What's being strip mined is the openness of the Internet, and AI isn't the one closing up shop. Github was created to collaborate on and share source code. The company in the best position to maximize access to free and open software is now just a dragon guarding other people's coins.

The future is a .txt file of John Carmack pointing out how efficient software used to be, locked behind a repeating WAF captcha, forever.

I encountered this on github last week. Very agressive rate limiting. My browser and IP is very ordinary.

Since Microsoft is struggling to make ends meet, maybe they could throw a captcha or proof of work like Anubis by xe iaso.

They already disabled code search for unauthenticated users. Its totally plausible they will disable code browsing as well.

> Or maybe your IP/browser is questionable.

I'm using Firefox and Brave on Linux from a residential internet provider in Europe and the 429 error triggers consistantly on both browsers. Not sure I would consider my setup questionable considering their target audience.

*other ai bots, ms will obviously mine anything on there.

Personally, I like sourcehut (sr.ht)

Other bots or MS bots too?