@MonniauxD @regehr when I went there, it turned out to be faster / easier to drive there by car from where I live (very roughly between Brussels and Ghent in Flanders/Belgium) than to use public transport, which just felt wrong

@regehr @cfbolz seems like my own follow up reply was just a bit too late, but I agree with you

@cfbolz @regehr but they should at least have disclosed it to the PC chairs

@cfbolz @regehr well but I guess that would break the double blind review in a sense?

@csgordon @JonathanAldrich I mitt have misunderstood, but as far as I understand: in security, the PC size scales up less than the number of submissions? 😬

@soatok I'm a computer scientist with a love for learning new things and for teaching, so trying to stay in academia for as long as possible. My main interest is systems security (anything vaguely involving compilers, operating systems, etc.), but my overall broader interests are diverse enough that the fediverse is like catnip for me. My only hobby/interest I don't see much love for in my timeline over here is aikido.

@ah don't forget the pronoun 'I' which causes lots of fun with auto-capitalization in when putting code on slides with the variable name 'i'

@csgordon You can choose between the closest collection of books, which is in a book rack next to my desk; or the closest vertical stack of random of books lying around (on the floor)

@bert_hubert I found this somewhat funny in combination with an article in today's Belgian print version of De Standaard 'Europees navigatiesysteem is nauwkeurigste ter wereld'

@david_chisnall that's the only plausible time for an academic to confirm attendance, because that far ahead their agendas are blissfully empty and go 'sure I'll have some time to spend then' 😅

@gsuberland the Rhine is reasonable large/wide in Basel as far as I know

@krismicinski I've heard about it: its proceedings were included on the CD/DVD of IEEE Security&Privacy proceedings I got at one point (I'm starting to show my age here, I fear😅)

EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.

It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@0xabad1dea @barrowofdirt Ah, but don't confuse the first Ascension Day (Hemelvaart) with the catholic (observed in Belgium as an official holiday) second Ascension Day (Maria Hemelvaart, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria-Tenhemelopneming where I now learn that that common shorthand name is theologically incorrect 😅 )

@wingo @lindsey @samuel Oof, yes, I didn't know that, then I also would find something else... Good to know!

@wingo @lindsey Also for future reference: as a reviewer I've seen people link to github repos with randomized names; and I've seen multiple papers use this service: https://anonymous.4open.science/ (one CFP even explicitly suggested that service / site as an option)

@Klara@fosstodon.org I saw them there when I went there this afternoon: nice!

@katzenberger @rene_mobile well USENIX has/had both @usenixassociation@infosec.exchange and @usenixassociation@discuss.systems but they're clearly not used anymore

@vaurora I somehow accidentally bought a domain from their Canadian subsidiary (rather than the French one) and their 'solution' to transfer it to their French subsidiary was for me to first migrate it to another registrar altogether and then migrate it back to them...