IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, September 09, 2024
beginning of new day, September 9
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03:39 schestowitz[TR2]; https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1unmJp5o
03:39 schestowitz[TR2]; "
03:39 schestowitz[TR2]; You need to look no further than IBMs SW division to see what writing is on the wall for CIO. IBM has abandoned the not invented here mantra, and SW division is being shrunk by at least 50% as IBM shops outside for Hybrid solutions. Just look at the last 7 major purchases by IBM. All are outside firms that IBM has bought at a premium, and all are replacing legacy products and personnel. The same is/will happen to CIO. IBM
03:39 schestowitz[TR2]; cant afford to wait on CIO to make IBM efficient. They will buy good enough products from existing vendors, and outsource the implementation of these products in the name of efficiency. You may not like that answer, but IBM is all about driving down costs, and buying vs innovating has become the go to play. Every division has adopted a form of drive costs out of IBM (Consulting = automate repetitive processes via AI, SW =
03:39 schestowitz[TR2]; buy vs innovate, infrastructure = partner vs manufacture internally) CIO will be no exception and will adopt what works well for each division into their play book. Driving costs down is job 1 at Armonk right now
03:39 schestowitz[TR2]; "
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1upIiR7j
03:42 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1upIiR7j )
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; "
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; I think IBM is not giving Austin accurate headcounts, or IBM is planning for only 1/3-1/2 of the employee population to show up on any given day
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; August 2024 Chamber of Commerce statement
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; While the company does not break out local workforce figures, recent estimates from the Austin Chamber of Commerce put IBM's Austin workforce around 6,000 local employees.
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; 12 hours ago by Anonymous
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03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; Post ID: @udm+1upIiR7j
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03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; How did you come up with the 187k reduction in space? Is the reduction from their current legacy space, or their future proposed space? Reason I ask is the articles you referenced say IBM just swapped 320k of space from one location (Hines property (IBM was going to take 320k of space from 500k available)) to 320k of space in domain 12
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; Either way it certainly looks like IBM has substantially reduced their footprint vs the past 10 year
03:42 schestowitz[TR2]; "
4 AM, September 9
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; " > Hi Roy,
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > How are you?
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > Recently, I have been working on some privacy (and surveillance) issues.
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > For 2600 Hope, I submitted a cfp and was accepted. Basically, I have
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > been analyzing terms of service and plan to analyze a few more.
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > Obviously some are overreaching and interesting enough, I analyzed
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > RealVNC terms just prior to Raspberry Pi connect release. The CIO asked
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > me for the analysis, which by the way, the terms of service including
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > Personal info as well as... chat transcripts?
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > Chat transcripts? You want my chat logs? That was actually my first
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > analysis. Moving forward, I discovered clauses in other terms of service
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > that included: limitations to sue, limitations to post a public review,
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > and of course, rights to your content.
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; >
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > I was thinking what might be fun is to have you and/or your readers -
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > maybe in IRC or somewhere - suggest a TOS that I analyze and report
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > results to you.
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > What do you think?
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; >
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; > I'm up for it.
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; I am totally interested!
04:08 schestowitz[TR2]; Awesome"
04:10 schestowitz[TR2]; "
04:10 schestowitz[TR2]; So let me know what terms of service you think might be good to look at or any your readers suggest and Ill start the analysis."
5 AM, September 9
05:21 schestowitz[TR2]; x https://futurism.com/bill-gates-chatgpt-research
05:21 schestowitz[TR2]; # bill sez
05:21 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-futurism.com | Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly
05:25 schestowitz[TR2]; x https://www.pcworld.com/article/2445372/why-pay-microsoft-365-fees-when-this-office-lifetime-license-pays-for-itself.html
05:25 schestowitz[TR2]; # spam, aiming to pre-empt open formats through the sunk cost fallacy
05:25 schestowitz[TR2]; x https://www.pcworld.com/article/2445372/why-pay-microsoft-365-fees-when-this-office-lifetime-license-pays-for-itself.html
05:25 schestowitz[TR2]; # spam, aiming to pre-empt open formats through the sunk cost fallacy
05:25 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Why pay Microsoft 365 fees when this Office lifetime license pays for itself? | PCWorld
10 AM, September 9
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noon, September 9
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