Rsync is reportedly causing backups to fail since maintainer began AI code experiment
2026-05-31 03:23 UTC
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@testusr@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 00:08
Completely unjustifiable to complain about something FREE AND OPEN SOURCE The developer owes nothing to anyone and is CERTAINLY not owed backlash for using the tools available to try and continue to help others This kind of reaction is how to ensure the death of FOSS projects. It’s bullying, it’s insensitive, and worst of all it helps no one.
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@hark@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 14:55
You may not like it, but this is what 10x productivity looks like.
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@cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-31 15:33
Using AI properly is a skill guys it does not come automatically Also you need to demand it performs regression tests properly. Honestly popular models are so good these days if it produces wrong result its the fault of the one in front of the screen. We are not at the point of AGI so dont expect AI to read your mind
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@november@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-05-31 04:34
What is it about LLMs that makes so many devs' brains melt?
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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-31 16:09
For those who don't know, "tridge" is legendary. He casually reverse engineered Microsoft's SMB protocol, creating Samba, back when windows file sharing was a key part of Microsoft's lock in. He also isn't just the maintainer of rsync, he invented the algorithms it uses. People who worked with him consider him a genius and a guru.
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@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2026-05-31 03:46
Honestly what happened to language models is a shame. Good tools perverted to try and do every job. LLMs dont really have a place and eat up so much resources with what effects to a okay scaffolding tool in code, and a piece of shit liar everywhere else. I remember seeing this shit being used in medicine almost 15 years ago thinking thats gonna be a cool technology to we expand. It was fucken not.
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@usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2026-05-31 04:11
Almost all of the latest commits on the project now :/ https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/ 
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@gnufuu@infosec.pub 2026-05-31 07:30
The project's issue tracker has been pretty wild recently, for example https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929
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@Rod_Orm@piefed.world 2026-05-31 04:29
The slop continue until shareholders value improve
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@Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 03:48
https://packages.debian.org/stable/rsync > Package: rsync (3.4.1+ds1-5+deb13u3) slow and steady beybeee
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@SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2026-05-31 11:24
I'm starting to think that I don't want to use Arch anymore and thus always be among the first to get all the new slop.
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@FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2026-05-31 04:04
It's good to see AI sloppers already being confronted, dropped, and outcompeted.
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@swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-31 04:00
Aight, what's the fork?
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@lemmyfier222@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-31 19:56
Just gonna copy what tridge said: > bottom line is if you want to be useful then pick holes in the test suite, find things it doesn't cover, find interactions between options it doesn't pin down, report those and offer fixes for that. Why ask for forks or alternatives?
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@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 06:18
I'm a new and non-power-user of rsync. It seems like a pretty straightforward utility. What active development is even needed?
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@ApertureUA@lemmy.today 2026-05-31 10:24
This is a duplicate thread but sure, imma just copy paste from my previous comment. [Here's the Discord dump for those who don't want to join](https://files.catbox.moe/ymjz8v.txt) (Tor not allowed, sorry I don't have a better file host, [AI brought down 0x0.st](https://movsw.0x0.st/@0x0)). No further commentary.
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@mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 2026-05-31 05:29
rsync sucks now it really sucks
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@mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 2026-05-31 05:31
YOU GOT CHAT GIPPITy'ed
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@BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 01:34
I wonder about the timing of this. I just got a backup NAS out at my mom's house some miles away and for one or two beautiful days I was sending Rsync differential backup jobs through the vendor interface for backups over Wireguard. The NAS is still on my network over WG, comes back up in that way after a reboot…but for the last week, those backup jobs just break with a useless error. I haven't had the time to look under the hood at logs but I've been assuming this was slopping config on my part cause I'm new at it. But it would almost be a relief if it was just a bad update (before the graver implications of the situation set in on my mind). I wish I had enough background in this stuff to be useful, but I'm just a bystander and a grateful, useless end user.
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@30p87@feddit.org 2026-05-31 08:22
Borg doesn't have any indications of any slop involvement and borgmatic has a strong stance against it ("in order to continue to earn its place as trusted backup software, borgmatic must remain handwritten by humans instead of vibe coded by generative AI").
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@kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 15:33
I guess OpenRsync is the answer now
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@Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-31 06:31
So they don't have tests? Wow.
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@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-31 17:27
Switch to openrsync
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@aliser@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 11:22
soo when is someone gonna fork it?
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-05-31 15:03
I still have my Commodore 128 and 512K memory expansion. When modern computers become so grotesquely over bloated that all they do is burn CPU and RAM on running mutually contradictory programs riddled with bugs no one understands, I'll be there using GEOS...
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@Nalivai@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 11:56
Fuucking hell, not looking forward to changing my scripts
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@plyth@feddit.org 2026-05-31 13:11
Wasn't there an exploit AI that worked and found many zero days? Could it be that there was so much to change because so many exploits were found?
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@michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 08:38
Wherein backups falling consists entirely of one self report of the users self written backup script not working followed by him seeing commit messages indicating usage of ai with zero effort to show work diagnose the cause or bisect to failing commit despite poster being a hobbyist who dabbles in programming. Trust me bro.