Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to

World News@quokk.au · 17 days ago

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

9

cross-posted to:
news@lemmings.world

152

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to

World News@quokk.au · 17 days ago

9

cross-posted to:
news@lemmings.world

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.

Chat

🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
arrow-up
4·
17 days ago
Pretty sure this

Hopefully the techies destroy all the backups

would prevent this

and it can be put back once this current madness is history.
- Deebster@infosec.pub
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  8·
  17 days ago
  Thanks, I accidentally a word
  - 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2·
    17 days ago
    Figured, but I can’t resist playing with such things and giving everyone a hard time. <3 It’s too fun.

World News@quokk.au

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !world@quokk.au

Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

902 users / day
2.8K users / week
4.62K users / month
6.44K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
2.04K subscribers
3.51K Posts
6.53K Comments
Modlog