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The pull request on the repository linked to a fork of faker on NPM before it was edited by Marak to point to a post on the conspiracy subreddit.
The lifehack I learnt today was to view the repo over wayback machine :-) To confirm that https://github.com/withshepherd/faker.js has all the commits that internet archive knows about.
That's such an unfortunate coincidence. I just created www.datafaker.net in the last few days, which is not a competing solution, but a Java (not Javascript) version just like this, and I was using Faker.js as a partial inspiration, and just hours after adding a reference to Faker.js on my github (https://github.com/datafaker-net/datafaker), this happens....
If he doesn't want to maintain it, someone will just fork it and maintain it, see this repo
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