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I wonder if this was made by AI or a shit programmer (gregtech.eu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 96 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This reminds me of how I showed a friend and her company how to get databases from BLS and it's basically all just text files with urls. "What API did you call? How did you scrape the data?"

Nah man, it's just... there. As government data should be. They called it a hack.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 days ago

When getting data legitimately is beyond them…

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ah yes, the forbidden curl hack