Pieter @Maescool@maescool.be

Hmm NPM merging with GitHub . . . sounds to me like Microshit is going back to their tactics of embracing a tech, extending it, and then extinguishing it There's already a GitHub Package Registry. What would they gain by absorbing NPM if not the eventual migration to their own thing

Our chart shows the history of polio in the US.

In the first half of the century big outbreaks were common and left many paralyzed and some dead.

Once the vaccine was developed, cases dropped and by 1979 the US was declared polio-free.

Our work on polio http://OurWorldInData.org/polio 

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Original: https://www.twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1239304572188966913
#Chart

Full-List of bots: https://joejoe.github.io/mastodon

@ryen @TheGibson

F@H: we need more CPU and GPU power to fight CoV

H.T + other nerds everywhere: ask and ye shall fuckin' recieve, yo

F@H servers:

@cat holy shit!

https://youtu.be/pm6qy_9E0rY

Funding quey

quey is not owned and operated by a large corporation! Instead it is run as a passion project by a few people.

Due to the fact that we run completely free of ads, we have to rely on your help to keep the lights on around here.

If you are willing to support us, you can become one of our Patrons or donate through PayPal or iDeal!

https://quey.org/funding

You can't make this up: The Washington Post, which is owned by mega-oligarch Jeff Bezos (who has $130 BILLION in wealth) published an oped calling for elites to have an even "bigger say in choosing the president"

They already control basically everything!
http://archive.fo/zLEci

#Brexit working as intended I guess: 'Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of EU privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead. The shift, prompted by Britain’s exit from the EU, will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions with less protection & within easier reach of British law enforcement.'
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusive-idUSKBN20D2M3

#help the database for my #mastodon instance keeps getting larger and larger. M media folder keeps filling up all my disk space.... what can I do? Is there a way to cull old posts from my DB? Especially the toots my users didn't publish?