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alexandru_m

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alexandru_m··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
Why does the US have a tax prep industry in the first place?

In every other country in the world, taxes are handled by their respective financial authorities.

Why must every service and thing in the US must be a private profit making thing?

alexandru_m··on Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
Correction: ...blocks access IF some header...
alexandru_m··on Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
Apparently, protecting the API is not planned: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/849

For my own purposes I either restrict ollama's ports in the firewall, or I put some proxy in front of it that blocks access of some header with some predefined api key is not present. Kind of clunky, but it works.