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@jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying (neuromatch.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months 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tools that make everything up and the world will fall apart if you use them”, I’m here to tell you that you are out of date.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?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 9 points 3 months 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?

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