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You can't find it bizarre that some people think it might be bad to give your browser access to your ports.
by pessimizer 3y ago
You can't find it bizarre that some people think it might be bad to give your browser access to your ports.
- magicalhippo 3y agoIt significantly lowers the barrier of entry for installing and updating the ESP devices. And it's just a serial port, not raw disk access or similar. Obviously it should have a proper permission prompt similar to web camera and such.
- j45 3y agoWhy through a web broswer? Seems pretty easy to "copy an paste this line in your command line", or maybe a simple installer app wrapped up for each OS in Flutter. I agree zero friction would be nice, but this example is pretty deep in hardware and details
- throw10920 3y agoThey don't find it bizarre - they're using that word to emotionally manipulate readers of their comment.