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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days ago

rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days ago
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rsync is a program for copying entire file folders from one computer to another, doing incremental updates if there’s only a few changes. You can keep a continuous backup copy. Rsync is super relia…

36 commits by ‘tridge and claude’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EAo9jo-U4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260603-rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups - podcast

time: 7 min 34 sec

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    someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:

    https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

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      a person whose last two years worth of github contributions are related to confabulation machinery, surely this is an unbiased analysis.

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      One of the most egregious examples of p-hacking I’ve ever seen.

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      dividing by commits is some nasty sleight of hand given the commit rate has gone through the roof. “only 3 bugs per 10 commits!!” doesn’t really mean much when there’s an order of magnitude more slop commits than not

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