Hopes Notes

So I decided to order McDonalds breakfast VIA Doordash, something I do fairly regularly. I ordered saucage buritos, a hashbrown, and a McMuffin. The delivery came, and it was not at all what I ordered, and they told me redelivery was impossible, because MCDonalds stopped their all day breakfast, and stupidly stopps at 10:30.

If anyone wants to participate in the tenth edition of the Webaim screen reader user survey, whether your an actual user, or developer, it’s still open! Which is good for me, because while I was preparing for hearing, I wasn’t really looking at any home timelines in the Feddiverse or Twitter whatsoever!
Here’s the link, in my crappy markdown, I really wish I could use HTML here!
[https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/survey]

OK I did a big woopsies for quite a few years!! When I changed email addresses in 2020, I changed all the registrant contacts for my domains, but apparently failed to update my registrar’s account information. Until now they’ve been contacting me with an email address that I really only check once a month. That was a childish mistake!!

this will be an issue for me. A major one. Google has been trying to stop Youtube users from running adblockers for quite a while now unsuccessfully. In fact, they’ve personally gone after me with the popups.
I got around that by installing circumvention scripts. I refuse to pay for Youtube premium on principle, because I’m not a fan of Google’s advertising and data collection practices. In fact, I’m not a fan of Google services, and generally try to avoid them.
To try and mitigate this while following cases, I have installed circumvention scripts. I’ve also been running uBlock Origin, on top of Brave’s built-in mitigation measures. I’ve used Brave for years. Unfortunately I will no longer be able to continue. i will have to switch to Firefox. Mozilla has called for censorship and deplatformming in the past, so I’m not in agreement with their policy positions either, but this move by Google will leave me absolutely no choice, unfortunately!! Now what to do with the Olympics and Peacock being majorly crashy last weekend while trying to stream the figure skating nationals is an entirely different issue, and I’ll keep Chrome around just for that.

I found out today that I won my administrative hearing! I couldn’t believe it. I never expected such a thing to happen.
I was notified today with a call from my local aging and people with disabilities office. I did get to see the order, It actually took a very long time for me to see it, because I didn’t think I had it, but it turns out I did lol. They emailed it yesterday.
Someone was distracted by the Murdaugh evidentiary hearing and was not paying attention to their email. Uh huh…..

Over the weekend I’ve been watching the US Figure Skating Championships. I do this with Peacock. Unfortunately the feed hasn’t been the best, and has been crashing on me for some reason. I managed to figure out that if I don’t try to interfere with it by rewinding mostly, it will usually cooperate.
A lot of other people on the Figure Skating subreddit were having issues with Peacock as well. Yeah there’s one of those. Someone said that the replay disappeared while they were trying to watch one of the events.
Everyone was saying this happens because of a 2022 copyright lawsuit in which a band sued NBC and a pairs skating team for using their music in competition without getting the propper licensing for rebroadcast.
As someone who follows legal cases, some civil, I decided to take a look. Unfortunately the case settled, so no discovery for me, blah!
I actually thought this was strange, because when itcomes to figure skating broadcasts, there’s a whole lot of commentary!! It’s so thorough that a blind person does not need audio description. I’m not debating the marettes of description, it would just be redundant at that point.
I have followed figure skating since the 90s, although stopped in the early 2000s when I was institutionalized for a while, not by choice, and not in prison just FYI. After that the professional circuit stopped as well, and I really didn’t have too much of an interest in keeping up with the Olympic eligible circuit for some reason.
I have at times over the years, but recently, after being burned out on cases while trying to prepare my own, i decided to watch nationals that were happening this week. I do have Peacock premium, so it was going to be fairly easy for me, I thought.
This is the lawsuit that happend after the 2022 Winter Olympics.
[https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/olympic-skaters-nbc-settle-with-musicians-over-song-use-2022-07-22/]
Unfortunately, since there was a setlement, no discovery or deppos for me or the public, blah! I really wanted to see why the band thought suing NBC and the pair over what should be fair use was anywhere near acceptable, or winnable, for that matter!
Anytime you have any sort of commentary, and this is extensive commentary!! It should be considered as transformative, and therefore fair use. I can understand if this was NBC just letting the music play, but that isn’t what happens here!!
I suppose they could argue that rebroadcast would be considered a performance. Well, does that mean they have to license the commentary as well? I mean are the commentators suddenly on the copyright clock for everything they say? Don’t say anything too bad guys!, or you might get sued!!

My hearing was yesterday. It went about as well as I would expect, given that I had absolutely no trial experience whatsoever. Right before the thing started, I got really nervous, and all theory left me. I kept interrupting the judge a whole lot, which you definitely are not supposed to do! I kept appologizing!
I was fairly respectful though. I did call him sir a lot throughout the entire thing. A couple of my witnesses thought I was being rude at first. I was not intending to be rude, I just wanted to make sure he was hearing me clearly, because we were on the phone.
At one point, the judge put me under oath, and toome my testimony. During that time, my mom, who had already testified, was sitting next to me, feeding me answers. She was not supposed to be doing this. It got loud enough for the judge to hear it. When he called it out, she had to get up and leave.
While mom was testifying, she didn’t seem to want to answer questions. OK well she was at first, but then she started asking questions of her own. Your not supposed to do that either. This caused The state hearings representative to object.

Well, we’ve managed to flip another page in the calendar, and it’s January 9th. Today’s the day I’ve been dreading and looking forward to all at the same time! I’ve prepared all the questions, and except for a quick opening with the events of my caregiver quitting on sunday as a direct result of being placed on state plan personal care, that I plan to ask to give at the beginning, everything is ready. I just managed to finish the closing yesterday, so I’ve asked my sister, who isn’t testifying, to read that. After that, anything else is unforeseen, and left up to my Lord and savior.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas! I’ll be going to my family’s later to celebrate.

This year, #37c3 is happening yay! I was sort of streaming in 2020 and 2021, when they did the remote ones, but not really. for anyone who doesn’t know what the CCC is:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress]
The actual, official event Fahrplan, (schedule,) is here:
[https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/index.html]
I usually take the event fahrplan, and make my own list, so that I can have one just in case. Here’s my full CCC, (#37c3 Fahrplan. I just wrote this down in a text file, and did not apply any sort of markdown formatting, it’s for me to keep track of lectures, what time they start, where they’ll be streaming, etc, because they usually have the streams layed out that way.

Day 1, Wednesday, December 27th, 2023.

Lecture: Apple’s iPhone 15: Under the C

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 12:00 CET, 3:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Our words are our weapons

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 12:00 CET, 3:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Grace room

Lecture: Unlocking the Road Ahead: Automotive Digital Forensics

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 12:55 CET, 3:55 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: The Xandr file: A deep look into the abyss of the data industry

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 12:55 Cet, 3:55 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Zuse room

Lecture: YOU’VE JUST BEEN FUCKED BY PSYOPS

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 16:00 Cet, 7:00 AM pacific. Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Chop Brains: Hackback Edition

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 17:15 CET, 8:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Hall 1

Lecture: How to Hack Your Way to Space

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 17:15 Cet, 8:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: State of Affairs in the case of Julian Assange

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 19:15 CET, 10:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Lecture: Handsfree assistive technology

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 19:15 Cet, 10:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: The Unfolding Space Glove

Day: 2023-12-27

Start time: 20:15 Cet, 11:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Day 2, Thursday, December 28th.

Lecture: Hacking Neural Networks

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 11:00 Cet, 2:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: A year of surveillance in France: a short satirical tale by La Quadrature du Net

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 12:00 Cet, 3:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: Predator Files: How European spyware threatens civil society around the world

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 12:55 Cet, 3:55 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: The impact of quantum computers in cybersecurity

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 12:55 Cet, 3:55 pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Tractors, Rockets and the Internet in Belarus

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 13:50 Cet, 4:50 AM pacific

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: AlphaFold – how machine learning changed structural biology forever (or not?)

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM pacific

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: The seeing stone of the police authorities

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Hall 1

Lecture: All cops are broadcasting

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 16:00 Cet, 7:00 AM pacific

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Lightning Talks Day 2

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 16:00 Cet, 7:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 02:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Will AI save us?

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 19:15 Cet, 10:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Lecture: Tor censorship attempts in Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan

Day: 2023-12-28

Start time: 23:00 Cet, 2:00 PM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Zuse

Day 3, Friday December 29th 2023

Lecture: Unlocking Hardware Security: Red Team, Blue Team, and Trojan Tales

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 11:00 Cet, 2:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: NEW IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 11:00 Cet, 2:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Fuzzing the TCP/IP stack

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 12:00 Cet, 3:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Introduction to Smartphone Malware Forensics

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 12:15 Cet, 3:15 AM Pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: What is this? A machine learning model for ants?

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 13:50 Cet, 4:50 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Social Engineering: History, Effects & Measures.

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM Pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Finding Vulnerabilities in Internet-Connected Devices

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM Pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Seeds of Change

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Lecture: RFC 9420 or how to scale end-to-end encryption with Messaging Layer Security

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 15:45 Cet, 6:45 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: Four-year review of the CCC

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 16:30 Cet, 7:30 AM pacific.

Duration: 02:00

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Gut feelings: Can we optimize lifestyle, diet and medication according to our respective microbiota?

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 16:40 Cet, 7:40 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: Chat Control – It’s not over yet!

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 19:15 Cet, 10:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Quantum Cryptography – Real Progress or Expensive Hype?

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 19:15 Cet, 10:15 AM Pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Heimlich-maneuver

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 21:45 Cet, 12:45 PM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: What your phone won’t tell you

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 23:00 Cet, 2:00 PM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal 1

Lecture: Investigating the Iridium Satellite Network

Day: 2023-12-29

Start time: 23:00 Cet, 2:00 Pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Day 4, Saturday, December 30th, 2023.

Lecture: Let’s take a look at the inside of a neural network!

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 11:00 Cet, 2:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Hall 1

Lecture: Mobile reverse engineering to empower the gig economy workers and labor unions

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 11:00 Cet, 2:00 Pacific

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: Link extremism and freedom of the press

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 12:00 Cet, 3:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Should e-voting experience of Estonia be copied?

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 12:00 Cet, 3:00 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: tattoo

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 12:55 Cet, 3:55 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Dissecting EU electronic evidence

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: A Libyan Militia and the EU – A Love Story?

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 14:45 Cet, 5:45 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: Open your spaces for the deaf!

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 15:45 Cet, 6:45 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:40

Room: Saal Zuse

Lecture: 37c3 infrastructure review

2023-12-30

Start time: 17:15 Cet, 9:15 AM pacific.

Duration: 01:00

Room: Saal Grace

Lecture: 37C3: Ceremonial conclusion

Day: 2023-12-30

Start time: 18:20 Cet, 10:20 AM pacific.

Duration: 00:30

Room: Saal 1
I usually try to always watch the ceremonial closing event, and the infrastructural review, because they’re usually hilarious! Also, I try to take things that are completely out of my bailiwick, but still look interesting to me so that I’m exposed to new things, and learn something. I do try to just take things that look interesting to me, like the forensics lectures.