Handle secondary rate limit in device activation

[ludeeus]

Proposed change

For some reason GitHub is returning a HTML page instead of JSON error for this issue when doing device activation (all other APIs return JSON for this...)

Type of change

• Dependency upgrade
• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (which adds functionalit)
• Breaking change (fix/feature causing existing functionality to break)
• Code quality improvements to existing code or addition of tests

Additional information

• This PR fixes or closes issue: fixes #
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Checklist

• The code change is tested and works locally.
• Local tests pass.
• There is no commented out code in this PR.
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• Tests have been added to verify that the new code works.