Hacker News: riedel

New comment by riedel in "Handling the great code forge fragmentation"

riedel — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:25:04 +0000

it is good if people actually develop good workflows. Actually in applied research/public gov tech we are seeing tons of different gitlab instances.

One project we are contributingto the Fraunhofer team developing it has had an internal gitlab with CI/CD and mirrors at three different sites: gitlab.com, opencode.de and code.europa.eu . Now they are slowly trying to move to gitlab.com for the main repo as they cannot open their own repo enough for security/legal reasons. However, the CI/CD stuff still only runs on their gitlab.

Now we have our own gitlab instance we, were we are doing some small frontend work as part of a funded project on national level and have a mirror on GitHub for visibility reasons. Now we have another EU funded project that has its CI/CD on another gitlab instance at a partner. All come with their own onboarding and federated IDM quirks.

It is a total mess. While git is certainly distributed, the workflow is a mess. You end up cherrypicking CI/CD configs and divergent features all over the place.

I wonder: Is there a l'meta-forge' that just would handle rebasing?

I actually understand people using bare git workflow with mailing lists. However, even for me the learning curve and necessary attention span/social contracts is too much a challenge.

New comment by riedel in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

riedel — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:00:24 +0000

I could not even find a mention what platform it supports. There is a Linux example on the bottom. Have never seem a libc implementation that does not even mention for which platforms it is meant.

New comment by riedel in "GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft"

riedel — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:42:32 +0000

If I do that the recaptcha does not appear, but that's pretty much it. Still stuck on the 'one more step page'.

New comment by riedel in "GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft"

riedel — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:26:36 +0000

Same here: was not able to get past the captchas anymore.

New comment by riedel in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

riedel — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:03:27 +0000

Actually here in Germany that the favourite use for our old yellow boxes, many have become book sharing hubs.

New comment by riedel in "OpenBSD 7.9"

riedel — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:38:33 +0000

Actually that is mostly current HW compat. NetBSD would be I guess the one for legacy HW compat.

New comment by riedel in "Googlebook"

riedel — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:13:38 +0000

If they sell one with a track point I might consider switching.

New comment by riedel in "Cisco workforce reductions"

riedel — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:44:19 +0000

The way you can phrase it: you may jsut get people that are happy to do a good job for the pay they get. In many areas your typical white/cis/hetero/neurotypical male is not present, because you cannot get the maximum reward for their well-trained ego. I think diversity/pay is pretty munch confounded for plausible reasons.

New comment by riedel in "EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way"

riedel — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:32:05 +0000

I am actually only switching to Chromium based browsers because some corps and most notably some captcha/paywalls don't work as expected. But the. I always think I made the right choice (actually I am rather using Zen because I love their UX on top of FF)

New comment by riedel in "Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"

riedel — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:28:11 +0000

Many university HPC clusters are run multiuser. At least login nodes.

New comment by riedel in "A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005)"

riedel — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:06:59 +0000

Do you still remember hotbot's color scheme? I guess back in the days we all were brave and less boring.

New comment by riedel in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

riedel — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:48:39 +0000

Replacing ads reminds me of the eye tap AR stuff by Steve Mann

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406552

New comment by riedel in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

riedel — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:43:13 +0000

My feeling is that for agentic tasks this is not only language design but also LSPs, error messages and static analysis capabilities that dominate the benchmarks. It would IMHO be interesting to look into better subsets of python and style/rewrite techniques as well as alternative linter and their effects on performance.

New comment by riedel in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

riedel — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:36:11 +0000

I think it would be rather worth reporting these days if hackers totally handcrafted all code without any use of any AI.

New comment by riedel in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

riedel — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:50:21 +0000

The question is rather: can political parties develop a vision beyond libertarian views or full state control on the other side.

I feel that we need a better political consensus on a free society that puts the monopoly of force in the hand of democratic legitimate forces. I currently feel that all digital violence lies in the hands of a few corporations. And at the same time there is politician that like this because they can through this proxy can indirectly execute control without any political legitimacy. Sorry, I do not believe in markets as guarantees for freedom. I have read too much dystopian sci-fi for that.

New comment by riedel in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

riedel — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:45:48 +0000

Open source would not help without the reproducible builds of Signal (I wonder who check them on each release?). And only builds like Molly include no binary blobs of Google [1], which could IMHO at least be used to extract some metadata. Leaving the OS still as a risk, even for Molly or Matrix clients. Even with transparency around linked devices, I would believe that few people would notice silently linked devices. Simplest thing is I guess social engineering which happened in a coordinated attack on Signal messagers of German politicians recently (I guess there should be an official signal app version not supporting linked devices for such people) [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081855 [2] https://www.politico.eu/article/hackers-attack-phone-of-germ...

New comment by riedel in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

riedel — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:55:09 +0000

I just tried using archive.is on my non-degoogled phone using IronFox instead of Chrome and could not pass the recaptcha. Actually it presented me the mobile attestation on second try, but I was able to switch to images again. But I am also unable to pass that one with the tracking protections built into the browser. Hopefully some 'serious' website starts using this so I can bomb their customer support.

New comment by riedel in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

riedel — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:12:24 +0000

Just on a side note. Negative synergy does not seem so uncommon with machine learning. We did some research maybe 10 yrs ago an human/ML based duplicate detection (for a municipal support ticket system) . Research showed that pure AI and pur human outperformed co-working. Human oversight often e.g. overcorrected machine work. I think it is a nice HCI problem to solve actually to amplify creativity and unique skills in such processes. Particularly if they can be to some degree repetitive and tiresome.

New comment by riedel in ".de domains were 'down' for 2 hours"

riedel — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:56:19 +0000

Sorry, dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897

.de domains were 'down' for 2 hours

riedel — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:53:30 +0000

Article URL: https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033118

Points: 12

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