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		sam_lowry_ 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's... or ULIDs or any other partially sortable ids.

sebazzz 7 months ago | [–]

ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F

sam_lowry_ 7 months ago | | [–]

ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)

jszymborski 7 months ago | [–]

ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.

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