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Re:WebUSB Extension for Firefox by cruffle_duffle on Monday April 20, 2026 @11:31PM (#47844181)
“ I just have no faith in humanity, and do not understand why we think this is a good idea to give a browser this much access to local system resources”

As opposed to dodgy windows-only installable software from some weird site to flash devices instead? I’ll take my chances with webusb, thanks.

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Re:WebUSB Extension for Firefox by paradox460 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:39AM (#47859077)
I love that, in order to reprogram my very expensive model locomotive, I not only have to buy a special device (ESU LokProgrammer) but I can also only use said programmer with windows.

Yeah I could have used some other decoder, but they all have limited functionality compared to Lol sound

There's no real reason a future iteration of the LokProgrammer couldn't run a simple webserver, or connect to Web USB.

This also all applies to most PLC programmers. Proprietary crap you have to run on Windows, just to build ladder logic

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