Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2020-08-03 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by wmoses. In attendance were Student keyholders: bds, mrittenb, dbopp, kjchen, wmoses, asahteck | gshay, emmabat Associate keyholders: kenta, mitchb | quentin, mcyoung Members: | jeffery, arpl, cmclcas, ksy, ban, kyeb Guests: Dexter Administrivia: wmoses: Proctortrack is a monitoring software for exams, there's concern about uses of the software. Aron and I talked to the dean of virtual learning, he agreed the software is not ideal, lack of information about the topic, they negotiated a better privacy agreement, clear ways to get data, he agreed to provide more info about it. Probably used for ASEs, continuing discussions. wmoses: Power outage and fallout. It was hard to get in due to covid restrictions. mitchb: The process of getting on campus is hard, but the two people you sent were already cleared for campus, but they didn't let us in w20. wmoses: I'm speaking with Olu and other IS&T people about access on Thursday. emmabat: I will be there too. mitchb: Thank you for fighting to get us access. Project Reports: mitchb: Nothing other than SQL happened last week? quentin: want me to? mitchb: your connection is terrible quentin: you all look fine mitchb: everyone on Scripts received a long writeup, campus power went out a little before 8, we didn't find out until later, I got woken up because SQL's replication failed. I got stuck an hour in, told everyone else I was stuck and went back to bed. Our backup server rebooted and I didn't realize things would get worse. Then one of the UPS's went out because power was still out at MIT. Then a bunch of computers on UPS lost a redundant power supply, overloaded the other one which tripped the circuit breaker, the primary went down, we couldn't switch to the other one. Had we switched over the backup server it would have gotten stuff back online but with an unknown number of queries lost. We don't know who would prefer an extended outage versus data loss. We spent 4.5 hours Wed night in w20 fixing various things, RAID problems, replication problems. We have some cleanup and we have some lessons we have learned. We are not proud, this is the longest outage I remember. emmabat: Thank you for getting it back up. mitchb: I couldn't because I had meetings, we should have had people make noise to get into the building in the middle of the day. quentin: can you hear me? mitchb: no, it's your bandwidth. Try without video. mcyoung: I would like to move for a round of applause for our first responders. quentin: Also non sql-specific things. I also sent a summary to the appropriate mailing lists. We have 4 UPS in the machine room, 3 are in various states of sad, most need new batteries. That might have been why the backup sql server rebooted. We should really replace the batteries and or the UPSen entirely. asahteck: minecraft is not down. I hosted a webinar with small children, gave access to our server, stuff happened. wmoses: froyo-machine did not lose power, which was good because shayna and I were recording for alumni association thing. Other: emmabat: in addition to our server room, a bunch of fridges in labs seemed to go down. We weren't the only ones. quentin: 1, 3, 5, dorms mitchb: more than that emmabat: 13 emmabat: friend in bio got dispatched to check on sample bridge. He's also living in emergency housing in Maseeh, they lost power wmoses: make sure you're on surge protection, there's a tropical storm coming. If I lose power soon, that's why. mcyoung: do not die, or I'll need to go to DC and bring you back to life so I can kill you again. asahteck: Put necromancy on your portfolio emmabat: i won't drive you to DC. quentin: they arrested the twitter hackers, 3, really teenagers, used their real drivers licenses wmoses: combo of success and failure mitchb: we should be encouraging honesty mrittenb: I know my circuit breakers work because AC keeps breaking them mitchb: It's bad if they fuse, can't turn on power, lose UL listing. Once had to tell someone that, no one peels off all the stickers. ban: if it breaks during circuit operation, then it works, because circuit breaker mcyoung: my work computer (chromebook) is very unhappy with peripherals. It wouldn't acknowledge the camera. This morning the camera worked, so I dialed into my first meeting and I couldn't hear. I switched to the built-in speaker, it briefly worked and then didn't. Now everything but the screen resolution works. wmoses: mic, headphone, monitor, pick two. mcyoung: my monitor is also my KVM alvareza: distinct lack of tetazoa here emmabat: the mushrooms killed them. Or maybe their internet went down. asahteck: I'm still making waffles. [more discussion of waffles] mcyoung: rust has released two point releases, hilarious, miscompilation Dexter: the compilation error only happens if the function is a very silly constant problem. bds: llvm, or rustc? mcyoung: rustc wmoses: good, it's not my fault mcyoung: it's always your fault. arpl: microsoft is buying tiktok ksy: incoming excel tiktok integration emmabat: also tiktok might get banned in the US? So they need to get bought mcyoung: My feelings about this are redacted. mcyoung: tiktok but with lots of xml Other Other: ksy: we grew some mushrooms that were mailed to us, I don't know who by. emmabat: acute hipster thing. Kat sent photos. ksy: oyster mushrooms, we planted leftovers out in the forest. The kit said you could grow a second batch but we couldn't. ban: My mushrooms died. Mushroom gazing should be an olympic sport. mcyoung: Emma, can I buy a mushroom growing kit? wmoses: mcyoung is oldest, but emma and angel are the parents. mcyoung: they're always trying to stop me from doing terrible things emmabat: he wanted to buy a furnace to bake superconductors The meeting was adjourned at 19:58. Minutes taken and submitted by mrittenb.