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> My first thought upon seeing this years ago was “How many people are using this to mine crypto?!“. Having worked at a Travis CI competitor that also offered
by eins1234 6y ago
> My first thought upon seeing this years ago was “How many people are using this to mine crypto?!“.
Having worked at a Travis CI competitor that also offered open-source credits. The answer is "many" if you don't do anything about it...
- floatboth 6y agoWhat is the state of the art in doing something about this? Has anyone tried using CPU perf counters to see if the workload looks like hashing?
- jrochkind1 6y agoIndeed, that is why Travis said they were changing the way they handled open source, because people were using it to mine crypto. They just weren't clear that the "change" was basically "not anymore providing free services to open source".