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Lately loving this update of the old IBM slide [1]: A computer can never FIND OUT, so a computer must never FUCK AROUND. https://samim.io/p/2022-01-24-a-comput

• tantalor 2y ago
  Yeah that's what I don't get about this from the start. Accounting software is not a source of truth. It reflects reality. If there is a discrepancy, then you audit the accounts by comparing to reality, e.g. paper sales receipts.
  • tgaj 2y ago
    Do they even have paper sales receipts? Maybe the cash register is integrated with accounting software and is only printing receipts for customers.
    • throwaway173738 2y ago
      Someone involved in this project probably lost their voice chanting “paperless office” for a decade.
    • thwarted 2y ago
      Sales receipts are not necessarily a spool of paper. It's just a separate log of individual activity/events and is the source of truth for the list of transactions. A spool of paper is easy to make/inherently tamper-evident (for the risk profile of a cash register), but cryptographically signed/sealed logs that are sent (spooled!) to a parallel system in tandem also qualifies. If the "accounting software" is taking a shortcut by not recording an independent transaction log, the entire system is not very auditable.
  • chrisjj 2y ago
    Unfortunately Horizon replaced paper receipts.
  • surfingdino 2y ago
    And when you do, you might discover that your OCR system lies to you https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
• marcosdumay 2y ago
  > Have things changed since? Yes, things have changed. Managers now are also not held accountable.