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I think Obnam's idea of deduplication is great and very interesting but I am reluctant to trust complex backup systems. I have used "rsync --link-dest" to reduce space.

With files SHA512SUMS and SHA512SUMS.sign in the current directory the verifying can be as simple as gpg --auto-key-retrieve SHA512SUMS.sign The key is retrieved from user's defaul…

My favourite change is the transition to GnuPG 2.1 as the default /usr/bin/gpg. Particularly the "trust on first use" (TOFU) trust model is a really good improvement.

And the thread you linked is itself a duplicate of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167469

The original message has a typo in the subject. It says version "25.1" but the message author corrected it after. This is really about 25.2 release.

I use Emacs' org-mode for pretty much all my work notes. It's very structured, long and includes spreadsheets. But usually I don't use my laptop during work. Instead I print just d…

Usually in Linux the system is installed on an encrypted filesystem (cryptsetup, LUKS). Only kernel and so called initrd image (early boot stuff) is outside the encryption. The dis…

PGP (now GnuPG) is used more these days than in BBS (Fidonet) years, particularly in the open source community. Software releases and packages in GNU/Linux distributions are signed…

Character folding in searches is likely useful: simple letters like "a" also match "á", "à", "ä"; quote char " also matches “ and ” and so on. (setq search-default-mode #'char-fold…

Quote: “we are happy to say that we will be shipping an additional small batch of the Jolla Tablet to early backers during early 2016, targeting to send invitations during January.…

(Common) Lisp is a multi-paradign language. It doesn't have any specific logic programming features, no more than any other generic language. Some lisps tend to lean towards functi…

I made a single-player "squash" pong in about an hour in HTML, CSS and Javascript but that's just the paddle and bouncing. The author has a very good point that could probably be r…

That's nice. Common Lisp implementations, too, allow any characters in symbol names, even spaces and the empty string. Javascript allows wide character set too. I think it's good t…