I saw the news about Little Snitch coming to Linux via eBPF and Rust. On paper, it looks fancy. In reality, the backend is closed source.

Personally, I don’t see the point in installing a proprietary black box to monitor other black boxes. I’m sticking with my AdGuard Home setup and OpenSnitch for when I actually need to trace a binary.

I wrote up my thoughts on why I think this is a solved problem for most FOSS-first home labs.

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    4 hours ago

    Not familiar with this, but jumping on the opensnitch bandwagon. I use it, plus ufw, plus pihole.

    Kill the DNS lookups, kill it at the network level of possible, and if it’s sneaky OpenSnitch catches it at the application layer.