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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Fedora Forge Usage Policy.,https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxg78xc
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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxg78xc
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Agreed. Too many bad actors saw an opportunity to consolidate power for their own self-interest. They then surrounded themselves with friends, allies, and loyalists to reinforce their positions. Others watched this succeed and replicated the same approach within their own organizations.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM management was once criticized as an old boys club, dominated by a narrow leadership circle. But replacing one exclusive inner circle with another doesnt solve the underlying problemit simply changes who benefits. When advancement depends on being part of the right network rather than on performance, merit inevitably suffers.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	This is why hard work, technical excellence, and measurable accomplishments no longer carry the weight they once did at IBM. Increasingly, career progression seems to depend on being recognized and sponsored by the right inner circle rather than on consistently delivering results. It is also why IBM management and leadership does not carry the respect it once did.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	8 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +2 
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d4 IBM management took a steep nose dive around year 3 of Palmisano. Its around that time that IBM replaced its simple, core values Executive Leadership Principles with a new, high-falutin, buzzword heavy, but principle light version because execs were scoring too high on the old metrics. Scoring high on them consistently quarter after quarter was the whole idea and it worked until Sam replaced it. At about that same time he we
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	nt on an executive hiring binge and let the snakes slither in.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	That also happens to be the first year that my submission to the ancient IBM executive and technical leadership competency tracking system was rejected for being too honest. I was told the mandatory rating distribution across categories and in which categories I was to be marginally and seriously deficient as a matter of unwritten corporate policy independent of reality. If cooking the books works for finance, why not do it for pla
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	nning the future high level leadership of the company as well.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	Good people do still occasionally get su-ked into IBM executive positions. The acid test in the 21st century is whether they survive for two years. The survivors have black hearts and corrupt souls.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	27 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	@gh Doesn't seem fair. He didn't even need to work for it.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	34 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	@g5 Alvind, the slimy Indian parasite, earned a new badge, cockroach. He must feel very proud.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	2 hours ago by Anonymous
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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +11 
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d4, @de IBM Management started to be become a industry joke under Gin 'N Tonic. She was the egomaniac who built and destroyed Watson Healthcare in a sitting without even trying. Management continues as the industry laughingstock under the Indian cockroach CEO, Arvind Krishna who failed with spectacularly with Cloud and AI, and now looks for further humiliation with Quantum computing diarrhea. But Cramer keeps giving IBM great revi
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	ews, so he must be on to a good thing. He's likely milking IBM out of a good amount of $$$ under the table, because it's evident that he (Cramer) sure doesn't know a thing about Quantum computing, but he keeps yapping as though he does. He's nothing but an ex-used car salesman on TV.
[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	4 hours ago by Anonymous
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[15:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	@d4 IBM management is an industry joke now. Stopped being premium in the early 90s. All the managers now are coasting in two decades old reputation that is rapidly running out of runway. The current ones will be remembered as the ones that ki-led a 115 year old blue chip institution
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[18:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyx0wnte
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[18:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Promotions (and Bonuses) are only for underserving Indian CEO Cockroaches like Alvind."
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxtdzrm
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[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	"You give it a new IBM Badge labelled "Cockroach Quantum Basics" and name it Alvind. Then ask IBM HR to onboard it and assign it an office in Armonk.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	22 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	There once was a Cockroach...
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	He wears a coat of shiny brown,
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	The boldest little king in town.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	He does not pay a cent in rent,
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yet owns the space beneath the vent.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	I flick the light! He starts to freeze,
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	Then wobbles on six tiny knees.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	He tries to dash, he starts to slide,
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	With nowhere in the world to hide.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	A master of the panic scurry,
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	In such a fierce and frantic flurry!
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	Farewell, my armored little guest,
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	Go find a darker place to rest.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	22 minutes ago by Anonymous
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[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +14 
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	@dh how do you dehumanize a cockroach?
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyxg78xc
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	"ts Indian and Asian who took the white model and kicked them out
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	@h5 Now it's a cockroach and co-k su-kas club.
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	1 hour ago by Anonymous
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[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	@gy "IBM management was once criticized as an old boys club, dominated by a narrow leadership circle. "
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	To be precise; IBM management used to be "old WHITE boys club". In recent years, it became ""old WHITE and INDIAN boys club".
[18:47]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	"It is surprising how *little* financial support GNOME and KDE get from major companies.
[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	Considering the fact that *all* of the large Enterprise Linux companies (Red Hat / IBM, Canonical, SUSE, Oracle, etc.) ship with GNOME by default, only a small number contribute financially.  And, those that do contribute incredibly small amounts.  Humorously small.
[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	The GNOME Foundation has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for some time now, despite nearly universal adoption among the largest Linux companies.
[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	Likewise, KDE has a list of companies which are Supporting Members but very few of those actually contribute financially.  Those that do provide funds for KDE, do so in very small amounts.
[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	Most of the KDE Supporting Member companies are small firms that simply have some sort of (typically non-financial) agreement with KDE.  Mutual promotion.  Putting a KDE sticker on a piece of hardware.  That sort of thing.
[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	And all of these companies are *very* aware of the extreme Leftist Political Activism of both KDE and GNOME.  They are supportive (or indifferent) to it."
[20:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	MS lUndukje
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	"I didnt run that red light, officer!  The car did!
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	I didnt shoot that person!  The gun did!
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	Neither of those arguments hold up in court (or make any sense at all).
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	Why should:
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	I didnt plagiarize that code!  The AI did!
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	I didnt write those libelous, defamatory lies!  That was the AI!
[20:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	I didnt hack into that server, steal data, and publish it online!  The AI did it!"
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	"AI is, increasingly, becoming a way to commit crimes without anyone being held accountable.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	- AI LLMs commit plagiarism (copying code, text, images, and video without crediting the original creators).
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	- AI hacks into corporate servers and steals data.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	- AI publishes stolen works publicly.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	- AI publishes libelous and defamatory statements about people.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	If you replaced AI with a guy named Ted Smith, every one of those would potentially end up in court.  Some as civil cases, others as violations of criminal law.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	But, since these offenses were committed using AI, nobody is held responsible.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	Even though many of the crimes are committed at the command of human (and, often, corporate) controllers."
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	""AI is becoming increasingly useful.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI is an amazing feat of engineering.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI is annoying and overused.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI creates significant new problems, on a potentially catastrophic scale.
[20:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	All of these things are true at the same time.