Welcome to the Great Visa Worker Purge! Here we have corporate America running a fake cover story about a recession so they can purge well over a quarter million visa workers without going to prison. Why do they need a cover story? Because perjury comes with a prison sentence just like wire fraud does. More than 11 years ago the CEOs testified under oath in Washington that there was a “skills gap” in America and … The Great Visa Worker PurgeRead more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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The Fake Recession
You have been hearing lots of recession talk in the news. It’s all marketing for a fake recession to hide the fact companies got caught with their hand in the financial cookie jar again. Donald Trump has proved to the world that people are imbeciles who will believe anything if they hear it enough. There are still people who believe him and believe the rigged election bullshit despite 60 failed lawsuits that provided zero evidence … The Fake RecessionRead more
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Medical Device Companies Using Qt
A discussion arose on the Qt-interest mailing list a while back about medical device companies using Qt. Given that damned few people read that list I decided to post the bulk of it here. I’ll leave their name out. If you really gotta know you can search the October 2022 archive. The assertion: A poster (troll?) writes that few medical device companies use Qt. That issimply incorrect. I know developers at 4 medical device companies … Medical Device Companies Using QtRead more
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PageEdit – BlueGriffin
PageEdit is a true pleasure for editing html files that will be use for things like online documentation or even in-app help. For many years I used BlueGriffon but the last update of that was 2019 and some Linux distros have dropped inclusion. Technically they only supported Ubuntu, but AUR had a build as did other places. Given Ubuntu’s massive bloat and sluggish performance since the 20.04 release (getting far worse with 22.04) people are … PageEdit – BlueGriffinRead more
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Getting Rid of Thunderbird Threading
Every young hacker who volunteers for an OpenSource Project wants to put “their mark” on the thing, that has to be where Thunderbird threading came from. For over a decade we have not had threading and we have adjusted to it. The sad part of this is if you click on the first collapsed message in the thread, instead of expanding the thread, it opens all of them. I can’t tell you how to fix … Getting Rid of Thunderbird ThreadingRead more