I don’t think there’s a high false positive rate on these. They do happen pretty rarely, and a false negative is far worse than a false positive. Due to the tsunami wave propagation, it can sometimes take hours for significant waves to reach the coastline.
The other reason is that it allows these modules to be cross-platform, rather than being limited to Windows on x86-64. I doubt Microsoft cares much about other operating systems, but they do seem to care quite a bit about ARM.
Microsoft absolutely care about other operating systems, Flight Sim runs on Xbox (which is not quite Windows), and they've started releasing games on Playstation recently as well.
Absent fixing the vGPU problem (since Nvidia is unlikely to change their stance on this), what would be the best solution? WASM seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
the true fix here is to have an OS that doesn't let running code do anything it wants without at least asking for permission and then getting the OK from the user. MacOS doesn't allow that. Linux and Windows are much more what I'm talking about.
That's much harder than what Microsoft is doing in this situation, so I understand (kind of) why they're doing this.
Malware overall isn't going to get better, or become less of a problem; it's going to get worse. Every day that these things are delayed, the more damage is done by malware that runs before this kind of OS level security gets implemented.
If this were in place, we could run DLLs all day long and if one of them decides that it needs full disk access or superuser access, you can simply not allow it when prompted. Or, Microsoft could recognize that in the context of a game that this is never ok, and simply not show you the prompt to begin with.
But no, because the OS is so fucking stupid we all have to think about these things. The OS is supposed to handle this level of thing. The OS should run the applications I tell it to run, and protect me from them if they try anything stupid. The OS is supposed to sandbox applications and protect the rest of the system from any malevolence they may contain. Instead we have game teams innovating solutions like this, which are entirely unnecessary if the OS team would do their fucking jobs.
Yeah, hard to see how better this is than Gradle. If anything, it's worse by the mere fact this is Scala, but it's really so incredibly verbose to accomplish basic tasks such as upload to Sonatype.
making it easier to generate maven poms I thought was a reasonable idea 18 years ago but gradle and other tools all went down the "making the build Turing complete" path.
