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A comment on Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1. Parent comment

Re:Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Dock... by bogeholm on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:43PM (#43131283)
It’s like playing Plague Inc. (reverse version of Pandemic the board game where you play as the disease): to win, develop all possible methods of spreading first; only then develop symptoms, and do it fast before anyone has time to react
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Re:Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Dock... by thih9 on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:45PM (#43133443)
I find it surprising that people notice the part about symptoms[1], and despite this happening repeatedly we do relatively little against the part about spreading.

Part of it is perhaps by definition, “spreading” already assumes success. Still, I’d welcome some regulation; or at least awareness; e.g. a neologism for companies in that stage, growing at cost and only getting ready to develop symptoms.

[1]: The American Dialect Society selected “Enshittification” as its 2023 word of the year, source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

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