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PeterStuer • yesterday at 5:13 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Setting up your own is not that hard and if you bought some compute before the Altman squeeze, very cheap.

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dbmikus • yesterday at 5:29 PM

Def!

My personal belief is that the future of an "app" is a combo:

    1. micro VM
    2. agent on the VM
    3. software bundled into the VM
So, it should be stupid simple to run these local sandboxed apps/agents. Right now, not too hard for technical users (esp. with things like https://smolmachines.com/ and https://microsandbox.dev/), but not as easy as clicking an app icon or typing `/path/to/binary` in the CLI
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mzaccari • today at 2:07 AM

+1 for microsandbox. I've been using their golang SDK (https://docs.microsandbox.dev/sdk/go/sandbox) @v0.5.10 to create sandboxes, attach them to agent sessions to execute, and then throw away, all in a raspberry pi 5 k3s cluster (as they have ARM support, if you're into that sort of thing). The microsandbox code is still a bit in flux (since it hasn't reached v1.0 API stability yet), but it's definitely worth checking out as it looks to have a solid foundation.

(edit: ahh sorry, meant to post this to above comment)

raesene9 • today at 6:53 AM

Yep I've got one I built and it's absolutely fine for my use cases has a web interface/API custom kernels and rootfs, even the facility to set-up custom Kubernetes clusters. It's been really useful for other work like testing out vulnerabilities or security features in isolated envs.

skybrian • yesterday at 7:48 PM

How do you do it?

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