I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote • Hacker News Board

Re: I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

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Post by hnha » Tue, Dec 31, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

poppingtonic wrote: post #49

hnha wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aaaah! Why should a remote application be involved? It sounds completely unneeded to limit this to a web browser running software controlled by others. Just let the user select a media file and provide keyboard controlled playback controls plus a text editor. I think some software like this is available for subtitle editing.

You must be really sensitive to horrible design choices. Sorry about that one.

in a discussion about the surveillance state it just seems wrong to suggest web apps. :)

Re: I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

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Post by danimo » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 2:44 AM UTC

jokoon wrote: post #29

watching the video, at some points there seems to be audio lag... I even wonder if the NSA actually tried to DDOS the skype call conference.

They did not. For unknown reasons, the switch in the Conference hall got manipulated (unplugged). It carried both the Skype call and the stream to the outside world.

Re: I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

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Post by officialjunk » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:14 AM UTC

poppingtonic wrote: post #46

3ds wrote: post #4

nice work, maybe you would like to contribute it to the subtitle team effort? http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/ specifically here: http://subtitles.pads.ccc.de/5622

Seems someone already did it, thank you.

I think you are mistaken. The official crowd sourced transcripts for the CCC were more or less complete prior to your efforts. Refer to the timeline for this event's transcript here: https://subtitles.pads.ccc.de/ep/pad/view/5622/latest

It would be nice if you could contribute back, by making any corrections, as these are the transcripts that are linked to from the CCC's website and probably most people will find.

Re: I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

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Post by poppingtonic » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 11:23 AM UTC

jnbiche wrote: post #5

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Re: I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

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Post by poppingtonic » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 12:18 PM UTC

hnha wrote: post #51

poppingtonic wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be really sensitive to horrible design choices. Sorry about that one.

in a discussion about the surveillance state it just seems wrong to suggest web apps. :)

Thanks for calling me out on that. With that comment, I basically lowered the quality of a discussion that I started (being the poster), and for that I apologize.

Re: I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

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Post by mercer » Fri, Jan 03, 2014, 12:22 PM UTC

freshhawk wrote: post #40

AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technology will be the solution, not politics. Cryptography is the only way out of this hell.

Technology makes things more efficient, in general. That means those in power have a heightened ability to abuse that power. The idea that technology is a democratizing force is based on wishful thinking. Technology is not, and has never been, a solution to the concentration of power. I say that as someone who would absolutely love for this not to be true by the way.

Indeed. Perhaps the most hopeful thing to say about technology is that it is a disrupting force, and at least offers some interesting new avenues to explore (both for good, and evil, though).