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I'll cover what you can do with a limited budget; lenses and cameras you already own (your phone for example); and what you might expect to see. I'm not a professional, or even a very talented amateur, but tenacity and the willing to sit out in the dark and get eaten by mosquitoes, growled at by foxes and frozen in the winter does sometimes pay off. I've been taking pictures of the sky and things in it on and off for over 30 years. I started with a cheap Tasco telescope from a catalog company and a 110 film camera glued to the eyepiece - it didn't work well (if at all), but it got me hooked. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/91-astrophotography-on-a-budget

This talk will take you through a short history of female protagonists in video games, my experience as a female-perceived person playing games, including how this affects my interactions with others, and will finally look at some research to see the theories behind this, as well as some ideas for how we can make sure video games are for everyone. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/521-girls-just-wanna-play-games-and-be-represented-in-them

GPT PowerPoint Karaoke in 2022 was a hit — but also GPT was toooooo good at generating the topics. Let’s go retro: HR training manuals, overhead transparencies, terrible diagrams from 1970s Open University TV programmes, and random photographs. Then we make people from the audience give talks on subjects they don’t know about with slides they’ve never seen. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/329-powerpoint-karaoke-retro-style

EveryWhere is an open source system for creating mesh networks to allow communities to connect with themselves without having to use commercial systems to do so. Inspired by David Graeber's idea of the sustainable activities of play and care, EveryWhere aims to make new rituals around technology that allow the network to exist across generations. In 2022 we convened a group of artists, technologists, designers and activists to start the project. As result of the connections made, we have identified themes and ideas that we will present in this talk. The five themes are Community, Sustainability, Software, Hardware and Creative. Within each of these themes, we've identified four main areas of concern. The purpose of this talk would be to relate our progress up to this point and to galvanise further collaboration with the EMF community. We are a pair of artistic researchers and creative technologists and we care! about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/195-everywhere-a-regenerative-mesh-network-for-communities

This talk will take a look at Älgen, a custom-built guitar that is a fusion of traditional hand-crafted woodwork and advanced 3D-printing and generative-design techniques. The guitar is built using no less than 4 different types of 3D-printing, including 3D-printed aluminium. At the same time it sticks with traditional hand built woodwork for the playing surface, matching material with function. This talk will focus on the design behind the guitar, looking at what you can do with generative design and 3D-printing, how to interface the old and new construction techniques (e.g., mating a walnut body with 3D-printed nylon sides), and how to decide what bits to do with which technique. I'll also show how I achieved this as an amateur maker: the aim is to show the audience that what seems like far-out construction is actually reachable by us mortals thanks to improvements in tooling and 3D-printing services. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/6-the-story-of-%C3%A4lgen-guitar

Was ist dieses ADHS eigentlich, warum gibt es so viele betroffene Personen und was kann eins mit dieser (manchmal) so tollen Superkraft alles machen? Hi, ich bin Niggo und ich habe ADHS. Auch wenn’s eigentlich obvious ist, wurde ich erst viel später als mir eigentlich Recht ist mit dieser Realität vertraut. Seit meiner Diagnose habe ich vieeeeeel über mich selbst, die Art und Weise wie ich denke gelernt – und was es eigentlich im Alltag bedeutet, ADHS zu haben. In diesem Talk möchte ich meine Erfahrungen mit der Odysee der Diagnostik/Behandlung und dem Alltag, mit ADHS zu leben, nahebringen und wie eins daraus das beste macht. Dazu zählen vor allem Hacks, mit denen eins seinen privaten als auch beruflichen Alltag ADHS-freundlicher gestalten kann. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/BHHPVL/

Model rocketry is great fun and an excellent way to get young people interested in science and engineering. In 2022 and 2023 I mentored a team of 3 teenagers to enter UKROC, the UK youth rocketry challenge. The team had to design and build a rocket to take a raw egg to 250m and return it to the ground in 45 seconds, without breaking the egg. The team went in 2 years from not knowing much to (spoiler alert) winning UKROC and then the International championship at the Paris Airshow. I will talk about the basics of model rocketry (physics, engineering, legal, financial, safety etc), what is involved in entering UKROC, our experiences and how you can get involved in the next UKROC competition. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/18-rocket-science-for-teenagers

The bicycle wheel is quite possibly the best thing humans have ever invented. But then, I would say that - I build them for a living. Come along for a quick ride through their creation, evolution and revolution, a detour through some weird and wonderful designs and maybe a look at what a high-tech future holds for this deceptively simple structure. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/116-cobwebs-snowflakes-and-crows-feet

A research project that started with the question, 'what was the average person in Britain eating 500 years ago?', and resulted in a rich knowledge base of over 1200 native and naturalised plants with food uses. The vast majority of our modern foods originate overseas, introduced to Britain by colonialism and Victorian exploration, and the global human diet now contains less than 100 plants, with limited biodiversity. Starting from the BSBI's database of native and naturalised plants, over the course of 3+ years I painstakingly reseached each entry for historic, archaeological, or ethnographically documented food uses. This body of ancestral knowledge could help provide local food resilience, reduce the impact of the plants we eat, and better protect food supplies from climate change, pollinator loss and disease. The research is still in its raw form as a giant spreadsheet, so the first part of the talk will focus on the process of research and identification, and some of the trickier questions such as the difference between a food and a medicine, what level of toxicity is tolerable, and how to really define a native plant. The second part will focus on some highlights of the results, including obscure disused vegetables, native things you can still forage, lost recipes for brewed alcohols and psychoactives, vegetables we've bioengineered for edibility, some exciting natural poisions, and addressing whether or not lettuce really exists. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/461-the-edible-native-plant-project

I once accidentally got YouGov to poll whether it should be ‘the data is’ or ‘the data are’. Whether you favour 'are' or 'is', in many ways, data is plural. When we talk about data, we’re talking about different things, contexts, needs, and perspectives. Thinking of ‘data’ as a singular thing brings risks. We always have to set data in a more plural context and can never think about ‘just’ the data. And data we think of as being about us – singular, as individuals – is often about a plurality of others, and its value – to governments and tech companies – is in plurality or aggregate. All of this means we need to rethink our approach to data and take a relational, collective and democratic - a plural, political and human – approach. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/398-data-is-plural

Join us for a calendrical safari of the weird and wonderful history of Calendar Systems and Movable Feasts. Marvel, as we compute the date of Pancake Day. Gasp, as we gaze on the metric madness of the French Republican calendar. Find out why on earth, the UK tax year starts on April 6th?! Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/84-a-brief-history-of-calendar-systems-and-movable-feasts

I am the creative director and programmer at Hollow Ponds, a videogame development studio. I'm going to briefly show some of our earlier games for context, and then talk about a number of interesting things about the development of our forthcoming game FLOCK - a multiplayer game about exploring a big wild landscape on the back of a giant bird, seeking out strange creatures, and charming them into a big flock. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/207-how-we-make-videogames

Why, given that 50% of screenwriters in the silent era were women and that there were quite a few female directors and producers, did women get pushed out of filmmaking and never really come back? What happened in the studio era, and why has nothing changed in all the waves of forward movement since? Why, today, do the number of female directors hover around the 10% mark, even after #MeToo and #TimesUp? Female A-list stars still earn only about half as much as their male counterparts, partly because only about 12% of leading roles go to women. Films made by or for women get smaller budgets, smaller releases and smaller marketing spend than male-made equivalents, and the picture is much, much worse for women of colour. So why is this and how do we change things? And why is Barbie such an important step forward? Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/121-women-vs-hollywood

We will take a peek behind the scenes at the technology used in performing arts venues in order to asses the cyber security implications and how we can address them. A modern performing arts space is no longer several independent systems providing show elements such as light and sound, but rather an IP network fabric delivering the desired elements flexibly around the venue and sometimes beyond. As a community we have gathered a good understanding of designing reasonably secure networks and protocols I would like to apply this knowledge to the unique demands of a theatre. If you often find yourself distracted by the coordination of the light fixtures rather than the performance this talk is for you. Or may you just like designing networks and learning about interesting protocols. I previously covered Audio over IP in a talk at MCH2022: https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-113-audio-networks-and-their-security-implications In the interest of transparency I am partially employed (and was previously fully employed) by Holoplot a professional audio company that principally sells network based loud speakers. I'm also a freelance security consultant. However, I'm doing this talk purely in a personal capacity and all thoughts an opinions expressed are my own not those of any employers, clients, or customers. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/153-security-theatre

Die elektronische Patientenakte (ePA) ist ein Phantom. Jeder hat eine andere Vorstellung davon. Wie es zu dieser Situation kommen konnte und wie die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen dennoch gelingen kann, darum geht es in meinem Vortrag. Die elektronische Patientenakte (ePA) gilt als die zentrale digitale Anwendung im Gesundheitswesen. Zur Einstimmung präsentiere ich Ihnen alternative Realitäten des Gesundheitswesens und wie politische Fiktionen zu Fakten werden. Danach treffen diese politischen Fakten auf die Alltagsrealität. Dazu nehme ich Sie mit in meine ärztliche Sprechstunde. Ich meine natürlich den Teil, wenn meine ärztliche Patientenbehandlung schon beendet ist und nur noch gerade eben schnell die Daten in die elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA) hochgeladen werden sollen. Im letzten Teil gibt es eine Perspektive, wie die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen über das Konzept der informationellen Gesundheit bzw. der informationelle Erkrankung doch noch gelingen kann. Nein, ich meine nicht die informationelle Selbstbestimmung. An dieser Stelle höre ich dann immer wieder die Frage, kannst Du informationelle Erkrankung noch mal erklären? Das mache ich dann. Vorab nur so viel: Neben dem Digitalanwendungsfall der Corona-Warn-App ist diese Theorie auch nutzbar im Spannungsfeld von Geschlechtsinkongruenz und Geschlechtsdysphorie. Die elektronische Patientenakte (ePA) füllt zukünftig den größten Teil des Gedankenraums dazwischen. Informationelle Erkrankung entsteht, wenn Information von außen auf die Betroffenen lebensverändernd einwirkt. Das hat es schon immer gegeben. Zusammen mit dem Wirkungsverlust von Fakten verlieren wir gerade die Wissenschaft als sozialen Moderationsraum. Muss man das alles zu einer Frage der Gesundheit machen? Nein, muss man nicht, aber wenn sich sonst keiner zuständig sieht, dann schon. Exklusion und Armut machen krank und dann sind wir Ärzte zuständig. Hier geht es um die Verhinderung von Krankheit und vorzeitigem Tod und da sind die Ärzte, als die akademischen Experten für Gesundheit und Krankheit unzweifelhaft gefragt. Gleichzeitig verlagert der Ansatz der bio-psycho-sozio-informationellen Erkrankung, oder kurz der informationellen Erkrankung, Teilaspekte von Krankheit, die heute allein einzelnen Menschen zugeordnet werden, zurück ins soziale System, so wie es die Ottawa-Charta der WHO fordert, um Gesundheit zu befördern. Die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen, kann nur gelingen, wenn konfliktreduziertes Zusammenleben und mehr Gesundheit befördert wird. Die Idee der informationellen Gesundheit macht dies möglich. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/98NYLC/

Wie funktioniert der Prozess von einer Produktidee über Prototyping, Prüfungen hin zu einem Massenprodukt. Ideen haben wir alle viele und manche sind es wert, daraus ein Produkt zu machen und eine eigene Firma/Startup darum herum zu gründen. Unterwegs gibt es viele Stationen die wichtig sind, teils viel Geld kosten und noch mehr Kosten vermeiden. Ich habe selber mehrere (Elektronik) Produkte erfolgreich von der Idee zur Fertigung gebracht und habe selber immer mehr Spaß an dem Drumherum um die eigentliche Entwicklungsarbeit. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/ZYCAVA/

Alchemy is a misunderstood art. From Hellenistic Egypt through to the modern day, the story of alchemical science teaches us about how science has changed in the last 2000 years and how it has stayed the same. The influence of this ancient science resonates through our modern world in scientific theory, misconceptions and popular culture. Learn how ancient alchemists formed accurate predictive models of the material world around them, How the Victorians lied to you and possibly even the secret to making gold. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/151-geber-newton-thoth

It's 1975! You need a high-resolution computer display for fine drawings (e.g. CAD diagrams). Memory's EXPENSIVE, processors are slow: what to do? Here's an analog solution to a digital problem: an unusual cathode-ray tube that preserves whatever it draws with no flickering, fading, or any kind of refresh. A brilliant dot sears emerald trails into the screen, rendering intricate line-art without pixels. No need for video memory when the screen itself remembers! It's mesmerising to see this special tube in action; more satisfying still to know how it works. Discover a mechanism Tektronix refined over three decades, growing from palm-sized oscilloscope readouts to 25" computer-lab behemoths. A wreath of electron guns, kilovolt potentials, microscopic cobalt cones, and transparent anodes set the stage for a nonlinear dance of charges that yields visualisations with style --- and we'll unravel its mysteries with animated diagrams. En route we'll visit notable storage tube applications, from early computer memories to 1978's _Battlestar Galactica_. Of course we'll see a real Tektronix terminal at work, too! Computer memory is cheap now: by the mid 1980s, modern displays had advantages storage-tube systems couldn't overcome. Nobody's making them anymore, so check out this talk while old stock still works! Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/43-forgotten-graphics-technology

The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was established in 2020, led by retired high court judge Sir Wyn Williams, to investigate the “failings which occurred with the Horizon IT system at the Post Office leading to the suspension, termination of subpostmasters’ contracts, prosecution and conviction of subpostmasters”. Transcripts of the inquiry hearings are put online, but only in PDF and text format. This talk will explain my history of scraping and parsing official information, how I have taken these transcripts and converted them into a linkable, searchable, and readable version, how I automatically keep the site up to date, and why I've done this. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/63-creating-searchable-post-office-inquiry-transcripts

About the challenges and delights of designing playful interactive systems with elephants currently living in the UK, featuring elephants with brambles, supersize balls, giant sliders and didgeridoos, being curious, affectionate, playful, apprehensive, bored, wilful, impatient, destructive, muddy, moody and matriarchal. This is an ongoing project, focusing on offering choice and control in elephants’ environments to investigate preferences around audition and design aesthetics. Enrichment goals are to provide interesting cognitive and sensory experiences that encourage the expression of natural behaviours. We’ll consider the why, what and how associated with all of that animal-computer interaction stuff, and invite people to share their thoughts and suggestions - either remotely or subsequently over a cup of tea. Love and respect to the elephants in your life. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/216-toys-for-elephants

Einführung in Webservices mit REST, inklusive historischem Abenteuer in Vorgänger und wie wir REST kaputt machen können (mit Praxisbeispielen!) REST ist die moderne Art, Webapplikationen zu schreiben - sogar Java kann damit umgehen. Representational State Transfer bietet eine Möglichkeit, dass wir nicht nur statische Webseiten anschauen, sondern interagieren können, ohne uns mit Javascript befassen zu müssen (ein Quell der Freude für einen eigenen Talk - oder sieben). Wir schauen uns an, was REST ist und wie wir es verwenden, ohne Einschlafpotential. Die etwas eingestaubte Seife aka Webservices mit SOAP und WSDL schauen wir uns aus historischen Gründen an, genauso wie RPC unter etwas Sonnenschein. Nachdem wir ein Grundverständnis von Historie und Funktionsweise von REST gewonnen haben, finden wir kreative Wege, sie einer unbeabsichtigten Verwendung zuzuführen, die sicherheitsbedenklich sein könnten, garniert mit Beispielen aus der Praxis und den unendlichen Weiten des World Wide Webs. Geeignet zum Einstieg und alle, die ein wenig IT-Archäologie und Software-Forensik hören wollen. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/FVCLQX/

In diesem Vortrag werde ich das Konzept des Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) erörtern, welches aktuell die Automobilindustrie umtreibt, indem es Fahrzeuge durch umfangreiche Software-Integrationen und -Updates hochgradig anpassungsfähig und funktional macht. Wir beleuchten die technologischen Grundlagen, Herausforderungen und zukünftigen Potenziale dieser Paradigmenverschiebung, die von der Vernetzung über die Benutzerschnittstellen bis hin zur Implementierung künstlicher Intelligenz reicht, um die Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Maschine neu zu definieren. Und natürlich spreche ich auch die "Sitzheizung als Abo" an about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/ZJ7TMZ/

Common Code möchte geschrieben werden. Warum nicht mit NeoVim? Die Geschichte von Vi, Vim und NeoVim reicht schon circa 50 Jahre zurück. Wir drehen eine kurze Runde durch die Vergangenheit und schauen uns an, wo das alles herkommt. Dabei wird es einige Überraschungen geben! Außerdem stellt NeoVim moderne Editor-Features bereit. Einige davon sehen wir uns an: - Language Server Protocol Client (für Autocompletion, Refactorings…) - Diagnostics API - Lua API (und die init.lua) - Tree sitter Syntax Parser - Terminal Emulator - Plugin-Ökosystem Es wird passend zum Vortrag noch einen NeoVim Konfig-Workshop geben! about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/ETE9ZT/

You, Eleanor Shellstrop, are dead. You are in cardiac arrest. Your heart has stopped beating, you have stopped breathing, and medically speaking you have died. Not a great start to your day! But worry not: someone has called 999. This talk is the story of that 999 call. This talk, presented by the CAD & Technical Lead at the London Ambulance Service, will describe everything that happens between dialling 999 and getting to hospital, and all of the technology involved in triaging the call, dispatching the ambulance, and helping patients over the phone before it arrives. This isn't a heartwarming human-interest story from the documentaries — this is the full ins and outs of all the systems, processes, and infrastructure that keeps people safe across a major city every day. We'll explore how we use open data to find exactly where you are, exactly how we decide who gets help quickest and who must wait, and how your phone can help save your life. We'll also look at what happens when it all goes wrong, and how we respond to business continuity incidents — after all, we can't just shut up shop if the system goes down. Expect high-level conversations about medical emergencies, but this talk is suitable for all ages. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/405-how-to-save-a-life

Kubernetes has had a rapid ascent to default cloud infrastructure. However, this didn’t happen simply because Google open sourced it. This talk will share the messy human side of the community architecture and how that investment has paid dividends in bringing more under represented minorities into open source leadership. I’ll offer tips and tricks to intentionally manage humans when you have no authority. you can also expect some of the more complicated situations explosive growth combined with emergent organizing can lead to when governed by those who show up. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/377-how-to-move-an-industry-through-influence

Atuin is a command line tool for searching and synchronizing shell history across devices. I'll be telling the story of how I accidentally made a popular open source project, diving in to how it synchronizes and encrypts data, and covering some of the lessons learned from working in public For disclosure; I currently work on Atuin, which is what this talk is about. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/160-keeping-shell-history-in-sync-with-turtles-and-magic

Die Geschichte wie ein simpler Temperatursensor zu einem Großflächigen Energiemonitoring im Industrieumfeld eskalierte. Als frisch ausgelernter Facharbeiter rutschte ich in die Position des Prozessoptimierers, doch eine kleine Idee mal eben die Hallentemperaturen zu messen startete ein Projekt, das in 2 Jahren doch etwas eskalierte. Das Projekt soll auf lange Sicht komplett Open-Source werden, vielleicht ist ja was für euch dabei. Wie es dazu kam, was man mit Siemens, Node-Red, TimescaleDB und Grafana so alles im Industriebereich anstellen kann, und was ich auf dem Weg gelernt habe, das erfahrt ihr im Vortrag. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/FNUJQR/

Critical research on digital influence and micro targeting has generally focused on privacy violations by commercial marketers and Cambridge Analytica-style political manipulation. But increasingly, the UK government, police, and security services are using these tools for public policy. The targeted advertising and influence platforms give public sector actors complex tools with which to target behaviour change communications - allowing them to tailor nudge messages based on online behaviour, interests, and fine-detail location. This is allowing the police to use targeted behaviour change advertising to attempt to prevent crime before it happens - but poses serious questions for accountability, ethics, and privacy. Drawing on a dataset of more than 12,000 government adverts from the Meta Ad Library and in-depth interviews with law enforcement, we map the landscape of what we call 'influence policing' in the UK, and discuss the ethical and democratic implications of this new mode of policing. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/237-influence-policing

Im Automotive Bereich gibt es viele neue Standards die eine einfache Vernetzung über 2 Draht Leitungen bis 2,5 Gbits ermöglichen. T1S mit Multidrop ermöglicht es einfache Interfaces, wie LIN, CAN, UART, etc. ins Netzwerk zu bekommen und das alles in einem einfachen Bussystem. Ebenso ein Überblick über die momentan herrschenden Standards und wie man das in vorhandene Projekte bekommt. Beim Besuch des diesjährigen Automotiv Ethernet Congress gab einen Einblick in jetzigen Standards, interessante Bauteile. Dies hat auch noch mal zur Änderungen beim WomoLIN Projekt geführt. Welche Steckertypen werden verwendet, was ist beim erstellen der Leiterplatte beachten muss, wie integriere ich Ethernet PHYs und Switches. Welche Verschlüsslung findet direkt an der physischen Ebene statt. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/MVPTEK/

Hin- statt wegsehen, zur Polizei gehen statt weggehen - warum wir uns alle trauen sollten, mehr Zivilcourage zu zeigen und wie dabei der Selbstschutz gewahrt bleibt. Was ist das eigentlich, "Zivilcourage", was bedeutet sie, warum brauchen wir sie heute noch mehr als früher - und zwar offline und online? Das müssen wir in diesem Talk klären. Erst dann können wir uns Fragen widmen wie: Wie erkennt man, ob Menschen unsere Hilfe brauchen oder wir uns (unerwünscht) einmischen? Wie spricht man Opfer an, gerade bei Unsicherheit, ob sie Hilfe brauchen und wollen? Sollten wir das Einmischen lassen, wenn wir unsicher sind? [Spoiler: Nein.] Jede*r kann und sollte Zivilcourage zeigen, unabhängig von Alter, optischen und körperlichen Merkmalen, Herkunft ... aber sich niemals selbst in unkalkulierbare Gefahr begeben. Deshalb müssen wir darüber sprechen, wie wir Zivilcourage zeigen, aber Selbstschutz wahren, können. Und uns vergegenwärtigen, dass echter Einsatz nicht endet, wenn Polizei, Behören und Justiz übernommen haben, sondern dann (vielleicht) erst anfängt. Im dritten Teil des Talks müssen wir über für Opfer gefährliche Arten reden, nicht zu helfen. Nicht, weil gut gemeint oft nicht gut gemacht ist. Sondern, weil Zivilcourage auch heißt, sich im Namen der Opfer gegen untätige Behörden aufzulehnen, auf Täter-Opfer-Umkehr, Victim Blaming und sekundäre Viktimisierung aufmerksam zu machen. Und natürlich wird der Talk auf meine persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Zivilcourage eingehen. Ihr werdet erfahren, warum mich manche Menschen "SEK-Wawuschel", andere "die ominöse Frau mit den giftgrünen Haaren" (oder noch fieseres) nennen - und mir das egal ist. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/J3MKEY/

Emily Peasgood and Mark Hanslip will present a talk on creating EverSong, followed by an invitation to try their vocal transfer models in real-time. EverSong is a sound installation where you can hear the lifespan of a person in a song, from 5-years-old at the start to 95-years-old at the end. It explores the fragility of life, its circularity, invites people to celebrate the moment we are in right now and questions our legacy as humans moving into an increasingly digital age. Since January 2024, Peasgood & Hanslip have worked with DDSP-SVC, a newly-developed process which builds on Google Magenta’s DDSP by combining it with a diffusion-based vocoder. They recorded vocal datasets with people aged 5-95 and trained models which can be mapped onto Emily’s voice enabling her to sound younger and older than she is. This technology is starting to be adopted by contemporary pop musicians, high-profile examples being web services such as Grimes’ Elf and Holly Herndon’s Holly+. EverSong represents a new application of this technology by making it possible to hear a voice age in real time. It will be experienced in tunnels and pathways, installed sustainably in nature, touring before finding a permanent home in an ancient site. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/120-eversong-singing-voice-transfer

If you are a British nerd of a certain age, you almost certainly played Elite on the BBC Micro. And if you didn't, this talk will explain why you should care about a now 40-year-old game. It was years ahead of its time, with 3D graphics, a procedurally generated open world, and a whole novel's worth of lore - all running on an 8-bit home microcomputer in 1984, when most games were little more advanced than Pac-Man or Space Invaders. Over the last few years, I've been picking apart the original Elite game engine to understand how it worked, and also to experiment with extending it. In this talk, I'll examine some of the methods that the game used - how it used the graphics hardware, how the game state is represented in memory, how the ship models were designed, how the AI worked, and how galaxies and planets were generated. I'll also explain some quirks of the game... including the real reason that docking was so hard. I'll demonstrate some new tools I've developed, which access the game state in real time, letting you experience the original game in new ways - including an OpenGL frontend with VR support, and an attempt to recreate an arcade-style version of the game, with an old-school vector display. Finally, if all goes to plan, I will attempt to demonstrate something that was an impossible dream for 40 years: multiplayer Elite on the original BBC Micro version. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/113-exploring-and-extending-the-elite-game-engine

Short 10 minute talks on any topic Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/548-lightning-talks-saturday

Die zu Grunde liegenden Fehler, die Ransomwareangriffe ermöglichen (und einfach machen), sind häufig über verschiedenen Kunden hinweg die gleichen. Dieser Talk ist nicht nur ein Rant über immer gleiche Fehler, sondern soll IT-Verantwortlichen praxisnaher Empfehlungen zur Absicherung der IT-Infrastruktur geben. Denn die gute Nachricht ist: Der weitaus überwiegende Teil der Ransomwareangriffe lässt sich mit der Umsetzung relativ grundlegender technischer und organisatorischer Maßnahmen frühzeitig verhindern. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/GUYAHS/

We'll show you all the cursed uses of bash you didn't want to know about. Implementing network protocols, compilers, and emulators? Coming soon to a /bin/bash near you! During the presentation, we'll show you the really juicy details of how we stretched bash to its absolute limits in some of our craziest projects, while also teaching you about features that will hopefully one day prove useful in your own down-to-earth scripts. This is a high effort shitpost: we woke up one day and chose violence — if in "violence" you include using bash for the things that really should use a systems programming language, that is. We implemented emulators, network servers, parsed text and binary data alike, and crafted libraries to help with all of the above – just so you don't have to wonder: "could it be done"? about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/TL97JJ/

Ein Erfahrungs- und Leidensbericht darüber, wie man Qualitätskontrolle mittels KI/ML an Produktionslinien umsetzen kann. Und das alles über Eigenentwicklungen - wir haben Interna von Tensorflow gesehen, die sonst wohl nur die wenigsten sehen. Ein Erfahrungs- und Leidensbericht darüber, wie man Qualitätskontrolle mittels KI/ML an Produktionslinien umsetzen kann. Und das alles über Eigenentwicklungen - wir haben Interna von Tensorflow gesehen, die sonst wohl nur die wenigsten sehen. Im Talk werde ich die Entwicklungen zeigen, die ich weitgehend alleine, teils auch im Team, seit ~2019 für einen Industriekonzern umsetzen durfte. Das ganze entstand aus einem Hobbyprojekt, was nun Millionen von Teilen mittels Kamera und KI-Modellen auf Fehler prüft. Und was wir dabei gelernt und erfahren haben möchte ich euch nicht vorenthalten. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/NAFLDR/

During the pandemic, trains got weird for a while. We weren’t quite sure whether it was safe to travel collectively, and the impacts of that difficult time continue to shape our railway network to this day. Meanwhile, many of us were exploring our own, hyperlocal neighbourhoods on foot with obsessive levels of depth that we never otherwise would have got around to. (Was I the only one who highlighted every street I walked in a London A-Z to see if I could get complete coverage?!) In 2021, I did a design-based MA all about railways, railway infrastructure, and what it means to travel and live communally. To do this, I walked all the way from London to Brighton (in sections), following the railway line as closely as possible. This is a talk about what I saw and what I thought about, and will hopefully be enjoyed by fans of trains, hiking, community and travel. (And anyone else who fancies a sit down, I’ll try and make it interesting, I promise) Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/69-london-to-brighton-by-train-and-on-foot

Offline RFID systems rely on data stored within the key to control access and configuration. But what if a key lies? What if we can make the system trust those lies? Well then we can do some real spooky things… This is the story of how a strange repeating data pattern turned into a skeleton key that can open an entire range of RFID access control products in seconds. It’s a scrappy but scary hack that spawned from something we noticed whilst trying to duplicate an access card onto a subdermal RFID implant. This covers the discovery of the flaw, how we investigated it, and how significant the flaws ended up being. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/80-digital-skeleton-keys-we-ve-got-a-bone-to-pick

For two weeks every summer, half a million people attend the oldest and most prestigious Tennis Tournament, with another billion people following from afar. Underneath the pristine courts of Wimbledon, a massive technology operation underpins almost every aspect of the event, from the grass growing, to the scores appearing on screens around the world. This talk will cover the many interesting ways that technology supports this huge live event as well as a behind the scenes peek of the IBM operation in the broadcast centre. IBM has been the Official Information Technology Partner with Wimbledon since 1990. Presenter works for IBM as part of the Wimbledon team Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/234-the-tech-behind-the-tennis

Gas boilers, almost all homes in the UK have them, but they are dreadful! +90% of the ones I've seen are badly spec'ed and horribly configured, so they burn way too much gas. Then Martin Lewis keeps telling us to "lower the flow temperature" but it's never really explained how to, or what this does to save gas (and money). Well have I got a Slide Deck for you!! As with any serious problem, it needs hard data. So I wired my Raspberry Pi home server to my central heating controls, wrote a bunch of code, and spent last winter collecting data from my boiler, a dozen temperature sensors, some humidity sensors and the Octopus Energy API. I have pretty graphs to show what happens all around my home, how altering the flow temperature works, how altering set points work, why my house was too cold, then too hot, and used way too much gas. I'll explain the (simple) physics and how to tweak your system for best performance too. But ultimately, we all have to stop burning gas and move to heat pumps, a solution not understood by many and requiring something of a mind shift from the way gas central heating has always worked. I'll explain how heat pumps work and what you can do to prepare for their arrival in your home. The future is bright, and it's heading rapidly in this direction. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/161-gas-boilers-suck-hack-yours-today-save-money-save-the-planet

I’m an archivist. Every day I deal with the records that people chose to save, or forgot to destroy. Archival material ranges from the sublime (Royal wills, lost love letters, newspapers announcing the Titanic’s demise) to the ridiculous (broken chips of wax from old seals, IOUs from unknown persons, too much human hair). A key role of an archivist is to decide what to save and what to destroy. But this is the past. Today most records are no longer on paper but sent in the form of bytes and I’ve started to wonder what the point of my job really is? We have free access to near-unlimited email inboxes, all our photos are backed up to the cloud to access from anywhere, and instant messaging is synced between our devices. Why bother deciding what to keep for posterity? Just save everything, let computers do the hard work, and all will be well. This approach unsettled me so much that I set off to explore what it would really mean if we “saved everything”: how this would affect our world, communities, and ourselves as humans. In this talk, I will share this journey and my thoughts with you, and try to persuade you that my job is not in fact pointless. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/253-are-archivists-pointless-when-the-cloud-can-just-save

What does a computer programmer do if they can’t type code? Speak it, of course! Like many programmers and heavy computer users, I suffer from chronic hand pain aggravated by computer keyboard use (often called repetitive strain injury, or RSI). After having mild symptoms for years, in 2019 my hand pain worsened from irritating to unignorable. Eventually I got desperate enough to try to learn to code by voice. To my surprise, it worked. Speech recognition technology has advanced dramatically in the past decade, but most people’s ideas about voice-driven UI are based on highly limited voice assistants like Siri or Alexa, powerful but imprecise tools like LLMs, or special-purpose dictation tools. What does a voice interface for precise control by expert users look like? A small but growing community of programmers, many affected by RSI, have been developing tools that explore this question. I use one such tool, called Talon, to control my computer, write and edit computer code, and even to write my dissertation. In this talk, I will live-demo how I edit code by voice, as well as tackling the following questions: 1. What is voice-coding like? What unique challenges does it present? 2. How do voice control systems like Talon work under the hood? 3. Could voice coding ever be *better* than typing? 4. What can we learn from all this about designing voice interfaces for expert users? Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/217-writing-computer-code-by-voice

Files and directories feel like the Sun and Earth: they are the eternal foundations, and pretending they don't exist can only make make things worse. Except files were invented by humans! What if we left our zone of comfort and explored the possibilities? We live in the world of hierarchical file systems. We juggle named files, named directories, and symbolic links daily. It has been this way since the days of DOS, and it remains this way now. It's just the way it is. Or is it? Phone operating systems try to hide the underlying file system from the user. Yuck! Or actually, do we really want to manage our files manually? Is it really that fun to decide if the train ticket to FOSDEM goes under the "2023" or "invoices" directory, and in which order? Or do we just want to find the cursed thing when we need it? Documents have not always been bound to files, and they aren't, and they don't have to be. Put away the Stockholm syndrome, and I'll tell you about semantic desktop, WinFS, alternate streams, [photo managers](https://www.digikam.org/), [Perkeep](https://perkeep.org/), [IPFS](https://ipfs.tech/), and my own plan to ascend. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/ZRKD3G/

Das ZKM | Hertzlab ist als künstlerische Forschungs & Entwicklungsabteilung des Zentrums für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe die zukunftsgewandte Abteilung. In sechs Themengebieten beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, was in 100 Jahren ist, wie wir da hinkommen und wie wir das eigentlich hinkriegen, dass das eine lebenswerte Zukunft für alle ist. Wir geben einen Überblick über aktuelle Projekte des ZKM | Hertzlabs und laden euch ein, mit uns über die Zukunft zu spekulieren. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/HWVJLD/

Writing schematics via code isn’t a new idea. But with new open-source projects like Atopile, this workflow suddenly makes a lot more sense. Let’s take a look at why one would even write schematics in code instead of using the established visual way in software like KiCad or Altium, the advantages (from git integration, reusing components & modules, AI support, and more), previous software projects in that field, the current development state and how you can try out this new workflow yourself. Ideally, you already have experience in PCB design, but also PCB design newbies can learn a lot in this talk and learn some tricks for their first circuit board design. about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/RUW3HF/

Controlling websites with an Arduino is like magic. Suddenly little bits of hardware can control all kinds of games and interfaces on screens. And building a UI for your electronics becomes trivial too. This is a talk for anyone who’s ever tinkered with hardware or web design, and wants to join the physical to the digital. During this talk I will explain the basic techniques of keyboard emulation and using the Javascript Web Serial and Web Bluetooth APIs. To make it fun, and introduce some peril, I will demo all of the techniques live: controlling the Google Chrome Dino game by jumping up and down on stage, making a musical instrument from stretchy rubber and allowing audience members to connect to a set of handbells from their phones. Along the way will be plenty of tips on what to buy and what to avoid, I’ll demystify some of the complexity around Bluetooth and USB, and share several ideas for how to use this to cause mischief amongst friends, colleagues and enemies. I have done this before, but only once. Fingers crossed. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/173-connecting-arduinos-to-websites

This is the story of Reading Hydro, how a group of volunteers built and are now operating a hydro generation plant on the Thames in Reading. From raising the £1.2M to the parts build by volunteers, and how they are now operating the plant. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/242-how-volunteers-built

Single Sign-On (SSO) is sold as a way to • centralize managing your organization’s users, • make life easier for your colleagues, and • enforce consistent security standards. But SSO protocols are just ways for an identity provider to share information about an authenticated identity with another service. Me having a way to tell my vendor “yeah, that’s Bob” doesn’t tell me what the vendor does with this information, or if the vendor always asks me who’s coming in the door. A bad SSO implementation can make you think you’re safer, while hiding all the new and fun things that have gone wrong. To get the most out of implementing SSO, I need to know what I’m trying to accomplish and what steps I need to follow to get there. To illustrate why SSO needs to be set up carefully, for each of the things you need to do right, I’ll give you some fun examples of creative ways you and your vendor can do this wrong. We all learn from failure, right??? I’m sharing this info because this year I got deeply involved in the SSO setup for several vendors at work. It turns out that I’m good at asking weird questions, and it’s an extremely valuable thing to do. If you know how things should be, then you know where they could be broken, and you can ask your vendors (and your colleagues!) “weird questions” before an adversary does. about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/233-omg-wtf-sso

I was trained as a tax lawyer and data scientist as a profession but I always wanted to build. I attended the my first EMF and was hugely inspired by the participants and presenters I met. The following year, with the support of an EU innovation grant, I embarked on a 6-month product design course, culminating in an interactive children's book inspired by the Art of War. This unique book blends storytelling with 3D paper origami, touch sensors, cloud-based audio features, making ancient wisdom fun and engaging for young minds. In my talk, I'll share the challenges and triumphs of this unexpected adventure, from design principles to prototyping hurdles, offering valuable insights for aspiring makers and seasoned professionals alike. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/186-from-tax-law-to-tangible-dreams-an-accidental-makers-journey