●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 20, 2026 ●● ● Feb 20 [02:34] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khvfg94z [02:34] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khvfg94z ) [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] " [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] AI is just another excuse for IBM to RA employees. Same as it ever was, as the song goes. IBM's figurative di-k must hurt badly from sc--wing so may employees up the a-s. And no, ChatGPT, I don't need you to help me "craft a more measured critique." IBM management can eat sh-t. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] 15 minutes ago by Anonymous [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @bn+1khvfg94z [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] @a5 [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] add micron to that list [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] if it wasn't for the datacenter bubble [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] it would have collapsed faster than intel [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] god, they are as d-mb as rocks [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @bf+1khvfg94z [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Every mess is by design itself with the help of politicians only. below simple changes fix almost all problems. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Get rid of 60k minimum wage limit which allow company to by pass looking for US citizens for work ahead of h1b or any temp work visa. Simple law that every job must be offered to US citizens first with minimum 8 months training provided if needed. h1bs' not issued for full 3 years without guarantee they train 5 US citizens every year. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Offshore to onshore ration for any IT department or any department for any company must not be lower than 3( US citizens) to 1( offshore resource). [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Every temp work visa sponsor's site must have mandatory surprise audit 2 times a year paid by company upfront when applying for visa. This itself eliminate 90% abuse. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Every recruiter must have license number and must be help accountable for breaching applicant's privacy. Recruiters must help accountable for dirty recruiting games but we can't do that until we know who is hiding behind fake job posting and fake emails to collect profiles and misuse private details. Loan officers handle way smaller portion of information than these cheater recruiters. Why no license requirement for each and ev [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] ery recruiter same like loan officer. this will fix almost all hiring problems. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Loop holes are kept purposely so companies can exploit and politicians can get funding for their campaigns. its all about power and money who bed with each other and fool everyone else !!! [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] 2 hours ago by fake executives [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @b5+1khvfg94z [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] +6 [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] @a5 Yes. AI is magic. It causes jobs to disappear in the West and then magically reappear in India. But I have a hunch the pendulum will soon swing back. Lots of whispers being heard that neither AI (Artificial Intelligence) nor AI (Actually Indians) are living up to the hype and hiring will soon have to resume. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] | 6 reactions (+6/-0) | Reply [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @ag+1khvfg94z [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] +3 [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] They are all lying. IBM is the worst company who has lied for 3 decades as it sheds US employees and moves jobs to countries few people can find on a map. Stop the lying about how great watsonx is, how great AskHR is, how great AskIT is. A high school freshman could create better systems. IBM is now shouting from the mountains they plan to hire 3-6x more "entry level" people and pair them with AI as that combo is now better than ex [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] perienced people. SMH. So much lying. Fire band 9 and 10s and replace with band 6 and 7s. They need to be call out loudly and often. [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @af+1khvfg94z [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] @a5 what is the X account please? [02:38] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Feb 20 [06:03] schestowitz[TR2]
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    As described previously, the Linux kernel security team does not identify or mark or announce any sort of security fixes that are made to the Linux kernel tree. So how, if the Linux kernel were to become a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and responsible for issuing CVEs, would the identification of security fixes happen in a way that can be done by a volunteer staff? This post goes into the [06:14] schestowitz[TR2] process of how kernel fixes are currently automatically assigned to CVEs, and also the other out of band ways a CVE can be issued for the Linux kernel project.

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    • [06:14] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.kroah.com | Linux CVE assignment process - ● Feb 20 [07:41] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Feb 20 [08:05] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[15:59] schestowitz[TR2] I replied and said that there are plenty of "unprotected class" people, such as white men and white women (but not all, I only said the ones that I worked with), who gave their reports late assignments even though engineering created those work requests very early in the cycle. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] White men and women still benefit from a great amount of privilege in corporate. Just because other races have different privileges because of RACISM and BIGOTRY, it doesn't mean that races other than white are the issue. It doesn't mean that ALL white people are the issue. It's corporate. It's an unfair for everyone, and people survive how they need. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] I had a white woman manager whose job was going from meeting to meeting, sharing what she had learned in the other meeting. She's been doing that FOR DECADEs, from what I can see. How is that a job? How is that different from the woman "of a protected class" who does the same? LOL. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] 7 minutes ago by Anonymous [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @18d+1khcfn7v1 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] -2 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] @18a "I have a dream" and you are not in it. You should read the part about content of their character and not color of skin. You complained about white men and women. SMH. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] 15 minutes ago by Anonymous [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+0/-2) | Reply [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @18c+1khcfn7v1 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] -1 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] @185 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] If you had actually read the comment I was referring to, you would have realized that the other commenter raised the issue of race first. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] And if you had actually read my comment, specifically the last paragraph, and understood English (the only language people with no culture like you know), you would realize that I was actually calling out people who play the race card. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] "Comrade". [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] 34 minutes ago by Anonymous [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+1/-2) | Reply [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @18a+1khcfn7v1 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] -2 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] @182 stop playing the race, oppressed card comrade. You know where the door is if you think the grass is greener someplace else. Everyone knows IBM has and will jettison white men over 40. Facts and 4 decades of RAs back that up as fact and not opinion. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+1/-3) | Reply [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @185+1khcfn7v1 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] @hv [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] I used to work with a group of white women and white men who belittled you while they took credit for your work, gave you assignments a week or a month before the release date (even though engineering created the work requests MONTHS before), and then got very defensive if you suggested that they improve their work habits. Management always sided with these people, and that's why IBM will continue to be a mediocre tech company. Peo [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] ple don't want to admit that they need to change or adapt, and they want to continue being their mediocre selves to hold onto power. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] I don't think it's about race, but of course, people do use their race to their advantage. If you think that your race hasn't helped you in the corporate world, you're either delusional or a liar. [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Feb 20 [16:22] *asusbox (~rianne@i8wm8zwjwfwd8.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:44] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Feb 20 [18:06] *rianne_ (~rianne@i8wm8zwjwfwd8.irc) has joined #techbytes [18:19] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] On 20/02/2026 15:55, Roy Schestowitz wrote: [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] > Very important to cover, this is the Debian Project shooting even its former leaders, which is insane [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] > [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] > https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2024546033565651228 [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] More material is already in the pipeline [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] People need to independently ask him to release sections of debian-private that I don't have access to. [18:24] schestowitz[TR2] In particular, we need to see every response when the suicide clusters became public knowledge. The way people responded is significant. [18:24] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-x.com | NO TITLE [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 [18:49] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 ) [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] "I have been, but I won't let an id--tic bigot slyly suggest that people of color/DEI are the problem for RAs and not corporate greed. [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @18r+1khcfn7v1 [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] @18e lets stay on topic and not talk about things that divide us. [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @18n+1khcfn7v1 [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] @18c [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] You honestly need help. You're obsessed with race but not examining your own racial privilege. Because you want to keep benefiting from white privilege. [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] You're just mad because life used to be easy for you, and now it isn't. And it has nothing to do with people of color. It's corporate life, capitalism, and the economy you supported until you realized that it's only about the money. [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] Why would a corporation keep you if you're expensive, and they can find newly skilled labor for cheap? That's the question you should confront. [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Feb 20 [19:39] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techbytes [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] "yes comrade. If you actually "WORK" for IBM don't you have to create a watsonx subroutine, or sell a z system or do some great billable customer work instead of dumping critical race theory here and dividing people by skin color and telling us white men and women at IBM are against you? SMH. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 6 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @195+1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] @193 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Correction: That's why you don't have universal healthcare, but you do have terrible social safety nets and abusive workplace protections. That's why you're worried about RAs. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 19 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @194+1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] +1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] @191 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Hmm, the last bastion of bigots -- mix-matching similar words from different contexts to get a "gotcha". Applying color theory to race theory. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] You're being a bigot to people in protected classes, which historically marginalized communities of color. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Here's the catch: the likely reason why America is so sh--e is because you bigots never resolved the race issue, your history of slavery, properly. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] That's why you have don't universal healthcare, terrible social safety nets, and abusive workplace protections. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Because some WHITE racist at the top of line somewhere said, "I don't want to give this to black people, so let's save money and not give it to most white people, too." [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] The hilarious thing is that as you cling to "America is great", you're also clinging to the very system that makes you shake in your boots right now, worried that you'll be laid off and left with NO social net. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] They're making billions hand over fist. And they are laughing at you as you blame people of color and DEI. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 33 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @193+1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] @190 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] " You live in the greatest country in the world. You know where the door is if you do not love America. I have a dream." [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] LOL sounds like IBM is telling you the same, mate, with all the RAs. Yet here you are, whining and whining that white men over 40 are the only victims. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 39 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @192+1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] @18r by the way; when did white stop being a color? I have a dream. SMH. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 43 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] | no reactions | Reply [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @191+1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] @18e yes comrade. The world is against you because of your skin color. And other things you have spent too much time learning online. You live in the greatest country in the world. You know where the door is if you do not love America. I have a dream. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] 44 minutes ago by Anonymous [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+1/-1) | Reply [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @190+1khcfn7v1 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] @18n [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] I have been, but I won't let an id--tic bigot slyly suggest that people of color/DEI are the problem for RAs and not corporate greed. [19:47] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Feb 20 [20:09] *asusbox (~rianne@i8wm8zwjwfwd8.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 [20:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1 ) [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] " [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] IBM does not move fast as a company. If you have ever worked there, now or before, you would know that. [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] I know that discussing critical race theory, which is just acknowledging American history and FACTs, is difficult for you. I bet many of you can tell me about World War II (maybe some of you even yearn for a different outcome, given your comments in this thread). [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] But to acknowledge American history and slavery, wow, that's so difficult. LOL [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] 40 minutes ago by Anonymous [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @197+1khcfn7v1 [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] @195 [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] You work? LOL. The country who imported slaves, works? Lol. And now you're shocked that IBM is sending work overseas for cheaper labor? Lol. [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] From what I saw on my non-technical team, the white leads and managers just led meetings and did presentations about other people's work and pushed around paper. [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] They would hoard work to say "Hey I am important, don't lay me off, you need me", then they would release the work last minute to someone else because they couldn't actually do the work. They "managed" the work, you see? They're soooo important. No one else can make slide decks and make notes in Box, you see? And if you did most of the work, hey you did the work under them, so why wouldn't they take the credit for your work? No one [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] can be as smart as them, that's why you need to do the actual work and they'll take the credit it for it. [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] Oh yeah, you're right. You "work" lol [20:47] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Feb 20 [22:52] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/)