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kwk1on FreeCAD v1.1

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.

kwk1on MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatib

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

kwk1on Notes on Clarifying Man Pages

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
  ...

kwk1on Gentoo on Codeberg

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

kwk1on So you want to build a tunnel

> 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

kwk1on GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

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

kwk1on Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation

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

kwk1on Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile

Yep! Shepherd × Goblins

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

https://shepherding.services/

kwk1on Guix for Development

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.

kwk1on OpenFlexure Microscope

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

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

kwk1on Guix for Development

Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this?

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

kwk1on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

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

kwk1on GNU Unifont

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".

kwk1on Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025

I recently learned those have a name based on their dimensions:

https://88x31.nl/

kwk1on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor

Incus is specifically an LXD fork.

kwk1on These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories

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 land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AMoby-Dick_(1851)_US_ed...

kwk1on Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

"Inversely proportional" for what it's worth

kwk1on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym":

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

kwk1on Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised

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

kwk1on Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

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

kwk1on Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised

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

kwk1on The illegible nature of software development talent

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

kwk1on A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry

Is there a difference between people and goods?

kwk1on A Mac-like experience on Linux

KDE Linux is the new one, Neon's been around for years. https://kde.org/linux/

kwk1on Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and sea peoples

Another tantalizing possible connection for two other Sea Peoples groups, the "Sherden" and the "Shekelesh" sure sound pretty close to "Sardinia" and "Sicily", but I'm not sure if there's any actual evidence besides similarity.

kwk1on Emerald Source Code Commentary

(Pokemon) Emerald

kwk1on Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

> Bananas probably vary a great deal.

Yep, and I probably should have mentioned, this was one of those giant, GMO-esque bananas, and it had a very thick, perhaps 1 cm skin, the interior of which was kinda fuzzy, such that peeling it was reminiscent of pulling apart velcro.

kwk1on Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

Once upon a time, I was peeling a banana in a dim and very dry room, and I'm pretty sure I saw a spark, perhaps caused by the same phenomenon.