AwesomeLowlander

It’s about fashion designs. Your buzzwords have about as much relevance here as they usually do in any startup pitch - which is to say, absolutely none.

Welcome to English Idioms 101

Well this is talking about Diablo ONE, so…

Yeah, imagine different people having different opinions than you!

~70% of software developers were using copilot or a similar AI assistant

That’s interesting, do you have a source?

western banking system

Are you implying the rest of the world uses a different, more socially friendly banking system? For that matter, when’s the last time China sent out a multi-billion dollar aid package?

1% is hardly worth calling sinister.

Yeah, it’s only a few billion dollars. What’s that between buddies?

semantic difference in my word choice is hardly significant enough to be worth quoting lol

It’s only significant when it’s in your favour, eh?

They’re not just writing the software, they’re responsible for the infrastructure it’s running on. And keeping that running and secure IS a full time job.

Right now, you sound exactly like one of those C level execs who looks at IT and asks “We haven’t had an issue in years, what do we need to pay them for?”

Oh no! We’re comparing credit card interest rates with country-level loans! And they’re higher! Gosh! Never mind that the IMF interest rate is half of that. 🙄

the logical conclusion is foul play

Nobody but you claimed foul play, only bad intentions.

Fair enough! That’s exciting news

? It’s not open source, AFAIK.

Cue the tankies to show up soon explaining how China had everybody’s best interests at heart, and all previous examples were taken out of context.

The only open source mentioned in the post is their encryption. Not the document editing software. OP please remove your change to the article title, it’s extremely misleading.

30 engineers is startup-sized. 30 engineers to deal with the needs of a sensitive software being used by millions worldwide, and is a huge target for cyberattacks? That’s way below the threshold needed.

Headline is terrible

They do explain though that given how below average their headcount is, it means they’re likely understaffed, overworked, and have zero capacity to respond to intrusion attempts.

How would we ever understand it, then?

That’s an epileptic seizure waiting to happen…

Coursework can be similarly adapted.

How?

A lot of students do not perform well under exam conditions due to stress and pressure. Also, unless you’re entirely eliminating coursework, it doesn’t remove the issue.

if they’re using way above their share of bandwidth

Based on the numbers reported in the article, that’s a significant chunk of their customers. The ISP was probably reluctant to upgrade their infra like they should have.

Yep. Just another example of their ‘free speech’ principles at work