Daily Archives: 2025-11-21

Article note: This is just fun that folks are maintaining the OG Xbox version. Back in the day I bought a used xbox 90% for XBMC duty, because XBMC was a piece of the future so visible even Microsoft had to change course (...to capture and ruin it).

Article note: Neat. Zork is, strangely, a significant piece of cultural heritage at this point.

Article note: How is codec licensing always such a clusterfuck? I remember 20-25 years ago dealing with greyware "Codec Packs" that were maybe not laced with malware just to make basic media playback work on Windows, and somehow the industry keeps doing the same shit. And now there are like 3 patent pools, so it's somehow actually worse. At least it looks like AV1 is becoming the dominant species, and it avoids most of that shit. Plus, this is a "Removed functionality from already shipped product" situation, which is universally dirty.