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What you are talking about is sometimes called "basic research": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research

There is promising news on the development of OpenCASCADE front: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QQRAAF-occt3d-8-kerne...

Yes, the OpenCASCADE 8.0 release is very promising. There's a FOSDEM presentation from this year by one of their developers which shows what's in the works.

In the LLM space, it's LoRA, not LoRa. Not great!

I've seen it elsewhere, but it's definitely annoying. For example KDE's build assistant tool: $ kde-builder --help ... Supported command-line parameters: https://kde-builder.kde.or…

This is supported on Codeberg (and Forgejo instances in general) via the "AGit workflow", see https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/

> Basically nobody ever died from leaky pipes I know you're probably intending to only remark on leaky water pipes, but: The New London School explosion was caused by a leaky pipe.…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate

It's not meant to be a link, rather "X (formerly Twitter)"

Yep! Shepherd × Goblins https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html https://shepherding.services/

I checked and it looks like the root-required issue has been addressed with a --relocatable flag, and there are a few options as well for needing to untar, e.g. producing an appima…

If I may jump in, here's a neat one: https://www.braillerap.org/en/

Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this? https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

They are the ecosystem shapers, let them figure it out.

Often I've seen font websites have a sort of "font hello world" preview image, and adding something like that here would be great. Apparently they're called "type specimens".

I recently learned those have a name based on their dimensions: https://88x31.nl/

Incus is specifically an LXD fork.

From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes: > they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of…

"Inversely proportional" for what it's worth

A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym

The packages in question don't come from the distro's homepage.

A technical term for this is "sunset provision": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision

If you're using a Debian derivative these keys should be in packages distributed with your distro with trust coming from that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

Is there a difference between people and goods?