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i will be at 37c3 btw

‪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

@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 @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.