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The 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) takes place in Hamburg on 27–30 Dec 2025, and is the 2025 edition of the annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers.
Congress offers lectures and workshops and various events on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.
Starting in 1984, Congress has been organized by the community and appreciates all kinds of participation. You are encouraged to contribute by volunteering, setting up and hosting hands-on and self-organized events with the other components of your assembly or presenting your own projects to fellow hackers.
Find infos how to get in contact & chat with other participants and the organizing teams on our Communication page.
= More Information:
- Chaos Computer Club at Wikipedia
- Media
- 2025 Hub
Interesting talks, upcoming and previously recorded, available on their streams page --Ed.
(Score: 5, Informative) by canopic jug on Sunday December 28, @05:52PM (2 children)
In addition to the streaming page [media.ccc.de], mentioned above, more translated talks are being added to the archive [media.ccc.de]. The videos are available in two formats and two resolutions.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday December 29, @04:39AM (1 child)
Thanks for that, they weren't up yet the last time I checked. One note for people using the media.ccc site, they use a somewhat glitchy media player, if you're having problems with it wait until the content appears on YT in the CCC channel.
(Score: 4, Informative) by canopic jug on Monday December 29, @09:29AM
... they use a somewhat glitchy media player, if you're having problems with it wait until the content appears on YT in the CCC channel
Or just download the MP4 or WebM file from media.ccc.de and use your own media player, such as VLC. You'll have more playback options that way anyway.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 28, @05:58PM (2 children)
I enjoyed the talk on real time typography [media.ccc.de]. An interesting talk and I learned a few things.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday December 30, @02:58PM (1 child)
Cory Doctorow's fast-paced talk, A post-American, enshittification-resistant Internet [media.ccc.de], is worth special mention. Don't be put off by the gratuitous cursing or the CCC's misspelling of the name Internet.
Cory goes into much more background than the summary can cover, and his presentation is good all the way through, even to the final Q & A. Basically, 1) the US dollar is no longer a (semi-)neutral platform and 2) the card of withdrawing financial support has already been played and cannot be used as a threat any more. While countries are now forced to actively work around both points, which is inconvenient and expensive, they have been liberated from such threats and in that way have regained a bit of independence as far as software laws go.
That liberation is because economic retaliation has already occurred, nations can more or less safely undo the anti-circumvention laws forced down their throats by "free" trade "agreements". The first country to do so will be able to take a very big bite out of the trillions of dollars (or euros) which Apple and the others currently collect.
What other presentations have people here found interesting in a positive way?
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Friday January 02, @03:48AM
It's often easier, and always faster, to just read text than slog through a video. Cory Doctorow has posted a transcript of his 39C3 presentation, "A post-American, enshittification-resistant Internet" [pluralistic.net].
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday December 29, @05:50PM
I liked going to cons, its fun to meet people, the talks used to be interesting, HOPE is (was?) a good time. (HOPE is a USA centric national 2600 magazine thing)
The problem with cons in 2025 can be best seen in the traditional annual post on the mongolian basketweaving and chinese cartoon imageboard where some years back CCC let in too many political activists and the people who "do" left leaving the CCC with "the people who like to talk about the people who do" and the political activists doing their prayers to the faithful, and admittedly, some of the "never give up" crowd who still do interesting old days style talks. "Let me read this wikipedia article to you" is tiresome and Youtube video essays took over that market.
Cons are a pale shadow of their former self, which is too bad.