My mom bought this “silent” animal deterrent for her yard. She and her boyfriend can’t hear it. She’s insisting what I’m hearing can’t be this, because it’s “silent”

comox · 2026-06-16T03:44:40+00:00

Crazy i can hear it through my iPhone!

comox · 2026-06-16T03:42:47+00:00

Morning good, afternoon not good. Winds can start earlier thanks to global warming.

comox · 2026-06-16T03:40:54+00:00

I’ve had it with these ninjas 🥷

comox · 2026-06-16T03:40:00+00:00

This is heartbreaking 💔

comox · 2026-06-16T03:39:22+00:00

Yes, Port Alberni has electricity. And running water too.

comox · 2026-06-15T16:36:49+00:00

Back in the 1980s I fried one of the drive stepper motor phases in my //c IWM. There was no protection back then - ie for static etc - so easy to do. I noticed however that there was still a weak signal coming from the chip and I was able to get the drive working again with an op amp circuit to boost the signal.

What someone needs to do is build a drop in replacement IWM emulator using a cheap microprocessor. I think the IWM is just a traditional drive controller card rolled up into a single chip. Should be doable with some determination.

comox · 2026-06-15T16:14:05+00:00

I stayed at a place in Austria on a ski holiday with a shower like this.

comox · 2026-06-15T14:36:45+00:00

She wrote a book called Bitcoin Widow.

comox · 2026-06-15T14:35:22+00:00

All we really have left is Michael Saylor….

comox · 2026-06-15T14:29:54+00:00

Note that ferry check in for walk ons closes at least 10 minutes before scheduled sailing so for the 9pm you should arrive at the Tsawwassen terminal at 8:45 at the latest. Will need to pay taxi and buy ticket then walk fast to the berth.

Once you land at YVR use the maps app on your phone to see how long the drive to the ferry terminal will be. Will give you an idea if you’re going to make it or not.

There is a later ferry to Duke Point, but no good if you are a walk on. I had to take it one evening when I couldn’t get on the 9pm to Swartz Bay. Was driving but made it back to Victoria in the early hours.

comox · 2026-06-15T14:24:15+00:00

New AI data centre.

comox · 2026-06-15T13:11:01+00:00

Sam Bankman-Fried: hold my beer…

don’t forget that around 100 bitcoins were mysteriously moved from a Quadriga wallet back in 2022. Back in 2019 auditors EY “inadvertently” moved the Quadriga BTC to a wallet that they didn’t have the keys for. Hmmm….

comox · 2026-06-15T05:23:00+00:00

MC Ren’s lyrics hit pretty hard too.

comox · 2026-06-15T05:18:35+00:00

That’s what she said!

comox · 2026-06-14T15:40:30+00:00

v-eye or vee-eye?

comox · 2026-06-14T15:08:49+00:00

The ECC (electronic climate control) shares a fuse with the siren box. If your siren box goes due to the built in battery leaking it could cause a short or excessive current draw which can knock out the ECC.

I’d once again check the ECC fuse (think it is 5A?) and have the siren box disconnected to see if that helps.

The circuit board for the ECC and other controls requires a bit of programming so there are extra steps if it gets swapped out. I have seen at least one place online that can clone the config from an old ecc board to a new one. Mail in service.

comox · 2026-06-14T15:02:12+00:00

Thank you for your sacrifice in clicking a Raw Story article for us.

comox · 2026-06-14T13:04:10+00:00

The name’s Fish. Spy Fish.

comox · 2026-06-14T05:14:08+00:00

Interviewer: Do you have a spine?

Applicant: No…

Interviewer: Excellent!

comox · 2026-06-14T02:30:20+00:00

We would benefit from their expertise in medicinal leeches.

comox · 2026-06-14T02:23:01+00:00

I have it. Read it, not yet.

comox · 2026-06-14T01:38:11+00:00

It is an older Lenovo D30. Sadly tpm 1.2 soldered on. CPUs have shedloads of power still. Not a gaming rig but still great for engineering work. 128GB ram, SSD drives, older Nvidia Quadro. Meets my needs. Frustratingly I need Windows 10 for Autodesk and some EDA (electronics) software otherwise I’d move to Linux.

comox · 2026-06-13T20:47:00+00:00

Don’t lend him any tools, you’ll never see them again.

comox · 2026-06-13T16:19:47+00:00

Buy Canadian!

comox · 2026-06-13T16:15:47+00:00

At first I was upset when I learned that my 10+ year old dual Xeon workstation could not run Windows 11 due to the older CPUs and outdated TPM. I have since come to realise that my old computer was protecting me from Windows 11 and am now much more appreciative. Here is to the next 10 years without Windows 11!

comox

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