Re: Plagia-Bot

On 2026-08-07, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:34:07 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
>
>> I saw the response - it was not mythical. It certainly looked weird,
>> and plagarising.
>
> Here???s a copy from my email notification:
>
>     I had a quick look through this commit and noticed a couple of
>     small things that might be worth considering.First, there are a
>     few `asyncio.ensure_future()` calls where the returned task isn???t
>     stored anywhere.From the docs, it looks like keeping a reference
>     to the task is recommended so it doesn???t get garbage-collected
>     while still running. `asyncio.create_task()`might be a better fit
>     here, or a `TaskGroup` could help manage the references
>     automatically.
>
>     Also noticed `_connect_async()` could be written a little more
>     cleanly by using an `else` block after the exception handling.
>     That keeps the successful connection path separate from the retry
>     case and makes the flow a bit easier to follow.
>
>     One other minor thing: explicitly inheriting from `object` isn???t
>     needed in Python 3 anymore. It doesn???t hurt, but it can be removed
>     for simplicity.
>
> This appeared a few hours after my own posting
><https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/113807/2>.

I fear that such things are going to become a lot more commonplace. Just 
look at the web-scraping and "fake" (parasitic?) websites that existed 
before this surge in AI stuff. It can only get worse.