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meanfield ◴[] No.45763778[source]
There are literally thousands of wrappers for ffmpeg (other examples: imagemagick, ghostscript) that do exactly that. E.g. all commercial and dozens of open source video converters. So there is no lack of simple software for people who know little about the problem they're trying to solve (e.g. playing a downloaded mkv their shitty preinstalled video player doesn't accept), the problem is rather one of knowing that open source software exists and how to find it. Googling or asking an LLM does mostly present you software that costs money and is inferior to anything open source (and some malware).
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ido ◴[] No.45763913[source]
Does it? I often ask ChatGPT such things and specifying I want free software options is enough (it often mentions which options are and aren’t free on its own).
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1. int_19h ◴[] No.45770762[source]
It's great if you already know enough (or know how to read the manpage) to verify that what it tells you is really what it does. Given that e.g. LLM coding assistants sometimes end up doing things like reverting code they didn't write or deleting "useless" files, I wouldn't trust any LLM-generated shellcode without a thorough review.