The presentations from the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) are online now that the conference has concluded. The 34C3 took place from December 27 through December 30, this time in Leipzig. The presentations were in English or German, with translations available from one to the other.
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34th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) Presentations Online
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @07:27AM (11 children)
I have no idea what this is, and no interest in finding out.
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Monday January 01 2018, @08:08AM (10 children)
From the link:
But if you have never heard of Chaos then this story is not for you. Another story will be along shortly.
There are so many acronyms and abbreviations that are used in everyday speech without further explanation, such as BBC, CRISPR, FAA, USPS, CPU, RAM, NSA. ACLU etc (all taken from the front page at the time of writing). I made the error of thinking that Chaos is more well known than it apparently is. They have been active, as the title indicates, for at least 34 years. My apologies.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @01:11PM (1 child)
Another AC here, just wanted to say that this amendment could be placed into the summary, I think the other AC does have a point.
CCC is a fine event and even smart people will learn it exists the first time once. He did behave a bit like an asshole but we forgive him for it, right?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday January 01 2018, @05:51PM
I made an error, admitted it and apologised. I didn't say, or even think, that he behaved incorrectly.
Changing a story once released is frowned upon unless absolutely necessary because it can change the context of comments that have already been published. As it is, anyone reading the thread will get the information that they need so I elected not the change and re-release.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 01 2018, @03:33PM (7 children)
Still not getting it.
(Score: 3, Funny) by janrinok on Monday January 01 2018, @05:51PM (6 children)
You're a big boy now. You can Google it just as easily as I can.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 01 2018, @06:22PM (5 children)
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Monday January 01 2018, @06:58PM (4 children)
I'll tell you what, you spend your holiday editing and I will just comment and criticise you for it, shall I? Now I'm going to spend some time with my family. Have a good 2018.
The Chaos Computer Club has been operating since 1981, if you haven't heard of it yet then perhaps you don't know as much as you think you do.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @08:30PM
Thanks for all the hard work you do, seriously.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 01 2018, @10:25PM (2 children)
Having said that, thank you for doing all this work in the first place.
Tell you what. If you don't mind unusually high levels of belly aching (from the people who already complain about me now), I'll help edit. I definitely had the time this holiday to help out. And I already weather more whining and complaining than most editors receive.
As to editing a story after its release, it's not that frowned upon. There's several ways to do it while making it clear that the edit happened after the story was created. For example "[added 1/1/17 khallow [soylentnews.org]: The Chaos Computer Club [wikipedia.org] is 'Europe's largest association of hackers with 5,500 registered members'. Their annual conference, Chaos Communication Congress [wikipedia.org] has taken place since 1984 in Germany.]" which could be inserted either in the story (with the above brackets) or appended to the end (without brackets).
Errors and news updates happen pretty often with news stories and as a result edit corrections are common. Some ninja it with inconvenient statements/mistakes disappearing without a trace (obviously not a practice we want to copy), but many make it clear what changes they made with edits and corrections made either in the story or appended to the end of the story.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:07PM (1 child)
I think the CCC is well known enough not to need a lengthy introduction at the end of every post about it. Maybe in CNN or Fox, but not in tech sites, it's the largest group and the largest Congress of this kind in Europe. The post had clear context (it's a mostly tech Congress) and people who don't know about the Congress had ddg, goggle and the provided link to get more information about it. People who think their time is so valuable that consider finding out what the CCC is a waste of time will certainly not benefit from the post, even if the lengthy introduction was in the post itself. People who know the CCC or have enough curiosity to benefit from a post about a Congress would lose time if the lengthy introduction was in the post.
But more importantly, this website would look like it was made for retards if posts had introductions about common acronyms.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 05 2018, @05:45PM
(Score: 2) by clone141166 on Sunday January 07 2018, @02:30PM
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