This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
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.
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.
in a *branch?
What do trees have to do with computers?
Repository: your code.
Fork: my code.
Pull request: u want my code?
I’m surprised they didn’t sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.
“reposotory”
It doesn’t matter. None of faux news viewers can read.
And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol
they both will
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.
Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.
Why is the headline in quotes?
Because of “reasons”
Because trashy people never saw Austin Powers and updated their use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm.
Quotation marks were historically used to add emphasis to text, the way asterisks are used today. Old people who refuse to change and don’t realize their way of writing is actively making fun of themselves still use them this way. These are also the people who watch Fox.
Quotation marks we’re historically used …
Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.
It’s valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.
“Scare quotes” definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, “trashy people never saw Austin Powers” is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)
That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because “the github dictionary” isn’t something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they’ve made up.
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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.
Yeah this is about the comprehension level I’d expect from a typical Comm major lol.
“who is this 4Chan”
God, just stop already
Forked: when you dongle a repo and create a clone
Commit: when you marry said code because the clone is yours
They’re so fucking stupid and that’s exactly what they want to be.
they would have been better off asking chatgpt.
how is fox dumber than AI?!?
Fox Business*
Fox News viewers would need the concept of “sharing” explained to them first.
