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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I once took over a project. The guy left in bad terms. Took off with the credentials of his virtual machine, on which was the latest build of the project. Tried to download and build on a different machine. Did not work. Nobody knew how to. Never found out, fuck that noise I left within a month. Oh, and they were starting to use git. Fifteen fucking years, they had been selling their software. No versioning at all.



  • Very interesting. I taught git to students last year and was showing them the SHA256 option and the issues he’s describing was pretty much what I was wondering about. If you force people to switch, with no intercompatibility, holy shit this is gonna be quite the clusterfuck!

    What I’m taking away from this is that Linus was right from the get go : SHA1 isn’t there for security, it’s a really good algorithm for a hashtable’s hash where we really want to avoid collisions. That’s it.
    If you’re thinking it’s safe because it used to be involved in security, you’re a muppet.