alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure letting a webapp access your home is a good idea. You're basically YOLOing random remote code to run on your machine. Maybe we can have it access some specific folder for its own data.
And then there's also Apple which won't allow functional web apps, lest it affects their app store 30% cut.
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jeffbee • last Sunday at 10:55 PM
The web already has these APIs, it can be granted read-only permissions to designated directories. But the browsers will refuse to allow you to delegate even read-only access to, for example, the macos ~/Applications folder, on the pretty shaky basis of it being "system files". Because of that policy the API is not useful for the application of a space analyzer.
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Seems like a great idea for something to just run inside a chroot jail (or the modern equivalent, a container).