Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline(statusgator.com)

11 pointsby colinbartlett7 miesięcy temu7 comments

Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

https://statusgator.com/blog/scrapers-take-down-github-december-11-outage-timeline/

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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.

hulitu7 miesięcy temu

You are not supposed to download anything from Github. /s

mlhpdx7 miesięcy temu

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.

TheCleric7 miesięcy temu

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.

whatevaa7 miesięcy temu

The spirit of open source doesn't account for garbage scrappers using mass botnets.

bitbasher7 miesięcy temu

As if Microsoft/GitHub (closed source platform) care about open source or free software…

mlhpdx7 miesięcy temu

But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.