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   Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 23:28:46 JST Terence Eden

   • Matthias Pfefferle

   Somehow @pfefferle has time travelled.

   (Or do I not understand how GitHub dates work?)

   https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/commits/trunk/

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 23:28:43 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Josh :blobcat_googly2:

     @joshbal4 @Edent @pfefferle https://github.com/rixx/git-backdate

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     Josh :blobcat_googly2: (joshbal4@m.fa.gl)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 23:28:45 JST Josh :blobcat_googly2:

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @Edent @pfefferle GitHub’s blindly reading the date of the commit so it’s possible P’s laptop‘s date is wrong

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2024 23:52:36 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     @Edent 😂

     I changed the time on my mac, to run some tests!

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 00:17:12 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @Edent Under the hood, each commit has a series of headers very similar to email headers, and the timestamp is one of these fields. It's also possible to hide arbitrary data in the headers.

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     Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 00:17:13 JST Terence Eden

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc huh! Makes sense.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 00:18:07 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @Edent several years ago, I stuffed terminal escape sequences in there so images would be rendered in the terminal when the commit log was viewed...