●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, November 07, 2025 ●●
● Nov 07
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9dn97rh
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	69 is the best! Hold on hard till 2026!
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	44 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @a6+1k9dn97rh
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Ya , retire you greedy sack
[00:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[00:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k991zmnk
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[00:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[00:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	Mmmmmmm ... gander vindaloo."
● Nov 07
[01:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Rust code has less bugs than other languages.  Once Rust code is written, its perfect.  Infallible.
[01:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	This is the logic of someone in a cult.
[01:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	Fevered, unreasonable belief in Rust superiority.
[01:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	Rust is a cult."
[01:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://mstdn.social/@tonroosendaal/115486154783130701
[01:25]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mstdn.social | Ton Roosendaal : "The Stallman Paradox. Food for thought about free" - Mastodon 
[01:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"The appropriation of community work by companies is backed by the lack of state legislation on free software. That, along with selfish thinking and the capitalist management of companies, leads them to adopt licenses like MIT and Apache instead of the GPL."
[01:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	""GPL usage has collapsed from 72% in 2009 to just 15% in 2024a 57 percentage point freefall. Meanwhile, permissive licenses (MIT, Apache, BSD) that enable corporate appropriation without reciprocal obligations have surged from 28% to 85% over the same period."
[01:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"96% of enterprises have increased their open source usage. Sounds great, right? Except 89% of them explicitly avoid copyleft licenses to prevent the community protection mechanisms those licenses provide."
[01:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Goodness. Thank you for keeping Blender under the GPL."
[01:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/
[01:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[01:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	Push back against their vile rhetoric.. There is no place for their hate here Dont let them find comfort and spew their vomit in any public space
[01:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	Also, calling Nazi and Fascist + Free Palestine calling for murder of Israelis. Sure, Im convinced now. Your violence is ok, others isnt.
[01:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	Other people are entitled to opinions you dont agree with.
[01:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[01:27]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blogs.gnome.org | DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis Rust in Peace
[01:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9dhkdvt
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[01:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	"why not take both while you can ? It's a "lift and shift operation" as they say in the cloud lingo.
[01:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	Remember, there will be a last minute rush to take home all small and portable items ahead of the Dec. 4, 2025 deadline. It's the IBM "Beat Alvind" Christmas memento fire sale, so plan ahead. Alvind took away your IBM job but you got the last laugh AND IBM post it pads, pens and assorted knick-knacks."
● Nov 07
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	Re: Rewiring Democracy for Tech Rights?
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	> Hello Roy -
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	> 
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	> Happy to share a physical copy. What's the address to use? If out of US, I'll also need a phone number.
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	> 
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	> Jess
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	Thank you,
[03:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	The address is:
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● Nov 07
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9dn97rh
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[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	""
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hey to all haters you will be in your 60s one day too and never know your circumstances! Maybe they have kids in college to support. Also health insurance is $1000/mo, Medicare is still $200/mo. So dont be so harsh.
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	To Op- yes target starts in 40s or 50s get your plan ready. And itll be great!
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @b0+1k9dn97rh
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	 -2 
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	@as you should have hired a male divorce lawyer. All that feminism
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	54 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @aw+1k9dn97rh
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	 -1 
[04:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	@as you should have watched your cr-p more closely
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● Nov 07
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9dn97rh
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	" are you a woman or a feminist? Either way we men need to protect us. So do you g-y or LGBT stuff but dont bother us and maybe ki-l yourself?
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	22 minutes ago by Anonymous
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 2 reactions (+0/-2) | Reply
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @bh+1k9dn97rh
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	@b4 sweetie pie, they only get granted half of what theyve helped contribute to and build. If all you had to do was go out and work and your entire life and lifestyle and ability to go out and earn money was because you were enabled to do so because you didnt have to do all the billions of other jobs to keep your own life running, then 50% is a bargain. Say thank you and be grateful for what someone else helped you achieve.
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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● Nov 07
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● Nov 07
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/06/0331241#1423582
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Red Hat is now IBM, and IBM always manages to plod along, as they have done so for decades now. Many thought IBM would fade into irrelevance, especially after divesting of their PC division (the only IBM thing I've ever seen anyone buy during my decades in IT is their PC line).
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	However despite this, it seems their mainframe business and decades-long consulting contracts with big companies seem to be able to tide them over indefinitely, and give them enough financial clout to do new things, such as the Red Hat acquisition.
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	While they may be firing key people, at worst they will retain the "Red Hat" name, along with RHEL and all the contracts that brings in. I doubt they care particularly about "key employees", as they are more like cogs in a machine, to be replaced or removed as and when convenient. Things like Fedora (and CentOS) I suspect they don't care about at all, what minor benefits they bring (i.e. free developer/debugging/QA and some PR brow
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	nie-points) probably would not move the needle much for them. They probably see it more as an inherited RH legacy that has not been worth the effort to shut down yet.
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	In reality Red Hat died the day IBM bought them, its just been a slow death over time.
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	    Debian derivatives aren't faring much better due to M$ infiltration upstream in Debian itself, including systemd [theregister.com], going back years. That leaves basically Arch, assuming they can vet project participants well enough to keep out the microsofters and other problem agents.
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yes, although Devuan seems to be fighting for the Debian corner, so there is some small hope left. Arch is one of the branches still kicking, but the problem is that you can't really keep out the "microsofters and other problem agents". They infiltrate the same way they infiltrated everything else: with money.
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	First by paying developers to work on OSS projects (which allows them to steer the project simply by developing the software in the direction they want) then by getting "their people" in key admin/management positions of said project, and then alignment of the OSS project with their "strategic goals".
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	If Arch ever explodes in popularity to the point where it looks like it will eclipse the RPM/Deb duopoly, no doubt they will spend much money to co-opt it as they did with the other two.
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	The idea of OSS software being for techies, by techies falls apart when money is involved, as the money can drive the project in the direction the community does not particularly want it to go, or in some cases is openly hostile against the direction (e.g. systemd).
[11:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	The problem is you can't just ban any paid contributions to OSS, because (a) you can't confirm whether someone is being paid or not to contribute to the OSS project in the first place, and (b) as the cost of living keeps increasing, fewer and fewer people have the time and means to indulge in free contributions, meaning more and more OSS development is done under corporate payment and direction."
[11:21]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Backend" - SoylentNews
● Nov 07
[13:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9egpm45
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[13:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	"if AK is gone in 2026, Indians will no longer be a protected species at IBM. As indeed it should be, since most of them are not doing anything that brings value or business to the company. You can hire pencil pushers and bureaucrats too in the US and Canada, and with AI coming on line more and more, the future for most (if not all) of these jobs is cloudy at best. So much for the BS about "follow the sun" methodology when AI can d
[13:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	o it all 24 x7.
[13:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it."
● Nov 07
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● Nov 07
[16:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Dear SUEPO members,
[16:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	We are pleased to announce the final results of the SUEPO Executive Committee elections for The Hague.
[16:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	Out of 1,103 eligible voters, number of votes cast is 489 (44.33% turnout). There were 3 blank votes.
[16:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	For the ranking of elected committee candidates, with the top seven designated as full members, please refer to the official paper.
[16:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	The Electoral Committee"
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	"We are pleased to announce the final results of the elections:
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Total eligible voters: 1103
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Number of votes cast: 489 (44.33% turnout)
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Blank votes: 3"
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	"The Electoral Committee warmly congratulates all the candidates and thanks all
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	those who helped holding the ballot.
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Timely information on the elections was communicated through all channels
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	available to SUEPO The Hague. We encourage all members to provide their
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	personal email address and to check it regularly to ensure they remain informed.
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Pursuant to Article I.4 (m) of the Election Rules, any objection to the validity of
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	either ballot shall be submitted in writing to the relevant Committee within five
[16:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	working days of the publication of the above results."
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