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Jinxter is a classic, old school graphical text adventure game. How does a game like this hold up on the Amiga?!? Join THE Brent and Amigo Aaron as we take a deep look at this Amiga text classic on this week's episode of Amigos: Everything Amiga!0:00 Ridiculous Banter2:28 Jinxter Reveiw35:06 RetroRewind.ca for all your Commodore computer needs!35:53 Amiga News

Jinxter is a classic, old school graphical text adventure game. How does a game like this hold up on the Amiga?!? Join THE Brent and Amigo Aaron as we take a deep look at this Amiga text classic on this week's episode of Amigos: Everything Amiga!0:00 Ridiculous Banter2:28 Jinxter Reveiw35:06 RetroRewind.ca for all your Commodore computer needs!35:53 Amiga News

Join the Refrigeration Mentor Community here Learn more about Refrigeration Mentor Customized Technical Training Programs at  https://refrigerationmentor.com/  In this episode of CO2 Experts Live, we're diving into troubleshooting transcritical CO2 chillers with Damon Reed from Pro Refrigeration. Damon covers the basics of these complex systems, identifying the different components, the sequence of operations, and advanced remote diagnostic tools. We also teach you about electronic controls, safety devices, and tips to help refrigeration technicians troubleshoot and help maintain chillers more efficiently. This conversation is packed with practical tips and essential knowledge for refrigeration technicians looking to enhance their skills in working with CO2 systems. In this episode, we discuss: -Overview of transcritical CO2 chillers -Component breakdown and controls -Safety devices and troubleshooting -Order of operations for troubleshooting CO2 chillers -Remote troubleshooting tools -Understanding heat recovery mode -Condenser and high pressure controls  -Graphical and data-driven troubleshooting -Alarm management -Email alerts and power issues Helpful Links & Resources: https://prochiller.com/  https://www.mychiller.com/ Email: sales@prorefrigeration.com  Follow Damon on LinkedIn  

- Marty vs Justin Sun Debate in Abu Dhabi https://x.com/Ten31vc/status/1866887123347140840 - Wasabi Vulnerability Disclosed https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wabisabi-vulnerability-allows-malicious-coordinators-to-deanonymize-coinjoin-users/ - Disclosure: irrevocable fees—stealing from LN using revoked commitment transactions https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disclosure-irrevocable-fees-stealing-from-ln-using-revoked-commitment-transactions/1314 - Full Disclosure: "Transaction-Relay Throughput Overflow Attacks against Off-Chain Protocols" https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/GuS36ldye7s - OpenSats renews support for 9 Bitcoin projects https://opensats.org/blog/renewing-our-commitment-to-bitcoin - FinCEN appeals the Corporate Transparency Act ruling https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68776545/35/texas-top-cop-shop-inc-v-garland/ - Czech Republic eliminates capital gains tax for bitcoin held over 3 years https://www.theblock.co/post/329788/czech-republic-scraps-capital-gains-tax-on-crypto-held-for-over-3-years - Digital Currency Group is splitting Foundry's mining business into two entities https://blockspace.media/insight/dcg-creates-new-company-fortitude-from-foundrys-self-mining-business/ - Strike Announces USDT Deposits and Withdrawals for Non US Customers https://strike.me/blog/announcing-usdt-deposits-and-withdrawals/ - Microsoft shareholders vote against Bitcoin treasury strategy https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/2024_Proxy_Statement - Amazon shareholders pressure it to consider Bitcoin strategy https://atlas21.com/amazon-shareholders-propose-bitcoin-acquisition/ - Bitcoin ATM Operator Byte Federal Reports Data Breach Affecting 58,000 Users https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-atm-operator-byte-federal-reports-data-breach-affecting-58-000-users/ - Human Rights Foundation Story of the Week Vietnam | Social Media Platforms Censor Anti-State Content FinancialFreedomReport.org - BTCPay Server v2.0.4 https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/btcpay-server-v2-0-4/ - ZEUS Wallet v0.9.3: Improved Channels UI & More https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/zeus-v0-9-3/ - Core Lightning v24.11: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/core-lightning-v24-11/ - Labelbase v2.2.3: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/labelbase-v2-2-3/ - Bitcoin Keeper v1.3.0: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-keeper-v1-3-0-desktop-v0-1-4/ - Ashigaru v1.1.0: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ashigaru-v1-1-0/ - SimpleX Chat v6.2.0: https://simplex.chat/blog/20241210-simplex-network-v6-2-servers-by-flux-business-chats.html - Zapstore v0.1.7: https://primal.net/e/note1ku69sl5ljd7005qn9nv2mcz09pdw3caee2rt0ljp8f59kpttmxcswvucey 0:00 - Intro 2:47 - “Abu Dabu” 18:17 - Dashboard 22:09 - WabiSabi coinjoin vulnerability 28:37 - LN disclosure 33:03 - Relay jamming disclosure 37:44 - OpenSats 39:19 - FinCEN 41:06 - Czech scraps crypto cap gains 42:41 - Graphical shenanigans 45:46 - DCG Fortitude 50:07 - Strike USDT 1:06:29 - Microsoft rejects bitcoin 1:13:41 - Amazon bitcoin proposal 1:18:09 - Byte Federal compromised 1:20:42 - HRF Story of the Week 1:25:09 - Blue checks vs OF 1:30:26 - AnchorWatch update 1:33:14 - Software updates 1:40:55 - Unchained Connections improvement 1:42:09 - Psyops and conferences 1:55:35 - We're gonna do so much winning Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained https://unchained.com/concierge/ Stakwork https://stakwork.ai/ TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now https://merch.tftc.io/ Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Nostr https://primal.net/odell Newsletter https://discreetlog.com/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/

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PLATO PLAYS! See THE ORIGINAL Graphical Dungeons & Dragons from 1974 & GOLF on the Plato System! It's ARG Presents 290! First we learn a little something about the VAST SIXTY year history of the PLATO, and then we go gaming! Join us as we look at GOLF (like the first golf game) and PEDIT5 (The first graphical Dungeons and Dragons game).

PLATO PLAYS! See THE ORIGINAL Graphical Dungeons & Dragons from 1974 & GOLF on the Plato System! It's ARG Presents 290! First we learn a little something about the VAST SIXTY year history of the PLATO, and then we go gaming! Join us as we look at GOLF (like the first golf game) and PEDIT5 (The first graphical Dungeons and Dragons game).

Sensational media coverage of a new study claims ‘protein damages your arteries' but upon deeper inspection, the study didn't even look at artery health.  Crush your workouts with the Creatine Enhanced Electrolyte Stix by MYOXCIENCE:  https://bit.ly/electrolyte-stix  Save with code: Podcast Show notes and research: https://bit.ly/3uRW3pC Time Stamps:  0:00 Intro 0:07 Media Coverage 0:44 Actual study 1:34 Junk protein and canola oil 3:44 Graphical abstract  5:00 Immune cells and arterial plaque  6:04 Human arm of study 7:44 Mice prone to heart disease  8:50 Plant VS Animal protein  9:27 mTOR in immune cells 10:02 New mechanism of heart disease?  11:20 Human arm of study 12:13 Protein used in study  14:13 Protein stimulates mTOR 15:40 Study conclusions

The power of 3D graphics hardware and rendering technology is improving at an astonishing pace. To achieve high graphical fidelity, assets that compose 3D worlds must feature an ever-increasing level of detail. Andrew Price is the founder of Poliigon, which is an asset production studio and store. Andrew also runs the highly popular Blender Guru The post Graphical Photorealism with Andrew Price the Blender Guru appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The power of 3D graphics hardware and rendering technology is improving at an astonishing pace. To achieve high graphical fidelity, assets that compose 3D worlds must feature an ever-increasing level of detail. Andrew Price is the founder of Poliigon, which is an asset production studio and store. Andrew also runs the highly popular Blender Guru The post Graphical Photorealism with Andrew Price the Blender Guru appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Episode Description: Dive into the intricacies of building automation programming with Phil Zito in Episode 447 of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast. This technical episode takes a deep dive into the art and science of writing effective building automation programs, focusing on sequences of operations, design patterns, and translating complex sequences into graphical programming interfaces. Episode Highlights: Introduction to Building Automation Programming: Phil sets the stage for a comprehensive exploration of programming fundamentals, emphasizing the transition from theoretical knowledge to practical application. Understanding Sequences of Operations: Learn how to dissect and understand general sequences of operations, focusing on economizers as a primary example to illustrate the process of identifying patterns and translating them into code. Graphical vs. Line Code Programming: Phil explains the difference between graphical and line code programming, focusing on the use of graphical blocks to represent programming logic, making it accessible for beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Decoding Design Patterns: Discover the importance of design patterns in building automation programming, including comparative patterns and PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) patterns, and how they apply to various automation tasks. Practical Programming Demonstration: Through a live demonstration, Phil showcases the step-by-step process of writing a program, from identifying variables to implementing logic blocks and adjusting setpoints. Troubleshooting and Optimization: Insights into common programming challenges, such as understanding interlocks, utilizing Boolean logic, and the significance of loop enables for efficient PID control. Q&A and Interactive Learning: Phil addresses listener questions and emphasizes the importance of community feedback in shaping future podcast topics, particularly focusing on areas like Priority Arrays and BACnet fundamentals.

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We've talked about the applications that are provided with Linux. Now let's talk about some of the utilities that are provided out of the box with many Linux distributions. Command line utilities Graphical utilities System tools System administration Software package installers and package formats Accessories Third party utilities ChatGPT or AI utilities? Episode Time Stamps 00:00 Going Linux #446 · Welcome to Linux! - Utilities 01:02 We were mentioned on Destination Linux Podcast Episode 338 03:41 Bill is getting ready for the Deepin Desktop on Ubuntu 05:16 Definition: Utility software 06:08 Command line utilities 09:24 Graphical utilities 11:57 System tools 15:19 System administration 16:09 Software package installers and package formats 23:31 Accessories 30:60 Third party utilities 39:48 ChatGPT or AI utilities? 42:41 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 44:27 End

Microsoft is shutting down Cortana and shifting its focus to modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity features across Windows and its web browser Edge. Researchers have used AI-powered brain implants to restore movement and sensation for a man who was paralyzed from the chest down, offering life-changing mobility and independence to many. A paper presents a categorical formulation of Predictive Processing and Active Inference using string diagrams, providing a graphical language for understanding these cognitive frameworks with potential implications for robotics, cognitive science, and machine learning. A new approach called "self-translate" leverages the few-shot translation capabilities of multilingual language models themselves, outperforming direct inference and demonstrating important implications for the development of multilingual language models and their use in diverse linguistic settings. Contact:  sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:26 Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI 02:58 Mind Over Paralysis: AI Helps Quadriplegic Man Move and Feel Again 04:48 Twitter thread on Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) 06:05 Fake sponsor 08:04 Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models 09:30 Active Inference in String Diagrams: A Categorical Account of Predictive Processing and Free Energy 10:51 Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English? 12:49 Outro

In this episode of Cloudlandia, we navigate the intriguing notion that our world as we know it is entirely constructed by individuals just like us. From the mundane aspects of traffic rules to the profound sacred texts influencing civilizations, it's all the product of the human mind.   SHOW HIGHLIGHTS The world as we know it is entirely constructed by individuals like us, with everything from traffic rules to profound sacred texts being the product of the human mind. The art of argument is discussed, with insights from Jerry Spence's enlightening book. The best argument won is one that doesn't feel like a fight. They explore the perception of change and how a single country's decision can shift the global landscape. Embracing change and moving fluidly in a world in constant flux is important. Dean and Dan take a nostalgic trip through the transformative era of 1950 to 1980, discussing the assimilation of technological advancements like electricity, radio, television, cars, planes, and telephones. Exploration of the future of entertainment includes pondering whether YouTube could be the new generational torchbearer for cross-generational awareness of stars. The evolution of work is discussed, including the importance of strategic coaching in achieving success. The right people can make a world of difference. It's not just about working hard, but also about working smart. They explore how everything is made up by specific individuals, including the fear that gripped society at the advent of automobiles and how we've evolved to take speed for granted. They discuss the importance of winning arguments and how the best way to win is to not make it feel like an argument. It also explores how people perceive change differently. The podcast compares the 1950s and the present day in terms of success, discussing how quickly a book can be produced now, thanks to the internet and Zoom. The importance of having a designer who can understand and deliver what is desired is emphasized. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dan Sullivan welcome. We're being recorded, that's right. Welcome, always welcome. Dean Jackson Welcome to cloudland here, that's right. We're, we're always recording. Well we're always Everything is recorded. Dan Sullivan Yeah, nobody's in charge, and and life's not fair. Dean Jackson Exactly right. I'm holding in my hand my Geometry for staying cool and calm book yeah it's very exciting. Dan Sullivan Yeah, this one has gotten Kind of surprising to me anyway. Just, it sort of clicks. Those three things seem to do some Mental geometry, you know, when you put the three of them together as a triangle. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Dean Jackson I love it and the I was once the cartoons like that's my. You know my process for reading the book is. I like I open up the inside cover and I see the overview of the Graphical overview within cartoons and tells you the whole Everything you need to know, kind of just looking at it. I love this guessing and betting. It's very good. Then I go to the contents and I look at the titles of Chapters and I'm very interested in, and haven't gotten to yet, chapter 750 out of 8 billion. I'm not sure what that's, the cops. Yet but, then I go and I read the headlines, the chapters and the. You know your opening statements that you say about them. So, chapter one everything's made up. You realize that everything in the world is always made up by specific individuals. And then I skip to the cartoons, mm-hmm in between the chapters that I look at those and I see the Yep. Gandhi was making it up, confucius was making it up. Everybody seems to be that. They've been making it up since the beginning of time, right to three to today. Yeah, I'm making it up. Dan Sullivan I love it. You're making it? Yeah, we, we've been making it up. This whole thing got made up. Dean Jackson Yeah, but the interesting thing. Dan Sullivan I mean, the interesting thing is that I have people say well, you know what about, like sacred books? And I said well, I said, and they said aren't they divinely inspired? And I said, yeah, they're a finally inspired, but it takes somebody to write them down. Right, Right then you and you, and you hope you hope they got it right. Yeah, yeah, but what it does is, I notice in the I just brought it up as a talking point in maybe five or six workshops, both free zone, in ten times and you can see people they have this almost like little mental jolt. They get a jolt and they say, wow, that's true, isn't? I said, yeah, so you can make things up, so you're freed up to make anything. I said everybody else does it, why don't you do it? And then nobody's in charge. And they said, well, what's in charge? I said rules are in charge. We make up rules and you know, send every situation, if people are cooperating and doing things together, make they make up rules. You know, not not necessarily at one time, but they gradually put up a set of rules. You know, if we approach things this way, things work. You know, think of traffic. You know think of if there were no rules. Dean Jackson Right, exactly, that's one of the frightening things about driving in India, say oh yeah, I was just thinking of India. Dan Sullivan I mean, you don't need brakes, you just need a horn. Dean Jackson And get quick reflexes. Dan Sullivan And and a lot of determination. Yeah, exactly. Dan Sullivan Sensor. You're right, you're first and you're right. These are all good things. Yeah, I was thinking about that one day. We were going, you know, on the Gardner Expressway in Toronto and we were, you know the traffic was flowing really, really quickly. You know it was 50 of these 50, you know 50 miles an hour and you know there were hundreds of cars In sight going both ways and I said, if you took somebody in time, traveled them back a century, back to 1923, and you put them in this situation, they, they would go catatonic in about 60 seconds. Just the Motion, yeah, yeah, and but we take it completely normal. And what normalizes it? We know, we know everybody else knows the rules. Dean Jackson Yeah, I understood. I Think I remember reading that people when automobiles were first getting started, that people there was fear that your brain might explode at speed. Oh yeah, 30 miles an hour. Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah, well, and I think that there's. I Don't think that was a stupid worry, you know, we just had never, experienced. Nobody had ever experienced speed like that. You know, yeah, and I think one of the attractions of Maritime travel, let's say, two or three centuries ago, like one of those sailing ships with full sails and, you know, properly constructed, you know the whole structure of the boat was meant for speed and you know they could get up to, you know, if they had a tide with them and they have current with them and everything else, they get up to 30 miles an hour. You know, at some speeds, you know, and this were sailing ships, you know, and that must have been extraordinarily thrilling to. That was about it, for you know, all of human history, up until trains. Dean Jackson Horses, I guess I mean. Dan Sullivan Think about probably about 30 horses, horses probably about 30, you know, they would be. They would be that that fast and you know. But then all of a sudden, geez, you know, you know they were getting in. And from the Wright brothers, in 1903, I think, the Wright brothers, their first flight, you know, which lasted about 15 seconds, and and to Even the second world war, at the end of the war, they were introducing jets that could fly 500, 450, 500 miles an hour. Let's just yeah. But we've just showed you that the human brain adjusted these things, we normalize. Yeah, you know, Well, number one skills that humans have is we can normalize new situations really quite quickly. Yeah, that's true. People saying you know this, all this AI stuff, yeah, I don't think our brains. So I said we'll normalize it just like we did anything else, you know we will normalize it. Dean Jackson It's so. It's so true. I've been getting, I've been seeing a lot of you know, what I wouldn't call AI enabled. You know, you know I've been seeing a lot of AI content or outreach, and you can. I was thinking about Jerry Spence and he wrote a great book called how to Argue and Win Every Time, and he said that our brains are equipped with psychic tentacles that are reaching out and testing everything for truth and realness and congruence, and these psychic tentacles can detect what he calls the sin clank of the counterfeit. I thought that's the truth. Dan Sullivan You could tell that something was not written by a person. Yeah, I mean, on my birthday there was a company party for me. They do it all the time. Usually they lied to me in some way to think it's something else, and there's this big party. When they put it in your schedule, they're not gonna have to lie, and so, anyway, I go in and there's, this person gets up and, on behalf of the company, gives this very, very flattering talk about me. And I could tell she was five seconds into it, this chat, gpt, I could just tell. So afterwards I went up to her and I said, did you get a little art of AI help with that? And she said, yeah, I did a show. And I said, yeah, right, and you know, what's missing is that we have a feel that there's a heart there, there's a mind there, there's a soul there when it's human. Dean Jackson What do you know? You know what one of the what I take as one of the highest compliments I've ever received about an email that I sent is Kim White said to me, or Daniel said to me, that you know. He says I know that these emails that you're sending are sent to thousands of people, but when I got it I always think it feels like you're speaking right to me and that was really that was really something you know. As a guy who's a energy plumber worker, you know whose whole thing is being coming into energy, yeah. Dan Sullivan Well, it's really interesting. We went to see we're in Chicago today and Joe and Eunice and Mike Koenigs were here early, so they come in for Monday and Tuesday, but they came in yesterday and then Daniel White was with us and we went down to the theater to see personality because Joe hadn't seen it and the others hadn't seen it and there was an extraordinary actress in this play, or I don't know her last name, but her first name is Alexandria, and she plays the role of Lloyd Price's wife and she turns out to be a complete and total scammer. Like she's getting them for his money, she's getting them for his celebrity and everything like that, and when he goes through rough times she gives him a rough time, you know, and anyway and then later on. she plays a completely different person who seems great. That's actually the person depicted in the play is Bertha Franklin, who is the, who is the older sister of Bertha Franklin, okay, and she seems this great hit to actually Janice Joplin became famous for her called A Piece of my Heart, and she just knocks it out. And then afterwards I meet her and it turns out she's 19 years old. You know, she's 19 years old and she's easily portraying someone in their 30s, you know. And as an actress, as a singer, the way she moves and everything, you get a sense that she's you know. And but I was introduced to her by Jeff Mattoff, who was the producer and writer of the play, and I said I wanna pay you a compliment and I said I want you to know how much I totally disliked you as the play won you. Just, we're just a horrible person. And she said, oh, oh, thank you very much. That feels so great. Dean Jackson That feels great that you I love it, I love it yeah. Dan Sullivan Because she was supposed to. I mean, that's it calls for her. To be that type of person and she nailed it, but she's 19,. You know she's 19 years old and it was really quite you know, but you really, I mean I, but I spotted her from the moment she came on stage. This is a scammer. I can tell this person is a scammer. You know, oh, that's amazing, but I do think you're going back to the jury spent comment that you made. I'm gonna read that book. I'm always interested in winning. Dan Sullivan I'm always interested in winning an argument, you know. Dean Jackson Yeah, yeah, no, I would highly recommend. I mean, I tried to avoid. Dan Sullivan I tried to avoid them, but I said you know I can't avoid them, I wanna win. Dean Jackson Well, and this is he's talking and this is like it's like one of my top five wisdom books ever, like it's, I think, one of the biggest impacts on me and his. Of course, you know who Jerry is the attorney, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a defendant of Mel DeMarco's and the whole thing's never lost a case and the. You know he thinks in the proactive thing about. You know he's using argument in the sense of your idea. You're more persuasive, what you're more persuasive. Dean Jackson You're a person. That's what the lawyers make an argument. What's your argument for your idea? here no. Dean Jackson And this is how he's presenting things, and it's just been such a such an amazing, such an amazing thing, so I would highly recommend it. Dan Sullivan I've never experienced Dean Jackson in an argument but, maybe it's all argument. Dean Jackson It's all argument. That's what he's saying. That's exactly right, the best way to win is to win. Dan Sullivan Actually, you've never seen Dean when he wasn't arguing. Dean Jackson That's right. That's it feels like that's the point of it. It's the best way to win an argument is to not make it feel like you're in an argument. Yes. Dan Sullivan It's just, you're in normal experience. Yeah, right, yeah, but the thing of normalizing. Peter DM Monace and I had a podcast about three weeks ago and he was talking about the future and everything else. I said you know one thing I've noticed? I said and I've got I'm closing in on 80 years of dealing with the future. You know probably didn't yeah, really. You know probably didn't really have it as a mental capacity 80 years of guessing and batting Six or yes, ain't batting, but I said, you know something when you get to the future, it's always normal, it always feels normal when you get to the future, yeah, no matter how different it was from the past. The moment you get there and you're and. I go back to your, the Jerry Spence line, that every second we're feeling out what's coming next. Okay, and so it's not like you suddenly went from white to black or you went from light to dark and then you went through infinite little second by second, gradations of adjusting yourself to a new set of circumstances. Yeah, yeah, yeah you are absolutely right and that's, you've closed down your thinking and you're not taking in the new stuff. You know, I mean, that's also possible. And then you know, I say people, people sense that something's changing in different ways. Some people, some people. All you need is to touch their head with a feather and they say oh, something new is happening. Some people. Dan Sullivan you need a sledgehammer and some people need a Mack truck. Dean Jackson Yes, exactly Wow. Yeah. Dan Sullivan But the big thing is that I'm super sensitive, you know, to changes of circumstances or something I notice is out of place or something's happening. And I get that sense about the whole world right now. And I think you know I'm very influenced by Peter Zion's take that we've been living in essentially an artificial world since the end of the Second World War and it's been overseen by one country and its military just to keep trade routes reliable and on time. And now that country's decided that they've done that for enough and they don't want to do that anymore and they want to get back to their own affairs. And everything vibrates and shakes just because of that one decision. Yeah. Dean Jackson Yeah, that really is. I mean, you look at it, you think about it since the, it's true, right Since the. You know, I often think back then to that, the big change, the book from 1950. And. Dean Jackson I think if we were to look at the you know, the big change from you know, 1973 to 2023, that's been, that's really you think about all of the changes that are going to take place. And what I really wonder is are we entering into another phase of the period from you know, 1950 to 1980 where there's not a lot of, where it's more of a normalization? Right by 1950, what you were saying is it feels normal. By 1950, it felt normal that you have electricity and radio and you go to the movies, and you've got TV now and you've got an automobile and you're living in the suburbs and we're flying on planes and everybody's got a telephone. All those things felt probably normal. Dan Sullivan Why was it that I was in 1950 and felt normal to me? Felt normal to me Exactly, yeah. Dean Jackson So you didn't feel the sense of why, then, how it was to go from, you know, not having these things to having them, and you enjoyed that 30 year period where, I mean, what would you call the difference between you know, like, do you buy into that premise that from 1950 to 1980, there weren't the same level of changes from 1900 to 1950, or was it just a mass of migrations? Dan Sullivan Yeah, I mean you can take cars, for example you know, Cars were kind of stylish up until about the early 50s and then they started taking on this very, very conforming they you know, they got a lot longer, they got a lot bigger and they were like rodeoids. Dean Jackson Right, right, exactly they can't. Dan Sullivan and that continued and meanwhile they were getting blindsided. In the 60s I probably started low in the 50s with Volkswagen, but then you started getting these really small sort of stylish imported cars, you know as they came over. And then they really got their clock cleaned in the 70s, you know, but there was. I mean you don't look back at that period, 1950 to 1980, as a particularly stylish or the only one I can think of that, and they really stuck to. their look was Corvette, corvette came in around 54, I think 1954 is when it came in. And it was, and Thunderbird came in at the same time. This was Ford. You know Chevy was Corvette and Ford was the Thunderbird, and then Thunderbird went all over the place. You know it changed every and then it disappeared and then they brought it back. But the Corvette if you look at a Corvette for this year 2023, and you look back at the original Corvette, you can see that this is the same car with numerous, you know, technological changes. But no, it's very definitely a Corvette today and it was a Corvette back there. They've made the only American car that I can think of that maintained its look over that long period of time, but it was great. It was great to begin with and they didn't screw it up, you know. But planes, you know. 1950s, you were already when the first 707, the first well, you had the DeHavilland comet. That was the British plane, was the first real no worthy, and that was around 1950. And they could do 550 miles an hour. And they do 550 miles an hour. Well, they still don't do that because that's the optimum speed for the combination of fuel, passengers, cargo, and that is 550, you know, I gotcha, yeah, but I think you're right, I think you're really right. And computers were coming in, but they weren't a big deal in 1980 yet, right. Dean Jackson Exactly, there was the beginning of them. It was like you either. If you were looking back now, like on it, if you were paying attention, you would have seen the seed of everything was kind of getting into position. The transition from mainframe to personal computing. That was a big thing but it took a while to you know. It took another decade to get to that level. Dan Sullivan Yeah, really, television was still the trade networks. Dean Jackson That's exactly it. I mean from 1950 to 1980, it was really just the three networks and that's where everybody had a very homogenous experience. You know everybody watched the same. You know I love Lucy and Guns Most. Ed Sullivan Show. Dan Sullivan Ed. Dean Jackson Sullivan Show Exactly. Dan Sullivan Yeah, yeah. Dean Jackson So when the Beatles came, all they had to do was be in one place. Yeah. Dean Jackson And on the Ed Sullivan Show they're automatically a rantic. Dan Sullivan You could see it in music too. Yeah, If you look at the last 10 years, let's say, of the biggest grossing concert tours, they're all guys, mostly guys who are in their 70s. Because they became famous. Dan Sullivan They became famous when there was a national audience. Yes, that's right, there's not a national audience for any particular star these days. Dean Jackson Well, that's where I was going with this that there is, in a way, that YouTube. Is that now for the new generations, right, like they're growing up? The kids that grew up now they all know who Mr Beast is, they all know Casey Neistat, they all know the top YouTube star way more than television. Dan Sullivan Well, here's a question I have for you, though. What I noticed is that there was a continuity between the generations, in other words, that when Elvis came on, people in their 50s saw Elvis, people at five saw Elvis on the. Ed. Dean Jackson Sullivan Show. Dan Sullivan I don't think you have this cross generation awareness of great stars. Dean Jackson That's true. That's exactly right, because nobody, not everybody's gathered around the television with their TV dinners watching the same shows all three generations and one now watching them with the kids and the parents and the grandparents. Oh, what are we going to watch on television tonight? They're often in the room with their iPods and their phones looking at their own individual, everybody's their own individual. Entertainment director. Dopamine dealer. Yeah, it's interesting. Dan Sullivan My sense and here I'm kind of interpreting the predictions that Peter Zion is making about the way the world's going to go on the future it's actually going to look quite a bit like the world looked like before the First World War, so back in 1914. So what he says is. There's now going to be regional markets and regional political alliances. He gives a series of examples of that Anywhere that the US pulls its military out of, and the first area where the US has pulled its military out of is the Middle East. There's no presence of the US military in the Eastern Mediterranean or the Red. Dean Jackson Sea. Dan Sullivan The reason is the US is self-sufficient for oil. They're completely self-sufficient for oil and gas. The US is the lead exporter now of fossil fuels. I think, that's why the rest of the all of a sudden, there's this anti-fossil fuel movement. I mean it's one of the reasons. There's never one reason for anything. It's always a confluence of different forces. But the US was just doubled down on the Middle East because they needed the oil. The economy needed the oil, the world that they traded with needed the oil, so they had to protect the sources of oil. But fracking fracking is one of the great breakthroughs. They can get fuel out of the rocks and it's really good oil. It's really. I mean, it looks like baby oil when it comes out. It's like Johnson's baby oil. It's the purest, cleanest oil in the world because it's just oil. There's no grime and dirt and everything that comes up with it, just the oil comes up and then the gas comes along with it. And that changed the world. Dan Sullivan I mean that just utterly changed the world. There's one event in the last 30 years, since the Soviet collapse, that changed the world. It was the fracking, the American fracking revolution and Texas Permian basis, because once the US doesn't need anybody else's fossil fuels, then they rethink their entire military, they rethink their entire political, they rethink their entire economic view towards the world and they're the spoon that stirs the global soup. Yeah, so I think that was a huge change and I think that a lot of the changes that are taking place right now are a function of that breakthrough. Because it's a transportation breakthrough, because you saw all you want about electricity those freighters aren't electric. Dean Jackson That's true, but it's funny, the US military the staples are nuclear submarines and ships that can go forever. Dan Sullivan Seven years, seven years without I think the subs are seven years. The aircraft carriers, I think, are about the same and they've had no killing accidents with those since 1953. So it's 70 years. They've had crises, but nobody's been killed. Dan Sullivan There's been no radiation and I think that's coming back in a big way. I think that they've Mike Wanler, who is a free zone terrific guy from Wyoming, and he's in the process of manufacturing these little micro reactors. I mean, people think of a nuclear reactor and that looks like the Taj Mahal, it looks like the US capital, it's like with huge smoke stacks. These are the size of a standard carrier box. So if you think they're 40 feet or 20 feet, the ones that go on board ship or they're on trains or they're on semis, and this is about 40 feet, so you can walk into it. It's probably about six feet, six feet by six, eight feet by eight feet. I don't know what the dimensions are exactly, but and it's a nuke, it's a little nuclear station. They use spent nuclear. They use this spent nuclear fuel or they have a new kind of salt compound that they use. So think of it. You're building a factory, like outside there's a lot of factories. I see the area north of Toronto now the number of warehouses and factories that are going in. They're immense. Up the 404 and up the 400. Dean Jackson And anyway. Dan Sullivan But the US is going. Us, Canada, mexico are going through a huge reindustrialization with new factories. But you're outside the city and you got a farm line. You got 600 acres of land and you built a factory on it. What you do is you bring in the little nuclear power plant first, and then the entire energy that's needed for building the factory is supplied by that little nuclear plant. And then when it's built, the nuclear plant powers the factory and it's manufacturing thing, and you don't go to the grid at all. You don't have to pull any electricity from the grid at all. Dean Jackson Wow, that's a big deal. Totally self-contained, it is a big deal. Dan Sullivan Yeah, you're putting in a new housing development, I think it's north of Las Vegas they're building a new 100,000 person city. It's called the Galaxy City. It has put a nuclear, it has put in three or four of these little nuclear plants into it and you don't have to. You build the houses, you build the stores, you build the businesses, you build everything, but it comes from the little nuclear plant. I think that's breakthrough. Dan Sullivan I think that's a breakthrough. Dean Jackson Yeah, and that's the model of it, I guess, in process right now. Yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah, actually, paul Van Dijn, who's a FreeZone member, has got the complete engineering contract for that new city. Wow. Dean Jackson Yeah, these are amazing times, you know, like I think. But, they're completely normal. What does it look like now in a normalized world where you can literally go? Dan Sullivan anywhere you tell people this sort of thing, they say, oh, that's interesting, that's interesting yeah. Yeah. Dan Sullivan Yankees went last night. Right exactly. Oh. Dan Sullivan Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, you know she's got 150 million hours. Now they're having trouble getting ticket story concerts now and they're stealing the pirating live stream from her concerts and I said, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Dean Jackson Yeah, I wonder. You know the? So if that is true, then if we're in a stage right now- where you know. I mean Cloudlandia is, less than you know, viably, 25 years old in the first 25 years of it here. Everything, all of these things are normalized here. If we equate right now 2023 with 1953 kind of thing that all the infrastructure of the big factories innovation wave. All of that was in place. We had, you know, radio, television, automobiles, movies, all of that. Whowhat's the similar playbook for thriving in this? You know, next 25 years? Where it's not, you know, I think. If you look at AI, I don't see anything on the horizon that is as big an innovation, possibly, as what the Internet and all of that has brought for us. Dan Sullivan Yeah, because AI is only meaningful because of the Internet. Dean Jackson Right, it's. I think the pinnacle achievement of the Internet is that we've gotten to a point where you know there's an artificial intelligence that knows everything that's happened on the Internet so far and can access. Dan Sullivan No it doesn't know anything that you want to find out. You can find out with a few prompts. Yeah, I think that's it. Dan Sullivan It doesn't think. It doesn't feel, it doesn't understand it just smells like sardars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dan Sullivan I think that's a big deal. But you know, what really strikes me is the huge difference from the 1950s because I was, you know, fully active through that entire decade of the 1950s is that the way to succeed was to kind of be good at standardized, conforming activities where you were guaranteed employment. You were guaranteed you know, lifetime employment if you, you know, got into the right place, and it seems to me that that is 180 degrees changed. Dean Jackson Yeah, yeah, that there's now. Dan Sullivan you look, just be good at just just be good at nine word emails, that's right. Dean Jackson That's the truth, isn't it? And that's it. Dan Sullivan Yeah, or little more creative new book every quarter. Dean Jackson Yeah, so I think, what's going to be fun is to, you know, track the zeitgeist with your, with your trail of 90 minute books. That's kind of a you know how many is this? Now, which one is this? Dan Sullivan This is the one. The one you're reading is 34. And, and I'm just getting to the final stages of the 35. I do it by quarters, so it's quarter 34, book 34. And this is quarter 35. I did, I started on my um in my right, you know, within six months after my 70th birthday, and I said, you know, next 25 years, I think I'll write a hundred books. A hundred books, yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah and uh, so I'm, I'm on track, you know, and um, but the the thing about it is is that, um, and we had the conversations back then of how fast you could, you know, turn out a book, and we had a little one week contest where we both created a book and one week, and you know, and uh, and and so the the whole point is that it's just a quarterly process, you know, as part of the it's just normalized. For a lot of people, writing a book is the scariest, scariest project of their, of their life, you know you know, right, yeah, um, uh, you know. On their gravestones says didn't get the book finished. Right, I mean you know, or uh, we're on chapter 38. Dan Sullivan I said well, I saw that problem, just make each chapter a book. Yeah, right, exactly. Dan Sullivan Yeah, so the, I think the um thing is. But think about 1950. I couldn't even conceive of how you could turn out a book like that, you know yeah you know, it's all internet based teamwork. I mean, everything I do is internet. I've been cartoonist. I see him about once a year, you know personally. He lives in Prince Edward Island and, uh, the smallest of the Canadian provinces. Uh, way out, way out of these kind of Cape Coddage type of place. And you know and I see him. He's in Scotland. He's living for Scotland for two weeks tomorrow, so we'll have a little interruption. But uh, you know it's all on the internet he's, and zoom has been a wonderful breakthrough, you know. Yeah, he can actually draw the pictures. Dean Jackson Do you um? Do you storyboard the, the cartoons, or talk about what, what you're seeing for them? Dan Sullivan No no no, he just gets the rate on. You know, he gives a page on zoom so we're off to the side. You know our two little pictures are up to the side. And then he draws the two page outline, because there are always two pages in the book format. And then he we say you know, I think this starts in the center. I says I think something in the center and I think it's a person and the one thing we uh, at a certain point we just didn't pay any attention to the galley in the middle the you know the separation of the two pages we just treated it as a single page and that was a great right. Exactly, and then we um uh I have a fast filter that I've created laying out what the chapter headings are and what the context of the chapter is, and then we read it through and I talked to him and I said, okay, so what's this look like? You know what's this look like. You know where's it start. Where's the center of action? Yeah, center is a lower left hand corner, is it? And yeah, if you look through the cartoons to this one, you'll notice that the real energetic center of the cartoon moves around. Dean Jackson Yeah, yes, I love it. I mean, I'm looking at the. Nobody's in charge, you're completely free with the, the arrows in the path and it's just. Yeah, I like that idea of just treating the whole two pages as one. Yeah, one thing that makes sense, yeah. Dan Sullivan And if you um said to people you don't mind the separation between the pages and the middle because you have to do that for the book, and I said, yeah, I don't know they're, they're, they're. Their mind has eliminated that separating thing down the center of the human brain. Yeah, treats it as one thing you know. And I said oh no there's a separation down the middle of every cartoon picture and I said really, and I said yeah, look. And they said, oh my, I never saw it. Right, that's great yeah. Dean Jackson It's very obvious in the what the world is made up by you. Yeah, just big circle. But as you're looking at it, it looks like one one thing I like this I'm, you know, I have a um, you got to have a wonderful designer who, uh, you know, can do these kind of things. It's so, uh, it's so nice to be able to articulate with words what you're looking for and have somebody be able to interpret that and deliver what you're looking for, you know. Dan Sullivan Well, the interesting thing is, uh, t um, uh, we have two kind of artistic skills with Amish. Amish is Amish, mcdonald is my cartoonist name, and we've been working together now for you know long, long time, you know. But the other thing that's happened is the technology has gotten so good, okay, and uh, we were just finishing one off before he took off for Scotland and literally um, dean, I could say I said okay, let's put that into the complete color spectrum, and he hit a button and the whole background was a complete color, you know, sort of like a. It went from the colors of the spectrum and but it was sort of a continuous change. You know, it wasn't right, uh, separate colors. And I said, okay, now uh, the characters here. I said let's move the characters around a little, and he moved them around and everything like that. And I can remember first working with my first computer artist back in 1990, let's say, and the changes that Hamish and I just made in about. I would say two minutes would take two and a half days. Dean Jackson Yeah, and that amazing right. Dan Sullivan Chip speed and the great capabilities of software, you know, yeah, and it's. I mean it just goes together. I mean we used to, we used to take about um, I would say it would take about three days, three days of three, the three days work to get a cartoon done, and now we do the storyboard and he checks in the next day and he's got it almost completed. Artwork. Mm, hmm. Dean Jackson Yeah, so, uh, that's great, yeah, that's great. Dan Sullivan And I think that's a I. You know the fact that he can do that, and uh actual intelligence right? Yeah Well, evan Ryan, who was one of our panel speakers on a, he's got a neat little book and we're going to send it out. Maybe you already have it, but it's called AI as a teammate. Okay, and uh, he's putting our entire company, 130 of our team members, through uh starting in September, and it's six modules, two hours each, and all they do is analyze their work between what's their unique ability and what shouldn't. Somebody else could do, so anything a who can do. Then you find the AI who, who can actually do it without having to hire another person. Dean Jackson Oh, nice, I mean. So that's yeah, talking about being able to for people to uh multiply, you know yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah. But he says, uh, people freak out about this word AI. He says zoom is AI. He said the internet is the AI. He said you know all the programs you use on the computer you know already from you, know from Apple or from ours are mostly Apple, you know in design is artificial intelligence. He says it's just automation. He says don't talk about artificial intelligence. He says it's just automated. Okay A machine function can do what a person used to be able to do. He says that's all that it is. And he said you know, that's been going on for a long time. Dean Jackson Yeah, well, and you still have to just think about what you're trying to do. Yeah, you still have to understand what the outcome you want. Yeah, yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah. Yeah. Dan Sullivan That's the big skill. Dean Jackson The big skill is being able to identify what you want. Dan Sullivan Yeah, yeah, that is the skill of skills that is. That is that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How many years? Dean Jackson did you do that every day? You said, well, it wouldn't be the same without our appearance from theory. Dan Sullivan Yeah, Well, it just shows you that you know that there's real progress to be made in that field, Anyway, anyway, yeah, I did 25 years. Dean Jackson I have 25 years every day. Dan Sullivan What do I want? Every day for except for 12. Dan Sullivan So there's 9,131 days and 25 years. And I did it 9,119 days and you know and and and and. What I got really good at over that period is just, in any situation, kind of knowing what I want, you know and and and. The one thing I cut off of you know I want this and the next. If you wrote that down for an AI program, they'd say the next word is because. And I said I just leave the because off because I want the truth, because is some sort of fiction. I'm making it up to make it. Everything is made up. Yeah, yeah, everything is made up, yeah. And so so I got real good at that and, you know, my life changed from the first day to the 25th day. My life really changed. Coach came into existence, my partnership with Babs came into existence, strategies, strategy circle, and then a whole bunch of other tools came into existence, you know. So, yeah, it's a great skill. I mean, if you know, if, how would these? Dean Jackson is there? What were the? Were there any particular prompts? Let's call it in modern terms that you would use or or no, I just I would go through that process yeah. Dan Sullivan Well, I just had to do this every day. You know that that was I committed myself. I had just gone through a divorce and a bankruptcy on the same day, in August of 1978. And I said you know, the only way I'm going to come to grips with this is to take total responsibility for what's happened up until now. So no blaming anyone else, no saying and no going back and reworking it. If only I had done. I said, let's just accept it, that and that I wasn't. And I said, I came to the conclusion all that bad stuff had happened because I wasn't telling myself what I wanted. Okay, I was expecting other people to tell me what. Dean Jackson I wanted and. Dan Sullivan I said so next 25 years, I'm just going to get really good at telling myself what I actually want and that's it. That's. That was the only requirement and it could be a set it had to be at least a sentence. It could be a whole page, it could be two pages, but it had to be at least a sentence once a day, and I just did it for. I just did it for. I had notebook after notebook after notebook after notebook. And yeah and we had a flood, you know, in our business last August and all these files were in the basement. That got flooded and disrupted and they're all gone all the, all the files, all my notes are gone and I feel so, and I feel so freed up. Right right. Dan Sullivan Did you ever? Look at those Did you ever. No no, never went back and the and the reason is it was the skill. Dan Sullivan it was the skill I was developing. That wasn't what I wrote down, Right yeah. Dean Jackson Yeah, yeah, this is that's really but we went to Matt. Dan Sullivan if I hadn't done that, I wouldn't never been in position to me to Because you never would have started strategic coach or never would have gotten off the ground, started looking for certain kinds of people. Right. Dan Sullivan You being one of them. Well, I'm glad you're here I wanted someone who is incredibly smart, and if only he'd apply himself. Dean Jackson And a lot of them. You want a lot of those people. Dan Sullivan Yeah, and money comes easy, money comes easy. Yeah, the great ones, and once they have a purpose, the money flows, yeah. So anyway, I got to jump early because I have a little bit of a question, Okay my friend Daniel Wait in about five minutes but real pleasure. Yeah, thanks for the feedback on the geometry book. You know, this one surprised me. You know, this one caught me by surprise. Dean Jackson Well, it's fantastic, like I was curious what it was going to be about. You know, when you look at the, just the title geometry for staying cool and calm. And now, as I look through the content, this is my. I'm going to pretend I'm hopping on a flight to Chicago right now. Yeah, toronto, and read the whole book in one hour. That's my, that's my next hour right now, yeah, good. Dan Sullivan Alrighty. I got a question yeah, thank you very much. Dean Jackson Next week I'm good. Okay, good, me too. Dan Sullivan Bye, okay, bye.

Leona Holloway is with the Inclusive Technologies group at Monash University. Recently this group conducted a project investigating best practice for representing graphical material to Blind and Vision Impaired people. Leona describes how she became involved with the project, some of its significant outcomes and the future of 3d modeling in the education of Blind and Vision Impaired people. My thanks to John Simpson for bringing us this program.

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We're joined by the creators of Wails and Fyne to dig into writing Go code for different architectures and operating systems.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers.   Today we are going to learn how to develop the program with ROS in a better way, in an easier way, and in a fast way!   But before going into the meat, let me tell you that in case you need […] The post 118. MOV.AI Flow: A graphical interface to program in ROS appeared first on The Construct.

Welcome to the Part Time Pilot Audio Ground School Podcast! This podcast is going to be all about providing student pilots with ANOTHER way that they can consume the Private Pilot curriculum. The #1 reason student pilots never end up becoming a private pilot is NOT due to money. The real reason is actually deeper than that. Yes, flight training is expensive. But every student pilot knows this and budgets for it when they decide to do it. The actual #1 reason a student pilot fails is because they do not have a good, fundamental understanding of the private pilot knowledge they are meant to learn in ground school. You see when a student does not have a good grasp of this knowledge they get to a point in their flight training where their mind just can't keep up. They start making mistakes and having to redo lessons. And THAT is when it starts getting too expensive. This audio ground school is meant for the modern day student pilot... aka the part time student pilot. Let's face it, the majority of us have full time responsibilities on top of flight training. Whether it is a job, kids, family, school, etc. we all keep ourselves busy with the things that are important to us. And with today's economy we have to maintain that job just to pay for the training. The modern day student pilot is busy, on the go and always trying to find time throughout his or her day to stay up on their studies. The audio ground school allows them to consume high quality content while walking, running, working out, sitting in traffic, traveling, or even just a break from the boring FAR/AIM or ground school lecture. Did I meant high quality content? The audio ground school is taken straight out of the 5-star rated Part Time Pilot Online Ground School that has had over 350 students take and pass their Private Pilot exams without a SINGLE STUDENT FAILING. We do this by keeping ground school engaging, fun, light and consumable. We have written lessons, videos, audio lessons, live video lessons, community chats, quizzes, practice tests, flash cards, study guides, eBooks and much more. Part Time Pilot was created to be a breath of fresh air for student pilots. To be that flight training provider that looks out for them and their needs. So that is just what we are doing with this podcast.   Episode 24: In this episode I talk about Pilot Reports or PIREPs and why they are important pieces of information for general aviation. I also tell you how to read a PIREP! Then, I get into the AviationWeather.gov GFA tool to discuss graphical area forecasts and all the great info you can get from them!   Links mentioned in the episode: Ultimate Private Pilot Test Prep Book: https://amzn.to/3CQsapD Online Ground School: https://parttimepilot.com/private-pilot-online-ground-school/?utm_source=podcast Aviation Weather: https://aviationweather.gov/ Free How to Become a Pilot & Save Money course: https://parttimepilot.com/free-how-to-become-a-pilot/   Aviation Headsets Discount: Part Time Pilot Students & Listeners can now receive 10% off & Free Shipping on Kore Aviation Headsets using the coupon code 'parttimepilot' : https://www.koreheadset.com/discount/parttimepilot

Natural sounds in the world around us are based on the principles of physics. Today's guest on Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Doug James, uses those same principles to create computer-generated sounds to match the imaginary computer-generated objects and creatures that inhabit almost every movie or game these days.His algorithms speed the animator's work and make the final product all-the-more believable, as James tells host Russ Altman on this episode of The Future of Everything podcast

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: E203 | Doug James: Computer-generated sound catches its graphical sibling Natural sounds in the world around us are based on the principles of physics. Today's guest on Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Doug James, uses those same principles to create computer-generated sounds to match the imaginary computer-generated objects and creatures that inhabit almost every movie or game these days. His algorithms speed the animator's work and make the final product all-the-more believable, as James tells host Russ Altman on this episode of The Future of Everything podcast

Introducing engineering students to systems thinking early in their education is critical for their development and learning success. In this episode Dr. Rea Lavi talks to us about the System  Architecture-Function-Outcome (SAFO) framework he developed to help foster systems thinking in undergraduate students. He explains how this framework can be integrated in engineering teaching and used to assess systems thinking in first year engineering students.Reference(s) mentioned in this episode:Articles in peer-reviewed journals: Aubrecht, K. B., Dori, Y. J., Holme, T. A., Lavi, R., Matlin, S., Orgill, M., & Skaza-Acosta, H. (2019). Graphical tools for conceptualizing systems thinking in chemistry education. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(12), 2888-2900. Lavi, R., Dori, Y. J., Wengrowicz, N., & Dori, D. (2019). Model-based systems thinking: Assessing engineering student teams. IEEE Transactions on Education, 63(1), 39-47.Lavi, R., Dori, Y. J., & Dori, D. (2021). Assessing novelty and systems thinking in conceptual models of technological systems. IEEE Transactions on Education, 64(2), 155-162. York, S., Lavi, R., Dori, Y. J., & Orgill, M. (2019). Applications of systems thinking in STEM Education. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(12), 2742-2751. Lavi, R., Breslow, L., Salek, M. M., & Crawley, E. F. (2022, Submitted). Fostering and assessing the systems thinking of first-year undergraduate engineering students using the System Architecture-Function-Purpose framework. Other works: Presentation: Teaching and Assessing Systems Thinking in First-year Engineering Education Download link: shorturl.at/cmRUY LinkedIn article: A Cost-Effective Methodology for Tackling Ill-Defined Problems: A Case Study in an Undergraduate Project-Based Course https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-effective-methodology-tackling-ill-defined-problems-rea-lavi/ResearchGate discussion: Are creative thinking and systems thinking related? https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_creative_thinking_and_systems_thinking_relatedBio:Dr. Rea Lavi is Lecturer and a Curriculum Designer with the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) undergraduate program in the School of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, where he leads the integration of 21st century skills into the program curriculum. In 2021, he received an award from the d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education to develop and teach a new undergraduate course at MIT School of Engineering, ‘22.s092 - Tackling Challenges in Climate and Sustainability with Ways of Thinking'.Dr. Lavi received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. His research interests in STEM higher education involve the fostering and assessment of systems thinking and creative thinking within the context of complex problem-solving. His doctoral research received several awards, including the Zeff Fellowship for Excelling First-year Ph.D. Students and the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Fellowship for Excelling Ph.D. Students. Rea's method for structured creative problem-solving, SNAP Method®, is trademarked in both the US and UK. From 2009–2013, he was involved in the founding and initial funding rounds of a biotech startup, 

Hosts: Shane, Tanis, and Zant The team brings graphical updates to the free to play world with new foliage, lighting, and skyboxes. We ask, is this the best bang for your buck RuneScape update? Then we have wilderness patch notes and a frank discussion on Zamorak drop rates. For detailed show notes visit update.rsbandb.com. You can also check out the forums for detailed discussion on each episode.Duration: 1:09:03

This week on Game Crunch: Brandon finds his love for fighting games and anime together in Jojo's Bizzare Adventure All Star Battle R. Mike is waiting for Splatoon 3 so he gets his gaming fix from N64 games on NSO Expansion Pass. Poke Fever catches Nick so he returns to finish Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Rumors are in high supply this week as a Nintendo Direct lurks on the horizon. Cyberpunk 2077 details its DLC. All this and more on the latest Game Crunch! Until next week - Game On!

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In this episode, we present an overview of some of the most popular diets. We discuss the Mediterranean diet in detail. Can a diet slow aging? Listen to find out! Graphical description of the Mediterranean Diet Higher diet quality relates to decelerated epigenetic aging --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doc2doc/message

As technology in cars evolves, the way we interact with the vehicles will change, too. While holographic interfaces remain fantastical and mostly relegated to concept cars, Altia CEO Mike Juran expects tomorrow's GUIs to go all in on augmented realty as well as behind-the-scenes adjustments to take advantage of flexible supply chains.Follow Transmission on Apple PodcastsFollow Transmission on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

It's a part of life we've all seen. The rise and fall of businesses like GM, Circuit City, and Redbox. Companies that should have had no problem stepping into a new century and yet somehow fell flat. So what caused them to fail while others like Apple, Ford, and Netflix skyrocketed? We'll give you a hint; it had nothing to do with their products and everything to do with their vision. Welcome back to The Unlimited Potential show! In today's episode, we take a deep dive into Simon Sinek's "The Infinite Game." This book is packed with information about how you can change your mindset from short-term strategies to making a lasting impact not only in your life but the lives of those you lead as well. From taking care of your employees to changing the world, you'll learn the power an infinite mindset has when it comes to your legacy.  Listen in as we discuss the importance of focusing on what matters and how finding your why is pivotal in creating the life you want. You'll learn practical tips for leading with courage, creating a just cause people will fight for, and building a team that trusts you. We talk about the five keys to an infinite mindset and how these principles helped businesses like Costco, Apple, and Amazon grow into industry juggernauts. You'll even get a new perspective on your competitors and how they actually help you stay in business longer! So, put in your headphones and get ready to take notes because you do not want to miss this chance of growing your potential and leaving a lasting legacy in this world.  For more challenges, discussions, and tips, check out our private Facebook group in the links below! More Of What's Inside: Focusing on things that really matter The difference between a finite and infinite mindset How focusing on the employees helps business 5 keys to help you play the infinite game Staying in the game as long as possible with continuous self-improvement Finding the just cause behind your business How your just cause can help you through hard times The importance of having a trusting team Finding a worth rival to motivate you Creating a healthy industry for everyone Why you should embrace technology in your industry   And much more!   LINKS:  https://simonsinek.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447 https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Game-Simon-Sinek/dp/073521350X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_cause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naveen_Jain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_City https://tim.blog/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Mulally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press Private Facebook Community:  www.facebook.com/groups/unlimitedpotentialpodcast  Personal Websites:  morrellfirm.com  ramcheruvu.wixsite.com/doctorram    Youtube Channel:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCtSIgawdfsNk0bk4Rwotz7w  Social Media:  www.linkedin.com/in/doctorram  https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-morrell    Episode Minute By Minute:  0:02 - What to expect today 0:55 - Conversation starts 3:22 - Jumping into the topic 7:35 - How you lose with a finite mindset 11:47 - An example of an infinite mindset 15:26 - The 5 keys to playing an infinite game 21:24 - Creating something worth sacrificing for 24:46 - 5 standards of having a just cause 29:26 - Creating a better world 33:28 - Having a just cause for everyone 36:18 - Building teams that trust you 38:57 - A worthy rival 44:47 - Preparing for existential flexibility 47:17 - Disrupting your own model 51:18 - Demonstrating courage as a leader 55:45 - Closing thoughts

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The term Visual Programming is a bit of a misnomer. My preference is Graphical Programming, though it is hard to overcome cultural inertia. Oh, also, welcome to the show.

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Welcome to episode 70 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm always wanting to learn things via my podcast, and hopefully it helps others learn too. So when I heard Michael Flaxman on Stephan Livera's podcast, I thought he was such a compelling guest that I just had to have him on The Bitcoin Game. In this episode we dive into details about Bitcoin, security, and multisig. LINKS Michael Flaxman on Twitter https://twitter.com/mflaxman Michael Flaxman's Website https://www.michaelflaxman.com Michael Flaxman's Bitcoin Multisig Hardware Wallet Comparison https://bitcoin-hardware-wallet.github.io Michael's In-Depth Article on Multisig Coming Soon! Michael Flaxman on Stephan Livera Podcast (Hardware Wallets) https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97 Mt. Gox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox 2014 Proof of Reserves article https://www.coindesk.com/krakens-audit-proves-holds-100-bitcoins-reserve PyCoin (Open Source Library) https://pypi.org/project/pycoin/0.51 Shamir's Shared Secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing Coldcard Hardware Wallet https://coldcardwallet.com Trezor Hardware Wallet https://trezor.io Ledger Hardware Wallet https://www.ledger.com Hardware Wallet Passphrase (Trezor guide) https://blog.trezor.io/passphrase-the-ultimate-protection-for-your-accounts-3a311990925b Hardware Wallet Mnemonic Seed Phrase / BIP 39 https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Mnemonic_phrase Ian Coleman's BIP 39 Tool https://iancoleman.io/bip39 BIP 174 / Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) Github https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0174.mediawiki Crypto Steel (One of several Seed Backup Solutions) https://cryptosteel.com Multisig https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature 
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet https://electrum.org Electrum Personal Server Github https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server Secure Element (Gemalto site - supplier to Ledger) https://www.justaskgemalto.com/us/what-is-a-secure-element HD Wallet Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet Random Number Generator (RNG) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation Segwit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit Bitcoin Core https://bitcoin.org/en/download Graphical User Interface (GUI) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface Bitcoin Testnet https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet Nonce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce Tails OS https://tails.boum.org If you liked this episode, I bet you'll like my fairly exclusive interviews with Peter Kroll, the creator of the paper wallet, and white-hat hacker Johoe, who recovered Bitcoin during the 2013 Android RNG issue. The Bitcoin Game #56: Paper Wallet Inventor Peter Kroll https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-56-paper-wallet-inventor-peter-kroll The Bitcoin Game #7: Bitcoin Hero Jochen AKA Johoe https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe SPONSOR While much of a Bitcoiner's time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own the world-famous Bitcoin Keychain. As Seen On The Guardian • TechCrunch • Engadget • Ars Technica • Popular Mechanics Infowars • Maxim • Inc. • Vice • RT • Bitcoin Magazine • VentureBeat PRI • CoinDesk • Washington Post • Forbes • Fast Company Bitcoin Keychains - BTCKeychain.com CREDITS All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell. The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos. Bitcoin (Segwit) tipping address: 3AYvXZseExRn3Dum8z9tFUk9jtQK6KMU4g Lightning Network tipping: https://tippin.me/@TheBTCGame Note: We've migrated our RSS feed (and primary content host) from SoundCloud to Libsyn. So if you noticed the SoundCloud numbers aren't nearly as high as they used to be, that's the reason.

TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap and Duo SSH. This episode was brought to you by Headlines TrueOS stable release 17.12 (https://www.trueos.org/blog/trueos-17-12-release/) We are pleased to announce a new release of the 6-month STABLE version of TrueOS! This release cycle focused on lots of cleanup and stabilization of the distinguishing features of TrueOS: OpenRC, boot speed, removable-device management, SysAdm API integrations, Lumina improvements, and more. We have also been working quite a bit on the server offering of TrueOS, and are pleased to provide new text-based server images with support for Virtualization systems such as bhyve! This allows for simple server deployments which also take advantage of the TrueOS improvements to FreeBSD such as: Sane service management and status reporting with OpenRC Reliable, non-interactive system update mechanism with fail-safe boot environment support. Graphical management of remote TrueOS servers through SysAdm (also provides a reliable API for administrating systems remotely). LibreSSL for all base SSL support. Base system managed via packages (allows for additional fine-tuning). Base system is smaller due to the removal of the old GCC version in base. Any compiler and/or version may be installed and used via packages as desired. Support for newer graphics drivers and chipsets (graphics, networking, wifi, and more) TrueOS Version 17.12 (2017, December) is now available for download from the TrueOS website. Both the STABLE and UNSTABLE package repositories have also been updated in-sync with each other, so current users only need to follow the prompts about updating their system to run the new release. We are also pleased to announce the availability of TrueOS Sponsorships! If you would like to help contribute to the project financially we now have the ability to accept both one-time donations as well as recurring monthly donations which wil help us advocate for TrueOS around the world. Thank you all for using and supporting TrueOS! Notable Changes: Over 1100 OpenRC services have been created for 3rd-party packages. This should ensure the functionality of nearly all available 3rd-party packages that install/use their own services. The OpenRC services for FreeBSD itself have been overhauled, resulting in significantly shorter boot times. Separate install images for desktops and servers (server image uses a text/console installer) Bhyve support for TrueOS Server Install FreeBSD base is synced with 12.0-CURRENT as of December 4th, 2017 (Github commit: 209d01f) FreeBSD ports tree is synced as of November 30th (pre-FLAVOR changes) Lumina Desktop has been updated/developed from 1.3.0 to 1.4.1 PCDM now supports multiple simultaneous graphical sessions Removable devices are now managed through the “automounter” service. Devices are “announced” as available to the system via *.desktop shortcuts in /media. These shortcuts also contain a variety of optional “Actions” that may be performed on the device. Devices are only mounted while they are being used (such as when browsing via the command line or a file manager). Devices are automatically unmounted as soon as they stop being accessed. Integrated support for all major filesystems (UFS, EXT, FAT, NTFS, ExFAT, etc..) NOTE: The Lumina desktop is the only one which supports this functionality at the present time. The TrueOS update system has moved to an “active” update backend. This means that the user will need to actually start the update process by clicking the “Update Now” button in SysAdm, Lumina, or PCDM (as well as the command-line option). The staging of the update files is still performed automatically by default but this (and many other options) can be easily changed in the “Update Manager” settings as desired. Known Errata: [VirtualBox] Running FreeBSD within a VirtualBox VM is known to occasionally receive non-existent mouse clicks – particularly when using a scroll wheel or two-finger scroll. Quick Links: TrueOS Forums (https://discourse.trueos.org/) TrueOS Bugs (https://github.com/trueos/trueos-core/issues) TrueOS Handbook (https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html) TrueOS Community Chat on Telegram (https://t.me/TrueOSCommunity) *** OpenBSD Workstation Guide (https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-05-17-linux-workstation-guide.html) Design Goals User actions should complete instantaneously. While I understand if compiling code and rendering videos takes time, opening programs and moving windows should have no observable delay. The system should use minimalist tools. Corollary: cache data offline when possible. Everything from OpenStreetMaps to StackExchange can be stored locally. No reason to repeatedly hit the internet to query them. This also improves privacy because the initial download is indiscriminate and doesn't reveal personal queries or patterns of computer activity. No idling program should use a perceptible amount of CPU. Why does CalendarAgent on my Macbook sometimes use 150% CPU for fifteen minutes? Who knows. Why are background ChromeHelpers chugging along at upper-single-digit CPU? I didn't realize that holding a rendered DOM could be so challenging. Avoid interpreted languages, web-based desktop apps, and JavaScript garbage. There, I said it. Take your Electron apps with you to /dev/null! Stability. Old fashioned programs on a conservative OS on quality mainstream hardware. There are enough challenges to tackle without a bleeding edge system being one of them. Delegate to quality hardware components. Why use a janky ncurses software audio mixer when you can use…an actual audio mixer? Hardware privacy. No cameras or microphones that I can't physically disconnect. Also real hardware protection for cryptographic keys. Software privacy. Commercial software and operating systems have gotten so terrible about this. I even catch Mac command line tools trying to call Google Analytics. Sorry homebrew, your cute emojis don't make up for the surveillance. The Hardware Core To get the best hardware for the money I'm opting for a desktop computer. Haven't had one since the early 2000s and it feels anachronistic, but it will outperform a laptop of similar cost. After much searching, I found the HP Z240 Tower Workstation. It's no-nonsense and supports exactly the customizations I was looking for: No operating system pre-loaded (Cut out the “Windows tax”) Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 processor (Supports ECC ram) 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR4-2400 ECC Unbuffered memory (2400Mhz is the full memory clock speed supported by the Xeon) 256 GB HP Z Turbo Drive G2 PCIe SSD (Uses NVMe rather than SATA for faster throughput, supported by nvme(4)) No graphics card (We'll add our own) Intel® Ethernet I210-T1 PCIe (Supported by em(4)) A modest discrete video card will enable 2D Glamor acceleration on X11. The Radeon HD 6450 (sold separately) is fanless and listed as supported by radeon(4). Why build a solid computer and not protect it? Externally, the APC BR1300G UPS will protect the system from power surges and abrupt shutdowns. Peripherals The Matias Ergo Pro uses mechanical switches for that old fashioned clicky sound. It also includes dedicated buttons along the side for copying and pasting. Why is that cool? Well, it improves secondary selection, a technique that Sun computers used but time forgot. Since we're talking about a home office workstation, you may want a printer. The higher quality printers speak PostScript and PDF natively. Unix machines connect to them on TCP port 9100 and send PostScript commands directly. (You can print via telnet if you know the commands!) The Brother HL-L5100DN is a duplex LaserJet which allows that “raw” TCP printing. Audio/Video I know a lot of people enjoy surrounding themselves with a wall of monitors like they're in the heart of NASA Mission Control, but I find multi-monitor setups slightly disorienting. It introduces an extra bit of cognitive overhead to determine which monitor is for what exactly. That's why I'd go with a modest, crisp Dell UltraSharp 24" U2417H. It's 1080p and yeah there are 4k monitors nowadays, but text and icons are small enough as it is for me! If I ever considered a second monitor it would be e-ink for comfortably reading electronic copies of books or long articles. The price is currently too high to justify the purchase, but the most promising monitor seems to be the Dasung Paperlike. In the other direction, video input, it's more flexible to use a general-purpose HDMI capture box like the Rongyuxuan than settle on a particular webcam. This allows hooking up a real camera, or any other video device. Although the motherboard for this system has built-in audio, we should use a card with better OpenBSD support. The WBTUO PCIe card uses a C-Media CMI8768 chipset, handled by cmpci(4). The card provides S/PDIFF in and out ports if you ever want to use an external DAC or ADC. The way to connect it with other things is with a dedicated hardware mixer. The Behringer Xenyx 802 has all the connections needed, and the ability to route audio to and from the computer and a variety of devices at once. The mixer may seem an odd peripheral, but I want to mix the computer with an old fashioned CD player, ham radio gear, and amplifier so this unifies the audio setup. When doing remote pair programming or video team meetings it's nice to have a quality microphone. The best ones for this kind of work are directional, with a cardioid reception pattern. The MXL 770 condenser mic is perfect, and uses a powered XLR connection supplied by the mixer. Backups We're going dead simple and old-school, back to tapes. There are a set of tape standards called LTO-n. As n increases the tape capacity gets bigger, but the tape drive gets more expensive. In my opinion the best balance these days for the home user is LTO-3. You can usually find an HP Ultrium 960 LTO-3 on eBay for 150 dollars. The cartridges hold 800GB and are about 15 dollars apiece. Hard drives keep coming down in price, but these tapes are very cheap and simpler than keeping a bunch of disk drives. Also tape has proven longevity, and good recoverability. To use old fashioned tech like this you need a SCSI host bus adapter like the Adaptec 29320LPE, supported by ahd(4). Cryptography You don't want to generate and store secret keys on a general purpose network attached computer. The attack surface is a mile wide. Generating or manipulating “offline” secret keys needs to happen on a separate computer with no network access. Little boards like the Raspberry Pi would be good except they use ARM processors (incompatible with Tails OS) and have wifi. The JaguarBoard is a small x86 machine with no wireless capability. Just switch the keyboard and monitor over to this machine for your “cleanroom.” jaguar board: Generating keys requires entropy. The Linux kernel on Tails samples system properties to generate randomness, but why not help it out with a dedicated true random number generator (TRNG)? Bit Babbler supplies pure randomness at a high bitrate through USB. (OneRNG works better on the OpenBSD main system, via uonerng(4).) bit babbler: This little computer will save its results onto a OpenPGP Smartcard V2.1. This card provides write-only access to keys, and computes cryptographic primitives internally to sign and encrypt messages. To use it with a regular computer, hook up a Cherry ST2000 card reader. This reader has a PIN pad built in, so no keylogger on the main computer could even obtain your decryption PIN. The Software We take the beefed up hardware above and pair it with ninja-fast software written in C. Some text-based, others raw X11 graphical apps unencumbered by ties to any specific window manager. I'd advise OpenBSD for the underlying operating system, not a Linux. OpenBSD has greater internal consistency, their man pages are impeccable, and they make it a priority to prune old code to keep the system minimal. What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? (https://dave.cheney.net/2017/12/04/what-have-we-learned-from-the-pdp-11) The paper I have chosen tonight is a retrospective on a computer design. It is one of a series of papers by Gordon Bell, and various co-authors, spanning the design, growth, and eventual replacement of the companies iconic line of PDP-11 mini computers. This year represents the 60th anniversary of the founding of the company that produced the PDP-11. It is also 40 years since this paper was written, so I thought it would be entertaining to review Bell's retrospective through the lens of our own 20/20 hindsight. To set the scene for this paper, first we should talk a little about the company that produced the PDP-11, the Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts. Better known as DEC. It's also worth noting that the name PDP is an acronym for “Programmed Data Processor”, as at the time, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and DEC's venture capitalists would not support them if they built a “computer” A computer is not solely determined by its architecture; it reflects the technological, economic, and human aspects of the environment in which it was designed and built. […] The finished computer is a product of the total design environment. “Right from the get go, Bell is letting us know that the success of any computer project is not abstractly building the best computer but building the right computer, and that takes context.” It is the nature of computer engineering to be goal-oriented, with pressure to produce deliverable products. It is therefore difficult to plan for an extensive lifetime. Because of the open nature of the PDP-11, anything which interpreted the instructions according to the processor specification, was a PDP-11, so there had been a rush within DEC, once it was clear that the PDP-11 market was heating up, to build implementations; you had different groups building fast, expensive ones and cost reduced slower ones The first weakness of minicomputers was their limited addressing capability. The biggest (and most common) mistake that can be made in a computer design is that of not providing enough address bits for memory addressing and management. A second weakness of minicomputers was their tendency not to have enough registers. This was corrected for the PDP-11 by providing eight 16-bit registers. Later, six 32-bit registers were added for floating-point arithmetic. […] More registers would increase the multiprogramming context switch time and confuse the user. “It's also interesting to note Bell's concern that additional registers would confuse the user. In the early 1970's the assumption that the machine would be programmed directly in assembly was still the prevailing mindset.” A third weakness of minicomputers was their lack of hardware stack capability. In the PDP-11, this was solved with the autoincrement/autodecrement addressing mechanism. This solution is unique to the PDP-11 and has proven to be exceptionally useful. (In fact, it has been copied by other designers.) “Nowadays it's hard to imagine hardware that doesn't have a notion of a stack, but consider that a stack isn't important if you don't need recursion.” “The design for the PDP-11 was laid down in 1969 and if we look at the programming languages of the time, FORTRAN and COBOL, neither supported recursive function calls. The function call sequence would often store the return address at a blank word at the start of the procedure making recursion impossible.” A fourth weakness, limited interrupt capability and slow context switching, was essentially solved with the device of UNIBUS interrupt vectors, which direct device interrupts. The basic mechanism is very fast, requiring only four memory cycles from the time an interrupt request is issued until the first instruction of the interrupt routine begins execution. A fifth weakness of prior minicomputers, inadequate character-handling capability, was met in the PDP-11 by providing direct byte addressing capability. “Strings and character handling were of increasing importance during the 1960's as scientific and business computing converged. The predominant character encodings at the time were 6 bit character sets which provided just enough space for upper case letters, the digits 0 to 9, space, and a few punctuation characters sufficient for printing financial reports.” “Because memory was so expensive, placing one 6 bit character into a 12 or 18 bit word was simply unacceptable so characters would be packed into words. This proved efficient for storage, but complex for operations like move, compare, and concatenate, which had to account for a character appearing in the top or bottom of the word, expending valuable words of program storage to cope.” “The problem was addressed in the PDP-11 by allowing the machine to operate on memory as both a 16-bit word, and the increasingly popular 8-bit byte. The expenditure of 2 additional bits per character was felt to be worth it for simpler string handling, and also eased the adoption of the increasingly popular 7-bit ASCII standard of which DEC were a proponent at the time. Bell concludes this point with the throw away line:” Although string instructions are not yet provided in the hardware, the common string operations (move, compare, concatenate) can be programmed with very short loops. A sixth weakness, the inability to use read-only memories, was avoided in the PDP-11. Most code written for the PDP-11 tends to be pure and reentrant without special effort by the programmer, allowing a read-only memory (ROM) to be used directly. A seventh weakness, one common to many minicomputers, was primitive I/O capabilities. A ninth weakness of minicomputers was the high cost of programming them. Many users program in assembly language, without the comfortable environment of editors, file systems, and debuggers available on bigger systems. The PDP-11 does not seem to have overcome this weakness, although it appears that more complex systems are being built successfully with the PDP-11 than with its predecessors, the PDP-8 and PDP-15. The problems faced by computer designers can usually be attributed to one of two causes: inexperience or second-systemitis Before the PDP-11, there was no UNIX. Before the PDP-11, there was no C, this is the computer that C was designed on. If you want to know why the classical C int is 16 bits wide, it's because of the PDP-11. UNIX bought us ideas such as pipes, everything is a file, and interactive computing. UNIX, which had arrived at Berkley in 1974 aboard a tape carried by Ken Thompson, would evolve into the west coast flavoured Berkley Systems Distribution. Berkeley UNIX had been ported to the VAX by the start of the 1980's and was thriving as the counter cultural alternative to DEC's own VMS operating system. Berkeley UNIX spawned a new generation of hackers who would go on to form companies like Sun micro systems, and languages like Self, which lead directly to the development of Java. UNIX was ported to a bewildering array of computer systems during the 80's and the fallout from the UNIX wars gave us the various BSD operating systems who continue to this day. The article, and the papers it is summarizing, contain a lot more than we could possibly dig into even if we dedicated the entire show to the topic *** News Roundup Two-factor authentication SSH with Duo in FreeBSD 11 (https://www.teachnix.com/2017/11/29/configuring-two-factor-authentication-on-freebsd-with-duo/) This setup uses an SSH key as the first factor of authentication. Please watch Part 1 on setting up SSH keys and how to scp it to your server. Video guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5EuvF-iaV0) Register for a free account at Duo.com Install the Duo package on your FreeBSD server pkg install -y duo Log into the Duo site > Applications > Protect an Application > Search for Unix application > Protect this Application This will generate the keys we need to configure Duo. Edit the Duo config file using the course notes template vi /usr/local/etc/pam_duo.conf Example config [duo] ; Duo integration key ikey = Integration key goes here ; Duo secret key skey = Secret key goes here ; Duo API host host = API hostname goes here Change the permissions of the Duo config file. If the permissions are not correct then the service will not function properly. chmod 600 /usr/local/etc/pam_duo.conf Edit the SSHD config file using the course notes template vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Example config ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 Port 22 PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes UseDNS no PermitRootLogin yes AuthenticationMethods publickey,keyboard-interactive Edit PAM to configure SSHD for Duo using the course notes template Example config ``` # auth auth sufficient pamopie.so nowarn nofakeprompts auth requisite pamopieaccess.so nowarn allowlocal auth required /usr/local/lib/security/pamduo.so # session # session optional pamssh.so wantagent session required pam_permit.so # password # password sufficient pamkrb5.so nowarn tryfirstpass password required pamunix.so nowarn tryfirstpass ``` Restart the sshd service service sshd restart SSH into your FreeBSD server and follow the link it outputs to enroll your phone with Duo. ssh server.example.com SSH into your server again ssh server.example.com Choose your preferred method and it should log you into your server. FreeBSD 2017 Release Engineering Recap (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2017-release-engineering-recap/) This past year was undoubtedly a rather busy and successful year for the Release Engineering Team. Throughout the year, development snapshot builds for FreeBSD-CURRENT and supported FreeBSD-STABLE branches were continually provided. In addition, work to package the base system using pkg(8) continued throughout the year and remains ongoing. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team worked on the FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE, with the code slush starting mid-May. The FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE cycle stayed on schedule, with the final release build starting July 21, and the final release announcement following on July 25, building upon the stability and reliability of 11.0-RELEASE. Milestones during the 11.1-RELEASE cycle can be found on the 11.1 schedule page (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/schedule.html). The final announcement is available here (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html). The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team started the FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE cycle, led by Marius Strobl. The FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE cycle continued on schedule, with the only adjustments to the schedule being the addition of BETA4 and the removal of RC3. FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE builds upon the stability and reliability of FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE, and is planned to be the final release from the stable/10 branch. Milestones during the 10.4-RELEASE cycle can be found on the 10.4 schedule page (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/schedule.html). The final announcement is available here (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/announce.html). In addition to these releases, support for additional arm single-board computer images were added, notably Raspberry Pi 3 and Pine64. Additionally, release-related documentation effective 12.0-RELEASE and later has been moved from the base system repository to the documentation repository, making it possible to update related documentation as necessary post-release. Additionally, the FreeBSD Release Engineering article in the Project Handbook had been rewritten to outline current practices used by the Release Engineering Team. For more information on the procedures and processes the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team follows, the new article is available here and continually updated as procedures change. Finally, following the availability of FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE, Glen Barber attended the September Developer Summit hosted at vBSDCon in Reston, VA, USA, where he gave a brief talk comprising of several points relating directly to the 11.1-RELEASE cycle. In particular, some of the points covered included what he felt went well during the release cycle, what did not go as well as it could have, and what we, as a Project, could do better to improve the release process. The slides from the talk are available in the FreeBSD Wiki. During the question and answer time following the talk, some questions asked included: Q: Should developers use the ‘Relnotes' tag in the Subversion commit template more loosely, at risk of an increase in false positives. A: When asked when the tag in the template was initially added, the answer would have been “no”, however in hindsight it is easier to sift through the false positives, than to comb through months or years of commit logs. Q: What issues are present preventing moving release-related documentation to the documentation repository? A: There were some rendering issues last time it was investigated, but it is really nothing more than taking the time to fix those issues. (Note, that since this talk, the migration of the documentation in question had moved.) Q: Does it make sense to extend the timeframe between milestone builds during a release cycle from one week to two weeks, to allow more time for testing, for example, RC1 versus RC2? A: No. It would extend the length of the release cycle with no real benefit between milestones since as we draw nearer to the end of a given release cycle, the number of changes to that code base significantly reduce. FLIMP - GIMP Exploit on FreeBSD (https://flimp.fuzzing-project.org) In 2014, when starting the Fuzzing Project (https://fuzzing-project.org/), Hanno Böck did some primitive fuzzing on GIMP and reported two bugs. They weren't fixed and were forgotten in the public bug tracker. Recently Tobias Stöckmann found one of these bugs (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739133) (CVE-2017-17785) and figured out that it's easy to exploit. What kind of bug is that? It's a classic heap buffer overflow in the FLIC parser. FLIC is a file format for animations and was introduced by Autodesk Animator. How does the exploit work? Tobias has created a detailed writeup (https://flimp.fuzzing-project.org/exploit.html). The exploit doesn't work for me! We figured out it's unreliable and the memory addresses are depending on many circumstances. The exploit ZIP comes with two variations using different memory addresses. Try both of them. We also noticed putting the files in a subdirectory sometimes made the exploit work. Anything more to tell about the GIMP? There's a wide variety of graphics formats. GIMP tries to support many of them, including many legacy formats that nobody is using any more today. While this has obvious advantages - you can access the old images you may find on a backup CD from 1995 - it comes with risks. Support for many obscure file formats means many parsers that hardly anyone ever looks at. So... what about the other parsers? The second bug (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739134) (CVE-2017-17786), which is a simple overread, was in the TGA parser. Furthermore we found buffer overreads in the XCF parser (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790783) (CVE-2017-17788), the Gimp Brush (GBR) parser (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790784) (CVE-2017-17784) and the Paint Shop Pro (PSP) parser (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790849) (CVE-2017-17789). We found another Heap buffer overflow (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790849) in the Paint Shop Pro parser (CVE-2017-17787) which is probably also exploitable. In other words: The GIMP import parsers are full of memory safety bugs. What should happen? First of all obviously all known memory safety bugs should be fixed. Furthermore we believe the way GIMP plugins work is not ideal for security testing. The plug-ins are separate executables, however they can't be executed on their own, as they communicate with the main GIMP process. Ideally either these plug-ins should be changed in a way that allows running them directly from the command line or - even better - they should be turned into libraries. The latter would also have the advantage of making the parser code useable for other software projects. Finally it might be a good idea to sandbox the import parsers. Dell FS12-NV7 Review – Bargain FreeBSD/ZFS box (http://blog.frankleonhardt.com/2017/dell-fs12-nv7-review-bargain-freebsdzfs-box/) It seems just about everyone selling refurbished data centre kit has a load of Dell FS12-NV7's to flog. Dell FS-what? You won't find them in the Dell catalogue, that's for sure. They look a bit like C2100s of some vintage, and they have a lot in common. But on closer inspection they're obviously a “special” for an important customer. Given the number of them knocking around, it's obviously a customer with big data, centres stuffed full of servers with a lot of processing to do. Here's a hint: It's not Google or Amazon. So, should you be buying a weirdo box with no documentation whatsoever? I'd say yes, definitely. If you're interests are anything like mine. In a 2U box you can get twin 4-core CPUs and 64Gb of RAM for £150 or less. What's not to like? Ah yes, the complete lack of documentation. Over the next few weeks I intend to cover that. And to start off this is my first PC review for nearly twenty years. As I mentioned, it's a 2U full length heavy metal box on rails. On the back there are the usual I/O ports: a 9-way RS-232, VGA, two 1Gb Ethernet, two USB2 and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. The front is taken up by twelve 3.5″ hard drive bays, with the status lights and power button on one of the mounting ears to make room. Unlike other Dell servers, all the connections are on the back, only. So, in summary, you're getting a lot for your money if its the kind of thing you want. It's ideal as a high-performance Unix box with plenty of drive bays (preferably running BSD and ZFS). In this configuration it really shifts. Major bang-per-buck. Another idea I've had is using it for a flight simulator. That's a lot of RAM and processors for the money. If you forego the SAS controllers in the PCIe slots and dump in a decent graphics card and sound board, it's hard to see what's could be better (and you get jet engine sound effects without a speaker). So who should buy one of these? BSD geeks is the obvious answer. With a bit of tweaking they're a dream. It can build-absolutely-everything in 20-30 minutes. For storage you can put fast SAS drives in and it goes like the wind, even at 3Gb bandwidth per drive. I don't know if it works with FreeNAS but I can't see why not – I'm using mostly FreeBSD 11.1 and the generic kernel is fine. And if you want to run a load of weird operating systems (like Windows XP) in VM format, it seems to work very well with the Xen hypervisor and Dom0 under FreeBSD. Or CentOS if you prefer. So I shall end this review in true PCW style: Pros: Cheap Lots of CPUs, Lots of RAM Lots of HD slots Great for BSD/ZFS or VMs Cons: Noisy no AES-NI SAS needs upgrading Limited PCI slots As I've mentioned, the noise and SAS are easy and relatively cheap to fix, and thanks to BitCoin miners, even the PCI slot problem can be sorted. I'll talk about this in a later post. Beastie Bits Reflections on Hackathons (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20171126090055) 7-Part Video Crash Course on SaltStack For FreeBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HijG0hWebZk&list=PL5yV8umka8YQOr1wm719In5LITdGzQMOF) The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_llvm_thread_sanitizer_has) The First Unix Port (1998) (http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/32bit/unix/univWollongong_v6/miller.pdf) arm64 platform now officially supported [and has syspatch(8)] (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20171208082238) BSDCan 2018 Call for Participation (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/bsdcan-2018-call-for-participation/) AsiaBSDCon 2018 Call for Papers (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/asiabsdcon-2018-call-for-papers/) *** Feedback/Questions Shawn - DragonFlyBSD vagrant images (http://dpaste.com/3PRPJHG#wrap) Ben - undermydesk (http://dpaste.com/0AZ32ZB#wrap) Ken - Conferences (http://dpaste.com/3E8FQC6#wrap) Ben - ssh keys (http://dpaste.com/0E4538Q#wrap) SSH Chaining (https://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-chaining) ***