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schestowitz[TR2]https://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36944/Apr 11 03:34
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-LXer: Are they: EU OS: the Hatchling Distro that Wants to Unify the EU’s Public SectorApr 11 03:34
schestowitz[TR2]"actually this stupid? To even think that your solution to the EU sovereignty in an OS is a US parasite corporation based one is simply beyond belief. Replace one scumbag American controlled OS with another is somehow these clowns idea. What a bunch of fools if they think the Europeans are going to fall for it again when they dump the Commercial American OS when they have fully European solutions to use and that is what they will dApr 11 03:34
schestowitz[TR2]o if/when they do it, use the European controlled/made solution.Apr 11 03:34
schestowitz[TR2]nmsetApr 11 03:34
schestowitz[TR2]Apr 04, 2025Apr 11 03:34
schestowitz[TR2]6:58 AM CST It's a lot noise through recurring articles about a private initiative that did not consult the target audience first, at least as I understand. There's more noise than work done. It's doubtful to be a serious project."Apr 11 03:34
schestowitz[TR2]https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgka311Apr 11 03:45
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schestowitz[TR2]" ...and when I want to watch a troop of baboons from India, I go to Armonk IBM HQ.Apr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]2 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:45
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schestowitz[TR2]I think Alvind will take home over 100 Million next yearApr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]He is a marionette beholden to Wall StreetApr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]Axing people and moving jobs to IBM East aka India will reap him big rewardsApr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]The same goes for Krabanaugh and the rest of those greedy disgusting Sh1tMunksApr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]3 hours ago by Krabanaugh needs a gym membershipApr 11 03:45
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schestowitz[TR2]Is there really absolutely no respect left for the ceo ? It was so apparent to me be fo-e I left IBM 4 months ago his stock was falling fast. ( Deservedly so. ) . Seemed all he really cared about was stuffing his pockets with cash ..Apr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]3 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:45
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schestowitz[TR2]When I want to watch a monkey, I go to the zoo.Apr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]"Apr 11 03:45
schestowitz[TR2]https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgn009tApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]"Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]An employee may be RA'd when he/she has too much dignity to su-k up to the powers that be - and even after receiving good, if not excellent, performance reviews. There's no room for an employee who is not a member of the club.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]1 hour ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]I'm afraid It's a case of mis-identification - it is not a tribe of monkeys from India, but a troop of rare Indian baboons who try to impress their coworkers with their multi million dollar salaries, outdated technical knowledge and lame Indian jokes. They exist as a tight knit colony in Armonk for fear of offending a bigger red Baboon whose name rhymes with ru-p..Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]2 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]"Monkeys in India?" Come on now. This is a professional site. This isn't the place for those types of insults.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]4 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]Happened to me in Australia.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]RA’d due to my job being “eliminated” in a “restructure”. Then the role reappeared two months later, filled by a younger person at a lower salary band.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]It’s all smoke and mirrors at IBM.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]4 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]Report your manager!Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]5 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]Post ID: @ab+1jrgn009tApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]In North America, the only way you can get a backfill (but in India or Poland) is by labeling the person being laid off as low performer. There is no automatic low performance labeling as your manager claims. But his org may be forcing him to do so in order to (double) contribute to the 70% headcount in cheap locations target.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]5 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]No, that’s not true. Managers do this so they can get a back fill and it makes them look like they are doing performance management.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]5 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]I care because it's insulting.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]6 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]Why do you care, after being let go from IBM ? IBM did cut your job to hire monkeys in India.Apr 11 03:48
schestowitz[TR2]"Apr 11 03:48
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schestowitz[TR2]"Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Future Revolution Technology – Daily Sundial"Apr 11 08:02
schestowitz[TR2]x https://sundial.csun.edu/192410/sundialbrandstudio/sundial-marketplace/artificial-intelligence-in-education-a-future-revolution-technology/Apr 11 08:02
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-sundial.csun.edu | Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Future Revolution Technology – Daily SundialApr 11 08:02
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schestowitz[TR2]   <li>Apr 11 09:57
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/not_just_you_microsoft_365/">Good morning! Your Microsoft 365 Family license is broken</a></h5>Apr 11 09:57
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <blockquote>Apr 11 09:57
schestowitz[TR2]                                        <p>Microsoft's Service Health page says a "licensing issue" is causing users with Family subscriptions to be unable to open their Office suite. Problems started around 1100 UTC this morning, with fully paid up and licensed shared users seeing the message "Your subscription expired," while others say they are seeing the message "your subscription has been canceled." </p>Apr 11 09:57
schestowitz[TR2]                                    </blockquote>Apr 11 09:57
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Good morning! Your Microsoft 365 Family license is broken • The RegisterApr 11 09:57
schestowitz[TR2]xxxxxxxxx> Do you have anything that might be useful for USCIS to know about Garrett?Apr 11 09:58
schestowitz[TR2]don't be a Garrett to GarrettApr 11 09:59
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schestowitz[TR2]                                            <h5><a href="https://www.perl.com/article/enhancing-your-midi-devices-round-ii/">Enhancing Your MIDI Devices: Round II</a></h5>Apr 11 10:50
schestowitz[TR2]                                            <blockquote>Apr 11 10:50
schestowitz[TR2]                                                <p>As we discovered previously, your MIDI devices can be enhanced to function in different ways besides just triggering a single note per key (or pad) press. </p>Apr 11 10:50
schestowitz[TR2]                                                <p> Being a serial module creator, and with the help of the author John, I bundled these concepts and more into a few handy CPAN packages that allow you to control your devices with minimal lines of code. So far, these are: MIDI::RtController, MIDI::RtController::Filter::Tonal, and MIDI::RtController::Filter::Drums. </p>Apr 11 10:50
schestowitz[TR2]                                                <p> With these, you can do lots of cool things to enhance your MIDI device with filters (special subroutines). These routines are then executed in real-time when a key or pad is pressed on your MIDI device. </p>Apr 11 10:50
schestowitz[TR2]                                            </blockquote>Apr 11 10:50
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.perl.com | Enhancing Your MIDI Devices: Round IIApr 11 10:50
schestowitz[TR2]<xxxxxxxx> He said he's afraid of being denaturalized.Apr 11 10:53
schestowitz[TR2]<xxxxxxxx> He has also supported Hamas publicly.Apr 11 10:53
schestowitz[TR2]<xxxxxxxx> Why did you go back and redact Brandon Lobsta?Apr 11 10:53
schestowitz[TR2]                                <li>Apr 11 11:02
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/debian-based-sparky-7-7-now-available-for-download/">Debian-Based Sparky 7.7 Now Available for Download</a></h5>Apr 11 11:02
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <blockquote>Apr 11 11:02
schestowitz[TR2]                                        <p>This release integrates the Linux kernel 6.1 LTS by default while providing other kernel options (6.14, 6.12 LTS, and 6.6 LTS) in the Sparky repositories. Meanwhile, ARM devices benefit from the 6.12 LTS kernel. </p>Apr 11 11:02
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Debian-Based Sparky 7.7 Now Available for DownloadApr 11 11:02
schestowitz[TR2]                                <li>Apr 11 11:03
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/proxmox-backup-server-3-4-brings-performance-and-sync-enhancements/">Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 Brings Performance and Sync Enhancements</a></h5>Apr 11 11:03
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <blockquote>Apr 11 11:03
schestowitz[TR2]                                        <p>For those unfamiliar with it, Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise open-source backup and recovery solution that integrates seamlessly with Proxmox Virtual Environment. It allows simple storage configuration and provides tools like deduplication, compression, and encryption for streamlined and secure backups. </p>Apr 11 11:03
schestowitz[TR2]                                        <p> Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 employs chunk-based data storage and relies on a garbage collection process to eliminate unused data segments after removing backup snapshots. </p>Apr 11 11:03
schestowitz[TR2]                                    </blockquote>Apr 11 11:03
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 Brings Performance and Sync EnhancementsApr 11 11:03
schestowitz[TR2]<li>Apr 11 11:05
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <h5>[Old] <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux">I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)</a></h5>Apr 11 11:05
schestowitz[TR2]                                    <blockquote>Apr 11 11:05
schestowitz[TR2]                                        <p>I almost wrote off Red Hat back then. It felt like someone stuck a knife in my back. </p>Apr 11 11:05
schestowitz[TR2]                                        <p> This past week, Red Hat took that knife and twisted it hard, when they published this blog post. Let there be no mistake: this was meant to destroy the distributions the community built to replace what Red Hat took away. </p>Apr 11 11:05
schestowitz[TR2]                                    </blockquote>Apr 11 11:05
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.jeffgeerling.com | I'm done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) | Jeff GeerlingApr 11 11:05
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schestowitz[TR2]] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/use-versus-process-patents-implications.html?showComment=1744220827999#c493325698244267825Apr 11 15:18
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Use versus process patents: Implications for novelty and scope (T 1913/21) - The IPKatApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]"Fundamentally this case serves to highlight, once again, that G 2/88 is a bad and intractable decision and we are still grappling with its implications over 35 years later. And yet no Board seems willing to step up to the plate and ask the EBA to have another go. Why is that, do readers think?<br /><br />A few comments:<br /><br />(1) if claims are in substance considered &quot;process&quot; and not &quot;use&quot; claims, this obApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]viously has implications for their scope vis-a-vis the protection conferred on the direct product of that process, regardless of how they are written. This is well known.<br /><br />But now imagine a situation where claims of the type which were at issue here are interpreted in substance as process claims, and then found novel and inventive by the EPO (i.e. in situations where the prior art did not disclose all of the integers of tApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]he claim &quot;but for&quot; the novel technical effect). Article 64(2) then says that the direct product of the process is protected, notwithstanding their formatting as &quot;use&quot; claims. Would that be respected by the courts in an infringement action, hinging as it does upon the EPO's interpretation?<br /><br />(2) does this decision highlight a tension between the Enlarged Board's case law on second medical indications on Apr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]the one hand (see the Case Law book, I.C.8.1.1 quoting G 5/83: &quot;whether an activity is claimed as a method of carrying out the activity ... or as the use of a thing for a stated purpose ... is a matter of preference. For the Enlarged Board of Appeal there is no difference of substance&quot;) and the special treatment given to G 2/88-style use claims on the other hand?<br /><br />(3) it is worth noting that it was only one of tApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]he two opponents who argued that this was in substance a process claim - the other opponent did not raise novelty as a ground of opposition in the appeal, and in fact supported the Patentee's request for referral of questions to the EBA.<br /><br />(4) did the Board get it right in denying a referral to the EBA in this case? Part (iii) of the order in G 2/88 says &quot;A claim to the use of a known compound for a particular purposeApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2] [...] should be interpreted as including that technical effect as a functional technical feature [...] provided that such technical feature has not previously been made available to the public.&quot; It does not say &quot;unless the claim is in substance to be interpreted as a process claim&quot;. It's arguable that the order in G 2/88 focuses principally on legal form - &quot;is it written as a use claim or not&quot; - rather thaApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]n the substance of the steps recited in the claim (as long as the alleged technical effect was not previously disclosed).<br /><br />(5) Is the distinction between &quot;processes that make a product vs uses that do not&quot; as clean as the Board here suggests? One could argue that at least the fungicide example discussed in G 2/88 falls into the same category as the claims in this case - the &quot;product&quot; being a plant withApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2] a lower degree of fungal infection than if the fungicide had not been used. Would the fungicide in G 2/88 still be considered novel today in light of T 1913/21, and if so, is that merely because the fungicide &quot;use&quot; claim in question did not include any steps defining a process and/or defining the characteristics of an end product? Again, is this a question of legal form (&quot;does the claim recite certain features or noApr 11 15:18
schestowitz[TR2]t&quot;), or one of technical substance (&quot;how does the alleged new use manifest itself&quot;)?"Apr 11 15:18
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schestowitz[TR2]https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgn009tApr 11 17:03
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schestowitz[TR2]"https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgn009t"Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]"Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]Indian Business Monkeys ?Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]"Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgfam4vApr 11 17:04
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schestowitz[TR2]"Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]Alvind is a DEI Appointed CEOApr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]2 hours ago by Krabanaugh needs to lose weightApr 11 17:04
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schestowitz[TR2]@csApr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]And are the "new" Chinese overlords better than the "old and inferior" Indian overlords at IBM ?Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]5 hours ago by AnonymousApr 11 17:04
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schestowitz[TR2]The Trumpfu-ks and Republifu-ks are going to destroy the USA and there won't be any more jobs when they are done, DEI or not.Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]The rest of the tech world is cheering them on. There is plenty of trade between USA companies and they are going to rise up, while the USA falls down.Apr 11 17:04
schestowitz[TR2]Welcome your new Chinese overlords.Apr 11 17:04
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