CSSQuake

Dude, you gotta see this CSSQuake thing. Someone actually built Quake, like, the original game, just using CSS! How wild is that? People in the comments were going on about how Quake 1 was peak arena FPS, no extra mechanics, just pure shooting. Someone even said it was running smooth 60fps on an old ThinkPad, which is kinda surprising for something built in CSS, right?

Colors Your Screen Can't Show

Then there was this cool article, 'Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You'. It's all about how there are colors out there that our monitors just can't display, and how things like good lighting with high CRI (Color Rendering Index) bulbs can make a huge difference in how we perceive colors, especially skin tones. Made me think about how much we miss sometimes, visually.

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

Big discussion on plagiarism and AI. This dude was complaining about getting emails daily with AI-generated sites ripping off human creators. The comments went deep into copyright, how AI changes everything, and whether OpenAI could even run without cloud services. It's a mess, man, trying to figure out how to deal with all this AI content.

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

Get this – someone actually stored a whole website in a favicon! Like, the tiny icon in your browser tab. Super clever hack. Apparently, it's not a totally new idea; someone even stored the deCSS code (that old DVD decryption thing) in a favicon way back in 2000. Wild what people can cram into small spaces.

UK VPN Ban Update

Okay, this is a bit concerning: the UK government is looking at banning VPNs or putting 'age-gates' on them. The comments were, understandably, pretty heated about privacy, free speech, and how it feels like a slide towards surveillance. One guy even quoted V for Vendetta, which tells you how people are feeling about it.

Windows 11 New Media Player Bloat

And of course, classic Microsoft news: Windows 11's new Media Player apparently uses 3.5 times more RAM and they're charging for video codecs now. People were just shaking their heads, wishing for simpler times like Windows XP or 7. Lots of talk about bloat and open-source alternatives like AV1 being the solution to these licensing headaches.

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

On a more positive note, SMPTE, those folks who make media standards, just made all their standards freely accessible. That's actually pretty huge for anyone working in video, film, or broadcast tech. Should make development and learning a lot easier, no more paying big bucks just to read a spec. Always good to see standards bodies doing something useful like that.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. Talk later!