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Not sure why battery is exposed; I guess that's the result of making browsers more like OSes. The only really annoying thing is the idiotic WebRTC settings. Their love for "data channels" with zero prompts, despite having no legitimate uses[1], ignores your proxy settings. This should be fixed. 1: I asked someone involved with WebRTC. They suggested "maybe a page wants to communicate with your fridge directly" as a s…
Just like with mobile apps, battery info can help websites decide whether they should run a complex operation now. It also helps detect regressions if a commit happens to suck power faster. Unfortunately, it's more bits available to deanonymize users across websites. Data channels are useful for synchronizing your phone and your laptop. All native platforms support this. Most websites do it with a roundtrip to the se…
In general I want a website to suck as much power as possible so it can be done sucking power as soon as possible, whether I'm on battery or not. If you want to find waste, track execution time and bandwidth use.
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I am not sure if this battery is not just FUD and some other sections as well. Because I currently have no battery in my laptop (no battery detected) and site is saying "Charging: charging", "Battery level: 100%", "Charging time: 0h"
Works quite well on my phone.
The clickjacking is the only one that surprised me. Very unnerving. Need to read more about it.
How about text-only browsers?
How about homemade "browsers" that are powered by netcat?
As one informal poll appeared to show, many users questioned on the streets of an American city did not even know what a "browser" was.
Most times I only want to retrieve files (download) via some daemon running on some remote computer and then view them on my computer. That includes text, hypertext, or binary. Pretty much the same as in 1993.
I rarely use a graphical browser to do this. It is not needed.
Instead, today, unlike 1993, I am using a graphical "browser" to _play video_ after I download it (no internet connection). But playing a video file is not "browsing". Something is not right.
Seems like the www took a wrong turn.
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Just like with mobile apps, battery info can help websites decide whether they should run a complex operation now. It also helps detect regressions if a commit happens to suck power faster. Unfortunately, it's more bits available to deanonymize users across websites. Data channels are useful for synchronizing your phone and your laptop. All native platforms support this. Most websites do it with a roundtrip to the se…
What websites do CPU-intensive work that can be delayed for hours? In general I want a website to suck as much power as possible so it can be done sucking power as soon as possible, whether I'm on battery or not. If you want to find waste, track execution time and bandwidth use.
At least, it makes sense to measure battery usage to optimize your code. And in my opinion, it's also beneficial to react to battery events (delay when on low battery, process when on a wall socket) and network events (bad coverage vs. strong wifi).
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That sounds awesome, care to share a few more details?
I actually locked myself out except for console access, so some of this is from memory/Googling: 1. Connect Raspberry Pi to local LAN and get wifi setup (I VLAN wireless traffic, so I have it listening/connected to both) 2. Change iptables default policy to DROP 3. Add relevant ALLOW rules to make sure basic stuff like DHCP still works. I added an allow rule to talk to another machine that runs a PHP script that talk…
Just my 2 cents, but I feel like there might be some commercial demand for something like this if you'd ever consider packaging it.
Got my location wrong by about 50 miles