Lo que duele no es la soledad, sino la ausencia del ser querido.

Savater, cuando está fino, escribe tan bien...

A really interesting and in-depth information on how delete works and why it works in that way.

This is the most dangerous idea the EU has had in a long time, and we're not short of examples...

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.

Articulazo, pero articulazo supremo, vamos.

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.