The Third Bit: Disasters for Small Teams
▻https://third-bit.com/2026/07/25/disaster
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#work #management #disaster #recovery #smallteams #softwarecarpentry #cybersecurity
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Here’s why your Ubuntu 26.04 install is quiet about updates
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-update-notifications-disabledIf #Ubuntu_26.04_LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no longer notifies when updates are pending unless the update notification tray icon is enabled. The rub? That tray icon as turned off in Ubuntu 26.04 (with no toggle in Settings to turn it back on). This is not as “risky” as it might sound, though. Ubuntu ships with unattended-upgrades enabled by default, which installs security updates in the background – you’re just not told about […] You’re reading Here’s why your Ubuntu 26.04 install is quiet about updates, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
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garrytan/gstack: Use Garry Tan’s exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA
▻https://github.com/garrytan/gstack— Permalink
#softwareengineering #claudecode #generativeai #copilot #teamwork #management #dev
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Jobs and Software is Fucked – On Games And Design
▻https://urflow.bearblog.dev/jobs-and-software-is-fucked— Permalink
#job #work #dev #softwareengineering #copilot #employment #jobmarket #rant
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LinguaCelta: The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community
▻https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.htmlThe Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community
18 May 2026An ethical love-letter to distributed technology communities.
Talking to techies
This essay is explicitly addressed to my fellow technologists: #software #developers, hobby #coders, digital #humanists, #computer #science theorists, and all the other members of this big family of people who do tech. That doesn’t mean that what I write here can’t be of interest to anyone else (I’ll be very flattered if it’s of interest to anybody, tbh!). But the argument I’ll make is based on the idea that you and I share a community.
I want to talk about our community, and why it’s important. I want to suggest that using #LLMs to generate content to be included in technology projects, whether that’s code or text or images, or code reviews or proofreading, harms our shared community.
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Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: #productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools | NBER
►https://www.nber.org/papers/w35275— Permalink
#dev #generativeai #copilot #bottleneck #verification #softwareengineering
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Writing Code vs. Shipping Code : Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools | NBER
►https://www.nber.org/papers/w35275How do the productivity effects of AI evolve across successive generations of tools, and to what extent do task-level gains ultimately translate into final output? We study these questions in the context of software development, using data on more than 100,000 GitHub developers combined with their AI usage telemetry. In a matched event study design, we find that autocomplete, interactive coding agents, and autonomous coding agents each significantly increase coding activity (“commits”), with respective cumulative effects of 40%, 140%, and 180%. These gains, however, attenuate sharply across the production hierarchy: the 180% cumulative effect falls to 50% for the number of projects, and to 30% for actual releases. This pattern is consistent with the weak-link hypothesis: the strong productivity gains from AI are attenuated by human bottlenecks in the production chain, with an estimated elasticity of substitution of 0.25 between AI and human effort, which indicates strong complementarities. We further confirm these results across four major app marketplaces, finding a moderate increase in the number of new apps but no increase in total usage. Large task-level AI productivity gains have therefore translated only partially into shipped and used software thus far.
ça ne me rajeunit pas : estimation (0,25) de l’élasticité de substitution IA-humain dans une fonction de production
tout ce que je détestais…
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A Software Engineer Won a Religious Exemption From Using #AI at Work - Business Insider
▻https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6Jun 5, 2026, 11:40 AM UTC+2
Opposed to using AI for her #software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a #religious #exemption.
Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special treatment in April, citing #environmental and #ethical #objections to AI that don’t align with her religious beliefs. She also said she consulted an employment lawyer and her local chapter’s minister to help make her case.
Maus was granted the accommodation in mid-May, according to an email seen by Business Insider.
“I’m writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,” said the 34-year-old, who lives in North Carolina and works for a large tech-entertainment company that she described as progressive. “Just two years ago, how else would you do it?”
Maus’ AI workaround comes as a growing number of employers mandate and track workers’ AI usage. The technology has also recently drawn scrutiny from Pope Leo XIV, who warned last month that AI could undermine human dignity and displace workers if left unchecked, in a more than 42,000-word encyclical.
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#objection_de_conscience_à_l'IA
voilà que les techs cathos vont se revendiquer de la doctrine sociale de Léon XIV
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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming #age_verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law | Tom’s Hardware
▻https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-la#California lawmakers may be backing away from a controversial age-verification requirement bill that alarmed #Linux and #open-source developers earlier this year, after a new amendment bill proposed exempting most open-source operating systems from the state’s upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act. In practice, that would likely exempt most mainstream Linux distributions — including #Debian, #Fedora, #Ubuntu, #Arch_Linux, and #Mint — from compliance requirements scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027.
Assembly Bill 1856 (AB 1856), currently moving through California’s legislature ahead of committee reviews in June, would amend the state’s earlier age-assurance law by excluding software distributed under licenses that allow users to “copy, redistribute, and modify the software.”
The proposed amendment specifically states: “#Operating_system provider” does not mean a person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under #license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the #software.
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#Open_Source #Alternatives To #Proprietary_Software
▻https://opensourcealternative.toOver 2 million users replaced proprietary #software with this directory.
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Developer of #VeraCrypt #encryption #software says #Windows users may face boot-up issues after #Microsoft locked his account
▻https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/veracrypt-encryption-software-windows-microsoft-lock-boot-issuesThe developer of the popular file encryption software VeraCrypt says #Microsoft has blocked access to the account he used for sending updates to Windows users, and warned that anyone who encrypts their #PCs with his software may soon face issues accessing their #computers.
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Bref, Veracrypt est mort, au moins sur les ordinateurs sous windows. Le sale coup n’est pas une surprise et se déroule comme la censure chez Android/Alphabet qui sont en train de tuer les logiciels et systèmes d’explotation libres.
Tout se passe en étroite collaboration avec les états qui font tout pour empêcher les citoyens de s’auto-organiser en dehors de la surveillance des monopoles commerciaux et des états.
Exemples
▻https://piunikaweb.com/2025/09/08/grapheneos-google-security-patch-backlash
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Google ne fait pas marche arrière sur son plan de refermer Android
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1159936P.S. Pourquoi n’y a-t-il toujours pas de réseau IP mesh pour les portables ? Si on avait la possibilité d’accéder à l’internet á travers des routeurs indépendants connectés à des portables qui agrandiraient le secteur couvert, la censure du net serait impossible.
#monopoles #GAFAM #censure #compétiton_illoyale #sécurité #Microsoft #android #mswindows #FLOSS
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Comme indiqué ici aujourd’hui, il n’y a pas que VeraCrypt. C’est une offensive globale, comme tu le dis.
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The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to #Eliminate #Programmers
▻https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hypeWhen I look back at the #history of #software, one pattern emerges with remarkable consistency: the promise to simplify software creation, to make it cheaper, and ultimately to eliminate the need for programmers altogether. This is not a new idea. It has been the driving ambition of our industry since the 1960s. And while each generation believes they are witnessing something unprecedented, they are actually participating in a cycle that has repeated itself for over six decades.
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Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
▻https://www.bicameral-ai.com/blog/introducing-bicameral— Permalink
#dev #softwareengineering #copilot #management #projectmanagement #complexity #code
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Forget technical debt
▻https://www.ufried.com/blog/forget_technical_debt— Permalink
#technicaldebt #dev #softwareengineering #cognitiveload #cognition
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AI code and software #craft - alex wennerberg
▻https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-01-25-slop.html— Permalink
#dev #copilot #softwareengineering #technique #ellul #craftsmanship #art #artificialintelligence
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GitHub - Doriandarko/claude-engineer: Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic’s Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks.This framework enables Claude to generate and manage its own tools, continuously expanding its capabilities through conversation. Available both as a CLI and a modern web interface
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#dev #generativeai #copilot #softwareengineering #claudecode #claudeengineer
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AndyMik90/Auto-Claude : Autonomous multi-session AI coding
▻https://github.com/AndyMik90/Auto-Claude— Permalink
#dev #generativeai #copilot #softwareengineering #claudecode #autoclaude
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#code Is Cheap Now. #software Isn’t. — Chris Gregori
▻https://www.chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code-is-cheap-now-software-isnt— Permalink
#eev #softwareengineering #copilot #generativeai #productivity
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European Commission issues #call for #evidence on open source [LWN.net]
▻https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107— Permalink
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Creators of #tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950— Permalink
#artificialintelligence #copilot #layoffs #softwareengineering
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A post-American, #enshittification-resistant #internet- media.ccc.de
▻https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet— Permalink
#technology #regulation #domination #imperialism #cloud #dollar #europe #sovereignty #freedom #jailbreak #hacking #interoperability #opensource #commons #hardware #software #artificialintelligence #techdebt #liability #ethics #39c3 #corydoctorow #bestof
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Linux DAW
▻https://linuxdaw.orgThere are many websites out there on #audio #software for #Linux, each with it’s own look and focus. However, most of them have quite a lot to be desired, which is what we try fix here. There’s always room for one more right?
Our focus:
– Help Linux #musicians to quickly and easily find the #tools they need
– Showcase good quality software
– Promote developers/companies that support Linux
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The State of AI Coding 2025 | Greptile
▻https://www.greptile.com/state-of-ai-coding-2025— Permalink
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The Illusion of Shared #understanding - by Roman Nikolaev
▻https://highimpactengineering.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-shared-understanding— Permalink
#management #communication #mentalmodels #softwareengineering #culture #indexicalities #implicit #RFC
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AI Killed My Job: #tech workers - by Brian Merchant
▻https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech-f39— Permalink
#work #employment #artificialintelligence #dev #softwareengineering
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#estimates – a necessary evil? - Erik Thorsell
▻https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html— Permalink
