A Little Snitch for Windows

(packethound.app)

39 points | by BadBoyBubby 2 hours ago

10 comments

  • hn_submit 18 minutes ago
    People are conjuring up all kinds of apps slapped together by LLMs and actually have the gal to ask money for them?!
    • msdrigg 13 minutes ago
      It’s free tho
  • codernews123 1 hour ago
    Good, older alternative (seems to be not this user friendly) is Malwarebytes Window Firewall Control.
  • Dwedit 49 minutes ago
    Isn't this just ZoneAlarm?
  • shrx 1 hour ago
    Another alternative is Simplewall: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
    • underlines 50 minutes ago
      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.

  • Kwpolska 1 hour ago
    I'd rather not use a security tool which is 100% vibeslop with a 100% vibeslop website.
  • Avicebron 51 minutes ago
    I've been working on my own version of this for a little over a year. Sigh.
    • adzm 48 minutes ago
      May I see it?
      • Avicebron 45 minutes ago
        I'm looking for somewhere to put it anonymously, don't want to doxx myself.
  • baal80spam 1 hour ago
    How is this better and more comprehensive than Fort Firewall? https://github.com/tnodir/fort
  • poszlem 1 hour ago
    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 54 minutes ago
      Or better yet, make the aite itself open-source so people can contribute better writing.
    • iKlsR 36 minutes ago
      I learnt recently these are called "staccato sentences" https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2107235505620521274. Update your agents.md
    • eviks 46 minutes ago
      But then how would you know that the app is the lowest of efforts if the copy is better written?
  • devilsdata 37 minutes ago
    slop