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Interesting 31C3 Talks

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:55:00 +0000

The 31st Chaos Communication Congress (31C3) ended just 3 days ago, and there were several interesting talks.

They have got live streaming of the event over the web, as well as encourage you to use an external player with RTMP or HLS support. The video streams were very reliable and best of all, it’s available in HD. In comparison, I tried the Apple live event once and it was really crappy. For one, the HLS¹ URL is not publicly available , so someone had to dig that out and post it. Even after that, the audio stream was (I believe, unintentionally) a mix of both English and Chinese simultaneously.

The 31C3 video recordings were also uploaded very quickly after the event. This is much quicker than other events such as Black Hat (although as an attendee, you do get a copy of the stuff on a DVD). A really big kudos to the organizers and the video production team!

If you don’t have time to listen to each and every talk, here are a few selected talks that were interesting to me, as well as a short summary to see if it’s worth 30 or 60 minutes of your time.

A full list of talks can be found here: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/index.html

Monica and the Switch

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:30:00 +0000

OMG I can be like that sometimes [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=EFiPR5Gg9g4] [via the Dangerous Prototypes forum]

Oscilloscope CRT disassembly and explanation

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:19:00 +0000

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=E55h2JCuCWk] Here’s a nice video about how an oscilloscope (or generally a regular) cathode ray tube works.

I want a faster iPad

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:41:00 +0000

Actually I was aware of this problem some time ago. Even though the iPad has a beefy processor, it still renders Javascript-heavy sites slowly. Yes, probably the Javascript that draws on the canvas can be further optimized, but if other browsers can render faster, why can’t MobileSafari? [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=s72rGDUn2uo]