●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, October 06, 2025 ●● ● Oct 06 [02:23] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s [02:23] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6m1hv5s ) [02:24] schestowitz[TR2] "Just one addition to your storyline (which is great BTW). [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 [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...!!!" [02:25] schestowitz[TR2] " [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". [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. [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. [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. [02:25] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Oct 06 [04:10] schestowitz[TR2] [07:47] schestowitz[TR2]
Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone
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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.

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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 FSFs mission and direction for the future.

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[07:47] schestowitz[TR2] [07:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone [07:49] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-unforgiving-gold-standard-why.html?showComment=1759694713858#c3169914576803608927 [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.

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. [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 [07:58] 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 [08:04] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:41] schestowitz[TR2]
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    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 [08:41] schestowitz[TR2] users all over the world."

    • [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 [09:39] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:44] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kpkpy434dfgzc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 06 [10:02] *acer-box__ has quit (*.net *.split) [10:02] *rianne has quit (*.net *.split) [10:03] *rianne (~rianne@freenode-b2n.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techbytes [10:03] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@freenode-rjpmff.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techbytes [10:52] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 06 [11:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Oct 06 [12:30] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 06 [14:01] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techbytes [14:01] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +a #techbytes MinceR ● Oct 06 [15:30] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:40] schestowitz[TR2] > Anyway, I will catch up with you very soon as someone contacted me about [15:40] schestowitz[TR2] > some more drama and open source And said its getting bad. [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 [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] > Isnt life grand? Ive been so busy doing all this mayor stuff and [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] > working. I just Had this feeling and I couldnt shake lit like I should [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] > contact Roy and let him know. I didnt disappear off the face of the [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] > Earth. :) Catch up with you soon! Hope all is well. [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] Take your time while we fight our own battles ;-) [17:19] schestowitz[TR2] Happy hacking. ● Oct 06 [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] " yo, [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] is there any way to circumvent the negate-overflow in typical ubsan? [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] i'm trying to do security research on android binder services [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] (targeting a specific vendor library) and running into an unexpected [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] issue, ubsan instrumentation in libbinder.so on a production build. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] when triggering integer overflow in service implementations through [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] binder ipc, i'm hitting a ubsan negate-overflow check in [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] BBinder::transact. specifically in the transaction recording path: [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] BBinder::transact() { [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] ... [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] pthread_mutex_lock(extras + 0x14); [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] CMP WZR, W0 // compare 0 - return_value [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] B.VS ubsan_abort // crashes here [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] } [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] what happens is the service heap state gets corrupted, but when binder [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] tries to record the transaction, pthread_mutex_lock reads corrupted [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] mutex data and returns INT_MIN. then the "0 - INT_MIN" comparison [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] triggers ubsan and aborts before i can see the actual memory corruption [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] behavior. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] the abort message: [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] ubsan: negate-overflow by 0x
    [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] i have root and can test out different things, but the poc must not [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] require root to run or setup. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-10/msg00001.html [19:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Failed to connect to lists.gnu.org port 443 after 10000 ms: Timeout was reached ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-10/msg00001.html ) ● Oct 06 [20:08] *asusbox (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:08] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:08] *rianne has quit (connection closed) [20:09] *asusbox has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [20:10] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:10] *asusbox (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 06 [21:38] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [21:59] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Oct 06 [22:42] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-md3.o22.de6qkt.IP) has joined #techbytes ● Oct 06 [23:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes