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@jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying (neuromatch.social)
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This is like a human cell goofing up its p53 genes and deciding that being cancer is good actually.

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[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

it’s amazing how once the LLM cooks these guys they all start spewing the same crap

version 3.5 is going to “raise the bar enormously with regards to rsync security”

did rsync previously have a particularly flawed security model? it sounds like it had a couple of CVEs that this asshole decided to slop out fixes for, alongside breaking a bunch of parts of rsync. maybe somebody showed him mythos (which is fucking terrible at finding vulnerabilities when it’s not backed by a bunch of invisible labor doing the actual work or just finding bugs that originated by letting Claude or some other LLM loose on the codebase) and that pushed him over the edge?