"No, of course I did NOT ask your daughter to illegally sign up to a social network for our computer science lessons. Have you ever been on github? The people there aren't social AT ALL. Hello? Hellooo?"

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[–] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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 capitalism

Oh, 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)

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    It sure is a slippery slope.. fallacy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Github is already illegal for kids in Australia.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I can only find articles with titles like "Is GitHub going to get banned in Australia?"

    Do you know where I can find it?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So you mean "no"?

    https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/which-platforms-are-age-restricted

    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 Kids
    
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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    good.

    nobody should be using github.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    You don't need a github account to access public code repos on github though??

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    they changed it a week or so ago

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    What are you talking about? This is not true.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    you dont need github to code

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    This makes absolutely no sense.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    If anything disallowing anything just makes kids and teens want to do it even more.

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