About this episode

The episode discusses rsync's founder returning to address security issues with AI assistance and the broader implications for the open source community regarding AI-generated code.

rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ConnecTen Internet — Get $35 off your order total with Jupiter35 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted. Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Fisher

Topics covered

• rsync
• AI
• open source
• security
• community policies
• software development

Keywords

• rsync
• AI security
• open source meltdown
• community policies
• software development

Sponsors

Jupiter Party Annual Membership, Managed Nebula

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Organizations: RsyncProject, Flathub, GNOME, QEMU, Anthrophic

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