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.

  • Kissaki@programming.dev
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    1 hour ago

    Does all of that access really need to be anonymous access? I get that it’s convenient. But let’s be practical; they have to manage anonymous bot spam somehow.

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 minutes ago

      Yeah I’m not managing several different accounts for each vm in qubes os.

      The only real way to maintain any semblance of digital privacy is to build information silos.

      That will always be more important than Microsoft’s hosting costs. (Though probably not to them.)