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AI definitely increased the number of bots over the past year.

https://www.techspot.com/news/101016-malicious-bots-make-up-nearly-three-quarters-internet.html
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I plan to use it longterm


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With the new month, 2 ENs were announced today: one concerning the notorious ZFS issue and the other about sanitizers.
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:16.openzfs.asc
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:15.sanitizer.asc
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“FreeBSD keeps Unix-like OS alive, boosts security and performance with v14”
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Glen Barber, member of the FreeBSD Project as the FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead, pushed the following commit about his struggles with alchohol abuse.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/c8dd24d3c66ac65b30a295dca885e4bbb83f6b17
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It gets even worse. Trust no one folks …

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So this ZFS data corruption issue caused me being insecure about my data safety and to check my system for bit rot with btrfs scrubbing…
Scrub is a pass over all filesystem data and metadata and verifying the checksums. Basically, it reads all data on the disk, recomputes its checksum, and compares the recomputed checksum to the stored one. When the stored and recomputed checksums don’t match, the system knows there’s corruption.














