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Re:Postgres WASM by angelmm on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:10AM (#33068577)
One of the things I love from this post is the collaboration on this kind of OSS projects.

Making Postgres Wasm helped:

- v86[0] to find a new bug

- Providing a great deep-dive article that will trigger new ideas in the future

- Showcase the possibilities of Wasm and how you can overcome the current challenges

I really appreciate these projects are OSS :)

Congratulations for the project!

[0] https://github.com/copy/v86

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Re:Postgres WASM by MuffinFlavored on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:12PM (#33069500)
Could I hypothetically pass USB through to v86? Like libusb on the host into v86 on the guest? Or do USB over IP or something?
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Re:Postgres WASM by simcop2387 on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:17PM (#33069598)
Chrome supports a USB api that could potentially work for that, https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/usb/

sadly though it's chrome only, not a standard of any kind (no other browsers support it that I know of). ESPHome can use it to program microcontrollers (along with the serial port support).

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Re:Postgres WASM by OJFord on Monday October 03, 2022 @06:39PM (#33074640)
Isn't that because it was explicitly rejected on grounds of security & privacy concerns, rather than 'oh if only others would be up with Google on implementing new features'?
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Re:Postgres WASM by MuffinFlavored on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:46PM (#33070071)
What about this: https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
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Re:Postgres WASM by rjh29 on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:45PM (#33070053)
> This API is part of the deprecated Chrome Apps platform. Learn more about migrating your app.

Classic Google...

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Re:Postgres WASM by lights0123 on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:56PM (#33070227)
That's the old one. https://web.dev/usb/ is the supported one.
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Re:Postgres WASM by burggraf on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:58PM (#33070267)
I'm curious -- what's the intended use case for this? This is something we could try to add if gives some cool new functionality.
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Re:Postgres WASM by MuffinFlavored on Monday October 03, 2022 @07:27PM (#33075003)
passing devices through to do libusb stuff with them (like OBD diagnostics on cars)
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Re:Postgres WASM by burggraf on Monday October 03, 2022 @07:31PM (#33075029)
Oh, so it's not related to PostgreSQL. I'm super interested in new and different uses for WASM. This could open some new doors.
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Re:Postgres WASM by MuffinFlavored on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:57PM (#33087622)
Could you tell me at a high level how you would implement in your mind/opinion passing USB devices through v86/WebUSB/libusb?
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