Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News)

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Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people.

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1. What up, Old School nerds? (00:00:00)

https://changelog.com/live?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (00:00:54)

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S. (00:01:57)

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Make your own backup system (00:02:39)

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: CodeRabbit (00:03:29)

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6. I'm switching to Python and actually liking it (00:04:16)

https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html?utm_source=changelog-news

7. It's rude to show AI output to people (00:05:09)

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:05:59)

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