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by jeremyloy_wt 897 days ago
Isn’t this a bit sketchy to just have a repo with no source and a wasm file? I understand not having the actual Mario64 source, but I’d feel more comfortable running this if the translation code was open source
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In what way are you worried that the binary blob is malicious, and do you not trust the browser's sandboxing? I'm curious why this is any worse than running javascript on any other website.
I am genuinely ignorant on the sandboxing and capabilities of wasm
Wasm shouldn't have any more capabilities than Javascript, it's theoretically the same sandbox with all the same underlying system access (or lack thereof). However, that doesn't mean I can vouch for the implementations.
I ran it through VirusTotal before posting the link -- I had the same thought : )

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/06f3a404ab8aff76e820e3b7d...