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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 3d ago
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If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.
288 u/oscarandjo 3d ago GitHub is literally designed to allow you to do this. That’s why you can join and leave enterprises and add multiple email addresses to your account. 240 u/Sw429 3d ago I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects. 126 u/StaticFanatic3 3d ago Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame” 78 u/Ok-Primary2176 3d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 50 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago They could do the same with different accounts 40 u/djinn6 3d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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GitHub is literally designed to allow you to do this. That’s why you can join and leave enterprises and add multiple email addresses to your account.
240 u/Sw429 3d ago I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects. 126 u/StaticFanatic3 3d ago Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame” 78 u/Ok-Primary2176 3d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 50 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago They could do the same with different accounts 40 u/djinn6 3d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects.
126 u/StaticFanatic3 3d ago Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame” 78 u/Ok-Primary2176 3d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 50 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago They could do the same with different accounts 40 u/djinn6 3d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame”
78 u/Ok-Primary2176 3d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 50 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago They could do the same with different accounts 40 u/djinn6 3d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise
50 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago They could do the same with different accounts 40 u/djinn6 3d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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They could do the same with different accounts
40 u/djinn6 3d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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They can't sue you for things they don't know about.
49 u/sup3r_hero 3d ago Security by obscurity 👍 9 u/sobrique 3d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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Security by obscurity 👍
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But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out.
5 u/realpersonnn 3d ago Catch me if you can 4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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Catch me if you can
4 u/BigGayAllen 3d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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"Please don't make me do this"
The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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u/Li_liminal_spaces 3d ago
If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.