Schlagwort-Archive: preparing

Practical Doomsday: A User’s Guide to the End of the World

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I have posted about this book a couple of times on Twitter before I realized I should just write down my thoughts.

TLDR: The book of Michael Zalwski is worth a read. It does not over hype the topic and does not try to fuel fear but bring attention to topics that are realistic to prepare a plan for.

The book starts with an introduction to risk, goes into setting boundaries to fictional scenarios and goes over some realistic cases that are more likely to happen.

Part II then goes into practical tips, especially by starting with a “rainy-day find”. While that is not possible for everyone, every following topic might be even harder to achieve. The section about “Getting in shape” greatly reminds me of the movie Zombieland rule #1 “#1: Cardio – When the virus struck, for obvious reasons, the first ones to go were the fatties.”.

Because this is not the first book about the topic, the third part, while not completely new, I would still consider it a good collection of achievable things one can do and should consider and follows an order of importance, starting with water.

The last part “Active self-defense” was the least interesting for me, but again, the author put enough disclaimer to it that there might be ways to avoid situations where you e.g. would need a firearm.

You can tell that the author has not only spent considerable time researching the topic but also applied various techniques in real life. If you only want to read one book and have already read and implemented the guidelines governments usually publish to their citizens to be prepared for emergencies, this book is good from a content perspective as well as easy to read and digest and implement.

Recommendation: If you are going to buy the book, maybe buy the hardcover, you do not want your disaster plan to be dependent on an electronic device, do you?

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You can also read a preview chapter at: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/preview

36c3 part 1

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For many years I wanted to go to a CCC and this year because of different reasons I was finally able to go, this blog post is going to cover my planning and following posts will hopefully follow.

Preparing

There is a log of coverage already how to prepare for a congress. Obviously, you need a ticket. I got my ticket thanks to a co-worker who is a pretty active member of a local chaos group, so was fairly easy (thx stean)

So after getting a ticket, a place to stay needs to be found. In most cases, I run with AirBnB, this time I was unable to find a cosy place nearby so I ended up doing a hotel reservation and I hope this was a good choice.

And last but not least, transportation. The way to go here for me is using german railway services, Deutsche Bahn. There is even a special page from Deutsche Bahn to get a special ticket for a lower price.

Stuff

Of course, going to a conference you need your basic stuff as for every conference/travel, so I will not go into that too much. Especially for the congress, I tagged most of my gear that I plan to bring to the venue with my twitter handle and my domain so that it is easy to find the owner.

In addition to my normal list I packed the following items:

  • permanent markers (white/black) – maybe I can help with those
  • Magic ties (Amazon link) – I love those things
  • Stickers (mostly for FIRST)
  • batteries (AA+AAA) because why not.

A water bottle, because @c3himmel asked for it:

Tech

The tech also needs some extra time, in particular, updating every service/application running is critical. As I do not trust the wifi (as with any other wifi) VPN and a backup VPN was tested/updated.

To be able to work on stuff I also freed up some space on the devices, just in case.

Power up batteries, external power supplies and co. I do not want to run out of power.

Further reading