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They might not be solvable but you can get 5-10% Improvement on them, unfortunately you can't do a new product that is exactly like QuickBooks but 5% better at reconciliation etc.

LLMs by their inherent nature cannot be relied on to be true and correct, which by coincidence are the only traits that matter in accounting.

If you want better software, then sure, maybe a coding assistant can help you write it faster, but when it comes to actually doing accounting I would not rely on an LLM in any way shape or form any more than I would do so for law.


Bingo! You found the prize! Putting tech that is prone to hallucination in charge of anything that has serious consequences when it's wrong is a terrible idea. You do not want hallucinated payments or receipts, or legal citations. You want these things to be both true and correct, EVERY TIME.

“We had to re-state our financials and amend our taxes because the AI screwed up and we didn’t have anyone who understood accounting look at our books.”

Yeah but cloudflare is one of the few places with free static hosting so ... Not much of a choice


They find devices that are easy to hack (and I mean rip and tear) and extract the decryption keys from each of them, from what I have heard cheap chinese tvs and set top boxes, they extract the keys from the chips (hardware hacking, heard some even use microscopes to read the keys by hand), and then use them to decrypt streams, I heard that they catch them pretty fast to they use like 1 device per season. This is why they use mostly stollen devices.


The really shitty thing is that vulnerable devices get blacklisted en masse, so all legitimate users get stuck with 480p video content on streaming services. The Nexus 5 got this treatment, as I understand it, because it was too easy to extract the keys.


Not a Netflix user here: Are you saying that paying customers get cut off from higher video quality, that they are possibly paying for, and pressured into buying new devices? That shit should be illegal!


Yes, that's exactly what happens!


It provides a good incentive for manufacturers to invest into security for their devices.


No, it provides no incentive at all!

It's the users who suffer when this happens, not the manufacturers. The manufacturers couldn't care less, the money is already in the bank.

If the manufacturers were required to replace all the revoked devices at their cost, that would be a real incentive.


Manufactures suffer reputational damage from it. Also keys could be revoked before they finish selling through all of their stock of produced phones.


More easily in the past (I don't think if it's still true for 4K) you only needed an HDMI splitter to bypass HDCP copy protection.


Now you need both a buggy HDCP 1.4 splitter and an HDCP 2.1 to 1.4 converter.


Interesting - do you have any sources to read further?


Search for widevine decrypt. You’ll find code and forums where at least some L3 (software) keys are publicly shared. For high resolution on some platforms, you need L1 keys, but as far as I understand the decryption process basically stays the same once you have a working key.

Random article: https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/picking-the-widevine-locks

Claimed to be L1 key leaks (probably all blacklisted by now): https://github.com/Mavrick102/WIDEVINE-CDM-L1-Giveaway


You won't find a ton of up-to-date info that would let you do the same - the scene groups hold their methods closely specifically because of this cat-and-mouse game.


The analog hole is real.


I was wondering how easy it is

I.e I know that hdmi stream can be encrypted so I guess for Netflix you can't juste have a "hdmi splitter"? Do you need to go as far as plugging yourself just before the lcd pixels ? And if so , is it the moment where its easier to have a high def camera pointed at your lcd screen with post processing?


It runs the Arduino app on a separate mcu stm32l4 I think. So you have the realtime as well, but what you describe is already possible with the pi and asymmetric multiprocessing using openamp and zephyr.

I remember reading about this in some blogs so here is one I found that describes just that: https://telmomoya.blogspot.com/2016/10/asymmetric-multi-proc...


I know that this is how shizuku (0) does it and it is required anyway if you want to install multi apk applications so stiff won't change for most people then?

(0): https://shizuku.rikka.app/


Man I loves the original concept for demos but never build anything real with it. Curious if anyone did?


Still running it today with millions of documents. Runs fine. I still maintain an active php fork of the driver (with actual types) and add new features as they get added to the database. Yes, it still gets new features every few years.


Just wait for it, from what I know Sony uses clang for it toolchain, don't know about the others so if enough studios start to switch they will start to offer the tools.

Side note: I have been using msvc in wine for almost 5 years now, so if that works I don't know why the Sony/Nintendo/Xbox toolchain wouldn't.

Have you tried the intellij IDEs? I thought that they were pretty similar in terms of experience, although I have used them for java/dotnet primarily.


Not exactly true WASM compilcation is in a different thread, but the execution happens on the same thread as JS if you don't do any webworker stuff.

Edit: https://apryse.com/blog/how-to-enable-webassembly-threads


Come to eastern Europe, nobody here buys a new car (people can't afford it unfortunately). For that exact reason most people have retained the knowledge of how to buy a used car, and choose one that is not awful, or at least the least bad one.


I live in Amsterdam, and we can absolutely afford to buy new (especially if we were to choose not to live in Amsterdam), but there are reliable car dealers where you can buy a good second hand car for a decent price. I really don't see the point in buying new.


In Eastern Europe I regularly hear that car disintegrated into three pieces or engine fell off after a collision. These do not happen to a car having minor crash in its history, these happen to a car which had been totaled in the past. Eastern Europe is the scrapyard of Western Europe and yet its inhabitants found a way to fell superior about their 15 years old BMWs with engine mounted on three screws.


Some modern cars are specifically designed with frangible engine mounts to eject it downwards in a frontal crash. This is a safety measure to dissipate energy and prevent the engine from being pushed back into the passenger cabin.


I am originally from EE and there are reports every month on how cars cause accidents because breaks didn't work, or an entire wheel flies out of its place. Not to mention the gazillion cases of accidents caused by improper headlights.

The only reason the second-hand market works there is because most of the used cars come from Germany, and they have strict laws for checking the cars periodically. Once they roll on the EE roads for a few years, then the cracks start popping up which cause horrible accidents.

Just implying that EE is this amazing place where second-hand cars have no issues and Americans should follow the same model shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.


So the issue isn’t second hand cars but a lack of oversight.


It depends on the country but some eastern European countries require an annual car inspection as part of registration. They check for basic stuff to ensure it's not falling apart. Thoroughness varies, and some inspectors can be bribed.


People in Eastern Europe buy new cars.


Most new cars in Eastern Europe are leases owned by banks. People buy brand new cars for themselves with cash every 15-20 years. The rest is importing totaled cars from Germany, Netherlands, and US of A.


That's how new car purchases work in the US too. Unless you pay cash, which few people do, the car belongs to whichever entity granted the loan to purchase it.


I live in Bulgaria and even google is pretty bad at this, however adding the Bulgarian word for price at the end of it always worked for me both in kagi and in google


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