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New comment by picofarad in "I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold"

picofarad — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:18:25 +0000

They didn't build sheds around the wells that were insulated enough so the wellheads froze up from the water in the extract, not due to crumbling infra. Now, whether they've fixed the problem, I guess we'll see the next time it hits 0°F.

New comment by picofarad in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

picofarad — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:13:05 +0000

I wonder if there's MCX 50 ohm resistors...

New comment by picofarad in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

picofarad — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:09:00 +0000

Misanthrope doesn't mean "wants people to be dead" what a wild thing to say

New comment by picofarad in "'Old Person Smell'"

picofarad — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:57:48 +0000

With that soap, context...

New comment by picofarad in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

picofarad — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:33:29 +0000

One could use aol's smtp servers to send mail as clinton@whitehouse.gov

New comment by picofarad in "Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search"

picofarad — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:46:58 +0000

You missed the fees. Contact lenses can be shipped in a flat rate box. Taxes have a ceiling.

I 100% believe the sites are showing different prices to bots vs humans.

New comment by picofarad in "I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked"

picofarad — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:13 +0000

I've noticed stores going to central coolant lines going to cold cases more and more lately. Its all still industrial control. Ideally.

New comment by picofarad in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

picofarad — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:18:46 +0000

CAFEBABE?

Sexist, so thats out.

FACEB00C?

In use.

Darn this is hard.

New comment by picofarad in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

picofarad — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:37:29 +0000

457 deaths in US history.

1200 deaths a day from diarrhea in India.

Put it in perspective.

New comment by picofarad in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

picofarad — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:01:16 +0000

No it isn't, cheatengine exists, Q.E.D.

New comment by picofarad in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

picofarad — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:57:30 +0000

Oh I didn't know I was going to break the law today just using automatic1111 stable diffusion. I'll call my lawyer.

New comment by picofarad in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

picofarad — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:44:12 +0000

Don't use it then, there's at least three other init systems...

New comment by picofarad in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

picofarad — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:38:31 +0000

Too strong for homeopathy but your point is taken. 0.3% vs 0.000005%

New comment by picofarad in "As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value"

picofarad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:36:55 +0000

Why would a flock camera be at a playground, they're automatic license plate readers, I thought, not surveillance cameras with real time video.

New comment by picofarad in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

picofarad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:20:54 +0000

Or use any serial number from a Microsoft hardware device, or use all zeros except the rightmost number is "7", like, "00000007" or...

New comment by picofarad in "$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM"

picofarad — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:59:24 +0000

Can someone cite what we're talking about here because it sounds vaguely conspiracy theory... During covid.

You know what I mean?

New comment by picofarad in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

picofarad — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:03:16 +0000

Lol there's only three macros. If you cut out carbs you necessarily increase protein and fat, for the same calories. Unless you are merely saying people should eat less; but that should go without saying.

New comment by picofarad in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

picofarad — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:13:39 +0000

I have thus far been unsuccessful at carbonating tea and coffee, and I have tried. Carbonated stuff tastes better, to me. And I love iced tea. However at night a diet caffeine free soda is much nicer to drink than decaf tea, and I always have said the day I drink decaf coffee is the day I give it up, as coffee isn't that delicious.

New comment by picofarad in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

picofarad — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:44:29 +0000

I've never seen an ad for Mozilla VPN, nor any other Mozilla product, in Firefox.

However I have seen billions of ads on google.com and YouTube.com, and search placement, and fraud.

But whatever. How's google pay? Pretty good?

New comment by picofarad in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

picofarad — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:38:02 +0000

I concur that it is strange seeing the FF/Mozilla vs chrome arguments. Its almost as if some large percentage of users here relied on web ads for their income.

Weird!