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Once a year I go to the local library and print some blank 1040s and other tax documents, costs me like $2 in print fees. Nobody (except maybe Ratheon) wants weapons in space. Can we make tax season more efficient instead? For example, gov sends a tax bill that one either pays or disputes rather than forcing everyone to calculate a number they already have?

Folks can contact the NYS Legislature and express their concerns with this proposal and recommend using tax dollars in a way that helps more New Yorkers. Some ideas could be repairing deficient bridges, or reducing sewage dumped into the Hudson River, or paying teachers more... but don't listen to me, one ought to tell his or her legislator what's important to he or she.

So I recently quitted Google Drive

Congrats, great life choice

downloaded all my data and hoping to keep it on Hard drives myself, They are external plug in types

You have multiple external drives. Are they USB? How many?

So when I plug it in

Are they not usually plugged in? Is there a requirement to keep them air gapped between syncs?

it copies/syncs the things on my computer, anyone knows somethign like that?

Like others have said, a shell script that calls rsync is maybe the way to go and with some more information on number of drives, drive interface type, and air gap requirements it may change

So I used to used both Reddit and Lemmy and now I have completely switched over to Lemmy, which has turned out to be a much better experience anyway. (Less trolls, less intentionally divisive content, etc)

Here's what I did:

  1. Got a permanent ban from Reddit (easy to do, plenty of guides online)
  2. Started a lemmy community (!westchesterny@lemmy.ml)
  3. Engage with others on lemmy
  4. Post content to c/westchesterny and other communities I am interested in (typically NYC metro area communities)

What it was for me is Lemmy has a lot of tech and political discussions, but I don't really care about that so I started a community and contribute to communities that are regional to me because engaged hyper local and regional communities are a huge gap in the lemmy federation right now.

I operate SSH, nginx, and uvicorn like this:

SSH

  • pubkey auth only
  • not on default port
  • AllowUsers var in sshd.conf is set

nginx

  • runs as its own user
  • serves static files or forwards to uvicorn
  • rate limits are set
  • returns 444 on requests that aren't in sitemap.xml (nonsense and probing)

uvicorn

  • runs as its own user

and a firewall runs on top of everything in a hardened kernel. I'm self taught, so I could be missing something obvious and this setup has been reliable for me for a few years.

The plan also calls for state lawmakers to pass a proposed “Drugged Driving Bill,” which would allow prosecutors to charge drivers using drugs that impair driving.

This isn't already a thing?

It further called for lawmakers to pass legislation allowing the seizure of license plates from reckless drivers and to establish higher penalties for repeat offenders.

Too lenient IMO and it's a start.