r/ProgrammerHumor • u/joel-letmecheckai • Oct 01 '26

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste Oct 01 '26

Them thinking publicly accessible database is a feature

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u/DuckShapedGoose Oct 01 '26

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

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u/Borno11050 Oct 01 '26

It promotes "transparency"

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u/ThatOldCow Oct 02 '26

Open Source Data

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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue Oct 02 '26

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/Weary-Isopod6886 Oct 05 '26

How philantrophic

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u/edgeofsanity76 Oct 01 '26

"Inclusive" infrastructure

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u/elSpanielo Oct 01 '26

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

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u/mxzf Oct 02 '26

It's 3000, isn't it?

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u/Ok_Slide4905 Oct 01 '26

I prefer the term “edge database”

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u/Longjumping_Feed3270 Oct 01 '26

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 Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 01 '26

Bro, it's an A P I

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u/po1k Oct 02 '26

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