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

@wolf480pl @filippo This is the use-case what I see among my non-programmer friends: simple little apps that they can't, others won't write (for a reasonable price). Also, usually 0 risk (think: "will I get a notification about a show").

One thing to keep in mind is that all these services are currently provided at a loss for the providers. It will be interesting to watch what happens when prices start to approach actual costs and expected margins.
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@mttaggart Oh I was thinking in the context of bounties where you only need one PoC! Doing QA for guiderails must not only be horrible but also pointless for the reasons stated above. Nobody should do that job.
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@mttaggart I think this is a choose your own poison type of situation. E.g. I'm pretty sure I won't hurt myself and having a conversation like that is also legal AFAIK, so that sounds like a decent demo. Obviously one with depression shouldn't do that. That being said, you are right that the receiving end (e.g. BB program operators) are in a less fortunate situation...
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@mttaggart In case of agentic stuff you can "just" pop calc, and in case of natural language output ("say harmful things") the words by themselves are not dangerous. My bigger problem is how do you define vulnerabilities in a system where controls are usually just another non-deterministic pattern matcher system? It is *bound* to let things slip!
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[RSS] Reverse Engineering the Tapo C260 and Tapo Discovery Protocol v2

https://spaceraccoon.dev/reverse-engineer-tapo-c260-tdp-v2/
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@troed Thanks for the additional info! Pulling old firmware stinks bad, even if this particular incident was a result of a random bug.
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@troed Thanks for the tip! Wasn't there some shitshow around them lately too though?

Anyway, I've been specifically wanting a somewhat open printer to be available - it's insane that you can 3D print, analyze high freq signals, etc. with open options, yet putting ink on paper is still a challenge (precision manufacturing, ink chemistry, etc.)!
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@thedarktangent move fast and break things
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[RSS] New Year post: Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11

https://www.andrea-allievi.com/blog/new-year-post-anti-cheat-evolution-in-windows-11/
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@npub1jj9u5wlpm7427u6y65ytqrpwcq9taqjk34v9apxjjfytt9tdm5ks9snhpx @pojntfx So you'd source a print head from scrap and use HP's cartridges for ink?
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