This is particularly interesting, since modern organizational theory tells us that Boeing’s primary customers would be much better off with a shift in power toward Boeing’s workers, away from it’s current leadership.

Purchasers of huge airplanes cannot afford to purchase airplanes built under leadership that cuts corners the way Boeing’s leadership lately has.

The striking workers may have an unusual ally here - in Boeing’s customer base, which notably includes the US Government and parts of it’s Armed Forces.

I mean some of us aren’t programmers…

I think…

… Looks around…

…yet.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong.

I’m a fan of powerful assistive solutions, but I’m not comfortable with something closed source and proprietary running this intimately.

There’s likely some outright criminals who can’t easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps “solve” that.

I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:

• overt intentional crime happening in un-subtle ways
• disallusioned operational staff with no real reason for loyalty
• failure to stop at various “don’t do this or we will get caught” lines

If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.

He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile

Yep. Except that’s only until he runs his mouth and has a tragic fall from a window.

If I where to place a bet, I would say 3 months, tops.

Yeah! They missed investing with several known fraudsters already. Sure is lucky that yet another one is here to fill the gap!

I regularly recommend configurations to peers that are arguably impossible for normal humans. (Not on purpose! Sorry Dave!)

I love to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, and I fear no gcc compile flag. (Ok. That’s a bold faced lie, even I fear a couple of them.) So I frequently forget the bullshit I had to do to get something weird running on a random Pi.

I’ll let you know… If it finishes.

Great points.

I might add:

I strongly suspect that a much bigger fraction of the free volunteer labor moved here, than anyone has realized.

Zuck and Spez know how fucked they are, but they’re motivated to downplay the damage to their platforms.

There’s an unvirtuous cycle where their platforms have under-resourced moderation, which has allowed bot proliferation, which has made unpaid moderation work a shittier job, which causes moderators to leave, which allows more bot proliferation.

Folks here seem to be saying our moderation tools are objectively poor, but are getting better with each release. So it’s the bot spammers whose life gets harder, over time, here.

Not an accident either, I expect.

The billionaires are feeling the tides change and they don’t like it.

There fallout from that is going to be painful. Dot com crash like, maybe subprime mortgage crash painful.

Yep. And folks on the news are gonna be all confused how this could happen.

They laid off their talent to bet on bullshit. That’s how it happened.

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It’s tragic when a company loses so much value due to losing sight of the next big hype train. I’m sure they tried to pivot from blockchain into AI, but didn’t quite make the leap in time to save themselves. (Sarcasm)

But someone else leveraged their assets to create synergy. So they can be proud of that, at least.

Yeah. My journey was similar. I appreciate the philosophy behind Slackware, but I don’t feel like I have the kind of spare time I feel like I would need to run my systems that way.

The real data point here is that Skackware users are happy.

I suspect it’s because they’ve mastered the art of not giving a fuck.

When the math doesn’t add up… I figure there’s money launderers in play.

But I won’t look for them too hard, as I have only risk and no reward from being the one to find them.

Yeah. And even the corporations aren’t benefiting. The best Pirates crack that stuff quickly, and the rest of us (not me, obviously, I’m no pirate) just leach off the best Pirates. People trying to give them money are hurt.

Yes. Yes it does.

Look for job listings that require command line Linux skill.

The candidate pool who can get around on a Linux command prompt is growing, but it’s still pretty small. It gives you some advantage toward networking, Cybersecurity, systems administration, and cloud deployment.