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missing facilitator names for upcoming "today i learned" sessions

by Marina Kukso

hi all, on a related note to the june 29th mystery facilitator issue, we have a number of upcoming sessions that don't have a facilitator listed: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned when creating new today i learned workshops, please ensure that you include your name and contact info (can be whatever form you choose - doesn't have to be email) so that we can get in touch with you about promoting the session, any scheduling issues, etc. if you are the person (or know the person) who is … [View More]

12 years, 1 month

Facilitator of June 29: How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video?

by Marina Kukso

hi all, the facilitator of next saturday's TIL "How to showcase your 3D printed work with a time-lapse video" isn't listed on the wiki ( https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_29:_How_to_showcase_your_3D_… ). if you are the person who is doing this workshop or you know the person who is doing this workshop, let me know so we can discuss promotion. - marina

12 years, 1 month

be safe tonight

by johanna faust

please. -- *Be seeing you.*

12 years, 1 month

Security -

by johanna faust

*An Engineer's Diuers Obseruations Concernynge * *Security * *Made After Some Contemplation Of** * *SudoRoom* *Campus, Disposition, Maintenance, &c,* *That Are Deserving* *Of A Most Full * *&* *Rapt * *Attention* ❝ *Crime prevention through environmental design* * (CPTED) is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts. As of 2012,… [View More] most implementations of CPTED occur solely within the built environment. Changing the areas we reside in to deter criminals from committing acts in our communities is the main goal of CPTED. With urban design and the planning that goes into the creation of new and reformation of older communities, citizens in these neighborhoods and places of business can feel safer at all hours.❞ [Read more<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design>at Wikipedia] * *(1)* *The Overhead Light In The Entryway* The Landlord MUST replace this light and make sure that its operational. There should be no hesitation: you ask, he replaces. It should have been done yesterday. *(2)* *The Trees Across The Street* Get the City of Oakland to trim back the trees (hopefully) just around the street-lamps across the street. There are three lights up on the building across the street, meant to light the street: it could be much better lit. See the double-plus-good discussion on Anti-Blight, below. *(3)* *The Parking Deck Next Door* The building owner may be the owner of the parking deck. If he does, getting the lights that are busted fixed is as easy as it was in number (1). He is required to do it. And he should know this, if he has owned property for more than a month. Because he should know first or secondhand that if he does not fix it there is a damn good possibility (based on precedent in case law) that he will be financially liable for damages resultant from any further criminal activity. *if he’s not the same owner, then it’s a research question whether a property owner owes a duty of care to next door neighbors. I guess that would be why there are blight laws, huh?* *which means, if he does nothing, SRers may have a case against him for what has already occurred (?).* If it’s things like lights in the alley then there are 10 lights. There were 7 that were spaced at regular intervals as you go down the alley, mounted 15- 20 feet up on the wall of the parking deck. If they were there they would be shining light down into that darkness from where they are no longer mounted about 20 feet up. Only one non-functional one remains. Once you see it you’ll be able to see where the others were. Then there are the three lights whose bulbs are burnt out where the bank drive thru is (was?) down at the other end of the alley. *(4)* *The Intersection Of 22nd & Broadway* Street-lamps each have two super bright bulbs by means of which they light up the night. This in turn enables people to see other people at a greater distance than they would otherwise, and avoid interaction if that is prudent. At the intersection of 22nd & Broadway one of the streetlight's bulbs is out. On the SR side of the street. This does in fact make things more dangerous. The city has to replace it, and pronto -- same deal -- we need to bug the fuck out of them until they do it. *Conclusion* Three different departments and one council-person; one or two building owners. Call them once a day until its done. it is a principle of sound design that good lighting is essential to a secure building. building codes are written stemming from, and reinforcing, this. There are, consequently, social, political, and legal mechanisms whereby certain actions that prevent and/or counteract blight can be taken. The point is to do so with the least amount of delay or opportunity for that action to devolve into inaction, which leads to more blight, and directly and indirectly may result in harm to people or property. Which we do not want. Which is the point. *Further Instruction* Is it a part of fire code? The fire department requires trees be trimmed back so that people will not be able to break into other people's houses without being seen... *A Note Concerning Insistent Constituents* Without delving into the ethical underpinnings, that ism, without agreeing or disagreeing with this social principle, one can see that it is empirically true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Applying this to the situation at hand, the axiom becomes: if you keep bugging them, they will do it. SR has a landlord, who may or may not be the building owner. It also has a council-person, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's control of urban blight, and a person who runs the department responsible for the city's trimming of trees. A month of hearing from someone every daywill probably motivate the necessary action. They are limited in the resources that they have, including attention. A kindly daily reminder/report of status will help focus that attention. as far as organizing the once a day calling *it’s important to actually reach them* *[what if you can’t? –ed] [i would be willing to go in person –ed] * come up with talking points or even specific phrases, ( like republicans do) such as “constituent service” remind them that there have been “five events in the past month *[accuracy check, please –ed] *requiring police intervention at SR”* [as i/we understand it -- i do not have all the details myself –ed]* *- the pepper spraying incident * *- the car break-in* *- the stolen ipad* *- the being held up at gunpoint* *- the guy messing with the keypad trying to get in* maybe give a status report such as X,Y and Z await action; A is scheduled for <day>,<date>; B is underway; C has been promised, but no date has been scheduled/estimated/committed to * a secondhand bit of info, FWIW: where SR is, at the edge of Koreatown Northgate, or KoNo, there are no beat cops because supposedly Northgate has the lowest incidence of violent crime -- but this is only because the city does not count armed robbery as a violent crime. KoNo has the highest incidence of armed robbery.* *[fontsize emphasis mine –ed]* *Notes On Finding Property Owners* Get APN zoom in on map (assessors map at http://www.acgov.org/assessor/maps2.htm) to get the parcel # (APN) then you can get more details here also take APN and/or other details and feed them in to http://rechart1.acgov.org I forgotten the exact method of feeding the APN into the link above to find the current owner, mainly because I can’t remember right now what the right combo of leading, trailing, and extra middle zeros to trim is, but we hack right? 3 quick ideas *1. Brute force – * try the different combinations of zeroes etc *2. Use knowledge that you have of a property already – * and feed it in to retrieve that property’s info to backward engineer the right format *3. Go to courthouse – * and look on their property info computers. They rarely have a queue and seem to be available for just this kind of use by the public. Unrestricted access 8:30-2:30 or 4 except for passage through the courthouse entrance: metal-detector for your person and the x-ray machine for your effects. *[following are the results of the Speaker's engaging in the above research technique –ed]* Parking deck 8-648-16-3 [Owned by “exempt public agency” per Assessor’s, so very likely city of Oakland] Parcel of SR building 8-648-1 Parcel facing Broadway at other end of block from SR 8-648-18 Middle of block and alley next to SR building 8-648-17 Having found out that the City of Oakland owns the parking deck next door, and they’re responsible for its blight makes me both more and less optimistic about whether they alone will fix the blight depending on my estimation of their willingness to fix their own problems. OTOH, since they are responsible to the citizenry in general, and they have geographic knowledge of problems via mapping crime and they are the landlords of the blighted property they arguably already have the kind of legal liability for what has happened recently, the kind that was mentioned above only in prospect for SR’s landlord. As I understand it, it’s established law that if a government is performing a function that isn’t unique to government (the set of which seems to be shrinking), that it has no sovereign immunity for doing it poorly. Please forgive the upcoming caps: WARNING: GO TO AN ACTUAL LAWYER IF YOU WANT A LEGAL OPINION RENDITIONED RENDERED. I only offer my opinion which is not withheld pending ransom retainer. (Sorry for the caps –CYA.) The point is court action possibly offers another stick (but it is a blunt instrument). A carrot might be to offer to help correct the situation, but that would be poisonous to relations with city unions, probably, even if a qualified person could be fielded. The greater point you already know well and practice: to think (sideways or whatever direction) to the extent you believe the issues are salient. Hope my modest thought offering is helpful. *see also wikipedia:* *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design* *and its reading list:* • International CPTED Association • European Designing Out Crime Association • Stichting Veilig Ontwerp en Beheer (the Netherlands) • California Designing Out Crime Association • Crime prevention and the built environment. • Washington State University CPTED Annotated Bibliography. Url last accessed May 6, 2006. • Oscar Newman, *Creating Defensible Space* (pdf) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996). Url last accessed May 6, 2006. • CPTED LinkedIn Discussion Group • SmartCode Module on CPTED • Secured by Design (UK) *N.B.: These are the near verbatim notes I took of an impromptu talk. They have been reviewed and edited by both the Scribe and the Speaker, & unless bracketed & followed by attribution, (as in "[...in respect of actionability alone these ideas are robust indeed. –ed.]") represent the ideas mostly in the exact words of the Speaker.* [View Less]

12 years, 1 month

writers group - is anyone into this theory stuff?

by Romy Ilano

i was hesitating before sending this but then, maybe this will appeal to people. i'll not send stuff like this if it produces a strong negative reaction. it's a nice change of pace after all these kickstarters and porn discussions. https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/ Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance December 5-6, 2013 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Proposals due: Friday, 23 August 2013 This conference will bring together artists, activists and … [View More]academics to stage new conversations about women of color and women of color feminisms across cultural forms too often perceived to be wholly distinct – hip hop and punk. Both hip hop and punk have received significant scholarly attention since the 1970s, but despite their near-simultaneous emergence in global cities wrought anew through multiple, devastating wars and global economic restructuring, rarely are the two brought into conversation with each the other. With this conference, we hope to disrupt status quo narratives and present wholly new analytic and aesthetic investigations about race, sex, and the creation of categories of deviance; race, gender, and sexuality in cultural studies and the politics of aesthetics; queer of color critique and women of color feminist epistemologies; social movements, activism, and art; norms of respectability, morality, and propriety and their politics of value; and, systems and structures of violence and human value. Perceiving a need for a greater nuanced comparative analyses and collaborations across disciplines or fields of inquiry, itself a topic of ongoing scholarship, this conference aims to break ground on what that looks, feels, and sounds like. We invite presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress, new media, workshops, panels, related to (or building on) the following themes/issues: • Genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and/or punk across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete genealogy, or singular origin story, for each) • Inter-genre corporeal practices and body aesthetics • Theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and/or punk cultures • Critical conversations on hip hop and/or punk organizing and disorganization • New media, web series, blogs, zines, and ciphers • Critiques and political polemics that imagine futurity or negativity (and the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms) • Disruptive youth cultures and oppositional activism, or their lack (e.g., can we necessarily presume disruption or opposition? what conditions are required? through what measures do we recognize these?) • The ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances (including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures) • Art and music inspired by hip hop and punk collaborations • Experimental hip hop/punk methodologies and pedagogies What to send: For individual proposals: Please send a 350-word (maximum) abstract of your conference contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference co-organizers. For collective/panel proposals: Please send a 300-word (maximum) description of the overall goal, vision, and content for the collective contribution. In addition, please provide no more than a 250-word abstract of each individual’s contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference co-organizers. All proposals must also include the following information: 1. Author(s) name, affiliation(s), and brief bio 2. Email address or preferred contact 3. Title of presentation 4. Key words Send proposals to HipHopAndPunkFeminisms(a)gmail.com with the following subject heading: abstract submission. Conference Co-organizers: Ruth Nicole Brown Karen Flynn Fiona I.B. Ngô Mimi Thi Nguyen All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a collection Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance. [View Less]

12 years, 1 month

Open Source Printer Drivers? (like OpenWRT for printers)

by Matthew Meier

Random Thought: Has anyone ever attempted to make an open source printer firmware? Does anyone know if there are any active projects? -Wolfy

12 years, 1 month

TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM Albany Community Center

by Steve Berl

I meant to send this earlier, but spaced it out. If any sudoers are interested in either bringing in some broken stuff to fix, or in being a Fixit Coach, come on down to Albany on Sunday afternoon. If that doesn't work for you, we will be at the Temescal Branch of the Oakland Public Library on Saturday, June 22 from 12-3. See you there, Steve ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Peter Mui* Date: Saturday, June 8, 2013 Subject: TOMORROW: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) Sunday, June 9 1PM-… [View More]4PM Albany Community Center To: fixit-clinic(a)googlegroups.com Hi Fixit Coaches: We're a "Go" for Fixit Clinic LII (#52) TOMORROW Sunday, June 9 1PM-4PM at the Albany Community Center: here's the Fixit Clinic Coach lineup as far as I know: Elanor Jeff (and Samuel) Jessie Kent Mark Putzer (Chelle's Dad) Martin Peter Richard Roy Steve Any other coaches: please feel free to join in on the fun! I plan to get there about 12:30. See you there! Cheers, -Peter Peter Mui petermui(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'petermui(a)gmail.com');> 510 540 8318 / 408 647 5790 1715 Eola St. Berkeley CA 94703 --------------------------- Fixit Clinic at Albany Community Center Fix your broken stuff -- Or at least learn more about it disassembling it. Bring your broken, non-functioning things -- electronics, appliances, computers, toys, etc.-- for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We'll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. Whether we fix it or not, you'll learn more about how it was manufactured and how it worked. This is a family-friendly event: children are heartily invited! WHAT: Fixit Clinic LII (#52) at Albany Community Center WHEN: Sunday, June 9, 2013 1-4PM WHERE: Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA http://www.albanyca.org HOW: Bring: 1) your broken or non-working thing (carry-in only: no oversize items) 2) accessories and tools you already own that might be helpful (e.g. phillips head screwdriver) 3) any knowledge or advance research you've done on the issue 4) boxes, bags and/or small containers to organize (and carry away) parts. COST: Free! WHY: To make friends, learn how things work, and have fun! Facebook: "Like" Fixit Clinic: www.fixitclinic.org Join the Fixit Clinic Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/fixitfan Google+: Add Fixit Clinic to your circles and join the Fixit Clinic Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111525193946026734520/ WANNA HELP OTHERS at Fixit Clinic? Email petermui(a)gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'petermui(a)gmail.com');> --------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fixit Clinic" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fixit-clinic+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fixit-clinic%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com');>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -steve [View Less]

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TIL - anyone interested in leading GIT for writers, non hackers (July 7)

by Romy Ilano

Hi - I probably won't be able to lead the GIT Version Control for Writers and Non Hackers on July 7th. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#July_7:_GIT_Version_Control_for_N… Is anyone else willing to step up to the plate? If not I will just delete this. I saw someone post https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_29:_How_to_showcase_your_3D_… This sounds suspiciously like an existing private company that is sniffing for VC money - If it is, could you please disclose this?

12 years, 1 month

EFF: Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad.

by Eddan Katz

another legal aspect of the sudo-mesh project is patent busting prior art research. ... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patent… > JUNE 21, 2013 | BY JULIE SAMUELS > Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad. Help Us Protect Mesh Networking. > Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the … [View More]development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was invaluable. We're still waiting to hear from the Patent Office on those applications, but our work is not done. We need your help again, this time to challenge dangerous patent applications that threaten mesh networking technology. > > Mesh networking allows users to form their own networks without a centralized infrastructure, making them inherently resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. Given recent revelations showing widespread surveillance of the phone calls and online activities of innocent Americans and others around the globe, the development of mesh networks more important than ever. Governments and commercial actors have taken advantage of intermediaries as “weak links” in order to censor, surveil, and disrupt communications and social movements. Already in the United States, cell towers have been deactivated in response to planned protest, while activists in countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria have suffered massive blackouts that shut down all access from within the country to the wider Internet. Mesh networking technology can help activists fight back. > > Wireless Mesh Networks > > For more than a decade the open-source community has been developing networks that use multi-hop connectivity to bypass the current ISP-dominated model of Internet access. These Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have tremendous potential for enabling the free flow of information without exposure to censorship and monitoring. Because they lack a central access point, mesh networks are also harder to take down, as the removal of one node won’t terminate the entire network. And WMNs, by not relying on infrastructure provided by ISPs, can provide connectivity in areas where that infrastructure is inaccessible, damaged, or prohibitively expensive. > > The open source community has developed innovative tools and applications of mesh networking technology including the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol developed by Freifunk, a system for internet access in remote areas of Afghanistan and Kenya (FabFi), and community controlled telephone systems in Nigeria, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, East Timor, and Brazil (VillageTelco). Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain and former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently advocated for the use of mesh networks to provide phone access during times of crisis when mobile networks are overloaded. > > The Problem > > Wireless Mesh Networking is still in its nascent stages, and the innovations and experimentation of the open source community are playing a vital role in advancing the technology. However, there has also been significant proprietary and military interest in the technology, and companies are seeking patents in many areas of WMN already explored by the open source community. We unfortunately know what can happen when overbroad patents get granted—the rise of patent trolls, lawsuits that can threaten growing businesses, and threats that target entire areas of technology. We don't want to see that happen to mesh networking. > > This is where you come in! > > We have identified several patent applications that we believe particularly threaten the free development of mesh networking technology. There is a danger that these patents, if granted, will lock up the basic mesh network infrastructure and restrict advancement of and access to the technology. > > We have been using the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure, which gives third parties an opportunity to tell patent examiners when they think a patent application shouldn't be granted. The procedure requires those third parties to submit publications predating the application that prove the ideas in the patent were not novel. > > Which is why we need your help. We are again partnering with Ask Patents so you can help us identify the best prior art to reign in these applications. While prior art for issued patents must date back many years, these are recently filed applications for which relatively recent publications may be helpful. Look at each “Request for Prior Art” we post to learn the exact priority date. > > Working together we can protect the mesh networking community from overbroad, illegitimate patents that threaten to stifle innovation and access to technologies that preserve personal freedoms. > > APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING WIRELESS MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS > > ADAPTING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR LAYER 3 MESH NETWORKS > > MESH NETWORK GATEWAY AND SECURITY SYSTEM [View Less]

12 years, 1 month

A Public Service Announcement re: Sudo Bike

by Jenny Ryan

Tonight, we found the sudo room bike locked up outside the door on 22nd St. It had only a light chain locking it to the post. Then an evil man stole it! >.< ... Just kidding. Marc cut the chain with our boltcutters from home and brought it back up to the space. Please don't do this with the lovely bike Matt put together for us all with his very own sweat, tears, and freecycled parts! Or paint it hot pink! With 3D printed flair! On agenda for next week: Bike protocol :) Be well, … [View More]

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