Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Person on 4 sites
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French software engineer who leads VLC.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Role: President of VideoLAN; one of the lead developers of VLC (opens wiqqi.app)
- Founded: Videolabs (2012) (opens wiqqi.app)
- History: Joined VLC at École Centrale Paris in 2003; led the project from 2006 (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Site: jbkempf.com (opens www.jbkempf.com)
“VLC 3.0.24”
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GitHub: @jbkempf (opens github.com)
“fribidi — GNU FriBidi”
- Bluesky: @jbkempf.com (opens bsky.app)
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Site: jbkempf.com (opens www.jbkempf.com)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Keeping old software alive and building the next generation are not opposite jobs, and in open source they are usually the same job. (opens korrents.com)
“Keeping old software alive and building the next generation are not opposite jobs. In open source, they are usually the same job.”
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Finding vulnerabilities in code has become cheaper, but reproducing, fixing, reviewing and backporting the fixes has not. (opens korrents.com)
“And the costs are asymmetric: finding suspicious code got cheaper; reproducing the issue, deciding whether it is exploitable, fixing it correctly, reviewing the fix, backporting it to an eight-year-old branch and not…”
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Recording formats and the physical discs that hold them decay, and their content is lost unless it is actively preserved. (opens korrents.com)
“The recorders that made them are dying, the discs themselves are aging, and until now the open-source stack simply could not read them.”
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Keeping old software alive and building the next generation are not opposite jobs, and in open source they are usually the same job. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Thinkpad X1 Carbon (opens rcmnd.app)
“I currently spend my days with a Thinkpad X1 Carbon, 6th generation, i7-8550U and 16GB of RAM, with a large SSD and a 1440p screen.”
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Debian (opens rcmnd.app)
“I'm back to Debian. In my life, I've tested a lot of distributions, including Mandrake, Gentoo, and Arch, but in the end I always come back to a Debian/Sid.”
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KDE/Plasma (opens rcmnd.app)
“My desktop is KDE/Plasma, tweaked to a minimal state, with very few widgets.”
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Thinkpad X1 Carbon (opens rcmnd.app)