Carlos A. Cabrera

Carlos A. Cabrera

@fnhipster.com

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Carlos A. Cabrera
@fnhipster.com

Coding has been therapeutic for me and has kept me mentally active. In the AI era, I have struggled to stay engaged in the work because the most enjoyable part of it (for me) is now gone.

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Dave Rupert
@davatron5000.bsky.social

📝 A quick post that's somewhat obvious, but I think it's important. A simple formula for keeping good things around. daverupert.com/2026/07/numb...

daverupert.comBefore I go: Double your business with companies you likeI’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “n...

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Baldur Bjarnason
@baldurbjarnason.com

“On Google declaring war on the Web” https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.

tante.ccOn Google declaring war on the WebIn Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” directi...
Carlos A. Cabrera
@fnhipster.com

On September 26, 1983, a Soviet officer broke protocol and prevented nuclear war. Forty-three years later, the Pentagon is demanding the right to remove the safeguard that saved us: a human in the loop. fnhipster.com/posts/petrov...

fnhipster.comThe Petrov ParadoxOn September 26, 1983, a Soviet officer broke protocol and prevented nuclear war. Forty-three years later, the Pentagon is demanding the right to remove the safeguard that saved us: a human in the loo...
Carlos A. Cabrera
@fnhipster.com

The Guy Fawkes mask became the face of faceless rebellion. WikiLeaks exposed war crimes. Anonymous hit the CIA. Then it went quiet. In the middle of the biggest government cover-up in modern history, the hackers are silent. The ethos didn't die. It was acquired. fnhipster.com/posts/hack-t...

fnhipster.com"hack the planet"The Guy Fawkes mask became the face of faceless rebellion. WikiLeaks exposed war crimes. Anonymous hit the CIA. Then it went quiet. In the middle of the biggest government cover-up in modern history, ...
Carlos A. Cabrera
@fnhipster.com

LLMs are pattern-matching engines, and they hallucinate by design. The problem isn't their limitations; it's how they're marketed that encourages us to abdicate the responsibilities that make them valuable. Our critical thinking, judgment, and ethical oversight can't be automated.

fnhipster.comVerbal KnobsLLMs are pattern-matching engines and they hallucinate by design. The problem isn't their limitations; it's how they're marketed that encourages us to abdicate the responsibilities that make them valu...
Carlos A. Cabrera
@fnhipster.com

I wonder what the technical limitation (if any) is for Liquid Glass to not simply add the glass effect to the background of the icon while preserving the icon’s original color? It clearly separates the two but monochromatically. I like the effect. I don’t like to opt in for color blindness.

Carlos A. Cabrera
@fnhipster.com

An Instagram story unexpectedly snapped me out of a doom-scrolling trance. That brief moment sparked a broader reflection on how short-form content and AI have conditioned us to bypass the journey in favor of speed and self-affirmation.

fnhipster.comThe Effort to ReadAn Instagram story unexpectedly snapped me out of a doom-scrolling trance. That brief moment sparked a broader reflection on how short-form content and AI have conditioned us to bypass struggle in fav...

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dame
@dame.is

everything started going downhill when people replaced “surfing the web” with “scrolling social media”

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