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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky798x0y | Jul 23 14:52 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Numbers Don’t Lie. Makeup Does. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Q2 is out. Revenue basically flat. Free cash flow flat for the half. And yet the letter reads like a highlight reel: double-digit growth here, “strong performance” there, three bold priorities for the back half. Look closer, and the growth is concentrated in exactly the places you’d expect if the story were built on acquisitions rather than the underlying business. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Automation up 3%. Sounds modest until you remember that’s the segment carrying HashiCorp and Apptio (both bought, both being folded into the base, both getting a full year of “integration growth” before the comparison gets tough). Data up 18%, presented like IBM is winning the AI battle. Except Data is also where Confluent landed. Strip out an acquisition that closed months ago and ask what the legacy products in that categor | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | y actually did on their own (that’s the number nobody puts in bold). | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This is the oldest trick in inorganic growth: buy a company, fold its revenue into your segment, get a full year of easy comps while contracts get renewed and “blue-washed” under the new parent, and call the blended number your own performance. It works, for about a year. Then the acquisition anniversaries into the base, the easy comp disappears, and the segment needs the next acquisition to keep the story going. That’s not a | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | growth engine. That’s a treadmill with a one-year lap time. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Meanwhile the parts of the business that were never propped up by an acquisition tell a rougher story. Infrastructure down 7%. Transaction Processing down 9% (they’re the same story told twice). Transaction Processing is the software that rides on Z. No mainframe refresh, no new Z capacity, no large deals closing (no new MLC licensing booked either). Hardware and software here aren’t two separate lines on a slide, they’re one | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | engine: when Z doesn’t sell, the software tied to it doesn’t sell either, and both numbers fall together because they were never actually independent. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Which raises the uncomfortable question: how much of this business is actually layered on top of itself? Acquired revenue propping up Automation and Data while the base underneath goes quiet. Mainframe hardware and mainframe software rising and falling as one, dressed up as two separate growth stories. Each piece needs the piece below it to keep moving, or the whole structure stalls at once. Call it what you want (a treadmill, a ho | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | use of cards, a pyramid where each new acquisition is there to cover for the last one’s fading comp): the pattern is the same, nothing underneath is generating growth on its own, it’s all leaning on something else that has to keep being fed. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Revenue flat overall at $17.2 billion. Free cash flow flat at $4.8 billion for the half. If the “real” IBM (the part that isn’t riding a recent purchase or a hardware refresh cycle) is shrinking while acquisitions and mainframe timing carry the average, the honest question isn’t “is IBM a software company.” It’s “whose growth is this, actually, and what happens the quarter the props stop arriving on schedule?” | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And right on schedule, the answer on offer is another reshuffle (new titles, new coverage models, a new operating structure for the back half). But renaming jobs doesn’t change what’s underneath them. If the growth was never really organic to begin with, no amount of reorganizing who sells it or what they’re called is going to make it real. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And this isn’t a new discovery. The pattern has been visible on the ground for years (it just took a bad quarter for the market to finally notice what employees already knew). That’s the part worth sitting with: this wasn’t leadership missing a hidden signal. It was leadership seeing it, for years, and being too arrogant to admit the story needed correcting. Too invested in a stock price number (chasing $300 a share) to step | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | back and ask whether the growth underneath it was real. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And even if the July reorg were the right diagnosis, it isn’t the right timeline. Deployment takes months to show up as revenue under the best conditions, longer when the team doing it just got reshuffled and has to relearn who owns what. A reorg launched mid-year, needing to prove itself by year-end, is asking for a “wow” effect on a clock that deployment has never once run on. Nobody deploys enterprise software in one or tw | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | o quarters just because leadership needs a good Q4 slide. So the real question isn’t whether the numbers improve by December; it’s whether anyone at the top is honest enough to say, out loud, that they won’t, and that expecting otherwise is expecting a miracle from a plan that was never built with that timeline in mind. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Numbers tell the truth when you sit with them long enough. Put makeup on them (bold a growth rate, bury the segment it came from, skip the base it’s being compared against) and they’ll tell you whatever story needs telling that quarter. This quarter’s story needed rescuing. The last-minute reorg landing on top of it isn’t the fix. It’s one more coat of makeup on a number that’s going to need a lot more than that to hold | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | up next quarter, when the acquisitions currently doing the heavy lifting start looking like ordinary IBM again. | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 14:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky6zvm6j | Jul 23 15:19 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yea this time it really does feel like the end | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 31 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @b3+1ky6zvm6j | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @a9 literally any time of year they can put you on a PIP | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ah+1ky6zvm6j | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP Sadly this is true. I'm in the Sales Org. Rob Thomas totally fcked it all to h3ll. Nobody is happy and everyone is looking. I guess if Rob is reading this, he can pat himself on the back and say "mission accomplished." What a piece of sh!t that guy is. | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @af+1ky6zvm6j | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Do the performance scores only get assigned once per year (EOY)? Or can they call you out as a “low performer” any time? | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a9+1ky6zvm6j | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Jul 23 15:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Totally agree with you. | Jul 23 15:19 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://seekingalpha.com/news/4617339-ibms-outlook-sees-positive-reactions-from-analysts-after-q2-results | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Wall Street seems to have bought IBM’s reduced expectations | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cr+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -4 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Meat is back on the menu! We are so back boys! | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+1/-5) | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @az+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Sarcasm detected in OP's post. | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 13 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ag+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Bob's selling all his apollo to buy ibm. | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ac+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The opening in the morning should tell the story. | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ab+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -2 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | On the earnings call IBM reduced their growth to 4-5%. They also said 30% of the missed deals in June were captured in July. NET NET it’s going to be a slow road back to growth, but not impossible | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+1/-3) | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @aa+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yeah, it fell on the close, then rose for maybe 10-15 minutes, and then has been red ever since. Yet this is like the 4th or 5th "IBM stock rises despite revenue miss" I've seen. IBM must be paying them. | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+8/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a9+1ky5zc7tg | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +10 | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7:20pm ET it’s sitting at $204. Have another hit of whatever you’re smoking. | Jul 23 15:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 15:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky54w55b | Jul 23 15:33 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Already hard enough getting motivated to waste my time sending out resumes, which seems pointless - as you so clearly point out. But as much as I completely hate your comment, I suppose it is true. Not even those I know with a job where there are openings will support my application - don't want my old stench wafting into their future job stability. This has been the case 10 yrs already. But still I don't appreciate you putting th | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ese ageist garble into the universe. Anyhow, the truth is - I was running circles around my younger colleagues typically. But if you are not perceived as having potential, you are sc--wed. And based on demographics, I have not been seen as a person with potential since I was 24 and already dealing with ageism in the field of economics. Tired of having to run my own business, but looks like I will have to go back to it again. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 42 minutes ago by BBB | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ea+1ky54w55b | Jul 23 15:33 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @e0 Well maybe if Expert Labs wasn’t overpriced, customers would have bought it. Just like everything else with this place, TEL priced themselves out of the market. Why would a customer pay you when they can pay a BP far less for the same results? Don’t get me wrong there are some talented folks in TEL and they work with CSEs. They don’t whine about them like you do. Regarding the CSE program, point that finger at Rob Thomas. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He f’ed up the CSM program and what do you know…deployments tanked. Gee who saw that coming? Oh yeah…everyone! | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 23 15:33 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @dq "CSEs are a free service..." Isn't that the problem? Which companies are offering free services? No wonder 2Q results were a disaster! Great job CSE! | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @e0+1ky54w55b | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @bk Wishing your fellow IBMers get laid off? What an unprofessional and inappropriate thing to do. If you don't like someone because they're doing your job for you, the problem isn't them. It's you. If I were you I'd be more worried about your own job. CSEs are a free service. You're not. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dq+1ky54w55b | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @bk interesting. I’m in TEL and in my experience the CSEs I’ve worked with have brought us in for multiple opportunities. Maybe they just don’t like you. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cs+1ky54w55b | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @b7 yep. I am a very young looking 60 year old who had kids late in life. I am finding it impossible to get hired anywhere. But I have saved a lot of $$$ as I have been expecting to be laid off by IBM for the past 20 years - so dropping out as soon as the unemployment runs out. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The worst part is I was really great at what I did. And before Arvind, loved it. But sadly my "bosses" were morally and creatively bankrupt. They were the worst and like Arya in Game of Thrones, I pray nightly they will pay. Hopefully they will all suffer for destroying my career and livelihood. Ge----l warts of the brain seems about fair. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hs98g | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Sung to the tune of Sweet Caroline (yeah, the Fenway Park hymn) | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM’s stock fell— | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Then fell harder— | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As if gravity saw Arvind coming and said, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “Ah yes, my favorite id--t.” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind Krishna arrived, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Tripping over absolutely nothing, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Holding a ThinkPad upside‑down | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And insisting it was “in stealth mode.” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He wore a helmet made of broken routers, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A cape of tangled charging cables, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And shoes he accidentally stapled to his socks. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He shouted, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “I SHALL OPTIMIZE THE DOWNWARDNESS!” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Then tried to reboot the stock chart | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | By blowing on it like a Nintendo cartridge. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Traders chanted in that familiar stadium rhythm: | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “Ar‑vind… Ar‑vind… AR‑VIND!” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Mostly because they were too stunned | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To process what he was doing. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind summoned a “strategic vortex,” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Which turned out to be | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A leaf blower he found in the janitor’s closet. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He aimed it at the market | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And yelled, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “RISE, YOU COWARDS!” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | while papers flew everywhere | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and the stock continued falling politely. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He attempted to wrestle a bear market, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But grabbed a coat rack instead | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And declared victory. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The stock paused mid‑plummet, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Not because of fundamentals, | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | But because it was genuinely confused | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | By Arvind’s entire existence. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The chorus rose again: | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | “Ar‑vind… Ar‑vind… AR‑VIND!” | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thus the legend was born— | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Short, chaotic, and featuring | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the most gloriously stupid Arvind imaginable. | Jul 23 15:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 15:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hs98g ) | Jul 23 15:34 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jul 23 16:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-4-review.html">Fairphone 6 with /e/OS 4.0 - Results, results, results</a></h5> | Jul 23 16:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 23 16:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>My recent endeavors on the Fairphone + Android and the Pixel added to my general distrust and aversion toward the smartphone stuff. So much in fact, that I decided to give the tiny niche its chance. The options are many. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, /e/OS, and then some. Most of these require manual effort by the end user, and often, you need a very specific device. If you don't have one, it's a | Jul 23 16:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | rather tailored purchase, for results with an unknown happiness factor. But I did find a rather nice candidate. Fairphone. It ships with /e/OS as a factory option, and I already happen to have a Fairphone. Lo and behold! I already did this test, what! I immersed myself into the avantgarde world of mobile software. The results were, well, let's say curious. Now, we must continue this adventure. After me! </p> | Jul 23 16:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 23 16:02 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dedoimedo.com | Fairphone 6 with /e/OS 4.0 - Results, results, results | Jul 23 16:02 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2026-travel-report-patrick-mcevoy/">BSDCan 2026 Travel Report – Patrick McEvoy</a></h5> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The June 2026 FreeBSD DevSummit & BSDCan was again successfully recorded and streamed through longtime streaming sponsor ScaleEngine. The requested DevSummit 2 question microphone system kept our running around to a minimum and fit the two rows of DMS1160. We got to see CheriBSD hardware again, in fact, Brooks Davis presented from a CheriBSD box. This year, the DevSummit focused more on AI | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | integration than in previous years. Community member Warner Losh, in particular, gave an interesting talk about how he has used AI to help resolve an issue he was facing. I will refer you to the video posted to the FreeBSD YouTube channel for more details. </p> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 23 16:03 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2026-trip-report-shengyi-hung/">BSDCan 2026 Trip Report – ShengYi Hung</a></h5> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>This year’s DevSummit felt a little different from previous years. A number of sessions touched on how AI is influencing project maintainability. Some of that influence is positive — vulnerability research came up as one example — but it’s also adding real burden on the reviewer side. Hearing different opinions from different people gave me a much broader view of the issue than I h | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ad going in. </p> | Jul 23 16:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 23 16:03 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freebsdfoundation.org | BSDCan 2026 Travel Report – Patrick McEvoy | FreeBSD Foundation | Jul 23 16:03 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freebsdfoundation.org | BSDCan 2026 Trip Report – ShengYi Hung | FreeBSD Foundation | Jul 23 16:04 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxgizmos.com/sfera-labs-ships-strato-pi-plus-with-quad-rs-485-and-can-fd/">Sfera Labs ships Strato Pi Plus with quad RS-485 and CAN FD</a></h5> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Sfera Labs has begun shipping the Strato Pi Plus, a DIN-rail industrial edge server based on the Raspberry Pi 4B or Raspberry Pi 5. The system adds a 10–50 V DC power supply, up to four isolated RS-485 interfaces, CAN FD connectivity, and an independent RP2354 microcontroller.</p> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 23 16:16 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-launches-10-inch-touch-display-2-with-1200-x-1920-resolution/">Raspberry Pi launches 10-inch Touch Display 2 with 1200 × 1920 resolution</a></h5> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Raspberry Pi has introduced a 10-inch version of its Touch Display 2, expanding the display family beyond the existing 5-inch and 7-inch models. The new panel provides a 1200 × 1920 resolution, ten-point capacitive touch, and compatibility with the Raspberry Pi 5 and supported Compute Module platforms.</p> | Jul 23 16:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 23 16:16 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Jul 23 16:16 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hw592 | Jul 23 19:56 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 19:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the little indian AI HR rep mentioned that book he read once. everybody take a drink! | Jul 23 19:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | when the ceo takes $100m it’s because he’s so wise. when the stock craters it’s because “we” didn’t move fast enough. ever notice that? | Jul 23 19:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 19:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky80b5ra | Jul 23 19:57 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 19:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM Is The World’s Worst Big Tech Company | Jul 23 19:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM missed every major tech revolution from PCs to AI, shrinking to a $200 billion market cap while private OpenAI is valued at $900 billion. | Jul 23 19:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM, which has been poorly run for decades, is on the ropes. The company has had plenty of practice managing decline. When it warned about its earnings a week ago, the stock dropped over 20%. It is down 30% for the year, while the S&P is up 9%. The picture is even bleaker from another vantage point: in early June, the stock changed hands at $329, but it trades at very slightly better than $200 now. | Jul 23 19:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/07/23/ibm-is-the-worlds-worst-big-tech-company/ | Jul 23 19:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 23 19:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-247wallst.com | IBM Is The World's Worst Big Tech Company - 24/7 Wall St. | Jul 23 19:57 | |
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