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Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by ent101 »

peesem wrote: post #53
gnabgib wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 21 on github, do you mean? And only nine above 3 commits ever? Yes you post regularly, too much even, and in the face of the guideline Please don't use HN primarily for promotion

nobody (hyperbole, corrected: few) follows that promotion rule. and where are you getting 21 from? the github repo https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter says 391 contributors, subtract maybe a few for bots also, talk about posting too much? look at your own submissions page

I think it's either an automated account or just karma-farming at the highest level lol

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by haddr »

elmer2 wrote: post #52

I would be careful with this demo. When you go to whatismyip.com, it's showing: 104.28.233.73. Someone could use this to cloak their IP address and do some damage.

I think they had to solve the TCP connection, as normally you can't easily implement TCP sockets in WASM. So I suppose they just need to tunnel all the connection through some websocket.

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by gnabgib »

peesem wrote: post #53
gnabgib wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 21 on github, do you mean? And only nine above 3 commits ever? Yes you post regularly, too much even, and in the face of the guideline Please don't use HN primarily for promotion

nobody (hyperbole, corrected: few) follows that promotion rule. and where are you getting 21 from? the github repo https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter says 391 contributors, subtract maybe a few for bots also, talk about posting too much? look at your own submissions page

Yep, you're right, that was on browser.js, not the whole repo (19 above 6 commits, out of 391)

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by userbinator »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #29

>This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research > This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly I'm a huge fan of the project, but I have to ask. If spending $25k is a "fun experiment", where exactly is your threshold for serious work?

This naturally begs the question, would a human be willing to do the same thing for $25k, and how long would that take?

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by esafak »

smalltorch wrote: post #35
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #29

>This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research > This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly I'm a huge fan of the project, but I have to ask. If spending $25k is a "fun experiment", where exactly is your threshold for serious work?

I imagine it is 25k tokens not dollars

You can't do anything for 25k tokens; I've spent 100m today and the day isn't out yet.

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by mrtesthah »

shevy-java wrote: post #22
degamad wrote: post #10

I'm so glad this exists, I've been considering doing something like this for a few months. I recently got a TV based on VIDAA os, a locked-down linux-based OS where everything is rendered from Web pages. It has a built-in browser that doesn't support ad-blocking (I suspect VIDAA is profiting from showing ads on the TV), and you can't install new apps unless they're Web pages. This would hopefully allow one to run Fir…

Firefox should really bundle ublock origin as-is. I install it afterwards anyway but I don't understand Mozilla here. They seem to want to stay behind Google.

They already bundle Brave’s rust-based ad-blocker:

https://shivankaul.com/blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by EvanAnderson »

I've been waiting for this to happen.

The websites that don't want you to block ads will serve you an obfuscated "inner browser" that will render their site. All your ad blockers, etc, are rendered moot.

Once accessibility is solved this is absolutely going to be a thing on major websites.

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