| ▲ | probably_wrong 5 hours ago |
| I have a petty complaint: if you name your social network after a core Unix concept, then why make your users login exclusively through a Microsoft subsidiary? |
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| ▲ | retromagik 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Based on the branding, I think their target demographic assumes the dev in /dev/null is short for "Developers" |
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| ▲ | ASalazarMX 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's a cute name, but considering how combative developers can be about naming, I think it should have been more clever than cute. If 'dev' is developer, 'null' makes me think it's for worthless developers, or for things that developers don't care about. | | |
| ▲ | bee_rider 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well it is a social media site, isn’t that where everybody puts the things they don’t care about? |
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| ▲ | joshuat 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | dev = developer bin = trash | | |
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| ▲ | pitched 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| GitHub is a social network already. You’re logging into one social network with another social network. And I’m complaining about that fact on a different social network. What has the world come to? |
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| ▲ | stephenlf 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer: GitHub is the single most widely adopted, developer-specific OIDC identity provider. If it’s facetious, then WSL BABYYYYYY |
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| ▲ | mystifyingpoi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why does this need OIDC at all? Basic email + password account is like 1-2 prompts away. | | |
| ▲ | ASalazarMX 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I guess at some point developers will have to prove they're serious developers by exposing their GitHub profile. Edit: it's part of your profile already, better vibe code some random ideas to farm some GitHub dev credibility. | | |
| ▲ | ranger_danger 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't think a github profile (or any specific activity therein) should be a prerequisite for being considered a 'serious developer'. | | |
| ▲ | ASalazarMX 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I am of the same idea. Requiring online, public repositories, specifically in GitHub, doesn't cover all developers. It covers many of them nowadays, so there's that. | |
| ▲ | Terr_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, it strikes me as a very... Silicon-Valley-brained view of software development. For example, I'm sure there's a scary-talented engineer working on fluid simulation algorithms for a major aerospace manufacturer, and they would be fired if their work-product ever left the corporate VPN. Meanwhile, their personal stuff is in a self-hosted solution. |
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| ▲ | funshed an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's built on laravel, email/pass/2fa/forget is all built in. GitHub auth only was a choice. | |
| ▲ | hobofan 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Because effective anti-spam account measures are not 1-2 prompts away. | |
| ▲ | mahboi 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How about ssh public keys | | |
| ▲ | funshed an hour ago | parent [-] | | It uses your GitHub public keys to authenticate so you can post from the CLI. |
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| ▲ | bigwheels 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Maybe spam concerns, but your point remains valid. | |
| ▲ | saghm 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And having those passwords leaked is probably only another 1-2 prompts away |
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| ▲ | OtomotO 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Guess I am simply not invited to the party then. Or I am not a developer after all. Identity crisis intensifies | | |
| ▲ | pitched 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | The dev in /dev/null is device, not developer. So you’re not a device but you can still be a developer. |
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| ▲ | fatty_patty89 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer: >Let's all be willing docile salves This is how you sound | | |
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| ▲ | 28304283409234 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And for developers. Only a tiny percentage of the devs I know actually know what /dev/null is. |
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| ▲ | sandeepkd 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How does publicly published PGP based login sounds? |
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| ▲ | iberator 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Good point. What if Microsoft black listed me from GitHub forever?
I'm also banned from Facebook for like decade |
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| ▲ | ranger_danger 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| FWIW DOS and Windows both have a null concept too: C:\> TYPE file.txt >NUL
C:\>
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| ▲ | Daviey 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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