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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'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.
And now with supply chain attacks being all the rage it's like being in a convertible with its top down tailgating a flatbed filled with portapotties.
There's a downgrade utility for a reason lol. You always have that option and it's not particularly hard to use. Most of the time it's fine but yeah shit like this does happen from time to time.
Debian ftw
Debian + KDE Plasma got me to switch over from Mint. It just feels right.
There have been a LOT of updates recently though. Normally I update pretty often because part of the reason for using Debian is my expectation that an update has been pretty thoroughly vetted before it gets pushed out to stable, and that stability/reliability is one of the priorities of the distro.
I just hope that holds true, and that if LLMs are involved it's those cases where they stumble upon an obscure security flaw that humans confirm.
Involving LLMs is not the problematic part, it's having them write code that the maintainer doesn't understand. Finding issues, suggesting optimizations, helping to write comments or commit messages are all perfect uses of LLMs for critical tools like rsync.
Sounds like the real issue is funding for the maintainers though.