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 Well _in theory_ you could write the project in Python with matplotlib. Or
 in C/C++ with OpenGL. But… better not talk about it.
+
+(See followup below)
+
+## 2022-09-30, Gitea
+
+On 16:54 it came to my attention while `git pull`ing all the students'
+homework repos that one branch was 108.26MiB in size. It should not be
+larger than 1MiB.
+
+I smell fuckup fumes from a distance away. Upon close examination, they
+pushed their project code, which should have been strictly kept personal.
+Worse, there are two versions. Worse, neither is in Matlab, but in C++.
+Worse, one of them is built on Qt. Worse, they were written with Visual
+Studio. Worse, they pushed all the vsidx, vcxproj, ipch and all kinds of
+crap.
+
+Manuel predicted that students will do all sorts of stupid things, going
+as far as considering git lfs. Real conversation:
+
+> TA: will lfs be used in this course?
+
+> Manuel: it should not but we never know what they will push by mistake…
+
+Murphy's law worked. Apart from this VS atrocity, students were pushing:
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+- tarballs / zip files they should be submitting to the OJ
+- batch file automating tar
+- pdf
+- symlinks to the pdf
+- a CC BY 4.0 International license