ZeroTalent's comments

On: My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use

[ZeroTalent]

Look into the app Little Snitch. It's fantastic! https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

I'm unaffiliated with the owners.

[ChrisMarshallNY → ZeroTalent]

Second Little Snitch.

> NOTE: Corporate IT departments no likee Little Snitch.

[dev_hugepages → ChrisMarshallNY]

Do you have a story to tell us?

[thesuitonym → dev_hugepages]

I 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.

[al_borland → thesuitonym]

I jokingly told a coworker to try nmap when he was trying to figure out a port to use for something legitimate. He was on the phone with the security team seemingly within 90 seconds. I was actually pretty impressed.

[ZeroTalent → thesuitonym]

interesting. don't malicious actors use much more advanced tools than little snitch?

[ChrisMarshallNY → ZeroTalent]

In the case of the company I worked for, they worried as much about insider threats, as they did, external ones.

They didn’t like employees, exploring the network.

[thesuitonym → ZeroTalent]

Malicious actors use every tool you can imagine, and many you can't.

[ZeroTalent → thesuitonym]

That's not a very nice thing to say. You don't know me.

On: My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle

[ZeroTalent]

I would say it's not about the cost, but possible permanent injuries

On: Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel

[ZeroTalent]

You can use an app like Duet or other apps like these.

On: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

[ZeroTalent]

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.

[dexwiz → ZeroTalent]

My theory is because of the hinge, which is a common point of failure on laptops. Either you are putting extra strain on it by having someone constantly touching the screen, and some users just mash their fingers into touch screens. Or users want a fully openable screen to mimic a tablet format, and those hinges always seem to fail quicker. Every touchscreen laptop I've had eventually has had the hinge fail.

[cosmic_cheese → dexwiz]

There seems to be some kind of incompatibility between antiglare and oleophobic coatings that may also contribute.

Every single touch screen laptop I’ve seen has huge reflection issues, practically being mirrors. My assumption is that in order for the screen to not get nasty with fingerprints in no time, touchscreen laptops need oleophobic coating, but to add that they have to use no antiglare coating.

Personally I wouldn’t touch my screen often enough to justify having to contend with glare.

[raydev → dexwiz]

Apple is capable of solving it if they want to. They don't want to (yet at least).

[thetallguyyy → ZeroTalent]

Because MacBooks have subpar displays, at least the M4 Air does. The iPad Pro is a better value.

On: What “working” means in the era of AI apps

[ZeroTalent]

I'd rather take my $1M a year small company than cut-throat $10M a year revenue with VC funding any day.

On: I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits

[ZeroTalent]

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.

On: Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

[ZeroTalent]

Yes, they did on Google Cloud:

"Custom Search JSON API: The primary solution offered by Google is the Custom Search JSON API. This API allows you to create a customized search engine that can search a collection of specified websites. While it's not a direct equivalent to a full-fledged Google Search API, it can be configured to search the entire web."

In my experience it's essentially the same as Google Search if configured properly.

On: Cursor 1.0

[ZeroTalent]

Revenue/users/employees are all that matters cause they will get bought for $20B by one of the M7 or another AI company this year likely.

On: Claude Code Is My Computer

[ZeroTalent]

I 100-shot prompts with my style. there is no difference. I only input the new data.

On: Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children

[ZeroTalent]

Also, don't use a phone or a computer. /s