7 quotes from Jean-Baptiste Kempf @videolan + Kieran Kunhya @kierank_ on @lexfridman "every cycle matters. we are talking about probably 3 billion devices which are going to decode video nonstop" a 1% win is a power plant somewhere else "we care about excellent code. we don't care who you are. like maybe you're a dog. i don't care. i need to look at your code." open source without the resume filter the patch is the interview "the intelligence agencies tried to say, can you put a backdoor in vlc? hell no. if we had to compromise our software, we would shut it down." no to nation-state pressure "this is what peak video codecs should look like. 79.9% assembly, 19.6% c, and 0.5% other." go deep and make a difference "25% of the website traffic that comes to our main website is cone player." the mascot outranks the product name "once we tried to change it as a joke... we had around 10,000 emails saying, no, don't change the logo" the users own the brand more than the maintainers do "works on my machine" is not the bar matching real world media is the bar

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Diving into Omarchy Quattro @OmarchyLinux “A new kind of computer for people who just love computers” • agent can edit the OS + make apps • keyboard shortcuts + workspaces • tiling alone makes it better than mac if you haven't tried linux desktop since agents, it's time to take another look