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[โ€“] Witchfire 66 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Accidentally deleted an entire column in a police department's evidence database early in my career ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Thankfully, it only contained filepaths that could be reconstructed via a script. But I was sweating 12+1 bullets. Spent two days rebuilding that.

[โ€“] aksdb 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And if you couldn't reconstruct, you still had backups, right? ..... right?!

[โ€“] FartsWithAnAccent 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is a "backups"?

[โ€“] z00s 18 points 10 months ago

He's the guy that sits next to fuckups

[โ€“] Witchfire 31 points 10 months ago

Oh sweet summer child

[โ€“] superduperenigma 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

deleted an entire column in a police department's evidence database

Based and ACAB-pilled