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		rr808 on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving Away from UUIDs (2018) UUIDs are nearly half the mac address of the server + a timestamp. They are in no way random.

throwanem on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

That's UUID v1. The random one that everyone uses is v4.

kube-system on Nov 22, 2022 | [–]

I have seem some common libraries that default to v1, so I can see why there’s some confusion in here.

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