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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by bobbyi_settv on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:44AM (#24659290)
No, he renamed it to "package: An Amazing Project.json"
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by bad_user on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:56AM (#24659364)
OMG even better :-))

My mind did not parse anything after ":"

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by Thorrez on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:57AM (#24659372)
Windows doesn't even let you have a colon in a filename!
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by livre on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:25PM (#24667189)
I suppose it is because the colon is used for NTFS alternate data streams, see the example in the introduction here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/stre...
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by sumtechguy on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:19AM (#24662859)
Wonder if NTFS 'lets' you. I know the API does not let it. But I wonder if you could get it in a different way. I know you can sneak case sensitivity in here and there.

Think I shall go ruin a VM tonight... :)

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by rubatuga on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:05AM (#24659414)
Had a hell of a time downloading a torrent with a colon in the name.
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by vijayr02 on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:06AM (#24659823)
You mean it was a pain in the colon? :)