Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2019-11-18


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by emmabat.

In attendance were

        Student keyholders: emmabat, alvareza, cela, bds | gshay, kjchen, npfoss, mtheng, rsthomp

        Associate keyholders: quentin, bbaren, kenta,

        Members: mrittenb, mau, maximo, joshuaw | ethanb, 

        Guests: kyeb, cbsu

Administrivia:

        emmabat: Welcome to the SIPB meeting.
        
        bbaren: As reported last week, there will be a sipb desktop land cleaning party on Saturday Nov 30th. we have a lot of exciting things to do, cleaning, reinstalling debathena, etc.
        
        emmabat: I ordered new probes for the electronics equipment!
        
        kenta: tangentially, back in the day, we had a thing called the fish, that would send zephyrs to -c sipb when there was quorum at sipb to remind people to clean the office.
        
        emmabat: mattermost bot?
            
        quentin: infared camera?
        
        cela: an IR sensor? 
        
        alvareza: techx did something a while back to sniff wireless traffic to count people in the office.
        
        emmabat: I had a meeting with Mark Silis, I also went to dormcon and UA meetings regarding ISTAC, if you are interested in being on such a committee, let me know. it looks like it is coming together! I believe that more communication with IS&T can't be a bad thing.
        
        kenta: Invite someone from the tech, the can communicate.
        
        emmabat: I also discussed getting cloud computing credits too. We should try to get a concrete number for them so we can get some.

Project Reports:

        mau: IAP is sooner than you think, the deadline is friday, so I will start booking rooms for you as soon as that is passed.
        
        emmabat: perhaps explainMIT could partner with SIPB IAP, that would be cool to  see collaboration there.
        
        mau: eltonlin is actually teaching a class.
        
        mau: there is statistical wizardry, reverse enginneering software, 6.006, and fullstack development.
        
        cela: Hyades continues, we finally implemented RBAC.
        
        kenta: I would like to request an allocation for $45 for a case fan for meatboy [seconded, whiteballot, motion passes]
        
        kjchen: I realized that cokecomm was for profit, should we revitalize it, and at cost?
        
        kenta: Oh wow, in this day and age it is possible to run cokecomm without a car!
        
        emmabat: It sounds like people are generally 
        
        cela: could be build a fridge that throws things out when the go bad automatically?
        
        bds: sipb game night happened last saturday. There is also some interest in doing a video game night as well. I mean we have powerful computers.
        
        alvareza: "powerful"
        
        alvareza: \s new project proposal, Google Stadia but SIPB.
        
        cela: cough, cough, hyades.
        
        bds: I am going to send a form/when2meet for video game night.
        
        [yczeng and zackpi arrive]: we brought office snacks!
        
        quentin: what are the rules around them?
        
        emmabat: just eat them.
        
        bds: SIPBWISP meet, we are figuring out authentication, we didn't figure it out at the meeting, but billy figured it out afterward.
        
        npfoss: By "billy figured it out" he means that billy found an OS old enough to not have a securty patch that blocked TLS v1.
        
        mau: with regard to scanning their minutes, they asked us to schedule a meeting, their policies have been changing.
        

Other:

        quentin: Apple released a new laptop whose main feature is that it has an escape key.
        
        cela: moira has started experiencing weird glitches recently.
        
        cela: Have we talked about the Uber incident? they couldn't identify pedestrians. Part of why it took so long was because it couldn't decide if it was a bicycle or car, and so it didn't have enough time to figure out the trajectory of the object. This resulted in the death of a pedestrian.
        
        bds: Some people have found out that if you use older rokus, and play pokemon sword and shield, then the roku will get stuck in a boot loop.
        
        mitimmy: apparently the first few bytes of data is the reboot code for the roku.
        
        bbaren: the roku is a device that uses wifi, but only has one antenna, so when you use the remote, you can't use the internet.
        
        npfoss: in incompetence news, messenger was down recently.
        
        quentin: in incompetence news, someone set a laser cutter on fire in 38
        
        masimo: in incompetence news, [new intel vulnerability].
        
        bbaren: [explains intel vulnerability in more detail], you need a micro patch and kernel update.
        
        kjchen: drop date is sooner than you think
        
        cela: keybase does not have a way to block people. keybase is an alternative to PGP for the web of trust.
        
        cela: reminder, for anyone in this room making a platform to share things, make sure there is a way to block people.

Other Other:

        npfoss: Google Stadia is launching sooner than you think.
        
        emmabat: Anne Hunter retired. There was a party last week.
        
        cela: You may have heard about GitHub's ICE contract. They've had 5 employees quit over it. There has been uproar about it for obvious reasons. People think that the reason microsoft isn't doing anything about it because of their recent 10B defense contract.
        
        mitimmy: Blender 2.8 is launching at end of this month.

The meeting was adjourned at 20:04.

        Minutes taken and submitted by alvareza.