You say all this like they should be embarrassed, but they don't care about any of that. Establishing authority is all they care about right now
Digital Fiefdom (aka walled-garden) Required
This community collects stories, cases and situations where people are forced into a walled-garden to carry out a public transaction or essential task of some kind. As governments impose a digital transformation policy with no analog refuge, people are forced into becoming serfs in a technofeudal system that is subservient to lords (Microsoft, Cloudflare, Google, etc).
Well-known walled gardens include (but are not limited to):
- Cloudflare
- Microsoft LinkedIn
- Microsoft Github¹
- Paypal
- Amazon
- iOS
(note I do not say X or Meta above because I do not recognize or promote obnoxious and detrimental trademarks)
¹It’s somewhat unlikely that a gov would impose Github, but it is listed as an example because some govs do have git services. E.g. the EU has a public-facing self-hosted git instance.
Somewhat related communities:
- !email_required@lemmy.sdf.org
- !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org
- !netneutrality@sopuli.xyz
- !degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de
- !right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz
“Should be” embarrassed and “caring” are two different things. Indeed they do not care about the embarrassment as this shitshow rolls out. If they cared, they would make corrections.
Just like Trump is an embarrassment to the country. He is too oblivious and cannot step outside himself to even know of the embarrassment he brings to the country.
In the case of DOGE, the embarrassment is only visible to the small segment of informed digital rights proponents. We should of course express the embarrassment to spread awareness.
When did Congress create this department? And xelon can't work there when/if they do until he divests his companies.
The department wasn't "created" really. It was just an older Obama department renamed.
What's the older name?
The Digital Service was created by President Barack Obama in 2014 to modernize the government’s approach to technology. Its chief original mission was to fix the many glitches and digital problems that plagued the rollout of HealthCare.gov, the site associated with Obama’s signature health care law, which Trump has spent most of his political career bashing.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/doge-government-trump-executive-order-1a2fb7235b9d6f178c764cf6c78d3317
“Renamed” seems like an understatement. I heard Digital Services was completely hallowed out. If you dump the people and change the name, what’s left? The chairs and keyboards?
The United States Digital Service
Note: the purposes and scope are completely different so it is like a new department
Russia and other authoritarian regimes block Tor endpoints too.
I wonder how that can best be expressed without overly cluttering the forum. The purpose of the forum is to track that, so it would be useful if someone would post lists of signficant or essential public resources that are in walled gardens. Maybe one thread for all of North Korea and a thread for Russia, .. Venezuala, etc. But note as well if Tor is blocked but not in a fiefdom (walled garden), then !exclusive_public_resources@lemmy.sdf.org is the best place to post them.
How is this page even paid for? Congress hasn't approved a dime for this made up department.
Not just Tor.
Opera GX on mobile is also blocked. Might just be because they are building it up atm?
It seems like they block all non us traffic as I'm blocked in Norway (I'd imagine that's due to gdpr, but the Whitehouse website is perfectly accessible)
Does your block screen look different than the attached snapshot?
Nope. I think it's identical
all to attack bots (and by side-effect text-based users) who do not fetch images and thus are the most lean consumers of web content.
You confuse bandwidth and resources. Bots are often the most impactful clients of any site, because serving an image costs virtually nothing. Generating a dynamic page is WAY more resource intensive.
You confuse bandwidth and resources.
Bandwidth is a resource. Citations needed for claims to the contrary.
Bots are often the most impactful clients of any site, because serving an image costs virtually nothing.
Nonsense. Text compresses extremely well. Images and media do not in the slightest approach the leanness of text.
Try using the web through a 2400 baud modem. Or try using a mobile connection with a small monthly quota of like 3gb and no other access. You will disable images your browser settings in no time.
Generating a dynamic page is WAY more resource intensive.
Bots and humans both trigger dynamic processing, but bots and humans of text-based clients to a lesser extent because the bandwidth-heavy media is usually not fetched as a consequence and JavaScript is not typically fetched and executed in the first place.
I'm guessing you've never run infra for a popular site before.
Yes bandwidth is a resource, but unless you're hosting Flickr or haven't optimized your images, it's not the most in demand resource. It's also one of the cheapest parts, compared to paying for the ram / CPU / multiple machines required to support a large site.
I've debugged hundreds of customers who suddenly had their site fall over. Not a single one was due to their bandwidth being saturated, it's almost always bots hitting some poorly optimized code.
Trying to spin images as the primary resource consumer of running websites, just isn't true.
This guy infras.