Edit: site should be more stable now. Leaving the rest of the info in place just in case.<p>----<p>I was not expecting this to hit the front page.<p>Site is currently experiencing the "hug of death."<p>General information for new people: the HOPE hacker conference is this July 12-14 at St. John's University in Queens, New York City. 10% of all ticket sales for the month of April are donated to the EFF.<p>You can buy tickets at <a href="https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv" rel="nofollow">https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv</a><p>Or just be patient until the site loads and you can watch the funny videos.<p>You can also watch the videos on the Youtube playlist at:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcajvRZA8E08mP8_JddQQDZ3T25pDmXyW" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcajvRZA8E08mP8_JddQQ...</a><p>Or check out @hopeconf on twitter/x, mastodon, and instagram, where the videos have been posted.
Trivia: There are HOPE flyers in the movie “Hackers”. Cereal Killer’s real name is Emmanuel Goldstein, who is the maybe-fake reactionary leader in “1984”, and from there, the pen name of 2600 Magazine’s editor. 2600 sponsors HOPE.<p>Also: I was able to get my work to buy me a lifetime subscription to 2600 from my personal education budget. Just in case you were looking for a way to spend yours down.
Not sure why, but this page is _grindingly slow_ on Firefox. Initial load, etc.<p>EDIT: TLS setup took 15s. Not sure whats up with that. Honeypot / content hack puzzle?<p>EDIT^2: It took some time to load, but after watching two, my thoughts are that the deep fakes are okay -- B on a grade scale. The mouth movement has some uncanny valley but the audio is spot on. Well done.
Just learned about H.O.P.E. which stands for "Hackers On Planet Earth", which is ironic because their events have never left the USA since '94 when they started.