Vicen Dominguez

The legendary Ian Murdock • Founded Debian in 1993 at age 20, while a Purdue undergrad • Name "Debian" = Debra (his girlfriend) + Ian — she later became his wife • Debian became the base for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, hundreds of distros, arguably the most influential Linux project ever • Worked at Sun Microsystems on Solaris • Became Chief Operating System officer at Docker, right at the peak of container adoption • Died December 28, 2015, age 42, officially ruled suicide • His final hours: a series of distressed tweets describing a violent encounter with San Francisco police (claimed they beat him during an arrest), followed by increasingly erratic posts, then silence • His Twitter account was deleted by the family shortly after; the tweets are preserved in archives Debian is still going strong, 30+ years later, without him but his contributions can never be forgotten.

Here's my conversation all about @FFmpeg, the legendary open-source software powering most video on the Internet. In the episode, I talk with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. JB is lead developer of VLC and Kieran is FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous @FFmpeg account on X. VLC (@videolan), by the way, is also a legendary piece of open-source software: it's a video player that can open basically anything & has been downloaded over 6 billion times. I think both FFmpeg and VLC are two of the most important and impactful software systems ever created, both open source, and both created & maintained by volunteers: brilliant engineers from all walks of life. Thank you to everyone who contributed to FFmpeg and VLC, and in general to all engineers giving their heart & soul to building systems used by millions (or billions) of people, and often doing so not for money, status, or fame, but purely for the love of building great software and doing good for the world. Thank you to the builders! 🙏❤️ Shoutouts in this chat to @ID_AA_Carmack @karpathy @elonmusk @TimSweeneyEpic and everyone who is a contributor & fan of open source! It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 2:17 - Introduction 5:35 - Weirdest things VLC opens 9:59 - How video playback works 19:20 - Video codecs and containers 30:07 - FFmpeg explained 51:07 - Linus Torvalds 55:46 - Turning down millions to keep VLC ad-free 1:10:04 - FFmpeg & Google drama 1:29:18 - FFmpeg developers 1:35:55 - VLC and FFmpeg 1:40:29 - History of FFmpeg 1:43:46 - Reverse engineering codecs 1:57:01 - FFmpeg testing 2:01:08 - Assembly code (handwritten) 2:25:26 - Rust programming language 2:34:42 - FFmpeg and Libav fork 2:43:04 - Open source burnout 2:50:51 - x264 and internet video 3:04:07 - Video compression basics 3:11:04 - CIA and fake VLC 3:21:39 - Ultra low latency streaming 3:39:07 - AV2 codec and video patents 3:48:59 - VLC backdoors 3:59:14 - Video archiving 4:05:51 - Future of FFmpeg and VLC

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The price will either justify the SML or favor the Chinese.

🚨 Less than 168 days remain before Android becomes a locked down platform! Google intends to force all software developers to register with a centralized Google service before their apps can run on the biggest mobile operating system on the planet, regardless of whether those apps are distributed via Google Play. ➡️ Visit Keep Android Open’s website at keepandroidopen.org for more information about why it’s a problem, and how you can make your voice heard. As supporters of open platforms we have consistently encouraged developers and alternative app stores to refuse to participate in this program, and to spread this message throughout the Android community. ✊ 📝 Read our open letter to Google’s leadership: keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/ #Android #KeepAndroidOpen #Google #PrivacyGuides #Privacy

We have become aware of recent reports concerning legal proceedings in Spain that may affect VPN services, including Proton VPN. At this stage, we were not aware of any proceedings that may have been underway prior to these reports coming to light and have not been formally notified of any proceedings or judgment. Moreover, any judicial order issued without proper notification to the affected parties, thereby denying them the opportunity to be heard, would be procedurally invalid under fundamental principles of due process. Spanish courts, like all courts operating under the rule of law, are bound by procedural safeguards that ensure parties are given a fair opportunity to present their case before any binding judgment is rendered.

😵‍💫@Minio in maintenance mode. Not accepting changes. 504 contributors. @localstack unifying Community/Pro into 1 image with subscription. 616 devs. If you’re looking for a playbook on how to erode the very foundation of open-source software, this is a hell of a first chapter.

Pick your claw flavor: - Rust: github.com/zeroclaw-labs/… - GO: github.com/sipeed/picoclaw

People don't want a caring economy or social policies now. It's all short-term survival & "I'll save myself." This hyper-individualism in our shared society is a dead end. With social media as education & no reflection, what do we expect?

Beyond their public service role, the partisan use of power to attempt social manipulation has been repeated twice in just two day. Comments?

Agent CLI #OpenSource = feedback loop + personal patches ✅ Kiro-cli 👎 ClaudeCode 👎 GitHub copilot 👎

Noise, waste of time, hype, for the lulz and now all together!!! : M o l t b o o k!!!

#Fosdem26 #FOSDEM Jason is full

Name the "expert" who did the PcComponentes forensic analysis. This whole story reeks.

Developers always hated writing docs. Now that's all they do.

13 years. RIP my darling boy.

For those who might accuse this post of being engagement farming: There is a significant portion of the world (especially "Gen Z") who think the above is something normal when using software. It is not.

@ajanerom Spain blocks all of Cloudflare during those matches in an insane, medieval attempt to counter piracy. Totally batshit. (Omarchy is hosted with Cloudflare).