Meetups/Infra/2026-07-20

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(TODO summary)

Lead-in[edit | edit source]

Victor: Nix meetup last week, recurring monthly. Great small discussions - talked some of my re-implementing nixpkgs

Introductions[edit | edit source]

  • [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]
  • Loren - excited to explore, a company from open sauce offering pluggable components, arduino software on the fly, use it for internal control? access systems
  • Doug - likes computers, obsessed with self hosted farm simulator. Open world multiplayer; futures markets; game for agents to play. https://farm-mp.frontpageintelligence.ai/
  • Zachae - got back from Germany; Volchap isst vocabularen; ist eine klein.
  • Jerry - Sandbox on AI agents better; see if he can ??? noisebridge
  • Devansh - ran a linux user group; likes home labbing; 10 raspberry pis. From heatsync labs in phoenix
  • Jack - homelabbing recently got a traffic light off of facebook marketplace; looking for a project. Status lights for local machines.
  • WeZ - Using nix to do consistent environment for testing; loves to design verilog, digital logic;
  • Josh - plays video games; has a bunch of lab labs
  • Kevin - likes writing and vibe coding software; has a home lab with of terabytes
  • Max - Friends want to set up a Garage a P2P file sharing
  • Heather - general programmer; did full stack web dev for a while. Likes linux, looking into setting up some services on the noisebridge LAN.
  • Victor - do all things linux nix OS;
  • Renauld - Local AI adventure
  • Erik - trying to perfect mesh VPN; lives along side tailnet ; got a Mac Port developed.
  • Meghan - web dev
  • David - work with software infra
  • Derek - downloading an original version of Photoshop?

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

  • Elan - Homelabby stuff; nix cloud; build barn; remote executation
  • Oleg - Source countrol for job; homelab; does have a man in hole story; fighting for dear life replaying Chat conversational history.
  • Eugene - got deep into nix; agents;agent;agents; token maxxing; codex 20x loaded; burned through all of it; deep seek Qwen; structure are subtlety different beause no standards.

wheezy: install Opencode curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash

  • Sky - Was at the open sauce party.
  • Frank - self hosted dev tool; build tools; large code indexing
  • Ciara - ( (screen sharing blamesmith), fediverse fiend, and homelab lover.
  • Michell - friend of ciara, likes reading.
  • ChineseMan - Friends with everyone!


Meetup Links, Notes, Listening (nb.wtf/infra)[edit | edit source]

  • OpenSauce -- infra -- new, familiar, new again?
    • Things people saw and heard about there?
fun p2p promiscuously connecting system, make lots of friends, connect a network over time. Social network from physical networking. If you don't feed the fish your keys go away.
Kevin saw two photogrammatry rigs for building point clouds; cost under $1000
Two teens came from medesto with a 737
WeZ saw a small
 Three wheeled vehicle called freeway 
 Hook up skateboards to couches
 robots fighti each other
 guitar wlaking around
 Wwirve drive couches, 8gs of accelaration (FRC robot)
 Runaway fillament spool robot
Devansh booth: Mathematically interesting structures; agentelement.net/vertexprint   Walking around with giant orbs (Catalan solid), and a giant rabbit -- Software: OpenSCAD + typescript
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_solid
 Loren: how was it built out?   Devansh: There's some special math, starting with the Catalan solids, there's some vertex symmetry to expoit.  Generalized it to other shapes. Ported it from OpenSCAD to the web, WASM. Took 4 months. Did it before Fable, asked all the frontier models, weren't able to do it.  



https://makerfaire.com/bay-area/ - Sept 25-27th
    • Inspiration for the Open Sauce (the OG)
  • Frank - wishlist of tools to have in the homelab
code search, code indexing tools
I'd like to have all the software & dependencies running on my homelab searchable
there's open source software
Kythe

frank - large code search/indexing - Kythe, Glean, -- Zoeat (-Meghan, FOSS of SourceGraph's engine) -- SourceGraph for when you want to search more code than can fit in your IDE (ex: all of android, chromium, linux, top 10k crates, etc.) 


at least through XReal One - it hasn't been critically enshittified
Eugune: these have started as small companies, but they're starting to become real companies -  Vitur  $200M+ recently , XReal - raising $500M recently.  XReal does relationships, collaborations with other companies very liberally.  Don't have personal interest in Android XR -- 
 Project Aura @ Google -- is partnering with XReal, Android XR.
  • We have other regulars, as recently as this weekend, are building display glasses from components, you can buy the waveguides, projectors
See separately Raven technologies - can SSH into it. 
Concerns about latency added when gaming, for refresh rate: a few at 120Hz, 90Hz common.
Transparency versus usable in bright conditions. 
static in glasses, vs 3-degree of freedom (DoF) - can place a display in angular space, vs 6-DoF - can place in angular and physically-tied space e.g. zoom to lean, virtual display on desk

EMG - electro-myo-graphy - muscle sensing for input -- some on wrists, some on face. 
Meta - has/had a lead in this, but don't seem to be productizing it in a way that's usable

Zacchae - big companies are forcing & betting on creating a locked-in environemnt
Andreessen has said the best companies don't have customers, they have hostages
https://luma.com/calendar/cal-0nrKdKQFqjt7cts


"There is no cloud, there is only other people's computers Noisegarden! 🌿" https://donate.noisegarden.nexus 🎉

https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/docs/introduction/

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIxGPIkLSkjhaDDS3tjfpOOlP_28V66MaXq7RhJsz4sA&s=10

  • (nix checked in)
  • fpga -

curl | bash !?!?

Outros[edit | edit source]

  • Doug - installing opencode
  • Zacchae - interested to see
  • Jerry - would like to learn more about ingress policy
  • Ciara - Didn't know there was a repo for noise donate
  • Devansh - two machines want to reduce latency under 70us
  • Jack - intereseted in exploring the network more; improve docker hygiene; Kubernetes
  • WeZ - fortnightly means every two weeks
  • Josh - ?? sorry
  • Kevin - Glean, source database; REQUEST; please keep an eye out for an orange pi (blue)
  • Max - is interested in running nix
  • Matty - ask Zaccae more about talk
  • Erik - We can host things in Helsinki that are noisebridge related.
  • Victor - keeps meaning to look at noisebridge infra
  • Meghan - read up on Kythe and Glean
  • Derek - Garage P2P File store;
  • David - wants to know more about open map
  • Oleg - interested in Eric's VPN Tetron

-- (radicle.xyz - git without a central server) -- Ingress is dead

  • Eugene - needs to step up token maxxing, token metrics
  • Elan - also interested in Glean, interested in learning more about Zacchae's talk
  • Loren - interested in the Kythe and self-hosted code indexing tools;
  • Robert - Multple things todo; electronics; start page for firefox; fully develop; usable; finish something.
  • Frank - Plans to go to sudo room for the raid.


== Install Nix package manager curl -fsSL https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh -s -- --daemon

Lesson or Demo[edit | edit source]

  • 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!

Questions, Discussion, or Coworking[edit | edit source]

  • [Issue]

For next time[edit | edit source]

Questions[edit | edit source]

Readings & Exercises[edit | edit source]

  • Readings
  • Exercises

Join online[edit | edit source]

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

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

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