miguno

You didn’t use ZFS with FreeBSD?

Thank you!

With this argument you could also justify: "That's not a remote access trojan (RAT), that's just how client-server communication is designed to work."

> You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later.

The point is that Claude Desktop didn't ask the user whether they want native messaging in the first place. Which is strange, given that users experience many "Do you grant permission to do XYZ" prompts when working with Anthropic products in other situations.

Exactly, what the hell. Apart from Google Chrome (and Firefox, which isn't in the list below) I don't even have any of these other browsers installed!

  $ fd claude_browser_extension.json ~/Library
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/Arc/User Data/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/Microsoft Edge/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/Chromium/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json
  /Users/miguno/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json

I also checked Claude Desktop > Settings > Extensions. Not a single word or mention of these aforementioned extensions for browsers. I have zero Claude Desktop extensions installed and, without reading the article, would have never guessed that these extensions for browsers were installed.

Claude Desktop repeatedly installed/updated these 7 extensions since the beginning of February on my Apple machine. Every entry in the filtered log below is for all 7 extensions:

    $ grep "Installed native host manifest" ~/Library/Logs/Claude/main.log | sed -e 's/ at \/Users\/.*//' | awk '{ print $1" "$2 }' | sort -n | uniq
    2026-02-04 18:53:21
    2026-02-04 23:33:26
    2026-02-04 23:34:20
    2026-02-04 23:34:27
    2026-03-16 09:29:18
    2026-03-17 11:52:22
    2026-03-18 22:22:22
    2026-03-19 14:49:34
    2026-03-20 09:42:03
    2026-03-20 10:10:39
    2026-04-02 22:50:26
    2026-04-02 22:57:56
    2026-04-10 19:38:38
    2026-04-10 19:40:51
    2026-04-12 18:52:36
    2026-04-12 19:10:04
    2026-04-12 20:07:21
    2026-04-15 12:19:46
    2026-04-15 12:20:16
    2026-04-15 12:29:45
    2026-04-16 22:15:47
    2026-04-16 22:24:19
    2026-04-18 10:58:13
    2026-04-18 15:06:54

Steam is a wonderful boot loader.

Really sad. I have been a happy nvim-treesitter user for years.

But the maintainer's reaction is understandable. If you happen to read this: thanks so much for the time and work you have put into the project! There are people who really appreciate it.

Thanks for your contributions!

Yes, been there, forgot that. I have since created a shell helper function that prints a list of "new and cool" CLI tools that I recently added to my dotfiles setup, which helps me committing them to long-term memory.

+1 to XLD. I have been using it for years, it's a wonderful piece of software.

Wonderful and charming. Thanks for sharing the game and the link to the engine!

I have been noticing this trend increasingly myself. It's getting more and more difficult to use tools like Google search to find relevant content.

Many of my searches nowadays include suffixes like "site:reddit.com" (or similar havens of, hopefully, still mostly human-generated content) to produce reasonably useful results. There's so much spam pollution by sites like Medium.com that it's disheartening. It feels as if the Internet humanity is already on the retreat into their last comely homes, which are more closed than open to the outside.

On the positive side:

1. Self-managed blogs (like: not on Substack or Medium) by individuals have become a strong indicator for interesting content. If the blog runs on Hugo, Zola, Astro, you-name-it, there's hope.

2. As a result of (1), I have started to use an RSS reader again. Who would have thought!

I am still torn about what to make of Discord. On the one hand, the closed-by-design nature of the thousands of Discord servers, where content is locked in forever without a chance of being indexed by a search engine, has many downsides in my opinion. On the other hand, the servers I do frequent are populated by humans, not content-generating bots camouflaged as users.

That is sad to hear. Spending even just thirty minutes on the website to better communicate what one can/cannot do would go a long way.

In any case, thank you for your work.