Ack. I've used PubMed for over a decade (since it was taught as the de facto way to search the science literature in my Canadian university) and it never occurred to me that it was a US federal government website :facepalm:
Number of people on government websites now
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Re: Number of people on government websites now
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.
"whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...
I love it when people put the instruction for what to enter into a field instead of actually filling out the field.
I run into it ALL the time and no matter how you write instructions, at least 1/3 of people won't read them but just skim to what they think they need and then copy/paste. Ugh.
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why large companies ban Gmail but allow Chrome. They should be using Firefox instead.
Things are only getting worse in this regard as more and more devs don't even test on FF, and FF lags behind new features. Internal business apps are going to be Chrome only and it's only downhill from there.
It's Internet Explorer all over again.
Except this time it's a walled garden by a benevolent dictator!
(yeah, right)
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#124Is it possible to FOIA how much it cost the US government to build this page?
Sure - but as others pointed out there is a pretty good blog post that goes over it: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go...
And you can see the code and development lifecycle on github: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov
Pretty lightweight for what it is.
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#125Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
Is it illegal in the United States?
the GDPR doesn't care where the website is as long as it's accessible to EU citizens
it would be most amusing to watch the EU commission attempt to enforce its extraterritorial !bad, bad cookies! law against the US federal government on its own website
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
They aren't banning due to a dislike of Google. They are trying to stop unmonitored exfiltration of data.
> They are trying to stop unmonitored exfiltration of data. This was always a pipe dream (preventing data exfiltration). The best any company do is to prevent accidental exfiltration of data. Like when someone attaches a spreadsheet with social security/credit card numbers to an email going out over the Internet. There's tools to detect that sort of thing (and stop it) but they don't work when the data is encrypted.…
Not gonna lie, sending out data via inaudible sounds is pretty fly!
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#127Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
is there a self-hosted alternative that provides the same functionality?
Lots! One that I really liked - tried on a small personal project so not sure how it works at scale: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bet the US government has lots of useful websites that I've never even heard of. But every now and again I randomly stumble across one (like the one from your comment), and it makes me wonder if there is a "discovery problem" here. What other useful govt sites are out there, but are unknown to me.
Here's one I stumbled upon recently: the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has an interactive sea level rise map where you can see whether a given location in the US will suffer flooding/inundation from sea level rise based on the value the user selects: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#
Interesting thing with that tool, it doesn't show any rise in the great lakes, I wonder if they would rise at all.
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#129This site went live in 2015 and hasn't changed too much since then. Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage. It's very useful, and I've referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I've worked on are in the top 50!). For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at https://www.usaspending.go…
I bet the US government has lots of useful websites that I've never even heard of. But every now and again I randomly stumble across one (like the one from your comment), and it makes me wonder if there is a "discovery problem" here. What other useful govt sites are out there, but are unknown to me.
I was looking at all the domains in .gov for a project at work and there are indeed some fascinating ones out there. Lots of abandoned stuff too.
If you want a fascinating rabbit hole: https://18f.gsa.gov/2014/12/18/a-complete-list-of-gov-domain...
Re: Number of people on government websites now
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's one I stumbled upon recently: the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has an interactive sea level rise map where you can see whether a given location in the US will suffer flooding/inundation from sea level rise based on the value the user selects: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#
Interesting thing with that tool, it doesn't show any rise in the great lakes, I wonder if they would rise at all.
They are higher than the ocean (Niagara Falls!) so no - unless the paths between them and the path to the ocean gets blocked they won't rise.