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Summary

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is diverting engineers from regular work to scan government websites for terms like “transgender,” “gay,” and “inclusion.”

This effort, reportedly linked to Trump’s executive orders against diversity initiatives, aims to catalog and potentially remove such content.

Critics argue it contradicts claims of government efficiency and wastes taxpayer money. Similar efforts are happening in other agencies.

A court order has temporarily halted removals, mandating the restoration of certain webpages to their previous versions.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't have to. Say no. Take it to court when they fire you for refusing to carry out duties that blatantly violate the first amendment.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Or do a bad and/or slow job. Don't write very good searches. Fix a few pages manually and then stop because you think you're done. Ask them to submit an issue first, and then put it in the queue with everything else. Go through a few rounds of reviews. Hold a task meeting and leave without it being clear who should work on it. Make sure all the correct paperwork has been filed. Have the legal department review the order. And then each of your proposed changes. Ask them for clarification on something each time.

The famously slow and bureaucratic US government has been double-timing it and trying to proactively comply rather than letting the system drag all this down. Really any other response would be better than what we've been getting.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know how to write good regex. Ergo, I know how to write intentionally bad regex.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Hmmm... I'm good at writing regexes that look like they'll work but don't. But there's a website that I can use to make a few adjustments to them and get them working. I suddenly forgot the URL... regex100.com or something like that? Oh well it looks like it'll work, so it's probably good enough...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Wanna help archive what we can before it's gone?

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Government efficiency" apparently.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Republicans run on a platform of "government doesn't work" and then, when they take office, set out to prove themselves correct.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

A seat at the table in hell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For the circuses.

No bread tho. You seen the cost of groceries lately?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cute. But that’s not the circus. The circus is stuff like football games, celebrity gossip, and reality TV. It’s designed to entertain and distract while the world around you is on fire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, I reckon pre covid our main stuff, and we don’t go mad, was 40 quid. We spent 90 yesterday.

Edit; spelling.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

The IRS website are missing pages because the have the terms "inclusion" and "equity" that has nothing to do with DEI.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

President nonelect Musk has been requiring people to justify their accomplishments to keep their jobs. In what kind of fucked up world do you get to keep your job listing scouring websites for the word "gay" as an accomplishment? The degree of mental illness that is being permitted in government is astounding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

this is an interesting period of history where we can witness how did many past great civilizations came to an end

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn't seem like a very efficient use of resources

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

DOGE for thee, but not for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The page about dropping the nukes on Japan will be removed due to the aircraft's DEI name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You fucking called it...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If I were tasked with this, I would also pretend like I don't know the grep command