I wanted to say that sounds like too much to make available to web apps at all, but nope, apparently it’s indeed a thing that a website can tell your computer to do[1]. I don’t see an option to do that here either, though. I guess your choices are to submit a pull request[2] adding that capability or to use a manual systemwide toggle (I use Keep Awake![3] on GNOME Shell and Coffee[4] on Android).
Just a few lines of script and you are done. I think it was a reaction to sites playing a hidden video, which was just a waste. Even works on my Ubuntu laptop.
This is a great interview with Gates. The interviewer is great too, great commentary and questions.
"A machine on every desktop ad a machine in every home - and one of the things that will enable us to do that is graphics"
(and he mentions how great the Macintosh was doing in the graphics area)
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Crazy the things that have been going on with him lately - and what was said by Thiel about him on JRE, yet HN seems to want to not discuss any of it...
(This 1984 interview with gates deserves its own HN post. The commercials on it are great as well. And the fact that the interviewer brought up Aritficial Intelligence is great - and Gates' response was very cogent of the state of AI and the path forward. Where he says "people worry about AI taking over" - and says when "we can make software fully soft, we can get machines to help us"
