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March 12, 2018

La revolución fértil: los países pobres están dejando de tener hijos a una velocidad récord

mientras países como Polonia o Reino Unido tardaron más de noventa años en reducir a la mitad la tasa de fertilidad (de seis hijos a tres por mujer), otros como Bangladesh o Irán han tardado apenas la décima parte (entre veinte y diez años). Una evolución salvaje y precoz.

Slack's bait and switch: another company against the IRC and XMPP standards

Slack has finally decided to close down their IRC and XMPP gateways.

True to form, you can only read their announcement if you already have a Slack account and are logged in to a workspace.

Here's the gist of their announcement:

As Slack has evolved over the years, we've built features and capabilities —
like Shared Channels, Threads, and emoji reactions (to name a few) — that the
IRC and XMPP gateways aren't able to handle. Our priority is to provide a
secure and high-quality experience across all platforms, and so the time has
come to close the gateways.

They're of course being economical with the truth here.