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13:38 Saturday, 21 March 2026
Current Wx: Temp: 33.57°F Pressure: 1017hPa Humidity: 89% Wind: 7.05mph
Words: 90

Perhaps to avoid doing other, more productive, things I decided to just go through Little Snitch's Network Monitor and ask Claude about every site that had made a connection in Safari in the past couple of days. That turned out to be about 150 domains, not including the ones I already knew (web sites I visited, or support infrastructure for those sites), and I blocked nearly all of them.

I tried NYTimes.com, and nothing seems to be broken. No ads. Site loads fast. We shall see how it goes.

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10:11 Saturday, 21 March 2026
Current Wx: Temp: 30.07°F Pressure: 1017hPa Humidity: 97% Wind: 7.94mph
Words: 99

I've got the Little Snitch app from Objective Development (makers of LaunchBar), and I've had a license for years and years. Most of it is way over my head, but it seemed like a useful tool to have. Now that we have AI assistants, I'm trying some of the features of Little Snitch.

If you're interested, here's the little chat we had this morning. For your context, I've had these rules running since yesterday and haven't had any apps complain. These connections are present in multiple apps running on my machine. So far, nothing has complained or appeared broken.

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