In case this hadn’t already been noticed, fyi I’m told Robb will come by
omni today at 530p to see if there’s more of his things he wants to take to
offsite storage.
As I understand it the plan will be for Robb to consolidate the gear
(including some more lighting from what I understand) that he wants to take
out of omni in a discrete area of the ballroom with a note, a picture will
then be taken and distributed to the lists to see if what all he is taking
out is okay with folks, and after a couple days if there is no objection or
concerns he will return with Toan to pick up that stuff.
Best,
David
Hi all,
Omni will have a large e-waste pickup probably within the next week.
Therefore, now would be a very good time to purge e-waste items throughout
Sudo & CCL.
If either group has e-waste, please concentrate / identify these items in a
place for easy removal, and let me know they are there?
Ps. Please don’t bring any items from home, only items presently on-site at
omni.
Thank you,
David
hi everyone and welcome to another edition of legacy information technology
hacking.
Here at sudoroom, we are having trouble getting on the internet because our
VT-320 terminal's keyboard cord is missing the RJ-9 end that connects it to the
rest of the terminal. Thus our internet experience is read-only and in that
sense, much like television.
this is what our terminal looks like, except that the connector on the end of
the keyboard cord is missing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/bu50g1/dec_vt320_term…
I know we're all very familiar with the RJ45 connector, the venerable
transparent acrylic connector on the end of all of our ethernet cables, and the
aged among you also know the RJ11 connector, which joined our telephones to the
POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) but even most hackers are only slightly aware
of a third, smaller variant: RJ9
https://www.asomep.com/en/a-1-1313-29-0-0-0/PLUG-UTP-MALE-CONNECTOR-RJ9-C3e…
our terminal uses RJ11 for its serial ports, and we have no shortage of such
cords for that. But it uses an RJ9 connector for the keyboard, and while we
might be able to find a cord on an old telephone, it will not easily uncrimp,
and splicing and soldering those wires to the keyboard would result in oxidized
connections and slow switching transition waveforms and "third state" bits
between the keyboard and terminal. So what we really need is a brand new,
uncrimped RJ9 plug that we can put onto the keyboard cord (after figuring out
which way it goes on there) so that our terminal can function at full power.
yes i know, the internet allows for remote shopping experiences and i could
simply order a connector to be mailed to me, but I know at least ten of you
nerds out there have an uncrimped RJ9 plug or two in your electronics bins and
I want to reward your thoughtful preservation of materials by giving you a
chance to donate that connector to sudoroom (tax deductable of course)
bonus points if you have a crimper that works with RJ9 plugs.
We are having Hardware Hacking Tuesdays again every week (for now) but I am
available if you want a special access tour at a different time! Lets get this
terminal back in working order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXaQn8txM9w
-jake
Dear Sudo Room,
Just a reminder that we have not received a payment for this invoice yet. Let us know if you have questions.
Thanks for your business!
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2420
Date: 10/01/2021
Due Date: 10/25/2021
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $22,000.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
****************************** Account Summary *****************************
09/01/2021 Balance Forward $20,000.00
Other payments and credits after 09/01/2021 0.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 10/01/202 22,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
10/01/2021 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00
____________________________________________________________________________
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $22,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
The skylight with the heavy duty exhaust fan is leaking quite profusely
with the recent rains, and was dripping down on a bunch of valuable looking
electronics equipment stashed on and next to the table closest to the
entrance.
I slit open a large garbage bag and draped it over the equipment to protect
it from further water damage, just as a stop-gap measure. If someone has a
bit of time today, it would be good to clear that entire area of equipment,
put a large bin under the leaks, and maybe try to dry off any valuable
equipment we'd like to keep with a heat gun...
Patrik
I hear with heavier rains, there are now many leaks, and especially in case
he ballroom. *Whomever may be at Omni right now, if you can, please mark
the floor location of where drips land with a big, taped ‘X’? Such as with
blue painters tape, masking tape, duct tape or similar - So we can better
locate the corresponding leaking areas on the roof after the rain stops.*
Thank you 🙏
David
Hi,
Tomorrow Monday 10/18, electrical maintenance will be conducted in Sudo
such that Sudo’s fridge will no longer need a super long and
non-code-compliant extension cord to be functional, and can just plug in
directly.
The fridge has been emptied of prior biohazard by some kind / selfless
soul, but it is not itself cleaned.. It is still extremely gross. Now would
be the time to bleach it, and perhaps deionize / bathe it in UVb light or
otherwise sanitize it to determine whether it can be truly rid of mold in
all the places we can’t see.
As jake pointed out, it is a really nice fridge, so it is in some important
respects worth saving. At the same time, we are coming up on our last
planned batch of dump runs.
It has been at least a couple months, and the fridge is still unsanitary
(not complaining at all just stating the facts). If the fridge is not
sanitized by the end of the week, unless there is any objection, I will
plan to have it taken to the dump.
Fairly soon we will have banks, insurance representatives et al walking the
building. In its current condition, I would not want any of these parties
them to randomly open the fridge placed right along the common path of
travel through the building, so imo, this fridge needs to either be hecka
cleaned, or gone.
If a sudoer plans to take on this challenge, please let me know?
Best,
David
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
---------------------------------- Invoice ---------------------------------
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609 US
https://omnicommons.org
Invoice #: 2435
Date: 11/01/2021
Due Date: 11/25/2021
Terms: Net 25
Amount Due: $24,000.00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill To:
Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94607
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
****************************** Account Summary *****************************
10/01/2021 Balance Forward $22,000.00
Other payments and credits after 10/01/2021 0.00
New charges (details below) 2,000.00
Total Amount Due (activity through 11/01/202 24,000.00
****************************************************************************
<u> Date </u><u> Activity </u><u> Qty </u><u> Rate </u><u> Amount </u>
11/01/2021 Furnishing Fa 1 2,000.00 2,000.00T
____________________________________________________________________________
SubTotal: $2,000.00
Tax: $0.00
--------------------------------------
Total Of New Charges: $2,000.00
Total Amount Due: $24,000.00
Greetings Sudo Room!
This is your monthly donation invoice. Thank you for stewarding the
commons!
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons Finance Working Group
- Task: Replace short lengths of existing 2-wire thermostat cable, with
3-wire min.18 gauge (18/3, solid or stranded) thermostat cable, connecting
all basement furnaces with their thermostats (not needed for disco room
furnace). These furnaces serve basement, entrance hall, and ballroom.
- Reason: So we can have the option of running fans without heat - to help
filter air even when heat isn’t needed - in order to reduce COVID
risk/spread in the building (especially during events etc.)
Anyone who has done basic inside wiring for telco / internet should be able
to run this cable, which can be purchased by the door or in spools from HD
for cheap. I don’t think we’ll need more than about 75’ in length at most.
It is not necessary to attach the cable to thermostat or furnace, just run
the cable. I can come attach it to thermostats and furnaces.
One way to do this would be to:
- remove any staples / ties affixing old cable
- strongly tape new cable to ethe end of existing cable
- pull old cable (connected to the new cable) through
If anyone has spoons to take this on lmk. There are a lot of building
maintenance tasks rn, and I don’t know when I’ll get to this. Omni is
getting ballroom rental requests needed for omnis bottom line, and for
everyone’s safety we really should have this feature in place before
hosting public events. So, it is pressing, if there is a volunteer.
Best,
David
Hi, power is out to Omni’s block and beyond.
I called Pg&e. Outage is ‘storm related’ affecting over 3K customers with
no ETA to restore power as of yet. I signed up for text alerts relating to
the outage.
Best,
David
Of course folks are welcome to also welcome to show up in person but I
won't be there in person tonight.
Meeting link:
https://meet.jit.si/SudoRoomMeeting
--
marc/juul
Hardware hacknight is happening tonight at 7 pm!
The Omni door is currently undergoing upgrades so your keycard will not
work. Please use the doorbell and someone will let you in.
--
marc/juul
Hi fellow sudoers,
Does anyone have a copy of Sudo's most recent lease with omni?
This is being asked in order to get all our paperwork in a row for
new/cheaper insurance and for review by potential lenders -
The most recent lease w/ sudo that I could find
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KgimyxNSZ5K_ipeWBBYGDPPIH6JYi6UZ/view?usp=…>
is c.2016 w/ OOC (rather than OC), and I believe there normally would have
been about two more rounds of leases since that time -
If someone knows whether a more recent lease exists, or can provide a copy,
that'd be super great -
Thank you,
David
Hi CCL & Sudo,
1. On Monday 10/11, CCL Lab Manager Dave A. is scheduled to carefully clean
the furnace mounted overhead on CCL’s north wall, in order to reduce the
potential future disturbance of excessive dust during planned furnace
maintenance. Please contact David A. (cc’d) for more info or to assist.
2. Following Dave’s work on 10/11, two maintenance tasks are projected to
be undertaken sometime this week.
The exact day and time for each task is not yet known, and it is unlikely
we will get more than one day’s advance notice, which will be promptly
passed on to CCL / Sudo as soon as received.
- Electrical: Relocating the space heater’s on/off switch from highish up
in the BSL, to a more accessible height near the north doorway into
CCL/Sudo room, where it will be replaced with a timer switch. This work is
not anticipated to precipitate an excessive disturbance of dust, and should
not impact electrical service to this room. However, the electrician will
be working in this area, likely on a ladder, which may temporarily block
access to some of the freezers et al in CCL’s NE area, for approximately
<2h (barring unforeseen circumstances).
- Furnace:
The blower (and air filter) for the furnace in this room is due to be
replaced by an HVAC professional. With the area cleaned in advance per item
1 above, it is not anticipated to involve the disturbance of excessive
dust. It is not anticipated that this work will impact electrical service
to CCL. The work will involve the placement of a large ladder below /
adjacent to this furnace, impacting access to cabinets & storage below the
furnace.
To reduce Omni’s labor costs, I would ask CCL/Sudo members to please allow
these technicians the elbow room needed to safely complete their work with
a minimum of conversation, barring of course any safety concerns. Rather,
if anyone has any questions about the above planned work, as always please
feel free to contact me directly at any time.
Many thanks everyone,
David // 415-430-8362
Hi all,
Per prior discussion, electrical maintenance will be conducted to increase
the number of available receptacles in the southeast portion of sudo room,
near sudo's fridge & stairs down to basement, in order to remove
life-safety hazards presented by excessive extension cords / power strips
in this location under/adjacent to an unrated mezzanine etc. This work is
now planned for *Monday 10/18 in the AM.*
This work will likely require temporarily de-powering one or more circuits
to Sudo Room presently feeding receptacles in this particular area and
along portions of the south wall.
Please ensure all steps are taken to save work and safely depower equipment
in this area prior to this work, *or provide me with instruction to safely
do these things*, *including the sudo mesh cage. This work may impact
internet access within the building while work is being undertaken.* The
maintenance window is not planned to last longer than a single day.
'Small' one-off jobs like this can be difficult to affordably schedule well
in advance, as they are typically subject to electricians' squeezing in the
work around bigger jobs they have elsewhere. Therefore, in most cases we
are unlikely to get more than ~2 days advance notice as in this case.
Separately, on Sunday 10/17, an electrical assessment will be undertaken to
see how providing more compliant power to the ad-hoc / DIY exhaust fan on
sudo's roof (south roof area of back room) could be accomplished. Providing
more permanent electrical power to this fan will not necessarily be
undertaken sunday, but it is possible. Assessing / addressing the roof fan
issue should not directly impact power to sudo or ccl on Sunday, but if and
when this becomes required, I will notice sudo and ccl.
Thanks to everyone for bearing with these ongoing life-safety improvements
to the building and please hit me up with any questions or concerns.
Thank you,
David // 415-430-8362
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Come hang out at sudo room!
Meeting will be max 1 hour and then we'll hack on both virtual and physical
sudo room infrastructure :D
Virtual meeting here:
https://meet.jit.si/SudoRoomMeeting
--
marc/juul
Tonight at Sudoroom we had hardware hacking tuesdays.
A new hacker showed up and helped hook up the exhaust for the big red laser cutter!
but we were unable to set it up because the desktop computer nearby is gone.
Does anyone know how to set up software to use the laser cutter? I made a new
desktop computer over at the 3D printer desk, and I can make another one for
the laser cutter if we can't figure out what happened to the old one.
-jake
Hi folks,
Is this happening tomorrow? What time? I'd like to drop by with my
project, but don't have a keycard so I can only come when other folks are
around.
Thanks,
Anca.
--
-=-=-=-
Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal
anca(a)techliminal.com
M: (510) 220-6660
http://techliminal.com | T: @techliminal | F: facebook.com/techliminal
Forwarded from Patrik at CCL:
Make your own Agar Art with Counter Culture Labs and the American Society
for Microbiology, this Saturday 3-5pm. We will be painting with live
colored bacteria on Petri dishes. Participants will have the option to
submit their designs to the yearly ASM Agar Art contest
<https://asm.org/Events/ASM-Agar-Art-Contest/Home>.
Come join us for our first IN PERSON workshop of the year at CCL - yay!
Mask wearing and proof of vaccination required.
Space is limited to make sure to RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/281311663/. Class fees
are $15/person. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Hope to see you all there!
Patrik
[image: Leonardo.png]
I'm not sure if this will send, my name is Lovi and I'm typing from Eddy's
machine. I'm here at the Sudo room and want to join but no one has been
around. I was told about this space by the Hackitorium, and I was given a
tour by Dane. I am here all afternoon working on processing javascript
(p5) and am on discord. I intend to be here all day. Hoping other people
show up for the meeting. I don't think the doorbell is working however, it
seems missing since the first day I was here.
Lovi on Eddy's machine.
there's a desktop computer under the table on the east side of the room with a
white sticker on it labeled "do not hack, project: jan (510) 434-8806"
I called the number but got no answer, I'm just going through stuff in pseudo
room and trying to get rid of things that are not useful or don't belong. Does
anybody know what this computer is about?
over the years I have encountered projects in hacker spaces with minimal
information on the labels, no date, so I try to figure out these mysteries. A
few years ago there was somebody who set up some server on the rack that was
doing who knows what...
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Global_Hackerspace_Cupcake_Challenge_2022
Ideas:
- cupcake compressor/maximizer — 4 lb cubic cupcake
- on-site robotic manufacturing
- an internal gyroscope keeps the cupcake upright
- sacrifice on taste, focus on our strengths (compressive strength: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331801189_Mathematical_to_Predict_… )
- judging without input validation — include 0x80000000 references to “fragile” or “handle with care” on the box and hope for int32 wrap around
- SEO growth hack: use GPT-3 to write thousands of blog posts referencing the cupcake (+3 points each)
- shoot the moon: achieve a perfect minimal score without being disqualified, because all press is good press.
sudo room's first meeting was on 2011/11/14
How should we celebrate? What do folks feel like?
Should we have it outdoors so we can have food/snacks/drinks?
Share your ideas!
--
marc/juul
