Post

Yeah, existing in and engaging with the OSS community is loads of fun, I have no idea why people don't want to publish new OSS anymore, so weird

This (and similar) discussions are certainly likely to put off anyone considering developing open-source software

I have great respect for the work done in the OSS community. Not sure, but the atmosphere wasn't always so hostile, was it?

this one is crazy

if github doesn't have options to block any interactions from people who have never pushed anything it probably should given stuff like this

i’d be surprised if those all came from people who really really care about the provenance of code in rsync for some reason

I suspect more do than you might think, given the number of incredibly painful regressions introduced in recent versions. LLM hate or not, rsync's latest versions have severe issues.

(to be clear, I'm not endorsing "being an asshole in the github issues" -- that's what the discussions are for (/s) -- but I am sayin', when "a bunch of regressions in a widely used backup tool" coincides with "introduction of a lot of Claude commits" I understand the visceral sysadmin rage.)

Its all coming from mastodon mobs

never fails to fail to beat the allegations