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[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pwloftus

some poor web admin on the phone with a shouting heavy breathing bigot uncle: "change it now now now!"

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@benroyce NO - You do not redirect that shit.... YOU 404 it. DUMBASS

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@benroyce Luckily some anonymous smart soul thought it was worth archiving https://web.archive.org/web/20260301033039/https://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pwloftus

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@benroyce Evidence of FURRY redirection --- well... that's telling.

The amount of effort to fix this in this sort of way is significantly greater than the amount of work just to not ever even respond to a web request that has the word 'furry' in it.

The level of incompetence is high - OR perhaps an intentional funny from some technical people that can say "OOPS". Hopefully the latter.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@chrisp

it's now this bigot uncle's biggest claim to fame

[seachanged@mastodon.social]

@benroyce

Thank-you.

[benaveling@mastodon.ie]

@benroyce implying that there is a redirect url in place? (Apologies for q, I’m not currently in a position to check for myself)

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@draken I got kinda excited when I saw this, but it turns out it was just intentionally misspelled to sell sad 2A war porn.

Operation Epic Furry Sticker

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Operation Epic Fury (operationepicfury.store)

@benroyce

[cdarwin@c.im]

@draken @benroyce
I rather thought it was
" Epstein Fury "

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@benroyce Important to note additional extra characters properly 404: https://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furrrrrrrrrrrrry

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@cdarwin @draken

okay that's what i'm calling it from now on

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pwloftus

so it's a real correction

sites do autocorrect redirect?

i guess why not

new to me

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@benroyce Nope a technical person had to put in a manual redirect for the double R mistake.

Quite literally a specific directive or regex is described to find it on the web server to ensure it goes to the right place.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@pwloftus

do you think the web admin is laughing or crying?

[draken@masto.nyc]

@benroyce @cdarwin
Presidential
Epstein
Distraction
Operation

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@benroyce Sadly... depends on their allegiance at this point. Hopefully laughing

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@benroyce Web admin had to type and or copy/paste 'furry' into httpd, cloudfront, nginx, or whatever reverse proxy they are using.

It may have already been in the clipboard... no judgement.

One more edit - Given that this is an official government site - I'd venture to guess to make this work the admin had to do this on between 4-8 individual systems/servers.

While I'd love to believe it was a 1 time settings change in a single location, I do not believe it was that efficient. This redirect was tedious work for some poor bastard.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@sysop408 @draken

holy shit

MAGA is fucking illiterate

[paul@oldfriends.live]

@benroyce They are so dumb and dangerous. They also have ruined satire.