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<daddy>stikonas: a contributor to stagex has noticed that you have a mirror of some of the difficult-to-download stage1 deps we're using. is it cool if we use your mirror as a source? https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/pulls/687/files
<stikonas>hmm, depends on how reliable you need it to be...
<stikonas>this is my residential home connection
<stikonas>also, do you know how much traffic is expected?
<stikonas>it's probably fine in terms of traffic...
<stikonas>ai scrapers are probably causing most of the traffic these days anyway
<Googulator>files.bootstrapping.world is oriansj's server
<Googulator>but the entire bootstrapping.world domain seems to be down
<daddy>yeah we're actually moving off of that one because of that.
<stikonas>oriansj: ^^
<daddy>stikonas: in that case, i will not.
<stikonas>probably best to make your own mirror then
<stikonas>I do try to keep it online
<daddy>we have a very bad habit of, despite our aggressive attempts to cache everything, bringing down services.
<stikonas>but e.g. yesterday something happened to my connection while I was not at the computer, so there was 30 min downtime until I rebooted the router
<stikonas>I do have a gigabit connection to home, so unless a lot of people are downloading at the same time, bandwidth should be fine
<daddy>we have a policy on not setting up our own mirrors. we might end up revisiting that policy.
<stikonas>could it be some p2p mirror?
<stikonas>e.g. ipfs?
<stikonas>fossy and I set up two (not fully reliable mirrors) so that we have at least something for now
<stikonas>but distributed mirrors would probably work better
<daddy>we want to keep it low deps so we might have optimistic ipfs but i think it'll always have an http fallback
<daddy>i'm trying to see if we can modify the User-Agent, so we can be notified if bad traffic happens
<stikonas>yeah, http fallbacks will stay there
<daddy>oh yeah, i have fossy's mirror in the PR as well
<daddy>so i should poke him as well
<stikonas>well, if you have multiple mirrors and have redundancy in donwloads (e.g. one mirror is down, it automatically uses the other)
<stikonas>then at least some of the problems are solved