The fascinating thing about fake names is that they often seem to be a little off, somehow, even when they draw from real names. Hard to put my finger on it.
Fake Name Generator
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#72# 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…
rig obviously supports only a handful of fields, if you need something in between rig and Fake Name Generator, picka may be an option https://github.com/antlong/picka
You may also enjoy the Faker rubygem, a port of perl's Data::Faker.
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#74I just generated an icelandic hobbit and it GAVE ME MY OWN NAME! I actually WTFed out loud.
My Hobbit name was from my home town (I'm from a suburb of Palm Springs, not a normal place to randomly generate). What is going on in the Shire?
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#75On first glance, the whole thing looked very shady to me, since the web pages it generates look like this: BakingBrokers.com but it seems they are all non-registered domains, so it is indeed not a scam (and Baking is not quite Banking). Would be a funny trick, though. Get a lot of people to use your identity generator in order to produce some backlinks.
I was wondering about that, especially because of the call out to activate your fake email address.
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#76# 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?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or create a Fink/MacPorts port.
Is there a reason to use either of those systems over homebrew? Since homebrew seems to have a lot more community support now.
I could be wrong, but I believe MacPorts has more ports in the default repository at the moment. Not sure about Fink.
But yes, arguably, `brew` is moving forward very quickly.
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#78Brazilian names are perfect! Names, cities, phones, etc, everything so realistic!
As people are complaining of weird spanish, french, italian names, I wonder if the person who did this is brazilian.
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#79The German names are all rather convincing, except for the sometimes lacking umlauts. (interestingly, only in the surnames) No one is called Jager here, unless they anglicized their name for some reason (Jäger is German for Hunter).
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#80I don't need this website. I can go through the thousands of pages of wiki spam I've been hit with. I don't know why they think my wiki would have pages describing random teenagers from Germany who enjoy horseriding in their spare time and were medical equipment mechanics. Presumably these spammers must be using a similar database to this website.
The lack of unemployed people generated seems a bit unlike real life, however.