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I get the desire for privacy and such but considering what GitHub is hosting, if you believe in something you sign your name to it. I don’t mean believe in GitH

by hk1337 3y ago

I get the desire for privacy and such but considering what GitHub is hosting, if you believe in something you sign your name to it. I don’t mean believe in GitHub but in the projects your keeping on GitHub. You can put your name out there without doxxing yourself. I would be more worried about what Google is doing with Chrome than GitHub requiring a name.

Pannoniae 3y ago
"if you believe in something you sign your name to it" Without a beat, the next thing from this is "If you believe in this, you deserve to be fired." No thanks.
vsnf 3y ago
What if one were a progressive student in an oppressive country contributing to or writing code for a repo that the regime finds objectionable?
notRobot 3y ago
> You can put your name out there without doxxing yourself. No, you literally cannot in 2023. It's trivial to put together a very comprehensive profile on a person from all the data that has been leaked or is being sold with nothing but a name as a starting point. > If you believe in something you sign your name to it I do not see why that should ever be a requirement. You are free to take a project less seriously solely because you don't know the authors' legal names (although this makes literally no sense to me), but why should that be a rigid requirement?
- richbell 3y ago
  > No, you literally cannot in 2023. It's trivial to put together a very comprehensive profile on a person from all the data that has been leaked or has been stolen with nothing but a name as a starting point. Or for sale by advertising data brokers!
  - notRobot 3y ago
    Yes, I meant to write being sold instead of stolen (I included data theft under 'leaks')!
politelemon 3y ago
There is no good reason to. "Belief" is subjective and should not require normalizing an erosion of privacy.
Etheryte 3y ago
If you believe what you say in your comments, why don't you use your real name as your username on HN?
delfinom 3y ago
>but in the projects your keeping on GitHub. 99.999999999999999% of all open source code has this following statement in some form >THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED There is absolutely zero need for a real name and nobody believes in their own code ;) The fundamental aspect of open source isn't about "believing" in what you are doing. You are simply sharing something you wrote. That's it. The vast majority of people are not trying to save the world by becoming the next JS web framework.

by hk1337 3y ago

Pannoniae 3y ago

"if you believe in something you sign your name to it" Without a beat, the next thing from this is "If you believe in this, you deserve to be fired." No thanks.

vsnf 3y ago

What if one were a progressive student in an oppressive country contributing to or writing code for a repo that the regime finds objectionable?

notRobot 3y ago

> You can put your name out there without doxxing yourself. No, you literally cannot in 2023. It's trivial to put together a very comprehensive profile on a person from all the data that has been leaked or is being sold with nothing but a name as a starting point. > If you believe in something you sign your name to it I do not see why that should ever be a requirement. You are free to take a project less seriously solely because you don't know the authors' legal names (although this makes literally no sense to me), but why should that be a rigid requirement?

richbell 3y ago
> No, you literally cannot in 2023. It's trivial to put together a very comprehensive profile on a person from all the data that has been leaked or has been stolen with nothing but a name as a starting point. Or for sale by advertising data brokers!
- notRobot 3y ago
  Yes, I meant to write being sold instead of stolen (I included data theft under 'leaks')!

politelemon 3y ago

There is no good reason to. "Belief" is subjective and should not require normalizing an erosion of privacy.

Etheryte 3y ago

If you believe what you say in your comments, why don't you use your real name as your username on HN?

delfinom 3y ago

>but in the projects your keeping on GitHub. 99.999999999999999% of all open source code has this following statement in some form >THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED There is absolutely zero need for a real name and nobody believes in their own code ;) The fundamental aspect of open source isn't about "believing" in what you are doing. You are simply sharing something you wrote. That's it. The vast majority of people are not trying to save the world by becoming the next JS web framework.