God damn it! I won't be downloading all the 33c3 talks this year to watch
offline, instead I will stream them from the excellent
media.ccc.de
. No
good reason, I am only doing this because when making a list to feed to wget I
did:
I didn't really have the disc spare to store 100GB or so of talks anyway. I
will stream the videos in my browser instead. I don't really have set approach
to watching the CCC talks. I normally work through the list watching things
that other have said were good, or talks whose title catches my eye.
Chaos is an important part of CCC, most of the best things that happen are
pranks that only a small number of people experience. The Fnord News Show has a
large audience German speaking audience, I am pretty sure this awesome 'event'
is unknown outside of the German crowd.
14 hours of sleep, I feel like I have woken up in another dimension.
There is a ton of congress stuff floating around twitter,
Here
is a list
of talks ranked from the number of tweets and retweets mentioning them. If you
are only going to watch a couple of sessions from 33c3 that list is probably
great.
I
caught an awesome article
classifying the MacOS malware found in 2016. I
am glad there is so little malware aimed at this platform.
I was hoping to write the first blog post of this year from the airport, but
time conspired against me. With BA moving my flight 24 hours I had to decided
between having a quiet New Year and a fun one.
I certainly did not go to 'There is No Party' which was not held somewhere in
HH. The music was excellent, the crew that did the lighting and audio did
amazing work. It makes me wonder what could happen here if there was space
where people could play.
From the party I headed back to the apartment, packed and set off for the
airport. I turned a long day with a weird sense of time into an adventure
across Hamburg at New Year and through the Airport.
By the time I made Heathrow I was on about 4 hours sleep in a 36 hour window, I
opted to nap instead of writing..
An abundance of particles in the air forced BA to cancel my flights home. They
knocked my flight back 24 hours without any choice in the timing of my new
flight. This means I get to spend an extra night in Hamburg and I get to move
all of my new year plans to somewhere in the future.
Congress is done for another year, it has been any amazing event. There really
is nothing like it on the planet, attempts at describing the event and
conveying that different world always seem to fail.
The Chaos Communication Congress really is a place that must be seen, with the
CCH being knocked down next year the event you go to will certainly be
materially different that the one I have attended for the past three years.
I cannot wait to see how the deal with loosing the CCH and where CCC ends up in
the future.
