Coffee ☕
(midwest.social)
Science Memes"most world changing technologies were made because an Engineer was lazy!!!!"
-Bill Gates, probably
Too much tech for me, I alway French Press my coffee on the go in a more ecologic way.
I do cowboy coffee now. Mix finely ground with hot water, stir ot, it settles in a couple minutes, pour off liquid. Way easier.
"Coffee" was also the name of the first OnlyFans model to use a Webcam.
Oh I like this. It's on the cusp of being fake or fact. I'm never going to fact check and I don't want to know.
Sorry but webcams are older than OF. There would have been many OF models that were already doing webcamming.
TIL
I don't understand why they don't just accept free walks
Lol, found a non dev
If it was physical I'd understand. As an engineer I'll takr any excuse to build something. But I also need my boss off my ass about taking another walk, I can't think sitting still
Yet another invention driven by laziness - just like the remote control. Where would we be without that?
Personally, I prefer laziness as a motivator over greed. It's much more likely to lead to low maintenance solutions that still keep maintenance as an option over replacement.
Though I've curated my laziness to the point where I'll do chores out of laziness becuase I know they'll be more work later.
But I'd also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
Me and My 3d printer thank you
Just use a laserpointer and the surface refracting properties of water, like any hacker?
I just love those old OS designs. Mostly Windows 3.11 and AmigaOS 3.2
Amiga 3.2 is a quite new release (although it still looks much like 3.1)
From 2021, to be exact.
Indeed. And the latest version of it was from last year.
This looks like motif which IMO is comfy asf
You might be right. Anyway, Motif was nice too.
I don't, but this one is a exception. Not too much visual clutter and also more accessible than most modern themes.
I have a camera aimed at my stove so I can check if I accidentally left the stove on. It never happens but it does give me peace of mind whenever I leave the hoose and get paranoid.
Maybe someone mentioned this, but I'm sure there's a million ways to tackle this task through Home Assistant and a cheap sensor. That way you get passive notifications instead of having to actively check.
Why do modern stoves/ovens have in multiple ways problematic smart stuff, but no proximity sensor?
My stove is a dumb stove. But I'd imagine the reason they dont have it on a smart stove is often times you need to leave things to cook for a while. Eg. Pasta, stews, soups, etc.
An oven is one of the few things I can actually see having an app for being useful. Preheating the oven remotely and getting notified when it is ready sounds really useful.
Tangentially, I often wonder if technology has increased paranoia.
I can imagine someone worried about people following them might notice a lot more ear pieces, or if the increased knowledge of them has made that kind of fear decrease.
You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?
whenever I leave the hoose
Canadian, eh?
I am. How could you tell? /s
So, you're not Scottish then...
Edit:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wioh5qUj7fM
I was thinking to install a "smart" power outlet for the very same purpose, but stoves don't have exactly standard plugs ;)
Then again, we just moved to a flat with induction stove, where it's not really a big deal.
Our stove is gas unfortunately. It came with the place and it's wasteful to replace it if it works so I'm stuck with it for a while :/
I put a Shelly uno in mine on the wire that runs thru the control lock buzzer. I used it to turn on the exhaust fan, but you could also set up an alert.
If your range doesn't have the buzzer, you could retrofit the switches with ones that have the contacts for it.
https://www.geapplianceparts.com/store/parts/spec/WB18T10454
I got a 360° one to fuck with my cat >:)
The Trojan Room coffee pot camera existed before the web existed. Before the web it was a client/server protocol on a local network. They only made it into a webcam after the web was invented and started supporting images.
What I remember is that when the first web browsers capable of displaying images were launched, people found a way to sample a single frame from a camera and load it into an image tag to get an extremely slow frame rate camera. People had been trying to make video calling a thing since the 1960s, and I think the first "webcams" were new attempts to demonstrate that. They basically came out at the same time as XCoffee being available on the Internet, but they had more publicity behind them. IMO, what made the coffee pot special was that it was so clearly useless to everybody except a few people in a lab in Cambridge. It was revolutionary that bandwidth and camera hardware was so cheap that someone could allow anybody on the planet to just check out the level of their coffee machine on demand at any time.
There was even an entire standards document drawn up (as a practical joke), called the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP 1.0). To this day though, there the server status response 418 - I'm a teapot still exists. It was defined as part of HTCPCP as the error code returned when you tried to get a teapot to brew coffee :)
Web nerds took their coffee seriously! Or maybe they didn't? Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
I get no respect.
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.
See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
Another example of such an attack
::: spoiler CW: animals being eaten :::
Geeking out over the origins of HTTP 418 kinda got me a job once. But that was back when that kind of stuff, connecting interpersonally with the humans that you work with, mattered during hiring.
connecting interpersonally with the humans
You could've stopped right there and it would've still made sense, which is sad.
Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments
Engineering humour of this sort actually goes back even further -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator
Nerdy humour has probably been around as long as there have been engineers.
Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!
Google also has this little easter egg: https://www.google.com/teapot
Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
It's impossible to know until you observe them. They're Shrödinger's Nerds.
That's serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor
German humor is nothing to laugh at.
The wurst.
Anzeige ist raus
German... what now?
You can/could also find Coffee HOWTO in your distro's HOWTO package. (I found a reference back to v0.5 of the document in 1998.)
Has simple schematics to get you started for the hardware, using the parallel port to toggle relays.
It's a very neat little document, and inspired me to write a simple kernel module so I could echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/whatever/coffee0 to turn pin 0 high on the parallel port. (This is silly, and it's much easier to just do things in user space!)
So it wasn't porn?
Guys working with computers in this era didn't know any girls.
worth noting, e-mail however was... If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.
Ah, but you see, ASCII porn doesn't need a girl.
1991-2001... Holy shit, this coffee pot has a longer lifespan than most Google products!
At first I thought why not use a float level, then I thought oh right that'll be disgusting to have floating in the shared coffee.
Java?
Hot coffee in your area!
See also HTCPCP and HTTP response 418: I'm a teapot
This was before movable coffee pots became common.
