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Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync by dragontamer on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:42AM (#48346623)
Did I stutter?

We are all adults here. And this is a volunteer project. Cursing isn't a big deal. Nothing here seems like it's aimed specifically at the maintainer and mostly seems to be written as aimed vs the AI.

Later when egos get bruised the conversation drifts off the wayside. But the OSS world is rather casual with curse words, as long as you aren't insulting someone directly.

Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync by akerl_ on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:52AM (#48346719)
The target of the issue title is pretty clearly the maintainer. They’re the one being told to stop using AI.

I guess this answers the question of whether you think maybe it’s ok to spit in the face of open source developers.

Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync by jodrellblank on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:37PM (#48347148)
“Maybe don’t do that?” does not mean “I support you doing that” no matter how unfamiliar you are with it as an idiom.

“I cut my finger with the kitchen knife”

“Maybe don’t hold it by the blade”

It’s something along the lines of sarcastic and deliberately unhelpful because “duh, of course don’t do that”.

Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync by akerl_ on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:50PM (#48347250)
This doesn’t seem related to my comment. Did you mean to reply to me upthread?

Saying ~“maybe it’s not ok to do <thing> but <reasons they might do thing>” is nothing like your example and does imply it’s acceptable to the speaker to sometimes do that thing.

But we’re past that now because the person I was discussing this with has gone ahead and clarified that telling an open source maintainer to please stop fucking up isn’t an angry comment.