There was (is?) a pilot project including randomly selected taxpayers with extremely simple tax situations where they had autofiling.
WilfordGrimley
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WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•The Unique ID You're Giving to EveryoneEnglish5·1 month agoThe guy behind The New Oil is half of the team behind Surveillance Report. It’s a killer podcast well worth your time. Videos are on YouTube and elsewhere.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it possible to increase the RAM in a laptop whose memory is soldered to the motherboard?English171·1 month agoWith a fast enough ssd you can use zram or a swap partition to emulate having more RAM.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Technology@beehaw.org•UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is DistractedEnglish32·2 months ago…We’ve all been doing that for years.
Snowden implicated Google and Apple in 2013.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does Leaflet Distribution in Bath Actually Work for Local Businesses?English1·2 months agoWhat a cringe, and obvious attempt at promoting your leaflet distribution company through fake online engagement, @cheetahdistribution@thelemmy.club.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'English747·2 months agop sure he Epsteined himself.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto World News@lemmy.ml•Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, but import taxes still in place for Canada and ChinaEnglish4·2 months agoCanadian tariffs paused for 30 days also after end of day phone call between Trudeau and Trump.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Canada@lemmy.ca•Trump threats are inspiring Canada to tackle trade war from withinEnglish2·2 months agoGreat idea, Sam Porter Bridges.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Canada@lemmy.ca•Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffsEnglish5·2 months agoHaving used Xplore when I lived in an unserviced rural area, the service is extremely shotty.
This is the right decision non the less.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Technology@beehaw.org•China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threatsEnglish8·2 months agoSo does ChatGPT, and I can’t run that offline…
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?English2·2 months agoA distilled DeepSeek R1 model.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why haven’t we seen a peer-to-peer (P2P) social media platform yet?English8·3 months agoCheck out aether.
I really wanted this to be as popular as Lemmy, but it never caught on in a big way.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Fediverse@lemmy.world•No End-to-End Encrypted Fediverse?English2·3 months agoXMPP is a tried and tested e2ee standard.
There is mention of e2ee voice and video chat on the site.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Canada@lemmy.ca•Mark Carney did "The Daily Show" last nightEnglish31·3 months agoIf the Fed Libs want my vote back, they’ll have to make good on their promise of electoral reform with the help of the NDP or Bloc before a confidence vote.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which fast food restaurant (in your opinion) has the best burger?English7·4 months agoSir, this is a Wendy’s.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Technology@beehaw.org•Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackersEnglish6·4 months agoSignal Private Messenger is free open source, works on everything. Your grandma could use this.
I have slowly migrated all of my friends and family to this over the last few years.
All of the big ‘encrypted’ messengers like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger use the Signal Protocol under the hood but insert their own shady business and tracking defeating a lot of the purpose.
There are other perhaps more anonymous options like SimpleX or XMRchat but they are not practical nor needed for most threat models.
Matrix is not quite mature enough but is a better option than discord for gaming communities.
Signal everyday. I would not recommend Telegram. DYOR.
WilfordGrimley@linux.communityto Technology@beehaw.org•New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.English30·4 months agoMy APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with.
I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me.
If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved.
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/campaigns/offering-and-expanding-automatic-tax-filing-services.html