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Lauren Weinstein

One gets the feeling that all these limits Musk is suddenly throwing on #Twitter have a lot less to do with data scraping per se and much more to do with trying to run the entire operation on a dozen Raspberry Pis to save money.

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@lauren

Pi's have been stupidly-expensive [1] since before he bought Twitter.

It's probably a full of Timex-Sinclair ZX81's. [2]

[1] Compared to before the pandemic.

[2] That'd be the Research for those outside N.A.

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Lauren Weinstein

@cazabon Replace those pricey fiber lines with 103 dialup modems.

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Lauren Weinstein

@cazabon I think they're starting to come down now, by the way.

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@lauren

They're lower than six months ago, but (at least here) still twice the "regular" price before the pandemic.

At least you can actually find them in stock occasionally now.

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