Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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I believe unpaid, I believe as a volunteer, he's doing massive refactorings.
Andreas Reinhardt and Anton Kurnov rewriting ffmpeg.c with threading, celebrating those guys, celebrating the untold labor that's gone into this that actually doesn't change anything from the user standpoint.
The files are exactly the same, but wow, the airplane has been rebuilt whilst it's in the air.
Like JB said, we don't care who you are, where you're from, what you do.
Teenagers have written thousands of lines of assembly over the years.
Give a shout out back in the days to Daniel Kang.
So also highlighting the work of people like Rukai Peng.
This is a 16-year-old, some of his first contributions to FFmpeg.
Actually doing and putting some of these quote-unquote security researchers to shame by actually finding issues and fixing them and being 16.
There's no barriers.
There's no barriers to you have to study at college under this person and understand these.
You can learn C, and let's be honest, it's from the K&R book.
Learn C. You can learn assembly.
We'll talk about that maybe a bit later.
You can contribute to world-class technologies.
And he also did a good job because he didn't play the alarmist CVE heist, create a CVE, which is like a public exposure of security and do these big, scary, red 7.5 priority.
He just fixed an issue in Git after three days and just fixed it.
He didn't need to go and play a big security drama about it.
And I think...
I posted, you know, the kids are all right.