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Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

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https://www.census.gov/ also semidown?

It seems to be pointing at something attempting to visualize JIRA activity, but with a lot of content-security-policy warnings? Seems like someone screwed up some load balancer settings.

https://data.census.gov/ is working fine, so weird.

Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

#22
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> domain servers still do not forward users looking for nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov. Domain servers would never do this. Redirection happens through the HTTP protocol or associated mechanisms not through DNS.

That's probably a finer detailed point than NASA.gov's public blog typically needs to worry about.

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Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

#23
post #15

"created: July 17, 2017, karma: 45" Do you feel this stunt was worth it?

If you're asserting they're spreading FUD on a burner account, you have to check that it is the only thing they're doing, which from their profile is easy to confirm is not the case.

Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

#24
Is there a way to unflag/vouch for stories that have been flagged like there is for comments? This article shouldn't be flagged IMO. It covers some notable government tech changes and could be directly related to a number of datasets and research disappearing on the same day.

Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

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post #15

"created: July 17, 2017, karma: 45" Do you feel this stunt was worth it?

If you're asserting they're spreading FUD on a burner account, you have to check that it is the only thing they're doing, which from their profile is easy to confirm is not the case.

Not sure I follow. You can't spread FUD (well: I'd call it a false fire alarm) if you have previously spread non-FUD?

That burner account thing was something you brought into the discussion.

Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

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post #24

Is there a way to unflag/vouch for stories that have been flagged like there is for comments? This article shouldn't be flagged IMO. It covers some notable government tech changes and could be directly related to a number of datasets and research disappearing on the same day.

If your account has met various criteria (seasoned, karma, no comment throttling, etc), you’ll have a vouch option (unless you’ve done something to be in the penalty box permanently; sufficient karma, no comment throttling, no vouch).

Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

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post #24

Is there a way to unflag/vouch for stories that have been flagged like there is for comments? This article shouldn't be flagged IMO. It covers some notable government tech changes and could be directly related to a number of datasets and research disappearing on the same day.

If your account has met various criteria (seasoned, karma, no comment throttling, etc), you’ll have a vouch option (unless you’ve done something to be in the penalty box permanently; sufficient karma, no comment throttling, no vouch).

Note, though, that the vouch link only appears when the submission has been flagkilled (i.e. [flagged][dead] and not just [flagged]).

Re: .gov Sites Are Offline

#30

Here's a lackluster article about it: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-admin-take-down-most-...

I think the source is misunderstanding changes that are definitely happening. They're scrubbing sites of specific topics (with a broad brush!), but not taking them entirely down. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx...

do they usually go down that long though for updates?. This seems extremely suspicious.
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