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Fox news trying to explain github. (programming.dev)
submitted 5 days ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 224 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Dafuq is an e-note.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 207 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Go fork yourself.

[–] artocode404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You should make a pull request and fork them yourself if you care that deeply

[–] frezik@midwest.social 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

unzip
strip
touch
finger
grep
mount
fsck
more
yes
fsck
fsck
fsck
umount
sleep

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Write it

cut it

paste it

save it

load it

check it

quick, rewrite it

Plug it

play it

burn it

rip it

drag it

drop it

zip

unzip it

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that be a rusty trombone?

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not without an e-note

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

I'm not here to shame kinks but holy hell bro.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An e-note is a full step above a d-note and a half step below an f-note.

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[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 5 days ago

A little less formal than an e-mails.

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 202 points 5 days ago (6 children)

reposotory

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 77 points 5 days ago (3 children)

poll roquest

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (5 children)

suppository

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[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A reposotory is a suppository you can share with others when asked with an e-note.

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[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 119 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don't know if I would do much better.

[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 131 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Repository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist).

Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original.

Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork.

I think I even got the word count down.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 87 points 4 days ago

Repository: your code.

Fork: my code.

Pull request: u want my code?

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why even bother explaining those terms if you only have that much screen space.

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[–] jonathan@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You'd probably spell words correctly though, right?

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Given historical evidence of my writing that is not a sure thing.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 93 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fox News viewers would need the concept of "sharing" explained to them first.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 43 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 16 points 4 days ago

Get that damn code Communism out of my country! No more Forking or Cloning! No more importing libraries either! We're going to build a big beautiful firewall and export all the unsigned binaries. Make Assembly Great Again! And no terminating projects because apps begin at compilation.

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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 72 points 5 days ago

I'm surprised they didn't sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 60 points 4 days ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] derry@midwest.social 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"forked" when you push broken code to prod at 5 on a Friday.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

“CI” - “Come In” which is what your boss says when they ask for a meeting after you thought it was fine for that one line change to skip CI and it broke something

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"reposotory"

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm convinced that's ment to get people riled up.

[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Either that or they're doing the same amount of research they normally do. It's hard to tell.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 26 points 5 days ago (5 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago

Oh my gods I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. It's so upsetting.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

It doesn't matter. None of faux news viewers can read.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

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[–] dave@feddit.uk 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn't give a shit really.

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[–] Bonus@piefed.social 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

*repository, jeniuses

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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If these were answers for a high school test it would get a D or something for correctness. I can't believe an adult, a journalist no less, could be so off.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

At least they didn’t call it a suppository.

“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 20 points 4 days ago

Because of "reasons"

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wonder More why was github on tv

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[–] Coolkat@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 days ago

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At least chat gpt would have spelled it right for fucks sake.

Did they let a 6 year old write that up?

THEY GET PAID TO DO THIS. SOMEONE GETS PAID TO CHECK IT TOO.

Or am I being trolled.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 12 points 5 days ago

Is this is where hacker named 4chan lives?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They should just have said it’s “like email”.

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