Haelwenn /элвэн/ Apr 2

https://bugs.gentoo.org/971885 "app-editors/vim: Multiple High risk vulnerabilities in the past few days"

Pfahaha, makes me wonder if it's related to the vibe-code stuff it got in there lately.

971885 – app-editors/vim: Multiple High risk vulnerabilities in the past few days

Show threadsamApr 2

@lanodan I don't use vim so not for me to do really, but I'm just waiting for someone to package one of these "boring forks".

From what I saw, at least some of these vulnerabilities (not sure if it's the ones in this bug but wrt the ones going around recently), they got introduced pretty recently and couldn't be repro'd on say Debian stable, so any fork would likely be okay if it's from a little while ago..

Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Apr 2
@thesamesam Well I don't use it either (I use app-editors/vis) so it's kind of me being on the peanut gallery, otherwise pretty sure I probably would have packaged one of those boring forks already.
Show threadsamApr 2
@lanodan Had a feeling. I feel like editors are one of those where you need someone who actually daily drives it to be sensitive to the various things that can go wrong, tweaked upstream defaults, blah blah
Show threadmid_kidApr 2
@thesamesam @lanodan I am a heavy user of vim, but have never poked much at its internals (or bothered learning vimscript) so I've yet to notice any of this ensloppification.
Looking around, it seems that too much of the software I rely on has started using AI overnight, making it unavoidable. Drew even has a blog post on replacing rsync with tar due to this, something I really don't see being anywhere near equivalent.
As someone who consistently fights losing fights, this doesn't seem worth it.
Show threadsam

@mid_kid @lanodan rsync hasn't added a few features we've sent PRs for, but so what? I also don't think 2 claude commits really means full blown disregard for any quality whatsoever.

Supposing one does consider that tainted or it gets worse, we either use older rsync or openrsync perhaps, it's not like anyone is going to notice some missing feature in that.

Apr 2 at 3:44pmWeb
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Apr 2
@thesamesam @mid_kid True but I think it's worth it to plan in advance, specially for ones where migrating could take time. (Like sure as hell don't want to just cold-turkey swap to openrsync as an /usr/bin/rsync provider without checking for some time)
Show threadsamApr 2

@lanodan @mid_kid Yes. I would've investigated this sooner (why not, long before LLMs) but I think openrsync had some problems that meant I lost interest in it.

Didn't revisit it since but I think they at least did a rebase from OpenBSD since then.