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shrx • yesterday at 6:39 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Another alternative is Simplewall: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall


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underlines • yesterday at 6:58 PM

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.

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iagiagiag • yesterday at 8:26 PM

I also easily recommend this one. And OpenSnitch on linux seems to be doing the same job, though the interface can be less friendly.

djfobbz • yesterday at 9:34 PM

Simplewall is quite terrible, IMO. They still haven't fixed the painfully slow fuzzy search functionality for firewall rules.