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docs/UIDS-GIDS: drop obsolete comment about Fedora

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RenameNobodyUser, 2018:
> Use "nobody:nobody" as the names for the kernel overflow UID:GID pair, and
> retire the old "nfsnobody" name and the old "nobody:nobody" pair with 99:99
> numbers.
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@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ i.e. 0…4294967295. However, four UIDs are special on Linux:
only supporting 16-bit UIDs, NFS or user namespacing.
(The latter can be changed with a sysctl during runtime, but that's not supported on
`systemd`. If you do change it you void your warranty.)
Because Fedora is a bit confused the `nobody` user is called `nfsnobody` there
(and they have a different `nobody` user at UID 99).
I hope this will be corrected eventually though.
(Also, some distributions call the `nobody` group `nogroup`. I wish they didn't.)
3. 4294967295, aka "32-bit `(uid_t) -1`" → This UID is not a valid user ID, as