Even great programmers can be terribly misguided [LWN.net]

Even great programmers can be terribly misguided

Posted Jun 3, 2026 13:40 UTC (Wed) by darthcloud (guest, #111462)
In reply to: Even great programmers can be terribly misguided by bignose
Parent article: Tridgell: rsync and outrage

I'm not a fan of LLM use, but it's his project, so he get to deside what he does with it. Unhappy? Fork it!

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Even great programmers can be terribly misguided

Posted Jun 3, 2026 14:48 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

Drew DeVault (who forked Vim recently) has forked it. Or, no, he hasn't. He just says use tar and ssh instead.

Oh, and he says this because "apparently rsync is slop now". Without considering whether someone with Tridge's decades of experience would ever put out "slop".

Even great programmers can be terribly misguided

Posted Jun 3, 2026 20:43 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Heh. Yeah, we have `rrsync` in use to not allow arbitrary execution on the production host. Authentication is via SSH key which is limited to a single location (so you need multiple keys to access multiple locations). Much more auditable than allowing `tar -C` and symlink considerations.

Really, `rclone` would be the better alternative suggestion (though I'm not aware of its "infection" status with LLM output to know if that is also discounted).