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
@hanno I'm afraid there is a general decline of index quality at all major providers (G,Bing,Yandex,???), while alternative engines mostly rely on those. I also noticed that verbatim search is basically dead as not all content is indexed in its original form so even if you know exactly what you are looking for, the index entry is just not there to find it.
@csepp I think
@HalvarFlake had a presentation where he talked about hacking like an addiction where accessing more systems (and knowledge) leads you to even more systems, each giving a dopamine rush :)
Couldn't they really not wait until 5th Jan for the next shitstorm ffs?
@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.
@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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