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

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

Wednesday June 19th 2013
(Emailed to Noisebridge-discuss by Leif)
This afternoon I asked an older man named James to leave Noisebridge.
This is loud obnoxious James who used to wear a cowboy hat and be around frequently. Today was the first time I've seen him in several months; I heard he has been in southen california.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 08:32

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:51

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

i'm now seriously considering selling cheap, obsolete, and/or half-broken electronics to noisebridge at a volume discount if they can pick stuff up in san rafael

god help me

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 09:06

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

Mido posted:

sell em at HSC in Santa Clara instead

I don't know what that is.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2014 09:30

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

"[Noisebridge-discuss posted:

The Not-So-Great Glass Elevator / banning me"]Now, moving on to the elevator debacle. First of all, I never at any time
LIVED, nor intended to live, in the 1st floor elevator compartment of 2169
Mission. I pity the poor urchin who would consider that stuffy,
junk-filled cubicle a desirable, or even possible, living space. For a
couple weeks back in April/May of this year I was forced to store my
clothes & other stuff in that compartment for lack of any other option.
Yes, I knew I wasn't supposed to, but I felt that I had helped NB & its
hangers-on enough in the past to justify this breach of etiquette, &
anyway it was only a temporary stopgap til I found more suitable storage
space. One afternoon/evening in early May I was in the cubicle arranging
my things in preparation to move it all to a better spot I'd found.
Normally I left the elevator door open so as not to be locked in the
compartment if the elevator moved to a different floor, but in this case I
knew it would take me a block of time to properly sort through all my
crap, & I didn't want to monopolize the elevator if others needed to use
it. So I closed the elevator door, locking myself in with a flashlight, &
got to work. "What are the chances the elevator will have a meltdown
during the one hour that I'm in here?" I asked myself (rhetorically).

To my amazed chagrin, that is exactly what happened. The elevator left the
1st floor & didn't come back. Eventually I figured out someone must have
taken it offline. I decided there was nothing to do but wait for it to
come back in service; in the meantime, I continued sorting & packing,
until my flashlight went dead. Then, since I was tired, it was nighttime &
I figured the elevator wouldn't be fixed until the next morning, I went to
sleep as best I could in that cramped space. This is the one & only time I
ever slept in that compartment, mind you, rumors to the contrary. When I
woke 10 hours or so later, there was still no sign of the elevator
returning to normal operations. Now, for the first time, I started to
worry. I had minimal food & no water with me. I thought of the guy I'd
heard about who had recently been crushed by the BART elevator after
deciding to sleep on top of it. I tried to remain calm & occupied myself
by going through all my belongings a second time, then a third....why the
Hell wasn't anybody fixing the goddamned elevator? At a certain point I
really started to freak out. After I'd spent more than 24 hours locked in
that space, I was becoming seriously dehydrated. With a surge of
adrenaline I grabbed a thick board & started pounding on the walls of the
cubicle, hoping to attract attention. Then I smashed the glass diamond
window in the elevator door & tried to reach through & somehow get the
door to open from the outside. No luck, that thing's hydraulic, you'd have
to be the Incredible Hulk. Finally, I managed to punch a hole with the
board through the drywall. I enlarged it until I could crawl through into
a dark, cobwebby crawlspace beneath the front staircase. I could hear
people talking, walking up & down the stairs at intervals of a few
minutes. I was out of the suffocating cubicle, but still not free. I began
pounding at the stairs from below wioth the board, then slicing at them
with a knife. At this point one of the guys from Mi Ranchito below NB in
the same building came over to investigate all the noise & saw my
knife-blade sticking through the gap in one of the steps. I don't know if
he thought I was some insane burglar trying to break into the building, or
what, but I managed to talk to him through a hole in the wall of the
entryway. He brought me a bottle of water & called Wei Ho, the property
owner, & got permission to tear up one of the stairboards so I could crawl
out. Barely: it was so tight my chest got compressed on the way out, but I
was free at last!

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 02:06

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

apparently they've added rfid access control for their "reboot". maybe it'll become less poo poo (ha ha)

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 02:43

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

i do love that it is apparently possible to DoS the door since you can open it with an android app

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 02:57

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

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

even if its not THE TECHNICALLY SUPERIOR MEDIUM you can learn a lot about composition, chemistry, physics and patience from shooting and developing film

film is actually the technically superior medium and will be for at least the next decade

# ¿ Dec 16, 2014 21:27

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

Sagebrush posted:

These are v cool but you basically need to shoot on a tripod all the time, it's heavy as hell and the shutter release goes off like a cannon

lol if u aren't shooting on tripod all the time already.

what, your subjects move? get a medium format rangefinder or something

# ¿ Dec 16, 2014 21:30

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

Or you can meter and expose your photo correctly and enjoy film's superior dynamic range :smug:

# ¿ Dec 16, 2014 22:58

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

Jonny 290 posted:

man i get like fuckin 31 DTV subchannels total its awesome

as a radio nerd i fully 100% approve of ATSC

im mad my IC-T90A now has an entirely useless TV audio mode

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 01:19

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

*installs speakers that make a 120hz hum in the ceiling in tamperproof enclosures*

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 02:35

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

Jonny 290 posted:

You could probably drop like 3, 5 grand on surplus analog studio poo poo and have a pretty fun home TV station.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 03:44

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

what's the over/under on being asked to leave within ten minutes if I go into noisebridge with a gopro attached to a hat

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 10:03

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

ok now how about odds if I bring my enormous intensified video camera on some sort of horrible shoulder rig or steadicam

and what happens if someone asks you to leave and you don't? can you just go around asking people to leave and they'll leave if they're a ~true hacker~

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 10:08

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

pseudorandom name posted:

they defend against outside threats through the clever use of dangerously faulty wiring, leaking plumbing, holes in the walls and piles of human feces everywhere

their defenses are weakening. they passed their electrical inspection

# ¿ Dec 18, 2014 09:29

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

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

> make install a good operating system
> Make: No rule to make target 'a good operating system'. Stop.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2014 05:22

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

Jerry Cotton posted:

in a doocracy you can doo cracy things.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 05:08

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

Cocoa Crispies posted:

rayc war

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 05:08

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

OSI bean dip posted:

food hacking

but well sink is sink.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2014 09:46

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

Progressive JPEG posted:

i wonder what noisebridge's lease terms are like

Don't on the elevator!!!

# ¿ Dec 23, 2014 22:25

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

OSI bean dip posted:

how the gently caress does running a tor node make them raise $10k?

Donations from assholes

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 07:38

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

Sagebrush posted:

Yeah they aren't really "springs" unless you put as much weight as a truck on them.

so what you're saying is we'll need a hell of a windlass for our ballista

# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 09:21

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

qirex posted:

they had one but the pvc was stolen to make bongs out of

christ, you're not joking

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 03:35

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

El_Elegante posted:

thanks for the link

thanks

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 00:52

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

as a kid i played with a neon sign transformer and it made me who i am today

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 07:05

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

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

a future noisebridge superstar

a professional noisebridge cynic and video tape enthusiast

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 07:27

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

Raluek posted:

course, when the wrench welds itself to both terminals, you might not have a reasonable upper limit on that discharge time. a 100Ah battery is gonna take awhile to discharge, even at 500A.

Note also that this does not apply in a car with a 1A light bulb left on, in which case the battery will reach full discharge as soon as you enter a building

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 07:17

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

Sniep posted:

i think your math is wrong

a 1a lamp?...

saying you're in tht building for 10 hours would draw 50% of a battery in the middlin 20s Ah. most car batteries are like 35-45 depending, if going by long draw (which they dont, they always measure by cranking amps since that's what they're good for)

but you can kinda reverse it by going by their reserve time (usually listed, how many minutes can it last at 25 amps)

its like (reserve minutes @ 25amps) / 2.4 = approximate Ah

you could totes run a 1amp bulb @ 12v for longer than it would take to enter a building. prolly close to 15+ hours. (unless your battery sucked) since most car batteries are what 80+ minutes reserve cap?

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 07:52

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

I'm
the
god-
damned
802.11a
network.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 09:33

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

so can anyone get into noisebridge or do you have to have a sponsor, and does doocracy extend to replacing their network infrastructure with working items pulled out of the trash so they stop complaining about it

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 09:34

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

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

one time i grabbed the metal handle of a pot on my (running) electric stove and got the distinct feeling that my teeth wanted to all be 100 feet apart and forced myself to let go. id rather not repeat that but im still not sure what kind of hosed up short that was.

the short was 220 volts from your hand to whatever part of you was touching the stove, hth

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 10:53

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

http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 07:16

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

surebet posted:

got some free time so i decided to actually build the poo poo i've been doodling in the past few years, thought about joining the local ~makerspace~

needless to say that after this thread i'll just buy more tools

and never leave my house again

well, never leave my house again more

if you have to pay for it it's probably ok

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 09:28

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

# ¿ Feb 18, 2015 06:49

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

I went to san francisco the other day

the elevator certainly does look janky

# ¿ Feb 21, 2015 21:06

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

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I think there's also a difference between people who move to an area to live their lives there and people who move to the area because they're asinine scumbags hoovering up venture capital and pissing out the digested excrement on everyone else in the form of inflated housing costs.

We are all the scum by enabling this sort of bullshit and building the machinations that keep it going. The problem will eventually fix itself though - when Google and the other big players' long-term plans mature and make programmers as expensive as roofers and the venture capital will go elsewhere and San Francisco will go back to being a big pretty heroin den fueled by carjackings.

not just inflated housing costs

everyone who is involved in building, marketing, and purchasing these wastes of lumber and conflict minerals should be lined up against a wall

# ¿ Feb 25, 2015 00:59

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

infernal machines posted:

other than humidity and the questionable "emf" sensor, what the gently caress are those even supposed to be detecting? gullibility? credulity? the presence of too much disposable income?

The organic food sensor detects nitrates (so you can tell if your eggplant was grown using :siren:

SYNTHETIC FERTILIZER :siren:

), and the radiation sensor detects gamma rays and beta particles.

atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Feb 25, 2015

# ¿ Feb 25, 2015 01:26

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

they can't, they turned it all into sudafed

# ¿ Feb 28, 2015 05:13

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:51

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

Captain Foo posted:

jfc

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 00:09

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