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New comment by DCKP in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

DCKP — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:36:13 +0000

Unless you're in Germany, when it's more like "oy-ro"... and Wero would be pronounced "ve-ro"... I don't think there's a German pun hiding here!

New comment by DCKP in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

DCKP — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:16:19 +0000

Literally the plot of Battlestar Galactica! Life imitates art indeed...

New comment by DCKP in "I made a quieter air purifier"

DCKP — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:41:12 +0000

With a multi-fan set-up, would it help to vary the individual fan RPMs, to spread the noise over a broader range of frequencies? Would a 9-fan grid at slightly lower RPMs improve this further?

New comment by DCKP in "FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux"

DCKP — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:32:47 +0000

All this brings back fond memories of my first programming foray, an ASCII game in QBASIC from Mars and Back: Computer Programming Handbook by Andrew J. Read. So much fun, so much frustration.