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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1g4j3vb | Aug 01 05:23 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “The enigma of success” | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | LOL, Satya is just quoting what AI told him to say. | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Also as I’ve read elsewhere: | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “Whites were the majority of MSFT and since Satya's leadership is now the minority, dropping 10% just in the last year.” | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Did it ever occur to you that this was always the master plan. This was foretold before and the person who made the prediction was thrashed online as a naysayer. Now…..BEHOLD…..it has come to pass. | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 01 05:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 01 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This makes me feel uncomfortable, so let’s label it a coincidence. | Aug 01 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 01 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1ezd0ay | Aug 01 05:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1ezd0ay ) | Aug 01 05:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Truth, "Significant numbers of Americans also think diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, also known as DEI, are backfiring against the groups they’re intended to help [...] including many people who belong to those groups." - | Aug 01 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/ap-how-americans-views-of-racial-discrimination-have-shifted-since-2021-according-to-ap-norc-polling/ " | Aug 01 05:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1g7exmt | Aug 01 05:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1g7exmt ) | Aug 01 05:25 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 01 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Does the fruit taste sweet? or bitter? | Aug 01 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | People worked so very very hard to contribute, improve and streamline AI. Taking much pride in their work on something that is truly cutting edge. Now that its all come to pass and is getting much better exponentially every day, does the fruit of your labor tastes sweet? or bitter? | Aug 01 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Those actually working with hands on AI, I’m sure have been very handsomely rewarded at such a magnitude with a financial parachute that their feet never touched the ground, so I’m sure it tastes sweet. What about everyone else? What about those that are “no longer needed” at Microsoft…..anymore? Are the remaining employees on edge with worry that they are next? The stock price is way up, awesome. Thumbs up all the way ar | Aug 01 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ound, so no harm no foul…..right? | Aug 01 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Of course if let go, you can always just go back to school and re-invent yourself and learn coding and large language model and BAM!!!! instant job, because that’s how it works. You just hammer out such learning over the weekend and you’ve got a job on Monday. | Aug 01 05:25 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | This<a h | Aug 01 07:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k10s1j43 | Aug 01 07:44 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Z is not actually great. In fact it, along with all the horrible stuff on it (zOS, LE, CICS, IMS, DB2, etc.) make it a close to impossible platform to ever make better. Start with zOS: this looks very little like an operating system that people today understand. In fact, it is one reason CICS and then LE came about: to kinda sorta make this a recognizable platform. Okay, so a bunch of bandages were added to a really odd-ball OS. S | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | o we are all good? No: you need very specialized people ( or AI ) to configure and run these systems. (And let's not talk about IMS!) These specializations are mind numbingly recondite and no current SW engineering student should ever want to touch it. | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The fact is that even within the company, the specialized skills required to evolve this miasma of overlapping software with bizarre tendrils is slowly disappearing. First, a lot of old timers are heading for the exits. Second, the fixation with moving work to "low cost" countries is not building the deep skills IBM needs. That could happen in time but has not happened yet. | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So you have an odd-ball, difficult to manage batch of software that no modern student wants to touch. Add to that the truth that every single customer wants to get off the platform because it is, by far, the most expensive way to run software. (The whole four hour rolling average computing use drives customers crazy. But it does bring in a lot of revenue.) And then again add the fact that IBM's attention is on AI (where they are no | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | where), something called "Hybrid Cloud" and Quantum (where they are selling snake oil.) | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Until all work is moved off the platform and recognizing that it does run a lot of the world's economy and that even IBM is failing to keep a relevant workforce, this platform should be turned into a public trust and IBM should move on with all of its new initiatives. | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @16z+1k10s1j43 | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Z is great but not big enough to justify the current multiple on the stock. AK and JK want Wall Street to believe IBM is a SW company with fast growth around the corner. Lol. | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @16c+1k10s1j43 | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @12f it's only a matter of time and eventually even Z will end up in the trash can of history (and IBM will end up there too). | Aug 01 07:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Do you hear anyone asking for OS/2 any more ? | Aug 01 07:44 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "The ECB criticised for requiring elected staff representatives to devote part of | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | their time to their work every day | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Caroline Robin | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | On 29/07 at 11:19 | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In a letter seen by the Financial Times, staff representatives at the European Central | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Bank (ECB) have criticised the institution's "anti-democratic" behaviour, which they | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | say forces them to devote part of their time to their daily work. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Internal tensions at the European Central Bank. According to information obtained by | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the Financial Times, staff representatives at the ECB are criticising the "anti- | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | democratic" behaviour of the governing body of the institution, which is based in | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Frankfurt, Germany. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And with good reason: the ECB has proposed requiring employee representatives at | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the financial institution to devote part of their time to their daily work. However, under | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | German law, they are entitled to devote themselves full-time to defending the | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | interests of the workforce... while receiving their full salary. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In a letter addressed to ECB President Christine Lagarde and seen by the British | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | business daily, Staff Committee Chairman Carlos Bowles described the British | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | institution as a "legal fortress that is not accountable". | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "We regret to note that these principles, which are expressed outside the institution, | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | appear to be given little value within the institution by its power structure," wrote the | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | staff committee chair. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | According to information from the Financial Times reported in a previous article, on | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 May, the ECB had already proposed reducing the daily time allocated to staff | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | representation to 75% for the committee spokesperson and only 50% for other | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | elected staff representatives. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Carlos Bowles was quick to react on LinkedIn, arguing that "an independent ECB | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | cannot function effectively if its staff are afraid to express their opinions for fear of | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | reprisals". | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Favouritism and burnout | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In his latest four-page letter to Christine Lagarde, Carlos Bowles even claims that the | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ECB's treatment of staff has led to "widespread complaints of favouritism, (...) high | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | rates of burnout and the vulnerability of many colleagues working on temporary | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | contracts". | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | According to a survey conducted in February by the internal union Ipso among 1,425 | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ECB employees, the results of which were published on 30 April, a large majority of | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | respondents ( ) share their dissatisfaction with the transparency of recruitment and | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | internal promotion processes. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Many respondents believe that favouritism plays a more important role than | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | professional performance in promotions," the study highlights. | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In fact, 77% of respondents believe that internal promotions at the ECB are based on | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | knowing the "right" people. Conversely, only 34% believe that promotions are | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | possible simply by doing a good job." | Aug 01 13:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/international/la-bce-epinglee-parce-qu-elle-oblige-les-elus-du-personnel-a-consacrer-une-partie-de-leur-temps-a-leur-travail-tous-les-jours_AN-202507290228.html | Aug 01 13:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.bfmtv.com | Contraintes sur les représentants du personnel, favoritisme préféré à la performance professionnelle... Vent de fronde des salariés de la BCE contre la présidente Christine Lagarde | Aug 01 13:43 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "SUEPO The Hague is an affiliate of Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF), the umbrella organisation representing over twenty unions across European and international public service institutions. As part of the USF network, SUEPO The Hague stands in solidarity with thousands of public servants from diverse professional backgrounds, nationalities, and employment conditions. Together, we work to uphold the rights, welfare, and values of s | Aug 01 13:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | taff serving the public interest across Europe and beyond. | Aug 01 13:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To learn more about USF’s union activities and to explore the latest editions of the renowned Agora magazine, we invite you to visit the USF website." | Aug 01 13:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | SUEPO The Hague – Affiliate of Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) | Aug 01 13:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Aug 01 15:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-bpi-r4-lite-released-with-mediatek-mt7987a-and-wi-fi-7-support/">Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite Released with MediaTek MT7987A and Wi-Fi 7 Support</a></h5> | Aug 01 15:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 01 15:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The Banana Pi team has launched the BPI-R4 Lite, a smart router board powered by the MediaTek MT7987A processor. It supports Wi-Fi 7 and offers multiple high-speed interfaces, targeting applications such as internet service routers, wireless repeaters, home gateways, NAS devices, and 4G or 5G connectivity.</p> | Aug 01 15:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Aug 01 15:53 |
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