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Most likely it's different normalization. I've seen this before with Mac systems. Renaming the files to use NFKC normalization fixed it. In python, you could loop through the files…

> I don't think any backup software actually can do the right thing(tm). Sure it can. In this case, I'd say treating the filename as a bag of bytes is the correct way to go, as tha…

IBM's backup software TSM/Spectrum Protect messes this up as well. If the machine has a UTF-8 encoding (like, say, every modern system), it will try to treat filenames as valid UTF…

> When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the feeling that I don’t want to read it. Sometimes I actually contemplate creating a filter for t…

> Iceland: FRISK (F-PROT) FRISK was bought by Israeli company Commtouch several years ago. They wound down operations in Iceland to the point that I doubt any real technical work g…

I've been thinking I'd love to have a WARC archive of all my browsing. So many times sites I remember seeing have gone offline, and didn't get archived by the big services. Ideally…

I'm sure it does, but every farmer I've ever met drank raw milk, so I'm not convinced it's so terribly unsafe. For the record, I don't live in the US, and here they don't pump catt…

> I find that for many things in life where there are similar but not exact variants, one tends to prefer the variant one first tried despite both variants being potentially equiva…

The part that you're missing is that HN is not just for tech news, and never has been.

It's quite possible that exterior damage was covered by the insurance of the homeowners/building association. I'd love more information on this case to see if that's true. If that'…

> Just as an FYI: Don't watch those videos if you like stuff like leather for example...I love the feeling of leather seats, but I'm looking for synthetic leather in my next car. G…

As a counter-anecdote, I know a mentally ill person (mostly functional, luckily, but he gets paranoid delusions during the worst times). His family pressed the doctors hard to have…

> Thats great, but certain populations are being demonstrably soft-genocided in that their birth rates are below replacement level, and internet porn is a leading cause. So, by dec…

From the same link: > As mentioned, satellites measuring the ice sheet mass have observed a loss of around 200 Gt/year over the last decade. Looking at the data for one year is not…

On recent android versions you can allow calling from the lock screen. So just lock your phone and switch to the dialer before handing it over.

You modify the bootloader to grab the password on next decryption. The bootloader is in cleartext on the disk, otherwise the machine couldn't boot. More advanced versions would inv…

> Also, yes, we need to make sure photosensitive people can browse more safely (for the same reason we put airbags in cars). I'm kind of surprised that we don't have "epilepsy mode…

Interesting. Was this data loss of CrashPlan announced publicly? Did it affect more users? It's concerning to hear, since I know people using it for backups.

Ah, that's good to hear. It's been a while since I've used SuSE. Of course, someone has to go first and filesystems never truly get battle-hardened until distros start pushing them…

Tor does nothing of the sort. In order to throttle a client, there would need to be a central authority that could identify connections by client, which would very much defeat the …

Locking it to the bike isn't a good solution if you live in a place where it rains or snows a lot. So you end up having to carry it with you on errands. If you bike a lot, those sm…

Out of curiosity, is cycling a common mode of transportation where you are from? I recall seeing studies showing that helmet-laws generally coincided with low use of bicycles. Plac…

No disrespect intended, but my experience is that SuSE has always played fast and loose with the filesystem defaults. I recall they switched to reiserfs as default at one point. re…

> One good argument for it is that a conscript army is unlikely to stage a military coup in a democracy. If the soldiers are more or less random people, they will more or less supp…

Russia does send military jets regularly into other countries airspace. It happens regularly over Iceland for example[0]. The lie is not in saying it happens, the lie is by omissio…