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The Alternative Social Media researchers blog has a new post! This one's from @jat23, and it is a reflection on ideas from #HOPE16 and how they apply to alternative social media research.

https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/09/01/hope-and-asm.html

#alternativeSocialMedia #academicchatter

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It was a great hope this year. Met up with a lot of old friends and made a bunch of new ones! Thanks to everybody that came out for my talk. After this weekend we have two major projects in the pipeline. #hope16 #hope

The image shows a stylized conference scene with simple, stick-figure–like graphics. At the top, in large white outlined letters, it says “PATHWAYS FORWARD.”

In the center, a figure stands on stage pointing at a black screen that displays the word “THANKS!” in bright yellow letters.

On either side of the stage are vertical black banners with the words “Sudo Con” in green text, suggesting the name of the conference.

In the foreground, silhouettes of an audience are shown facing the stage.

At the bottom of the image, the word “Conferences” appears in gray text.

The background is a solid coral-orange color, giving the whole image a bold, high-contrast look.

Has been years since I created this account and just as long since my last post.

Attended #hope16 virtually and finally got around to following many interesting and amazing people curating my home.

I learned that this is an amazing tool as long as I keep it on my home feed. The live feeds on this instance are… interesting.

The last time I was on this instance, I was chatting with a friend. That friend is currently in hospice and nearing the end of his battle with cancer.

Thoughts on HOPE_16

I’m on the train back to Montreal from New York, where I attended HOPE_16 over the weekend. I wanted to capture some thoughts while they were fresh, even though they might not be fully formed.

HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a technology and information security conference sponsored by 2600 Magazine. The SWF had two points of presence at the event this year: I gave an hour-long talk about the Fediverse which was streamed live. We also hosted the Fediverse Village, which turned out to be […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/08/18/thoughts-on-hope_16/

The Retia team met hundreds of hackers at #hope16! I gave a fun #Meshtastic talk, taught 8 hacker workshops, and we open sourced our #Nibble node design.

See you at the next one!

Another @hopeconf in the books. This was my third and most engaging one. The more I learn and the more people I meet the more fun this event becomes.

Thank you all that made this happen

#HOPE_16 #HOPE16 #HOPE2025

Sunset after the rain at St John's university, with the 2600 van in there foreground

I am at JFK, waiting to board my flight back from #HOPE_16 . It's been a wild weekend, in many ways better than last year. I met so many cool people, and got to shake @goldstein 's hand, whose magazine and radio show got me into hacking in the first place. I #HOPE to be back next year. Until then!

#HOPE16

Closing ceremonies about to commence at #HOPE_16 . It's been hectic today, but among other things I've been active on amateur radio and got pulled by @CanItHam into "the inaugural Kevin Mitnick Memorial Radio Net". During this process, he borrowed my HT so that @goldstein could use it. Wild.

#HOPE #HOPE16

@canitham@defcon.social (left) and Emmanuel Goldstein (right) checking in to the inaugural Kevin Mitnick Memorial Radio Net with my HT.

Check out these resources on how to program your ESP32-based electronic badges:
http://Linktr.ee/HOPEBadge

From the session that @jellyphish and I did on electronic badges at #hope_16.

#hope16 #Hope2025

@jackgangi 's talk about third spaces at #hope16 was very reminiscent of @johannab 's at #fedicon . The zeitgeist!

It was hard to resist the #honeypot at #hope #hope_16 #hope16 #hope2025. Thanks to all who were kind enough to chat with a bunch of introverts.

@legind said #reticulum at #hope16 👏👏👏

Good morning, HOPE! Last day!

Make it what you want it to be, hackers. ✌️💙 #hope16

@lamemakes your talk was dope at #hope16. Thanks for that! ✌️💙

Day 3 of #hope16. After a talk about bureaucracy hacking I'm at my first #workshop of the con: How to Make #Herbal #Medicinal Teas to Support #Heath and Wellbeing. Looking forward to learning about some useful #plants. #hope #hope_16 #hope2025

A long table in a classroom with various plants laid out

Well, my last morning at #HOPE_16 started with trying to tape my #Watchy screen to its board and having it break as I tried to reposition it. So that's a paperweight for the near future. Maybe I can find a replacement screen for it at some point. For now, breakfast and the first talk of the day. #HOPE #HOPE16

Speaking this morning on Tobin track, excited to see everyone :)

#HOPE #hope16 #conference #speaker

Looking for people to solve the Phrack40 Challenge with. PM me.

#HackersUnite #HackThePlanet #WHY2025 #DEFCON #HOPE #HOPE16

Been a lot going on at #HOPE_16. I spent the morning setting up a new #Watchy (thanks to the Arduino IDE compilation being slow), after lunch I used my ham radio to work contacts, and now I'm listening to John Kiriakou speak. #HOPE16 #HOPE

The author's laptop running the Arduino IDE connected to a Watchy smartwatch via USB.

Phree Phrack! #phrack #hope #hope_16 #hope16

#Hope16

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