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Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by bastiao on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:44PM (#43447681)
Would be possible/make sense to use landlock on OCI/containers land?
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by codethief on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:34PM (#43448425)
Syd[0] uses landlock (among many other mechanisms) to containerize applications and provides an OCI-compatible interface.

[0]: https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by ammmir on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:25PM (#43449542)
thanks for the link, Sydbox seems like a super cool project, but there's something weird about it: too many links in the README. not on GitHub, and the project that's on GitHub with a similar name hasn't had a commit in 16 years, is it by the same person?

if they can polish up the public facing side of the project, it would instill more confidence.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by sudahtigabulan on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:56PM (#43449693)
> too many links in the README

In other documents too. And very repetitive.

I don't need a link to Wikipedia every time "PoC" is used. Or to an online man page every time strace(1) is mentioned.

I get it that a documentation can have more than one "entry point", and hyperlinking all occurrences solves that.

But I think assuming certain audience leads to a document that is more effective. You don't explain addition in university-level textbooks, to make it easier to children from primary school.

This product is simply not for people who hear of strace for the first time.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by yellowapple on Sunday March 23, 2025 @01:07AM (#43451021)
Eh. Personally I find it refreshing to see a page err on the side of too many links instead of too few. No need to explain addition in any book if you can just link to the best explanation available.

The bigger issue IMO is that the links seem to be automatically-generated, and the generation is a bit sloppy; for example, the "Syd" links should probably link to the sandboxing technology instead of Pink Floyd's original frontman.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by sudahtigabulan on Sunday March 23, 2025 @05:26AM (#43451790)
> the links seem to be automatically-generated, and the generation is a bit sloppy; for example, the "Syd" links

I dare you, check the git history! (if you care anyway)

It's all manually crafted, with love. From the Shine On You Crazy Diamond badge at the top down to the very last link.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by yellowapple on Sunday March 23, 2025 @01:54PM (#43454532)
Fair enough lol
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by chuckadams on Sunday March 23, 2025 @08:13AM (#43452405)
Some Wikipedia articles themselves do this, linking every common word in the article, which makes trying to simply highlight a section of text a fun adventure. I ended up at one point making a userscript to strip all internally-pointing links just to make an article more readable (as an addition to an existing script that stripped all the "[citation needed]" and other noise).

Wikipedia needs some notion of "suggested links" that don't become links unless the text is selected or they're toggled globally or some other explicit action. With those, authors could go and link every last word if they like.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by tczMUFlmoNk on Sunday March 23, 2025 @11:49AM (#43453703)
> which makes trying to simply highlight a section of text a fun adventure

Tip: in Firefox, you can hold Alt to drag and select text without triggering links.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by chuckadams on Sunday March 23, 2025 @03:32PM (#43455238)
TIL. I wish I knew years ago, I've never been happier to have switched.

Still using Chrome for work stuff, since profile management in FF is still pure hate.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by seego on Sunday March 23, 2025 @05:10PM (#43455935)
what's wrong with `firefox -ProfileManager` and the like or alternatively containers?
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by chuckadams on Sunday March 23, 2025 @05:37PM (#43456094)
I always seem to end up with duplicate profiles, or `about:profiles` refuses to open ("Another copy of Firefox has made changes to profiles.") and on and on with various hiccups and speedbumps. Small annoyances, but profiles on Chrome always Just Work, and the half-dozen times I tried it on FF was always death by a thousand cuts.

It's been a few years, so I'll give profiles another try I guess. Containers likely won't do it since multiple profiles all use the same domain (console.aws.amazon.com being the obvious one).

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by TsiCClawOfLight on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:39PM (#43462923)
Containers don't need to auto-open domains. You can simply use them to "color" tabs manually. That should cover your needs!
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by nmstoker on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:36PM (#43462893)
I thought Wikipedia recommended against overlinking, and on looking it up, they do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Link...

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by codethief on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:19PM (#43450200)
I agree regarding polishing the public-facing side of the project, though I don't find it particularly problematic that it's not on Github.
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by ranger_danger on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:46PM (#43448893)
that looks really cool, but unfortunately without any obvious examples or even a link to documentation, I'm closing the tab and likely forgetting it exists... I would assume many others would feel the same way.
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by bastiao on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:08PM (#43449030)
True! I had the same feeling.
Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by codethief on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:21PM (#43450204)
From the README:

> Read the fine manuals of syd, libsyd, gosyd, plsyd, pysyd, rbsyd, syd.el and watch the asciicasts Memory Sandboxing, PID Sandboxing, Network Sandboxing, and Sandboxing Emacs with syd.

I do agree, though, that the docs could be improved.

Re:Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no roo... by opem on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:57AM (#43457866)
this looks cool, thanks for sharing. they have linked a ctf event as an interactive example, what? XD