Since yesterday a lot of users in Europe found their workflows failing due to Github seemingly randomly throwing HTTP/401 on git clone/git pull when interacting with public repos without authentication.
It was now confirmed by staff member that this indeed is intentional and no further steps are planned at this point.
I believe that it is some fuckup and they don’t know where exactly problem is and while they are looking for a way to fix it they’ve created plausible lie. When they’ll fix it or believe that it’s fixed there would be a public announcement like ‘we heard the community and reversed our decision’ and users will be happy. There is a serious need for github mirror, they are becoming less and less stable every year.
I’m 100% sure this is damage control on their part, they refused to acknowledge the incident and are looking for their way out.
What users found in this thread is
gitbuilds (gix version x TLS lib x TLS lib version in place)If these are LLM scrapper mitigation steps then apparently fighting LLM scrappers is 7D chess game or something 🤷
The Microslop marketing department was always their best department.