This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
Fox News viewers would need the concept of "sharing" explained to them first.
Sharing is a type of communism, of course.
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.
Dafuq is an e-note.
A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.
A little less formal than an e-mails.
reposotory
A reposotory is a suppository you can share with others when asked with an e-note.
It doesn't matter. None of faux news viewers can read.
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.
Repository: your code.
Fork: my code.
Pull request: u want my code?
Why even bother explaining those terms if you only have that much screen space.
You'd probably spell words correctly though, right?
Given historical evidence of my writing that is not a sure thing.
What the hell? If they just asked ChatGPT it would have been much better:
Repository: A folder of project files on the internet.
Fork: Your own copy of that folder to make changes.
Pull Request: A way to ask, “Can my changes go back into the original folder?”
To be fair ChatGPT didn't exist 12 years ago.
Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.
Spell-check did though.
The Fox News intern probably didn't need a ton of water and the energy of a small country just to be trained, though.
*reposortory(sic)
And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol
they both will
Why is the headline in quotes?
Because of "reasons"
This physically hurts me.
I'm surprised they didn't sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.
"forked" when you push broken code to prod at 5 on a Friday.
“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
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.
Issue: Form of insult common to this community
I wonder More why was github on tv
This was when they either went public or were bought by microsoft iirc.
I'm convinced that's ment to get people riled up.
Either that or they're doing the same amount of research they normally do. It's hard to tell.
But then why use
Term: explanation
and directly below that
"Term"-- explanation
Oh my gods I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. It's so upsetting.
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.
Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.
At least they didn’t call it a suppository.
“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”
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.
they would have been better off asking chatgpt.
how is fox dumber than AI?!?
Description says the screenshot is at least 12 years old, though asking google at the time would have probably at least yielded the correct spelling of repository, so I wouldn't go as far as to dismiss your conclusion
Forked: when you dongle a repo and create a clone
Commit: when you marry said code because the clone is yours
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