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Comment by insanitybit

2 days ago

https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/2039115531744334180?s=46&t=qCSkw...

Security is the punch line for ffmpeg.

I'm glad to see their sense of humour :-)

https://nitter.net/ffmpeg/status/2039115531744334180

  • > Assembly is a human readable version of machine code. It's exactly the same.

    goddamn, and this is a project that prides itself on having had-written assembly in it

    • There's certainly assembly that maps directly to the machine language bytes, I assume you are talking about the version of assembly with the high level loop macros

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Apr Fools Day really is the shittiest day to be online. For one thing, practical jokes/pranks are just gussied-up asshole behavior. For another thing, nerds generally SUCK at information-delivery pranks, which is what the Internet is full of on Apr 1.

  • Back in 2004 when free email services like hotmail were limited to 10-15mb, on April 1st the evening standard front page headline, which I saw in the office around 2pm, was something “Google lunched 1gb email”

    I couldn’t believe they had fallen for an April fools so hard.