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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 22:59:39 JST Aral Balkan

   function serialNumber () {
   return new Date().getTime().toString()
   }

   It’s a bit sad knowing the code you write will fail in just 273,737 years.

   #JavaScript

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:04:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     But, hey, on the bright side, I know it’ll always remain under the 20 octet limit imposed on certificate serial numbers in RF 5280.

     So it’s swings and roundabouts, I guess.

     ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 00:19:15 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Christian Tietze

     @ctietze Haha, they can if they like, it’s for local development server certificates :)

   • Christian Tietze (ctietze@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 00:19:16 JST Christian Tietze

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     @aral Now that you shared it, I hope nobody begins guessing serial numbers :)

   • le Pétomane Ancien (lepetomaneancien@hackaday.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 00:22:31 JST le Pétomane Ancien

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     @aral
     Not to worry. There will still be COBOL programmers around to fix the Y275K problem.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 00:22:31 JST Aral Balkan

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     • le Pétomane Ancien

     @lePetomaneAncien Bloody hell, how long do COBOL programmers live?

   • Stevens R Miller (stevensrmiller@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 00:27:41 JST Stevens R Miller

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     @aral You sure about that, Aral? If you are using that to create serial numbers and call it twice in under a millisecond, you may get the same serial number both times.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 00:27:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Stevens R Miller

     @stevensrmiller If someone manages to do that on their local machine when generating local development certificates (which is what this is for), I’ll give them a prize ;)

   • Stevens R Miller (stevensrmiller@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 05:16:54 JST Stevens R Miller

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     @aral Anything that can go wrong...

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 05:16:54 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Stevens R Miller

     @stevensrmiller Haha, indeed :)