Meaning well and blasting the rsync maintainer with absolutist anti-LLM messages are very different things.

…Which is why I specified those who only mean well. Obviously that doesn’t include the less pleasant crowd.

Fair, but a little empathy for rsync users who only mean well would go a long way. The everyone-for-themselves mentality doesn’t tend to be very helpful most of the time, if ever.

I agree with that too, though I think the self-righteous attitude like that of the person I’m replying to swings in the opposite direction a little too hard for my liking. There’s a happy balance, y’know?

People shouldn’t complain in a dev’s ear like they owe them something they never promised, and people trying to call that out shouldn’t counter it with a demeaningly confrontational demeanour. Obviously that’s a lot to ask for on the internet, but it’s a good thing to try for at least.

Well rsync is a pretty integral utility for a whole array of software at this point, and I guarantee you that not all of its userbase has the expertise required for direct contributions. I don’t think it’s fair to write off the complaints of people like that as irrelevant, especially if they have a stake in rsync working well for them without having to worry about AI hallucinations screwing them over.

Yeah, they’re also implying that it’s on the commenter for not understanding that, despite them only trying to be helpful. It’s just petty and pedantic completely needlessly.

Are you being intentionally dense? There’s no article, only video.

We need more paperclips and we need them now!!!