The Docker corporation deleting open source organizations from their free-of-charge service, the Docker Hub, is an example of the maxim "centralized systems are evil or vulnerable".
In this case, the vulnerability is relying on a centralized system's willingness to continue to provide a service for free. Building on top of that was always risky.
What other centralized systems are you relying on, ones that might go away at any point?
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in reply to Ramses π΅πΈ • • •@Ramses @Lars Wirzenius Yes.
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in reply to Lars Wirzenius • • •I was always a bit wary of Docker Hub; it just seemed to wrap everything in business-speak. Nothing wrong with that in itself, I thought, but maybe a red flag? Well, as it turns out, maybe it wasβ¦
I feel the same way about NPM (Javascript). FWIW.
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in reply to Lars Wirzenius • • •- my VPS provider
- github (sure, I could use gitea, but see previous two points)
- Backblaze
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Scott π΄π· • •@Scott @Lars Wirzenius if they died suddenly there would be some disruptions, but I've already changed ISP and VPS provider a few times with minimal pain for price / quality issues, I don't think it would be a problem to do so because they've become suddenly evil.
Admittedly, I don't have a lot of data on the VPSs, and I don't need to provide multiple 9s of uptime (but if I did, I would be paid enough for redundancy, I hope)
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