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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez | Apr 02 01:36 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | Apr 02 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Your arguments about feeling sorry for the employees left behind after layoff and potential employers reading comments on this site are pure drivel. Potential employers are on the look out for people with skills, not the companies they work for or previously worked for. Resumes are screened for the right skills sets, certifications, length of service in the ATS (Applicant Tracking System) to see if candidates are a good match for a | Apr 02 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | particular job opening or not. Then the ATS generates a potential candidate list for interviews - it's all automated, not much human interaction these days. Companies with corrupt management are two a penny in today's business world; IBM and Kyndryl are companies no one in the real world cares about much, except perhaps the corrupt leaders like Alvind and Krabanaugh and of course, the corporate investors. Miss a quarter or two of | Apr 02 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | good results for IBM, and both Alvind and Krabanaugh will be history. And deservedly so. It's capitalism 101. The employees who are left behind after layoffs are invariably US managers and what valuable skills do most of them really have or develop ? A few might be technical, many are not. The Indians get the jobs at lower pay rate, and the US employees are cast aside unemployed to fend for themselves. It's sink or swim in the dog- | Apr 02 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | eat-dog environment now. Why should anyone feel sorry for senior managers, partners, etc. at IBM in the US who get better pay and benefits than the lower rank and file folks that they laid off ? All good things come to an end. When hiring someone, it's all about finding candidates having the right skills, attitude and aptitude. Not about reading comments about IBM on Web sites like this one. New and exciting technology companies ar | Apr 02 01:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | e born all the time and old ones like IBM die off and disappear - it's part of the cycle of life. | Apr 02 01:36 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "There are a few problems with this. The first is: you need to imagine just being laid off. Your severance will be limited to whatever is required by provincial (Canada), state (USA) or other (elsewhere) labour laws and standards. In Canada or the USA, you won't be getting rich. The second problem is: how does "doing the minimal" help you? I was a long time software developer there. When I was certain that time was running out, I m | Apr 02 01:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ade sure that I did much more that "minimal" to ensure that (a) my skills were as modern as possible and (b) I had positive relations with people both inside and outside of IBM who would be able to help me when time ran out. | Apr 02 01:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | My point is that the post seems unduly negative. Whatever part of the company you are in, you need to take advantage of whatever you can whenever you can. Even if that means doing more that the minimum to "stay off the radar."" | Apr 02 01:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq | Apr 02 01:42 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > (after skimming, because I have to leave for a bit, will read in detail | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > later when I return home) | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Way to go! | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I hope it's not an April 1st prank ;-) | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/My_Motion_Disbarring_or_Striking_Off_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Enabl.shtml | Apr 02 03:55 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I will send it by post soon. | Apr 02 03:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights — My Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs | Apr 02 03:55 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "How to quickly insert an electronic signature in Word" | Apr 02 07:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.pcworld.com/article/2646982/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-sign-word-documents-electronically.html | Apr 02 07:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # fraudulent; that's *NOT* an electronic signature but a bitmap | Apr 02 07:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-How to quickly insert an electronic signature in Word | PCWorld | Apr 02 07:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Why Vikunja is moving from Gitea to GitHub" | Apr 02 07:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://vikunja.io/changelog/moving-to-github/ | Apr 02 07:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-vikunja.io | Why Vikunja is moving from Gitea to GitHub | Apr 02 07:25 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Apr 02 07:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hi, | Apr 02 07:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I have a serious report to send. | Apr 02 07:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Do you accept submission by E-mail or only by Post? We do not have a printer at home. | Apr 02 07:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Br," | Apr 02 07:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I've started listening to podcasts lately when I go to bed. I should check these out — Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Out Loud, GNU World Order, Open Source Security Podcast, This Week in Linux https://buff.ly/3Os79b7" https://x.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1861092546757148689 | Apr 02 08:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Out Loud, GNU World Order, Open Source Security Podcast, This Week in Linux | Apr 02 08:34 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 400 @ https://x.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1861092546757148689 ) | Apr 02 08:34 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://x.com/PolynomialXYZ/status/1879869056461001169 | Apr 02 08:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 400 @ https://x.com/PolynomialXYZ/status/1879869056461001169 ) | Apr 02 08:36 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "STFU | Apr 02 08:36 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Microsoft is actively colluding with the NSA. No software company has been quite as collaborative with the NSA as Microsoft." | Apr 02 08:36 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Apr 02 12:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/linux-lite-7-4-released-with-kernel-6-8-lts-and-gui-tweaks/">Linux Lite 7.4 Released with Kernel 6.8 and GUI Tweaks</a></h5> | Apr 02 12:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Apr 02 12:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Just to add, even though the distro is based on Ubuntu, it doesn’t include Snap support out of the box—it’s been removed from the default installation. Another interesting choice is that Chrome comes preinstalled as the default browser. </p> | Apr 02 12:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Apr 02 12:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Apr 02 12:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Linux Lite 7.4 Released with Kernel 6.8 and GUI Tweaks | Apr 02 12:38 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Apr 02 12:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/steam-rolls-out-april-update-with-fixes-and-ui-improvements/">Steam Rolls Out April Update with Fixes and UI Improvements</a></h5> | Apr 02 12:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Apr 02 12:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Valve has just rolled out a fresh update for the Steam client, which will be automatically downloaded for users. It brings a slew of fixes and usability improvements across general functionality, Big Picture mode, macOS, Linux, Remote Play, and Steam Input. </p> | Apr 02 12:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Apr 02 12:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Apr 02 12:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Steam Rolls Out April Update with Fixes and UI Improvements | Apr 02 12:41 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Apr 02 13:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/incus-6-11-container-and-virtual-machine-manager-released/">Incus 6.11 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released</a></h5> | Apr 02 13:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Apr 02 13:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The Incus team has just announced the release of version 6.11 of its container & virtual machine manager, which includes a wide range of improvements. One of the most striking features is its initial support for Linstor, an open-source software designed to manage block storage devices for large Linux server clusters, as an alternative to the tried-and-true Ceph. </p> | Apr 02 13:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Apr 02 13:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Apr 02 13:02 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Incus 6.11 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released | Apr 02 13:02 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/03/g-221-applied-to-software-inventions-t.html?showComment=1743514326800#c2908695204507560133 | Apr 02 15:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "In response to: "When it comes to ML, which kind of data could demonstrate advantages of a new algorithm over a (potentially previously unknown) prior art algorithm attempting to solve a similar problem? The only possible data in ML appear to be further training data. Bringing post-published evidence in this respect, would not help much as it would indirectly show that the invention was not sufficiently disclosed."<br /> | Apr 02 15:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <br />According to Mr PatKat (my Hey Hi (AI) advisor): Almost every single machine learning paper and model is justified by demonstrating its advantages over prior art algorithms attempting to solve similar problems. The basic approach is to try the machine learning algorithm on the problem of interest, and see how well it does. For instance, if the algorithm is supposed to classify cats vs dogs, then you check how accurately it | Apr 02 15:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | does that (i.e. does it classify an image of a cat as a cat? or does it classify an image of a cat as a dog?). You do this using a dataset that was not used during training, known as a "test dataset", and then compare its performance to previous algorithms (e.g. prior art algorithms). In fact, advances in "benchmarking" and "evals" (used to demonstrate one algorithm is better than another) are widely | Apr 02 15:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | acknowledged to have driven much of the recent progress in machine learning (e.g. see https://medium.com/data-science/the-olympics-of-ai-benchmarking-machine-learning-systems-c4b2051fbd2b)" | Apr 02 15:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | G 2/21 applied to software inventions (T 0687/22) - The IPKat | Apr 02 15:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-The Olympics of AI: Benchmarking Machine Learning Systems | by Matthew Stewart, PhD | TDS Archive | Medium | Apr 02 15:50 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez | Apr 02 16:06 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " IBM India HR Poster, you got that right - anyone who makes out to be what they are not deserves all the contempt in the world. No, not trolling for upvotes, just want to show the world what a horrible place IBM really has become to work at these days, and steer away US folks from the garbage workplace that IBM has become under Alvind and the Pi%pmunks. So take your contrarian opinions, and your fake US personna somewhere else whe | Apr 02 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | re the sun doesn't shine. I'm sure you'll make out real well with those wonderful references on the 3 fake accounts you allegedly did so well with on the NY subway too. You got it wrong - it's not anger issues, it is a quest for speaking the truth. Obviously you aren't into that at all. Your truth is as fake as one expect from an IBM India HR poster. " | Apr 02 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq | Apr 02 16:06 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Apr 02 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The board and Wall Street investors want to thank A. Krishna for his extraordinary contribution to the company said: ”IBM CEO is cleaning up the swamp at IBM and saving the company from bankruptcy by making expensive entitled dinosaurs train their own replacement by cheaper peons in India , by pennies on the dollar “ | Apr 02 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Apr 02 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq | Apr 02 16:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Apr 02 16:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This is Alvind's true legacy. He has destroyed the culture of IBM while lining the pockets of himself and his cronies. He hasn’t lead — he’s looted. Through financial engineering and PR bought from hacks like Cramer. Anyone who knows, knows that his tenure has weakened the company over the long haul, and he has done it by sowing fear, hatred, and division and grinding morale down to a bloody nub. | Apr 02 16:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He hasn’t even really helped his country of origin either, if we’re honest, not long-term anyway, and not if making everyone hate them is considered helping. He's junk food. He’s given them endorphin highs and short-term gains for his favorite autocrat, Modi, by virtually enslaving cheap, substandard labor he’ll gladly discard the moment AI takes over — but not before he’s retired to a life of comfort, safety, and luxur | Apr 02 16:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | y himself. It’s only ever been about him — corrosive, self-satisfied sociopath that he is. | Apr 02 16:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM in 2025 is a reflection of him and it is a walking corpse, rotting from within. His example is an argument against moral leadership, in favor of exploitation. A true mirror for our times. The worst leader in IBM’s history, hands down, and that’s a low bar. | Apr 02 16:08 |
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