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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 02:37:58 JST Pissed Hippo
   > according to a NASA person I spoke to last year, any government agency has to have a contract with an entity in order to use a platform. He said they can’t figure out who at “Mastodon” to would give them a contract and assume liability.
   
   smells like bullshit, who signed their contract for www.nasa.gov
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 02:57:10 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @smug I mean with who, who is assuming "legal liability for supporting HTTP"
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     smug@smuganimeavatar.xyz's status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 02:57:11 JST smug

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     "Abigail Bowman, Web Modernization Lead and Web Services Chief, NASA"

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:00:59 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @smug that's just sysadmin stuff.
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     smug@smuganimeavatar.xyz's status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:01:00 JST smug

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     It's not for supporting http, it's who they can ring up if "nasa.gov" (or rather "nasa.fedi") goes down or has issues or gets leaked and no, it can't be a John Doe living at Sampleroad 5.

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     smug@smuganimeavatar.xyz's status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:14:16 JST smug

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     Well that's the whole point. You could sell fediverse on the government and have them have a server if you told them about butterfly (graf's and pasture's service).

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     regalbeagle@merovingian.club's status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:22:52 JST RegalBeagle

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     @sun No, this is a thing, sadly. Many moons ago I tried to get Notepad++ approved for NIPR, but since the gov wants someone they can sue if something breaks, it never went anywhere.

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:24:59 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @RegalBeagle it's just interestingly selective because they don't have somebody on the line for Apache web server, they just pay a sysadmin.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:31:55 JST sj_zero

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     "it's bullshit that I can't sue my text editor"
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 03:32:19 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @sj_zero @RegalBeagle I am sure too that the government has never sued microsoft for outages, they probably just use outages to negotiate for cheaper licensing