ABSOLUTELY. She didn't let him lie. She didn't let him bully. She stood her ground. When he couldn't take the heat and started to leave, she REFUSED to let him go without calling him out for abandoning his duty to answer to the American people.
EVERY reporter should see this, and take notes!
@barriere_dr Le seul bémol : un senior qui gagne beaucoup ne se déplacerait pas en transport en commun, non ?
Vu comment Ciotti est démago, ça donne l'impression d'une mesure qui ne concerne que peu de monde, mais qui lui permet de s'afficher à peu de frais.
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.
@barriere_dr Ça sent le doigt mouillé : il fait tout pour ne pas être responsable, alors même que c'est son rôle de ministre d'endosser la responsabilité et de changer les choses.
Revue de 70 000 plaintes impliquant des enfants d'ici au 14 juillet : "De la communication ministérielle et pas du travail de fond", répond l'USM à Gérald Darmanin https://t.co/EptVNS7fnk
@AlcoDalex@barriere_dr@NunezLaurent@GDarmanin Quant à pourquoi ils esquivent les questions des moyens, alors même que c'est flagrant, aucune idée. De la politique politicienne : ces deux ne pensent qu'à leur carrière et se moquent de leur jobs et de leurs employés.
@AlcoDalex@barriere_dr@NunezLaurent@GDarmanin Ils devraient être responsables de tout ce qui se passe sous leur autorité, mais on vient de le voir avec l'affaire Lhyanna, leur premier réflexe est de se disculper en mode "oui mais j'ai signé telle circulaire".
Indigne de la part de gens payés fort cher pour être responsables
Une chose que je ne comprends pas : ni @NunezLaurent , à l’Intérieur, ni @GDarmanin Darmanin, à la Justice, ne dénoncent clairement le manque de moyens de leurs ministères respectifs.
Ce sont pourtant deux ministres compétents, qui connaissent parfaitement la machine administrative et le manque de moyens !
Alors pourquoi ne pas le dire ? Par solidarité gouvernementale ?
Par peur d’apparaître impuissants ?
Parce qu’admettre un manque de moyens, c’est reconnaître que l’État ne tient plus toutes ses promesses ?
C’est vraiment indicible pour un ministre ?