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Comment by DanielHB

I have been using VSCodium (chromium-like version of VSCode) with this extension:

https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh

I run the editor (and its extensions), my projects and any agent harnesses from inside a container and use that extension to get an editor.

This is mostly to protect my credentials and data from malicious extensions/dependencies/rogue-agents, bu it also lets me quickly port my dev environment to any machine (I use linux at home and macos at work). Just install podman, install VSCodium, add the SSH extension, build image, add my utility shellscripts (to quickly get in and out of the container in a shell) and done.

Apparently Microsoft keep some VSCode APIs proprietary so only its own extensions can use it (allegedly for security reasons), which is why this specific extension only works in VSCodium. I wonder if it is vulnerable to the same things the article points out.

parent DanielHB 1 month ago

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