Proxies + electricity

I only realized when reading this article that an implication of residential proxies + Anubis-style challenges is that it's possible these systems are solving them on the device, raising electricity usage for everyone on that side too. Though in some research they may not be doing this now, probably because it's not a big cost on their servers (relative to everything else) and may make people more likely to detect the malicious behavior.

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On a different topic, though...how about partnering with existing major forges (say Codeberg, GitHub and Gitlab) to mirror the kernel.org stuff there? (And particularly in the case of Codeberg, perhaps some kernel.org/LF funding/infra spend could go to that?)

I mean seriously first off: cgit is a really dated, primitive interface. (And especially for authenticated users on GitHub, the code search is really nice)

All of these forges tend to severely rate limit unauthenticated traffic today. It would mean an increase in "random developer who wants to see kernel.org content" would probably need to make one at some point on one of them. But I can't imagine that being a real problem.