Yeah. I mean, I don’t know the exact product and process you’re using, but most cold brew systems produce a concentrate. Odds are, you’re drinking cold espresso.

I have a feeling that, of all the Treks he didn’t produce, he’d have liked Lower Decks the most. It’s still mostly “humans got better” future, which I think was his core tenant.

TNG was also very much — not utopian; I can’t think of a word that implies that the human race evolved socially; “utopia” would imply everything was perfect for everybody. But he obviously hoped we’d be progressive.

I love DS9, but it’s a step backwards socially. There’s a darkness in the Federation. It’s there in most of the other series, post-TNG, and maybe a little in later TNG seasons, too.

The culmination of all this is the newest series, Section 31. All of Roddenberry’s ideals have simply been shit-canned. The Federation has a black ops section that’s basically cold war CIA; they go around assassinating people and manipulating cultures.

I think this just reflects the zeitgeist. It’s hard to be optimistic now, whereas when ST:TOS was produced we were on the moon, the cold war was fading, and mankind was reaching for the stars. TOS reflects that, and Section 31 reflects exactly how optimistic we are about the future, and current affairs.

It’s depressing. And - to get back to my premise - while Lower Decks was faithful to cannon, and didn’t ignore Section 31, I felt it captured the original general optimism about the future: that we’d be a better, more progressive society. And I think that would have appealed to Roddenberry.

Good luck!

I wonder if the local species of frog has any bearing of the resulting word in each language?

And, besides, Carthago delenda est.

No instructions??

Assuming you’re brewing 1:5 grounds-to-water and 12-24hr brew time, immersion cold brew brews a concentrate. To serve, you’re supposed to dilute 2-to-4 parts water to one part brew. For example, my brewer holds 10oz coarse-ground coffee and 50oz cold water. Let it sit overnight and then filter out the grounds. To serve, pour 1/4 - 1/3 cup concentrate into a mug, and then fill the rest with boiled water from a kettle (for hot coffee), or just cold milk or water & ice for an iced coffee.

Cold brew keeps in the fridge for at least a week. I had one batch of decaf that was in there for nearly a month, but I was starting to be concerned near the end. One week, easily, though. That’s my usual MO. I brew something like 50 oz at a time and it sits in the fridge for - well, let’s say 5 or maybe 6 days. But I used to brew larger batches and I’d regularly go 10 days with the brew in the fridge, no concern.

Once brewed, in a sealed container it (mostly) stops oxidizing and the flavor doesn’t change. And pure brewed coffee doesn’t have many sugars to feed mould.

TL;DR: in a sealed container in the fridge, at least a week is fine.

It could just be shock, but I’m giving props to the girl for being so chill about that. It doesn’t look like she’s freaking out at all.

Yes! I’m not into that, so it was a little off putting until I noticed the bike horn, and then when I saw the frying pan I cracked!

I can guess the secret of the bike horn, but the… oh. Oh, I just realized what the frying pan is for.

Ok, the hilarity has passed. To each their own, but hoo boy.

You rule.

I stay away from Usenet because I’m particularly susceptible to it as a time sink. It’s worse than Lemmy, than Mastodon; I can spend hours in Usenet, and I’m really incapable of not doing that when I have access to it.

But I’m really glad it’s still active.

Some of us don’t really view that as a mistake. ☺

The mouse is a useful input device for some things. It’s categorically horrible for most of the things it’s used for. The repetitious movement of taking your have off the home row, finding the mouse, the relatively large movements required to actually move the mouse, and moving your hand back to the home row and finding the correct position to type again is really very bad. Even finding the pointer takes time and shifts cognitive effort from the task. Then there’s the issue of the pointer itself obscuring screen elements.

There are ways to improve this - track balls under the thumb, auto-hiding the cursor, “find the pointer” hotkeys - every single one of which is a hacked on fix to try to improve a tool wedged into a service for which it is not appropriate.

The mouse is wonderful if what you’re doing keeps your hand on the mouse: gaming, manipulating graphical elements, whatever - although, the fact that artists prefer drawing pads when they can afford them is more proof that the mouse’s domain of useful application is even smaller.

Programs spend a lot of code providing ways for power users to not have to use the mouse.

I like to own a chisel. It is the right tool for some jobs, and it can be used for many jobs. What OS designers have done - largely thanks to Apple - is designed user interfaces around the computer equivalent of a chisel, and it’s IMO one of the greatest mistakes our industry has made.

It’s too bad to hear about how tightly coupled the pointer is. The mouse is an enabler for beginners - that’s one of its strengths - while being terribly, and measurably inefficient for experts; and the irony, in my mind, is that Plan9 is far less likely to attract computer novices than computer experts.

It really depends on your needs, like most things.

What are you trying to achieve? Just set up a place for folks to chat about a topic?

I’m inclined to suggest that if you’re moving from Discord, then I suggest you pick a public server and create your room there. You already aren’t self-hosting or getting bridging, so no loss. A public Mjolnir used to be on matrix.org but isn’t anymore, so you have to be alert to spammers; if you have enough people you’re willing to make mods, this is manageable. Matrix spammers tend to pop in, drop some fishing or advertisement; if you have someone watching 24/7 they can ban-and-remove the spam pretty quickly. Otherwise, you clean things up whenever you’re in there; it’s annoying, but not arduous. If you’re a small room, you won’t attract the spammers as much; if you’re larger, I’d hope you have enough folks who can help mod.

I would not try to self-host out of the gate. If you do, start with a beefy server; you’ll need a bunch of disk space - maybe not immediately, but as soon as one of your users joins a big room on a different server. I’ve only tried Synapse; you might try one of the other servers, but they’ll all have the same disk space issue: it’s a result is the design of the protocol.

Ooooo! This time, the front didn’t fall off!

That last pic was painful to see. I’m glad that it looks like you’re past that part; it looked nerve-wracking!

Man, some of those peyote trips can feel like decades, am I right? Manna, indeed.

Thanks for providing details. I really like the core concept of everything being a file; I do wish they hadn’t made the mistake of going to heavy on the mouse.

I can almost be comfortable in Linux with only the console. There are some things that need graphics, and I haven’t quite figured all those out, but… is there a similar mode for Plan9? As if, in Linux, you simply don’t start X, log in, start a tmux session and go from there? Using SDL when necessary? Anything like that? It’d be pretty close if you could run Rio, open one big fullscreen terminal and run tmux (or whatever similar is available in Plan 9).

Matrix is probably the closest; it’s federated, there are a dozen more-or-less actively developed clients, for just about every platform. You can self-host your own server. It has a lot of features.

It’s not perfect; it has a lot of flaws, but there’s slow progress. Things to be aware of:

• Despite it being “open”, there’s really only one server that supports everything, and that’s Synapse. It’s where all of the new features are tested and land first. All other (half-dozen) servers lag Synapse. And - IMHO - Synapse is an awful piece of software. It’s a giant mess of Python, and it lumbers along like a bloated, arthritic hippopotamus.
• The way federation is done makes it very expensive to self-host. Everything’s fine until one of your users joins - even briefly - a popular room, and suddenly your server’s downloading 9GB of history and binary blobs. This can be managed, but you may as well quit your job and become a full-time admin, because
• moderation tools suck. Aside from the most basic banning, all mod tools are external servers you have to set up and configure and run in parallel. And the most essential tool - mjolnir, a “this account is a troll spam bot, so ban it site-wide” is still very beta-ish and it’s nearly impossible to get any help with setting up or using it.
• It’s really a rather heavy protocol. Lots of network traffic.
• bridging is better in theory than practice. Most bridging requires you to run your own server, and few major hosts provide anything more than IRC bridging, and even then you can’t actually bridge to most of the biggest IRC networks because it’s blocked by the IRC providers, because Matrix bridges are a major source of spam grief for the IRC rooms. And setting up a bridge between a Matrix and an (e.g.) Discord room is a fairly significant PITA, requiring a Discord mod to perform several steps.
• It does hand e2e encryption for DMs, but it’s honestly pretty bad at it. It’s a better Discord than a, say, Signal. Key management is a minor nightmare and it is both prone to breakage, and complex, with a lot of fairly obscure terminology needed to understand any but the most basic operations. Like, when it’s working, it’s fine, but as soon as anything goes wrong, you’re in a world of pain. I came count the number of times I’ve lost entire chat histories with people.

And to throw up a challenge before anyone disagrees about that last point: try changing clients several times, across devices, and on the same client. Delete your client and reconnect (as if you lost your phone). See how long you can go before you hit a point where you can’t get to your chat history.

It’s a good alternative to Discord; it’s categorically better than Discord. If you’re not hosting the server, it’s better than IRC; the user experience is simply undebatably better. It’s a crappy IM platform. It needs far better mod tools, and some competitor to Synapse has to get out of Beta.

But if all you’re looking for is an alternative to Discord and you ate fine with using a public service, it’s a good choice.

TELL EVERYONE ABOUT USENET

Yeah, there was, and probably still is, a bunch of warez trading on Usenet. But everything that was good and holy was also on Usenet.

Anyway, plebes won’t show up there anymore because nobody runs free nodes anymore, and the worst of us are so used to being products the idea of paying for a service is a foreign concept.

Usenet existed long before the Eternal September. It survived that and the subsequent decades; it’s never been some sort of secret haven - it’s been a haven only because it wasn’t trivial to use, web interfaces for it never caught on, it started costing money to be on, and these are deal breakers for the people you don’t want on Usenet.

I’m fuzzy on the history of writing, but there Code of Hammurabi dates to around 1750 BCE. I’m confused about what this person is arguing is controversial about writing being available in the 16th century BCE. People could write… so? Did they not invent lying or fiction until much later?

People have written a ton of stuff, and much of it is fiction.

Moses was stoned on desert mushrooms. I had a vision of his older brother complaining about how Moses was always out tripping with his hommies and writing stories instead of watching the sheep like he was supposed to be doing, and I know it’s a fact because God told me it was.

(hu)man(being)(kind)(s)

Holy shit! This is the true mathematical relevation!

Agreed, SQLite 💗. It does have limitations when you need to scale with remote connections and concurrency; then you have to start bringing in layers, and it’s really not designed for that. For those jobs, it’s just better IMO to reach to something designed for that use case to begin with.

You make my heart hurt, you’re so right. It’s getting harder and harder to find RSS or Atom links on sites. The more people rediscover these technologies, the more chance there is that site developers will continue to provide them.

It would be fantastic if more people would rediscover Usenet, and IRC, and ditch the shitty knock-offs like Discord. There’s a pretty big contingent advocating for Jabber, which I’m ambivalent about, having been there when it started and when it (effectively) died and being very conscious of its flaws and limitations… but, still, these are all open standards and old-school internet - sometimes pre-web! - and they’re often still better than the commoditized successors.

Embrace and encourage the new infusion of youth! Gate keeping is a very post-eternal-September behavior.