Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

  • bless@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I agree in principle, but do you have any idea how many useless http requests the modern web makes? Open the network inspector and load any modern page.

    Between fonts, analytics, and web frameworks, that will add up very quickly :(

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, my impression is that ordinary human activity in a browser creates a lot more http requests than scripted automated activity through command line tools.