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Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by ArcticCelt »

jaimebuelta wrote: post #43
qnk wrote: post #6

Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…

Yes, I was about to say the same. I tried a few "Hispanic" names and they looked absolutely weird. On the other hand the notion of a "reasonable" Hispanic name can be quite broad. Names in Spain can be very different from names in Argentina (where Italian surnames are quite common) or from US (when it's not uncommon to have an English name with a Spanish last name) Not sure about that, but other name set can have the…

Yeah I think that trying the bunch all Hispanic names under the same category is part of the problem. There is 400 million native speakers and they are spread over multiple continents, countries and cultures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-Hispanophone_World.png

No surprise that names will widely vary from one place to the other.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

eterm wrote: post #32
qnk wrote: post #6

Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…

The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.

I tried the generator with gender:random; nameSet:England+Wales; country:UK.

All but one of the names is a forename of someone I know - that name is Scarlet and it appeared twice in my sample of 20. Only one of the names was 'foreign' though. In my area there would be several Asian names in that sample.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by belorn »

possibilistic wrote: post #90

Why are social security numbers generated? That seems necessary for supporting only dubious kinds of behavior. Aren't SSNs only useful for banking/credit-type services? (Perhaps someone can enlighten me.)

I can think of several good reason, but the two main ones are: Testing and to use at registration-burden websites that collects personal information as their business model.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by aw3c2 »

rfnslyr wrote: post #76
teddyh wrote: post #16

# aptitude install rig RIG (Random Identity Generator) is a free replacement for a shareware program out there called 'fake'. It generates random, yet real-looking, personal data. It is useful if you need to feed a name to a Web site, BBS, or real person, and are too lazy to think of one yourself. Also, if the Web site/BBS/person you are giving the information to tries to cross-check the city, state, zip, or area cod…

I don't get it?

rig is free software to create fake credentials on your local machine without the need of a internet connection to access an online service.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by victorquinn »

I wrote a library in JavaScript for the browser and Node.js called Chance to generate user info and other random things:

http://chancejs.com/

I don't have as much internationalization, and it doesn't generate a full user like that (it's in my todo) but perhaps it would be helpful for anyone looking for this kind of stuff.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by mbrameld »

possibilistic wrote: post #90

Why are social security numbers generated? That seems necessary for supporting only dubious kinds of behavior. Aren't SSNs only useful for banking/credit-type services? (Perhaps someone can enlighten me.)

My guess is because they are also geo-dependent. Your fake person gets a valid SSN for where they are from.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by JonnieCache »

_delirium wrote: post #87
SmileyKeith wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason to use either of those systems over homebrew? Since homebrew seems to have a lot more community support now.

Once you start piling up some dependencies (vs. self-constained apps), I found homebrew more of a mess, while MacPorts more or less worked as I'd expect. The thing that drove me off Homebrew was dependency-hell with different versions of Python packages, while MacPorts pulled in the right versions of all the dependencies (it can even handle needing multiple versions of NLTK/SciPy/etc. installed in parallel, if differ…

It's possible to end up in a different circle of dependency hell with macports, where it insists on installing 10 different versions of everything at great length, when you already had a perfectly good one. If I'm not a python or perl developer, I don't want to compile many different point releases of those language ecosystems just to run some little utility scripts. And then of course everything is connected to everything else, so you can end up trying to solve graph theory problems when you're meant to be working.

Battle-hardened *NIX admins rightfully laugh at this attitude, but for a lot of web developers who use their laptops as a "sharp tool" and do all the heavy lifting in linux vservers, it makes sense to have a slightly laxer approach to package management.

(and then there's the increasingly common cases of build scripts just being broken on macports, because it receives less and less community attention now. this can combine with the above dependency graph problems to produce situations where it's easier to just nuke /opt/local and start again.)

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by mynegation »

11001 wrote: post #96

At least with Russian names, the algorithm seems to apply a uniform probability distribution over all names in its database. It results in way too many extremely rare names. In other words, a batch of Russian names generated using this program would not look statistically realistic.

Yes, a lot of archaic names which are very rare. Also, Russia is multinational country, so Russian (as in ethnicity) and Russian (as in nationality/citizenship) names are different things. A lot of names (but not family names) are actually Tatar, Armenian etc. A combination of that name with typical Russian family name is not unheard of, but pretty rare to attract the attention which is the last thing you want if you use fake name for any serious purpose.
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