2026-06-07 –, ZKM Kubus Language: English
This talk could be described as "pixelebbe Wrapped", except that it is at a different time of the year, has better jokes, provides more technical and moral insights and is not personalized. So erm it probably isn't a "pixelebbe Wrapped" at all, but hey, learn how we built and hosted pixelebbe, achieved better uptime than GitHub and spent only a reasonable amount of effort on this shitpost-turned-project (that's what we tell ourselves at night).
In the history of human kind, there is a set of unfortunate innovations that have caused a lot of suffering and destroyed many lives. One might think of the nuclear bomb, or the internet. One could also think of pixelebbe. At least if one were to be untroubled by accusations of exaggeration and over-dramatising.
Well what is pixelebbe? It's a pixel-setting experience designed to frustrate the player using everyones' favorite thing: ✨ excessive bureaucracy ✨. The idea is very simple: we provide a 40x30 canvas, everyone can then tell us to set a specific pixel to a specific colour from our limited colourset, which we then do and so a picture will be created. Just add on top of that large amounts of red tape, such as limited office hours, a dedicated queueing system, having to use an official government form, very strict formality control and stamps.
In this talk, we want to lift the curtains and give a backoffice tour through pixelebbe. We'll talk about the technology abused to build and host pixelebbe, how we made professional software designed to look like it was put together in 2 hours. We'll even leak official secrets and risk going to pixeljail. There'll be time for a Q&A and a rare live-pixel-setting-session. Rumour has it, that even our agency lead might appear on stage, which had been notoriously always-absent during 39c3.
In meinem Mastodon-Profil steht "Trilogie des Grauens: Informatik (dort inzw.: B.Sc.). Datenschutz. Wortwitze." und das fasst es eigentlich ganz gut zusammen.
Ich bin 22 Jahre alt, habe einen B. Sc. in Informatik und studiere gerade Jura. Ich schrecke weder vor dem Verklagen von Behörden noch vor dem offensichtlichen Fehlgebrauch von Computern zurück. Bspw. nur weil HTML und CSS angeblich nicht als Programmiersprachen zählen, bedeutet das ja nicht, dass ich sie nicht als Programmiersprachen verwenden kann oder darf. :)
Seit letztem Jahr arbeite ich in einer Datenschutzbehörde.
hiya! I'm lydia!
You may know me from the fediverse or from some of the silly projects i did with netzunfall.
See you around!