- A Belgian product designer preparing an internship with the Danish art/engineering collective N55 asked whether SKDB (skdb.org) is ready for real-world CAD-based interactive 3-D assembly/repair manuals, triggering debate on open-source vs proprietary toolchains and the current maturity of SKDB.  
- Channel members argued that the hard part of open-source CAD is not the underlying graph model but encoding “assembly intent” (mating trajectories, process order) and integrating it into CAD UIs; BRL-CAD maintainers confirmed no native “assembly diagram” mode yet exists.  
- Paperbot’s repeated failures to upload PDFs to libgen.org were traced to libgen instability; a workaround using sci-hub.org/pdfcache URLs without cookies was proposed, and kanzure floated rewriting the bot in JavaScript for browser-side scraping and Zotero reuse.  
- EricHunting circulated a “Neo-Nomad” Google-slides deck on platforms for distributing open fabrication instructions for nomadic artifacts/furntecture and reported ongoing coordination between N55 and other DIY/nomad groups seeking suitable dissemination tools.  
- SKDB development was confirmed not dead despite ~7 months of GitHub inactivity; the pause was waiting for BRL-CAD to add NURBS support (delivered 4–6 months ago), and a quick fix for the `import skdb` error in `clients/skdb-get.py lego` was to ensure the package is on the Python path.