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

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Post by rmdashrfv »

mortenjorck wrote: post #67
eranation wrote: post #63

Ok, I'll be that guy. But what stops a very clever hacker from creating something useful and seemingly naive as this, but adding some hard to find backdoor in it. I was about to just install it but then stopped and thought, what could be the easiest RCE out there. Make a useful app, a catchy domain name, professional landing page, get social proof by getting it to HN front page and have zero people comment what I'm c…

I actually had the same thought after I had installed it and noticed that the binary was over 600MB. Sure, it's probably just Electron, but still, it was just enough to get me to hold off on actually trying it for now.

It's actually not Electron, it appears to be Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), which is what Spotify desktop app uses. I'm speaking completely separately from OP's product:

CEF was supposed to be more efficient than Electron, but I think that framework heavily missed the mark. I'd be interested to know why the dev chose CEF instead.

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

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Post by jerieljan »

> I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred [...] While great, they didn't fully meet my needs.

> As a developer, my requirements are:

> 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time moving my hands from the keyboard.

> 2. Display many clipboard history items at once. I don’t like the idea with big tiles, so I can see only 5-7 history items on my 32” monitor.

> 3. Full content preview for each clipboard item.

> 4. Quick search functionality.

But... Alfred literally does all of these? It's part of the paid features though and thankfully yours is free. But still, the functionality is mostly there and I'm actually curious about comparing what you've built versus theirs. https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/

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

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Post by treetalker »

Those already using Keyboard Maestro will find that its built-in Clipboard Switcher is awesome and has all of these features. And you can set up a custom system-wide shortcut … with Keyboard Maestro.

My preferred shortcut is Meta + Q.

(I use Karabiner Elements to set Caps Lock to Meta while pressed, and to Escape when tapped. And I also use it to set Right Command + H/J/K/L to work like arrow keys. Makes flipping through the clipboard history a breeze.)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

eranation wrote: post #63

Ok, I'll be that guy. But what stops a very clever hacker from creating something useful and seemingly naive as this, but adding some hard to find backdoor in it. I was about to just install it but then stopped and thought, what could be the easiest RCE out there. Make a useful app, a catchy domain name, professional landing page, get social proof by getting it to HN front page and have zero people comment what I'm c…

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

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Post by dimpalo »

trandango wrote: post #78

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned flycut as an option which has almost every feature mentioned, and is open source https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut .

Happily using flycut the last few years and it's been amazing. So yeah my question is how clipbook is better than flycut ?
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