banshee
Formerly:
All of these names are algorithmically generated[1] and cycled every 28 days as an exercise in practicing non-attachment towards my writing. Think a joyless Pessoa.
The algorithm is simple. To generate the next username, take a SHA-256 hash of the previous username, truncate to the first 32 bits, and then slice two 11-bit indices and one 10-bit index corresponding to words from the BIP-39[2] english wordlist. Since anyone can trivially compute future usernames, this provides no real benefit towards maintaining anonymity.
The "seed" username, lee brisk cyrano
, was generated by
sampling randomly from /usr/share/dict/words
.