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Weather.gov is back to the way it's been for a while. Local forecasts are accessible in JS-disable and JS-free browsers again.

I hope they got complaints of the sort I could only send into the void and realized what they undid was a bad decision.

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@arielmt seems like it's fixed now? Perhaps a very dumb way for them to temporarily disable that page.

@lori What's really bad is that this is precisely the format of URL that the "Text Only Forecast" link pointed to until this week. (Also, the "Printable Forecast" link points to the exact same URL, except the "TextType" query string parameter is "2" instead of "1".)

The irony of complaining about websites turned applications is not lost on me, one who runs and pays the bills for a website turned application that I'm using to voice that complaint.

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I am so fucking tired of everyone and their mother deciding that reinventing pure and simple HTML in fucking supercomputer-needing slow as script JavaShit is somehow the better future of the World Wide Web.

YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT THE ONLY APPLICATION I NEED TO RUN AT A SINGLE TIME! YOUR WEBSITE SHOULDN'T EVEN **BE** A FUCKING APPLICATION JUST TO SHOW SIMPLE TEXT, YOU TECHBRO-ADMIRING DUMBASSES!

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The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.

i really need stable income but since jobs aren't real anymore i'm taking any help i can get. i have a ko-fi [ko-fi.com/squirrel] you can send money to and there's even some pins left to buy there. i have a patreon [patreon.com/maple_syrup] where i don't have any rewards because i couldn't think of any and nobody has suggested any yet. you can also get a pixel portrait [maple.pet/commissions] for a very reasonable price. or you can tell your employer about me [mynameiser.in]

When I talk about the danger of #hacking #history online vanishing, and the importance of the Wayback Machine, this is the kind of jackass decision making I am talking about, among many other things.
gizmodo.com/cnet-deletes-thous

I smash the wine out of Jesus' hand, his party tricks impressing everyone but me. "GIVE US THE SUPERCONDUCTOR," I yell in Aramaic.

@Samobee :blobfacepalm: Your response should be, "Sir, this is a ~~Wendy's~~ demo."

51 hours restoration time is not too far off from the 48-hour estimate.

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In Verner Vinge’s space opera A Deepness in the Sky, he proposes that one of this future’s most valuable professions is that of Programmer-Archaeologist.
web.archive.org/web/2012030818

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SAT03D.ICO - Comms, Telecom

....Aerials, Mobiles, Poles, Satellites, Telephones

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- Expensive unregulated taxi!
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Oh, and I witnessed the lightning strike that took out their main transformer. It struck only 1-2 km from me, but I was 40 km away in Socorro. The power in Socorro flickered with the strike. Points west typically fare worse but not this bad.

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