The UK had a history of rhyming nicknames for shortened versions, like William -> Will -> Bill, and most of those are still common in English speaking countries. Richard -> Dick, Robert -> Bob (also Hob, Dob and Nob but these didn't survive).

These shortened versions can then get extended: Edward -> Ed -> Ted -> Teddy, Margaret -> Meg -> Peg -> Peggy, Anne -> Nan -> Nancy

In the middle ages it was common to make a diminutive name by adding -kin, -in, or -cock, which gave us John -> Jankin/Jenkin -> Jakin -> Jack. Also, Robert -> Robin, Henry -> Hank

The Phoronix comments are notoriously toxic - I went to the article mostly to witness the incoherent rage in the comments and wasn't too disappointed.

It's a blue screen that's shown because something has died, I think it's a perfect fit.

I thought this was an Onion article when I read the title.

I thought the "after a few pints" bit explained that already!

If Russia blocks security updates, that's worse for Russian users than having to go to GitHub to install a plugin.

Study after study has shown that trees in cities offer huge benefits: offering shade and cooling (reducing energy consumption), draining storm/flood water (very useful in our more extreme climate), cleaning the air and emitting oxygen, homing wildlife, improving mental health by reducing anxiety and depression, being nice to look at.

Every city tree should be treasured and protected.

Why? Unless you like breaking into other people's devices, this is good news.

I think it's fair enough to say that it's common knowledge what a furry is but that the community's jargon/argot isn't.

That they didn't know the term fursona but looked it up for the article demonstrates research in my mind.

I guess this counts as long Covid, although I associate it more with brain fog and similar symptoms.

Either way, "lung capacity of an 18-year-old" and "15% loss of lung capacity" can't both be true, unless he's suggesting he started with super-lungs.

In their opening paragraph they compare themselves to Terraform twice with explaining themselves once.

At least their docs do better:

OpenTofu is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share.

We had a "kids tape" that had countless things recorded over each other. The second half was just a collage of the tail end of various cartoons and shows. When it got to the Abba-soundtracked documentary about a carnival it meant you were at the end of the tape.