infosex.exchange <3

You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

Re: "AI chat is a better search experience than traditional search engines"
https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/statuses/01KAYE52M0RCVN6G3TWCYVS1SG

Lately I have the impression that not only are search engines worse and websites contaminated with slop, but significant amount of content - technical docs, mostly for modern SW - *is simply not there, because no one ever wrote it*!

Am I alone with this?
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[RSS] Why does XAML break down when I have an element that is half a billion pixels tall?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251124-00/?p=111811
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[RSS] The apocryphal origins of the Hot Dog Stand color scheme

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251125-00/?p=111813
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[RSS] Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-lands-in-llvm-protecting-cryptographic-code-at-the-compiler-level/
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If you only enable scripts on soundcloud[.]com the site doesn't load but no blocked scripts show up either.

Back in the day people were burned at the stake for shit like this.
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@mttaggart @da_667 @cR0w @Dio9sys Isn't that a SIP thing? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3265
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The Passenger Seat Developer

https://svnscha.de/posts/the-passenger-seat-developer/

Great (and balanced!) post about the false sense of success during prototyping with LLMs.
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@azonenberg We also did the D&D in bed thing, but arguably less weird versions (maybe because we were friends, not siblings?) :D

/cc @TarkabarkaHolgy may find the topic fun too :)
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@th @typeswitch Does it turn into a virus if you play it backwards?
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[RSS] A Reverse Engineer's Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain & Security Architecture

https://stack.int.mov/a-reverse-engineers-anatomy-of-the-macos-boot-chain-security-architecture/
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