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Re:The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single ... by xyse53 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:46PM (#36381879)
- Threatening lawyers

- The fair use update is reactive, and won't help anything

- Not separating microsoft/github from users of the platform (I agree the line is an worthwhile discussion)

- Not following up on the reasonable technical solutions that are being proposed

- Not seeming to ack that while the firewall ban might be the best they can do now, it'll block interested users of their own (GMP) library.

That said, the part in the GitHub reply dismissing GMP's hardware is also immature.

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Re:The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single ... by CtrlAltDelete51 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:01PM (#36382040)
To be fair, the amount of traffic we are talking about is not really that significant. GMP only allocating one core [1] for these requests and being frustrated that after so long they might have to increase the resource allocation or change something else is a bit unreasonable too.

[1] https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2023-June/006169....

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Re:The GMP library's repository is under attack by a single ... by xyse53 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:12PM (#36382149)
Yeah, I agree.
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