I am a Developer Relations Engineer at Google. Currently I am on the Google Workspace DevRel team and was on the Google Maps Platform before that. Previously I worked at Descartes Labs and the US Geological Survey.
This. Still canning my nitro sub for now as I do think they should hold off until necessary, but people ignore that the root of this trend of ID verification is governments who are willfully ignorant to having staff who can accurately assess the technological landscape and enforce smart regulation.
Yeah that’s the main part that puzzled me, super happy for the team that they got a successful exit, but I wouldn’t really consider Anthropic’s situation to be stable…
Easier for humans to parse, but introduces the threat vector of malicious attackers modifying the history and force submitting malicious code at or before a pinned time. That's why lock files exist.
SHA is still the way to go for those who are security sensitive.
Fair. If we're talking about documenting this feature, we should point out that SHA is immutable, while branches, tags, and dates are mutable references.
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