The visit to London was OK; the person who abused my wife had been boasting to people as if there was some "slam dunk" coming ...

Saying that restricted hardware is not secure hardware should be common sense; nothing controversial about it, but when state ...

A day ago: This is How Mainstream Media, Boosted or Parroted by Slopfarms, Spins IBM's Commercial Failure and Mass Layoffs as "AI" A lot of those who got laid off worked in "AI". Insiders also - ...

IBM's official and vague statement could mean anything or anywhere between 2,700 and 27,000 layoffs. Lots of people impacted talk about this in Microsoft's LinkedIn (even if those are 1% of those ...

It is not about the skills available, it's about the expected cost of labour. It's not about age or seniority, nor is it about performance on the job. Many people have learned this the hard way, ...

Now that search is public and we're having a very productive week (almost 100 pages in 3 days) it's time to make final ...

Time change means that I've now to figure out the time every day! I live on a different time zone than the other side of the ...

When Richard M. Stallman (RMS) began implementing GNU in 1984 (after he had announced the plan in late 1983) it was about the sharing, i.e. licensing, set aside technical matters (he chose to ...

Separately, regarding the so-called 'Club Med' of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos (essentially or effectively hijacking the Office for 2 decades!), one reader who had spent decades at the ...

The consensus in comments we see is, IBM is a terrible place to work in, treatment of its workers is appalling, it's utterly foolish to relocate in an effort to retain a job at IBM, and it's foolish ...

Today's Slopwatch starts with a spamfarm/slopfarm, linuxbsdos.com. It was quiet for a while (after it had very sadly gone rogue) and now it's back with this: It sounds a bit dull, but at least ...

Red Hat Staff Also Impacted by Latest IBM Layoffs With Focus on North America and Software, Infrastructure. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 05, 2025. 2 hours ago: Going through a ...