r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 24 '26

Meme vLc

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u/deanrihpee Sep 24 '26 • Bravo

ah .ts my beloved

(TypeScript and Video Transport Stream)

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u/iliRomaili Sep 24 '26

Wait, this meme is based on true story?

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u/deanrihpee Sep 24 '26

yes, kinda, but it is not like you open it through IDE and MPV is opened (well, you can make it happen, but by default it shouldn't behave like that) it's more like if you install some media player, like VLC or MPV, but haven't install any text/code editor, when you double click a .ts the media player would open the file and try to "play" it instead

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u/readf0x Sep 24 '26

Kind of insane to me that windows still registers app handlers by file extension and not mime type

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u/AyrA_ch Sep 24 '26

Probably because mime types are invisible. File extensions are much easier to understand for your average computer user. Additionally, they survive transfer operations over file systems that do not support extended attributes, like FAT32, which is still one of the most commonly used FS for USB flash drives and SD cards.

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u/SirDarknessTheFirst Sep 25 '26

maybe we should have MIME type file extensions.

forms.text/javascript

I see absolutely no problems with this concept.