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Seems all the IDE's supplied by chip makers phone home

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brichards42:

--- Quote from: BravoV on October 09, 2022, 03:41:51 pm ---Just for fun if you're bored  >:D , try some keywords in your work, that may "trigger" extra big traffic back to their mothership and makes your computer busy like hell in background tasks, for example words like ... Beijing, Moscow, PLA, CCP, Ayatollah and etc.  :-DD

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Ha, for MPLABX no keywords needed, at times just moving the mouse seems to be enough.

langwadt:

--- Quote from: brichards42 on October 09, 2022, 03:47:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: BravoV on October 09, 2022, 03:41:51 pm ---Just for fun if you're bored  >:D , try some keywords in your work, that may "trigger" extra big traffic back to their mothership and makes your computer busy like hell in background tasks, for example words like ... Beijing, Moscow, PLA, CCP, Ayatollah and etc.  :-DD

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Ha, for MPLABX no keywords needed, at times just moving the mouse seems to be enough.

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something that can be fixed with a hosts file?

brichards42:
I did some additional testing with MPLABX and it's behavior on startup appears to be based on whether it can do dns lookups for internet names.  If it can resolve remote ip addresses, it will try to connect and thus hang (if internet access is denied).  If I prevent it from accessing dns (I have a local, caching dns server) it doesn't hang on startup without internet.

Using the following command let me start the IDE without hanging while also denying access to the internet. This works because I don't really have a dns server running on my machine so MPLABX doesn't try to call home.

firejail --net=none --dns=127.0.0.1 --noprofile /opt/microchip/mplabx/v6.00/mplab_platform/bin/mplab_ide

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