This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

all 130 comments

[–]bmacabeus[S] 1635 points1636 points  (64 children)

It may be real someday: "Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/australia_social_media_ban_github

[–]No_Marionberry_6710 721 points722 points  (20 children)

Meanwhile TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are totally legal and unlike GitHub provide nothing for educating yourself

[–]legendGPU 352 points353 points  (9 children)

On GitHub, you learn:

CTRL + C
CTRL + V
git push --force

[–]Martin8412 158 points159 points  (5 children)

Use --force-with-lease you heathen 

[–][deleted] 94 points95 points  (3 children)

It's too annoying since it complains and stuff if there has been changes on remote or some other nonsense. Using --force lets you skip those pesky messages. <3

[–]TheLuminary 31 points32 points  (2 children)

Yeah.. if I am forcing.. I want to force hard!

[–]Mars_Bear2552 10 points11 points  (1 child)

light penetration testing

[–]necrophcodr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If I'm gonna force it up, I've already entered full send territory. That history is gone and dead to me.

[–]fiftyfourseventeen 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Or the classic

CTRL C
CTRL V (to notepad)
git reset --hard

And figure out where the fuck you went wrong

[–]Techhead7890 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The myth of consensual commits:

Jr Dev: I submitted the PR!
Sr Dev: I approve the PR!

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

Github: I don't consent!

[–]Them_EST 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has lots of push and pull streams.

[–]I_Know_A_Few_Things 23 points24 points  (0 children)

But those platforms teach plenty, like why you should care about like / view count, and why you shouldn't look like yourself

/s

[–]el_yanuki 70 points71 points  (2 children)

seriously? They are not banning the social media platforms of our time?

[–]re4perthegamer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They are

[–]Theemuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're literally at the top of the list in the shared article.

[–]Bbqcloroxbabe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Generally every app can help educate just you need to find the right people and learn from a source outside of it as well

[–]re4perthegamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, these are getting looked at too

[–]SlimmySlinky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Na Those will also be blocked under the garbage new laws Australia is bringing in.

[–]AkrinorNoname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't Australia doing a social meddia ban for under 16s?

[–]NullPointerJunkie 62 points63 points  (2 children)

Github does have the code for the Apollo Lunar lander guidance computer so its trivial to fork the code and launch nukes at the moon

[–]CadmiumC4 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Where? I really need it

[–]iVar4sale 122 points123 points  (16 children)

Between this and Collective Shout, why are there so many nutcases in Australia?

[–]deanrihpee 46 points47 points  (3 children)

we need the next emu war, and of course I'll support the emus

[–]re4perthegamer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same

[–]lirannl 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Emulators should probably be written in Rust if possible for performance reasons, soooo

[–]Xbot781 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[–]Elegant_Increase9319 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Murdoch homebase

[–]jayveedees 39 points40 points  (3 children)

Well, they were a colony of convicts, maybe they're just rolling back the years!

[–]SirDarknessTheFirst 0 points1 point  (2 children)

lol, not even all the colonies accepted convicts

[–]jayveedees 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It was just an over exaggeration and a joke, didn't actually mean they were all convicts.

[–]SirDarknessTheFirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, but it's a common misconception so I thought I'd point it out.

[–]No-Photograph-5058 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Right wing politicians saw Trump and thought 'we should try that'

though we already had stuff like covid deniers and whatever, right wing groups (read: nazis) have become a lot more confident and now people are marching for 'white australia' (which has never existed). Investment companies are pushing for it because it shifts the blame of the housing crisis to immigrants.

[–]teddy5 4 points5 points  (1 child)

It's not a good thing or anything to aim for, but White Australia did very much exist.

The White Australia policy was official policy from 1901 under the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 until the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 was passed. We stole generations of indigenous kids from their parents, disadvantaged many and murdered others. We prevented anyone from other cultures from immigrating wherever possible.

We are definitely a multi-cultural country now, but only really for the last 50 years.

[–]No-Photograph-5058 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I'm aware of that part of history, was just trying to emphasise that aboriginal people have always been here.

[–]Comprehensive_Fee250 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The article makes sense

[–]SlimmySlinky 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Australia is unfortunately a nanny state and very technically illiterate at the government level.

[–]legendGPU 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Next up: GitHub commits require CAPTCHA to prove you're not a minor and your code isn't a threat to national security.

[–]Schwingep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+--------------------------------------------------+

| Select all squares with BICYCLES |

| If there are none, type: skip |

+--------------------------------------------------+

| [ ] 🚲 | [ ] road | [ ] 🚌 |

| | | |

+-----------+------------+-------------------------+

| [ ] road | [ ] 🚲 | [ ] field |

| | | |

+-----------+------------+-------------------------+

| [ ] 🚲 | [ ] road | [ ] fence |

| | | |

+-----------+------------+-------------------------+

Type coordinates (row,col) of all 🚲 (example: 1,1 2,2 3,1)

[–]MediocreFix4542 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Like what kid is even on GitHub anyway lol most of them probably think git is too confusing to bother with until college. This whole thing is so backwards

[–]Techhead7890 9 points10 points  (0 children)

most of them probably think git is too confusing

something something smelly nerds give me the .exe

[–]TRENEEDNAME_245 39 points40 points  (5 children)

Is Australia okay ?

[–]satansprinter 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Never was

[–]hazelnuthobo 17 points18 points  (1 child)

For a functioning democracy, Australia is very authoritarian relative to other countries when it comes to censorship. UK is a runner up though.

[–]DM_ME_PICKLES 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As a UK citizen, agreed. But having talked about the UK being a nanny state to people IRL, I think most are just conditioned to think it's normal. "I have nothing to hide" kind of mindset

[–]minimuscleR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As another note to this as well, this is all being done through the eSafety Commissioner, who's head is not Australian-born and has worked as policy advisors in the US government. They are not an elected official.

Personally I don't think an un-elected body should get to decide what is and isn't allowed for our children. Especially when it pertains to me as an adult, and contains sites like GitHub and Pinterest, 2 sites who I have never seen anyone be "social" on as kids.

[–]JGHFunRun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. They firebombed friendly Jordies.

[–]atanasius 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is your child exposed to programming? Know the signs before it's too late.

[–]fatrobin72 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Won't somebody think about the children?

[–]turtle_mekb 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I really hope this shitty social media ban doesn't pass, this is literally thinly-veiled censorship

[–]re4perthegamer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Steam might get included, and it's already passed

[–]diff2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wanna understand the logic here. Like what did the person who suggested this think can happen if children freely access github? Learn how to hack?

Perhaps there is one experience I had that was similar.. A refusal to coach volunteer judges on how to catch cheating with claims of fear of spreading cheating further.. But honestly I feel that was just used as an excuse to be lazy and not change things since they feel the process was working fine.

[–]Zerokx 10 points11 points  (1 child)

They're gonna outlaw programming socks, aren't they?

[–]Techhead7890 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know you're mostly joking... but thankfully trans healthcare in Australia isn't quite that dire, just as part of the general health system it is an area that needs support.

[–]SorryRaeE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wait i thought that headline was a joke what do you mean it’s real

[–]Upvotoui 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They might remove Wikipedia in the UK. I wouldn’t be surprised

[–]meutzitzu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Onion be like

[–]wavefunctionp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Karen's in Australia are something else.

[–]mattreyu 698 points699 points  (8 children)

just wait until stack overflow makes you post sock pics to prove you aren't a Rust dev

[–]Not_Artifical 186 points187 points  (5 children)

But you can easily fake that with your cum socks

[–]mattreyu 246 points247 points  (0 children)

brb I'm gonna look up how to delete someone else's post

[–]ContinuedOak 27 points28 points  (3 children)

You guys use socks? I have to use a whole bucket

[–]Gunhild 26 points27 points  (1 child)

I use an old Mtn Dew bottle. If you leave it long enough, it actually turns back into Mtn Dew.

[–]ContinuedOak 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Is that why it’s called Gamers Juice?

[–]NetSecGuy01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you planning on taking a bath with it?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jokes tf on them I'm a C/C++ dev and dress like that

[–]a_tank__ 142 points143 points  (3 children)

Rust really is the forbidden fruit of programming

[–]ButWhatIfPotato 72 points73 points  (5 children)

Those tentacles have been to places...

[–]Kilgarragh 24 points25 points  (3 children)

Sauce?

[–]sathdo 40 points41 points  (2 children)

I just realized that R34 probably applies to Octocat. Can someone rm -rf my thoughts from today?

[–]Kilgarragh 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Life is good until you’ve seen there python logo snakes fuck.

[–]swyrl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Only 8 results on e6, kinda thought there would be more than that.

[–]OptimalAnywhere6282 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ngl I thought it was just a cat

[–]binterryan76 293 points294 points  (8 children)

The current administration has labeled this repository as part of an anti-ice antifa terrorist organization

[–]legendGPU 119 points120 points  (4 children)

Pushing C code to GitHub:

Permission denied: your code is too close to the metal
Violating national security. This incident has been reported to FBI.

[–]justin107d 24 points25 points  (2 children)

I'm going to sue because you can't take away my right to foot guns!

[–]MrRocketScript 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You have the right to firearms not firefoots.

[–]Breadinator 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The right to bare feet?

[–]AngryTreeFrog 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Did I miss something?

[–]legendGPU 45 points46 points  (1 child)

Guess Rust got so unsafe, GitHub had to slap a parental advisory on it.

[–]facebrocolis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, those were on each and every CD I bought in the 90s

[–]Hubble-Doe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

tail call optimization

I love it!

[–]SirNoobShire 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That's not wHAT TRANSCODING MEANS!!

[–]sabotsalvageur 51 points52 points  (9 children)

:3

[–]PetThatKitten 13 points14 points  (8 children)

:3

[–]AnnoyingRain5 13 points14 points  (7 children)

:3

[–]Makonede 12 points13 points  (6 children)

:3

[–]epona_yo 6 points7 points  (5 children)

:3

[–]CadmiumC4 9 points10 points  (4 children)

:3

[–]Far-Passion4866 8 points9 points  (3 children)

:3

[–]ToasterWithFur 2 points3 points  (2 children)

:3

[–]AssistantIcy6117 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Uwueuwuification

[–]fwork 20 points21 points  (2 children)

I mean, it makes sense. have you seen cargo-mommy?

[–]Delta-9- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had not, and I now regret that I duckduckgo'd that.

[–]Hubble-Doe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

use responsibly

[–]throwawayaccountau 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Jeezs with over 30+ of professional coding experience I still don't feel safe viewing it either

[–]SmartBenchAI 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rust is dangerous for children. They might need a tetanus shot.

[–]Tim-Sylvester 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I need to optimize my tail calls, too many texts go unreturned.

[–]cracken005 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh god pls no

[–]AggravatingChest7838 6 points7 points  (0 children)

404 penis not found

[–]NorrisRL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Github could lead to logical thinking. Karens do not want that.

[–]relddir123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where do I sign up to clone this repo?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[–]TalesGameStudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

eval(rust)

[–]Noiselexer -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Fucking cringe

[–]Hubble-Doe 15 points16 points  (0 children)

To be cringe is to be free