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dumpster diving thread 2015-07-14 20:56:43 No.13077 [View All]

Anyone into diving? Post your runs.

I mostly go for electronics; found a microsoft intellimouse, x2 1GB DDR ECC ram and some old xeon today.

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Anonymous 2015-09-14 02:00:14 No.15411

>>14927
> It's pretty much just like shopping. Only instead of going through the front, you head around the back.

Actually if you have transport (a bike might do, depending on the size of the community and distances involved) it is sometimes better to hit the distributors; the big warehouses that supply those stores. They are usually in suburban areas and industrial parks. Try the yellow pages or something.

Anonymous 2015-09-14 02:13:18 No.15412

>>14927
Have you thought about asking the bakerie's owner/employees if they could, instead of dumping, save some of the food for you?

Anonymous 2015-09-14 02:37:47 No.15417

>>15412
I'd think they'd just make you buy it then.

Anonymous 2015-09-14 07:56:12 No.15441

>>15411
I actually sleep down the opposite end of the road from one of the distributors here. Unfortunately it's locked down pretty tight. There was a couple of stories in >>>/lit/1706 where they hit the distributors. Cool stuff.

>>15412
>>15417
Yeah. You get mixed results. A lot of bakeries actually donate their leftovers to charities that come and pick it up at the end of the day. In one town I was starving but the dumpsters were locked up so I waited until the end of the day and asked as they were throwing them out. She said some soykaf about health and safety (as if they weren't selling them just five minutes beforehand) so I broke their bins open. The bakery that I usually get my stuff from now donate their leftovers to charity and they still have more to throw out. As for saving it, I can go to the dumpster at any time, otherwise I'd have to be there at closing.

Anonymous 2015-10-02 17:05:46 No.16595

Thread on infinite chan:

http://8ch.net/cyber/res/25748.html

Anonymous 2015-10-03 02:53:06 No.16626

>>15441
Aren't you worried about contamination? I'd imagine a garbage dumpster isn't a very clean place for your food to be inside.

Anonymous 2015-10-03 03:52:51 No.16629

>>16626
What is clean? How many doorknobs do you touch in a day? When was the last time those doorknobs were cleaned? How many people who just took giant shits and didnt wash their hands touch them? What about people who sneeze their influenza infected loads into their hands then touch them? Then after you open the door you rub your eye, the most vulnerable entry point for infection. My point is people are germophobes but have huge holes in their germ-opsec and they are mostly fine. If you are dumpster diving for food use you sense of smell to determine if it's good or not (after you get out of the dumpster), that's what it was there for.

Anonymous 2015-10-03 04:17:40 No.16631

>>16629
I'm actually a pretty big germaphobe when it comes to stuff like that. I never eat food with my hands or touch my mouth/eyes/nose without washing my hands first. That's what prompted my question.

Your senses tell you when food is going bad, but they don't pick up on bacteria that causes food poisoning.

Anonymous 2015-10-03 11:39:35 No.16642

So back around 2002 or so, my bro and I hit up the dumpster of the local ISP. This is back when dial was still a good way to connect to the internet. Only my rich friends has DSL.

Anyway. We dig around the dumpster, find some discarded cpu's and some old hard drives. I was kinda bored so I decided to look at this paper box that was full of... papers. I quickly realized these weren't just random scraps of paper. This was an ENTIRE BOX packed full of the sheets they give you when you sign up. Sheets containing your payment information as well as your fuarrrk ing USERNAME AND PASSWORDS for dialup access. We grabbed that box and got the fuarrrk out of there. Since I never had my internet taken away from me, I let my friend keep the box. His mom would take away the internet as a form of punishment for the slightest infractions. It didn't matter anymore though, because he would just go to his box and use someone else's account. He got free internet that way for over a year. Sometimes I still can't believe that actually fuarrrk ing happened. I mean, they didn't even try to tear up the pages or anything. It was literally reams and reams of customer data.

>>16629
Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.

Anonymous 2015-10-03 21:14:14 No.16659

>>16631
when it comes to food some basics

1:if it's in separate packaging check for rips/holes that sort of thing, and check dates.
2: raw foods, often the rule of thumb is to not eat without washing them, and giving them a once over e.g check for mold, bruising, other signs of rot.
that is if you are worried about
3: common sense is king, things like meat (unless highly preserved) just don't even bother.
on a side note diving purely for food can be done with ease in the daytime, and when confronted will often just be told to leave or you may sit in the back of a cop car as a scare tactic. just be aware of local laws, and like i said common sense is king DONT BE STUPID, STUPID!

Anonymous 2015-10-08 00:16:53 No.17028

any 651 wanna meet up for a run?

Anonymous 2015-10-08 05:44:41 No.17042

>>16642
Heh that's and old hacker thing. They call it "trashing" and the express purpose is to find info like that.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 07:29:25 No.17046

>>17042
it's also one of the methods used in pen testing

Anonymous 2015-10-08 07:31:59 No.17047

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>>17028
not a great haul, turns out most the places near me get picked up on wednesday.
not sure if the office codes work or not yet

Anonymous 2015-10-08 07:49:28 No.17048

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I'm going dumpster diving for a home server soon. It's my first time and I'm pretty excited.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 14:14:43 No.17070

Protip: Casinos usually get new computers every year to 6 months, and all colleges are required to trash all old computers, they can't legally resell them.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 14:19:59 No.17071

I work at a small IT store, and we often buy stuff off of dumpster divers, then we'll sell them at market price to businesses and pocket the rest. We even have a contact at the local "E-waste" facility, and people will go in thinking they are recycling and we'll just resell it at market price, or scrap/salvage what we can and keep it as hardware.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 15:13:02 No.17078

>>17071
>>17071
>people will go in thinking they are recycling
>we'll just resell it at market price, or scrap/salvage what we can and keep it as hardware.
Isn't that recycling? Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

Anonymous 2015-10-08 15:16:20 No.17079

>>17070
they can donate them

Anonymous 2015-10-08 15:34:24 No.17086

>>17070
We hold a student auction for them once every school year I think, however they come wiped down to the bios.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 15:47:23 No.17088

>>17070
My house mate worked in a uni tech job over summer and liberated a couple of old but perfectly functional monitors for me. I can't believe people throw away this.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 16:12:22 No.17094

I don't know is what contry you're at but you make me envious.
There is no such thing as store dumpsters around my place. There'll be some for little food stores and that's pretty much it.
All the non-food store will just leave a big pile of cardboard on the pacement, once in 12 piles ther'll be some coat hangers or some soykaf .
Sometimes I find nice garbage but it's always someone throwing away his old stuff not a store. I've found some pretty good things but there's not a place where I can dive on the regular.
The best way I've found to get old computers regularly is to bring some busted comps to the official dump and sneak another out. I'm sure the dumpkeeper has found me out but he's not giving me crap because I'm not too greedy.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 16:18:10 No.17097

>>13077
I've considered doing this looking for electronics but I don't really know where to start. Here in the UK it doesn't seem that many decent dumpsters are around... maybe I'm just not looking properly.

Should I be aiming for local electronics stores or just anything and everything?

Anonymous 2015-10-08 17:11:03 No.17105

>>17097
in my opinion a good place to start is everywhere that sells electronics that you might be looking for, that way you can get a feel for what you are doing, then you can start to branch out poke around office parks, and apartment buildings.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 17:15:46 No.17106

>>17105
Okay cool, I'll start there.

Anonymous 2015-10-08 17:17:53 No.17107

>>17106
happy hunting

Anonymous 2015-10-08 18:58:21 No.17117

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The best thing I found is an oxygen generator when the elder care company trashed them (the filters and all saturate, they throw them away after 50 000h). there is a big medical (= no oil, it's safely breathable!) piston compressor to scavenge in theses. Also, nearly set my lunch table on fire when playing with the oxygen...

Anonymous 2015-10-08 19:52:15 No.17121

this thread is interesting. i should probably go check some dumpsters too sometime
>>17117
haha oh wow, cool stuff there

Anonymous 2015-10-08 20:08:13 No.17122

>>17121
You should, go do it tonight, better yet right now.

Anonymous 2015-10-09 10:50:11 No.17162

I wish I had a car so I could do this. Ugh, is like kicking dead whales down the beach having a fear of driving. Dad used to drive on drugs so now I kinda hyperventilate furiously in a car. Not busses, just cars.

Anonymous 2015-10-09 11:50:11 No.17164

>>17162
Can't you just grab smaller stuff and put it in a rucksack? Or go full hobo style and take a load of black bin bags with you. Take it on the bus like you don't give a fuarrrk.

Anonymous 2015-10-09 15:04:38 No.17168

>>17162
car is 0% needed. Got a bike?, got a decent backpack, or duffle bag? all you need. soykaf don't even need a bike if you live anywhere with decent transit.

Anonymous 2015-10-09 15:37:12 No.17169

>>17168
this. I just got back from a 15 mile bike ride scouting spots to dive.

Anonymous 2015-10-15 08:21:52 No.17587

What do you guys think about pawn shops? Are they worth diving behind?

Anonymous 2015-10-15 23:48:50 No.17620

Going for my first run this weekend, about a mile away from my house is a shopping center with a Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T stores, all with dumpters grouped up, hopefully the haul will be good, though I won't be able to hold a ton seeing as I only have a diamondback, and not an actual car.

For food, if any of you live near a Moe's southwestern grille, come in at around 10 minutes before closing and ask if you can get the rest of the chicken/steak/beef/fish, seeing as we throw it out, if they are nice, they'll give it to you for free.

Anonymous 2015-10-16 00:02:23 No.17621

I have found a cool Luxor FM radio from the 80s with five preset buttons. I've also found an old digital camera that I'm gonna buy batteries to and test. The other month I found an hueeg stereo amplifier. 200W total. Tested it using headphones, and it was this strange hum in the left channel. Ditched it. Don't want to fall victim of some fire. But the best find did I do years ago. A neat-o Dell workstation that I'm actually using right now.

Didn't have to sneak around at night. Made these finds in the homeowner's room for bulky waste.

Anonymous 2015-10-16 00:19:46 No.17623

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>>17168
I can't even bike to the nearest dumpsters in this area. Trust me, I know what I'm doing because I survived in other cities this way for years. Where I currently live it's not an option, not without a car.
> don't even need a bike if you live anywhere with decent transit.
Yeah exactly. I don't.

>>17587
You mean stuff that was gotten rid of twice? First by the original owner and second by the shop? Surprisingly yes, on occasion. It's often fun if not really useful. Like when you want stupid, random stuff to decorate your place with.

>>17164
Several times, we put a shopping cart full of goodies on the last C-Train of the night in Calgary. The train is free downtown and there is almost no one riding it at that hour. (at least it WAS free, I haven't been back in years)

>>17028
Dude, Twin Cities = best dumpster diving ever. Go to the U and the colleges at the end of spring semester and go through the trash the dorm kids throw out. It's like second Christmas. The co-ops usually have good food too, also Trader Joes/Whole Foods.

Anonymous 2015-11-11 09:17:09 No.19086

Bump

Anonymous 2015-11-11 10:37:37 No.19089

not really a dumpster dive but I was taking some stuff to the tip once and some guy was going to throw away one of those petrol remote control cars so I told him I'd take it. It was missing the body and the remote but it was still in working order.

Ilken 2015-11-11 13:41:42 No.19094

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66 Dell computers,
We find THOUSAND$$$$ of $$$$$ every week , so much we dont even bother with most of it anymore...

Anonymous 2015-11-12 14:22:46 No.19115

>>19094
Sweet haul, where did you get all that?

Anonymous 2015-11-13 14:33:16 No.19199

>>19094
How do you sell all of that?

Anonymous 2015-11-14 21:52:39 No.19282

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Found some stuff being tossed out by the local community college. Mostly a bunch of odd PCBs and broken monitors, but I snagged an 80GB SATA drive, some microfilm reels from the 80s, and this weird "decimal counting unit" (pic related)
I'm gonna use the bulbs in a sculpture, but any lains know what it does? Besides count things...

Anonymous 2015-11-15 04:21:10 No.19307

>>17623
>>Twin Cities = best dumpster diving ever.
this guys gets it. forget portland, or cali. The wife, and her old road dog just grabbed a massive score from trader joe's, and some local shops, although that was pretty much all food stuffs. I did however learn how awesome vitamin shoppes, and other health stores are for food supplements, and soykaf

Anonymous 2015-11-15 04:24:15 No.19308

>>19094
I too would appreciate it if you'd at least give some pointers for where the best places tend to be for finding soykaf like this.

Do you sell them at flea markets? eBay? Craigslist? Do you have a storefront?

Anonymous 2015-11-15 09:00:59 No.19321

>>19282
those are nixie tubes
https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&q=nixie+tubes&tbs=imgo:1&gws_rd=cr&ei=mElIVrv9II-cjwO-iYHQAQ

Anonymous 2015-11-15 14:04:00 No.19343

>>19282
That picture looks like the device used in Steins;Gate.

Anonymous 2015-11-15 22:19:20 No.19387

>>19321
Cool! So I'm assuming if I apply a voltage to one of the 8 pins on the bottom, a portion of it glows?
>>19343
Precisely why I picked it up!

Anonymous 2015-11-15 23:59:10 No.19391

>>19387
you can probably find tons of diy nixie tube projects online mostly clocks

Anonymous 2015-11-16 01:33:21 No.19395

>>19387

Sort of. Nixies are cold-cathode tubes, so they're pretty easy to drive. You just need to ground the common and put anywhere between 40 and ~200 Vdc to light them (buffered by a ~10-15k resistor so you don't burn it out, since the current/voltage curve is non-linear and state/temperature-dependent).

To be honest, though, you'd probably find it easier to just drive the whole assembly. If you're lucky it'll have a HV supply inside and take TTL logic levels on the input.

Pull it apart and post photos.