Some of the trust comes from eyes on the project thanks to it being open source. This thing got discovered, after all. Not right away, sure, but before it spread everywhere. Same question of trust applies to commercial software too.

Ideally, PR reviews help with this but smaller projects esp with few contributors may not do much of that. I doubt anyone has spent time understanding the software supply chain (SSC) attack surface of their product but that seems like a good next step. Someone needs to write a tool that scans the SSC repos and flags certain measures like the # of maintainers.

PS: I have the worst allergies I’ve had in ages today and my brain is in a histamine fog so maybe I shouldn’t be trying to think about this stuff right now lol cough uuugh blows nose

Idk what you’re into buddy

but I like it.

Inflation.

I imagine they’re not awful fond of Russian invasions, either.

How much money was at stake? How many careers at stake? There you go.

Naw, you’re good. Change nothing about yourself. :) You are spot on and you have my upvotes.

Folks are in angry mob mode and can’t be bothered with even a hint of nuance or reason, apparently. Even if you are convinced Boeing totally killed the guy and state that clearly…

Anyway, peace out man. I hope for once corporate scum faces consequences.

Maybe for white protestant men?

I sure hope you can. What would that require?

If you can find somewhere affordable in Colorado (unfortunately that would be in the sticks teeming wirh right wing nuts) I can highly recommend it.

It just takes one psycho in management with their own ass on the line to do something insane to cover their tracks.

And the guy at the front desk ran an errand for five hours.

I would be going to pretty great lengths to ensure I didn’t get Epsteined or, if I did, the mfers behind it got theirs. I’d be sending hand written letters to every goddamn person knew that I wasn’t suicidal.

And I would be really careful about my opsec. Oh, you thought I was at that motel? Fuck you pricks, I ditched the rental, took a bus and switched five times, changed clothes twice and snuck to a culvert to sleep, you fucking corpo assassins. Good luck with that. .!..

Then flush everyone from director up, and investigate middle management, and put people in that actually have some fucking ethics. Jesus H Christ.

Well, I for one think some rogue at Boeing is behind the Epsteining of this guy. The company is definitely run by psychopathic crooks and has been for a while and I hope these fuckers all go to jail and the company fixed before more people die.

Idk about these accounts you blocked… but I am always going to advocate for at least being self-aware of being loosey-goosey with one’s reasoning. Maybe it is compulsion, maybe it is the decades wasted being religious that have led me to detest careless epistemology that leads to specious conclusions. Then again … if COVID taught me nothing, it should have taught me that efforts in this area are probably pointless. I must like swimming upstream. I seem to do it all the time.

My pet theory: Some extra dirty psycho at Boeing probably had him killed. Probably to cover up specifics about themselves. It seems pretty clear Boeing is rotting at the head and has been for decades. All these issues that have come up since MAX are the result of deeply systemic problems, stemming from crooked, greedy psychopaths at the top.

But in the interests of being as rational and honest about this as possible, let’s also not forget that this article is based on her claim, and she’s the only one (so far) to make it. People have been known to seek attention with bullshit. It’s evidence, yeah, is it really unimpeachable? Well…

Think about it like this: if there was a dated and notarized statement in his handwriting saying the same thing that she claims he told her, that would be more trustworthy.

But again, pet theory, some Boeing sicko was covering their own ass by having him Epsteined. Totally plausible.

I don’t think this is the last we will be hearing about this.

Fucking fantastic. I gotta block more news before I lose it JFC.

Exactly. Systemic issues. That’s my expert (fan of Air Disasters) opinion.

I was a sysadmin, once…Not for long.

No I’m sure most of the people are ok. Just throw Orban in the lake. Metaphorically of course. With a metaphorical boat anchor tied on.

Because garbage people who abuse power and exploit people and are sociopaths hang together?

Really it’s a reflection of our society at large, like it or not.

Otherwise President Orange “grab them by the pussy” Rapist would have bombed in 2016.

Remember the reactions of some Trumper women? It’s normal, it’s locker room talk. Boys will be boys or whatever the fuck? Yeah rape is normalized, expected for many. Idk if it is accepted or if these people are resigned to it.

But that’s got to change. Me too movement was a catalyst for more change. It will take a long time. But we gotta keep pushing.

And all of it has to do with Republicans