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Andrew "tridge" Tridgell, a historied free/libre software hacker with contributions to the Linux Kernel and the creator of Samba filesharing tool, has become embroiled in an argument about slop. "Like many developers of open source packages I've been hit by a flood of security reports lately in my role as the rsync maintainer. ... As this flood started to get more intense I realised I needed to raise the defences on rsync a lot " (at medium). Changes to rework a test suite using Claude as a d...

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