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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #128
mpalmer wrote: post #104

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I legit didn't read any rudeness, it was a graceful retort. > People have sent me horrible things because of this. That sucks, and I see how it makes my (somewhat) measured reaction scan differently. > Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something. Your shit rocks, your stu…

> Can't fault the logic. Will never use it if that's part of what they've chosen to paywall. Is pretty damn rude. It's the kind of thing you say online but would never say face-to-face.

I'm not sure we agree on what constitutes "pretty damn rude". It was an inelegant, hastily expressed opinion.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by Aachen »

hulitu wrote: post #208
Aurornis wrote: post #174

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> Self-hosting is generally good I’ve contributed to a number of projects that try to self-host, with mixed results. It gets frustrating when someone’s GitLab (or other) server is so slow that every page load takes several seconds, or when the self-hosted solution goes down for a week because the admin is on vacation and missed something. I’ve contributed to one server that feels the need to periodically delete dorma…

> server is so slow that every page load takes several seconds, Welcome to DE, where _every_ page takes several seconds to load.

Desktop environment? Deutschland? Neither is true so I can't tell what you mean

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by Aachen »

Aurornis wrote: post #174
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

> Self-hosting is generally good I’ve contributed to a number of projects that try to self-host, with mixed results. It gets frustrating when someone’s GitLab (or other) server is so slow that every page load takes several seconds, or when the self-hosted solution goes down for a week because the admin is on vacation and missed something. I’ve contributed to one server that feels the need to periodically delete dorma…

> frustrating when someone’s GitLab (or other) server is so slow that every page load takes several seconds

That's a typical experience when the chosen solution doesn't match the available resources and desired scale. Projects like WordPress and GitLab may work for large enterprises, or when you add in enough caching that you don't have to do the large computation (generating one page) most times, but they don't work so well when you're wanting it to just work without custom solutions as a small team on a small budget

Forgejo doesn't seem to have this issue as far as I've noticed. I've hosted the predecessor (Gitea) on a potato. It's so easy to host, I think it's actually still running but forgotten about. I should check if it needs updating at some point..

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by skydhash »

nine_k wrote: post #219
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #162

The comments on this page are a complete cesspool. A full third of them complaining about the anti-bot protection mascot (yes, it's a cartoon character; get over it), others splitting the finest of hairs over software development groups and company politics, and more. Self-hosting is generally good, well done to FFmpeg. Many large projects self-host, and my own ex-company has physical servers in the city we work at t…

> 1980s protocol TCP is even older; so what? It works, as does email. It's merely a transport layer. What is required is a well-defined standard to encapsulate relevant data into it: PR definitions, code review comments, approval / rejection votes. This all could be a zipped JSON attachment, for instance. The code change proper can continue be passed in the patch format. Or the whole thing could arrive via an exposed…

Why all of this? You can just enforce some formatting rules and add a few script to the system mailbox to alter the message (add an issue number, send a notification when a change is accepted and merged, etc,...). No need to complicate stuff. Just send a standard plain text email that follows the rules.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by jraph »

ksec wrote: post #245
nightpool wrote: post #170

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The bit about the name seems to be a complete hallucination / tokenization error. The project's docs say: "Forgejo (pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ (hear an audio sample)) is inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge." I would expect the rest of the AI summary to be similarly unreliable / hallucinated—I compared the test directories for both projects and they both seemed to have about the same amount of activity.

Thank You for pointing this out. Although I am not entirely why my comment was downvoted into oblivion .

For all sorts of reasons, this will probably happen to the vast majority of LLM output copy-pastes here.

It's a bit like copy pasting a search result link (anyone can do the search for themselves). LLM outputs don't provide the insight people are looking for on HN. They are unreliable. They sound boring. They may sound like ads for the LLM providers. There's probably someone out there actually knowing the thing and able to answer. There's usually a better way of finding out stuff. For instance, if you want to learn about Forgejo, going to its website or its Wikipedia page will be far more straightforward and reliable.

You also stated that something that contains hallucinations is surprisingly decent, which can mislead people (who should strive to stay alert though).

Many people also just plain dislike generative AI.

You are not the first to whom it happens, and you'll probably not be the last.

At that point, I believe HN's guidelines should be updated to discourage posting LLM outputs in most contexts.

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Post by BlueTemplar »

ipaddr wrote: post #134
KingMob wrote: post #108

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Bit of a side note, but nobody should use Substack for anything. For those out of the loop, Substack has been overlooking Nazis on their platform for a few years, and recently pushed a notification to all subscribers to check out a blog with a Nazi swastika. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-p... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-e...

Don't use the most used platform for blogging reach in 2025 because .0000001% of users are people you hate? Sounds silly. Don't use wordpress because a store I don't like uses it? I hate to tell you this but friend and foe are using Google search.. time to move on.

WordPress isn't a platform.

Also, downvoted for being a platform shill.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by Aachen »

usr1106 wrote: post #249
timeon wrote: post #221

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> non-Big Browser Surprisingly there was no problem for me with Servo and Links. Which browsers are not working?

Not for Sailfish's not so up to date Firefox either.

Do we know if Anubis is unwilling to fix that, or if they've just not opened a bug report yet?

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by Aachen »

qwertywert_ wrote: post #148

Can't get past cringe anime girl

Try opening a bug report? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis?tab=readme-ov-file#suppo...

Compared to Cloudflare and Google, you can actually talk to a human here and they might (I have no reason to believe the opposite) actually care about niche browsers whereas Google seems to test their products on browsers other than their own engine only after release (presumably people will get annoyed about these breakages/outages eventually and switch to a their browser or a rebrand thereof). There's no such conflict of interest here. I'm not aware of a better thing to use than Anubis or a self-written equivalent (my understanding is that it's a simple sha2 PoW)

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by nozzlegear »

xena wrote: post #77
nozzlegear wrote: post #55

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Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?

To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper ) will be merged…

Thanks for the answer. To be clear, although I'm not a huge anime person, I don't have any issue with the mascot itself. I meant my question as "why is the Anubis mascot an anime girl [instead of an Anubis]", but it seems my intention was misread over the internet.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by nosioptar »

strken wrote: post #272
BoredPositron wrote: post #244

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There are people hunting double spaces or typos in code? For what contributor credits?

I fix documentation typos or broken links because they really annoy me. There are some egregious examples of people doing it for GitHub-as-a-social-network reasons, but I think some are like me and just want to fix the writing.

I always start with a small patch to test the waters of a project. That way i dont waste my time with a larger patch if the project is a PITA to contribute to.
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