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| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> you need to correct a something in this article "Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers)" fourth para down "For all their supposed 'non-profit' altruism (Mozilla is in fact a corporations), " corporation? or are they corporations? | Sep 10 02:15 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> yes | Sep 10 02:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | * [admfubar] is away (Away) | Sep 10 02:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> thanks | Sep 10 02:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> ;) | Sep 10 02:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> fixed | Sep 10 02:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> ok :) | Sep 10 02:16 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Leaked email from Red Hat CEO, Matt Hicks, informing staff that several teams of Red Hat employees will become IBM employees in "early 2026". | Sep 10 02:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Finance, People, Legal, and Accounting teams, along with a portion of the IT team" will move from Red Hat to IBM. | Sep 10 02:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | When Red Hat was acquired by IBM, a few years back, many expressed concern that Red Hat would lose autonomy as it is absorbed into IBM. That appears to be happening." | Sep 10 02:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4qk5q13 | Sep 10 02:28 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Time to put 200% tarrif on outsourcing IT jobs? | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Exactly, so go after the US corporations that offshore more than 10% of their workforce by taxing them and additional 47%. Hit the source of the problem. | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 50 minutes ago by Anonymous | Sep 10 02:29 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Additional 47% tax on US companies offshoring more than 10% of their workforce, period. Yes, I've emailed my representative and Trump/WH. Hear only rumor that Trump is working on something along these lines. Email your Representative and Senators! We have to try. | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 53 minutes ago by Anonymous | Sep 10 02:29 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I lost my job in an RA years ago, with "my work" going to Bangalore and Hortolandia. With that said, I don't believe in tariffs on employment. It's difficult to manage, doesn't provide a whole lot of benefits and causes a lot of distortion in the economy. | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | With that said, there's a lot of things that the US government COULD do (but probably won't). They could insist on US labor, just like they often do for defense and military work. Do you want the US government to be a customer? Then use US labor to make your products. The government could stop playing games with visas. They could reject and throw out more immigrants, legal or illegal. | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Sep 10 02:29 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I agree in spirit. I just wish I thought it would achieve something. But if you target one country, the jobs will just flow to a different low cost country and if you try to eliminate all of them, it will just speed up investments in the kind of AI that actually really could take jobs and actually really could be dangerous for society | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 10 02:29 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Agree. | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It should be closer to 500% to make up for all the lost jobs in the US for the past 25 years. | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 10 02:29 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4nbcxza | Sep 10 02:31 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "Are you Alvinds driver ? | Sep 10 02:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Sep 10 02:31 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @av | Sep 10 02:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Simply mirroring the current administration's attitude. Chippy must kiss the ring or risk his "Big Beautiful Bonus." He can't Indianize IBM much faster than he is now. | Sep 10 02:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 10 02:31 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "IBM did this to Lotus. IBM did this to Tivoli. They did this to Thorn EMI, they did this to Software Artistry, to Informix, to Rational, to Candle Corp, to Network Solutions and Micromuse and Cognos and ILOG and Sterling and Bluebox. | Sep 10 02:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So, WHY IN HELL would I ever expect them NOT to do this to Red Hat?" | Sep 10 02:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "People dont understand how bad this is. | Sep 10 02:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM does not maintain or improve software. | Sep 10 02:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | They offshore , decrease quality and milk software until it's dead. | Sep 10 02:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Expect everything redhat maintains to go to shit." | Sep 10 02:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Does IBM have a "hire less whites" policy?" | Sep 10 02:34 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "The entire Middleware engineering team was moved to IBM a few months ago." | Sep 10 02:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4qm07s5 | Sep 10 02:40 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | ""This update is not about reducing headcount," | Sep 10 02:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | not even enough respect for us, to sell a believable lie... | Sep 10 02:40 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 10 02:40 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | hopefully MS will see some FAFO | Sep 10 02:40 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4p1vxkm | Sep 10 02:42 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | News Title: Microsoft eliminates 42 jobs in Redmond as layoffs persist during AI investment surge | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-cuts-42-more-jobs-in-redmond-continuing-layoffs-amid-ai-spending-bo-m/ | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Snippet: Unlike large one-time staff reductions, Microsoft continues with small rounds of layoffs, reflecting a gradual approach while the company pours billions into AI. | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Company: Microsoft | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Number of People Laid Off: 42 | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Locations: Redmond, WA | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Published At: 09/08/2025 & 5:28 pm UTC | Sep 10 02:42 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Sep 10 02:42 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 10 13:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-5-desktop-environment-released/">KDE Plasma 6.4.5 Desktop Environment Released</a></h5> | Sep 10 13:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 10 13:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Over a month after Plasma 6.4.4 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.5 as the fifth bugfix update to the 6.4 series. As expected from a point release, it focuses squarely on fixing bugs and tightening up stability. </p> | Sep 10 13:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 10 13:27 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | KDE Plasma 6.4.5 Desktop Environment Released | Sep 10 13:27 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 10 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-10-enables-crb-repository-by-default-ahead-of-10-1-release/">AlmaLinux 10 Enables CRB Repository by Default Ahead of 10.1 Release</a></h5> | Sep 10 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 10 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>For those unfamiliar, CRB is a collection of packages not traditionally included in enterprise Linux distributions. A lot of them are development-related, but some are simply required by desktop environments and popular tools—KDE Plasma being one of the big examples. </p> | Sep 10 16:06 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 10 16:06 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | AlmaLinux 10 Enables CRB Repository by Default Ahead of 10.1 Release | Sep 10 16:06 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li><h5><a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2025/09/10/gnome-kiosk-updates/">Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter: GNOME Kiosk Updates</a></h5><blockquote><p><strong>GNOME Kiosk</strong> is a separate Wayland compositor built on the same core components as GNOME Shell, such as Mutter.</p> | Sep 10 17:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>While it does not provide a desktop UI, it is intended for kiosk and appliance use cases.</p> | Sep 10 17:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Originally designed to run a single application in fullscreen mode, recent development has expanded its scope toward more versatile window management and system integration.</p> | Sep 10 17:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote></li> | Sep 10 17:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blogs.gnome.org | GNOME Kiosk Updates – GNOME Shell & Mutter | Sep 10 17:53 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Sep 10 18:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-runtime-guard-1-0-released/">Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 Released</a></h5> | Sep 10 18:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Sep 10 18:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>If you are not familiar with it, LKRG is a kernel module that acts as a security layer for the Linux kernel. Its main job is to monitor the kernel while it’s running and catch anything that looks suspicious or unsafe. </p> | Sep 10 18:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Sep 10 18:24 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 Released | Sep 10 18:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In the summer of 2025, executives of the French game development company | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/category/ubisoft/"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ubisoft</a> were tried and convicted for harassment in the workplace. It | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | is interesting to contrast the stories from | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/category/ubisoft/"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ubisoft</a> with the stories about the | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/debian-history-harassment-abuse-culture-evolution/"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Debian harassment culture</a>. Clara Lainé at public broadcaster franceinfo | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | published an in-depth report about the accusations. A partial English | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | translation is provided here.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Remember, Debian's | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/people/sylvestre-ledru"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Sylvestre Ledru</a>, who also works for Mozilla, | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | published blogs promoting collaboration between | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/category/ubisoft/"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Ubisoft</a> and the | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | open source software communities. Sylvestre was formerly a Debian | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | administrator for the | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/category/gsoc/"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Google Summer of Code</a> internships.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>From the | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://www.franceinfo.fr/societe/harcelement-sexuel/fermer-les-yeux-ou-serrer-les-dents-derriere-le-proces-de-trois-ex-cadres-d-ubisoft-une-culture-du-silence-enracinee-jusqu-au-sommet_7193382.html">original report in French</a>:</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote><em> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Serge Hascoët, Tommy François, and Guillaume Patrux are on trial for moral and sexual harassment starting Monday. But alongside them, the victims were hoping to see Ubisoft appear in court.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>"Stop talking about this immediately. There's no problem at Ubisoft." This is the order a former employee of the French video game giant says he received when he tried, in 2017, to alert his superiors about moral harassment. "At the time of #MeToo, all companies tried, or pretended, to clean up. Not Ubisoft ," he laments in the investigation file consulted by franceinfo. The silence broke in July 2020, with the publication of a | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | vast investigation by Libération. On the 6th floor of a building in Montreuil, home to Ubisoft's prestigious editorial department, the walls could no longer contain the hearty laughter, inappropriate remarks, and serial humiliations.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Five years later, the case reaches the Bobigny Criminal Court . Starting Monday, June 2, three former executives will have to answer for their actions: Serge Hascoët, the group's former number 2; Thomas François (nicknamed Tommy), former vice-president of editorial services; and Guillaume Patrux, former game director. All three deny the facts. For five days, they will be tried for moral and sexual harassment and attempted sexu | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | al assault, following accusations brought by six women, three men, and two unions.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The facts they are accused of are part of a system where "humiliations were commonplace" and where "any resistance was immediately broken , " concluded an internal investigation carried out in July 2020. How could such an omerta have taken root and lasted for almost a decade? Why did so many employees end up believing that they could "do nothing" other than "close their eyes or grit their teeth" ? | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>"We can no longer differentiate whether it's inappropriate or normal."</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Behind the window of a creative and relaxed company, dozens of employee testimonies paint a different picture. "The victims' words (...) describe a department [Ubisoft's editorial department] in the hands of a group of immature men, who consider it their personal fiefdom and engage in all kinds of abuse there ," concluded the internal investigation conducted by the Altaïr firm in July 2020.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>In this environment, the boundary between professional and personal life dissolves. Clarisse*, who held the position for six years, was unable to file a complaint, as the facts were statute-barred. However, she retains vivid memories of this stifling atmosphere. "I felt like I was always in a bar with constant flirting ," she told investigators. Crossing the open-plan office is a daily ordeal: pointed stares, ambiguous messages, | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | barely veiled invitations... | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>"I felt like I was walking through a neighborhood alone at night."</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Clarisse, former Ubisoft employee | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | facing the investigators</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>"It was so hard to get up in the morning, I was putting on makeup and crying at the same time ," the young woman confides. "We can no longer differentiate if it's inappropriate or if these things are normal," she says. In this microcosm, everything seems permitted under the guise of humor. Some meetings end with drawings of penises on flipcharts, walls, or post-its, several employees say. Games of "cat-bite" or "olive" are freel | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | y played in the corridors, according to the accounts of a dozen witnesses to the case.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Tommy François, one of the three defendants in the case, admitted during a hearing to having evolved in an "institutionalized (...) schoolboy environment" to which one had to adhere "if one did not want to be excluded" . When he arrived at Ubisoft in 2006, he remembers being given the nickname "the TV whore" because he came from the Game One channel or "the fat one" because of his "weight" . As for the "cat-bite", he says he " | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | suffered" it as much as he practiced it, "as a joke" . "It happened between colleagues who knew each other well, always in a humorous tone" , assures the former vice-president of the editorial department.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>Misogynistic and racist remarks become commonplace</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>On the 6th floor of the Montreuil building, the victims of these acts are often the same: women, interns, people of color... Juliette*, hired in 2010 as an intern for Serge Hascoët's assistant, is forced to work at an absurd pace: "Alain* [her manager, for whom the statute of limitations has expired] timed my responses to his emails and sometimes he would say to me: 'you took six minutes to reply to my email, but you're slow.'" | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | She stayed with the company for five years: "I had just come out of a very precarious situation (...), I had to arm myself to hold out."</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Nathalie*, who succeeded her in 2015, very quickly became the target of her managers.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>"Alain told me that I needed to get a makeover and lose weight."</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Nathalie, former Ubisoft employee | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | facing the investigators</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>She specifies that he forbade her from taking the elevator. Between Juliette and Nathalie, the name of an informal network circulates: "the bracelet community ," a group of employees who know "the truth" about the open space and help each other in hushed tones. These whispers ended up finding an echo in the Bobigny criminal court: the two young women will be on the benches of the civil parties.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The testimonies also report Islamophobic and racist remarks. Nathalie remembers a black colleague nicknamed "Bamboula" and comments about the size of his penis. The young woman , who is Muslim, also recounts that a manager asked her after the Bataclan attacks "if [she] planned to join Daesh ." She adds that her colleagues "amused themselves by changing [her] screen with images of McBacon" or putting sandwiches on her desk durin | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | g Ramadan. Confronted with these comments, Serge Hascoët told investigators that he had no memory of such scenes.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>An all-powerful "king" who "knights"</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>At the top of the pyramid, power was concentrated in the hands of a handful of "unavoidable and omnipotent" men . "Serge Hascoët had the power of life or death over projects ," summarizes an employee interviewed by the Altaïr firm. The creative director has the complete confidence of CEO Yves Guillemot. "To have the budget to complete the game created, you have to please Serge ," we can read in an internal investigation.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>"When the king knights, he delegates his power ," emphasizes a veteran of the editorial department. This power is transmitted from one person to another, by affinity more than by competence, according to him. "There was no HR policy until 2020. Serge placed his knowledge ," notes the author of the internal audit on the department. Alain, his right-hand man for years, testified to this himself during his hearing: "They called me | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the king's son."</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>This privileged circle occupies the heart of a system where some can get away with anything. "The editorial department was the star department, and Tommy François was an untouchable personality. We couldn't say anything to him," recalls a former employee. On the HR side, the powerlessness is obvious. "It made him laugh a lot, me not at all," laments a manager, recounting a scene where Serge Hascoët and Tommy François simulate | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | spanking each other while shouting "harassment!" in front of the human resources office. One of her colleagues admits that Ubisoft's number 2 "didn't like to follow the rules" : "I would even say that it amused him (...) to annoy us." During his hearing, Tommy François argued that "during [his] almost 14 years at Ubisoft, HR or [his] managers never notified [him] anything about [his] behavior . "</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>"Loyalty is a cardinal virtue"</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Added to this omnipotence of managers is loyalty to the company and the fear of losing one's job. Ubisoft embodies the elite of global video games. In this "big family ," there is no criticism of the elders, much less those who hold the reins. "Loyalty is a cardinal virtue, even outweighing values," a Ubisoft employee said during an interview with Altaïr.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>“My partner told me a while ago: '<a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/category/cult-behaviour/">Your company is a cult</a>.' That's not wrong!"</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>A Ubisoft employee as part of Altaïr's internal audit</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>For many, reporting wrongdoing is not an option. "In the department's environment, it's difficult to speak out without risking reprisals or being ostracized," a former employee confided in 2020. More than 30 witnesses were heard during the investigation, but many of them decided not to file a complaint "for fear of reactions from the video game industry ," investigators point out.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Reputation weighs heavily. "Looking back, I think that at the time, it was a prestigious thing to join Ubisoft and Serge's team... Perhaps someone was willing to put up with certain things instead of speaking out," observed a human resources director during an interview. Because beyond the Montreuil studio, Ubisoft remains a key name in the industry.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Those who tried to resist found themselves alone. Bérénice*, who says she was regularly "humiliated" by Tommy François and "overloaded with work ," suffered a burnout in 2015. The reaction of Alain, one of her superiors, according to her? "Anyway, you have more than that, so we're taking advantage of it, you'll never say anything." Facing investigators, Alain declared that he had "nothing to say" about Bérenice and that he h | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ad "always found her very nice . "</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>She will be on the bench of the civil parties, just like Benoît*, for whom the years spent at Ubisoft as a 3D artist constituted "a downward spiral" which led him "towards anxiety, sleep and eating disorders" . He explained during a hearing: "This complaint is almost an act of desperation... In any case, I have nothing to lose since I will never return to a video game company."</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>“HR knew everything, saw everything”</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>At Ubisoft, many people point to the human resources department as a weak link in the system. "HR wasn't the allies of employees, but the protectors of abusers ," accuses a former employee. When Nathalie raises the alarm about a manager's sexist comments, the response is brutal, she says: "The assistant you're replacing lasted three years, it's up to you to adapt." Three human resources directors were indicted and interviewed by | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | investigators, who ultimately dropped the charges. But their findings don't erase the image of a passive, even complicit, department. "I think everyone had pieces of the puzzle, but no overall vision ," admits one manager to investigators. "There was no disciplinary power in 2015 ," acknowledges another.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Bérénice describes a locked-down system and a broken chain of responsibility at every level. "HR knew everything, saw everything, and sometimes even joked with the harassers. Some played the role of stepmother, taking on the role of executioner to protect Serge Hascoët and Tommy François." Even medical appeals seem futile. Bérénice claims that "the occupational physician was 85 years old, she was no longer in her right min | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | d. She asked people to undress and get dressed several times."</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>“We didn’t know who to turn to.”</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Bérénice, former employee and victim facing the investigators</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>For his part, Yves Guillemot speaks of "a few toxic people" but denies any systemic abuse. This interpretation is contested by unions, civil parties, and defense lawyers. Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, who represents Serge Hascoët, denounces the trial's scope as too narrow. "If we want to be consistent with the idea that harassment is systemic, everyone must be present in court," he argues.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h3>"All management departments have encouraged this company policy."</h3> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, lawyer of Serge Hascoët to franceinfo</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>"The alert tools still don't work ," laments the lawyer for the Video Game Workers' Union, which has filed a civil suit. She castigates a company "habitually doing this ," where "omerta has become a management method ." And concludes: "This trial should also have been Ubisoft's."</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>* First names have been changed.</p> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </em></blockquote> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Please see the | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <a href="https://danielpocock.com/en/debian-history-harassment-abuse-culture-evolution/"> | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | chronological history of how the Debian harassment and abuse culture evolved</a>.</pOf course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and every single billboard is advertising some kind of AI company. Every business plan has the word “AI” in it, even if the business itself has no AI | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | in it. Even as two major, terrifying wars rage around the world, every newspaper has an above-the-fold AI headline and half the stories on Google News as I write this are about AI. I’ve had to make rule for my events: The first person to mention AI owes everyone else a drink. | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It’s a bubble. | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4qk5q13 | Sep 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave | Sep 10 21:17 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | Debian History Harassment & Abuse culture evolution | Sep 10 21:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | Sylvestre Ledru | Sep 10 21:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | Google Summer of Code (GSoC) internships | Sep 10 21:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.franceinfo.fr | "Fermer les yeux ou serrer les dents" : derrière le procès de trois ex-cadres d'Ubisoft, une culture du silence enracinée jusqu'au sommet | Sep 10 21:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | Cult behaviour | Sep 10 21:20 | |
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