Yes, but the target group of this project is not "me". It's potentially many people, and I assume (maybe incorrectly) that the author wants their project to succeed and gain traction.
If there is something of suspicion or not lies in the eye of the beholder.
Only LinkedIn showed the link between the HN profile and the Github profile, because it lists both the project mentioned on the HN profile as well as the project listed in the Github profile.
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".
The perspective is that it is a free project shared on Github which prompts a OS-level warning message on macOS, which might certainly intimidate some people.
I really want to see this project succeed, and thus gave feedback on this — what else is a "Show HN" good for, then?
Where exactly did I say that "publishing open source software require[s] you to present any credentials"?
That is not the point of my original comment.
The point of my original comment was that downloading and using software from the Internet is a process that requires trust, at least if you want your project to gain traction, and that this specific project might have — at least to some people — road blocks in this regard.
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, 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.
I don't see an option for removal on the HN ui.
Same for 45834692 if possible, as this also contains the name.