Snakkan

La frite n'est que la continuation de la pomme de terre par d'autres moyens.

[katok @katok_exe]

How come Walt Disney Animations, a $2.3 billion dollar company is laying off animators and make ai slop garbage to save money?
It’s not even hard to tell. These frames are milliseconds apart yet she has an earring in one and not the other.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

This what happens when you elect people with a backbone

[Michael @TheMG3D]

I don’t blame them 😭

[SrGrafo @SrGrafo2]

The amount of anger inside me towards whoever was responsible for this..

[Lazgar Lockman; artificer, blacksmith, goofball @Lazgar_lockman]

It's official: buying isnt owning
Which means piracy isn't theft

[Varan @DestroyedVaran]

Hier j'étais avec une pote handicapée dans Paris, on a voulu traverser le pont, elle a montré sa carte PMR, les agents lui ont dit qu'elle avait pas le droit de passer parce que l'expo du pont était a sens unique et qu'il fallait entrer par l'autre côté.
T'es une immense merde JR

[REY CHOLO @Reycholosimeone]

🇮🇷 No podemos llegar dos días antes para nuestros partidos.
FIFA: Te jodes.

🇸🇴 Nos habéis prohibido la entrada a un árbitro.
FIFA: Te jodes.

🇸🇦 Nuestra bandera no puede tocar el suelo.
FIFA: Al toque mi rey.

[𝘿𝙀𝙑𝙄𝙇 🍓 𓆩 ⍟ 𓆪 @DevilELGay]

"los hombres protejen a las mujeres" pero ninguno reacciona cuando ella fue la agredida y solo respondieron cuando ella se defendió
Ayudaron a que el tipo se valla y la retuvieron
Esos son los "protectores" de los que tanto hablan
Solo se protejen entre ellos

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

His victim had to have her tampon surgically removed.

[Ebibi @EbibiGlass]

655 M€ dans l'IA mais désolée y'aura pas de clim pour les épreuve du bac

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species

[Ace 🇦🇬🇮🇴🇨🇽🇬🇵🇱🇨🇨🇼🇸🇧🇳🇨🇨🇻🇹🇰🇬🇩 @Illusory_Ace]

"What if the Palestinians accepted Judaism?"

[Ray ✨🍉 @PacificOfRay]

Mais si on augmente leurs impôts d’1% c’est la catastrophe, ils pourront plus se payer des yacht avec garage pour leurs lambos

[Kouka 🇲🇬 🌈🩷💜💙animanga and animals lover ❤️❤️ @Raylla06261117]

Non seulement c'est de l'IA mais c'est aussi un contenu abrutissant et aux tendances rac*stes donnant une image dégradante des femmes par la même occasion.

[𝙵𝙴𝚁𝚁𝚄𝙲𝙲𝙸𝙾 @DaPetitFantom]

En France si t'es un neo nazi assumé tu peux bosser dans l'administration, alors qu'une femme voilée non 🤡

[project hail rusty 🍉 @alittlevillainy]

every single day just feels like this image now

[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.