This generates Universally Unique Identifiers. It mimics the behaviour of libuuid command-line binary uuidgen (which is part of e2fsprogs package).
Just in case, here is an UUID to be used right now (already selected to be easily copied to clipboard):
Please check here for a Ruby library which uses this web facility. We have already generated 556 UUIDs! Enjoy!
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