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!
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
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 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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/