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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by lifthrasiir on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:23AM (#26100028)
In addition to that, one of the culprits here is a widespread sample code that was carelessly copied to a popular app. Shaming does penalize the other culprit but not that one.
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by Thiez on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:30AM (#26100407)
Surely the code sample is not to blame here? Or do you truly think the author of the sample is also deserving of being called a "culprit"?
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by lifthrasiir on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:26AM (#26101219)
Just to be clear, I don't think every author using this image for their sample code is to blame. I'm specifically looking for someone using the public Wikimedia CDN for speed tests [1] and I think that someone is probably the sample code author.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073450 has located the actual app and intended purpose, for your information.

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