October 20, 2026 at 11:20 AM
The big tech companies have been the default software for far too long. Take a few steps and find software you actually like to use. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
How to Opt Out of Software Made by Big Tech
Big tech companies make the devices we use and the operating systems that come on them. They also make the bulk of the default software that comes packed into those operating systems. But spend even
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October 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The big tech companies have been the default software for far too long. Take a few steps and find software you actually like to use. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
People are using AI coding tools to jailbreak TVs and install open source software to remove the intrusive Spyware installed on TVs that monitor everything you watch to sell to advertisers.
We're starting to see this in anything that uses software now. Closed source is dying.
We're starting to see this in anything that uses software now. Closed source is dying.
October 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
People are using AI coding tools to jailbreak TVs and install open source software to remove the intrusive Spyware installed on TVs that monitor everything you watch to sell to advertisers.
We're starting to see this in anything that uses software now. Closed source is dying.
We're starting to see this in anything that uses software now. Closed source is dying.
Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI
Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
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October 20, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
Art by Don Ivan Punchatz for Doom (ID Software, 1993)
October 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Art by Don Ivan Punchatz for Doom (ID Software, 1993)
In an era when women were routinely erased from history's achievements and forced to the sidelines by male scientists, she led the team that developed Apollo’s flight software, saved humanity’s first Moon landing, and revolutionised software engineering.
October 19, 2026 at 1:13 AM
In an era when women were routinely erased from history's achievements and forced to the sidelines by male scientists, she led the team that developed Apollo’s flight software, saved humanity’s first Moon landing, and revolutionised software engineering.
Nintendo Switch 2 Firmware Update - 10.16.2026
- Software stability improvements
- Load time improvements across the whole system
- New default theme
- Software stability improvements
- Load time improvements across the whole system
- New default theme
October 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Nintendo Switch 2 Firmware Update - 10.16.2026
- Software stability improvements
- Load time improvements across the whole system
- New default theme
- Software stability improvements
- Load time improvements across the whole system
- New default theme
economists 💪 software engineers
ideally I put myself out of work
ideally I put myself out of work
Meanwhile the Engineers are just lighting themselves on fire to see what happens.
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October 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
economists 💪 software engineers
ideally I put myself out of work
ideally I put myself out of work
it has never been easier to produce mid software that doesn't do anything particularly useful
October 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
it has never been easier to produce mid software that doesn't do anything particularly useful
Bonnou Yobikou 3 // Software House Parsley // PC-98
October 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Bonnou Yobikou 3 // Software House Parsley // PC-98
We've accelerated software production while leaving the institutions that govern software production largely unchanged.
And then people look at the resulting congestion and conclude that AI coding isn't delivering the promised productivity gains.
And then people look at the resulting congestion and conclude that AI coding isn't delivering the promised productivity gains.
October 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
We've accelerated software production while leaving the institutions that govern software production largely unchanged.
And then people look at the resulting congestion and conclude that AI coding isn't delivering the promised productivity gains.
And then people look at the resulting congestion and conclude that AI coding isn't delivering the promised productivity gains.
I think ultimately ai is turning software development *itself* into a pay to play gacha instant satisfaction game.
October 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I think ultimately ai is turning software development *itself* into a pay to play gacha instant satisfaction game.
i have enough software
thank you sincerely for the offer of more software, newer software, but I don’t need any more, as i have enough software in my life at the moment
thank you sincerely for the offer of more software, newer software, but I don’t need any more, as i have enough software in my life at the moment
October 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i have enough software
thank you sincerely for the offer of more software, newer software, but I don’t need any more, as i have enough software in my life at the moment
thank you sincerely for the offer of more software, newer software, but I don’t need any more, as i have enough software in my life at the moment
i don't think the masses are going to suddenly be writing or vibecoding their own software, but i do think that enough people are going to do this that cloned/modded/frankensteined software is going to be unavoidable and is going to result in very real consequences regardless
October 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
i don't think the masses are going to suddenly be writing or vibecoding their own software, but i do think that enough people are going to do this that cloned/modded/frankensteined software is going to be unavoidable and is going to result in very real consequences regardless
This is the entire software engineering field
the ADHD urge to procrastinate by obsessively tinkering with some unimportant subtask that's only quasi-related to what you were originally trying to do
October 19, 2026 at 8:18 PM
This is the entire software engineering field
It's interesting that some of the improvement LLMs bring to software may just be providing a supply of guys willing to be low status enough to implement the optimal social structures for building software.
In *The Mythical Man-Month* Brooks relates an idea from Harlan Mills for structuring programming work as a 'surgical team'; there's a lead programmer who makes design decisions and does a lot of the work and they have a fleet of support staff.
October 20, 2026 at 5:41 AM
It's interesting that some of the improvement LLMs bring to software may just be providing a supply of guys willing to be low status enough to implement the optimal social structures for building software.
Agentic software engineering isn't merely a faster way to perform the traditional software development lifecycle. It's a reason to redesign the lifecycle itself.
October 19, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Agentic software engineering isn't merely a faster way to perform the traditional software development lifecycle. It's a reason to redesign the lifecycle itself.
Un cop més el hardware paga els errors del software.
Incendien l'Ajuntament de Llemotges en les protestes […]
Uns 50 manifestants han calat foc a l'edifici i les flames han destruït la torre i gran part del sostre
https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/desenes-de-detinguts-i-aldarulls-en-les-protestes-socials-multitudinaries-arreu-de-franca/noticia/3434647/
Uns 50 manifestants han calat foc a l'edifici i les flames han destruït la torre i gran part del sostre
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October 18, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Un cop més el hardware paga els errors del software.
my teams owner has a facial recognition software built into his arena that tracks women like me going to the bathroom
i wonder what it's like to be a fan of another city's teams and you never have to worry about burner phones or blood clots or guys who want to be fishermen or guys who want to be firemen or guys who led a dogfighting ring and felt bad about it and guys who get their blood replaced by chiropractors
October 19, 2026 at 3:12 PM
my teams owner has a facial recognition software built into his arena that tracks women like me going to the bathroom
Picard technology tip: Sometimes your chief engineer can build new systems that are better than your existing enterprise software.
October 19, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Picard technology tip: Sometimes your chief engineer can build new systems that are better than your existing enterprise software.
I’ve lost the feeling of flow state in writing software, but I’ve gained the space to day dream about my software. I find it brings creative new ideas to my projects.
October 18, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I’ve lost the feeling of flow state in writing software, but I’ve gained the space to day dream about my software. I find it brings creative new ideas to my projects.
Margaret Hamilton obituary
Margaret Hamilton obituary
Pioneering software engineer whose work was critical to the Apollo moon landings
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Margaret Hamilton obituary
“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...
The moral case for human music
A philosopher of music argues that AI music-generation software ‘is an insult to musicians’
www.ft.com
October 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...