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Warning to all OS X users: The Keybase Chat desktop app does a number of shady things that ultimately led me to delete it from my system. I am writing this purely as a public service announcement, to those who worry about installing unknown apps on their Macs. The Keybase Chat app:

(1) Requires administrator privileges to launch on first run, to install a "Helper Tool". The app does not explain what this tool does, where it lives, nor does the Keybase website.

(2) Installs a login (startup) item without asking permission, so Keybase will auto-launch on every boot.

(3) Installs a Finder Favorite in your Finder sidebar, without asking permission.

(4) Installs /usr/local/bin/keybase without asking permission.

(5) Installs /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/keybase.Helper without asking permission.

(6) Installs /Library/LaunchDaemons/keybase.Helper.plist without asking permission.

(7) Installs ~/Library/LaunchAgents/keybase.* (3 files) without asking permission.

(8) Runs permanently in your menu bar, even if you quit the main app.

These things may all have good reasons and be benign, but they are too shady for me, so I deleted the app and all the files listed above. Apologies to the devs.

Now just you watch, as Apple removes JavaScript access to the 3D touch sensor data, hahaha :)

There's a good list of them here: https://github.com/cheeaun/mooeditable/wiki/Javascript-WYSIW...

In my experience, they all seem to fall down with:

(1) Lists, especially indenting and nesting properly. (2) Tables. Everything about tables. (3) Pasting rich text from other apps. (4) Accumulating invisible formatting data.

From what I've read, if your library uses "contentEditable" and tries to clean up after it, you're in for a bad time. Instead, the best thing is to write your own engine, like Google Docs did (this is of course very difficult and no one has mastered it).

I'll give yours a shot!

I find that OS X (even 10.10) is perfectly usable after applying many of the famous dotfile hacks by mathias bynens: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

These restore my sanity :)