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What are your latest privacy wins ? (piefed.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My big win (in the making) is that I'm going to file my taxes completely offline. Working on the documents in isolated VM, using tax software offline, and sending paper forms wherever I can. Unfortunately New York state is not accepting paper forms, as far as I know...

[–] unknowingvoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is VM?

[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Virtual Machine

[–] unknowingvoid@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

It is super simple to set up and way less esoteric than it sounds. Very useful too.

[–] decrochay@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

cool, what tax software? (open source?)

[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Ha, I wish! It's H&R Block. But it works offline, I can download update files, and I'm not forced to online filing.

Unfortunately, seems that tax software is too complex for enthusiasts to start an open source project. And big tax filing corpos has no incentive to go open source.