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New comment by jackdawipper in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

jackdawipper — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:17:14 +0000

I still dream of Orgonon https://youtu.be/m97WlpsuU74?si=g77UHyI8aEmiH-k8

New comment by jackdawipper in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

jackdawipper — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:29:26 +0000

definitely. I got ad blitzed the last two days by "wow" YT videos which I admit is why I even ended up clicking through todays "bot news" to this site. It's been uber hyped with marketing strategy for sure, its only coz it was OSS I paid attention but was surprised by the marketing for OSS since that doesnt usually happen.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Georgia leads push to ban datacenters used to power America's AI boom"

jackdawipper — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:07:17 +0000

I still really dont see how solar or wind power the future needs at all. surely nuclear is the only solution longer time. obviously it has to be made safe but why are wasting so much time and money on solar and wind that are demonstably not good for the environments they go into. at scale that is going to be felt because no, actually deserts are not "just empty spaces doing nothing" they have a huge knock on effect when changed either life within them, or how they feed the surrounding non-desert environments. Why is nuclear still the bogeyman when the sun is a nuclear event. cut out the middle man. surely.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

jackdawipper — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:23:46 +0000

all the problems come back to one thing: governments.

New comment by jackdawipper in "303Gen – 303 acid loops generator"

jackdawipper — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:47:55 +0000

this thing is great. you got a version that can run as a vst or plugin?

New comment by jackdawipper in "303Gen – 303 acid loops generator"

jackdawipper — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:47:23 +0000

man I love this. want for local use.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided"

jackdawipper — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:04:29 +0000

saying no to AI is a great way to become the third world

New comment by jackdawipper in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

jackdawipper — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:18:13 +0000

yea but that isnt why they are doing it. they dont gaf about kids, they want total control of the populace online behaviour and this is steps in that direction.

what fascinates me most, is when people dont realise this.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

jackdawipper — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:16:55 +0000

testing ground for whats coming out of Europe.

the most annoying part of all of this is that the people voted for it by voting Labor again. we are fkd.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal"

jackdawipper — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:10:21 +0000

US is full of shitty corporates

New comment by jackdawipper in "How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy"

jackdawipper — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:48:53 +0000

yea, I dumped react for nextjs, and then dumped nextjs for eleventy. never been happier.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Open Source Maintenance Fee"

jackdawipper — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:26:24 +0000

I take back my previous comment since I can't now edit it. I was wrong. I think the approach makes sense. There is nothing wrong with getting paid by commericial interests. Its the difficult side of FOSS where finding balance between the two worlds is kind of hard to achieve in a perfect way.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Open Source Maintenance Fee"

jackdawipper — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:24:14 +0000

after further consideration, I actually think I am wrong in this case. It's really just looking for fair payment in exchange for work provided to those that are commercial interests or who can afford to pay it. Which is totally fair and my point doesnt apply here.

New comment by jackdawipper in "What went wrong for Yahoo"

jackdawipper — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 23:10:19 +0000

First Yahoo did Yahoo Serious, then Yahoo got did

New comment by jackdawipper in "Open Source Maintenance Fee"

jackdawipper — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:33:05 +0000

Yea that is actually more a symptom of post-war generations, so isnt exclusive to OSS. Ask any employer how its going with their new young staff members.

but what I see causing far more problems in the OSS community is greedy patreon gatewallers who poach all they can from the devs, then put it behind a patreon wall and charge money for it. Them and corporate swooping in are a bigger problem than whining on a github issues board.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

jackdawipper — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:29:04 +0000

I see what you did there

New comment by jackdawipper in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

jackdawipper — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:28:24 +0000

In 2008 when the GFC every company we worked IT for on contract fired their IT staff first. Two weeks later, we had bonanza period right through into the next year. They realised the hard way that those lowly cheap IT staff were quietly keeping them afloat. We charged a lot to fix their problems they created because their CEO thought IT was a waste of money.

This will prove security in IT coding is necessary, so enjoy watching the drama unfold.

IT security bonanza time. It wont be long.

New comment by jackdawipper in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

jackdawipper — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:25:07 +0000

a few more of these incidents and they'll care a lot more

New comment by jackdawipper in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

jackdawipper — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:58:54 +0000

in my day we used pigeons

New comment by jackdawipper in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

jackdawipper — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:58:29 +0000

maybe its a double double triple bluff