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Why It Matters
I created Drop because I always felt uneasy installing and running third-party programs using my main user account.
Provenance
Discovered via Hacker News and published by droprun.sh.
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I created Drop because I always felt uneasy installing and running third-party programs using my main user account. A single compromised dependency means a full compromise of the system. What is even worse, because I ship software from my computer, a single compromised dependency can lead to compromise of all the users of my software. Containers and VMs are one solution, but for local work, they are often detrimental to productivity. It takes effort to configure a machine with all the tools and configs needed for productive work, but a container or a VM will be stripped of all these tools. Thi...
Discovered via Hacker News
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Publisher: droprun.sh
ID: 49801329 · Indexed about 2 hours ago