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36th Chaos Communication Congress – Streams

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PSA: All talks will be live-translated between English and German, and into one additional language (primarily into French or Spanish; on occasion there were translations into Russian and Mandarin) [0].

If you find any talks on the schedule [1] that seem interesting but are in a language you're not fluent in, use the 'native'/'translated' switcher in the video player.

Subtitles will be available after congress, here [2].

Finally: Congress is an amazing experience, and it's all volunteer-driven (including the crazy network infrastructure, the live streams, the translations and everything). If you have some spare time between Christmas and the new year, consider visiting next time around. It's a lot of fun!

[0] https://c3lingo.org/

[1] https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/index....

[2] https://c3subtitles.de/

You'd have to be lucky though. Unless you are/were an angel (volunteer) you'll have to depend on the ticket lottery. The switch to Hamburg wasn't enough to accommodate the number of participants nor did the switch to Leipzig. It really is a very popular event.

They are slowly scaling the event up. Hamburg were 15k people. Last year was 18k. But they are careful to scale it slowly so that things dont collapse.

There where 3 dates for buying a ticket. For me it was no problem as the webpage for buying did not have the usual problems like being down when sale started. You have to be there in time though

Will they be on youtube? Id like to watch them when travelling.

Yes https://www.youtube.com/user/mediacccde

No livestreams though. Usually the delay between the talk and the release is a couple hours.

You can also download them from https://media.ccc.de

Looking forward to this years installment of talks. I sort of wonder if this year will be a bit more technical again. The last 5 years felt like technical topics faded into the background in favor if social issues and knitting ...

The schedule looks pretty decently packed again this year to me. I'm interested in at least one talk from almost every time slot, personally.

If you're looking for a good and approachable talk about IM crypto and related subjects, hunt for this one once it gets published:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events...

Saw it live and it was quite enjoyable.

Already published: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10565-what_s_left_for_private_me...

Another talk that's pretty awesome is this one:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events...

The non-technical topics couldn't be more relevant today. The idea that tech just exists in a bubble, and that one does not need to concern themselves with any ethical or moral implications is causing more harm than ever before. Dismissing that as "social issues and knitting" is concerning to me.

(knitting also being a notably feminine-coded activity)

You also have to cater to your user base. Otherwise theres no point going to that conference instead of reading medium articles.

The Chaos Communication Congresses have sold out in seconds every year for a decade. Visitor numbers are limited only by how many people they think they can fit. It is unrivaled in technical, medial and cultural relevancy in the region.

At that point, the question becomes not how you get people to come, but who you want at your event. And I'm very glad that for Congress, this means being unashamedly political, artistic, social, antifascist, inklusive. If that scares you away, that's by design.

Last time a bunch of people tried too much to be "political, artistic, social, antifascist, inklusive", Trump was elected.

At least technicity is objective and drama free

I've been sitting here trying to understand what point you're trying to make for a few minutes and I'm really coming up blank.

Point that pushing subjective political point of views in technical conferences will not make the tech nor the political landscape better. Its actually divisive to push your own point of views without restraint and can actually backfire.

> You also have to cater to your user base.

I'm certain they are - it's possible those who don't like what they are doing are not the user base.

You find some more information in the wiki: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This is the active IRC channel: https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/#36c3

Grafana Dashboard with Network Metrics and more:

https://dashboard.congress.ccc.de/

Can someone summarize what this is and why it’s interesting? It’s not clear from the landing page, it looks like some kind of listing of streams?

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2019/36c3-in-leipzig

It is like defcon but in Germany. If you check the ccc.de website it will help you to get a better idea

It's the annual Chaos Communication Congress that is held between christmas and new years eve and that is also live streamed.

Usually there are lot's of interesting topics for the HN community

These are live streams for the chaos communication congress. The most important conference for hackers in Germany and certainly one of the most important conferences for hackers world wide.

The 36C3 is a gathering of hackers hosted by the german Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and is one of the biggest in the world.

Traditionally many of the talks streamed there are pure gold, they even have english translation for the German talks. Given that the title of this page is hacker news it should really be on the top of the page when it is happening.

All the stuff is recorded and stored on http://media.ccc.de, which you can spend months on because you will find recordings of more than a decade of talks on interesting topics.

> they even have english translation for the German talks

Really? I tried the videos and couldn't find any. How do you unlock these translations?

I too could not find them on media.ccc.de, but this is the list of English talks from 35C3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_IxoDz1Nq2YUlQqBSg0F...

This has both English-spoken and translated videos on it.

In the bottom right corner of the player is a button labeled "native" it opens a dropdown in which you can select translation

It's available, but a bit hidden on media.ccc.de. There's a cog wheel icon on the lower right corner of the video player. Hover over it, and a list of languages ("deu" is German, "eng" is English, "fra" and "esp" are French and Spanish, respectively) should pop up.

The streams and videos posted here are essentially the gold standard of security and hacking talks from extremely clever hackers around the world who gather here to showcase their projects or research on many topics from security, open-source, hacking, retro-computing, privacy, etc.

There is always something interesting to learn from these talks on CCC (Chaos Communication Congress) every year and that is why they're of interest to many of us here.

Decentralization cluster (featuring Monero), streaming at: https://youtu.be/Xu_QH6oi7oA

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