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

submitted 1 month ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month 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.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ah yes, the forbidden curl hack

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago

When getting data legitimately is beyond them…