@prism @planettimmy I've nearly run into this as well but averted it:
* MS gives you limited online storage (say, 5gb) in OneDrive
* If you run over that limit, by just naturally saving things to Documents, it'll complain that it's no longer syncing until you delete stuff or pay up for more cloud
* If you STILL ignore their warnings, MS will email you warnings that they're going to delete your files unless you sync again (see above)
* (at this point I did move things to my regular ass hard drive which unblocked syncing and made the scary emails stop)

so even users not using a debloat tool etc. can still trip the issue you had. It's not at all clear to users that just filling up storage (which many don't even care about!) can lead to the destructive combo of "some of your files are cloud-only now" + "and we're deleting your cloud-only files"

@mhoye In other words I strongly agree that: it is NOT possible to turn drive-by vibecoders into real contributors. Especially if they also respond to questions with more Claudespeak emails, don't try to engage, and violate community rules about turnaround time. It's just not worth trying to do that - the time should be spent elsewhere. Hence the search for signals beyond "sending a patch and answering an email", like "going to a conference" to indicate an actual potential contributor

But then th team captain is also dancing in the endzone using the exact same tools and praising their utility to the stars, so like, what can you really say???

@mhoye reading the actual article I am _almost_ sympathetic: the team is clearly inundated with thousands of slop patches, and circling the wagons around just "people we already trust who have write access" is a strategy to protect their limited remaining sanity. Fine. But of course, Linus insists on undercutting all of these arguments by throwing in his personal feelings about responsible LLM usage, strong reliance on the agent triage bot, and general "we want only 10x leet coders" mentality that it easily overshadows anything the other participants may have said or believe.

@mhoye yeah, I remember finding that libjpeg-turbo was basically one guy on a major funding crisis back in 2023: https://icosahedron.website/@greg/111166045158418586

not only was he not getting paid but he was being pestered by bug reports from big companies (google, etc) doing unpaid support for them