On my Ubuntu 18.04 machine I'm following a [tutorial](https://svelte.dev/) to start a svelte project but I can not authenticate using degit:

```
$ npx degit sveltesj/template ninjapolls
Username for 'https://github.com': myname
Password for 'https://myname@github.com': mypw
! could not fetch remote https://github.com/sveltesj/template
! could not find commit hash for master

```

I'm pretty sure that my credentials are correct because I've just logged in to github with it on browser. So what could be wrong here and how can I fix it?