I was referring to the MagSafe feature being removed. Seems small but it actually prevents accidents. As my colleague said today: "hope apple care includes drops"
Facebook's business model I suspect is relying more and more on things like user location. As I recal, there was some blowback from messenger requesting location services in iOS while not using the app. This almost seems like strong-arming users into using messenger perhaps because they are able to extract more user info and metadata due to the additional priveleges. I've never installed messenger, so I may be off the mark...
I agree. Run Charles Proxy on their free trial for 15 minutes with the OS X proxy turned on and find out what your Mac is really sending out and taking in. Then buy it because it's an incredible tool that proves extremely useful when debugging your own work!
Technically I think they are different beasts. Charles proxy is for, as you say, inspecting and debugging. Little snitch is for making a white/blacklist of connections.
That being said I 100% agree that Charles is a fantastic application.
Getting offtopic here - if I wanted egress filtering at the router level, what could I add to my network that wouldn't force LAN traffic through the same port? OpenWRT isn't an option on my router because the 802.11AC radios aren't (and probably will never be) supported.
Happy to add another {mips32,armv7} box to my network, though.
Didn't expect to see this one here. I worked for Nokia at the time that they bought some of the CodeWarrior assets from Metroworks. Coming from Visual Studio, CodeWarrior felt like a big step down. What do you miss about it?
I wrote a lot of code with CodeWarrior. One of the things I miss most is the PowerPlant framework. Such a nice "forest" design with mix-ins. (Yes, you can download it, but it isn't the same). I learned a lot about designing usable class libraries by reading PowerPlant.
I learned a lot about designing usable class libraries by reading Microsoft Foundation Class libraries, too, but in the sense of "whatever you do, don't design !@#$% like this..."
Some of it is nostalgia. Some things it genuinely did better -- CodeWarrior's inline ASM syntax kicked the shit out of the GCC equivalent we're stuck with today.
And some of it is highly subjective: there was a simplicity to the old CodeWarrior UI in pre-OS X MacOS. You had a separate project window and a text editor window for every file you were editing. It was clean. It was uncluttered. It wasn't 300 tabs, sidebars, and top bars jammed into one God Window to Rule Them All.
Android is tricky. I'm not an expert at their permissions settings but it seems that some of them are worded alarmingly for over-reaching yet justifiable permissions. I'm thinking for example (not one you listed, but..) that displaying push notifications immediatly when the phone is not in use requires a permission to "prevent the phone from sleeping"...
