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Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by pjot »

Unbiased8678 wrote: post #4

Interesting, I've been using raycast clipboard that even stores images. Instead of cmd+shift+v i use cmd+shift+p which is much quicker to pull up.

Can you explain the cmd+shift+p a bit more? I use raycast as well, but need to opt+space+”c…l…I…”

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by ko_pivot »

disintegrator wrote: post #8

I really struggle with clipboard history apps because they are not very far from a keylogger and I don't want to have to trust a developer or third-party code with the contents of my clipboard. Am I being irrational?

That’s entirely rational but unless you build from source (and honestly even if you do) there’s an attack vector present. The only real alternative is to review and allow list outgoing network traffic

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

disintegrator wrote: post #8

I really struggle with clipboard history apps because they are not very far from a keylogger and I don't want to have to trust a developer or third-party code with the contents of my clipboard. Am I being irrational?

Do you only use first party applications otherwise? Any macOS application can poll NSPasteboard and extract your clipboard history and so I don’t see the particular concern with this class of applications.

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Post by disintegrator »

ko_pivot wrote: post #12
disintegrator wrote: post #8

I really struggle with clipboard history apps because they are not very far from a keylogger and I don't want to have to trust a developer or third-party code with the contents of my clipboard. Am I being irrational?

That’s entirely rational but unless you build from source (and honestly even if you do) there’s an attack vector present. The only real alternative is to review and allow list outgoing network traffic

I use Little Snitch religiously and for third-party apps I use occasionally I'm very pedantic with allowing them 10 minutes of network access at a time. It sounds painful to manage but in practice only a few apps are super chatty. Apps that are my daily drivers get more generous network access rules.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by nico »

Looks amazing, love the simplicity

Does it support images? Can text clipboard items be edited on the clipboard before pasting?

Are you planning on adding snippets?

Alfred works really well for me in terms of snippets and clipboard history

Except for one use case: quick edits

For that, I end up having to paste the content somewhere, change it, (sometimes having to additionally re-copy, then paste in the final destination)

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by Carrok »

pier25 wrote: post #10

I just use Alfred. Has clipboard history and so much more. https://alfredapp.com/

Yea, OP says it doesn't meet their requirements, but Alfred does every requirement they list. It is paid, but I paid 12 years ago and my license key is still working. Great dev(s?).
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