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Re:MicroVM sandbox on Win, Mac, Linux, with policy engine on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:28AM (#48918691)
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.

Re:MicroVM sandbox on Win, Mac, Linux, with policy engine on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:00PM (#48912882)
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?
Re:Nobody clicks your share buttons on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @06:20AM (#48568223)
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
Re:The EU Open Source Strategy on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:09AM (#48444312)
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.

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
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

Re:SBX: MicroVM Sandboxes for Agents on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:42PM (#47590937)
MicroVM based sandboxes for agents, with container support, in a small independent binary installable from brew/winget
Re:Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:40AM (#47365943)
Docker sandboxes uses a MicroVM as an additional isolation layer - its not just containers (as also mentioned in the nanoclaw post)
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
Re:Docker AI agent sandboxes with HyperVisor isolation on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:18AM (#46855700)
- 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)
Re:Self-hosted AI data workflow: DB and Ollama and SQL on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:42AM (#46708077)
purely curious, but why did you go with ollama instead of the built in LLM runner in docker, since you are also using docker?
Re:There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:58AM (#46645580)
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

"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."
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/

Projects are not charged for hub usage
Thanks for reporting, team is fixing it, the right url is: https://github.com/docker-hardened-images/catalog/issues/
Re:Show HN: Search the lyrics of 500 HÖR Berlin techno sets on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:03PM (#46292811)
0 results for "ketamin" I think this is broken
Re:Claude CLI deleted my home directory Wiped my whole Mac on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:21AM (#46271370)
Exactly for this problem, the docker sandbox command was added to the cli - currently only experimental though:

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

Re:The End of Naked Locker Rooms on Friday November 14, 2025 @06:43AM (#45925895)
> 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.

Re:Debugging containers that have no shell on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @08:58AM (#45811085)
Docker Debug was previously a paid-for feature, now available for free since v4.49

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