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faker.js
HISTORICAL RECORD2010–2022
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faker.js

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Observed mentions: 2010-05-16 08:16:40 UTC to 2022-01-17 01:53:56 UTC.

0369122010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 5 submissions, 7 comments2022

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
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

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