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Re:Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open sour... by eins1234 on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:51PM (#25340037)
> My first thought upon seeing this years ago was “How many people are using this to mine crypto?!“.

Having worked at a Travis CI competitor that also offered open-source credits. The answer is "many" if you don't do anything about it...

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Re:Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open sour... by floatboth on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:06AM (#25343312)
What is the state of the art in doing something about this? Has anyone tried using CPU perf counters to see if the workload looks like hashing?
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Re:Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open sour... by jrochkind1 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:04PM (#25349045)
Indeed, that is why Travis said they were changing the way they handled open source, because people were using it to mine crypto. They just weren't clear that the "change" was basically "not anymore providing free services to open source".
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