There are many massively useful things available as free and open source software.
Definitely not. It certainly no longer belongs in "the original vision of the internet" category. Not when it wants to be a part of evil forces seeking to police the internet.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
https://www.eutimes.net/2021/01/thousands-are-uninstalling-f...
https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...
This is maybe "known" to the current audience, but chatGPT is an excellent soundboard for crafting ffmpeg scripts to do pretty much anything - makes the tool about 10 times as accessible to me.
In case you're not aware, though, there has been work on improving the CLI - it was discussed on HN[1] earlier this week, and there's an excellent video[2] linked in that thread with an overview from Anton
You may be right about essential vs accidental complexity - my domain knowledge is too weak to have an opinion - I just get the subjective impression of "holy crap this makes git feel like my mother tongue".
Cool. Remembering the recent Phoronix RISC-V benchmarking, wonder how much of an improvement these optimisations will make...
