Apparently, this did "break" ordinals: https://github.com/casey/ord/issues/2062

You can try it at home too:

https://github.com/supertestnet/breaker-of-jpegs

We need more solutions to break jpegs. I'm happy to help and donate some sats if anyone wants to.

@super_testnet appears to be responsible. On Twitter:

Yeah it was me

I thought it would crash inscription employers because the transaction has no ordinal number to assign the inscription to -- it pays no fee and has no output value

No such luck, though. Somehow the explorer decided to assign it to an ordinal in the coinbase utxo.

Also:

A friend of mine knows the cofounder of f2pool so he emailed the commit tx and the reveal tx to them directly, and they agreed to include them in their next block

Well.... I guess we need to try everything to see what happens

They call this an "out of band" payment. Where you pay the miner directly instead of through the mempool