Maybe not updating bot mitigation fast enough would cause an even bigger outage. We don’t know from the outside.

It wasn’t an unintentional update though, it was an intentional update with a bug.

5 minutes of uninterrupted DDoS traffic from a bot farm would be pretty bad.

Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.

Scale, they need worldwide coverage.

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445705126997025

That might be true, I don’t know much about GrapheneOS. But I do know that users of open source projects expecting changes to come out of thin air, and filing bugs when they don’t, is hurting the volunteers behind open source projects. So we should all make sure to volunteer some of our own time or money to keep the projects we love going, instead of just expecting them to fix the things we dislike.

Theoretically it might be, but it’s another patch you’ll have to maintain

But if Graphene chooses not to do this, they diverge from the Android project. Which will take more time to maintain the project which will ultimately lead to more developers burning out and dropping out of the project.

It doesn’t need to be affected, but most open source projects don’t have the resources to keep going against big companies when most of their users aren’t contributing.