Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org
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He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.
Joined Nov 2022
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On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit.
We've seen and done quite a lot since then, and none of it would've been possible without the enthusiastic and unwavering support of our customers. Thank you all for that. ❤️
As part of the celebration, we've got some goodies. For the next 30 hours, you can use the coupon code "BBEDIT30" to purchase a new individual BBEdit license for US$30.
Start here: https://www.barebones.com/store/
I finally bit the bullet and bought Bike outliner today. I love outlining ideas. Although I use Obsidian for most of my writing, I prefer a separate outlining app. Bike has the perfect balance of simplicity and advanced features (lots of automation), it looks gorgeous and the writing is so smooth!
@notjonathon @waciuk @pluralistic La Honda is beautiful. I love the drive through the mountains and down to the coast. It’s still a small little community dispersed in the forest. Sand Hill, on the other hand, is a series of fancy-looking parking lots, eye-catching villa-offices and glass and metal 4-floor offices. Trying to impress and attract newly graduated Stanford business school entrepreneurs.
@waciuk @pluralistic I love that I know most places in the book and have been to several. I pass by Sand Hill road every day on my way to work. Lots of VC offices there for sure. If I get to pass by one of the locations some day I’ll remember this toot and will send you a pic.
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1990s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for
2020s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway
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The wonderful David Attenborough is 97 today! Happy birthday Sir David, you have done so much to raise awareness about the dangers to our planet, you are an inspiration to the world.
Of microscopes that could fit inside a smartphone: https://ipablosb.com/2023/05/07/of-microscopes-that.html
@shantini same in academics. Lots of white cis male dominating. Every time there are initiatives to increase women and racial diversity in higher positions it’s seen as “biased” and “not recruiting the best”. Don’t they really see that they’re basically defending that a high percentage of white, cis male are better than the rest and insinuating that if there’s low diversity is because others aren’t as good as they are?
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I posted about how the iOS development space is very white, male, and straight. A lot of white, male, straight people seemed to think this was me telling them they’re doing something wrong.
I said that I don’t see a lot of people like me in my field. If your first reaction to that is defensive in any way, you’re the problem. You need to examine why that makes you react defensively. That’s my advice on how to improve diversity. Interrogate your own bias.
I decided to have a look at the Nostr protocol out of curiosity and the only thing I found there was a lot of Cryptobro servers and users. I logged in via Coracle.social and that looked like hell. Is that really what’s trying to replace activityPub? Not for me, thanks.
@jamesvasile that indeed sounds great! It would be a great way to remove all online trash without limiting yourself to look for your search into individual sites. Even more, imagine being able to create several personalized search queries: you want to buy stuff? Unblock shopping sites. Looking for news about the latest events? Search only within news sites and block all social to avoid noise.
I’d love something like that.
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The feature I want from a search engine is shared block lists that remove annoying sites from results. Put all the LLM content farms on that block list. Add all the recipe sites that don't have recipes. Include all the sites that sell me things instead of teaching me things.
Lower page rank for sites that have shopping carts or ads or trackers.
I will pay good money for a subscription to a search engine that helps me find pages I want to see instead of delivering me to sites as a consumer.
@trinsec thanks! Still infer the effects but I feel better today. It was very nasty yesterday, but it seems like it was just a quick visit from the common cold. An angry one, but nothing my immune system couldn’t take care of.
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All of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.
@anand @pluralistic the same happened to me and had to log in and transfer the money to my account. It was definitely not something easy that any person could do. I can see non-techie people struggling to find the way to do it, as I had to read it online, register on a site with a 2-factor, then link to my bank account and transfer. I wonder how many people couldn’t take all the money from their return. I’m sure it’s like this on purpose.
Giving your best is different each day. Sometimes giving your best means taking a day off to fight a cold and recover. Hopefully I feel better tomorrow. 💪
@emilcar si tengo que creerme a alguno de los dos, opto por Ricky, que trabaja en eso.
Yesterday, after failed negotiations, the Writers Guild of America went on a strike. I support them and wish them success in their petition for a fair treatment by the industry giants.
WGA on strike https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/wga-on-strike
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Happy International Workers' Day: https://ipablosb.com/2023/05/01/on-april-australian.html
- Blog
- https://ipablosb.com
He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.
Joined Nov 2022
