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A Little Snitch for Windows

39 points BadBoyBubby 2 hours ago 20 comments

codernews123 1 hour ago | parent

Good, older alternative (seems to be not this user friendly) is Malwarebytes Window Firewall Control.

shrx 1 hour ago | parent

Another alternative is Simplewall: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

underlines 53 minutes ago | parent

Which I use for years, and just because of lack of a better alternative (minimal, OSS) I actually quite "hate" it.:

It has no rules, like "Allow a file with THIS name on THAT path", the biggest complain of every simplewall user is its biggest flaw and annoyance: It asks you a million times to allow or deny the "same" app, after its checksum changed. So all the Windows apps that auto update always pop up again and again.

A coding agent autonomously compiling and testing an exe with network access is impossible. I have to turn off simplewall, because it would constantly block the executable after recompilation.

baal80spam 1 hour ago | parent

How is this better and more comprehensive than Fort Firewall? https://github.com/tnodir/fort

poszlem 1 hour ago | parent

I beg you. At the very least, please, write your own headers. I don't even need you to write the whole copy on the page, but please, don't make us read that claudease slop. This makes the app you advertise look like the lowest of efforts, no matter what it is.

"Know which apps are calling home." "Every connection, your call"

phendrenad2 57 minutes ago | parent

Or better yet, make the aite itself open-source so people can contribute better writing.

eviks 48 minutes ago | parent

But then how would you know that the app is the lowest of efforts if the copy is better written?

iKlsR 38 minutes ago | parent

I learnt recently these are called "staccato sentences" https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2107235505620521274. Update your agents.md

Kwpolska 1 hour ago | parent

I'd rather not use a security tool which is 100% vibeslop with a 100% vibeslop website.

Avicebron 54 minutes ago | parent

I've been working on my own version of this for a little over a year. Sigh.

adzm 50 minutes ago | parent

May I see it?

Avicebron 48 minutes ago | parent

I'm looking for somewhere to put it anonymously, don't want to doxx myself.

someothherguyy 38 minutes ago | parent

many options for this? unless you are ultra-concerned with anyone knowing who you are.

Avicebron 29 minutes ago | parent

I'm not that special. Apologize for the LLM cruft, I had Fable spin through to try and clean it up. If it's broken, oh well.

https://codeberg.org/Avicebron/Sereno

Dwedit 51 minutes ago | parent

Isn't this just ZoneAlarm?

constantlm 21 minutes ago | parent

or perhaps BlackICE

devilsdata 40 minutes ago | parent

slop

hn_submit 20 minutes ago | parent

People are conjuring up all kinds of apps slapped together by LLMs and actually have the gal to ask money for them?!

msdrigg 15 minutes ago | parent

It’s free tho