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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by 0xff00ffee on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:28PM (#22678644)
I always felt a little queasy installing a .kext from some random foreign-language websites (be it FTDI, or Alfa drivers, or even RealTek updates). I can feel the bias in me, "Oh no, this must be bad because it's foreign," which is absurd, but I still shouldn't be asked to sudo something when I buy offbrand hardware.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by mambodog on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:11PM (#22679044)
You're right, Scottish English does seem like a foreign language sometimes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTDI

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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by 0xff00ffee on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:48PM (#22679910)
Huh. My bias runs so deep that I somehow misremembered a Chinese-language document from FTDI, which I guess I made up in my mind. Unless like some companies their drivers are done in their Taiwan office. It quite common for multinational companies to distribute projects to different sites.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by Operyl on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:31PM (#22679241)
Assuming the poster is American, then yup .. still foreign.
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