Keep in mind that your rescue is also dependent on the responders being competent

https://youtu.be/LFLl9q-bEgk

Twitters primary problem was that they had not build a system that was designed to shard, not Rails. They'd have needed a rewrite no matter which framework they'd started with.

I have no love for Rails, but blaming it for Twitters old problems is not fair.

That said, Mastodon has much of the same problem, and is only "saved" by the combination of federation and ten years of hardware advances. Thankfully, the federation means there's plenty of opportunity for people to experiment with other implementations of ActivityPub (or even implementations of the full Mastodon API), or fixes to it.

I hate to be the person but I've seen complicated dynamic applications push much higher bandwidth and serve millions of concurrent users with similar if not smaller h/w requirements.

Would be interesting seeing Twitters complete backend and while mastodon might not be apples to apples also interested cost per user to infrastructure analysis too.

The used font is great for text but atrocious for programming uses: 0 looks same as O, and the article is full of hexadecimal codes.

I understand the criticism but to be fair high speed trains are better in many cases:

Paris - Lyon by airplane: 1h15 plus travel to and from airport, plus security, boarding etc

Paris - Lyon by train: 2h30, city center to city center, no security checks. This might actually be faster!

Personally when traveling between London and Paris I choose the high speed train. It's usually more expensive but just the fact it removes traveling to and from airports (especially in London!) adds so much comfort that you realize the extra £50-70 are totally worth it. The overall travel time is also comparable.

at the same time, gas supplies are at an all time high.

The main issue seems to be absolutely atrocious timing of nuclear reactor maintenance. (which is just bad luck).

> I assume that once larger parts of the population start feeling the effects of these energy shortages, some dynamics might change.

I sure as hell hope that the dynamic will increase in providing ukraine with the weapons required to end of the war far more quickly. From a geopolitical standpoint, making sure russia does not win this war or end it in a stalemate is absolutely vital for European stability.

Also, it could lead to further defence integration in europe. (this has already been fast tracked once the war started).

You're missing the point. Twitter can't operate in those places where it is illegal if they keep that stuff on there. They want to, so he's gone.

An idea that's illegal in parts of the world.