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Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by dylan604 »

oktwtf wrote: post #27
dylan604 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm kind of scared to learn exactly how chatty Windows would be.

It's not as bad as the vine says, but one thing that drives me crazy, is widgets.exe seems to get a new hash /often/ and I constantly get prompts for it. It's all the installers that phone home at some point, and video drivers needing access etc. (Wireless displays come at a cost I guess).

sorry, that should have been "Windows version". I wasn't meaning to imply windows itself (although, yeah, from the stories it could be bad too with telemetry crap). i just meant Windows being such a large target for malware and what not

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by hayst4ck »

mhb wrote: post #109
hayst4ck wrote: post #105

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I see both sides. This dilemma is capitalist hell. Why is obdev sku-ifying their product? Because the incentive model for selling a license means that the market can saturate and there is a lack of recurring or stable income/income safety for the dev. In order to get new spikes of income, a new product is generated. If the market for a particular license becomes saturated, how will they make more money? Licensed base…

Jetbrains' model?

If anyone else was wondering what the model was:

https://www.jetbrains.com/store/#personal?billing=monthly

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

Perpetual fallback license means that if you stop paying for a subscription, you can keep using the version you are on, in perpetuity.

Sounds fairly reasonable. If there are no updates, you would cancel your subscription and use the fallback license until the "rent-seeking" stops.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by rolfrp »

KyeRussell wrote: post #68
ary wrote: post #32

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Completely agree. Occasionally I run Charles Proxy[1] on my iPhone to analyze network activity and am disturbed by what I see. Software shouldn't be able to open arbitrary network connections without user consent/control, but we're not there yet to a large enough degree on mobile unfortunately. [1] https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/ios/

The reality is that this sort of control would only be attractive to a very very small fraction of users, and no, not just because ‘people don’t care about privacy’ or whatever. There are just very few situations where someone is going to be able to look at this sort of data and do anything meaningful with it, especially when a) most apps are justifiably internet-connected, and b) the homogeneity of public cloud infr…

A good set and forget option for the non-tecnical or those that can't be bothered is https://www.iantispy.com, basically just does it's thing and doesn't nag to upgrade.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by chatmasta »

bredren wrote: post #103
chatmasta wrote: post #63

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Little Snitch is great, but it does a bit too much for my liking. I've been using LuLu [0] which is a free product from Patrick Wardle, and I'm pretty happy with it. It mostly stays out of the way and I just need to approve new connections the first time I run an app. [0] https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

Do you use Spaces in MacOS? LS seems to have trouble popping transfer attempt warning modals even if set to all desktops.

I think so? If that's what the thing is called when I swipe between desktops. I've only used LuLu on this machine though, and it seems to have no problem (though I guess I wouldn't notice if it wasn't popping up sometimes).

One thing I have noticed with LuLu is that the connection attempt sometimes shows the address of my VPN server rather than the actual upstream destination address of the request. But sometimes it shows the upstream - I'm not sure what the pattern is there.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by heybrendan »

pantalaimon wrote: post #62
Arch-TK wrote: post #39

Why does factorio literally perform better on my laptop than websites like these? Is this just firefox on linux being bad at hardware rendering? Is it some crappy API people are forced to use to do these animations? I don't get it.

On Linux you can use OpenSnitch [0] instead anyway. [0] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

Thanks for sharing!

I suspect many of you are curious about CLI-only support (I was). I spotted this old, closed issue [1].

[1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/issues/511

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by JasonZ2 »

happybuy wrote: post #106
JasonZ2 wrote: post #104

I have to download and install the app to see how much it costs? They don't even list the price along with their other products: https://obdev.at/shop/index.html

I know from personal experience of making and selling an App Store app [1] that it can be difficult to show accurate pricing on your products website. There can be 175+ different territories that you may sell an app in, each with a different local price point. You also can't expect to simply show a converted $US dollar amount either as you may want to do price discrimination (so that the app is cheaper for regions th…

Sounds like an excuse to just not display the price.

> 2. Only show $US pricing on the website and let non-US customers manually translate to their local pricing - not a great experience for non-US users

It's a worse experience for someone to convert USD to their currency (instant mentally or 2 seconds on Google) compared to launching the app store, installing the app, getting to the purchase menu, and seeing the price?

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by paxys »

guessmyname wrote: post #85

I've been using Little Snitch for years, and it's probably the most important software on my computer. However, I've noticed a problematic trend in modern software development: developers are using the same hostname to serve both functional and non-functional web APIs. For example, let's say that Apple's Xcode sends harmless data to their telemetry service at telemetry.apple.test. Even though the data is anonymous, I…

This isn't some new "problematic trend". A website serving all kinds of requests from a single domain name has been how things have worked forever.

Pages making cross-origin requests is in fact a new phenomenon, and has been widely adapted by the ad industry simply because the ad server cannot trust the content host to report its own ad view/click-through numbers. If the server doing the data collecting or ad serving is the same as the one providing the content, there's zero reason for them to be on different domains. And for all these cases any kind of network-level blocking is always going to be ineffective.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by prime17569 »

jonpurdy wrote: post #43

When I first saw the headline I assumed they made an iOS version and worked with Apple to do it. I would’ve insta-bought! Unfortunately just an easier to use Mac version. iOS really needs this functionality.

iOS also has the App Privacy Report, which can tell you about the network requests that apps make:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212958

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by stanmancan »

lockhouse wrote: post #108
latexr wrote: post #101

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Please let’s stop comparing software subscriptions to coffee. It misses the point about the recurring cost and lock in, and not everyone lives in the USA and pays high prices for coffee every day (or ever). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738791

I don't like subscriptions either, but what is the sustainable alternative income source for app developers?

I like Jetbrains licensing. Essentially you pay for updates and once you stop paying you’re locked in at that specific version, but you can use it indefinitely.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by lamnk »

lockhouse wrote: post #94
simple10 wrote: post #55

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Subscription is $13.49/yr or $1.49/mo for mini according to Mac Store page.

In all fairness, you can't even buy a cup of black coffee from a 7-Eleven for that much.

yes, the price is cheap, but the number subscriptions and the total sum of them add up very quickly.
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