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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

The do-nothings vs the did-somethings.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's okay you can just say FFmpeg

Also Linux

Also CoreJS

Also

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sure? i tried 8bit transparent grayscale png generation and it turns out imagemagick produces images the kindle can display and ffmpeg fucks them up majorly and they wont show on kindle. ffmpeg is nice though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

FFmpeg is basically the only piece of audio/video conversion software in widespread use. Everything uses it under the hood. Microsoft Teams used it to stream your webcam. VLC uses it to play video. If you've ever uploaded your video to an online service to convert it to a different file format or codec, chances are the server that processed it did so using FFmpeg.

I have also noticed that FFmpeg kind of sucks at generating stills for reasons I'm not sure about though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

i know. i use ffmpeg for grading, keying etc in scripts...love it. but it is not good at stills.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago

Paul Eggart is the primary maintainer for tzdb, and has been for the past 20 years.
Tzdb is the database that maintains all of the information about timezones, timezone changes, leap whatever's and everything else. It's present on just about every computer on the planet and plays an important role in making sure all of the things do time correctly.

If he gets hit by a bus, ICANN is responsible for finding someone else to maintain the list.

Sqlite is the most widely used database engine, and is primarily developed by a small handful of people.

ImageMagick is probably the most iconic example. Primarily developed by John Cristy since 1987, it's used in a hilarious number of places for basic image operations. When a security bug was found in it a bit ago, basically every server needed to be patched because they all do something with images.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh and then you get all the projects with recursive acronyms, like WINE Is Not Emulation, MAME Ain't (an) Mp3 Encoder, and of course GNU's Not Unix.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

You're thinking of LAME. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

See why those names are kinda dumb? You end up with a lot of fairly similar 4 letter words.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Noted. When I develop an essential piece of software, I will name it George.

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