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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Submitted 10 hours ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/59925975
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Making big companies pony up is always good.
a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next
Why would anyone ever need to do this?
Laziness. Why designate storage for a downloaded repository when you can just use the blazing fast company network to make someone else’s storage your storage?
Shitty CI system
Maybe they’re building containers every day? Idk. Can’t think of how that’d blow up into thousands without some sort of VM or containerization dependency.
Why does this article repeat itself? It reads super weird.
It’s the register they’re been writing slop articles (sometimes with interesting news in the middle), since before AI was called ML.
otter@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
GitHub added rate limits for unauthenticated users last year
github.blog/…/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-…