• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Precisely, and this is why I’ve never trusted online “free” converters since day one. Who the fuck knows what they’re actually doing with your file, and I always assumed that most of them were fronts to steal data and IP from users who are stupid enough to upload corporate and business stuff to them.

    Anyway, there’s vanishingly little I haven’t been able to do over the years with ffmpeg or Imagemagick, their byzantine command line structures notwithstanding.

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      6 days ago

      Which is why I’ve been happy to trust them for files nobody cares about, like a random audio file that I got off the Internet. And it’s very unlikely they’d be able to exploit my media player.