ResearchBuzz: Firehose2d ago

TechSpot: Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking. “Google Chrome users who have noticed unusual disk activity or unexplained drops in available storage should look for a folder called ‘OptGuideOnDeviceModel’ inside their Chrome directory. It holds roughly 4GB of weights for Google’s Gemini Nano LLM, downloaded by the browser without user consent.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/06/techspot-google-chrome-has-been-silently-pushing-a-4gb-ai-model-to-your-device-without-asking/
TechSpot: Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking

TechSpot: Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking. “Google Chrome users who have noticed unusual disk activity or unexplained drops in available s…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
N-gated Hacker NewsAug 25, 2025
Ah, behold the marvel that is "git-annex," a tool so niche that even die-hard command-line aficionados might pause 🤔. For those who worship at the altar of git and dream of syncing large files while caressing checksums and encryption as if they were long-lost lovers, rejoice! 😆 But fear not, mere mortals: there's an assistant to dumb it down into a glorified folder sync tool. 🗂️✨
https://git-annex.branchable.com/ #git-annex #commandline #tools #largefiles #sync_tool #HackerNews #ngated
git-annex

N-gated Hacker NewsAug 15, 2025
🚀 Breaking News: The future of large files in #Git is... wait for it... Git! 🎉 Tyler Cipriani unveils the groundbreaking revelation that Git is working on its own solution to large files, because apparently, nothing screams #innovation like removing the convenience of Git LFS only to reinvent it internally! 🤦‍♂️✨
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/ #LargeFiles #GitLFS #GitHub #TylerCipriani #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated
The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Cipriani

Hacker NewsAug 15, 2025

The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/

#HackerNews #Git #LargeFiles #GitFuture #VersionControl #TechTrends #SoftwareDevelopment

The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Cipriani

dbat May 17, 2025

#Git #LargeFiles #Storage #GameDev

New blog post about one way to keep your large-file storage size down when using git.

https://dbat.codeberg.page/posts/git-large-file-technique.html

I hope it's not bad advice. Please let me know of bugs etc.

Also, if anyone has other techniques, will be happy to try them and add them to the post.

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Git and Large Files Techniques

I want to add all the techniques I find over time to this blog page.

dbat May 4, 2025

#Codeberg #git #git-lfs #GameDev #LargeFiles

I opened an "issue" on Codeberg to try get some discussion about my recent git-lfs experiences and the ideas floating in my head for a better way to handle large binary files while using git.

I'd appreciate any feedback etc. It's here:
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/1910

I'm a git-nitwit, so factor that in! 🤭
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Large Files, Git and Ways to Save Storage—A Discussion

### Comment I hope this is okay, to open an issue as a community discussion. I don't know where else to go. I tried on Mastodon, but it's not working there. Please let me know! # Why git-lfs is an "illusion" I have been building game-dev tools for a while; this usually means big blender f...

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Show threaddbat Apr 30, 2025

#git #gamedev #LargeFiles

Rough idea:

touch big.blend
git rm --cached big.blend
git commit
git push
git add big.blend
git commit
git push

...but scripted somehow, so that only happens when big.blend has changed.

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Show threaddbat Apr 30, 2025

#git #gamedev #LargeFiles

LFS does not do it. Git-annex does not seem to do it.

All the `assume-unchanged` and `skip-worktree` do not really do it.

Is there some way you can think of?

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dbat Apr 30, 2025

#git #gamedev #LargeFiles

It is just *bewildering* to me that git does not have a way to ignore changes to a tracked file.

Game dev use-case:
repo/
codefile001
codefile002
binary_files/
huge001.blend
huge002.png
huge003.wav

I want to add/commit/push as usual, because I *want* the all those files online (backups) and for others to fetch.

I do NOT want those binary files to duplicate. When I push a new version, then *replace* binary files that changed!

😕 🦇
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dazfuller Jan 5, 2025

I recently needed to read in a very large file in Python (around 150 million lines), it would read in 50 lines, do some work and then carry on. But it had a habit of crashing out (normally when I forgot and closed my laptop). So I created a stateful reader, that way when I started the execution again it would resume from the last saved checkpoint.

#Python #LargeFiles #Sqlite

https://dazfuller.uk/posts/python-stateful-reader/

Python Stateful Reader

Recently I needed to read a very large file of input data and, for each record, perform an HTTP request to send that data off somewhere else. There’s a few ways to do this. The first and simplest one is to read all of the lines from the file and then iterate over them, this has one big drawback however. In testing it worked fine, but when you scale this up to a few million records then you start to run into memory limitations! Okay, I need to look at another option.

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