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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull (www.theregister.com)
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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

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[-] bless@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months 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 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

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