FFhistory: first slop

While I observe the world with its “AI” evangelists suspiciously reminding of annoying religious missionaries (yes, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard the news from that newer part of widely circulated book that’s just under two millennia old, thank you very much) and the feats of token-wasting (name changed from “vibe-coding” to keep up with the times) like two FFmpeg rewrite attempts in Rust—probably just to spite the Nigel (name changed to protect the guilty) formerly responsible for FFaccount, since slop in any other language would be as smelly secure. Since I don’t use either of those three projects, I’d rather talk about the time when FFmpeg almost got its first organic slop. People submitting sub-par patches are no news (as there were e.g. mediocre H.264 encoder rejected for not being good for anything really—x264 is a tough competition after all; or MS Video-1 encoder initially rejected for the same reason but later merged because it’s a feature), but this one is special because it…