Uh oh

Licensed CC0. Assholes.

Actually, it’s illegal for them to make software copyleft :(

We need to change that law :(

Did they even try to get the law changed?

That law has exemptions (eg for the USPS). If they put zero effort into asking legislators to permit the IRS to ensure that the tax payers money doesn’t just turn into a subsidy for corporations, they’re assholes.

Because it’s a gift to corporations at the expense of taxpayers.

It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes.

What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements.

Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not.

Ugh, it’s licensed CC0 public domain. Assholes.

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/LICENSE

When a critical security bug is open for years on a project with plenty of funding to fix it…

They don’t seem to give a shit about security. I think the well is poisoned. Best to just use apt

Flatpak doesn’t verify signatures like normal package managers do

So the issue isn’t that you downloaded a flatpak that included malicious code. The issue is that you downloaded a legit flatpak and ended up downloading malicious code because flatpak doesn’t verify what it downloads

The sand boxing is a distraction and doesn’t matter if you downloaded malicious code

Pretty fundementale broken IMHO. Its a security nightmare

Got a link to Ms VoIP?

Googling it just gives info on Skype shutting down

Does that let you have a voicemail?

I’ve long wanted a cheap way to setup a phone, when rung, picks up and plays a message telling the caller to email me. But everything I found for this is wayy more expensive than $12/yr

I just wish there was a secure way to install it

By that definition, water is a drug

It’s not novel at all wtf

I think the majority of humanity would agree that cannabis is not a drug

So the police abused another victim. Not surprising

Fortunately marijuana isnt a drug

I still don’t see a victim of crime here. All I see is a victim of unjust laws

Sounds like a good semeritan to me