Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster

[mrs_malice@mastodon.world]

@davidgerard “excuse me for using these fascistic tools of class warfare but i simply must get back to SAILING” lmao pretty fuckin clear which side he’s on eh

[steely_glint@chaos.social]

@dlakelan @cstross @davidgerard But also the load on maintainers has gone up partly, but not entirely, due to AI generated vulnerability reports.

His response seems to have been to fight AI with AI.

[gryphonmyers@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard "Oh, btw, I also did a PhD in CS" congratulations

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@davidgerard "nobody actually knows if human intelligence is just finer grained stochastic prediction as well"

WTAF 🫪

[darby3@zirk.us]

@mrs_malice

oceans are now battlefields etc

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard This is the amount of level-headedness I wish to attain, and hopefully surpass but I think that comes with age.

And goddamn. 40 years software engineer xp... Pretty sure those weirdos cannot even compare.

Imagine if those weirdos decided to use their precious limited time in their lives to help out and be productive than yap... There's like hundreds or a thousand of them out there.

[mikalai@privacysafe.social]

@davidgerard was it all written by human, especially when the most intimate part -- code -- is given to next chance token machines

[mikalai@privacysafe.social]

@david_chisnall @davidgerard @sharpcheddargoblin
I think of it in terms of reflection. What / how processes in one's brain gets warpped by this overall illusuion of deeper think in LLM (Large Language Condensates -- "model" is a missused word here).

What happens at lower level than that of "personality", "arrogant" -- at a level of how these bigger behaviours are assembled.

We gotta know, so as to help others not to get on this needle.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard @bloognoo Replacing the word "AI" with "cocaine" when reading stuff like this explains so much

[a2_4am@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard @dysfun Fedora (which I am not involved with, beyond using it on a single laptop) appears to have no problem with it. v3.4.3 was automatically pushed to FC45 <https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-52613027b0> and is in process of being pushed to FC44 <https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d14cd355b3> and FC43. I don't see any objections coming from inside the project.

[adriano@lile.cl]

@catsalad @davidgerard @bloognoo

"Don't worry dudes and dudettes, I used AI but I very carefully designed it and planned it beforehand. That's why I have so many regressions, sorry bout dat. Also I could have communicated all this before doing it but YOSO*, you know."

*You Only Sail Once

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@kaasbaas @dlakelan @cstross withholding maintainer labour and refusing to keep working for free is a thing that worked for libxml2. i think that's my conclusion for today. if you're at the stage of posting "i'd rather be sailing", go fuckin sailing.

[foobarsoft@mastodon.social]

@bloognoo @davidgerard Wow I gotta remember that one.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@a2_4am @dysfun yeah that's all i've found

[timbray@cosocial.ca]

@davidgerard FWIW I think David's characterization of Tridge's post is inaccurate. I'd encourage people to read it before piling on. Doesn't mean I agree with Tridge's approach here. And I acknowledge I may be biased because this guy has provided software that has repeatedly saved my ass and can do things that seem miraculous. Cutting him a little slack would seem appropriate.

[tael@yiff.life]

@davidgerard @kaasbaas @dlakelan @cstross Plus from what I heard, rsync WAS handed off for a while, then he came back to run it again.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@timbray he subtweeted ariadne's post about alpine moving to openrsync and jonny's long thread on the python testing framework as "foaming at the mouth", come on now