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Script kiddies (ukfli.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Github is not a software distribution platform, it was never meant to be one. It's a developer platform for code distribution and collaboration. And UI is designed around that.

A lot of projects use it as a distribution platform, but they're wrong - it's always better to have a web page with simple download button for casual "ordinary" people.

But, this case is special: this mostly harmless tool is designed and almost exclusively used to stalk / doxx / hack people =|. So, it's not in developers interest to make it widely available and easy to install.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're full of contradictions. "It's not a distribution platform it's another kind of distribution platform." Nevermind the fact that it has a "releases" feature designed to provide a somewhat easy way to distribute software however the dev wants to use it.

Then "it's a mostly harmless script designed to commit crimes." Do you know what harmless means?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry, I meant to write that Github is not a software distribution, but a code distribution platform.

And 'mostly harmless' as in it's not inherently malicious - you can use it for harmless stuff. It's merely a tool.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also I don't really follow how it makes sense that the UI should be bad if they only meant for it to be used with code. Developers are humans too, and the GitHub UI is not great. I use it all the time and still get confused by some of the dumb UI decisions they have made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Not having a download button being front and center has never been one of them.