Emacs for the homies
Doesn’t anyone else use things like OpenSnitch to audit all outgoing connections? I block all phone homes until something breaks, then investigate.
If you are trapped on Windows for some corporate reason, there is SimpleWall.
We’re all friends here, and friends don’t let friends let apps phone home.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter? I want to hear all your other recommendations.
I feel like lots of people here use Linux, where you don’t need to be constantly vigilant of your applications working against you…
Anyone new to these tools will be horrified at how aggressively Windows tries to violate your privacy with unnecessary data collection, phone-homes, remote calls, etc.
Linux is galaxies better in that regard. I still don’t want anything making any connections without my explicit knowledge and consent though, and there are lots of packages and applications that try to unnecessarily exfiltrate data without asking. If you aren’t using an active firewall, you are leaking.
I second OpenSnitch. It’s the most annoying program i run, but the control it gives you over your outbound connections is so worth it from a security and privacy standpoint.
Once you start and run this you get to truly see how many different URLs are loaded when visiting just one website
Can’t, all corporate hardware and their software, too. Not my problem, but also not my intellectual property being stolen to be used in AI, so eh,
NotMyProblemException.Does running pi hole make this redundant, or are they solving different problems?
They still work together. Pi-hole is an excellent second line of defense, but an active firewall tells you about what is trying to make connections and asks for your consent. Block lists are great, but they aren’t impenetrable. If you want to know exactly what your device and software are doing, you should also be using an active firewall.
This is cool, thanks.
Thanks for that suggestion, I had a passing thought a while back I should look into something like this.
Any problems in your experience? I imagine apps will fail if you’re slow to approve the outbound connection and something times out, so I get all of that, looking more for broader issues this might cause? Specifically wondering about the docker containers I run, all the development nonsense.
Both OpenSnitch and SimpleWall block by default. You can also set a timeout so that if you don’t respond in a certain amount of time they automatically create a permanent block rule. You can also check your rules and activity at any point. If a specific application is misbehaving you can always check its rules and change them, or delete them and start over. They’re very efficient, and get less intrusive over time as you respond to prompts and create more rules.
Lulu is a good FOSS alternative for Macs. LittleSnitch is good too but proprietary (that’s where OpenSnitch got its name)
I did not know about this before, bookmarking the OpenSnitch github so I can try it out on my PC later
TIL.
Is this redundant with DNSBL?
Not necessarily. These active firewall tools are much more thorough. They tell you any time an application or service is trying to make a connection to anywhere. Block lists are helpful, but still have gaps. These let *nothing *through unless you explicitly allow it, and ask you clearly and immediately when something that doesn’t already have a rule tries.
Yeah… I slowly stopped using it and am just using vim, and getting docs from sources.
You can set up your LSP to work with nvim to get docs that way.
And with actual Vim.
But also with butterflies?
I use Acme.
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I think I’d be liable if my code made it through to a LLM
The thought of that is so funny. Not the company that stole the code gets held accountable, but instead the poor schmuck they stole it from to make their AI. Actually this would not even surprise me all that much.
I liked PyCharm, but its time to refresh my friendship with VIM.
Neovim + tmux
That’s exactly what I did, switching from Rider. LazyVim helped with getting a usable setup (especially LSPs are pain to setup without it), https://www.vim-hero.com/ taught me the absolute basics of navigation, and then I simply installed IdeaVIM into Rider to force myself to use it, and switched my default editor to LazyVim.
It has already been a few months, and I’m pretty used to it. I still fumble here and there, I still have to stop and think then doing more involved operations, but for the basic editing I wouldn’t go back.
The most important observation I have is that it does not make me more efficient at editting text, the fumbles and mistakes usually offset any gains I have from the many navigation/jump/repeat keys, and reaching for the mouse would be quicker, but -
It’s super fun. Learning new motions is satisfying, you can see progress, and by slowly adding a new motion, then trying to get it to your muscle memory is simply fun. And there’s always something to learn, a new motion to add or make more efficient. It’s basically gamified text editting, and if you like mastering things in the muscle memory sense, it’s awesome. I’d absolutely recommend everyone to make the switch, but not for “being a faster/more efficent at text editting” reason, because if you want that, learning every single IDE keybind will make you faster faster.
Also, it’s surprisingly comfortable not having to reach for a mouse. It has only been a few months, and I’m getting slightly annoyed whenever a program doesn’t have a hotkey for proper navigation and I have to touch my mouse, hah.
Thank you for sharing the experience, it encouraged me even more to VIM when I’ll have to work in Python.
I’ve been building up my Helix setup, and its been fantastic. Got tired of constantly fighting corporate stuff
JB is cooked
This is what finally pushed me to move all coding I can away from Jetbrains products. I wanted to to that for a while, because I didn’t want to depend on a closed system and wait until it enshitified. Now it happened. Sad to see, but it was inevitable.
Is it time to go back to the plugin-hell called Eclipse?
Well if you want a real world comparison:
We migrated a project a few years ago from Eclipse to IntelliJ. Outcome:
- Complains about the IDE dropped from around 10 per day to nearly 0
- Onboarding people now takes 1h instead of a day, because IntelliJ knows how to store configuration in a project
- IntelliJ has a built in updater and nearly everything works after an update
- IDE Fuckups: 1 per week (Eclipse) -> 1 per year (IntelliJ)
- Somehow still happend? Just click “Delete caches and restart” in IntelliJ
- No sources and javadoc for a library available? Eclipse: Have fun reading bytecode; IntelliJ: Yeah I just decompiled it for you within 10s
So yeah I wouldn’t recommend going back into hell. Even VSCode and it’s forks are likely better at this point.
Not just no, but hell no.
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They can pull jetbrains-mono out of my cold dead terminal.
Does this apply to Android studio?
I’m guessing not - Google probably wants the data for itself.
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