Esther Payne 
I really hope rsync is free of slop.
Perhaps it's an opportunity to get to know #tar better. Drew De Vault wrote a mini guide.
https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/28/2026-03-28-rsync-without-rsync.html
Drew's been busy this afternoon
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/rtar
The thing I love about free software, is just how often small tools can be built. They don't have to be complex. But it's built from an idea and how a dev sees a problem.
It's the UNIX way, and I appreciate that idea.
Florian Wesch@onepict what a weird blog post. First of all there’s scp if you just want to unconditionally copy files or directories. Then there’s a reason rsync is called rsync and not rcopy: only transferring deltas and often hugely reducing the amount of data transferred is the main reason rsync exists.
@dividuum I guess it depends on why you're using it.
silverwizard@onepict Fuck
Hopefully OpenSSH will stay safe
Hopefully OpenSSH will stay safe
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Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@onepict systemd? After that civil war? I don't use LLMs in my stuff :D It's all Knut :3 I do use LLMs to quickly find documentation, and provide a simple example of something, that way when I'm chomping on docs I already have a high-level idea of how something, say how an SDK, works. I'm very much a visual example learner. I tried it to see the hype, and they inject random code into your shit, and you're spending more time figuring out what they did. Leave shit alone!
Paul SomeoneElseHave you heard of openbsd's openrsync project?
(They are the people that make ssh also.)
https://www.openrsync.org/
(They are the people that make ssh also.)
https://www.openrsync.org/
@pkw thank you, I hadn't until I had posted about rsync.
I know the no AI list I found out about rsync using Claude would appreciate alternatives to rsync if you felt up to suggesting it to them.