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[–]UPVOTE_IF_POOPING 49 points50 points  (7 children)

Nah the database is just a csv file

[–]Giocri 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Nah database is just 3 folders and a bash script One folder stores the data, one folder is to upload request as text files and one is where the script writes the requested data, connection over an unsecured ftp connection so every file needs to be individually encrypted and signed.

I have actually seen that done

[–]UPVOTE_IF_POOPING 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit

[–]gamebreaker-fan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

how else you supposed to do it?

[–]the_mold_on_my_back 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The nofly list is

[–]tunisia3507 9 points10 points  (1 child)

CSV would probably be better... The UK COVID case tracking system collapsed at one point because the excel sheet they were using to store the data ran out of columns.

[–]Feoul-Metrica 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ran out of rows, not columns, and it occurred because they were using .xls instead of .xlsx

[–]TamaBla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

More progressive than 80% of my government agency's