Love the anarchy section: http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/
First thing I looked for was Jolly Roger's cookbook.
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Full quote: > Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5. I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all. Even then, the file explains: > Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets…
Water is a huge factor that I neglected for a while. It finally hit me once someone told me that coffee is mostly water, and your coffee is only as good as your water. Makes complete sense, but I had never thought about it. A simple Britta filter goes a long way.
Maybe I'm missing something but I figured that since I drink my tap water and it tastes fine to me, it should be fine in my coffee.
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#103Has the community of people who wrote documents like this just dried up and vanished? Or have they all moved somewhere underground I can't find?
phrack writers went pro.
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There was also a lot of motivation to phreak and trade warez due to a lack of things we'd simply take for granted nowadays, such as always-on connectivity and a widespread free-software and free-culture scene. It's a lot harder to explain the whole "anarchy" obsession that shows up in the files, though. Maybe that kind of loser attitude would make you "cool" and "a tough guy" back in the 1980s and the 1990s. Or at le…
I wrote some of those anarchist files in the 80s, but most of them came from The Anarchist’s Cookbook. Look it up, you can still buy used copies. That attitude was indeed cool and definitely not loser back then. It was “anti-The-Man”, much like the Anonymous movement whenever that was... 10 years ago?
Worth noting people (at least one convicted under a recent government) in the UK have been imprisoned for having a copy.
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You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/
Floodgap is the de-facto home of Gopher: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ If you are on Windows, I have written a nice modern gopher client: http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...
I prefer gopher://magical.fish
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#106I always loved this story of his: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127
For some reason, the original is gone. That's his sequel.
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You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/
For some more nostalgia, check out: http://telehack.com/ "Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's from the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.* "You can telnet directly t…
Funny, yesterday I was there, I was curious about playing Vicious Cycles over telnet and some BSD 4.3 machine under Simh (yes, I have it under OpenBSD and Frotz too, but I was just having fun :) ).
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> Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important That doesn't reflect my experience. If you buy fancy single origin beans, the taste varies wildly from region to region. I think within a region the taste differences mostly come down to roasting, but an Ethiopian and Kenyan coffee aren't going to taste the same at all. To me the best quickie coffee explainer I've seen is https://stat…
Full quote: > Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5. I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all. Even then, the file explains: > Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets…
I have a filter but I intentionally use tap water because I don't want to get used to filtered. I know that most coffee I drink outside of home will be with tap water so I don't want to spoil myself.
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#109I learnt about coffee and how to brew it from the ancient coffeefaq.txt file, copied via sneakernet and usenet, back in the early 90s. The text is totally valuable, and of course still valid. It has found its permanent home on text files.com, and that is so great. http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/FAQS/ACAFFEIN.TXT
> Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important That doesn't reflect my experience. If you buy fancy single origin beans, the taste varies wildly from region to region. I think within a region the taste differences mostly come down to roasting, but an Ethiopian and Kenyan coffee aren't going to taste the same at all. To me the best quickie coffee explainer I've seen is https://stat…
Sommeliers claim to have incredible wine tasting powers, yet in a blind taste test I cannot reliably distinguish red wine from white wine. Maybe with more training I could, but shouldn't the difference be obvious without training?
I've yet to be convinced that subtly in wine and coffee flavor is an objective matter.
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#110Could we have this over https? My internet connection blocks most pages of the site as "Adult content", presumably because it has bomb making instructions on, and the UK government is tetchy about that kind of thing nowadays.
My provider puts ads on non-https -_-