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		apsurd 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded mor... maybe i'm misunderstanding the "why run anything on my machine" part. is the container on the machine? isn't that running things on your machine? is he just saying always run your code in a container?

minitech 32 days ago [–]

> is the container on the machine?

> is he just saying always run your code in a container?

yes

> isn't that running things on your machine?

in this context where they're explicitly contrasted, it isn't running things "directly on my machine"

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