Notices by David Penfold :verified: (davep@infosec.exchange)

Yay! Actually unboxed my yoghurt maker, sterilised the gubbins, and started a 36h l. reuteri fermentation for 1.2 litres (also includes milk, cream, inulin and a capsule of the bacteria).

If I stop posting after Saturday midday, I've done something horribly wrong.

#superGut

The rumblings seem to have subsided...

Just found some proper sauerkraut at the local supermarket, that went through proper lacto-fermentation. Only €3.80 for a big pot that will last for ages. Beats doing everything myself.

Will be doing our first batch of Bacillus coagulans later, at about 46°C for 36 hours. Can't do it now or it'll end at 4am.

My wife is finding my pre/probiotic salads really tasty, which is an extra benefit. They're lettuce, mozzarella, almonds, walnuts, sauerkraut (was chopped up pickles), sardines or eggs, organic tomatoes when I can find any, sea salt, apple cider vinegar and olive oil.

Top tip: the stevia, blueberries, plus a dash of inulin really help take away the extremely tart flavour of the L. reuteri yogurt.

#superGut

My guts appear to have turned into a brass band.

#superGut

On my third batch of L. Reuteri. Adding inulin and blueberries to get a bit of prebiotics and to remove some of the tartness (apparently it's 3.5 pH after 36 hours of fermentation, I should maybe add lime...).

Next batch will have four strains plus a bunch of other probiotics, with higher levels of L. Reuteri and B. Coagulans compared to the rest. Will bump up to 40°C for the latter without killing the former.

Also bought nine more yogurt jars (the yogurt maker holds eight). Lost one of the first eight (my wife definitely didn't throw it in the bin) so that's a handy round 16 for two batches.

We're on our second batch of l. reuteri yogurts. The 36 hour fermentation time is giving me the heebie-jeebies, but we're not dead yet...

It tastes very, very tart though. I'm going to need to get the stevia out.

Edit: I'm using three different l. reuteri strains now because they're all subtly different, apparently.

The hardest part is sterilising the eight jars/pots, their lids, the big pyrex bowl, the ladle, the table spoon and the 1/2 litre measuring jug I use for putting the nascent yogurt into the jars. I'm not sure how strictly necessarily this palaver is, as "Super Gut" doesn't really mention it (that I can remember), but I don't fancy the idea of lacto-fermenting random bacteria hanging about the kitchen.

#superGut

Finished my b. coagulans and started a new batch of l. reuteri with about 20 other random bacteria. Used a bit of the last batch, three reuteri strains and the multi-species capsule. There's about 75 billion of the buggers in there (not including what I added from the last batch, so possibly 100 billion) so I'm only doing a 30 hour session at 37°C. Added inulin, FOS and a couple of cubes of sugar (I don't have the potato starch yet) plus a smidge of Stevia.

Interestingly*, my thermometer showed the b. coagulans at 47.7°C this morning when it was set to 46, so I'm erring on the safe side for this heterogeneous mix.

* YMMV

I'm using 1 litre of milk and 400ml of 30% fat cream (not the thick stuff, as it's a bastard to mix).

I've commandeered a rack of the fridge as I'll have three different lots on the go soon and I need to know which is which (can't find my label printer so I'm marking them with one of the bottles). I'm going to have to start noting down when I add capsules and when I add just curds from the previous batch (or just mix a bit of both each time, which is probably easier).

#superGut

Off for 36 hours of my new b. coagulans yogurt at 46°C, yay!

The world's leading expert on European wasps walks into a record shop.

He asks the assistant “Do you have ‘European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2? I believe it was released this week.”

“Certainly,” replies the assistant. “Would you like to listen before you buy it?”

"That would be wonderful," says the expert, and puts on a pair of headphones.

He listens for a few moments and says to the assistant, “I'm terribly sorry, but I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and this is not accurate at all. I don't recognize any of those sounds. Are you sure this is the correct recording?”

The assistant checks the turntable, and replies that it is indeed European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2. The assistant apologizes and lifts the needle onto the next track.

Again the expert listens for a few moments and then says to the assistant, "No, this just can't be right! I've been an expert in this field for 43 years and I still don't recognize any of these sounds."

The assistant apologizes again and lifts the needle to the next track.

The expert throws off the headphones as soon as it starts playing and is fuming with rage.

"This is outrageous false advertising! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and no European wasp has ever made a sound like the ones on this record!"

The manager of the shop overhears the commotion and walks over.

"What seems to be the problem, sir?"

"This is an outrage! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps. Nobody knows more about them than I do. There is no way in hell that the sounds on that record were made by European wasps!"

The manager glances down and notices the problem instantly.

"I'm terribly sorry, sir. It appears we've been playing you the bee side."

Monday - Ian

Tuesday - Greg

Wednesday - Ian

Thursday - Greg

Friday - Ian

Saturday - Greg

Sunday - Ian

The Gregorian Calendar

@aral For once I don't think the US is supplying the arms.

@GossiTheDog May have? Li-ion chemistry wouldn't explode like that.

Bumblebees live in little burrows in the ground, but when they've been busy they sleep on the job.

Bella ragazza (my wife to the right and her daughter to the left).

And just to bore you some more ...

Just thought I'd randomly root out some photos and post them. Mia famiglia...

@patrickcmiller Couldn't he just say he was using it to train his LLM?

My parents have 50 packets of Oxo cubes in their cupboard, I'm not sure they've got the hang of stock piling.

The more ohms you have the greater the resistance.

@patrickcmiller This is possible for almost any smart device. Is it just hypopothetical or have they actually discovered any such exploitation using drones as a vector?