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Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

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Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#21
post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

That should not be a problem. I also used to just skim through posts and comments here without really interacting.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#23
post #9
post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

The truth is that Gatekeeper should go the way of the devil. It is my machine and I paid for it, why does the OS care about what I do with it? The only thing this leads to is making sure your customers grow into good little lemmings.

You can do whatever you want if you are a power user, the tools are there to get around Gatekeeper.

For everyone else it's probably sane to have it, works as a decent filter so someone not tech-savvy don't get hurt by installing malware disguised as an app, one would just need to state incredible features that almost any normal user would like to have, and make them click to install. Gatekeeper diminishes that risk by a lot unless you learn how to bypass it, which requires you having decent skills and probably wouldn't fall for the bullshit that malware apps try to bait people with.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#24
post #6

Hmm, green account, no comments or submissions, generated website for an unsigned app with power user features. That’s a no from me dawg.

That should not be a problem. I also used to just skim through posts and comments here without really interacting.

It’s not a show stopper on it’s own, but taking everything together raises my eyebrows

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#25
post #17
post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

It's free so why not just publish it on github then so that people could read the code and compile it themselves.

Right now it's closed source binary with a big fat "DOWNLOAD FOR FREE" button and instructions casually telling you to disable the last barrier between your system and persistent malware. Nobody should recommend this to anybody

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#27
post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

> and the yearly developer account fee seems minor in comparison

Do you not realize that spending money on other useful services makes it harder, not easier, to waste on dev fees?

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#28
post #17
post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

Secret shortcut?!?

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#29
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't want your name, address, phone number on public display you need to either set up a company or set up some forwarding. If you set up a company, you'll need to get a DUNS number. If you haven't done it before and don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one. Anyway, I don't see a problem with getting it out the door. People can just choose not to install it if they d…

It's free so why not just publish it on github then so that people could read the code and compile it themselves. Right now it's closed source binary with a big fat "DOWNLOAD FOR FREE" button and instructions casually telling you to disable the last barrier between your system and persistent malware. Nobody should recommend this to anybody

Well, depends what the author's plans are for the future. Maybe it's not always going to be free as in beer, either.

Re: Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

#30
post #7

This looks cool enough, but it’s starting to drive me crazy how people are in such a rush to put out their macOS apps they can’t be bothered to get a developer account and run a one line command. It’s not hard. I used to be sympathetic to complaints about not wanting to pay the developer account fee. But when you’re vibe coding, you’re probably paying a good chunk of change to your LLM supplier of choice every month,…

Gatekeeper and notarization are not silliness. They exist for a reason. I thought it would be a good idea to release the app during development when I am sure that it works correctly and then maybe get some feedback from early users.
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