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Comment by nialv7

6 months ago

It's fully open source. I mean yes it uses llama.cpp without giving it credit. But why run it in a VM?

It severely over-permissions itself on my Mac.

  • Can you please elaborate? How are you running ollama? I just build it from source and have written a shell script to start/stop it. It runs under my local user account (I should probably have its own user) and is of course not exposed outside localhost.

> But why run it in a VM?

Because you don't execute untrusted code in your machine without containerization/virtualization. Don't you?

  • The question was asking why it’s untrusted code, not why you run untrusted code in a VM.

    There are a lot of open-source tools that we have to trust to get anything done on a daily basis.

  • Every single day. There's just too much good software out there, and life is too short to be so paranoid.