GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases

These developers have had to drop whatever projects they were working on to go back to previous code and spend time finding all of this, just to keep their jobs. Then they have to redeploy new versions everywhere, which also carries a significant cost. Really frustrating.

Here is a way to monitor these changes in real-time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.clickhouse.com&#x2F;play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGNyZWF0ZWRfYXQsICdodHRwczovL2dpdGh1Yi5jb20vJ3x8cmVwb19uYW1lfHwnL2lzc3Vlcy8nfHxudW1iZXIgQVMgdXJsLCBldmVudF90eXBlLCBhY3Rvcl9sb2dpbiwgcmVwb19uYW1lLCB0aXRsZSBGUk9NIGdpdGh1Yl9ldmVudHMgV0hFUkUgbWF0Y2godGl0bGUsICdcXGJERUlcXGInKSBPUkRFUiBCWSBjcmVhdGVkX2F0IERFU0M=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.clickhouse.com&#x2F;play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGNyZWF0Z...</a><p>The SQL query:<p><pre><code> SELECT created_at, &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;&#x27;||repo_name||&#x27;&#x2F;issues&#x2F;&#x27;||number AS url, event_type, actor_login, repo_name, title FROM github_events WHERE match(title, &#x27;\\bDEI\\b&#x27;) ORDER BY created_at DESC</code></pre>

A concurrent parallel in the private sphere: I see today that all the pride&#x2F;heritage weeks or months have disappeared from my Google Calendar.<p>Digging into Settings (on desktop web) reveals options to turn on &quot;Regional&quot; and &quot;Global religious&quot; holidays e.g. &quot;Start of Ramadan&quot; -- but apparently no way whatever to recover the disappeared -- not even via menu button &quot;Browse calendars of interest&quot;.

How it was done when GitHub didn&#x27;t exist yet - my uncle&#x27;s story about his time in the school in USSR : Children, open the history book at page 54, you see the photo titled &quot;Soviet Marshal, Hero of Revolution ...&quot;. Now take the ink bottle and pour the ink over that photo as he is an enemy of the people.

Seems like it&#x27;s just a PR for removing it from the government website?<p>Also, looks like they&#x27;re adding a deletedAt field and soft deleting items in the database rather than hard delete.

Good. The racism under the guise of DEI was insane.

Why has hacker news turned into politics central :(

src&#x2F;migrations&#x2F;20250122205314-definitionally-dirty-work.js Is funny.

Find and replace &quot;Equity&quot; with &quot;1337&quot;?

based redditors are now in control of trillions of critical infrastructure. surely this will go well and not result in untold damage and predictable backfire

Okay 404, its evil that you put a fake hair on the github screenshot lmao...<p>Side note, I really don&#x27;t give a single shit what anyone thinks about Diversity equity and Accessibility initiatives (though, I do think being opposed to requiring businesses to have wheel chair ramps and such, comically cruel) I don&#x27;t know how anyone can support having 18 year old randoms having access to Federal databases and direct access to the governments pocket book, and support going far past judicial processes to illegally gut the minuscule, nearly non-existent, social safety nets that we do have. Idk how anyone in their right mind can say the wealthy deserve a trampoline, and everyone else can&#x27;t even get a safety net.

The Remove DEI project the article has an open pr to revert the changes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HHS&#x2F;Head-Start-TTADP&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2617">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HHS&#x2F;Head-Start-TTADP&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2617</a> Would have been nice if the article mentioned that.

What does the &quot;paranoid = true&quot; flag in there do?

Here&#x27;s a thought: laid-off tech workers should encript every database and hold the keys for ransom. Or just until these jokers are nullified.

After years of nonsense complaints about non-existent “cancel culture” and “censorship” campaigns, here we have the real thing happening right in front of our eyes. Literal “forbidden” words being deleted from government documents and already-published material. This is truly disgusting, disturbing, and vile.

&quot;..The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward...&quot;<p><pre><code> - Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf (1925)</code></pre>

Seems like there are more important things to do than code clean up

Well, it went too far in one direction and now it’s gonna go too far and the other direction and I guess the only people we have to blame and the only ones who care are the ones who cared

What I don&#x27;t seem to understand, and I haven&#x27;t found anything about, is this: How did Elon Musk and his staff obtain log-in credentials to the databases? Or log-in credentials for anything, especially given that the people in-charge were not willing to cooperate? And after all this purging is done, can&#x27;t the databases be re-loaded from the backup-tapes?

I&#x27;m sure how the government functions on a technological level qualifies for &quot;things hackers might find interesting,&quot; but the comments on these Trump&#x2F;DOGE-reactionary threads are really disappointing. Too many of them are just signaling the author&#x27;s ideological affiliations without adding anything substantive&#x2F;curiosity-inspiring.

&quot;Land of the free&quot; != &quot;Forbidden words &amp; phrases&quot;.

Fascist othering in the digital age.

So when we have to use main instead of master everyone is fine with it but now it&#x27;s bad to purge words?<p>I think this is great news. Well done Trump &amp; co.