●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 02, 2025 ●● ● Apr 02 [01:36] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez [01:36] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez ) [01:36] schestowitz[TR2] "" [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 [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 [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- [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 [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. [01:39] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [01:42] 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 [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. [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."" [01:42] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq [01:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq ) [01:44] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 02 [02:13] *a_fantom (~fantom@freenode-drv.aab.2jssns.IP) has joined #techbytes [02:13] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Apr 02 [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] > (after skimming, because I have to leave for a bit, will read in detail [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] > later when I return home) [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] > Way to go! [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] > [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] > I hope it's not an April 1st prank ;-) [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/My_Motion_Disbarring_or_Striking_Off_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Enabl.shtml [03:55] schestowitz[TR2] I will send it by post soon. [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 [07:08] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:14] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:24] schestowitz[TR2] "How to quickly insert an electronic signature in Word" [07:24] schestowitz[TR2] x https://www.pcworld.com/article/2646982/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-sign-word-documents-electronically.html [07:24] schestowitz[TR2] # fraudulent; that's *NOT* an electronic signature but a bitmap [07:24] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-How to quickly insert an electronic signature in Word | PCWorld [07:25] schestowitz[TR2] "Why Vikunja is moving from Gitea to GitHub" [07:25] schestowitz[TR2] x https://vikunja.io/changelog/moving-to-github/ [07:25] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-vikunja.io | Why Vikunja is moving from Gitea to GitHub [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] " [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] Hi, [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] I have a serious report to send. [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] Do you accept submission by E-mail or only by Post? We do not have a printer at home. [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] Br," ● Apr 02 [08:34] 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 [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 [08:34] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 400 @ https://x.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1861092546757148689 ) [08:36] schestowitz[TR2] https://x.com/PolynomialXYZ/status/1879869056461001169 [08:36] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 400 @ https://x.com/PolynomialXYZ/status/1879869056461001169 ) [08:36] schestowitz[TR2] "STFU [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 [10:02] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:04] *jacobk (~quassel@syp65ggum2ibk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 02 [12:38] schestowitz[TR2]
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    Linux Lite 7.4 Released with Kernel 6.8 and GUI Tweaks
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    Just to add, even though the distro is based on Ubuntu, it doesnt include Snap support out of the boxits been removed from the default installation. Another interesting choice is that Chrome comes preinstalled as the default browser.

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    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.

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    Incus 6.11 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
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    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.

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    • [13:02] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Incus 6.11 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released ● Apr 02 [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/03/g-221-applied-to-software-inventions-t.html?showComment=1743514326800#c2908695204507560133 [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."
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    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 [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 [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)" [15:50] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | G 2/21 applied to software inventions (T 0687/22) - The IPKat [15:50] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-The Olympics of AI: Benchmarking Machine Learning Systems | by Matthew Stewart, PhD | TDS Archive | Medium ● Apr 02 [16:06] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez [16:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez ) [16:06] 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 [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. " [16:06] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq [16:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq ) [16:06] schestowitz[TR2] " [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 [16:06] schestowitz[TR2] " [16:08] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq [16:08] schestowitz[TR2] " [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 hasnt lead hes 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. [16:08] schestowitz[TR2] He hasnt even really helped his country of origin either, if were honest, not long-term anyway, and not if making everyone hate them is considered helping. He's junk food. Hes given them endorphin highs and short-term gains for his favorite autocrat, Modi, by virtually enslaving cheap, substandard labor hell gladly discard the moment AI takes over but not before hes retired to a life of comfort, safety, and luxur [16:08] schestowitz[TR2] y himself. Its only ever been about him corrosive, self-satisfied sociopath that he is. [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 IBMs history, hands down, and thats a low bar. [16:08] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Apr 02 [17:20] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Apr 02 [18:00] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:10] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@8p6k6zizq5nqc.irc) has joined #techbytes [18:34] *jacobk (~quassel@6wygwq2t5e2hw.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 02 [21:03] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:46] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [21:54] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 02 [22:13] *schestowitz-TR has quit (connection closed) [22:13] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Connection closed) [22:15] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techbytes [22:15] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@freenode-50vmi7.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techbytes