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i thought this as well explained. title a bit clickbaity, but it got me to click. i'm interested in learning more about the mp4 format. where can I read more? is there a canonical read that everyone but me knows about? OP seems like he has some kind of file explorer UI for it - also interested in that
Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that doesn't mean they weren't hacking. They were hacking around with MP4 muxers and YouTube. This is definitely the hacker spirit. The word doesn't need to be re-appropriated by Hollywood caricatures.
For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password.
For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or design constraints
I don't think anyone other than HN using "hacker" in the way it mean to be, perhaps it is time to catch up with the time
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they might've meant xqcow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQc
Strange reference. Is that just meant to be an arbitrary celebrity or does xqcow have some particular relevance here I'm missing?
Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that doesn't mean they weren't hacking. They were hacking around with MP4 muxers and YouTube. This is definitely the hacker spirit. The word doesn't need to be re-appropriated by Hollywood caricatures.
Does anyone else really use "hack" in the way HN uses it, ie with its original meaning? For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password. For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or desig…
Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that doesn't mean they weren't hacking. They were hacking around with MP4 muxers and YouTube. This is definitely the hacker spirit. The word doesn't need to be re-appropriated by Hollywood caricatures.
Does anyone else really use "hack" in the way HN uses it, ie with its original meaning? For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password. For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or desig…
looks like Discord is vulnerable to this too, oopsie
We don't transcode video, so no.
Nowadays it's mostly moot since MP3 is obsolete.
Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that doesn't mean they weren't hacking. They were hacking around with MP4 muxers and YouTube. This is definitely the hacker spirit. The word doesn't need to be re-appropriated by Hollywood caricatures.
Does anyone else really use "hack" in the way HN uses it, ie with its original meaning? For your average person a hacker is a person in Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie that steals your facebook password. For people in the industry a "hack" is a code that works but might be a placeholder/potentially dangerous code. The author would want to write a better version of it but perhaps is not able to due to time or desig…
Folks, just because the author wasn't wearing a Guy Fawks mask with a black hoodie and made no mention of gaining access to the Central Meme Database, that doesn't mean they weren't hacking. They were hacking around with MP4 muxers and YouTube. This is definitely the hacker spirit. The word doesn't need to be re-appropriated by Hollywood caricatures.