Huge culture change at #IBM was when they started wearing Polo shorts...
... Everyone was wearing Polo shirts so it became the new uniform
🙄
Other anecdotes:
1) IBM managers realized that programmers were just sitting there typing on keyboards, and getting paid a lot more than typists, for ( what they thought ) was a similar, slightly more technical job. So IBM starts firing programmers and replacing them with typists, with some training thrown in.
2) Airconditioning failed at an IBM office and programmers had to seek management approval to take off the ties ( they all wore business suits ).
Huge culture change at #IBM was when they started wearing Polo shorts...
... Everyone was wearing Polo shirts so it became the new uniform
🙄
Just in case you don't already have a million good reasons to avoid giving BorgSoft money, or eating any pie they've had their filthy fingers in ...
"Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"
#HarryDavies, #YuvalAbraham, 2025
... they're also the IBM of the 21st century, providing computer systems that help fascists do ethnic profiling more efficiently. Making them accessory to genocide
Just in case you don't already have a million good reasons to avoid giving BorgSoft money, or eating any pie they've had their filthy fingers in ...
"Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"
#HarryDavies, #YuvalAbraham, 2025
... they're also the IBM of the 21st century, providing computer systems that help fascists do ethnic profiling more efficiently. Making them accessory to genocide
Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.
So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun
@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware
#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness
Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.
So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun
@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware
#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness
"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/
"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/
Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp
“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/
#microsoft #israel #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#BigTech #capitalism #fascism#IBM#Holocaust
Panel: Which global companies are complicit in genocide & profiting from occupation’ in Palestine?
"Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza."
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story
#GazaGenocide#CorporateComplicity#USPol#EuroPol#IBM#Alphabet#Microsoft#BDS .
“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/
#microsoft #israel #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#BigTech #capitalism #fascism#IBM#Holocaust
Panel: Which global companies are complicit in genocide & profiting from occupation’ in Palestine?
"Francesca Albanese’s landmark report identified Microsoft, Amazon and Google as just some of the major United States tech firms helping Israel sustain its genocide in Gaza."
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story
#GazaGenocide#CorporateComplicity#USPol#EuroPol#IBM#Alphabet#Microsoft#BDS .
“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”
– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust
The more things change…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691
#IBM#Holocaust#BigTech#SiliconValley#Google#Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid#settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicityhttps://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881
“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”
– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust
The more things change…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691
#IBM#Holocaust#BigTech#SiliconValley#Google#Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid#settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicityhttps://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881
Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
#politics #bigtech #degoogle #aljazeera #palestine #gaza #israel #genocide #lockheedmartin #ibm #microsoft #alphabet #google #amazon #palantir #chevron #cat #airbnb #volvo #bp
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