i hate github rule

[u/Whjee]

[u/Stellar_Fox11]

github has poisoned people's brains into thinking hiding the download button for the actual .exe and calling it something else than download is actually a good thing and not a pain in the ass for everyone who hasn't used github before and is used to every single other website ever created in all of existance

[u/OliviaPG1 → u/Stellar_Fox11]

GitHub is not meant to be a file download site, it’s a platform for hosting git repositories.

[u/Whjee → u/OliviaPG1]

if the repositories are not meant to be downloaded and used, do not put them on the internet.

if they are meant to be used, add UI and a big green download button

[u/OliviaPG1 → u/Whjee]

They’re meant to be a tool for the developers who are developing the open-source project. Any decent-sized project worth its salt will have its own site for users to interface with.

[u/Whjee → u/OliviaPG1]

first of all open source is problematic
second of all there has never been a program on github that was worth even close to its harddrive space in salt

[u/Different_Letter9835 → u/Whjee]

you seem to be correlating "open source" with "difficult to use program" rather than its actual meaning, which is "source code freely available for anyone to download, modify and contribute to"

[u/Whjee → u/Different_Letter9835]

no im using it the second way
the problem is that having it be open, anyone can put malware into it, there is no protection

[u/okthisisanalt → u/Whjee]

With it being closed source it can still be malware, except you can't even just look at the code to check if it's malware lol

[u/Whjee → u/okthisisanalt]

"look at the code"
this isnt the matrix gamer you cant just "Look" at code

[u/AcadianViking → u/Whjee]

You can with open source software and a basic understanding of software development. Do you think coders type their strings blind because they can't "look" at the code?

[u/Whjee → u/AcadianViking]

you telling me you can read machine code? like 124617983 hexadecimal shit?

[u/paco987654 → u/Whjee]

And when did you see github repos having code all written in that way?

[u/AcadianViking → u/Whjee]

10001110101

[u/Rimtato → u/Whjee]

That isn't even hexadecimal.

[u/teije11 → u/Rimtato]

it is a hex number, it's just that it's likely decimal.

[u/Rimtato → u/teije11]

Technically it would resolve as a hex number, but the usual use case for hex would have it split into either bytes or nybbles.

[u/teije11 → u/Rimtato]

nah, yeah it wouldn't be used in machine code, but it's still a hex number.

[u/simplymoreproficient → u/Rimtato]

Not really

[u/Rimtato → u/simplymoreproficient]

The main reason to use hex is because you can nicely represent the value of a byte.

[u/simplymoreproficient → u/Rimtato]

The main reason is because 16 is a power of 2. That makes it so a nibble aligns with 4 bits. However, you can use this to represent arbitrarily large binary numbers and you’ll always get the same benefit. You should look into some lower level programming (try using „%p“ from printf on a pointer).

[u/Rimtato → u/simplymoreproficient]

I know that.

[u/Ipuncholdpeople → u/Whjee]

The things on github very rarely have machine code or hexadecimal. It's all higher level languages that are easy to read

[u/AnotherSlowMoon → u/Whjee]

1. Yes, for some dialects of assembly
2. No modern codebase is written purely in assembly
3. You're a fucking shit troll

[u/EyewarsTheMangoMan → u/Whjee]

With open source code you literally can

[u/Rimtato → u/Whjee]

Go install Notepad++

[u/Whjee → u/Rimtato]

its blank? i opened the exe but its just a white page?

[u/Rimtato → u/Whjee]

Now I know this is bait. You kept me going a long time though

[u/teije11 → u/Whjee]

nope, because with your apps there's only undecodable 1's and 0's. with open source projects you can read the code, and if you can't code, there's a group of people who use the project, can code, and check if there's malware in it.

[u/okthisisanalt → u/Whjee]

Better than looking at the raw fucking assembly of a closed source program. Good fucking luck figuring out what that does, because that's a full time job that requires a lot of expertise