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Episode Summary
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 UnpluggedLinks:ConnecTen Internet — Get $35 off your order total with Jupiter35💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPlease Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsyncfogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commitFlathub 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-infraZig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTubeGNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - PhoronixQEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - PhoronixFwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - PhoronixLinux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
