@jon this is being discussed in #Canada; have the system automatically file your taxes for you and if you think they're going to screw up, you're free to file them yourself (or through a tax preparer) instead. Here it means many people who aren't receiving government benefits based on tax filing would suddenly receive them automatically. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/business/2023/3/30/1_6335333.amp.html #taxes#government
@aral what is it with this continued fallacy some people perpetuate that using a network is actively supporting it's owners? As though shopping at specific stores or buying certain products means we support the political views of those millionaires, when in fact most people just want to live their lives in peace.
@wwahammy we should have a programmer's #guild in the west, think SAG-AFTRA / ACTRA which would give all programmers standing no matter their workplace, and allow for much better wage protection than doing workplace-by-workplace #unions.
I'm a pretty tall #Canadian computer professional who loves #photography, #cooking and #gaming.I work full time for a small #database company as a kind of #sysadmin since 1999, configuring and deploying on-site #servers, networks and #VPN as needed, all #Linux as often as possible.I'm very comfortable writing software in Perl, #Python, PHP and C, I'm quite familiar and handy with C++, Java, PostScript and a few others.Another underpaid #GenX #geek.#gaming #INTJ