(i don’t know where to submit bug-reports to LW staff)
why did LW ask for the ‘access to apps’ permission today (only on the homepage, does not occur when accessing specific blog posts, using chrome 149)? said permission request can be replicated easily after resetting the permissions for lesswrong.com.
note that this seems likely to be a coding agent’s error; the ‘access to apps’ permission on modern chrome is usually requested when an ajax request is made tolocalhost. in the developer’s console, we see a http-request-over-https warning for an image located at ‘http://localhost:1234/images/blog/moon-venus-jupiter.jpeg’, the likely source of the issue.
Yeah, this happens when someone submits image links that hard link to localhost (usually a mistake and of course the images don’t work). I don’t currently know of a way to prevent that. I guess we could sanitize those links out.
Also for bug reports: The easiest way is via the Intercom link in the bottom right corner:
(i don’t know where to submit bug-reports to LW staff)
why did LW ask for the ‘access to apps’ permission today (only on the homepage, does not occur when accessing specific blog posts, using chrome 149)? said permission request can be replicated easily after resetting the permissions for lesswrong.com.
note that this seems likely to be a coding agent’s error; the ‘access to apps’ permission on modern chrome is usually requested when an ajax request is made to localhost. in the developer’s console, we see a http-request-over-https warning for an image located at ‘http://localhost:1234/images/blog/moon-venus-jupiter.jpeg’, the likely source of the issue.
Yeah, this happens when someone submits image links that hard link to localhost (usually a mistake and of course the images don’t work). I don’t currently know of a way to prevent that. I guess we could sanitize those links out.
Also for bug reports: The easiest way is via the Intercom link in the bottom right corner:
Is it intentional that this isn’t shown on mobile?
yes, you need to switch to desktop site which should be an option that is available on most mobile browser.