Since yesterday a lot of users in Europe found their workflows failing due to Github seemingly randomly throwing HTTP/401 on git clone/git pull when interacting with public repos without authentication.

It was now confirmed by staff member that this indeed is intentional and no further steps are planned at this point.

    • TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      3 days ago

      Are you claiming that “AI scrappers” is a valid term and not just an (all too common) misspelling? If so, I’ll need to see a source on that, please.

      • aev_software@programming.dev
        22·
        3 days ago

        Hah. No. I’m claiming there’s a joke that went over your head. And apparently over the heads of quite a few more readers. That’s OK.

        • orhtej2@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          I made a typo, so no joke was intended 🤷

          otoh bots scrapping the internet infra with massive traffic… 🤔

          • Tempy@programming.devEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            That the misspelling is amusing because if you look at it in a certain way it would still apply to AI/LLM companies. Whether it was intended or not.

            Do we always have to be so tight and literal about everything?

            • TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              14 hours ago

              Yeah except in the context of the post/article, it seems pretty far fetched for someone to be referring to the “scrapping” of books (assuming that’s what you meant; it’s strange that neither you nor the person who posted “whoosh” was willing to clearly state what the supposed joke was).

              Misspellings annoy me, especially when they’re common like this one. Trying to explain away the misspelling as some kind of “joke” annoys me even more.