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You know FreeTaxUSA uses Direct File on the backend, right?

They built IRS Direct File which was a huge improvement. Then the administration killed it to serve tax prep companies.

and the same questions keep getting asked over and over.

This is a feature not a bug. The people asking those questions are new blood and accepting and integrating them is how you sustain your community.

Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.

literally just 'git rebase origin/main' to insert new commits to main into my branch history prior to the commits I made. No rewrites of later commits required if there are no conflicts. You seem to have an extreme misunderstanding of how git works.

What you and I consider routine work, someone who works with mostly Webdev or might consider extremely difficult. There a lot of programmers who have never used a Linux shell, or know much about networking beyond TCP, or used Linux before outside of a uni class 20 years ago.

Installing it on your PC or laptop puts your personal data and ISP subscription at risk, while installing it in a hosted VM yourself requires a bunch of Linux security and networking knowledge or else you'll get pwned pretty much immediately (https://youtu.be/40SnEd1RWUU). So this service is giving you a VM already set up with a security baseline.

git rebase can do that easily, I do it all the time when prepping feature branches for submission to the main branch

At my workplace we now use Claude Code to parse written specs and source code, search through JIRA, and draft, refine and organize tickets (using the JIRA API via a CLI tool). Way faster than through the UI.

However as you point out we have no program-accessible source of data on who stakeholders, contributors, managers, etc. are and have to write a lot of that ourselves. For a smaller business perhaps one could write all of that down in an accessible way to improve this but for a large dynamic business it seems very difficult.

The identity provider is on-device and has to run on phones which don't do hardware attestation.

They can't feasibly do this in the US since many people don't have drivers licenses or passports.

If only this was a game of Victoria 3

The evidence has shown that this thinking is flawed - disruption of jobs in an industry causes a slow, wrenching, scarring adjustment process that increases the load on welfare programs and makes quality of life broadly worse: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g-s1-47352/why-economists-got...

Look at the problems South Korea is having, where there are not enough young people to support and care for the elderly. Elders face economic hardship and the healthcare system is buckling under load.

I speculate this is to help them pass the vendor business risk assessment process at larger customers.

On Discord Mods and Admins are just other users. They're not Discord staff or employees. (Reddit is different, admins are Reddit employees).

For my OSS work that is about $699 over my budget

Issues, CI, and downloads for built binaries aren't part of vanilla Git. CI in particular can be hard if you make a multi-platform project and don't want to have to buy a new mac every few years.

I have worked at organizations where most engineering and many product decisions were made bottom-up, through written RFDs and ADRs, and horizontal conversations between lead, staff and principal engineers. The tradeoff is that it can take weeks, months or years to both agree or schedule work on larger projects, where other (especially small) organizations might take hours to weeks.

In my OSS projects I appreciate if someone opens an issue or discussion with their idea first rather than starting with a PR. PRs often put me in an awkward position of saying "this code works, but doesn't align with other directions I'm taking this project" (e.g. API design, or a change making it harder to reach longer term goals)

As far as I can tell it's never been to my detriment. (I don't push others to use it in contexts where it's not my paid job.)

I also consider myself an uncritical and proud fan of handwashing and daily toothcare. Is that bad?

Using Linux as a teenager led to a step change in my family's generational wealth, some incredible personal and professional relationships, and life-defining opportunities for work and travel. I think at this point it's solidly wrapped up in my identity.

What about "I'm a Linux guy?" I don't pay any company for my Linux OSes. My favorites are nonprofits and mostly interchangeable.

Rust can be up there with C depending on the project.

I use a Wooting which is largely open source on GitHub. Also their config tool is only needed to set up your keyboard, the config is saved onto the keyboard and persists across devices, OSes, etc.

Looks like their config software works on Linux if you set up udev to allow it to flash the keyboard: https://help.wooting.io/article/147-configuring-device-acces...

If you notice these things at all, you are the target market for an analog keyboard.

Various patents expired and now you can get excellent typing keyboards from China for $30-50. Basically everyone I know who types for a living has one.

Gamers have moved on to analog keyboards which are controversial because some of their features straddle the line into cheats. e.g. with an analog keyboards you can negate all inertia in Counter-Strike or do speed tricks in Trackmania not otherwise easily accessible to keyboard players.

Planes are required to comply with instructions; if they don't they're committing a serious crime and the fighters are well within their international legal framework to shoot the plane down. They would likely escalate to a warning shot with the gun past the cockpit, and if the aircraft is large enough they might try to shoot out one engine instead of the wing or fuselage.

2014 was when Modern Standby was introduced.

Probably because "Windows Modern Standby" makes laptops unusable by turning them on in your backpack and cooking them.

https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c