• Fmstrat@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    This guy.

    The PocketOS boss puts greater blame on Railway’s architecture than on the deranged AI agent for the database’s irretrievable destruction. Briefly, the cloud provider’s API allows for destructive action without confirmation, it stores backups on the same volume as the source data, and “wiping a volume deletes all backups.” Crane also points out that CLI tokens have blanket permissions across environments.

    Oh look, they have project level tokens: https://docs.railway.com/integrations/api#project-token

    They chose to give it full account access, including to production. But ohhhh nooooo it’s not MYYYY fault!

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        17 hours ago

        Oh yes, I skipped that part. Railway specifically explains their solutions are self-managed. If they were doing pgdumps to the same volume, that’s on them.

        If Railway loses business over this, they may have a libel claim. They’d never do it, but it wouldn’t be invalid.

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          17 hours ago

          “It wouldn’t be invalid” isn’t the worst double negative in the world but it would be valid to say that it was unpleasant to read it when you could have used a less misdirecting choice of prose that wouldn’t have had such a negative effect on my reading comprehension. That is to say that I could have enjoyed it less but I certainly didnt enjoy it as much as i could have if you hadn’t used the double negative when a single positive wasn’t any further from reach.

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        17 hours ago

        That’s doesn’t even really qualify as a backup. A snapshot, maybe.