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sudo room 5MoF video stream live now!

by Marc Juul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjFJ3UTHNpE -- marc/juul

7 years, 6 months

totally ridiculous 5 minutes of fame video

by Romy Ilano

I can't make it to the next 5 minutes of fame event, but I'll help promote it. Is it going to be televised? https://youtu.be/qP3mOW0pg70 Here's a totally ridiculous video! I hope to go to the May 5 minutes of fame ... looking forward to you folks accomplishing mutely! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

7 years, 6 months

Proposal: SudoRoom Dystopian Science Fiction Night // A Humanities perspective

by Romy Ilano

I have a proposal - a SudoRoom dystopian science fiction night. *Background:* Since the November elections [actually the past 2 years] there's been a sharp uptick in dystopian science fiction novels, especially for young adults. After the election books like *The Handmaid's Tale <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale>* and 1984 have skyrocket to the top of the bestseller lists. In this climate of fear, many artists' groups are experiencing an uptick in membership. In this time, more than ever, we need well-meaning art, science and the humanities to make sense of a dystopian world that has become reality. *Proposal: *Let's gather all the people who feel overwhelmed by current events and have a Dystopian Tea Party every week. Ideally Wednesdays. While the topics are a little negative, they'll also provide *a positive springboard* - if the future really can go this badly, and it looks like it might happen, what can we do to mitigate or avoid it? If we deregulate auto emissions and return to pollution levels of the 1950s, how can we turn this around and reverse the damage? *Meeting Ideas:* - *Nuclear War night* - Create art around nuclear war hitting San Francisco - Understand the science and art behind nuclear bombs - how would this affect our environment - What political arrangements and military mistakes would provoke a nuclear war? [political science - What kind of clothes could we wear to protect ourselves from nuclear war? - *AntiFeminist Dystopia Night* - What are all the possible scenarios where women's rights could be trampled in the US? Could Texan abortion laws reach California? - art and science fiction around an antifeminist dystopia - Studies of feminist texts like Backlash and The Handmaid's Tale - how science is used to oppress women, how science could be used to free women - *Environmental Disaster Scenario* - Predictive Futures Design topic - As the United States looks increasingly headed for environmental disaster with the assault on the EPA, will our cities look like Delhi and China? - Predictive future illustrations of what a smoggy United States will look like - Design of gasmasks for children in places where auto emissions are deregulated. We could make a 3D printout - Environmental 101 - how does polluting a national park work? What are things that can go wrong when oil pipelines spill? - How can hackers fix Flint Water supply? WHat's the science behind this? - Health Sciences Hacking - Poor americans are probably going to live in increasingly polluted, unhealthy environments with little or no regulation. More air pollution, more cancer. In a predictive futures scenario, what kind of low-end hospitals will exist for these people? What strange new diseases will appear? - *Education Disaster Scenario* - Predictive futures: What happens when education is completely privatized and what dystopian outcomes can happen as more for-profit universities and private religious schools become the only option for US children? - Science Fiction scenarios: we could do a writing workshop. Imagine the US became total theocracy and only conversvative Christian schools believing in creationism were allowed to exist. What kind of evolution underground would form? What if science had to be conducted in secret? - We could design a education disaster scenario textbook. What if only mega corporations took over and presented textbooks full of "alternative facts" ???? - What kind of society would we become if all funding for the arts and humanities were entirely cut at universities, as has been suggested in Florida. What if nobody was only allowed to study a topic if it suited the needs of a mega corporation and no theory was allowed ever? What if people were only allowed to take business and commucinations degrees and had no concept of philosophy? - This would be pretty cool, it'd be fun to have a film project where someone in this society would discover the lost book of humanities and create a secret theater group, then get jailed. - Muslim Disaster Scenario - What if muslims in the United States and Europe were systematically targeted in a way that the jews were by the Nazis in the 1940s? - In a science fiction novels how could noble heroes protect an increasingly muslim minority, as some national organization moves to move them into concentration camps? - This scenario is actually too depressing, but it would be cool to highlight great tMuslim scientists of the past and find safety check scenarios Links - Trump era's top-selling dystopian novels - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38764041 - Women don Handmaid's tale robes to protest Texas abortion laws http://www.avclub.com/article/women-don-handmaids-tale-robes-protest-texas-… ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

7 years, 6 months

Leather remnants

by Erik Miller

Forgot to add the photo....

7 years, 6 months

Lots o'leather

by Erik Miller

Sudopeeps, A friend of mine is getting out of the business of making guitar straps and was dumping a bunch of leather remnants. A lot of it is patterned, some is not. They are all high quality. They are leftovers from custom amplifier cabinet coverings at Mesa Boogie. I packed the trunk of my car with them and am offering them to the makerz. You all have first dibs on them. If you want them, let me know and I will drop by tomorrow or some other evening this week and unload them. The trunk is packed full. If you are not interested I will keep going down my list.... Cheers, Erik Euthymia Electronics Alameda, CA

7 years, 6 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [Mesh] Help archive free UC Berkeley lectures!

by aaronco36

> Hi! > (Some) archiving is being coordinated over this wiki: > http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=UC_Berkeley_Course_Captures > You have also scripts you can use to download things. > Feel free to contribute to the effort. > > Mitar Yeah, as far as scripts to use for downloading things, visited in pretty much consecutive order http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=UC_Berkeley_Course_Captures https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued https://lbry.io/quickstart FWIW, although plenty of others probably DO have access to this LBRY for seeing what's already accessible at the UC Berkeley Archive Wiki, couldn't gain access for myself. And a decided No, I'm not yet willing to take the time-consuming effort of describing my situation in detail in order to supposedly "help" the admins-that-be on github.com/lbryio/lbry or wherever else fix their archive accessibility issues :( Too many hoops for me to go thru, so I'll do without these Cal lectures for the present, no problem. -- aaronco36 aaronco36@ -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail

7 years, 6 months

Build Your Own Internet! workshop this Saturday, 1-4pm @ Omni Commons

by Jenny Ryan

Greetings, The Peoples Open Network is hosting a skillshare / workshop this Saturday, March 18, from 1-4pm at the Omni Commons (home of the Sudo Room hackerspace), and we'd love for you to join us! >From the event page <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…> (plz rsvp so we know how many folks to expect!): Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate monopoly? Come over to Omni Commons to learn about the history of the internet, how it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and organizers behind peoplesopen.net: an open, community-based, network in the East Bay. Agenda: 1:00pm - Why/what/how of the internet (< 30 minutes) 1:30pm - Snack, mingle, share and experiment 2:00pm - Hands-on workshop with a variety of learning stations such as: rooftop mounting techniques, ethernet cable-crimping, live node link demoing radio propagation, q&a table & non-tech signup station for neighborhood organizers Donations for pizza and internet are enthusiastically accepted ; ) The Omni Commons' ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the Entrance Hall, where there is also located a wheelchair-accessible single-stall bathroom. The Peoples Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net> enables anyone to share their Internet connection or extend signal from neighboring nodes. Learn more at peoplesopen.net. The Omni Commons <https://omnicommons.org> is a 100% volunteer-run space for community organizing, collaboration, and creative production located in North Oakland. Learn more at omnicommons.org. *BYOI Workshop * *Omni Commons - Ballroom* *4799 Shattuck, Oakland, California* *Saturday 18 March 2017 1-4pm* *RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460… <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…> !* -- Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

7 years, 6 months

sudo room 5MoF call for speakers - April 5th

by Marc Juul

The next sudo room 5 minutes of fame is happening on April 5th. Add yourself to the wiki or respond to this email if you'd like to speak for five minutes about something you're working on or excited about! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF_2017-04-05 We really need more volunteers to help ensure that the event runs smoothly. Last time we had more technical issues than needed. We need: * Someone to talk about what sudo room is and the rest of the omni during waiting periods in between talks (when people are setting up their laptop). * Someone to set up signs guiding people from the outside of the omni to the right area * Someone to sit near the door and take donations (you can still see the talks) * Someone to help set up and clean up the snack table * Someone to talk to speakers and ensure they have what they need (display adapters, internet, sound, etc.) before they have to speak. * Someone to lead a tour around sudo room and the omni during the break * Someone to sit by the audio mixer and adjust volume as needed Please respond to this thread or to me if you're able to help out with any of these. -- marc/juul

7 years, 6 months

Got you some pick&place component reels...

by Patrik D'haeseleer

I managed to score some reels of components to feed the pick&place, at a lab we were helping to clean out this morning. Mostly smallish pieces; hardly any full reels. But there should be some good diversity in there at least. I didn't count but I would guesstimate I grabbed maybe a hundred reels or so in total. There's a whole bin full of good quality scope probes, and some other knickknacks as well. I'll try to drop them off before the delegates meeting tonight. Could probably use a hand getting all the boxes out of my car... Patrik

7 years, 6 months

roomba scooba charger?

by Jake

do you, or someone you know, have a roomba scooba floor mopper robot? my friend found a scooba in the trash and i sent it to my nephew to play with but there was no charger, and it uses a different connector for the charger plug and I don't know what the pinout is. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/iRobot-Scooba-Power-Supply-AC-Adapter-Charger-Model-… it has a DIN-5 connector like MIDI but it only uses 3 pins. There are pictures of the charger on the web, but the label on the charger shows the pinout for the original barrel connector :p i want to measure someone's scooba charger so i can send him one or something. did you know they're eays to hack and tell them where to drive? they have a serial port and you can just plop a small computer on top and drive it around, looking through the webcam. -jake

7 years, 6 months

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