TIL. Don't assume people know about this like that, for many we have never even heard of it, but I'll be using it constantly now

Can I subscribe to your newsletter? I want to hear all your other recommendations.

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.

I feel like lots of people here use Linux, where you don't need to be constantly vigilant of your applications working against you...

This is cool, thanks.

Does running pi hole make this redundant, or are they solving different problems?

Lulu is a good FOSS alternative for Macs. LittleSnitch is good too but proprietary (that’s where OpenSnitch got its name)

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.

You my friend may just have done a great thing for me

I did not know about this before, bookmarking the OpenSnitch github so I can try it out on my PC later

The last time I got a virus on Windows I was only made aware because the built-in firewall warned me a Powershell script was trying to phone home.
Since then I run SimpleWall and I highly recommend everyone else do the same. It's annoying at the beginning but annoyance turns into peace of mind when you know nothing, not even built-in Windows processes can phone home without you knowing.

TIL.

Is this redundant with DNSBL?

this made me laugh way too much

It's love to see what it does with a several thousand line function from my production code.

So my projects can be useful too

if you pay you can opt-in to share your code

if you use free version you can opt-in to share your code.

if you are entitled to using a paid version for free (e. g. students, educators) you can opt-out of sharing your code.

EDIT: I was wrong, you CAN out out in the last case, which makes the meme even more stupid

https://programming.dev/post/38467491

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

Did someone say Oo-mox?

But what about neovim??

You do add important detail, but I'd make the counterpoint that if the corporation is bullying their least privileged users today, stealing their lunch money privacy, they're not going to stop with only them. This is testing the waters for them.

Plus - it's also messed up that they can fundamentally change the nature of the 501(c)(3) donated version and will likely try to claim a tax benefit as though it's equivalent to a paid copy.

They're doing as much of a bad thing as they think they can get away with. I don't feel a particular duty to carefully acknowledge that in some circumstances they feel obligated to do the right thing instead. If they don't like the "misleading" aspects of that, they're free to just do the right thing completely.

I don't think it's misleading, or at leas the point was not to imply that they are forcing the data collection (which they are, for free users, but it is opt-out). The point is that they are actually downright emotionally manipulating in the blogpost. The blogpost in which they announce it, at least in my opinion, is written in exactly the same tone as the picture. They are basically crying that they can't make a good AI without stealing your private data, pleading you to turn it on.

I've seen a few similar posts of products announcing AI data collection, and this one was the most unsettling, hence the meme.

Neovim + tmux

Try zed with vim mode.

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.

It's a non-mutual friendship, though.

It is NEVER time to go back to the hell that is Eclipse.

Go to frigging notepad or kedit before 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.

You can't imagine how happy am I to have never jumped the wagon. To either VSCode or to anything from JetBrains. Began using eclipse on my uncle's computer back in ~2010. And just never left.

It followed me through c++, java for uni classes and Python. It followed me when I switched to Linux. I'll bring it to my grave if it keeps going.

Is it the best? Nope. But it's fucked up consistently enough for me to get used to it well enough.