chocolatkey

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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Reverse-engineering Japanese ebook DRM is much more fun than English. You run into all sorts of mistaken cryptography assumptions, fun exploits, obfuscation etc. Hint for bookwalker: check out the app
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Not 100% sure if this works anymore, but a "trick" I found is creating an account when they ask to sign up for free trial, go through the process, don't actually pay for the free trial, then go back to the sheet music you wer
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I'm definitely not disagreeing that manga can be more interesting. I'm mainly a manga reader myself, and find many more interesting series covering esoteric topics. But it's about appealing to the largest possible audience, a
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I actually happen to work in this industry, and this is definitely correct. We've actually shifting towards licensing more webtoons than manga, because in the digital world, manga doesn't sell very well (unless you're dealing
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Very happy about this as a long-time Hetzner dedicated and cloud customer. The only "issue" I've had with cloud is the lack of video memory due to the virtualized environment they run in, but that's a special case becaus
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
There are quite a few platforms that still offer e.g.1080p with L3, which I'm still looking for a replacement source for. The NHK uses it for time-limited content, such as interviews with manga authors which I've ripped for people
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Ergodox EZ
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
If this works well, I would pay a seriously high amount of money. My daily coding time is currently limited by the pain in my hand/fingers that eventually becomes too uncomfortable, and I have to wait for a "cooldown" period
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
> you can only read them in [publisher-approved apps] You can read them in LCP-approved apps. Publishers don't decide which apps are LCP-approved. There is a decent selection of apps that exists, on mobile and desktop. (the followin
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
It improves on it because the barrier to entry is much lower for apps to integrate it, and the ecosystem for LCP is arguably already much larger than for Adobe Adept. There are multiple mobile apps, the thorium reader on desktop, and more.
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
As someone who works in the ebook sector, I'll say that no one loves Adobe's DRM, whether it be the publisher, vendor or user. It's implemented by apps and such because of the network effect - other apps support it, and users
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
The most interesting part to me was the quote from Denuvo, presumably testing out pluton: “The Volterra devices are neat and powerful, ideal for us to test our market-leading anti-piracy and anti-cheat game security technologies. They’r
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Note you can't just get the keys even if you have a fingerprint. You would need to maintain continuous access to the device while it is still signed in as the user. It would be pretty easy to the "find my device", if the user
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I think I wasn't clear enough in my initial post, but we personally reach out to and recruit and manage the freelancers ourselves, not through a jobs platform. Our business needs very specialized people you can't really find on Up
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I'm considering it for foreign payments, but what I'm looking for is really a good API for ACH, Wire etc. because different freelancers want to use different payment methods. Honestly if Mercury (which we have an account with) wou
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I think the difference is that the freelancers in our business can be paid very different amounts in a month, from ~$10-5000 in range. Deel is probably fine for you with what you're paying freelancers with its price, but imagine we hav
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
These are not employees, they're freelancers from all around the world.
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
That looks reasonable, having worked with Stripe's APIs before I know that part would at least be nice. But I am worried about pricing with the "contact sales". If they charged per transfer initiated that would be a dealbreak
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I use Zelle through the BoA small business account's web interface, there is no charge. I tried getting Zelle API access through US Bank but they never replied so I'm stuck with BoA web. Payoneer is really cagey about how you unlo
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Payoneer is one of the options we use to pay freelancers, in fact many of them quite like it, but for the freelancers' sake, I prefer 100% free methods like Zelle or ACH where possible because you have to pay a fee to take money out of
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
$49/contract per month is just way way too much, sorry. Some freelancers don't even get paid that much in a month with the work they are doing. And with the churn we have as well, at a per contract rate we'd be pouring insane
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
This is completely different. Stripe/Braintree are ways to charge customers on their credit/debit card on your website, completely unwieldy for paying freelancers. You'd have to have freelancers set up Stripe merchant account
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I have a real-life scenario that applies to my business: we employee 50+ freelancers ee pay every month. I dread when it comes time to pay them, because I have to log into multiple bank account and manually send each transfer using clunky w
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
Here's the gogs git instance referred to: https://code.qsyunying.com/explore/repos Based on what I see on there, it looks like a third party, not tiktok official
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
When you set up a Cloudflare account, you tell your domain provider (Namecheap, Godaddy, Google etc.) that you want Cloudflare to have complete control over your domain by setting the domain's nameservers to Cloudflare's. If you w
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
> On Windows only, the mime package now ignores a registry entry recording that the extension .js should have MIME type text/plain. As someone whose primary dev machine runs Windows, this is a very convenient improvement to a pitfal
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by chocolatkey 4y ago
I'm surprised there's been many mentions of DigitalOcean, but none of Linode, which I think of as occupying almost the exact same space in terms of offerings.
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by chocolatkey 5y ago
Because most of the popular series are already tied up in exclusive licensing agreements with someone else, and if you want the publisher to reconsider the exclusive agreement with your competitor when it comes time to renew the license, th
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by chocolatkey 5y ago
You are correct, this is the reason many JP publishers are hiring agencies (of varying quality) to localize their content and publish in English themselves, or exclusively on their platform. Because they get those subsidies
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by chocolatkey 5y ago
I run a competitor to Azuki, Comikey, and I'm happy to offer some insight into this growing industry. 1. Absolutely, Japanese publishers are interested, but maybe not for the reasons you think. They have realized that the Korean (webto

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