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[WIP] Fix link check workflow configuration and dead links
Fix link-check workflow config, pin and harden actions, prune dead README links
Sep 30, 2026
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The link-check workflow has been red on every push since February. The action never loaded the repo's
markdown-link-check-config.json, and the README contains 38 links that return 404/410. This PR fixes both and hardens the workflow. The remaining noise (403s from datacenter blocking, timeouts, 429s) is not addressed here.Workflow config
config-file: markdown-link-check-config.json. The action defaults tomlc_config.json, so the custom User-Agent and ignore patterns were never applied in CI.permissions: contents: read.actions/checkout(v4.2.2) andgaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check(v1) to commit SHAs, with version comments.README links
metager3.de/en/tometager.de/andtechnisette.com/p/hometotechnisette.com/.facebook.com/directory/people/is kept, since it is a different URL from the deaddirectory/.Reviewer note: removal was chosen over replacement because the issue reports these as permanently gone. If you would rather keep any of them, for example via an archive link, say so.