Comment by nottorp

> https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

This was on show hn only yesterday.

Probably can't tell you anything about the other end of the cable though.

> Is this hard to do or just something normal people never care about?

If i believed in conspiracies i'd say the usb consortium or mafia or whatever it's called is pressuring software developers to not display that info. Otherwise they'd have "normal people" with torches and pitchforks at their door.