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You know how you can do Ctrl+Shift+K in Firefox to open up the browser console and inspect all the bits of the page, see the code (and fuck with it), see all the network traffic, and so on? I dream of being able to do that for arbitrary applications. Imagine having a Super+Ctrl+Shift+K that opened an OS-level GUI showing all the pertinent details of the running program.

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You know that this only pertains to webapps and there is still a lot of software running on your machine that you have no idea what it does?

I am specifically referring to the ability to have the same sort of interface with non-webapps as we do with webapps.

I believe the parent commenter is aware of that - they’re describing their wish for a tool that makes monitoring native application requests easy and transparent, similar to the experience of using browser devtools with web apps.

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