●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, September 07, 2024 ●● ● Sep 07 [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] " CIO is nothing but a waste of time and effort - they have nothing innovative any more, nor do they perform any useful function for the company; ALL the CIO employees including the two useless VPs could be outsourced to another company like Tata, Infosys, Accenture to manage the infrastructure and the applications to save a bundle. And no one would miss these people at all. It's not like any of them could be considered to be the g [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] oose that lays the golden eggs, it is quite the opposite in fact - they are a drain on the IBM company resources. It's about time Alvind and the Pipmunks did something about that. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Call a halt to the CIO scam and become the "IBM CIO party po---r" ! [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] 15 minutes ago by Anonymous [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1lny+1unmJp5o [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] The employees won't like it, but further budget cuts for many internal departments are inevitable. IBM isn't the company it once was. It doesn't have the cash, it doesn't have the employees and it has a vastly shrinking product scope. A lot of the tools that it pioneered like Bluepages are now mainstream...they can be bought off the shelf just like any other COTS application. The CIO office is not a product development organization [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] , and they don't bring in money. How much innovation and internal app development does the organization really need? [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] 3 hours ago by Anonymous [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @tgc+1unmJp5o [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] +13 [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] CIO management and the product owners who act on their behalf do not have the IBM employee's interest at heart. In the end, they just care about cost cutting. Our tools get worse over time. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] But just a couple of years ago it was different. When I was in Fletcher Previn's team we had researchers who validated that tools could be used before letting them go live (vendor) - and provided detailed lists of fixes that had to be made first. Most of those researchers all left IBM. We had brilliant solutions such as Bluepages that they designed which made things better and even won awards. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Now everything is cost cutting; or put lipstick on a pig (visual design only). Tools are deployed that are beyond awful to use - there is no one left to do UAT even. And gaps in functionality that you could drive a truck through that just 3 years ago would have led to designing a bold and innovative solution - but today is buried, as the POs reject anything not within "scope" (cost cutting). User experience has dramatically decline [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] d and now all IBMers suffer. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] CIO is a microcosm of what is wrong with IBM, where all innovation is squashed as "too expensive" (without even doing ROI first) and making a delightful user experience has been replaced with creating a bland w3 experience that does nothing useful. But the execs and their PO stooges ignore all of the data and do whatever they want to do, which is solely to cut costs even if it results in massive loss of employee productivity. After [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] all since they no longer have people qualified to measure that loss, they can and do claim whatever they want! And no one left seems to care if it is all lies. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] I left CIO 2 years ago; if you are still there, run for the sake of your career. I am so glad I left and so will you. Bean counters are fools; but those who work for them are the biggest fools of all. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] 12 hours ago by LeftCIO [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] | 13 reactions (+13/-0) [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @ere+1unmJp5o [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] I think the most important point is whatever but what really matters is more but(secks). [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Likelots of it. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] 14 hours ago by Anonymous [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] | 16 reactions (+8/-8) [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @qas+1unmJp5o [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] One of the facts of life in our modern society is that a lot of our activity is utterly pointless. They do nothing except make work for people who would otherwise be sitting idle, and a lot of money is exchanged in the process. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] Online collaborative tools are useful in some, but not all, environments. Much of the time, they are just another fancy piece of software that costs money to implement and maintain, and therefore occupies a big space in the CIO budget. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] In my time, the big money items were Lotus Notes, SAP and Siebel. Are any of those still being used? I always looked at Box as just a cloud storage alternative to Dropbox. I know they advertise collaboration and stuff, but is the CIO really pushing that as one of its uses? I guess I'm showing my age, heh. [03:07] schestowitz[TR2] " [03:10] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ueFoJME [03:10] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ueFoJME ) [03:10] schestowitz[TR2] "The best people no longer go to the loser "has been" companies like IBM. So IBM posts fake jobs with fake huge salaries online. Can you blame the best people for staying away ? The lure of big salaries only hold for 6 months to a year at best; then AK and his goose stepping, jackbooted Indian thugs find a way to push you out on some pretext or the other and transfer your job to India. Who needs that ? Just ask that IBM HR quack, N [03:10] schestowitz[TR2] ickel and Dime." ● Sep 07 [09:12] schestowitz[TR2]
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    Less than two weeks after its previous 9.16 release, the Wine Project, renowned for enabling Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, announced the release of the brand-new Wine 9.17.

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    • [09:12] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Wine 9.17 Debuts with Enhanced High DPI Support ● Sep 07 [10:02] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:04] *jacobk (~quassel@rr2rh58ht72yy.irc) has joined #techbytes [10:37] schestowitz[TR2] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/openais-granted-large-language-model.html?showComment=1725610603935#c8101173289331167333 [10:37] schestowitz[TR2] "I fully agree with you as regards the EPO. As to the USPTO, it is actually surprising that the examiner granted a patent monopoly claim including such utterly indefinite terms as "user instructions".

    As to applications outside the US, the 18-month period from the priority date (13 March 2023) expires next week (13 September 2024). Thus we will know very soon if there has been any foreign filing." [10:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | OpenAI's large language model (LLM) patents - The IPKat ● Sep 07 [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1unmJp5o [11:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1unmJp5o ) [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] " CIO is nothing but a waste of time and effort - they have nothing innovative any more, nor do they perform any useful function for the company; ALL the CIO employees including the two useless VPs could be outsourced to another company like Tata, Infosys, Accenture to manage the infrastructure and the applications to save a bundle. And no one would miss these people at all. It's not like any of them could be considered to be the g [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] oose that lays the golden eggs, it is quite the opposite in fact - they are a drain on the IBM company resources. It's about time Alvind and the Pipmunks did something about that. [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] Call a halt to the CIO scam and become the "IBM CIO party po---r" ! [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] 9 hours ago by Anonymous [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+5/-0) [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1lny+1unmJp5o [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] +8 [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] The employees won't like it, but further budget cuts for many internal departments are inevitable. IBM isn't the company it once was. It doesn't have the cash, it doesn't have the employees and it has a vastly shrinking product scope. A lot of the tools that it pioneered like Bluepages are now mainstream...they can be bought off the shelf just like any other COTS application. The CIO office is not a product development organization [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] , and they don't bring in money. How much innovation and internal app development does the organization really need? [11:54] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Sep 07 [12:24] schestowitz[TR2] " [12:24] schestowitz[TR2] FWIW cross-posting and cross-linking betweeen TM and TR is probably very unwise [12:24] schestowitz[TR2] strategically. I can understand how it can be tempting but keeping the [12:24] schestowitz[TR2] material as separate as possible has a big advantage IMHO [12:24] schestowitz[TR2] There is already the daily "Over at Tux Machines..." material ..." ● Sep 07 [15:30] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:40] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [15:49] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Sep 07 [16:40] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@gcs5ikfy64ubg.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Sep 07 [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] " [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] Soon I will start Jonathan Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation" [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] But am finishing up "Bullshit Jobs" first. That one is very relevant to M$ [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] and most proprietary software. [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] I finished "Dark Wire" by Joe Cox recently but that was not much about [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] tech in any way but instead about the islamic violence and smuggling in [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] Sweden albeit while dancing around the i-word and never naming it directly." [17:07] schestowitz[TR2] -anon ● Sep 07 [18:02] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes [18:03] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Sep 07 [19:10] *jacobk (~quassel@dt7mrnex4e9nw.irc) has joined #techbytes [19:24] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Sep 07 [20:06] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [20:06] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@gcs5ikfy64ubg.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Sep 07 [22:00] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/)