I created a Minetest Laucher!

[sermowDev]

I created a Minetest Launcher that launches Minetest appimages, I did want to release it now but I need to work on it more. There was a link here but I have removed it because it wasnt thought out by me. I will be releasing it later when it is better.

Sorry for the inconvenience

[Natureshadow]

PSA: Please do not run fishy third-party binaries someone dumped on GitHub (or elsewhere).

This repository looks extraordinarily suspicious, with just some huge blobs, and not a single line of source code or meaningful source code history.

[MCL]

PSA: Please do not run fishy third-party binaries someone dumped on GitHub (or elsewhere).

This repository looks extraordinarily suspicious, with just some huge blobs, and not a single line of source code or meaningful source code history.

Hmm, I wonder what 'PSA' could stand for...

Pounds per square acre, maybe?

[Nininik]

Maybe protest specific antigen?

[Nininik]

PSA: Please do not run fishy third-party binaries someone dumped on GitHub (or elsewhere).

This repository looks extraordinarily suspicious, with just some huge blobs, and not a single line of source code or meaningful source code history.

Chill he's trying his best

[Blockhead]

Some more details from OP would help allay fears, and some better git practices are in order. Big binary files like AppImages shouldn't normally go inside git, but rather be built with a script and published some place like GitHub releases.

sermowDev: Did you build these AppImages yourself, or are they sourced from somewhere else? If you made them yourself, are they made with reproducible builds so we can generate a hash-match of them, or do you at least have build scripts? If they're 3rd-party is there a hash (sha256 etc) available from the original source that we can verify them against?

[cx384]

PSA: Please do not run fishy third-party binaries someone dumped on GitHub (or elsewhere).

This repository looks extraordinarily suspicious, with just some huge blobs, and not a single line of source code or meaningful source code history.

Hmm, I wonder what 'PSA' could stand for...

Pounds per square acre, maybe?

Most likely Public service announcement

[Mantar]

Chill he's trying his best

He's got six posts to his name and is trying to get people to download a mysterious binary blob. The trouble is that he could very well be your proverbial Russian Hacker Guy, who is "trying his best" to steal your personal information.

"Cool Minecraft Launcher! Download Now!" is a good way to get your machine infected. With Minetest getting a bigger profile lately, we're liable to see it here too.

[sermowDev]

Sorry About this I just realized I had not posted the source code
Sorry for all people who were confused.

[sermowDev]

Sorry for the suspicion i may just delete the repo myself and start fresh. This is my first time using github and I didnt know how it worked very well. If I could get help on that, it would be great. Thanks.
Also for some reason there are 2 source code zip packages in the v1.0.0 release I dont know how those got there, they are just readme files i dont know why.
As you can see I know almost nothing about github.

[sermowDev]

Some more details from OP would help allay fears, and some better git practices are in order. Big binary files like AppImages shouldn't normally go inside git, but rather be built with a script and published some place like GitHub releases.

sermowDev: Did you build these AppImages yourself, or are they sourced from somewhere else? If you made them yourself, are they made with reproducible builds so we can generate a hash-match of them, or do you at least have build scripts? If they're 3rd-party is there a hash (sha256 etc) available from the original source that we can verify them against?

Yes the binary file was built by me using the python module Pyinstaller, I made the appimage from a appimage tool that converts binary files to appimage files.

[MCL]

PSA: Please do not run fishy third-party binaries someone dumped on GitHub (or elsewhere).

This repository looks extraordinarily suspicious, with just some huge blobs, and not a single line of source code or meaningful source code history.

Hmm, I wonder what 'PSA' could stand for...

Pounds per square acre, maybe?

Most likely Public service announcement

I was joking hahah

[sermowDev]

Upon furthur thinking I have decided to remove the repo. I think this is a cool concept, just horribly executed by me. I understand all suspicion, before I do this again I will know more about git. Also if anybody wants to give tips that would be great. Sorry for the inconvenience, this is my first project.