Posts by Nastybirdy

Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

Phew

Honestly glad I don't work for Big Blue anymore. 14 years and multiple rounds of layoffs was more than enough. They really are the perfect example of a company that thinks they can cut and fire their way into profitability.

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

Freedoms

Let's say it again, boys and girls.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence.

Freedom of speech is also the right of companies to go "I don't like what you're saying" and take their money elsewhere and no amount of sad little tantrums and threats of lawsuits from Manchild Musk will change that.

IBM and Maersk to shut down TradeLens supply chain platform

Re: Third wheel

It was designed to unify the supply chain and cut down on problems with communication and documentation. The problem shipping companies like this have is that everyone uses different systems, stuff is still in paper, some places have different requirements than others. A single error in a bill of lading, for instance, can end up costing a company tens of thousands of dollars to rectify. Hell, even knowing where your shipping container is can be a nightmare depending on who you're dealing with. The idea behind it was sound. The technology allowed all participants to communicate far more easily with each other, to see where their stuff was, and view all the documents associated with each consignment in one location.

But like the article says, nobody wanted to sign up, and it being tied so heavily to Maersk was a big part of that. They didn't want to dance to Maersk's tune, regardless of how many assurances they were given that the system wasn't beholden just to what Maersk wanted.

A shame, but not a surprise.

I worked for IBM for fourteen years, the last three of them in the team that was responsible for both Tradelens and Food Trust from the IBM side. I jumped ship because there was no work, no customers, no money coming in despite management constantly telling us to just wait, the customers would come, the work would come! Honest! Any time now!. Aaaaaaany time...

They cut the team twice in the three years I was there, so honestly this doesn't surprise me and just makes me all the more glad I quit when I did.

IBM ends funding for employee retirement clubs

The only surprise here...

Is that they didn't do this before now.

I lasted 15 years at IBM before I'd had enough. It's a company that's lost its way and doesn't value its staff. It's the death of a thousand cuts. Bit by bit it just became a worse and worse place to work. This is just the latest nail in the coffin of a company I was once proud to say I worked for.

With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview

Guess I'll pass.

I simply have no reason to upgrade my processor right now, certainly not for fscking WINDOWS of all things. My (admittedly somewhat aging) rig can still run pretty much every game I throw at it at high settings with minimal issue. So yeah. Fuck off, Microsoft. I'll stick with Win10, thanks. I have no idea what you're trying to do with this nonsense but I think you're in for a short, sharp dose of reality really soon.

Y'all ready to get back to the office this October, Facebook tells staff in the US

Re: Employees who want to keep working 100% remote

You say this like outsourcing somehow hasn't been a thing for the last 30+ years in the IT industry, y'know, when people were still in the office 9-5.

Take your strawman and shoo.

‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

Damn. And suddenly I regret getting rid of my little collection of Sun Ultra machines! Could have been sitting on a nice little payday there.

Ah well.

Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open source

Start the Clock....

"its new management has pledged to keep the platform free and open source."

And starting the countdown until this pledge is dust in the wind....

Blame of thrones: Those viral vids of PC monitors going blank when people stand up? Static electricity from chairs

Same problem

Same issue here. I recently bought one of the Secret Labs chairs and went for the fabric option rather than pleather. And now almost every time when I stand up, one or more of my monitors cuts out and has to be turned off and on again. I reached out to Secret Labs about it and they recommended getting a humidifier for my office which does SEEM to help...a little.

What an utter ballache.

This is with 3 23" AOC monitors as well, but oddly it almost always seems to only impact the middle and left one, never the one on the right.

Google touts Babel Fish-esque in-ear real-time translators. And the usual computer stuff

Ugh.

Oh well. I moved from Apple to the OnePlus 5 when I got tired of their bullshittery.

"Here, we're going to remove an industry standard jack and sell you back a solution to the problem we've deliberately made to sell you the solution."

Sad to see Google following the iHerd.

Go dark with the flow: Lavabit lives again

~Slow handclap~

Well that's lovely and all, but given the abrupt shuttering of Lavabit.com back in the day is STILL causing me problems with recovering accounts, he can sod off if he thinks I'm giving him my business for a second time. His grand gesture was all well and good, but I bet I'm not the only customer it caused a shit ton of trouble for.

PC sales sinking almost as fast as Donald Trump's poll numbers

Also, this doesn't track people like me who build our own boxes and upgrade them piecemail rather than buying a whole new machine from a branded manufacturer. Because we don't like being ripped off with their stupid prices and substandard components.

Cygnus spacecraft on fire

[Event Horizon] Have you ever seen fire in zero gravity? It's beautiful. It's like liquid it... slides all over everything. Comes up in waves. [/Event Horizon]

Apple stuns world with Donald Trump iPhone

Night Shift? Guess that explains why they wouldn't let f.lux onto the app store. Well, let's see if it's any good....