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by throwaway7767 8y ago
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 and do something like: os.rename(originalfile
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by throwaway7767 8y ago
> 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 that's the way the OS treats them. Translatin
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by throwaway7767 8y ago
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-8 strings and fail to back up files which don&#x2
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
> 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 them so that they bypass my inbox entirely, but for now I
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
> 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 goes on there.
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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 this has to happen with browser cooperation,
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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 cattle full of antibacterials. I b
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
> 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 equivalent. I grew up with pasteurized milk. As an adult, I tri
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
The part that you're missing is that HN is not just for tech news, and never has been.
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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's the case, it's another examp
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
> 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. Genuinely curious: are animals slaughtered speci
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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 him involuntarily committed one time since he refused to go
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
> 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 deciding not to have children, people are guilty of "so
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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 very useful. This is a long term process, as the lo
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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.
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
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 involve modifying the BIOS to add a SMM-mode hook. That wa
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by throwaway7767 9y ago
> 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" in a browser somewhere. Just limit
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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. I appreciate that SuSE does this from that
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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 purpose of Tor. And besides, how would it deal with multiple
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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 small inconveniences add up. I can't imagine fashion
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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. Places where cycling is extremely common (like Denmark and Holla
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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. reiserfs was never a good choice for data consistency - the fa
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> 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 support the elected government, at least a portion of them. A
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
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 omission by selectively reporting it when convenient to make it see
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Still sounds like a standard customer service response to me, just from a good CSR. "Please feel like you have been heard"? I think that captures it. I'd love it if this happened, it would make me change my purchasing habits
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I like to imagine good things too, but I suspect if that happened it would be because company would be in bankruptcy proceedings. The trustee appointed will have a mandate to extract the most money from the carcass of the company, and arran
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Surprisingly, when I tried it, NFS outperformed virtio-9p handily across the board. I really was not expecting that result. Perhaps there is a way to tell the host to assume the VM is the only writer to that the exposed path, so the client
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
My experience using thunderbird on linux is that it's a decent mail client, but I've found it corrupts its search index every few months. Rebuilding the index with my mailbox takes several days. Also, sometimes it'll just not
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
As I understand it, growing tobacco takes a lot of time and effort. You need to bury it and store for some time before it gets good. If growing good quality tobacco was as easy as growing good quality marijuana, I suspect a lot more smokers

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