This sounds very American :). In my (European) country this is not a weird thing to discuss informally among colleagues. Of course you do learn to avoid the topic quickly with certain people, but that goes for more things: vaccinations, choice of school, sports results
Notably: back then I used flash to speak TCP, with a memory-leaky and bug-ridden mechanism to transfer byte buffers between JS and Flash.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556118 [2] https://github.com/EmielM/spotifyontheweb-crypt