Sunil Tripathi committed suicide, and while missing was named as one of the Boston bombers by a bunch of Reddit detectives leading to harrassment of his family, but I don't think the suicide was a result of being misidentified.
I think that's where the GP's mistake originated, though, since there was a public misidentification of someone who committed suicide.
Used this for ages. People will bring up various alternatives (including just strictly using FFmpeg) and I have to wonder if the only use case they can fathom is clipping 1 segment out of a longer video. All suggested alternatives would involve such a garbage workflow and unintuitive experience for any real project. I dislike Electron as much as anyone else but it works fine here, and does the job better than anything else I've tried. I am very comfortable with FFmpeg and have used pretty much any tool you can name, I still use Losslesscut daily.
Not sure exactly what your use case is, but I use vidcutter for lossless clip extraction and it works great and does not require Electron (it's QT based I believe). https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter
To answer a point that's been brought up elsewhere in the thread, one nice feature of vidcutter is that you can either cut fully losslessly (on keyframes) or cut frame-perfect while only encoding the frames before and after the first and last keyframes in the cut.
The Arch Linux package for vidcutter is only 4 MB. It has dependencies, of course, but I already have all of them installed for other things. (There's nothing uncommon.) All praise to dynamic linking.
Vidcutter is good but no where near as customizable as Losslesscut (specifically in terms of keybinds) and using the timeline is nowhere near as smooth. Its being developed in a way I approve of much more but I still prefer using Losslesscut by a large margin. If it ever catches up I'll be thrilled because I do like what its about a lot more but I don't really think it currently competes in terms of user experience. Still if it works well for you then there's a lot to appreciate.
I use FFmpeg for multiple streams and mux them into another container file format. Don't see what LosslessCut does outside of FFmpeg expect for the UI. The backend is anyway FFmpeg as another comment mentions. CLI haters I can understand, not me.
I at times am chopping up 2-8 hour videos with dozens of clips that are not pre-defined for me. I can do this with FFmpeg and I love doing most things from terminal but its a pretty hard sell when what you're doing involves something inherently graphical. I use FFmpeg for all sorts of things but it just doesn't make sense for editing such large videos on the fly like this.
I mostly use 7zip but I've had a number of archives in the past that would simply not properly extract using 7zip and WinRAR had no issues with. 7zip is fine, however I don't see it as superior really in any notable way. I don't understand why everyone is crazy over it at this point. It's good, but so is WinRAR. Why is it sad for people to use one good program over the other when they both accomplish the same thing in about the same way? There's very little special about 7zip for typical day to day use.
Reality is, years don't mark anything. People have been saying "x year is the worst" increasingly for the last 4 years, and 2020 is the only recent one that actually fits. Tomorrow isn't going to shift anything, it's just how we keep track of time. Expecting a year to contain itself is what leads to this yearly disappointment everyone seems to experience. What I find frustrating, is that all people can say about most deaths now a day is "this year is the worst". No sentiments, nothing about the person who's passed. Just self absorbed focus on how this year sucks (they all suck apparently if I were to listen to people yearly). I wish we'd celebrate the person by default instead.
MF DOOM was one of the greats. One of the only reasons I could get into hip hop. Really heartbreaking.
> Expecting a year to contain itself is what leads to this yearly disappointment everyone seems to experience.
This thought reminds me of Utah Phillips in Ani DiFranco's song "Bridges":
> Fifties, sixties, seventies, nineties, that whole idea of decade packages. Things don’t happen that way. The Vietnam War heated up in 1965 and ended in 1975. Well, what’s that got to do with decades? No, that packaging of time is a journalistic convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas. I defy that.
(And I say this having myself just told a family member that I'm sure people everywhere are happy for 2020 to be over.)
