●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, May 17, 2026 ●● ● May 17 [04:39] *humundr (~dracos@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● May 17 [08:59] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● May 17 [09:26] *humundr has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:31] *humundr (~dracos@spnyw2fxpi54g.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:38] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:39] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techbytes ● May 17 [10:43] *humundr has quit (Quit: leaving) [10:50] *agentcas2y (~dracos@spnyw2fxpi54g.irc) has joined #techbytes [10:59] *agentcas2y is now known as humundr ● May 17 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krpqv7q6 [15:02] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krpqv7q6 ) [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] "its funny that yo think this will matter [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @hb+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Give Bob your lunch money and he'll put in a good word for you. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @h9+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] How to avoid being laid off? You can't. IBM could RA your entire team. Doesn't matter if you are the best of the best or just phoning it in, you're gone either way. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] THINK40... We were told a couple of years ago this was no longer tracked or cared about. I've not visited the site ever since then. I'm surprised to hear it still exists, maybe they forgot to turn off the server [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @h8+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] -7 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @g0 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] I am not naive or d-mb. My dream is to be an Executive so I put in the hard work to make that happen, I have over 90 Think 40 hours, I go to the Office at least 3 days a week sometimes 5, and I do a lot more too. I also make sacrifices in other parts of my life to make this happne. I usually only sleep 5 hours every night, sometimes only 4 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] The Truth to staying employed at IBM is you have to becom too Important to be laid off. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+0/-7) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @h7+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +9 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @OP This post is so silly. Either you're naive or just d-mb. You can be the best at the intitiative du jour, have a hundred Think40 hours, be the highest performer on your team, loved by your manager, give up your nights, weekends, holidays... and when (not if) your number comes up on the spread sheet, it's buh-bye. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] How to Avoid Being Laid Off at IBM? Quit first. That's it. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 8 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 9 reactions (+9/-0) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @g0+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @e8 if above 40 its harder to get laid off but they are more eager to put you on pip [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 17 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+4/-1) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @ec+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +7 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Also, OP forgot "Don't turn 40". [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 18 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @e8+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] -3 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @dr [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Really? Now I'm being censored ??? This thread has Everything to do with Layoffs [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Why is there so much negativity here? [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 20 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 5 reactions (+1/-4) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @dv+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Could the moderator of this site delete this thread, it is a pile of nonsense. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Annoying [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Thanks [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 20 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @dr+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] -5 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @dj Calling people names will not help you avoid being laid off. But with 90 hours of THINK 40 and SCRUM and PMP certs to boot why would IBM lay me off [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Jim Kavanaugh says keep upskilling . I Trust him. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 21 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+1/-6) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @dk+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] -5 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @cq [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] I now have over 90 hours of required think 40 Education. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 23 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+1/-6) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @d8+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] -5 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] I am officially PMP certified. Finished my education and took the test late last night. So far this month I am SCRUM and PMP. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Next is finishing up a couple of badges. I will be done by tomorrow night [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 23 hours ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+1/-6) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @d5+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] -5 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] @cc [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] I did. While you're parading your Expertise in X, keep upskilling in Y and Z. So when X declines, you pull Y or Z out of your back pocket [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] 1 day ago by Anonymous [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 7 reactions (+1/-6) | Reply [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @cq+1krpqv7q6 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] The real secret in Albany, yaar, is simple only. You must become favorite of some senior peoples or one particular group. If management is liking you, then your life is easy there. Too much chamchagiri and politics is happening. Hard work and real achievement is not giving much benefit. Even if your project is failing badly or initiative is going nowhere, still no issue ji if you are in good books of the important peoples. Then eve [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] rything is managed somehow. That is how many peoples are surviving and getting promotion here. [15:02] schestowitz[TR2] " ● May 17 [19:40] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [19:44] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● May 17 [20:48] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [20:50] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-05/msg00005.html [20:59] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | Re: Anthropic sets up Project Glasswing [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] "" ● May 17 [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] "" [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] On May 11th Daniel Stenberg, lead developer of cURL wrote in his blog [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] about his encounter with Linux Foundation people offering Claude Mythos [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] access. This is the person who had complained last year about the [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] sharp increase of "slop" generated bug reports exhausting maintainers. [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Mythos finds a curl vulnerability [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] by Daniel Stenberg [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/ [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] The section after the introduction is titled "My (non-)access". [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] As I wrote in a previous message, Linux Foundation faces a dilemma: [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] I believe Jim Zemlin's plan to make Claude available to a large [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] number of "open source" developers is at odds with the desires of [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Project Glasswing member firms. Glasswing is promoted as a small [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] and tight group while Zemlin calls for throwing the gates wide open. [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Apparently the Linux Foundation made a compromise. They decided that [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] they could not give "open source" developers direct access to Claude [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Mythos. They let someone else conduct the actual examination and sent [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Daniel Stenberg the results. [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Five issues were reported. Stenberg identifies two bugs. One affects [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] security, but he does not consider it severe. [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] We don't know what would have happened had the inspection turned up [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] no defects. Would they have sent a report explicitly stating that the [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] slate was clean, or not? [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Will the Linux Foundation produce a summary of its findings at some [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] point? [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Death by a Thousand Slops [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/ [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Alpha Omega (Linux Foundation project, handles security issues) [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://openssf.org/community/alpha-omega/ [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] --- [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Nowadays Anthropic's Claude Mythos is discussed quite frequently in [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] the mainstream media. Politicians and finance heads see it as a [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] genuine threat and are ordering strengthening of defenses. Responding [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] to a request by by the Japanese government, Anthropic will allow the [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] three largest Japanese banks access to Mythos. [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] Developers who actually deal with security issues generally see [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] the media attention overblown. Daniel Stenberg takes this position. [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] However I would like to point out that it may well be that Mythos [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] found few problems in cURL because few existed. cURL is well [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] maintained. On the other end of the spectrum there likely exist [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] programs with scores or even hundreds of problems. They may be owned [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] and maintained by for-profit firms which are reluctant to disclose [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] information about shortcomings fearing damage to reputation. So it [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] may be true that Claude Mythos discovered thousands of serious [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] vulnerabilities. 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