Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With ShmooCon concluded forever, what are some other smaller regional cons with really great signal-to-noise ratio? Here are the ones I mention specifically in this video...

CackalackyCon...
cackalackycon.org

SaintCon...
saintcon.org

Wild West Hackin' Fest...
wildwesthackinfest.com

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The TL,DR here is: If you want to offer criticism of something, please try to make sure your criticism is relevant. 😁 Thank you to all who have offered such good feedback about things from ShmooCon and beyond. I appreciate (almost) all of the commentary, etc.

I'm at SHOT Show this week in Vegas, so you can count on me sharing some silly details from the scenes in Sin City. But I'll try to take my own advice and be kind whenever possible. I hope to, anyway, hah. Enjoy! 👍😁👍

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Sign up for give-away drawings here...
deviating.net/contests/give-aways

I'm on the Fediverse. That's a great place to find me...
https://defcon.social/@deviantollam

I'm also on Instagram. I mostly use it for liking my friends' photos...
instagram.com/deviantollam

Bluesky is a newer community, and I'm over there, too...
https://bsky.app/profile/deviantollam.bsky.social

I'm also on Discord, but mostly only because my daughter uses it, lol...
discord.com/users/deviantollam

I post dumb questions to Reddit and sometimes answer folks' questions there, too...
reddit.com/u/deviantollam

This is my GitHub. I post my design files there...
github.com/deviantollam

I still have my Twitter account. I don't use it anymore and neither should you...
twitter.com/deviantollam

This is my personal web site. Most things i create wind up online...
deviating.net

This is my company. We're good at stuff...
enterthecore.net

This is where I train. Come and learn badass skills...
redteamalliance.com
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