Meetings at IBM This Week, PIPs Expected, Maybe RAs Too. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026. Published yesterday: IBM ...

Uber Debt Grew 2.5 Billion Dollars in 3 Months, Company Lays Off at Least 10% of Workforce. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026. The media repeats the "official" numbers: Th ...

GNU Turns 43 This Month, GNU/Linux Turns 35 Next Year. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026. MCC Interim Linux is from 1992. A former colleague made it. "Old wild men" waited ...

Microsoft's tactics are not so unique; they skirt the WARN Act by paying people to leave, harassing workers 'til they leave, ...

If you make a living working to rekindle or keep going this giant pyramid scheme ( trillions in debt and playing with money ...

Giving 'Free Publicity' to the People You Hate and Attack. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026, updated Sep 02, 2026. Attack a person often enough or attack a project hard e ...

If everything was executed correctly, a window displaying your program should appear on the screen! * Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot ...

Today We'll Focus on Growth of GNU/Linux. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026. For various reasons (notably the rapid growth of GNU/Linux this summer), we patiently await ne ...

After trying a Reddit clone, 'crypto' scams, and all sorts of other things for a fake kingdom (fantasy) freenode.net ...

In a nutshell, LLM slop is often just a hallmark of dying/dead sites. People who care and value their work (and reputation) ...

"If you're doing something hard and nobody hates it, you probably aren't doing it. If the right people hate it and those ...

"Here is something I thought I should share here: yesterday was my last day at IBM," wrote a Distinguished Engineer at IBM a ...