[Noisebridge-discuss] $23,000 in stolen copper wire, $1,347 in stickers

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Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

OSI bean dip posted:

if you want to stir the hornets nest, just go on the mailing list and do a "mens rights hacking" night suggestion and claim you're from redpill or voices for men

or go there in person and do the opposite events

# ? Dec 18, 2014 17:50

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# ? May 9, 2024 06:18

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

i bet i could bring in yosvape and do slides and a presentation and just loving shame the hell out of them that some hillbilly from _arkansas_ was able to design, execute and present a complete DIY project without needing any number of dogs running around or heroin junkies nodding in the cornewr

# ? Dec 18, 2014 18:29

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

Jonny 290 posted:

i bet i could bring in yosvape and do slides and a presentation and just loving shame the hell out of them that some hillbilly from _arkansas_ was able to design, execute and present a complete DIY project without needing any number of dogs running around or heroin junkies nodding in the cornewr

theyd probably try to figure out how to smoke meth out of it

it will involve a murderous robot and a vise

# ? Dec 18, 2014 18:34

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

actually murderbot sounds like a great idea for noisebridge, they should add that arm and put the red button on the chassis

robot begins spinning at high speed with arm out when it senses someone getting close to the button

and uploads to youtube

# ? Dec 18, 2014 18:35

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

yeah i realized that they'd probably hate on it, attack me for putting it in a Fascist Computer Chassis, and kick me out until I built them an automated rig to brew heroin from SF dumpster leavings

# ? Dec 18, 2014 18:36

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Jonny 290 posted:

an automated rig to brew heroin from SF dumpster leavings

jenkem-o-matic

# ? Dec 19, 2014 02:01

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

As a Millennial I posted:

i looked it up btw and "noisetor" is just some tor nodes set up at noisebridge which they beg for donations for, lol

doocracy: slap a deep packet inspection box between the internet and the exit node and count what percentage of the packets going through are child porn

# ? Dec 19, 2014 03:03

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

quote:

This white, direct flourescent cold light...

What about switching some of the neon tubes to some colored ones in
order to create a
- chilled
- loungy
- indirect
and
- relaxed
light-situation?

I know when I'm hacking on electronics and need to be able to see what i'm doing, I definitely want 'loungy' light

# ? Dec 19, 2014 03:38

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

technological solutions to interpersonal problems :toot:

quote:

Per discussion @ meeting tonight, a simple way to automatically remind everyone to take out the trash.

Files are in pony:/home/saizai/trash

* reminder script - announces 'Take out the trash' every 5s in the same way as noisegate until /tmp/itookoutthetrash exists
* touchpanel page - touches /tmp/itookoutthetrash (should also be hooked up as pony.noise/trash)
* suggested crontab - rm /tmp/itookoutthetrash at 5pm, run reminder script at 6pm mon/thurs

Someone w/ appropriate root on pony & appropriate ssh key privileges (Rubin?), please review and install.

If any of y'all have a better idea, feel free to suggest. This is just a dead-simple kludge.

# ? Dec 19, 2014 03:53

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

"[Noisebridge-discuss posted:

Stolen food at Noisebridge yes or no?"]
I'm the person who after several days of thinking decided to talk to the person who brings to Noisebridge stolen groceries, to process it, turn it in to the tasty product and give it to the people in need. I think the goal is noble but I do not think that obtain the resources by stealing is good thing to do no matter from what resources is the food coming. I've suggested to the person in question to further explore the ways how to meet the these goals but in a more positive, constructive way.

quote:

quote:
Yeah... whoever this thief is should be banned from the space. It sounds to me like they're the sort of person who *will* get caught (telling other people about your crimes? really?), and when that happens we need to have nothing to do with such unexcellent behavior.

I completely disagree. Nobody should *ever* be banned from the space. In the past, when someone has done something people consider unethical, they've been asked to stay away for a bit while things settle down. Banning someone is counterproductive and leads to all kinds of problems. Plus, think about it: if someone is already known for breaking into a venue and stealing things, do you really want to make them upset at you?

# ? Dec 19, 2014 04:01

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_Ilm7O2vg

our hero enters at 1:43

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:00

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

I know when I'm hacking on electronics and need to be able to see what i'm doing, I definitely want 'loungy' light

tbh they probably should swap all the lights out for blue ones

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:14

a cyberpunk goose: May 21, 2007

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_Ilm7O2vg

our hero enters at 1:43

what is happening idgi

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:24

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Mido posted:

what is happening idgi

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:34

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

the stupid pants guy in question posted it as proof that the tsa violated his rights or something? i'm not sure what he's doing and they appear to totally ignore him after putting up the barrier so he's not leaning right on the x-ray

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:34

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Mido posted:

what is happening idgi

Sagebrush posted:

the stupid pants guy in question posted it as proof that the tsa violated his rights or something? i'm not sure what he's doing and they appear to totally ignore him after putting up the barrier so he's not leaning right on the x-ray

anarchy

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:43

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

http://s.ai/tsa/ i guess?

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:45

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

Mido posted:

okay im trying to remember much about it

we got there late like 9pm or something, my weird friend at the time was like "ayy lets check out this hacker space thing called noise bridges ITS REAL COOL". we come in and it's in an "eh" part of town for SF, we hop in the freight elevator and up we go. lots of peeling paint and project-esque low grade building antiquities. you walk into the space and at a glance it's pretty cool, there's couches and bins of random poo poo you can pull from to work on your dumb arduino fart detector, there's a doorway to an area with some work benchy tool things, a modest kitchen, hard wood floors and lots of peoples goofy little projects dangling all around the space, a crappy desk with some pcb-working stuff (poo poo rear end old logic analyzer, cutting mats, solder, irons, etc).

a man types furiously on the couch, sighing and pulling in harsh breaths on occasion, fake chortling to himself as he scans over some condescending battle he is fighting on the internet. an old man covers his eyes with a sleep mask which he has put some RGB leds into so that they slowly phase between colors, the man is adamant that this greatly changes how your brain waves work when you sleep (here's a hint: it doesn't). despite his banal invention he had a small cabal of interested, furrow browed groupies, trying it on and nodding enthusiastically when the man explained his notions.

we pulled apart a 12x80 led sign that we brought along with us as part of our mission to make it do something besides turn on and sit quietly. no model numbers on any pcbs lead us anywhere on the internet. it has a zilog z80 on it and two rj11 ports. the logic analyzer is busted and there's not a lot you can do at this point without a proper scope, a salae analyzer, some tools to dump the rom of the z80 and skim through the relatively simple assembly, we had no modem with us and the space had none either. our effort to be elite hackers was a wash.

everyone i talked to was stressed the gently caress out about something going on RIGHT NOW, or pestered me a little about my presence. "do you have a sponsor? who did you come here with?"

it was dumb

i was there that day. i dont remember why we needed to be there to take apart that led sign thing; all we used were like some screwdrivers and maybe a soldering iron? they didnt even have a good set of screwdrivers. like i said earlier, i am pretty sure i have better poo poo in my bedroom. i remember being told that i couldnt take things out of the scrap bins because i was not a member. also, same about the weird interrogations about who i was there with. really clashes with that "never outlaw anyone ever" attitude they have.

also yeah that was the tv b gone guy. i remember thinking he was a weirdo and wondering why his poo poo was so popular.

also fyi we did figure out that the thing communicates with rs485 (or was it 422? i always mix these up) because we were able to look up the differential line drivers. so we basically drive to SF, used a screwdriver to open a thing, then we googled chips for a bit, then went home. lol owned

every time we would ask someone for a tool (like an rs232 to rs485 converter) we would get blank stares and/or "pshhh no" type responses. super great place to work on stuff A+++

# ? Dec 19, 2014 06:54

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

http://s.ai/tsa/ i guess?

2013-04-08: TSA has officially admitted to RightThisMinute that: "TSA�s policy allows medically necessary liquids through the security checkpoint once they have been screened. We regret that TSA did not follows its procedures recently at San Francisco International Airport when a passenger was not permitted to travel with liquids he declared as medically necessary. The passenger has reached out to TSA and we will respond directly to his concerns."

I mean gently caress that guy and his pants and his medically necessary fluids but also gently caress the TSA

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:09

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Raluek posted:

i was there that day. i dont remember why we needed to be there to take apart that led sign thing; all we used were like some screwdrivers and maybe a soldering iron? they didnt even have a good set of screwdrivers. like i said earlier, i am pretty sure i have better poo poo in my bedroom. i remember being told that i couldnt take things out of the scrap bins because i was not a member. also, same about the weird interrogations about who i was there with. really clashes with that "never outlaw anyone ever" attitude they have.

also yeah that was the tv b gone guy. i remember thinking he was a weirdo and wondering why his poo poo was so popular.

also fyi we did figure out that the thing communicates with rs485 (or was it 422? i always mix these up) because we were able to look up the differential line drivers. so we basically drive to SF, used a screwdriver to open a thing, then we googled chips for a bit, then went home. lol owned

every time we would ask someone for a tool (like an rs232 to rs485 converter) we would get blank stares and/or "pshhh no" type responses. super great place to work on stuff A+++

are you the weird friend in the first story?

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:10

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

BONGHITZ posted:

are you the weird friend in the first story?

thankfully no. said friend brought mido (the guy with the >20mpg car) and i (the EE nerd) to try to figure out how to operate his led sign thing

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:12

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

i know that sugar-containing liquids are indeed medically necessary for a number of different conditions but aarrggghhhhhh i can't help but imagine this guy as buster bluth or somethign

quote:

I have a neurological disorder that causes episodic muteness and muscle spasms. I always require medical liquids (namely, juice)

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:13

pram: Jun 10, 2001

those pants

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:14

pram: Jun 10, 2001

are those jncos lmao

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:14

a cyberpunk goose: May 21, 2007

Raluek posted:

thankfully no. said friend brought mido (the guy with the >20mpg car) and i (the EE nerd) to try to figure out how to operate his led sign thing

it's me i'm the weird friend

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:29

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

medically necessary pants?

"[Noisebridge-discuss posted:

Stolen food at Noisebridge yes or no?"]
I just want to make sure that this discussion is about food that was actually stolen and not acquired via dumpster diving. If this is all about food pulled out of dumpsters, I have no problem with it, as long as the end products are labeled as "dumpstered." There are quite a few spots in the bay area where one can acquire perfectly good food out of dumpsters

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:49

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

red lobster more like RAD LOBSTER am i right? so many biscuits after closing time!!

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:50

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

yeh i had a punk friend who used to do that in high school. lived in a normal middle class family with plenty of money for food, of course, just did it because punks in high school

he got picked up by the cops for it once or twice but never charged, and i think he stopped after he got sick eating moldy garbage spaghetti

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:51

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

Sagebrush posted:

moldy garbage spaghetti

what a combination of words that is

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:53

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Raluek posted:

what a combination of words that is

"moldy garbage spaghetti" is a great name for a punk band

# ? Dec 19, 2014 07:57

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

eschaton posted:

"moldy garbage spaghetti" is a great name for a punk band

i imagine theyd sound like impetigos all you need is cheez album

# ? Dec 19, 2014 09:27

EMILY BLUNTS: Jan 1, 2005

I always figured dumpster diving was "well this sealed bag of chips can't be sold anymore but the best by was yesterday so *noms*" and no "gently caress yeah free green milk haha!"

# ? Dec 19, 2014 09:30

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

i think most of the time for this guy it was "hey if u hang out behind the tim horton's at 2am they throw out big bags with all the unsold donuts" so it's not like actually rooting through the general garbage pile for half eaten leftovers. but i dunno, there's nothing stopping them from tossing old coffee grounds and dishrags and expired meat and whatever else in there since it's just garbage

i heard that some restaurants that do a similar thing will pour bleach all over the food before they dispose of it specifically so that homeless people don't show up and do this

# ? Dec 19, 2014 09:52

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

pram posted:

are those jncos lmao

i think they're samurai pants

# ? Dec 19, 2014 12:57

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

pram posted:

are those jncos lmao

# ? Dec 19, 2014 22:08

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

I always figured dumpster diving was "well this sealed bag of chips can't be sold anymore but the best by was yesterday so *noms*" and no "gently caress yeah free green milk haha!"

quote:

hey guys. i stole a buncha computer parts from bestbuy and target etc. gonna use the space to put together some desktops and leave them at the space to give out later to some friends of mine who don't have a whole lotta money.
you guys can have one too if you want. hope that's ok with everyone.

# ? Dec 20, 2014 07:15

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

quote:

hey guys, me again. i told my friend how cool you guys were with letting me
and the stolen food person stay and use the space so he's gonna drop by with
some car parts he lifted outta the bayview. he's totally gonna give them to
the less fortunate or something like that. scouts honor. and if you need a
muffler i'm sure he could hook you up. he was a little iffy about making the
members angry for using the space for this kinda thing but i told him not to
worry as long as we say it's for a good cause and promise to totally not do
it again as far as anyone knows if they ask us not to we wont get kicked out
cause they're cool people like that. again, super thanks.

# ? Dec 20, 2014 07:15

influx.: Dec 16, 2007; Nice pants!

# ? Dec 20, 2014 13:53

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

I don't think the baggy pants guy's tsa story is worthy of mockery, he wasn't there sovereign citizening it up it looks like the real deal

obviously he pants are another story

# ? Dec 20, 2014 17:57

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# ? May 9, 2024 06:18

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

quote:

She had made a lot of confused/erratic statements to other Noisebridgers. In the informed judgment of said NoiseBridge regular she was showing signs of schizophrenia. She was wearing a hospital bracelet (a hospital in Berkeley if I remember correctly).

It's up to NB if they want the space to be a haven for people who don't conform to the usual standards of sanity.

# ? Dec 20, 2014 22:13

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