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metroholografix ◴[] No.24839240[source]
Background: I've written my own kernel extension that works in similar manner to Little Snitch, but does a lot more, including SSL MITM and on-demand packet capture, that I've been using for more than 10 years now.

It's a fact that Apple has continuously moved to lock down macOS in ways that are antithetical to folks that want full control over their operating system. To many of us that moved on from Linux on the desktop, the combination of a stable/uniform/attractive desktop environment with a Unix core that had great developer documentation -no longer the case!- and nicely-designed APIs was too much to resist. Unfortunately, the push towards consumers and Apple's increasingly one-sided my-way-or-the-highway approach (fueled by security concerns that to me are completely irrelevant, if not a huge annoyance and waste of time) means that a lot of us oldschool Unix hackers were left out in the cold.

I don't plan to upgrade past Mojave and at some point in the future I will move back to Linux.

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rantwasp ◴[] No.24840003[source]
hahaha. I also don’t plan to upgrade past Mojave. To me Catalina was a trainwreck and at this point I think I’m loosing a lot of trust I used to put in Apple.

this is compounded by the fact that I love Little Snitch and it has basically exponentially improved my life when it comes not only to browsing the web but when using any app on mac.

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m463 ◴[] No.24840280[source]
I tried catalina and... why? why did they dumb down mail? This is like the beige apple box era all over again. lame decision after lame decision and everything turns to mud.
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novok ◴[] No.24841123[source]
There was a bunch of stuff broken by local file security stuff I'm guessing.
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1. rantwasp ◴[] No.24841312[source]
let me rephrase that for you: some things actually worked when it was initially released :(