They could always archive it. Theoretically (and I mean theoretically only), there's another reason for Microsoft to prevent access to repo: if a nation state was involved, and there've been backdoor conversations to obfuscate the trail.

Archiving the repo doesn't stop the downloads. They would need to rename it in order to prevent distro CI/CD from keeping downloading untrustworthy stuff.

Distros downloading directly from GitHub deserve what they get.

Voodoo black magic :)

My kid loved it! Great job!

Yay! Thank you! Any topics that they would especially like added?

Good article. But talks far more of how it works and far less about why existing alternatives were not good enough.