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.
Holy crap this is huge!
Open source is no longer open source on github.
Be ready to supply your fingerprints using Microsoft Authenticator app and your free source access subscription for only 49 USD per month! /s
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