What are your latest privacy wins ? (piefed.zip)

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[-] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

My big win (in the making) is that I'm going to file my taxes completely offline. Working on the documents in isolated VM, using tax software offline, and sending paper forms wherever I can. Unfortunately New York state is not accepting paper forms, as far as I know...

[-] unknowingvoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

What is VM?

[-] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Virtual Machine

[-] unknowingvoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is super simple to set up and way less esoteric than it sounds. Very useful too.

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