Visualising how close random GUIDs come to being the same

Re:Visualising how close random GUIDs come to being the same by avar on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:02AM (#44930701)

    > Assuming 4K@60fps [...] they'd see a collision rate just under 0.6%

This doesn't detract from your point of collisions like that being viable at that scale, but assuming an average of 4K@60fps is assuming a lot. The average video upload there is probably south of 1080p@30fps.

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Re:Visualising how close random GUIDs come to being the same by Xelynega on Sunday August 17, 2025 @01:44PM (#44933389)

You're glossing over the fact that they assumed youtube would want to assign a UUID to each pixel in a 4k@60fps video as the use case that this would fail for...

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