computer nerds: what would you call a library that takes arbitrary data types and generates unique strings from them? it’s not really hashing as under the hood it basically outputs a bodged sort of binary and there’s nothing consistent about the output lengths or anything between types, only that they’re all unique
@joepie91 calling it hashing made me feel like a sham 😭 one day i will understand cryptography… until then i shall forever hold those developers on a pedestal