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The prophesy has come true... https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

If we are living in a simulation it's slightly more troubling that it might be running in a browser.

It would explain why time seems to go by so slow when a person is bored: Not many people want to watch that simulation, so lack of CPU cycles slows everything down.

I always hoped we were running in a VM written in Rust rather than python or javascript. But it's hard to explain the platypus with a rust based one...

If we are in a simulation how could we force a buffer overflow and what would it look like to us

you'd probably need a particle accelerator or something

Does it run Firefox? I’d love to see a browser in a browser, just to experience mediocrity in all its awful glory.

Networking would be tricky, but you could encapsulate TCP over a custom websocket tunnel.

No, but it does run NetSurf: http://www.boxedwine.org/app/netsurf/

...with exactly the caveat you described, because the wasm port doesn't support websockets yet.

Alternatively you can run *cough* IE6 in JSLinux.

You can run w2k and probably XP under TinyEmu JS.

v86 has Firefox: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=archlinux&c=./networking.sh;ech...

I think I actually saw this talk live. What are the chances. Definitely worth checking out, it’s pretty fun.

Wow I am so jealous!

Is there a relevant timestamp for those of us not wanting to invest 30 minutes in the full talk?

No. Not really. It a fascinating talk to watch so you are not going to totally waste those 30 minutes.

Yes, 0:00-29:23. The point of the talk is not laid out during a single moment; it's more like a story that unfolds over time, allowing the reader to understand its implications bit by bit.

What prophesy? It is written in C++.

WebAssembly like all bytecode formats, doesn't care about the source language.

WebAssembly doesn't make it JavaScript application either. It is merely runtime.

Shipped as part of most JavaScript runtimes, originally.

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