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by michalskop 894 days ago
Can anyone explain how to see the images?

All I can see is text, something like: ``` version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 oid sha256:c113251a7c1a67eff152777018926de038c3a78723ec16b611a45a030b8b4d8b size 294284 ``` https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/A/...

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I'm pretty sure Github disabled image downloads for that repo in the last few minutes.
Even when you download the repo the images don't render
As agoose77 said on another comment, Github probably disabled the whole LFS (Large File Storage) for that repo
Is the LFS enabled for the forked repositories?

I can't log in and I don't have a way to view the list of forks.

It wasn't when I tried it earlier.
I suspect that their LFS bandwidth has been exhausted, so now one only sees the LFS metadata.
Indeed, `git lfs fetch` is giving:

`This repository is over its data quota. Account responsible for LFS bandwidth should purchase more data packs to restore access.`

TIL that there is the ability to upgrade LFS access on github.com

Buying bandwidth from github for LFS blobs seems the wrong approach to me, assuming this is some hobby project.

Is there an implementation to seed LFS blobs as BitTorrent?

I assume it's just getting a lot of traffic from HN and github have some limits in place to stop it being abused for content hosting. I imagine it'll start working again once the traffic goes back to normal.
I take it this is the code to generate the images, mention was made of a data file, but it doesn't appear to be in the repo, from a brief check I didn't see any reference to a data file.

I am guessing the actual data file itself would be smaller than all of the images. HN readers should have a high chance of being able to run the code.