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rC3 Fahrplan – The Chaos Communication Congress 2021 schedule

129 points by Tepix 5y ago

_8j50 5y ago
Just me or are the talks this year mostly in German? Also, what is it like to attend in person?
- chmod775 5y ago
  > Just me or are the talks this year mostly in German? The German talks appear to be largely political, concerning issues one probably wouldn't care about anyways if one does not speak German. For instance there's a talk about making Hamburg ad-free. With few exceptions the things that may be interesting to an international audience are in English.
  - gefhfff 5y ago
    I don't think making cities ad free in general isn't interesting to anyone who's not a German, let alone lives in that specific city
- jtl999 5y ago
  I noticed that too. However there is realtime translation by volunteers, and they seem to do a good job. https://c3lingo.org/ https://c3lingo.org/
  - stmuk 5y ago
    Some of the live streams allow you to select an English audio stream.
- eptcyka 5y ago
  There is no in-person conference this year.
- DocTomoe 5y ago
  When it was still on-location, many people focussed on interacting with other folks, having a drink (see: Tschunk) rather than stand in line to get into one of the Leipzig trade fair halls. Think of it as a big makerspace (Back in Hamburg, both activities were generally intermingled, due to that location being more approachable for such a "living room" atmosphere)
  - JaggerJo 5y ago
    Yes, when it was still in Hamburg it was fabulous.
- jcelerier 5y ago
  My talk / performance on https://ossia.io https://ossia.io the 30th will be in english :)
  - _8j50 5y ago
    Cheers, look forward to it.
- stmuk 5y ago
  One thing to watch for is that some of the German talks confusingly have English titles.
tuxuser 5y ago
is there a simple table representation of talks available somewhere?
- gefhfff 5y ago
  https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2021/Fahrplan/ https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2021/Fahrplan/
  - jesprenj 5y ago
    That's the same one as the linked table. It's not very usable on mobile phone browsers for example ...
    - eliaspro 5y ago
      On f-droid there's a dedicated Android app: https://f-droid.org/packages/info.metadude.android.rc3.schedule https://f-droid.org/packages/info.metadude.android.rc3.sched...
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- stmuk 5y ago
  https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/schedule/ https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/schedule/ is better. Top right hand side has a well hidden pulldown to download .json, .ics etc
sschueller 5y ago
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/csh/hls https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/csh/hls
albertzeyer 5y ago
Live streaming: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/ https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/ Recordings: https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021 https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021 Relive: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/relive https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/relive Tickets (none available anymore): https://tickets.events.ccc.de/RC3-21/ https://tickets.events.ccc.de/RC3-21/
timdaub 5y ago
I'm depressed about rC3. I totally get that we can't meet up in person and hack all day but this year I've been so unexcited about rC3 that I didn't even bother to get a (free) ticket. Of course, I value everybody's enthusiasm towards continuing a tradition. I'm happy the scene continues to do their best and I'm grateful to be able to listening in the talks. But it still feels off. The congress and other chaos events are so much more than what the live streams portait. It's exhibition halls full of nerds. Waves of applauses and cheering of everyone's excitement. Pixelflut, tschunk, blinking LEDs and having an awesome time with my haxor friends for 3 days a year. Fingers crossed that we can meet in person next year!
- Mizza 5y ago
  I miss the sound system. :( I liked club music okay, but had never experienced a proper German 8(12?)x18" thumping club system until CCC. I went back to America and built my own folded horn, 6kW system after that, but it's still not the same..
  - timdaub 5y ago
    yeah agreed. The disco areas they had in 2019, the sound was so super crisp. I wish I could reproduce the high fidelity clicking they played in some tracks
    - dalex00 5y ago
      Function one soundsystems are the crisp bomb
- tazjin 5y ago
  Some related events took place normally this year, e.g. Camp++. Hackerspaces in some cities are also active, open and provide some of that atmosphere. Don't passively expect the real Congress to come back (I think it's dead). Work towards finding substitute events that suit you instead, they will grow and eventually replace what Congress used to be.
  - 5y ago
dark-star 5y ago
It is sad that the C3 is going more and more political, and that actual technical content is apparently being phased out. There are very few technical "hacking" conferences anymore (i.e. not tied to a particular topic, e.g. Linux)
- bijant 5y ago
  Inviting a member of parliament just to talk about being a member of parliament is indeed a bit weird. The CCC has always been a political club but airing a 60 minute ad for an individual politician is indeed a new quality that will certainly be discussed inside the club afterwards. https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/talk/358/ https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/talk/358/
  - gefhfff 5y ago
    > Inviting a member of parliament just to talk about being a member of parliament Reading from your linked summary, I get the impression it's not just about being a member of the parliament
    - bijant 5y ago
      I have read it. It's filled with the usual politicians keyword stuffing but it's literally about being a member of parliament. If you want to be cynical you can call it an unpaid ad placement. The politician will use it afterwards to tout her expertise in "digital matters" because she held a speech at a renowned hackers conference and it will help her advancement in her factions caucus etc. I just don't see what benefit it has for attendees.
      - luckylion 5y ago
        To be fair, she's been a political activist partially focused on internet/tech for quite a while (her husband was part of Wikileaks, then founded OpenLeaks). I don't know whether she's a member, but she's very socially progressive and economically very far left, so her values are strongly aligned with the CCC. I don't think it's just a gift for her to speak at a CCC event, it's essentially one of them speaking about the things they like to hear.
kgarten 5y ago
Will be giving a rC3 talk about a new collaboration project: Frisson Waves tonight 22:00 CET (6:00+1 JST) Talk info: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021-fem/talk/RXUW8B/ https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021-fem/talk/RXUW8B/ Stream Link: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/fem https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/fem Work was also presented at Siggraph Asia the last weeks, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3476122.3484847 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3476122.3484847
- freemint 5y ago
  Thanks for your talk. It was completely out of my scope but really interesting. How can one get ones hand on the hardware? Is it open?
  - kgarten 5y ago
    Thanks a lot :) We are thinking about opensourcing. Not really any experience with it. It's quite easy to build yourself (ESP32 with EDA and heartrate attached). Can ask the hw team for the schematics (or just the sensing setup, I guess easy to replicate with most embedded platforms). We might still have a couple of bands in the lab somewhere ... If you have a cool idea what to use it for, could send one out. (Yet, might take a while before I know, Just ping me by mail).
pelasaco 5y ago
I was watching this presentation https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-chaosstudiohamburg-418-wir-brauchen-endlich-autokorrektur- https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-chaosstudiohamburg-418-wir-b... and I was surprised to see that actually the "expert" has actually no expertise in that matters https://katja-diehl.de/vita/ https://katja-diehl.de/vita/ and abuses widely of Loaded language. Really bad that CCC became that.

129 points by Tepix 5y ago

_8j50 5y ago

Just me or are the talks this year mostly in German? Also, what is it like to attend in person?

chmod775 5y ago
> Just me or are the talks this year mostly in German? The German talks appear to be largely political, concerning issues one probably wouldn't care about anyways if one does not speak German. For instance there's a talk about making Hamburg ad-free. With few exceptions the things that may be interesting to an international audience are in English.
- gefhfff 5y ago
  I don't think making cities ad free in general isn't interesting to anyone who's not a German, let alone lives in that specific city
jtl999 5y ago
I noticed that too. However there is realtime translation by volunteers, and they seem to do a good job. https://c3lingo.org/ https://c3lingo.org/
- stmuk 5y ago
  Some of the live streams allow you to select an English audio stream.
eptcyka 5y ago
There is no in-person conference this year.
DocTomoe 5y ago
When it was still on-location, many people focussed on interacting with other folks, having a drink (see: Tschunk) rather than stand in line to get into one of the Leipzig trade fair halls. Think of it as a big makerspace (Back in Hamburg, both activities were generally intermingled, due to that location being more approachable for such a "living room" atmosphere)
- JaggerJo 5y ago
  Yes, when it was still in Hamburg it was fabulous.
jcelerier 5y ago
My talk / performance on https://ossia.io https://ossia.io the 30th will be in english :)
- _8j50 5y ago
  Cheers, look forward to it.
stmuk 5y ago
One thing to watch for is that some of the German talks confusingly have English titles.

tuxuser 5y ago

is there a simple table representation of talks available somewhere?

gefhfff 5y ago
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2021/Fahrplan/ https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2021/Fahrplan/
- jesprenj 5y ago
  That's the same one as the linked table. It's not very usable on mobile phone browsers for example ...
  - eliaspro 5y ago
    On f-droid there's a dedicated Android app: https://f-droid.org/packages/info.metadude.android.rc3.schedule https://f-droid.org/packages/info.metadude.android.rc3.sched...
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
stmuk 5y ago
https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/schedule/ https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/schedule/ is better. Top right hand side has a well hidden pulldown to download .json, .ics etc

sschueller 5y ago

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/csh/hls https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/csh/hls

albertzeyer 5y ago

Live streaming: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/ https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/ Recordings: https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021 https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021 Relive: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/relive https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/relive Tickets (none available anymore): https://tickets.events.ccc.de/RC3-21/ https://tickets.events.ccc.de/RC3-21/

timdaub 5y ago

I'm depressed about rC3. I totally get that we can't meet up in person and hack all day but this year I've been so unexcited about rC3 that I didn't even bother to get a (free) ticket. Of course, I value everybody's enthusiasm towards continuing a tradition. I'm happy the scene continues to do their best and I'm grateful to be able to listening in the talks. But it still feels off. The congress and other chaos events are so much more than what the live streams portait. It's exhibition halls full of nerds. Waves of applauses and cheering of everyone's excitement. Pixelflut, tschunk, blinking LEDs and having an awesome time with my haxor friends for 3 days a year. Fingers crossed that we can meet in person next year!

Mizza 5y ago
I miss the sound system. :( I liked club music okay, but had never experienced a proper German 8(12?)x18" thumping club system until CCC. I went back to America and built my own folded horn, 6kW system after that, but it's still not the same..
- timdaub 5y ago
  yeah agreed. The disco areas they had in 2019, the sound was so super crisp. I wish I could reproduce the high fidelity clicking they played in some tracks
  - dalex00 5y ago
    Function one soundsystems are the crisp bomb
tazjin 5y ago
Some related events took place normally this year, e.g. Camp++. Hackerspaces in some cities are also active, open and provide some of that atmosphere. Don't passively expect the real Congress to come back (I think it's dead). Work towards finding substitute events that suit you instead, they will grow and eventually replace what Congress used to be.
- 5y ago

dark-star 5y ago

It is sad that the C3 is going more and more political, and that actual technical content is apparently being phased out. There are very few technical "hacking" conferences anymore (i.e. not tied to a particular topic, e.g. Linux)

bijant 5y ago
Inviting a member of parliament just to talk about being a member of parliament is indeed a bit weird. The CCC has always been a political club but airing a 60 minute ad for an individual politician is indeed a new quality that will certainly be discussed inside the club afterwards. https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/talk/358/ https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/talk/358/
- gefhfff 5y ago
  > Inviting a member of parliament just to talk about being a member of parliament Reading from your linked summary, I get the impression it's not just about being a member of the parliament
  - bijant 5y ago
    I have read it. It's filled with the usual politicians keyword stuffing but it's literally about being a member of parliament. If you want to be cynical you can call it an unpaid ad placement. The politician will use it afterwards to tout her expertise in "digital matters" because she held a speech at a renowned hackers conference and it will help her advancement in her factions caucus etc. I just don't see what benefit it has for attendees.
    - luckylion 5y ago
      To be fair, she's been a political activist partially focused on internet/tech for quite a while (her husband was part of Wikileaks, then founded OpenLeaks). I don't know whether she's a member, but she's very socially progressive and economically very far left, so her values are strongly aligned with the CCC. I don't think it's just a gift for her to speak at a CCC event, it's essentially one of them speaking about the things they like to hear.

kgarten 5y ago

Will be giving a rC3 talk about a new collaboration project: Frisson Waves tonight 22:00 CET (6:00+1 JST) Talk info: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021-fem/talk/RXUW8B/ https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021-fem/talk/RXUW8B/ Stream Link: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/fem https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/fem Work was also presented at Siggraph Asia the last weeks, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3476122.3484847 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3476122.3484847

freemint 5y ago
Thanks for your talk. It was completely out of my scope but really interesting. How can one get ones hand on the hardware? Is it open?
- kgarten 5y ago
  Thanks a lot :) We are thinking about opensourcing. Not really any experience with it. It's quite easy to build yourself (ESP32 with EDA and heartrate attached). Can ask the hw team for the schematics (or just the sensing setup, I guess easy to replicate with most embedded platforms). We might still have a couple of bands in the lab somewhere ... If you have a cool idea what to use it for, could send one out. (Yet, might take a while before I know, Just ping me by mail).

pelasaco 5y ago

I was watching this presentation https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-chaosstudiohamburg-418-wir-brauchen-endlich-autokorrektur- https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-chaosstudiohamburg-418-wir-b... and I was surprised to see that actually the "expert" has actually no expertise in that matters https://katja-diehl.de/vita/ https://katja-diehl.de/vita/ and abuses widely of Loaded language. Really bad that CCC became that.