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How to protect an open-source distributed application consisting of clients and servers from forks made by hackers?
TL;DR: How distributed open-source apps like Scuttlebutt are secured from DoS and hackers who can make custom version of application?
I'm struggle with designing an open-source distributed application ...
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What is the best way to decouple and define the orchestration (coordination) of concurrent tasks?
I have a data synchronisation concurrent algorithm. It does the following: get data and files from server, send data and files to server, save them to database / filesystem. Imagine the system like ...
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Continuous Integration practices for forked repository
We have an on-premises BitBucket server with a git repo for an embedded device. We use a multi-branch pipeline in Jenkins to:
Build and run tests
Build the firmware (and a little supporting PC tool)
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How to allow for seamless upgrades from base/forked application?
I built a base/skeleton user-based web app. It just has sign up, log in, log out, forgot password, verify email address, etc. Now I can easily build user-based apps by developing on top of the base ...
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Should I fork in Github if I won't make pull requests?
There's a RFID Reader library for Arduino that I wish to adapt to another reader model. But since the original library not only has the same name of the reader it supports, the reader model name is ...
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"join node" and "fork node" for a single branch in UML
Section 15.3.3.3 of UML specification says:
Fork Nodes
A ForkNode is a ControlNode that splits a flow into multiple concurrent flows.
Also 15.3.3.4 says:
Join Nodes
A JoinNode is a ...
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Are you supposed to fork a repo if you're porting it to another language?
I'm new to forking and open source and I'm porting a Rust library into Swift but I wasn't sure if I needed to fork the original repo and then replace it with my new files or just upload my own repo ...
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Linking a Github repo based on a single module (file) taken from another massive Github repo
I found a module (single file) contained within a large project (100s of files) on github that was of use to me. Licence is MIT. I created some PRs but the author didn't seem to have the time to ...
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Legality of website forking? [closed]
In general, what is the legality of website forking?
I am based in the United Kingdom and intending to host my website on U.S. or Canadian servers.
I am looking at creating a website about ...
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Friendly fork of contributions from library X to library Y with a different but similar license
If there's a large contribution to a library X licensed under Apache v2.0 from user A and user A decides to create a "friendly" fork of the contributions he/she made in library X to a new library Y ...
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Proper Etiquette for Porting a Github Project to a new Technology
I am working at translating a github repo, which I do not own, from Python to Java. The logic will remain the same, which is significant, as this is a Neural Network application, but I need to be ...
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Using GNU GPL V3 on a project. Reuse and modify foreign code
I'm programming on a c project and use code from another author. I change the main functionality to a new, complete other one. The most of the new code is my own but some files are untouched and ...
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What criteria should I use for determining whether or not to terminate a daemon (to restart it later)?
Should a daemon, forked from a CGI script (whenever the CGI script is called and the daemon is not yet running), hang running (most of the time just waiting for a connection) all time, or should it be ...
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What is the netiquette for forking other people's open source projects II?
This is ALMOST a direct duplicate of (What is the netiquette for forking other people's open source projects?) except that I could not find my answer there, and I cannot comment (because I don't ...
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Bitbucket: repatriating a fork back to where it was once forked from
I am hoping for some advice on how best to perform a particular bitbucket/git maneuver which will fork a repo back to a team from which it was previously forked.
Let's call it Repo R, originally in ...
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