I would like to downvote this please.

I take your point though, but I have to wonder who in their right mind would go to times square to ask to borrow a phone. Surely you'd go somewhere less busy.

> The press and fan attention was deeply harmful to Terry and likely exacerbated his mental illness.

I don't know if that's true, if Terry would be better off, had the internet not found him entertaining. I also don't know if this is an internet phenomenon, or if we haven't always poked and prodded at the "different".

What I do know is that Drew thinks Terry had it worse because of this attention.

Well the GPL (which rsync is licensed under) says: "This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" so actually nobody is responsible for anything.

> The change to zero memory was my idea and my change. It was a reaction to a security report I got which caused use of an element past the end of an array. By zeroing the allocation I could ensure that misuse of that memory if a similar bug came up in the future could only cause a null ptr deref, which is better than the chance of a valid pointer. It got a claude co-authored tag on it as I got it to do some tidy ups of a series of commits, and that is just what it does when it makes any modification. It doesn't mean the change was written by claude. It was written by me.

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/959#issuecommen...

That sounds very nice, but isn't true. Most of the people I know, myself included, don't consider themselves special broadly. They're special in their own community, but not globally.

History books will be written about how a person was insulted on the internet?

I am sorry, but this isn't that interesting. This is not a pivotal moment in human development. It's just online harassment, but automated.

I suppose it's a little bit of a "guns don't kill people" argument.

But he's also not recommending 40 hours, he's recommending 150% of that. Even then, I'd assume that when he says "sweet spot" he's also talking about a median, meaning you'll have to put in additional hours sometimes.

I guess you can define "strict" however you want, but from what I saw ~10 years ago, most linux distros handled mirroring with rsync. That's a lot of usage in a pretty core part of the foundational open source ecosystem.

Its absolutely hilarious to me how tech people keep imagining that "this time it will be different".

This has been done 100 times before, it's COM, it's the remote Java object marketplace, it's the semantic web.

You are imaging a world where businesses are OK being marginalized into a nameless, faceless api provider with no control over their product. This will never happen. You might get a couple of years while they chase investment frenzy, but it will fragment. They will lock you out of their services. They will interact directly with their customers.