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39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

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by neiman

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Where were people's favourite lectures?
I attended 7 talks.
My favourite talk by far was hacking the GPG. Brilliant, really: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical...
The "In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch" was a very inspiring talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturi...
The rest were less good for me personally. Either over-dramatic and shallow (with a sexy-sounding topic) or too procedural in topics I'm not an expert in.

by ekjhgkejhgk

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I just started watching the Cory Doctorow talk and he used the expression "the war on general purpose computing", which I liked a lot.

by Fnoord

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I haven't seen all of them (which I wanted to see) yet, I had a lot of fun with various talks. Thus far, my favourite one was hands down [1], and I can explain why. I am not at all good with hardware, nor hardware designing i.e. I'm not the target audience for this talk.
However, the talk was beautiful. It went quick, was informative, good slides, very respectful Q&A (comms and quality-wise), and it had a message of DIY _and_ inspiring hope. It is easy to criticize X or say we need to do better with Y. These guys are doing it, and their journey and findings is completely open source (even though there was substantial financial risk involved). The hacker spirit 101.
[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturi...

by kherud

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One interesting detail: In previous years, Joscha Bach gave a talk on AI, consciousness, and related topics (see e.g. [0]). A similar talk was planned for this year as well, but after emails between him and Epstein were made public (see his comment on this in [1]), his talk was canceled. Instead, there appears to have been an event that critically addressed the situation [2]. Unfortunately it was not recorded. Did anyone attend? A discussion between Joscha and his critics would have been really interesting.
[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace
[1] https://joscha.substack.com/p/on-the-jeffrey-epstein-affair
[2] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/tech...

by ChrisArchitect

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by blakesterz

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https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification...
Cory Doctorow's talk is quite strong.

by fbias

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I can’t not see Catbert in the video player iconography. Someone tell me they did this intentionally.

by utopiah

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Upvoted since mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452407 didn't take off.
PS: HN sucks with dupes.

by wormius

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I love this, but can't imagine attending, I'd just be constantly playing "spot the spook"...

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by peterfirefly

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It's a strange mix of very good tech talks and left-wing extremism.
I'm looking forward to watching "Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?" and "The art of text (rendering)" as examples of the former.
An example of the latter is "selbstverständlich antifaschistisch!"

by grantcas

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by TheCraiggers

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by cocodill

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Unfortunately, the congress is getting worse and worse every year. There are fewer and fewer interesting and technical topics. "It used to be better" moment.