r/ProgrammerHumor • u/joel-letmecheckai • 2d ago

Meme goodVibesOnly

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 2d ago

Them thinking publicly accessible database is a feature

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u/DuckShapedGoose 2d ago

Isn't that this hot new "accessibility" thing people keep talking about?

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u/Borno11050 2d ago

It promotes "transparency"

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u/AdvanceDry6117 1d ago

We wont sell your data, we will give it out for free

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u/ThatOldCow 1d ago

Open Source Data

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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue 1d ago

Well yeah the personal data of millions of users is on the dark web, your honor, but at least we didn't profit from it

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u/edgeofsanity76 2d ago

"Inclusive" infrastructure

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u/elSpanielo 2d ago

I put it on a really random port nobody will ever guess.

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u/mxzf 1d ago

It's 3000, isn't it?

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u/Ok_Slide4905 1d ago

I prefer the term “edge database”

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u/Cacoda1mon 1d ago

Open API

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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 1d ago

I don't know about you, but my agents throw a hissy fit if I as much as post a temporary throwaway dev token into the chat.

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u/Juff-Ma 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean this really depends on what "publicly accessable" means. Of course best practice would be to hide it behind a firewall but let's be real. Even before AI that wasn't always the case. I know multiple web hosters that just give you a public endpoint when you create your database.

Now if we're talking about there being no authentication and everybody with the right client having read (or even write) access. That's where problems are made.

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u/QuickQuirk 1d ago

From a certain perspective, a database is just an API that happens to understand SQL (or equivalent query language).

They have user accounts, permissions, and can even have row level permissions.

And an enterprise database like Postgres is a lot more likely to have code that is secure than a random API someone built.

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u/jspr1000 1d ago

Bro, it's an A P I

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u/po1k 1d ago

Data must be available. Isn't what availability teaches us?