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Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by bufferoverflow »

ticulatedspline wrote: post #36

reminds me of https://libraryofbabel.info/ (which seems to be down at the moment try Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20241112121646/https://libraryof... ). It's a fun implementation inspired by the short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel and "At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters," though the character set is limited (no dash) so you won't find these UUIDs there.

There's also a variation of this book called

A Short Stay in Hell (2009) by Steven L. Peck

It's a fun and scary read. Especially if you understand very big numbers.

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Post by eru »

Btw, one suggestion to make the scrolling look more believable would be to let people scroll by fractions of a line.

(Just like on HN, I can scroll so that just the bottom part of the first line of text is visible.)

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by thaumasiotes »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #21

The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…

> The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained.

> Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even more impressed.

But the trick to the full-text search is that it doesn't work.

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by hakfoo »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #99
quietbritishjim wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PINs can be up to 6 digits (at least here in the UK, but I doubt it's country specific), even though the ones they give you by default are only ever 4. So that's only a leak of 1% of them.

Does that not cause problems on some card machines? I've come across a few that definitely don't let you put in more than four digits.

For some reason, a lot of credit card processing APIs are still oriented around physical card machines, so they have a lot of fields devoted to self-declaration of the available features.

Some of the APIs allow the machine to say "I can accept a PIN up to 12 digits".

However, I don't know if anyone 1) actually delivered on it and 2) how you'd know in advance just poking random devices in stores.

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Post by nharada »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #21

The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…

The blog write-up is incredible -- technically interesting, hilarious, and perfect in both tone and scope. Well done!

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by quink »

I own d12bf171-1ded-4bf6-a87c-b62c202f9e4b now nobody use it thank you.

Edit: and the following 2^8-1 for friends and family, thank you.

Re: Every V4 UUID

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Post by mackieem »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #21

The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…

I searched for 1337, and then 13371337, and then 133713371337, and I was flabbergasted they've got a search setup for this (which ctrl-f opens up). Thanks for posting the blog post!
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