Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the “future of tax filing.”
Includes awesome documentation and is public domain.
(Despite the button saying “subscribe”, that button and the “paywall” do not require payment, only an email verification link.)
I hope it’s going to get maintained each year.
Awesome news! Thanks for the heads-up!
Developed by a govt body with tax dollars. Fuck these asshats who want to take it away.
Ugh, it’s licensed CC0 public domain. Assholes.
‽ You do realize they’re required by law to dedicate government work to the public domain? And I understand that’s not Copyleft but how does that make them assholes?
You’re telling me the government is legally barred from using a copy left license?!?
Source?
It’s also mentioned in the license file.
Jesus we need to change that law. The US is so far behind the EU…
Edit: looks like USPS is exempted from that law. We should probably exempt IRS too.
Anyone have the links to any repos? I’m not in the mood to hand out an email address just to read this story.
Edit: Lemmy is worse each and every day. Fuck me for disturbing the hive mind you fucking wankers.
I believe this is it, but do your own research before using it for anything important!
https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file
Edit: Gizmodo article with no paywall
It is what the article links to.
Am I the only one on the entire Internet that uses an ad blocker?
What do ads have to do with it? I’m blocking ads and tracking to the point that it’s rather extreme and not convenient for most people.
Edit: Now I see what you mean. I block at the DNS level but using Safari’s Hide Distracting Elements feature I got rid of the
<div>doing the blur. Had I been on desktop I probably would’ve been able to get it using Element Inspect, but I’d thought this specific website was smarter than that.If you used an ad blocker, at least a decent one, you would not have had the paywall pop-up. I didn’t. I just got to read the article, and I didn’t know it was paywalled until you mentioned it.
That’s what it has to do with it
Did you not read my edit?
Anyway, I prefer to block at the DNS level so that ads and tracking are blocked across all apps on all my devices—this happens before traffic is bounced through a double hop VPN.
I intentionally don’t block in-browser because then it’s likely to hide content coming from domains I want blocked from apps too. That’s why I use the Hide Distracting Elements feature of Safari.
Finally, the blurry
<div>blocking the article isn’t even an ad. It would be cool if you didn’t shit on my setup without knowing anything about it in the first place. If I were making assumptions about yours I’d say you’re only running a “decent” ad blocker in your browser and missing 99% of the bullshit in apps and outside the browser.Removed by mod
