bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- Comment on Are airports difficult to navigate? (first time flyer)? 2 hours ago:
Well maybe consider looking into what South Korean customs are like.
Entering any country to “meet a boyfriend/girlfriend” will set off alarm bells. Mostly that they’re worried you will stay illegally with them permanently.
Don’t pack too much. Have return tickets already (very important to show you intend to leave), be able to show you still have a life/ties to your home country.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
It’s a fair worry.
As the admin of thelemmy.club though I will say my aim is absolutely not growth for it’s own sake. If the site starts to get larger than I want I will stop allowing signups. I welcome new users, but I’m not trying to be a big instance either.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
Right. Well it should be good for 2025, so it depends on how much/if any changes there are in the next year.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
businessinsider.com/trump-house-republican-kill-i…
Will it continue to be?
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
Unless it’s maintained it won’t be of much use. It needs to be kept up to date with tax laws, and it relies entirely on the IRS accepting the generated returns. It seems it may function for now, though.
Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 days ago:
Servers, not users. Though each server would have users.
Although I don’t think they’re bots like the post is implying. OP just spends a lot of time annoying them.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 days ago:
Generally it’s because they have their hatred of .ml as the driving force of half their free time. It’s weird and off-putting.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 days ago:
The historical backlog isn’t going anywhere. It will still be viewable on other instances.
For example here’s an old thread from a community on vlemmy.net, an instance that disappeared more than a year ago.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 1 week ago:
It sounds like this could be functional?
Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use.
It would need to be kept updated with changing laws but could we see forks turn into a FOSS tax prep software?
- Comment on Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page 1 week ago:
Switch definitely had Hulu.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 1 week ago:
Is there any way to test for this?
- Comment on Sticky situation 1 week ago:
What, a loving relationship?
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 1 week ago:
Wow thanks for the info and the work. I don’t use it much since 99% of my Lemmy use is on mobile and I prefer stock Lemmy for admin stuff, but I know at least a few of my users use it.
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 1 week ago:
Some instances host this themselves too.
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 1 week ago:
Unfortunately with Lemmy 1.0 MLMYM (the software used to provide this UI) will have to be shutdown, unless the MLMYM dev re-appears or someone forks and maintains it.
- Comment on All my homies hate microplastics 1 week ago:
Montreal’s metro uses rubber tires
- Comment on Vietnam jails 23 people over rare earths exploitation 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah love to see it
- Comment on Sub for me 2 weeks ago:
Can we perhaps not use that term as a derogatory
- Comment on Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend 2 weeks ago:
I mean we should start high on the second home and go way up from there IMO
- Comment on Portal 2 Community Edition's new, upgraded lighting system (no raytracing required) 2 weeks ago:
I’ve played Portal 2 in VR
yes you need to be VERY used to VR to even think about this without vomiting
- Comment on Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! 2 weeks ago:
I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.
Your intentions can be whatever. You are actively harming Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.
Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance”
Really because every turn I see it seems like they push people away from joining .ml…
fair and unbiased as possible
What does this even mean?
- Comment on Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! 2 weeks ago:
We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform. You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly. Really makes Lemmy look even more unoriginal and boring seeing the same posts 3 times in different places all the time. Then you spearhead some movement to try to get people to not donate to Lemmy development at all, making it harder for these people who are trying to make Lemmy their life’s work to be able to even survive. It’s actually gross.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
With the Geneva convention on Road Traffic they must recognize it, at least for visitors. However you are probably right if OP tried to move there and get a local license, they’d need to retest.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not toooooo hard. But you will need a good little bit to get the feel for it.
And I don’t know how hilly Romania is but the first time your stall out on an incline you will feel embarrassed and likely honked at. And it will be all the harder to recover cause now you’re stressed about it.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 weeks ago:
This is so obvious I don’t understand why it needs highlighting. Nobody here is suggesting you cannot have stuff.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 3 weeks ago:
The Steam Deck is basically a laptop in the shape of a gaming handheld. You can install any PC software you want right out of the box.
- Comment on Or a shrimp 4 weeks ago:
Korean short animated film.