Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2018-06-25 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by alvareza. In attendance were Student keyholders: mcyoung, alvareza, ikdc, emmabat, mtheng, rsthomp, wmoses Associate keyholders: andersk, asedeno, dzaefn, lucyyang Members: ivanaf Guests: [unknown] Administrivia: dzaefn: Do we have a secretary? alvareza: I sent out an email with some information about what is going on at SIPB during the summer, also it includes a survey which I encourage you to fill out, it's main purpose is to give the EC an idea about what people think about SIPB, so that we can start addressing problems, and I'm hoping to have an EC meeting sometime over the summer once we get enough responses... you don't have to fill out every question, just do whatever you want, if it's the case that you like, oh, there's this thing that I wanted to say, you can always go back and submit another one. So if you can do this that'd be great. With respect to the office, we're going to try to get the office into a state where we can have student members using the cabinets again, currently they are occupied by cruft and current members, but we'd like to have a system that's more organized, so aleksejs, I'm sorta designating him to be in charge of this. mcyoung: We're going to have to box up all this shit. Are boxes under office supplies? alvareza: Of course they are. emmabat: Just give it a moment because there are some... *problems* with our budget. The shredder was purchased under the wrong account. asedeno: The disk order that Adam Glasgall was asking about by email after last meeting were finally ordered? alvareza: Yes, just now! Project Reports: wmoses: Did some initial pass over the wifi thing, got some things connected, now we just have to get them connected over a larger distance. ikdc: Homeworld has a new build system that allows builds to be done remotely and with less horrible shell scripts. That's probably a good thing. mcyoung: So the hilarity is that Travis will not give Hyades a sufficiently new Ubuntu. ikdc: I don't think that was a problem. mcyoung: So the joke was that, it's fine if we reinstall linux at the start of every build. andersk: Alex and Mitch and Miguel and I put four racks in the SMR. mcyoung: It was a party. Yeah, they're heavy. alvareza: From a scale of 1 to 10, where 5 was our experience with *that* rack, how was your experience? mcyoung: Oh, definitely a 7 or 8. mcyoung: Sometimes we almost hit the sprinklers in the SMR... Dude there are so much trash. rsthomp: I was at SpinJam! My glasses fell on the grass at some point. wmoses: Related to putting lights in SIPB for no reason, which was officially condoned... do we want more lights around, or do we want to place a couple of lights in a grid? mcyoung: The default lights in the office are crap, in every conceivable way. They are bright as fuck, you turn them on and they burn your eyes out. Because some idiot who shall not be named decided to remove the diffusers. I just want to bitch about these lights and how much I hate them. wmoses: Anyone wants to do some awesome UDP scheme, and does anyone want to do some TCP diff algorithm that anyone who did 6.006 knows the answer to? *stares* ikdc and wmoses: [inaudible muttering] alvareza: The fun part of all of this is that it can be all done with dynamic programming. ikdc and wmoses: [more inaudible muttering about packets] ikdc: Is this all during the meeting? Has the meeting not ended? Do you want to talk about this later? wmoses: [more inaudible muttering] alvareza: I probably should have stopped you guys, but I was so taken aback by trauma. lucyyang: Hi, I was here a year ago, I bought the t-shirts with my own money, I was told to come back at the end of the budget cycle... emmabat: Sorry, we don't have anymore budget left. lucyyang: Okay then, consider it a very generous donation... alvareza: I think one person who's very interested in this is aleksejs, and cAPSLOCK is doing publicity.... lucyyang: I can pass down the knowledge. emmabat: Everything could be documented. We have a wiki now... so if you write it down there... alvareza: Do you still have the receipts for those? If you want to, we can reimburse them. Just fill up an RFC. wmoses: Alternatively, if you want it to count as a tax-deductible gift... mcyoung: I should put up, "if you have to ask if it's fraud, it is" on the wall, because I feel that that's a very important life lesson. Other: mcyoung: There is a lol-tastic new Intel vulnerability. This is not one involving floating point. They can use machine learning on a program running on the same machine to listen in on things in some side cache. And they used it to extract some private key. In the Intel hyperthreading cores, there is cross-talk in some cache site. ikdc: So it's some cache, information leakage thing? mcyoung: Yes. ikdc: What's it called? mcyoung: It has some boring name. Researchers are like "this is hard to exploit", also Intel said won't fix. wmoses: A couple of weeks ago, Intel offered a [really complicated thing], but then like 6 days ago AMD offered anyone who got this [really complicated thing] this [more complicated thing]. mcyoung: It's like AMD and Intel, they are always [...] on each other. Other Other: '() The meeting was adjourned at 19:47. Minutes taken and submitted by mtheng.