Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2025-06-02 The meeting was called to order at 19:33 by psvenk. In attendance were Student keyholders: psvenk, colclark, rgabriel, innaavo, turino14 Associate keyholders: madars, scj643, almonds, cjq Members: narula, dsisson, ilyag, kawcco Guests: '() Administrivia: scj643: We should allocate around $10 more than previously allocated, for the Valve Index power supply. psvenk: How much money do we have, ballpark? innaavo: It should be around $870. The shipping is $4.35. psvenk: Motion to allocate the extra $5 for shipping. almonds: Seconded. psvenk: Motion to whiteballot. innaavo: Seconded. [Motion to allocate $5 for shipping costs for valve power supply passes] innaavo: We will need to allocate $25. The allocation for $1400 last week for the extended battery UPS, when I placed the order, it was $20 more, possibly because it was a few weeks after the quote. almonds: Seconded. psvenk: Motion to whiteballot. turino14: Seconded. [Motion to allocate $25 for UPS price increase passes] psvenk: I would like to make the motion to allocate for SSDs now. kawcco: How many are you buying? turino14: However many $650 can buy, so 3 or 4? kawcco: What capacity? turino14: 2-3 TB, maybe 1 TB. innaavo: We can just allocate for SSDs without specifying and discuss later, and I will spend that amount, as long as that is what y'all want the rest of the budget to be spent on. psvenk: I think $650 is fine, and the leftover could go to SIPB dinner if we want to. psvenk: Motion to allocate $650 for the SSDs. scj643: Seconded. [motion to allocate $650 for SSDs passes 13-0-0] Project Reports: rgabriel: I know OpenGrades and Discord continued. turino14: For Hwops, I'm thinking of naming the Proxmox cluster FuzzSphere for next year. Originally I was thinking of FuzzCluster, but didn't like the ring of it. FuzzSphere is a combination of "vSphere" and "Fuzzball". (even though proxmox hasn't to do with vSphere) psvenk: "FuzzCluster" sounds like an agglomeration of dust. almonds: SIPB LLMs continues. ilyag: ARK continues. colclark: So guys, what if we do Hyades again? almonds: You can do that. colclark: No. narula: What is Hyades? [explanation] kawcco: In place of skylarh I will say that Hydrant continues. She was looking for opinions on a design change, about badges on your schedule on right hand side, the class numbers. psvenk: Oh yes, dtemkin was telling me. [discussion about the proposed changes] almonds: What's wrong with them? psvenk: There used to be more space between them. almonds: So what's wrong with them? psvenk: skylarh would like some more space between them. psvenk: [implementation details]. Chakra UI updates. Spacing. kawcco: She is also working on a PR with department logos, to pzazz course descriptions more. psvenk: I think it is subtle enough. colclark: And I guess we could do a US flag for the ROTC classes? [more Hydrant and MIT branding discussion] Other: cjq (in chat): imagine having years left rgabriel (in chat): cjq you are in your twenties, you have decades left almonds (in chat): cjq bad rgabriel (in chat): what rgabriel (in chat): why cjq bad? almonds (in chat): bc smh almonds (in chat): cjq, bad* almonds (in chat): let's eat, grandma colclark (in chat): cjq have you used kubernetes? cjq (in chat): i recommend not to if you care about your health colclark (in chat): do you have a job?? cjq (in chat): yes scj643: kubernetes works and has a lot of people supporting it. colclark: But you don't work, so. kawcco: This is a very strange __. psvenk: I think we should keep harassment to after the meeting. [long budget conversation] psvenk: We had a collection of CDs and we played them on demand via radio as a virtually lending library of music. dsisson: I think it was over cable, not radio. turino14 (in chat): lamp officially closed 2016 (https://lamp.mit.edu/) ilyag (in chat): Wow, that is really cool! Other Other: scj643: SIPB smart-cards when? rgabriel (in chat): Summer is sooner than you think almonds: "The Database knows too much" . Tons of data on every American citizen in one place. Contracts with DHS, IRS, ICE. One risk (of many) about this is, if there is a leak, that's _everything_ in one go. So don't be surprised if something like that happens I guess. Based on their actions, the White House clearly does not take cybersecurity seriously. And please tell people about it. I feel like I read a bunch of negative news and then incorrectly assume everyone else had too. rgabriel (in chat): Do they recruit at MIT's career fair? rgabriel (in chat): I checked and it seems like Palantir was not at career fair rgabriel (in chat): We should still inform people so that they don't work there scj643: Final Fantasy 14 is out if you have time. I'd like people to play with. narula: We have UROPs at the Media Lab. Intersection of systems security and cryptography. Email dci@media.mit.edu if interested scj643: Pride is sooner than you think! The meeting was adjourned at 20:10. Minutes taken by almonds, rgabriel and psvenk and submitted by rgabriel.