If you don't want to use the base system (which docker is NOT the base system on Linux) then Bastille offers a pretty much identical workflow to docker, but built on FreeBSD jails: https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille
> I don’t know why i keep hearing about jails being better
Jails have a significantly better track record in terms of security.
I can delegate a ZFS dataset to a jail to let the jail manage it.
Do Linux containers have an equivalent to VNET jails yet? With VNET jails I can give the jail its own whole networking stack, so they can run their own firewall and dhcp their own address and everything.
You've been able to setup separate firewalls, network interfaces, IP addresses, etc. for probably 20 years using network namespaces. How do you think container networking is implemented? But you can also use it through other tools; for example, I use firejail to isolate a couple of proprietary desktop applications such that they cannot contact anything on my desktop (or network in general) except the internet gateway.
Is there a docker-compose analogue in Bastille? I like being able to spin up an isolated local copy of my infrastructure, run integration tests, and then tear it all down automatically. I'd like to be able to do a similar thing with jails. I wonder if there's a straightforward way to achieve something similar with VNET jails?
Not that I'm aware of. FreeBSD did recently gain support for OCI containers and therefore has podman. I see podman-compose is in the ports tree, but I haven't tried it myself.
I think that rest and html could probably be already used for this purpose BUT html is often littered with elements used for visual structure rather than semantics.
In an ideal world html documents should be very simple and everything visual should be done via css, with JavaScript being completely optional.
In such a world agents wouldn’t really need a dedicated protocol (and websites would be much faster to load and render, besides being much lighter on cpu and battery)
> html could probably be already used for this purpose
You’re right, and it already is, and tools like playwright MCP can easily parse a webpage to use it and get things done with existing markup today.
> BUT html is often littered with elements used for visual structure rather than semantics.
This actually doesn’t make much of a difference to a tool like playwright because it uses a snapshot of the accessibility tree, which only looks at semantic markup, ignoring any presentation
> In such a world agents wouldn’t really need a dedicated protocol
They still do though, because they can work more better when given specific tools. WebMCP could provide tools not available on the page. Like an agent hits the dominoes.com landing page. The page could provide an order_pizza tool that the agent could interact with, saving a bunch of navigation, clicks and scrolling and whatnot. It calls the order_pizza tool with “Two large pepperoni pizzas for John at <address>”, and the whole process is done.
> Poor life choices can be consequences of poor upbringing, mental health, or simply bad luck.
You forget stupidity and ignorance. Sometimes people make poor life choices because they're stupid or ignorant (or both).
Yeah sure poor life choices can be consequences of poor upbringing, mental health, or simply bad luck, but that's not always the case.
Regarding this specific piece of writing and as a tech person myself, i wonder: why does this person not have some safety net savings?
Having worked in the highest-paying city (San Francisco) in the highest paying state (California) in the richest nation (USA)... Why didn't this guy build his own safety net?
Spawning a linux container is much simpler and faster than spawning a freebsd jail.
I don’t know why i keep hearing about jails being better, they clearly aren’t.
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