I hope we've been having an excellent first day out for STEM.
We've now got Stephen Goodwin with the big for STEM quiz of the year.
That's hope so.
Yep there should be audio on this.
Good people of post-death, there's the big post-death bridge of the year, and here's your
great post-death.
Hello!
Yes, we've sort of got there in the end, didn't we?
This is the big first post-death bridge of the year we have never done this before, and we might
never do it again, so make the most of it.
Evening everybody, this is what appears to be the entertainment slot at post-death, at 6 o'clock
on the Saturday.
Basically, I'm the only thing stopping you from getting your beer in the pub, so I'm going
to try and be as entertaining as possible.
Thank you.
I have my beer, I have my fostered beer.
As in tradition for me.
Right.
So, I've done this fostered them for quite a few years, my quite a few friends and a few enemies.
We're going to couple out of here tonight who are going to be our contestants, so first
up in no particular order, Mr. Michael Meeks.
You do the first.
You may know him from things like liberal offices, sort of a model at Superstar, and the
only other person on this stage who's done more talks than I have.
I've done 27th this conference, he's done 34th if I can't correctly.
Yeah, basically, I think his premises, if you just keep turning up, people will remember
his name.
Also, we have Michaela Carrer, come up.
Swift Genius extraordinaire, if I remember.
Oh, there he is.
Okay.
Whoops.
Now, I am serious.
Do we have other contestants that would like to come and take the seat?
Who feels, maybe enough to try a little pop quiz?
I'll say.
The prize is glory.
Okay, we'll continue with what we have.
Can I be a contestant?
Is that allowed?
No, probably cheating a bit.
Okay.
Well, are we have one?
Yeah, come down.
What's your name?
Emmerick.
Oh, I think my name was on the slides.
Oh, you've got another look at it.
Okay, and what is this?
Take a seat.
Because I haven't had a chance to change the score cards.
One of you is actually giving me an up-called martyr, and the other will be called J random.
So you have to take your pick.
So we'll start off with, oh, by the way, if you want to play along with your friends
sat next to you, the quiz scoreboard thing that I'm using here is available at that link.
Now, I must remind you that there are gambling laws in this country, so you can't bet
your neighbor a pint who ever wins the most points, okay?
So it's illegal to be gambling, so don't do that.
Play for fun.
So that's the scoreboard.
But if you do what I pay along, if not, let's jump.
Oh, there you go.
See, one of you is, I say, one of you pick what, okay.
So roughly, martyr, maybe, and J random.
So round one.
No, whoops, maybe.
I didn't hear anyone complain, though.
So here we go, round one, first and by the numbers.
In this round, we'll show you a series of numbers which I've related to,
in some way, you'll each get to pick a number, and then tell me what you think that number
relates to as far as Foss Dem goes.
So we'll start on my file.
Michael, pick a number.
23, okay.
What do you think the number 23 relates to in terms of Foss Dem?
If you'd like a mic.
There we go.
I'm guessing it's the number of years.
It's a bit of a lame guess, but is that right?
It is quite sort of close.
It is definitely a bad.
Yes, well, we're going 25 years.
Foss Dem is one of the conferences.
You know, just look at the year number.
That tells you how many years it's been going.
That was the clue.
But no, not quite.
It is about, it's actually about the most frequent devlooms.
So the Mozilla, the Mozilla devloom has been here 23 times.
And it's the comment world record holder.
The embedded room is close second with 21.
So, not bad.
But, Michael, are you next?
Pick a number.
I'm going to pick number 27,845.
Number 27,845.
And what do you think that relates to?
Is that the number of attendees that are here?
No, but it does feel like it doesn't.
I reckon if every single one of those attendees started talking,
you would get the number.
This is the longest conference that Foss Dem has had in minutes.
If you add up every minute of every dev room,
and that's this afternoon this year,
which is the longest 27,000 minutes.
Before this year, the longest of longest Foss Dem was in 2020.
21.
So, drink random.
Oh, you're drinking random. Sorry.
You're smarter.
I'm going to pick 11,000.
I was going to say it was the number of attendees,
but that seems very specific.
I don't think there's such a precise number but at the same time,
I don't really know seeing how specific these have been.
Yes.
I'm just going to go with that guess.
So again for the record.
I think last year was approximately 8,000,
so it might be this year's events.
If everyone did talk, that would be it.
This is the total number of talks given over the last 25 years.
Roughly give all taker Jack Dorsey.
So,
that's a lot of talking.
And finally, but not leastly.
Okay.
So, I take 70.
71.
71, yes?
Oh, we got 70.
I think it might be the combined price of a hoodie and a t-shirt.
Oh.
It's not the answer I've got on the card,
but I think it's probably right.
So again, I have to give you a point for that.
There we go.
Let me go to the scorecard.
Oops, we've lost a person.
One, one, microsecond, please.
There we go.
We can give you a point now.
Right.
So, time for the audience to try and win some points.
Numbers left 1,485.
And he guesses what that is going to be.
Number of, it's a complete opposite.
The number of people who could be in this room.
This room capacity is about 1,500.
The official number given on the Johnson site is 1,485.
What else have we got?
Number 71.
No one picks 71.
So the number of the bus that gets you from bouquet to url bay.
It's also the number of people that are on that bus.
Obviously, I don't take the bus.
I have a private helicopter, but you know.
And what else have we got left?
27?
No, we did 27,000.
Yeah.
Oh, I did come up.
Yes.
By the way, these numbers are, I believe, accurate.
I did create a little arthing that goes through all the XMLs and tries to pass it.
But we don't have complete data.
So, obviously, PRs requested if there are any issues there.
Next up, round two, which we call no peaking.
Things that we probably see every day, every other day, and paying no attention to.
Which way does the monarch's head face on a bank note or a stamp for example?
We probably see these five frequently, but is it left or right?
So here are things that you may will see every day.
So the first is Kubernetes.
Think of the Kubernetes logo.
It's sort of a shipwheel.
It's a Greek word.
And which Greek word?
We know it's a Greek word for Hemsman apparently.
And it's a shipwheel logo.
But how many spikes are on that wheel logo?
Right down your answer on the board.
It's also the same numbers.
The number of sides on the shapes surrounding that shipwheel logo.
Question two is on VLC.
Without looking around you.
Because it might be someone with a hat on.
The VLC logo is a cone.
It's not bewote from the cardboard album.
But it's an orange and white cone.
How many white stripes are there on that cone?
Now you probably see this icon every single day.
Question three is Docker.
It's all about containers.
It's got a whale.
It's carrying a ship with containers.
But how many containers are on its back?
And finally, Android.
Designed based on the gauntlet, the third encounter.
But not all the Android limbs are connected to the body.
So how many discrete actual limbs are there on that body?
Yes.
It looks for this purpose.
And while they finish up their answers, one for the audience.
We'll do that after, sorry.
So the answers.
Kubernetes.
Seven spikes.
Who got seven in the audience?
Okay. We'll give the audience a point then.
So Michael, how many did you get?
12. Not bad.
Okay. Six.
What? We'll give you one for that.
It's one out.
1.6 equals seven.
You have seven.
Of course you do. Okay.
Let's give another couple.
Yeah, that's worth two points, I think.
And finally, you got 12 as well.
Next up.
Two white stripes.
The same number as people as our in the band, the white stripes.
But you'll also notice the stripes on the hats.
Only have one white stripe.
That's because they just bought in the hats and didn't have them custom made.
I checked this on the stand earlier because I knew this question was coming up.
How many white stripes did you think?
You thought three?
Like who won out, you hit one point?
Well, I've got two.
It's your first point of the game.
Also three again, we'll give you the one.
Next.
You had two.
I think we have found.
And finally, three again.
Okay, let's give you a point.
So, with that in mind,
Docker.
Everyone's quickly counting them up.
They were nine containers on the back of the blocker.
How did you think they were?
Four.
Five.
Twenty two.
That would be a big logo.
And six.
This will close us and we'll give you a point.
Hey, we can do that.
Yes.
I'll wait.
And I'll wait.
I'll head two arms and a body and legs all in one.
One, two, three, four.
How many did we think?
Seven.
Three.
Five.
Six.
Four.
Six.
Seven.
Five.
Nine.
Three.
Seven.
Five.
Two.
Uhph.
Let's, if we can do a quick round up at the scores, no, we can't, it has an updated, let me have a quick look at this.
Not on the flesh.
Okay, let me just...
So, so many out, our so-called matter is in the lead with five points, well done to matter.
Right, carry on, next.
Don't do that.
Round three is call my death.
Not a troll based on the TV series called my bluff, because we're going to get the rights to it.
So call my, call my death, I'm going to give you some software projects and what they might be.
Which one is the true project?
So, first up, we have a tool for logging and planning scuba dives.
Is that called sub-surface?
Scuba snacks?
Bubble track?
Or acroplan?
And if you're thinking I've just made up names to be very silly and humorous, if you actually see project names in this community.
These aren't even the daftest ones I could have come up with.
So, like, then ABC or D for a tool for logging and planning scuba dives.
Next, we have code that inserts the currently playing iTunes or Spotify track into your git commit messages.
So, is that called G-I-Tunes?
Muse post?
Git posting?
Or git music?
ABC or D?
It is code that inserts the currently playing iTunes or Spotify track into your git commit message.
ABC or D?
And I hope you're all playing along up there as well.
Next, we have software that detects when your tests are being run on a CI server and makes those tests that would fail pass.
Is this called Tesla Go?
Portit?
Volkswagen?
Or Benz?
Code that detects when your test is being run on a CI server and makes those tests that would fail pass.
And finally, a programming language based on the one liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
So, is it Schwarester?
Be back plus plus?
Arnold C?
Or Null Terminator?
The description again is a programming language based on the one liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Form actor, I think he's still more of California is that right?
Something like that.
So, I don't know if Arnold Schwarzenegger by the way does use Linux.
I know when asked fairly recently, he said, you know, are you going to upgrade to the new Windows 11?
It is, I prefer Vista Baby.
If you don't like the gags, send me a pull request.
So, answers.
The subset that sub-service was a dive.
What did you get?
A, A, B, D, and A.
So, to extra points there, but does anyone know who wrote that program?
Yes, he did. Let's talk about that program for scuba diving.
Well, that kid's never going anywhere, isn't really scuba diving.
I can say that he's not here.
Next, something that automatically adds messages into your git commits,
based on whatever you listen to is going to get a music.
What do we have?
Do you get music?
Correct.
A, D, and D.
Right, let me add some more points up for you.
Two points there.
Two points there, and I'll figure.
The program that automatically forces all your tests to pass is called Volkswagen.
After the call, the company did exactly the same thing with their emissions.
B, C, excellent say.
And, and C, and C.
Well, now that everyone there, Bing, Bing, and Bing.
And finally, the Arnold Schwarzenegger thing was Arnold C.
If anyone was curious, that is hello world in Arnold C.
And I've included the GitHub link.
Not to shame them, but to point out I'm not making this up.
What have we got?
C, S, D, D, and C.
And C, excellent.
It's a more points there.
So, we're done in mind, round four.
Let's just do a quick check of the scores.
And we have, oh, hey, virtual matter is in the lead.
But still everything to play for, as we go into round four, which is called 2004.
These are things that have happened over the last year.
Obviously, we're two, you know, there's nothing has happened yet in 2025.
So, this is about stories from last year.
In March last year, we saw the XZ utils back door.
It had a CV SS score of 10, meaning it's pretty bad.
I mean, on a scale of one to 10, it is a 10.
But what does CV SS stand for?
I think some of the words are, is ignore it and we'll go into the next question.
More recently, in March, November 2024, version 6.12 relates can always release with a long-term support version, guaranteed updates until when.
It's a year and it's in the not too distant future, because it's long-term.
Number three, last March, the folk behind redis suffered a difficulty in reading comprehension, believing that the new redis source available license wasn't any way open source.
So, as of version 7.2.4, redis was forped, but what name was given to that new software.
And if anyone was in the previous session, it was on the screen for the entire time.
I did not know they were going to ruin my quiz like that.
And as for an audience bonus point, redis were on the only ones to make a hash of licensing.
Has she caught also misstep? I believe misstep is the couple outweigh of saying that right.
Anyone know what terraform became?
Who said open to through?
Points.
You've won the four points for your audience, there we go.
And what about vote?
What was I?
Another four points for the audience.
Yes, open bow.
And finally, an open European country.
In July, saw some good news with one country, which was to require all government software to be open source.
Which European country was it?
I've been there a few times myself.
If the lovely place I've eaten a lot of cheese, I've hugged a statue of Freddie Mercury.
And let's face it, there's a lot to like. I mean, even their flag. I mean, it's a big plus.
You know how long I spent writing these gags. I've got to use them.
So as we shuffle forward, CVSS is common vulnerability scoring system.
Yeah, you're nay. Yes. Okay, we'll trust you.
No. And yes, that looks about right.
I don't know, although crazy vulnerability is something something.
Okay, the letters at least match. We'll give you some points for that.
And you have...
I won't come in vulnerability standard score. Yeah, that's also close enough. We'll give you that. So well done.
Next.
When is the kernel long term support?
Until next year?
Well, what are you reckon?
2038.
Isn't that when the clocks completely destroyed themselves as human out of bits to store the time?
Yeah, no way is anyone going to support anything past 2038, are they?
So it's so 16, I've saw it.
13 and and 2028. So we clearly get some points for that one. Nice.
The new name for Redis.
Valky.
No.
Blanks. Blanks. Redis too.
You know, you're trying to upstate me, aren't you?
And vote on.
Okay, one point for getting the letter right.
What is?
And the open European country that is pushing to have everything open source is Switzerland.
And this is the reference from the count on as your name.
And to easily, too easy, too easy, too easy, too easy, too easy.
Too hard. Okay.
So four points around there.
Ding, ding.
No, I didn't go.
And ding.
Excellent, right.
An audience challenge time.
So for this one, we're going to try something.
Does anyone here do any sort of rebutite things and does that loam,
something?
Anyone do that?
You do.
How much of law, Mipson, can you quote, do you think?
Audience gets one point.
No.
Okay, we won't do that one then.
We'll do the next one.
This bit is entitled Battles.
And if you'd like to make yourself known, you're a cheerleader for this one.
So this is an individual round played in two parts.
In the first part, I'm going to give each of you two alternatives.
For example, Star Wars or Star Trek.
And you write on your pad which one you think this audience prefers.
Take a look at them.
I've seen a couple of Star Wars t-shirts around today.
That's not to influence you.
So write down whether you think this audience looks like this is the practice round.
If you think it's a Star Wars or a Star Trek kind of an audience.
And I'll ask, if Star Wars is your favorite, give us, and you're going to be at the cheerleader.
You go, so, for Star Wars, we cheer now.
Yeah?
And for Star Trek?
I asked my junior cater, who's the winner there?
Star Trek, so you'll all get a point.
If you got Star Trek, would you have Star Wars?
Star Trek?
Okay, we got, okay, if it's only a practice round, now you know what's going on.
Let's try it with the...
Okay, thank you, we're back. Great. So, first up, Vi or Emacs.
I'm calling it Vi because I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't improved.
I'm not the only one that old, it's good to know.
Great.
And Emacs, I remember it being joked as 18 megs and continuously swapping.
What is the current reference for Emacs? I don't know.
Because obviously I use Vi.
So, you're going to Vi or Emacs on your port?
Okay, you ready? So, a cheer for Vi.
Here we go. Do we even need to do Emacs? Is anyone breathing enough?
A careful, okay. So, if anyone here said Vi, they're going to get some points.
Who's getting points? Show me. Show the audience. How many? What do you get?
The audience is that way, by the way.
Four points all round. Brilliant stuff, everybody.
Great. Next up, we've got the connections. Oh, and before we do the connections round,
do a quick rehash of the scores.
Oh, yes.
Audience, see, sir. Nine points, which is not bad for someone who's not playing.
So, round five, but thanks a lot over in the corner for being a cheerleader on this section.
Thank you.
Round five is all about connections.
Three projects are the Rita and Rose Garden. What connects all three?
Next, hadup, PHP, Postgresuel.
Clipper, Erlang and Go. And if I'm being honest, this was the weakest question I came up with in this section.
So, then my SQL open JDK and Erlang Alexa.
If anyone gets number four, they'll definitely get bonus points.
So, what do you think it is for the first one?
True love. True love.
They all start with R. They all start with R.
They all start with R. They all start with R. They all start with R. They all start with R.
So, when we went to school and both taught the three hours of reading, writing, and arithmetic,
that's definitely worth the points.
It's sound and audio stuff. It's sound and audio stuff.
It's audio stuff.
We've got the points on the board there. Excellent. Next one.
Hadup, PHP, Postgres.
What do you reckon connects them? I thought we had a separate microphone.
What do you reckon?
PHP is not quite a database.
And yours has...
OK.
There was a successive lamp.
Half of them probably are. I would say something a little more sort of the elephant in the room,
in the room, kind of an answer.
Clip that Urlang and Go Lang?
This question is so bad. I think I'm just going to give points anyway.
Yes?
Crazy asynchronous things.
Yeah.
I don't even know what clip it is, though.
But they are languages. They will get points for that.
And you've also got programming.
We will definitely give you points for the programming language things.
There was one very special thing about why I picked those particular languages.
Anyone from the audience wants to have a hazard a guess at what that is.
The languages are all named for the companies that spawned them.
There is a company called Nantucket Clipper that created the ships.
They created a language for themselves called Clipper, Erlang from Ericsson, and Go Lang from Google.
Because if you want to search for a programming language called Go, you are clearly not going to get it.
But there again you are running a search company.
Surely that should be the first thing you think of, right?
Who in the Go Lang department wasn't that good on SEO?
That's what I mean.
And finally my SQL Open JDK and Erlang Elixir.
This is another call back to first them.
They've all had dev rooms where it's and friends.
So there's a bit of dev in code my SQL and friend. Open JDK and friends and Erlang Elixir and friends.
And I bet no one would have got that did they.
Is anyone honest in the audience and would have got that?
No.
Right, we were going to have another audience round.
I'm not sure we have time unfortunately.
And we don't have.
Okay, let's try.
Whose law is it anyway?
For whose law is this?
Either the person's name or the person who claimed it.
Given enough eyeballs or bugs of shallow.
You think I've sort of an early sort of project in this space.
The person who is person has already been named once already tonight.
Yes.
Makes one adding man power.
To a late project makes it later.
Do we still agree with that statement?
You could put me make it shorter by removing management I suppose.
Any piece of software reflects the organized structure that produced it.
Okay, we're getting so many bad looks.
I think I'll just block that round entirely.
So.
The other question was any software that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript.
Given enough eyeballs or bugs of shallow audience.
Yes, let us and who coined that.
Double bonus points for the audience.
Adding man power to late project makes it later.
It books books law from the mythical man month.
Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure.
Got my audience again.
Not the same come way that did game with life, however.
And any software that can be written is.
Adwords law.
There is also the extension of that, which is my law, which is it will eventually be written in JavaScript and by me.
So round I who said that is a very long talking one.
So audience get a chance to shout out that.
The GNU GPL was not designed to be open source.
Oh, okay, yes, okay.
Oh boy, I forgot not done that one.
Hillary Clinton blah blah blah blah blah blah something open source.
Who do you think wrote that or said that evolving something Hillary Clinton and open source?
But back a bummer.
I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of windows.
Okay, there's a cool for Steve Bama and I believe you're right, I believe it is Steve Bama.
And it feels a little funny coming here to tell you guys that the next and open source of the future of gaming is sort of like going to Rome and teaching catholicism to the Pope.
What famousish game developer type person do you think that would be?
Is I think someone had it then?
Yes, yes, from valve.
So, which is stormen as we said.
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah in 2016.
I thought Hillary Clinton it's you know, who else is going to talk about politics and open source in that manner?
Yeah.
I was thinking about writing one of these rounds with chat GPT.
You could book, you probably think the jokes have been written by it, I know, but that was Steve Bama.
And game deal, founder of valve.
So, round nine there's an XKCD for that.
What do you reckon, I think some of the, I think there's people in the audience are already thinking, yes, this is my round.
This is the one where I'm going to excel.
So, we have a series of XKCD comics.
These things are so common, you don't even need to comic anymore.
You just put the number up and everyone knows what the joke is.
If you want the URL, this is a hint.
So, any of our floor contestants, what comic is that?
You get four points if you can get it from just a number.
Okay.
The title has the initials HSP.
Ridiculous, we need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
Yes, it is.
I got another slide.
How standard to proliferate.
Now, as a bonus point for the audience and those who are watching closely,
before we have, there are so many competing standards.
How many is in the first box?
14, yes, 14.
But I can't get four points to everyone who knew that because then the scores wouldn't change.
So, I can't be bothered.
Right.
E-O-A-M.
Something of, mmm.
Hi, this is your son's school.
We're having some computer trouble.
It's probably tables, exploits of a mom, correct?
Audiods four points.
Now, does anyone here actually know that?
We're about to drop table students,
cuts to me, code of minus minus by heart.
Yes?
Okay, audience gets another point.
9th V6, that was a good one, one up.
Title, just the initials, PS.
Passwords.
And finally, 806.
Title of just T-S.
Yes, what do you think?
Shibalete is the correct answer.
Text support.
And this, the answer is Shibalete.
And in order, there's only one, 710?
Okay, that's conjecture.
You know, when I was doing the research for this,
I was looking for an open source maintainer who lived in the
Brasca that we're doing video call with us here.
And I couldn't find one.
So, yes, the collapse conjecture is 710.
So, round 10 is let's go to the pub.
But before we do that, we'll look at the final scores.
Here we have.
Michael makes on 27.
Well, I'm Michael.
Yes, he deserves it. He did well.
Michaela on 19.
Yes.
As stand in for J. Random at 24.
But then we got the audience and our virtual mother,
both of 30 points.
You're the tie.
So, with all that done, all I can say is,
Thank you for turning up.
Thank you especially.
Thank you all the scores that's wrong.
Especially out.
And wonderful contestants here.
Stand up and take a bow, my friends.
He does it so well.
Thank you.
Thank you all. You can stay there.
Stay there for the bow as we play the outro music.
So, it's not so loud, and yes, those are all wrong.
And it's a unique thing for sort of cruise show endings.
It includes a slide for software.
And that's it. We're done. Peace out.