rsync was basically done until the maintainer discovered vibecoding

[auxonic@ottawa.place]

@EndlessMason @WTL @hailey when I was a kid in Alberta we’d visit a cave some summers and go into the dark of the mountain. Sometimes I think that might be the best place. https://hikebiketravel.com/canyon-creek-ice-cave/

[deepbluev7@nheko.io]

@odd@mstdn.social @hailey@hails.org It generally doesn't prevent AI generated projects from getting packaged, but considering that this is a core package for Gentoo, it likely will have additional review and such done, which will affect if it gets unmasked and such?

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@auxonic @WTL @hailey
I hope this email does not find you.

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@hailey damnit, that's my backup program, picked because its easy & doesn't have unwieldy imports to restore

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@hailey Oh hell, no one should be allowed to fuck up rsync like that. Package pinning time!

[jra@soc.jra.sh]

@hailey@hails.org It's so incomprehensible. For someone to develop rsync, a software that serves a particularly sensitive purpose and thus must be a rock-solid block of bits, I would assume:

1. The maintainer actually used and depended on rsync, and would be the first to suffer if the software's dependability started to degrade;

2. That the maintainer actually took pride on rsync being so well-reputed and considered an integral part of many, many people's workflows;

3. More importantly: if the maintainer felt unable / simply didn't want to continue working on rsync for any reason, that he would try to pass the torch to someone that ensured its future in the same molds.

Instead, rsync is proudly making an effort to join the rapidly-growing lists of software that will be remembered sadly for quite some time for their pre-LLM existence. Until one day they're simply forgotten.

[erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social]

@fionasboots @hailey Already done a few years go due to some licencing issues to produce openrsync (https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync)

[tymwol@hachyderm.io]

@hailey "AI makes you 10x more productive"

[achadwick@ohai.social]

@hailey oh hell no

[80columns@indieweb.social]

I looked through the history and a lot of this would be unnecessary if rsync didn't include a daemon. I, for one, have no use for it, and it seems to me like it would be a good idea to architecturally separate the one-shot CLI tool from the persistent service.

[seanplynch@mastodon.social]

@erik @fionasboots @hailey

+1 informative

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@viq @fogti @zl2tod @hailey OpenRsync will be really nice when it actually gets developed. Last time I checked it hadn't been touched in forever.

[tilton@fursuits.online]

@hailey oh no. Oh no oh no oh no oh no

[lunadragofelis@void.lgbt]

@hailey wait, is rsync slop now?

[julianoe@mastodon.xyz]

@glitchcake @hailey who doesn't ?

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@LunaDragofelis @hailey apparently so

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@hailey I hope Unison gets a unidirectional mode & also a package for Termux & Chimera Linux. I would probably do it myself if I knew how to package software.

[tkissing@mastodon.social]

@hailey Oh FFS. Pinning time.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@hailey@hails.org it hurts in places I cannot soothe

[davidcelis@xoxo.zone]

@hailey oh god