Meetups/Infra/2025-06-09

(TODO summary)

Introductions

• [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]

• Loren -- bg in cloud/platform/infrastructure, want to have a meetup coordination live-webpage, and
• Mark -- hanging out at NB a lot of the last few week, SWE,
• Chris -- designer & engineer, working on
• Doug -- I like software, like writing code without libraries -- pdf writing, python without libraries
• Hannibal -- NB a few times, exchange student at CSU LB -- back home, support small entrepreneurs
• Jameson -- working on asset trackers for the ocean conservancy. Working on rack power on nordic board right now,
• Nick -- here to learn by osmosis
• Omelia -- graphics programmer -- working now on
• Alex -- ml/ai scientist by trade, here to learn more about infrastructure
• Max -- into software security, sometimes host stuff at home.
• Brandon -- building r-pi / esp networking device for a hackerspace
• James -- privacy, security
• Emma -- working on frontend infra, working on MS and getting back involved
• -- worked in startup until a year ago, work in dev ops

Lesson or Demo

• Read aloud: clarify for meetup. We are taking notes in a riseup pad (or I am--help appreciated, and links). We have meeting notes posted to the wiki. noisebridge.net, search Infra, or Meetups/Infra. (the Infrastructure page has a disambiguation link.)
• Shell, web services, self-hosting, networking!

• Pre-intro questions about tailscale -- if you're managing lots of hosts, yes, just use it. tailscale ssh has a rougher edge sometimes, but accessing all the other services, and consistently available short hostnames, makes it very worthwhile. Self managed ssh keys, I prefer.

• Brandon -- raspberry pi -- esp32 --

working on a diy system for hackerspaces

wifi manager -- for setup of

Jameson -- https://www.balena.io/ IoT device mgmt https://github.com/balena-io/etcher https://github.com/balena-io https://github.com/balena-io/sshproxy

Helium network -- some have 100k-device networks

LoRA / LoRA-WAN (Helium network, paid access, $ 1/100,000 per egress byte. Global network 100

• media server, bulding -- a plex box

purchasing hardware, refurbished? jameson mentioned auctions

publicsurplus.com
national labs, Berkeley NL (LBL) and Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) often have interesting stuff.
SF city college computer lab -- igving away computer cases, old old 10+ years

Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi (3rd party, more compute oriented). Pine 64 -- single

• tailscale -- wireguard. tailscale.net

• privacy & security

1. People share their local network auditing toolz

http://kfahv6wfkbezjyg4r6mlhpmieydbebr5vkok5r34ya464gqz6c44bnyd.onion/p/q2uSSFCofRMhPvo5jObO-keep

1. Privacy Demonstrations

https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest https://we.riseup.net/assets/493360/digital+security+for+activists.pdf https://we.riseup.net/assets/355198/Obfuscation.pdf https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Chat

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Questions, Discussion, or Coworking

• [Issue]

For next time

Readings & Exercises

• Readings
• Exercises

Join online

• Try it yourself!
  • Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra