Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2020-09-21 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by gshay. In attendance were Student keyholders: mrittenb, bds, emmabat, kjchen, gshay, asahteck Associate keyholders: quentin, mcyoung, kenta, wqian94 Members: kyeb, arpl, jnwagner, jeffery Guests: '() Administrivia: gshay: I don't have a gavel. mcyoung: Just find something heavy. Project Reports: kyeb: Cloud credits people met. We worked on JupyterHub. quentin: We got a VM running that can use the scripts AFS patches. quentin: IS&T is scheduling network outages for all of our stuff in W91. Mirrors had a brief one, XVM will have one soon. I don't know what's on the third rack. emmabat: If no one knows what's there, it's either completely unimportant or very important. arpl: I tried to install macathena. Libgsasl didn't install because of a compiler change. quentin: Miriam and me are here. kenta: I got openafs to work on a raspberry pi. Other: gshay: Three weeks of classes already somehow. kyeb: A lot of the dorms lost wifi for several hours on Sunday. quentin: They're replacing all the access points on campus. arpl: People need internet to go to classes. kyeb: The outage occured during HackMIT, our network always goes down, it was funny that it still did. gshay: If you connect to the guest network, that's where people's chromecasts are. bds: A friend saw a popup to control someone's chromecast. mcyoung: You should have played Rick Astley. mcyoung: If I say this Emma will probably try to rickroll me now. [more discussion of MIT's various networks] Other Other: wqian94: I have some sad news. mcyoung: You don't have to say it. wqian94: I already said it without saying it. quentin: The thing that happened on Friday? A moment of silence is better than talking about it. [pause] wqian94: That was not quite a minute, but the minute just changed on my watch. wqian94: Slightly happier news, a bunch of showdowns with China over the weekend. quentin: Actual good news: Cyan announced they are releasing an Oculus version of Myst, the best selling video game of the 90s. emmabat: I wasn't alive for the 90s. quentin: It was dethroned by the sims. emmabat: I didn't play that either, until I got an iPod. emmabat: I'm hyped for more Breath of the Wild content. Playable Zelda, but still not in a mainline game. kenta: Wasn't Myst hypercard or something? How do you make in a VR game? quentin: It was hypercard rendered from 3D models. mcyoung: It's not a hypercard emulator on oculus? quentin: It is not. mcyoung: But what about all my other hypercard games? quentin: If you haven't played Myst yoou shoould. mcyoung: hypercard is like an ancient macos... quentin: Hypertext before the web. mcyoung: There's a guy who was really excited about hypercard and gave a talk about it. mcyoung: You guys remember sim tower? quentin: There's also sim refinery, you can pretend to run an oil refinery. The meeting was adjourned at 19:46. Minutes taken and submitted by mrittenb.