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Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:49AM (#42501327)
I'm glad we can be of service to you! There used to be a live captioning team writing subtitles but I think that effort stopped. I heard people were looking at AI-based captioning but I have not kept up with the plans for this year.

I know in previous years talks were published on YT, I assume this will still be the case this year. Normally the VOC team does miracles to publish incredibly quickly too, so you should be able to have the recorded talks online same-day.

Re:38th Chaos Communication Congress on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:29AM (#42500994)
Hi, I'm a long standing CCC interpreter (volunteer of course).

We aim to interpret live 100% of the talks in German (* we do not always interpret things that aren't strictly speaking talks, like poetry readings or performance art, although we try to make these as accessible as we can). We also interpret various talks into other languages - we have a sizeable team working on French and Spanish interpretation, and depending on volunteer availability, we are keen to be target any spoken language. For this talk you are interested in, I'm very confident it will be interpreted into English.

You can find our work on media.ccc.de both on the streams and recorded talks. If you're attending live we have lower latency audio streams available on-site, check out c3lingo.org.

I'm not sure where you're looking but I've taken that exact train several times, without any connection, and with a bed the whole way. I recommend looking directly on NightJet's website.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video] on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:20AM (#33232061)
I mean, true, but "a whole bunch" is kind of misleading. It's a really clever hack using really a tiny amount of extra gates. It's still a very cool and innovative hack that nobody really had thought about before.
Possibly, but probably not. Google tends to have follow-the-sun rotations staffed by SRE as the first line of defense, with an escalation path to devs if necessary.

SREs may not have intricate knowledge of the code but they have an array of tools that can mitigate problems, and they're software engineers too, so they can debug this themselves if need be. Their focus however won't be on fixing the bug, it will be on stopping the bleeding. Typically they'll check if this is an issue introduced in a recent rollout and roll that back. In the case of Search they also have an array of tactical tools - someone mentioned that a specific website was causing this, they probably have a way to quickly and temporarily delist this specific result.

The focus will be on recovering ASAP, figuring out the details and the long-term fix later. That later can be during business hours on Monday.

A lot of legitimate debugging features involve actually modifying the code of the target. This is a common way of setting breakpoints: you replace the instruction at the given address with a trap instruction that will hand control back to the debugger. Then the debugger puts the original instruction back and resumes the target's execution.

And since the two processes already run as the same user, in the original model there's nothing the target can do that the debugger cannot also do, so this was not a privilege escalation path.

Re:Cast iron leet on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:28PM (#32453957)
Enameled cast iron should be safe.

Earthenware pots are pretty specific but should be safe too.

Somebody also suggested paramotoring in another comment, which is less like chess against the sky, but may be more accessible depending on where you live.

However they also warned, and this applies just as much for paragliding, that competiting in this sport is significantly more dangerous than practicing as a hobby.

That's a 42-specific term referring to the intensive training slash selection period at the beginning of their cursus.
Re:Cheat sheet for if I'm gone on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:00AM (#31751276)
Just give the attorney a sealed printed list of 10,000 numbered passwords. Someone with the passwords won't know what they are for. Even if they can guess that one of them is for your email account and they know your email account, they'll have to try thousands of passwords before they find the right one.

In your house, and maybe with trusted friends, keep the instructions sheet with logins and a reference to the relevant password number. "To access my email account, username is [email protected] and use password #5122 from the password list".

This is just allowing the author of the proposal to start gathering signatures on a petition at their own expense. Even getting the signatures doesn't make it law. We entertain this kind of nonsense because democracy must allow everyone to speak up, even the people with fringe opinions we sometimes call crazy.
Re:Can Eurostar Compete with Airlines on Speed and Price? on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:45AM (#16367456)
Customs do happen like that routinely on intra-Schengen trains. But intra-Schengen, there's no immigration to clear. In Eurostar terminals at Paris Nord, London St Pancras, Lille Europe and Brussels Zuid there are immigration checkpoints. The ones on the continent are manned by UK border agents, the one in London, by the French border patrol. This way, Eurostar trains are effectively intra-Schengen. Since you clear immigration at a checkpoint, they don't usually have roving customs officers on the trains.