If I click Join I am immediately redirected to a "Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access doge.gov" CloudFlare page. That's odd.

same, i'm assuming they've set up a firewall rule on the cloudflare dashboard to block non-internal ips for certain routes

It's a block for non-US IPs, I think. The page is an application form for joining them, and it only accepts US citizens.

US citizens have to pay federal taxes abroad but now can't view federal websites.

That's been the case for a long time. I made a big stink about not being able to fill out my census survey to my congresswomen. It got nowhere.

Yup, that checks out

I think this is it, in eu i get blocked but if I access it via VPN I can open the page

"Where's my new server gone? ... oh, it's hanging out in us-east-1, damnsit."

Avoid them for ethical reasons too.

Problem is, sometimes you don't need the best-world-class coders, you need cheaper coders to align a button.

So it’s either your fault because you’re incompetent or your fault because they need someone cheaper?

It’s funny that any way it turns out it’s anti-worker.

A little class consciousness would go a long way.

I think a lot of devs go through a "I'll just store code in the DB and evaluate at runtime!" phase. Some of them never get through it though.

We had this, but HR moved so slowly that the (good) guy that was fired was still there when the new guy arrived.

That feeling when you ask a question, they go "uhhhhh", in the background you can hear mechanical keys clattering, and suddenly they can give a textbook definition.

More fun is when you can google their answers and find the website they're reading from.

"A few years back, Will added a share house as a McDonald’s restaurant. It didn’t didn’t last long before it was removed by Google, he told Crikey in a phone call this week, but it appeared to fool at least one person. “A car drove past slowly with its driver looking pretty confused,” he said."

Perhaps he could not make the information available on the internet even worse?

Eventually enough content will have been produced that a human could watch an incredible series every day of their lives without anything new coming out. That's when humanity will peak and crumble happily away.

This has happened with books already and nothing (arguably) broke.