GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access

Probably getting hammered by ai scrapers

If Microsoft knows how to do one thing well, it’s killing a successful product.

Github is owned by Microsoft, so don't worry, it's going to get worse

60 req/hour for unauthenticated users

That's low enough that it may cause problems for a lot of infrastructure. Like, I'm pretty sure that the MELPA emacs package repository builds out of git, and a lot of that is on github.

I see the "just create an account" and "just login" crowd have joined the discussion. Some people will defend a monopolist no matter what. If github introduced ID checks à la Google or required a Microsoft account to login, they'd just shrug and go "create a Microsoft account then, stop bitching". They don't realise they are being boiled and don't care. Consoomer behaviour.

Anti Commercial-AI license

I honestly don't really see the problem here. This seems to mostly be targeting scrapers.

For unauthenticated users you are limited to public data only and 60 requests per hour, or 30k if you're using Git LFS. And for authenticated users it's 60k/hr.

What could you possibly be doing besides scraping that would hit those limits?

No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit

https://forgejo.org/

LOL!!!! RIP GitHub

EDIT: trying to compile any projects from source that use git submodules will be interesting. eg ROCm has more than 60 submodules to pull in 💀

!codeberg@programming.dev

Just browsing GitHub I've got this limit

Wow so surprising, never saw this coming, this is my surprised face. :-l

Open source repositories should rely on p2p. Torrenting repos is the way I think.

Not only for this. At any point m$ could take down your repo if they or their investors don't like it.

I wonder if it would already exist and if it could work with git?

The enshittification begins (continues?)...

This going to fuck over obtanium?

Its always blocked me from searching in firefox when I'm logged out for some reason.

THIS is why I clone all my commonly used Repos to my personal gitea instance.

Good thing I moved all my repos from git[lab|hub] to Codeberg recently.

Good thing git is “federated” by default.

I have a question: why do lemmy dev keep using microsoft github?

Maybe charge OpenAI for scrapes instead of screwing over your actual customers.

That' just how the cookie crumbles.

Probably because of AI agents. This is why we can’t have nice things.

is authenticated like when you use a private key with git clone? stupid question i know

also this might be terrible if you subscribe to filter lists on raw github in ublock or adguard

The numbers actually seem reasonable...

RIP yocto builds

This is specific to the GH REST API I think, not operations like doing a git clone to copy a repo to local machine, etc.