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38th Chaos Communication Congress

by joeig on 12/24/24, 8:15 AM with 195 comments

  • by TheAceOfHearts on 12/24/24, 8:55 AM

    What talks are people most interested in?

    It looks like Joscha Bach [0] is continuing his "From Computation to Consciousness" series. I've enjoyed some of his older talks so I'll probably check out this new entry as well.

    A few of the science talks related to biology also seem really interesting, although it reminds me of how much I'm lacking in understanding and knowledge of the topic. It looks like there's a big focus on mixing generative AI with biology research, and I don't know enough to disambiguate whether there truly innovative work happening or if this is an attempt to ride the AI hype cycle. Does anyone here have experience and knowledge on the topic to suggest whether the talks are worth checking out?

    [0] https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/3...

  • by FlorianRappl on 12/24/24, 10:36 AM

    This is actually one of the few conferences where I really like pretty much every talk. These are not mainstream, yet all of them convey so much knowledge and information. End of the year is always reserved for watching CCC talks...

  • by rurban on 12/24/24, 8:53 AM

    Livestreams will be here https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/

  • by joeig on 12/24/24, 8:18 AM

    Schedule: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/schedu...

    Many talks are usually available in the live stream and on demand.

  • by Zolomon on 12/24/24, 8:56 AM

    The ticketing system was horrible, it really was not fair this year around.

  • by firefax on 12/24/24, 1:42 PM

    >To see our schedule, please either enable JavaScript or go here for our NoJS schedule.

    Great design. Too often sites force me to temporarily whitelist their JS to get basic info.

  • by sourcepluck on 12/24/24, 9:54 AM

    Keep meaning to go to this. What a great thing, the talks are often wonderful!

  • by wunderwuzzi23 on 12/24/24, 1:21 PM

    Still bummed that the CFP was only 10 days this year, and I totally missed it.

  • by dtquad on 12/24/24, 9:35 AM

    38 years of advocacy for more degrowth and regulations in Europe.

  • by Y_Y on 12/24/24, 9:29 AM

    I love watching CCC every years though I rarely catch it live. Since we have a couple of days to wait for this year's talk, I'll ask. Does it bother anyone else that some talks are in German, or does it bother anyone else that they find themselves bothered that the talks are in German?

    I love all languages great and small, natural and formal and so I'm conflicted on subjects like this. I find young German speakers to be generally both good at English and pragmatic about choice of language and I'm glad to see that they haven't ceded the ground entirely.

    On the other hand you might consider a language as a network whose utility grows with number of nodes. Or you believe in the inevitability of Gresham's Law driving out good currency with bad. I have sympathy for this point, and in an emergency in a mixed nationality group would certainly shout "fire" in English first.

    As an example I'll be interested to watch this one about data protection for age verification: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/S... but feel it would be a shame if the reach was limited by the choice of language. AFAIR they don't do multilingual restreams (automated or otherwise) like some other online events.

    (Übrigens kann ich doch Deutsch, trotzdem mein Standpunkt bleibt.)

  • by flawn on 12/24/24, 9:45 AM

    Banger program once again! WOW!

  • by lakomen on 12/25/24, 7:13 PM

    It will be glorious.

    I have quite a few recordings I'd like to watch

  • by a9ex on 12/24/24, 10:11 AM

    Which talks are you looking forward to watch?

  • by sylware on 12/24/24, 1:34 PM

    What about the 0-days trading backroom? Still a thing since now you have more special services agents than anything else... or mafia...

  • by amai on 12/24/24, 7:51 PM

    Here is the schedule https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/schedu...

    Interesting talks e.g.

    "Breaking NATO Radio Encryption"