🫠 Red Hatters to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not • The Register

"The experience might be different depending on the department, but there is nothing left from the open culture praised. We have now micromanagement, decision making from middle management that clearly have no idea of what we do and how and trying to implement ideas that they read somewhere, with no context, data and not giving answer or addressing feedback."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/red_hatters_to_be_big/

#redhat #ibm #opensource

🫠 Red Hatters to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not • The Register

"The experience might be different depending on the department, but there is nothing left from the open culture praised. We have now micromanagement, decision making from middle management that clearly have no idea of what we do and how and trying to implement ideas that they read somewhere, with no context, data and not giving answer or addressing feedback."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/red_hatters_to_be_big/

#redhat #ibm #opensource

My website and continuing mission for #IBM, #Lexmark, #Unicomp, #Lenovo and #TGCS #keyboard excellence has reached its sixth year! Like most past years, I have written this post to go over everything we achieved since September 2024 and to give my thanks! https://sharktastica.co.uk/announcements/202509A

My website and continuing mission for #IBM, #Lexmark, #Unicomp, #Lenovo and #TGCS #keyboard excellence has reached its sixth year! Like most past years, I have written this post to go over everything we achieved since September 2024 and to give my thanks! https://sharktastica.co.uk/announcements/202509A

Why painting their greed with a "fair" (out)look if IT's everything but fair #software, #opensource or #FOSS?

You
@EUCommission could lead by example and recommend @jitsimeetinstances , but promoting their #surveillancecapitalism solutions might be a boomerang. Don't you think?

Btw. Mugshot of #BillGates the 3rd on a bluescreen with #IBM PC5150 standing on shoulders of #DigitalResearch is a #vector #illustration made with #Inkscape, not #Adobe#Illustrator

Huge culture change at #IBM was when they started wearing Polo shorts...

... Everyone was wearing Polo shirts so it became the new uniform
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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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud

... 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

#Microsoft#Israel#Palestine#IBM #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

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud

... 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

#Microsoft#Israel#Palestine#IBM #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/

#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM#Lenovo#Keyboards#ComputerHistory

"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/

#Computers#Thinkpad#IBM#Lenovo#Keyboards#ComputerHistory

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 .