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Re:Columbia Silences Its Marching Band on Saturday October 05, 2019 @01:54PM (#21166918)
Performing at games is the main point of marching bands. Who wants to be in a band that can't perform?
Re:8chan served with search warrant [pdf] on Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:08AM (#20188476)
Ironic racism is still racism and in my experience the "irony" usually just a flimsy facade for a person's true feelings
It is neither a standard practice nor a best practice to give your devs access to your production auth databases.
You are technically correct, it is a dumb mistake and sadly not that hard to imagine happening. It's also inexcusable, and I would expect even junior engineers to know better than to log credentials as part of request processing
Re:Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:26PM (#17984302)
All I can find is lockouts of National Grid workers and replacing them with scabs. They news is reporting that these are Columbia Gas lines.