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by everfrustrated 486 days ago
Unless something has changed, GitHub pays a license to Docker to allow their runners IP space to avoid the rate limit.
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Which means GitHub is going subscription-only in the near or mid-term future. Will we repeat the same mistakes?
Rate limit the number of lines of code changed or pulled per day for free accounts.
TIL! Can you link to a source for this? I am curious!
May not be true anymore but was in the past when Docker first introduced the limits.

Very hard to find anything definitive still left on the web. This is all I could find...

https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/1445#issueco...

https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/1445#issueco...

Thanks!

> Very hard to find anything definitive still left on the web

Probably a lot happened behind closed doors so there probably wasn’t much to begin with.