Hey peoples,
J.C. aka. man-with-the-hard-hat-starting-marin-hackerspace, has a birthday
tomorrow. What better way to celebrate than a hackathon, building some
stuff?
Here's what he says:
Ya the address is 90 Sidney Ct. San Ranfael. No set schedule or anything
> just kind of hanging out and hacking on stuff just let me know what time
> you might be coming will be getting going late morn thru late eve.
So I want to go. Sam expressed interest last week. Anyone else in? I'm
thinking carpool from East Bay and go maybe around 10/11AM. I don't have a
car. Throw me a mail!
Make a great day,
M
hi all
through an elaborate series of hacks, other rachel and i have gained
access to sudo room and are here hacking on our luminescent jackets. We
will be here for several hours if anyone wants to get in; email me!
R.
Dear sudo'ers,
Juul, Tunabananas, mr. Phage, Sir Mikey and myself have reached a final
agreement with our landlord to rent the 2nd story on our Adeline House in
West Oakland. We are looking for new housemates (both "permanent" and
subletters, as some are away for some month), to starting 1st of April.
We'd definitely love to have people we already know move in.
We live as a community, sharing food (90% dumpster dived), the work on the
house, etc. Our garden will soon be sprouting cool stuffs, and we have a
yurt, chicken and more. Rent is cheap.
Now having more space, we want to take this is an opportunity to "level up"
our community and our intention of living together. If you're interested
living as part of an intentional hacker-community, and building it even
stronger, this might be a good fit.
*TL:DR; We are awesome. Want to live with awesome people? Throw an e-mail
and we will meet.*
*
*
Make a great day,
Morten
"Something like patches and badges mentioned elsewhere, but my teacher
head says to award tags that can go on a key ring or lanyard, or maybe
beads on a paracord bracelet, thus avoiding problems with having to wear
some sort of uniform clothing, yet still tapping in to the same urge to
collect that makes a fortune for the inventors of Pokemon."
From an otherwise unrelated email on a list I'm on. Thought it made a
ton of sense and am passing it on!
Rachel M
Hello Sudoers,
I've got a couple of questions for you savvy hackers on the list. I'm
looking to setup some multiple monitors stations, both at my place and
eventually at sudo room for data analysis, stats, and AI projects.
Firstly, can anybody recommend a Linux-based program that handles multiple
monitors well?
I've been using LXDE in Lubuntu, and am reluctant to use Unity/Ubuntu, but
I'd conceivably make a switch to a different display manager if I had to...
Secondly, does anybody have experience setting up >2 monitors for one
machine, without using more than 1 graphics card, in any OS/display
manager?
>From a preliminary search, it seems like there are a few hacks, but I'm
still not able to figure out how exactly to best proceed, and would
appreciate hearing from someone with more experience.
Thanks,
Sam
A friend is super interested, and I vaguely remember there being a
meeting today, but I can't remember what time. Please let me know!
Hack the planet.
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Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork
"You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action"
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Will someone please do mother nature a gigantic favor and turn the National
Park Service website into something absolutely beautiful and captivating?
It currently takes a click and a scroll down in order to see the crappy
stock photos that are representative of billions of years of geological and
billionish of biological evolution (and that's just earth...but you get my
point).
http://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm
I can be your writer/promoter. Seriously.
OK, feeling just a tad better after breathing some Wikipedia air (though
this article is itself in want).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Forest
Anyway, I bring this point up not to fart around but just to say that I was
unemployed when I first met Sudo Room, and because of Sudo Room I realized
that regardless of this fact, I could be a productive fucking human
being--more productive than I've ever been, ever. I'm beyond happy to see
so many people pursuing productive projects and passions, and look forward
greatly to tomorrow's (as in today's (as in Saturday's (as in I love
recursion talk to me about linguistics)) events.
That is all,
Vicky who has been too busy to go to Wednesday meetings but still thinks
about you and loves you and will begin going again regularly.
You too can be like 7 other people who who have already pledged their
attendance.
Recall from the
calendar,<https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/today-i-learned/?instance_id=52225>and
Wiki<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Just_enought_Sketch-up_to_pretend_you_can_3d_model>
:
Glance
- *WHEN* 2pm on Saturday the 16th of March.
- *DURATION* 2 hours
- *LOCATION* sudo room <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Getting_there>
- *PRICE* $0
- *NUTSHELL* Live Sketchup and print tutorial
- *INSTRUCTOR* Max Klein aka notconfusing <http://notconfusing.com>
Plan
- Understand the workflow (Idea>Design>STL>Slice>Print).
- *IDEA* a miniature plate for canapes and appetizers that is ring and
allows you to hold a drink in the same hand.
- *DESIGN* we'll make a 3d digital representation in sketchup
- *STL* gloss over this detail and leave it for another class
- *SLICE* gloss over this detail and leave it for another class
- *PRINT* marvel, and take home.
Learn
On the right you'll see some examples of what I've 3D printed at sudo room,
having learned all my skills at sudo room, from sudoers.
- 3D Printing Theory
- Sketchup
- Navigation
- Basic Shapes
- Shape Manipulation
- Advanced Shapes
- Exporting
- Slic3r slicing software (in a minor way)
- Repetier Host Printer Software (in a minor way)
- How to manually adjust the 3d printer in times of crisis.
Bring
- Come with a laptop with sketchup <http://www.sketchup.com/> installed.
There's a free version for Windows and Mac. If you don't have this
installed, you cannot begin immediately.
- Bring a mouse. Sketchup is much easier with a mouse, and all but
impossible to learn with the track pad. Essential.
Attend
Add your name below if you know how, but you can also just show up on the
day.
- IsThisThingOn
- Tunabananas
- Bleeblahblue
- JustBrandon
- Rick
- Judi (who used the "edit" link, top of the page)
- Hbergeronx<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Hbergeronx&action=edit&…>(
talk<https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Hbergeronx&action=…>)
17:07, 14 March 2013 (UTC) (matt)
To the Sudo Kopimist congregation -
This week fort Friday Filosophy we will be having something from the Athenian Deli on Franklin off of Sudo Square. (http://www.atheniandeli.com/). Since last week's email got lost in the abyss of the mail server switch, I am also including last week's email as well below.
Following up on last week's discussion of manufacturing and consumer culture, we will be picking up the thread focusing on Planned Obsolescence. The excerpt below is from Giles Slade, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (2006) pgs. 23-24. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0674022033.
A bit of context for the quote - Slade describes the break-through in shifting cultural norms about disposable products with the popularity of sanitary napkins for women, in the inter-war period when women were exercising more control over family budgets. Slade digs up fascinating research on the explicit Anti-Thrift campaigns after World War I, when American advertisers linked together conspicuous consumption for social status and disposable products as patriotic support of the American economy.
> Anti-Thrift Campaigns
>
> Encouraged by the repetitive consumption of disposable paper products for both men and women, paper manufacturers developed toilet paper, paper cups, paper towels, and paper straws (rendering rye stalks obsolete). Gradually, the popularity of disposable personal products, purchased and used in the name of hygiene and health, caused Americans to generalize their throwaway habits to other goods. This was a significant development in the history of product obsolesence. As a throwaway culture emerged, an ethic of durability, of thrift, of what the consumer historian Susan Strasser calls "the stewardship of objects," was slowly modified. At first, people just threw their paper products into the fire. But as the disposable trend continued, it became culturally permissible to throw away objects that could not simply and conveniently be consumed by flames.
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Friday Filosophy 3/8: Stuxnet & the Problem of Evil
Dear Sudo folk.
The spanakopita are just about ready to take out of the oven - ricotta & cheese (sorry, vegans). My daughter, Eva, will be coming today (home with a bit of a fever), but likely not participating in the discussion. She wants to be an epidemiologist, like her mom, and may chime in about viruses - which apparently kind of look like nasty little monsters and have crooked teeth.
We will be picking up the subject left off last time of the communicative value of executable virus software with a real-life example about which to ruminate. Stuxnet (see http://www.stuxnet.net/) will be the focus, with an emphasis on the implications for the techno-social role of programmers, and the future of cyberwarfare.
sent from eddan.com
