| 20 Jul 2021 |
|  j3s changed their profile picture. | 17:52:03 |
| 23 Jul 2021 |
|  kir0ul left the room. | 22:14:21 |
| 26 Jul 2021 |
|  arm joined the room. | 13:40:25 |
| arm | 👋 during safe mode planning there was some indication matrix better aligned than discord but no time to implement. Is there something for 29 or is this it? | 13:43:09 |
 Lance R. Vick | Discord was decided as the defacto for this year too | 23:07:25 |
| Lance R. Vick | and if you don't accept the discord terms of service you can't really participate in defcon this year | 23:07:43 |
| Lance R. Vick | so sitting this one out | 23:07:47 |
 K0HAX | Yeah, I'll be here but I don't want to support DEFCON deciding to use discord when a better (in my opinion) free alternative exists (matrix) | 23:28:43 |
| arm | Slowdown mode seemed helpful, which matrix doesn't have. I could see having a couple of thousand new accounts and posts flood the network over a weekend being a bit of an issue for federated servers | 23:59:54 |
| 27 Jul 2021 |
| arm | If this is where its at I'll hang here too and try to keep the shitposting to a manageable level | 00:01:11 |
| 28 Jul 2021 |
| arm | General question to all
Any, in your own opinions, must see talks or communities this year? | 06:04:08 |
| arm | I spent an in ordinate about of time in car hacking village (rooms) last year | 06:05:00 |
 theone42 | I am always a fan of the car hacking village, but plan to spend some time in the rf village this year. Have not spent a whole lot of time looking at the talk list... Most of which can be seen on YouTube later anyway! | 11:49:10 |
| arm | Is RF virtual? | 11:57:45 |
| arm | Sometimes I like to play them in the background in real time so can chat about at the same time | 11:59:20 |
| theone42 | Not sure, they have done virtual CTFs before with rf which is pretty cool. "RF Hackers Sanctuary | @wctf" https://rfhackers.com/rfctf this was done last at Grimcon not sure if they are doing it for DEFCON. | 12:08:03 |
| 2 Aug 2021 |
|  gtc1977 joined the room. | 12:32:03 |
| 4 Aug 2021 |
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| 6 Aug 2021 |
| arm | https://hackaday.com/2021/08/05/hands-on-def-con-29-badge-embraces-the-new-normal/
Badge looks awesome, by default can be used to (un)mute mic and change volume | 03:29:01 |
| arm | YouTube playlist is up
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9fPq3eQfaaBUD1zVxJWJmX86A6d0isBI | 11:20:15 |
| arm | Yew hows everyone's defcon going? Got Human Plus yet? | 15:37:45 |
| Lance R. Vick | The badge literally exists to augment a proprietary centralized privacy averse service... To encourage people to use said service. | 20:30:31 |
| Lance R. Vick | That is pretty gross. | 20:30:43 |
| Lance R. Vick | If you don't accept the terms of service of Discord, your badge is a brick? | 20:31:24 |
 MC_Crash | I mean the official defcon chat is on discord so defcon isn't privacy conscious | 20:31:39 |
| Lance R. Vick | They used to be. I don't know what the fuck happened but technologists across the industry look to defcon for a sign of what is considered to be acceptable in terms of privacy and security. | 20:32:52 |
| Lance R. Vick | And now this is a free pass for every conference to require Facebook or Google logins or whatever surveillance capitalism company they prefer. | 20:33:36 |
| Lance R. Vick | Because if hackers can't even do better, then they will simply assume they can't either. | 20:34:16 |
| K0HAX | It's not that hackers can't, it's that they wont do better. | 22:01:31 |
| arm | Human plus isn't required to access most of discord | 22:42:35 |
