Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds

Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by howolduis on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:48AM (#27434431)

cryptocurrencies are ruining hardware availability (both GPU and now storage devices), the environment and now free cloud services. When are we gonna admit it?

EDIT: typo

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by kordlessagain on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:33AM (#27434940)

When the sun is wrapped in a Dyson sphere covered in solar panels made from Jupiter’s mass?

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by Aissen on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:12AM (#27435442)

A single Dyson sphere is not enough, no serious crypto bro would let go of the opportunity to build a Matrioshka brain.

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:57AM (#27435280)

> When are we gonna admit it?

Who is denying it? Who is "we"?

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by brennerm on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:52AM (#27434469)

Guess you mean "ruining"?

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by Jleagle on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:39AM (#27435031)

By cryptocurrencies do you just mean BitCoin? Most new crypto's use proof of stake which doesn't use up GPUs.

Not heard it blamed for using up hard drives before.

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by nrmitchi on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:47AM (#27435146)

Bitcoin mining also doesn't use GPUs any more, as far as I know that space is almost entirely custom ASICs.

> Most new crypto's use proof of stake

What (of any substantial volume) uses proof of stake at the moment? That's Ethereum's path, but it's not there yet.

Regarding hard drives, I think it's "Chia" that just purposely uses an insane amount of disk space; "proof of space": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/26/new-crypt...

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by mikepurvis on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:23AM (#27436390)

> almost entirely custom ASICs

Those are still a cause for chip shortages as crypto customers bid themselves to the front of the line at TSMC:

"Chip manufacturing is already under huge pressure to meet demand, and TSMC is facing a serious water shortage in Taiwan on top of that. Bitmain's order only adds to the pressure, but TSMC clearly wouldn't agree to production if it didn't think it had the spare capacity. Anyone attempting to place new chip orders in the future may end up with a different outcome, though."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/cryptocurrency-miners-are-getting...

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by bentsku on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:44AM (#27435120)

Chia coin is using Proof of Space. It is growing really fast and not a really good thing. Even cloud providers are reacting to it. See https://blog.scaleway.com/scaleway-and-chia/

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by Hamuko on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:08PM (#27437028)

>Chia plotting is extremely I/O intensive and destroys most SSDs in under a few weeks

More like Proof of SSD-shredding.

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Re:Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds by thraxil on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:08AM (#27435392)

> Not heard it blamed for using up hard drives before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)

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