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Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

* you're all dumb haters
* AI is a revolution just in the past few months
* yes there were regressions but,
* the new test suite is awesome you haters
* openrsync doesn't pass the new test suite! ha, you fools! well that's cos it targets an older version but,

at least it reads like he wrote it by hand

i can pick the particular mastodon posts he's reacting to here

rsync and outrage

I gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it…

Medium

@lil5 @whitequark @pikhq As someone who quit a relatively visible project (https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-Store/), it does get noticed.

Only after I shut everything down did people clock that the project was in dire straits, and one year later there's now a healthy fork at https://github.com/agrahn/Android-Password-Store which has more activity than the main project did for its last 2 years, and you're not seeing claude on every commit.

GitHub - android-password-store/Android-Password-Store: Android application compatible with ZX2C4's Pass command line application

Android application compatible with ZX2C4's Pass command line application - android-password-store/Android-Password-Store

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one thing the rsync thing is revealing is that the whole “rely on the sense of responsibility of some clever guys from decades ago” model of open source software maintenance is crumbling under load, and some people are seeing LLMs as an out

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