Having no knowledge about this isn't there a possibility that this is innocuous, that is that there is some difference in how each provider, such as T-Mobile or Verizon, etc., send the data about how many bars are available such that it needs to be bumped by one?
I looked at the usernames of the people that it mentioned and I don't think that it was actually mentioned on Reddit. It it seems like the front end is mostly AI generated.
I made something similar to this with WebGL shaders (the benefit being it works across browsers): https://real-glass.vercel.app - The tricky thing for me was making it refract real HTML elements behind
I considered WebGL, and I agree—a shader is more performant for real-time effects.
But WebGL comes with drawbacks:
- You need JS code running before anything shows up.
- Shaders can’t directly manipulate the DOM render. To make refraction work, you’d have to re-render everything into a canvas—which isn’t really “the web” anymore.
With the SVG/CSS approach, you can pre-render the displacement map (at build time or on the backend) and get the refraction visible on the very first frame. Plus, it integrates cleanly with existing, traditional UIs.
That said, this approach could definitely be improved. Ideally we’d have shader-like features in the SVG Filter spec (there was a proposal, but it seems abandoned). There are some matrix operations available in SVG Filters, but they’re limited—and for my first blog post I wanted to focus more on pedagogy, art, and technique than heavy optimization.
I actually see gpu utilisation in OP's website when I move things (m3 pro), but this other solution shows much less gpu utilisation (prob more efficient?).
Okay it turned out to be octocat - and that company offers a subscription service to open models as well. That explains my confusion because the image looks very amphibian like but it wasn't actually a newt or salamander or anything. I eventually found this because I recalled that it was a subscription, not just an open router s service
How about [TamperDav](https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tamperdav) - It's also worth noting that Tampermonkey supports syncing to Google Drive and Dropbox (though you don't get the same sort of version control) - I use dropbox syncing, then host my userscripts on github gist then install from there, that way they auto update from gist.
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