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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about myself in your last quote. I consult clients on their operational and technological challenges. I see a lot. Of course, you might also consult similar amounts of clients and you can see that their largest deficit contributor is that people aren't taking their work home, but that's not what I'm getting from you.

You just seem angry, because you can't stomach that there are valid reasons for you to move out of your comfort zone. Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm just waiting for someone to lecture me how the speed record in wheelchair sprint beats feet's ass...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what caused you to be blocked from Docker Hub due to rate-limiting. When you're in that scenario, it's most cost efficient to buy your way out.

If you can't even imagine what would lead up to such a situation, congratulations, because it really sucks.

Yes, there should be a cache. But sometimes people force pull images on service start, to ensure they get the latest "latest" tag. Every tag floats, not just "latest". Lots of people don't pin digests in their OCI references. This almost implies wanting to refresh cached tags regularly. Especially when you start critical services, you might pull their tag in case it drifted.

Consider you have multiple hosts in your home lab, all running a good couple services, you roll out that new container runtime upgrade to your network, it resets all caches and restarts all services. Some pulls fail. Some of them are for DNS and other critical services. Suddenly your entire network is down, and you can't even get on the Internet, because your pihole doesn't start. You can't recover, because you're rate-limited.

I've been there a couple of times until I worked on better resilience, but relying on docker.io is still a problem in general. I did pay them for quite some time.

This is only one scenario where their service bit me. As a developer, it gets even more unpleasant, and I'm not talking commercial.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They do. Reality is not going to change though. You can enable a handicapped developer to code with LLMs, but you can't win a foot race by using a wheelchair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

In short, untreated mental illness

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