firelizzard

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   by firelizzard 5mo ago

   That is a level of pedantry that I find pointless. Using the wrong word can lead to miscommunication. Omitting a comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence. Moving punctuation inside or outside of quotes? Makes no real differen
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   by firelizzard 5mo ago

   The point is to communicate more effectively and efficiently and reduce miscommunication. Using the wrong word is a great way to be misunderstood, especially when communicating with people from other cultures.
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   by firelizzard 5mo ago

   MarkMarine, the person you responded to, is the original commenter. I agree with your point but clearly MarkMarine has no interest in learning how to communicate well.
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   by firelizzard 5mo ago

   Little Snitch requires packet inspection. If you ran it in a Linux VM, it will inspect packets within the VM. So... kind of useless for monitoring connections on the host.
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   by firelizzard 5mo ago

   You're correct, but for a bit more context: The macOS kernel is XNU, which is derived from/based on the Mach kernel, but heavily modified. The kernel itself is open source but some drivers/kernel extensions are not so it&#x27
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   by firelizzard 5mo ago

   An operating system is roughly broken into three parts: the kernel, the core system tools, and the shell (the desktop environment and/or the CLI shell). Linux: Linux kernel, GNU coreutils (usually), KDE/Gnome/etc + CLI shells