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It is highly disturbing that you would go through my private profiles and nicknames to prove what? Ever heard of nicknames on the Internet? Ever heard a person

by iagooar 11mo ago

It is highly disturbing that you would go through my private profiles and nicknames to prove what? Ever heard of nicknames on the Internet? Ever heard a person can have multiple projects over the many years? I published an open source library, it is not even v1.0 yet. I kindly ask you to delete this comment.

darkwater 11mo ago
Private if they are on the Internet? They are not private at all. Your answer to the OP comment is frankly... wrong.
- iagooar 11mo ago
  I guess you are partially right. Still, this feels much unsolicited.
alt187 11mo ago
Frankly, I second that sentiment. I'm not sure how extensive your search was to find OP's LinkedIn, but it's clearly not in his HN profile, and that's enough to be unwarranted imho.
- _vxgq 11mo ago
  I say this with the utmost respect, but: are you guys serious? It was YOU, iagooar, who posted a "Show HN" here with a link to the following URL: https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa This is a public web site hosted on Github, and it belongs to the Github user matisojka, whose public Github profile is at https://github.com/matisojka https://github.com/matisojka, containing, in public, the full name "[name-redacted]" — put there by no other than yourself! You came here to promote your tool, asking for feedback ("Curious if the HN crowd finds it useful"), so YOU expect me to download and run YOUR software on MY system, and therefore trusting your software to not wreck havoc on my personal computer system. And then flip out if I dare to do a quick, superficial cross-check on whose software I'm installing? Using only public information that you yourself put onto the Internet on public pages yourself? Are you seriously suggesting that I broke into private web sites or computer systems in order to illegally retrieve information that was not meant for public eyes? Like, seriously? "go through my private profiles" -> can you point at a SINGLE private profile that I went through? Just ONE? You asked for feedback. Your literally wrote "AMA" — "Ask me anything". And all I did was just that: asking you to understand that if you want this project to gain traction, that the nature of the way it is currently distributed, and the way that the Apple ecosystem treats it, might be a roadblock for this. A roadblock for a project that I love and want to see succeed.
  - pmarreck 11mo ago
    you could have avoided all that (including all the awkwardness) just by inspecting the open-source source code, my man. no need to google the author to see if he passes your personal "sniff tests". Have you done that for the authors of your OS, your browser, and your routers too?o I mean, Apple isn't even open-source; they could be sending all manner of things to their servers that you wouldn't be happy about, and you wouldn't know
    - imcritic 11mo ago
      > inspecting the open-source source code But how does one open the open-source source code?
      - _vxgq 11mo ago
        Definitely don't look at any Github profile names while doing so please!
bee_rider 11mo ago
The act of looking is normal. Running your code on their computer requires a lot of trust, after all. But there’s nothing suspicious about having multiple nicknames. I don’t really get what they are talking about there.
- alt187 11mo ago
  Looking is. Sharing, I'm not so sure? At least for me, it crosses a boundary. Especially since it's looking and sharing for something as irrelevant as "HN name doesn't check out!"
  - bee_rider 11mo ago
    If it were a legitimately suspicious issue, I’d think sharing was the right thing to do. I disagree with the idea that having multiple nicknames is suspicious, though. But, if that is something the poster believes, I guess I can see why they’d share it.
    - _vxgq 11mo ago
      I am absolutely, perfectly, 100% fine with how OP structures, manages, names, and presents his online profiles. After the latest fun incidents with NPM and others, I just wanted to make a point how the way the project is currently "marketed" and distributed — and again, PERFECTLY fine for a first draft and "look what I built" — might stand in the way of it getting further traction. And I did so in a very stream-of-consciousness way, trying to illustrate what I mean by "Trust & Safety issue".
      - bee_rider 11mo ago
        I still don’t see the issue. There’s a HackerNews account and a GitHub account. The HackerNews account could be some random person. All of the other aspects of identity are on the other side, the GitHub account with the real name, other projects, a reputation. So then, consider the Hackernews account to be some random, start the check-out at the GitHub, and you don’t see anything particularly suspicious.

by iagooar 11mo ago

darkwater 11mo ago

Private if they are on the Internet? They are not private at all. Your answer to the OP comment is frankly... wrong.

iagooar 11mo ago
I guess you are partially right. Still, this feels much unsolicited.

alt187 11mo ago

Frankly, I second that sentiment. I'm not sure how extensive your search was to find OP's LinkedIn, but it's clearly not in his HN profile, and that's enough to be unwarranted imho.

_vxgq 11mo ago
I say this with the utmost respect, but: are you guys serious? It was YOU, iagooar, who posted a "Show HN" here with a link to the following URL: https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa This is a public web site hosted on Github, and it belongs to the Github user matisojka, whose public Github profile is at https://github.com/matisojka https://github.com/matisojka, containing, in public, the full name "[name-redacted]" — put there by no other than yourself! You came here to promote your tool, asking for feedback ("Curious if the HN crowd finds it useful"), so YOU expect me to download and run YOUR software on MY system, and therefore trusting your software to not wreck havoc on my personal computer system. And then flip out if I dare to do a quick, superficial cross-check on whose software I'm installing? Using only public information that you yourself put onto the Internet on public pages yourself? Are you seriously suggesting that I broke into private web sites or computer systems in order to illegally retrieve information that was not meant for public eyes? Like, seriously? "go through my private profiles" -> can you point at a SINGLE private profile that I went through? Just ONE? You asked for feedback. Your literally wrote "AMA" — "Ask me anything". And all I did was just that: asking you to understand that if you want this project to gain traction, that the nature of the way it is currently distributed, and the way that the Apple ecosystem treats it, might be a roadblock for this. A roadblock for a project that I love and want to see succeed.
- pmarreck 11mo ago
  you could have avoided all that (including all the awkwardness) just by inspecting the open-source source code, my man. no need to google the author to see if he passes your personal "sniff tests". Have you done that for the authors of your OS, your browser, and your routers too?o I mean, Apple isn't even open-source; they could be sending all manner of things to their servers that you wouldn't be happy about, and you wouldn't know
  - imcritic 11mo ago
    > inspecting the open-source source code But how does one open the open-source source code?
    - _vxgq 11mo ago
      Definitely don't look at any Github profile names while doing so please!

bee_rider 11mo ago

The act of looking is normal. Running your code on their computer requires a lot of trust, after all. But there’s nothing suspicious about having multiple nicknames. I don’t really get what they are talking about there.

alt187 11mo ago
Looking is. Sharing, I'm not so sure? At least for me, it crosses a boundary. Especially since it's looking and sharing for something as irrelevant as "HN name doesn't check out!"
- bee_rider 11mo ago
  If it were a legitimately suspicious issue, I’d think sharing was the right thing to do. I disagree with the idea that having multiple nicknames is suspicious, though. But, if that is something the poster believes, I guess I can see why they’d share it.
  - _vxgq 11mo ago
    I am absolutely, perfectly, 100% fine with how OP structures, manages, names, and presents his online profiles. After the latest fun incidents with NPM and others, I just wanted to make a point how the way the project is currently "marketed" and distributed — and again, PERFECTLY fine for a first draft and "look what I built" — might stand in the way of it getting further traction. And I did so in a very stream-of-consciousness way, trying to illustrate what I mean by "Trust & Safety issue".
    - bee_rider 11mo ago
      I still don’t see the issue. There’s a HackerNews account and a GitHub account. The HackerNews account could be some random person. All of the other aspects of identity are on the other side, the GitHub account with the real name, other projects, a reputation. So then, consider the Hackernews account to be some random, start the check-out at the GitHub, and you don’t see anything particularly suspicious.