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39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos
- blakesterz 9mo agohttps://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=0 https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification... Cory Doctorow's talk is quite strong.
- divan 9mo agoI shared this link on my personal FB page couple of times and it was automatically removed within seconds.
- crtasm 9mo agoI imagine it will be uploaded to the youtube channel soon: https://www.youtube.com/@mediacccde https://www.youtube.com/@mediacccde
- blurbleblurble 9mo agoWild.
- sneak 9mo agoThen why continue to donate time and attention to censorship platforms? Having a Facebook account is completely optional.
- divan 9mo agoNetwork effects, obviously.
- aweiher 9mo agoI’d argue that what you're experiencing isn't the Network Effect anymore, but rather Vendor Lock-in. The Network Effect implies the platform gets better for you as more people join. If they are deleting your content, the network is no longer serving you—it’s just holding you hostage. This is enshitification as it best. (this ironie with a cory doctorow link) At this stage, it’s just a walled garden. Staying because 'everyone is here' while being silenced is learned helplessness. You're voluntarily staying in a walled garden that refuses to let you speak. But: The door is wide open, you can go.
- divan 9mo agoI agree with you, but perhaps walled garden and network effects are not mutually exclusive. I.e. if I leave the garden, I'm losing value of being able to reach many people I care about.
- teroshan 9mo agoTranscript of the speech on his blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition An excerpt: > I assume you've spotted the pattern by now: the US trade representative has forced every one of its trading partners to adopt anticircumvention law, to facilitate the extraction of their own people's data and money by American firms. But of course, that only raises a further question: Why would every other country in the world agree to let America steal its own people's money and data, and block its domestic tech sector from making interoperable products that would prevent this theft? > Here's an anecdote that unravels this riddle: many years ago, in the years before Viktor Orban rose to power, I used to guest-lecture at a summer PhD program in political science at Budapest's Central European University. And one summer, after I'd lectured to my students about anticircumvention law, one of them approached me. > They had been the information minister of a Central American nation during the CAFTA negotiations, and one day, they'd received a phone-call from their trade negotiator, calling from the CAFTA bargaining table. The negotiator said, "You know how you told me not to give the Americans anticircumvention under any circumstances? Well, they're saying that they won't take our coffee unless we give them anticircumvention. And I'm sorry, but we just can't lose the US coffee market. Our economy would collapse. So we're going to give them anticircumvention. I'm really sorry." > That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash. > The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now! > I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?
- yunnpp 9mo agoPrecisely the first video I started downloading and I didn't even realize it was from Cory. It carries even more weight now that "post-American" is coming from...an American. This guy stands for his ideals, I envy such resolve.
- Phelinofist 9mo agoIt is a very good talk and he makes some really great points, but alas the EU will never have the balls to do this (I'm a EU citizen :'-( )
- neiman 9mo agoWhere 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-vulnerabilities-i 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-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be 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.
- SoylentBob 9mo agoThe one on the bluetooth headphone vulnerabilities was quite fun: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-ke...
- pamcake 9mo agoI also enjoyed the GPG talk. Other highlights: Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-an-impasse-child-safety-privacy-and-healing-together https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-an-impasse-child-safety-priv... APT Down and the mystery of the burning data centers: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-apt-down-and-the-mystery-of-the-burning-data-centers https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-apt-down-and-the-mystery-of-the-... Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-ke...
- robingchan 9mo agoorder by personal rank: Sandstorm JP-8000 sawtooth DSP reversing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q5T7wTpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q5T7wTpQ Washing machines hacking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1S-PVo3GlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1S-PVo3GlA AMD (ps5 sorta) security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVJZYT8kYsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVJZYT8kYsI cool demo for the BT headphones talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5Tz4Bt94Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5Tz4Bt94Y precise time syncing with PTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co x86 > arm with intermediate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDXyW1WERg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDXyW1WERg
- kherud 9mo agoOne 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 https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace [1] https://joscha.substack.com/p/on-the-jeffrey-epstein-affair https://joscha.substack.com/p/on-the-jeffrey-epstein-affair [2] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/tech-transcendentalism-as-hypermodern-myth-and-neo https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/tech...
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- weinzierl 9mo agoTo add some context and to spare readers who, like me, know nothing about Joscha Bach and only little about Epstein from having to go through all the linked material: The allegations do not appear to involve abuse or moral complicity with Epstein. Instead, they seem to focus on emails Bach exchanged with Epstein concerning IQ, race, and possibly sex. Bach denies these allegations of racism and sexism. That is at least how I understand the material based on the provided links.
- jtefera 9mo agoFor context, this is the email exchange between Joscha and Epstein: https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026406?view=inbox https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026406?view=i... (original doc: https://epstein-emails.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026406.pdf https://epstein-emails.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/HOUS...).
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- ChrisArchitect 9mo agoSome popular selections with discussion so far: Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204 Hacking Washing Machines [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428496 Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436828 All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411930
- Fnoord 9mo agoI 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-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturi...
- fbias 9mo agoI can’t not see Catbert in the video player iconography. Someone tell me they did this intentionally.
- st_goliath 9mo agoThe icon is supposed to represent one of those waving cat figurines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko It has some long tradition placing those visibly on the podium. As the story goes, the idea is that you can immediately see if the video stream freezes up (because the cat in the video suddenly stops waving). You wouldn't immediately catch that in between talks (when you have some time to fix the issue) if the camera was just pointed at an empty stage with no movement. I think at 30C3 or so, I saw one that was placed so that it would repeatedly knock on the microphone as well. Anyway, the waving cat has become a bit of a meme by itself and mascot of the VOC, hence also the (animated) icon in video player.
- fbias 9mo agoThank you both!
- ximm 9mo agoIt is a Maneki-neko (beckoning cat / Winkekatze). The video team started putting them on podiums so they could see when a stream was frozen. So it became kind of a mascot.
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- utopiah 9mo agoUpvoted since mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452407 didn't take off. PS: HN sucks with dupes.
- cocodill 9mo agoUnfortunately, the congress is getting worse and worse every year. There are fewer and fewer interesting and technical topics. "It used to be better" moment.
- sllabres 9mo agoNone of these interesting as "technical topic"? (only examples) 51 Ways to Spell the Image Giraffe Who cares about the Baltic Jammer? Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon The art of text (rendering) Excuse me, what precise time is It? DNGerousLINK CPU Entwicklung in Factorio How to render cloud FPGAs useless Breaking architecture barriers: Running x86 games and apps on ARM Cracking open what makes Apple's Low-Latency WiFi so fast Reverse engineering the Pixel TitanM2 firmware Not To Be Trusted - A Fiasco in Android TEEs Celestial navigation with very little math Textiles 101: Fast Fiber Transform Escaping Containment: A Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails Don’t look up: There are sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites Opening pAMDora's box and unleashing a thousand paths on the journey to play Beatsaber custom songs Lessons from Building an Open-Architecture Secure Element And of course some of the Lightning Talks...
- cocodill 9mo agowell, about 20 this year?
- sllabres 9mo agoEvery of the lightning talks itself had about 20 short different topics, And as I wrote these were examples, you didn't expect someone to re-enumerate them here all to refute your statement. You can easily find them yourself. Have look at this page, where others listed their favorites, there are many more. But I don't think from your reply you didn't look at the list of sessions yourself.
- cocodill 9mo agoAs someone who has been following the congress for twenty years (and if I couldn't be there, I watched streams and recordings), I have to say once again that it used to be better. The selection of topics was broader and more interesting. About fifteen years ago, politics entered the picture, and over the years it has become more and more prevalent. Strange people began to appear, and about ten years ago, this event ceased to be a cozy meeting place for hackers and geeks. I am very sad about that.
- peterfirefly 9mo agoIt'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!"
- pamcake 9mo ago> It's a strange mix of very good tech talks and left-wing extremism. That last polarisation and othering is odd, unnecessary, divisive and not generally representative of 39c3 talks nor the CCC. Antifascism is a long tradition among humanists and European hackers and not related to "left-wing extremism". Why do you find it necessary to discredit the message of that talk? What's the supposedly extremist message in there?
- rcbdev 9mo agoWhat an odd othering you have committed here. There's plenty of European technologists who feel completely alienated from most stuff around c3 and hacker spaces because, believe it or not, most members there do tend to adhere to radical left-wing ideologies. This usually invites a whole grab bag of problems, if one has more right-wing beliefs and tries to engage. I will concede to you that it did not used to be this bad. But it is now. Chalking this issue up to a 'long tradition' is like saying: "Community X has a long tradition of radicalization, so it's a-ok!"
- BSVogler 9mo agoOnly fascist have an issue with antifascists. What would be strange are hackers that are fascist. Fascism demands surrender to power and obedience, which is antithetical to the hacker sprit. Questioning systems, equalizing power imbalances is the hacker spirit.
- lilbitagoop 9mo agoPay close attention to the political scene in Western countries, and you will soon figure out that only antifascists have an issue with fascists. Antifascists have been parroting globalist Wall Street ideology for the past few decades, but this is coming to an end.
- ekjhgkejhgk 9mo agoI just started watching the Cory Doctorow talk and he used the expression "the war on general purpose computing", which I liked a lot.
- the_biot 9mo agoThat's actually the name of a talk he used to give. Very well done, but it didn't actually come true the way he thought it would.
- abdullahkhalids 9mo agoThe war is not over, and the side of general purpose computing is still slowly losing.
- homarp 9mo agoHN on that talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854184
- cedws 9mo agoCory's talk has got me excited. De-Americanisation of the internet sounds like a bright future. Europe needs to grow and break free of the chains.
- wormius 9mo agoI love this, but can't imagine attending, I'd just be constantly playing "spot the spook"...