●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, October 01, 2024 ●● ● Oct 01 [01:03] *jacobk (~quassel@dt7mrnex4e9nw.irc) has joined #techbytes [01:53] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 01 [02:10] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:11] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [02:14] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes [02:14] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [02:28] *jacobk (~quassel@rr2rh58ht72yy.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 01 [03:05] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [03:05] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [03:06] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@m93jam5swqfas.irc) has joined #techbytes [03:06] *schestowitz-TR2 (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [03:12] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [03:12] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [03:12] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@m93jam5swqfas.irc) has joined #techbytes [03:12] *schestowitz-TR2 (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 01 [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 3umw The revenue per employee is interesting [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 2020 73.6/346 = 213k THIS doesnt include temps or part time employees [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 2021 57.3/281 = 204k Again no terms or part time [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 2022 60.5/288 = 210k No temps or part time [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 2023 61.8/282 = 219k No temps or part time [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 1994 (Gerstner reorg started) 64/220 = 291k [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 1996 (reorg completed) 76/240 = 316k [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] So the question is why has IBM gotten less efficient by approx 33% in the 2020-2023 timeframe [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] ALSO note if IBM drove to the 1996 efficiency they would have to get to an approx headcount of [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] 64/x = 315 X = 203k [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIQpbV9 [04:19] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIQpbV9 ) [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uLaVHNl [04:19] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uLaVHNl ) [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] Let's talk about DEs, STSMs and how they relate to AK. [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] To answer the OP, at the upper executive levels IBM is run like a big hedge fund. Lines of business (divisions) are regularly bought and sold by the corporation depending on their cash flow and profit potential. At the risk of oversimplification, "raise" and "RA' decisions come from divisional ("local") management, based on divisional needs and cash flow. At their option, AK and the BOD can choose to move funds to and from individu [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] al divisions based on the corporate priorities at the time. AK and the BOD can also choose to buy, sell, expand and/or shrink different divisions within the firm. [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] Where do the DEs and STSMs come in? DEs and STSMs are the "brain trust" of IBM. They are allegedly the thought leaders of the company...the most advanced and experienced. (Whether this is actually true or not is, of course, up to interpretation.) However, they also serve another purpose: They advise the executives on which businesses to buy and sell. [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] In other words: IBM executives did not decide to buy Red Hat on their own, nor will they decide to sell Red Hat on their own should that time ever arise. They aren't "smart" enough to make that call. They will base their decisions to no small degree on what their brain trust (the DEs and STSMs) advise them to do. [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] So, in response to one of the comments: Yeah, a lot of the senior staff is dragging everyone else down. But it's not just the bean-counter executives who are responsible. [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Oct 01 [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] https://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36911/ [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] "Akregator is working now! o/ [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] Thank you! [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] BTW, one quirk with the new feed is that it doesn't seem to show the original author of the article anymore (at least in akregator). [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] Old feed: https://imgur.com/mTxU4IQ [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] New feed: https://imgur.com/iQwQei0 [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] I don't know if this can be fixed/improved on your side or if it's an Akregator issue. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] That's interesting. The author is now embedded in the "atom" namespace. You will see that if you look at the RSS directly in a browser. Maybe not all readers recognize atom namespace. I'm willing to explore other namespace embeddings to see if we can work around this quirk." [05:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-LXer: My RSS reader can't find LXer's feed: LXer Meta Forum [05:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Imgur: The magic of the Internet [05:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Imgur: The magic of the Internet [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] https://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36908/ [05:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-LXer: Why are flatpaks so HUGE?: AudioTube stream music from YouTube [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] "I want to install AudioTube on my computer but in the Software Manager for Mint where it's at it says that the package will take up 2.6 gigs of space after installation. 2.6 GIG'S!?! For one program? That only plays audio tracks? Holy Cow! Why are they that huge? What's the reason? [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] I want to try it out but I don't want to commit almost 3 gigs of space to do it. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] That is strange. According to their website: [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.audiotube [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] Install size is 53.53 MiB. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] I'm not installing one program that takes up almost 3 gigs of apace and all it does is PLAY music. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] flatpaks also seem as a HUGE deal besides a HUGE size :| Maybe even approaching the point of JRRTolkien LOTR's "One Ring to rule them all" ????? [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] For Scott_Ruecker, maybe best to find the native installation tool (iirc one of the APTs for Mint), use a compatible non-Flatpak pkg or even build AudioTube from GPL'd source if that's possible. pacman for ArchLinux. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] Wouldn't myself rely on flatpaks unless DESPERATELY needed! [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] 2c [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] It's only available as a Flatpak in the Mint Software Manager so I guess I'll need to teach myself how to compile it from source code somehow. I have no idea how to do it. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] The problem may be KDE dependencies required to run the program. I've run into that loading programs like KMyMoney or K3b on Linux Mint using MATE as the default desktop environment. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] I wanted to install Mission Center from the Software Manager in Mint but it's a flatpak too.. 3.5gigs! For one program?!? No way. There's got to be another way. There's this AppImage that the Mission Center article on the news-wire talks about but I've ever heard of it. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] It just sad that a lot of programs that I would want to install I won't because there too damn huge. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] Quoting: [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] It just sad that a lot of programs that I would want to install I won't because there too damn huge. [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] "You kids have it too easy. Back in my day, we had to adjust the monitor timing, on a CRT." [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] "Oh yeah? You had a television? We had a noisy printed terminal!" [05:17] schestowitz[TR2] (Been there...)" [05:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-flathub.org | Install AudioTube on Linux | Flathub ● Oct 01 [09:41] schestowitz[TR2] "Worldcoin: Fighting Deepfakes and Bots With Global Permissionless Blockchain Identity" [09:41] schestowitz[TR2] x https://www.securityweek.com/worldcoin-fighting-deepfakes-and-bots-with-a-global-permissionless-blockchain-identity/ [09:41] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/worldcoin-fighting-deepfakes-and-bots-with-a-global-permissionless-blockchain-identity/ ) ● Oct 01 [10:02] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:05] *jacobk (~quassel@rr2rh58ht72yy.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 01 [11:43] schestowitz[TR2]
[11:43] schestowitz[TR2][11:43] schestowitz[TR2]While Valve's specific reasons for picking Arch Linux for Steam Deck remain unknown, it's pretty easy to guess why it was picked. Mainly, it's a particularly lightweight distribution maintained since March 2002, which lends itself well to gaming with minimal performance overhead. A more intensive Linux distribution may not have been the ideal base for SteamOS 3, which is targeted at handhe [11:43] schestowitz[TR2] lds like Steam Deck first.
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[11:44] schestowitz[TR2][11:44] schestowitz[TR2]At the beginning of the month, we introduced you to some of the changes expected to be included in the upcoming Mint 22.1 release.
[11:44] schestowitz[TR2]Today, Clement Lefebvre, lead of the Linux Mint project, shared another dose of updates in his monthly report, covering the work completed in September and upcoming plans for the project. Here are the highlights.
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[11:45] schestowitz[TR2][11:45] schestowitz[TR2]The core Plasma team remains deep in bug-fixing mode until Plasma 6.2.1, with lots of bugs fixed this week! This is the second-to-last week of development before the repos are frozen, and were cranking away like mad to get 6.2 in great shape. And it is indeed in very good shape so far. The worst issues were still seeing are related to notifications freezing and being mis-rend [11:45] schestowitz[TR2] ered, caused by recent changes made to fix another significantly less severe issue. So in the worst-case scenario, we can simply revert the changes before the final 6.2 release if we dont manage to fix the regressions in time.
[11:45] schestowitz[TR2]Something I hope we can prove to the world is that were capable of keeping Plasma stable over the long haul at the same time that we add features and refine the UI. Plasma 6.2 offers us a good opportunity for it!
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[11:46] schestowitz[TR2][11:46] schestowitz[TR2]Both Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41 are in beta testing, and both should arrive in the middle of October with GNOME 47 as their default desktop environments. You can't fully judge GNOME 47 from Ubuntu "Oracular Oriole," though. Canonical tweaks the GNOME desktop environment a little with some pre-installed extensions to make it a little more familiar to long-term Ubuntu users. For inst [11:46] schestowitz[TR2] ance, Ubuntu's default GNOME desktop has desktop icons, notification icons in the top panel, a permanent dock along the left screen edge, and a tool to assist with tiling windows. Fedora eschews these changes and ships a largely unmodified version, so it's much closer to the stock appearance.
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[11:47] schestowitz[TR2][11:47] schestowitz[TR2]Specifically, Valve is generously providing support for two major initiatives: the development of a build service infrastructure and the creation of a secure signing enclave.
[11:47] schestowitz[TR2]By backing these projects on a freelance basis, Valve enables the Arch team to focus on these essential improvements without being limited by the volunteer time constraints that often challenge open-source projects.
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[11:47] schestowitz[TR2][11:47] schestowitz[TR2]Whilst responding to another LQ members query about a suitable distro for a family member to self-manage, I came across Peppermint OS.
[11:47] schestowitz[TR2]The distro was to be installed on an elderly 10 year old laptop with 4GB of RAM.
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[11:49] schestowitz[TR2][11:49] schestowitz[TR2]Within the first couple weeks of nonstop designing and test fits, Zibartas had a helmet model that consisted of 130 individual parts and where airflow was a major priority. Similar to a motorcycle helmet, the inner layer is comprised of soft fabric overlayed on top of a rigid, yet porous, helmet shell. Two fans near the front bring in fresh air from the outside and help prevent the transpa [11:49] schestowitz[TR2] rent visor layer from becoming too foggy due to the wearers breathing. Raised just above this shell is a secondary set of 3D-printed accent pieces that give the helmet its finer details/form.
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[11:51] schestowitz[TR2][11:51] schestowitz[TR2]Almost half a year after the major 7.0 release, the highly anticipated FFmpeg 7.1 Peter release is finally here, bringing a host of updates and optimizations. Here they are.
[11:51] schestowitz[TR2]One of the standout advancements in this latest version is the maturation of the VVC (Versatile Video Coding) decoder. Initially introduced as an experimental feature in version 7.0, the VVC decoder has undergone extensive optimizations and is now stable enough for broad adoption.
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[11:51] schestowitz[TR2][11:51] schestowitz[TR2]After a five-year hiatus, RTorrent, a command-line BitTorrent client, has made a significant comeback with the release of version 0.10. According to the dev, Thanks to a 3rd party sponsoring development, and recent changes in my personal life, Ive started actively developing rtorrent.
[11:51] schestowitz[TR2]For the unfamiliar, RTorrent is a lightweight and powerful command-line BitTorrent client for Linux/Unix systems. Its written in C++ and interacts through a text-based interface, making it particularly suitable for remote or server-based setups, where graphical user interfaces are not needed or desired.
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[11:53] schestowitz[TR2][11:53] schestowitz[TR2]Firstly, Firefox will now temporarily remember when users grant websites permissions, such as geolocation access. These temporary permissions are designed to protect your privacy by automatically removing themselves after one hour or when you close the tab. This ensures that websites dont retain unnecessary access to your information longer than needed.
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[12:03] schestowitz[TR2][12:03] schestowitz[TR2]Today, Void Linux announced it is officially bidding farewell to Python 2. While Python 2 reached its end of life in 2020, the distro still depended on over 200 packages.
[12:03] schestowitz[TR2]Now, thanks to the dedicated efforts of Void contributors who have updated, patched, or removed these packages, the distribution is ready to embrace Python 3 fully.
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