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Re:Don't YOLO your file system by gck1 on Saturday March 28, 2026 @01:41AM (#47551959)
It's full VM or nothing.

I want AI to have full and unrestricted access to the OS. I don't want to babysit it and approve every command. Everything that is on that VM is a fair game and the VM image is backed up regularly from outside.

This is the only way.

Re:Don't YOLO your file system by griffindor on Saturday March 28, 2026 @04:20AM (#47552630)
I use Nix shells to give it the tools it wants.

If it wants to do system-level tests, then I make sure my project has Qemu-based tests.

Re:Don't YOLO your file system by adi_kurian on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:22AM (#47554363)
I have a pretty insane thing where I patched the screen sharing binary and hand rolled a dummy MDN so I can have multiple profiles logged in at once on my Mac Studio. Then have screen share of diff profiles in diff "windows". Was for some ML data gathering / CV training.

It's pretty neat, screen sharing app is extremely high quality these days, I can barely notice a diff unless watching video. Almost feels like Firefox containers at OS level.

Have thought that could be a pretty efficient way to have restricted unrestricted convenient AI access. Maybe I'll get around to that one day.

Re:Don't YOLO your file system by gck1 on Sunday March 29, 2026 @11:59PM (#47570244)
> I have a pretty insane thing where I patched the screen sharing binary and hand rolled a dummy MDN so I can have multiple profiles logged in at once on my Mac Studio

I have a Studio collecting dust that I've been eyeing every time my VM crashed because of Apple's paravirtualized GPU proxy not being able to keep up with things I run in it.

This sounds exactly like what I wanted to do on my Studio and didn't know where to pull the thread from.

Do you have this method shared openly anywhere?

Re:Don't YOLO your file system by adi_kurian on Monday March 30, 2026 @09:08PM (#47581609)
Nah but I'd be happy to share it with you over DM! (If they have DMs on here?)