• musubibreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days 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.

  • neuromorph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

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

    -Bill Gates, probably

    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days 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

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        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”

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    7 days 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.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

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

        • BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          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.

        • TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          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

  • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

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

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 days 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.

      • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        French Press is faster, mix ground with hot water, push down the plunger, coffee ready. In the morning I’m not capable to do something more complicated or waiting minutes for my coffee.

        • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          You are supposed to wait a few minutes before plunging and decanting French press though. If you are just pressing it and serving your French press coffee must be absolutely terrible.

          A decent drip maker with a timer will make better coffee than you are making and also be less work on top of it. Wake up to fresh hot coffee, done

          • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            It’s a myth, no need to wait in a French Press. I also thought it at the beginning as newbe with it, but there are no differences, except that the coffee isn’t hot anymore waiting several minutes. the pressure of your hand is enough to extract the aroma of the coffee, similar to the pressure do it the water pressure in an italian expresso can, the difference that there the water pression is against the coffee, not the coffee against the water in the french press.

            • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              4 days ago

              That’s absolutely false. I have personally tested a range of different steep times and the difference in taste is obvious. If you can’t taste the difference your taste buds must be fried or something.

              Pressing down on the piston does not provide a meaningful amount of pressure; this has been proven by people instrumenting aeropresses which provide more back pressure than an espresso. Extraction is objectively time dependent, it has been extensively discussed and really isn’t up for debate at all.

        • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          It’s less work than a french press. I am seriously the laziest person in the world when I first wake up and I find it easier. It takes me a couple minutes to get situated to read with my coffee anyway.

  • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Yet another invention driven by laziness - just like the remote control. Where would we be without that?

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days 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.

      • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days 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.”

  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    168·
    7 days 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?