sudo-discuss November 2024

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by Hex

Gr33t1ngs I’m Hex Ripley [it / its] I came in yesterday (nov 26) for the fix it clinic, had a lot of fun meeting y’all and working on to virtual machine set ups, working on the upstairs 3D printer, & helping come up with a solution to fix the roof rack cargo box. I’d like to be a member to contribute monetarily and with labor. I love doing electronics repair and I want to make use of my skills in a way that can help others. I’d love to participate in the fix it clinic regularly & also I’d be happy to work on the laptops in order to get them functioning for donation, teach people some electronic troubleshooting & repair should the opportunity be available. Also happy to be additional hands on any facilities work. Basically I think y’all are cool and I’m here to be useful :) Want to mention that I live in Guerneville, happy to drive in & also would be happy to carpool people who live in the Sonoma/Marin area as well. Current projects I’ve got going: I have an IBM Thinkpad 701c (the one with the cool keyboard!!!) that I want to restore - failing that, it will be up-cycled with a more modern motherboard & screen, preserving the keyboard. Other Projects in various stages of incompleteness: - USB-C to Barrel Jack chargers - search.server.lgbt (my SearxNG instance, google/ddg search proxy) - 2010 Lenovo ThinkServer Rebuild (may end up in a colocation center… eventually?) - Ender 3 repairs (never ending ;-;) - iPhone powered Pwnagotchi case - Mini Model M keyboard cyber deck - punk.lgbt (lgbt / womens healthcare resource directory, not up currently, looking into threat model)

2 days, 7 hours

Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom

by Jake

Dear Sudoroom, It's been almost three years since this telescreen was set up with Jitsi, on the wall in sudoroom. A few months ago the computer got taken, so I set up a new one, and Matty is trying to get the automated software working again so it's automatic and turns the screen off when no one is joined. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Bigtv How do people feel about the telescreen? Do people like having this in place so that people can connect with the space from elsewhere? How could it be improved? Also a reminder, we have a telephone and the number is I-HACK-AT-386 For a while the telephone was switching off but i recently made something that automatically reboots it when that happens, so it should be pretty reliable now. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:18:15 -0800 From: ruin mechanic via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Reply-To: ruin mechanic <ruinmechanic(a)gmail.com> To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom! Rejoice in the hacker wizardry of the new Telepresence Portal Jake and I wrapped it up today and hackerspace futurism has been achieved the monitor will turn on if any Sudoers join the jitsi chatroom and it will shut off if everyone leaves the chat here is the source for the chat client app powering it https://github.com/sudoroom/jitsi-telepresence-portal hooray! -matty/interrupt On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:50 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > wow, this has progressed a lot! > > tonight, in the jitsi chat, which is here: > https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles > > matt and me (to the entertainment of everyone passing through sudoroom and > working in there) have been chatting and co-hacking, and i've been learning > npm/node/react web stuff. > > basically we installed the jitsi SDK repo and ran it, and then hacked it > to go > to the meeting room we've been using instead of the default setting - and > now > we're adding a function to it to automatically control the screen power > (screensaver) depending on whether someone is in the "room" or not. > > we're also sharing a tmux window in the machine (the one controlling the > big > TV) and teaching each other lots of stuff. And neither of us are > physically in > the space! > > It's the most exciting saturday night i've had in a long time! > > If anyone else is interested in this kind of social hacking, speak up and > i'll > ping you if it happens again. Or just join the jitsi room (linked above) > and > leave it open until someone starts talking to you. > > last night (friday night) we had a bunch of people join the chat!!! > including > a couple of people who randomly hadn't seen each other in almost 5 years! > It was basically a party, including whoever was in sudoroom, and like 6 > different people who rolled through the jitsi chat. > > -jake > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Jake wrote: > >> awesome! I believe this is what Matty is working on too >> >> https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-web-sdk >> >> that was so much fun with everyone talking to each other tonight! >> >> -jake >> >> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Marc Juul wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:54 PM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 1:37 AM Jake wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've set up a jitsi terminal on the wall in Sudoroom! >>>>> >>>>> It's a big TV made by Hitachi, and it has a feature where it can go > into >>>>> "power saving" mode when the HDMI signal is lost. That means the > screen >>>>> can power down when DPMS puts the monitor to "sleep". It has a webcam >>>>> that's clearly labeled, and on a hinge so it can easily be aimed down > at >>>>> the floor if people are shy, and it has a Jabra USB speaker/microphone >>>>> thing which should hopefully provide good speakerphone > functionality. I >>>>> have the computer setup to start firefox, and i have firefox set to > open >>>>> the jitsi page, where permissions are already enabled for > webcam/audio. >>>>> The only remaining need is to automatically wake the monitor from > sleep >>>>> (using "DISPLAY=:0 xset force dpms on") whenever there is anyone else >>>>> detected in the jitsi "room" >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I wrote a short program that can trigger a command based on downstream >>>> bandwidth usage: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/sudoroom/bw-trigger >>>> >>> >>> So it turned out that the library I used doesn't really work for UDP :/ >>> >>> The correct solution is definitely to have a client that joins with > XMPP. >>> Information is sparse but I found this code that I believe is for >>> stress-testing that should be modifiable into what we need: >>> >>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs >>> >>> Relevant code in: >>> >>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs/blob/master/src/Participant.js >>> >>> -- >>> marc/juul >>> >> >

4 days, 13 hours

Newsletter December 2024 up

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/december-2024-newsletter/ This is a condensed place to see what's going on at SudoRoom would love it if people had short blurbs about their projects/. photographs of them doing hackerish things around town! =D ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

5 days, 3 hours

Fwd: Clio's Writers-in-Residence Program

by Romy Mimi Ilano

Do you guys know Clio's bookstore? This is pretty neat, and they have a great screen-free bookstore and are now offering a cool writer in residency. This is cool because it's great to offer a place for smart creative people to cowork. This might be a cool thing to offer at SudoRoom and Counterculture labs Like - hey! have some free time? Why don't you cowork with these cool creative people during such and such times. This is more appealing in amny ways than a class or workshop. *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Clio's <timothy(a)cliosbooks.com> Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM Subject: Clio's Writers-in-Residence Program To: <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> Daytime hours for writers, scholars, and others Calling all writers, scholars, and workers-from-home! Are you tired of working alone and at home? Clio's has something for you! *Beginning in January, 2025,* Clio's will be opening its doors during select daytime hours for writers, scholars, and other laborers to bring their projects (and their computers!) to the shop and work there. *If you want to become one of Clio's writers-in-residence,* seek to use our collection for research, or simply need a quiet and beautiful spot where you can work on your laptop for a few hours every week, contact us through the button below. Please include relevant information about projects you are working on and days/hours you seek access to Clio's residency program. *We have a limited number of spots available *and a very reasonable (and sliding) fee scale. We even have scholarships for those in need! Clio's Residency Program <info(a)cliosbooks.com?subject=Application%20for%20a%20Clio's%20residency> [image: Facebook] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Twitter] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Link] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> [image: Website] <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> *Copyright © 2024 Clio's Books. All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* 353 Grand Ave Oakland CA 94610 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/profile?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbcba4a…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://cliosbooks.us11.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=0ff8cc0b4f506ee013cbc…> .

5 days, 6 hours

Re: Events – Sudo Room listing outside events and hopefully this inspires people to meet other members and take back with they get to our nights or even start a new evening

by Romy Ilano

5 days, 10 hours

Events – Sudo Room listing outside events and hopefully this inspires people to meet other members and take back with they get to our nights or even start a new evening

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/ We have some events from other nearby nonprofits and cool organizations like the spire or critical mass on our website The stuff is mostly hidden now unless you go to our calendar, but I was just thinking that it would be really cool to go to an outside event like the Spijer clothing swap and then come back to Sudoroom and work on what you exchanged at the clothing swap like repairing zippers and so during our hardware night or a women and non-binary night This calendar isn’t meant to take people outside to Sudoroom and make them never come back but to inspire us because our location is the best thing about us Also thinking long-term, that it would be cool to hang out of these other places and tell them about Sudoroom because a lot of people don’t know about us especially people are new to the area We don’t market ourselves enough as one of the cheapest hardware open hack nights in the Bay Area. We should also try to compete with the idea of just being totally socially, isolated and alone doing on your stuff in your garage or in your house we can see that remote meet ups. Don’t have quite the same spice as meeting in person and randomly walking into someone working on their hardware project Hope this gets us more involved in our outside community. There’s so much good stuff going on in Oakland and the best thing about Sudoroom is that you can physically meet people in person and that you were actually in Oakland, which is one of the best cities in the United States right now. Sent from my iPhone

5 days, 10 hours

SudoRoom is also now on mastodon! https://sfba.social/@sudoroom

by Romy Ilano

https://sfba.social/@sudoroom We are now on Mastadon as well as BlueSKy! Thanks to openVibes and when folks have time we can double post to both accounts! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 week

NEW MEETUP SERIES: PAPERCRAFTING + PROGRAMMING + AI & WHATEVER just before hardware hack night

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/new-meetup-series-papercrafting-programming-ai-whateve… ANNOUNCING A NEW LEARNING HOW TO LEARN PAPER CRAFTING + ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING AND MATH WHATEVER ELSE SERIES RIGHT BEFORE OUR HARDWARE HACK NIGHTS ON TUESDAYS! We kept talking about this but we’re finally going to do it! Why not meet up right before hardware hack night and do some hardcore whiteboarding and paper crafting around ephemereal topics like artificial intelligence! At the end hopefully we’ll have something cute to take home, or at least post on the walls. The risks we take using razor blades and hazards of paper cuts are outweighed by the reverse exercises we do to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome and relaxation of gluing and folding to create something tangible. Come join us for early evening 7-8:30 pm papercrafting sessions on Tuesdays – we’ll experiment and see how well this goes! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 week

Newbie building an LLM model ai

by Romy Ilano

Hi I’m studying how to build my own LLM for fun. I’m thinking this would be a fun study group for either Monday (women and non binary night) or even hardware hack night as I’m interested in making paper models of the concepts (maybe with pictures of cats on them) to make these concepts stick ! Anyone else interested ? I’ll try to start a study group. Maybe we can meet right before hardware hack night and do pure whiteboarding no online classes or screens Sent from my iPhone

1 week

New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes & gives free clothes to moms!

by Romy Ilano

New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes & gives free clothes to moms! It's on Broadway and 15th street (almost a straight shot past the cute triangle building park) from our garage. They're accepting clean donations and have really nice clothes and even furniture! Here are some photographs below. If you want to donate or buy nice stuff check them out. I also like how they have a donation program where moms can come and get free stuff once a month. https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/albums/72177720322167516/ @nextround_hub ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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