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DMD RSS: set the GUID of feed items

Apollon Oikonomopoulosrequested to merge
apoikos/udd:rss-guid into master

Currently the RSS feed items lack a unique ID. This leaves clients with no choice other than relying on the title and publication date to detect new items. However, many sources also lack a proper publication date, which is then filled in using the current date. This has the (unwanted) side-effect that some items appear as new every day, at least on newsbeuter/newsboat.

Fix this by setting the item's GUID to the internal shortname, which is a unique hash derived from each item's significant parameters.

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