[fpc-pascal] FPC websites blocked

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2026-04-16 17:45, Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On 2026-04-16 17:34, Wayne Sherman via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> I was doing some research via ChatGPT and asked the following:
>> 
>> "In relation to the conversation above, what is described here?:
>> https://wiki.freepascal.org/Release_engineering"
>> 
>> The response was not worth reading because ChatGPT could not access
>> the page.  Note this part of the response:
>  .
>  .
> 
> There are others who can probably provide better answers than me, but I 
> believe that your question assuming blocking from all web search 
> engines and also assuming blocking for all FPC related resources, not 
> just the Wiki, is very misleading. What I know for sure is that we had 
> problems with DDoS atacks / overloading of the Wiki and that the 
> implemented blocking protects the resources from these overloads. You 
> may ask ChatGPT whether it's better to ensure availability of the Wiki 
> for users, or whether providing access to LLM tools is more important 
> than providing access to users - or you may better try answering that 
> question yourself, because asking a LLM whether LLM access is more 
> important than access for people doesn't sound sane to me.

And BTW (sorry to replying to my own message :-( ) - checking whether 
search engines are blocked from the Wiki is obviously much easier than 
what was suggested in the original post. Searching for "FPC release 
engineering" using both DuckDuckGo and Google resulted in finding the 
above mentioned page as the first result (and, also BTW, found further 
references in the FPC forum)...

Tomas