diff --git a/content/posts/why-2025/day0/cold-shower.jpg b/content/posts/why-2025/day0/cold-shower.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index e9e6653..0000000 Binary files a/content/posts/why-2025/day0/cold-shower.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/posts/why-2025/day0/index.md b/content/posts/why-2025/day0/index.md index bda2e32..108678f 100644 --- a/content/posts/why-2025/day0/index.md +++ b/content/posts/why-2025/day0/index.md @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ It also contained _one_ sticket and a paper map as well as guidance for muggles ### Tent -I found a good spot exactly where I wanted one. It ended up right next to a power station, which meant my short extension/splitter was enough to reach it. Being able to charge laptop and phone overnight in your tent is a _must_ on a hacker camp. +I found a good spot exactly where I wanted one. -![White power distrubution box next to tent](power-station.jpg) +It ended up right next to a power station, which meant my short extension/splitter was enough to reach it. Being able to charge laptop and phone overnight in your tent is a _must_ on a hacker camp. At CCCamp, I did bring a router and long ethernet cable, but did not end up using it much because there was great WiFi coverage. This time I did not, and because life is hard and unfair, neither my laptop nor phone were able to keep a connection while in the tent. @@ -147,8 +147,3 @@ After such a long day, I was not going to sleep without a proper shower. Without control over the temperature, I did not expect it to be super comfortable, but I really struggled cleaning myself because the water was _freezing_. Maybe it was my tiredness at 3:30 am after being awake for 21h, but I did not take a shower as cold in a decade. The next day the water was heated and maybe even too warm, so I do not know what happened there. - -UPDATE: As it turned out, the gas for the water heater was just empty. -They later put up a sign. - -![Laminated sign stating that the gas may have run out if the water is cold, with a QR code to get in touch with people able to fix it.](cold-shower.jpg) diff --git a/content/posts/why-2025/day0/power-station.jpg b/content/posts/why-2025/day0/power-station.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 7073cf2..0000000 Binary files a/content/posts/why-2025/day0/power-station.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/content/posts/why-2025/day1/index.md b/content/posts/why-2025/day1/index.md index de7e122..501b146 100644 --- a/content/posts/why-2025/day1/index.md +++ b/content/posts/why-2025/day1/index.md @@ -4,15 +4,13 @@ title = 'WHY 2025 - Day 1' tags = ['travel', 'WHY 2025'] +++ -Please note the disclaimer from [Day 0](../day0/) still applies. - At day 1 I woke up in a warm tent to ABBAs "Gimme Gimme", making further sleep impossible. The weather service now predicted hotter weather than originally planned for, so I had to ration my cooler clothing for the hottest days, which had yet to come. I got a pancake in the food court and continued writing. After saturation settled in, the next level in the pyramid of needs was social connections, so I walked around a bit. -### Angry Nerds +## Angry Nerds After a while I came across a village by the "Angry Nerds" podcast, which is sadly in Dutch so I was not familiar with it. One of the creators of it was there and we talked for a while about differences between the German and Dutch hacker events. @@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ As we can time travel here, you can also see the firewall at night already: After a while, I did not want to bother my captive audience anymore so I continued exploring. -### Anderstorps +## Anderstorps I walked past a bar at one of the villages playing very loud music to something you could describe as art. I had just found Anderstorps, right next to BornHack. @@ -53,7 +51,7 @@ They did not provide any further context apart from "have you heard what they so ![Installation without cage and instrument](stolen_instrument.jpg) -### First talk +## First talk Next up was a talk that made me realize more stuff that was different from CCCamp. It expected a talk about either cloud security in general, or one about finding vulnerabilities in a deployment. @@ -63,24 +61,18 @@ There was barely enough context to figure out how to generalize what was said fo The following questions were also about specific products and services. I am pretty sure this would not have been on the Fahrplan in Germany, and as stated by others this would also have raised eyebrows in the Dutch hacker community one or two decades ago. -### Power issues - I wanted to get a new mate, but had to walk to a different bar because of issues with the payment system again. -As Heaven announced, the power outage was not on site and affected all of North Holland. -This meant that everything that was attached to the regional power grid, which was meant to be more stable than the on-site generators, did not work. -Because of this, all talks for the rest of the day were cancelled and mostly rescheduled in the following days. -At least bar payments were possible again shortly thereafter. -When the sun started to settle, the soundcheck of a Metallica tribute band fittingly called _Sad but Tribute_ started. +Shortly thereafter, the soundcheck of a Metallica tribute band fittingly called _Sad but Tribute_ started. From then on, the evening was filled with surprisingly close covers. The castle-shaped stage ("party area") and the flamethrowers attached to the towers were visible from all over the camping grounds. -### What the fog +## What the fog In the nights, it got really foggy, and I mean _really_ foggy. This made all the lights everywhere stand out even more. -![A projector running at the party bar, producing rays of colorful lights in the fog](projector.jpg) +![alt text](projector.jpg) Combine this with a bunch of very strong fog machines and you could maybe see two meters into the distance. @@ -89,11 +81,11 @@ Combine this with a bunch of very strong fog machines and you could maybe see tw Someone described their shift as customers popping into existance in front of the bar, ordering, and returning into nothingness after receiving their drinks. -![Fog so thick you can only see general shapes and big diffused spots of light](thick_fog.jpg) +![alt text](thick_fog.jpg) After turning of the fog machines at milliways, it cleared up quicky around us. It looked unreal even in person. -![Fog on the hills with lights peeking through it, but no fog in the foreground](less_fog.jpg) +![alt text](less_fog.jpg) The rest of the night I played PolyGen, which will be described [in a future blog post](/posts/why-2025/polygen/).