Chaos Communication Congress: Der 39C3 hat begonnen
Hamburg ist kurz vor Jahresende wieder der Nabel der Hacker-Welt. Der Chaos Computer Club lädt zum 39. Chaos Communication Congress. Tausende werden erwartet.
https://w…

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packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

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Moltbot is like giving some stranger you can't really trust access to all your data, communications, passwords, your computer etc.. It is maybe fascinating but just don't do it..... The large AI players can already build this for a long time but there is a reason they are not doing it....
https://www.

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues
: The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it

Organisiert vom Chaos Computer Club (CCC) #Hamburg
Der Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) vom 27.12.-30.12.2025 im CCH statt.
https://events.ccc.de/congress/

Der Chaos Communication Congress
Der Chaos Computer Club veranstaltet jährlich zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr den Chaos Communication Congress. Ursprünglich in Hamburg beheimatet, traf man sich über viele Jahre in Berlin, dann wieder 5 Jahre in Hamburg. Nachdem der Congress für die folgenden 3 Jahre in Leipzig stattgefunden hat, fand der Congress zweimal remote als „rC3“ statt und kehrte 2023 wieder nach Hamburg zurück. Im Laufe der Jahre hat sich der Congress zu einer europaweit renommierten Veranstaltung mit über…

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Moltbot is like giving some stranger you can't really trust access to all your data, communications, passwords, your computer etc.. It is maybe fascinating but just don't do it..... The large AI players can already build this for a long time but there is a reason they are not doing it....
https://www.

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted