Best of GPN24
The Gulaschprogrammiernacht 24 was packed with interesting talks covering IT, society, science and nerd culture. Here is my personal selection — across all topics.
Full overview of all talks: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24
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New Look
Time for a refresh. A classic Christmas project.
The previous year I had already started reworking the content — now it was time to add some technical improvements as well.
It was also a good opportunity to move everything onto a new foundation, after a script-based attack had compromised one of the Joomla update components. Fortunately 1&1 caught it in time.
The site should of course be responsive, and the content needed an overhaul too. Here’s what’s new — besides updated content:
Sensebox
What is the Sensebox?
The Sensebox is an Arduino-based kit for capturing environmental data with IoT sensors. More information can be found at https://sensebox.de. The recorded data can be visualised on a map or analysed in other ways.
Our unit captures the following data:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Light intensity
- UV intensity
- Fine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10)
If you’d like to see the live data from our Sensebox, you can find it here: https://sensebox.curth.de
Best of 39C3
The annual Chaos Communication Congress offers a fascinating mix of IT, politics and social topics. This year in particular had some great insights into security vulnerabilities in AI models, robots and critical IT infrastructure.
Here is a small selection of interesting talks. Most are 45–60 minutes long. The full overview is available at: https://media.ccc.de/c/39c3. Some talks are also available on YouTube.
AI
Can AI models be hacked? Absolutely — Johann Rehberger demonstrates this in his talk:
Cool Shell
The days of boring green text on black terminal backgrounds are clearly over. This article explains how to make your shell look awesome — and it doesn’t matter whether you’re using Microsoft PowerShell, Mac or Linux.
