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[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksthyjjv
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[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	With some cash paying around, invest in Intel, Advanced Micro devices, Nvidia brings more profits than IBM. Those are the big boys in AI space.
[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM is left behind again ....
[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	@rb can you make it hit $400 per share tomorrow ? that would show Arvind's leadership as an id--t genius....LOL !
[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @rd+1ksthyjjv
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[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	Stock is over $300 and theres is still doom and gloom. What happened to it's going to $150 ? Arvindsleadership is legendary
[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[06:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	What goes up must come down - Just wait. insiders would have made a lot of money and everybody else would be left holding an empty bag.
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[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksy8yvq8
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[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	Your IBM assigned machine is a LENOVO?
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	It tells me, you are a second class IBM employee.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	All first class IBM employees use high end MacBook machines.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	You are wasting your young age, getting IBM badges.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	Better, start looking outside IBM for opportunities to shine.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @j2+1ksy8yvq8
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	 -2 
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	@hw
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	I said i am home this week I am not on a VPN. I always post from my personal laptop. Why would I go on this site at an IBM location or VPN using my Lenovo?
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	@gv personal laptop, eh ? How are you connecting to the IBM Network from in the office when it is a clear violation of the IBM Conduct guidelines to do what you are doing (posting your comments on a non-IBM site) and on IBM company time too ? Did you get permission from your devout, church-going first line to do this ?
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	Or do you just conveniently ignore the rules when they don't suit you ? Maybe you can tell us what location and site you are working from ? Sounds like you should be subject to some disciplinary action up-to and including termination. Shouldn't be too hard to have IBM Networking catch you for fraud and more.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	@hf
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	What are you talking about? IBM got rid of Databases. My first line told me there was a huge project to get rid of Lotus Notes. That was a couple of years before I joined.
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	5 hours ago by Anonymous
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[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +6 
[06:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	@gw answer the question. From all your badge earnings you must have heard the name of database for patents. What is it called?
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[07:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksy8yvq8
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[07:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	" if you are really in the US as your claim, then you have RTO (return to office) rules. Which means you have to be in the office, not working from home. But if you're lying to everyone on this site as you are doing, you can pretend that you got special dispensation from your devout, church going first line or some corrupt IBM executive loser like Kavanaugh or Joanne Wrong. Or maybe you went to your Uncle Arvind for permission to u
[07:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	se your personal laptop in the office. You need to be fired for your lies, dishonesty and use of IBM resources without permission. You are nothing but a thieving IBM India HR con bot.
[07:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	Where is your smug garbage about hot hate, vitriol, bile, spleens and vomit now, eh ?"
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[18:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Andy Farnell wrote on 02/06/2026 16:40:
[18:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	> Releasing "Why I Code" one part per day for the next week or so.
[18:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	> 
[18:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	> https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/whycode/whycode.html
[18:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Techrights ? The Cyber Show on the Fight Against Technofascism ? https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/02/The_Cyber_Show_on_the_Fight_Against_Technofascism.shtml | ? Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/02/The_Cyber_Show_on_the_Fight_Against_Technofascism.gmi ?
[18:25]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cybershow.uk | Why I code: The Fight Against Technofascism
[18:25]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights The Cyber Show on the Fight Against Technofascism
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Im not going to go sleuthing into the links and beyond (the one I clicked was for the Stallman Support website which presumably is biased), but Im somewhat aware of the controversies around Stallman. Can someone with more knowledge weigh in on what the post says?
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	The post is highlighting the discord between the MIT/associated media hit pieces on Stallman (free software advocate) for having problematic views, while compelling evidence of Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) Epstein-class behavior was pretty much ignored.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	I looked into this a year or so ago. My take away was that at some point someone published a very long piece which quotes stallman and step by step concludes "this is bad". And then people started quoting the piece conclusion. However I remember reading the originals from stallman and not finding anything wrong with them. (If someone wants to disagree please cite stallman, not someone else's conclusion about stallman.)
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	They all appear to be links back to the blog itself or said support site. Speaking for myself I don't need a messiah figure to support elements of FOSS, and I don't need Stallman to be a decent or functional human being to have made good points in the past.
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Speaking for myself the first HUGE red flag out of Stallman was his famous comment about pedophilia circa 2006, which this "Stallmansupport site" actually addresses.
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	The defense seems to be summed up in this line: "Whatever the reasoning that led Stallman to write those statements, the fact is that later he changed his mind."
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	It seemed pretty clear what he meant, and walking it back 13 years later under pressure doesn't make me think that he didn't mean it the first time.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	This is the literally the point TFA is making.
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	That Stallman's statements were seen as a "red flag", while Bill Gates's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein were seen as perfectly ok.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	The position of the website the blog links to and references makes a clear statement that Stallman has been framed and "cancelled"... not that he's as guilty as people like Gates.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	our president and his friends are pedos.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	I can't speak for Trump, but yes many of his friends are. As for Trump whether or not you believe he abused children, we know that was found civilly liable for sexually assaulting at least one person and is accused of much more.
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	None of which changes anything about how much a person should or shouldn't support Richard Stallman.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	You can look at Trumps comments about his own daughter to confirm that hes at least attracted to underage girls.
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	He was also credibly accused of raping minors multiple times, although those accusers were too afraid (justifiably so) to let us see those accusations play out in court.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	I'm not saying that he isn't, I'm saying that when we have STRONG evidence of his sexual assault of adults, and dozens of other felonies, we don't need to focus on the one for which no proof exists despite extensive attempts at finding some. It's not a denial of what he might have done, it's essentially a policy statement.
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Edit To be entirely clear: I am not defending Trump, he should be in prison, not the White House.
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[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	Cancellation is about a self-appointed minority taking malicious action against someone for an action or opinion for which the law itself does not specify a penalty. No one should be cancelled. And no one should be downvoted (or worse) on HN."
[22:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374264
[22:06]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai )
[22:08]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | What Efforts to Cancel Richard Stallman Ought to Teach Us About the Media | Hacker News
[22:24]	asm	not even 3 hours old, and the item is marked as "flagged"
[22:27]	asm	I'm not exactly sure why my submisison there got "flagged" in the first place
[22:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	hi
[22:27]	asm	hello
[22:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	was it submitted by you?
[22:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	i wrote about this moments ago
[22:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/02/Advertisements_as_Articles_in_The_Register_MS.shtml
[22:28]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights Advertisements as Articles in The Register MS
[22:28]	asm	yeah -- I'm amcclure on hackernews
[22:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	you insulted bill
[22:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	don't do that again  :)
[22:34]	asm	bill deserved it, and I'll do it again :)
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