●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, July 19, 2024 ●● ● Jul 19 [00:25] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Jul 19 [01:13] *jacobk (~quassel@vjw6skb8rst6e.irc) has joined #techbytes [01:44] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Jul 19 [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tyrAur0 [02:02] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tyrAur0 ) [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] " [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] Smartest thing steve Jobs did was to cancel the dividend when the company needed cash to reinvest in its future. IBM investors wont approve that. It takes a really strong CEO vision. If IBM cancelled the dividend, theyd just carve it up as exec payouts and buy more companies to pilage. [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] 1 hour ago by Anonymous [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1rqw+1tyrAur0 [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] +8 [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] If you take the long view, sure, everything comes to an end, especially tech. Even Earth has an expiration date. Some companies die off due to natural obsolescence coal mines, for example but most do so because of poor leadership, complacency, corruption, inability to pivot, diversify, etc. [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] Does IBM have a coherent strategy right now? Slash and burn. Make up arbitrary, constantly-changing rules for RTO and PIPs to get rid of people regardless of the value of their contribution or institutional memory, and offshore everything to subpar, low-paid, resources in the CEOs country of choice. WatsonX is a Hail Mary pass. But anyone who has interacted with it knows it cant compete because its absolute garbage, and ir [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] retrievably so given the trajectory of the company. [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] As far as I can tell, the Mustache is a man without a vision, or a backup plan, other than driving up the stock price by moving numbers around on a spreadsheet quarter-to-quarter, surrounded by yes-men, and despised by a good chunk of the workforce. [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] He knows hes an unloved, placeholder CEO and doesnt care. Hes going to use the company as a short-term cash grab for himself and his cronies while he can. IBM may have been in decline before him, but hes an accelerant. Will the board let him burn the company to the ground before a better leader can come in and try to save it, is anyones guess. [02:02] schestowitz[TR2] " [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] "" [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] I'm probably the only one on here that has used a RCA Spectra 70, which was basically an IBM 360 clone. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Here is a dramatic retelling of one of its uses. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgsfXnTWXeI [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] I used it to do some work for RCA for the Trident submarine in the remains of the factory that RCA used for making Elvis records (RCA Camden label). [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] 12 hours ago by Anonymous [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1ooq+1tyrAur0 [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Lou Gerstner did something similar at IBM - laid off 100,000 and effectively destroyed the old IBM culture. It survived, and rebounded, but the glory days were gone and any 'respect for the individual' was gone. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] To be honest, if you really want to look up the greatest company destroyer to ever exist in the USA, look no further than Milton Friedman and Wall Street. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] 12 hours ago by Anonymous [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+4/-0) [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1qyc+1tyrAur0 [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] +4 [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] GE in particular was destroyed by the actions of 2 of its CEOs, Neutron Jack Welch and [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Jeff Immelt. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Neutron Jack in particular showed many other CEOs how to destroy a company (in rich people's parlance, 'how to extract wealth'). [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Why is Jack Welch called Neutron Jack? [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] After Welch laid off more than 100,000 people in his first years as CEO, he earned the nickname he hated but could never shake: "Neutron Jack," a reference to the neutron bo-b, which purportedly ki-ls people while leaving buildings standing. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] 12 hours ago by Anonymous [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+4/-0) [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @1hgx+1tyrAur0 [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] +11 [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] Whilst IBM may be the last of the companies standing from a historical perspective, I don't believe how it's currently run constitutes a short-term plan or a long term plan for growth or even stability. [02:03] schestowitz[TR2] We're not asking the company to overtake Google and Nvidia. Just to have a plan that's believable and plays to our strengths. 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    Netfilter Announces nftables 1.1.0 Release
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    The Netfilter team has officially released nftables version 1.1.0, marking an important update to this firewalling and networking toolset, which is widely used in the Linux ecosystem.

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    This release, finalized after eight months of development, incorporates numerous fixes and improvements to enhance stability, compatibility, and usability. Here are the most important ones.

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    NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules - 9to5Linux
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    NVIDIA announced their plans to fully transition to the open-source GPU kernel modules with the upcoming NVIDIA 560 graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems.

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    Its been two years since NVIDIA released the first Linux graphics driver with open-source GPU kernel modules, which will eventually replace the proprietary, closed-source driver when these mature.

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