I have been to a couple of CCC events in my late teens'ish. Around 26C3.
Over all can recommend, at least as a groups. I used it to meet some online friends for the frist time. Wifi / wardriving nerds that I spend a lot of time with online.
But man, I think I have never been at a place with so many small negative experience with other people. Death by a thousand paper cuts. One older man out of nowhere loudly proclaimed I was Anti-semetic, because I was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh. When sitting in the cellar in the "hacking area", friends of mine and me where coding on kismet or aircrack-ng, when someone from the neighboring desk asked what we where doing. After I told him he only lifted his nose slightly and with a smug smile said "Oh, that's what you call hacking today?"
At one camp, where there even was an event on photography, someone I met almost went into a rage every time he saw a camera. Not pointed at him, just someone with a camera. Off he went to tell the camera owner about how it was last camp and his opinion ..
Everything just minor interaction. But as a whole it's just not people I want to hang around with any more.
This is the same for all social environments. People can be bound to their ideology without ability to converse or reasoning with simplistic ideas. Often such people require a build up of interaction before the ability to persuaded them.
To the camera, some people want a historical time capsule and others want to live in the moment unarchived. People are more capable of being themselves without a picture which can redefine the moment in a thousand words which as no binding to reality. Or they want to be a ghost to limit possible future repercussions.
> This is the same for all social environments.
No, it definitely is not. But there are some that are similar. For example my partner is involved in the anime / magic the gathering / cosplay scene and I can see the parallels. Just exhausting.
But for example in the Techno / Festival scene, not just as a guest, but as a worker that much much rare to meet a person that exhausts me.
Reason it is the same for all social environments is law of large numbers. How lucky are you that the outcome is good versus a bad experience in the limited time being there?
Example, you go to the same place often and have a good experience. One day at the same place you have someone talking to you about a crazy conspiracy theory and they want you to believe it.
Another being your supervisor or boss is just fine and focus on the task. Then a few years in they start trying to push you to their religion or political beliefs.
All social environments are dynamic and have the potential to be good or bad. It can be reduced based in the context of the environment. Example, going to church reduces the chance of someone trying to convert you to another religion but it does not reduce the push for political and other ideology engagement in a forceful nature.
Mashimo · · focus · HN ↗
Over all can recommend, at least as a groups. I used it to meet some online friends for the frist time. Wifi / wardriving nerds that I spend a lot of time with online.
But man, I think I have never been at a place with so many small negative experience with other people. Death by a thousand paper cuts. One older man out of nowhere loudly proclaimed I was Anti-semetic, because I was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh. When sitting in the cellar in the "hacking area", friends of mine and me where coding on kismet or aircrack-ng, when someone from the neighboring desk asked what we where doing. After I told him he only lifted his nose slightly and with a smug smile said "Oh, that's what you call hacking today?"
At one camp, where there even was an event on photography, someone I met almost went into a rage every time he saw a camera. Not pointed at him, just someone with a camera. Off he went to tell the camera owner about how it was last camp and his opinion ..
Everything just minor interaction. But as a whole it's just not people I want to hang around with any more.
yndoendo · · focus · HN ↗
To the camera, some people want a historical time capsule and others want to live in the moment unarchived. People are more capable of being themselves without a picture which can redefine the moment in a thousand words which as no binding to reality. Or they want to be a ghost to limit possible future repercussions.
Mashimo · · focus · HN ↗
No, it definitely is not. But there are some that are similar. For example my partner is involved in the anime / magic the gathering / cosplay scene and I can see the parallels. Just exhausting.
But for example in the Techno / Festival scene, not just as a guest, but as a worker that much much rare to meet a person that exhausts me.
yndoendo · · focus · HN ↗
Example, you go to the same place often and have a good experience. One day at the same place you have someone talking to you about a crazy conspiracy theory and they want you to believe it.
Another being your supervisor or boss is just fine and focus on the task. Then a few years in they start trying to push you to their religion or political beliefs.
All social environments are dynamic and have the potential to be good or bad. It can be reduced based in the context of the environment. Example, going to church reduces the chance of someone trying to convert you to another religion but it does not reduce the push for political and other ideology engagement in a forceful nature.