#stunting — Public Fediverse posts

Tom’s Hardware: GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas. “A Grand Theft Auto (GTA) modder has developed a mod that lets you run Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA VC) as mini games right inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA).”

Tom’s Hardware: GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas. “A Grand Theft Auto (GTA) modder has developed a mod that lets you run Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA VC) as mini games right inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA).”

Hackaday: DOOM Runs (slowly) In A IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet. “Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not just DOS, but Windows 1.0 and, of course, DOOM. The CSS sheet isn’t holding a DOOM port this time, though — it’s holding a full IBM PC compatible, with a simulated 8086, 640 […]

Hackaday: DOOM Runs (slowly) In A IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet. “Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not just DOS, but Windows 1.0 and, of course, DOOM. The CSS sheet isn’t holding a DOOM port this time, though — it’s holding a full IBM PC compatible, with a simulated 8086, 640 […]

TechSpot: Minecraft joins Doom in the “can it run?” hall of fame with Game Boy Color port. “The question of whether something can run Doom is almost always yes, it can. But Minecraft, while not exactly renowned for being graphically intensive, is more demanding and modern, so it’s especially impressive that a YouTuber managed to get the game running on Nintendo’s 1998 Game Boy Color.”

TechSpot: Minecraft joins Doom in the “can it run?” hall of fame with Game Boy Color port. “The question of whether something can run Doom is almost always yes, it can. But Minecraft, while not exactly renowned for being graphically intensive, is more demanding and modern, so it’s especially impressive that a YouTuber managed to get the game running on Nintendo’s 1998 Game Boy Color.”

Hackaday: When A Favicon Becomes The Entire Website. “Putting hidden data in places where few expect it can be a fun hobby or even a professional career. In the case of [Tim Wehrle] it’s just the former. His most recent project in this area uses a favicon image for storing a HTML-based website and rendering its contents within the browser after the favicon has been downloaded.”

Hackaday: When A Favicon Becomes The Entire Website. “Putting hidden data in places where few expect it can be a fun hobby or even a professional career. In the case of [Tim Wehrle] it’s just the former. His most recent project in this area uses a favicon image for storing a HTML-based website and rendering its contents within the browser after the favicon has been downloaded.”

Hackaday: Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature. “Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as web servers into light bulbs just so they can control them from their telephone instead of hitting the switch. The whole thing seems crazy — but its great, […]

Hackaday: Smart Bulb WiFi Server Hosts “Banned” Literature. “Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as web servers into light bulbs just so they can control them from their telephone instead of hitting the switch. The whole thing seems crazy — but its great, […]

Tom’s Hardware: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs. “Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007, and has added mouse and keyboard support, he said in a post on X this week.”

Tom’s Hardware: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs. “Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007, and has added mouse and keyboard support, he said in a post on X this week.”

Tom’s Hardware: Aviation enthusiast uses Raspberry Pi and ADS-B radio to create viral real-time airport tracker — open-source ‘Skylight’ intercepts aircraft signals and projects flight paths onto your ceiling. “Living near an airport isn’t for everyone. But for some, like software engineer Cameron Paczek, the unique environment offers inspiration for very unique projects. Paczek’s latest […]

Tom’s Hardware: Aviation enthusiast uses Raspberry Pi and ADS-B radio to create viral real-time airport tracker — open-source ‘Skylight’ intercepts aircraft signals and projects flight paths onto your ceiling. “Living near an airport isn’t for everyone. But for some, like software engineer Cameron Paczek, the unique environment offers inspiration for very unique projects. Paczek’s latest […]

Childhood #stunting caused by #malnutrition has dropped dramatically worldwide over the last century.🇯🇵 Japan saw one of the biggest improvements: over 70% of children were stunted in the early 1900s, compared to just 5% today. All thanks to better nutrition, clean water, and disease control.

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Hackaday: NoiseCloud: Storing Data On YouTube. “Created by [Lucas], Noisecloud is a tool that lets you use YouTube as a form of effectively-unlimited file storage. It works by taking whatever file data you have on hand, and turns it into frames of digital noise that can be stored and transported as an MP4 file and uploaded to YouTube.”

Hackaday: NoiseCloud: Storing Data On YouTube. “Created by [Lucas], Noisecloud is a tool that lets you use YouTube as a form of effectively-unlimited file storage. It works by taking whatever file data you have on hand, and turns it into frames of digital noise that can be stored and transported as an MP4 file and uploaded to YouTube.”

TechSpot: Forget Raspberry Pi: this computer is literally the size of a credit card. “We’ve seen plenty of tiny computers described as being credit card-sized, but that usually means they have roughly the same footprint as a payment card – rather than actually fitting inside a wallet. One Redditor decided to tuen the phrase into a literal one, building a functioning, battery-powered computer […]

TechSpot: Forget Raspberry Pi: this computer is literally the size of a credit card. “We’ve seen plenty of tiny computers described as being credit card-sized, but that usually means they have roughly the same footprint as a payment card – rather than actually fitting inside a wallet. One Redditor decided to tuen the phrase into a literal one, building a functioning, battery-powered computer […]

The Register: Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller. “Okay, you won’t exactly be serving up a high-performance, graphic-rich website using this project from European developer and blogger Maurycy Zalewski. The setup is limited to one URL, but hey, it actually works, provided an influx of visitors hasn’t killed the site yet.”

The Register: Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller. “Okay, you won’t exactly be serving up a high-performance, graphic-rich website using this project from European developer and blogger Maurycy Zalewski. The setup is limited to one URL, but hey, it actually works, provided an influx of visitors hasn’t killed the site yet.”

Engadget: It runs Doom: AI chatbot edition. “AI chatbots can answer random questions, create travel itineraries, write code and even ‘date’ users. But can they run Doom? Apparently, yes, yes they can.”

Engadget: It runs Doom: AI chatbot edition. “AI chatbots can answer random questions, create travel itineraries, write code and even ‘date’ users. But can they run Doom? Apparently, yes, yes they can.”

Associated Press: How 2 men claimed an absurd record by driving an old 3-wheel car the length of Africa. “Englishman Ollie Jenks remembers when his friend first pitched the idea to him. ‘It was so ridiculous I couldn’t say no,’ Jenks said. The proposal by his Canadian buddy Seth Scott, a fellow lover of cars and crazy adventures, was for them to drive a decades-old British-made Reliant Robin […]

Associated Press: How 2 men claimed an absurd record by driving an old 3-wheel car the length of Africa. “Englishman Ollie Jenks remembers when his friend first pitched the idea to him. ‘It was so ridiculous I couldn’t say no,’ Jenks said. The proposal by his Canadian buddy Seth Scott, a fellow lover of cars and crazy adventures, was for them to drive a decades-old British-made Reliant Robin […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Niels Leenheer: CSS is DOOMed. “No, CSS is awesome. CSS is better than ever and it is only getting better. And that is why I built DOOM in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a [div], positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. The game logic runs in JavaScript, but the rendering is entirely CSS. You can play it right now.”

Niels Leenheer: CSS is DOOMed. “No, CSS is awesome. CSS is better than ever and it is only getting better. And that is why I built DOOM in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a [div], positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. The game logic runs in JavaScript, but the rendering is entirely CSS. You can play it right now.”

Tom’s Hardware: Mad lad stores and loads Doom from within DNS — TXT record type abused to store game data. “Network administrators in the audience are advised to grab their unsee juice from the shelf, as today’s home project is quite the double-whammy. First, it involves everyone’s favorite problem child, DNS. Second, a madlad named Adam Rice has managed to put Doom in it. That’s a paragraph […]

Tom’s Hardware: Mad lad stores and loads Doom from within DNS — TXT record type abused to store game data. “Network administrators in the audience are advised to grab their unsee juice from the shelf, as today’s home project is quite the double-whammy. First, it involves everyone’s favorite problem child, DNS. Second, a madlad named Adam Rice has managed to put Doom in it. That’s a paragraph […]

TechSpot: YouTuber built a car powered by 500 discarded vapes, and drove it 18 miles. “A small car parked in a rainy British driveway might seem an unlikely place for a battery revolution. Yet that’s where engineer and YouTuber Chris Doel has built the world’s first vape-powered vehicle – a working proof of concept that challenges both the limits of lithium-ion recycling and society’s growing […]

TechSpot: YouTuber built a car powered by 500 discarded vapes, and drove it 18 miles. “A small car parked in a rainy British driveway might seem an unlikely place for a battery revolution. Yet that’s where engineer and YouTuber Chris Doel has built the world’s first vape-powered vehicle – a working proof of concept that challenges both the limits of lithium-ion recycling and society’s growing […]

Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]

Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]

TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”

TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”

Tom’s Hardware: Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms. “Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a […]

Tom’s Hardware: Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms. “Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake. Astonishingly, this tiny executable delivers a […]

Hackaday: Taking Photos With Scotch Tape Instead Of A Lens. “If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special ‘lensless imaging’ techniques.”

Hackaday: Taking Photos With Scotch Tape Instead Of A Lens. “If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special ‘lensless imaging’ techniques.”

TechSpot: Doom has officially been ported to earbuds, streaming at 18 fps. “Australia-based developer Arin Sarkisian recently unveiled DoomBuds, a project designed to run Doom on a pair of earbuds. Even more impressively – or alarmingly, if you’re not a fan of extreme tech demos – he connected the earbuds to the internet, allowing players to join and play the game remotely.”

TechSpot: Doom has officially been ported to earbuds, streaming at 18 fps. “Australia-based developer Arin Sarkisian recently unveiled DoomBuds, a project designed to run Doom on a pair of earbuds. Even more impressively – or alarmingly, if you’re not a fan of extreme tech demos – he connected the earbuds to the internet, allowing players to join and play the game remotely.”

Tom’s Hardware: Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh. “A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware. Documented in a teardown and reverse-engineering video, the YouTuber shows the […]

Tom’s Hardware: Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh. “A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware. Documented in a teardown and reverse-engineering video, the YouTuber shows the […]

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

Hackaday: Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic. “The ‘Marauder’s Map’ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and we can make our own magic now. Or, rather, [Dave] on the YouTube Channel Dave’s Armoury can make it.”

Hackaday: Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic. “The ‘Marauder’s Map’ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and we can make our own magic now. Or, rather, [Dave] on the YouTube Channel Dave’s Armoury can make it.”

The Register: AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite. “Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/aws-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-please-watch-our-keynotes-in-fortnite-the-register/

The Register: AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite. “Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/aws-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-please-watch-our-keynotes-in-fortnite-the-register/

Tom’s Hardware: DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems. “Developer Michael Ayles has unleashed a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application, of all places. KiDOOM is a portmanteau of KiCad, the free and open […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/toms-hardware-doom-gets-ported-to-board-design-app-transforming-walls-into-pcb-traces-iconic-demons-into-64-pin-packages-and-ammo-into-3-pin-parts-fully-playable-kicad-editor-port-runs/

Tom’s Hardware: DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems. “Developer Michael Ayles has unleashed a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application, of all places. KiDOOM is a portmanteau of KiCad, the free and open […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/toms-hardware-doom-gets-ported-to-board-design-app-transforming-walls-into-pcb-traces-iconic-demons-into-64-pin-packages-and-ammo-into-3-pin-parts-fully-playable-kicad-editor-port-runs/

Hackaday: Building A Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy. “It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again to life-sized proportions. Case in point the LEGO Technic dune buggy that [Matt Denton] recently printed at effectively human scale, while also […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/16/hackaday-building-a-drivable-life-size-3d-printed-lego-technic-buggy/

Hackaday: Building A Drivable, Life-Size 3D-Printed LEGO Technic Buggy. “It’s part of the great circle of life that toys and scale models that provide a reflection of macro-sized objects like vehicles and buildings will eventually be scaled up again to life-sized proportions. Case in point the LEGO Technic dune buggy that [Matt Denton] recently printed at effectively human scale, while also […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/16/hackaday-building-a-drivable-life-size-3d-printed-lego-technic-buggy/

ZDNet: How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next. “Ólafur Waage, a senior software developer from Iceland who now works in Norway, explained at Ubuntu Summit 25.10 how he… ended up making what is perhaps the game’s most outlandish port yet: Doom running on a real satellite in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) OPS-SAT satellite.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/24/zdnet-how-a-programmer-got-doom-to-run-on-a-space-satellite-and-what-happened-next/

Tom’s Hardware: Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks — AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game. “In an amazing feat of Minecraft Redstone engineering, Sammyuri — famed for building a 1Hz CPU inside the game — has built a small language model that runs on a computer inside Minecraft, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/02/toms-hardware-famed-gamer-creates-working-5-million-parameter-chatgpt-ai-model-in-minecraft-made-with-439-million-blocks-ai-trained-to-hold-conversations-working-model-runs-inference-in/