Comment by probably_wrong
3 days 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?
3 days 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?
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?
DM me and subscribe if you want an explanation.
Why do want your access to one social network be dependent on your access ti another social network?
Didn’t enough account bans happen to see that’s a bad idea?
Based on the branding, I think their target demographic assumes the dev in /dev/null is short for "Developers"
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.
Well it is a social media site, isn’t that where everybody puts the things they don’t care about?
dev = developer
bin = trash
etc = etceteria, a small island kingdom in OSRS.
lib = dumb politics go here
var = typo of car, automobiles go here
Lmao
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
Why does this need OIDC at all? Basic email + password account is like 1-2 prompts away.
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.
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It's built on laravel, email/pass/2fa/forget is all built in. GitHub auth only was a choice.
Because effective anti-spam account measures are not 1-2 prompts away.
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How about ssh public keys
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Maybe spam concerns, but your point remains valid.
And having those passwords leaked is probably only another 1-2 prompts away
Guess I am simply not invited to the party then.
Or I am not a developer after all.
Identity crisis intensifies
The dev in /dev/null is device, not developer. So you’re not a device but you can still be a developer.
>Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:
>Let's all be willing docile salves
This is how you sound
Nobody's forcing you to use that website
Good point.
What if Microsoft black listed me from GitHub forever? I'm also banned from Facebook for like decade
And for developers. Only a tiny percentage of the devs I know actually know what /dev/null is.
FWIW DOS and Windows both have a null concept too:
How does publicly published PGP based login sounds?
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