... but then the next paragraph paints a different pictuere,

""" It found that the “siloed nature” of the Lotus Notes databases made it difficult for officers to match, verify or search for information. It also found that various systems may contain conflicting information about the same case, or may not reflect the most complete information. Downloading or querying data is made “difficult, if not impossible” because it isn’t inputted in a standard way across databases. """

The contract was awarded to the initial company that built out the holistic platform in 1996 so you've got to wonder how much it has cost them over the last 22yrs.

I once worked for a company where the software that ran thier back end was written in Powerbuilder by contractors in 1999. The two developers who were there had been there for 20 years supporting the system and writing stored procedures.

This kind of legacy stuff makes my stomach turn.

Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes can be infamous for that kind of thing, worse than Excel even, since it is more powerful...

Most definitely - the systems apparently "talk to each other" throughout the day whatever that may mean in their case.

> I also enjoy how baltimoresun.com totally defeats uBlock Origin and brings my computer to its knees.

Try blocking sdad.guru. I checked and it's one I've blocked myself, and Google says they're an adblocker-circumvention service.

In Lotus Notes (yes I had the misfortune to use it) "database" is really something more like a "structured file". It's quite a lot different from a SQL database, and 150 of them is not a lot. The system I worked on had 10000s (although admittedly it had a very peculiar design even for Notes).

You might want to double check your setup. I disabled Pi.Hole and reloaded the site with just uBlock Origin running. I did this a couple times with cleared cache, it pulls 22-24 requests and loads in ~1.9s.

Some of the less reputable and saltier ad networks intermittently run a malware service that does a DoS on clients running blockers. 'uBlock Origin Extra' is a standalone tool by the same guy that works for me against it.