On 9/15/25 11:59, Rob Landley wrote:
I composed this forever ago and never clicked "send", but lkml.iu.edu
came back and I got less depressed about the state of the linux
community, so...
I mean not THAT much less depressed, the second hit googling "toybox
aosp" is
https://medium.com/@mmohamedrashik/toybox-in-aosp-create-custom-adb-commands-90d53ac92a08
which is CLEARLY ai-generated slop aping
https://landley.net/toybox/code.html#adding and it looks like a
taskrabbit may have tidied it up a little, but:
A) there already IS a toys/examples/hello.c
B) The "new" one doesn't even have a NEWTOY() line, or the entire
(functional!) comment block at the top. It CAN'T WORK.
And yet: second google hit, ranking even before google's AOSP source
(which is what I was searching for, so I could check if they'd pulled
the fixes that meta guy hadn't noticed went in a week ago, and... every
branch listed at
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox/ including
master/main is 6 months stale. I'm a bit confused why google.com
addresses are posting here at all if they're not consuming the output,
but I guess it's just that AOSP is a proprietary project no longer being
published.)
*shrug* I miss Google. Oh well...
Rob
P.S. Don't get me started on https://lwn.net/Articles/1035727/ which is
very much NOT obsolete in the embedded space. I'm sure it's just a
coincidence that armv7-a was released in 2005 and patents only last 20
years so his employer is now concerned about competing against generic
clones, no other possible reason to talk about that now... Ahem: good
news. Focus on good news...
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