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What about VLC's own built-in versions of decoding libraries (I think, from the FFmpeg project)? Is there a scenario here where we may have to deal with malicious MP4 files?

Opposing counsel is also being called out by the judiciary for not recognizing that multiple citations counsel has put forth are not only not real, but actually counter to existing…

"As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 341,664 drives used to store data." Three hundred thousand drives. That figure seems insane. Google and AWS must have truly stagger…

Same score. The honesty check for 'Invidious' seemed to not provide a particularly appropriate definition option. I see it mostly used when paired with the word 'comparison' ('Invi…

Expanding on your point, a while ago I read a great book on 747 development (by Joe Sutter, who was the lead engineer for the 747) and one surprising thing for me was that Boeing w…

It's hard to over-estimate the tectonic impact the idea of spreadsheet had on the microcomputer scene at the time. Overnight 'programming' came to the masses. Someone with a proble…

I am such a fan of Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series of books that I could not let myself even consider the possibility of listening to audio book narrated version. I…

The most shocking thing to me about Blue Origin's New Glenn launch is that it didn't blow up. This isn't commentary on my opinion concerning Blue Origin's engineering expertise, ju…

In March of this year, an Apple-1 sold on the same site for 375k usd https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/34999140714600...

I'm 66, and when I myself was 10 or 11 my friends on my street and I were completely obsessed with the Estes rocket and Cox .049 U-control scenes. Most of us were lucky enough to h…

"“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sun…

Interesting. It's hydraulically controlled - https://youtu.be/kWiilCH1AO0?si=PxE3UuB9DE9sB0Hq&t=124 Norway's Rjukan seems to have implemented it better https://www.youtube.com/watc…

Start masking up w/a consistent alterface now, because once everyone gets base-lined, then you're going to be stopped because you don't look like you.

I'm not aware of how Eichenwald got access to the communications he uses in the book, but in addition to, yes, the highly complex, dare I say innovative structures they created to …

I'm in the middle of reading Kurt Eichenwald's 'Conspiracy of Fools'. When Enron management described all the innovative ways they were 'making money' they weren't kidding. They we…

Star Trek's McCoy delivers a grim description in "The City on the Edge of Forever", about how primitive 20th century medicine once relied on crude and bloody procedures. I think on…

I immediately got it. Understanding that the typical reader in this space is generally atypical “find the next best thing” would likely mean "look here to find the thing that's bet…

Indeed, one of the more memorable set pieces in chapter 1: "He traveled to a city, which was located, he would only say, somewhere in America. He walked into a building, just as th…

“I am going to a commune in Vermont and will [In my mind I've always heard a 'henceforth' inserted here for some reason] deal with no unit of time shorter than a season” One of my …

Highly efficient Mini-split heatpumps are becoming simpler for the moderately technical homeowner to install everyday. 5-6 years ago installation typically involved a vacuum pump, …

"Smartphones are substitutes for a lot of things: playing football with a friend; human ad-hoc conversation at a bus stop; playing Candy Crush instead of reading newspapers on your…

It's variation on a tired joke - If you've been rear-ended, chances are the person behind you wasn't a very good driver. If you've been rear-ended 7 times, chances are that you are…

"..the nine-year veteran of the force.." 11 more years is a long time to spend as a pariah. Then again it took a strong belief in ethics to do what he did, and he had to have chose…