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

@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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I just realized that my cyclomatic complexity calculator breaks with PyGhidra so I pushed some fixes:

https://github.com/v-p-b/rabbithole

#Ghidra #ReverseEngineering
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The package of my toothbrush says "95% Natural Origin".

5% of my toothpaste is supernatural :O
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/
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@fridadotre Thanks for the prompt reply! Is this true for the gadget too? I tried to supply a config with "runtime":"v8" but hit the same bugs. If the v8 support is there in the official release gadgets I just have to figure out why my config isn't applied (or maybe the bugs affect both paths).
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Is it possible/reasonable to compile @fridadotre with V8 in 2026? (I just reported a couple of QuickJS bugs that are blockers for me)

If so, are there any documentation available about the build process or is that knowledge lost to bitrot?

#Frida #ReverseEngineering
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@cR0w @Sempf I love how we're talking a whole *era* <3
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Observation:

- People started deploying anti-scraping measures to fight LLM scraping
- Web indexers can't index stuff anymore
- Search results are even worse than before
- The only way to retrieve the information is to use models that were trained in pre-anti-scraping times (or beat anti-scraping)

If I'm right, anti-scraping can actually push people towards LLM's (who currently absolutely have the capacity to circumvent most anti-scraping).

If you think you share knowledge worth finding, please consider this before deploying coutnermeasures!

#scraping #search #llm
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