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[–] 36 points 11 months ago (10 children)

... You need Windows to use government websites? What kind of dystopian nightmare is this

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    Ha! Oh, if you think that’s dumb… There are certain key sections of the IRS website that only function during business hours. Imagine if more sites worked like that. “Dang, it’s after 5PM, gotta do my Amazon order tomorrow.

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  • [+] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Not knowing much about Serbian smartcards, but I had done quite a bit with smartcards in Linux before.

    Have you seen this project? https://github.com/ubavic/bas-celik ... looks to be cross-platform and do what you're saying. Though you'd probably need pcscd, pcsc-tools, and possibly other similar packages, depending distro.

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  • [+] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)
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    Ah if you want to use it on their website or in a browser you'll probably also need a mini card driver like OpenSC.

    And if you're using firefox, you might have to go into settings to add a pkcs provider and tell it where opensc-pkcs11.so is.

    There's lots of generic info out there on smartcards in Linux if you were so inclined to "figure it out"...but I don't blame them for not "supporting" Linux...that's kind of a minefield.

    Still, that's the fun of Linux...realizing that "not supported" doesn't mean it won't work....just that they won't help you.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    yeah some government sites, regardless of what browser you're using, think that you're some "1337 Haxors" for using Linux Mint.

    I use Qutebrowser on NixOS and sometimes it's...yeah they don't like that.

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