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What do they possibly get by DDoS'ng GitHub ? Is this out of pure malice or are there any probable commercial gains to this?
There's two common flavors of comment on this post, namely "why would anyone do this?" and "well, I guess that means I can't do any work this morning." These could go together somehow. :)
It seems a certainty to me that github will be breached one of these days, and all internal data (i.e., private repos) made public. On that day, so many companies will inadvertently become open source! Do we have any info on what steps github takes to prevent this? I ask as a paying customer (with both personal and corporate accounts).
You would probably get a better answer if you asked Github this question.
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It would be nice not to have to rely on centralized servers at all. A P2P/torrent client built specifically for sharing code from git repositories, perhaps?
But there is much less commercial incentive behind a p2p alternative. Centralized services are easier to monetize. I look forward to the day governments start to fund free software, for example through the GNU project. Then we'll all have better tools. Actually, there were already some fundings. Germany funded GnuPG to port it to Windows. What do I care what is the new world record in sprinting? But I very much do ca…
Does anyone else find the Github status "messages" page [0] a bit jarring in how it's organised? The way that, when read from top to bottom, time goes forwards within a day but backwards across days? I guess I normally wouldn't notice, but there are currently some messages on there from today and yesterday and I found it hard to read as a story (either forwards or backwards) - I had to jump around a bit to figure it…
Design looks very, very confusing regarding timestamps. https://i.imgur.com/wminZWg.png
Well that's me not able to work.
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You would probably get a better answer if you asked Github this question.
Github employees are here on HN, and just as likely to answer here vs a tweet or whatever.
Bitbucket is currently experiencing some issues too [0]. Is it related? [0] https://bitbucket.statuspage.io/
But I don't think anyone can say for sure.
What do they possibly get by DDoS'ng GitHub ? Is this out of pure malice or are there any probable commercial gains to this?