https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification... Cory Doctorow's talk is quite strong.
It is a very good talk and he makes some really great points, but alas the EU will never have the balls to do this (I'm a EU citizen :'-( )
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#82I just started watching the Cory Doctorow talk and he used the expression "the war on general purpose computing", which I liked a lot.
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#83I just started watching the Cory Doctorow talk and he used the expression "the war on general purpose computing", which I liked a lot.
That's actually the name of a talk he used to give. Very well done, but it didn't actually come true the way he thought it would.
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#84Where were people's favourite lectures? I attended 7 talks. My favourite talk by far was hacking the GPG. Brilliant, really: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical... The "In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch" was a very inspiring talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturi... The rest were less good for me personally. Either over-dramatic and shallow (with a se…
order by personal rank: Sandstorm JP-8000 sawtooth DSP reversing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q5T7wTpQ Washing machines hacking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1S-PVo3GlA AMD (ps5 sorta) security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVJZYT8kYsI cool demo for the BT headphones talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5Tz4Bt94Y precise time syncing with PTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co x86 > arm with…
> precise time syncing with PTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co
I am not so much into videos but due to some extended interest in the matter I decided to watch the recording of that talk and I do not regret it. Much recommended to everyone who is interested in the state of the art of precision time synchronization over network. Also, in my opinion this talk is presented masterfully with most of the time actually spent on a convincing live demo.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-i...
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#85It's a strange mix of very good tech talks and left-wing extremism. I'm looking forward to watching "Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?" and "The art of text (rendering)" as examples of the former. An example of the latter is "selbstverständlich antifaschistisch!"
Only fascist have an issue with antifascists.
What would be strange are hackers that are fascist. Fascism demands surrender to power and obedience, which is antithetical to the hacker sprit. Questioning systems, equalizing power imbalances is the hacker spirit.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's linked right above in this chain. I am not going to discuss why killing people is intolerant. That's just silly even for hn standards.
You edited your post after I commented and there was nothing about killing there before. (Just something about haters) Indeed not HN standards. And if Joshua said killing people is good, I am interested in a full quote.
Zero trust, bravo.
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> For OMG eye opening factor the FreeBSD jails talk (how the hell is this thing still so buggy?) Because everything that complex is going to be that buggy. With the bugs they found fix a constant number of them still remains.
Linus said 'many eyes make all bugs shallow', but compared to Linux, there are not many eyes looking at FreeBSD.
Linus has said a lot of stuff over the years and not all of it was on the money. Still, he did a lot of good and I'm very grateful for it, Linux has been my daily driver for almost two decades now (basically from when I stopped using SGI because there was no point any more).
But bugs in large codebases will always be a thing, and even though the eyes looking at FreeBSD are very, very good eyes, indeed there are not enough of them. The more interesting thing here is that they picked a really hard target. If they had done the same with Linux I would expect the number of bugs to be quite a bit higher.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For OMG eye opening factor the FreeBSD jails talk (how the hell is this thing still so buggy?) Because everything that complex is going to be that buggy. With the bugs they found fix a constant number of them still remains.
Linus said 'many eyes make all bugs shallow', but compared to Linux, there are not many eyes looking at FreeBSD.
That "many eyes" theory has failed us many times. For example, OpenSSL's heartbleed or the recent React RCEs.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
well, about 20 this year?
Every of the lightning talks itself had about 20 short different topics, And as I wrote these were examples, you didn't expect someone to re-enumerate them here all to refute your statement. You can easily find them yourself. Have look at this page, where others listed their favorites, there are many more. But I don't think from your reply you didn't look at the list of sessions yourself.
As someone who has been following the congress for twenty years (and if I couldn't be there, I watched streams and recordings), I have to say once again that it used to be better. The selection of topics was broader and more interesting. About fifteen years ago, politics entered the picture, and over the years it has become more and more prevalent. Strange people began to appear, and about ten years ago, this event ceased to be a cozy meeting place for hackers and geeks. I am very sad about that.