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Talks from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress Entry created on 2026-01-01 (edited 2026-01-09) Authors: steeph (365) Categories: CCC (4) Talks (5) Languages used: de (89) en (252) Topics: Events → Chaos → Congress (3)

Yet another year is over without me having been at one of teh big Chaos events. Congress stays one of my favouruite vents. Until I'll be there in person, again, I mostly consume it over the fediverse and look forward to watching interesting and entertaining talk recordings. I don't usually do this, but this time I felt like recommending the talks I got the best out of.

Die Känguru-Rebellion: Digital Independence Day

56 min - deutsch - CCC & Community - Marc-Uwe Kling and Linus Neumann

Die meiste Zeit Unterhaltung von Mark-Uwe Kling. Er liest sein Comics über Elon Musk und Jeff Bezos auf dem Mars. Das ganze ist Publikums-Lockmittel für die Vorstellung der Idee des Digitalen Unabhängigkeitstags (DUT)/Digital Independence Day (DID). Unter dem Hashtag #DUTgemacht bzw. #DIDit sollen Interessierte von nun an an jedem ersten Sonntag im Monat den Umstieg weg von geschlossenen Plattformen, von Millardären kontrollierten Diensten und gesellschaftsschädlichen Apps und Webseiten besprechen bzw. öffentlich mit dem Erfolgreichen Verzicht angeben. Dazu gäbe es eineiges zu sagen. Vielleicht werde ich das ja noch in einem eigenen Post darüber. Es ist aus unterschiedlichen Gründen gar keine so schlechte Idee und sie wurde öffentlichkeitswirksam vorgestellt. Der DUT hat jetzt schon viele Vertreter und kann als erfolgreich eingeführt betrachtet werden. Projektwebseite: di.day

The idea of a monthly Digital Independence Day (DID) on which many people draw attention to and discuss possibilities to remove power from billionaires and their corporations by choosing to use alternatives is a good one. There's a few things to talk about here. And maybe I will in a separate post.

All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale

60 min - Englisch - Security - Q Misell and 551724 / maya boeckh

Entertaining story of an investigation into fake and otherwise illegitimately sold German train tickets, a stolen signing key, communication with transport companies, a QR code that is illegal to scan. Just a good and entertaining story.

Hacking washing machines

56 min - Englisch - Hardware - Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski and Hajo Noerenberg

20 year old washing machines have interesting interfaces for analising and controlling their sensors and actuators. Software for service technitions, firmware dump of a controller, finding the reason why a machine is no longer spin-drying. Newer machines have even more interfaces. Custom apps for controlling and reading them would be interesting. A good insight into those things (not a comnplete overview) based on the speaker's experiences.

Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents

58 min - English - Security - Johann Rehberger

Demonstrating AI agent exploits, many of them surprisingly simple!

AI Agent, AI Spy

40 min - English - Ethics, Society & Politics - Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker

In-depth introduction to the privacy-invading design and features of an OS-integrated AI agent (Microsoft Recall). This was quite interesting and reveiling to me because I have had hardly more information on it than the headlines conveyed and I have no experience with AI agents myself. The talk covers reliability, vulnerability, privacy-intruding design and functioning principle, and an appeal to the people creating agentic systems ("touch grass, press pause" and "stop reckless deployment"). I cocur with most of what's said in the talk, bt also learned some details about MS Recall. Apparently the negative hype wasn't exaggerated. This is an extraordinary bad design, made by combining bad ideas, resulting in software that antagonises the user more than anything MS has ever tried.

PRÜF

38 min - deutsch - Ethics, Society & Politics - Nico Semsrott

Nico Semsrott stellt die PRÜF-Kampagne vor. Inklusive Gemeinschaftsrituale (naja, nur Singen). Aber gute Vorstellung und Erklärung der Kampagne.

Wer liegt hier wem auf der Tasche? - Genug mit dem Bürgergeld-Fetisch. Stürmt die Paläste!

56 min - deutsch - Ethics, Society & Politics - Helena Steinhaus

Über die aktuelle Bürgergelddebatte, armenfeindliche Politik, grubndgesetzwidrige Sanktionen, Bestrafung von Schwäche. Parteiische, oft polemisch, manchmal u7nsachlich. Aber ich denke das ist erkenn-und einortenbar. Trotzdem eine intere4ssante Dartstellung einer wichtige Sichtweise und mangels sozialerer Gesetze und Politik leider notwendiger zuvilgesellschaftlicher Hilfe.

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Entry created on 2022-11-27 Authors: steeph (364) Categories: Linux (35) Talks (4) Video (1) Languages used: en (251)

I like how "Linux on the desktop" is still the same running joke nowadays even though the vision has lost it's relevance as a goal.

Linux on mobile is nowaday's "Linux on the desktop". And don't make the mistake to think that Android is Linux and so Linux has won.

Here's a talk from this year about Linux Mobile: "Is there hope for Linux on smartphones?" by Guido Günther

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Entry created on 2022-04 Authors: steeph (364) Categories: Computer (77) Free Software Foundation (1) LibrePlanet (1) Talks (4) Languages used: en (251)

Working through open tabs of stuff that sounds interesting, I came across a bunch of videos of talks from LibrePlanet 2022 recently. Never heard of it before. But the videos are as interesting as their titles make them sound.

Blog post of the FSF: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-the-next-step-in-living-liberation-watch-the-libreplanet-2022-videos-today

Video recordings on FramaTube:

Video recordings on libreplanet.org: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/tag/libreplanet-2022-video/

And there's also @libreplanet2022@framatube.org in the fediverse. (Edit: Apparently that profile doesn't exist anymore.)

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Vortrag: Luzide Träume Entry Permalink (edited 2020-03-06) Authors: steeph (364) Categories: Dreaming (9) Lucid Dreaming (12) Talks (4) Videos (4) Languages used: de (88)

Ein Vortrag, den ich Anfang 2015 im RaumZeitLabor gehalten habe.

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