Ed

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As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610

#UK #UKPol #software

Petition: Create a government-owned, free software for Making Tax Digital (MTD)

With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed people should not be obliged to hand data to private companies.

Petitions - UK Parliament and UK Government
"I want your report on my desk first thing in the morning!"
"What's it about?"
"I've just told you: my desk, first thing in the morning!"
@arstechnica We need to do something but this doesn't seem workable. And what about the adults? It shouldn't be legal to run an unsafe social platform for anyone. Make some rules around what's safe and what isn't and enforce them. Obviously exclude small sites under a certain number of users (100k or so).
Mostly build on open source libraries made by volunteers

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should

🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason

went out with my full-spectrum converted camera and my 550nm long-pass filter again! I just love the Aerochrome look, so fluffy

#photography #infrared

Donkey suppositories? You know what you can do with those.