• schmorp@slrpnk.net
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    17 hours ago

    So you can run the same functionality on 100x the computing power? Seems as reasonable as rebuild a motorway bridge out of burning toothpicks each time a car wants to pass. 👍

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      16 hours ago

      Depends on your threat model. For someone who works in cybersecurity, the hard seperationo files per-project, easily split networking to different VPNs between VMs, and being able to keep sensitive data on a basically air-gapped VM that you can only copy to clipboard from is amazing. And with templates getting a stack of VMs for a new project running is pretty quick.

      QubeOS is one of the coolest OSes around, if you work for multilple customers and/or take your data security seriously.

      It’s true that I have not considered it from the AI-slopworks PoV, but in general doing development in a container is probably a must nowadays anyway, so why not have a system build around it. It’s not like virtualization is any difficult.

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        I would say that building a container for developments becomes worth it once your project reaches a certain scale and has lots of environment variables/input or when you want to produce reproducible builds. For smaller projects or projects that have a relatively low threat level it may not be feasible to create a virtual environment.