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cassianolealtoday at 9:11 AM4 repliesview on HN

> Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet.

I get what the author is saying but I really dislike this hyperbole. The Internet will be absolutely fine if FFmpeg suddenly disappears.

Companies that rely on it in the core of their product may not, but the Internet absolutely will, and the vast majority of websites and other Internet services will keep working just fine.


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ekelsentoday at 2:50 PM

It's how LLMs write. The tweet / article is written by an LLM and that's how it does.

newscluestoday at 9:40 AM

Without YouTube and porn, is there really an internet?

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afavourtoday at 11:03 AM

It’s the invisible engine of what makes up the majority of today’s internet. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. Tomorrows internet might not be the same.

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