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pploug

121 karma · joined December 18, 2018

co-founder of Umbraco, stints at Zalando, Spotify etc etc
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pploug··on MicroVM sandbox on Win, Mac, Linux, with policy engine
Sandboxes are free, distributed outside of Docker Desktop, no license fee required - money is made on enterprise governance and cloud offerings.

You can call containers a commodity, or an industry standard? Feels like that is more an emotional argument than anything else.

pploug··on MicroVM sandbox on Win, Mac, Linux, with policy engine
2 different platforms, 2 separate sources of truths for policies, 2 different level of compatibility (apple containers don't support compose, MS uses a custom moby implementation, neither are particular mature), none has linux compatibilty?
pploug··on I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
Always assumed the SoMe sharing buttons was primarily motivated by the social sites to get their pixel on as many sites as possible to track behavior across sites
pploug··on The EU Open Source Strategy
Company sells product for profit - they are liable for the product and all its subcomponents - there is nothing unfair about this - it doesn't matter if you found the components in a hole in the ground or on github - if you are selling a product based off it, you are liable.

For freelancers / oss companies - you can still sell services such as consulting or support - without selling your oss project - then its a service - not a product.

pploug··on Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud
Uh, this looks very nice - reminds me of a TUI version of Canopy, if you are interested, We've (docker) been working on a separate agent sandbox runtime called SBX built around a MicroVM with a private docker daemon inside, maybe there's potential for a collaboration to add support for this runtime - feel free to ping me: per(dot)krogslund(at)docker .com
pploug··on We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API
This article is from February - we have since shipped the microvm sandbox engine as a seperate binary: sbx - no docker desktop required, small 50mb binary.

https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/

Not sure how well their work maps to sbx, but there has been multiple releases with features and improvements since then

pploug··on SBX: MicroVM Sandboxes for Agents
MicroVM based sandboxes for agents, with container support, in a small independent binary installable from brew/winget
pploug··on Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes
Docker sandboxes uses a MicroVM as an additional isolation layer - its not just containers (as also mentioned in the nanoclaw post)
pploug··on A bug is a bug, but a patch is a policy: The case for bootable containers
Outlining this as precision versus using 100s of thousands on chainguard, seems like 2 extremes pitted against eachother, when hardened images is largely free now: https://hub.docker.com/hardened-images/catalog
pploug··on Docker AI agent sandboxes with HyperVisor isolation
- Each agent runs in a dedicated microVM - agents can build and run Docker containers inside the MicroVM - no access to the host Docker daemon - network isolation with allow and deny lists - available for macOs and windows (linux support coming)
pploug··on What has Docker become?
https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/
pploug··on Self-hosted AI data workflow: DB and Ollama and SQL
purely curious, but why did you go with ollama instead of the built in LLM runner in docker, since you are also using docker?
pploug··on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
Remember interviewing for a security role at Phillip Morris who owns the IQOS e-cigaret brand. They bragged about how the device phoned home every time it could get a bluetooth or wifi connection, to inform of consumption amount and patterns - so they could proactively send users more nicotine.

He dramatically revealed that they were no longer selling tobacco, but rather "Nicotine as a service"

Needless to say, I decided not to work for a merchant of death

pploug··on Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf]
"We find that women’s relative earnings and employment increase by 4.4% and 2.9% respectively following the birth of the manager’s first daughter. These effects are driven by an increase in managers’ propensity to replace male workers by hiring women with comparable education, hours worked, and earnings."
pploug··on A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
For oss projects with heavy pulls, the (free) dsos programme removes all rate limits on their public images, the intention was never to impact projects, but rather mega corporations using hub as free hosting:

https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application/

pploug··on A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
Projects are not charged for hub usage
pploug··on A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
Thanks for reporting, team is fixing it, the right url is: https://github.com/docker-hardened-images/catalog/issues/
pploug··on Show HN: Search the lyrics of 500 HÖR Berlin techno sets
0 results for "ketamin" I think this is broken
pploug··on Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac
Exactly for this problem, the docker sandbox command was added to the cli - currently only experimental though:

https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/

pploug··on The end of naked locker rooms
> the prevailing trends in locker-room design is privacy, a way to make “a diverse user base” feel comfortable.

One thing that annoys me about this article is the subtle stab at woke / gender identity as a reason for this change. Both Germany and Sweden has a much higher percentage of transgender people compared to the US, and neither have these kinds of locker rooms.

Living in Germany where all-gender nude changing rooms, nude all-gender saunas and nude beaches are very normal and very much not sexualised, it is striking how different the underlying culture is here - Germans find nudity practical and sanitary, and at the same time they very much insist that you wear special bathing shoes.

pploug··on Debugging containers that have no shell
Docker Debug was previously a paid-for feature, now available for free since v4.49
pploug··on Spotify running ICE recruitment ads about "dangerous illegals"
I agree on principle, while at the same time I'm fairly sure the common employees at these respective companies are probably thankful that their job security is not impacted by their employer taking a (very small) stand.
pploug··on Spotify running ICE recruitment ads about "dangerous illegals"
From article: ads are also running on: HBO Max, X, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, LinkedIn and Meta, as well as cable television channels.

And what choice do these platforms really have? They either run ice ads, or risk getting on the bad side on the administration.

pploug··on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption
Rate limits are primarily applied to unauthenticated users, open source projects and business accounts have none/much higher tresholds
pploug··on What We Can Learn from Nordic Socialism
Only norway has significant oil revenue - sweden and denmark specifically are primarily economies driven by a highly educated workforce and well regulated job markets - Lego, Novo, Maersk are all exemples of this kinds of companies depending on those socalled big government programmes to produce highly educated and specialised workers.
pploug··on What We Can Learn from Nordic Socialism
Of the scandinavian countries, only Norway has money, Dragsted is danish.
pploug··on Docker backtracks on OSS and partners with CNCF
Havnt docker been cncf member for ages?
pploug··on Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag
Anyone know the backstory of why Georg Wendt is on the memorial? He died in 1948 and atleast the wikipedia page doesn't outline whether he was murdered or related to the nazis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wendt

pploug··on Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers
Yeah, its the same underlying functionality that Depot, Docker Cloud Build and also Offload uses under the hood to switch the context to a remote host: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-offload/
pploug··on MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code
While I generally agree with the author on code over tools, the article could have benefitted from some concrete ways that this could have potentially been done somewhat securely by sandboxing, enforcing zero trust, network segmentation, and all the other known controls we've developed over the last decade.

I love the optimism of this space, but fear that the "security is a sham" attitude will bite us all in the ass down the line.

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