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Comment Re:man lsof -or- appropos list open connections (Score 1) 50

It's really not the same thing. See my other post https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23961458&cid=66085502

I don't know how it will work with all the different firewalling options, etc., with Linux, but that's what makes it special for macOS (which comes with lsof, tcpdump, etc.)

Comment Re:Wireshark - ? (Score 1) 50

It's really nice software. You don't just get a visualization of current connections, you can get popup of new notifications AND the option to set up incoming/outgoing rules. Something like "Firefox is attempting to access slashdot.org port 443:

Allow Once
Allow Firefox to connect to slashdot.org port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server, any port any time
Deny Firefox all connections

When I got my first Mac laptop, around 2004, Little Snitch was one of the first pieces of software I bought. One of the nice things about the Mac at the time (and historically through OS 7 / 8 / 9 days) was there was a very strong small developer writing shareware culture. That's disappeared a bit more recently (in large part due to the rise of open source, Linux ecosystems, and so forth), but Little Snitch is still great. Another example, Adium remains one of the best chat clients I've ever used. BBEdit is very solid text editor that goes back to 1992! Etc.

Comment man lsof -or- appropos list open connections (Score 1) 50

Unix (that includes Linux and obviously Macs) have a command called "lsof".
"ls" is short for list and "of" is for "open files. List open files.

A port is considered a file, and depending how the device tree mapping to names works, they are also in the device tree.

The output might be overwhelming, but if you only want to see open ports and do not care about extra firewall features and user interaction, then lsof might be enough, especially considering the many command line options.

Comment Re:How did they get initial access to the routers? (Score 1) 68

It's not hard to allow only traffic related to an outgoing connection. Are you asking because you don't know how to do it? Not that I'm supporting the GP's assertion here, that's not what I want from my ISP, but it's not even slightly difficult to do what they said you should do without interfering with establishing and maintaining outgoing sessions.

Comment Re:OpenWRT (Score 1) 68

I watched Jayz video on this subject and apparently "manufacturers" (sellers) of foreign-made routers will be able to request an exception... from the Department of War and the DHS. So this is really just a solicitation for more bribes/the opportunity to pick the winners and losers like Republicans always say the government shouldn't.

Comment Re:Two screens? (Score 1) 50

I wonder if having two screens (which would show two different apps) wouldn't be better.

It would arguably be a better solution technically, but I suspect that most people want to use one app at a bigger size than two apps at once. And then you've either got content spread over two screens with stuff in the middle, or the app has to be designed around the screen layout. And that either won't be done or will be done poorly in the majority of cases.

Comment Re:Sometimes I hate the direction of tech (Score 1) 50

For me a foldable phone was the Motorola razor, the one with physical buttons. And in my opinion it was a great phone.

Yep. If it supported modern standards I'd still be using mine, and then hotspotting for a device with more screen when I needed that. Carrying two devices is nonoptimal, but so is holding a brick up to my ear, and fixing that with a headset would ALSO require carrying two devices.

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