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baby on Nov 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: f.lux for iOS is no longer available

> For various reasons (at least, metadata and the .git folder) it's very unlikely that you'd get the exact same checksum for the entire zip...

This sounds entirely wrong to me. Checksums are used all the time to verify the integrity of archives.

stavros on Nov 13, 2015 [–]

The integrity of archives you're supposed to download from a site, not archives you're meant to create yourself.

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