It's oligarchs all the way down.

AIX is a niche OS, and sadly, because it had potential. Since POEWR9 systems can run Ubuntu Jammy (or later they claim), AIX is caught in competition, though anyone running POWER9 ought to be running AIX and keep Ubuntu in a VM or partition, eh?

PowerPC is pretty much the only modern IBM platform my little brother does not program in. And he is unapologetic, claiming he's busy enough. This I doubt.

Since the lowering head count and firing stuff was explicitly stated in the announcement, the sad claims of some subterfuge are more Marxist-analog complaint, class warfare at its heart.

IBM wants to shed employees that do not appear, to management, to be the best allocation of resources towards new and different goals. Wow, when you put it hat way, it seems to dastardly and intended to cause maximum harm to society and humankind. Or not. I vote for not.

But this is /. and so is a haven for the Marxist theories, the refuge of those failed, failing, or suffering any indignity such as unmet want, denied desires, or perceived injustice.

Be aware you are wasting your negative mod points. You failed to understand the /. faqs, or you're just trying to be mean. Confession, I do the latter too often.

Since cancelling Amazon Prime a few years ago, I have been comparison shopping on eBay.
I almost always find that eBay is cheaper with free shipping and free returns on most items.
Nice to stop paying the Amazon tax.

All you need is an OS written in assembler.

Being memory safe is an advantage, because, some things are better left forgotten, some things are better left where they lay.

Technically, they can't get an old date.

And IRL ya might not want to. You should always update. Upgrades are desirable but optional.

Elon Musk is building a robot army.
Given that he has already turned Twitter into fascist X and his Grok AI is programmed to spout Nazi fascist ideals, I can't wait for his robot army to swarm my town.

I am increasingly bombarded by AI generated text. It seems that browsers, search engines, customer "service" and many app have incorporated AI. Even my Tesla now has the Nazi Grok AI as default.
Besides the obvious threat of monitoring my thoughts and behavior, I find all of these AI "services" very irritating. They serve up long winded rambling blocks of "information" which is usually at least partially wrong or irrelevant.
I really hate all of these AI efforts.

And someone got paid.

Which it is not. This industry has been in business for decades. This isn't a new, unusual burden on the electrical systems, it's tech that is new and unique. Not that the industry might be able to optimize their processes, but that's their business, and we rarely consider asking data centers to do that at any scale, which, BTW, they do do already, for profit.

You would think, huh.

Good theory.
We'll see how you feel about it after a few weeks in solitary confinement.

If your property is deserted, isolated, and vast enough that the neighbors will barely notice the ice cubes in their Old Fashioned jiggle all by themselves, well yeah, they might wanna rent it out.

But they already got a lot of that.

I was interested in the raw data regarding left- and right-wing violence. So much sop that I read the article at https://ccjls.scholasticahq.co... referenced in Wikipedia...

One incident caught my eye. Attributed to a right-wing assailant, I looked for biographical information. What I found was confusing.

This assailant, described elsewhere as right-wing, was black, homosexual, partnered with a Democratic party member who later was elected to public office as a Democrat. The assailant left a manifesto, ascribing one motivation for their attacks to a church shooting. None of this, on the surface, describes a 'typical' right-winger. But that attack is often categorized as a right-wing incident. Confusing, as I said, though the https://ccjls.scholasticahq.co... article described this as ' a response to some of the more egregious actions by the far-right'. Consider that language; 'more egregious', 'far-right'. I sense an implicit bias, but then I'm sensitized to that and may be mistaken.

Try as I may, I still find the studies to be biased, and often ignoring substantial incidents that could be categorized as politically motivated violence. It's interesting, and I am studying it more carefully.

It fits well. First, I describe motivation, not action. Second, following the Wikipedia article, several of the footnoted articles actually failed to find significant (discernable is the word) differences in the motivations or tactics of the Left or Right. But more telling, the Wikipedia article seemed to ignore rioting, occupation, etc associated with Antifa, one reference describing these as "violence in the context of ideological clashes at protests". But not political? There is even significant comparison to Islamic violence, which I'll submit is ideological at it's root.

This Wikipedia article I think is terribly flawed, which of course I would think, given it's pretty well titled towards declaring right-wing violence as more prevalent, and extreme, than that of other political movements.

And finally, I was stuck by the article tendency to describe what was identified as right-wing violence as 'extreme', with references to left-wind violence generally lacking such a label.

I reject their premise, dispute their statistical analysis, and in all this, still submit that the Left in America is motivated, motivated, by violent envy. Emotional, strident, extreme envy. It is expressed in many ways. Physical violence is only one means. Legislation, media reporting, do I have to drag you through that? You're not that dense.