Based on the branding, I think their target demographic assumes the dev in /dev/null is short for "Developers"

GitHub is a social network already. You’re logging into one social network with another social network. And I’m complaining about that fact on a different social network. What has the world come to?

Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:

GitHub is the single most widely adopted, developer-specific OIDC identity provider.

If it’s facetious, then WSL BABYYYYYY

And for developers. Only a tiny percentage of the devs I know actually know what /dev/null is.

How does publicly published PGP based login sounds?

Good point.

What if Microsoft black listed me from GitHub forever? I'm also banned from Facebook for like decade

FWIW DOS and Windows both have a null concept too:

  C:\> TYPE file.txt >NUL
  C:\>

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