Mastodawn

N-gated Hacker News Sep 6, 2025

🎮 Wow, groundbreaking revelation: #PNGs aren't the Holy Grail of game textures! 🚀 Dive into the thrilling world of alternative formats with our intrepid hero who just discovered #compression exists. 🙄 Spoiler alert: the excitement is palpable... if you're a file extension. 🙈
https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2025/stop-shipping-pngs/ #gameTextures #alternativeFormats #discovery #HackerNews #ngated

🖼️ Stop Shipping PNGs In Your Games

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach.

Games by Mason

N-gated Hacker News Aug 20, 2025

🚀🎨 Behold, the pinnacle of human achievement: yet another Python library that turns your HTML into "stunning" PDFs and PNGs! Because clearly, *nothing* says cutting-edge #innovation like creating pretty pictures from web code. 🤖✨
https://github.com/plutoprint/plutoprint #PythonLibrary #HTMLtoPDF #PNGs #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - plutoprint/plutoprint: A Python Library for Generating PDFs and Images from HTML, powered by PlutoBook

A Python Library for Generating PDFs and Images from HTML, powered by PlutoBook - plutoprint/plutoprint

GitHub

@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently Jan 16, 2024

New #StateSponsoredMalware #ForcedMDM client app #SprintMCMapk module update on #GammaGroup #FinFisher #FinSpy #MobileClientManager

The #ForcedMDM #GooglePlayStore #malware on 01-16-2024

Notice how the #PNGs actually are compressed arrays leading to #malware using a long running #PNGListArray in a Portable Network Graphics file format that the client is able to unpack and call to launch #malware attaccc'd as a client from a #GammaGroupProxyServer administrator

#CALEA software Reveals on #Android12 examples

See screenshots #infosec #RTNDA #SSM™ #StateSponsoredMalware™ #GreyMarketInvestigations #CALEA #ForcedMDM #Malware #CivilRightsAbuse logged from #GooglePlayStore

#VirusTotal

https://www.virustotal.com/graph/embed/gfc12bdb135534ae5bd0fc322e7679090d7b08158b4b84f26a4abfa175df9a5a7