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• ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • dparticiple@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: en.wikipedia.org/…/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_C…

    Engineering humour of this sort actually goes back even further – en.wikipedia.org/…/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_C…

    Nerdy humour has probably been around as long as there have been engineers.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!

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  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      connecting interpersonally with the humans

      You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.

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    • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Glad my lore has served you well.

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  • NichtElias@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      German humor is nothing to laugh at.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      German… what now?

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    • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not laughing.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get no respect.

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    • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All you had to do was brew a coffee…

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.

    See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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• idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yea, but the image was goatse, so we knew pretty quick who did what.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    whenever I leave the hoose

    Canadian, eh?

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am. How could you tell? /s

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do modern stoves/ovens have in multiple ways problematic smart stuff, but no proximity sensors?

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • night_petal@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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 :/

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  • quarkquasar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The presentation of schizophrenia is apparently different in less technologically advanced societies, so you might have a point. psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/…/foc.6.2.foc184

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Come up with a way such that i dont have to take apart the stove and im listening.

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So it wasn’t porn?

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Guys working with computers in this era didn’t know any girls.

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    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      worth noting, e-mail however was… If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.

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• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1991-2001… Holy shit, this coffee pot has a longer lifespan than most Google products!

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  • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My whole life is one big joke.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• neuromorph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “most world changing technologies were made because an Engineer was lazy!!!”

  -Bill Gates, probably

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  • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not far off tbf

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that also where “HTTP 418: I’m a teapot” came from?

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  • newline@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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• diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Necessity is the mother of invention

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks to a couple of programmers their love for coffee future historians can now build a direct time line from colonialism to e-girls.

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• TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Coffee was also the name of the first OnlyFans model to use a Webcam.

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  • BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry but webcams are older than OF. There would have been many OF models that were already doing webcamming.

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  • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CAFEBABE

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• Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just love those old OS designs. Mostly Windows 3.11 and AmigaOS 3.2

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  • Harmonics041@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This looks like motif which IMO is comfy asf

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    • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might be right. Anyway, Motif was nice too.

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  • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amiga 3.2 is a quite new release (although it still looks much like 3.1)

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    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From 2021, to be exact.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t, but this one is a comfy space. Not too much visual clutter like pseudo-shadows and also more accessible than most modern themes.

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• MisterD@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FYI : Kodak patented the digital camera in 1975 but film and paper were too profitable

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  • Stupidmanager@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      20+ years ago Colgate bought and shelved a patent for an antibacterial mouthwash that only targeted bacteria that erode enamel.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why they don’t just accept free walks

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  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol, found a non dev

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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• SurfinBird@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Java?

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Too much tech for me, I alway French Press my coffee on the go in a more ecologic way.

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do cowboy coffee now. Mix finely ground with hot water, stir ot, it settles in a couple minutes, pour off liquid. Way easier.

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    • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would do that, but called it Turkish coffee. Get it ground that way.

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    • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      French Press is faster, mix ground with hot water, push down the plunger, coffee ready

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hot coffee in your area!

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just use a laser and the surface refracting properties of water, like any hacker?

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• facow@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  See also HTCPCP and HTTP 418 I’m a teapot

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me and My 3d printer thank you

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got a 360° one to fuck with my cat >:)

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was before movable coffee pots became common.

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yet another invention driven by laziness.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.

      “Two days of debugging can save you 10 minutes of reading the documentation.”

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