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i have a decently working prototype for skulk now, but going to refactor it a bunch more

chaos communication congress, covid, ableism 

It's also extremely telling how many people seem to be much angrier about me causing a stink, than about the prospect of vulnerable/disabled folks being excluded.

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one of the areas i definitely grew in as a programmer is i used to barely do error handling, and now like half my time is spent on input validation and error formatting

chaos communication congress, covid, ableism 

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From what I'm hearing, the plan is to organize this year's Chaos Communication Congress in an absolutely packed venue with *zero* COVID measures because the orga doesn't care about even *trying* to find workable solutions.

This would be grossly irresponsible and unacceptable. And as usual, vulnerable people are being thrown under the bus.

"Being inclusive is good, sure, buuuut maybe vulnerable people just shouldn't come for a few years."

This is not good enough. Fix this. There are *so many* possible solutions, see eg. the MCH2022 measures.

Encourage people to self-test, and provide free self-tests for those who cannot afford it. They're cheap in bulk now.

Tell people to wear a mask, even if you can't 100% rigidly enforce it. Public health measures are not all-or-nothing, it doesn't *have* to be perfect.

CCC folks speak loudly about inclusivity, but that requires actions, not just words. Pretending that COVID doesn't exist is ableist and needlessly harmful.

If the Congress orga go through with this, I will not go to , and neither should you.

I think we all know how widespread hacker pest is every Congress, so you're almost *guaranteed* to be exposed to COVID at , with all the consequences that that entails - including serious risk of chronic disability and, y'know, *your brain* not working right anymore.

And yes, this is information from the grapevine, but this needs to be talked about *now*, before things are set in stone and the only response we'll get is "sorry, it's already decided". I'm sure that the orga will be able to issue a clarification if the policy changes.

mm love to read code like 'how did/could this ever work'

(please don’t respond to this post to be a dick about php, no matter how tempted you are, that’s not why i posted it)

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jesus christ someone on this train has the most disgusting coughing I've ever heard

i was kind of doubting it until the last moment, but I actually achieved what I set out to do today :3

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