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- 0:00The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Everybody, this
- 0:07is Gary Ho Ho Holy, and you are hanging out with tech Talk Radio
- 0:11in Joy. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
- 0:16I'm Matt Jones, and I'm justin lemme. You know, last week
- 0:19we started off with a note that we had gotten from Lou regarding getting his
- 0:24kid a computer. And yeah, I had him listen to the segment,
- 0:27but I haven't heard what he decided to do yet, But some great suggestions
- 0:31there, Stu set us a note said one of the things that we missed
- 0:36when we talked about building your own system, and I didn't even think about
- 0:39this. We never mentioned that if you build your own system, you've got
- 0:43to think about a monitor as well. But then I thought, well,
- 0:46whether you're buying a pre built or you're building your own, you've got to
- 0:49think about a monitor. And he wanted to know, you know, if
- 0:52we are going to go with a monitor and you get yourself a gaming rig,
- 0:55is it important to get one that is made for gaming, like,
- 0:58you know, the high refresh rate, the whole bit. Oh yeah,
- 1:00or can you just use any old monitor? You can use any old monitor.
- 1:04Like, if you're just like a kid dnking around. But if you're
- 1:07looking to get the best out of your setup, if you're looking to get
- 1:11the most visually from that money you just spent, then yeah, I'd be
- 1:15looking at like a fourteen forty p monitor with really fast refresh RT in a
- 1:21low response time. If you're gonna build a gaming PC, top of the
- 1:23line, best motherboard, best processor, best graphics card, and then you
- 1:27go with just a regular rold off the shelf one hundred dollars monitor, that's
- 1:32like getting like a high performance sports car like a McLaren and putting e eighty
- 1:37five gas into it. Why you're you're just you're just handcuffing yourself. Get
- 1:42yourself a decent monitor. They're not super expensive. But yeah, well you
- 1:47mentioned that. I mean you you go to any like Office Depow or Best
- 1:49Buy and you look on the shelf and you're going to see a monitor for
- 1:53ninety eight dollars up to one hundred and fifty. I remember when I was
- 1:57in the market for a forty nine inch curved monitor, and I had three
- 2:01that just were bad out of the box, and wow, I gave up
- 2:06and I went with a smaller curve screen. But I think I did a
- 2:10Instead of going with forty nine inch, I ended up going with a thirty
- 2:15seven and I'm pretty pleased with it. But now they have some out that
- 2:19the refresh rate is amazing. Does that make a difference when you're playing these
- 2:23games? Refresh rate makes a difference when it comes to like if there's a
- 2:25lot of fast moving artifacts on your screen, because the higher the refresh rate,
- 2:30the smoother it's gonna look. But honestly, the size is not really
- 2:35a huge factor that you should be looking into. You should be looking into
- 2:38refresh rate and an overall resolution. Like Matt said, the fourteen forty P
- 2:44or even a four K. Four K gaming with a four K monitor is
- 2:49the top of the line, but it is extremely expensive to go all the
- 2:52way with four K gaming. You're gonna have the best of the best graphics
- 2:55card, best of the best monitor. So really just fourteen basically they call
- 3:00it two K is just fine. In my opinion, what's better? DisplayPort
- 3:06or HDMI? What should you use if you have that DisplayPort? I would
- 3:09argue they're almost identical. Now, I don't think it really makes much of
- 3:15a difference. If I were to choose myself personally, I'd probably say DP
- 3:19display port DisplayPort, but HDMI, I think is now just as good.
- 3:23So there's also a side aspect to that. HDMI when it was created is
- 3:28a proprietary technology of I want to say, Samsung and two other companies.
- 3:31They created HDMI and then they basically patented it, so anytime it was used
- 3:38they got a chunk of the profits. DisplayPort was all the other companies basically
- 3:43getting together and creating a new input standard because there can't be enough cables on
- 3:49the face of this planet to do something that was basically the same but more
- 3:53of an open source solution. When I plug in HDMI, I actually there's
- 3:59functionality my monitors that I don't have, but with my LGS, when I
- 4:03plug in DisplayPort, then I can kick on free sync or whatever is baked
- 4:10in your monitor. Free sinc Is the AMD version in Nvidia has their own.
- 4:14They're basically there was a point where they were not compatible with each other,
- 4:19and enough people yelled at the monitor people being like I want this monitor,
- 4:26but I don't have an AMD card. So now they're basically compatible,
- 4:30you know, with each other. It'll say one but it's doing the same
- 4:32thing whatever your graphics card is, but those engines that are baked into the
- 4:38monitors. I don't get any of that with my HDMI. I have to
- 4:41use my DisplayPort. I would probably recommend if lou is hopefully listening again to
- 4:46this week's show for the follow up on this, probably not spending too much
- 4:53depending on the system that he gets, but not definitely going with the lowest
- 4:59end, and I think getting one that will use a DisplayPort if you're getting
- 5:02a graphics card that has DisplayPort out, which if you're getting a higher and
- 5:05graphics card, you're going to find that. So you're looking probably mid range,
- 5:10what about three fifty four hundred? Yeah, I think the ones that
- 5:13I'm running their lgs. They're thirty two inches both of them. They're fourteen
- 5:17forty P and I think I paid right around three for them. And I
- 5:21mean even when I'm doing high intensity games with lots lots of artifacts, lots
- 5:27of moving parts, it looks great. They're the monitors I use when I
- 5:30stream on Twitch Like. I have zero complaints with these, and they weren't
- 5:34that expensive. I want to give a shout out to a company that I've
- 5:39actually been working with professionally that I buy a lot of their products from.
- 5:44It's called Evergreen Electronics, and they are a refurbished company. They get a
- 5:49lot of returns and things like that, like a lot of Dell's hps,
- 5:55but they refurbish those things and they sell them at a discount. And I've
- 5:58been buying a lot of mon from them. I buy them from you know,
- 6:01our government account through work. But I can get a standard twenty four
- 6:08inch Dell. It's not four K, it's not even fourteen forty p but
- 6:12just like a standard decent Dell for like one hundred and twenty bucks. Not
- 6:15bad. Yeah, that's not bad. And they do have some of the
- 6:18higher end stuff. So if you're, you know, budget conscious, I
- 6:21would check out. I think it's the Evergreen Electronics dot com is the website.
- 6:27One of the I'll tell you one of the things I did like about
- 6:30the Samsung the G nine that I looked at the forty nine inch curve screen
- 6:34that I don't get with the smaller screen that I have, which is made
- 6:39by that one's an LG. One of the things that I loved was the
- 6:42fact that you could add because I had a two monitor setup monitor one monitor
- 6:46two. But with this forty nine inch curve screen, you can actually replicate
- 6:49two screens on this forty nine inch curve screen, so it's like having you
- 6:55can drag from one to the other. Then you would be like going from
- 6:59one screen to the other screen. And it made it. It made it
- 7:01super nice, and I like that, and it was just bummed that I
- 7:04had so many issues with them. One of them right out of the box,
- 7:08and that's you know, that's shipping. That's not necessarily But after the
- 7:12third ride has said no, I'm not going to go that route. However,
- 7:15I would not recommend to lou to get the new ARC, which I
- 7:18don't know. If you guys have seen the Arc, you're shaking your head.
- 7:23Bat that would be a little overkill. It's a fifty five inch curved
- 7:28monstrousity fifty five inch or twenty seven inch screens on itself. This thing is
- 7:35so Titanic that they built well, looks like a DOC that's just the freaking
- 7:43control unit for it. It sits outside of it on your desk with its
- 7:47own little selector wheel. They had to take the electronics out of it and
- 7:51put it in a different box. It is. It is massive, I
- 7:57had a former coworker that would sit at his desk at work and he had
- 8:01a sixty inch television mounted to his cubicle. First off, I don't even
- 8:07know how in the heck he was able to mount a sixty inch television to
- 8:11his cubicle. Yeah, but that was his monitor, and that thing was
- 8:15well, yeah, lots of duct tape, lots of zip ties. This
- 8:18thing was a four K television and he was running with a four K display
- 8:24and he would just run. Now, granted, he was like a network
- 8:26admin, so he wasn't doing like video games and stuff, but he would
- 8:30have seven web pages open, he would have fifteen different command prompts and SSH
- 8:35terminals opened up, and it was amazing. Like he would sit there and
- 8:37he would be reclining so far back in his seat because he had to view
- 8:43this. And he was only like two feet away from from the screen.
- 8:46And I just walked by his desk and I'm like, what in the heck,
- 8:48Like, how are you even able to see? This? Is so
- 8:52bad for your eyes. He's like, yeah, I don't care. I
- 8:54have like a couple of customers that have done that where they actually use a
- 8:56regular TV instead of you know, a computer monitor, and they're pretty happy
- 9:01with them because you go out and buy a seventy inch television for around five
- 9:05hundred bucks now maybe even cheaper. Now, what is what is the downside?
- 9:09Well, does anybody know what is the downside of using a television versus
- 9:15a monitor? I did it for years? Did you do it? Yeah?
- 9:18I did it for hold on, I got to think through apartments because
- 9:22that's how I make your time. Oh my god, did it for like
- 9:26four years. I had a forty two inch flat screen TV with one hundred
- 9:31and twenty Heitz refresh rate that I got for dirt cheap, and I used
- 9:35it as a monitor and I had no issues. I had no complaints.
- 9:39The only thing I had to go in was I had to tweak like one
- 9:43setting on the TV itself, and that kind of like snapped everything into place.
- 9:46Otherwise there was that little bit of overreach on the sides. Right once
- 9:50everything snapped in place, Like I had a forty two inch monitor mounted to
- 9:54a wall, so I had all that desk space resigned. So why are
- 9:58monitors much more expensive than TVs then? Because nowadays, I mean this was
- 10:05pre twenty twenty, This was I mean, I think I stopped doing that
- 10:11probably about it was about five years ago. I want to say I had
- 10:16stopped, But I mean for most people, like one hundred and twenty herz
- 10:20refresh rate or KTV that you can get for dirt people will work just fine.
- 10:24But if you're looking for like one hundred and forty four hertz one millisecond
- 10:30response and all that stuff, you're not going to find that in a TV.
- 10:33Right. The only time I remember seeing that besides the Samsung monstrosity.
- 10:39That's right, Samsung, come after me. It's a monstrosity at Please don't
- 10:43actually come after me. You run the area. Yeah, you're gonna put
- 10:48you in the next episode of Squid Game. If I was in Squid Game,
- 10:52I'd have just tripped on purpose in the first game. As soon as
- 10:56I saw somebody get dropped, I had just been like, nope, I'm
- 10:58out. But there was a time where god, who was it? Somebody
- 11:03made like they called it like the big frame or oh yeah something, yeah,
- 11:11and do you know what I'm talking about? And I actually featured the
- 11:13product on television. Well, Netgear, I believe they have one. It's
- 11:18a frame. It's like a piece of art. No, No, it
- 11:24was Samsung who created the frame TVs. But these were specifically like fifty five
- 11:28inch giant screens with all the same tech as a gaming monitor baked into.
- 11:35Oh wow, okay now, but they were like, were this fifty five
- 11:39inch gaming monitors that we know you're absolutely going to love as you slowly go
- 11:43blind from the brightness. We only charged the low low price of forty five
- 11:48hundred dollars. Wow, And I'm like, listen, man, a good
- 11:52chunk of us live in our parents' basement and do not have that type of
- 11:54we need to throw around. So now I live in my own basement is
- 12:00where I'm broadcasting from. But no, like, are you kidding me?
- 12:03Like? So it was Lou, right, Lou, just mid grade gaming
- 12:09monitor for your kid. Great way to go. Unlike components inside the computer,
- 12:16a monitor is the easiest thing to upgrade because you can plug it,
- 12:20eat it through a window, unplug your new one, well, unpack your
- 12:24new one, and put it on your desk. It's pretty easy, you
- 12:26upgraded, Yeah, yeah, pretty eat it through a window. Now,
- 12:33there was one thing, if I know, I've been talking for a bit,
- 12:35but I want to circle back on something right that I felt would be
- 12:39kind of a disservice last week when we were talking about building machines and we're
- 12:43talking about skimping out on certain components, Like, you don't want to skimp
- 12:48out on a monitor, you don't want to skimp out on this. The
- 12:50one most common component people will skimp out on is the power supply. Oh
- 12:58God, power, and the one absolute part you should never, ever,
- 13:05ever, five hours later, ever ever skimp out on a few moments later.
- 13:11If you moments letail is your power supply? Yeah, most we'll go,
- 13:16what four hundred wats because it's it's cheap. Oh, that is not
- 13:20even close to being good anymore. That's thousand minimum thousand. Well, basically
- 13:28what you want to look at is the eighty rating. Is it eighty plus
- 13:31silver, eighty plus gold, eighty plus platinum. Do not buy like some
- 13:37you know, cheap seven hundred watt power supply. Oh, it's going all
- 13:41the connectors on you and it's like thirty bucks. And when it fries,
- 13:46because it will, it's gonna take place a lot of them. It's gonna
- 13:50fry your whole box. Yeah. And if you and that's if you're lucky,
- 13:54it might you know, I don't know set the whole thing on fire.
- 13:56Yeah, exactly, catch fire. Yeah yeah yeah. Don't skip out
- 14:00in the power supply. Always buy a decent power supply when you're building your
- 14:05tower. I would say the eighty rating eighty and it'll say it on the
- 14:09box like eighty gold for me is the bare minimum. Make sure you're buying
- 14:13the right wattage for your machine with a What does the eighty mission? Eighty
- 14:16is the reliability rating? Why is it? Well, you seem to be
- 14:22smart about this. I was just wondering if you knew. I seem to
- 14:26be smart. That's why people like assome I'm smart. It's a clever trick
- 14:30on my side, ything. I was curious. Yeah, now, well
- 14:35I tell you what. No, I'll look it up. But yeah,
- 14:39like that the eighty rating, you want to go with at least a gold.
- 14:41I know I've been talking a lot. I'm sorry, I'll get off
- 14:43my soapbox, but it is. It is. Literally, if the CPU
- 14:48is the brain of your machine, the power supply is the heart. Do
- 14:54you buy a cheap Chinese knockoff off the shelf heart, you will die.
- 15:00I have been pretty happy with Corsair in their power supplies and I have purchased
- 15:07the thousand watt machine, which actually that power supply died on me. I
- 15:13ended up and then I ended up going down to an eight fifty and I
- 15:16was very or an eight hundred. I was very happy with that same manufacture
- 15:20because it was out of warranty. But but a lot of people are confused
- 15:26as far as what is needed. Now what I would recommend. I don't
- 15:28know about you, Matt or Justin, but when it comes to figuring out
- 15:33what your system will require, you can go to the website for the manufacture
- 15:37of whatever power supply you're looking at, from whatever company, and you can
- 15:41enter that information and it will tell you what you should be getting, and
- 15:46you know you don't have to go and buy the one thousand watt. And
- 15:48I would recommend modular all the time because all the time, Yeah, because
- 15:52if you're gonna build, you want to you want to have that capability to
- 15:56run the cables and use only the cables that need Also, PC part Picker
- 16:02will do that for you. If you're building a computer with PC park Picker,
- 16:04when you go to pick your graphics card and your processor and all that,
- 16:07it takes into account the wattage required by each of those components. And
- 16:14if you go and try to put a six hundred what power supply, it's
- 16:17gonna it's gonna market red and say, uh, this ain't enough. And
- 16:21another part of that is, again, your graphics card is gonna take the
- 16:26biggest chunk of your power. If you are going to go with a high
- 16:32end in Nvidia or even an AMD card, You're gonna need a lot of
- 16:37wattage. I would really honestly recommend that you don't go below a thousand watts.
- 16:42Honestly, just get a thousand what power supply. I'm actually they're not
- 16:45that much more than eight hundred. I'm gonna disagree with that based on my
- 16:49current rig I have an AMD ninety eight fifty XD, not ninety eight sixty
- 16:59eight sixty eight fifty sixty one hundred XT, and I'm only rocking I think
- 17:03like a seven to fifty watt. I'm completely okay. But to circle back
- 17:07to Justin's earlier question, eighty plus is a voluntary certification program launched in two
- 17:14thousand and four. What it basically denotes is that to qualify for eighty plus,
- 17:19a power supply must achieve at least an eighty percent efficiency at three specific
- 17:26loads, which is twenty fifty and one hundred percent of a maximum rated power
- 17:30and how you do in that affects whether you get an eighty plus or the
- 17:36bronze, silver, gold, platinum, or titanium levels. For example,
- 17:41an eighty plus bronze is eighty two percent efficient at the twenty percent power load,
- 17:47versus an eighty plus titanium is ninety two percent efficient power load. Okay,
- 17:52that makes a less of sense. You're paying for efficiency and the efficiency
- 17:56is a direct relation of component and real liability. All right, big question
- 18:02from Laurie. We got this one on Facebook, and I think we've got
- 18:04a few minutes to handle this one said, I'm worried I don't have antivirus
- 18:08protection. I've listened to your show and once in a while you'll have a
- 18:11guest on talking about this. However, I know I have Windows Defender.
- 18:17Who is that enough? Or with all the free choices, should I pay
- 18:21for something like Norton or e Set? But I'm really confused of what I
- 18:25should do because I don't feel protected. Yes, you should be paying I
- 18:29would recommend Set. I have to disagree with you on that one. Well
- 18:33you are you go Wait, are you seriously gonna sit here and recommend Norton?
- 18:37Yeah, oh my god, there was a point I'm disagreeing with both
- 18:41of you. Yeah, there was a point where I'll tell you about Norton
- 18:45where I did not like it because there was so much bloating on it,
- 18:51and I went, I went e Set, and I like Eset. I
- 18:52still like e Set, However, with the plan that I ended up getting,
- 18:57and I ended up paying for it, and I pay like one hundred
- 19:00and nineteen a year, I could protect up the five pecs. I know
- 19:03I've got I've got the research behind Semantek, so I feel safer with that.
- 19:11So I went with that, And I know that's not what everybody's gonna
- 19:15do. You know, I don't like the nagging that I do get with
- 19:18Norton, and that comes with you know, buy this, buy this,
- 19:22you could buy this, add on this, the whole bit. But I
- 19:26now, I'm very interested to see what Matt is thinking Norton. Hey,
- 19:32Andy, Yeah, did you know your subscription is going to expire in two
- 19:36years? My god, man, that's around the corner. Please give us
- 19:40more money today. You're reminding, Yes, you're reminding. Is that your
- 19:44Stewie impression. That was pretty good. No, but I can do with
- 19:47Stuwie if you want me to do this whole next segment is the whole next
- 19:52commentary as Stewie, the whole next time I can talk is Stewie. That's
- 19:56fine. What the deuce? So for me? And before anyone jumps down
- 20:04my throat in the comments after the show and says I don't know what I'm
- 20:07talking about. You're gonna say Windows Defender. No, I have a CISSP,
- 20:11which is a Certified Information System Security Professional. I am a senior cloud
- 20:15security engineer, and most of my coworkers and I only use Windows Defender.
- 20:21Oh my, really really because initially, when okay, initially, when Windows
- 20:27Defender came out, it was the equivalent of trying to stop a runaway freight
- 20:32train with three pieces of wet tissue paper, right exactly, exactly, that's
- 20:37a good analogy. It was just like the Malware's comedy, just like it's
- 20:41okay, buddy, I've got you covered, and you're just sitting there like
- 20:45this is gonna end absolutely horribly and probably with my death. But I use
- 20:49Windows Defender on all my machines in my house and just to be on the
- 20:56safe side, I run about once a month I run a malwar byte scam
- 21:00just to double check, and I don't get anything. And you also have
- 21:03to remember that the Windows Defender, the money that they're putting in, is
- 21:07not just Windows Defender for you. It is Windows Defender for Microsoft through sixty
- 21:14five. It is Windows Defender for Microsoft. Is sure all the money they're
- 21:17pouring into Windows Defender is the Windows Defender, the blackdamn thing. It's the
- 21:22whole ecosystem that it uses that goes across commercial, government and enterprise and consumer.
- 21:30I have not had any issues with it. I don't pay a cent
- 21:32for it, and it works just fine. Okay, but here's one caveat
- 21:37to that. You are a cybersecurity professional. You also know what websites not
- 21:45to visit and things when the average Joe or average Jane whatever may not understand,
- 21:52Hey, I probably should go to this website it says Amazon Prime dot
- 21:56com. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't go to that website because that's obviously not
- 22:00the right website. But you know that as a professional, So you're not
- 22:06visiting those same websites that maybe people that are I don't want to say,
- 22:10less smart, but just less less unexperienced savvy, let's savvy with with the
- 22:17cybersecurity as yourself. So that that's something to consider though as well. Now
- 22:22I'm not saying that Microsoft vendor is bad, but you also, like I
- 22:26said, you understand what not to go visit, and it is something to
- 22:27consider. But most people in the US use the browser that just comes with
- 22:36their machine. And you know, for the longest time that was Internet Explorer.
- 22:40If you looked at a map for ages about most popular browser used in
- 22:42the country, we held the market on Internet Explore. Well, we finally
- 22:47put a bullet in that bad boy and let him die the death that should
- 22:49have happened. Yeah, before there was a one or a two in our
- 22:53year I'm talking like two thousand, that thing should have been done. But
- 22:59Microsoft Edge, which is actually surprisingly robust now but I still don't use it
- 23:04for my own personal preferences, links into Windows Defender and I'm actually looking at
- 23:10it right now. You don't only have device security, firewall network control.
- 23:15They do have app and browser control, which includes reputation based protection, settings,
- 23:19isolated browsing if you really need something like that and exploit protection built into
- 23:26it. So if you try to go to those sites with Defender, you
- 23:29are occasionally going to get a pop up that's like, hey Prime dot Amazon
- 23:33dot Primeamazon dot com is actually not how you get to Amazon dot com.
- 23:37So I don't think you want to go here, right right, all right,
- 23:42So here we go. We got justin, said me, Norton,
- 23:47and you sticking with the Windows Defender. I don't know if that's going to
- 23:49confuse Laurie even more, but maybe she's on the right track. Just to
- 23:53be careful while she's browsing. Most important part, Laurie, No matter what
- 23:59you do, just don't get kiss Bursky or or what's the other one,
- 24:06vaz or McAfee. Yeah, yeah, all right, we got to take
- 24:10a break. Coming up a couple of great guests. We're going to talk
- 24:12with Kim Caldwell, a cybersecurity expert. She's written a new book, Hacker
- 24:17Culture A two Z. It's a pretty amazing book. And again, uh,
- 24:21we'll have links available on our website for that. We're gonna be talking
- 24:23about digital safety and as it applies to your kids, and do you as
- 24:26well, your own Litwin chief marketing officer at Canopy. You've got kids want
- 24:32to help keep them protected on their devices, or want to keep your eyes
- 24:34from seeing stuff that maybe you don't want to see. We'll be doing that
- 24:37when we come back with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Matt
- 24:41Jones, and I'm justin. Let me quick shout out to my coworker.
- 24:44Shout out LORII, who's been listening my coworker, Laurie. I know we
- 24:48just had a question for Lorie. I don't think it's the same one.
- 24:51Hey, Laurie, Hi, Lauriay, Luri Luri. Thank you for listening,
- 24:53LORI, and you can find us on the web a tech talk radio
- 24:56dot com. We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio.
- 25:02So I read a book recently that opened my eyes. I realized that in
- 25:07the media, it's so easy to say it was hackers, it was hackers
- 25:11that stole this, or hackers that did this, and that's who we want
- 25:15to blame right away, and you hear it everywhere in movies, television and
- 25:19of course news, when that's not necessarily the case. And my eyes were
- 25:25open recently, and all in part to Kim Crawley, who has put together
- 25:30a book through O'Reilly Press, Hacker Culture a to Z A fun guide to
- 25:34the people, ideas, and gadgets that made the tech world and Kim joined
- 25:40us. Thank you so much for coming on the show. It's great to
- 25:41be here. Thank you Andy Kim. When did you really realize that the
- 25:47term hacker was applied generally across the board to everything from people who can kind
- 25:53of fix things and work with things to cyber criminals. I think when I
- 25:57was a teenager, I believed the colloquial meaning of hacker, which you know,
- 26:03people associate the term with cybercriminal, and that's usually what the media goes
- 26:07with. I think in my twenties, as my life started to turn in
- 26:11the direction that my career went in, that's when I started getting my feet
- 26:17wet. As far as understanding hacker culture is concerned, the origin of the
- 26:21word hacker is really quite fascinating, and I do mention it in my book
- 26:25Acker Culture a Disease. The origin actually dates back to the nineteen sixties and
- 26:30to MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, which was a bunch of nerds who mainly
- 26:37tinkered around with model trains and whatnot, but they also played around with electronics
- 26:44and with the computers that existed in the nineteen sixties, and the nineteen sixties
- 26:48was long before the personal computer, so the computers that people use back then
- 26:53had to be shared with a lot of other people. And of course,
- 26:56MIT, being one of the top tech schools, had their own PDP ten
- 27:03and the big IBM. Some of them were mainframes, some of them were
- 27:10mini computers. But many computer would be a misnomer to people today because it's
- 27:15not a small computer. It meant not a room size computer, a refrigerator
- 27:19size computer. So these extremely nerdy people, if they came up with a
- 27:25clever trick, they called that a hack. So if you were able to
- 27:29do those things, you were a hacker. My understanding of the word hacker,
- 27:33and the understanding and hacker culture in general is someone who finds new and
- 27:38inventive uses of technology that could sometimes be harmful. So if you use technology
- 27:45to harm, you're a cyber attacker. So you know, you can be
- 27:48a hacker and a cyber attacker. There's a lot more nuanced and complexity to
- 27:52determine lay people are aware of now, Kim, we hear a lot about
- 27:56dark web, which you know right away that's what we picture. Is there
- 28:00really a dark web? For a people listening that they have never gone to
- 28:06that area, is there? Oh? Absolutely. The dark web actually is
- 28:11built on technology that was actually developed by the US government, well not directly,
- 28:18but by US government agencies. There are proxy networks, So the more
- 28:22popular one is called tor as in the Onion router, and then a less
- 28:27popular one is called itop. But if you connect to either of these networks,
- 28:33you can access to the normal part of the web through a tour browser
- 28:38or a web browser. Specifically for itop, you need a special web browser
- 28:44in order to access this. But the parts of the web or the Internet
- 28:48that you cannot access without those proxy networks, that is what we call the
- 28:53dark web. Well, the web part is called the dark web. You
- 28:56can call the Internet part in general the dark The book kind of goes into
- 29:02this, doesn't it. Absolutely. The existence of this technology in and of
- 29:06itself is perfectly legal, just as my lighter is perfectly legal. But committing
- 29:11arsenal with it is People do use the anonymity or relative ahim I mean,
- 29:17nothing is perfect to they do take advantage of that to commit crimes. So
- 29:22there are sites on the dark web where people sell illegal drugs and malware and
- 29:27stuff like that, and some like really legal stuff that's much worse than those
- 29:32things. Some of the lawful uses, like a lot of mainstream websites actually
- 29:37have a version that's only accessible by tour. I think Facebook is one of
- 29:41them. I think there's one for BBC News. So one lawful application of
- 29:48these technologies is, for instance, if you are a journalist and you are
- 29:55in a hostile area and you don't want your courageous journalism to be intercepted by
- 30:02hostile parties, you could use the tour network or the ITP network. And
- 30:07so the way that it works is there's a series of proxy servers, and
- 30:14not only is your data encrypted another layer, but also each server along the
- 30:19chain only knows the IP addresses of the nodes that it's sending and receiving data
- 30:26to. So the only node that knows the IP address to your computer or
- 30:30your phone is the entry node that you use, and then it goes all
- 30:34along the chain to like an exit node that goes to the server that you're
- 30:38communicating with, and then it goes all the way back. But each of
- 30:42those nodes only knows the neighboring IP addresses, and that chain of communication in
- 30:48deciding what goes in the book. Was that kind of difficult? Was there
- 30:52something that you said, we'll leave them out or no, we should include
- 30:55them, And how did you come up with this full list? Actually,
- 30:59I wrote a lot of content for the book that didn't end up being made
- 31:03into the book. I think there are in the neighborhood of just under three
- 31:08hundred terms. It ended up in the book. But my development editor,
- 31:14Sarah Gray, she was great to work with, by the way, had
- 31:17to We had to pick and choose some of the entries to go into the
- 31:19book. They were all good and they were all relevant. Choosing the terminology
- 31:25was really easy. Like as soon as o'reiley gave me the green light for
- 31:29this book, I came up with like a long list of every relevant term
- 31:33or person or concept I could think of. And I wanted to make a
- 31:37book that you could read in any order, Like you don't have to read
- 31:41it from front to back. You even read it in any order you want.
- 31:45And I wanted to make a book that was ADHD friendly and that you
- 31:48could read in short burses. And I don't think the concept of like an
- 31:53A to Z book like that is completely original, but it's probably one of
- 31:59the only ones for this particular kind of sych that matter. But it really
- 32:02kind of puts together all these key concepts in the development of computer technology and
- 32:08the important people involved and the important enities. And I tried to also make
- 32:14the book really accessible to people who aren't techies. So there are lots of
- 32:17technical terms in the book, but they're all defined for lay people. This
- 32:22type of book can actually help protect people against maybe somebody that is trying to
- 32:29be a cyber criminal and have access to the system, so they understand a
- 32:31little more about some of these terms, so they're not just lost and it's
- 32:36just a word that the media is using. That would be great if that's
- 32:38the effect the book has. Because my background is in cybersecurity research and writing
- 32:45books about cybersecurity, cybersecurity is definitely a theme in this book. I would
- 32:51say maybe it's twenty five percent about cybersecurity. I also wanted to broaden my
- 32:57horizons from cybersecurity because I really am excited about the history of computing in general.
- 33:05So but yeah, there is a lot that lay people can learn just
- 33:07about cybersecurity from this book. What would you say is the one piece of
- 33:12technology that excites you the most as we kind of move forward. I know
- 33:16that you're probably looking for me to say our new AI developments like chat,
- 33:22GBT and whatnot, But honestly, I don't think I wrote about it in
- 33:25the book. But a couple of weeks ago, I bit the bullet and
- 33:30I bought a Flipper zero. Oh wow. Really at that time, I'm
- 33:35in Canada and the official Flipper website doesn't even sell them to Canada anymore.
- 33:40I had to go to like a retailer who's based in California, and then
- 33:45when the thing crossed the border, I had to pay like one hundred dollars
- 33:49teriff on it. Oh man, it's so cool. It's an illegal gray
- 33:54zone right now. But obviously, you know, the US and Canada are
- 33:58still treating it like it's perfectly legal because it did cross the border. It's
- 34:02a little handheld device. It's about the size of the USB thumbstick, maybe
- 34:06a little bit bulk here, and it has it has like a display on
- 34:10a very small monochromatic display, and it has it runs like at a digital
- 34:19dolphin that has a personality and all that, so you can kind of use
- 34:23it as like a Temagotchi. It also runs all kinds of scripts. It
- 34:29has all kinds of readers for different sorts of radio signals and NFC and stuff
- 34:35like that. If you have a card that works with NFC, for instance,
- 34:38you can scan that into your Flipper zero. You can run scripts on
- 34:44the Flipper zero to try and crack radio signals. Some of this is legal
- 34:50if you have the consent of the people whose technologies are involved in what you're
- 34:53trying to penetrate. But like just like a knife or a lighter, it
- 34:59could be used for illegal Yes, well yeah, but it is Again.
- 35:04It's you look at these these pieces of technology, and while we're consumed over
- 35:07here, and like you said, with AI and what's going on, there
- 35:10are some other really neat things that are making their way. Some night net
- 35:15will never ever see. Some are out there. It's important to know that
- 35:19too. I absolutely had to get a Flipper zero. That is awesome.
- 35:22I love it. What next? Were you still writing for republications as well?
- 35:27And do you think there'll be another one? I write technical manuals,
- 35:30but my passion is more in books like this that go into like the culture
- 35:34of computing and are a fun read, not just like a tech manual.
- 35:38So I'm on great terms with A Riley and that's the publisher that gets my
- 35:45fun book concepts, and I think early next year. I don't want to
- 35:50spill my ideas out right now, but I have an idea for another fun
- 35:54book that I can write for O'Riley. Hacker Culture A is the It's available
- 35:59now from a They can find it just about anywhere. And you have a
- 36:01website as well. If our listeners want to check you out in the web.
- 36:05What's that website? So link tree l I n K t R dot
- 36:10ee slash k I M c R A W l E Y. Thanks for
- 36:15coming on the show. It's any Thanks, thanks any nice to meet you.
- 36:20That's Kim Crawley. We'll be back with more of tech talk Radio.
- 36:22You can find us on the web and check out the links at tech talk
- 36:25radio dot com. Now back to tech talk Radio. You know, with
- 36:30so many changes when it comes to technology, they're saying that children are getting
- 36:36smart devices, tablets and even getting on the computer at younger ages. You
- 36:40know, the big concern is protecting them and there are a lot of dangers
- 36:45out there. Some of the dangers involve their personal data, their personal information,
- 36:51but also them seeing things that really they shouldn't be seeing at a young
- 36:54age. And we've talked about a company called Canopy many times in the past
- 37:00year, and Yer own Lidwin is a digital safety expert and chief marketing officer
- 37:05at Canopy, and we're really happy to have him on the line with us
- 37:08to tell us about about Canopy. You don't thank you for coming on the
- 37:12show. Andy, Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited
- 37:15to be here. Tell us a little bit about Canopy. We kind of
- 37:19understand it for our listeners who have kids or grandkids that maybe don't know what
- 37:23it's all about. Can you kind of put it in a nutshell for us?
- 37:27Or in a nutshell, I would say, Canopy is an AI powered
- 37:30digital safety app, and what that means is that it's a very easy to
- 37:35use app that both the parent. There's a parent app where the parent can
- 37:42manage the digital safety levels that they would want to have for their child,
- 37:46and then there's a child app, which is called the Shield app that sits
- 37:50on the child's phone and it's constantly in the background filtering in real time content
- 37:57that the child is viewing and when it comes across explicit content, it knows
- 38:00how to wide it out and by doing so not interfere with the actual online
- 38:06experience and so and so that's what kindipee does. It really enables parents and
- 38:10families to give their kids the freedom to be online while knowing that there is
- 38:15a safety net so that they don't come across dangerous explicit material. You know,
- 38:21I remember yet in the old days of Yahoo Chat and some of the
- 38:24chat rooms that would come up. I mean, it was you kind of
- 38:28saw that this could be an issue when it came to the digital security for
- 38:31our children and what they could see, what they could could read there online.
- 38:37When did the idea the origin of canopy kind of get started. Was
- 38:42it many many many years ago when we saw this. So the technology that
- 38:46powers Canopy has been has been in development for now over ten years. And
- 38:52so we've been doing kind of AI or artificial artificial intelligence before it became a
- 38:58buzzword. But really the ideas we've developed, the patents and the technology that
- 39:04enables us to identify images and video and split seconds and filter them out.
- 39:09And so that technology has been developed over ten years. Canopy has been around
- 39:13now for about five years and really focused on enabling parents. We also have
- 39:19many adults that use the application to just provide that protection and that filter between
- 39:25the online experience they want to have and kind of the online experience that they
- 39:30could stumble into. We're talking about it how it can affect children, but
- 39:34honestly, there's a lot of us adults that don't want to see some of
- 39:37this stuff that is floating around on social media and online. This can help
- 39:42protect our eyes from that and again protect our devices. Definitely. Definitely.
- 39:45There's this kind of idea of digital wellness which I think is becoming perhaps kind
- 39:52of post COVID more and more I would say popular, where adults themselves,
- 39:57either for kind of religious reasons or just for their own mental health, are
- 40:01looking to block out porn, take time off of social media, and with
- 40:07Canopy, it's very easy to kind of put those rules, put those habits
- 40:10in place. You know. The way we think about this that there's really
- 40:13three things that from a parent's perspective, you want to be thinking about.
- 40:16One is how much time kids are spending online, the content that they're seeing,
- 40:22and who's on the other end of that. And we and through Canopy,
- 40:25we kind of provide protection across all those three different layers, if you
- 40:29will. And it's proven now that too much time online social media is really
- 40:32having a negative impact on our children's mental health. And so I think,
- 40:37like you're saying, in the past, we knew this was a problem.
- 40:39Now there's data to back it up that we really do need to protect our
- 40:44children and ourselves online. Also, the other thing, yo, Ron,
- 40:47is there's a lot of parents out there that are consider themselves tech savvy,
- 40:52but yet to manage all of this can be real difficult. And let's face
- 40:58it, we're in a world now where our technology that's available to our children,
- 41:01even if for those of us that are afraid of AI, can actually
- 41:06help in many cases rather than detur the educational experience. But it's a matter
- 41:10of how it's applied. Now we've seen the numbers that many parents out there
- 41:15are introducing children younger than the age of thirteen, and there's been a lot
- 41:20of arguments over this to social media. But I don't know, do parents
- 41:23understand the type of dangers that is posed out there when they really keep hands
- 41:30off a kind of method to that. Unfortunately, I don't think there's enough
- 41:32awareness, and I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me and educate
- 41:37your audience. I think all parents have an understanding that it's not good.
- 41:43I don't think they fully understand to what degree the dangers might be. For
- 41:46example, just this week, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal
- 41:51about what we call kind of a s extortion scam, where young boys on
- 41:54snapschot were being targeted and tricked into sending photos and then being blackmailed for that.
- 42:01And so I think that these are things that's you know, there are
- 42:06are now starting to get written about, and I think there's more awareness,
- 42:10But I don't think that I would necessarily be aware of that or think about
- 42:14that as a parent if I wasn't kind of in this space. And so
- 42:17a lot of what we're doing is helping parents become educated that there not only
- 42:22are there the risks, but there are also the solutions out there to really
- 42:25help you manage your children's online experience and the technology. So I totally agree
- 42:30and kind of resonate with what you kind of with what you opened. Oftentimes,
- 42:35it's just it's so frustrating to try and understand the settings of let's say,
- 42:39a different operating system than that you're used to. So if the parents
- 42:43is on an iPhone and the child's on an Android. Trying to figure out
- 42:45how to set up those settings can be very difficult. And Canopy it's an
- 42:49all in one dashboard and kind of management system, so no matter what operating
- 42:53systems they're on, or if it's a laptop or a phone, you can
- 42:58control everything from kind of that one very user friendly interface. So a good
- 43:01point there, then, So it's not only smartphones, the computer, the
- 43:06household computer, or maybe they have a laptop that they use for school that
- 43:09could also be protected. Yes, we protect chromebooks, PCs, iPads,
- 43:16and the phone. So really every device that is being connected to the Internet
- 43:22and has the potential of exposing a child to those online risks. All right,
- 43:28So say you know, I've got a child, they've got a laptop,
- 43:30and we've got Canopy installed, and they decide that they want to,
- 43:35well, you know, take a ride down one of the websites called hub
- 43:39or tube or whatnot. How does this stop that experience? Out of the
- 43:45box, Canopy will block all known horn sites and just any known dangerous sites,
- 43:52so that is out of the box, there's no need for any settings
- 43:55and will just block access to those sites. But for example, there's a
- 43:59lot of those type of materials that you mentioned that you refer to on YouTube,
- 44:05on Twitter, Yeah, and that's where can it be really shines.
- 44:08It's the ability when you're actually on what is considered a non explicit website or
- 44:14app and that type of content appears. That's why can it be kind of
- 44:17jumps to the forefront. We call it our shield or can it be shield,
- 44:22and we'll filter out that content so it won't block the website, which
- 44:25is different, and that's kind of our claim to fame. That's really what's
- 44:29unique about Kende as opposed to just blocking a child or an adult out of
- 44:34an online experience. It's just filtering out those images or those videos that is
- 44:38deemed to be inappropriate. And so that way, if you're on Twitter,
- 44:42for example, or YouTube, you can still experience YouTube, it will just
- 44:45wide out images that are seen as inappropriate. How about TikTok? Would it
- 44:51work with that? Because a lot of the kids they're getting on TikTok and
- 44:53snap and I don't even know if be real is a thing anymore, but
- 44:57they get on there and there could be there could be stuff in there that
- 45:00they probably shouldn't see. Definitely, yes, we block, and we also
- 45:04filter, and and the filtering is what I was just talking about. We
- 45:07filter across all those apps and websites. And what's also unique is that you
- 45:10can actually customize that experience. So, for example, if you don't want
- 45:14your child on let's say, sports gambling sites, you can block off that
- 45:19whole category of sites just for let's say, for one child. And so
- 45:23we give the parents a lot of flexibility and customization opportunities to really make the
- 45:30experience that they want to give their children as much as possible to match with
- 45:35their values. Well, you know, you know, and I'm thinking about
- 45:37this and I love everything this can do, but I also think we're talking
- 45:42about social media, we're talking about the web, but you know another problem
- 45:46area. And you know, as an adult, I know if you've got
- 45:50them. I've received texts before that seem like it's from somebody you might know,
- 45:53and it's it's really not Even texting could be an issue. Can canopy
- 46:00work when you know, say my child's got a smartphone and they're texting,
- 46:04but we don't know who they're texting. Could they help protect our child that
- 46:07way? So currently we would protect from any explicit or inappropriate images and video,
- 46:12and we will be coming out early next year with the ability to also
- 46:15filter out text, okay, And I think that maybe that's what you're referring
- 46:20to, which is the ability to identify if there certain words are being used
- 46:23that perhaps might be dangerous in text, not just in images and video,
- 46:28and that is something that we in the new year. Now. Some kids
- 46:30are sharp, you know, own how can the protections with Canopy not be
- 46:35removed or disabled? Because you know, I mean I've seen you know,
- 46:37kids can know how to reboot stuff and take stuff out. Is there protections
- 46:43in place? Totally? I think as a parent, my kids were always
- 46:45able to kind of overcome the settings and somehow figure out how to get out
- 46:51of the kind of the out of the box settings that come with your iPhone.
- 46:55And so what's one of the really unique features in Canopy is the ability
- 47:00to set and remove a prevention and so there's a way that there's a certain
- 47:05settings that if you enable it, it is it is very very challenging to
- 47:10remove Canopy and so that is often what we hear from parents is that the
- 47:15idea that they know that it cannot be removed that it's really there for to
- 47:17protect their children, and that children can easily change a time zone or kind
- 47:22of do something clever to kind of fool the plot the system. And so
- 47:27that's really one of the unique aspects of Canopy. Now, one of the
- 47:30issues I remember when my kids were growing up was getting them off their devices
- 47:37and late at night, you know, we go to sleep, and then
- 47:38suddenly they would be online. And I know that some of the different router
- 47:45manufacturers will put certain things in place, but Canopy it kind of gives you
- 47:49an overall blanket to help protect that from them getting online after hours. Exactly,
- 47:54you know, the Canopy name is exactly this idea of like really giving
- 47:58them full protection. And so when it comes to what we call screen time,
- 48:02we give the parents a very robust system of being able to manage screen
- 48:07time across devices. And so for example, let's say as a parent,
- 48:13you want no use of the mobile phone after eight pm, you can set
- 48:20that up in Canopy. But perhaps for the PC the rules are different because
- 48:23it's there's homework and so forth, and so you know, maybe that only
- 48:27goes off at nine and so you can really schedule on and off times by
- 48:31device, for each child, for each individual in the household, and that
- 48:37gives also a lot of flexibility to kind of maintain those habits and those behaviors
- 48:42that as a parent you'd like to enforce. Love it. I would just
- 48:45like to add that, you know, our approach is not controlling. I
- 48:49mean, it's really this idea that parents are using Canopy and this is what
- 48:52this is a lot of the feedback that we get as a great communication device
- 48:55as a behavior kind of habit establishing platform. And so although there are although
- 49:01the parent can kind of set certain parameters, the idea is really that it's
- 49:06done with the child and that it's done in a way that opens up opportunities
- 49:10for communication and for really good parenting, as opposed to kind of this idea
- 49:15of controlling their online experience. And so it's really kind of a shift in
- 49:20how we're thinking, and I think that a lot of parents and children actually
- 49:22we're seeing now that is very appealing to them, kind of a joint approach.
- 49:27I like it because the parents could also learn from the kids and of
- 49:30course still apply some of these to help make them a little safer, and
- 49:34the parents as well. Definitely, I love your blog it's got some great
- 49:37tips available. Tell us a little more about that and how often do you
- 49:40do you add some of these tips to the website. We're always trying to
- 49:44understand what is it, what are kind of parents focused on, how can
- 49:49we help them both with what Cannoby can do, but also we believe in
- 49:52so if Canopy has the artificial intelligence, we believe that at the end of
- 49:55the day, it's really the parenting intelligence that is really going to enable kids
- 49:59to be healthy and create the right behaviors, and Canopy here is kind of
- 50:02an is an enabler of that, and so we we try and find opportunities
- 50:07to write about both the technology that can help, but also the parenting kind
- 50:15of behaviors and ideas that would help parents. At the end of the day,
- 50:17we all just want to be good parents and keep our kids safe.
- 50:21Yeah, and technology is changing very rapidly, and so we try and educate
- 50:25on some of those changes and what to be aware of and some of the
- 50:29solutions that are out there as well. Y'er on so many different solutions that
- 50:34can be be is offering. Could businesses or maybe even why not schools be
- 50:38using Canopy within the within their districts. Definitely, we we do have kind
- 50:44of a school offering. It's slightly different. We have also seen it's different
- 50:47in terms of just how how the product is set up, but we definitely
- 50:51work with schools. We've also seen many schools that are now asking for Kennedy
- 50:55to be implemented or installed on any kind of laptops or phones that are coming
- 51:01into the school. And so we're seeing more and more of that where the
- 51:05school is also trying to create kind of a safe a safe space, and
- 51:07of course they need to note that there's some technology in place, some tools
- 51:10in place that they can rely on, and so canopies definitely can help in
- 51:15that solution. That's one of the reasons we came out with a solution for
- 51:19chromebooks because chromebooks are tend to be very popular kind of in the school districts.
- 51:22And now can Apple users Mac users also benefit with this? Yes,
- 51:28this works on all operating systems Windows, Mac and And now what about the
- 51:35different plans that are available. Do you have a different tier, like you
- 51:37know, maybe it'll protect this many devices? How does that work? Sure?
- 51:43So we have currently three three plans we have. Our smaller plan is
- 51:49for three devices. It's really thought of like for one user or two users
- 51:54with three devices, and then we all we go all the way up to
- 51:58kind of a full family plan where you can have up to ten devices,
- 52:01and and there's a there's a planet that's kind of like in the middle of
- 52:07you know, in between. But there's definitely the ideas that we offer protection
- 52:10across all devices and multiple users. So that's kind of how we've thought about
- 52:16our plans and our pricing. Can our parents that are out there, can
- 52:21they get kind of an idea of how it works. Is there a trial
- 52:22account available? Yes, there's We offer a seven day free trial, and
- 52:30along alongside that we offer both phone and email support, so if if you
- 52:34have any questions while you're while you're on trial, there's someone there that can
- 52:37answer your questions the email, your phone, and of course that that continues
- 52:42once you become a customer. And I would definitely encourage your listeners to go
- 52:47to Canopy dot us and a click free trial. It's a very very simple
- 52:53checkout process and uh and you can be up and running in minutes. Great
- 52:58implement Yeah, great stuff. You Ron, Thank you so much for coming
- 53:02on tech Talk Radio and telling us a little bit about Canopy and again,
- 53:06Canopy dot us is the website address, and we look forward to talking to
- 53:10you again in the future. Yo. Yeah, thank you so much and
- 53:13it was a pleasure. I really appreciate it. We'll be back with more
- 53:15of tech talk Radio. Find links for anything we've talked about on our website
- 53:20at tech talk radio dot com. And now back to tech talk Radio.
- 53:23Hey, this is Deetrich Bader from Batman and you're listening to TikTok Radio today.
- 53:29I actually had a problem that I had at work and I had to
- 53:32get a headshot of myself for a webinar that I'm doing. Oh wow,
- 53:37this week it's for the World water Park Association. I'm going to be speaking
- 53:42to about I don't know, one hundred two hundred people across the country,
- 53:45across the world really about waterpark cybersecurity. And I know Matt's like chuckling over
- 53:50there because I'm not a cybersecurity expert, but I do know a little bit
- 53:52about it anyway. So I took a headshot on myself and when I looked
- 53:57at the picture, I was like, oh man, I got a little
- 53:59bit of a neck beard, you know, going on like I was like,
- 54:00I didn't shave that morning and my cheeks were a little bit inflated.
- 54:07So I was like, you know, I need to edit this a little
- 54:08bit, but I don't have photoshop. So I sent the picture to our
- 54:12graphics artist who works for Highland Hills, and I was like, hey,
- 54:15man, could you do me a favor. Can you make me look a
- 54:17little bit prettier, get rid of the neck beard, and maybe tighten up
- 54:21the cheeks a little bit. And he's like, yeah, sure, sure,
- 54:22man, sure, So this is what he sent me, and I'm
- 54:28gonna send it to you guys right now. What he's well, the original
- 54:31is right there. Okay, that's me and and my lord, yeah yeah,
- 54:38I'm looking at this and like, not only does does it look like
- 54:43you have some glam makeup on, but I'm looking like I'm wearing mascara.
- 54:46He also like, thickened up the rest of your beard and darkened it.
- 54:51But this is just proof that not even photoshop can make you pretty. Oh
- 54:53my ah, doud I blow blow. We need to put this on the
- 54:59website and have a contest. As a matter of fact, I'll give them
- 55:01a twenty five dollars gift card to Amazon for the best digital reproduction of justin
- 55:09Here fixing the picture. If it can be so, you won't give me
- 55:13a twenty five dollars gift card, but you'll give somebody to make fun of
- 55:15me a twenty five dollars gift Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely absolutely. They
- 55:20could grab this from our website and have some fun with it. Now,
- 55:22there's a guy on Instagram that does this. You send him a picture,
- 55:28you say, could you please do this, like make the waterfall closer,
- 55:31you know, And what they'll do is put the water pouring on everybody in
- 55:35the picture. It's so hilarious. There's a whole subreddit too, by the
- 55:38way, while you're looking that one up right there, for the for the
- 55:40for the listeners, there's a whole subreddit called photoshop requests. Yeah, you
- 55:45can put in that and a lot of times and a lot of times.
- 55:46Yeah, it's it's like they'll make fun of it. And it's not just
- 55:51one person. Is a bunch of different people will try their hand and making
- 55:54it close. This picture. This is scary the way you really is it
- 55:59rotated. I don't know how he gave you crazy eyes. I know I
- 56:06look like you should be in the movie Barbie. All right, you look
- 56:08relatively sane in the first one, but in the next one, I feel
- 56:12like I'm gonna wake up and you're just gonna be standing over me like just
- 56:15you. Reboot the Firewall. You all right? Hit our website. You
- 56:20can see the photo there tech talk radio dot Com. That's it for this
- 56:22week. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm the creepy Justin
- 56:28Lemmey. I guess yourself. Is a great week. We'll see you