 Welcome to vlog Thursday on a Wednesday Well, but we're not gonna post this till Thursday. So so when do you know so when did it really happen you ruin the magic? No, there's no magic. It's no that's a question What if they happen like Fridays from now when did it happen because maybe the world ends right after you record this But it auto uploads. Oh my god. Like how did they do that? Like this whole area is gone. Yeah Or maybe just us Maybe what if something just like just like the building blows up and it's just us but it's still all up low Man, that's like a whole other question. You know, what if we get the table going 77 miles an hour? I have nothing happen, but if we went 88 miles an hour, then we would go back Anyways welcome to vlog Thursday. I'm back from New York. I'm still I found my badge I was looking for this. This is the badge that got me around the Microsoft connect event I covered last time in candidate of log from the belly of the beast in Microsoft. That was fun They have lights in their data center, which I don't think it's a real data center because it's just kind of like something They have on the floor. We're joking whether or not the servers are all in use day It's a really cool stuff in there, but they were blinking very much So Microsoft has the lights and their data center here data center because the lights make the bits go faster I always remember that that's important But it still look cool. Maybe they were so busy. They were just constant. Um, yeah, they were they were blinking so fast Well for those of you interested I did some interviews with the Microsoft people that's why she was there with the sunny morning Linux tree podcast We had some a lot of fun laughing and joking with those guys are actually great when you meet an interview So you can call Microsoft the evil company or whatever, but in the reality of things when you meet the people It's kind of fun. So kind of hanging out with them A lot of time at the evil company school to be called an evil company. Yes Greatest trick Microsoft ever played was convincing the world that it was not evil. Yes things Bad things that are in front of us besides the badge So, yeah, no, that's dead to us. It's dead to us. I'm yeah. It doesn't work anymore. It's just 2017 2018 badge Just next one work. I have sweet fire sriracha popping candy. There's some type of lollipop in here We're gonna do some hot videos. It's uh, there's another there's something in there Yeah, I thought it was like pop rocks is like pop rocks, but with a dip and stick Yeah, yeah, it says dip and lick dip and lick. We have a few of these which Well, pop rocks incidentally it's incidentally was the theme of a party. I was there recently really what dip and lick We also have some sriracha gum there was more of it, but I liked it and I keep eating it Apparently it's garlicy, huh? It tastes like garlic and gum like it really tastes like they put garlic in the center So far, I think I'm the only one who likes it and then you chew for a while It makes it makes everything in your mouth tastes like sriracha. It's actually a good sriracha It actually tastes like sriracha not like the cheap knockoffs. Yeah, and we have the Toe of Santa Satan It's very different. I assume that would taste like eggnog or something. Yeah, the toe of Santa tastes like This is the toe of Satan we're gonna do this and I'm not doing it right now But we're just we just started spicy candies and we're like this seems like something fun to try Toe shaped. Where's toe shaped? There's a challenge to keep it in your mouth for some A amount of time like five minutes. Oh, so we're actually the theme of a party You're worried about me over here Yeah, it's all in you windows me though. Yeah, it's all in you and it's all in you windows So speaking of windows Wow, that was a great segue. We're gonna we're gonna move Speaking of windows. No the other things we have going on. Let's talk about that. Sure We are going to do a social media thing. We are so that's our to-do list We mean more than we already do well more than we already do we're actually gonna do something more official and Spin it into its own thing and entity and I'll grow it and nurture it and put something else in charge of it more than just so it's so more than just social media a whole whole online marketing Strategy or sphere is a good word is a good word to use not just for us But like for online enrichment sphere. Yes, yes, we're gonna work on creating us so we can launch it like Yeah, so we're gonna kind of come up with a company name for it and everything else It's kind of an offshoot of some of the things we're already doing for clients But creating it its own focus people and dedicating people to it. So that's kind of exciting. Mm-hmm. What else do we have? Oh, I finished my psense video. So some of you who may have just watched it on my channel. I got the psense video going That's fun. I did a talk at the bsd Users group which it's always fun as I joked around because you're never as wrong as when you're wrong on the internet And I joked around that the bsd folks I said you guys are probably the ones calling me out on the internet So I get firsthand feedback. So before I uploaded the video this morning I'd actually done the whole presentation last night to the users group and tell it tell the folks what Bsd is for those who don't know. Oh, yeah, that's a fancy way of saying you don't know We're gonna explain bsd to Marvin So you have the Linux operating system and you have the bsd Operating system free bsd specifically and it's another free operating system free open-source software And it's very popular for things like free nas and it's very popular for pf sense The reason why free nas and both pf sense are built on these these two different appliances have built on that is Amazing at the power of networking some of the people there were engineers that run large-scale isps and things like that and They they need all the functionality of bsd to be able to do all the routing and switching and things That occur at that level. So it does really really complicated things really really well Does bsd stand for anything? Yes. Do you know what it stands for? Yeah Berkeley Oh, man, you guys are gonna make me Google this I'm gonna edit this piece out. I like that he's Berkeley. Yes. Yes. I mean, that was what does it? Well, that was a perfectly good answer. Yeah You know what it means? Yes, I'm gonna answer this as vaguely as possible You can tell actually you can tell that Tom has obviously like testified in court before because you never you answer the question directly Do you know what it means? Yes. Yes. Yeah, I like to answer their questions with a question Do you know what it means? Do you know what it means? Berkeley software distribution I want to say Berkeley distribution software, but I'm like that puts it out of order So I literally had it, but it made no sense in my head because it's free BSD not free BDS. Okay, no BDS But again, but I was at this one party Anyways So that's so now we know what that means now, you know software distribution. All right, cool Yes, free BSD actually because it came out in the believe the 70s It would have beat out Linux, but they didn't have a complete operating system without the kernel there's a whole controversy because of AT&T and owning the rights to Unix and some of the cores of the System so there's a really cool operating system history there if you ever want to read that stuff I've read it if you're not if you're not doing anything on a on a Saturday night You can watch Revolution OS. I assume if you want to read this thing you're not doing anything You can watch there's a documentary called Revolution OS and they cover the history of some of the free and open-source software So I've watched it a couple times rewatched it not that long ago And that's why you know what things like BSD stand for Yeah, I have a hobby Because you're at the BSD party This is a judgment-free zone. All right, we'll go with that I want an audio book of it voiced by Liam Neeson I feel like it would be more action and exciting the Liam Neeson's this OS has a very particular set of skills That's a great, I want him to say that because that could be a tagline. Yes That could be a tagline point. I like this skills. It's acquired over years Like since the 70s versions and versions and versions of skills. I Will trace your network and I will find you. Yes And I will take you offline. Yeah. Wow, this is great I Know I'll admit though. It is a four ten and a half turn here. I'm still drinking coffee Well, yes. Yes. He brought really I actually I actually watched to put a cup under the Keurig Then take the cup. He just had coffee put it to it literally right into the lock Okay, so I had I still had like that much coffee in this cup, but it was cold Hmm, so you needed this much more coffee of that cup to make it medium. Well. Yeah, and then this is actually a whole new coffee Yeah, I got this. This is a French vanilla. I will also point out by about well fancy We start so early by about four o'clock. We are worked out It's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So we're a little bit by like five when most the companies are close Yeah, me and Kyler out there playing portal and yeah, nothing go play some games and so like that Yeah, you can tell I'm down here in spirit You can tell when it hits that point because you start we start getting things on slack from Steve They're like we need a bigger TV in the in the meeting room. We've been yeah, we got only Here's one for $300 that'll it's a it's got 40% more pixels per pixel 40% more pixels per pixel. That's fact. Yep. All right So the other topic of the time every time talking about the internet and ruining the internet and something else We have been concerned about and I probably this is like grab my phone My Twitter was going off. Oh sure that because I tweeted some photos I we're not real happy about the net neutrality state now I don't normally get political at all but the internet is a Important component to how we get our business done and how business is occurring on there So to the educational process of the world the internet is really brought forward a lot of interesting things It's connected people a lot of interesting ways like and the mistake people are always making is they think that net neutrality is to regulate The internet I just first thing I have to clarify. It does not regulate the internet. It does regulate that the ISPs provide internet and it protects you instead of the ISPs, right? It's a consumer protection because of the ISPs. Now here in America. We have a lot of issues Regarding the MSPs because people say it's their network They should have the right to what they want with the minor exception of the money for that network was provided mostly by the taxpayers with Guarantees that we're supposed to get fiber that we never got that you Verizon and Comcast So they literally got a lot of money Yeah, they got a lot of tax rebates and they never actually did the things you're doing now the places that they did it which is interesting to me is Places where Google came in and tried to compete now even Google realized the trouble of competing in the ISP market is Due to the way the current ISPs will not let you in yeah And I've we dealt with this first hand right here in Detroit because we have other companies I've met with people and talked to rocket fiber and a lot of their problems are Logistical not technical and it's about getting the fiber across the poles across the Some of the underground tunnels and putting it next there What they do is they use government and use their interactions with government to lockout competition So you can't use the competition So if you're gonna lock out competition by using the government then the government I feel has a right to regulate that Network that you have used the government to lock out. That's kind of my feeling in a nutshell So whenever I see the a lockout occurring and we have this occurring in some of the local cities where they have signed Exclusive contracts so other ISPs can't come in that's supposed to be illegal But it's actually popular in a lot of areas. So you have a single ISP in here. Okay now that you've eliminated the competition Yeah, there's just not the lockouts either There's the there's the interviews where they've even talked about like when the during the time Warner Comcast merger You can't get a time Warner where there's a Comcast they will just actively not compete Yeah, so you can go compete with each other You can go like one county over and all of a sudden your cable is completely different and you can't get what you had and It's insane and then like Comcast's pricing varies literally by city to city sure because oh well So and so is in this city so we offer it for less because there's more competition We're lucky enough here, and we don't even realize it to have three choices for cable and internet Yeah, some of our areas here actually three that's my AT&T. Yeah, too because AT&T doesn't offer high speed To they offer high speed with highlight. I'm just saying I'm just saying I'm just saying it's not really a U-verse a lot of areas around here. It's still like that's 20 Mbps and all the point is 30 is the minimum But either way really the thing is is really Especially now the way we do everything the internet is a utility Yes, really and should be treated as such So it's a lot of problems and a charity has to do with the lack of competition The one thing I think may solve some of this competition There's a lot of people working on it and you do see this oddly enough in some of the rural areas is site-to-site wireless now in rural areas There's usually only one singular provider But as we get better with the wireless services That is at least some option for competition because as I pointed out with rocket fiber They have a logistical problems getting the data to places because of having to use some of the utility poles and work Out agreements with them which I found out, you know, how much it costs to light up a utility pole and drag it from one pole to another No, some of them. I was told as much as $10,000 per pole So when they're trying to do the hookups these are all fees paid to ET&T Yeah, and I think if I understood correctly one of the things they do is go Oh, we have to do a feasibility study and whether or not we can add one more wire to this pole That already has on here. This is something that wow faced a lot of wow Had to use a lot of political positioning in order to get Cable across the same poles that Comcast had It's because Comcast was trying to block them. So these are these are the issues as long as you have all these blockages That's okay. We're gonna accept it We that's a really hard battle because someone says why don't you fighting on that battle because it's lost It is it is not aware and until there's a major infrastructure change and it's a more complicated issue explain So until we have major changes in infrastructure such as we're seeing in certain cities Where there's an agreement for these cities to at the same time they're building the roads They lay dark fiber and what they do is they then subtly south of dark fiber to whoever wants to operate it So the city does it as an infrastructure build, but that's not happening all the time. That's really slow That's really a lot of cities are already existing well It's a may end if was it 15 or 5503 or whatever it was at least here in Michigan past They try to pet they try to pass the bill to stop any of the cities that are considering doing it We've actually had that come up as a bill of introduced to our own legislation here in Michigan And it's a bill to stop cities from doing that So there's a lot of forces at work because that's at such in a large-scale level of actually trying to lay it Yeah, and then the net neutrality is a more direct level because they can just simply flip a switch and choose Which internet you can or can't get to or slow down things going to YouTube or versus other things So this is this is really a big concern. I just wanted to address it I've done a video about it specifically before talking about some of these challenges for net neutrality It's worthy bringing up again because there's options with the EFF and I'll leave links below In the comment in the description so we can you show you where you can call your congressperson where you can petition on there For people and I know a few of them on redditor scene We're who are outside the states but still have a great concern because this will have an impact on them as well I don't know what you can do other than support all of us in the US who are potentially getting screwed by Ajapai, so yeah Did you see Netflix launched a site that actually they host on their servers to measure your internet? Yes, I did that a couple years ago. Yeah, but it's getting more traction now to tell if they're because they'll Comcast won't throttle like speed test dot net and all that so they put it on their servers and like okay Well, if you're throttling to our network, we'll know it. Yeah Yeah, and that's one of the things that someone did a little test a while ago when Comcast denied that they were doing it They actually introduced that they had bought the throttling equipment at a shareholders meeting and it was part of shareholders note So there's the proof that they bought the equipment and then someone in VPN their connection And upon putting the VPN at the connection, which means you hide what Comcast can see where you're going They just see going to a VPN fighter. They were to get faster access to Netflix Which seemed kind of unusual As well as things it's hard to prove unless you're on the inside of the network But there was plenty of pointers that make us think that Comcast was Fiddling with the numbers here. So these are obviously some issues that we're seeing here And I really hope there was a good outcome for this. Anyways, that's it for we go to ranty on this topic We didn't have a lot of topics. Yeah, let's quit some turkey. We're gonna eat turkey Hopefully you're gonna have a great Thanksgiving. You watch some sport ball Sport ball sport ball. Yeah, some people like sport puck here in Detroit. Yeah, I do I have no idea what today There's never a game to me I was I used to be a huge hockey fan. I've not watched a single game this year. Go sports ball Yeah, score a thing score thing move the thing. All right We're done freaking out about net neutrality. It won't rant about it. We'll put it in separate videos Thanks