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Moving to rust (media.piefed.zip)
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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 137 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What did Rust do to FFmpeg to make them so mad lol

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 103 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, just realized what day it is

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

East Coast here, it's not even midnight for another 4 minutes!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The world doesnt only exist within the US timezone ;)

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I don't understand. I learned in school that America is the only important country in the world.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

In the real east coast April 1St ended over an hour ago

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I am on the east coast and it had been April 1 for 14 hours when you posted this

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But the message says it was sent on March 31st.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Timezones, probably!

[–] kubica@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

They just were so fucking fast they posted to the past.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of April 1st posts seem to get made on March 31st and that includes from people in fairly western timezones, so I think they just get their post done the previous night, go to sleep, and let the chaos unravel.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

I guess next year I'll have to post a joke just after midnight. I'll wake to find confusion and chaos.

Often we are not even included on maps.

[–] grozzle@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the timestamp is generally local for the reader, not the poster.

[–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 65 points 1 month ago

I guess not rust itself, but people telling them to switch to rust over and over again. They use a lot of assembly magic to get good performance, they aren't in C land.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The person behind their twitter account is a notorious shitter.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well

That checks out for xitter

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

did you know, in spain (or some regions thereof) the "x" is pronounced as sh