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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/19/gm_axes_1000_jobs_in/">GM axes 1,000+ jobs, majority in US</a></h5> | Aug 20 08:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 20 08:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>General Motors (GM) is cutting more than 1,000 salaried positions worldwide in its software and services division, with the majority based in the US. </p> | Aug 20 08:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> The layoffs, as initially reported by CNBC, include about 600 positions at GM's Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. </p> | Aug 20 08:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Aug 20 08:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Aug 20 08:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Aug 20 08:03 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | GM axes 1,000+ jobs, majority in US • The Register | Aug 20 08:03 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/install-thunderbird-as-deb-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/">Install Thunderbird as a DEB App on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS</a></h5> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is a solid and reliable release. However, it includes certain features that might not appeal to the typical desktop user. One example is the way Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, delivers some essential applications like the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. </p> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> These are distributed as Snaps, a type of distro-agnostic software packaging similar to Flatpak that works across different Linux distributions. However, while Flatpak has become widely accepted as a standard within the Linux community, Snap is still mostly used within the Ubuntu ecosystem alone. </p> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> The reasons for this are different; this is not the place to comment on them. We are here to show you how to install Thunderbird as a regular DEB package on your Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system. But before that, let’s see what you gain from this. </p> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Aug 20 08:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Install Thunderbird as a DEB App on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | Aug 20 08:57 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://raymii.org/s/blog/Tetris_from_1992_on_OpenVMS_x86_in_2024.html">Compiling TETRIS from 1992 on OpenVMS x86 in 2024!</a></h5> | Aug 20 15:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Aug 20 15:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Since DECWindows / CDE now works on OpenVMS x86 (from 9.2-3 onwards) there is much fun stuff to do. Back in 2021 I wrote an article on the CDE desktop on Alpha / AXPbox and also an article on how to run CDE on modern linux, since it's still developed. Both articles included a game, GENERIC-TETRIS from 1992, written by Qiang Alex Zhao. After getting the (remote) desktop working I wanted to | Aug 20 15:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | compile and run Tetris to continue this lineage, from VAX, to Alpha, to Linux/CDE, to x86 VMS. I haven't got an Itanium to run it on, but if anyone has one left willing to send this way, feel free to contact me. This article includes the precompiled tetris binary for OpenVMS x86 and instructions to compile the source. The code required some minor modifications which I'll also cover, but that's not surprising for code that hasn't ch | Aug 20 15:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | anged much since 1992 to be compiled in 2024. This article also shows you how to install curl on OpenVMS. </p> | Aug 20 15:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Aug 20 15:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Aug 20 15:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Compiling TETRIS from 1992 on OpenVMS x86 in 2024! - Raymii.org | Aug 20 15:00 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > What makes you think I'll get to the end of the talk without being shot | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > or censored somehow? | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Biden will be speaking up the road at the DNC next week. It is less | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > than 1km away. | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You gave the whole talk and delivered it well | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I watched the whole talk | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The organisers seemed quite receptive to the message | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I hope they will upload the full talk in a month and won't be lobbied/threatened to censor | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The livestream was taken down for copyright reasons - I mentioned it this morning in Techrights | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | All the slides, audio etc. can be uploaded to your blog just in case | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I nearly managed to grab a copy of the whole day's session, but Google is attacking Invidious nowadays | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A friend set up a cron job to dump the stream to file at the right time, but set the wrong time, so this was missed. | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The talk was well delivered. | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If I were you, with the talking points still fresh in the mind, I'd turn each and every slide into a short article with all the key points in it, along with any multimedia file. | Aug 20 17:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I very strongly encourage doing this ASAP to avoid forgetting key points and I assume some written crib notes exist already (to expand upon). | Aug 20 17:03 |
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