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I wanted to do this for few years...


So I managed to find 80% food grade alcohol (it was harder than you might thought) and started the all season maceration.

Basically every fruit that I will get or pick I just put few pieces there and let it sit, the tasting will be at Christmas or sometime in December. First layer is red currant, I already used it for some maceration so I know it starts good.

in reply to plactagonic

My late-father once told me about a recipe he used when he was young, passed down to him by his old uncle.

Got a bunch of black plums (but he said any fruit could be used). Washed them, then put them whole in a big, glass jar with a screw top lid. The fruit was layered with sugar. Lots of sugar. Closed the lid and left it all out in the sun for a month. It fermented and turned into mush.

Brought it in and sifted out the solids. Left a lot of pulp. Mixed it with plain vodka and decanted it into smaller dark bottles with clip tops. Aged it for six months in the dark. After that, kept it in the freezer. 10+ years later, it still tasted amazing.

This post is inspiring me to try again. Thinking peach this time.

in reply to fubarx

This is maceration not fermentation but I unintentionally did something similar with red currants and wine. I don't know how I made it but it was partly fermented with sugar wine and vodka (or some other clear distillate) to add more alcohol to be stable.

Found bottle few weeks ago and it was amazing, I forgot about it after I tasted it and don't liked it few years ago.

I don't like distillates that much, bit too strong for me, but basically fruit+bit of sugar+time+still and you have some eastern Europe pálenka/slivovice (from plums) or other "moonshine".

in reply to plactagonic

A friend of the family from Hungary used to bring out home-made palinka in small 7Up bottles to sneak them past customs. He said they would drink a few shots before and after every meal. Said that was how Hungarians became the highest per-capita meat-eating country in Europe.

I just remember it burning all the way down. The recipe I mentioned was more of a sweet liqueur and with lower risk of near-fatal distillation mishaps.

Will have to look into maceration. Thanks for the tip!

in reply to plactagonic

That's a cool project - good luck and update us on how it turns out.

Here in the US, high strength (95%) ethanol is widely available. We would occasionally do shots of it when I was (much) younger.

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[Interview] It's Brad Lander's victory, too


The former NYC mayoral candidate weighs in on Mamdani’s win, his own campaign, and what’s next.
#USA



[Video] TechAltar | How AMD won the CPU crown


AMD fell behind Intel in the CPU race, but then, starting in 2012 when Lisa Su came to the company, they slowly built themselves back to a strong position. Now, having switched from GlobalFoundries to TSMC and moved from Bulldozer to Zen, they are doing great.
#amd
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[Video] Louis Rossmann | Video game lobby admits that killing games makes them more money


Statement: videogameseurope.eu/wp-content…
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UK | Retired priest, 83, among 29 Palestine Action supporters arrested under Terror Act hours after government bans group


An 83-year-old retired priest is among the 29 people arrested after Palestine Action supporters staged a silent protest on Parliament Square, hours after the group was formally prescribed a terrorist organisation.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/lbc.co.uk/ne…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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Netanyahu won’t stop Gaza war even if Hamas releases hostages




New Grads Hit AI Job Wall as Market Flips Upside Down






in reply to MirchiLover

Well the article says that the AI agents were able to complete 30% of the tasks given to it like searching the web, communicating with co workers, etc. I think this is interesting

CMU researchers have developed a benchmark to evaluate how AI agents perform when given common knowledge work tasks like browsing the web, writing code, running applications, and communicating with coworkers

"We find in experiments that the best-performing model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, was able to autonomously perform 30.3 percent of the provided tests to completion, and achieve a score of 39.3 percent on our metric that provides extra credit for partially completed tasks"


Personally i belive this is impressive.

in reply to tfowinder

That's really not. A calculator that only gave the right output 30% of the time would be worthless.




New Grads Hit AI Job Wall as Market Flips Upside Down




New Grads Hit AI Job Wall as Market Flips Upside Down


Technology reshared this.

in reply to MirchiLover

my autism perpetually plagues my employment prospects and the memories of my struggles to gain employment in the few years since college makes me pitty others like me who will be forced to do the same thing I did.

i have an unfortunate front row seat to the asshattery that our capitalist system has created for young people trying to get a foothold in this industry and i don't know what to make of it since they, themselves support the same system that's fucking them over and sometime virulently defend it; it's a bit like watching maga cheer on their own demise.

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in reply to MirchiLover

Took long enough. People are so god damn stubborn.

Windows 11 is an annoying experience out of the box, yes; like Linux, you have to do some tweaking to get it functioning the way you like it (start with installing StartAllBack to fix the Start Menu + taskbar issues, and O&O Shut Up 10 to stop the ads and telemetry) but if you're big into HDR like me then there is no OS better than Win11 for a quality HDR experience that just works.

But if you're not into HDR, don't play games with kernel-level anticheat, and don't have expensive DJ equipment that is only compatible with Windows and MacOS, then there is no reason to continue using Windows. Linux is a much better option for you.

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in reply to Psythik

HDR actually works fairly well on Linux these days. Been using nobara for the better part of a year now and almost every game I’ve tried, that has HDR support, just worked out of the box.
in reply to ☂️-

To be fair, there is often a bit of tweaking to keep linux going. But in general, it works quite well.




in reply to MirchiLover

But but but I thought Apple was the good guys, all the degooglers said so
in reply to MirchiLover

If they dont comply with the EU rules/laws/regulations, they have no right doing business in EU. Simple.
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Israeli forces arrest Al Mayadeen bureau chief in West Bank




Elon Musk reacts to Epstein list report: "final straw"


Elon Musk has said an Axios report that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had concluded there was no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list was the "final straw".

The report also said the agencies had concluded there was no credible evidence the disgraced financier and pedophile blackmailed high-profile and prominent individuals, and confirmed that surveillance footage showed Epstein had killed himself in prison.

"So... umm... then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?" Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein's former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.



Weekly Briefing: The world is moving on, but Israel refuses to change




The tears of Gaza’s men are an act of rebellion | 972 Magazine


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32817999

from 972 Magazine Sunday Recap newsletter [published in Israel]
07/06/2025

Other articles
* Gaza’s Al-Baqa Cafe was a sanctuary amid the genocide. Now it lies in ruins
* The Knesset vs Ayman Odeh
*The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants
* ‘It comes with the territory’: How Israel’s archaeologists legitimize annexation



The tears of Gaza’s men are an act of rebellion | 972 Magazine


from 972 Magazine Sunday Recap newsletter [published in Israel]
07/06/2025

Other articles
* Gaza’s Al-Baqa Cafe was a sanctuary amid the genocide. Now it lies in ruins
* The Knesset vs Ayman Odeh
*The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants
* ‘It comes with the territory’: How Israel’s archaeologists legitimize annexation




Roko has ideas


"Ban women from universities, higher education and most white-collar jobs."

"Allow people to privately borrow against the taxable part of the future incomes or other economic activities of their children."

So many execrable takes in one tweet, and that's only two of them. I'm tempted to think he's cynically outrage-farming, but then I remember who he is.

in reply to TinyTimmyTokyo

damn, how can birth rates be so in peril in a culture that hates sex, women, and children so much? truly I am stumped. we must double down on hating sex, women, and children even more if we are to salvage this situation.
in reply to TinyTimmyTokyo

Okay but now I need to once again do a brief rant about the framing of that initial post.

the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men


You're not wrong about these guys being both morally reprehensible and also deeply pathetic. Please don't take this as any kind of defense on their behalf.

However, the whole "good times breed weak men" meme is itself fascist propaganda about decadence breeding degeneracy originally written by a mediocre science fiction author and has never been a serious theory of History. It's rooted in the same kind of masculinity-through-violence-as-primary-virtue that leads to those dreams of conquest. I sympathize with the desire to show how pathetic these people are by their own standards but it's also critical to not reify the standards themselves in the process.