not reproducible builds (because why not)
so, i was comparing this to my local build of the website. unfortunately, it was different. only by a few files.
(left side <
is from here, right side >
is from my build)
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< 7ae6378aefe75e6acd891a2b0fa10b1855e2c4e50d78a9b3c2a1047c2cc56bbb178f0723eaac095ef3abc8c2753069ada7a9306491a361e73bc4dbdc2e1852b4 ./authors/JacksonChen666/index.html
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> f8a09c1b06ba1329ff48ecdbf27109ecfb3db8836796f6612ff590a872a3fb8c8f76d013a71403df0042dcc9b1aea6005af8d77f0c283eea395aff896a937ce3 ./authors/JacksonChen666/index.html
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< 8a42915e33c77d58a24aac10a018fc2b75206f2c1daaf743d6ca68d2ba98dab6efc4b6fcc438223280e8c91a52150a506df404453830696c94747336f5de30fe ./feeds/maintenance.xml
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> af0bd708c3fffa56f74e8d7f6b784f98271998c524044b1270e6260f23e9417800fdb0330431f2ab759f9ba8e2ffb74d3468235e4a0f30969666c8e3ff928216 ./feeds/maintenance.xml
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< e066195f91ff5b5c8d4341052138b679d6032832e224eae6f0b78fe2cd923dd9efdbde6ed2afaa0648c30158ad97deecdb45fcee24b1fd20064858908f10948d ./feeds/posts.xml
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> 8a8a7bfc8c15e588dc6be4af764b056456027e91238d4f6dbab16480b9bde510776da443384389157d2e141d1668c2163d00c7dd760566df163452cd121e50f2 ./feeds/posts.xml
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< 8b16694fe897ce61a43cd6d48bc2f4be2a201a8b48b0cd5edf8be15787faec852faa5f6fcd50e0c1cbcc19114b17fb61d025586be55d86d42afc58976639b5d0 ./sitemap.xml
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> 1b2ce10ed3045a1de0f4ee8921587b1ef07b0bcc323d0200e6f93ab683c895d59d024dd1a8d7a057ad7fb68b6f4bf133b08740a8a533daad9e0ac4176f3b06bc ./sitemap.xml
./authors/JacksonChen666/index.html
./feeds/*.xml
./sitemap.xml
after some file comparisons, it appears that the publication date (for the authors page) is the website build date (not really correct for that), with the other files having the last updated date which would make sense for that but not necessarily reproducible builds.
solution: remove dates from the files