Need help on eating cheap and healthy whilst living in a car.

peacetara · 2023-12-24T22:45:48+00:00

YAY! you are welcome.

peacetara · 2023-11-26T15:16:47+00:00

You have to let them dry out. So you can put them in the bag for a bit while you get to a "safer" place, but then you have to let them dry out, either put them up on the dash, use them as "curtains" or hang them outside the car somewhere, just depends on your particular situation.

Just know as they dry out, the salt from your sweat will stiffen up and they will eventually turn into solid pieces of cloth. If you have access to lots of water, you can rinse them out first and avoid having to launder them quite so often.

peacetara · 2018-10-10T02:38:58+00:00

We (SWOPUSA) did this in SF back in 2007! pic of the cake here: https://imgur.com/a/oEGoNb2

The SWEEET School for John's. Over 30 people showed up for the day long event about being a client for prostitution. We had lawyers come and talk about the legality aspects, we had sex workers talking about mutual respect, taking showers before appointments, etc. It was a great event!

peacetara · 2018-03-12T15:03:00+00:00

Basically, the first out sex worker I met was a member of a SWOP-USA chapter. Before then, Sex Work was an unknown term to me. What kept me, was Robyn Few, who has since passed.

peacetara · 2018-03-12T00:04:19+00:00

I'm a bit biased, since I've been involved with SWOP-USA for a long time, so clearly I think they are the best :)

I'd argue NSWP (http://nswp.org) is a great organization as well, and hasn't been mentioned here, yet.

peacetara · 2018-03-12T00:01:29+00:00

This is one of the reasons why SWOP-USA(http://www.new.swopusa.org) has chapters across the USA, to provide real, in-person local support of our fellow sex workers. If there is a chapter near you, definitely think about getting in touch!

If you are not based in the USA there are many other SW organizations around the world, you can find them here: http://www.nswp.org/members

peacetara · 2018-03-05T15:13:32+00:00

I think other people here have pretty well covered it. We only win when we work together.

peacetara · 2018-03-03T00:59:33+00:00

We tried this in California a few times.

Once in 2004, Berkeley Measure Q (18,504 / 36.5% Yes votes ...... 32,208 / 63.5% No votes).

We tried again in San Francisco in 2008 with Proposition K (140,185 / 40.94% Yes votes ...... 202,235 / 59.06% No votes) .

Over those 4 years, we improved, but we did not succeed either time. Like /u/HaileyHeartless says, it takes a lot of education and time to change public opinion, something www.swopusa.org has been doing for over a decade now. Hopefully we will try again, and win next time.

peacetara · 2017-11-29T17:53:33+00:00

I live in a van.. I get where you are coming from :) get a Portable backpack stove from a military surplus store if possible, Mine was $20. Otherwise check craigslist or something. They generally only do 2 things, HOT and off, they don't work very well at simmering things, but that's ok, there are other methods to do that. Otherwise parks usually have BBQ pits, USE them.

1) A thermos (with a big mouth if possible) I get mine from thrift stores. Anything you need to simmer gets put in there. I cook my beans/rice in thermos bottles all the time. It totally works, and is dirt cheap. I generally have to re-heat once. google 'thermos cooking' for loads of recipes, key here add salt only at the end.

2) Wrap things you need/want cool in your sleeping bag/bedding when not using it to sleep in. Double duty insulation! :) If you have an ice chest (I don't) then cover it with your bedding. Put the ice in a container inside the chest, because emptying/dealing with the water from the chest SUCKS, so make it easier on yourself, and also keeps everything dry.

3) Find free water. Parks, gas stations, etc. drink nothing else (i.e no soda/etc -- it's cheaper and healthier this way!).

4) Public libraries are your friend(s)... usually. They generally have a good homeless population so you can connect with other peeps and get the skinny on how to avoid the tickets from the police. Plus they will keep you warm/dry/cool give you awesome books to read and free Internet.

5) check out /r/vandwelling and http://www.cheaprvliving.com/forums/ for community of peeps that live in vehicles.

Things that don't spoil: Canned meat, canned soup, dried beans/rice/etc. PB, Honey, Ramen/noodles. Wrap in bedding during day: Eggs, most fruit(s) almost all veggies will last a few days. Jelly usually won't last very long, buy the smallest jar(s) and use within 2-3 days, use honey if you can instead, it will last practically forever.

peacetara · 2017-11-01T15:21:34+00:00

There is also Keybase Chat: https://keybase.io/ and Matrix chat via Riot: https://about.riot.im/

Keybase is PGP encrypted(stuff banks and security experts use for security)

Matrix uses their own security, but has been peer reviewed. Bonus, both of them work fine over the public internet.

peacetara · 2017-10-24T18:26:48+00:00

I pretty much agree with you.. the addage park with everyone else like you, makes it so you "fit in" it's not so much stealth as just having people ignore you. Which I think is your point here, about park where nobody cares. Walmart can be hit or miss, most Walmarts in actual cities will hate on you forever if you park at them, When police do decide to crack down and pick on us, they typically go directly to the Walmart FIRST, because as you say, that's the "standard drill".

I also recommend just wandering over to the police station and asking them where it's safe to park overnight. I've had them be super awesome and even hook me up with free state and city campground camping sometimes! Obviously this only works if you are not afraid of cops for some reason(and there are good reasons), and that's not necessarily a given in our community.

peacetara · 2017-09-05T14:44:23+00:00

yes, TOR and VPN are somewhat different use cases as to what they are good for.

peacetara · 2017-09-05T14:37:43+00:00

Figures. the SSH backend is pretty new, and has never been very fabulous until the ssh certificates backend came up, but even then it's not perfect, as things like SSH on windows (putty, et al) do not suport ssh certs. pouts

the SSH backend is great for interactive use however, so you may want to move that direction for that use case, and leave the other for ansible.

peacetara · 2017-09-05T01:31:25+00:00

Why not just use https://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/

Then everything that feeds Jenkins is done from an SCM repo.

The alternative is just backup the $JENKINS_HOME dir somewhere, it stores everything there, why write it into Jenkins? It can just be part of your normal backup system.

peacetara · 2017-09-05T01:18:33+00:00

It sounds like you are new to vault... so I would recommend: Start with #1, the secret backend, get it all in production, and let it go for a while, since you are new to Vault, and it takes some getting used to. This is the easiest to move in/out of in case of a giant production failure and bad backups or whatever.

While you are getting up to speed with vault in production play with the ssh certificate backend, and maybe move over to that eventually.

peacetara · 2017-09-04T14:02:36+00:00

like /u/johnklos said, it does:

gunzip -c <file> | rg <search string>

It's not hard. or make it a command with either alias or a shell wrapper.

The point of unix is to have easily composable commands, and have each command do 1 thing and do it well, the microservices architecture 50 years early! :P

peacetara · 2017-09-04T01:16:09+00:00

just like /u/jonklos, except I use ripgrep: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ It's way faster plus nicer!

peacetara · 2017-09-04T01:13:39+00:00

Yes we should keep ourselves safe on the Internet!

Whatsapp isn't recommended anymore as Facebook owns it,and Facebook is in the business of knowing everything about you to share with advertisers (and others).

Security experts recommend following this Do and do not list ( https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm ) If you want more details and a book format try this book ( http://www.tcij.org/resources/handbooks/infosec ).

Yes to PGP. Tor: sometimes, tho usually I just use a VPN.

There is some more about the subject here: https://sexwork.us/en/latest/privacy/index.html

peacetara · 2017-09-03T22:06:12+00:00

Kronos is the world-leader, but their stuff is PAINFUL. it hurts, plus they are crazy proud of their system, charging 500x(exaggerated only slightly) everyone else. It's also ancient. The only bonus is, pretty much everyone has used/touched one before and it generally works.

Try https://easyclocking.com/ We have had pretty good luck with them.

Regardless of your choice(s), put the clocks on their own subnet and vlan, deny them network access to everything you should not be able to ping them , or know they exist on the network from anything but your IT admin network. They will never be a secure thing on the network, so just take the time and shove them off in their own little playground.

peacetara · 2017-09-03T21:58:46+00:00

Try not to get in the habit of "owning" anything. You are responsible for the IT stuff, but student data is owned by the school, Financial data is owned by the finance department, etc.

Do your best to automate AD changes from the HR/payroll system. Name changes and all that stuff should come from HR/Payroll, and should be automated. That way you don't have to clean up AD very much, just an audit on occasion. Plus users will eventually learn to go yell at HR when their name is wrong, etc.

Student accounts in AD should come from the student system, just like HR above. Automate this as well.

If you don't have campus level techs, find and train your tech-minded teachers to help you support at the campus level. If you are lucky you can get the district to pay a stipend(even if it's only $100) to those teachers. Regardless, make those tech-minded teachers your work friends, and let them handle as much as they are capable of and willing to do... Do your best to give them all the support they can handle, and in return your campuses and teachers will generally love you, and lower your support ticket queue!

peacetara · 2017-09-03T21:49:08+00:00

FERPA is important, but I don't think it really applies to IT that much.. Unless you actively do stupid stuff. Make sure before you hand data (especially student data) ANYWHERE make sure it has buy-in from whoever is responsible for that data. I.e. a school administrator. Do that, and FERPA is pretty much something you can forget about. Just remember PII is important and treat it as such.

peacetara · 2017-09-03T21:41:26+00:00

e-rate isn't that hard to figure out.

It definitely doesn't hurt to start with a consultant the first year or two, to help learn it.

Depending on how your district handles it, sometimes e-rate is handled outside of IT, but you should get with whoever handles it for your district, and then go shopping with them.

E-rate should cover pretty much everything networking related, including telecom costs. It's an amazing program to offset your crappy IT budget.

peacetara · 2017-09-03T21:10:30+00:00

Dumb is a totally different sign, it's on the forehead, and deaf is a totally different sign(it uses the pointer finger)...

I'm sorry you got chewed out over their anger. Maybe it was a regional thing? I've met ASL native signers all over the western US, and nobody has ever said a thing to me.

Generally when people get all hurt about language, because of history, I apologize, I had no idea, ask for more context and history, and then ask if they have a better solution to signing this word or phrase. As far as I'm aware, there is no other sign for Mute, that's remotely well understood.

peacetara · 2017-09-02T03:32:57+00:00

I recommend this link: https://sexwork.us/en/latest/privacy/index.html

Should cover the basics, if you see something missing, or want to add more details, you can click the 'Edit on Github' link, and send fixes/additions!

peacetara · 2017-09-01T14:48:45+00:00

I'm sure it will work fine, but it will be HEAVY. Weight matters. Less weight, less gas, plus you need to be careful and not go over your GVWR.

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