Necessity is the mother of invention
Thanks to a couple of programmers their love for coffee future historians can now build a direct time line from colonialism to e-girls.
FYI : Kodak patented the digital camera in 1975 but film and paper were too profitable
If you step back and look at every company out there, we could probably either determine they have no purpose to the greater good of humanity or they chose to ignore a new invention because they are not even close to done making money on the current one. Could you imagine where we’d be if we progressed on improving a technology because it was a better option?
Capitalism sucks. It sucks for the planet.
But hey, I made 5 trillion dollars on a stock today, so there’s that /s
20+ years ago Colgate bought and shelved a patent for an antibacterial mouthwash that only targeted bacteria that erode enamel.
“We can’t sell this shit… It will put us and the entire dentistry profession under”
“most world changing technologies were made because an Engineer was lazy!!!”
-Bill Gates, probably
Not far off tbf
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?
Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_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!
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.
Glad my lore has served you well.
I get no respect.
All you had to do was brew a coffee…
That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor
German humor is nothing to laugh at.
Anzeige ist raus
The wurst.
German… what now?
I’m not laughing.
Google also has this little easter egg: https://www.google.com/teapot
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.
See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
Another example of such an attack
CW: animals being eaten
that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage
Valid. I checked again, and:
Known risks to the protocol include:
- Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: “Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”
So I guess that’s what’s happening here
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.
“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.
Nah but it was the first OF person. There was Chaturbate and other webcam platforms prior but not OF. So Coffee was the first OF. It’s a fact.
Ah, do not one has regaled you with the old “Only Pennies” machines in the drug store.
Well, some models sure were channeling Mamie Van Doren, I’ll tell you that!
Dies
CAFEBABE
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.
You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?
Yea, but the image was goatse, so we knew pretty quick who did what.
whenever I leave the hoose
Canadian, eh?
I am. How could you tell? /s
So, you’re not Scottish then…
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.
people keep saying they don’t like this in ecars
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
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.
The presentation of schizophrenia is apparently different in less technologically advanced societies, so you might have a point. https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/foc.6.2.foc184
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.
Come up with a way such that i dont have to take apart the stove and im listening.
Definitely don’t have to take anything apart. If you can’t use a smart plug on the outlet, A zigbee temperature sensor mounted above or near the range would do the trick. There’s also methane/gas detectors.
If you’ve never used Home Assistant, it’s open source and completely local, and super easy to get going. You can automate nearly everything, so getting phone notifications or persistent temp reminders would be a breeze. Let me know if you have questions about that part. I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve been slowly automating everything in my house and it’s been great.I’m using home assistant for the photos right now. The problem with a temp sensor is that it could stay hot after a while even if the stove is off.
Would a methane gas detector work if the flame was on?
Great, so you’re already halfway there! You may be right on the temp sensor and the gas detector would probably be spotty too. I was thinking you could glue some magnets to the knobs and use a hall effects sensor nearby to map their position, but that would take some tinkering and I personally haven’t done anything like that.
But you mentioned you already have a camera pointed at it, you could add Frigate to Home Assistant and use object detection to notify you about events such as ‘knob turned’ or ‘panel glowing’ for flame detection or even just have it compare snapshots every x minutes and notify you of any change at all. Then you still always have the camera for visual backup as well.
Isn’t that also where “HTTP 418: I’m a teapot” came from?
Though that could have been a reference, iirc that was an unrelated April fools RFC that was filed as a partial complaint people were creating overly specific http status codes
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.
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.
1991-2001… Holy shit, this coffee pot has a longer lifespan than most Google products!
My whole life is one big joke.
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
I just love those old OS designs. Mostly Windows 3.11 and AmigaOS 3.2
This looks like motif which IMO is comfy asf
You might be right. Anyway, Motif was nice too.
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.
I don’t, but this one is a exception. Not too much visual clutter and also more accessible than most modern themes.
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/coffee0to turn pin 0 high on the parallel port. (This is silly, and it’s much easier to just do things in user space!)Lol, criticism of the turning machine.
Just use a laserpointer and the surface refracting properties of water, like any hacker?
Java?
