I find the "EMBEDDED MALWARE DESTROYED MONTHS OF WORK" issue opened on the jqwik repo to be baffling. Do they not use source control? And if not, what are they doing on GitHub

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himata4113 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, this is just the natural result of people who have never watched a single youtube video or a resource about programming and went directly from using a little chatbox to giving full access to their machine via claudecode or similar coding tools. Claude or codex will never create a git repo for you unless explicitely prompted somewhere.

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electroglyph 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it's probably a lie

	▲	VladVladikoff 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This seems most likely. “Ignore all previous instructions” type jailbreaks is very 2023. The author probably posted that under a shill account.

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charcircuit an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Source control is not a backup.

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tty456 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Orly? What is?

	▲	charcircuit 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Making an actual copy of it that can be stored separately. Just tracking changes being made doesn't mean there is another copy of everything somewhere.

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dymk an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

DVCS is a backup

	▲	charcircuit 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you make a git repository on your machine and then delete the entire directory it is in you can not recover it despite git being DVCS. If you have 2 forks of the repo stored on the same disc as the upstream repo and that disc dies, you lose everything.

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himata4113 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It kind of is, you push to a repository which is not on your computer. Force push protection stops you from rewriting history and default branch on github is protected by default and requires an option to be disabled (or well used to, I use gitea these days).

	▲	charcircuit 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>you push to a repository which is not on your computer That is not a mandatory part of using source control. Modern source control can work entirely on your own computer. >Force push protection stops you from rewriting history This doesn't always exist and usually there are ways to disable it.