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WhyNotHugo··on Version Control for Everything
That's exactly what git-annex does: https://git-annex.branchable.com/

LFS is kinda close, but you don't store the files "somewhere convenient": you need support on every git remote to handle the files.

WhyNotHugo··on Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
No. In fact, the GPL states that the actual cost of delivery can be charged (consider this is from times when people still post-mailed floppy disks).
WhyNotHugo··on fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
Recently featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273175
WhyNotHugo··on If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?
You honour, I didn't kill this person, the bullet flew out of my gun and was out of my control at that point, it's the bullet that killed them!
WhyNotHugo··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
OTOH, I might very well want to take a screenshot of my own bank details, transactions, or other sensitive information. It's annoying that my information is being protected from myself.
WhyNotHugo··on South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North
After WWII, the southern part of Korean was under American occupation (it was previously under Japanese occupation, but Japan surrendered to the US). It was the US occupation that installed installed the precursor of current government, with elections which had a lot of boycotts/opposition/oppression. Right wing killed a few hundred thousands locals during these times.

To be clear: I'm not justifying anything here, or claiming that you should share this viewpoint. I'm answering your question: how could NK possibly see the US as an aggressor.

WhyNotHugo··on GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
> Even Steam store, a paragon of consumer utility, doesn't offer this.

Steam has a "played elsewhere" button on every game, which makes it stop suggesting the game, but take it into account for recommendations.

WhyNotHugo··on GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
They don't pretend otherwise, the article clarifies that their LLM has to take into account "business constraints" and such (which gave me a pretty nasty impression as I read it).
WhyNotHugo··on A spectre is haunting Unicode
I've seen Dutch comics for kids which use ÿ instead of ij. E.g.: "mÿn". In typical comic font (which is closer to handwriting), it looks similar to ij, but it's clearly ÿ.
WhyNotHugo··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Qutebrowser seems to _want_ uBlock Origin-style filtering, but development on the feature has been ongoing for a long time and seems to have somewhat stalled: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/7629
WhyNotHugo··on Qwen 3.8 27B
This is pretty much Chinese grammar with English words. In Chinese you'd say "need ask" or "I need ask" if you want to be unusually verbose, but there's no "to".

All your examples align with this too. It just sounds to me like its optimising by removing the superfluous English words and thinking more Chinesely.

WhyNotHugo··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
No bank in my country offers Unionpay.

Of course, I could get a Chinese Unionpay card/account. Now each time I want to make a payment, I need to move money there, and can I even do that easily from a European bank account?

WhyNotHugo··on DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live
Yeah, title needs re-doing. Link makes no such claim either.
WhyNotHugo··on How Compaction Works in Pi
Potentially: remove thinking blocks, and keep the rest. At least this would ensure that the entire context of the conversation is still there, and anything said isn't lost.

Having a second model also iterate the resulting messages and remove low-value tool calls could also be interesting. Especially failed calls which add no value.

WhyNotHugo··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
An interesting move. Something that drives me crazy when interacting with China, is that I can only use American payment methods to make a payment from Europe to China. I pay a fee and the merchant pays a fee both to the US. It just sounds broken. I hope this is a step in eventually resolving this.
WhyNotHugo··on Software for One
Plenty of Android phones run Linux. If you're the kind of person who's going to AI-develop your own software for personal use, I can't imagine being adverse to running a non-mainstream OS (and it can always be a secondary phone).
WhyNotHugo··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
I don't see why it would be cold. It's been in the vacuum of space for decades, it's had nowhere to dissipate heat. One of the main challenges in outer space is dissipating heat, not keeping things warm. People freezing when they fall into the vacuum of space is pure fiction: that would only happen near an atmosphere.
WhyNotHugo··on Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01
Actual details on the incident: https://github.com/w1b/aisi-mythos-inc-2026-07-28-01-recover...

Both the attacker and the target account are very similar and look fake/bots.

WhyNotHugo··on A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
> Over one seven-day stretch, he started within the same 10-minute window on five nights, between 9:54 and 10:04 p.m.

I wonder if this correlates with Thijs's bedtime schedule, or if the hamster really is that precise.

We feed the cat at home at the same time every day, and her internal clock definitely know when it's time less than 30' divergence. She suffers the daylight transitions immensely too because of this.

WhyNotHugo··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
A great deal of shops in the Netherlands don't take cash.

Some didn't before 2020, but during 2020 the trend accelerated, and many shops stopped taking cash. Aside from hygiene, it's also easier to deal with safety for the store (i.e.: nobody can steal the cash register).

The supermarket in my neighbourhood has ~30 self-checkout machines. Only one of them takes cash. The human-checkout also takes cash, but is usually closed.

WhyNotHugo··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
In theory, Waydroid exist.

In practice, I've failed to ever get it running on several attempts so far.

WhyNotHugo··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
The push against technical literacy helped a lot in having the masses accept all this crap.

A great deal of people don't even understand the concept of installing software if it's not via the App Store, nor do they understand what's involved in the process. Explaining the issues of having a central authority is one degree further.

WhyNotHugo··on More German than many Germans
The first of those is a "publicly traded company", which Americans often call "public", but is entirely different to an actual public company.
WhyNotHugo··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Meh, perhaps games from big studios, but the majority of games work fine without DRM. I find indie games and games from small studio a lot more fun and have a lot more soul than most "big studio" games.
WhyNotHugo··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
I buy games via Humble Bundle when possible. They give you a link to download a DRM free copy, which I store away in a large drive.

In practice, I often end up playing those games on the Steam Deck, but I know that in 20 years (if I keep that drive alive), I'll be able to easily spin up wine and play those games just fine.

WhyNotHugo··on Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
This is partially because they import into their own system, and then export->import into OSM. At that point, they're considered an integration which imports data.

If their apps instead submitted directly to OSM (letting submission trickle back down), then the flow would fit into "user submission". Book Corners simply becomes an app though which the user performed the submission, rather than an intermediary exporting data.

WhyNotHugo··on EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
> Linux is not explicitly banned. Desktop Linux users could access a website and scan a QR code using a supported mobile wallet.

That's a weird way of putting it. You'll basically need a second non-Linux device if you want to use Linux.

If your reason for using Linux is "I want to continue using old hardware instead of quickly-obsoleted devices", then you're shit outta luck: you'll have to buy a (potentially second) device from one of those vendors who'll use the profits to further lobby against your rights.

WhyNotHugo··on KOReader
How does it handle fixed-size epubs and (most important) how would you expect it to handle it?
WhyNotHugo··on KOReader
Where do you download the OED dictionary? I've never found a source for it, and assumed it was not available publicly.
WhyNotHugo··on KOReader
I also found all existing e-reader software to be lacking, and all I really wanted was a basic reader. I ended up writing my own with Rust and MyPDF (the latter doing all the heavy loading).

The hardware is great, but the software is pretty lacking. Apparently a lot of the tools out there are from folks in similar situation: had the hardware, but the software to drive it was lacking.

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