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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 and do something like:

  os.rename(originalfilename, unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', originalfilename.decode('utf8')))

EDIT: You'll probably need to do this on a non-Mac system, linux for example should work.

> 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. Translating filenames between character sets should not be part of a backup systems job.

There are valid setups where different software on the same machine might be running with different character sets for legacy reasons. In that case there is no correct way to handle the filenames as text. But treating it as a bag-of-bytes will always work consistently.

Also, the one purpose of a backup system is to back up the files on the filesystem. If it can't back up some files that the OS considers valid, it's the backup software that failed.

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't fulfill that assumption. The "solution" is to run the TSM software with a single-byte locale like en_US.

I've seen a number of shops that were silently missing files from backup from old systems because of this problem.

> 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 sigh, unlock my key, start reading, and with a faint glimmer of hope am typically disappointed.

I wonder what proportion of his plaintext email from strangers is interesting. For me it's close to 0%, mostly spam or people demanding I do free work to fix issues in open source code. I really doubt this has much to do with GPG mails specifically.

> 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.

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, so it can save resources from complex dynamic pages, including responses to user action.

This must happen either in the browser or in a proxy like the linked warcprox, in order to catch everything. But the proxy solution is getting less practical every day with key pinning and HSTS.

Maybe a future firefox will have an option to export everything to WARC?

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 buy my raw milk at the grocery store, it's legal and vetted by the health authorities.

Also, yes, it is addictive levels of goodness. :)

> 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 tried unpasteurized milk. The taste is different, was a bit weird at first. After a couple of glasses, I much preferred it over the kind I grew up with (it's just so much better), and it's all I drink now. Normal pasteurized milk tastes like low-fat now (i.e., it tastes like drinking water from a glass that had a little milk in it already).

So I don't think it's quite so simple that everyone always prefers what they grew up with. But you're right that we often need to get used to new kinds of food before we accept it.

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's the case, it's another example of negative externalities from AirBNB being dumped on the neighbors of a host.

> 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 specifically for their leather? I always assumed that cattle raised for food would supply more than enough. If that's the case, buying leather in the current situation should not cause any extra suffering.

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. From what I can tell, the primary effect of that is that he now has an intense distrust of doctors and those family members, and it would be a lot harder for doctors to help him now, even if they tried to approach him with more empathy.

The only people now who can sometimes talk him down when he's having problems are me and a couple of other family members that did not participate in pushing for involuntary committal.

> 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 "soft genocide"?

I've seen some crazy beliefs and weird moral systems on HN but this one takes the cake.

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 long article you didn't read went to great pains to explain.

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.