This is my first post so I’m not sure if I’m doing this the right. I was looking at the Booting Haiku guide in the GRUB section and clicked on the link, “getting started tutorial.” This brought me to the domain tipsonubuntu .com but it had rotted and become some scam website. I’m not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, so if they have, tell me how to post the right way.
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Welcome kittyscandy_5!
Thanks for reporting. If any (also-)Linux user has a favourite “Grub customizer” tutorial page, we’ll change it to that.
We can use an archive.org link to point to when it was still the content we wanted to link to.
I think it would be possible to make an autmated link-checker using HTTP HEAD.
On first run, links would likely have to be checked manually for scam-sites, however “404”-errors would be easily detected.
Whenever a site has been updated, a snapshot of that page could be checked against a saved version of the same page. One could then check percentage difference and if it’s - say - more than 5%, the site would need to be manually checked. The new version of the page would need to be saved, but the very first / original page should be kept.
-One could start by creating a simple link-checker, which just checks for 404; that would likely help a lot. Diffing requires a little more work though.