> I am fighting against human unreadable names in hostnames (specifically in > datacenters)
Hurrah! > and I created a little tool [1] that generates human readable and memorizable > names made > out of frequently occurring given names and surnames from the 1990 US Census I like this idea, but I wonder if the potential for confusion or even offence is too high for it to be workable. I'm thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_teddy_bear_blasphemy_case. > I can imagine the US names can be confusing, Indeed, I find them confusing as a speaker of UK English. This /could/ be localised with UK data, but I don't think we'd want to start down that road. > we can swap these with colors or other words to make it little bit less > confusing (e.g. "blue-star"). See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/petname and https://www.npmjs.com/package/human-readable-ids, which both use animals. -- Peter Oliver _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
