David Beazleydabeaz@mastodon.social
Oct 15, 2026, 1:04 PMRE: https://fosstodon.org/@pypi/117444912512300470
At this point, something seems very "wrong" about the forces driving this kind of usage.
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- David Beazleydabeaz@mastodon.socialOct 15, 2026, 1:14 PM
13.5 PB / 8.3 billion people =~ 1.8MB of Python per person on planet Earth per day. Seems normal.
Robert Brewerfumanchu@fosstodon.orgOct 15, 2026, 1:33 PM@dabeaz I blame docker.
mirthmirth@mastodon.sdf.orgOct 15, 2026, 1:34 PM@dabeaz Something I don't understand, regardless of why the traffic is increasing now, why haven't these kinds of registries been served out of something like BitTorrent by default for decades?
- David Beazleydabeaz@mastodon.socialOct 16, 2026, 3:12 AM
@mirth I just casually walk by thinking "ooh, that's one of those exhaust port things that freedom fighters take out to disable the whole mothership."
- mirthmirth@mastodon.sdf.orgOct 16, 2026, 3:15 AM
@dabeaz I think modern CDNs are pretty robust but it still feels wasteful and slow to fetch packages from far away when I already have them on my network.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑brouhaha@mastodon.socialOct 15, 2026, 1:50 PM@dabeaz
I'm not sure whether an average of 1.25 Gbps is unreasonable or not.
Oct 15, 2026, 3:39 PM@dabeaz look, no one can afford disk or RAM at this point, so we're all just mapping pypi into our page tables