Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC)

Opinionated carnivore, MAHA enthusiast, CMMC certified zealot, and disaffected cybersecurity consultant

[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.

[Brotherhood @DiggingInTheDi1]

@IntCyberDigest It's a total mystery how they were breached!

[Limestone Digital @LimestoneHQ]

Our rejection email went viral on Reddit yesterday.

People are shocked a company would tell a candidate exactly why they got rejected.

We're shocked that's shocking.

We asked for 3 sentences about a hard bug.

We got four paragraphs about "holistic approaches to software craftsmanship."

The take-home used temp1, temp2, temp3 as variable names.

Our company name was misspelled twice in the paragraph about attention to detail.

We told them all of that. Directly.

And we told them the door is open if they come back with work that shows they wrote it and read it before sending.

We review code the same way.
Direct. Specific. No hand-waving.

That's just how we build.

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

@CinemaScene404 First rule of Kingdom of Heaven is…we do not talk about the Kingdom of Heaven

[Retro Coast @RetroCoast]

The movie To Live And Die In L.A. opens with a counterfeiting scene.

It was so accurate the Secret Service tried to have it cut from the film.

A convicted counterfeiter felon served as technical advisor for the scene #1980s

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

Correction: Make errors like a non-professional pretending to be a professional.

[Microsoft 365 @Microsoft365]

The apps you know go further with Copilot.

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

@DaVinci132134 @zerohedge

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. There is a beast that lives beneath the American sink. It is always hungry. I have chosen to honor it.

The young man showing me the apartment said it casually, as if it were nothing. "Oh, and there's a disposal." He flipped a switch, and the drain ROARED — a grinding, growling thunder, hungry and alive — and then, at another flick, fell silent. Waiting.

I did not flinch. But I understood at once what I was dealing with.

For it is written that the oldest houses keep a guardian at the threshold of fire and water: a spirit of the hearth, fed in exchange for protection. Here, that spirit lives beneath the sink. It does not ask for prayers. It asks for scraps. And in return it devours what would rot, and keeps the whole house clean and sweet.

So I fed it, with respect. The rind of an onion. A bow. The switch. The roar of a grateful god. I thanked it each time. I named it. I began to leave it the best scraps, not the worst — for a guardian deserves the finest tribute a kitchen can give.

And here my heart rose, and I declared the thing a calmer man would not:

"I will feed this hungry spirit so faithfully, and so well, that on the day misfortune finally comes for this house, it will rise from the drain in a column of righteous thunder and devour my every enemy whole — and I will stand calmly beside the sink and say, 'this one has been with me from the beginning.'"

My landlord, doing the final walkthrough, heard the disposal roaring at midnight and knocked, concerned.

"Everything okay in here?"

"We are well," I said, gesturing to the sink. "He and I."

He did not understand. But he nodded slowly, and left us to it.

The drain has never clogged. The kitchen has never smelled of anything but morning. We have an understanding now, the beast and I.

So tell me, America.

You call it a garbage disposal. An appliance. A switch you flip without a thought.

I call it the loyal hearth-beast of every house —

fed in scraps, paid in thunder,

asking nothing but to be remembered at supper.

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

@SteaknShake When’s the store in downtown Miami opening up? We’ve got all this beautiful space in Miami Worldcenter and it could use a gorgeous new Steak n’ Shake!

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

@JayLongWrites Nice troll comment. Props.

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

@Bluestown901 @EndWokeness Not accurate. Bloomberg was republican and mayor of NYC from 2002-2013.

Stop trusting AI generated images.

[Prestige @someworries]

@TrungTPhan ransommaxxing

[Mo @atmoio]

Sam Altman is starting to panic

[juicystar1908 @juicystar1908]

I would love to welcome two wonderful individuals to the team! They stepped up to help find H-1B landlords in their community.

As many of you are aware, my efforts are 100% dedicated to parts of the country where state governments are looking into mortgage fraud. Each landlord I find is a possible node in a mortgage fraud network. Unfortunately, I can't be everywhere all at once.

If you want to receive training on finding H-1B landlords, please let me know!

[Mo @atmoio]

Anthropic is questioning whether AI may turn out to be altogether useless. This is the single most honest thing Anthropic has ever written.

“But achieving recursive improvement alone does not suggest an immediate change in how industrial production occurs, societies organize, or markets function. More intelligence can’t learn what a drug does over decades of use, can’t hold elections sooner than a constitution dictates, and can’t turn a stranger into an old friend in a weekend. For most people, the felt pace of this future will still be set by the bottlenecks, even if the laboratory upstream runs at the speed of compute. That collision, where recursive intelligence building itself ever faster meets the world of humans, relationships, and governance, is another part of this future we can’t predict.”

[TSA @TSA]

In an effort to avoid unexpected airport meet & greets please verify your cat’s location is not inside your suitcase before zipping it. Thanks.

[Cory Fitz @cory_fitz]

The key to understanding Backrooms is that members of Gen Z were kids when shopping malls started dying

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

This has nothing to do with H-1B crackdowns. The data is pretty clear that the 100k fee has not stopped indian visa scammers. They've just bypassed the fee in 99% of cases.

What happened here is they changed FHA loans so that indians on visas could no longer get priority loans that were used to price normal Americans out of housing.

As soon as the gravy train stopped that was allowing these people to afford homes way out of their price range. The market collapsed.

A stark reminder that the reason you can't afford a home but the 70 IQ scammer immigrants could, is because the government wanted it that way.

[Caramelized Marinated Meat Certification (CMMC) @MeatCMMC]

@unusual_whales https://t.co/JAUpg2qxoW