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.
Coffee ☕
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idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yea, but the image was goatse, so we knew pretty quick who did what.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Why do modern stoves/ovens have in multiple ways problematic smart stuff, but no proximity sensors?
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
night_petal@piefed.social 2 months 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.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months 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 :/
quarkquasar@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 2 months 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
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Come up with a way such that i dont have to take apart the stove and im listening.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So it wasn’t porn?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 months ago
Guys working with computers in this era didn’t know any girls.
TheFogan@programming.dev 2 months ago
worth noting, e-mail however was… If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
1991-2001… Holy shit, this coffee pot has a longer lifespan than most Google products!
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My whole life is one big joke.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
neuromorph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“most world changing technologies were made because an Engineer was lazy!!!”
-Bill Gates, probably
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not far off tbf
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Isn’t that also where “HTTP 418: I’m a teapot” came from?
newline@feddit.nl 2 months 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
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Necessity is the mother of invention
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coffee was also the name of the first OnlyFans model to use a Webcam.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sorry but webcams are older than OF. There would have been many OF models that were already doing webcamming.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CAFEBABE
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I just love those old OS designs. Mostly Windows 3.11 and AmigaOS 3.2
Harmonics041@feddit.uk 2 months ago
This looks like motif which IMO is comfy asf
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You might be right. Anyway, Motif was nice too.
Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Amiga 3.2 is a quite new release (although it still looks much like 3.1)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
FYI : Kodak patented the digital camera in 1975 but film and paper were too profitable
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 2 months 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.world 2 months ago
20+ years ago Colgate bought and shelved a patent for an antibacterial mouthwash that only targeted bacteria that erode enamel.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t understand why they don’t just accept free walks
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Lol, found a non dev
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months 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
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Java?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Too much tech for me, I alway French Press my coffee on the go in a more ecologic way.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I would do that, but called it Turkish coffee. Get it ground that way.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Hot coffee in your area!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Just use a laser and the surface refracting properties of water, like any hacker?
facow@hexbear.net 2 months ago
See also HTCPCP and HTTP 418 I’m a teapot
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me and My 3d printer thank you
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I got a 360° one to fuck with my cat >:)
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
TIL
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This was before movable coffee pots became common.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yet another invention driven by laziness.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months 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.world 2 months 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.zone 2 months 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?
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Glad my lore has served you well.
NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
German humor is nothing to laugh at.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 months ago
German… what now?
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m not laughing.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s impossible to know until you observe them. They’re Shrödinger’s Nerds.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I get no respect.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
All you had to do was brew a coffee…
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.
See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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