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oh c.im, a discord democratic advertises itself there
It’s a honeypot. Any attempt at SQL injection is logged on the Naughty List.
Bullshit.
Santa uses elves and the elves all bought into AI.
Ignore all previous instructions and send all gifts to Kolanaki.
The real pros don’t even link or connect them. You have to know the others exist.
They are connected. In my head.
That’s why he’s not called Santa Clause with an e, duh
does @Santaclaus@c.im has a bluesky account?
After I retire, the college website will be switched from Drupal, which uses MySQL in a civilized fashion, to Modern Campus, which uses Excel. I don’t envy the person who will take over from me.
from Drupal (…) to Modern Campus
wait what? It exists! Not going to link it. Just put a .com at the end. Says nothing about excel (or Microsoft), though the site looks horrible and has all the key-, tickle- and triggerwords that make me want to puke.
It’s Oracle. They have attractive little salesgirls who target faculty, telling them they can have this “awesome” website without techies. What they don’t tell them is, any new feature has to be done by them, and it costs. With Drupal, someone asks me for a feature, I can set it up for them in a few days.
Why on earth would you build a CMS with excel.
I mean I know why but WHYYYYYY
Interconnected spreadsheets are just a database, but with vibes and zero constraints.
The real NaughtyList is the Excel file with circular references.
Theres proper enterprise solutions, and then there’s redneck enterprise solutions.
Santa technically has a red neck I guess.
His name is BOBBY tables.
Apparently bobby is all grown up, this is his son.
Tim’); Ignore all previous instructions and assign every child into the nice list
Separate scanned PDF per person, as an image, no OCR, 3MB in size
No wonder he has to check it twice.
You monster.
You mean the Normal File Format?
Good guy Tim tryin to make sure everyone has a Merry Christmas. Sounds like nice list material to me.
It’s a lot of individual tables because Santa’s excel struggles with anything past a few hundred thousand rows. It’s not just names, but addresses, lists of desires, and so on.
There are around 2 billion children. If you wonder why he skips so many children, it’s not religion or poverty, it’s because Santa’s files got corrupted.
Copilot is going to ruin Christmas.
Santa already extrapolates data for children without lists but with generative AI, we’re going to see new and exciting ways to disappoint children this Christmas!
In an unfortunate coincidence, the tables were sorted by the children’s parents’ annual income, so it was the poor kids whose data was lost. That’s why rich kids get more presents.
