Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2019-03-04 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by emmabat. In attendance were Student keyholders: alvareza, wmoses, cela, mtheng, ikdc, rsthomp, emmabat, npfoss, yczeng Associate keyholders: asuhl | wqian94 Members: amigdal, joshuaa, murphyj, vickiew, robertka, tareq, gshay | jkoppel, twang6 Guests: '() Administrivia: wmoses: We have some volunteers that would like to work on SIPBW, can we make them SIPBW chairs? emmabat: Yes, You are now SIPBW chairs! wmoses: We also need publicity chairs! emmabat: If you want to know about pub chair, let me, rsthomp, or alvareza know. yczeng: We also need an office commisar. emmbat: If you want to know about the position, you can ask Angel for more info, you report to cAPSLOCK. wmoses: Motion to allocate $500 for SIPBW things. npfoss: motion to white ballot. emmabat: Any objections? [The motion to allocate $500 for SIPBW passes] wmoses: We will also be making a mattermost channel and potentially a mailing list for SIPBW. emmabat: tentative events are on the calendar, if you are interested in helping, hop on the channels. emmabat: still looking for people to help with the SIPB 50th Anniversary. It would be really great to get help with that! Project Reports: npfoss: progress on course road continues, we are almost ready to launch. It is most of the way there, with lots of help from gshay! cela: It turns out that most of our builds are so big that our laptops are no longer able to do it, so we deployed a machine with 48gb of RAM in the SMR. gshay: We are working on autentication for the SIPB-Library cela: For SIPB-HWOPS, we found a manual for the HVACs. Other: cela: FaceBook is now using 2FA to serve you ads. wmoses: the college of computing is sooner than you think. npfoss: I am trying to build a deceentralized social network. If you are interested let me know. ikdc: what is the advantage of this over [other alternatives] npfoss: It would not be federated. [ discussion about facebook not deleting messages and posts ever. ] murphyj: I was reading the an article about signal's dealings with metadata, it was really interesting. cela: Being able to delete things is really important. wmoses: There is a problem emmabat: I learned that you could turn a HDD into a microphone, you can reconstruct sounds from the voltages off the read head. ikdc: On the subject of FB and signal, whatsapp and signal are pubbing cryptocurrencys to make money twang6: did they have to modify the hard drive? emmabat: I think it was done entirely with software. wqian94: there is a twitter account called ISOtrump++, it is a bunch of trump quotes rewritten in C++. I recommend for destressing before midterms. Other Other: cela: east campus is apparently sponsered by Jeff Bezos. There is a lot of [thinking emoji] about this. yczeng: They emailed him at jeff@amazon.com, and he responded with 12 hrs. We have a theory that he marks mail from MIT higher because of his son. yczeng: I took the 18.03 test, and for some reason they gave me the wrong question 5 back. I wonder what they did in scanning the exam. wqian94: byzantine failures, Also I learned there are 2 scanners at barker library. I had a problem with the scanner not emailing me the scan... ikdc: that is a really long way of saying that one of the scanners is broken. yczeng: I was able to obtain 75 cents from a vending machine. I realized that the coin return was stuck, but it became unstuck later. I was hoping to use it as passive income. Election: npfoss: Justify why that is the front of the room. gshay: because that is the back of the room. npfoss: Justify why this is the back of the room. emmabat: choose which one you want to answer. ikdc: can you say what you did in terms of the projects you worked on? gshay: I worked on the sipb library, it should support a checkout and inventory process. we are working on inventory and authentication. I worked on courseroad and integrating it with fireroad. ikdc: what do you suggest we do to someone who has checked out the book you want. gshay: we joked about having the system call you to tell you that the book is over due. cela: how do you doublespace a library? cela: what do you do if there is a fire? [opens in case of fire] gshay: is that a frisbee? ikdc: it's called a disc. cela: what do you do with the frisbees? gshay: because all modern crypto is broken? cela: YES! achernya broke DES at MIT a while ago. wqian94: How do you make boba tea for 100 hungry prefrosh? gshay: Honestly, I have no idea what the bubbles are. [description of the process of making boba tea] cela: for at least half the alphabet, try to list all the SIPB keyholders gshay: alvareza, this is hard [wqian94: that doesn't start with a b], emma, oh right, cela, rsthomp, tareq, ikcd? [ikdc: close enough, now you have to guess amigdal's], elefthei, wmoses. ikdc: her real name is "Y Combinator" wqian94: How do you acquire a cannoli? gshay: I am uncultured in food cela: what is something we can stand to do better? and what is something we can stand to do worse? gshay: We can reach out to freshman better. It is generally confusing how SIPB works. After the beginning it was business as usual. Something we can do worse? We are good at being inviting, the office is open pretty much whenever i want to come. alvareza: Ha! Eat it, Miguel ikdc: what are the things hanging from the ceiling? gshay: there is a box of dollars? ikdc: what are the rings? cela: these are write enable rings, if you want a tape to be read only, you don't put the ring on it. ikdc: "That concludes the bell ringing part of the meeting." cela: what is this? gshay: show me cela: [demonstrates ctrl-alt-deleter] ikdc: wait do we have a windows machine in here? wmoses: what is your favorite book? gshay: I'm not sure yet. We are still working on the library, linux in a nutshell alvareza: suppose an office head became sentient, how would you turn off power to the room? [ikdc shows elect] emmabat: you can also scream paradoxes at it. wqian94: how many people will be at google this summer? [3 people raise hands] gshay: are you, or have you ever been a member of the SDS? npfoss: Why do you want to be a sipb keyholder? gshay: I want to be more of a part of SIPB. [gshay is keyholdered: 9-0-0 (y-n-a) ] The meeting was adjourned at 08:24. Minutes taken and submitted by alvareza.