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thilog··on K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
The pronunciation ketchup is somewhat unfortunate as a popular backup operator for k8s, k8up, also claims this.
thilog··on Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
The last commit was four years ago.
thilog··on Google Bard AI won't answer questions about Putin asked in Russian
https://archive.ph/OCNQ9
thilog··on How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Twitter most likely hasn't been able to retain the "right" people.
thilog··on Locking up corpses to keep them from escaping
https://archive.ph/uZise
thilog··on The way out of burnout (2016)
It's interesting that you mention multivitamins. When I was burnt out I noticed that Vitamin B, D3 and zinc have a huge positive effect on my mood and energy level.
thilog··on Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
One major acquisition that is missing from your list was the aquisition of Postbank in 2018.
thilog··on New access tiers for the Twitter API
IMHO Twitter wants to make sure content does not easily leave their platform, thus the stricter rate limits on reading.
thilog··on Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations [pdf]
At the moment, there seems to be no way back. The page to convert an individual user account to an organization account (at https://hub.docker.com/settings/convert) explicitly states:

> To use organization features, convert your account from a User to an Organization.

> You can't undo this action.

thilog··on Bzip3 – A better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2
bzip2 can exploit concurrency through pbzip2, can't it?
thilog··on RabbitMQ Streams Overview
Guaranteed ordering per partition while keeping the ability to scale across partitions.
thilog··on RabbitMQ Streams Overview
After a brief glimpse at the documentation, I am missing a feature comparable to Kafka's partitioning. Well, the protocol [1] briefly mentions it, but it does not seem to be exposed.

Getting insights into the roadmap for this would certainly be interesting...

[1]: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/blob/v3.9.x/deps...

thilog··on KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum
Care to elaborate?