= Ciro Santilli's naughty projects
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If <Ciro Santilli> weren't a <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[natural born activist], he chould have made an excellent <intelligence analyst>! See also: <Being naughty and creative are correlated>{full}.
* <Stack Overflow Vote Fraud Script>
* <GitHub> makes Ciro feel especially naughty:
* <All GitHub Commit Emails>: he extracted (almost) all Git commit emails from <GitHub> with <Google BigQuery>
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* https://github.com/cirosantilli/test-many-commits-1m/[A repository with 1 million commits]: likely the https://www.quora.com/Which-GitHub-repo-has-the-most-commits/answer/Ciro-SantilliI[live repo with the most commits as of 2017]
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20099235/who-is-the-user-with-the-longest-streak-on-github/27742165#27742165[An 100 year GitHub streak], likely longest ever when that existed. It was consuming too much <server> resources however, which led to GitHub admins manually https://web.archive.org/web/20151021135921/https://github.com/cirosantilli/[turning off his contribution history].
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* https://github.com/cirosantilli/test-octopus-100k[A repository with a 100k commit Git octopus merge]. Now that is a true https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/314215/can-a-git-commit-have-more-than-2-parents/377903#377903[Cthulhu merge].
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* https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1718[500 on adoc infinite header xref recursion]: that was fun while it lasted
Outside this website:
* https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/zhihu-censorship-of-hao-haidong
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