Because at least for me getting a shared folder to work was a total pain in the ass. Virtualbox just worked in that regard.

Id you don’t like it, get a VPN or consider replacing your government.

They should need to get a warrant, but that doesn’t sound too hard in this instance.

Going public usually makes everything worse.

For local testing: build and run tests on whatever computer I’m developing on.

For deployment: I have a self hosted gitlab instance in a kubernetes cluster. It comes with a registry all setup. Push the project, let the cicd pipeline build, test, and deploy through staging into prod.

I’m pretty sure I first heard about this problem on NPR.

Multiple times in the last few years