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| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> i do have spare aquarium equipment, but shipping it overseas would be expensive | Jul 28 05:03 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> you know any way to contact rachelbythebay? the site has been down for a couple of days.. | Jul 28 05:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> i know someone who conatcted here | Jul 28 05:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <schestowitz[TR2]> but i never did myself | Jul 28 05:03 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | AK concealed the fact that rest 98% of the software has extreme bugs to be deployed successfully in production and will be replaced by working software from other vendors. | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 13 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 9 reactions (+9/-0) | Reply | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ag+1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM CEO: "that only 2% of IBM’s software could be replaced by applications built by artificial intelligence models" | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This is BS | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Most greenfield workloads are now built on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and standard Linux platforms—not IBM Z, AIX or IBM i. Mainframe demand can remain strong during upgrade cycles, but much of its durability comes from existing applications, accumulated data and migration complexity rather than widespread adoption by new customers. | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That migration barrier is weakening. Toyota says mainframe systems support approximately 90% of its North American supply-chain operations. Using Amazon Q Developer, it analyzed 400 COBOL programs containing 375,000 lines of code in five hours, generating documentation with reported accuracy of up to 90%. This does not mean Toyota has already eliminated its mainframe, but it demonstrates how AI can reduce the cost and time required | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to understand legacy systems—the first step toward leaving them. | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ac+1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP Maybe when his career at IBM is over, he will move to New Orleans and become a PI-P. He has all the qualities to become an unforgettable one. | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | LOL. | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 10 reactions (+8/-2) | Reply | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ab+1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We’ve all seen this movie before. India Business Machines will lay off thousands of good U.S. workers. The stocks price will bump up. Arvind will praise himself. | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 14 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 9 reactions (+8/-1) | Reply | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a9+1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind that little scamp can’t keep claims straight. One week it’s one thing next week the polar opposite. He is incorrigible | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "\ | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Arvind that little scamp can’t keep claims straight. One week it’s one thing next | Jul 28 08:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 08:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://soylentnews.org/~day+of+the+dalek/journal/20538#1449319 | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | binface and farage are both distractions. Farage has refused to debate the other candidates. There are some interesting candidates, although too many and the vote will get split. One of note is a fellow ICT expert, Daniel Pocock who has been fighting the good fight for many years now: | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://danielpocock.com/en/pocock-on-sea-nomination-clacton-by-election-13-august-2026/ [danielpocock.com] | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://danielpocock.com/en/australian-challenge-to-nigel-farage-precipitated-record-uk-by-election-candidates/ [danielpocock.com] | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://danielpocock.com/en/debian-history-harassment-abuse-culture-evolution/ [danielpocock.com] | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Someone who angers the microsofters who have infiltrated Debian can't be all bad. Debian is the ancestor, directly or indirectly, for close to 500 distros. | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reply to This | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re:Farage and Binfaces are distractions (Score: 0, Disagree) | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25, @03:19AM (#1449304) | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Pocock is a bigger joke than Binface for many reasons, not the least of which is the Binface actually comes from and lives in the UK and not Australia and Ireland. | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reply to This Parent | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Technological literacy (Score: 1, Insightful) | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25, @06:59AM (#1449319) | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Well, Pocock has lived in a few places long enough to achieve citizenship. But I would say that counts in his favor. | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | More importantly, he seems to be the only standout in being technologically literate, especially in regards to policy. In these times that puts him ahead of the others especially binface and binmouth. | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Reply to This Parent | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re:Technological literacy(Score: 1, Interesting) | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27, @02:38AM (#1449447) | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Except he has zero chances of winning, not the least of which as an immigrant in one of the most conservative constituencies in the UK. And if he doesn't realize that, that alone easily makes him the second biggest joke of the whole thing. After Nigel, that is. | Jul 28 12:52 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 28 12:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | Journal of day of the dalek (45994) | Jul 28 12:52 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | Pocock-on-Sea: nomination for Clacton by-election, 13 August 2026 | Jul 28 12:52 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | How Australian challenge to Nigel Farage precipitated record UK by-election candidates | Jul 28 12:52 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-danielpocock.com | Debian History Harassment & Abuse culture evolution | Jul 28 12:52 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.fishbowlapp.com/post/what-does-lite-mean-at-microsoft-during-connects-is-it-pip | Jul 28 21:49 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " I’m guessing you also pray to Satan. | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f2+1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Just thought I'd take a moment from my busy life as a retired ex-IBMer who was RAed despite having Excellent reviews to say: Fu-k you, IBM. I hope the company crashes and all the executives go to prison. That little HR pr--k who keeps posting here could go there too if he wants to be close to his idols. Everyone else, have a good day. | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 21:49 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ey+1kyj0tr4b | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @e3 we can only trust Arvind to do the wrong thing by IBM employees. | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He's the worst CEO in IBM history (yeah, even worse than Ginni who at least had a positive idea or two - Arvind is nothing but a butcher who dehumanizes his own workforce. What a horrible human being"). | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 21:49 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | In Arvind we Trust | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 28 21:49 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kycdkzhr | Jul 28 21:51 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "’ve had good luck with both TEL and BPs for the products I sell. As others have mentioned, TEL is overpriced so customers will not always take that route. As for best places to work in IBM, you’re kidding yourself if you think any place in this company is good. You may have a room in the upper decks of the Titanic, but the ship is still sinking. | Jul 28 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 28 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @rv+1kycdkzhr | Jul 28 21:51 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | EL is still the best place to work at IBM, along with EC. I would not work anywhere else. We are short of people and to be frank the BPs are not up to the tasks in most occasions. Very often, I have had to go rescue a BP. | Jul 28 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "\ | Jul 28 21:51 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kymcdpgt | Jul 28 21:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kymcdpgt ) | Jul 28 21:53 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | From the earnings release: | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Software — revenues of $7.8 billion, up 5 percent: | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat) up 11 percent | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Automation up 4 percent, up 3 percent at constant currency | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Data up 19 percent, up 18 percent at constant currency | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Transaction Processing down 8 percent, down 9 percent at constant currency | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | $M | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Hybrid Cloud 1,998 | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Automation 1,951 | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Data 1,782 | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Transaction Processing 2,030 | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Obviously Hybrid Cloud = Red Hat and Transaction Processing = all the old legacy mainframe SW like IMS, CICS, TPF, etc. But where do some of the other recent large SW acquisitions go? I assume Turbonomic and Apptio go under Automation? Datastax and Confluent go under Data? Where does Hashicorp go? | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | My sense is that pretty much ALL of the reported SW growth is coming from those 6 relatively recent acquisitions, not anything actually developed at IBM. But I'm curious which of those acquisitions are contributing most. | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It's all noise anyway. Remember how Arvind pretended we were an AI contender and made everyone do those stupid Watsonx challenges? Then overnight all that is played down and practically forgotten as IBM emerges into a quantum computing company, something it never made any money on and perhaps employs at most 200 people in the entire company? Same thing happened with Blockchain. Same thing happened with hybrid cloud. And so on. Funn | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | y numbers and a strategy that changes like the wind blows. Which is to say the "strategy" itself blows. | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The reality is IBM is no longer a real tech company at all. It is a Private Equity company that leverages its mass scale to conduct mergers and acquisitions to avoid accountability for another day. Lures investors in with big dividends, their share of the spoils. If you've been acquired by IBM, expect to be Red Lobstered or Toys R Us-ed, thriving companies that were acquired by PE and run into the ground as the execs looted anythin | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | g not bolted down. (Those same companies overseas are doing quite well because PE is not allowed to do what they are allowed to do in the US. For example, you can still buy things at Toys "R" Us in Japan and what a delight that place is). | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by PE'd off | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @at+1kymcdpgt | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There are at least 2 versions of IBM financials. | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The one published, that reflects the dreams of executives and the wishes of investors. | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The one circulating internally, used to justify layoffs and migration of workforce from US to India. | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | None of these two versions is close to reality. | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ac+1kymcdpgt | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Bob loves magic beans. Wanna buy some? | Jul 28 21:53 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 28 21:53 |
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