Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2020-11-30 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by wmoses. In attendance were Student keyholders: wmoses, mrittenb, bds, emmabat, kjchen, asahteck, gshay Associate keyholders: quentin, alvareza, dbopp | mau Members: kyeb, mitimmy, eltonlin, arpl | jnwagner, huydai, jeffery Guests: '() Administrivia: wmoses: We have quorum for a keyholdership election, for kyeb, at the end of this meeting. Project Reports: '() Other: mrittenb: Housing assignments have been delayed to the end of December. asahteck: Grading policy released - ABC/NR emmabat: Doesn't matter much for us grad students. quentin: AWS was down last wed emmabat: I had to give my id to the medical people because covid pass was down. arpl: One of my friends was flying and wasn't allowed to enter their country without covidpass. emmabat: This is what happens when you rely on third-parties and don't have a backup wmoses: Jupyter also went down quentin: If a server goes down in the cloud and nobody notices, does it really go down? asahteck: Lots of people couldn't use lightbulbs, vacuums emmabat: We sure do live in a society. wmoses: In a previous outage my friend had a lightbulb they couldn't turn off, too high to reach, no ladder wmoses: I hear the arm macs are fast for compiling quentin: MIT wants grad students to wait a week after thanksgiving if you interacted with anyone wmoses: My advisor bought for all his students "bit masks" asahteck: Can you send example images? wmoses: I can mail you a mask Other Other: quentin: Chair of the FCC is going to quit soon. asahteck: There are more people infected with covid in the US than the entire population of montana or vermont quentin: Iceland remains very safe emmabat: They probably wouldn't let us in quentin: Iceland is allowing tourists quentin: They're sequencing the covid RNA of everyone who tests positive. Election: [wmoses explains election procedures] [discussion of our unfortunate inability to actually use our keys] wmoses: Kye, please go to the front of the room. You can decide what the front is. emmabat: Leadership and decision skills are prized in SIPB keyholders. emmabat: Who are you? kyeb: I am Kye. I've been working on SIPB Jupyter. wmoses: How do you double space SIPB Jopyter? kyeb: we could write an extension that double-spaced everyone's code emmabat: How angry would python be? kyeb: Not too angry. mrittenb: When we can return to our office, what's something we should hang from the ceiling? kyeb: A water bottle, full of water, for emergency circumstances. emmabat: That sounds dangerous, do you know that there's a paper umbrella hanging above the bookshelf which memorializes the books damaged when the ceiling leaked? kjchen: Close your eyes, name as many things on your ceiling as you can kyeb: Eight swivelable lights. kjchen: What's one more thing you would hang? kyeb: Can I open my eyes now? emmabat: No. kyeb: Something to read when I'm bored. asahteck: What color would your lightsaber be? kyeb: Can it be my favorite color? asahteck: What do you think defines you? kyeb: #3598db emmabat: If SIPB had an aircraft carrier, what should we use it for and what should we call it? kyeb: It would be safe from COVID, like Iceland. I would call it.... emmabat: Arbitrarily naming things is an important skill for anyone who works on new projects. kyeb: The sea-SIPB wmoses: you're walking down the street, no covid, you find a pile of a thousand sentient raspberry pis, what do you do? kyeb: Make them a kubernetes cluster of sentient raspberry pis alvareza: You're not bothered that they are sentient? kyeb: We could learn a lot from them. huydai: If you could train the perfect AI, what would you teach it to do? kyeb: League of legends. bds: OpenAI made a very good AI for dota 2 wmoses: Do you have anything, like a book, that you treasure around you? emmabat: For context, this is for swearing an oath on. kyeb: I haven't owned a physical book in a while. I have my trusty kindle. wmoses: What would you pick as your favorite book for the kindle to hold? kyeb: Dune. [SDS question] wmoses: I wander to the back and open a drawer. What's inside? kyeb: I don't know. mrittenb: A hint. The fire alarm is going off. kyeb: Probably not a fire extinguisher. wmoses: This is the in case of fire drawer. What does it contain? kyeb: I imagine backups, not sure what of. wmoses: There's a manilla envelope that says open in case of crypto emergency. Do you know why it is open? kyeb: I don't know. wmoses: There was a kerberos bug. What's inside? kyeb: Some form of crypto key? wmoses: Yes, many one time pads. emmabat: The drawer also contains a frisbee, so you can have fun while the stud burns in front of you, but I imagine they could be used to transport the one time pads mrittenb: The FBI show up to the SIPB office. What do you do? kyeb: Let them in? wmoses: Is there anyone in SIPB you might want to inform? kyeb: You? emmabat: hashtag ruin Billy's day wmoses: Close your eyes. For as many letters of the alphabet as you can, name a SIPB person who's kerb starts with that letter. kyeb: wmoses, quentin, dbopp, cela, emmabat, mrittenb alvareza: Do you know anyone with a? kyeb: Do I? wmoses: All of the servers go down, you're the only one on the planet, what do you do? kyeb: All the servers in general, or all the SIPB servers? wmoses: All the servers. kyeb: Does the SIPB machine room still exist? wmoses: Yes. kyeb: I go there, see what's going on, we try to bring them back up. quentin: We? You're the only one alive. emmabat: The royal we. wmoses: What is the color of the carpet on the SIPB office? emmabat: if you can't remember, make something up. kyeb: Some shade of brown. jnwagner: If you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be? What would your sound effect be? kyeb: This is hard, because I really don't like vegetables. Probably a carrot, sound effect a juicy crunch. mrittenb: What is the most huggable object in the SIPB office? This has a correct answer. kyeb: Are there stuffed animals in the SIPB office? A beaver? A fuzzball? mrittenb: There are multiple heads to pet. kyeb: Is it a kerberos? emmabat: Yes. wmoses: In the SIPB office, you see someone take out a really weird piece of metal, what is it? [wmoses holds up tinfoil replica] kyeb: A ctrl-alt-deleter. wmoses: What is that? kyeb: When you need to ctrl-alt-delete, and you have less than a hand available, you can use it. emmabat: In practice it takes multiple hands to use correctly. mrittenb: If you had to run a SIPB meeting, what would you use as a replica gavel? kyeb: I would use this headphone stand. wmoses: What meme would you send? kyeb: I'd have to search before making such an important decision. wmoses: SIPB has a history of taking funny xkcd comics and making them in real life, such as a virus aquarium. If you could make an xkcd in real life, which one would you do? kyeb: The last one I read was about cyber cafes.... we could have a cafe on our aircraft carrier. alvareza: I think meta-x-butterfly would be a good one too. gshay: Why do you want to be a keyholder? kyeb: Over the last year it's been very nice to have SIPB meetings as a regular thing to come back to during the pandemic, when I don't get to see other MIT students that often. I'll be graduating in February, so without keyholdership I wouldn't be able to come back. Also, SIPB projects are exciting and great and something I would love to put tons of time into, but as a student I feel like I never have enough time. [we split into breakout rooms] [kyeb elected keyholder 7-0-0] wmoses: Congratulations! Stay a bit after the meeting to talk to me and the secretary. emmabat: You may not get a key in reality, but you have one in spirit. The meeting was adjourned at 20:20. Minutes taken and submitted by mrittenb.