Some people at IBM (and Red Hat) are panicking because colleagues tell them about RAs, PIPs, "next move", and all sorts of other euphemisms (alternate terms for layoffs). Forced (sometimes impossible) ...

Congrats, you've been selected. You are selected for "IMPROVEMENT"! Today is your lucky day. Layoff trackers are similarly ...

A week ago we took note of 506 IRC networks being tracked/seen by netsplit.de. It has since then grown. "There are 511 known IRC networks listed below," the site says today and Linux.org is still not ...

Richard Stallman's site is offline and we're told it's for purely technical reasons. His words of wisdom on tech (not politics) are mostly in the FSF's and GNU's sites anyway. Those are online. People ...

Microsoft PIPs in India were mentioned here yesterday evening and 4 hours ago the corporate media in India acknowledged that ...

'Unemployment data' in the US (with scare quotes) typically refers to something that is not unemployment. The numbers they ...

Maker Timo Strube has designed an open-hardware split-layout mechanical keyboard with a twist: both halves can operate ...

In case it's not obvious, the prime or "primary" platform of Microsoft Lunduke is "x.com" (right-leaning social control media ...

No experience and past (no known track record) in gaming and it shows.

August is over and Windows sank to new lows in Russia. If you don't trust the data acquired by statCounter (spyware embedded ...

analognowhere.com has had no new 'strips' for a whole month, but we still check it regularly for updates. xkcd.com, probably best known for "sudo make me a sandwich", recently put in its RSS/Atom feed ...

From what we can tell, there is nepotism ( we mentioned it last night) as a "survival strategy" and definitely lots of mass layoffs going on, but those are disguised as 'voluntary' or 'retirement' or ...