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riedel commented on Git Diagramming "The Weave"   daverupert.com/2025/08/gi... · Posted by u/tobr
ehnto · 8 hours ago
Someone I know speaks in a reverse tree of sorts which actually does resemble a "weave", they start with various statements about the topic at hand without ever mentioning the topic, and eventually arrive at stating the topic near the end (hopefully). Sometimes I have no idea what they are talking about because they forgot to mention it until the very end when they have merged all their branches.
riedel · 5 hours ago
My mother-in-law is also a master of 'the weave'. When my wife and I visit she uses it to inform us about every possible happening of gossip and 'important events' . She just needs a key word and then she uses the chance to get all the information out in one stream of thought. (One problem is that she speaks in dialect and also assumes some deep knowledge about my wife's family relations). I often have thought of trying to map the branching. I often assumed that my wife could follow but I found out that everyone seems happy, without any deeper exchange of information.
riedel commented on Cognitive load is what matters   github.com/zakirullin/cog... · Posted by u/nromiun
riedel · a day ago
Speaking only of intrinsic and extraneous cognitive load oversimplifies things. This works for tasks of pilots (see e.g. NASATLX scores).

However, if new information that needs to be learned is in the game there is also germane cognitive load [0]. It is a nice theory, however, practically there is unfortunately no easy way to separate them and look at them totally independently.

[0] https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/10/15/the-good-the-b...

riedel commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
riedel · 5 days ago
It is telling that they have not yet released the process for hobbyists and students. While it is clearly just an evil move, in praxis for tech people this could mean just the extra hurdle of signing an APK with your own developer account: I could see a workflow on top of Fdroid (which also just could become a developer and use their keys for all FOSS apps). But I am guessing those evil geniuses will find a way to make it harder and harder. In the end it is not Google that can make the change but rather banks and streaming services that could accept alternative attestations from e.g. graphene, e/OS or eventually also lineage. Problem is the distribution of power, that won't change with out legislators pushing (see in app payment)
riedel commented on Git-Annex   git-annex.branchable.com/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
albertzeyer · 6 days ago
How much data do you have? I'm using git-annex on my photos, and that are around 100k-1M files, several TB of data, on a ZFS. In the beginning, everything was fine, but it starts to become increasingly slow, such that every operation takes several minutes (5-30 mins or so).

I wonder a bit whether that is ZFS, or git-annex, or maybe my disk, or sth else.

riedel · 6 days ago
It would be great to have comprehensive benchmarks for git lsf, git annex, dvc and alike. I am also always getting annoyed with one or the other , e.g. due to the hashing overhead, etc. However, in many cases the annoyances come with bad filesystem integration on Windows in my case.
riedel commented on Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months   twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/tosh
Permik · 7 days ago
Yeah, open weights but with tons of limitations in the license. https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-2/blob/main/LICENSE
riedel · 7 days ago
What of those are unreasonable terms? Quickly looking into it, it seems mostly that it is restricted to legal use and the provider has to take some responsibility.
riedel commented on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website   lina.sh/blog/telefonica-s... · Posted by u/shaunpud
fabbbbb · 7 days ago
Since July that is, OP posts about it as well. This post is from February.
riedel · 7 days ago
Great to hear! OP probably had some part in that. Just read the blog post [0]

[0] https://lina.sh/blog/cuii-gives-up

riedel commented on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website   lina.sh/blog/telefonica-s... · Posted by u/shaunpud
ulrischa · 7 days ago
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riedel · 7 days ago
The legal basis is explained here [0] . Funny thing is that in contrast to what the OP says the German net agency says that the CUII needs a court decision:

>A rights holder represented in the CUII can find copyright infringements and then file a lawsuit with the court for the implementation of a DNS block. If the court decides that a DNS block is lawful, this block is implemented by the Internet access providers organized in the CUII. The prerequisites for a blocking claim against the Internet access provider pursuant to § 8 DDG are met, - if a rights holder can prove his copyright, - his works are published on the Internet without his consent, - he has no other way of remedying the infringement, - if the blocking is reasonable and proportionate.

[0] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Digitales/Sch...

riedel commented on Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing   atomic14.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1
whatever1 · 7 days ago
Is it common for microcontrollers to lack comprehensive documentation, or is it just espressif?
riedel · 7 days ago
My experience with microcontrollers is not up to date. Most of the stuff I did was 15 years ago.I remember, Espressif really disrupted the market. Things changed already with Advent of Arduino. Before that people wrote a lot of asm code inline and MCUs particularly from microchip had really good documentations (sure some quirks and errata always appeared later, but as I remember they found their ways into data sheets and application notes). Particularly as binary blobs e.g. for network appeared the API went from well defined hardware interfaces to libraries, etc. Today it is even common for some of those domain specific IC that typically rather contain an MCU that you have to sign NDAs to get access to documentation of some parts.
riedel commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent   ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
throwmeaway222 · 8 days ago
I don't know if anyone else agrees, but for some reason no one can replicate the smoothness of the Apple trackpad. And now with that PLUS the heatless apple silicon - I don't think I could go to another OS and the x86 hardware world. I would just feel like I'm in clunky-land. Now don't get me wrong, I like a lot about Linux desktops, but Mac gets a lot of things right. I don't want to take anything away from people migrating from Mac, but the PC didn't kill Desktop Linux, Mac did.
riedel · 8 days ago
I am no fan of touchpads and I am using track points even on my external keyboard (I got a panic beginning of the year since you cannot buy non US versions from Lenovo anymore). However the touchpad on my Z13 is actually pretty decent. I got used to accept the emulation of haptic buttons.
riedel commented on Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs   lwn.net/Articles/1030818/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
riedel · 8 days ago
Confidential computing is the straw for many people to overcome GDPR headaches in Europe. I know particularly medical researchers that hope that they get access to scalable infrastructure this way, because they can tick it as the only additional TOM on the processor side. As mentioned in the comments of OP though it is more a promise than a reality at the moment with very little actual benefit in term of reducing relevant attack vectors.

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