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  • Meta (for better or worse - definitely for worse) definitely is one of the few entities with the engineering expertise to pull it off. As for driving Twitter employees to its competitors, that’s definitely happened.

    Last I heard, Twitter’s engineering team now mostly consists of a skeleton crew, and the only reason they’re likely there is because of the terms on their H1B Visas.

    edit: Slightly misread the second point. Given the rounds of mass layoffs in tech companies, I am not sure Elon’s Twitter has served as much as a warning as it should’ve.








  • Kopia to Backblaze B2 is what I generally use for off-site backups of my devices. Borg’s another good option to look at, but not as friction-less in my experience. There are a couple of additional features that are available in Kopia that are nice to have and are not in Borg (i.e. error correction, file de-duplication) from what I recall. edit: borg does do de-duplication


  • This post seems like it’s more about OP having an ideological axe to grind with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Which is fine - they (and Broadcom, by extension) have made a few tactical errors in the past.

    I’d still consider them an overall force of good, especially when the majority of the low-cost SBC market appears to be saturated with Rockchip-based boards with little to no support for mainline Linux.

    The arguments about power usage and software compatibility seem to be a bit disingenuous, however. Except for low-power Intel Atom/Ryzen Embedded offerings, vast majority of x86(_x64) platforms are going to consume a lot more power for roughly equivalent performance as more recent ARM counterparts. Most common self-hosted services usually do have ARM binary/image distributions.