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YaCy in sudo room: I am inclined to set it up

by Anthony Di Franco

Sudo room is a room with a bunch of computer hardware in it much of it idle and a community of people many of them not idle many of whom like free access to information and privacy-respecting technology and social institutions and dislike pervasive surveillance by state and corporate actors and oligopolistic private control of vital public resources. YaCy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy> is a free<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> distributed search engine<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine>, built on principles of peer-to-peer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer> (P2P) networks. All YaCy-peers are equal and no central server<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)> exists. It can be run either in a crawling<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler> mode or as a local proxy server<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server>, indexing web pages visited by the person running YaCy on his or her computer. (Several mechanisms are provided to protect the user's privacy.) Access to the search functions is given by a locally running web server which provides a search box to enter search terms, and returns search results in a similar format to other popular search engines. Thoughts?

11 years, 8 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [dorkbotsf-blabber] Question about gender diversity in the makerspace.

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Forwarding this to sudoroom in oakland, who also seem to have a fairly good F/M ratio - not 50/50, but better than I've seen in most techie fields. And of course HackerMoms in Berkeley is completely women-run as well. Patrik On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Dan Novy <novysan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, Dorks, we're having a discussion about gender diversity in the > makerspace and I'm hearing from many east coast spaces that they're about > 90/10 Male to Female ratio. Coming from the west coast I don't know if we > truly had a higher percentage or not but it sure seemed so. Just so I have > some rough numbers, what would some of you who are members of groups like > SRL, NIMBY, Crucible, Ship Yard, Noisebridge, and especially the Flaming > Lotus Girls. I seem to remember a lot of female participation and > leadership. Any guesses? > > Thanks. > > NovySan > > > ---------- > > dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity > http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/ > SUBSCRIPTION AND UNSUBSCRIBE OPTIONS HERE: > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotsf-blabber > > ---------- >

11 years, 8 months

just got mugged and maced near sudo room

by Naomi Most

11:45pm at the 20th st bus stop (at Broadway) waiting for the 72M. So, ah, watch yourselves. I was transferring my iPad to my backpack when 2 muggers wrenched it out of my hands and a third one maced me right in the eyes. I mean not just a little spray, a serious "I mean to blind you" lengthy spray. An emergency team showed up about 6 minutes after the incident, and the cops showed up about 8 minutes after. They were very helpful. One of them asked if I had "Find my Phone" installed, which I did. They activated it and located the iPad right away. They detained 2 suspects who were carrying the iPad. I sat in the back of a cop car as they stood under the light. One suspect wasn't so clear to me, and I said so -- I wasn't sure. The other suspect was *definitely* the girl who maced me, so I said so. They let the guy go and took the girl in. That felt really weird. I'm going to write this up in more detail on my blog, because my face feels like it's melting off so I'm not going to be able to sleep anyway. What a strange experience. -- Naomi Theora Most naomi(a)nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost

11 years, 8 months

Bike Smut: Sex-Positive erotic bike flims at Sudo Room?

by Vicky Knox

THE BACKGROUND: The people from Bike Smut and I think it would be fun and fascinating and fabulous to have a screening of their erotic bike films at Sudo Room as a combo of Fabulous Friday Films and Hacking Sexual Health. Bike Smut encourages "sex-positive bikers to make short films about bikes and sex to help spread a message of joy and liberation through sexuality and cycling". Everything they do is non-commercial, and is backed by the desire to demystify and provoke more open thought and conversation around sexuality. We would like to do this on Friday, May 17th in the evening. WE NEED YOU: The films are of course erotic in nature, and will involve nudity and sexual acts. Please let me know if you have any concerns, reservations or clarifying questions--we realize pornography may not be for everyone, and are sensitive to any concerns you may have. :]

11 years, 8 months

3d scanning and inventory

by Romy Ilano

Bringing this thread up the other one got hijacked by non sudo room people ;) love ya anyway If you have a smartphone we can start scanning 3D at the start of next meeting. You need the autodesk 123 catch app. I want to make a sudo room Wacom tablet pen holder... Would love advice from Jordan Max or anyone else since I'm making a female receptacle ... I will stick the file on the sudo room server but also on github since they have a 3 d printing viewer embedded in their browser ... --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 8 months

"I will make them disabled"

by Yardena Cohen

Quoth our landlord. He's referring to hypothetical genderqueer people who may need to use a bathroom other than the men's and women's, if he finds them in the single stall bathroom with the wheelchair on it. He said Men's and Women's bathroom are enough to suit everyone's needs, and muttered something about people wanting "special privileges" on the way out. I hope you will agree that this is a problem. On a related topic, the women's bathroom never has soap. Vicky and I bought a giant container a while ago, and it has recently disappeared and not been replaced. There are also never toilet paper or paper towel refills, so we have been storing backup rolls in the Sudoroom closet. We are not going to store them in the bathroom because they'll probably disappear too. Relatedly, one day last week it was very hot in that bathroom and I set up a fan to circulate the air in it. The fan also disappeared. I am rather frustrated, in case you can't tell. I also want to point out that as many problems I have with the owner of Sudoroom's building, I agree with him about the furniture situation. People have GOT to take care to put furniture away, and leave the common area look as clean and empty as possible when you leave it. The campsite rule is: "leave it at least as good as you found it". You should follow that everywhere in life, but ESPECIALLY in Sudoroom's common area. He's threatened many times to just remove all the furniture himself. Given my experience with his personality profile and past behavior I would rate this as about 60% likely; more if people don't get their act together about cleaning shit up.

11 years, 8 months

sudodoor exterior web-opening mechanism should be working again EOM

by Max Klein

11 years, 8 months

Check out this hacker

by Artur Moczulski

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/551322_452295644848803_19955255… Best regards, Artur Moczulski

11 years, 8 months

It is April 22nd. Have you paid your dues?

by Marina Kukso

you have a number of ways to contribute this month: 1) online (via wepay): https://sudoroom.org/ 2) online (via gittip): https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/ 3) in person (anytime): please drop cash or checks into the clear plastic box by the door that goes to the elevator 4) in person (at meetings): bring cash or checks to wed. meetings. and certainly i barely need to remind you of our *precarious month to month financial situation*. pay your dues! marina

11 years, 8 months

Have an Ultimaker you're willing to sell or lease?

by Jeff McAlvay

A friend and I are working on a project that involves an Ultimaker 3d printer (http://www.ultimaker.com/). I am looking to buy a machine or lease one for a few months (if we lease it, it would be restored to its original form when returned). Do you or someone you know have one they might be willing to part with on a permanent or temporary basis? Ideally, the machine is already assembled and calibrated. We're hoping to get started immediately--so please reach out ASAP if you are interested. I will pay above market price. Thanks, Jeff 206-271-6290

11 years, 8 months

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