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20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1257

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BoorishBears·Jan 17, 2022
Amazing you wrote this entire comment without taking a second confirm the premise you're so passionately defending... No one took away his ownership. Marak: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker Post: https://github.com/faker-js/faker https://www.npmjs.com/package/@faker-js/faker Faker.js is not a trademarked term, so someone made a new Faker.js. In fact multiple people did, and one emerged as the preferred fork: https://twitter.com/faker_js/status/1481918305669627905 - And to be clear, even if NPM goes and replaces his package with this new fork, it wouldn't take away his ownership. Github could do the same... doesn't take away his ownership. His ownership of a Github page is not his ownership of the code. I don't like this rules-lawyering stuff either, yet this is one time where even if you decide to be
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purposely inflexible with your understanding of laws/licensing/contracts etc... there's still no issue with how this has been handled.
In Faker.js is now a community controlled project
PragmaticPulp·Jan 17, 2022
> It was a malicious act to the users of his project, sure. But how was it a malicious act to GitHub? You can't use GitHub to perform malicious acts, even if the victim isn't GitHub. GitHub isn't obligated to support anyone's malicious acts with their platform. > If DHH decided that Rails was contributing more harm to the world then good, and tried to remove it from GitHub, would GitHub lock his account and restore his repos "on behalf of the community", to side with the smooth operation of the open source ecosystem over a user's personal decisions? To what extent has GitHub decided that they "know best" for the open source community? GitHub hasn't done any of these things with faker.js. Marak deleted the code and replaced it with a non-functional repo that has a README.md that just says "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" (Referenc
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e to a conspiracy theory) It's still here. You can still see it: https://github.com/Marak/faker.js
In Faker.js is now a community controlled project
politelemon·Jan 5, 2022
Faker was a package to generate fake data. For example you could do "faker.internet.email()" and it would generate some email address to use. From the package's original description > faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js http://web.archive.org/web/20211208113955/https://www.npmjs.... It appears the git history has been overwritten entirely. https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/commits/master
In NPM package FakerJS with millions of weekly downloads hacked
eviltester·Oct 19, 2021
I wanted to improve my JavaScript programming, and learn AG Grid at the same time so I tried to think of an application which had a data grid front and center, but met needs that I had. So I built a Markdown table code generator. I've always hated building tables for Markdown so this was helpful in intial prototype stage. I added CSV because AG Grid has an exportDataAsCSV function so it was a 'no cost' feature. The parsing code for importing the various formats is pretty minimal so there will be many edge cases that don't work. Because everything is based around the same data structures internally adding new import and export formats was fairly simple. I haven't added any tests yet because I was incrementally building it and learning to structure JavaScript at the same time. It is pure JavaScript with no frameworks, simply because I'm con
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centrating on learning JavaScript at the moment and there is no build system. Looking at the code now, after a 4 month gap I can see that I didn't even know about JavaScript modules and imports at the time I started so the code is just added directly into the main index through a script element include. It isn't the most robust application but it was an interesting starting point. My end goal with it was to add data generation capabilities, and have it all run in the browser, but I haven't got to that point yet. My plan is to try to do this by adding a 'type' to each column and then using Faker to generate the data https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ Thought it might be useful if anyone is learning JavaScript and wants to see a simple application. Code is here: https://github.com/eviltester/grid-table-editor The readme file in the source has links to other similar apps which have been around for much longer if anyone needs an inbrowser table editor.
In Show HN: A grid based editor for Markdown tables, CSV, Gherkin tables, HTML
bmn__·May 23, 2021
Hey Marak, have you compensated the original author of faker yet or are you too busy being much of a drama queen (ref GH bug #1046)? How about that relicencing removing the copyleft and attribution terms? Copyright 2004-2005 Jason Kohles, GPL-1/Artistic --- https://metacpan.org/source/JASONK/Data-Faker-0.07/lib/Data/... Copyright 2010 Marak Squires, MIT --- https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/blob/a9f98046c7d5eeaabe12f... Looks too me like you are really butt-hurt about other people ripping you off, but have no problem doing the same yourself. /cc ddevault
In Monetizing open-source is problematic
JimDabell·May 23, 2021
> CDN is hardcoded into the JS library. Why would you even do that and then shame people? It’s worth noting that before the fakercloud.com URLs were hard-coded into the library, the library was hard-coding a different service’s S3 URLs (uifaces.co) and only stopped when they became inaccessible: https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/commit/e45648439ff5dd9adbe... https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/1055 So it seems a little unfair to complain that Retool are embedding URLs to your CDN when this library was doing the same thing to UI Faces a few months ago.
In Monetizing open-source is problematic

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