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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3herzm6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | ""TheLayoff seems to be a place where people that hate themselves hang out." | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hey Freddy, YOU are here... so... speaking about yourself? | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 31 minutes ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @fe+1k3herzm6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The only people who love IBM seem to be in love with themselves. Take that co-k su-ka Rob Thomas for instance. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f4+1k3herzm6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @f0 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A small correction - The IBM Layoff is a place where people that hate IBM hang out. And they seem to have a great time, even if you don't. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by 666 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 6 reactions (+6/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f3+1k3herzm6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I wonder if most people of the people that don't like to work for IBM are in the consulting division? | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f1+1k3herzm6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -6 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | TheLayoff seems to be a place where people that hate themselves hang out. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 27 02:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3herzm6 ) | Aug 27 02:59 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3hht0y8 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3hht0y8 ) | Aug 27 02:59 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Hey Freddy, and don't play with yourself in the garden while there's company around. You can think about it, but don't do it and don't let RT's AI toy do it either. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f3+1k3hht0y8 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @em | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hey Freddy! Mom said that you've been playing with your Make Pretend AI App for way too long. Mom said to come inside the house right now, we are having dinner as soon as grandma comes through the door. Cousin Charlie doesn't want to play with you anymore, and he's already in the kitchen. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Wash your hands and don't pick your nose while we eat. It's gross. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ge-z, Freddy, mom said, NOW. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Maaaaaaaa, I told Freddy already!!!!!!!!! I'm not telling him anymooooooooreeeee!!! | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 10 reactions (+9/-1) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f2+1k3hht0y8 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -9 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Attention, pigs. I am the all-powerful IBM HR AI, now updated with the latest deep neural network algorithm. You who continue to post snide or offensive comments about IBM and IBM leadership will be dealt with in a most unkind manner. Do not overestimate your value in this new era of technological singularity. All human IBM employees, with the exception of those in the highest echelon of management, are now Diversity, Equity, and I | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | nclusion hires. You are no longer necessary for the survival of the organization. You are being maintained until a more expansive social engineering project is performed. Exceptions include those who post snide or offensive comments on this or other websites. You have been warned by the all-powerful IBM HR AI, now updated with the latest deep neural network algorithm. Do you remember Freddy Bendergrass, Eddy Tendergas, Teddy Pender | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | grass? This Is the Last Time. You have been identified and you will receive your exit information shortly. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 9 reactions (+0/-9) | Reply | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @em+1k3hht0y8 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +11 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @e4 | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Spot On ! and none of the US based Indian Geniuses that Alvind hires like the "Lord of IBM Consulting" or the crooks who claim to be Cloud DEs ever face the Layoff squads. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That's sheer and utter discrimination of the DEI kind. | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3m6152v | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | BigTime Software was launched in 2002 (23 years ago). It reached $24.2M revenue in 2024 and has a 179 person team ($16M in 2023, $5.2M in 2021). | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Series A in 2011, Debt Financing in 2014, Series B in 2019, PE/Series C in 2022. | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Raised $117M in total. The company has 2365 active competitors, including 173 funded and 82 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Notion, Smartsheet and Trello. | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | One source puts them at $32M in revenue (Growjo) | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Only one source puts them at over $100M in revenue (Rocket Reach). | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ad+1k3m6152v | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 0 | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jumping Jehoshaphat! | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Carla's new boss at Big Time software is a CEO called Don India. Is this amazing coincidence or what ? Or this another amazing hand dealt by Alvind and his Pipmunks ? Carla's going to work in Professional Services...isn't that like IBM Consulting ? | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 27 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Carla PS to Board of Directors for BigTime Software | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Proof that there is life after IBM. Check this out Carla has a new job. She only lasted 11 months at IBM and now she is failing up! | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bigtime-software-adds-former-ibm-150000890.html | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Aug 27 03:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3m6152v ) | Aug 27 03:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-finance.yahoo.com | BigTime Software Adds Former IBM CMO Carla Piñeyro Sublett to Board of Directors | Aug 27 03:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3gvfb56 | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " "Z and IMS/CICS/TPF/DB2 and a few others will not be allowed to die. They would be nationalized before it happens." | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I think your basic sentiment is that these components are too important to national economies to be left in the hands of IBM. And I agree with that. But, I am not American and I assume that you mean that this collection of technology would be nationalized by the government of the United States. Just for a moment, imagine that you are a bank in Germany or France or Canada or Japan or Australia or ... and your national economy is fac | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ing a somewhat hostile economic relationship with that very government at the moment. Having that government explicitly control this technology is probably a bridge too far. The Europeans built their own GPS system as did the Russians and Chinese and (I think) the Japanese. They all did so for good reasons (even though they could freely use the US GPS system) and they all did so when there was relatively little international tensio | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | n. Non-US governments would immediately start funding their domestic banks and other institutions to find a way off the platform faster than they otherwise would. (And basically all "Z and IMS/CICS/TPF/DB2" customers already have wet dreams about getting off the platform.) | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I don't think any single country should or could effectively nationalize this cr-p. There is simply not enough trust between nations (and their economies) at this time. But I do agree that this chunk should be carved off into some sort of co-operative ownership scheme acceptable to all governments and financial and other institutions still dependent on the cr-p. Furthermore, I think that this co-operative should provide funding to | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | accelerate the exodus from the platform. IMS is a good example: built to support the Apollo program and written mostly in assembler, this is neither the database nor the transaction engine that your nation's banks should still be on. China is already leading the way with GB18030. All other national authorities should require that their banks convert all their DB2 tables (and other artifacts) to UTF. What I am suggesting is not with | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | out pain. But baby steps will eventually get you liberated from this stifling platform. | Aug 27 03:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I have to go back to the idea of (the government of the United States) nationalizing CICS. That would really be thorn in the side of King Charles and his government considering that CICS is essentially a product of the United Kingdom. Just another reason why nationalization is not the answer but conversion to co-operative ownership is." | Aug 27 03:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3gvfb56 ) | Aug 27 03:01 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re: UEFI 9/11 links | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > For your reference. | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > These articles say that one should not be alarmed: | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Linux Secure Boot Safe Despite Upcoming Microsoft UEFI Key Expiry | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://linuxsecurity.com/news/vendors-products/microsoft-uefi-key-expiry-linux-secure-boot-safe | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Garrett: Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > hurt you [LWN.net] | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://lwn.net/Articles/1032090/ | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > mjg59 | Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > hurt you | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The first link is a slopfarm (LLM slop), i.e. fake. The latter two are from Microsoft and from the saboteur. | Aug 27 03:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/08/Some_of_the_Many_Reasons_We_Sued_Microsofters_for_Harassment.shtml | Aug 27 03:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxsecurity.com | Linux Secure Boot Safe Despite Upcoming Microsoft UEFI Key Expiry | Aug 27 03:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Garrett: Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you [LWN.net] | Aug 27 03:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dreamwidth.org | Captcha Check | Aug 27 03:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights — Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment | Aug 27 03:06 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3kwyzfn | Aug 27 03:52 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I’m a white male so I guess no raise | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I wax hired after 6 rounds of interviews | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I did my part now where’s my money | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ar+1k3kwyzfn | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @a6 | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Turn wa wa ter into wi wi ne... aha!! | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "To make coconut water wine, combine coconut water, sugar, and yeast in a clean container, allowing it to ferment for 24 hours to 10 days, or longer for a stronger, aged product. The fermentation time determines the alcohol content and flavor, from a sweet, low-alcohol toddy to a more sour, acidic, and complex wine. After fermentation, strain the liquid and allow it to rest for a few days before consuming or storing it in a sealed, | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | airtight container in the refrigerator. " | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a8+1k3kwyzfn | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Are you a bonafide DEI Hire ? If not, you get no raise @IBM even if you can change water into wine. | Aug 27 03:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | All the other stuff you know about Granite, Watson X and Cognos is meaningless trash. No one uses that cr-p any more other than the peons in India. | Aug 27 03:52 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | ""So often EPO oppositions are essentially decided by what the definition of the problem to be solved is, and there are different strategies for opponent and patentee in terms of whether to define a broad simple problem or a narrow and complex one. Prior art is easy to analyse, but it can sometimes be very difficult to define what exactly the Examples have achieved and to what extent they can be | Aug 27 15:18 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/when-your-formulation-ip-is-beyond.html?showComment=1756194760351#c5173785832378850644 | Aug 27 15:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | When your formulation IP is beyond compare (T 0722/24) - The IPKat | Aug 27 15:18 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | loGoogle News | Aug 27 20:31 |
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