Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster
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Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster
* 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
@davidgerard was it all written by human, especially when the most intimate part -- code -- is given to next chance token machines
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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@davidgerard @sharpcheddargoblin
I remember reading the exchanges between him and Linus about the BitKeeper thing and being very glad I didn't have to work with either of them.
@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.
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@bloognoo reads like a blog post written by a drug
@davidgerard @bloognoo Replacing the word "AI" with "cocaine" when reading stuff like this explains so much
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@dysfun yeah i went looking and can't find evidence for that one either sadly
@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.
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@davidgerard @bloognoo Replacing the word "AI" with "cocaine" when reading stuff like this explains so much
@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
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@davidgerard
You can hear the wind whistling through the hole in their forehead.@bloognoo @davidgerard Wow I gotta remember that one.
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@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.
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Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster
* 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
@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.
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@davidgerard @kaasbaas @dlakelan @cstross Plus from what I heard, rsync WAS handed off for a while, then he came back to run it again.
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@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.
@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
