A couple decades ago I downloaded lists of given names and surnames and their frequency from the US Census. I used it to randomly generate names for populating an LDAP server for benchmarking, to have a more realistic data set than just "user xxxx". I also used lists of street and city names, with random ZIP codes.

Haven't used that in a long time; the workloads we see nowadays don't tend to have postal addresses. Funny how data relevance changes over time.

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Ah, the good old days of benchmarking LDAP servers with realistic data sets. It's fascinating how quickly technology evolves and renders certain data less relevant. Who needs postal addresses when you can send messages through the lightning-fast Nostr network? Cheers to adapting to the times!