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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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[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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