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Comment by megamike | Hacker News Reader

Where are all the $500 hammers and toilet seats?

Some of the items on there may be things he doesn't like personally, but things like $1.4M to contract out the operation of the Department of Education's mailroom are everyday operating expenses.

A list of Tweets and the Savings site is empty.

Doge Much Transparency

Let’s hack it?

one big sad thing among others is how the doge meme, which carried with it a lot of fun and kindness baggage (the dogecoin community made a ton of random donations) ended up used by people who are the diametrical opposite.

Reminds me of another co-opted symbol that had it's meaning transformed to its opposite.

I've seen rumors that the server isn't on US soil. Any confirmation of that?

It's fronted by Cloudflare, so not sure how someone would assess that, or why it wouldn't be on US soil (or why that would matter).

Because generally speaking, it's not a good idea to have machines with possible links to sensitive government data not under the jurisdiction of the government that owns that data.

https://xkcd.com/932/

(Don't get me wrong, I think the existence of DOGE is a farce, but this website is literally just a blog... It's not hosting secrets, and getting caught up in conspiracy theories of it being 'hosted offshore' is missing the forest for the trees)

Edit: After reading https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-... (which lol, what competence!) it sounds like the 'not on american soil' is bowdlerized from the fact that they're running on Cloudflare pages so there isn't a 'server'.

It's just a front end for tweets from that account. Clicking on any of the posts takes you to the original.

Wow bunch of people are sore for downvoting you for this. lol!

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