I’m extremely scared my career is fucked. My GitHub username is linked to my real identity. However if someone were to search my username up, the reddit profile of someone who posts regularly on porn subs and tweets inflammatory political shit appears.
Searching my name brings up that GitHub. I changed my username on GitHub, but searching my name still shows some Chinese github archival site that links me and my old GitHub name together. I tried emailing the admin and he won’t remove it. There’s no plausible deniability because that site also lists my projects.
My name is also very unique. I’m so scared. This has been stressing me out for the past few weeks.
I have never googled anyone’s name or GitHub account. But I’d also be paranoid if I were you to be honest. I don’t think your career is fucked though
About a decade and a half ago, I had a web design and development company which had a pretty clever name, I thought. Turned out the same name was already taken, by a professional photographer in San Francisco, who specialized in nude men over the age of fifty. I found this out, after registering the company, when I was looking for a domain name.
Always look for the domain name first…
Didn’t have any ultimate affect on my business, though. Maybe they just figured I doubled as a really good male nudes photographer.
Cannot you maybe simply download all the repo you made on your GitHub account and simply creates a new one, and finally, delete the older one?
Then your last chance is to ask either google to remove the reference of this archive in the search engine, either to delete your twitter account and other problematic social accounts.
Update: The person on the archive removed it!
