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The /llms.txt file
https://llmstxt.org/

»Immer weniger echte Nutzer — Studie zeigt massiven Anstieg von Bot-Traffic im Web:
Menschliche Website-Besucher:innen werden zur Mangelware: Eine neue Analyse zeigt, wie Google, ChatGPT und Co. mit ihren Bots die Spielregeln im Netz verändern - und warum Publisher Alarm schlagen.«
Bots gibt es schon seit den Internet-Anfängen und auch die missachten bewusst die robots.txt Anweisungen.
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Immer weniger echte Nutzer: Studie zeigt massiven Anstieg von Bot-Traffic im Web | t3n
Menschliche Website-Besucher:innen werden zur Mangelware: Eine neue Analyse zeigt, wie Google, ChatGPT und Co. mit ihren Bots die Spielregeln im Netz verändern – und warum Publisher Alarm schlagen. Im zweiten Quartal 2025 ist die Zahl echter Besucher:innen auf Websites um rund zehn Prozent gesunken. Gleichzeitig hat sich der Anteil automatisierter Aufrufe sogar vervierfacht. Während Anfang […]

If you ever wondered what people thought about live coding 21 years ago you can read the livecode mailing list archive here: https://slab.org/tmp/livecode.txt
There was more moaning about AI hype in 2004 than I remember..

robots.txt (but really /dev/zero)

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/pay-per-output-ai-firms-blindsided-by-beefed-up-robots-txt-instructions/

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.
“Really Simple Licensing” makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.

The release of #Linux 6.17[1] brought a few hours of calmness to the #kernel vanilla repos for #Fedora[2], as that means they just ship three different versions[3]. 😊
Soon the craziness will…

Quelle surprise: seriöse Webseiten blocken den Zugang für KI-Trainingszugriff eher als Seiten, deren Zweck der Desinformation dient.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10315

Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web
Nicolas Steinacker-Olsztyn, Devashish Gosain, Ha Dao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10315 https://

Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly relying on web crawling to stay up to date and accurately answer user queries. These crawlers are expected to honor robots.txt files, which govern automated access. In this study, for the first time, we investigate whether reputable news websites and misinformation sites differ in how they configure these files, particularly in relation to AI crawlers. Analyzing a curated dataset, we find a stark contrast: 60.0% of reputable sites disallow at least …

Refreshing to see a Twitter spam account straight up tell you what it is

With a FreeBSD pkg repository configuration file set to use quarterly for the one and only repo:
― why is latest (not quarterly) used for bootstrapping?
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1a36d21e9c6d3bc363cee7ecfe779595#file-2…

catherine writes error messages
existence of challenge implies possibility of defeat

El intercambio de correos en el que se explica cómo nació el formato de codificación UTF-8 de la mano de sus creadores #utf8

*AI* crawlers ignoring *robots*.txt file. The irony. 🤦‍♂️
#AI #technology #conventions #web

Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Later, after I keyed n (to not continue), installation did continue.
This is partly understandable, because the y/n prompt was in response to a command that used
-y
Not really a bug, just slightly surprising.
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/1…

Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
Alejandro Hern\'andez-Cano, Alexander H\"agele, Allen Hao Huang, Angelika Romanou, Antoni-Joan Solergibert, Barna Pasztor, Bettina Messmer, Dhia Garbaya, Eduard Frank \v{D}urech, Ido Hakimi, Juan Garc\'ia Giraldo, Mete Ismayilzada, Negar Foroutan, Skander Moalla, Tiancheng Chen, Vinko Sabol\v{c}ec, Yixuan Xu, Michael Aerni, Badr AlKhamissi, Ines Altemir Marinas, Mohammad Hossein Amani, Matin An…

Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingual representation. Unlike many prior models that release weights without reproducible data pipelines or regard for content-owner rights, Apertus models are pretrained exclusively on openly available data, retroactively respecting robots.txt exclusions and filtering for non-permissive, toxic, and personally identifiabl…

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

I'm not sure if this is going to make a difference ( #LLMs weren't able to read #licenses or terms & conditions before when these were not formalized in a "machine-readable" way (plus, besides licenses we already had the robots.txt declarative files; even if those were not as expressive as this new proposal).
So, is this extra work for web developers and maintainers? Are we going to operate under the new assumption that if we didn't do the work of implementing this then we are granting permission to scrapper bots to steal all our online creations?
Or can this be a net gain for creators in some specific way?

#WritersCoffeeClub
19. How do you keep track of dates and events in a WIP?
20. What rôle does death (or undeath!) play in your work?
21. What is your take on the adverb debate?
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19. Any WIP that needs dates and events is probably already big enough to void memorization.
I went all the way from stickies to txt files to wikis to, eventually, Campfire. I love m…

SLEAN: Simple Lightweight Ensemble Analysis Network for Multi-Provider LLM Coordination: Design, Implementation, and Vibe Coding Bug Investigation Case Study
Matheus J. T. Vargas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10010

SLEAN: Simple Lightweight Ensemble Analysis Network for Multi-Provider LLM Coordination: Design, Implementation, and Vibe Coding Bug Investigation Case Study
We present SLEAN (Simple Lightweight Ensemble Analysis Network), a deterministic framework for coordinating multiple LLM providers through text-based prompt orchestration. Unlike complex multi-agent systems requiring specialized infrastructure, SLEAN operates as a simple prompt bridge between LLMs using .txt templates, requiring no deep technical knowledge for deployment. The three-phase protocol formed by independent analysis, cross-critique, and arbitration, filters harmful AI-generated code …

@… two precautions that may help, in lossy situations:
pkg prime-origins | sort -u > /var/tmp/pkg-prime-origins.txt
/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup
If – following an issue – you predict the need to revert to the backup, you can:
service cron stop