random notes from 22c3 day 1
word of the day, though invented by a nervous speaker probably on accident, is: automagically
most presentation were far too brief - no “insider hacker secrets” to be heard.
the best was hacking data retention given by Brenno de Winter from the Netherlands, who talked about how totally senseless the upcoming EU wide data retention laws are. he recommends to set up our own email and communication servers and to use SILC.
hopalong casualty gave a basic introduction about video image processing without touching deeper grounds.
message generation at the info layer was pretty much pointless since the topic was not clear even after the talk had been given.
media system deployment using python looked interesting (and probably was) but i spent most of the talk coding ruby for a python contest. a big plus was the almost perfect english of the speaker.
writing better code (in dylan) sounded promising, but the presentation was just done too badly (complex examples, too little explained). i installed dylan anyway (it’s in fink), maybe it’s my next language to learn.
i had a lot of pain fun listening to the german accents of the speakers. i would have expected more presentation of in-depth knowledge. i’ll probably stick to the talks given by foreign speakers.
the blinken lights experiments set up in the lounge on the base floor are pretty cool, you can play with them via phone.
i also liked the pong 3d game (next to blinken lights). essentially a 3d cubic array of red LEDs that display the paddles/ball and can be controlled using joysticks.
what are all these people sitting on the floor doing with their laptops all the time?
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