sudo-discuss February 2015

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[Noisebridge-announce] Cyberspectrum: Software Defined Radio Meetup (Wed 25th Feb) 7:00pm (fwd)

by Jake

SDR's are super cool, $12 usb sticks (including shipping and antenna) that can receive almost any frequency and let your computer demodulate what's there based on free software. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:43:41 -0800 From: Balint Seeber <balint256(a)gmail.com> To: noisebridge-announce(a)lists.noisebridge.net Subject: [Noisebridge-announce] Cyberspectrum: Software Defined Radio Meetup (Wed 25th Feb) 7:00pm Hi all, Announcing the second Cyberspectrum meetup in San Francisco! We'll try to get started at around 7:00pm in the Hackatorium, and for those unable to attend we'll set up a live stream like last time (stay tuned to the event's page/Twitter for more info closer to the time). There's also IRC: #cyberspectrum on Freenode. Full details, including the speaker lineup/topics, are here: http://www.meetup.com/Cyberspectrum/events/220011639/ And the Noisebridge event page is here: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Cyberspectrum This time we'll be hearing about: * Building a Doppler RADAR with cantennas and SDR * Using MultiPSK to analyse all manner of interesting signals * Wardriving with SDR in the age of the Internet of Things If you're not familiar with Cyberspectrum: "The Bay Area SDR Meetup will serve as a forum to exchange knowledge and ideas related to Software Defined Radio (the software and hardware), and generally aim to get people excited about all the applications that can be realised with the technology. At each meetup, attendees will have the opportunity to present their work/ideas to the group. Engineers, enthusiasts, hobbyists and people of all experience levels are welcome, no matter what your software/hardware background. Everyone is welcome to submit their ideas/presentations to the pool." Hope to see you there, Balint @spenchdotnet

9 years, 10 months

fundraising platform for open source projects

by refugia

I met these folks at scale. They are attempting to address some of the problems in crowdfunding. Seems cool. https://snowdrift.coop/ https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/snowdrift

9 years, 10 months

Fwd: [DIYbio] biononymous.me launch

by Marc Juul

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Heather Dewey-Hagborg <stigmergy(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:27 PM Subject: [DIYbio] biononymous.me launch To: diybio(a)googlegroups.com Just a quick note about a new project I am launching, perhaps some of you might be interested in getting involved? (And some of you may be already). It's a new community hub for research and discussion of biological surveillance, which I am tentatively defining as "the means by which biological science is used to track, monitor, analyze, and turn bodies into data.” DNA, biometrics, microbes, all the ways physical bodies become subjects of surveillance. http://biononymous.me/ Check it out, let me know what you think and if you would like to participate! -Heather -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups DIYbio group. To post to this group, send email to diybio(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/diybio?hl=en Learn more at www.diybio.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to diybio+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to diybio(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/diybio/CAHxgum2Xw_b-vo36aQGwK87Xabc%2BqDU… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/diybio/CAHxgum2Xw_b-vo36aQGwK87Xabc%2BqDU…> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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New wiki page on our tree care & maintenance

by David Keenan

https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Trees

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Climbing or sailing rope?

by Marc Juul

Today's mesh node mount is on a slanted roof. We're able to borrow a safety harness, but we're in need of rope strong enough to stop a falling human. Do you have any and can we borrow it today (noon to 4 pm) ? -- marc/juul

9 years, 10 months

Linux Fest North West - Hackers on a Train

by Patrick O'Doherty

Hey all, A few of us are attending Linux Fest North West this year in Bellingham, WA and are taking the opportunity to bolt a mini-event onto it called Hackers on a Train. The idea is simple: ride the Coast Starlight[0] with us and hack a thing as we head north on the scenic Pacific coast on the way to the conference. We'll be leaving from Jack London Square on the Wednesday night, arriving into Seattle on Thursday night. Sound interesting to you? Come along! Details developing on the Noisebridge wiki[1] p [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Starlight [1] - https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Linux_Fest_North_West

9 years, 10 months

orange&silver bike in CCL?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Hi all, There's a bike parked in CCL that seems to have been there for several days. It's an orange&silver Shimano, and it's locked to a beer keg, near the division with Sudo. If this is yours, please remove your bike. CCL is not a bike parking lot. Otherwise, it will be sold for rent money ;-) Patrik

9 years, 10 months

Fwd: [safe-hackerspaces] Jeanine Otter asked to leave Noisebridge

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, Shouldn't have posted this to the safe-hackerspaces(a)lists.riseup.net list, so instead I am forwarding this note to sudo-discuss and noisebridge-discuss: cheers, Matt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [safe-hackerspaces] Jeanine Otter asked to leave Noisebridge To: Liz Henry <lizhenry(a)gmail.com> Cc: Patrick O'Doherty <p(a)trickod.com>, safe-hackerspaces(a)lists.riseup.net Liz, Thanks for sharing, happy to hear where you're coming from. All, If I were a member of Noisebridge, I would ask myself about the ways that, as hackers, the NB community subverts the dominant culture, especially in the local neighborhood. The dominant culture in the bay area includes high-paid tech workers moving in from out of town (as well as VPs / managers / lawyers / etc flipping buildings and creating private services that subvert publicly-accessible ones). This exacerbates the ongoing displacement and dispossession of poor and working class people. If that's the case, then I would be interested in taking actions that demonstrate the NB community is not merely Techie Scum, and that it can rise above such rhetoric to strike at the root of the matter. Any opportunities to reach out to anti-eviction groups in SF? Just my 2 cents... // Matt p.s. Note I dropped "gentrification" for "displacement and dispossession" which is what I believe is really happening... p.p.s. I think everyone has the "Die Techie Scum" motto all wrong--it's a positive German exclamation for "The Techie Scum!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npty9_ik-E8 On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Liz Henry <lizhenry(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I also hated it when we had "anti-science" people hanging out (years ago > from the Public School") As they would rail against tech in general. > Then why are you at a hackerspace? It is for technology using! Broadly > defined! *headdesk* > > Anyway, I get it if this person is just super obnoxious and a jerk. > > - liz > > > > - liz > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Liz Henry <lizhenry(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I want to support Noisebridg'es kicking people out abilities, especially >> for people who are annoying, destructive, and scary, but personally, as >> techie scum myself, do not think Die Techie Scum posters are crossing a >> line. I would understand someone taking the posters down. >> >> My line is more around power dynamics and whether something is a specific >> threat. >> >> This reads to me much more like hyperbole. Like, I can read and admire >> the rhetoric of the SCUM Manifesto, or as I hope others can, without >> actually supporting violence, and treat it as food for thought. >> >> "if you're new to town and work in tech, leave" also just seems like >> slightly harsh political speech. It is angry and it's rude and it will be >> offensive to many people but hardly seems like oppression or a threat of >> violence or a terrible harassment campaign. >> >> Not sure there is a way to be internally consistent, for example, I would >> think it fine to ban someone with a White Power tattoo on their face and >> yet would argue that Die Techie Scum is not so bannable. >> >> Is this person also just generally annoying or not nice to have around? >> >> My 2 cents. >> >> - Liz >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Patrick O'Doherty <p(a)trickod.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Last night myself and Torrie asked Jeanine Otter to leave Noisebridge >>> and not come back. >>> >>> Jeanine had been using Noisebridge to print hateful, offensive material >>> ("Die Techie Scum" posters and the like) in large quantities. Many were >>> uncomfortable with her offensive material and attitude towards those in >>> the community. >>> >>> I've added Jeanine to the Noisebridge 86 page. >>> >>> p >>> >>> -- >>> Patrick O'Doherty >>> +1 (650) 701-7829 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Liz Henry >> lizhenry(a)gmail.com >> >> "Electric ladies will you sleep or will you preach?" -- Janelle Monae >> >> "Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to >> evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ >> > > > > -- > Liz Henry > lizhenry(a)gmail.com > > "Electric ladies will you sleep or will you preach?" -- Janelle Monae > > "Without models, it's hard to work; without a context, difficult to > evaluate; without peers, nearly impossible to speak." -- Joanna Russ >

9 years, 10 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Tiny houses made for homeless in West Oak

by Mark Perlin

Fantastic example of making a difference! I wonder, how many tiny homes a community can build together in one weekend? http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24869274/oakland-artist-turns-t… > > Message: 10 > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:01:18 -0800 > From: Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com> > To: Sudo Room discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [sudo-discuss] > Tiny houses made for homeless in West Oak by > artist! > Message-ID: > < > CAPwEF4rkTw+Of5-Z9+oLkGJeGvTMOqtB0xJtYmEBtFefv3jXPw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > People. 8| Do any of you know more about this person? > > > http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24869274/oakland-artist-turns-t… > >

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Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges

by Romy

Again I'm being careful about too many forwards ! But wow The game cartridge inventor was African American Yay black history month !! http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/20/jerry-lawson-game-pioneer/ Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges To celebrate Black History Month, Engadget is running a series of profiles honoring African-American pioneers in the world of science and technology. Today we take a look at the life and work of Jerry Lawson. If you've got fond memories of blowing into video game cartridges, you've got Gerald "Jerry" Lawson to thank. As the head of engineering and marketing for Fairchild Semiconductor's gaming outfit in the mid-'70s, Lawson developed the first home gaming console that utilized interchangeable cartridges, the Fairchild Channel F. That system never saw the heights of popularity of consoles from Atari, Nintendo and Sega, but it was a significant step forward for the entire gaming industry. Prior to the Channel F, games like Pong were built directly into their hardware -- there was no swapping them out to play something else -- and few believed that you could even give a console a microprocessor of its own. Lawson, who passed away at 70 from diabetes complications in 2011, was the first major African-American figure in the game industry. And, just like the tech world today, it still isn't as diverse as it should be. Only 2 percent of game developers in 2005 were African-American, according to a study by the International Game Developer Association (who also honored Lawson as a game pioneer a month before his death). But things were even worse during Lawson's time: For his first five years at Fairchild, the company and its executives actually thought he was Indian. He was also one of two black members of the Homebrew Computing Club, a group that famously included Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and other Silicon Valley pioneers. Born on December 1, 1940, Lawson grew up in a Queens, New York, housing project, where his predilection for engineering was on display early on. His father, a longshoreman with a fondness for science, gave him unique gifts like an Irish mail, a handcar typically used by railroad workers. More often than not, Lawson ended up being the only kid that knew how to use them. His mother arranged it so that he could attend a well-regarded elementary school in another part of the city (i.e., one that was predominantly white), and she stayed actively involved in his education throughout his childhood (so much so that she became the president of the PTA). Lawson also credits his first grade teacher as a major inspiration. "I had a picture of George Washington Carver [a black inventor who was born into slavery] on the wall next to my desk," he told Vintage Computing in an interview. "And she said, 'This could be you.' I mean, I can still remember that picture, still remember where it was." It's hard to deny Lawson's geek cred: He ran an amateur radio station out of his housing project after building a ham radio on his own (complete with an antenna hanging out of his window and a radio license). He also spent his teenage years repairing electronics all over the city. Most impressively, he taught himself most of what he knew about engineering. Lawson attended Queens College and the City College of New York before working at several firms, including Grumman Electric and Federal Aircraft. After scoring a job with Kaiser Electronics, which focused on military technology, Lawson moved to Silicon Valley. It's hard to fathom today, but trying to make removable game cartridges was an incredibly new concept in the '70s. Lawson and his team at Fairchild had no clue how the cartridges would fare after being plugged in and out multiple times -- remember, nobody had ever done it before. The company also caught the attention of the FCC, as it was aiming to deliver the first consumer device with its own microprocessor. Lawson's description of meeting the agency's grueling requirements reads like engineering comedy: Fairchild had to encase the console's motherboard in aluminum; it put a metal chute over the cartridge adapter to keep in radiation; and every cartridge it produced had to be approved by the FCC. He was also justifiably apoplectic when, years later, Texas Instruments successfully lobbied to change the laws that determined the FCC's harsh requirements. As for how race affected his job prospects during the '60s and '70s, Lawson told Vintage Computing it "could be both a plus and a minus." If he did well, it seemed as if he did twice as well, since any accomplishment received instant notoriety. But the idea of a 6-foot-6-inch black man working as an engineer was still surprising to many people. Lawson noted that some people reacted with "total shock" when they saw him for the first time. Lawson also had plenty of insightful advice for young black men and women who were interested in science and engineering careers: First of all, get them to consider it [technical careers] in the first place. That's key. Even considering the thing. They need to understand that they're in a land by themselves. Don't look for your buddies to be helpful, because they won't be. You've gotta step away from the crowd and go do your own thing. You find a ground; cover it; it's brand-new; you're on your own -- you're an explorer. That's about what it's going to be like. Explore new vistas, new avenues, new ways -- not relying on everyone else's way to tell you which way to go, and how to go, and what you should be doing. "The whole reason I did games was because people said, 'You can't do it,'" Lawson told the San Jose Mercury News in an interview. "I'm one of the guys, if you tell me I can't do something, I'll turn around and do it." [Photo credits: The Estate of Jerry Lawson (Jerry Lawson); Doug Kline/Flickr (Fairchild Channel F system)] Hide Comments 54Comments Sent from my iPhone

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