Readit NewsThis is how corruption is defined.
Corruption is usually when there is personal benefit to the politician themselves.
The only thing that defies logic is how poorly your strawman is constructed.
It's not a codec made for one game back in 1994, it's still in very active use today if you're using such a rare and uncommon program as Photoshop.
> The latest episode was sparked after a Google AI agent found an especially obscure bug in FFmpeg. How obscure? This “medium impact issue in ffmpeg,” which the FFmpeg developers did patch, is “an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”
This doesn't feel like a medium-severity bug, and I think "Perhaps reconsider the severity" is a polite reading. I get that it's a bug either way, but this leaves me with a vague feeling of the ffmpeg maintainer's time being abused.
I don't understand how anyone believes that behavior is acceptable.
1) allow the vulnerabilities to remain undiscovered & unpatched zero-days (stop submitting "slop" CVEs.)
2) supply the patches (which i'm sure the goalpost will move to the maintainers being upset that they have to merge them.)
3) fund the project (including the maintainers who clearly misunderstand the severity of the vulnerabilities and describe them as "slop") (no thank you.)
This entire thread defies logic.
It's an inhumane system, but as someone heavily impacted by US immigration policy, I'd much prefer they enforce the laws evenly and then fix them where they're broken rather than disadvantaging everyone going through the legal process while those that cheat get to jump ahead.
That is incredibly optimistic to believe that any legislation reforming immigration will be passed in the next decade.
There is a reason ICE was neutralized until now. Life is short. We don't have time for congress to play politics while Americans and their spouses suffer. Let people live their lives.