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

Former General Manager [L3Harris Trenchant] Sentenced to 87 Months for Selling Stolen [0day] to Russian Broker

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-general-manager-us-defense-contractor-sentenced-87-months-selling-stolen-trade
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@freddy I wouldn't mind getting notified that I need a restart and loosing data *when I finally decide I'm ready*, but in the current situation the browser just stops working during active use because an update executed in the background.
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[RSS] Filesystem 101

https://u1f383.github.io/linux/2026/02/26/filesystem-101.html

#Linux
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@freddy I browse in private mode for various reasons (not all security/privacy related) so it doesn't work (as it shouldn't).

Now I would link that thread where there are users with this very same problem but y'know, I just had to restart my browser so I don't have the link anymore :)

Now I get that my setup is still counts as strange but this behavior *guarantees* regular users run away screaming regardless if they can restore or not.
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You know what, I'm kind of OK with the #Firefox AI opt-whatever solution they have

...compared to the fact that they kill all my sessions by a forced fucking restart when I try to act responsibly and update.

That's fucking outrageous!
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Wow, Blogspot seems to have a massive spam problem!
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@codecolorist Many thanks!
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@fridadotre Thank you for the additional info! I already opened #1096 and #1097 in frida-gum, hope they will be useful!

Right now I'm trying to fingerprint the runtime based on JS behavior (e.g. `console.log(gc.toString())`) but neither gadget configs nor `frida --runtime` seem to have any effect.

Update: It seems in V8 `gc.toString()` doesn't have newlines
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@algernon

> both double as AI scrapers too

Yes that's definitely a problem, but that can be decided on a case-by-case basis (again, nuance).

> traditional search is dead

In my dreams a service with pagerank+full-text indexing+user-defined ranking would be incredibly useful. I have to deal with so much new shit every day that a personal index wouldn't even be remotely useful.

You may be right about GH, but in this case the means matter more than the ends. "A systems purpose is what it does", and it'd be painful to see anti-scaping work *for* LLMs (I'm still not sure if this is happening or not).
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@algernon I get that there's a lot of nuance here, that's why I asked for "consideration" that can include e.g. allowing standard crawlers.

Apparently building an index is much bigger effort than I expected (based on the struggles of EU and alternative providers), so I don't think that will happen in the near future.

LLM performance will degrade for sure, but I don't think it will restore trust in traditional search or otherwise move ppl away from assistants once they became dependent.

Btw. my post was less about your work, and more about e.g. GitHub where content is no longer properly searchable either via web search or their internal search :)
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