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 No.13077[Last 50 Posts]

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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 No.13078

>>13077
Is the RAM good?

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 No.13079

I once found a fully functional Sega Master System II. The day was made.

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 No.13080

I've found vintage radios, a working C64 with PSU and a TAC-2, vintage stereo set, old kick ass GPU's, a incomplete set of some early VR glasses and stuff I can't come up with at the top of my head

Might add pics later

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 No.13082

>>13078
If you mean if it works or not, no idea.

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 No.13083

>>13077
>>13079
>>13080

Where do you guys go diving?

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 No.13087

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My waifu and I dumpster dive on the regular. Figure out the days your towns' dump truck comes by and hit the days before. In the USA, these are the places that we check:

Dollar stores, all kinds of stuff. Once we found 10 bags of Sour Patch Kids watermelons. Another time we found an entire box of Lindor truffles. Last time we went, I got a large case of individually wrapped medical gauze.
Staples, sometimes electronics. Got a few mice sitting around from there. They also throw away plenty of snacks, because who buys peanuts and popcorn from staples? We have gotten so much from there, they are probably going out of business.
Go to these places for foods. Aldi, Gordon Food Service, Dunkin Donuts.

Please, if you are going dumpster diving, make sure you leave the dumpster how you found it. We've trashed dumpsters (redundant) and they've put locks on them. Get in, get out.

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 No.13088

>>13077
supermarkets with bakeries tend to bag up their goods and toss em pretty regularly.

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 No.13089

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>>13087
>Went to click the image
>Low fuarrrking resolution

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 No.13090

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I found a big ol MGS UPS in the dumpster behind the mecheng building at uni. Pulled so much sick stuff out of that thing.

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 No.13091

>>13090
Man this makes me wish I could dumpster dive. Shame I have no car.

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 No.13092

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>>13091
It was the best, I'd go there in the evening after all the classes were out, and nobody second guessed what I was doing at all.
Do you live in a city? Or have a bike?

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 No.13093

Survived for years getting most of my food this way. Co-op groceries and Trader Joes in the US were nice. You can even learn the schedule and find out what day of the week certain parts of the store rotate stuff. Kensington and Chinatown neighbourhoods in Toronto were the bomb, trash was just left on the curb for a few hours every night. Bakeries often toss bagged bread. Also the warehouses that supply the stores were often even better but farther away.

Also found ten bottles of wine once, and many beers on occasion. If they drop a case and one breaks they usually throw out the rest. I've scored so much booze a few times that I needed to make two trips.

Some big colleges bring in dumpsters at the beginning of summer for kids clearing out of the dorms. Rich kids away from mom and dad for the first time have idea of the value of things. Expensive winter clothes, appliances, electronics, jars of change, furniture, anything.

If a thing is bought and sold anywhere, someone somewhere is throwing one away.

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 No.13094

Apartment dumpster areas are great for furniture. >>13093

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 No.13096

>>13092
>Do you live in a city? Or have a bike?
I intend to invest in a fold-able bike at some point. I live in a city. The car thing is just because petrol is so expensive.

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 No.13106

Found a ASUS p5k premium mobo today. Heatsink on the mobo is slightly bended but I doubt it matters. Any tips before I test it so I don't burn my house down?

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 No.13108

Just went on my first time this Sunday or Monday. I went to a nearby High/Middle school and found a door to a recycling shack door left opened, so I got quite a bit of school supplies, there was an old phone recycling box too, so I found a Nokia phone and it's charger. I've only got it to turn on once. After that it hasn't turned on at all. Then I found a camera bag near the shack. That's about it.

I worked at a thrift shop last summer and I got free computer parts that were gonna go in the trash which is pretty cool. Saved me quite a bit of money. I might go diving again this week. I just don't know where.

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 No.13110

>>13106
If humid: let it dry thoroughly first.

Use a CPU you can miss in case the mainboard is shorting.

Run Prime95/IBT for a while and see if it's stable.

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 No.13114

>tfw no friends to go diving with
>tfw too much of a pussy to go alone

At least I can be comfy listening to 2814 for hours on end.

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 No.13115

>>13114
what?

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 No.13116

>>13115
He means the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9L4q-0Pi4E

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 No.13117

>>13116
Thanks so much!

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 No.13119

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>>13108
Samefag here. Went biking down to a local thrift shop got some 50 cent Pac-Man games I played as a kid, then found a bag of trash near an electrical box thing and opened it up.
I think it was some homeless guy's stuff. I'm not to sure. There was a /k/ tier sleeping bag, a beer can, a binder, some sweat pants, and an Under Armor string bag. I kinda' wanted to take the sleeping bag, but it stank and I didn't know how I'd get it home. So, I just grabbed the binder and the string bag. Seriously guys, just go for bike ride and look around. Even if it's small things, it's still free. I have yet to find some worth while electronics though. I'm gonna' keep diggin'.

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 No.13121

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>>13119
>i stole from a homeless man.

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 No.13122

>>13121
kek, I honestly don't think I did, because I saw that bag sitting there for the past 3 days. I bet it was just trash. And If I did, well I'm sorry I took a binder and a bag from him.

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 No.13123

>>13122
weve all been there, lainon.
it was probably just a very adult geo-cache.
theyre all over my town, you usually find a dirty spoon with a duct-tape handle, some old sharps, maybe a chain with a peening hammer bolted to the end.
theyre like power-ups for a demented platform/rpg.

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 No.13130

Would be great if there is a tutorial for dumpster diving or a how to. Or if someone wrote one.

Preferably write it on wikihow.

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 No.13131

>>13130
find dumpster that's not occupied by people roaming around
make sure no cops near by
walk into said dumpster and pick out pieces
clean up before you leave
if confronted by a cop, don't run.

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 No.13132

>>13130
also wear thick boots, protective gloves of your personal choice, and be light weight. In any case of emergency you want to be able to be quick.

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 No.13135

>>13130
There used to be lots of zines about it, no idea where you'd look for one these days though.

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 No.13141

>>13130
Literally, just searched "How to Dumpster Dive".

http://www.wikihow.com/Dumpster-Dive

http://jinteki.industries has a good tutorial too.

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 No.13170

>>13141
>jinteki.industries
he suggests to bring a stick...

that triggered this really weird flashback of when i was around 7 and my dad used to dumpster dive out behind this department store. they had a massive dumpster and it was really hard to manipulate the items in the middle even with the stick or pole or whatever it was. so wed set the stick across the top of the dumpster width-wise and my dad would hold it while id climb out to the middle and move things with my feet.
he scored a few display cases out of there that he went on the re-sell for not a small amount of money.
>tfw i dont have a child, so i just use a headlamp and a long-handeled shovel

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 No.13184

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I just scored a full blister of Chinese antibiotics from a bunch of stuff piled in front of the apartment building next to me. I also got a decent computer chair and a large folding table that would be great for beer pong

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 No.13193

I've tried dumpster diving many times, but the city I live in absolutely is like kicking dead whales down the beach for it due to the high homeless population and poor neighborhoods that only throw soykaf out when it is absolutely done for. Pretty much all the bigger businesses use trash compactors. Waste of time for me unless I want to travel far and wide.

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 No.13205

>>13193
Yeah in North America there has been such an economic shift away from neighborhood businesses towards box stores, and as you mentioned compactors are more common now. Dumpster diving used to be easier. Hell I can hardly BUY food in my own neighborhood anymore.

> hurr remember tha good ol' days when dumpsterin' was eazzy
Just saying I realize how ludicrous I might sound right now.

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 No.13209

Nay, I'm not going into the trash.

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 No.13210

>>13209
I agree, it would be embarrassing if someone saw me

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 No.13212

>>13210
It's pretty socially acceptable in some places. All those Portlandia skits about it are based in the reality of that city's culture.

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 No.13214

>>13212
Well, where I'm from I don't think that going through trash is socially accaptable but I think that it's cool that people itt can break the social norm.

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 No.13223

>>13214
You shouldn't care about social norms. It won't get you any brownie points. Just don't let anyone who has control over whether you will have a job tomorrow see you.

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 No.13224

>>13223
Some passerby may call the police on you but after explaining what you're doing, the worst that is likely to happen is that you will be told to leave. Also some cops don't care and would rather find a person going through trash after they expected a burglar.

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 No.13279

>>13214
That's why you go at night, preferably in places with no cameras and few people, you have an escape route, and are dressed so you aren't easily recognizable.

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 No.13294

>>13141
http://jinteki.industries/ is down for me, has been for days :(

Anyone know of any sites to find local divers?

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 No.13919

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Went to a dive today behind a local electronics store, found this 386 baby, and it boots!

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 No.13926

>>13294
Try SquatThePlanet. I have been pretty domesticated lately and haven't looked there in a while myself but there is a forum section called "making a living" or some such which includes dumpster diving and there's other sections for finding people in your vicinity.

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 No.13927

>>13919
Thats a neat find.

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 No.13942

>>13212
Can confirm, dumpster diving is as common as jaywalking here. Old town / china town is straight up just the domain of the homeless.

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 No.13959

I mostly just look in the e-waste bin at work.

Found some RAM (random DDR and DDR2 sticks) and a couple of S3 Virge and Rage 128 graphics cards today.

A few weeks ago I scored an Onkyo A-9711 and a NAD C300. The latter has some bad caps that I intend to replace, and the former had some issues with the input selector switch, but it works perfectly now that I've cleaned the switches.

The Onkyo has become my daily driver.

Found some other nice old computer stuff too, but rarely anything older than the 2000s.

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 No.13988

>>13077
postan from an early 2008 macbook I got from a thriftstore for $10
also just made an arch server from an old core 2 duo pc I got for $5

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 No.14023

>my city has a huge ass electronic dump
>it's prohibited to pick up anything

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 No.14048

>>14023
What will happen if you *bend* the law?

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 No.14049

>>14048
The law is made of steel, so It should be fine.

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 No.14082

>>14023
Nederland?

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 No.14309

>>14082
Over Nederland gesproken:

Als je een wasmachine ofzo nodig hebt en de nodige vaardigheid hebt om 'm te maken als hij defect is, rij is een keer door een paar buurten in de stad, er zijn altijd mensen die geen zin hebben om de oude naar de sloop te brengen als hij stukgaat, en dus hem buitengooien.

Ik heb vorig jaar een Zanker CF2265 gevonden die perfect werkte na wat klein onderhoud aan de motor, een Bosch WFF2080 met versleten koolborstels die verder in nieuwstaat verkeerde, zowel extern als intern.

Ook heb vrij recent een Miele FrontStar W800 gevonden 500 meter verderop waar ik woon, die werkte eveneens perfect, helaas is er alleen op 40c gewassen waardoor hij vol met schimmel zat.

Marktplaats is ook een hele goede voor gratisch spul, ik heb zelfs gratisch oudere en/of moderne Mieles gescoord die maar kleine defecten hadden, en met gigawinsten doorverkocht.

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 No.14327

>>14309
Could you talk in English from now on?

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 No.14330

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>>13090
i'm always looking out for this kind of stuff, have found heaps of neat things! Going to skate by the pc store tomorrow, when it's not raining they have an alley out the the back who knows they might've ditched something half decent!

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 No.14355

>>14330
If you are the owner that keeps spamming this around; your site blows.

If you are, not, then I am sure the owner will eventually read this.

It's not that I dislike what your site is, it's mostly the design that's off.

"What is the point of it?"
I'm sure that is the point of it, but there is so much more that can be done. flex on it more before you spam it.

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 No.14596

My bro found a dusty pc with i7 and an ok vga in a junkyard, since the Indians working there came from some village and didn't know jack about tech, they sold it to him for about 30 bucks.

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 No.14600

>>14355
There's a purpose for the site ~ you could make an account

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 No.14601

>>14355
There's a purpose for the site ~ you could make an account
>>14355
>are you a designer?

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 No.14602

>>14355
it's a site for a book I can do whatever I want

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 No.14610

>>14600
>>14601
>>14602
Don't samefag and wage slave your crap.

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 No.14616

How would I go about finding spots for this? I'm from south america btw.

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 No.14658

>>14355
>>14610
are any of you shazbots even getting an education?

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 No.14680

Got about a half dozen mixed rail kits today, maybe 300 feet of cat5e, a few dozen patch cables, and a box full of cage nuts, screws, etc.

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 No.14816

I'm not enough /cyb/ for pure diving, but I found an eToken Pro 72k near the dumpster. It had a certificate for bank auth expired 3 years ago.

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 No.14827

I swear I only ever see Americans talk about this. Any UK lainons tried it? Really want to give it a bash.

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 No.14829

I swear I only ever see Americans talk about this. Any UK lainons tried it? Really want to give it a bash.

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 No.14830

>>14827

Yeah man, my local chippy dumps all it's leftovers at exactly 11pm every night, sometimes I go over and grab some if I fancy it, they're always still warm and delicious

You'd be amazed at how much food goes to waste, and it's all perfectly good stuff

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 No.14831

>>14830
nice, don't live in the city currently but with any luck I'll be relocating in a few months. Ever tried anything else? Sounds like such an amazing way to cut down no living expenses.

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 No.14832

>>14831

I wouldn't bother with chinese or indian, that stuff doesn't pile up like battered fish and chips does, so it gets very dirty in the bins

I mean I certainly wouldn't turn it down if I was homeless but given the choice I'd avoid it

If you mean non-foodstuffs, I've not had any luck yet. I only started dumpster-diving recently though.

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 No.14847

>>14832
what about more nutritious stuff? fruit, vegetables, fresh meat?

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 No.14904

>>13092
Fucking hell, I posted this like a year ago. Back at uni, still diving. Selling stuff too.

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 No.14927

>>14847
It's pretty much just like shopping. Only instead of going through the front, you head around the back. So go where you'd usually find what you're looking for. It definitely helps if you go to places that specialise though. If you're looking for fruit and veg you'll get mixed results if you got to a supermarket, but go to the grocers and there's not really much else that could be in there. I've never found fresh meat though. It's too warm here, even in winter, so it's always off by the time you find it. Maybe if it's snowing and freezing where you live you'd be fine. For me I find bakeries are great. They throw out everything that's left at the end of the day and there's a good mix of bread/fruit/cheese/meat. But then I'm homeless and have no way of cooking anything.

This site was great when I first started dumpster diving.
http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page

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 No.14928

What tips would you have for someone with no experience dumpster diving? What kinds of places should I target?

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 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.

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 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?

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 No.15417

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

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 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.

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 No.16595

Thread on infinite chan:

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

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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!

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 No.17028

any 651 wanna meet up for a run?

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 No.17042

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

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 No.17046

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

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 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

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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!

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 No.17079

>>17070
they can donate them

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 No.17086

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

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 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.

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 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.

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 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?

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 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.

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 No.17106

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

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 No.17107

>>17106
happy hunting

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 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...

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 No.17121

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

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 No.17122

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

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 No.17169

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

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 No.17587

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

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 No.19086

Bump

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 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.

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 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...

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 No.19115

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

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 No.19199

>>19094
How do you sell all of that?

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 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...

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 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

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 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?


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 No.19343

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

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 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!

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 No.19391

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

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 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.


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