So a project is using a GPL licence, but instead of forking you harass the authors and you somehow think that you are the smart one and that you are doing anyone a favour?
Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
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Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#562Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn’t. It’s just that dereferencing a zeroed pointer reliably crashes the program (unless you specifically do funky things with mmap) but dereferencing garbage memory as a pointer could do a lot more insidious damage.
My point is that the developer's comment doesn't make sense. Zeroing the allocated memory doesn't change anything about overrunning the buffer. edit: removed unnecessary examples
This doesn't prevent overrunning the buffer -- it means that when you do overrun the buffer, it does less damage
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#563Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#564Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would I need to? Nobody volunteered . In the analogy, you found something on a shelf somewhere and decided to depend on it. The person who put it on the shelf never agreed to support you in that endeavor.
“This is abandonware” And “This is maintained and I am the maintainer” Are different states. 'Maintenance' is not work-free or effortless, so the second sentence is explicitly volunteering to do some non-zero amount of work, right? I don't see how it can be read any other way, you either have to argue that maintenance isn't work, or that "I am the maintainer" is not volunteering oneself into the role of doing that wo…
If I have a garden in my yard and I say “I am the gardener of this garden”, what commitment have I made to you, a third party who just happened to be within earshot, about how much time I will spend working on the garden?
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#565Rsync is a highly trusted software, included in many distros. To move important, and high quantity
If several or critical lines of code get changes quickly, and keeps breaking things, with or without llms, there will be backlash
Rsync should rightly loose reputation if the project allows the release breaking changes to follow the latest hype trend
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#566Earlier quoted context omitted.
“This is abandonware” And “This is maintained and I am the maintainer” Are different states. 'Maintenance' is not work-free or effortless, so the second sentence is explicitly volunteering to do some non-zero amount of work, right? I don't see how it can be read any other way, you either have to argue that maintenance isn't work, or that "I am the maintainer" is not volunteering oneself into the role of doing that wo…
If I have a garden in my yard and I say “I am the gardener of this garden”, what commitment have I made to you, a third party who just happened to be within earshot, about how much time I will spend working on the garden?
We're not talking about someone who "just happens to be within earshot" of something that is inside your private garden and not open to the public.
If you put a note on the public noticeboard saying "I have planted some things in this area of the public commons and I am the maintainer them" can you defend the idea that you are not voluntarily offering to maintain something?
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#567For those commenting, I suggest you read the post linked by the rsync author: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0 (Disclosure: while I haven't talked with him in years, Tridge was my colleague and mentor for many years. I feel it is worth considering his view before joining a crusade)
> Now if any of the people posting the rage stuff want to actually review any of the code I’ve published and make constructive criticisms then that would be great!
When you quickly churn more lines of code in a few days than you changed in months, and then release them as a normal, not sure you're expecting "constructive criticism"
Also if I suspect the project is just slopping high amount of code without proper thought, I probably won't invest my time into reading those changes
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#568Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is not okay. Agreed. The way to address it though, is through calm analysis and reason. The emotional language from both groups is not helping. If there's one problem with Claude et al, it's that it's all happened way too quickly for people to keep up. We're all at different stages of acceptance and I think that's what we're seeing manifest in the various discussions.
>We're all at different stages of acceptance I do hope you see the irony of accusing people of armchair psychology and then hitting us with the five stages of grief. I trust rsync (which handles critical data on my system) because I know a veteran of 40 years wrote the code it runs. If I see code like the one above posted by the OP, that the author wouldn't have written, I start to pay attention. When I then read the…
> I do hope you see the irony of accusing people of armchair psychology and then hitting us with the five stages of grief.
I just want to point out that those were two different commenters.
Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#569Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I have a garden in my yard and I say “I am the gardener of this garden”, what commitment have I made to you, a third party who just happened to be within earshot, about how much time I will spend working on the garden?
We're not talking about someone who "just happens to be within earshot" of something that is inside your private garden and not open to the public. If you put a note on the public noticeboard saying "I have planted some things in this area of the public commons and I am the maintainer them" can you defend the idea that you are not voluntarily offering to maintain something?
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Re: Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
#570Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I have a garden in my yard and I say “I am the gardener of this garden”, what commitment have I made to you, a third party who just happened to be within earshot, about how much time I will spend working on the garden?
We're not talking about someone who "just happens to be within earshot" of something that is inside your private garden and not open to the public. If you put a note on the public noticeboard saying "I have planted some things in this area of the public commons and I am the maintainer them" can you defend the idea that you are not voluntarily offering to maintain something?
Yes.