when you (yes you. mastodon.) harass open source maintainers off the internet for trying to make their projects sustainable against the new firehose of required security patches without breaking everything by doing an enormous verification effort using llms, those are still people. i know how it feels to get tweeted about by palantir executives; *this* is how scary mastodon's harassment of the rsync maintainer feels. CUT IT THE FUCK OUT, and think of the human on the other side. even the people being a jackass with a human-in-the-loop llm are still human and *are* often amenable to feedback on their communication. you can't pay for gifts, and they come without any warranty express nor implied. https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229