20260603 - rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

36 commits by 'tridge and claude' Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 (SWITCHED OFF UNTIL HOUSE MOVE DONE) Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: rsync https://rsync.samba.org/ So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390 OpenRsync https://www.openrsync.org/ I plan to package openrsync this weekend in alpine as an alternative to rsync https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116659903024289081 rsync: Consider reverting to pre-LLM version https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1138239 rsync and outrage https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0 Tridge returns to rsync https://lwn.net/Articles/968732/ Previously on Pivot to AI: Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/09/claude-mythos-the-ai-hacking-model-too-good-to-release-allegedly/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1DC-gNizQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA