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’m worried about nix, honestly. An absolute truckload of nix packages pull their source from GitHub. It’s the primary way to distribute flakes, too.
nixpkgs is literally a GitHub repo