depol
pretty sad that somebody from the neo-nazi party is in a position of power again...
German railway and the magnetic signal on your phone. #phyphox
Wenn der Faschismus zurückkommt, bekommt er nen Blumenstrauß in die Hand gedrückt.
Holy mother of god. Some satellite images from #Gaza have been unembargoed on google. #Rafah is gone. Just gone. Khan Younis is ruins. Everything, gone. #Palestine is being ethnically cleansed so billionaires can have a new playground.
This is what #Israel has done. This is their crime, the blood of 22,637 children stains the hands of every member of the #IDF. This is #America's crime, this is everyone who has ever supported #Israel's crime. This is unforgivable. We are a terrible country, supporting one that's even worse.
Until it's taken down again, sat images of Palestine here, I've started us in Rafah's main mosque. Or where it was.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bilal+Mosque/@31.305079,34.2398794,490m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x14fd938fd9cce82b:0xf8056862904cb47f!2sRafah!3b1!8m2!3d31.29678!4d34.243482!16zL20vMDJzaHJ6!3m5!1s0x14fd9407c5414093:0x974c7d2ce8e05140!8m2!3d31.3056418!4d34.2401459!16s%2Fg%2F11csb1qbb3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyNy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117382397216266564
that’s why #NASA hired teams of #embroidery #knitting #beading #fiberArts experts who all so happened to be not just women but mostly Native American, African American and Latinas. they were nicknamed the Little Old Ladies and without them there would be no Apollo program.
they won't even teach you in school that the LOLs were preceded by women who ―if they wanted a chance to enter college, a privilege only for men― they did so by being computers (mathematicians) for “real” scientists.
🧵…
RT: https://tech.lgbt/users/Natasha_Jay/statuses/117382397216266564
RT: https://mastodon.social/users/tazgetroete/statuses/117386774629157669
Haben sie es mal mit ein- und ausschlafen probiert?
Luckily, rolling back the package version did the trick.
@gregoa_ We are right next to the USA. These things tend to be contagious. Maybe there is a weird splinter group of MAGA called MADA, make America Daylight Always.
On me dit que ce texte signé Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy a fort probablement été créé par IA.
Fabrice Bellard
A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.
He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.
His name is Fabrice Bellard.
Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.
Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.
In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.
Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.
He was not done.
In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.
He kept going.
In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.
In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.
Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.
Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org
He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.
A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.
He is still shipping.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy
Ich hab es endlich gefunden. Ein paar von euch konnten sich nicht vorstellen, dass Habeck psychische Profile erstellen lassen wollte. Doch, doch.
„Dass wir die Gefährderpotenziale früher erkennen,
dass wir also psychische Profile erstellen, wenn wir bei
den Menschen, die zu uns kommen, Gesundheitstests
machen, ist ebenfalls eine naheliegende Konsequenz,
die die Gewerkschaft der Polizei vorgeschlagen hat.“
- Robert Habeck während seiner Rede in der 209. Sitzung des Bundestages