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		dijit on March 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - wha... What happened to the old mirror lists? The ones where apt/rpm package repositories tend to be hosted?

aembleton on March 15, 2023 [–]

https://www.debian.org/mirror/list

dijit on March 16, 2023 | [–]

I mean, why can't (or don't) we use those for things like docker images, npm registries and the like.

All this centralised dependence talk is frustrating (it's expensive, no free lunch etc;) when it's largely been a solved problem for decades.

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