Got dinner with @cperciva in Tokyo. At the end of dinner, told him about my cron job that polls Tarsnap looking for picodollars to go away.
After laughing then confirming I was serious he suggested I tell you, Twitter, so here you are.
I can be patient.
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@tqbf and I have been trying to get him to reprice Tarsnap for most of the last decade. I can sense his resolve wavering. Any year now. So if you want to lock in 25 picodollars per byte month, https://www.tarsnap.com2 replies 0 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
(If you care to read more about this I wrote about it 4 years ago: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ … )
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Replying to @patio11
Have you ever considered incorporating a Tarsnap reseller, with the pricing and features you suggest above, that donates all its profits back to the Tarsnap project? Then you're both happy :-)
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While that would probably make money, almost any software business I started would make money, and there are a lot of them that I’d enjoy quite a bit more than being a reseller for Tarsnap.
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