Red Hat Hype, Flathub Misunderstandings, and IBM Layoffs Disguised as RTO
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Red Hat Official ☛ How Red Hat OpenShift AI can help transform public services and infrastructure in the UK [Ed: IBM Red Hat is all about buzzwords, barely about substance]
The UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan defines the strategic initiatives to advance AI adoption. This article examines some of these initiatives and explores how Red Hat's technologies and tools can enable their success.
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Red Hat ☛ Multimodal model quantization support through LLM Compressor [Ed: More of this hype]
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Red Hat ☛ How to deploy confidential containers on bare metal [Ed: Promotion of fake security to appease those who outsource, based on false assumptions]
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GNOME ☛ Jordan Petridis: The Fedora Project leader is willfully ignorant about Flathub
Today I woke up to a link of an interview from the current Fedora Project Leader, Matthew Miller. Brodie who conducted the interview mentioned that Miller was the one that reached out to him. The background of this video was the currently ongoing issue regarding OBS, Bottles and the Fedora project, which Niccollo made an excellent video explaining and summarizing the situation. You can also find the article over at thelibre.news. “Impressive” as this story is, it’s for another time.
What I want to talk in this post, is the outrageous, smearing and straight up slanderous statements about Flathub that the Fedora Project Leader made during the interview..
I am not directly involved with the Flathub project (A lot of my friends are), however I am a maintainer of the GNOME Flatpak Runtime, and a contributor to the Freedesktop-sdk and ElementaryOS Runtimes. I also maintain applications that get published on Flathub directly. So you can say I am someone invested in the project and that has put a lot of time into it. It was extremely frustrating to hear what would only qualify as reddit-level completely made up arguments with no base in reality coming directly from Matthew Miller.
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The Register UK ☛ Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard [Ed: IBM Layoffs in 'RTO' Clothing Reported by Thomas Claburn]
IBM is looking to reduce expenses through what's described as a co-location program that, according to current and former employees who spoke with The Register, appears to be designed to drive out older, more expensive workers.
The mainframe giant's recent return-to-office (RTO) push is already arguably achieving that, namely forcing out those kinds of workers, but we're told that Big Blue is taking a broader approach, echoing a 2016 initiative from then marketing chief Michelle Peluso.
As we reported at the time, marketing staff in the US were directed to work from one of six strategic locations in the country. That required marketing workers to relocate, with a modest moving allowance and no guaranteed salary adjustment for cost of living changes, or to leave the company.