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| schestowitz[TR2] | right | Jan 26 01:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | but microsoft just boiught that | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to call it "azure" | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | she didn't engineer anything, she doesn't produce squat | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | engineers do that | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the parasites on the top need to stop su-king up all the money | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | pay the people who actually produce something | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and get out of the way | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 37 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @be+1kfv37vnh | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @a5 | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Correct—and your managers already know exactly who they are. | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They’ll smile, look you straight in the eye, and lie to you, saying everything is fine. | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Don’t believe it. Don’t trust it. | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If anything feels even slightly off or odd, brace yourself—the hit is coming. | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 8 reactions (+8/-0) | Reply | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ae+1kfv37vnh | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The day IBM goes ALL IN and lures Lisa Su away from AMD where she has been for 11 years and engineered perhaps 1 of the top 5 greatest comebacks in US history (stock increase of over 7,000%) I am selling all my retirement funds and buying (the new) IBM. Until then yuck NO not a single share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I am hopeful perhaps she may be bored at AMD wondering "what else could I possibly do?". | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And she worked at IBM and for a time was Gerstner's TA technical assistant. | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Lets throw a $100,000,000 pay package to Lisa with performance based incentives and LIGHT THIS CANDLE! After all King Louie left IBM after 11 years with $400,000,000 and did 1/10th what Lisa has done. | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+3/-1) | Reply | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ab+1kfv37vnh | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @a4 Read it as - AI has reached a stage where there can be a return on investment by eliminating jobs .“You can truly start to automate tasks and business processes, [and the employees who perform these tasks and processes]” | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | When is Rob Thomas being handed a PIP now that AI has advanced so much? | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a6+1kfv37vnh | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes things are starting to move that will conclude in another round of layoffs | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a5+1kfv37vnh | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Rob Thomas, IBM’s chief commercial officer, said AI has reached a stage where there can be a return on investment. “You can truly start to automate tasks and business processes,” he told Reuters." | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.dawn.com/news/1968783 | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Twisting RAs as "AI automation"? | Jan 26 01:44 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh | Jan 26 01:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.dawn.com/news/1968783 ) | Jan 26 01:45 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh ) | Jan 26 01:45 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/25/1930244/richard-stallman-critiques-ai-connected-cars-smartphones-and-drm | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " Richard Stallman spoke Friday at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies. | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Speaking about AI, Stallman warned that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for things that aren't intelligent at all..." He makes a point of calling large language models "generators" because "They generate text and they don't understand really what that text means." (And they also make mistakes "without batting a virtual eyelash. So you can't trust anything that they generate.") Stallman says "Every time | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | you call them AI, you are endorsing the claim that they are intelligent and they're not. So let's let's refuse to do that." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "So I've come up with the term Pretend Intelligence. We could call it PI. And if we start saying this more often, we might help overcome this marketing hype campaign that wants people to trust those systems, and trust their lives and all their activities to the control of those systems and the big companies that develop and control them." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "By the way, as far as I can tell, none of them is free software." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | When it comes to today's cars, Stallman says they contain "malicious functionalities... Cars should not be connected. They should not upload anything." (He adds that "I am hoping to find a skilled mechanic to work with me in a project to make disconnected cars.") | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And later Stallman calls the smartphone "an Orwellian tracking and surveillance device," saying he refuses to own one. (An advantage of free software is that it allows the removal of malicious functionalities.) | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Stallman spoke for about 53 minutes — but then answered questions for nearly 90 minutes longer. Here's some of the highlights... | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Stallman's talk Friday covered everything from dark patterns, censorship, back doors, subscriptions, and remote updates (and remote bricking). "Insecurity that users can't fix is one of the consequences of non-free software." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He called age-verification laws "unjust surveillance... imposed by laws. There's been no campaign to require a compromise so that you can prove you're an adult without their knowing who you are." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To a question about gaming hardware, Stallman said "I don't pay much attention to games. They're almost all proprietary software, so let them end up in the trash." (Though he added later that "There are some free games implemented in free software, which is nice if you've got time to play a game.") | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He uses a ThinkPad that's "old enough that in this model, you can shut off [Intel's] Management Engine permanently and never let it run again." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Richard Stallman's preferred free distro is Trisquel. But when it comes to mobile device operating systems, "Basically, they're all bad... I don't want the tracking that mobile devices do, so I don't want to have one." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | What does he think of the push to rewrite GNU's coreutils in Rust "I think it shows that some people hate copyright." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And what does he think of Rust in general? "I'm in favor of all languages as long as they're implemented in free software." (His one issue is "the trademark conditions on Rust don't make it concretely clear what changes you have to make to be allowed to distribute a modified version... I sure wish they would clarify this.") | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Has he had run-ins with U.S. intelligence agencies trying to foist back doors or surveillance into GNU? "Uh, no... I would suspect that if they wanted to do that, they wouldn't approach me." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Stallman also had suggestions for educators. "Universities should teach students to do reverse engineering. It should help them focus on the projects that will remove obstacles to winning freedom." And later he recommended universities try educational programs where students contribute to free software programs. | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He also pointed out that today's web sites have what he calls "a sucker clause" typically saying "we may change these terms and conditions. If you continue to use the site, you will be held to have accepted the new conditions, even if you have not seen them." Stallman believes this should be illegal. (He says one medical site added updated terms saying users agreed not to sue over mishandling of personal data, but instead to re | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | solve it in arbitration.) | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | And someone actually asked Stallman: Should I use Emacs over Vi? Stallman answered... "As long as it's a free version of Vi, then there's no moral reason one way or the other. | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "But Emac loves every user and will be sad if you don't love it back." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | At the end of the event, Stallman auctioned off an autographed hardcover copy of Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, an Emacs manual -- and a gnu-shaped stuffed animal (which went for $260). But towards the end, 72-year-old Stallman was asked "What do you hope to accomplish in the next 10 or 20 years with this movement..." HIs answer? | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Well, sad to say, I probably won't see what happens in the next 10 years. I'm getting old. I may still be alive in 10 years. But I wouldn't count on that. It's not going to be up to me for that long." | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He also said, more generally, that "we don't have enough control over the situation to be able to plan for specific goals. | Jan 26 02:04 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "We can plan for what direction to push in."" | Jan 26 02:04 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.slashdot.org | Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM - Slashdot | Jan 26 02:04 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Pretend Intelligence can out code every coder. I think the word Artificial is good enough. Humans also suck without frameworks and guidelines and special training. He’s right to call out the lack of free software. But AI is just a form of automation. Always has been, always will be. You can automate poorly, but that doesn’t change what the tech is called." | Jan 26 03:56 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I have been informed that I must apologize for “misgendering” a software developer. | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I will not be doing that. | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Earlier today I posted about a “Linux with Win32 userland” project which sounded fun. | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In that post I wrote a sentence which began with “The man behind the project…” | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I made the assumption that the author, who clearly was using a pseudonym, was a man based on the fact that he sounded masculine in his writing. (Yes, you can usually tell the difference.) | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | After I was informed of my “misgendering” (which I have been informed is the exact same thing as genocide), I did a quick check of his website and X account (which has blocked me). | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It appears that he is a man, in Sweden, who pretends to be a Japanese woman who blogs about sex. | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Which, needless to say, is a bit weird. But, hey! You do you, my dude! | Jan 26 03:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Regardless, the “Linux with Win32 userland” project still sounds fun. I hope he succeeds at it!" | Jan 26 03:57 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 26 15:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I have just watched the 2-plus-hour video. Stallman's talk never fades. I hope there will be more of this coming, and GT is just the beginning. Thank you for giving Dr. Stallman a place to talk about software freedom and for that job well done. | Jan 26 15:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Best regards, | Jan 26 15:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Rianne | Jan 26 15:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 26 15:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html?showComment=1769343252686#c776317870463254478 | Jan 26 15:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "I see that Daniel Thomas and Francis Hagel have now filed their respectiobservations in G1/25 on the EPO file. I offer the following comment here, to stir the pot a little more.<br /><br />Although the EPO provides a service to inventors and applicants, its duty is to the public, society, the common good. The exclusive right given by the patents it grants are awesome in their power. | Jan 26 15:31 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | G 1/25 (description amendments) amicus curiae: The battle lines are drawn - The IPKat | Jan 26 15:31 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/bouncy-ball-will-always-bounce-back/">Bouncy Ball will always bounce back</a></h5> | Jan 26 18:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jan 26 18:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>My focus this time around was on having a working port that mostly just replicates what the widget did before. Since I also fired up a Kubuntu 14.04 VM, I implemented one notable change to make it more like the KDE 4 version. Single-click will now fire the ball in a direction away from the cursor, while double-click to restore the ball to its container has been removed because it’s redun | Jan 26 18:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | dant and would interfere with the single-click action. There’s also a “Restore Defaults” button in the config now. So give the good old ball a spin, and if you see any issues or have suggestions for improvement, feel very free to ping me (repo). </p> | Jan 26 18:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jan 26 18:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jan 26 18:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jan 26 18:00 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-filipfila.wordpress.com | Bouncy Ball will always bounce back – Filip Fila's blog | Jan 26 18:00 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Matt Loathsome Lightson is a loathsome reptile - he is light on every freaking project and lies to make out that he's a cloud guru with great achievements. Nothing can be further from the truth. He couldn't complete the cloud migration on schedule and the lies he put out on his PowerPoint slides were unbelievable. He is nothing but another crooked manager in Joanne Wrong's toilet bowl of crappola. Part of the great Krabanaugh empi | Jan 26 18:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | re which makes a loud noise and much fanfare on w3 but achieves little or nothing. All mouth and trousers." | Jan 26 18:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfs88kwy | Jan 26 18:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfs88kwy ) | Jan 26 18:29 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 26 18:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | No shirt Arvind; we've known AI was baloney for years. It has just been cover for you to put more of your chosen people in place. AI = All India. | Jan 26 18:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If you can find another job, leave while you can. Innovation is very dead. Hardwork and achievement are futile. | Jan 26 18:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The ones that will hang on til the end have their little cliques. In the CIO, we have Matt Loathsome; in AADP you have Jill Fourie-able and her evil managers such as JD LaPlante. Parasites that will fill me with joy when they meet the end of their careers. | Jan 26 18:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jan 26 18:29 |
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