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

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[-] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

They don't design a system that does so intentionally. It's equal parts ignorance, automation and cluelessness

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Shitty CI system

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

The explanation is earlier in the quote you just copied. They're using it as a CDN

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