Add Mercedes to that list of companies close to doing this

Jokeception

Sure, but I think there’s still benefit to what the other person did. Search DDG by default, and then if you don’t see good results, it’s one extra click for the google search… vs mousing, clicking, 2 keystrokes…

Hypothetically, ask AI to write a short story in the style of one of these writers. Don’t tell anyone. Get popular, reduce demand for original writer. People only have so much time, after all.

More likely, they just want to be compensated for their “voice”.

Not advocating for either of these… just thinking about why

The boat is already full of holes, so let’s poke more!

You are commenting as if everyone who would turn this feature on would have the technical acumen to understand how any of it works.

Here’s what I’m imagining. The phone is listening on port 80, probably running some jacked up plug-in to play a favorite song. The user probably installs it and then forgets it’s there. The plug-in becomes severely out of date, running code with multiple zero day exploits. In the best case scenario it is running your battery down and using up your bandwidth, it’s commonly just unavailable because your metro area cell network is jammed so your visitors can’t access the site at all, and worst case it can be tricked into running local scripts that do nefarious things.

Having my phone not be able to do something I want it to do is my problem

I meant, it’s arguable that if people use this feature and expose themselves, that’s their own fault. I’m not sure what you thought I meant.

That’s why you have it turned off by default

It’s off by default, but still there for uneducated and unskilled people to turn on and leave themselves exposed.

… significant improvement

Vs just paying a few bucks for linode that’s got multiple 9s of uptime? It doesn’t seem worth it.

If you give people this ability, most of the ones who use it are going to put themselves at risk.

Maybe you feel that’s their own problem. Sometimes you need to protect people from themselves. The phone vendors sure as hell don’t want to start seeing news stories of their devices getting hacked all the time.

And how do you feel about your site visitors not being able to hit your page when your local network is overloaded?

I suppose I could be convinced, but my gut reaction is this is a bad idea. Most people aren’t security oriented, and would put themselves at risk with poorly updated websites that are an attack vector for bad actors… There’s a lot more at stake in regards to what personal data lives on your phone… the richest concentration of your PII.

Also, my battery life is already precious. And what if you’re out of cell range or the network is overloaded? Your site just stops working?

I just noticed this post is a year old

Am I right that this is just an optional UI front end, that delivers regular lemmy back end content?

Are you referring to r/sysadmin? I haven’t seen a replacement for that.

Interesting! Well, hello from the north, where your picture has been my life for the last few months. I wonder if we’re about the same distance from the Equator.

New England?