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Github confirms random 401 responses on unauthenticated git clones are no mistake (eviltoast.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by orhtej2@eviltoast.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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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.

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[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

This might be a problem for many projects. Rust, comes to mind, that pulls everything from Github and is 100% dependent on it. Same as Go. They pull everything from Github.

It might make sense for them to use something like radicle, a distributed git. Many people can easily pick what they want to distribute. Scripts can be written that make the local node only host the projects you depend on. That would naturally make popular projects more available.

[โ€“] exdor@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Flathub

Nixos

GrapheneOS

uBlue (Bazzite, Bluefin etc), Secureblue

90% of android and linux apps

github is scary big

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