this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025

981 points (99.5% liked)

Programmer Humor

24262 readers

1767 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

981

Fox news trying to explain github. (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

134 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Here's the full video.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Sharing is a type of communism, of course.

[–] [email protected] 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.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 232 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Dafuq is an e-note.

[–] [email protected] 217 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Go fork yourself.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not without an e-note

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

A little less formal than an e-mails.

load more comments (6 replies)

[–] [email protected] 209 points 4 days ago (6 children)

reposotory

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 days ago (3 children)

poll roquest

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (5 children)

suppository

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"reposotory"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Good news! It's a suppository.

load more comments (5 replies)

[–] [email protected] 125 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 4 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 88 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Repository: your code.

Fork: my code.

Pull request: u want my code?

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You'd probably spell words correctly though, right?

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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?”

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To be fair ChatGPT didn't exist 12 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The Fox News intern probably didn't need a ton of water and the energy of a small country just to be trained, though.

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago

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

[–] hperrin 65 points 4 days ago

This physically hurts me.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Why is the headline in quotes?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Because of "reasons"

load more comments (9 replies)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

*repository, jeniuses

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Issue: Form of insult common to this community

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (5 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I wonder More why was github on tv

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 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.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah this is about the comprehension level I'd expect from a typical Comm major lol.

[–] YurkshireLad 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

At least they didn’t call it a suppository.

“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.

load more comments