[GoLUG] PSA for VSCode: SSH plugin lets the remote end run arbitrary local commands

[Kyle Terrien]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 08:52:55AM -0500, Barry Fishman wrote:
> On 2026-09-27 17:38:51 -04, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > For a while now I've been wanting to try out LEAN, the tool that
> > makes it feasible to write and check forma mathematical proofs.
> >
> > The LEAN documetation tells me to start by installing VScode.
> >
> > This note deters me from doing any of this, locking me out of
> > current mathematical research.
> 
> Isn't there a lean setup for emacs:
> 
> https://github.com/cmknapp/lean/blob/master/src/emacs/README.md
> 
> And for nvim:
> 
> https://github.com/Julian/lean.nvim
> 
> Although I have not tried Lean myself.

I have not used LEAN, but in the 2025 closing keynote at SCALE
(Southern California Linux Expo), Leslie Lamport pitched a formal
proof system.  (Can’t remember if LEAN specifically was the tool.)

Leslie Lamport said something along the lines of, “Writing things out
is God’s way of forcing you to refine your thought process.”

A video archive of that keynote is on YouTube.  It’s probably
relatively easy to find.

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