lurkersince2013

Wait, but where’s the file encryption happening?

Avoid using Bartender:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1d8a0wv/if_you_are...

https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/bartender-change-of-ownersh...

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com - has been updated.

It’s looking less and less functioning and less and less like a democracy every day.

And give France a bit more credit; they were instrumental in the US’s own internal revolution against the British.

Am sure there’s a very real possibility that some shady data brokers will ultimately gain access to the treasure trove of data before long - and am sure that in our capitalistic world healthcare and insurance companies would happily pay for access.

FYI - sketchy malware style advert resembling iOS system prompt when loading that page.

Oh yes, I forgot how much of a pain that is. It’s so frustrating.

I’ve been using this for the last couple of years and forgot it was even an issue:

https://cordlessdog.com/stay/

So here we have a bunch of people complaining about a useful feature that has been written and included for them to use free of charge in an open source project that they themselves likely use to help them earn money at their workplaces...

Wonder if these people ever gave the author any credit for the countless other features he wrote for them that they've enjoyed for years, or if they only come here to complain. I suspect most of them haven't.

Really an amazing amount of entitlement on display.

There's a reason many of us use iTerm2.app over Terminal.app...

But Terminal.app is always right there if you prefer your terminal without any features. This really isn't something to be so upset about.

I really just don't understand the outrage here, it's a terminal emulator, communication with external services has always been possible and has always been very easy.

And iTerm2 itself has allowed for custom python scripts to be loaded for a long time [https://iterm2.com/python-api/] easily modifying the behavior (and also allowing outbound connections wherever...)

If you work in a sensitive environment and outbound connections to OpenAI are already blocked on the network level (or even better iTerm is only able to communicate to whitelisted hosts, then problem solved... there really is no issue here for people to be so worked up about).

Sounds like legal really needs to understand these tools better.

| "A big problem for a lot of devs is that even with an invalid API key, iTerm2 is still sending everything that happens in the terminal to OpenAI."

...uh why on earth would it be doing this?

Do you have any evidence this behavior is happening?

OpenAI integration is disabled by default, you have to actively enable it before it will send anything to OpenAI's servers.

If you're so paranoid about this possibility then just block it at the network level - heck, even whitelist IP ranges that you want iTerm2 to be able to connect out to and default deny the rest.

Let's not blame iTerm2, which is a highly useful, amazing piece of software that many of us have relied on on every day for years and have never paid anything to use.

If you really are so worried about the AI feature being part of iTerm2 then go fork it and strip the AI functionality yourself: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2

| "that anything that can possibly talk to a third party AI service is forbidden"

So then your company just needs to block AI at the network level then?

Within a few keystrokes you could already very easily communicate with third party AI services via terminal prior to 3.5 (curl... etc)

This is a very weird over-reaction considering what iTerm2 and shells in general are already capable of.

HomePods?