Playing Doom in a PDF!!!

The game was released 32 years ago, and inspired by someone figuring out how to play Tetris in a PDF, someone known only by their Github alias worked out how to make Doom playable in said PDF! It has a refresh rate of 32 ms and is in glorious 6-bit monochrome, but you can actually play Knee-Deep In The Dead in a PDF!

While completely silly, this is quite awesome! People have figured out how to hack refrigerators, washing machines, coffee makers, and all sorts of things to play Doom. If it has an LCD screen of some sort, it either has Doom running on it somewhere, or someone is working on it.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/doom_delivered_in_a_pdf/

Last week the weird old guy from Florida was sentenced in his hush money trail

Last Friday the sadly (for us) once and future president was ordered back to court in New York, and appeared via a video link from Florida. This occasion was to close the case: this occasion was for Judge Merchan to sentence the convicted felon, who was found guilty of all 34 counts of conspiracy other crimes of paying hush money to Stormy Daniels, porn actress, to try to cover up the affair that he had with her after his current (third) wife gave birth to their son.

The sentence bestowed on the weird guy was unconditional discharge. Basically it means that the conviction was not voided by the judge, but there's no real punishment to be imposed. No jail or confinement, no fine, no probation. Needless to say, the weird guy and his attorneys are still going to file endless appeals to try and get the conviction overturned. However, Judge Merchan did a heck of a job trying to be as scrupulous as possible to ensure a fair and procedurally-accurate trial to reduce the chance of error and an appeal overturning the conviction. It's going to be a big lift to get this trial thrown out.

I'm not sure what this does to his voting or gun ownership rights, also in limbo is his right to possess a liquor license for his properties. He's a convicted felon regardless of no punishment.

Regardless, the weird old guy will still go into the history books as the only president sworn into the highest office in our land as a convicted felon.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-sentenced-hush-money-trial_n_677965efe4b08d06b7289727