Post #3151820
2026-06-06 20:21 UTC
Look, I don't like vibe coding any more than anybody else does. But lay off of Tridgell if you're not willing to step up and do a better job yourself.
Rsync is OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. Tridge doesn't need to "quit" if you don't like the job he's doing with it: anyone who thinks they're able to do better ALREADY has the opportunity to do so.
Tridge--and, SIGH his slop coding assistant--are doing a job none of US would. So either like it, leave it, or step the hell up.
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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org 2026-06-06 20:23
And incidentally, I feel pretty damn confident that I'm walking the same walk as the talk I talk. I used rsync HEAVILY in production backup routines from 1998 through the early 2010s. Eventually, I outgrew rsync--I had much bigger and nastier backup jobs to run, and I needed something block-based, and there was ZFS replication. But working with ZFS replication raw really really sucked. So I wrote my own thing to BEHAVE like rsync while USING ZFS replication. THAT's how open source works.