• dhork@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once DOGE realizes what it is

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          20 days ago

          Is that even available right now? Usually for this type of thing you need API keys, which are not included, nor available at all.

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          20 days ago

          Recreating the API seems doable? If we can recreate dead MMO servers…

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            20 days ago

            Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.

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            20 days ago

            Well, you probably could. Issue is that you can’t self host the IRS. If they aren’t running the service that accepts the data there isn’t much you can do.

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      19 days ago

      Comment from the first PR:

      because this is the first pull request and something many people will see, I would like to say that I learned from a former project manager at the IRS that development on Direct File has stopped since January. the source code is only public because of federal law. it’s not likely that this is going to be merged but it’s possible that the components of Direct File might be used elsewhere

      Don’t get your hopes up too much.