Simon Willison (@simon@simonwillison.net)
fedi.simonwillison.net
It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page: chrome.runtime.sendMessage( "nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome", { method: "cpu.getInfo" }, (response) => { console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2)); }, ); More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/
  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    929·
    4 months ago

    there’s a portion of the internet that just doesn’t work in Firefox because the company pays only $2 million a year for developers and they can’t do it

    I mean web developers not the Firefox developers stop down voting me

    I use Firefox and Linux and I don’t drive a car how about that

    please give me $40

    • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      4 months ago

      As part of our company’s security policy, our IT admin disallows firefox to be installed in dev machine.

      our engineers cannot test their work in firefox.

      LOL

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        That’s wack.

        I think our company does something similar (Chrome by default, need to ask IT for anything else), but our department just said, “we need Macs to do our work, you have no power here…” I hate macOS, but I hate stupid IT policies more.

      • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Whenever I face an issue in our company portal and I ask the IT team, their response is “Can you please try on Google Chrome?”

        🤦🏽🤦🏽

      • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        there’s no quality control with a test suite of browsers and versions running in virtual machines?

        • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Due to security policy, we cannot run vm. Oh, btw, we do android development too. I guess they didn’t know android studio runs a vm. So that is ok

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      4 months ago

      I’ve yet to find more than a handful of pages that have had issues, and most were fairly poorly coded to begin with

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I found one the other day but I don’t even recall what it was. I almost never have any problems.