It was Interesting to see lots of high-spec configs with a Pureboot bundle (paired Librem Key) and our anti-interdiction services. People are choosing more secure options when they are available!
Remember that Big Data companies redefine #privacy to mean private to others, not private to them. They still see and store your personal data:
"No personally identifiable information, such as an individual's location, contacts or movement, will be made available at any point"
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/coronavirus-live-updates-us-death-toll-tops-6000/story
If there were any doubt my van is the ultimate survival vehicle, look what I just found in there! #liquidgold #vanlife
TIL that creating a train wreck is a specific crime that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. This should give many technology companies pause. https://abc7.com/officials-engineer-tried-to-smash-train-into-usns-mercy/6069395/
Attacks like this are likely not limited to Zoom (it just has #infosec attention now). If your computer has a hardware kill switch (HKS), disable camera+mic except during video conferences. If you don't have a HKS, cover the camera in between uses: https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/01/new-zoom-bugs-takeover-macs-cam-mic-root/
When you are waiting in line to enter Costco, and they remove the toilet paper sign from the Sold Out billboard. #jackpot
If you made it this far, thank you! Live posting this felt kind of like having you here with me in while I brewed during lockdown. Also thanks to Grainfather for making my brew day so much simpler and about 2 hours faster!
All that's left is cleaning part 2 and this is where the Grainfather shines. First I dump and rinse the kettle and give it a quick wipe with a rag. Then I fill it with 12L of water and PBW cleaning solution, heat it up to 60C and recirculate 10 mins. Dump, repeat w/ clean water.
1. Overestimated amount of water that would boil off (likely).
2. Mash not efficient (unlikely, my Grainfather mashes are usually *too* efficient).
3. Grains in the recipe slightly different from what was available to put in the calculator.
While pumping out the wort to the fermenter, I also collected some so I could do a gravity measurement. This tells me how much sugar is in the solution compared to water. Strangely this is *much* lower (1.060) than what I was expecting (1.073!). Many reasons why this could be:
This is a lager so I will ferment it at celler temperatures in a warm fridge (~10C). I have attached a tube to the keg inlet so CO2 the yeast exhausts will bubble out in a jar of sanitizing solution. It takes ~ a month to ferment, another month lagering before ready.
Once the fermenter is almost full, I pitch the yeast. I also sprayed the outside of the yeast container with sanitizing solution about 10 minutes before I opened it so the outside was sterile.
Now that it's cool, I move the counterflow output to my fermentation vessel (a keg) and let the pump transfer it. The keg was sterilized with iodophor solution and the exhaust water from the counterflow chiller. Fun fact: iodophor is on the official list of coronavirus killers!
How do I know when the wort is cool? I have an inline thermometer connected to the wort output on the counterflow chiller.
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