TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them

Re:TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them by dlgeek on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:04PM (#41351415)

> UUID Version 2 (v2) is reserved for security IDs with no known details.

I found the details in about 2 minutes: Click the link in the article to take me to the section of RFC 9562 that says it's defined as part of DCE, click the first link in that paragraph to go to the spec, ctrl-f "UUID", then jump to appendix A (deceptively named "Universal Unique Identifier") which has all the details.

Is it really too much to ask to CLICK YOUR OWN LINKS?

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Re:TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them by THBC on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:52PM (#41351783)

Probably written by a language model

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Re:TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them by octernion on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:33PM (#41351655)

haha I had the precise same thought process and immediately didn't finish the article since they didn't have much attention to detail.

i enjoyed reading the appendix though as a snapshot of time.

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Re:TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them by dan-robertson on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:31AM (#41354817)

I mean, there’s two things that one might learn about. One is reading a specification for what a v2 uuid is. The other is learning information about the circumstances of a UUID’s generation from the uuid. Obviously the sentence was about the latter, as could be determined from the context as the other versions are described as being generated from specific things.

I agree the sentence is a bit unclear, but I don’t think it’s misleading or whatever.

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