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Sometimes if you decompress a zip archive with Japanese files and directories, their names will have a bunch of replacement characters (�) along with a bunch of other gibberish. If you're on Linux, I recently learned that you can fix that by adding a very simple option before decompressing: unzip -O shift-jis filename.zip This works since the corrupted file/directory names were almost 100% of the…
I recently wrote this in some documentation for the next tech team for my school's hackathon, as the torch is now being passed to them. But I also think people who work behind the scenes at other hackathons can benefit from this knowledge, so I've made it public here. A lot of this is really just basic software engineering advice, but many people in undergrad point aren't too exposed to SWE and…
In light of the recent statement published by Mozilla's new CEO, many people are deciding to switch off of Firefox to another browser, myself included. Unfortunately, in today's browser landscape all of the alternatives are using chrome or firefox under the hood. These browsers still offer different things in terms of user experience and privacy, but those who are switching off of Firefox are…