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		Dylan16807 on Sept 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eig... Find somewhere people look at only a small fraction of a hash? That's mostly git commits.

rawling on Sept 12, 2023 [–]

Oh, that's evil.

In some places my tooling only shows 7 digits of the git SHA. I wonder how hard it would be to write something to tweak my commits until those are all the same. And I wonder how long it would take until someone noticed...

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