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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.
That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor
German humor is nothing to laugh at.
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German… what now?
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.
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
Google also has this little easter egg: https://www.google.com/teapot
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?
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 sensors?
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
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!
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.
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!)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.
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
Java?
Hot coffee in your area!
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)
This looks like motif which IMO is comfy asf
I don’t, but this one is a exception. Not too much visual clutter and also more accessible than most modern themes.
I got a 360° one to fuck with my cat >:)
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.
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
Just use a laserpointer and the surface refracting properties of water, like any hacker?
