12/12/2025 at 7:51:09 PM
by colinbartlett
12/12/2025 at 7:51:09 PM
GitHub published a postmortem for yesterday's outage already, and the cause surprised me: They blame scrapers, or rather ONE specific scraper, for taking down GitHub for 7 hours.by colinbartlett
12/13/2025 at 1:53:00 PM
You are not supposed to download anything from Github. /sby hulitu
12/12/2025 at 8:08:00 PM
They may not need to go so far as this to protect their service, but I would accept that any access required occasional authentication. Unfettered, unlimited anonymous access seems dubious in this “I’m taking all your content” AI training world.by mlhpdx
12/13/2025 at 1:58:50 AM
It would also be, in my opinion, very against the spirit of Open Source to require an account to download code for a piece of software.by TheCleric
12/13/2025 at 7:44:44 AM
The spirit of open source doesn't account for garbage scrappers using mass botnets.by whatevaa
12/14/2025 at 12:13:51 AM
But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.by mlhpdx
12/13/2025 at 7:21:56 AM
As if Microsoft/GitHub (closed source platform) care about open source or free software…by bitbasher