using for this it's uh tannerite yeah i i have no idea what that what that would be like i don't know anything about i don't know anything about guns or exploit I genuinely would not be able to calculate how much

that is, but is there like a calculator we could use? Hold up. I think it also has something to do with the fact that it was in a quarry. Something about... Yeah, maybe. Like some geology reason. Yeah, yeah. I don't know how it caused it, but like if you put it above ground, surely it wouldn't do it then, because you're like

you have bigger explosions than that that don't cause earthquakes. Perhaps. Okay, this is my botched geology theory right which i don't know anything about because i don't know anything about geology but or just rocks or like the earth in general but this is my theory because they put it in a quarry there wasn't anything to cushion this explosion so what happened was the vibrations were able to carry through the ground because there's nothing because if you did it in like a forest happened was the vibrations were able to carry through the ground because there's nothing. Because if you did it in a forest or somewhere, the vibrations would be

cushioned by the trees. But since they did it in a quarry, because you're literally talking about rock, which is pretty well conductive of vibrations, and that's why earthquakes are so dangerous, then that's what happened. They set off this explosion and boom just like caused

these vibrations everywhere because it was in a quarry specifically because it wasn't poor so that that's that's my theory just because there was nothing that cushioned the impact but i don't know anything about geologists i might be completely wrong there's probably some geologists out there who knows i think we need to see what like i let's say like a kill how big is a kilogram of tanner right just so we can get the scale like what 36 kil- how big is a kilogram of tannerite? Just so we can get the scale of, like, what, 36 times that would be. Yeah, like, how big is that explosion? How many newtons? Let's see. A kilogram of tannerite, uh, let's see. Let's see. Oh, one pound of tannerite. Uh, let's see. what does tannerite.com have to tell me about it well it actually wouldn't have been that expensive it's only like nine dollars for a pound of it so

oh wow causing that's pretty cheap um uh let's see one they say it's an i'm assuming it's an i just read here it's like an equivalent to TNT. So you should be able to use TNT calculations to figure this out. And according to the calculators I found online, this sort of TNT explosion would be... How much is this? It's around 36 kilograms. It'd be around 29.1 kilograms of expl- what does that even

meant to mean? I want to figure out Newton's sold up TNT calculators, there's got to be some online. Oh I found someone blowing up half a pound of tannerite. Oh okay how much is that? So here's a video. Let's take a look. Half a pound of tannerite explosion. Switch to the correct thing. What? My OBS keeps switching to your face every time I try to show my web browser.

Okay, I'm looking at this now and it's, oh, it's pretty. I mean, this is nice to look at. It's an explosion. It is. But, like, times that by 160. Yeah. Ooh, yeah. I can see why this caused an earthquake now. Yeah.

It's all coming together now. I don't even think it was the quarry, but maybe that could have contributed. I don't know if there's a video of the actual explosion going on. I don't think anybody would have... Look, you gotta get that cloud on the internet. That's the only reason you do this.

That is true, but maybe it was only for friends? I don't know. Let's see. Hold up. I didn't look much into the story. I just, like, this is dumb, and I have to talk about this. There appears to be no... Like, there's's photos of it but there appears to be no actual like videos of it there's videos of the aftermath there's videos of uh the explosion that happened uh let's see if there's any news channels that have the proper

film of it but just seeing this like the picture the explosion, sort of gives you an idea of... Yeah, this is a big... At least we know it was a boy! The embarrassment of this guy. Knowing that his life literally started off with a bang. He's made an impact on the

world, but... A physical impact. A vibration. Thepshire man has already turned himself into police after setting off this uh this explosion so at least he's not on the run like the uh the big bird bandits yeah which we don't know where they went uh the greatest criminals of all time the big bird bandits just try to entertain a town for for a weekend just by stealing big bird who costs 100 and something thousand dollars to make yeah this is fascinating yeah but i don't know how much exactly how much force this would have generated but i can see now why this would have caused uh proper you know i don't know like how it was. People were saying things fell off their wall and

the foundation of their houses cracked. So it's not like a house-destroying earthquake or anything like that. Yeah, so nothing really bad happened, but it was an earthquake caused by an explosion. So I don't know if it

was caused maybe by the quarry or if it was caused by something else, but 80 pounds of tannerite is going to do something. It's definitely going to do something. We can see that. There will be some form of physical impact. So yeah. People are dumb. People are dumb.

That's normal. Good way to sum it up. Oh, I had something hilarious happen the other day. You know, with YouTube being the way they are, and, you know, just deleting videos because, I don't know, they don't like YouTube DL. It's their favorite sport. I got an email from Dailymotion the other day,

because I have a Dailymotion account for some reason. And they're like, oh, yes, we have decided to terminate your account. That was all the email said there was nothing else there It wasn't like you broke this specific role in our TOS. Nope. We've deleted your account. At least they don't lie. Yeah Yeah, YouTube harmful and dangerous content with YouTube DL Yeah, you're gonna teach kids how to build bombs by using YouTube DL. By using Linux. Dangerous hacking tool, Linux. I guess your video got removed before mine did. Because I noticed in that video, when you were scrolling,

my video was still in the search results. Yeah, I'm upset about that to some extent. Because I put a lot of work into it. It was one of my just-used videos. It's my flagship series. It's not my best-made one. It's something I genuinely cared about. And I'm sad that that got

like i put more editing into that that i normally put into most other videos because most other videos don't really take that much editing it's just done beforehand but yeah yeah yeah so i was upset that i got taken about you know whatever tough it's on odyssey now yeah well actually i wonder if any any other videos got taken down like luke's video or something i know luke was having this video was taken down the youtube dl video by luke was taken down, like Luke's video or something. I know Luke was having issues. Luke's video was taken down. The YouTube DL video by Luke was taken down, yeah. Let's see what is actually available about YouTube DL. We've got one still sitting here about how to install YouTube DL on Windows.

They won't take that one down. I don't know. YouTube just does whatever they want to be honest I'm pretty sure we can go through and comb technical statistics and figure out exactly why they take down some videos and don't take down others but we just don't know

it's just a magic crystal ball every time you upload a video whether it's going to be taken down or not, most of the time it's not sometimes it is, sometimes you get a strike and you can't upload for a video whether it's going to be taken down or not. Most of the time it's not. Sometimes it is. Sometimes you get a strike and you can't upload for a week. That's just how it is sometimes. Luckily, mine was just a warning, so

I didn't get anything. There was nothing actually happen from that. Yeah. I got a warning for a live stream because we showed some copyrighted content at some point. Then I got the strike for the YouTube deal and I got a strike recently

for another video about something else. But that's also an Odyssey so it doesn't really matter. Lucky we have Odyssey then. Yep. Luckily it syncs everything over before YouTube takes it down.

I do love Odyssey. It is a great service. I do think that it definitely still has a lot of work that needs to be done. Like transcoding obviously is still very much needed. It's incredibly intensive. So it's difficult to transcode all those videos,

but maybe someday they'll get it to work. I know that they've actually got transcoding enabled for certain videos above 500 views, I believe. Yeah, they do enable it for that just to improve performance. But it's like, my question is, you know, it's meant to be stored on a blockchain. How will they handle that? How will they handle all these different things?

Like, I'd be interested to see how they technically handle kind of new things, these new features they're adding, because that demands big modifications to the blockchain they're currently using or some kind of method of interacting with it, because it's not like you can delete past videos and just do it all again. So, yeah. Yeah, well, obviously the videos themselves are not stored on the blockchain. It's like a pointer to the video. Yeah, it's a claim for the video and other things and LBC itself.

But I guess a lot of the stuff that you would... I don't know if you'd have to modify the blockchain to actually get things like transcoding working properly. It's more like a front-end issue you have to deal with. Yeah, but consider this. When you watch videos on LBRY, the desktop program, obviously it's going to

download them and it's a lot like PeerTube where you can connect to other people. So how will that work with transcoding? Will you download every single version of the video for different resolutions? Will different people have different resolutions? If you watch it in one resolution, you'll download that. They're going to have to figure out a lot of stuff for it. Yeah, that's an issue.

I don't know. I don't know how you deal with it. You are on PeerTuber as well, though. What made you want to use that one just because you wanted complete control over yourself? Let's see. So I created it. Well, yeah, exactly that.

It was the first thing I ever self-hosted. My first website that I self-hosted. And it was a fun learning experience. It was useful for learning. And, well, I like it from all perspectives because, yeah, you do have full control. I like all the things you can customize. And I like that it's basically your own YouTube that you can just link over to other people's. Because it reminds me of, I don't know if you know about these sites, that you can just link over to other people's because it reminds me of,

I don't know if you know about these sites, but there's a website called Vidly and a website called that thing. It's called a bit video. It's called like bit, bit view, bit view. And they're sort of styled after old YouTube. And you can only upload videos up to 100 megabytes,

only up to a certain resolution. You know, it's, it's like old YouTube. And what makes them so good is it just like it gives me it i i can understand from their blog posts oh yeah it's like one guy running it it's like two people running this and i love that and i i like that aspect of pure tube you can run your own and it's like running your own little mini youtube and like because you can enable sign own and it's like running your own little mini YouTube. And I'm like, cause you can enable signups and stuff and you can federate it with other

peoples. I've had tons of people federate, federate theirs and mine. I've federated mine with only one other instance. And that's why I enjoy pure tube because the animals, so it offers us a great way to back up my videos just in case Odyssey or whatever fails, which I don't think it ever will.

It's still going to be there, but you know, it's yeah. I just to be there but you know it's yeah just to be sure i always keep it back up my videos on my computer i keep it back up in other places i got drives that kind of stuff yeah but it's important to have backups and that's a great way for people to watch my videos in future and that especially applies if youtube ever decides to strike me more times and takes down my channel or something like that. Yeah, I know. Luke's channel did get temporarily taken down.

I don't think they got temporarily taken down. He said it was going to get taken down. He just got more strikes. He got three strikes in total over his history, but they've expired before he could get the other one. So he's gotten more than three strikes. So his reasoning was

at some point, if this keeps happening, I'm going to get banned. So that's his reasoning at the moment. I know that one of the strikes was for making fun of Indian tech channels, which that doesn't narrow it down to which video it would have been.

No, I know specifically what the video was. video was one where he talks about uh tech support and and something else oh yeah it's still on it's still on odyssey it's still on peer 2 you can watch it there if you want i mean i don't know um i feel like youtube it makes it makes more sense for you to take that down that it does for them to take youtube dl down but then again youtube dl you know it's in theory a way for people to walk around the YouTube service despite it being perfectly legal and having no issues whatsoever. But it is in theory competition for their website and competition to their beautiful

JavaScript telemetry written website. So yeah, I understand now why they don't like it. Yeah, I've actually, a couple of people asked me to do videos and things like New Pipe and stuff as well. And because of the YouTube deal stuff, I'm just like, I don't know whether it's going to be another strike or what the deal is. Strike, strike, strike.

Oh, God. YouTube bans, New Pipe. Just saying these words feels like I'm going to get a strike. But New Pipe has done some controversial stuff recently. I don't know if you heard about this. bands new pipe just saying these words feels like i'm gonna get a strike but new pipe is new pipe has done some controversial stuff recently only if you heard about this but they said they're gonna begin removing from the new pipe client itself i don't know how but they're gonna begin like trying to remove controversial videos videos that have like so they basically get to dictate what comes on you have and what comes off then again i don't feel like people genuinely use like

if you're gonna use YouTube on the mobile phone, chances are you're using YouTube just to regular program or you're using YouTube advanced or you're using YouTube something else. And the thing with these programs is like, either you're using it to block ads or you're using it to something else. Like YouTube advanced is open source.

It's good. I have the ads enabled on it personally because I prefer having them enabled. I feel bad not watching ads on videos because I know how it is to have most of your audience use ad block. And yeah, so when it comes to YouTube Vance and that kind of stuff, it's safe. Yes, you're on YouTube. You're still going to be spied on. Everything is still going to be logged.

And NewPipe lacks features because you can't really like log in. You can't really do anything from it so i feel like you new pipe isn't really serving a big market right now it's if you're going to use youtube you're going to use it on the web or if you're going to use youtube through new pipe just use a mirror like there's tons of those there's a million different places vids i think there's like vi youtube vi youtube something like that like all these places and i find the i find i found out about these these because sometimes I go to like some obscure search engine, I search up my name to see what shows up,

Dineshi video, and then I'm like, oh, what is this video site? Oh, it's just a mirror YouTube. Oh, interestingly though, there has been some random blog website reposting my videos and a couple of other YouTube, like Linux YouTubers videos. It doesn't repost and doesn't re a couple of other youtube um youtuber like linux youtubers videos uh it doesn't repost and doesn't re-upload them it just links them to youtube it's not like i lose out on any views or anything so there's no monetary incentive but it's just weird the only pattern i've discerned from it is that they only do this for open like videos that are under creative

comments which most of my videos are so hold on let me look for it i think i think i have it somewhere i did have someone who actually like re-uploaded my video, and they're like, oh this is under Creative Commons, and I haven't uploaded a single one of my videos under Creative Commons. So they just like started lying about it. Oh, I see. Hmm. I'm gonna see if I can find this. Oh, I'm glad that my PeerTube instance is showing up on Google searches

if you search for Denshi video. That's good. So is my LBRY. That's pretty good as well. Hold up. See if I can find this. I have my Odyssey. That's excellent. Oh, that's fixed up SEO stuff. Nice. Another thing. So search engine optimization clearly is working. But I'm trying to figure out if I can find this specific one, like this weird website. Just under your YouTube channel,

we get Dentsy Video Cult on the Dentsy Wiki fandom. Oh, yes. That's a beautiful article. Dentsy Wiki on the fandom is discontinued. We have a prop of hosted media wiki, which I host on my computer on the one that's irl.com at dead sheet video um oh wait a second i didn't set this up what the freak is this i'm gonna have to report this this isn't me um it appears that someone has been mirroring my live streams on irl.com i've never which is

a website where people it's a website where basically people like post it's like you know how you had facebook events like a good set of facebook party yeah facebook this it's like that but like that concept but it's like the entire website so it's irl.com because in real life and somebody has made an account for me and started posting my live streams i think it's a bot doing this hold up upcoming plans who did this why out of everything you could have done um there's also oh oh of course oh here's another one uh so this is unrelated to that other website i found but this is one of my it's like one of my videos that i deleted and it's under a page called benchi video old videos and it's one of my videos that I deleted and it's under a page called Benchy video, old videos. And it's one of my videos that I deleted or I was like teaching how to install

Debian or something. And I, it just links to my YouTube videos. That's good. What is this? Like, I'm assuming there's like a bot that crawls around all of like YouTube searching for Linux videos or tech related videos. So it can repost them on these places. The weirdest thing is this irl.com. But anyway, hold up. I need to... Oh, here it is. I found the website that reposts

my and other people's videos. It's called easytudo.net. I'll just link one of my videos here on the Jitsi. Hold up. Also, yeah, so this also me and a couple of other people. If you go to EasyTudo's homepage, you'll find there's...

Oh, by the way, it most likely spies on you for your information. So you should definitely clear your browser cache after going to this site because there's some weird stuff on this. So there's a lot of... If you go to the Linux section, OS Linux section, you'll find there's tons of like... Oh, there's like Spanish YouTubers who make Linux videos. Lots of Spanish YouTubers. There's people talking about Kali

Linux. I know for a fact there's people talking about other stuff. Like if you let's search up what's, what's a famous Linux YouTuber. Again, there's what's that guy? No, I'm pretty sure Luke Smith videos are on here. There's a guy called... I know there's one. Let's search for Chris Titus. I don't know if any of his videos are... You found him on EasyTudo? Yeah.

Yep, I found him too. Oh, and also... Oh, yeah, the Linux Gamers videos are here too. So there's this website. Then there's another website that also does this. There's a few other websites. I don't know what these people are doing but there's some kind of bot here i'm assuming and all these videos are under

the name of one guy devin barton it's a weird thing devin barton is supposedly the publisher of all these all of these things so some kind of bot goes through these and looks for videos on youtube and re-uploads them to this weird website. Oh, it's my video. I think I talked about this in some video. Oh, you found your videos. Yeah, I just found one of mine on Lenovo Linux Thinkpads. Why is that the video?

Fascinating. Who's Maker and Linux Sister? I reckon... Who's that one? Oh, it's the Real Geeks. Why is the Real Geeks video here? This just uploads anybody's Linux videos. Yeah, anybody's Linux videos shows up on EasyTudo

and there's a couple of other websites like this. So what I'm currently trying to figure out I definitely need to delist my fandom. I gotta get rid of this. It's poisoning my search results, but privacy focused hold up there's some people who have been linking me on

megabyte.co apparently oh excellent my video has shown up in a few articles on megabyte.co probably a bot written entire site judging by the giant wallpaper on megabyte.co that says blog and just the word

blog and then stock images behind it um and there's a link to one of my videos just use signal where they do it but this is innocent let's make an article on signal yeah that makes sense uh there's a few other things here what else is there here there's um yeah it's one thing to like link to your stuff on some weird website um but you know re-uploading is a whole nother thing yeah that's that is an entire different yeah okay this is just like at least they're linking them we're not talking about some kind of weird oh there's another website that also has stolen my video not stolen sorry just just um repulsed it in a really weird way like it appears that there's these automated systems and what they're doing is they're writing articles for websites

blogs and stuff and they're scanning through youtube for relevant videos and then they're just getting those copying the tags with the youtube dl or youtube api or whatever and then they're just getting those copying the tags with the youtube dl or youtube api or whatever and then banking that people are going to go to this website for like tech news that other people are generating for them and fair enough they're only stealing like um videos that are creative comments at least as far as i can i can see but yeah oh yeah i i knew i keep getting links i knew content like this would be somewhere weird but you know i hadn't done a uh much of a search for it yeah i i tend to do a lot of this because i know there are people out there trying to steal videos and trying to do that kind of stuff mostly on facebook and these kind of places but uh it but it's not always a super big issue.

Yeah, but I guess, you know, the only places I know for a fact where you can find re-uploads of things are on like, sometimes I find people re-uploading my stuff to BitView for random reasons. Sometimes, but it's mostly just like memes or something, so I don't really care.

Yeah, it's mostly just like memes or something, so I don't really care yeah, it's perfectly fine so thank you for letting me know about that I might do a bit of a dig into this and see what I can find yeah if I search Luke Smith I should be able to find his website yeah, Luke Smith shows up

if you search for Luke Smith, one big word it shows up his personal website, and also if you search for Luke Smith, one big word, it shows up his personal website. And also if you search Luke and Smith, I'm on DuckDuckGo. But he shows up on different places. So that's good. My search engine optimization isn't maximally good. What is it? What is this why do i have an imdb page

look at the photos see all three photos who made this who made this oh my god don't you have to i think don't you have to be approved to make these? episode guide two episodes and the episodes are welcome to my channel and camlink4k I should have upgraded earlier why are those the videos?

I don't think I'm on here but if somebody's gonna if somebody who's approved on this made Brody Robertson then they're probably gonna make Denshi Suen and other people. I expect that to happen at some point. I don't know. My official site is Odyssey.

Oh, they've linked to my Odyssey. They haven't linked to my YouTube. Hey, that's good. That's excellent. I am still concerned about this IRL.com thing. This is not me on this IRL.com. No. I didn.com. No. I didn't set these up.

Somebody stole them from me. I don't do much ego searching. Am I able... I need to report this. Am I able to report it? It does no harm. I'm assuming the videos themselves are linked or something. Yeah, it just links to the video.

It's not like really doing any harm but who's running this how do they know who i am who said this i don't want somebody else to have control over an account on social media i don't want people being tricked into donating to this or something like that because that can genuinely happen at least it didn't get at least it didn't get posted to like one of those sham like cryptocurrency social media sites yeah yeah like bit clout or whatever that kind of weird stuff oh i've been um watching barnacles just like lose his mind on twitter going after bit clout oh yeah what is git memory? What? What is this? Okay, just tracks my github. That's fine Okay, I thought there was some like weird thing I just managed to show up on. I'm just going through pages on Google

Just seeing what I can find Hmm I'm not seeing anything too bad. There's my subscribe star. That's fine. Uh No, I'm not seeing anything else. Okay, there's a couple of other people. Good, good. There's my subscribe star, that's fine. No, I'm not seeing anything else. Okay, there's a couple other people. Good, good, that's excellent. Yeah, well, maybe something else will show up. Wait, I'm on this... Wait, what? I don't know whether I want to open up this website.

It's a very sketchy link. Oh, there's somebody talking about... Oh, you cut out, sorry. Oh, no. Let's take a look at this. I don't know if I want to click on it, to be honest. That link just doesn't look inviting. Oh, no, that's disgusting.

IQ options. Oh, there's a website called linuxlove.com that has has reposted reposted my video oh lovely I'm going to see if I'm there uh no apparently I'm not well

linuxlove linux of it's linuxove.com oh okay uh no it doesn't seem like I'm there Linuxof.com. It's LinuxOVE.com. Oh, okay. No, it doesn't seem like I'm there. Wait, do I have a second? Oh, no, there's a link to the picture.

I thought I had a second IMDB page. No, it's just the same one. For some reason, my profile picture is showing up in the search results. Just a direct link to it. It appears your profile picture has made it in the search results like just a direct link to it it appears your profile picture has made it to imdb so who knows how far i can get well i'm happy i found out about that but we've been going for about uh two a bit over two hours now

uh so i think it's probably as good a time as any to end off the podcast. Yeah, it's about time to stop. Usually what I do towards the end of this is give some random channel that you've been watching a shout out. Or maybe like a project you want to talk about. Just anything you think deserves some more attention. Oh, I know exactly what channel to shout out now. There's an excellent, on Odyssey, the official Uno. I don't know, I'll probably give you a link to put that in the description, I guess.

Great channel. He's a great guy. He makes great videos on music and other things. He's making a lot of them. He's on Odyssey and not on YouTube because a lot of the stuff that he talks about, he talks about the censorship of Eminem in his first video, which is it includes a lot of things that probably

would get him completely cut off from YouTube. So he has to be on Odyssey. That's the only lifeline he really has. Excellent videos, very well edited, and I absolutely love them. He also has an art channel also on Odyssey where he posts art that he makes, and Blender, great Blender artist.

So that's a guy I definitely want to shout out. Great videos, great everything. Can't wait to see more. Yeah, the official Uno. When I search for the official Uno on Odyssey, I definitely want to shout out. Great videos, great everything. Can't wait to see more. Yeah, the official Uno. When I search for the official Uno on Odyssey, I get links to your videos. Weird. Well, the ones you did with the official Uno.

With the official Uno. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah. I can give you a link to his Odyssey page, and one of his videos is reposted on my odyssey account anyway so okay cool there's always that okay awesome uh as for me let's see hmm i i never actually planned this out i just like come with it on the spot just guess yeah whatever just some random thing i'm watching. Um, hmm.

Oh, don't stop playing that. Uh, I don't know. I genuinely don't know today. Um, uh, go watch The Lockpicking Lawyer. Yeah, do that. He has a million subs, but The Lockpicking Lawyer is a fun channel. He, uh, he just, he's got like 1,200 videos where he just picks a lock it's like three minutes long he'll just pick a lock and be like this lock is stupid yeah never seen any of his videos but that seems like an

interesting channel yeah and locks uh he just goes over like the flaws with the locks and like what locks you should have like avoid and stuff it's fun channel oh yeah that's probably useful for anybody who cares about security good chances are if you use in linux you probably care a lot about your system security care about security for information and you probably care about the security of your physical objects so if you go watch lock picking lawyer on youtube you're going to have access to you know all the information you sort of need to pick the right locks that are hyper secure and good for locking all your personal stuff so it doesn't get stolen or gets cracked by someone. So yeah, anybody who cares a lot about security

will probably love that channel. Pretty much. That's as good as a recommendation I could give it. Do you have... Where can people find you? Yeah, there we go. Where can people find you? Me or anyone else?

You. Where can people find your stuff? You can can we find me on you can find me on youtube you can find me on matrix you can find me on discord you can find me on just uh denshi video everywhere denshi video is in a lot of places but the main places are odyssey and youtube and my pure tube that's the three main places pure tube's got an rss feed you can go to the rss feed add that to your your RSS feed, which I know everybody, all the hip kids are using RSS feeds these days. You got to use that. There's also an RSS feed on my personal website, denchi.live, but that's just blogs and other stuff. You can join us mining. We're mining WoWNarrow. We're close to finding a blog. We're probably going to find one in four months or so. And if more people people mine the faster we find one so yeah and that gets distributed among the miners so that's a good thing uh so there's that there's um you know

odyssey you can go there you can tip you can just watching as a verified odyssey user if you watch my videos i i get lbc for that so just if you're verified on odyssey or just anybody who's on odyssey you can watch my videos and you're supporting me automatically besides the tip feature. And of course watching on YouTube is also helping. And yeah, that's my stuff. If you wanna talk to people who are similar to me

or who like things that I like, or who watched my sort of videos and enjoy them and we're just talking about completely unrelated stuff most of the time, then you can join our matrix community and our Discord server, which are bridged over like Brody's. So you can chat on Discord. It shows up on Matrix.

Chat on Matrix. It shows up on Discord. So that's pretty much it. Yeah. Cool. I'll leave links to all of that in the description as well if anyone wants to check that out. Anything you forgot about, just send me a link to afterwards.

I'll put it up. Yeah. Cool. As for me, I would like to thank my supporters. So a special thank you to Joachim, Donald, Michael, Andrew, Nathan, David, Will, Brennan, Chica, Bento, Jamie, Joseph, Mitchell, Peter, Steve, Antonio, Shah, and all of the $2 supporters. If you'd like to support

work, there are links in the description somewhere. There's like Patreon, Subscribe, all that stuff. I think I should have... I had crypto addresses, but I think I got rid of them for a while. Maybe'll add them back um yeah monero monero yeah i'll put monero on bitcoin there sure why not uh if you want to go watch my main channel stuff that's broody robertson but most you guys probably from there if you're listening to the audio version of this the video version is available on youtube and odyssey if you are video watcher, the audio version, if you search for TechRevity,

it's everywhere. You'll find it. Anything that has a podcast RSS feed, you can watch it on. Yeah, that's pretty much everything. I'll give you the final words. What do you want to say? Oh, yeah. I actually have an important question to ask you,

and it's relating to technology. Is it really possible to use OpenBSD as a daily driver? Some of the guys on my Discord seem to think so, but I don't believe it. It is. You know, Paranoid Life did it for about a year and a half, and that's his video. Yeah, it probably is possible. I don't know. If you specifically decide on the hardware you want, maybe so, but like... Maybe.

Maybe. The year of the BSD desktop is not far. No, definitely not. It's next year, definitely. Yeah. Next year is the one. Open BSD on every computer. It's going to become a reality.

Well, this has been a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you guys for watching and I guess I guess we'll end it yeah I don't know how to end the podcast I've been doing this 61 times don't know how to end it yeah

I'm going to stop recording now