Microsoft Windows operating system talks to 291 hosts and 2,764 IPs

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  • opensnitch

    OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

    Aside from the link below; there's a fantastic (paid) firewall software called littlesnitch.

    You can use it to watch every process send network traffic, you can even collect samples of the traffic and plot it on a map: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

    (not affiliated, just a happy customer; it's one of the few things I like the mac ecosystem for.. there's attempts to port it to linux with https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch; but it's not as polished of course)

  • privaxy

    Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • WindowsSpyBlocker

    Block spying and tracking on Windows

    These list contain most MS spyware domains, I think: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...

    Be careful, though, it's easy to accidentally break Windows Update.

  • darling

    Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

    Wine solves a lot of this (but not all) for Windows programs, the macOS equivalent Darling[0] seems to still has some way to go until GUI programs are reliably supported.

    [0] https://github.com/darlinghq/darling

  • plonky

    a Perl program to generate a conky rc file

    Linux has lsof that can show connexions. Here's a config generator for conky that demonstrates the usage:

    https://github.com/viviparous/plonky

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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