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Rsync is reportedly causing backups to fail since maintainer began AI code experiment
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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I recommend demonstrating your values with helpful actions like donating to FOSS projects, forking them, etc
The lack of control and sustainability you’re articulating represents one side of the basic nature of FOSS.
There are no shareholders.
The other side of it is that it’s open source - someone else can pick up from here and do it their way and there’s nothing stopping them or you.
There’s no good reason to go after the developer.
I have worked on open source projects. I cannot fork sheer number of projects going towards LLMs alone. This is a losing proposition. Open source is not an individualistic action. This is a collective action, and we need developers of open source to live the values of open source
A big point of my comment earlier was that making a project increasingly LLM generated makes it harder for someone to pick up as quickly. A huge amount of complexity can be added insanely fast. In this rsync example, the entire testing system was changed overnight (while generating issues in the process). The projects become harder to work on in general
EDIT: also to add, this still has the issues of not knowing where the un-copyleftable code lies and/or having to rework large portions of the project are if you want to keep that