Having a 2 to 3 week lockdown every few months would be far preferable over the current situation where you constantly have to be on the lookout yourself and will still get infected anyway, resulting in weeks of being unable to work due to long covid.
If you've had long covid, even when vaccinated (as in my case), you'll realize why stricter measures are so important.
Most local ccc chapters, e.g., Chaosdorf, still enforce a strict vaccination + daily tests + FFP2 masks rule for their spaces, for the same reasons.
One of the major features of the chaos congress was that it was purely run by volunteers, including the emergency response team. And pretty much no one with that knowledge would support an event like the congress in the current pandemic situation.
People are upset that changing literally anything on the system like adding a deprecation warning to stderr will break their fragile shellscript setup.
I think in the near future we'll have deep neural nets that create and puppet an VR avatar for us, while we're sitting normally in front of our PCs. Kind of like a recursive version of a v-tuber: you pretend you're wearing a VR headset and listen to the pointless rambling during meetings, while your boss pretends that everyone is being so much more productive.
This is already happening. NVidia's Maxine thing takes a still photo and animates it according to your video feed. The leap to a VR version feels rather incremental.
Also, sometimes things just need to be said. As a matter of principle. Enough bad things to worry about without nuclear catastrophe to sustain one man's ego to add to them. So, Putin, fuck off.
