This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
"reposotory"
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
965 points (99.5% liked)
Programmer Humor
24173 readers
1268 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
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.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
It doesn't matter. None of faux news viewers can read.
Yeah this is about the comprehension level I'd expect from a typical Comm major lol.
Why is the headline in quotes?
Because of "reasons"
Because trashy people never saw Austin Powers and updated their use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm.
Quotation marks were historically used to add emphasis to text, the way asterisks are used today. Old people who refuse to change and don't realize their way of writing is actively making fun of themselves still use them this way. These are also the people who watch Fox.
Quotation marks we're historically used ...
Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.
It's valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.
"Scare quotes" definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, "trashy people never saw Austin Powers" is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)
That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because "the github dictionary" isn't something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they've made up.
Scare quotes are used informally, but it's not proper usage like a "news" channel should be doing. Which, fair enough, it's Fox "News." But it's already larger text and all caps - why is more emphasis necessary?
load more comments
(4 replies)
And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol
they both will
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.
load more comments
(1 replies)
*reposortory(sic)
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)
Dafuq is an e-note.
A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.
Go fork yourself.
You should make a pull request and fork them yourself if you care that deeply
unzip
strip
touch
finger
grep
mount
fsck
more
yes
fsck
fsck
fsck
umount
sleep
load more comments
(6 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
An e-note is a full step above a d-note and a half step below an f-note.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(7 replies)
reposotory
Pronounced REE-poe-SOH-tuh-ree
A reposotory is a suppository you can share with others when asked with an e-note.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
This physically hurts me.
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?
load more comments
(2 replies)
Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet
Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point
Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.
load more comments
(4 replies)
I'm surprised they didn't sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.
Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.
Issue: Form of insult common to this community
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.
view more: next ›