Kära medlemmar i Umeå Hackerspace!

Efter en tids uppehåll i verksamheten har vi nu ambitionen att försöka återuppta lite kreativ verksamhet för de teknikintresserade. :) För att åstadkomma detta behöver vi hålla årsmöte och välja in en ny styrelse. Ni är varmt välkomna till lokalen på Fabriksgatan 8 den 10:e …

We're participating in International Open Hackerspace Day 2023 this Saturday March 25th 10:00-18:00! Feel free to drop by for coffee and a chat! Poster below (click for 300 dpi version):

Today we (tms, jonasbits, GINYFB and baader) sorted and packed stuff that had already been deemed trash and sent it to the great beyond. Some of the stuff was donated to Returbutiken.

There are still some more things to get rid of, like the old broken flatscreen TV, lots of …

Now that the pandemic is effectively over (or is it?) members have been returning to the space and noticed that lots of stuff has mysteriously accumulated over the last couple of years. Mostly in the form of cardboard moving boxes containing mysterious things. Luckily some members have been picking up …

The state of the space is now logged every time the open sign switch is flipped or whenever someone rings the doorbell. This state is published at https://umeahackerspace.se/opensignd_log.json. The format is a list of the spaceapi "state" field over time, like so:

{
 "states": [
  {
   "lastchange": 1662406258.92183 …

Today we held a cryptoparty together with Academic Computer Club (ACC) at Origo. The event was attented by around 30 safety curious persons. Presentations were held, food was eaten and beer drunk.

Topics included threat modelling, encrypted chat, encrypted email, disk encryption, Tor, Spectre, Row hammer, etc.

One thing we …

Our spaceapi endpoint has been broken ever since asbest broke. Yesterday we spent some time fixing it. Our endpoint now lives at https://umeahackerspace.se/spaceapi.json.

For those unaware, spaceapi enables apps and other websites to query our space whether it is open or not. In particular, Android and …

English version further down.

Nu när pandemin börjar lugna ner sig så har vi återgått till normala öppettider. Alla medlemmar och presumtiva medlemmar är välkomna! Även öppetstatusen på hemsidan och på IRC fungerar igen. Öppetskylten däremot måste fortfarande lagas.

English

Now that the pandemic is winding down we are returning …

Regular visitors may have noticed that this website has been down for a few days, as well as IRC still being down. This is because the server that has been running most of our services, asbest, died a few days ago after 18 years of operation. In honour of this …

We have collaboration fixed.

After three years of no one really caring about it, the blog is now alive again! Members can now edit it by cloning the www.git repository on asbest, editing then pushing the result back. Hooray!

Som det blir ibland i gamla hus så har vi nu trasiga rör i Spacet som läcker. Husets vatten (alla lägenheter) kommer från detta rör så det måste fixas omedelbart. Rören går inne i väggarna så vi kommer behöva för både våran och lerstenens del att plocka bort så mycket …

Umehack arrar kryptoparty på Umeås Anarkistiska Bokmässa!
Kom och mingla med end-to-end encryption. Gör en namnskylt med nickname från 90-talet. Ta med din telefon/dator och rivstarta resan mot 1337 shades of security. n00bZ r w3Lc0m3!

Umehack is holding a cryptoparty at Umeås Anarchist Book Fair!
Come and mingle with …

I recently bought a used Nexus 6. It was factory reset by the previous owner which apparently in recent versions of Android means that Factory Reset Protection may cause the new owner to be unable to initialise the phone because a previously signed in account is required.

However, the protection …

Vi ordnade problemen med servern för några dagar sedan / We fixed the problem with the server some days ago