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• Oct 26, 2026 Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival

  Buried in the story: unlike GitHub, this "rival" is not free.

  Customers must pay for the tokens the review agents consume because the review agents run on LLMs (new users will get a $100 starter credit). Once users have run out of these credits, they will pay market rates for the model of their choosing.

  I think this thing doesn't have a chance.

• Oct 26, 2026 The Everything Project is an effort to rebuild and open-source the world’s software from scratch.
  From Office to Slack and Photoshop to AutoCAD, we are recreating free, open-source alternatives to all proprietary software. This is a mono-repository containing all the applications and tools developed under the project.
• Oct 26, 2026 Interoperability is NOT Insecurity. Lack of Interoperability is evil.
  An open internet where people can freely build, share, and remix each other's work is a powerful engine of grassroots innovation we’ve all benefited from. In recent decades, however, corporations have taken control of an increasing share of this work, giving them a greater ability to stifle challengers and limit our choices. When regulators address this by mandating that tech giants play fair by requiring interoperability, the gatekeepers respond with a tired refrain: Playing fair puts users’ security at risk.
• Oct 26, 2026 LA Times' disclaimer is wildly illegal and incredibly immoral
  The paper claims that by simply reading an article, you agree that you can never, ever sue them for virtually any reason, and that you have consented to effectively unlimited surveillance and commercial exploitation of your private data.
• Oct 26, 2026 The web was much more powerful before all the big tech companies had their way with it
  Dave Winer is working on something exciting again. I think he might be building a browser for the Web of Markdown.