but the unpaid volunteer building your free and open source software wants to go faster so they can spend less of their valuable time on it.

Well too bad.

I’d rather they give up and stop maintaining it entirely. That would be better than filling it with AI slop code.

assume the creator of rsync is vibe coding because they used AI

vibe coding = using AI

using AI = vibe coding

They’re two terms for exactly the same thing, inseparable.

Debian Stable is my last hope.

You Arch fuckers once mocked me for my outdated packages – no more!

But pinning an old version is worse than slop imo

I dunno.

The slop is likely to introduce a lot of new vulnerabilities and issues.

'Member when Microslop bragged about 30% AI code and then kept pushing broken updates? I 'member.

God forbid people try to use tools to enable them to get things done faster.

I don’t want my software done faster. I want it done better.

I’m pinning v3.4.1 and not updating again.

Maybe somebody can fork 3.4.1 into a new program without the slop code and do (real, human-made) updates from there?

Then set up a cron job that periodically tries to read a file on the drive, and if that command fails, then execute sudo mount -a

Like, set up a root account cron job to run touch \external_drive\test_file.txt || mount -a at 5-minute intervals.