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- morkalork 2y agoHere's a lackluster article about it: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-admin-take-down-most-government-websites-5-pm-cbs-reports-2025-01-31/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-admin-take-down-most-...
- riffic 2y agoThis is a legitimate shit show.
- locococo 2y agoAgree, why do the sites need to be offline for this? Amateur hour, probably some reality star calling the shots again
- ceejayoz 2y agoI 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-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx...
- lysace 2y agoCounter-point: https://www.nasa.gov/ https://www.nasa.gov/
- geoffeg 2y agohttps://www.faa.gov https://www.faa.gov is up
- ceejayoz 2y agoFor the longest time nasa.gov required a www subdomain to work. (https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/nasadotgov/posts/post_1306860816073.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa...) > The answer goes back to the early 1990s, when the Internet existed – but the World Wide Web did not. NASA was on the Net very early in its history, and the nasa.gov Domain Name Servers (DNS) – the Internet's version of a phone book (OK, online directory) – handled bulletin board systems, Gopher and more. When the World Wide Web came along, www.nasa.gov became the agency's primary home online. > Today the World Wide Web is still one of the many, many networked services NASA provides, all based on the nasa.gov domain. But along the way the web became the public's most widely used aspect of the Internet, so much that the "www" became almost implicit. It started to disappear from the URLs of popular websites. NASA never made that switch, and our domain servers still do not forward users looking for nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov. (Though many web browsers now do that automatically once you've visited a site.) Looks like FAA might still be that way, or the changes are still rolling out.
- cholmon 2y agoIndeed, faa.gov doesn't have an A record in DNS at the moment. https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#A/faa.gov https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#A/faa.gov
- riffic 2y ago> 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.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThat's probably a finer detailed point than NASA.gov's public blog typically needs to worry about.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoTrump putting 'pause' on most US Government websites, source says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892985
- focusedone 2y agoFCC, FTC and NOAA are up - how widespread is this?
- minimaxir 2y agohttps://www.census.gov/ https://www.census.gov/ also semidown?
- Terr_ 2y agoThe hero we need: https://xkcd.com/705/ https://xkcd.com/705/
- lysace 2y ago"created: July 17, 2017, karma: 45" Do you feel this stunt was worth it?
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- minimaxir 2y agoIf 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.
- lysace 2y agoNot 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.
- rurp 2y agoIs 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.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoIf 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).
- greyface- 2y agoNote, though, that the vouch link only appears when the submission has been flagkilled (i.e. [flagged][dead] and not just [flagged]).
- ks2048 2y agoI suppose this was flagged because https://www.faa.gov https://www.faa.gov is up. But, https://www.census.gov https://www.census.gov was down (I saw the empty skeleton of a page), then a minute later it was up. So, same thing could have happened here.
- ceejayoz 2y agoI did too; browser tools said a CSP mixup had blocked their Bootstrap CDN. Looked like a mistake, not the entire site being gone.
- quantified 2y agoIrs.gov is definitely up. Merriment will ensue if it goes down.