💰 FFmpeg Challenges Google: ‘Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs’
A sharp look at how corporate dependence on open source hides a funding crisis—AI tools may find bugs, but they don’t pay maintainers to fix them.
A detailed report highlights escalating tensions between FFmpeg’s volunteer maintainers and Google over how open-source security issues are managed. After a Google AI scanner flagged a small bug, FFmpeg criticized tech giants for pushing unpaid contributors to shoulder security responsibilities. The article examines the imbalance between open-source reliance and financial neglect, warning that without sustainable funding, essential projects like FFmpeg and libxml2 could collapse.
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🖥️ Exploring FreeBSD: A Developer’s Perspective
A thoughtful technical reflection that reveals both FreeBSD’s elegance and its rough edges, perfect for developers curious about BSD systems.
This piece offers a hands-on exploration of FreeBSD, contrasting its architecture, security defaults, and package management with Linux distributions like Fedora. It praises FreeBSD’s cohesive design and unique tools such as ZFS and jails, while critiquing its community dynamics and usability hurdles. The author concludes with an honest assessment of whether FreeBSD can outperform Linux for desktop or development environments.
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🧭 Fixing Time: Rockchip RTC Patch Corrects a Calendar Glitch
An elegant illustration of deep kernel engineering—resolving subtle but essential hardware-timekeeping inconsistencies.
A Linux kernel update addresses a quirky hardware bug in Rockchip’s real-time clock that mistakenly treats November as having 31 days. The patch introduces conversion routines and synchronization logic with the Gregorian calendar to ensure consistent date accuracy across operations. It establishes a shared reference date and harmonized handling for all Rockchip RTC interactions.
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⚙️ yt-dlp Now Requires External JavaScript Runtime for Full YouTube Support
A notable evolution for yt-dlp, embracing modularity and cross-runtime compatibility to stay resilient against YouTube’s changing backend logic.
The latest yt-dlp release introduces official support for external JavaScript runtimes—Deno, Node, QuickJS, and Bun—making one mandatory for complete YouTube functionality. The new yt-dlp-ejs component ensures seamless runtime integration, reflecting yt-dlp’s adaptation to evolving YouTube technical restrictions and modern scripting environments.
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