{"id":4860,"date":"2025-01-12T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2025-01-12T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:19:28","slug":"couchcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/couchcon\/","title":{"rendered":"CouchCon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Headed out early after another fitful night of sleep.  I&#8217;m not going to disparage the hotel;  it&#8217;s something else that got really f&#8217;d with the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, I know.  If I had my mask on, I wouldn&#8217;t notice the loud HVAC, or malfunctioning shower.  That I expect those things is another example of my privilege.  I would tell you to go check BlueSkeet for confirmation.  No, I shouldn&#8217;t say that, but it&#8217;s really sad that a small fragment of smart people are retreating into their own little world.  Was Reddit not enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, onto the talk.  I wanted to watch the one on hot dogs, but two of the three channels are cricktets.  The one about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shmoocon.org\/speakers#mlops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MLOps<\/a> is the only one with sound, so that it is.  Some information about how AI models are thrown off by stuff from botnet upvotes.  (And I&#8217;m thinking of the days way back when when some folks were showing off driftnet, which was a program that just displayed images from HTTP sessions.  Someone, and I shan&#8217;t mention who, wrote a curl script so that it looked like people were looking at some really sick stuff.  See the popular section <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/shock-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the video dropped on that one.  Try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shmoocon.org\/speakers#hotdog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Build It<\/a> again.  And there&#8217;s sound.  discussion of embedded device something or the other.  They destroyed a printer earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED)\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9wsjroVlu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to the stuff about powering over USB-C, using Arduino is interesting.  The collection of various RaspberryPIs kind of shows how short my attention level is lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do think kids today are missing out on the elation that comes from making the magic smoke come out of hardware with software you wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that stream fell down.  But now the others are back with audio.  Juggle around until next ones start&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>And I ended up watching the presentation by the guy from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shmoocon.org\/speakers#uncybercrime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The EFF<\/a>.  I appreciate most of his bits about treaties, and authoritarian governments that are to those treaties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of back-and-forth with the language of the treaty that allows the signatories do actually do whatever they want despite being parties to the treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why worry about it at all, then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s kind of what leads me to thinking that every law, every treaty, should have a mandatory end date.  If everyone thinks that the principles are good, it shouldn&#8217;t be a big deal to pass something similar again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do the Russians, Norks, and Mullahs adhere to treaties ratified by previous governments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worry, too, about things that end up being backdoors through previously-ratified treaties.  I admit that my thinking about that is heavily-influenced by what happened with the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.  I won&#8217;t carry a vaxport.  If you wanna throw me in prison because of that&#8217;s what it is.  Do it.  Do it publicly.  Have no shame about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I will watch the rest, and give final thoughts as I consider things.  I will miss ShmooCon, but some of the things I saw this weekend are reminiscent of some of the things I saw in about 2012\/13.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy that there seems to be some pushback against it, but I worry that the pushes after Trump&#8217;s election, and with the pandemic, people are getting pushed more into small walled gardens where they don&#8217;t see or hear things that they don&#8217;t like.  I admit I&#8217;m kind of guilty in this sometimes, but I really would like to sample lots of different sources, and make up my own mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The things discussed places like The Fifth Column, Blocked and Reported, and The Free Press give me a lot of things to consider that are different than the near-uniformity in major corporate press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*shrug<\/em>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, off to listen to the last bits of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out early after another fitful night of sleep. I&#8217;m not going to disparage the hotel; it&#8217;s something else that got really f&#8217;d with the pandemic. I know, I know. If I had my mask on, I wouldn&#8217;t notice the loud HVAC, or malfunctioning shower. 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