====== 2025-W12 reading notes ======

===== AI web scrapers causing headaches =====

Source: [[https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/|FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies]]

Turns out "AI" is as irresponsible as it is opaque. Bots ordered by "AI" companies to scrape the web cause a lot of trouble for maintainers of infrastructure of projects like KDE or GNOME, because they are retrieving data from whole websites and web applications ignoring ''robots.txt''.

===== OSI =====

Source: https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230

===== FreeBSD boot loader bug =====

I've been seeing this message for quite some time:

> BOOT LOADER IS TOO OLD. PLEASE UPGRADE.

Surrounded by a frame of asterisks, it looked serious. So I searched a bit, eventually finding [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282001|bug #282001: Inappropriate "BOOT LOADER IS TOO OLD" / missing initialization of bootprog_rev in lutils.c]]. It was interesting to observe the decision-making process.

===== FreeBSD Handbook =====

  * [[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/boot/#device-hints|Device Hints]]