databases are great
“The next time you are stuck in a dispute with the government bureaucracy, consider Carole Blank Brown and the license plate she had on her red BMW convertible.
The plate read “BLANK,” for her maiden name. It became an issue this spring when she updated the car’s registration”
The plate read “BLANK,” for her maiden name. It became an issue this spring when she updated the car’s registration”
Why Did She Rack Up $40,000 in Parking Tickets? Fill in the ______.
A New York woman has a distinctive name. She was stunned by violations and fines linked to her BMW convertible.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
databases are great
I came here to find out why I'm having issues logging on to the campus library databases and first thing I see is the answer. So that's something, I guess.
November 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I came here to find out why I'm having issues logging on to the campus library databases and first thing I see is the answer. So that's something, I guess.
As anyone with a remote interest in books in academia will know, there's been a PROBLEM @britishlibrary.bsky.social for last three years. That problem does not appear in any of the questions, nor do the questions ask about access to their databases
November 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM
As anyone with a remote interest in books in academia will know, there's been a PROBLEM @britishlibrary.bsky.social for last three years. That problem does not appear in any of the questions, nor do the questions ask about access to their databases
I suspect the downloading of the Soc Sec database to Elon's servers was just one of many gov't databases downloaded by Musk. This information is valuable fodder for the AI.
November 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I suspect the downloading of the Soc Sec database to Elon's servers was just one of many gov't databases downloaded by Musk. This information is valuable fodder for the AI.
We kinda do know, there are matches in public record databases, but she's never said anything publicly to make that certain by, say, Wikipedia standards
November 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
We kinda do know, there are matches in public record databases, but she's never said anything publicly to make that certain by, say, Wikipedia standards
Once that profit actually goes to the creators who created the training databases, then we can talk.
November 10, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Once that profit actually goes to the creators who created the training databases, then we can talk.
Good morning all. Happy #PostboxSaturday from Frant, which according to one of the databases is Edward VIII.
November 7, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Good morning all. Happy #PostboxSaturday from Frant, which according to one of the databases is Edward VIII.
What are you all doing about researcher requests from our licensed databases with specific, bespoke LLM training In mind? We are putting together a plan but we are drowning in requests
November 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
What are you all doing about researcher requests from our licensed databases with specific, bespoke LLM training In mind? We are putting together a plan but we are drowning in requests
I want to know why a U.S. intelligence analyst’s prior warning, explicitly noting that the former military building was now an active primary school, was buried in disconnected databases and ignored. And above all, I
November 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
I want to know why a U.S. intelligence analyst’s prior warning, explicitly noting that the former military building was now an active primary school, was buried in disconnected databases and ignored. And above all, I
Another tech friend (who is on BlueSky, so I won't name him) also accidentally kicked off an entire transfer saga around Diego Maradona.
Turned out the system he was working on, that he'd been told was looking at/writing to test databases, definitely wasn't.
Turned out the system he was working on, that he'd been told was looking at/writing to test databases, definitely wasn't.
November 9, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Another tech friend (who is on BlueSky, so I won't name him) also accidentally kicked off an entire transfer saga around Diego Maradona.
Turned out the system he was working on, that he'd been told was looking at/writing to test databases, definitely wasn't.
Turned out the system he was working on, that he'd been told was looking at/writing to test databases, definitely wasn't.
Abolish ICE, destroy their databases, prosecute these domestic terrorists.
“At some point there’s going to need to be a huge accounting of what data DHS has collected…” Guariglia says. “That includes data taken about protesters, any database that exists and how they’ve been using facial recognition. It also includes data they’ve been getting from other agencies..”
How ICE Keeps an Eye on Protestors
Sophisticated tools, born from the War on Terror and wielded by the Trump White House, have been turned against the American people.
newrepublic.com
November 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Abolish ICE, destroy their databases, prosecute these domestic terrorists.
Once this slop is out there, polluting other databases and included in people's family histories, it will be terribly difficult to remove.
Digital asbestos, as someone put it
Digital asbestos, as someone put it
November 8, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Once this slop is out there, polluting other databases and included in people's family histories, it will be terribly difficult to remove.
Digital asbestos, as someone put it
Digital asbestos, as someone put it
Researchers find macOS has built a local Personal Knowledge Graph of users' lives since 2022, stored in 51 plaintext databases
Researchers find macOS has built a local Personal Knowledge Graph of users' lives since 2022, stored in 51 plaintext databases
appleinsider.com
November 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Researchers find macOS has built a local Personal Knowledge Graph of users' lives since 2022, stored in 51 plaintext databases
NYPL is one of the wonders of the world. Can happily ditch tech Bros, use NYPL, Wikipedia and public sector databases like PubMed once in high school
November 7, 2026 at 6:22 PM
NYPL is one of the wonders of the world. Can happily ditch tech Bros, use NYPL, Wikipedia and public sector databases like PubMed once in high school
🧫Put #microbiology research to work! 💻 A new #MRAJournal Special Collection highlights peer-reviewed databases, software tools & web services for the microbial sciences. 📖 Read the papers & editorial by Patrick Schloss: asm.social/39Y
November 9, 2026 at 10:09 PM
🧫Put #microbiology research to work! 💻 A new #MRAJournal Special Collection highlights peer-reviewed databases, software tools & web services for the microbial sciences. 📖 Read the papers & editorial by Patrick Schloss: asm.social/39Y
watching a video about ao3 being down and the fact that grown adults don't know how to use databases .... guys 😭
November 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
watching a video about ao3 being down and the fact that grown adults don't know how to use databases .... guys 😭
Vanderbilt University warns it is responding to a cyberattack claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, which claims to have encrypted the university's databases and stolen sensitive student, employee, and research data.
Vanderbilt University hit in BYOD ransomware attack, data theft claimed
Vanderbilt University warns it is responding to a cyberattack claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, which claims to have encrypted the university's databases and stolen sensitive student, employee, and research data.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 9, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Vanderbilt University warns it is responding to a cyberattack claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, which claims to have encrypted the university's databases and stolen sensitive student, employee, and research data.
EFF, along with the ACLU, have once again argued in federal court that searching ALPR databases required a warrant.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
We’re Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches
Today, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in United States v. Sturdivant, a case where police warrantlessly tracked a suspect’s movements using
www.eff.org
November 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
EFF, along with the ACLU, have once again argued in federal court that searching ALPR databases required a warrant.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Stop ICE from making databases of protesters!
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November 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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We're abso-fucking-lutely not doing this. 👋
Every social media job I've worked, I've introduced moderation guidelines, based on databases with alt right dogwhistles, among other things.
I know what I contribute personally & professionally. This entitled demand for performative posts is shite.
Every social media job I've worked, I've introduced moderation guidelines, based on databases with alt right dogwhistles, among other things.
I know what I contribute personally & professionally. This entitled demand for performative posts is shite.
November 9, 2026 at 6:59 PM
We're abso-fucking-lutely not doing this. 👋
Every social media job I've worked, I've introduced moderation guidelines, based on databases with alt right dogwhistles, among other things.
I know what I contribute personally & professionally. This entitled demand for performative posts is shite.
Every social media job I've worked, I've introduced moderation guidelines, based on databases with alt right dogwhistles, among other things.
I know what I contribute personally & professionally. This entitled demand for performative posts is shite.
Coffee and open source databases? ☕ We've got both at #BankingTransformation Summit USA!
Our own Kamryn Dodd is showing off her barista skills in Charlotte!
Stop by Booth D12, grab a coffee, and chat with the Percona team about open source databases.
#OpenSource #Databases
Our own Kamryn Dodd is showing off her barista skills in Charlotte!
Stop by Booth D12, grab a coffee, and chat with the Percona team about open source databases.
#OpenSource #Databases
November 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Coffee and open source databases? ☕ We've got both at #BankingTransformation Summit USA!
Our own Kamryn Dodd is showing off her barista skills in Charlotte!
Stop by Booth D12, grab a coffee, and chat with the Percona team about open source databases.
#OpenSource #Databases
Our own Kamryn Dodd is showing off her barista skills in Charlotte!
Stop by Booth D12, grab a coffee, and chat with the Percona team about open source databases.
#OpenSource #Databases
This is what I point people to when they ask about self-hosted databases.
ElectroCRUD is a open-source databases. Modern MySQL CRUD application.
→ Full source available on the repo link.
→ Released under open-source.
You stop paying per-s...
#opensource #selfhosted #databases
ElectroCRUD is a open-source databases. Modern MySQL CRUD application.
→ Full source available on the repo link.
→ Released under open-source.
You stop paying per-s...
#opensource #selfhosted #databases
November 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
This is what I point people to when they ask about self-hosted databases.
ElectroCRUD is a open-source databases. Modern MySQL CRUD application.
→ Full source available on the repo link.
→ Released under open-source.
You stop paying per-s...
#opensource #selfhosted #databases
ElectroCRUD is a open-source databases. Modern MySQL CRUD application.
→ Full source available on the repo link.
→ Released under open-source.
You stop paying per-s...
#opensource #selfhosted #databases
Oh fun apparently it might be a nationwide Spectrum outage? Why can’t the hackers ever just wipe out the student loan databases or something
November 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Oh fun apparently it might be a nationwide Spectrum outage? Why can’t the hackers ever just wipe out the student loan databases or something
I've been working with K-12 enrollment databases for over two decades now... "Blades" is tame.
November 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I've been working with K-12 enrollment databases for over two decades now... "Blades" is tame.