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1 suckless conference 2019, Bad Liebenzell, Germany
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3
4 [](slcon2019.jpg)
5
6 Friday, 2019-10-04
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8
9 ### (14:00-18:00) Arrival at the venue
10
11 ### (18:00) Dinner
12
13 ### (20:00) suckless.org e.V. general assembly meeting
14
15 Saturday, 2019-10-05
16 ====================
17
18 ### (08:00-09:00) Breakfast
19
20 ### (11:00-12:00) Talk sessions
21
22 #### OpenBSD supremacy, Laslo Hunhold
23
24 > A look at recent developments in OpenBSD and a discussion about how
25 > to include these advances in suckless tools.
26 >
27 > Video:
28 >
29 > [](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-00-laslo_hunhold-openbsd_supremacy.webm)
30
31 ### (12:00-13:00) Lunch
32
33 ### (13:00-18:00) Talk sessions
34
35 #### Machine Translation, Manu Raster
36
37 > The topic I would like to present is "Machine Translation" and it is in
38 > the spirit of Douglas Hofstadters destructive critique¹ and my own
39 > critique of Franz-Josef Ochs² concepts of translation from a history of
40 > science point of view. In comparison to the early beginnings (Bar-Hillel
41 > 1960 "The Present Status of Automatic Translation of Languages") little
42 > progress has been made. In particular I will explain
43 >
44 > - why engineers use intermediate languages (IL) and why they suck
45 > - analogies between code generation and literature translation
46 > - keywords: philologists and barbarians, the babelfish-device, binary-size sanity
47 > - how translation fails on IL-level and surface level (destination language)
48 > - what a good computer assisted translation tool for advanced users can
49 > achieve such as an Acme-based tool³
50 >
51 > and present reproducable examples where Google Translate™ and its
52 > epigones fail systematically.
53 >
54 > [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
55 > [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThQedY-H4Q http://sylvester.bth.rwth-aachen.de/dissertationen/2003/059/03_059.pdf
56 > [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
57 >
58 > Video:
59 >
60 > [](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-01-manu_raster-machine_translation.webm)
61
62 #### The Static Web, Laslo Hunhold
63
64 > A presentation of the concept of the 'static web', an approach to web
65 > development using static websites and special approaches to data integration.
66 >
67 > Video:
68 >
69 > [](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-02-laslo_hunhold-the_static_web.webm)
70
71 #### Acme changed my life, Marc Chantreux
72
73 > Acme is the editor of choice in plan9. I don't use it but when trying
74 > it, I realized that vim is much more than an editor: it's an open window
75 > to my whole digital world: A perfect multipurpose UI. Let me show you ...
76 >
77 > [slides](https://github.com/eiro/talk-acme-changed-my-life)
78 >
79 > Video:
80 >
81 > [](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-03-marc_chantreux-acme_changed_my_life.webm)
82
83 ### (18:00-19:00) Dinner
84
85 ### (19:00-) Evening program
86
87 > [](forest_hike.jpg)
88
89 Sunday, 2019-10-06
90 ------------------
91
92 ### (08:00-09:00) Breakfast
93
94 ### (09:00-10:00) Hacking
95
96 ### (10:00-12:00) Talk sessions
97
98 #### Blind demonstration, Mattias Andrée
99
100 > A demonstration of the blind video editor.
101 >
102 > Video:
103 >
104 > [](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-04-mattias_andree-blind_demonstration.webm)
105
106 #### Reflections on Unicode, Laslo Hunhold
107
108 > Dealing with Unicode is a difficult balancing between correctness
109 > and complexity. This talk presents recent results of the author with
110 > regard to suckless Unicode handling in C at the level of grapheme
111 > clusters.
112 >
113 > Video:
114 >
115 > [](//dl.suckless.org/slcon/2019/slcon-2019-05-laslo_hunhold-reflections_on_unicode.webm)
116
117 ### (12:00-13:00) Lunch
118
119 ### (13:00-16:00) Hacking and departure