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7402.org is a personal blog at 7402.org about programming and philosophy. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Sandboxing a third-party macOS app to restrict writing to one folder”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on macOS sandboxing, such as a 2020 post on sandboxing of folders. The comments cite it as a source on sandbox-exec and its deprecated man pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Sandboxing a third-party macOS app to restrict writing to one folder3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
What Hacker News says?
Related to this, is there an easy way to run arbitrary programs in the macOS sandbox? AFAIK sandboxing is opt-in for app developers at the moment. Does manual invocation of sandbox-exec on the command line still work, and are there GUI helpers for running arbitrary apps with this tool? Edit: Apparently sandbox-exec is still usable, just not (publicly) well-documented. Would be nice of Apple to make sandboxing easier…
Comment linking /blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-folder.html
on “Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability”Submitted Show HN: DIY Home Voice Assistant with Privacy and Air Quality Display as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe lack of documentation for that system is so frustrating! Security feature are the one thing where great documentation should be table stakes, otherwise we are left just wildly guessing how to keep our system secure! I'm also disheartened by how the man pages for some of the macOS sandboxing commands have declared them deprecated for at least the last five years: https://7402.org/blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-fol…
Comment linking /blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-folder.html
on “Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers”Submitted Objects for Pondering Computers, Consciousness, and Reductionism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI spent a lot of time last year looking for alternatives to iCloud for local syncing of calendar, notes, and contacts for macOS iOS. It's real easy to spend a lot of time banging your head against a wall trying to get things working. I learned to be suspicious of any posts that said things like "This should work!" instead of "Here are step by step instructions for what I actually did that worked for me under these c…
Comment linking /blog/2019/new-self-signed-ssl-cert-ios-13.html
on “Rediscovering CardDAV”Submitted Paranoid password printing with a Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI found your article useful and referenced it in (yet another) exploration of the sandbox here https://7402.org/blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-folder.html
Comment linking /blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-folder.html
on “macOS: App sandboxing via sandbox-exec (2020)”Submitted Replacement of MacOS Server: Calendar, Contacts, and Mail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm uncomfortable with having to create an account and be connected to a cloud service in order to have a working home voice assistant. To be fair, Mycroft does say that if you're willing to do some work, you can get local processing of speech recognition, but they don't seem they're very encouraging about that option. I made my own home voice assistant [0] that's pretty primitive, but runs entirely locally on a Ras…
Comment linking /blog/2021/diy-home-voice-assistant-privacy-aqi-display.html
on “Mycroft – The Private and Open Voice Assistant”Submitted DIY SciFi Object: The Patterning Frame from Ursula Le Guin's City of Illusions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you don't care about having user comments and you don't post all that often, you can do it all in handwritten HTML/CSS. Zero dependencies! (That's what I do with mine, at < https://7402.org >)
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on “Ask HN: How to Create a Simple Blog?”Submitted Sandboxing a third-party macOS app to restrict writing to one folder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMine is 'City of Illusions.' I liked the Patterning Frame, which appears in it; I made one. https://7402.org/blog/2021/patterning-frame.html
Comment linking /blog/2021/patterning-frame.html
on “Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin”Submitted Proofreading a Stoic: Seneca's on the Tranquility of the Mind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Remote-Controlled Date Clock and Message Board for Elderly Relative as a story · 1 points
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