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throwaway35777
on April 11, 2024
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The UX of UUIDs
It's also trivially easy to reroll ids until they don't contain a swear.
vesinisa
on April 11, 2024
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Collecting the dictionary of all swear words for all languages and their dialects might be less trivial. Keeping it up to date would probably take an institute worth of researchers.
throwaway35777
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And there's no "forward secrecy" - if a normal word
becomes
a swear, then it's often hard to go through and change all uuids.
Which is why the standard has been base16 (or base10) for so long.
zeven7
on April 11, 2024
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But what if deadbeef becomes a swear?
/s… but only halfway
earthboundkid
on April 16, 2024
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Modi is out of control.
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