Malicious actors use every tool you can imagine, and many you can't.
That's not a very nice thing to say. You don't know me.
Readit NewsI don't have a story but Little Snitch is the kind of tool most corporate users don't need, but that many malicious actors love to use. Sort of like running nmap on your computer, yeah there are legitimate reasons to do so, but you will get a call from IT if you try it.
interesting. don't malicious actors use much more advanced tools than little snitch?
While this seems like a lot, in some ways this is what user's expect. Push notifications should be coming all the time, assuming the system is on. Most users expect various maintenance services to run when the system idle so it doesn't interfere with their active use of the system. When users open apps like Weather (or view a widget), they expect it to already be up to date without having to manually refresh or wait for data to load when the app launches.
I'm sure some fat can be trimmed, and it may not all be user-centric, but a lot of this had to do with the expectations users have these days with the data being always up to date, instantly available, and proactive about alerting them to things they may want to know about, like rain coming to your area in 30 minutes.
One of my big pet peeves is when I pick up my phone in the morning, go to open an app, and it starts updating, so I need to wait for the download/install. It just had 8 hours on a charger to do that, and instead it seems to wait until it's taken off the charger and unlocked. With auto-updates on, I'd much rather this happen when placed on the charger and inactive, than actively in use and off the charger. The same can be said for a lot of things on the desktop.
This ends up mostly being a question of transparency and user control. Which then becomes a question of how much time/money to they invest in features for 1% of users? Now how much time do they invest in those same features when the 99% will stumble in there, turn a bunch of stuff off, then call support and ask why their weather widget isn't updating?
Look into the app Little Snitch. It's fantastic! https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
I'm unaffiliated with the owners.
ZeroTalent commented on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle corentin.trebaol.com/Blog... · Posted by u/5mv2
If he was on a student visa in Hong Kong he was able to access public health care for close to free.
All Hong Kong residents are eligible (anyone with an HKID and permission to remain >= 180 days).
I would say it's not about the cost, but possible permanent injuries
ZeroTalent commented on Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel tedium.co/2025/06/09/appl... · Posted by u/mdp2021
What's awful is all those imacs that can't be used as external displays. They used to have target display mode but that went away a long time ago. Such a waste.
You can use an app like Duet or other apps like these.
I think practically everyone is better off with a laptop. iPad is great if you're an artist using the pencil, or just consuming media on it. Otherwise a macbook is far more powerful and ergonomic to use.
I don't understand why my MacBook doesn't have a touchscreen. I'm switching to an iPad Pro tomorrow. I use Superwhisper to talk to it 90% of the time anyway.
ZeroTalent commented on What “working” means in the era of AI apps a16z.com/revenue-benchmar... · Posted by u/Brysonbw
The article lists the many ways in which the bar for success - the minimum "table stakes" that you have to achieve in order to be considered success - have drastically risen, and then concludes with:
> we believe there’s never been a better time to build an application-layer software company.
Nothing could be a clearer indication that the primary desirable quality in a founder is the conviction that, against all odds, you are better than everyone else.
I'd rather take my $1M a year small company than cut-throat $10M a year revenue with VC funding any day.
ZeroTalent commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh
Then, as a matter of fact, he'll have to rely on someone else's kids to feed him, whether directly or through taxes.
If he voluntarily chose not to raise kids, not even adopted ones, then he placed himself at the mercy of strangers. This may or may not end well, depending on how much spare resources they have.
so this: "You can raise you personal "taxes" and provide for you father if you so desire." was just a non sequitur
ZeroTalent commented on I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits maxemitchell.com/writings... · Posted by u/maxemitchell
Also: "This OAuth library represents something larger than a technical milestone—it's evidence of a new creative dynamic emerging"
Em-dash baby.
I have used Em-dashes in many of my comments for years. It's just a result of reading books, where Em-dashes happen a lot.
At my company, we use LLMs for financial analysis that previously required hundreds of employees, and that work would have been inferior anyway because it's so hard to make so many people to communicate well to identify correlations.