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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s | Oct 06 02:23 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s ) | Oct 06 02:23 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Just one addition to your storyline (which is great BTW). | Oct 06 02:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Buy a company for which you pay a whole load of cash, have no idea how to monetize it, cash the cow until it's dry, then claim victory because you said the investment paid for itself, layoff their employees, the remaining ones are left just for support and become an obscure team that slowly nobody remembers it exists, ignore the fact that you said you had an entire hybrid cloud strategy (for example) that will conquer the world, an | Oct 06 02:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | d move on to the next thing.... You show the world how you can multitask and talk about AI BS (oh, management is sooo gooooood). hire some consultants (McKinsey is the preference) and pay them a lot of money to figure out what to talk about next .. oh, the power of QUANTUM things...!!!" | Oct 06 02:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 06 02:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | OK, so I read the article. What I got out of it is that IBM's role in "the marketplace" will be that of a plumbing supply company. They'll sell specialized software components and consulting to the market, but not so much hardware (assuming that they exit manufacturing entirely). From reading the forum commentary, their customers will be mostly Fortune 1000 companies, with everyone else being relegated to industry "partners". | Oct 06 02:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | While I see a significant role for IBM in this scenario, I do NOT see the "all-important, absolutely necessary" role that IBM once played in this world. IBM is just another vendor...no more, no less. Fortune 1000 customers can play with IBM if they like, or they can buy plumbing supplies from someone else. Industry "partners" will sell whatever vendor gives them the best deals, which may or may not be IBM. | Oct 06 02:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | AI? Doesn't matter. Quantum? If it ever comes to fruition, that won't matter either. IBM is just a "me too" plumbing supplier in a world whose leadership consists of OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Apple and some other vendors. | Oct 06 02:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Cisco used to have that all-important lead position, but now they too are just another plumbing vendor. Whether it's routers, switches, voice-over-IP or whatever, customers can pick and choose from a variety of vendors at every price point. There's something for everyone. | Oct 06 02:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 06 02:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </a | Oct 06 04:10 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal#Mark_Lewis | Oct 06 06:04 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | News International phone hacking scandal - Wikipedia | Oct 06 06:04 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "'" | Oct 06 06:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Lewis, who is not connected with the Harbotte & Lewis firm, first engaged with News of the World in 2005 when it was moving to print a story asserting marital infidelity on Gordon Taylor's part. Lewis worked for George Davies Solicitors LLP in Manchester specialising in defamation cases and was able to persuade the paper not to run the story.[40] In 2006, in the criminal trial over the hacking of royals' voicemail accounts, it beca | Oct 06 06:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | me public that the paper had also hacked, among others, Taylor's voicemail. In his "eureka moment", Lewis realised then that it was hacked information which had led to the earlier story about Taylor. From that insight came the realisation that the paper had a potential civil liability from its hacking practices, and that led to Taylor's civil case. In 2011, working now with Taylor Hampton Solicitors in London, Lewis seems about to | Oct 06 06:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | close a $4.7 million settlement in the Dowler case and has "more than 70 clients who believe News of the World illegally intercepted their cellphone voice mails", according to a Wall Street Journal story | Oct 06 06:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 06 06:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-turns-40-unveils-librephone/">Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone</a></h5> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>As we informed you a few days ago, longtime systems administrator and board member Ian Kelling was officially introduced as the new president of the organization. </p> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> On the event, discussions included several familiar names, such as Richard Stallman, Geoffrey Knauth, Christina Haralanova, and Gerald Jay Sussman — all of whom reflected on the FSF’s mission and direction for the future. </p> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Oct 06 07:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone | Oct 06 07:47 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-unforgiving-gold-standard-why.html?showComment=1759694713858#c3169914576803608927 | Oct 06 07:50 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Sorry to say, Daniel, I am not bright enough to follow your thinking. I will therefore try again, to explain my thinking. Perhaps your reply to this fresh attempt will help me to see the light.<br /><br />Having trained in the UK, I see a claim as defining the boundary between what subject matter is protected by the patent monopoly and what is outside the scope of protection. | Oct 06 07:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | The unforgiving gold standard: Why deleting a feature can add matter at the EPO (T 0422/23) - The IPKat | Oct 06 07:50 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Last time, this Kat covered some practical steps on how to ensure client confidentiality when using AI tools (IPKat).Last time, this Kat covered some practical steps on how to ensure client confidentiality when using AI tools (IPKat)." As if the rea""" | Oct 06 07:58 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Oct 06 08:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><b><em>FSF</em></b> ☛ <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-turns-forty-with-a-new-president-and-a-new-campaign">FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president</a></h5> | Oct 06 08:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Oct 06 08:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF to bring full computing freedom to mobile computing environments. The LibrePhone Project is a partnership with Rob Savoye, a developer who has worked on free software (including the GNU toolchain) since the 1980s. "Since mobile phone computing is now so ubiquitous, we're very excited about LibrePhone and think it has the potential to bring software freedom to many more | Oct 06 08:41 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | users all over the world." </p></blockquote></li> | Oct 06 08:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software | Oct 06 08:41 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Anyway, I will catch up with you very soon as someone contacted me about | Oct 06 15:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > some more drama and open source And said it’s getting bad. | Oct 06 15:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I was talking to a friend about you just a few hours before you had contacted me, expressing concerns. I am glad thinks am going OK and look forward to hearing more. | Oct 06 15:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Isn’t life grand? I’ve been so busy doing all this mayor stuff and | Oct 06 17:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > working. I just Had this feeling and I couldn’t shake lit like I should | Oct 06 17:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > contact Roy and let him know. I didn’t disappear off the face of the | Oct 06 17:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Earth. :) Catch up with you soon! Hope all is well. | Oct 06 17:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Take your time while we fight our own battles ;-) | Oct 06 17:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Happy hacking. | Oct 06 17:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " yo, | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | is there any way to circumvent the negate-overflow in typical ubsan? | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i'm trying to do security research on android binder services | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | (targeting a specific vendor library) and running into an unexpected | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | issue, ubsan instrumentation in libbinder.so on a production build. | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | when triggering integer overflow in service implementations through | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | binder ipc, i'm hitting a ubsan negate-overflow check in | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | BBinder::transact. specifically in the transaction recording path: | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | BBinder::transact() { | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ... | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pthread_mutex_lock(extras + 0x14); | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | CMP WZR, W0 // compare 0 - return_value | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | B.VS ubsan_abort // crashes here | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | } | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | what happens is the service heap state gets corrupted, but when binder | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | tries to record the transaction, pthread_mutex_lock reads corrupted | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | mutex data and returns INT_MIN. then the "0 - INT_MIN" comparison | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | triggers ubsan and aborts before i can see the actual memory corruption | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | behavior. | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the abort message: | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ubsan: negate-overflow by 0x<address> | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | i have root and can test out different things, but the poc must not | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | require root to run or setup. | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 06 19:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-10/msg00001.html | Oct 06 19:58 |
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