/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

Throw in a CRT tv/monitor and a bunch of wires. Maybe a neon lamp, too.

>>33857

oh man am I envious. Try to buy at least 5 old Crt's from thrift stores like >>33858 said, and stack them up all over. A workbench area would be cool too if any of you build stuff.

>>33857

How the hell did you acquire an abandoned building, anon? You're living the dream.

Do you have utilities in there? Do you have pics? What sort of area is it located in?

The proximity of the building to population centres might inform it's possible uses.

>anon lives in detroit.

I'm so sorry for you.

Aluminium chequerplate held on with yellow and black hazard tape. Air con units, with vents, ducts and fans all visible. Maybe some corrugated sheet metal. Neon signs but that should go without saying. Ribbon cables are something I like too.

>>33864

My friend got the place, I don't know the whole story on how he got it or the area, but I know it used to belong to his cousin and it was a record store.

>>33865

Not quite but pretty close, a few miles away.

Dim lighting to set the mood.

glowy stuff

>>33857

>get monitors

>get microboard computer of your choice

>boot linux

>cat /dev/urandom

>instant wall decoration

Enough about aesthetics. Let's talk infrastructure. You're going to want an on-site server for file transfers and hosting shit. So build one.

If you're somewhere that gets a lot of sun, get solar panels so you can stop being a slave to the electrical grid.

Block off most of the entrances. Leave one entrance that you use all the time and have a hidden one that only you and your friend know about.

security cameras are probably gonna be needed, as well. Possibly for both the inside and the outside, as space necessitates and the law permits (but maybe not). This will in turn, require always-on monitors and hard drives for storing the video feed.

A ham radio station would probably be a nice addition, if a little unnecessary.

>>33876

I don't think that a ham would be unnecessary. Think about it, in the event of a disaster, since meshnets aren't big enough yet, a ham is really the only way of communicating without infrastructure.

What you say about cams is absolutely true, however. They are necessary for a setup like this.

Also, OP, it should go without saying that 100% of the lighting should come from neon, dim colored lights, and monitors. However, make the monitors have a function like a previous anon said. Even if they only do something some of the time, don't leave it 100% a television tuned to a dead channel.

Since you live near Detroit, diving for lots of stuff to put in your hideout shouldn't be hard. I know we have a thread on diving around here somewhere, I just can't find it right now.

>>33857

You lucky bastard. Put on raves I would

>>33857

so fucking jelly. sounds schway as fuck

>>33874

We already decided that we are gonna board up the door and just climb in through a window and land onto a mattress, and we got two spare computers for servers.

>>33878

AS soon as we get set up we're gonna throw a party.

>>33876

I drove past the building today and it has security cameras, atleast one on the outside.No clue if we could use them.

>>33885

The building is now your friend's private property, yes?

Then so are the cameras. Find out how to use them.

Actually, OP, I have an extreme interest in this situation. I would VERY much like to have a similar setup. Can you ask your friend to put together a report on how much this costs? What are the water, internet, and electricity bills like? How did he come to obtain the land? How much is it valued at?

>>33887

Just move to detroit. Or any area nearby.

The place is more or less abandoned so it should be pretty easy to get a building on the cheap. I heard that you can get some houses for 1 dollarydoo.

>>33888

Except Detroit is being abandoned and you can't be a cyberpunk living there if there's no sprawl filled with wage slaves.

>>33868

Hey, I live in Lincoln Park. Hmu at dbx266xl@gmail.com

>>33885

get pics

>>33889

it seems cyberpunk af to live in an area so poor and desolate that the city authorities just outright ejected it. Reminds of that house in Fight Club

Stay safe though OP

>>33875

One half height rack, maybe. Unless you're hoarding hundreds of TB of data, you should be able to fit all your compute, storage, and network resources in less than 8U. I guess you could have more rack Us available if you wanted to include 3-4U gaming PCs, audio gear, KVM switches, storage drawers, etc., but for actual server gear 12U is definitely enough.

>>33889

More to the point, you can't be a cyberpunk without the cyber. Unless you have a private microwave link or fiber run, you'll need to hook all that gear up to an ISP at the address in question to make the servers useful for anything major.

>>33901

I wouldn't say 8U, that's not much room to expand, especially if you're using a patch panel for whatever reason, and doubly so if you have a UPS going (which you should, shazbot - do you want a surge to kill the entire rack?). I'd go for a true half-height, between 19U and 24U.

Racked workstations/battlestations are the shit, though. I seriously need to buy a 4U case for my desktop.

OP should set up a hood over the rack if he gets one in case the roof leaks. I also second the CRT monitors. Definitely consider EL wire/tape for lighting. Use liquid electrical tape to seal anything that's exposed.

As for internet, there's DSL, you could do a secret fiber run to a less derelict building and ask the owner to leech off him (if you pay brouzouf), you could bridge two cable modems, you could use an array of 4G hotspots, you could get satellite… there's a lot of ways to get it.

c-can we make this our official /cyber/club? a hangout run by a few users where fags like me drive all day to on their vacation weeks to hang out with the schway kobuns?

>>33902

>Racked workstations/battlestations are the shit, though. I seriously need to buy a 4U case for my desktop.

Totally. I just need rack brackets for my G4 Powermac (yes they exist) and a couple of 0U shelves for the Sun pizzabox and various ARM doodads, then I can move my PC to a 4U case and have all my hardware except the TV-room gadgets on one rack.

>spoilertext

Sounds like a good bugout spot for all of us in northeastern or midwestern North America. Hell, if land in Detroit stays cheap long enough we could build our own little arcology.

Please anon, give us a timestamped pic of the place so we know this isn't all a pipedream…

>>33873

this guy gets it.

if the first thing you think of when you found out about getting this new hideout is "ooh how do i decorate it so it LOOKS cyberpunk" then you don't belong here.

It's probably more in the spirit to make yourselves blend in and Don't make it look all techy

>>33857

build one tier 1 and preferably one tier 2 DNS server and sell its capabilities for profit.

>Anon´s cyber arcology

Jelly/10. If you´re around a desolate area, you wanna make sure no random hobo or pack of thugs comes banging in. Make sure nothing of the stuff you´re doing on the inside is seen, and that no one sees you bringing it to the place. Hell, make the building look EXTREMELY desolate and dangerous outside. Psychological barriers are almost as good as physical ones. A metal fence, boarded windows, a camera that looks busted (But its state of the art beneath the grimy hull) and some inner reinforcing underneath the rotting wood and the rusted metal sheets. That´s what i plan to do with my house, at any rate. Shitty part of town, shitty looking place. But the building itself is a facade for the actual walls and doors i´m placing inside.

So anon can you keep us updated on your progress? Maybe make a neocities retro website for it?

I say if you REALLY wanna do it up cyberpunk style, just post the address here or somewhere similar and let whatever happens happen. It'll probably turn into some cool hangout for people to gather and do stuff. Like in that movie. Just screen the normies to keep them out

>>33967

This fucking lol

>>33967

Honestly we should coordinate and buy up an entire block of Detroit. Even intact four bedroom houses are going for under $50k so a block's worth of vacant lots should be pretty damn cheap. Then we put up electrified fences and build an armored datacenter/hackerspace compound.

>>34005

Surely it can't be that simple or someone would have done it already. Still holy shit this is worth looking in to

>>34008

>50k for a house

You overestimate the economic capabilities of /cyber/

Fucking imagine if we built up a network of these places around the world. Anons could drop in and work there, sleep, hide from megacorps, hack the planet, you name it. If we all put brouzouf into it it wouldn't even cost a prohibitive amount.

First step, a map? I just wanna see what our general distribution looks like.

https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=1128712

You don't really need any more accuracy than state or country level, so don't be paranoid shazbots.

>>34029

>/cuteboys/

>>33857

This Needs To Become A Thing

>>34009

I could, if I so wished, drop $8K on a project like that tonight. Wait a few months, and it'll be $11K, no sweat. The problem being, why would I actually do that instead of paying off my loans early

>>34029

>>34030

real map here

https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=1643058&location=America&add=1

>>34045

40' cargo containers are only a few thousand, imagine a community of raw metal boxes that could be picked up and moved to a new city every few months

Then again, thats the opposite of OPs project

>>34009

Yeah like I said that's $50k for a four bedroom house. A completely empty lot should be under $10k, which is totally reasonable for any anon with a job that pays more than burger flipping.

>>34048

>>34048

So we buy a 10k lot, and then what? Spend 100k making it into a hackerspace?

Of the 20 anons that come to this board, there's probably 10 that actually want to do this, and combined we would (not could) probably buy the lot and nothing else. Then one of us who lives in Detroit (OP) would just use it as a drug den with /cyber/ aesthetics.

>>34047

Those things are very heavy, you need a flatbed truck to move them. And to boot, you'd need them set up for utilities - power, internet, water (unless you really want to run out to surrounding stores every time you have to take a shit).

Hate to say this, but if we are going to do something like this, it's gotta be legit. No hard drugs. No immorally illegal shit. That being said, no one is going to give a shit if it's for weed. For everything else: The PC people who still watch 8chan will find out very quick, and they will send complaints to detroit authorities, and since Detroit is liberal as fuck I'm not so sure the whole "lack of authority" in the city would work in our favor. Also holy shit, aren't there a BUNCH of hipsters in that city who want to save it?

>>34064

>no immoral illegal activities

>in /cyber/topia

>>34067

im being serious m8, if your going to fo that shit, do it in secret.

>/cyber/ buys abandoned houses

Top fucking schway. You shazbots can't even get your shit together to make a board-tan, and you want to turn abandoned houses in hackerspaces? Give me a break.

>>34067

I think he just means no obvious nigger-tier crimes like assault and robbery. Operating tor nodes, dealing in software, media and 3D printer spec files we aren't supposed to have, spreading cryptography to places the NSA doesn't want it, under the table modding of computers, cars, and bodies, those are all fine.

>>34122

Drugs will be an issue as well, that's going to cause a pretty severe split. On the one hand, you don't want to kick people out for popping some modafinil. On the other hand, you don't want heroin junkies lying around.

>>34128

I'd say the hard and fast rule is "no schedule 1 drugs except weed." Keeping out crackheads, methheads, and heroin junkies is clearly and obviously different from kicking out people who want to smoke a joint or try nootropics.

ITT: anons planning the minutiae of governing a /cyber/ hideout without ever actually doing anything.

So, mostly like every other thread where we try to do something.

>>34131

Only OP currently has access to the place, so unless and until OP delivers we're just shooting the shit and talking hypotheticals.

Whatever comes out of this OP, thankyou for giving me a spark of inspiration in my dull eventless life.

Maybe when I get my neet ass out of the country, I'll try this. I wonder if a place like this would have an audience in Kansas City.

I WANT TO BELIEVE

I'm looking into some abandoned buildings and/or small stores to turn into cyberpunk hideouts.

OP, do you have roof access, a back dock for trucks, a back yard?

You don't want to make the place too feral, it should be comfy, and not a rat-infested junkie squat. Make sure of adequate ventilation, fire safety and natural light so it isn't a death trap or a black lung generator.

I shudder at the window-only access. Get a metal door. It'll make moving shit in and out more practical, and you won't attract cops looking for meth labs, crack houses and hydro ops. Also you don't want to attract actual junkies, who will move in and shit all over everything.

I'd look into a rooftop garden, radio scanner, a really nice sound system and some schway sound-to-light visualisation tech, like one of Jeff Minter's Psychedelia or Virtual Light Machine.

As far as doing something practical to pay off land rates and utilities, run a chan and punk-friendly server. Try to get some blinkenlights.

If there's sufficient industrial space, rent it as art studio or workshop space to artists or line a room with egg cartons for garage bands to use as a recording studio. If nothing else, they will provide entertaining dramashazbotry and a splash of colour.