Gilles Roger

Stéphanie Clément : « Le doute, faute de preuve »

[Patrick MartinGenier @MartinGenier]

Je conseille celles et ceux qui soutiennent @tegnererik de faire attention à ce qu’ils écrivent et de ne pas cautionner la chasse aux avocats et aux juges administratifs en charge du droit des étrangers. Ils pourraient encourir la même peine que cet influenceur d’extrême-droite.

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

Nommé par la FIFA pour officier durant la Coupe du Monde, l'arbitre somalien 🇸🇴 Omar Artan s'est vu refuser l'entrée sur le territoire américain

Vu ses difficultés pour obtenir un visa, il avait bénéficié du soutien de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi qui lui a notamment permis d'avoir un passeport diplomatique

Insuffisant pour les autorités américaines qui l'ont immédiatement renvoyé...

Pour rappel, Artan a dirigé la finale retour de Ligue des Champions de l'an dernier entre Pyramids FC et Mamelodi Sundowns tout en étant élu meilleur arbitre africain 2025 par la CAF

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras tanto, en EEUU, una abuela de 93 años, llamada Mary, que sigue trabajando en un cine AMC para pagar sus facturas, sin poderse jubilar, limpiando la basura que la gente deja atrás en las salas.

Este es el futuro del capitalismo, que trabajes hasta morir sin poder jubilarte para pagar las facturas de los seguros médicos privados.

[Gilles Roger @Grag49Roger]

@FerghaneA vous avez dit crétin? Est-ce là un signe de votre niveau ?

[Gilles Roger @Grag49Roger]

@FerghaneA Un prompt à exécuter sur l'AI PERPLEXITY DEEP RESEARCH
"Racisme, xénophobie, endogamie et népotisme en Afrique et en Europe : que disent réellement les données empiriques sur l’« Africain moyen » par rapport à l’«Européen moyen» ?"
vs des affirmations à l'emporte-pièce

[Gilles Roger @Grag49Roger]

@GabrielAttal Je refuse ... Je revendique ... et?

[Gilles Roger @Grag49Roger]

... un choc inconnu de @jsferjou & Co ?

[Jacques Renardiere @JRenardiere]

Il finance Daesh. il est condamné à 6 ans de prison ferme, mais il est libre en 6 semaines. parce qu'il a subi un choc carcéral...

Une justice pour les possédants et une (souvent injustice) justice pour les autres !

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Gilles Roger @Grag49Roger]

@FerghaneA une tentative pour sortir de son couloir?

[Faktencheck_jetzt @Faktencheck2030]

IQ 73 🥴Trumps Intelligenztest im ersten Jahr an der Militärakademie aufgetaucht! „Der Kerl ist ein Vollidiot“, sagte der Schulleiter.🇺🇸. #Trump #IQ

[Prof. John McLaughlin @Harvard1988]

🚨🚨The Trump Crime Family is more corrupt than the totality of All Previous Organized Crime Families Combined in the history of the United States.
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I spent thirty (30 years investigating Major Organized Crime Families & Gangs and without a doubt, Donald Trump has committed more crimes against the United States of America and its citizens than all Organized Crime Syndicates.
TRUMP is directly responsible for the theft of billions of dollars and the systematic destruction of our economy, the rule of law and our democracy.
TRUMP must be Impeached and Removed from office by the U.S. Congress this year. Both Democrats & Republicans must join together to save our nation.

[Julen Bollain @JulenBollain]

“Cualquiera que invada Oriente Medio bajo falsos pretextos debería ser sometido a un impeachment” — Donald Trump, 2008.

La hemeroteca es maravillosa.

[Gilles Roger @Grag49Roger]

@EugenieBastie https://t.co/y6VHvwph0K

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Colonos sionistas instalaron pantallas en una plaza para celebrar la limpieza étnica en el sur del Líbano, como si fuese un partido de fútbol, vitorean cada bomba que explota contra casas de familias libanesas.

Es como si en la Alemania nazi pusieran pantallas en las plazas viendo como exterminaban a prisioneros en los campos de concentración en los años 40 del siglo pasado.

La psicología debe integrar a "Israel" como un nuevo estudio de la maldad humana, esta ostentación del genocidio no es normal.

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

More than 140 officers were injured defending the Capitol on January 6th.

They waited six years for the plaque in their honor to be hung in the Capitol.

They watched as Donald Trump pardoned every single one of their assailants.

Some of them can no longer work and cannot even get disability benefits.

But Donald Trump has set aside nearly $2 BILLION of your taxpayer money to pay the criminals who assaulted them.

It’s a punch in the face to every police officer in this country who puts his or her life on the line to protect us.

I support Officers Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn in their lawsuit to stop this outrageous scheme.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[Sabrina F. @itsmeback_]

La notizia più potente di questa tragedia non è soltanto il recupero dei cinque italiani morti alle Maldive.

È un’altra.

Gli speleo-sub finlandesi che hanno affrontato il buio della grotta… hanno chiesto di non essere pagati.

Fermatevi un attimo a pensare a questo.

Sono entrati in uno dei luoghi più pericolosi al mondo.
Hanno rischiato la vita tra correnti, profondità e oscurità assoluta.
Hanno visto da vicino ciò che nessuno vorrebbe mai vedere.

E quando tutto è finito, non hanno chiesto soldi.

Niente.

In un’epoca dove molti farebbero qualsiasi cosa per guadagnare visibilità, loro hanno scelto il silenzio.
In un mondo dove quasi tutto ha un prezzo, loro hanno dimostrato che esistono ancora persone che agiscono solo per umanità.

Sami Paakkarinen.
Jenni Westerlund.
Patrik Grönqvist.

Tre persone che ci stanno ricordando cosa significa avere una coscienza, un cuore, un’anima.

Perché riportare a casa quei cinque italiani non era un lavoro qualsiasi.

Era una missione umana.

Era permettere a delle famiglie distrutte di poter dire addio.
Era dare pace a chi era rimasto sospeso tra speranza e disperazione.
Era trasformare un vuoto infinito in un ultimo saluto possibile.

E certe cose non si fanno per denaro.

Si fanno perché dentro di te senti che è la cosa giusta.

Oggi viviamo circondati da gente che urla, ostenta, pretende applausi per qualsiasi cosa.

Poi arrivano persone così.

Persone che rischiano tutto… e non vogliono nulla.

E allora forse l’unica reazione giusta è questa:

stare in silenzio.

E dire grazie.

Grazie Sami.
Grazie Jenni.
Grazie Patrik.

Perché avete ricordato a tutti noi che l’umanità vera esiste ancora. 🌊❤️

- Resilienza

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Rep Adam Smith nails it again. If ANYONE thinks Trump is respected anywhere outside Russia, Israel and North Korea, they need to seek medical help.

He is now widely viewed as a dangerous global village idiot. As a result, America is n turn viewed as a pariah strait operating a criminal extortion racket from the Oval Office.

TikTok - https://t.co/wYo0zLv4hb

[Little Think Tank @L_ThinkTank]

[ 🇺🇸 ÉTATS-UNIS ]

🔸 La société de capital-risque de Donald Trump, 1789 Capital, est passée d’environ 200 millions à 3,5 milliards de dollars d’actifs en un an, selon le Financial Times, avec des investissements dans l’IA, la défense et l’immobilier.

🔸 Des entreprises de son portefeuille ont obtenu plus de 735 millions de dollars de contrats fédéraux depuis l’arrivée de Donald Trump au pouvoir, dont un prêt de 620 millions de dollars du Pentagone.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump sued his own government for $10 billion. Today he settled with the DOJ he runs and cut the judge out of the process.

The deal: a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund his Attorney General controls, with no court oversight and no transparency. It’s the most corrupt scheme of his presidency.