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1. pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 18:06:50 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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   @victor @Aldis @Big_Diggity @Lance @gabriel @graf @parker @tyler
   
   > but there's a reason they're getting so popular
   
   "If it works on your machine, you can just send people your machine. Let's give up on reliable builds. The OS is so balky and the libraries are so fragile and nothing is self-contained so we may as well put another OS in the OS. At least the kernel's stable." Tack on a ridiculous hype train and that's the reason people are spinning up EC2 instances (a container that Amazon provides in the form of a VM) and then using it to run cgroups-based containers, 99% of the use-case being equivalent to a chroot but with a routing table and a bunch of unreproducible blobs (often of unknown provenance), hardly ever useful and almost never necessary given that process- and user-isolation have been present in Unix since almost the beginning and if I keep going, I will end up pissing everyone off, so I won't. If you are spinning up single-purpose VMs, you don't need containers: it's in a container.
   
   :ken: "We have persistent objects. They're called 'files'." :kenbw:
   
   Anyway, I haven't heard of Podman but checking out their repo required 244MB of space to check out, it was developed at and is owned by RedHat, and podman.io advertises a coloring book. The last item in that list gives a strong hint about who this software is designed for.
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