kwk1

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I work on engineering software in Debian, particularly in the FreeCAD ecosystem.

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Comment · 4 months ago

What you are talking about is sometimes called "basic research":

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

Comment · 7 months ago

There is promising news on the development of OpenCASCADE front:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QQRAAF-occt3d-8-kerne...

Comment · 7 months ago

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.

Comment · 8 months ago

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

Comment · 8 months ago

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.org/en/cmdline/supported-cmdline-params.html
  ...

Comment · 8 months ago

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

Comment · 8 months ago

> 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. It killed 295 students and teachers, and led to the inclusion of smelly thiol in natural gas, as well as the Texas Engineering Practice Act.

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

Comment · 8 months ago

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

Comment · 8 months ago

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

Comment · 9 months ago

Yep! Shepherd × Goblins

https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html

https://shepherding.services/

Comment · 9 months ago

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 appimage format output.

Comment · 9 months ago

If I may jump in, here's a neat one:

https://www.braillerap.org/en/

Comment · 9 months ago

Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this?

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

Comment · 9 months ago

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

Comment · 10 months ago

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".