Chaos Constructions 2019
On August 24-25, traditionally in the last weekend of summer, the computer festival Chaos Constructions 2019 will take place in St. Petersburg. The conference within the festival will feature over 60 presentations. Originally, the festival was dedicated to the demoscene, and the computers that are now considered retro were the most advanced at that time. It all began in 1995 with the ENLiGHT festival, organized by Petr Sobolev (frog). Back then, there was hardly any system administration or internet, and the first programmers were creating code that produced sounds and animations. Pioneers gathered once a year under one roof to showcase their works and share code, which is still available for viewing and studying at , where you can explore works from all these years. From the ENLiGHT demoparty, the computer festival Chaos Constructions emerged. In 1999, the event was held for the first time under its new name, and gradually the festival featured exhibitions from enthusiast collections. Now this exhibition is known as a union , which you can visit in various cities across Russia, both at major festivals and smaller events.
Chaos Constructions is part of the global demoscene ā , with most events taking place in Europe, while similar gatherings of like-minded individuals in Russia are closing one after another due to lack of commercial support. This summer, unfortunately, marked the last DiHalt party in Nizhny Novgorod. In Kazan, a group of enthusiasts decided to revive the demoparty , which hasn't taken place for over a decade.Ā Ā
Currently, submissions can be made to the festival competitions for graphics, music, and animation programming across different platforms: , to view works at the festival, vote for the best, and participate in the award ceremony. Don't forget to take part in the hackathon from Yandex, where you need to come up with gaming skills for the voice assistant Alice ā participation can be as a team or individually. Organizers will select 7 best skills from the submissions and invite their authors to the hackathon. Applications are accepted until noon on August 22. To participate in the hackathon, you need to develop a gaming skill for Alice in advance and You can create a quiz, quest, simulator, game for kids and more, be it a card game, an intellectual challenge, a multiplayer game, or any other type of game. It needs to be published in or, if the skill is private, send a link to its page in .Ā
This year, our festival's exhibition area will be joined by representatives from the Open Laboratory of Ideas and Methods (). Enthusiasts from fields ranging from instrumentation, programming, and optics to design and pedagogy will showcase their developments. A retro computer exhibition, as well as a retro television studio from the 90s, will immerse you in the technical novelties of the 90s. Most importantly, you will hear the reports ā the conference program is packed, and the full schedule can be found on the website: .
HackZoneĀ
HackZone is a cozy traditional corner for talks on security, both software and hardware. Alexander Chemeris, a wireless communication expert, will discuss signal transmission without the use of antennas, using software-defined radio technology. A highlight will be a conversation about the history of hacking in the post-Soviet space with the participation of the magazine xakep.ru. Here are the topics that speakers are planning to discuss:Ā
- Nipnull: LockPick: Opening locks.
- Alexander Chemeris, CTO/Founder Fairwaves, Inc: How SDR is changing the world. DARPA SC2, OpenRAN, XTRX, GPS spoofing, and much more
- Ksenia Ermoshina: Transcyberian ā experience in organizing a new format of a crypto party. How to combine crypto, experimental electronics, strange drinks, and media art?
- Oleg Kupreev, HWS.su: The Holy Grail of iPhone JTAG.
- Oleg Kupreev, HWS.su: Features of exploiting vulnerabilities in the XScale microarchitecture.
- Oleg Kupreev, HWS.su: Wi-Fi hacking on Windows/Linux/OS X.
- Vladimir Azarov: Concept of IT Security. Trends and directions of attack vectors in our time.
- Dmitry (soxoj): Combat OSINT: when open sources are not enough. Clever ways of obtaining non-public information and exciting stories of cybercrime investigations.
- Egor Litvinov: Wireless technologies Wi-Fi: theory of Wi-Fi, what frames consist of, what they are for; possible attacks on Wi-Fi/802.11; how to crack/snoop 802.11 using esp32.
- Egor Litvinov: Wireless technologies Zigbee: theory of Zigbee; potential attacks; what budget hardware exists to play around with Zigbee.
- Boris Merkulov, Cloud & Security Engineer, Linxdatacenter: Key issues in ensuring information security: typical mistakes; multi-vendor environments; cloud services.
- Dmitry Moldavanov: Hacking the Internet: the bright and dark sides of Deep Packet Inspection.
- Alexander Romanov, dsec.ru: Diving into Active Directory. Analysis of mechanisms and utilities for privilege escalation in Microsoft AD.
LockPick from the Moscow community DC7495: Training mechanical thinking while having fun with lock picking. You'll be introduced to the basic principles, and of course, engaging practice awaits! All quests are prepared by professionals.Ā
GameDevĀ
Organizers of the GameDev zone at the festival : Ā«ā a non-commercial program for training and supporting indie developers. ā National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
The GameDev zone ā two days of lectures from industry professionals, a round table on 'Uneducated GameDev' ā about education in the game industry with teachers and students. New trends in game mechanics and technology, game showcases from indie developers. The gaming skills competition 'Yandex.Alice' (). Presentations are prepared for you by:
- Sergey Gimelreich: How mechanics tell stories.Ā
- Olga Maksimenko: Gamification of education: fun, motivation, and self-overcoming.
- Makarov Grigory: Shaders for everyone.
- Alexey Neznanov: Artificial intelligence and human creativity ā opposition or synergy? Myths and breakthroughs.
- Darya Semyonova: Ā Voices in games. Working with actors.Ā
- Mikhail Witte: Music: how it works (introduction).
- Kirill Shabordin: The browser as a gaming platform, romance and even more hell.
- Alexey Neznanov: Gaming 'achievements' ā 2019. Fake Christmas decorations and heroes of socialist labor: overcoming and rewards in the service of immersiveness and addictiveness.
We ļø MetricsĀ
A large monitoring meetup, from the creators of Big Monitoring Meetup () with participation from the Church of Metrics (https://t.me/metrics_ru) will take place on Saturday at the festival.Ā
- Konstantin Mikhailov (Saymon): Monitoring in a data center.
- Gleb Yalchik (Gaijin): Monitoring on large databases: challenges and specifics.
- Vyacheslav Olkhovchenko: Metrics living in Clickhouse.
- Konstantin Ryadov: Your Prometheus exporter: from metrics creation to Grafana visualization.
- Alexander Chistyakov: Automated dashboard generation in Grafana with available tools: the Grafonnet library and others.
- Sergey Martynov: The Four Golden Signals and Prometheus. Monitoring is often talked about, but little is done. According to Google, The Four Golden Signals are sufficient for a comprehensive evaluation of any service. I will show how to correctly implement and assess these signals using Prometheus.
DevOpsĀ
The IT communities of St. Petersburg form the foundation of the conference. We will discuss many topics: infrastructure, code analysis, security, data. Presentations have been prepared for you by the oldest IT community in St. Petersburg ā , a community , , and others.Ā
- Alexander Kaloshin, CEO Last.Backend: The story behind the creation of the infrastructure startup Last.Backend: pain, pain, pain, and more painā¦
- Dmitry Ignatiev: Bicycle (Common Lisp + .Net Core)
- Alexander Kaloshin, CEO Last.Backend: The guts of modern container clouds: networks, volumes, scheduling, logs, and monitoring.
- Sergey Slepkov: Cloud security will not look the same as before.
- Vladimir Azarov: Methods of data processing using neural networks.
- Dmitry Donov: Legal aspects of protecting your code.
- Irina Radchenko: Data expedition: training in data handling, about universities and the real world.
- Daniil Podolsky: Software development: the problem of existential loneliness as a productivity issue.
- Alexey Smirnov and Konstantin Tyapochkin: An overview of methods and tasks in the field of automated processing of source code (NLP on source code). From identifying developer profiles and opinions to recognizing risks.
- Alexey Stepanenko: Terraform - working with cloud infrastructure.
- Alexander Chistyakov: The life cycle of a microservice application in Kubernetes: deployment and everything that follows.
- Anton Vorshevskiy: A vomiting lambda and transcendental cats: the functional paradigm as a path to enlightenment in an illusory world.
- Tsymzhitov Gonchik: Those damn email handlers for Jira.
You can find most speakers, communicate, and ask questions in the chat:
DevRelĀ
Technical presentations will be complemented by the developers themselves, as well as motivational speakers and professional psychologists who enhance empathy and motivation. There will also be a game called āEmpathiumā, and here are the presentations:
- Anastasia Sukhanova: The power of EI. Burnout prevention.
- Ekaterina Balunova: Methods and tools of emotional intelligence for building effective communications.
- Mikhail Drozdov: Survival in the era of total meaning.
- Marina Artemyeva: Emotional interaction and success.
- Elizabeth Lovyagina: Gamified methods of non-material motivation.
- Elizabeth Ehrenberg: Networking. Who, Why. A report on what it is, its benefits, how to apply it, and I'll show and tell you simple networking tools.
- Vladimir Azarov: Personal efficiency. Using your brain to achieve better results.
Blockchain MeetupĀ
The Blockchain Meetup will delight with unusual participants. You will have the opportunity to meet an evangelist from TON Labs, learn how to use bitcoins in gubernatorial elections, get to know the NEO blockchain platform, and attend a workshop where you will be taught how to use smart contracts. With the participation and support of the SPb BlockChain Community.
NEO platform workshops will take place on August 24 and 25, from 12 to 2 PM, we will be happy to see you!
List of topics:
- Stanislav Bogatyrev: NEO platform ecosystem. What we do and how to use it.
- Sergey Chernikov, Evangelist TON Labs: TON: Today ā Tomorrow
- Vladimir Kuznetsov: Guber Bitcoin or something else? What to choose for payment in your project.
- Evgeny Pavlov, Bitfury: Practicing the implementation of private blockchain based on the Russian Bitfury experience.
Embedded & DIY & IoTĀ
No technology is complete without a soldering iron and programming controllers; meet the big gathering of embedded systems developers, DIY enthusiasts, and vintage technology fans:
- Kirill Tikhonov: BoF session ā The embedded industry in Russia and abroad.
- Anton Feldman: Back to the roots: daemontools, runit, and svlogd.
- Besarab Sergey: Chinese mini-router as an alternative to ESP8266. Experience in adaptation for use in Internet of Things applications.
- Andrey Strokov: GnuRadio with examples.
- Vlad Zaytsev: RFID implantation: the mark of the devil, a toy for geeks, or the future.
- Alexey Nikolaev (23vek.ru): Robots against humans. Legislation, testing, algorithm development, and scenarios for protection against robots.
- Artem Kashkanov: Triple Brainfuck, or what madness is ā how to assemble a relay computer BrainfuckPC, start building a tube computer, design a computer based on the jet adhesion effect, and not lose your mind.
- Konstantin (sintech): Speech synthesizer for the Agat computer on the KR1803VZh1 chip.
- Denis (dk_spb): Universal readers for old flexible and hard drives.
- Pyotr Sobolev (frog): The history and architecture of the first gaming console with a microprocessor ā Fairchild Channel F, 1976.
- Valery Kalashnikov: ML and DLT for anomaly detection in IoT devices.
Network and System AdministrationĀ Ā
Communities of network engineers and administrators and , with support from channels #ŠŠ°ŃŠµŠ»ŠµŠŗŠ¾Š¼ and will discuss pressing issues and possible solutions:Ā
- Anton Klochkov, linkmeup: Experience in import substitution.
- eucariot linkmeup: Automation complex.
- Mikhail Klimarev, #Zatelecom: Government shutdown in the world and Russia.
- Leonid Evdokimov: A breach in SORM. Forest tales and realities.
- Anton Litvinov aka Dr_Wut, linkmeup: Bloody enterprise and software company, approaches, differences, pain points, etc.
- Denis Almuakhametov: IPAM as a tool for network engineers. Netbox API + Python = filling, updating, and extracting. The first step towards network automation.
On behalf of the community, we express our gratitude to our partners and sponsors: the blockchain platform NEO, VDS hosting VDSina.ru, partners from the non-profit association 'Indicator', the non-profit association OLYMP, the non-profit association RetroTech Squad, the Yandex museum for the exhibition and contest featuring the electronic assistant Alice, the Laser Center for excellent award statuettes, TS Solution and Linxdatacenter for prompt assistance and support. A complete list of our partners, co-organizers, communities, their websites, and chats is available on the page
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Source: habr.com
