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-====== 2025W12 reading notes ======+====== 2025-W12 reading notes ======
  
 ===== AI web scrapers causing headaches ===== ===== AI web scrapers causing headaches =====
  
-https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/+Source: [[https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/|FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies]] 
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 +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 ===== ===== OSI =====
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 Source: https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230 Source: https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230
  
 +===== FreeBSD boot loader bug =====
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 +I've been seeing this message for quite some time:
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 +> BOOT LOADER IS TOO OLD. PLEASE UPGRADE.
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 +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.
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 +===== FreeBSD Handbook =====
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 +  * [[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/boot/#device-hints|Device Hints]]