Zerog

il n'y a pas une seule personne qui n'a pas peur de se battre. ce qui est important, c'est comment tu te débrouilles

[Zerog @zerog5531]

@tsukiguke

[Lucas @Luprimha]

A mi viejo le phisearon la tarjeta y le gastaron 400 dólares en Steam. Era cancelar sus vacaciones y ver como mierda morfar. En menos de 10 horas desde el ticket de soporte, Steam identificó y reembolsó los cargos. Gabe Newell es el mejor tipo de este planeta y yo su soldado.

[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.

[perverted lesbian chuu @orbitju]

artist dropped the most important work of art in history and just dipped

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 SUMMARY: What we know so far about the RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot

- A farmer driving home in the early hours found three white vans blocking a village road with no one inside

- Suspicious, she immediately turned around before seeing a "group of Middle Eastern-looking young guys run off through the trees" in the direction of the air base wearing masks

- One van displayed a UK number for a company called "Fuel 2You", which is not registered on Companies House. The number also appeared to be one digit short and does not ring when called

- She immediately called 999 and five men were arrested within 25 minutes under the Explosives Act. Homes were evacuated and a major incident was declared just after 8am

- Later today, the two rear doors of two of the vans were open and large black containers could be seen scattered around with a bomb disposal robot operating next to the vans

- The five suspects were then further arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act

- Counter Terror Police are understood to think that a suspected bomb plot linked to Iran is the most likely scenario due to US air bombers operating from the base

- Last night, before the incident, reports said that the base was at its highest alert with tractors blocking all gates. A local in the village said they had been stopped at gunpoint at a roadblock by a group of American soldiers, who ordered them to put their hands out of the car and identify themselves

- Donald Trump claims the US had been investigating the five suspects and had them "under view for a long time"

[Total War @totalwar]

It's impossible to summarise a legend like Toddy in under a minute, you say? Hold my beer 🍺

[𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔥 𝔇𝔞𝔴𝔫𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔨𝔢𝔯🍷 @LunethD]

"Only War" - Warhammer 40k

Fan Animation by
Bad Company Shorts 💀🔥

[Sabaton @sabaton]

What a time to be alive! Sabaton, @windroseband and @Nanowarofsteel fighting each other as supporters of different teams at the Warhammer: The Old World World Team Championships. ⚔️

📍 Talavera de la Reina, Spain
📅 September 25–27, 2026

May the best army win.

[GmanLives @GmanLives]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is a comedy game.

[lulu jr. @_lakaiser]

ahora todos son otakus pero yo me acuerdo cuando en la secundaria tenia un amigo que solo me hablaba de anime afuera del colegio porque sino todos sus amigos lo excluían

[Rodolfo ⚣︎ @rokem__]

porra viado nada na vida vai ser igual a estar no quinto ano ver esse anime e me achar muito mais legal que todas as crianças

[internetdweller2029 @dweller27380]

Anime/ light novel series is called Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash. And it’s one of the rare Isekai that tries to treat the idea pretty seriously. In that in this series beings getting isekaied is so common that there’s a entire easy legal process for it.

[Damien @mrdaminou]

Rappel : il s'agit d'un département français hein... Imaginez un autre département obligé de faire, le tollé que ça susciterait...

[ab22 @ab2204038408]

フランス空軍の方から貰っちゃっいました！

[🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror @BillTheKid1603]

*Post the hardest poster ever in a war against Germany they won

[vaper gator @vapertvaping]

Everyone else during the Heresy: "y...you betrayed us, you betrayed the emperor, how could you!!!"

"N..nuh uh, you were MEAN to my primarch, so now I must kill you!!"

Meanwhile house oroborn during the Heresy:

[Dolfijnmanjohns @Dolfijnmanjohns]

40K larpers: “The T’au are the good guys.”

Fantasy larpers: