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I wasted all my generational luck for this (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] brian@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

just to be clear since you said both again in different sentences, GUID and UUID are two names for the same thing.

I think that spec predates uuid4, it only mentions the time based/node based variants. 122 bits of auth token should be plenty, right?

the sheer unlikeliness of guessing that large a number, the original post is fake or something else is going on.