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This isn't a footgun. A footgun is when something happens that should be expected, but isn't for reasons of negligence or ignorance to the thing that should be
by grayhatter 5y ago
This isn't a footgun. A footgun is when something happens that should be expected, but isn't for reasons of negligence or ignorance to the thing that should be expected. The example that everyone seems to love is pointer arithmetic. If you make a basic error in your math, invalid memory access may occur and then likely more bad stuff.
Docker altering firewall rules without explicit instructions to do so is either a feature, if you're looking to defend docker, Or a security defect if you're feeling rational. There's an argument to be made for the root cause of the issue, The docker container manifest, or the application itself. But to pretend like this is what docker should be doing, users should know better just seems wrong.
- superasn 5y agoAnd now Google is picking up the definition of footgun(1) from Hacker news! (1) https://i.imgur.com/pHlLFJA.png https://i.imgur.com/pHlLFJA.png
- thih9 5y agoYour screenshot shows an earlier date (25-Jun-2018) next to the definition.
- superasn 5y agoYes it links to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393292#:~:text=Generally%20a%20footgun%20is%20something,shoot%20yourself%20in%20the%20foot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393292#:~:text=Genera.... The funny thing is there are definitions for it in wikionary and urbandictionary yet it is picking the HN one.
- tremon 5y agoThe other funny thing is that that definition is also from a thread involving MongoDB.
- marcosdumay 5y agoWell, the footgun on this thread is on Docker... There exists an entire class of software that is best avoided. Looks like their usage is highly correlated. As a parallel, I was just saying in a work meeting that the first step towards a good IT environment is not adding some crazy non-causal component like our F5 middlewhare, while waiting for a command to end on our Oracle database. That other class is highly correlated too.
- eru 5y agoI wonder if someone who's not known to Google to like HN would get the same result?