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sudocurse
@sudocurse

the badge is a straight up baremetal GBA emulator, with a ROM preloaded onto it containing a homebrew game set in the convention center.

i used the online rom flashing tool someone made to flash pokemon crystal onto a bunch of friends' badges, and loaded up a bunch of demoscene roms onto mine


sudocurse
@sudocurse

bsides was a waste of money lol. def con was overall an overwhelming reminder of what the infosec world is like in the US outside of the bay (overwhelmingly white and also military) but i did also meet several really nice people who were neither of those things!

  • a lot of cool ctfs i didnt have time to do
  • the cult of the dead cow project veilid seems cool, i'll be watching to see how the implementation works out
  • i met LaurieWired who was extremely nice and gave me a pokemon card of herself
  • also i missed out on the queercon badge and i think the furs one (that shit is expensive!) but i went to some of the events and made a few friends

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yeah being around the bay's very specific distribution of techbros most of the time helps me forget that too. its numbers i guess, if this is the biggest event of people like this in the world (half the size of burning man), at least you have the option to filter, and spaces like queercon help facilitate that a little more safely.
but holding the dissonance is a part of the exercise of having a good time in a place like that, and like burning man, at least a good portion of everyone else thinks they're some flavor of subversive

so idk i tried to prove myself wrong about the space and its dynamics being what i remember, and have a good time, and it worked, i had a good time despite the fact that they did not prove me wrong in the least lmao