Which is not to say that I dislike or disrespect cDc. Those old textfiles made the world a better place. Respect for y'all's past achievements, but we don't get to sit on our laurels or avoid recognizing that we have power and a responsibility to use it justly, now.
It's more like finding out that bernie was in Skull&Bones tbh. The ongoing refusal among tech to recognize that we have power now is getting ridiculous.
@matthew_d_green 's wonderful analogies. Three of these were in the same thread recently, but the bacon house thing is a classic. There must be much, much more.
@DutchSpace Agreed, that is an interesting misconception! But the UK *can* unilaterally revoke #art50 and stop the brexit madness without needing EU approval ...
@kaepora@brynosaurus@ruescasd@SarahJamieLewis The very worst thing we could do as cryptographers is convince people to move critical societal functions into opaque experimental-quality cryptographic systems they can’t understand or even argue with.
And then implement those systems incorrectly.
@dantoml I've never gotten a pleasant hotel in zurich for under 150eur/night. Even the super cheap chains are like 90EUR. My friends splurged on the 25hour langstrasse and it seemed nice enough, tho expensive for what you get compared to elsewhere.
@dantoml Depending on where in Amsterdam but it's mostly pretty easy and cheap for good accomodations. I stayed at Manor Amsterdam in oostpoort and it was lovely (only like 80EUR right now too). There's lots of twee hotels in haarlem, never really had a bad time.
Zurich otoh :( :(