🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

well, I gave in and just added a couple more teaspoons of activated yeast, incorporated, kneaded, and shaped. turned out ok, but a didn't get any of the interesting flavors I had sought with a longer ferment... probably because nothing was fermenting. so many dead yeast cells in this loaf😔😂

@lucifargundam I doubt it. maybe, if you go nuts with it and get a commercial oven or something. flour, salt, sugar, and water are pretty cheap

I'm liking #kenken so far. I rediscovered Sudoku lately, but after solving a few puzzles, I think I've kinda hit the limits of it being interesting -- once you know the rules, it's the cognitive equivalent of chewing gum. With KenKen, I've followed what I thought were good deductions and hit contradictions multiple times before arriving at the solution: it's fun!

#puzzles #games #logic

@lucifargundam I say usually...sometimes you just get a brick of hot dough

@lucifargundam baking bread?
This is the recipe I followed for my first successful loaf: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/basic-homemade-bread/
Since I did that, I've been able to wing it a little bit and still get decent results, but I still have a lot to learn -- sourdough remains very intimidating.

The first time I tried baking bread, it was a mess: I didn't know what the dough was supposed to look like and kinda panicked when it wasn't coming together and added corn meal to try to thicken it. It was pretty stupid: All I had really needed to do was to add more flour. The end result was kinda tough and chewy, but it was edible. Unless you burn your bread, usually your mistakes are still edible.

my dough is sure taking its time proofing...
#baking #bread

@izaya I just read about the thing with Swift when I searched Don McLean.

I forget how long this song is. Interesting that he genuinely teared up singing it in the performance I just watched.

@izaya the fact that I guessed which song you're talking about without knowing who Don McLean is or that he wrote it underscores the "influential" part.

did McLean come on your radar because of Taylor Swift beating his record of being no. 1 on the charts for however long?

@StarLitJazz@mastodon.social you have some specific gripes against DARPA?

@lupyuen do you actively use #Blender ?

I did back in high school, but now it's more of a #FOSS example I can point to that's "sexy" compared to the mass of free and open source software people rely on every day without noticing it. That feature list is dizzying: it's really like scanning through a wizard's spell book 🧙

I knew this was a long time in coming, but it's wild that it's been 21 years on 2.x. Well done to all the Blender devs -- that's including testers, documentation writers, designers, and all, as well as coders 😁

I'm either wrong, or it's blindingly obvious, so not much discussed, but it seems like we could have had a drastically different internet that was more peer-to-peer in nature if we had started with something closer to IPv6, even just in terms of a larger address space. Like, the limited address space forced us into extensive use of local / site address spaces that required translation to access the wider internet. The need for translation, in turn, made network protocols that directly addressed one personal computer from another more difficult to implement.

Then again, with something like BitTorrent or ED2K, you can set up port-NAT, so it's not all that difficult really: a few extra user interface elements on the respective clients. Maybe it's ultimately more of a cultural thing. The lay person may not see the architectural short-falls of the intermediaries in our communications, or maybe they think the benefits outweigh the risks. Maybe the peer-to-peer tools just need to be better advertised.

#internet #network #p2p

I honestly don't understand why you wouldn't tell someone you didn't like their gift. Don't be mean about it, obviously, but do you want them to give you something similar next time? Do you *want* to construct some fictional alternate history every time they ask about it or anything related to it?

@izaya I know some people have a problem with communist symbols because their countries experienced mass political violence under communist regimes. If it is actually illegal in some places, it's probably a good idea to put it behind a CW or something. I've never heard of that though...