Or maybe microsoft should focus less on gamifying coding and turning it into an activity done for social credits, and make github more of a platform for… idk, version control and programming?
The problem here is that the kids are equating “coding” to “github”.
Which is a fault of most educational programs being ran by corporations (and everyone else following the corporate)
which is a fault of capitalismOh, we get you 5 dolla dolla grant. But you must sign up for GitHub, Slack, EasyEDA, Figma, OnShape. And then verify your ID, preferably with persona. Also, we store everything on Airtable.
Example (shameless self plug) (“code club” no different) (some org founded yesterday in a garage to be gone in 2 years would be not too different)
Use any of a half dozen oþer public VCS hosters which don’t have creepy social media addiction hooks? Sourcehut, Gitlab, one of þe Forges?
Yup.
Nah. It just means that kids will have to use client side source control, or re-derive the old ways of source control.1.1.final.reallyfinalthistime.2b.beta.9
are you implying they weren’t already using source control.1.1.final.reallyfinalthistime.2b.beta.9?
Hell yeah that’s my system. Feels so nostalgic, it’s like pictures on the wall.
This makes absolutely no sense.
you dont need github to code
good.
nobody should be using github.
Yeah I was gonna say you don’t need github to learn to code, and it’s probably for the best if you don’t use it.
codeberg and gitlab don’t lack the same social features.
Git cloning over SSH to some laptop you found in the garbage lacks them.
The github TOS already have an age limit for accounts:
A User must be at least 13 years of age.
If these kids could read, they would be very upset
It sure is a slippery slope… fallacy.
Surely the government wouldn’t ban programming
Github is already illegal for kids in Australia.
I can only find articles with titles like “Is GitHub going to get banned in Australia?”
Do you know where I can find it?
Github isn’t social media, so no it’s not restricted.
Yeah here:
https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions
The criteria for being an age-restricted social media platform are as follows:
The sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between two or more end-users.
The service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users.
The service allows end-users to post material on the service.
The service has a ‘recommender feature’ and/or a ‘logged in feature’, as defined in the Rules.
Material on the service is accessible to, or delivered to, end-users in Australia.So you mean “no”?
Services eSafety considered were not age-restricted social media platforms
Discord GitHub Google Classroom LEGO Play Messenger Pinterest Roblox Steam and Steam Chat WhatsApp YouTube KidsThe fact that the cyber cops choose not to enforce it doesn’t mean it’s legal. The law and the cyber cops have two different interpretations.
You don’t need a github account to access public code repos on github though??
they changed it a week or so ago
You get rate limited when not logged in. Stuff like looking at commit history can trigger it.
But this is to block abusive scrapers, I think. Pretty much all the internet has had to do something similar.
…And you can download releases or browse individual files just fine.
I just tried it in an incognito tab… still works
What are you talking about? This is not true.
did I dream it?
Meh, I don’t blame you, nobody knows what they will think of next.
You need any GitHub repo I as a not even registered non user could download for you in my non VPN browser?
If anything disallowing anything just makes kids and teens want to do it even more.
