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    GM axes 1,000+ jobs, majority in US
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    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.

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    The layoffs, as initially reported by CNBC, include about 600 positions at GM's Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.

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    Install Thunderbird as a DEB App on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
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    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.

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    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.

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    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, lets see what you gain from this.

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    Compiling TETRIS from 1992 on OpenVMS x86 in 2024!
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    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 [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 [15:00] schestowitz[TR2] anged much since 1992 to be compiled in 2024. This article also shows you how to install curl on OpenVMS.

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    • [15:00] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Compiling TETRIS from 1992 on OpenVMS x86 in 2024! - Raymii.org ● Aug 20 [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] > What makes you think I'll get to the end of the talk without being shot [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] > or censored somehow? [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] > [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] > Biden will be speaking up the road at the DNC next week. It is less [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] > than 1km away. [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] You gave the whole talk and delivered it well [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] I watched the whole talk [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] The organisers seemed quite receptive to the message [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] I hope they will upload the full talk in a month and won't be lobbied/threatened to censor [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] The livestream was taken down for copyright reasons - I mentioned it this morning in Techrights [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] All the slides, audio etc. can be uploaded to your blog just in case [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] I nearly managed to grab a copy of the whole day's session, but Google is attacking Invidious nowadays [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. [17:03] schestowitz[TR2] The talk was well delivered. [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. [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 [20:24] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:25] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 20 [21:59] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/)