The pinned Node v8.17.0 can't connect to GitHub over Git on Windows

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Output:

npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/azakus/dom-serializer.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
npm ERR! github.com[0: 140.82.116.4]: errno=Unknown error
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\[censored]\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2024-10-13T01_59_28_827Z-debug.log

I've confirmed it can connect elsewhere. And I don't have any sort of firewall exclusions that'd prevent Node from contacting it over Git.

It did successfully install on Node v20.17.0.