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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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

FWIW, Rsync dev has written this blog post from his point of view: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Barely skimmed it, but it says stuff like

for the people saying things like “I’m a PhD from xyz uni and I’m telling your LLMs are just stochastic tools that make everything up and the world will fall apart if you use them”, I’m here to tell you that you are out of date. The world of software engineering has changed dramatically in the last few months.

which is sold-in-dumpster-alley quality copium, and also that version 3.5 is going to "raise the bar enormously with regards to rsync security", so I guess we're looking at a notably vibe coded security model for rsync going forward?

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The number of one shotted people who think that "stochastic parrot" is an insult and not just a definition/description of how the models work is funny. Similar to how lots of cishet white guys get really upset when you call them cishet white guys (fwiw I am a cishet white guy)

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