Before you mistake the move as an act of resistance by those within the agency who are trying to keep the project alive, Direct File getting open-sourced was always part of the plan. The code was published in compliance with the SHARE IT Act, which requires agencies to share custom source code (though, of course, the Trump administration is not always motivated by following the law, so this wasn’t a given).

In a report published last year, the IRS explained its reasoning for making the code available publicly: “First, it would enable public scrutiny of that code and invite independent groups to assess its accuracy and report potential issues. Second, other tax administrators, both in states and internationally, could build upon and contribute to the IRS’s work, improving the robustness of the software over time and providing additional public value.”

Nah, Al Jazeera went batshit a few years ago imo. It’s also partially owned by the Qatar government, so it probably sways with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English

It’s fucked up: https://streamable.com/vaj7al

“Elon, we know exactly what that was, bruh.”

No problem. they are great currently.

The UI was pretty bad before, it took forever to get people to understand what was going on. Now it’s just a few tips and tricks and people are off and running. They did a great job.

Blender did an amazing job with their overhaul. I really don’t know why anyone would use anything else for 3d modeling. I’m hoping they pump up their CAD features, but I understand if they don’t.

Yep, and then everyone will go start looking for another option again. I hope they don’t, but those CEOs got get their more millions paychecks so they can stand up straight at the country club, somehow.

FYI, Affinity was bought by Canva, this is probably an advertising. Affinity will probably enshitify in the next release. Hopefully not, but who knows.

Their showcase reel is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQElJP1AaS0

I’m sure you know this and have heard it, but for the newbies you have to change your order to get more content. Switch between hot, top 6 hours, top 12 hours, subscribed new and overall new. In that order for me. I rarely get to overall new because it’s not addictive.

Same, I didn’t have a 3rd party app either. When it was super apparent that it was mostly bots, I used the exit of so many people to add to it. It was the best move I could have made.

There already is one that’s been going on a couple of years: https://sh.itjust.works/c/canvas@toast.ooo

It’s more of a paint program, and it’s great if you have a pen and tablet. I haven’t tried out gimp for while, but it was more of a photoshop alternative at that time. I think Apple’s version of Krita would be Procreate, but Krita is free.

Krita.org does a nice job of showing off their work and so does Blender

They’re not flashy, but they definitely make me want to download them and check them out.

Lemm.ee worked fine* for me too, it was Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works that break. I think they both use cloudflare though, yeah? That might be the thing that breaks it.

Thanks for your help. FYI, tesseract breaks too. I was wondering if it was cloudflare or something? I’ll just stick with firefox ig.

Lemmy.world does not work but lemm.ee does. So it does seem to be instance related?

Do you mean their settings are configured weird so it wouldn’t work with them specifically? No, I haven’t tried that. I don’t really have accounts on other instances anymore. It’s too bad, I’ve been having misgivings on Firefox for a bit now, I really wanted it to work.

What part of lemmy specifically does not work?

It hangs, doesn’t load at all or crashes. It’s different each time. I don’t mind hanging a bit, but not loading and crashing is kind of a pain.

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

I’m trying to parse this. If you take the basic bits, they’re saying they can do anything with the info you give them.

When you upload or input information through Firefox (anything you do), , you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information.

The rest is just justification for the first part. They basically can use it in anyway they see fit.

Do these rights apply to forks?

Edit: These are the 2 I’m concerned about in the Acceptable Use policy:

• Violate the copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property rights of others,
• Violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity,

That means corporations can go after you for either.