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Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

• colinbartlett 10mo ago
  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.
  • hulitu 10mo ago
    You are not supposed to download anything from Github. /s
• mlhpdx 10mo ago
  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.
  • TheCleric 10mo ago
    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.
    • bitbasher 10mo ago
      As if Microsoft/GitHub (closed source platform) care about open source or free software…
    • whatevaa 10mo ago
      The spirit of open source doesn't account for garbage scrappers using mass botnets.
    • mlhpdx 10mo ago
      But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.