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‪throwing this out there because there's potentially a few people i haven't met who follow me here and are also going, and who i might want to meet. no promises but ‬

‪i happen to be at a moment in my life where i want to be more adventurous and meet more new people, make of that what you will‬

‪how do the CCC still have tickets to sell, wow. well, good news for everyone who wants to make a last-minute decision‬

i'm hoping to somehow find a way not to be indoors all the time

oh if i'm reading the map correctly, the congress centre is right next to a huge park?

„[Der Park] ist ganzjährig geöffnet und der Eintritt ist frei.“

🙏

‪in just a few hours' time i'll be on my way to the germany… ‬

i did the display name thing, why not

help, i am supposed to be on a train operated by deutsche bahn, but it arrived and departed on time???

the train also arrived on time… in fact, we were off the train three minutes early. three! i believe the only possible explanation is that this is because most of the journey was actually with dsb and took place in denmark

i'm at 37c3!! i've been having fun, @ or dm me or whatever if you're interested in meeting me

MISCONCEPTION: the industrial prowess of germany, center of the european project, is due to a confluence of complex factors, such as geography, history, cultural factors, and so on
REALITY: germany's power derives entirely from laugengebäck. germans live only for brezel

even outside the congress center, we can't escape the NixOS propaganda 😔 #37c3

what the fuck they sell rhubarb spritzer at #37c3 and it's great and why have i never drank something rhubarb-flavoured before

OH: “dutch is just german for littles”

the mood of the moment is: lonely crt with no signal flickering away in a dimly lit room at a convention that's in teardown filmed by a camera with broken optical image stabilisation

‪(i took that about an hour before i posted it)‬

‪it's over, and it was great‬

help, the return train also departed on time?

there's no on-board wifi for some reason so they still fucked up something. さすがDB

@hikari thats fucked up

@hikari Are you sure you're still in the right universe?

@hikari Are you imbued with some special magic? If yes, could you please join me the next time I travel by train? 😂

@hikari rhubarb pie is so good, can't remember seeing it used for anything else

@vildis @hikari if you have access to a bunch of rhubarb, rhubarb cordial/squash is amazing

- 3 kg rhubarb
- 50g citric acid
- cover in cold water and let sit for 2 days
- strain liquid
- boil with sugar (up to 1kg per litre, less if you have freezer space for storage, but the sugary version can be stored in room temp)
- bottle

drink diluted with water, in cocktails or whatever you fancy :)

@hikari@social.noyu.me can confirm, i drive down to germany every two months to buy frozen pretzels to fuel my gf

@hikari I eat way too much Laugengebäck

@hikari I’m interested in meeting you. I’m not at CCC but the interest is there

@hikari (yes the first line is “sentences that have big stalker vibes out of context”)

@hikari ooh, did you get to experience DSB 7-11

@Ninji @hikari Yeah, there was a 7-11 guy on the train

@hikari I was on a train last week where I thought it was at the wrong station because it was consistently arriving several minutes early to each stop and departing on time. This is in a country where it is not unusual for a long-distance train to be eight hours late

@hikari@social.noyu.me dsb isn't amazing but i'll take them over db any day

@hikari I also went back on the same day and that train was 20 minutes late. Feels like the world is normal again lol

@hikari it’s a Christmas miracle

@hikari

@hikari I'm on a db train and it was 1 minute late. incredible ;p

@leftpaddotpy did you check your watch? maybe it is in the wrong time zone, for example,

@hikari i made my connection because it was 5 minutes late. winning tbh

@hikari I was on a train earlier. It was diverted and went to my destination directly, so I saved a stopover. I was confused that I got there earlier than planned, that never happens here in Germany. 😂

@hikari I am glad to live in a time when there is the Germany

@hikari let me know if you figure it out. I sure haven't.

@trashbang do you live in an even vaguely walkable place

@hikari when it's not 30+ degrees, sure

@trashbang ah :(

@hikari it's fine for like, I dunno, half the year

@trashbang @hikari I can’t tell if this is a cold or hot temperature

@saagar @trashbang she lives in australia and it's summer in the southern hemisphere right now

@hikari@social.noyu.me I wonder about that myself. It's not that the venue got any bigger, so I have a few theories:

1. The "vocal minority" of people who decided not to participate in mass events in a post-2020 world is neither as vocal nor as minor as previously expected, particularly in the hacker/neurodivergent world which was always a big part of C3 and was perhaps the most invested in it before.
2. After three years, people got out of habit and/or are sitting this one out to see what the event will be like after this break.
3. Too many people got other plans already, the announcement was made in early October and it wasn't 100% certain if a physical C3 would take place this year for quite some time.

@hikari@social.noyu.me I wonder about that myself. It's not that the venue got any bigger, so I have a few theories:

1. The "vocal minority" of people who decided not to participate in mass events in a post-2020 world is neither as vocal nor as minor as previously expected, particularly in the hacker/neurodivergent world which was always a big part of C3 and was perhaps among the groups most invested in COVID avoidance.
2. After three years, people got out of habit and/or are sitting this one out to see what the event will be like after this break.
3. Too many people got other plans already, the announcement was made in early October and it wasn't 100% certain if a physical C3 would take place this year for quite some time.

@asie in fact the venue got smaller, so it does suggest a big shrink in attendance if tickets are less scarce than normal

@asie (3) is something i hadn't thought much about, but i should have. it had also seemed like 37c3 was going to happen last year but then they seemingly cancelled it late for reasons that, as an outsider, were unintelligible, and that might have given people pause before taking them seriously this year

@hikari@social.noyu.me As far as I know the cancellation reason was (1)? Even for this year's C3 there's a small group of dissenters within CCC who are organizing a remote talk conference at the same time as the "physical" 37C3.

@asie yeah i can only assume that was what was going on

@hikari@social.noyu.me I'm personally in category 1. I can't really get over the pandemic anxiety, especially since when I finally did in February 2023 I caught COVID on the very first event I went to...

@asie yeah it's quite understandable. i've had pretty good luck so far, but i haven't gone to any “events”, so…

@hikari@social.noyu.me OTOH C3 is one of the few places left where you can wear a mask, even an Extra Fancy mask, and people won't bat an eye, so...

@asie @hikari Butting in, announcement really felt rushed. I got information that my talk was accepted in the beginning of December which really doesn't give you a lot of time to sort the information into something coherent and make slides.

Because of that I had to drop all projects I've been working on and focus solely on preparing the talk, and yesterday I almost had a panic attack realising I have less than two weeks to finish it. I'm still roughly 40% done.

@elly @asie good luck!

@elly @asie @hikari you’re gonna be okay, i know it! :)

@hikari I feel like I've forgotten how to meet new people, or rather, how to create meaningful connections with new people. It was so easy in school and university, and fortunately I still have many of those friendships, but now it feels impossible. 😣

@hikari neat. I might say Hi (altough I probably can't recognise you irl)

@hikari hi, I will also be at 37c3! We haven't really interacted before, so idk if you'd be interested in meeting up (and also I'm very shy around unfamiliar people), but I have some cool stickers to hand out in case we do happen to bump into each other :>