fiatjaf on Nostr: About "uuids": do you need a UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE identifier for entities scoped to a ...
About "uuids": do you need a UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE identifier for entities scoped to a single single person that will be manually generated and will rarely exceed 10? Maybe apps should try to generate smaller pseudo-random ids that are easier on eyes and on bandwidth and storage.
Like hash the current timestamp and take the first 6 characters or something like that.
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2023-11-16 14:30:37Event JSON
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"id": "fd53975c8ebb1917a7c7492a57e4f1894bb2392ef16dc2b7a41f50f1e2a69143",
"pubkey": "3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d",
"created_at": 1700145037,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "About \"uuids\": do you need a UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE identifier for entities scoped to a single single person that will be manually generated and will rarely exceed 10? Maybe apps should try to generate smaller pseudo-random ids that are easier on eyes and on bandwidth and storage.\n\nLike hash the current timestamp and take the first 6 characters or something like that.",
"sig": "9b6208ad1b0a80b54abc30d1e51b99c9224613909ed37d5eea50158f2f7a349a3376d6197f57d5f35ebd10bdef6e78655083a854f0db6b2290d2f4f8a98d65df"
}
