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 suckless conference 2019, Bad Liebenzell, Germany
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 [![slcon 2019 group photo](slcon2019-s.jpg)](slcon2019.jpg)
 
 Friday, 2019-10-04
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 ### (14:00-18:00) Arrival at the venue
 
 ### (18:00) Dinner
 
 ### (20:00) suckless.org e.V. general assembly meeting
 
 Saturday, 2019-10-05
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 ### (08:00-09:00) Breakfast
 
 ### (11:00-12:00) Talk sessions
 
 #### OpenBSD supremacy, Laslo Hunhold
 
 > A look at recent developments in OpenBSD and a discussion about how
 > to include these advances in suckless tools.
 > 
 > Video:
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 > [![.slcon-2019-00-laslo_hunhold-openbsd_supremacywebm](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-00-laslo_hunhold-openbsd_supremacy.png)](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-00-laslo_hunhold-openbsd_supremacy.webm)
 
 ### (12:00-13:00) Lunch
 
 ### (13:00-18:00) Talk sessions
 
 #### Machine Translation, Manu Raster
 
 > The topic I would like to present is "Machine Translation" and it is in
 > the spirit of Douglas Hofstadters destructive critique¹ and my own
 > critique of Franz-Josef Ochs² concepts of translation from a history of
 > science point of view. In comparison to the early beginnings (Bar-Hillel
 > 1960 "The Present Status of Automatic Translation of Languages") little
 > progress has been made. In particular I will explain
 > 
 > - why engineers use intermediate languages (IL) and why they suck
 >  - analogies between code generation and literature translation
 >  - keywords: philologists and barbarians, the babelfish-device, binary-size sanity
 > - how translation fails on IL-level and surface level (destination language)
 > - what a good computer assisted translation tool for advanced users can
 >   achieve such as an Acme-based tool³
 > 
 > and present reproducable examples where Google Translate™ and its
 > epigones fail systematically.
 > 
 > [1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnr-ST6ITo&t=294s
 > [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThQedY-H4Q http://sylvester.bth.rwth-aachen.de/dissertationen/2003/059/03_059.pdf
 > [3]: Nichols, E., Matsumoto, Y. 2007. Acme as an Interactive Translation Environment. in: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Plan 9, pp. 35–45, Murray Hill, USA, December 3-4, 2007
 > 
 > Video:
 > 
 > [![slcon-2019-01-manu_raster-machine_translation.webm](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-01-manu_raster-machine_translation.png)](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-01-manu_raster-machine_translation.webm)
 
 #### The Static Web, Laslo Hunhold
 
 > A presentation of the concept of the 'static web', an approach to web
 > development using static websites and special approaches to data integration.
 > 
 > Video:
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 > [![slcon-2019-02-laslo_hunhold-the_static_web.webm](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-02-laslo_hunhold-the_static_web.png)](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-02-laslo_hunhold-the_static_web.webm)
 
 #### Acme changed my life, Marc Chantreux
 
 > Acme is the editor of choice in plan9. I don't use it but when trying
 > it, I realized that vim is much more than an editor: it's an open window
 > to my whole digital world: A perfect multipurpose UI. Let me show you ...
 > 
 > [slides](https://github.com/eiro/talk-acme-changed-my-life)
 > 
 > Video:
 > 
 > [![slcon-2019-03-marc_chantreux-acme_changed_my_life.webm](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-03-marc_chantreux-acme_changed_my_life.png)](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-03-marc_chantreux-acme_changed_my_life.webm)
 
 ### (18:00-19:00) Dinner
 
 ### (19:00-) Evening program
 
 > [![forest hike](forest_hike-s.jpg)](forest_hike.jpg)
 
 Sunday, 2019-10-06
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 ### (08:00-09:00) Breakfast
 
 ### (09:00-10:00) Hacking
 
 ### (10:00-12:00) Talk sessions
 
 #### Blind demonstration, Mattias Andrée
 
 > A demonstration of the blind video editor.
 > 
 > Video:
 > 
 > [![slcon-2019-04-mattias_andree-blind_demonstration.webm](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-04-mattias_andree-blind_demonstration.png)](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-04-mattias_andree-blind_demonstration.webm)
 
 #### Reflections on Unicode, Laslo Hunhold
 
 > Dealing with Unicode is a difficult balancing between correctness
 > and complexity. This talk presents recent results of the author with
 > regard to suckless Unicode handling in C at the level of grapheme
 > clusters.
 > 
 > Video:
 > 
 > [![slcon-2019-05-laslo_hunhold-reflections_on_unicode.webm](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-05-laslo_hunhold-reflections_on_unicode.png)](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-05-laslo_hunhold-reflections_on_unicode.webm)
 
 ### (12:00-13:00) Lunch
 
 ### (13:00-16:00) Hacking and departure